Evening star. [volume], April 27, 1928, Page 19, Image 19

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SPIT OF HOUDINI
FAILS TO RESPOND
Self-Styled Medium Unsuc
cessful in Attempt to Ma
terialize Magician.
By the Tit.*.
NEW YORK, April 27. —An attempt
by a self-styled medium to materialize
the spirit of Harry Houdini before a
critical audience was classed ns a com
plete failure today.
The attempt was made at the offices
of Science and Invention, a publication
w hich has offered a prize of $21,000 for
»ny phenomenon that cannot be dupli
cated or explained by natural, scientific
means. Mrs. Houdini. widow of the
magician, who attended the seance,
also has ottered SIO,OOO to any one who
will bring her a 10-word message her
husband wrote during life and which he
told her he would repeat after death if
possible.
Medium Tied With Ropes.
The medium, Nino Pecoraro. a por
trait painter from the Bronx, was
stripped, then dressed in a white shirt
and trousers, strapped to a chair, tied
hand and foot with ropes, and the mit
tens he donned were sewed to his shirt
sheeves. All knots were sealed with wax
and he then was placed behind a black
curtain and lights were turned out.
After a short while a voice purporting
to be that of his “spirit control” came
from behind the curtain saying Houdini
would “come through.” The voire said
she would count three in Italian and
then the cameras which had been pre
pared to photograph anything that
might appear were to “shoot.”
Effort Declared Failure. ,
But no materialization took place, al
though several times what was pur
ported to be the voice of Houdini was
heard.
At the conclusion of the seance, Jo
seph Dunntnger, chairman of Science
and Inventions scientific investigation
committee said that he could duplicate
by natural scientific means within far
less time all that Pecoraro had accom
plished in two hours.
BOY AND GIRL SCOUTS
WILL DECORATE GRAVES
Youngsters to Have Charge of Plac
ing Flags and Flowers Me
morial Day.
Boy and Girl Scouts of the District
were assigned the task of decorating
the graves of veterans in the various
cemeteries throughout the city on
Memorial day at a meeting last night
of the general veterans' committee in
charge of the Memorial day program.
The meeting was held in the board
room of the District Building.
The Bov Scouts will have charge of
the distribution of flags and the Girl
Scouts will cover the Veterans’ graves
with flowers.
A meeting of the finance committee,
of which Arthur H. League is chairman,
will be held Monday night in the
G. A. R. Hall to devise means of defray
ing expenses of the celebration. About
125 members of veterans' organizations
and auxiliaries attended the meeting
last night.
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Wife Gets Divorce.
Justice -titz has awarded an 'in
terlocutory decree of absolute divorce
In favor of Mrs. Edith €. Hoffman, 917
E street southeast, from Daniel Hoff
man on the charge that her husband
had contracted a bigamous marriage
with ano’her woman at E’.kton, Md,
and was convicted of the offense and
sentenced to serve four years in the
Maryland Penitentiary She is repre
sented by Attorney Andrew Wilson.
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SOCIETY
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| Mrs. Andrew J. Montague. Richmond;
Mrs. Victor Morawetz, New York City;
Mrs. George Wehvood Murray* New
York City; Mrs. At Ice Pomerene. Wash
' ington; Mrs. Marvin B. Rosenberry.
Madison, \Vis.; Mrs. Arthur P. Rugg.
Worcester. Mass.; Mrs. Henry Upson
Sims, Birmingham. Ala.; Mrs. W. H.
Washington. Nashville. Tcnn.. and Mrs
George W. Wickersham of New York
City.
Maryland State Society
Closes Season Tonight.
’ The last social meeting of the Mary
land Society of the District of Columbia
■j will be held this evening in the Wash-
I ington Club, when Senator William
> Cabell Bruce of Maryland will be the
i ‘ speaker and the guest of honor. The
j election of officers a' 8:15 o’clock w ill
j be followed by a tcreption, a short
; program, and later card games and
1 dancing.
Senator and Mrs. Bruce will receive,
assisted bv Mr. and Mrs. John Ritchie,
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Franklin, Miss
Nettie Blackistone and the president of
the society. Mr. George B. Calvert. Mr.
Z. D. Blackistone will make the presen
tations Presiding at the punchbowl
will be: Mrs. Frank Weems. Mrs, Wil
liam L. Dorsey. Mrs. Elizabeth Colton
Ewing and Miss West Russell. Others
assisting will be Mr. and Mrs. C. A
Maddox. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Noale
Shaw. Mrs. John Mason Brown. Miss
Ogatita Webster. Miss Emma Loker.
Miss Virginia Hebb. Miss Carolina
Sutiler, Mr. John Downin and Mr. J. C.
Botcler.
j Mrs. Curtis D Wilbur, Representative
and Mrs. o B. Burt ness. Representative
and Mrs. Thomas Hall and Mr. and
Mrs. Porter J. MeCumber are among
the guests who will attend the reception
and dance to be given by the North
and South Dakota State Societies in
honor of Mr. Frank White, treasurer of
the United States, who is soon to leave
Washington. Mr. White is the presi
dent of the North Dakota State Society.
The other officers are: Mrs. Paul Shorb,
vice president: Miss Grace Hudson, sec-
I retary, and Mr. George Mason, treas
urer. The reception will begin prompt
ly at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the
headquarters of the American Associa
tion of University Women.
Three grand officers will be present at
the celebration of the sixty-first anni
versary of the founding of the Pi Beta
Phi Fraternity tomorrow at the Y. W.
C. A. Miss Emilie Margaret White,
grand vice president: Mrs. Gertrude
Brown Freeman, chairman of the settle
i merit school, and Mrs. Mabel Scott
Brown, cataloguer. Over 200 Pi Phis
will witness the pageant depicting the
| history of the fraternity. It was hoped
| that Mrs. Coolidge would be guest of
honor, but bemuse of the serious rondi-
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Siibrliaiiman of the committee which
arranged the banquet given at the Na
tional Press Club last night for the
wives of engineers here for a conference.
tion of her mother she will not be able
to be present,
Miss Lcttie Stewart, president of the
Washington alumnae, will welcome the
guests and Miss Emilie Margaret White,
j national grand vice president, will make
! a short address. Thirty chapters of
the 74 will be represented. Each guest
will wear a large blue arrow showing
' her name and chapter. The hostesses
representing each province will wear a
large gold arrow to distinguish them.
They include Mrs. J. Yocum. Ohio Al
pha; Mrs. J. C. Thompson. Pennsylva
nia Beta: Miss Lcttie Stewart. Miss
Marion Ferguson. Mrs. Frank B Ncsbit.
Mrs. B. Olmstead. all of Colorado Al
pha; Mrs. Eli A. Helmick, Michigan
Alpha; Mrs. W. F. Friedman. Michigan
Alpha: Miss Mary Laird, Wisconsin Al
pha: Miss Mildred Maronev, Oklahoma
Beta; Mrs P. D. Parkinson, Oklahoma
Alpha: Mrs. W. B, Handy. New r York
Alpha, and Mrs. Wilson Compton, Ohio
Beta.
Smllax and vari-colored iris will be
used for decoration. Balloons of the
I same shade will mark the seats of the
different chapters and provinces. Nut
baskets and vases will carry out the
same color scheme. Mrs. Carl loos,
chairman of the decoration committee.
Is assisted by Mrs. Frank Nesbit; Mrs.
Lynn Edminister. Mrs. Bernette Oim
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sted, Mrs. Oeorge Ober. Mrs. Frank
Nickels and Mrs. M. D. Davidson.
Dr. Harold M. Barnes of Girard Col
lege, Philadelphia, will be honor guest
with Dr. Anita Maris Boggs at. the re
ception which the group chairman of
| the District League of American Pen
; Women will give at 1108 Sixteenth street
northwest tomorrow night at 8 o'clock,
i Dr. Barnes Is well known here as an
I author, educator and lecturer,
j Among the out-of-town guests will be
Mrs. Harold Barnes, Prof, and Mrs.
Harry Banks, Jr.: Miss Ethel May Dun
-1 can and Miss Margaret B. King from
Philadelphia, Mrs. Kate N. Gleissner
of Kansas and Miss D. Dorothy Mallott
i Fisher of Hood College.
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j Theater parties for the Spring pres
dilation of the "The Pastime of Eter
j nity" will be the order of the evening
i Tuesday, whin the Arts Club Players
will make their bow in the colorful
i spectacle at Wardman Park Theater.
| Members of the Persian legation staff
will be in the audience both Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings as honor
guests of the Arts Club.
Among those who will give parties
at the play are Mr. and Mrs. Charles
W. Fairfax. Mrs. Frank Anderson. Mrs.
| Elizabet h Northrop. Mrs. John Francis
| Oayner, Mrs. Denis E. Connell, Mrs.
I O. M. Barber. Miss Adelaide Borah. Miss
! j Amy C. Leavitt and Mr. Frederic Wil
liam Wile.*
, Members of the Abbott School of Art.
who designed and painted the stunning
posters being used in advance of "The
Pastime of Eternity” throughout the
city have taken a block of seats for
the opening performance.
Miss Helen Collier and Miss Mary
Brady have just returned from Knox
ville.-Tenn., where they were sent as
! delegates to install the new Kappa
! Chapter of the Tau Phi National So
rority. Miss Collier is the national
president of the sorority, with head
quarters in this city.
Vanderslice Honor Guest.
R. L. Vanderslice. national secretary
i of the International Stewards* Associ
ation. was the guest of honor arid prin
cipal speaker last night at a meeting of
Washington Chapter. No. 23, at the
Raleigh Hotel. He told of the work of
other chapters and predicted a steady
| increase in membership.
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CANADA-U. S. PEACE
Minister Here Emphasizes Permit
nent Friendship in Speech at An
nual Club Banquet.
The permanent quality of the friend
ship between the United States and
Canada was emphasized last night by
Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to
this country, in an address before more
than 300 persons assembled for the
fifth annual banquet of the Canadian
Club of Washington in the Mayflower
Hotel. Hr. Edwin N. C. Barnes, presi
dent, of the society, was toastmaster.
Other speakers Included Edward P.
Warner. Assistant Secretary of Navy for
Aeronautics; Dr. R. Tait McKenzie,
Philadelphia sculptor; Williarii Knowles
Cooper, secretary of the Y. M. C. A.;
David Burpee, president of the Cana
dian Society of Philadelphia; Homer J.
Councilor, director of religious educa
l tlon at the Calvary Baptist Church
j and Representative J. A, Hughes oi
West Virginia.
r I hr musical program was headed by
Misses Joanne do Nault, contralto, whr
was accompanied by Mrs. Kathryn Hill
Rawles. Others who took part were
Miss Eugenia Botkin, Miss Laura Pair
child Ward. Ludwig Manoly and Miss
Edith B. Athey, all of the Washington
School’s Instrumental ensemble.
Divorce Decree for Mrs. Stanley
Justice Peyton Gordon has signed ar
interlocutory decree of absolute di
vorce in favor of Mrs. Ellen M. Stanley
2803 Rhode Island avenue northeast
against Edward Stanley. They were
married May 14, 1023. The wife wa.<
represented by Attorneys Merrick A
Dean.
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WOMAN DEMOCRATS PLAN
TO HONOR PARTY LEADER
Reception Scheduled Monday Eve
ning for Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H.
Jones of Texas.
B thn Associated Press.
The Woman’s National Democratic
Club will give a reception Monday night
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones
of Houston, Tex.
Mr. Jones will be in Washington to
attend the meeting on April 30 of the
Democratic committee on arrangements,
of which he is chairman. Plans for the
Democratic national convention In Hous
ton. June 26, are expected to be com
pleted at the gathering here. It was
largely through the efforts of Mr Jones
that the Democrats selected Houston as
their convention city.
In the receiving line with Mr. and
Mrs. Jones will be Mrs. Woodrow Wil
son, Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, president
of the Woman’s National Democratic
Club, and Mr. and Mrs. Clem Shaver
Mr. Shaver Is chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee.
WILL AID FLOOD VICTIMS.
Red Cross Authorizes Fund to
Clothe Homeless.
The American Red Cross has author
ized the expenditure of $l,OOO to clothe
several hundred families made homeless
tfTUie floods at Careyville, Fla.
| Red Cross workers sent into Georgia
land Alabama to help In flood relief re
i port the situation in those States as
’ j much improved.
i English women are said to be heavier
:; smokers than those of any other
country.
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