Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1926, Page 12

12 ‘SEAL DRIVE BEGUN - BY MRS. COOLIDGE . First Lady, With Health Cru- sader, Launches Anti- Tuberculosis Sale. Holding the corner of a large col- ornd reproduction of the new design the Christma: sued by the ork. lady of the vesterday launched the an- a 1 Christmas sale of the Aiding® Mrs. Coolidge in sho\v-‘ ing the big seal | at the south front | White vas little 3 Peggy Kahn, clad in her health ‘crusader costume, which she has worn on previous trips to the White House when she has sold seals to the President at Christmas time. Three carolers, in doublet and hose, appear on the seal, which bears a, shield blazoned with the double-barred s symbol of the world-wide fight tamp out tuberculosis, and these were represented in the chich_ pos erday by Kramer, jr., son of the tant superintendent of schools; Arthur R. Murphy, son of Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, the chief medical inspec- tor of the public schools, and Robert L. Clifford. Cumming Approves Work. Surgeon Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the United States Public Health Serv- ice, himself a member of the board of directors of the Washington Tuber- culosis Association, has just written @ letter to Dr. Linsly Willlams, man- eging director of the National Tuber- culosis Association, expressing ap- proval of the non-official campaigns @gainst tuberculosis, as follows: “Few movements of the last two decades have contributéd so much to the health and welfare of the Ameri- can people as that headed by the Natfonal, State and local tuberculosis essociations. The support of these non-official organizations in stimulat- ing communities all over the United States to a realization of their official responsibility for community health has been a great factor in the gradu- ally declining death rate from tuber- culosis and other communicable dis- 1 wish you increased success r annual sale of Christmas MERRY CHRISTMAS to carolers d Meeting to Launch Sale. The formal opening of the 1926 cam- paign for the sale of Christmas seals is to be featured at the eighteenth an- meeting of the Washington as- soclation Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, in Rauscher’s, 1034 Connecticut ave- nue. “Pioneering in Public Health” is the general topic of the meeting and Director Harry L. Hopkins of the New York City Tuberculos and Health Association is on “The Place of the Volumtary Agency in a Public Health Procra * There will be brief reports of the year’s work by heads of departments and exhibits of the child health ans. occupational ther- apy work will be shown. A feature of the progra Itving pi entitled will be a seal, The Gift,” Five Are Killed at Crossing. HELEN November 27 (), Five negroes were killed and a sixth perhaps fatally injured when their car was struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger train 10 miles west of Hel- ena today. Two were killel instantly and _three others, a woman and two children, were burned to death when the gasoline tank exploded. All Prices Delivered Equipped in Washington. Mrs, Coolidge aiding little Peggy Kahn, health crusader, to hai ” THE oo sl the “Gift of Health” on the Nation’s Christmas tree. The First Lady of the Land believes in getting ready early for Christmas and has bought her Chirstmas seals to send on the White House gifts. Christmas seal drive all over the country. This act officially opened the annual 135,000 Telephones in Capital Grew From Single Line Only 49 Years Ago There are 135,000 homes in Wash- ington today connected by telephones, but it was only 49 years ago that two of the offices of the chief signal offi cer of the United Stat wert connected by a private wire, and that was the first telephone line in Wash- ington. Convenient exchanges that could connect your desk or home with al- most any part of the city w known. The only telephones able were those that made a conversation possible directly one place to another. A number of ehterpr men soon saw the va u communication with vital points, ever, and, they had lines Johnson & Beale, law offices, for in- stance, had a direct line to the of- fice of the recorder of deeds, John Douglas, a florist, got “hooked up” with his gardens on Benning road, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from its station to the comphny oflices on Pennsylvania avenue. Some others were: The W tween its from ng business hington Gas Light Co., be- main office and engineer’s ilor, from his office to Keyes & Co., livery ington and Willard from his_office Such was the humble beginning of the telephone here. But, in response to public petition, a “central office was installed in 1878 to serve 24 tele- il- | in It was operated by Burnett 1880 a round of 200 subscribers were listed by the Telephonic Ex- change Co., but less than 12 of them were in residences. When the sub- scribers reached 986, in 1883, the ake and Potomac Telephone organized and took over on of the “big em” in the ict of Columbia and Maryland. 894 there were 1,800 telephones operation here, equipment was being improved greatly and by 1900 the second “central” was opened. e WEARS WEDDING RING. King George Insists on Having Band in Painting. LONDON, November 27 (#).—King George always wears a wedding ring. He is so much in favor of the custom that he cautioned an artist who is painting his portrait to be sure to get his ring in the picture. It was while he was vosing for Richard Jack, R. A., that his Majesty noticed the artist had not vet painted the plain gold band on his finger. “Now, Mr. Jack,” he cautioned, “I want you to notice my wedding ring. Don't you leave that out. . As two popular tennis stars left the church after their wedding in Enfield, England, recently, they were com- pelled to pass under an arch of rackets held in the hands of friends. Roadster, $2,265 Delivered Terms if Desired. THE CONNECTICUT LOCOMOBILE CO. ‘SUNDAY BTAR, WASHINGTON. D SPIRITS FORESAW HOUDINI'S DEATH Fulton Ousler, in Letter to Conan Doyle, Says Magi- cian Knew of Fate. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, November 27.—Hou- dini’s death was predicted in spirit circles for weeks before he died and while Houdini still thought his injury { was slight, Fulton Ousler, the author, reveals in a letter to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The magician-skeptic of spiritual- ism was not alone aware of the pre- dictions, according to the author. A medium, Ousler said. informed him at the time of Houdini's injury that a spirit told her “Houdini's days as a magiclan are over.” In replying to a letter from Doyle commenting on Ousler's book, “Step- child of the Moon,” the latter reported as follows a telephone conversation he had with Houdini just before the ma- giclan opened the tour that ended in his death: | Prediction Makes Impression. “1 am marked for death,” Houdini said. "I don’t mean I am going to be murdered, but that they are predicting my death In spirit circles all over the country." - “You don’t put any stock In it, do you?" Ousler inquired, aware of many similar predictions. Houdini sald he did not, but nevertheless “he admitted that it had made an impression on his mind.” On the day after he read of Hou- dini's accident m an Albany Theater, Ousler continued. he received a letter from Alice A. Wood, a medlum, wha was secretary to Dr. Prince, then principal research officer of the Amer- ican Society for Psychic Researc Under date of October 13, OQusler sald. this is what Mrs. Wood wrote to him. 5 Three years ago Dr. Hyslop (mean- ‘ng the spirit of Dr. Hyslop) said to J. 0, NOVEMBER 28, 1926—PART 1. Malcolm Bird of the Physical Research Soclety: “‘“The waters are black for Hou- dini, and he predicted that gisaster would befall him while perfornfing be- fore an audience in a theater. Dr. Hyslop now says that the injury is more serious than has been reported and that Houdinl's days as a magician are over!" Houdini wrote him a note from Schenectady, under date of October 15, according to Ousler, saying “I have ‘only’ an interior fracture of the ankle.” . — MASCOTS ON AUTOS. LONDON, November 27 (P).—Models of prehistoric monsters have become popular as mascots for automobilists. But there are scores of other mascots, too, in which speed is personified. Animals posing in an “on guard,” or “look out” attitude are in demand. The stork on the wing continues a favorite, but nymphs in flylng attl- tude have been cast into the discard. Family crests, particularly those with a llon or other animal rampant, are used a great deal. TREADWAY WISHES - ALIEN CLAIMS PAID Proposes $100,000,000 Ap- propriation to Adjust Prop- erty Seized in War. By the Assoclated Pross. Appropriation of $10,000,000 was proposed yesterday by Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, a Repub- lican member of the House ways and means committee, in a plan for adjust- ment of alien property claims. As a result of extended hearing by the committee, he said, he was con- vinced an appropriation would be nec essary If the claims were to be set- tled satisfactorily. this The appropriation in case would be to pay for German -h!r radlo_stations and patents seized by the United States. “A congressional appropriation i< thoroughly justified,” he asserted. “when we consider that we have in the Treasury now about $18,000,00 from the sale of 44 German shipsan:i interest on the sale price. We als: have on hand over 60 of the best Ger man ships, which today, at a low es Io.lmlte, are worth at least $130,000 00+ Would Ease Taxpayer. Representative Garner of Texas ranking Democrat on the committee although not committed to any specific plan, also said he belleved a hundred million-dollar appropriation justified, “I have always insisted that are settlement should not impose an aé ditional burden on the American tax payer,” Garner said. 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