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UPENS mMURRUw OF “HOLE” CHARGED Lecture Courses to Include. Those on History, Current Problems and Architecture. | (Continued from Iirst Page.) Col ence relating to the traffic lights ex changed between the {raffic office and the Crouse Hinds Co. to his hume. “Not until the Bureau of Efficiency representative asked for this corre spondence recently and 1 was unable to find it." he replled. { Seller sald his suspicions were then | aroused. H | Asked what he knew about Moller's | ‘Washington Study will open its sea- [activities, Seifler answered that the‘ | Moller had taken all correspond ! i ®on tomorrow afternoon at Rauscher's tl}m"z‘l; :nsineel“l fllw'&ru M{_‘N him ';h\ 3 | the Tk on all matters, Representa- with & lecture by B. H. Bennett of | 4y, “Houston then urged Him to ex Chloego, architectural adviser 10 Sec- | plain the meaning of his expression | retary of the Treasury Mellon, with|“in the dark.” Seiler replied that he | respect to the Federal building pro- | Meant in the purchase of traffic equib- | gram n Washington. Mr. Bennett's ment. { lecture on this phase of developing the | Seiler related the results of two re. Capital will be the first of a series of | Cent inventories he made of the traffic Monday afternoon taiks on archi-|equipment in storage and a check hej teoture scheduled 4:30 o'clock in|made of the number of automatic sig the afternoons. nals in operation, upon orders of Mr The next will he on March 14 by |Eldridge. The first check, he sald. Baward W. Denn, consulting architect | Vas about six week o, when he of the Kenmore ana Wakefleld Me-|found 115 signals installed and oper. morial Associations, who will speak on |ating on Massachusetts uvenue be- “Colon{al Architecture in Washington |tween Tweitth and Eighteenth streets and Vielnity.” On March 21 Lieut.|{8nd on Sixteenth street between I Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. director of pub. |Street and Florida avenue and Euclid lio bufldings and public parks, will {and Newton streets. Subsequently, he speak on ‘The Park Development.” | €Xxplained, 26 additional lights were in Another lecture of interest in this|Stalled on Massachusetts avenue be- course will be given by Charles D.|tween Twelfth and Neventh &treets Maginnis of Boston, architect of the |and on Rhode Island avenue between Shrine of the Immaculate Conception | Fourteenth and Seventeenth streets. at the Catholic University, who will | After these installations, he sald, speak on “Byzantian Influence in |there were 35 signals left in storage. Modern Architecture.” This lecture i . Di v, SRl #5s gitan in April, theidate toibs| .. TasurcsShow Discrepancy. announced later. | Seiler's figures, however, showed a discrepancy in the number of signals History Course Opens Thursday. reported shipped by the Crouse-Hinds The course in history will be given | Co.. Which was emphasized by Mr. Gib- Thursday mornings at 11:30 o'clock, | 8on. According to Seiler’s calcula beginning next Thursday, and wili | tions, there were requisitions for a continue for six successive weeks, to | total of 178 lights and 188 have been “The Presidents and Thelr | delivered. to be reviewed in this course | testimony showed that Moller hag or- ‘Washington and John Adams, | dered 232 signals. by Samuel F. Bemis, head of the his.| “How do you account for that?” he at B w certified to both matters, close whatever was ever made by office to check-up on the amount or the quality of the equipment for the signal lights delivered by the Crouse- Hinds Co. NDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 27, 1927—PART HOUDINI'S NEPHEW DISCLOSES COMMITTEE AND YESTERDA reau of Efficlency; , chalrman Senudi left to right: Representative Willlam C. Ham mer of North Carolina; M. Kerlin and F. G. Wilson of the Bu epresentative Ernest W. Gibson, of Vermont, Robert G. Houston of Delaw: of the commlites, and Representative are, : A. G. Seiler, administrative aseistant to Traffic Director Eldrige, who testifled yesterday. y that order, however, I should have 1 did not.” Afterwnrd Hadley admitted, under examination, that no effort his de artment or by the traffic director’ nor did any one connected ith the District Government deter- mine whether the bill submitted by 'cable.” the Potomac Electric Mr. Gibson sald previous | $3,645.68 for cable or the one for|bursed in cash Instead of cable.” $3,623 for labor, were correct. | Power Co. for Says No Check Was Made. “‘Assuming that there was a short | tre Power Co. to take the matter up | and then Include the cost in the ac- count of cable for which they bill us for the entire system. I have, there- fore, arranged with the Potomac Elec- with you direct.” In a subsequent letter under date | of June 21, 1926, Moller advised Hills | that he would “take up with the Poto mac Electric Power Co. at once the matter of reimbursing you for the “If it is possible,” he added, to have you reim- “I will arrange Admits Procedure Irregular. Asked If he thought such a proc dure was proper, Hadley replled, - RIO POLICE ROUT PINEDO ADMIRERS Welcome So Enthusiastic Italian Flyer Is Endan- 1 MAGICIAN'S TELEPATHY SECRET Whole House Wired phone System, Former Aid Says in Prov- | ing Thought Transference Faked. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 26.—The secret of Houdinl's spectacular “telep- athy,” with which he mystified mil Uons of people befors his death, was divulged today. Heretofore It was belleved the secret had gone to the grave with Houdini. Two years ago the press ocarried stories ‘of experiments in telepathy conductad by Prof. Gllbert Murray, the Karl of Balfour and others In a | London drawing room. The experiments indicated a cer- taln degree of success in thought transference. Houdlni declared there was nothing supernatural about the experiments and that he could do as weil himself by “natural means.” committee to his home here and there duplicated, in part, the experiments. System Was “Faked.” Today a reporter for the World News Service learned from Houdini's nephew, Louis C. Kraue, who had worked with Houdinl in developing the telepathy idea, how It had all been done. The revolations now ratify the opinion of Thomas A. Edl- son, " expressed February 1, on the subject of telepathy: “I don't belleve it i3 possible.” For Houdini employed the idea of Edison himself in developlng a con- traption which would fake the sem | blance of thought transference. The secret is that Houdini wore an | electric belt which established an in- visible connection, by electro-magnetic Induction, with loops of wire concealed under the carpet. The belt, now possessed by Mrs. He invited al ;{cle three times. Mrs. Houdinl and the brother of the lan were in | the room, but were asked not to re- | peat the words. The three tests were: | | "By Mr. Lippmann: I am thinking of Lord Curzon In the foreign office last Mr. Houdini falled to get this thought. “Hy Mr. Barych: Dou't give up the ship.” Fajlure @irst time, but on repetition Houdini got “a senss of neaving water and a ship.” | “By Prof. Kempf: Buffalo Bill's monument in Wyoming by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney." “Houdini came down and said: I get the picture of a man killing cattle- no, buffaloes. I see him bringing meat to men byllding & raflroad. e hus long hair.” “Dr. Kempf had said nothing of this part of Buffalo Bfil's activities, but admitted this plcture of Buffalo kill h|ing and the feading of rallroud work the | ers had been in his mind. joudini then returned to the third As the turns of the belt were con- | floor, stripped to nudity, and was tinuous, thelr minute currents were| placed in a cabinet under the super added together, flowing together fn a | vision of Ralph Pulltzer and Mr. Lipp continuous current, and it was this| mann. sum total of inducetl electrical energy | “The thought of the group that re which vibrated the diaphragm of the | mained downstalrs in the parlor then minlature telephone receiver and re- | was produced speech | “Mrs. John Barrymore's In short, this faint reproduced | done by Zuloaga speech was the facsimile of the volce | “Houdini caught the Barrymore which sent electrical energy into the | portrait, but missed the sense of a loops under the carpet. | painting or the name of Zuloaga. Thus the trick was to pick up the| = “Although he insisted that what he utterances of the “thought transmit-|had done yas not thought transfer ters,” downstairs by means of “plant-| ance, but an applocation of natural ed” dictaphones, such as detectives|methods and scientific knowledge employ, and then repeat these utter-| joudini refused to explain his ances oh a strong telephone clreult| mothod.” terminating in the loops under the Cabinet Had Cofl. carpet where Houdini stood. Mg g Mr. Kraus said today: “The whole In this way the spoken thoughts of Houdin{'s impromptu committee in|house was wired. The room in which the committee sat was so completely York were actually carried to the ma- giclan, invishly through wire and air, | wired that the least whisper was pick but the method was electrical, not|ed up and carried electrically to an telepathic, the theory of which pre- | operator concealed in the basement cludes any contraptions other than|This operator held @ transmitter in two human minds. his hand and repeated all he heard , His repetitions were carrled by other Thoughts Written hidden wires to the top floor. terminat An account of Houdin ing in loops under the carpet. tion” in 1925 read in par “When Houdini stripped and climb. “In the presence of a conimittee of | ed into the cabifiet he relied on an- distingulshed people including Ralph | other - concealed coil, built into the Pulitzer, editor; Bernard Raruch, | cabinet, this acted in place of the beit. former chairman of the war industries| ‘“When the cabinet was closed he | Januar; With Hidden Tele-| vibrated perpendicularly in the air| several feet above and below the loops. | These moving lines of magnetism cut across the turns of wire of the electric belt and generated In each turn a| minute electric current, the exact counterpart of the current whi energized the wires beneath carpet. portrait Down, “demonstra tory department of George Washing-|inquired. Seiler replied that he would ton University; Lincoln and Cleveland, | investigate further. by Miss Helen Nicolay, daughter of | Mr. Gibson promised to have a rep- the late John G. Nicolay, secretary to | resentative of the Bureau of Standards Abraham Lincoln; President Roose- | assist him. velt, by Col. Edward B. Clark, who| The examination of Electrical En- was closely associated with Roosevelt | gineer Hadley was proceeding slowly 1n his interest and study of ornithol- | with the discussion of technicalities re- ogy. President Wilson will be the|garding the furnishing of cable for subject of the last lecture. the lights, when the suggestion in- One of the most intergsting of the | volving an irregularity in his office courses is that on international rela- | broke. tions, which will be given six suc-| Mr. Hadley was asked if he had cessive Saturday mornings at 11:30 | supervised the installation of the traf- o'clock, from March 5 to April 9.|fic signals and whether he had certi- Dr. Thomas H. Healy, assistant dean | fied to the payment of a bill from of the 8chool of Foreign Service of [the Potomac Electric Power Co. which Georgetown University and former |did the work, amounting to $16,815.98. lecturer before the Acadamy of Inter- | He replied that he had not. Mr. Gib- national Law at The Hague, will{son then produced an order of the speak on “Certain Treaty Relations |District Commissioners under date of and Their Backgrounds.” September 11, 1925, which specifically charged him with both of these duties. Representatives Talk. “That takés me by surprise,” re. Treatles between the United States |sponded Hadley after Mr. Gibson had and Asiatic. FEuropean and Latin |finished reading the order. i Amerlcan countries will be reviewed,| “I don't think I knew of it before.” - and the present aspects of these trea- . es will be dealt with by Representa- Pressed By Gibson. 1 tive lore E. Burton of Ohio, Rep- | Hadley’s attention was then called resentative Stephen G. Porter of |to the fact that a copy of the order Pu-;nlvmh and Willlam Franklin |had been annotated in the left-hand corner with the legend that it had Nicholas Roosevelt will be the first | been furnishéd the electrical engineer speaker in the course on national board; Dr. Edward J. Kempf, a psychi- | slid back a small, hidden panel and atrist; Arthur Train, writer of criminal | pulled out an ear phone.’ legal fiction, and Walter Lippmann,| When Houdini’s widow chief editorlal writer of the World. | tioned at the Houdin! home she “Yesterday the magician placed the | verified Mr. Kraus' story. She re committee in the parlor. He then |gretted the disclosure of the secret, . went to the third floor and remained | as it was an unwritten law of the | alone in the front room. The commit- S':hc!h}l‘.v hnf_ Am;'fl:a?"‘hl‘l“‘.lc::;‘,b;f w e wire loops under the car- | tee below selected three test thoughts, | which she is an honorary X pet v}::'r‘e”e‘nem{:ed b;;' the current of | following the Belfour method. The [not to give away any ?t the con- a telephone circuit, invisible lines of | thoughts were written down and then | trivances whereby audiences ar magnetism called lines of flux. 4 epeated in pers to the close cir ystified. do not think that is in regular order. The specifications, it was brought | out, required the successful bidder on the' second contract for furnishing the lights to provide the cable because | RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, February 26. the District had used its available sup-| 1" 7 : p ; ply and had no appropriation to pup. | —Comdr. Francesco de Pinedo, Italian chase an additional amount. A prom.|aviator who arrived here today from ise was made in the specifications to | Bahia on his four-continent fiight, was return the cable to the company which | usia v y 3 e o greeted so enthusiastically by huge rovid . E S . | Phoveed It, as soon as it could be PUT | rowqs that the police had to use Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro. | vigorous measures to keep him from who is dlrecting an independent in- | being overwhelmed. vestigation of iregularities in the| HIs automobile, in which he was traffic office, was present through the [escorted by Mayor Antonio Prado, commiseion. This seems to be a sin | entire hearing. Commissioners Beil|could move only at a snail's pace of omission.” |and Dougherty arrived shortly after through the densely thronged streets. Mr. Gibson then quizzed Hadley in |noon and remained until the commit- | Enthusiastic welcomers crowded the regard to the proposal of the Potomac | tee adjourned about 5:15 o'clock. fenders of the machine and hung | wherever they could get a grip. They Electric Power Co. to drill holes into Shgs P e S ORE Ll R street lamp-posts at a cost of 50 cents | cro 0 thickly that the police a hole. The holes were necessary to MUST FILL PENNLAND. |feared that the heat would suffocate screw in horizontal bars to support 7. | the aviator and almost caused a fignt s | to give him enough air. Legionnaires Informed No Berths Now Available Elsewhere. the new parking signs. Hadley answered that the District o Kix has employes who could drill holes | AIR RACE IS DENIED Into lamp-posts, but expressed the | | 2 opinion that the “person” who pm.§ Announcement was made last night| ROME, February 28 (®)—Any posed awarding a ‘contract fo the by Joseph J. Idler, Department |idea that Maj. Tadeo Larre-Borges. power company for such work prob- | . Soi .| Uruguayan aviator, intended to race ably was Influenced by the fact that ;‘"‘"‘;’ ToRTi e N A e S tarlan ce, Comur, Fraviessco can Legion, that no further reserva-| ge Pinedo in his present flight tc tions would be made ori the steamship | South America, was refuted today by Leviathan or any other ships of the | the Uruguayan charge d'affaires, F. United States Lines for the pligrimage | Gruenwaldt Cuestas, in a letter to the to Parls this Fall until all spaces on 4he company would do a better job. problems. | This series will open the and others. He continued, however, Cable Cost Questioned. "*The Cruguayan fight was not | { G 3 van vas = e it rutions Lo thie SRect wevs | tended_as 3. speed ‘event, he said to Insist that he had not certified to | Another irregularity charged to Col. afternoon of March 28, at 4:30 o'clock, [any bills under this order. | Moller was revealed in correspondence continuing on successive Mondays. | “How could the Potomac Electric|read by Mr. Gibson during a discus- Roosevelt will speak on ‘‘The|Power Co. get its pay for this work (sion of the cost of the cable and the Philippines—A Treasure and a Prob- | without compifance with this- order”” |amount used. . he sald lem.” On April 11, Secretary of Ag-|interrogated Mr. Gibson. Hadley did| One of Col. Moller's letters, dated | received in a telegram last night from | Larre-Borges s now at Casablanca. riculture Jardine will.speak on ‘“The [not answer. | February 3, ‘and_directed to' A. F.|the France convention committee at | Morocco, and does mot plan to con- . while Capt. Walter S, An-| A copy of the voucher of the power | Hills of the Cruose Hinds Co., | Indianapolis. | tinue until Monday. derson, U. S. N, will speak on “Na- [ company in connection with its work | read by Mr. Gibson, follows, in part:| The District Legionnaires, members | = = - tlonal Defense,” April 25. The last |was next shown Hadley, after which| “The auditor of the District of Co-|{of the American Legion Auxiliary | Miss Edith Beesley, just appointed lecture in this course will be an- and thelr families are scheduled to |branch manager of a large insurance sail from Norfolk, Va., September 9 [company In London. is said to be the next, while the Leviathan will sail | irst of her sex to hold such a posi the next day from New York. tion in England. age of 1,000 feet of the cable, who would know of it?" inquired Mr. Gibson. Hadley replied that absolutely no check was made to ascertain whether the amount billed was accurate. “In other word: interjected Mr. Gibson, “the persons who certifled to the correctness of these vouchers did not know whether they were correct or not?" “I'm admitting that I do not know,"” answered Hadley. “Doesn’t that come very mnear to Moller's case?” interposed ‘Mr. Hous- ton. “In Moller's case it was a sin nf] Houdini, was composed of many turns of fine insulated wire, looped round the body and wrapped with tape. The two ends of this coil of many turns were attached to a miniature telephone recelver, which could be hidden in the hand, the wires running down the sleeves of a man's coat. gered by Mob. was ques By the Associated Press. X WAFFLES Without Grease Flame, Soot or Smoke! TTACH your electric Waffle Iron to any outlet, mix your batter, pour it on to the griddles—in a few minutes yon have de- licious, crisp, golden-brown waffles ready for piping-hot service. 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