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SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1929 PAGE THREE Lines Drawn for Sharp Struggle Over Federal Reapportionment Bill NO OBJECTION HOUSEWIFE DOCTOR DENIES ILLEGALTYPE Rogers Remarks About: FMU PRODUCE TERMINAL SITE Oil BAY LEASED Spiritualist Leaders in Claim That Houdini, Former Arch Foe, Has Sent His Immortality Sign Mrs. Houdini Accepts Message of Medium as Genuine; Seance Described by Reporter AUTHOR FEELS MEASURE HAS HC few. Tl JURY DUTY Peace Pacts The "control" then proceeded to explain the code used by Houdini Indications Point To But One Woman Being Passed Should She Not Be Challenged Defendant Charges $1500 Bribe Sought of Him as Hush Money By Coroner's Aide California Agriculturalists Are Assured of Facilities for World Market Shipping EW YORK, Jan. 8.

To the and his wife in their stage mlnd- Editor of The Sun: These readlng act They had 10 words corresponding to the first 10 num Thursday Set for Consideration Of Proposal by Rules Body, Bitter Battle Looms erals, for example (these are not all Identic words in the Houdini (Continued from Page One) West Shows Decrease in Flu Plague (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. New cases of Influenza reported today to the U. 8. public health service for last week totaled 62,000, as compared with 76,000 the previous week.

Twenty-three states, New York City and the Die. trict of Columbia were included in the reports. The figures indicate that the epidemic, now in its tenth week, was spreading to the middle Atlantio and northeastern states. Increases were reported by eastern states, while reports from the West showed fewer cases In the week ending Jan. S.

The cities reporting deaths from influenza and pneumonia last week Included: Cincinnati, 108; Columbus, 67; Dallas, 49; Denver, 35; Fort Worth, Tex 23; Portland, Ore 30; Salt Lake City, San Diego, 9, and 8an Francisco, 26. Scientists and public health officials from all parts of the country are to confer here Thursday on means of fighting influenza. code): 1, Pray; 2, answer; 3, talk; 4, then; 5, tell; 6, will; 7, hurry; 8, listen; 9, look; 10, hear. In the code each numeral repre proof of prejudice of the community. Special Prosecutor Loyal C.

Kelly, In opposing the motion, referred to the attitude of Riverside county citizens as "more of curios so-called peace treaties are a funny thing. The Democrats had one years ago but nobody wanted peaco just because the Democrats suggested it. We have had 10 years of peace without any treaty, but now the Republicans want to male it even more peaceful. Yeu aik 'em, "Does it prevent war?" "No." "Does it prevent peace?" "No." Is it for anything?" "No." "ts it against anything?" "No." I think the whole thing is just to find out if we can write. Yours, WILL ROGERS.

sents a letter of the alphabet in order, thus: 1 is 2 is 3 Is and so on. Beyond the first 10 (By United Tress) CHICAGO, Jan. 8. Taking the stand in his second trial to escape the electric chair, Dr. Amante Ron-gettl denied today that Loretta Enders, an unwed mother, died from the effects of an Illegal operation he was charged with performing.

Dr. Rongettl, who was sentenced to death in the first trial, dented for the first time that he had performed the operation. He accused Dr. Samuel Epstein, former coroner's physician, of attempting to "shake him down for $1,500" to conceal the facts of the girl's death. The doctor told of examining the Enders girl after she was brought to the hospital.

ity than of hostility." letters of the alphabet numerals are doubled: being 11, would be Because of threatening: letters against Northcott, received by Judge Freeman, and a "crank" let (By Associated Press) OAKLAND, Jan. 8. California farmers were assured of shipping facilities on San Francisco bay today, when California cooperative producers announced the leasing of property for a mammoth terminal. Approximately 26 acres at the foot of Ninth avenue, on the Oakland Inner harbor, will be devoted to warehouses, transit sheds, docks and a cannery. The plant will be occupied about June 1.

President F. H. Proctor, of Income Properties of California, said the site will be used for manu-ing of food products and as terminal for rail and water shipping. He predicted a new era for California growers In their campaign to reach world markets. Read the Classified.

pray, pray," being 12 would be pray, answer," and the 22nd ter, received by Attorney Savay, letter would be "answer! answer." (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Taut lines are being drawn In the House for a battle over the Fenn bill for reapportionment of the 435 representatives among the several states. The measure today was scheduled by the rules committee for consideration Thursday. Chairman Fenn of.

the census committee, author of the proposal, declared after a conference with colleagues that his measure "has the best chance of adoption of any reapportionment measure submitted In the past decade, and that the prospects for passage were brighter than ever." Representative Rankin, Mississippi, ranking Democrat on the Worked out in the code given through the medium, the first word Sheriff Sweeters placed extra guards In the courtroom today. The letters all were mailed from San Diego, part of them yesterday and some several days ago, It was answer is tell is 3, pray answer is look Is answer answer is "I found she was to become a and tell Is "believe." "The message that I want to mother," Dr. Ronetti testified, "but apparently there was nothing give my wife Is: 'Believe, Rosabelle, Is that right?" Help Wanted, Male Classification 13 Fletcher asked. wrong with her outside of a bruise on the head and a black and blue mark over one eye. I didn't exam "Yes, it is rlghf Mrs.

Houdini answered ine her again until three days later, House census committee, filed a By HARRY R. ZANDER (United Press Correspondent) NEW YORK, Jan. 8. Harry Houdini, master magician and arch-foe of all psychic phenomena in this land of the living while he lived, has, according to Spiritualist leaders here, given mankind "a sign" of immortality for which it has been waiting throughout the ages. It is the sign which Houdini arranged with his wife, Beatrice, before he died Oct.

31, 1926, and which he agreed to transmit to her, if a life beyond the grave were found and if his spirit could discover or devise a means of communication with the living. That message, translated, purportedly from a complicated code used by Houdini and his wife in their "mind-reading" act for years on the stages of America and Europe, Is couched in the single word, "believe." Mrs. Houdini Accepts Message Mrs. Houdini, without reservation, accepted the message as genuine, and expressed her intention of removing from the vault in a safety deposit company's strongholds the sealed envelope which Houdini prepared and placed there against Just such a time as this is represented to be. At present Mrs.

Houdini Is bedridden with a sprained back and an injury to her head suffered wheti she tripped over a rug. The revelation of the message, which was started last October, was made complete Monday through the Rev. Arthur Ford, minister of the First Spiritualist church, Carnegie hall, and editor of Immortality, a leading Spiritualist Journal, acting as. medium. A seance was held beside the couch of Mrs.

Houdini in her apartment John W. Stafford, an associate editor of the Scientific American, his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Stafford; Francis R. Fast, broker and Importer; Mrs. Minnie Chester, Elmhurst, a lifelong friend of Mr.

and Mrs. Houdini; Charles H. Williams, and Mrs. Rea Stevens, newspaper reporters, and this reporter were present Young Clerlo Uses Old Stage Code "'Now I am happy that I have minority report against the measure when a nurse came to me and said the child had been born, naturally, but that it was dead." The defendant said he then or New State Senator Makes Old Motion (By Associated Press) SACRAMENTO, Jan. 8.

Each morning la the senate chamber, after order is called, for the past 20 years Senator Benjamin F. Rush of Solano county has intoned the motion, "Mr. President I move that further reading of the journal be dispensed with." It was his privilege and his honor. A new voice today uttered the motion, causing senators to quickly turn in their chairs to identify the man who will succeed Senator Rush, now resigned. Senator Robert E.

Slater, of Santa Rosa, has taken up the ritual and will, it is supposed, follow the practice as religiously as did Senator Rush. and issued a statement characterizing the bill as "ridiculous and an unwarranted delegation of constitutional power with the secretary of commerce, now vested in the got it he says," Fletcher went on. 'Now I can have many talks with my darling Bess. (Bess was Houdlnl's 'pet' name for his wife, Beatrice). I want you who are here to spare neither time nor money in shielding this sweetheart of mine for her nearest friends will dered the child's body placed in a pan of alcohol and that he did everything possible to save the mother.

He said the baby's body House." The state today impeached the testimony of a star defense witness, a Miss Llndqulst, and she was ordered held on a charge of perjury after the prosecutloi. led her into making contradictory statements regarding her first name. FOR REAL BARGAINS in Wind or String Instruments Such as Saxaphones Trumpets Violins and Guitars See Us Before You Buy DON C. PRESTON Music Store AUTHORIZED BOSCH DEALER turn against her. Teil the whole world that Harry Houdini lives and will prove it a thousand times more.

Tell all those who have lost faith to lay hold of the truth: There is no Shortly thereafter, as the widow of Harry Houdini lay sobbing on her couch, the "control" said: 'Tm going now." There was shortly thereafter a twitching of the form of the apparently comatose medium and sleepily rubbing his eyes he regained his normal bearing. Spiritualists point to the similarity of the message Ford said he Motrin Rankin Certain of Great Opposition While the minority report bore no other signatures than Rankin's, the Misslsslpplan said nearly all the Democrats in the House and many Republicans would oppose the measure. The majority report pointed out that the last reapportionment was made in 1911, when 435 representatives were allocated to 91.000,000 persons. It charged that by the failure to make a reapportionment In 1920, more than 13,001,000 persons have been without fair and equitable representation. The Fenn measure would become effective at the end.

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Houdini. the lack of a recent reapportionment declared that "the founders of our Government would have been amazed at a situation In which the population three times the population which existed at the RESTON'S iRESTON'S 1D: 479 Third Street Phone 361-53 SUCCESSOR TO MACDONALD-PRESTON birthday In this strange rite, seated himself in a high-back cushioned AYMENT AYMENT LAN ROTECTS chair and closed his eyes. Window time of the adoption of the consti LAN 11 ROTECTS shades were drawn at his request but the room remained sufficiently Three Complete Excluiire Music Stores San Bernardino Bakersfield Taft I lighted, notwithstanding, to observe the slightest detail. "Please, everyone, keep both feet flat on the floor," requested the medium. He held his hands to his temples for a few silent moments and dropped them to the low arms of the chair.

Mrs. Houdini, wearied with the excitement, had closed her eyes and appeared to be asleep. There was a convulsive twitching of the figure in the chair, and another, and still a third, then a I tution is denied fair and equitable representation In the House of Representatives." 31,000,000 Would Lois Representation "If this dangerous precedent-failure to reapportion were repeated in 1930-31," It continued, "approximately 31,000,000 would be legislated for without having fair and equitable representation In what is considered the most representative legislative body in the world." The minority report said that the Fcpn measure, by not proposing to reapportion Congress under the 1920 census, attempts to legislate for a future Congress by making the reapportionment on the 1930 census. The measure also would delegate "to the secretary of commerce the apportioning power, which Is primarily vested in the Congress," the minority view added. sigh.

Fast intimate friend and co worker of Ford, accepted the signal to start talking to "Fletcher," the medium's control. "Hello, hello, Fletcher," said Fast Fletcher in life was a French-Can adian by birth and a schoolmate of Ford, It was said. "Hello," came crisply from the I WSHOES I An event of greatest importance to the thrifty house wives of San Bernardino, I Qj SHOES At Three Price. SHOES 1 IfWf RESS PAATINT I lss STREET $3.95 COLORED KID Ck SPORT SUEDE I WEAR VELVET medium's Hps. "This man's coming now, this man who was here Sat urday.

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Houdini told the little group "what Rosabelle means" in the tremulous, plaintive, pathetic remnants of a once sweet soprano as she courageously sang the words: "Rosabelle! sweet Rosabelle, "I love you more than I can tell; "Over me you've cast a spell "I love you, my sweet Rosabelle." "1 thank you, darling," "Fletcher" was speaking again through the medium That's the first tune I ever heard you sing. You sang it In our first act together, in our first show. Do you remember?" "Oh, yes, yes," sobbed the little figure on the couch. "'I want to tell you what the words mean' the voice came from the medium's lips: "'But won't do that until you help The little woman on the couch Intoned the French words: "Je tire la rldeau, comma ca. (I pull the curtain, so)." "Fletcher" went on: "He is smiling now.

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