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) residential death hex forgotten THE BATTALION Page 3B MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1980 » United Press International L, v YORK — There’s one factor often over- id in this year’s hectic election battle — the T te d zero-year presidential hex. r ] ast se ven presidents to win an election in a lending year all have died in office, four of calHhe zero-year presidential death wred Jika freak coincidence. But one legend sug- today, bjfit's an old curse from an angry Indian medi- Wofb* death streak began with President William ha,e Harrison, best remembered by thepohttc- iza. KhILi he shared wrth running-mate John Tyler dy pa* Sippeeanoe“d Tyler too. ■h as 4m In 1800 President John Adams appointed Har- governor of Indiana territory, then largely mericanlniabitedby Indians. He negotiated treaties with e all nart Tlndians, opening new lands to white settle- >80 cogent and sparking outrage among many Indian ice of ^01SgK unitec | un der the Shawnee chief Tecum- nwl dm i ihand his brother, “The Prophet,” — a medi- h - tb ie man — and began fighting the settlers. Ipft ' ,1 Harrison took command of the territorial mili- ■m 49 ln n! e fand set out to drive the Indians from treaty ne X tto&s. In 1811 Harrison shattered Indian forces at Rattle of Tippecanoe, winning his nickname ^HKhat^.ohc'p propel hiin.,,the White during the War of 1812 Harrison s hop Aca |?P S won a ma J or victor y over Britis n forces and mtes by t\J, ae torches, f longer a pmij s where thefe ethandouMii r ago the FBI rapidly their Indian allies, led by Tecumseh, in the Battle of the Thames in Canada. Tecumseh, himself, was killed in the battle. Legend says that Tecumseh’s brother, “the Prophet,” then pronounced a curse: Harrison and all future presidents elected in a zero-year would die in office. Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1840. In March 1841 he gave an hour-long inaugural speech, the longest in history. It was a rainy day and he caught a cold. His cold soon developed into pneumonia and he died on April 4, only 30 days into his presidency. He was 68. Since then: — Abraham Lincoln, elected to his first term in 1860, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. — James Garfield, elected in 1880, was assas sinated in 1881 by Charles J. Guiteau. — William McKinley, elected in 1900, was assassinated in 1901 by Leon F. Czolgosz. — Warren Harding, elected in 1920, died pre sumably of pneumonia, a complication of food poisoning, in 1923. No autopsy was performed and the exact cause of death is unknown. — Franklin Roosevelt, elected to a third term in 1940, died of a cerebral hemmorhage in 1945. — President John Kennedy, elected in 1960, was assasinated in 1963. Tower denounces giving Iran arms United Press International DALLAS — Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, says the American people would not support giving arms to Iran to secure the release of the Iranian hostages. Tower, in a kickoff press conference for a trip around Texas by the “Republican Truth Squad” and the “Reagan Roundup,” referred to the possi bility of the Carter administration giving Iran arms shipments paid for by the deposed shah of Iran. “The release of the hostages should be a prior concession for negotiations for arms, ” Tower said. “We’ve never released arms to a hostile country. Those arms were sold to the shah of Iran. It is clearly unwise for us to position ourselves on one side of this war. use um ’ fea tures prostitution memorabilia vill become /e for ken as they®' (Jmk-d Press International -tts. Itsaysil WASHINGTON — The history of policyholdecIhington behind closed doors and in theft clajler the sheets is showcased in the ill’s newest museum — a monu- |t to bawdiness called the “Red nt Museum and Gift Shop.” Ibcupying two rooms on the |nd floor over a strip bar just off Eecticut Avenue, the museum fees memorabilia dating back to a Ihvhen prostitution was legal and nglish Effing j n the street was not. ;au andArUflu' red-draped rooms feature -d property rjp.nf.the-century erotica includ- jimick, Wl; ; a Victorian-era slide show, 19th the Chicagoiptury photographs, daguer- ipes and lithographs of ladies of No raisedv e s even i n g ) blow-up newspaper me! ProspeAjjigs 0 f 1915 vintage, copies of iddle at the if p 0 li ce reports and a 1913 map of i bid. Unless apistrict of Columbia locating the never was t{K]los — a great many of which found near the White House m eyed hisf'Capitol Hill, with a calm The museum’s curator, Eleanor fentine, dresses on occasion in a t is the lady r iod costume of what oldtime m my rightr,!dies of the evening” wore, cony. 4|HWf|ie museum’s owner, Dennis urther advanj : it goes at ostrum.' e wrote then; Sobin and others claim the word “hooker, ” meaning prostitute, is de rived from the camp followers who set up shop near the Civil War en campment of Gen. Joseph Hooker, in downtown Washington. The soldiers were camped on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Capitol. The women were nearby in an area of the city that became known as “Hooker’s Division” and later “The Division.” It remained as the capital’s red light district for nearly a century until it was leveled in post WVORLD War II urban renewal. Hooker’s portrait is featured in the museum as well as relics from the age including a “hygiene book,” that is nothing less than a sex manual. A large poster made from an 1861 police blotter, shows women listed “prostitute” as their occupation, which, Sobin said, was kind of a “blue collar career. It usually attracted the ‘rough and ready’ type of customer. ” One entry shows that a 20-year-old prostitute by the name of Sarah Hill, was arrested for “swear ing in the street.” Reproductions of posters adorn the walls with such sayings as: “Sailors Registering with Street Girls must pay for room In Adv ance,” and “Commit no nuisance. This is a Clean and Moral Establish ment. Scoundrels will be dealt with Severely.” In 1898, Congress passed a law banning prostitutes from working on the street. This, Sobin said, drove the women indoors where they had to rely on hanging out of windows or on pimps to bring in business. By 1913, laws banning prostitu tion were passed. A 1915 Washing ton Star clipping reports that efforts to guide former prostitutes into more respectable pursuits had failed mis erably. Sobin has researched his museum well, using files from the Library of Congress and the National Archives as well as the LBJ Collection in Texas, a primary source for materials collected by the President’s Com mission on Obscenity and Pornog raphy. ansel and Gretel get off the hook veen thumOjl United Press International me nearthe*ENVER—A jury has confirmed [?.” Withtl#fe e l* n gs of generations of fairy v about the: 8 rea ^ ers i ruling that Hansel and . iruu acte d in self-defense when <e ’ . . «jy shoved their wicked step- porcchin « er into an oven and baked her lT /I'! 6 j ur y> comprised of fifth and w i e graders from Littleton, recent- found Hansel and Gretel guilty of jeonylampilift and vandalism, but innocent of and $60,M ispassing and second-degree I. 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