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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
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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. Per.
d ” Marion si 16 tr ‘ a l was held in Denver Dis-
|: Judge Karen Metzger’s cour-
—~ t0 ^ Ve stu dents an under-
Ouingof the judicial system. Wit-
|cs were sworn in on a copy of
pm’s Fairy Tales,
phlic Defender Dan Cook noted
pel was kept in a 30-by-30-inch
Je and fed all he could eat, in an
apparent effort to fatten him. A stu
dent-portrayed pediatrician said
Gretel was fed only crab shells and
water, which could have irritated her
digestive tract and been partially re
sponsible for her actions.
Nicole White, portraying the dis
trict attorney, presented a strong
case against Hansel and Gretel on
the theft and vandalism charges. She
produced jewels allegedly stolen
from the victim, Mrs. Salem, and
also stressed Hansel’s admission that
he had eaten part of Salem’s house.
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