Evening star., 1924-04-10
$4,000 NAMES FOUND
UPON "SUCkER" LISTS
Police Find Some of San Fran
eisco's Elite Patronized Seers
and Soothsayers.
BIG CLEANUP STAGED
Laughable Expedients Used by
- Occult Masters.
BIG CLEANUP STAGED

Special Dispatch to The Star.
: SAN FRANCISCO, April Johannes
of $4,000 persons, including some of
San Francisco's elite, socially and
financially, were found on the sucker
-iists" of half a hundred crystal
gazers, slate writers, palmists. trance
inediums and other va5eties of
-sOothsayers, who have just been
rounded up and herded out of the
city by the police.
: Some 10000 of these-most of them
of the ought-to- better kind
already had paid out good money.
frequently in large quantities, to OBJ
tain the aid of occult influences. ac-
cording to the authorities. The love-
Horn of both sexes were the chief
source of revenue for the soothSayers,
ihe police disclosed. Some of the
.Cures" the occult gentry disseminat-
ed were almost ludicrous enough to
cause a laugh at an undertakers
convention.
Pins I'm Underwear.
For instance, more than& score of
cases were discovered which unhappy
wives had been advised that the best
Way to cure their philandering nus
bands was to insert thirteen pins and
thirteen needles in a pair Of the dear
ones BN.D's, which We're then to be
burned beneath the front doorstep.
In another case, a large group OF
women with "steadies" who lacked
either the courage or the disposition
10 reach the proposal stage, were ad-
xised to boil a piece of old stocking
in salt and vinegar on seven alternate
days The background SWANS simply
could not resist the temptation 70
propose, they were assured, II the
lady would wear this chemically pre-
pared bit of hosiery somewhere about
her person.
But it was not only the lovelorn
who contributed to the soothSayers
.upkeep. One automobile owner was
round in a raided den, where he was
trying to return to the presiding seer
an amult of sole leather marked with
a Cabalistic design. He had just col
iided with watr plug and the sooth-
Saver was having a hard time con-
Hincing him that tie charm would
ward off accidents. when. happily for
him, the police intervensd.
sH Here are some of the things the
soothsayers told thar customers and
apparently persuaded many of them
10 believe:
= A rusty safety pin. found on a dark
torner during a thunderstorm, will
Tard off bad luck, jinxes. hoodoos and
misfortune in love, if worn in the toe
Of the left shoe.
40. 1t Is exceedingly unlucky Tor all
present il a brunette child sneezes
I'm a room in which there are more
blondes than brunettes. 1t is equally
nnlucky if d blonde child sneezes
In a room in which the brunettes
predominate.
\, If you are backward or bashful in
affairs of the heart and would be-
come a highly efficient sheik or
sheikess. a plain rubber band worn
above the left ankle will Undue you
with the courage of Sir Galahad and
the tenderness OF Romeo.
The eYicted ones viewed their ex-
pulsion philosophically. If the as
sertions of these seventh sons and
seventh daughters are to be believed,
the percentage of sign believing,
Inx-fearing credulous ones is no
higher in San Francisco than in any
ether city of the United States.
gApparently there is still one being
Born every minute.