Evening star., 1938-05-01
Dunninger Reveals Thoughts
Concealed IN Mind of Aut1lOr
Last OF Magical Trio Puts
Little Faith in Work
of DR.. Rhine.
BY w. w. ANDERSON.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 3o.-My mind
is no longer my own. Joseph Dun
ninger has done the impossible and
shared it with me
Flguratively. this last of that
magical trio of Houdini, Thurston and
Dunninger. walked into my brain and
for two hours revealed my unspoken
unWritten thoughts
He projected his will over telephone
to my wife-whom he has never seen
nor spoken to. And they were 10
miles apart
I merely thought of three numbers.
and instantly he told me what they
were.
sat feet from him, shuf1ed a
deck and drew six cards at random,
carefully shielding each as I glanced
at and numbered them face down on
the table
Mr.. Dunninger named them correct
ly and in the proper sequence.
We were alone in a corner of q
large dining room. There we're no
mirrors. No confederates He did
not touch the cards I had shuffed
and dealt as his eyes were averted.
Feat Is Exhausting.
You could do the same. very prob
ably. if you practiced long enough"
he said. Many people could You've
had manifestations of this kind YOUR
self, surely-thinking the same thing
another person is thinking. But as
I do this over and over, it is very
exhausting-liker running a. hard foot
race"
He lay back in his chair, relaxing.
He passed a hand over his heavy
forehead, cloaking for a moment his
dark. piercing eyes
I asked if he could duplicate the
recent announcement of DR.. J. B.
Rhine of Duke University that 40 per-
sons he had conducted experiments
with had predicted. to an unusual de-
gree, how cards would lie after shuf-
fling.
MFR. Dunninger shook his massive
head. He leaned forward and lowered
to nearly whisper his full, sonorous
voice.
"As chairman Of the Universal
Council for Psychic Research" he
said, Il will pay $1,000 to any one
who can predict even one time in
three, in my presence, my shufie of
DR.. Rhine's 25-card. 5-suit deck
(Which uses stars, circles. squares.
etc.. But the person must be recog-
nized by competent authority as an
expert at prophecy, for this would be
no mere guessing game Of crackpots"
Emphatic in Disbelief.
DR.. Rhine had said 113075 pre-
dictions before shuff1ing were made
and that the average correct prophecy
was 81: that one of the best averaged
IL correct forecasts in LOG calls Of
a full deck.
The professor concluded that some
thing besides chance entered into the
call OF the cards. but Mr.. Dunninger,
not attempting to explain it, was en-
phatic in his disbelief Of prediction.
"Telepathy." he said, 'is the Only
phase Of the psychic I believe in.
Some people have the faculty for re-
ceiving thought waves from others.
Nearly every one can acquire it.
Il cannot read your mind unless
you help me by concentrating at least
little. There is no trick to it. Only
practice. You can learn to be a pi-
anist. but you may never acquire dis
nnctive style. You may learn telep-
athy, but never be a good telepathist.
Too. there are good and bad sub
jects to work with
I looked around the room at the
few late diners and chose two stran-
gers. I walked over and asked il they
would lend themselves to an expert
ment, then shufaed a regulation pack
OF cards and put 1t In Mr.. Dunninger's
hands behind his back.
He asked first one man, then the
other, to choose, mentally, a card and
concentrate.
Runs Through Deck.
They did. He began to run through
the deck, and suddenly looked up at
the first man.
You're thinking Of two cards." he
said.
The man denied the accusation,
Nevertheless. you are. perhaps SUBJ
consciously" Mr.. Dunninger asserted.
But I'll try. King Of clubs?"
The man shook his head.
Mr.. Dunninger waited full minute
and said: TRY again. Think Of one
card only"
Then he ran through the deck once
more and, turning to the second man,
said: TREY Of hearts?"
It was right.
To the second: Mine Of hearts?"
The man said 1t was correct this
time.
I then shuhied another deck and