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THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950 THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON PAGE FIFTEEN Magician Makes Bullet Trick Appear Real By Deny Moron (United Frou Surf Correspondent) Dublin iui Apparently It was just a. magician's trick, but they made it look real. The scene on the windswept beach was reminiscent of a parti san execution. A young man stood alone on the sand dunes. Thirty paces away stood a marksman with a rifle. A group of solemn-faced men hud. died behind him, faces edged down into their collars against the wind sweeping off the sea. The marksman took careful aim at the smiling mouth some 60 to 70 feet away. A shot rang out and the young man dropped on the sand. ' ine spectators surged forward but not before the "victim" began staggering to his feet, with a bul let clenched between his teeth. Not for Houdinl He" was Hubert Lambert, ama. teur Irish magician and father of four,, who had defied police dis pleasure and the pleas of friends and fellow magicians to flirt with death in attempting a trick which already is reported to have taken the lives of 12 exponents. Houdini, "king" of magicians, never attempted it. The spectators were British, Irish and Scottish amateur magi cians attending the annual con vention of the Irish Ring of the International Brotherhood of Ma gicians. Also present were sev eral police officers who went to the scene in an attempt to stop L.amoert s "projected suicide." On the beach fronting the con vention headquarters at Bettys town, Lambert took up his. posi. tion, with two doctors in attend ance. A spectator picked a bullet at random from a full box and marked Its head before handing it to an Irish army marksman who nad volunteered to shoot Lam bert. Shows Marksmanship The marksman had been brought under escort from camp that morning and had never met or spoken with Lambert. How. ever, he had to demonstrate his marksmanship to police by plug ging a six-inch plate dead center at 40 paces. The marksman, whose name was withheld on army orders, put the marked round up the breach, I squinted along the sights and 1 fired. A split second later Lambert fell back on the sand. Clenched between his teeth was a bullet which Maguire and the marks man identified as the marked round fired from the rifle. Lambert's jaws were bruised but the mark was still there. Lam bert offered to prove by police ballistic examination that the bul let between his teeth was the one fired from the marksman's rifle but no one took him up: Speaking with difficulty later, Lambert said he wasn't sure if he would try again, mostly, he said, because of his young wife. Three Others Did It "The last thing she said to me when I left home was that she hoped the insurance was, paid up to date," he said. Magicians attending the con vention could instance only three men who had pertected the trlcK, One, William Robinson, an Amer ican who went under the stage name of Chung Lingsoo. was kill. ed during a performance in Lon don's Woodgreen Empire shortly after world war I. Another American exponent, Theodore Anneman, died shortly after a performance in New York. The third, a French magician of the early 1800's named Robert Houdin, developed the trick to such a point that the French gov. einment sent him to Morocco, then torn by Marabout revolt, as ambassador. Houdin performed the trick be fore the native chieftains, and convinced them that; since he was "invulnerable," all French men were "invulnerable." The Marabouts promptly do. dared peace. Houdini adopted the French artist's name, with the addition of an "i," but in all his years of magic and escapism never at tempted the bullet stunt. Results of Atom Bomb Studied In Stricken Areas of Japan By Peter Kalischer (Uniteu Prau Suit Cvrrevitondent) Hiroshima, Japan iCP The American atom bomb casualty commission has given the world a glimpse of the research it is doing in Japan's atomic blast areas. ' - . The bomb's long range effects on survivors and their descend ants are being charted there. Lt. Col. Carl F. Tessmer, di rector of the commission, said a "radiation census" brought in questionaries filled out by 88,818 persons in Hiroshima and 79,607 in Nagasaki, all of whom "ex perienced the bombs." -,. All findings of the commission are classified ' military informa tion nnd are forwarded direct to Washington. . ( . The commission's clinic and laboratory has been in operation Commercial so-called "tonnage" oxygen is from 40 to 90r pure. 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Tessmer said, in elude ophthalmology, internal medicine, obstetrics - gynecology, hematology, parasitology, bacteri ology and biochemistry. Many X-Rays Taken More than 13,000 X-rays have been taken In the three cities. In releasing figures on the number of diagnostic procedures, Col. Tessmer said that although no treatment is performed in the clinics, the greatest possible val ue is obtained from the diagnos tic data by making it available to patients and their physicians. As a part of the child growth and development studies, health reports are sent to parents of all school children who have been to the clinic. . There is a continuous exchange between the Japanese medical profession and the commission staff. Commission members ex pressed the hope that this project will provide Japanese physicians a direct contact with the latest developments in medical research. STYLISH WAC-Sgt: Ruth Seshun of Antlers, Okla., models the newest " uniform of the WACS. 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