Show SIR OLI OLIVER V ER LODGES LODGE'S OCCULT POWERS ARE DOUBTED BY JASTROW International l News r Service Eugene Oro Juno 6 Claims G. Claims by Sir Oliver Ix lAd go eminent British mystic that th ho he has beon boon able to communicate with departed spirits through mediums are scouted as un unwarranted unwarranted unwarranted un- un warranted l hy by y Dr Tl TI H II Wheeler processor pro- pro lessor cessor of or psychology at the University of Oregon Ores In reply to a letter received from Crom Dr Joseph Jastrow of or the Uni- Uni of oC Wisconsin who Is asking asking- tho the opinion of ot Am American men of ot science en cn the Dr Wheeler contends contend that tho the British scientists claims are based on Insufficient evidence and that everything e to which he h attaches a a. su supernatural su- su explanation can cnn bo be explained explained explained ex ex- by hy perfectly simple and rational ration ration- al means menns Professor Wheeler heeler point out that Lodge though a scientist Is It not a psychologist and that the grief caused h by the death of or his son Bon Raymond who was killed in iii the tho war Is believed to havo have caused the tho fathers father's will to to triumph over his the judgment Evor Eor Every previous pre instance of ot such uch contentions lJ by mediums has been beon traced to or to some sorno sort port of ot mental derangement amounting amounting- to hysteria on tho the part of oC tho medium tho the local psychologist t asserts Professor Jastrow who Is making tho the Investigation into the theories of ot Sir Oliver Lodge was waB a member of ot tho ho American committee of oC scientists which in 1911 made an nn expose of or the H of ot tho the noted nolad the Italian medium f |