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Show Black Cat's Meow Proves Life Saver New York. Mrs. Raymond Franzen, wife of a professor of psychology at the University of California, henceforth hence-forth will not believe in the old superstition supersti-tion that when she is followed by a wailing black cat, it means bad luck. Just before the steamship Orca was hit by a freighter in the St. Lawrence gulf, Mrs. Franzen was on her way to her room. "Bonzon," Captain Matthews' Mat-thews' black cat, followed her, emitting, emit-ting, she says, a peculiar cry. She added, when the Orca got in to port : "I went back to the lounge where other passengers were dancing. A few minutes later the freighter struck us. My room was in the path of the prow of the ship, and had I disobeyed dis-obeyed the warning of the cat I would have been hurt." When the 44 cabin passengers disembarked dis-embarked they presented Captain J E. P. Matthews with a testimonial thanking him and his crew for calmness calm-ness they displayed at the lime of the accident. |