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Show TWO BRAIN' MAN AMAZES CROWD Ex Marine Drives Car Through Traffic Blindfolded I fay ward Thompson, former Inlted States marine who claims to have supernatural sup-ernatural powers tin the result of head wounds he received during the world w-ar. at noon today drove a new Stude-baker Stude-baker car through the business section Of Offden with his eyes securely blindfolded blind-folded by a heavy blindfold. The fnrm,.r m,.rn . I ......... ..inline, no Ja appear- l' ' " ' 'P'b-n theatre for 'he t.cpe- flt of the American legion relief fund piloted the large machine through h.-ay trnffic. obeyed all traffic rules and returned the car without a scratch. The blindfold used was of heavy black cloth Jt was folded several tlxnea and g pair of goggles, with tho glasses taken out. were sewod lnsldo the cloth. They fitted so closely that large marks were mado about the eyes when the blind was removed. Tho fep.i seemed even more remarkable remark-able a.s Thompson turned corners on Washington aveOU and stopped scv- arsJ times to allow stn el i are to pass j and machines to pass In front of his ' ' ar F"r 1'" minutes during the lunch hour hundreds of persons viewed his myi 'i-rious stunts. Thompson asserts that as a result of Hi! WOUnde he , un . x. rt Mil. -conscious i POWer that shields him from harm by ' directing hie actions when blindfolded ' Thompaoa started from The Stand-I ard-Hjsaminer office ,, nni.shcd there. When he completed his ItId tie gave the blindfold to r Mitchell 1 company. Studebalcer dealer and I scores of persons closely examined It and attempted to look through It Thru-re baffled when they found they could lee nothing through the heavy folds of cloth. y |