The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 88, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1926 Page: 7 of 36
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Effl RENEWS
ACQUAINTANCE
WITH MET
Brilliant Pyrotechnical Dis-
play Scheduled
. This Week.
CHICAGO. April 16.— UP)— This
Ahl earth which has brooked no inter-
ference with the even tenor of its
course through untold centuries will
renew acquaintance tonight with what
nmy be the.remnants of n comet that
went to pieces ages ago.
But ns on every year in the past
the mundane sphere will go about its
business calmly as if nothing al all
had happened. For the curious in-
habitants of* this planet however
there will b<* n display of fireworks
in the sky as the periodic swarm of
meteors known as the Lyra ids enter
ihp earth’s atmosphere and are con
s umed.
APPEAR EVERY YEAR.
The lyraids. which appear every
year between April 16 and 22. with
»he greatest pymtechnieal display oh
the 21st. received their name from
the fact that they appear to radiate
from the direction of the constellation
of Lyraid which contains the brilliant
star Vegeta.
The best view of rhe meteors may
be obtained by watching the north-
••astern sky during the evening hours.
Meteors are mere dust-like )>ar-
tideg of matter speeding through
apace generally in clouds or swarms.
It gemrally is believed that they arc
remnants of comets that have disinte-
grated. When the meteoric dust be-
come 4 trapped by the earth’s atmos-
phere. the friction produced by its
passage through the air heats it to
incandescence.
GREATEST IN 1833.
Sinbe the meteoric swarm pursues
r regular orbit around the sun the
earth ran mwt it only when its own
orbit cuts this path. The encounter
therefore must always happen on or
gear the same day of the year ex-
rjept ns in time the meteoric orbits
shift their positions on account ot
perturbations.
Probably the most remarkable of all
meteoric showers was that of the
Lenoids on November 12. 1833. The
number of meteors at some stations of
observation was estimated as high ax
100.060 an hour for five or six hours.
“The sky was as full of them as it
ever Is of snow flakes in a storm"
one witness noted.
ILLNESS OF O'DAY
PRONOUNCED SLIGHT
ST. LOI’IS. April 16.—Doc-
attending Hank O’Day veteran
National League baseball umpire who
Ven me ill here shortly before he was
tn officiate in yesterday’s St. Louis-
• Pittsburgh game today pronounced
■s condition not serious.
O'Day was taken to a hospital
where it was at first feared he bad
appendicitis. Later examinations re-
vealed that the illness was slight and
the physkiaiyi said O'Day would be
out in a days.
45 NEW OIL WELLS
SUNK IN OLD FIELD
BAKERSFIELD. Cal.. April 16. -
GP)—Staging u comeback the old
Kern river oil fields that have be-n
producing for the past quarter of a
century and with a gross output of
255.060000 barrels of crude oil now
are the scene of renewed activity as
a result of extensions to the north-
in which 45 wells have been
drilled into oil and more than 30 ad-
ditional sections of land have been
prwii as potential reserves.
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FRIDAY—A
Hula Hula Girls
Are Charleston
Charlies Now
SAX FRANCISCO. April 111.
(4*)—The Charleston is putting
the hula hula out of business
in Hawaii. Miss Juliet Marquise
princess of Koyal Kanaka blood
is authority for this. She ar-
rived here yesterda for an
Aineriean visit. She was not
dressed like an Hawaiian native
but as fashionably attired as
though she had come from New
fork.
"The Imla hula?" said Miss
Marquise. "The Charleston is
putting it out of business. Be-
sides it isn’t Hawaiian. I don’t
know where it originated prob-
ably in Afghanistan."
The Charleston the princess
says is driving out all native
dances.
PARACHUTE WEIGHT
BREAKS PLANE WING
A new upper wing wax placed on
ri PT-1 training plane at Brooks Field
and it wax being flown again Friday
morning after having a 200-pound
weight attached to a parachute crashed
into it Thursday.
An officer and two enlisted men
barely escaped being struck by the
weight as it hurtled to the ground
attached to a parachute that had fail-
ed to oj»en.
Private H. C. Cote was standing
back of the wing within a few feet
from the place where the weight
struck the ground. He saw the ’chute
dropped from the plane and watched
it fall but couldn’t tell where it was
going to hit. He stood still until it
struck an<l then started running.
Lieutenant W. R. Carter and Staff
Sergeant Roy Wooten who had just
climbed out of the ship were stand-
ing by the side of the plane when the
weight fell.
The weight was buried three feet
into the ground by the impact.
19 OF CONDEMNED
PLANES OVERHAULED
Nineteen of 54 pursuit planes con-
demned at Kelly field in February
have been overhauled and strengthened
nt the San Antonio Air Intermediate
Depot. Duncan field and turned back
to the Tenth School Group for use in
pursuit training of the present class
in the Advanced Flying School at
Kelly field.
More p]nnes of the same type the
MB-3A arc expected from th«* repair
depot nt Rockwell field San Diego.
Use of these ships for pursuit train-
ing will make it necessary to modify
th<* course to remove the danger of
accidents from the unusual strain co-
incident to student training. Ix>ng
dives and other maneuvers will be
eliminated.
NEW TESTS SLATED
FOR GIANT OF SKIES
LAKEHURST N. J. April 16.—
UP) —The dirigible Los Angeles which
made several trial flights this week
will remain in her hangar until Mon-
day.
At that time if weather conditions
are favorable n flight will be made
to test the structural strain on th«*
ship.
Cross hangar winds wore given as
the reason for abandonment of an-
nounced plans to take the ship out
today.
ARMY EVACUATES
PEKING POSITIONS
TIENTSIN. April 16.—UP)—Wire-
less dispatches from Peking state that
the Kuominchun or national army
has evacuated its positions east and
south of Peking but that the Ninth
division occupies the capital whicn is
quiet.
The gates are closed therefore there
is no definite news of the Fengtien
army except that cavalry is observ-
able west of Peking.
The Tientsin Railway authorities
have been instructed to reopen pas-
senger traffic with Peking tomorrow
but this is regarded as too hopeful.
CATHOLICS REQUEST
U. S. NOTE TO MEXICO
NEW YORK. April 16.—OP)—The
Catholic Club of New York last night
adopted a resolution asking that Pros-
ident Coolidge directly or through the
State Department make known to the
present government of Mexico the in-
dignation which its acts of religious
persecution has aroused amongst “re-
ligious-minded people.** The resolution
declared the “present conduct of the
government of Mexico is inconsistent
with the continuation of friendly re-
lations between this country aud
Mexico.”
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KELLOGG’S OATS 4 packages 25c
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THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
FREE LOVE COLONY
DESERTED; ONE JAILED
ALLENTOWN. Pa.. April 16.— UP
“April Farms.” free love colony was
deserted today and Charles Garland
its eccentric millionaire founder was
completing the first 24 hours of a 60-
day jnil sentence.
Garland sen fenced yesterday for
adultery with Bettina Hovey mother
of a child born in the colony re-
fused to state whether the colony
would be re-established. and none of
his followers could be found pome
neighbors believed that the colonists
would return.
Garland’s jail sentence to whi<h
was added a $506 fine and costs came
after he had pleaded nolo contendre
to the adultery charge. Both he and
Miss Hovey admitted he was the
child’s fath< r. Garland Odd the court
that he had effecte<l a reconciliation
with his wife.
‘JAY-WALKER’ POEM
FOUND ON VICTIM
CHICAGO. April 16. -UP)—Wil-
liam Rockwell. 50. believed to be from
Scboolcrest. Mich. was fatally injured
when struck by a street car last
night. In a notebook scrawled in
pencil was a Limerick recounting the
story of a “jay-walker” who was
knocked down by a street car while
crossing a street.
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Official Straw Hat Day Saturday
Be at the Medical Arts Building
Tomorrow at 12:30 P. M.
There will be a great exhibition of Fomby’s
straw hats. Free hats will be thrown to the
crowd below from the top of the Medical Arts
building at 12:30 P. M. tomorrow.
The lucky finders of these hats may bring
them to the Fomby Clothing company and ex-
change for the correct size if necessary.
BE GN HAND—DON'T MISS IT!
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APRIL 16 1926.
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The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 88, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1926, newspaper, April 16, 1926; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1593148/m1/7/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .