Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1926, Page 13

— SUCCESS FOR FUND 5 SEEN BY CHURCH Preshyterians Here Arrange Dinner to Launch Campaign lfor $135,000 Wednesday. The Presbyterlan campaign for $15,000,000 to put into operation the church’s new service pension plan for its ministers and missionaries—a tampaign which failed when conducted y ) wealthy, members of 1 will g0 “ovel rts from where the ive alread. ress. John B. Larner, national committee- man for Washington, today received word from Philadelphia that the can in prog ‘Washington's telescopes are train- ed on Mars this week. | The red planet, the earth’s second | nearest neighbor and the probable | abode of some low form of life, now is in an ideal position for observa- tion from this part of the globe's surface. It is barely 43,000,000 miles jaway and will continue at approxi- ! mately this distance for nearly a month. It was nearest to the earth | last night, but it will not be in direct opposition, that is with the earth be. tween it and the sun, until the nigh! | of November 4. | Owing to the eccentricity of the orbit of Mars it is slightly farther way when in direct opposition. The un is not exactly the center of the THE EVENING CAPITAL TELESCOPES TRAINED ON MARS, 43.000.000 MILES OFF |Red Planet Was Nearest Earth This Year Last Night—Naval Observatory and Georgetown Vigilant. . great deal of interest. Father Phil- lips, astronomer in charge, said that no special line of research has been undertaken, but that no opportunity is missed to look at the celestial neighbor, now in the flush of its Summer, Markings Are Prominent. The markings, generally attributed to some form of vegetation, are very prominent at this time, Mr, Phillips said, but the Georgetown telescope will not show the so-called canals, | now believed to be natural water- courses for the melting polar ice-cap except in exceptionxlly elear weather. The changing color which attends the diminishing of the polar ice-cap, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1926. AUTOMOBILE PARKING SERVICE W. B. Importers Established 1861 F Street and Elevent Coty’s Face Powder The popular shades. Regular 89c size. Friday 75c special ciiieecemccencanacee Toses & Sors L Retailers FRIDAY SPECIAL All-Silk h the. planet moves | Mr. Phillips said, lends support to the e e i theory of a form of Martian plany Watching Two Satellites. life, but there is no way of guessing Qelphia 1$ $1,200,000 and the campaign | T e ! what this might be. 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