Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1931, Page 40

&8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, NOVEiBER 13, 1931 »IGHT UF MHEURS angnFo the ut e your 2| G 1 15, et pucatn, | SKIING SCHOOL OPENED | W and astronomers predict that another| Dr. Willard J. Fisher, meteor expert great, flery shower may occur during|of the Harvard observatory, says the |Shop Sponsoring Enterprise In- | Y xt three Novembers. time when the leonids may appear this any of the ne; month is uncertain, buf s stalls Writer as Instructor. ( For more then 1000 years these| month i uncesiatn but is more likely leonids, about three times each cen-| to be after mi , Monday, Novem- 3 IS DUE NEX]- WE[K tury, have turned night into a beauti- | ber 16. Harvard observers will be| LONDON (N.AN.A.).—Though many 7% The NATIONAL Offers This Moth-Proof Rug Cushion FREE with Each Room-Size Wool Rug | ful' but awful sort-of day for several | watching for one or two nights before | people who usually go to Wintcr sports hours at a time. Chineso records spenk | that, date and for two mights after- in Switzerland will be unable to afford of them in 764. In 1202, in Russia, a | ward. 1 ! 5 Shower of leonids was mistaken for the| The public again is requested to re- |the trip this year, and though the efl *Visitation of Leonids Is Held|end of the world. In nearly all lands | port to astronomers the numbers of |cacy of Scotland as a skiing center has . where they have been seen they hflve‘ meteors it sees, the period of time of |yet to be proved, the enthusiast is un- 4 been taken more than once as the sign | observation, directions and courses in |daunted and practices daily on the Likely to Occur After |or earth’s sinish. | the sky, and description of very bril- | “slopes” of Piccacally. i 1In 1505 there was a display of leonids | liant mets A certain enterprising firm of sports Midnight Monday. in Russia which a clergyman named | b outfitters has opened a skiing school on the top floor of their shop, close by Tarassij described thus: | “I saw a large number of angels| SPRINTER ARRESTS THREE | Piccadilly Circus. shooting from the sky with fire-like | Vivian Caulfield. who has written I ACACEINEES H I arrows.” 1 . |several books on skiing, has been in- CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 13— | In Russia, in 1532, a leonid display | Track Prowess Helps Policeman in |stalled as instructor, and novices, who &Another “night of the falling hairs,” a | is described in the phrase “They flew | New York Traffic C. habitually spend most of their Swiss fisitation of the Leonid meteors, is due | like threads from the East | raffic Case. holiday just falling about, will now be won one of the first four nights next| NEW YORK (N.AN.A)—Patrolman |able to Visit Murren or St. Moritz up- week | Robert McAllister, who won interna- standing and unashamed. " The latest prehistoric record of these | Again in Russia, in 1832, these me- ! tjonal fame in the Olympic games some has it that the “hairs” | ish cloud, partly red and fire-like: it | jight our blocks, according to Mc- | We'll Help You. Phone for t 600 years before the ar-|star-like, flying in various directions shot the driver of the first, and locked | they flash across the | sylvania so thickly that they were | 4% B & STORAGE CO. MORROW, from 8:30 in the morning until 5:30 in iconid mcteors has been found chiseled | teors pui on a display of which 4| seasons ago as a sprinter, started| MOVING TO A NEW en with the lord of the |seemed as if the dawn were coming. report, he was winded, the | Rates Now Spaniards in Mexico. The |like shooting stars or rockets.” up three passengers under the Sullivan | kened to falling snow. 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