Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-12-06
PLANETS MOVE
Into Danger Zone-Weather Cataclysr1
and Catastrophes Are Likely,
Says Scientist Porta.

By Prof Albert F. Porta in the ST.
Paul Daily News:
Owing to a strange grouping of six
mighty planets, such as has not been
seen In score of centuries, the United
States next December will be swept by
the most terrific weather cataclysm ex-
perienced since human history began.
It will be caused by the hugest sun
spot on record--a supspot that will be
visible to the naked eye.
Since man first began to make records
Of events no sunspot has been large
enough to be seen without the aid Of
instruments. This one will be.
The sunspot that will appear DeCem-
Der II, 1919, will be vast wound in the
side of the sun.
1t ill be a gigantic explosion Of
flaming gases, eaping hundreds Of
thousands Of miles out into space. 1t
will have a crater large enough to engulf
the earth much as Vesuyius might en-
gulfa football.
Such a sunspot will be rich enough in
electromagnetic energy to fling the at.
mosphere of our planet into disturb
ance without precedent or parallel.
There will be hurricanes, lightning,
colossal rains. 1t will be weeks before
the earth will regain its normal weather
conditions
There will also be gigantic lava erup-
tions, great earthquakes to say nothing
of floods and fearful cold.
make this startling prophecy with
no desire TO be merely sensational or
alarming. 1t is merely because my
study Of the planets has revealed certain
results with mathematical certainty,
that | now say TO you:
BE warned in advance. Tremendous
things are going to happen from De.
cember II to December 20, 1919, and
| afterwards"
Here are the simple, yet astounding
facts that enable me to make this pro-
phecy
The planets in their orbits swing in
great eclipses about the sun. They are
linked to the sun, and to each other, by
chains Of electromagnetic energy whose
compelling forces counteract each other
and hold each planet in its regular path.
Whenever two planets wheel into
such positions that they pull together
on the sun-either in Conjunction" on
the same side of the sun, or in "opposi-
ton" with the sun between them-their
united pull causes the suns gases to
"explode"-to leap into space in the
whirling volcano we call sunspot
These sunspots in turn cause storms
in the atmosphere of our earth-doubt
less on other planets as we'll
Two planets, united are enough to
cause a small sunspot and small storm.
Three cause a large one-four make q
very great storm indeed.
But-on December Il, 1919, no less
than seven planets will pull jointly on
the sun. These will include all the
mightiest planets, those with the most
powerful pull. Six of them-Mercury,
Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Nep
tune-will be in conjunction; grouped
! together in the greatest League Of
Planets ever known in the annals of
astronomy. They, will be massed in
the narrow limit of but 26 degrees, on
the same side of the sun.
Directly opposite coming into opposi-
tion with this gigantic league will be the
huge planet URANUS. The magnetic
currents between URANUS and the six
planets will pierce the sun like q
mighty spear.
Our earth is outside the league at an
angle of nearly 80 degrees--in perfect
position to receive almost the full force
of the monster electrical disturbance as
it leaps into activity on what to us will
be the eastern horizon of the suns disk.
This means we shal get the full
strength of the storm when the sunspot
is at its worst, before the exploding
gases have bad time to die down
Such close grouping of planets has
never been recorded before. Tho whole
solar system will be strangely out of
| balance.
| What will be the outcome2 My
knowledge does not permit me to state,
beyond the fact that the storms, erup-
tions and earthquakes will be tremen-
dous in their strength and scope.
Remember the date December II to
20, and after.