The Cordova daily times., 1919-10-07
CATACLYSM IS
 PREDICTEDFOR DECEMBER NEXT


 seen in score of centuries, the Unit ed States next December will be swept by the most terrific catyclysm experi- enced since human history began, &C., cording to Professor Alberta F. Porta, who has the following to say:
 It will be caused by the hugest sun spot on record sun spot that will be visible to the naked eye.
 Since men first began to make rec. Ords of events no sun spot has been large enough to be seen without the aid of instruments. This one will be-
 The sun spot that will appear Dec IT, 1919, will be vast wound in the side of the sun
 It will be a gigantic explosion of flaming gases, leaping hundreds of thousands of miles out into space. It e will have a crater large enough to en- gulf the earth as Vesuvius might en- gulf football.
 Such sun spot will be rich enough in electromagnetic energy to fling the atmosphere of our planet into a dis turbance without precedent or paral- leI
 There will also be gigantic lava eruptions, great earthquakes, to say nothing of floods and fearful cold.
 make this startling prophecy with no desire to be merely sensational or alarming. It is merely because my study of the planets has revealed cer- tain results with mathematical cer- tainty that I say to you:
 Be warned in advance Tremen- dCus things are going to happen from December IT to December 20, 1919, and afterwards"
 Here are the simple yet astounding facts that enable me to make this prophecy:
 The planets in their orbits swing in great ellipses about the sun. They are linked to the sun, and to each other, by chains of electromagnetic energy whose compelling forces coun- teract each other and hold each planet in it's regular path.
 Whenever two planets wheel into such positions that they pull together e with the sun-either in "conjunction" 10 the same side of the sun or in
 NpOsition" with the sum- or in "Op- pos lon" with the sun between them, their united pull causes the suns gases to explode leap out into space ill the whirling volcano we call d sun spot
 These sun spots in turn cause storms in the atmosphere of our earth doubtless on other planets as well.
 Two planets, united, are enough to cause a small sun spot and a small storm. Three cause larger one four make a very great storm indeed.
 But on December IF, 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 Neptune-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 oppo- sition with this gigantic league, will be the huge planet Uranus. The mag netic currents between Uranus and the six planets will pierce the sun like a mighty spear
 Our earth is outside the league at an angle of nearly ninety degrees-ln perfect position to receive almost the E full force of the monster electrical disturbance as it leaps into activity on what to us will be the eastern hori- zon of the suns disk.
 This means that we shall get the full strength of the storm when the sun spot is at it's worst, before the ex- ploding gases have had time to die down
 Such close grouping of planets has never been recorded before. The whole solar system will be strangely out of balance.
 What will be the outcome? My knowledge does not permit me to state,