Word: arguello
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...Francisco's huge-domed Temple Emanu-El is a bright Byzantine touch on Arguello Boulevard. The coruscant half-globe catches the sun's rays, seems to blaze with its own light. On an especially sunny day, last week, when the dome was very bright 600 Jews of the "reformed" faith gathered underneath it. One of them, glancing at the synagog, quoted "How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places, O Israel." Thus opened the 31st Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
After almost four weeks of investigation the Naval Court of Inquiry which has been investigating the wreck of seven destroyers on Point Arguello, near Santa Barbara (TIME, Sept. 17), closed its hearings. The report of the Board was transmitted to the Navy Department, in accordance with which court martials may be instituted...
...naval court of inquiry in session at San Diego took testimony for several days on the accident which sent seven destroyers ashore on Point Arguello (TIME, Sept. 17, Sept. 24). Twelve men were named as "interested parties" or defendants, and a thirteenth was added to the group when the navigating officer of the destroyer Delphy was questioned. In this way the commanding officers, division commanders and squadron commanders of the vessels wrecked were all named as defendants, and exempted from testifying. There was a prospect that if other officers were questioned they, too, might be named. In this...
...That no abnormal currents were noticeable off Point Arguello on the day following the wreck. This was testified by Captain N. E. Cousins of the liner Ruth Alexander, accustomed to navigating Pacific coastal waters for 30 years...
...given to his ship about two weeks before the wreck which if not disregarded would have put his ship ashore within a few miles of the scene of the disaster under investigation. Those officers of the destroyer squadron who testified declared that the radio bearings received from the Point Arguello station were apparently contradictory, and that therefore they had judged them wrong and followed their own reckoning. Five minutes after the course of the vessels had been changed in this belief the vessels went aground. The Point Arguello radio station presented its log, contradicting many of the statements...