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...Other good places: Warwick, N. Y., Point Loma, Calif., South Wellfleet, Cape...
...Egyptian disaster. Immediately after the 'quake, all available planes of Pan American Airways were placed at the disposal, not of homeless President Jose Maria Moncada, sleeping in a tent last week with his new Presidential Palace a mess of pink stucco on the side of La Loma. an extinct volcano, but of U. S. Acting Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke...
...Barograph, No Record. From the sheer cliffs bordering Point Loma, Calif, last week youthful Glider-Pilot Jack Barstow in a Bowlus sailplane was launched over the Pacific's edge. All that day and most of that night he soared over land and water, sometimes in cold wind and rain, conversing occasionally through the darkness with his friends below. When he landed, at the end of 15 hr. 13 min. he had shattered every existing endurance record for gliding* and yet, officially, had made no flight. Reason: he had taken along no barograph to register in ink, on a clock...
...Official world record, 14 hr. 25 min. by Ferdinand Schulz, Germany, 1928; official U. S. record, 9 hr. 5 min. 32 sec., Hawley Bowlus, Point Loma, March, 1930; previous unofficial world record, 14 hr. 45 min., Lieut. Dinort, Germany...
Theosophists. On Point Loma is the International Headquarters of the vast Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, long led by the late Katherine Tingley. The late Lyman Judson Gage, San Diego banker, Secretary of the Treasury in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, was an ardent Point Loma Theosophist. The cult attempts to harmonize with all great faiths, but is deeply colored in its observances and specific modes of thought by Eastern philosophers and prophets. In glass-domed buildings on Point Loma children may attend a Theosophical school. Excellent is the musical...