"THE EARTH IS FLAT."

Shannon News, 3 July 1928, Page 3

"THE EARTH IS FLAT."

AIRMAN MAY GO OVER THE EDGE! NEW YORK, June 20. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, the leader of the Zionists, firmly believes that, the earth is flat, despite Kingsfofd Smith's, Wilkins's, and other flights, and he feels certain that Commander Byrd will fly off the edge if he crosses the Antarctic plateau. "If Byrd flies over those icy mountains, I'm afraid that he will never come back," said Voliva, who is returning post-haste to Zion City to make certain that Aimee Semple McPherson, the Californian evangelist, who is seeking to reform Voliva's flock, doesn't steal his colony. "Of course, I know that there is a North Pole in the earth's centre like the centre of a plate, but this business of the sun setting and rising is all an optical illusion that doesn't prove that the world is round," insisted Voliva.