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Show Mount Hamilton, south ef Ban TTan-eisto.' TTan-eisto.' At raaadena tha acllpea will ba par cant In totality, at San Francisco l par rent. Tha iraat ahadow which, In tha middle agca, cauavd panlca. rlota and death and waa beilavrd to ba a manifestation mani-festation of tha anr of clod, will suddenly creep Orer the face of the -awntt weal Japan. It will twsirowaep acroaa tha f'actrio at the rale of 1 mllaa an hour one-half mlla par aac-ond aac-ond touchlna the North American roast alone- California, taklnr full durkneee over tha land beflnmac "ear tha Channel Islanda oft Loe Ancalaa and San L)lepo, , , Ivaavinc Ban TMeao It wllf moya rapidly acroaa Iwer California, the waat coaer of Mesloe. Honduraa, and auddanly disappear In mld-Atlantlo south and east of tha Wast Indies near tha equator. SCIENTISTS TO -SEE TOTAL-ECLIPSE TOTAL-ECLIPSE ' By ROBERT A. DONALDSON. United Press Staff Corraaoondsnt 1X5S ANGELES, AusT. 24 (By V. P.) aclentlata of tha world ara flocking No southern California, maklna; prepa-I prepa-I rations for tha most complete scientific scien-tific ohservattona of a total eclipse of the sun .thus far known. Tha eclipse will occur September 1" It Is the first total- eclipse In this I district for nearly i:e years and will ba tha laat until 2045 A. l The total eclipse will only din the txtrema aouthwaat portion of the United gtataa, batrtnouiv ft UtUa fjorth of Ran Diego. Many of tha aclentlata ara preparing prepar-ing to take their tnatnimenta to tha aea coaat town of Enaenada, In Lower Cullfornia, Wcxlco. where tha tout eWtpe wlU laat tha graataat length of Ilia. 1 MANY NATIONS nCPRKtSNTCD, tlroupa of aclentlata from England, France, Belgium Italy. Hoe In. Oar-many, Oar-many, Japan ana other rountrtea are planning to view tha ecllpae, take photoffrapha, and make ocular ebaar-vattone ebaar-vattone of wldeapread character. . Mot Important among the phato-ffrapha phato-ffrapha to ba taken and tha obaerva-tlona obaerva-tlona to be made will be thoae ending to confirm or diaprova tha lnaitA-theory. lnaitA-theory. Hhotographa of tha light raye of atara, which Slnateln claim a ara bent by tha action of gravity when paaaing a maaa auch aa that of tha aun. will ha taken, aa will photographa af what gvre known aa tha "Klnateln group." Similar photograph taken laat year during a total acllpea In tha South seaa by aclwiilata who went to Wallal Hearh. Auatralka and Chiiatmaa and. In the aouth Taclfle, confirmed confirm-ed tha Elnateln contention,, they reported. re-ported. SCIENTISTS AT WORK. Numeroug actenttata' wltl take the obeervatlona at Kan llego. whera tha at-hpaa will ba vialbla In totality for thia minutes and thirty-! aeconda; othera will go to (Han Olemanta Island, off the roast between Baa Dtego and I. os Angelea, and others, will jro to the t'orunado ! lands, off fan Diego, which ara realty in Mexleo. and are reputed to ba tha headquarters of a bis; Tactile rum amuggllng group. Many aclentlata. who do not need to view tha eclipse In totality to make their obeervatlona. will go to Mount Wilson observatory, near Paaadena. 'Obeervatlona will also ba taken from |