| Show Scientists On Toes for DISCOVERIES I OF STARTLING FACTS lOO LOOM I Scientists and Laymen Hope for Clear Day on Saturday MOON TO HIDE SUN Airship to Be Employed to Assist In Observations NEW YORIO J Jan Js t 2 E slates fortunate enough nough to 10 bp be b In Inthe Inthe the tho pith th of w-ro w r ailing today to toi foi the non which will III tomorrow plunge t IIA section I Into temporary d j 1 e tl the first total eclipse of me tIle sun CUO It has witnessed d for tor 41 4 n ears sears I ss weather cather eather has in CO n r lure lure- pre predicted for tile the hour nf ot the eclipse but point ou out oW I nit nt this ao no assurance th the Inon non ss would be visible rom from tho ho ground round a s a-s esen one coo iJ J might blot out the cle To fo prevent present such euch an occurrence scientific organization plan Ian to toI tike ko atlon from nu flu nerous widely separated points and from both land and airTh airTh air airTh Th Lot Los f Ane will sail aloft during the thc edl 0 j V ILk th to ir mechanisms for photo photographing grat graphing tho i nol similar will III bp be b made from arms arm airplanes with Ith tele- tele ole ole- cameras The progress 0 ot th the as asIt asIt asit It rushes through the e east t ill lil bp be under the auspices of Ih he Scientific AmerIca ss ill III e telephone t om positions alon along the ilna of the IheI I rushing shadow shadon S Practical all eastern colleges ha base hae e announced plans to studY I the eclipse In the tho hope ut or making erle and scIentific groups will b bd d I here er there thero Is 11 a ik I Ith th st Ih-st observation will willbe willbo ho be good Although Iho ho material collected during the Iho roo ro lly ly not be collated and of Importance dra drawn n for tor fo months Aft after r the tactual actual aHon it was admitted the theio e vas waa as a pOsSibilIty possibility of startling discoveries loe- loe being be being ing made at once would throw new light on the lie prevIous su suns m of nO knowledge ledge com the h a n and l c accept accept- accepted accepted accepted ed theories nr OY T r E B R rt K E r S WILLIA IS BAY DAY W I lj Lu Jan an 23 JI A P Dh Islon of labor will guide the observations of n nn solar eclipse bv v f 11 tt e coun coun- country try tn tomorrow J Pro ro 3 s soe O- O 0 ln Jd B 13 Frost of Yeres Ver ob- ob observatory ob observatory of the tIe Unlit ot of Chicago said y tod as aa tiona ra cp lions were ere made for tor or oll hero I Although conditions hete liete ore aro not expected to favor tavor tests of I Ithe Ithe of oC re theory the l I tests will Ill be attempted by artle In the east lOt Many II any American o I III base haie ha e temporary stations In New York or ConnectIcut I tho ho promise ter boler weather er or conditions than farther ws ho he said A p pirty rom from rom mo moo mole o college will ill ma mait Ih the Bin Ein- EinsteIn Binstein Ein Einstein stein tests at Yale or 01 otso s so satory atory New Haven Connecticut an and nd l will still III take tako ako photographs for tor Columbia university During the last few total eclipses of ot the tho sun hav havi beel of Importance a as furnishing one oue of ottha the Ihl tests teats ot of the theory The theory requIres that the he he rays of light Irons from a distant body Dody like a star will still be bo bent on out of their path when they pass vy close cloe to some mashe body like the sun Just jual as if It the tho ray rays u of light were attracted by U sun un as matter mattel It II attracted It It I Is only during the tho moments moment when the sun i Is h oy the tho moon that we w can got get et photo photo- photographs photographs graphs ot of stars stays whose hose i e i near r nearly ly Iy grace graco the bun bOO at oher o her times limes stars are arc wholly lus lust In the brilliance of the tha sunlight PIctures are taken It a with Itis I the same sam of the tho same group of Jf o iara ars at nIght halt half a year or P after the eclipse when the tho sup sun Is la no nowhere here near that part of o the sky Iy The distances I ew en stars In tho tise plates a n e ed cd to 10 the ho on ona ten tell thou thousandths of an Inch or To less and it has lias been found at t two tso 0 recent ei that tho ho light of o each of ot thee ho hr-a hr lars 88 bent out ot of o Its p pall by It a ver verb small amount as expeCted by the tho theory teory Thus eclipses have confirmed the Einstein theory S to |
