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Show OBSERVATIONS OF ECLIPSE J OF SUN AT WASHINGTON Washington, June 17. Although preparations were made at the United States naval observatory here to take obaervatlons of the eclipse of tho &uu today, the cloudy weather spoiled the I plans. f Tho eclipse hero was but partial, Q tho only place where It was total be- f lng near the North role. Few, If any fA white men, with tho exception of Commander Com-mander Robert E. Peary and hla crew now in search of the North Pole, had an opportunity therefore to observe It. The eclipse was visible over eastern east-ern Asia and almost tho whole of North America, Greenland, Iceland and the northern part of Finland. |