29,000,000 WITNESS MOON NIBBLE SUN’S LAST DISC; STARS SHINE IN DAYTIME Eastern Spectators Awed by Phenomena of Total Eclipse; Aircraft Get “Close-Up” Photographs. CLOUDS MAR 1QDLEWE5T Hy International New* SittIc*. New York, Jan. 24.—Before an awe stricken audience of 20,000,000 per syps the sun, moon and stars today staged a spectacle of beauty and grandeur in the great celestial thea ter, a phenomenon that will live for ever In the memory of those who I witnessed it. j It was the solar eclipse. It was seen by persons strung along across the map of the United States from Bed Lake, Minn., to the Atlantic ocean. It began at 8, when the moon first nibbled at the sun’s disk, reached the point of a total eclipse in New York at 9:11, plunging the metropolis into darkness, and then slowly passed eastward toward the Hlie-tiand islands. At 10:29 the last vestige of hlack left the sun and the eclipse waa over. Day Becomes Night. The most spectacular point of this most remarkable drama of modern history was seen in New York City at fl:ll for a period of 30 seconds when the dead bWckness of the moon coming between the sun and the earth, blotted the sun from view and turned day into night. As the crescent of the sun disap peared from view faint lights began to twinkle. They were, scientists said, from the planets Venus, Mer cury and Jupiter. Directly above the crescent ap peared the star Altair. To the south of Altair could be seen Vega and to the north of Vega was Dened. Stars could be seen piercing through In many parts of the sky. 3 he heavens for a brief half minute were emblazed like a moonlight night. Beads of light from the sun shot out for a second or two over the moun tainous valleys of the moon. Total Eclipse Arrives. Finally, the last heads of light from the sun winked out and the total eclipse set In for its brief period. Scientists and laymen viewed the scene in awe. The scientists with their photographic instruments rap able of making accurate observations and records, spent a nervous few minutes. Airplanes, high In the eky. gave other scientists and newspaper men a chance to make- a “close up photograph of the phenomena Laymen gazed tn astonishment. They turned to each other, passed otnoked glasses about and commented In an excited fashion. Most of them admitted they did not understand It from its scientific standpoint but they were unanimous In voting It a “great show." Scientists, eager that the laymen he not left in the dark, except of course for that wonderful minute or two, delivered talks to them through tlie radio broadcasting stations, and they were listened to with as much attention as a world series. Airships Used. Spectacular methods of obtaining scientific information were brought into plsy. At 5:40 a. m. the giant naval dirigible, Los Angeles, took off from Its hangar at Lakehurst. N. J-, with the greatest flying scientific laboratory ever placed on board an airship to view the eclipse and take tdiotographs at as close range as pos sible, a height of 8,000 feet. I Long before 8 planes took ths sir from Mitchell Field. Here, 35 army planes, the greatest concentration of fighting aircraft since the war, had waited all night for a favorable op portunlty to take the air. Thirteen astronomical laboratories lying in the path of the hlack shadow trained telescopes, spectroscopes and other scientific instruments on It. Hcores of expeditions viewed it from improvised laboratories. Scientists from all parts of the globe , were at the Yale observatory at New s Haven, which is located in' the di rect center of the path of totality. Great crowds packed the Yale campus and environs. Similar conditions prevailed at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., also in the oenter of the totality belt. Glowing White Crescent. As the hands of the clock turned toward 9 those viewing the spectacle tn New York could see the moon gradually blotting out the eon. Slpwly, but steadily the Attack cut into the sun became larger and at 9 the sun was diminished to a glow ing white crescent embracing the de»d blacknesb of the moon. It was a beautiful sight, a picture worthy of the hand of the greatest artist. Frequent expressions of awe and amazement went up from the as sembled throng gazing upward from the earth at the great celestial drama that was being played by the sun, moon and stars across the heavens. Five Below Zero. It was 5 below zero when the Los Angeles left Its Lakehurst hangar. The scientists, photographers and others privileged to make the trip were dressed for the occasion. 3'he ship was cast off by a ground crew of 300 marines and sailors. The ship headed northeast and was barely visible in the morning murk. It was planned to fly up the coast for 30 miles, then out over the ocean toward Nantucket lightship. The tem perature at 3,000 feet, which was the normal cruising altitude, was 18 he low zero when the vessel got sway Forty-two persons were aboard. At 8:11 s. m. the eclipse had reached totality In tipper New York. An eerie darkness shrouded Manhattan above the streets. In which throngs of watchers appeared aa smudgy black masses Intently alert to the rare ipectaele. The period of toial eclipse passed quickly ns tiie moon's shadow raced eastward. .* Chicago. Jan. 24.—Nature trumped |t own ace today. Her hist, show of the century, i solar eclipse, was veiled by a clouded sky over t — Cloudy Skies Hide Eclipse in Omaha; Visibility May Be Better in 1954 Omaha ns have one compensation for the disappointment of not view ing the eclipse of the sun Saturday morning—there will fce another eclipse of the sun in June, 1954, when the visibility may be better, according to those who know. Father W. F. Itlgge, astronomer at Creighton university, said that Oma hans were unable to see the eclipse on account of cloudy conditions. He asserted that the eclipse occurred on schedule time and that the maximum obscuration Ifcre was 87 per cent at 7:51 a. m. United States Meteorologist Itobins reported that the cloudy area Satur day morning was extensive. Cloudy conditions were reported from Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin; also from Buffalo, Toledo and other points. Pittsburgh. Philadelphia, New York and Washing ton were favored with clear at mosphere. The air mall department had no incoming pilot during the morning. Pilot L. H. Garrison left this morn ing at 6:30 with air mail for Chicago. Some Omahans expected to be in darkness during part of the time of the eclipse. Omaha was in the penumbra of the eclipse, meaning that the light was partly cut off. Total obscuration was observed in a path about 100 miles wide and about 4,000 miles long. At 9:30 the sun appeared through the mist anrl clouds like a hall of light and gradually increased in brilliancy until the sky was visible. The eclipse was over at 9:29, Omaha time. Judge Is Disappointed. Municipal Judge K. W. Patrick set his alarm clock for 6:30 Saturday morning, expecting to reach some van tage point to view the eclipse. Ralph Wagner stated that a* he was leaving his fireside earlier than is' his wont, a neighbor came out to view the eclipse, slipped on the walk and "sattf stars." The eclipse here was more nearly complete than any since 3869, when the obscuration in this area was 96 per cent. Lincoln liels View. Lincoln, Jan. 24.—The beginning of the solar eclipse was not visible here due to-'cloudy conditions, but when tho obscuration was greatest the sun had risen above the clouds and visi bility was good. At the maximum point, however, only a small portion of the sun was eclipsed by the moon. Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 24.—6lcar skies enabled all who looked through smoked glasses plainly to see the partial solar eclipse here this morn ing. The eclipse was at Its maximum about 8:30 and had disappeared en tirely by 9 o'clock. Scientists Say Eclipse Success; Radio Tone Wave Slightly Affected By International News Service. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 24.— "Marvelously successful," according to Professor Ernest AV. Prow n of Yale university's astronomical de partment, was the observation here today of the sun's eclipse. "All observers were agreed that the observation was taken under excep tionally favorable conditions," said Professor Brown. "The eclipse was five seconds late In New Haven, five seconds late In Ithaca, N. Y., and three seconds late in Poughkeepsie. N. Y.," Profesjgn Brown declared. "The average throughout the eclipse area of the United States showed about four sec onds late. * • "This has been the first time an attempt was made to “chase an eclipse" across the continent. The success of tins experiment warrants doing it again, we hope. The weather was doubtful before the eclipse, clue to shifting of clouds. There was a little cloud near the aun during total ity which was beautifully colored. The corona of the sun was a mini mum type of corona. "AVe shall not know anything about, the actual success of our ob servations for some days, and as to whether anything new has been dis covered we shall not know for some weeks." ~ Prof. Brown announced that the weather at Buffalo was cloudy at Ithaca and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., clear. "AA'» had a rehearsal last night In which all the astronomers at these places took part,” said Prof. Brown. "We had radio news of the weather last night and this morning, and we had a special forecast from the weather bureau yesterday afternoon and this forecast was right." Chicago. The clouds over the city *o covered the sky that the eclipse made It seem as though daylight was only a bit late. There were no strange shadows, only a murky darkness, as a belated dawn. In the “loop" the business district, a low-hanging cloud of smoke, helped the clouds to hide nature'* show. The darkness held on until * and then Saturday, January 24, was on Its way under cover of dark low hung clouds. At 8:30, half in hour after the near total eclipse was scheduled to appear. It w*g as near daylight as could be expected on • cold cloudy winter day. Whipped by a stiff north wind, clouds pushed Into the east )iuilt a gray wall between the laymen who lined office building windows and packed^roofs and piera into the lake, from seeing more then the usual, Chicago eerly morning graynees. Aboard Navel Dirigible Los Ange 1/es, En Route from Nantucket, Mass, Jan. 24.—(By AVireless to file As sociated Presa)—Lifted a mile rloaer to the sun by the navy dirigible Lob Angeles, the United States naval observatory astronomers had a per fect view of the total solar eclipse. During the two minutes four and six-tenths seconds of totality, not n cloud marred the magnlfirent epee tarle of the aun, completely blotted out by the moon. The ghostly radiance of the eclipsed sun turned the ocean, hoflxon and the clouds below Into a vivid picture tn yellow, purples and grays while observers made pictures of the corona for science. A battery of four astronomical cameras secured 18 photographs and two motion pic ture cameras and a spectograph were in operation. ASQUITH MAY BF. EARL OF OXFORD London, Jan. 21.—The favored po litical topic of the possibility of For mer Premier Asuuith becoming n peer Is revived today by the Dally Express, which prints n repoit that Ihe llheral lender has decided to in cept Ihe hnnou If this proves true, Ihe impel says. It understands that, ihe title earl of Oxford will be revived for him. The title became extinct in 1853 with tin death of the elxtli carl descendant of the famous tory n lei in. Robert Uftll! f By AKflneiatrd Press. Philadelphia, Jan. 24.—Radio sta tion WDAR, Philadelphia, announced (hat a marked departure from the direction of their tone wave had been observed by radio scientists stationed at Waterbury, Conn., Immediately be fore and during the first stages of the eclipse. The etatement given out by the state read in part as follows: “A violent agitation in the direc tion of the tone wave being received here from WDAR by Dr. William H. Bristol and David Crimes, radio scien tists. was observed at 7:43 a. m., IP minutes prior to tire eclipse. "The directional change* of the wave coming into the receiving instru ments were so rapid in their changes at this time that it was impossible to follow or measure them. ‘‘In the next 15 minutes the agita tion decreased, leaving a fixed depart ure of 3 degrees from the original course of the wave.” W. J. Bryan Views Eclipse With Coolidge Washington, Jan. 24.—William J. Bryan viewed the eclipse of the sun today from that vantage point he has so long sought, the White House. The commoner was an early caller on President Coolidge and was closet ed in conference with him for a quar ter of an hour. What the object of his mission was he declined to say. He was willing, however, to talk about the eclipse. "The eclipse," fold Bryan, "is much like a democratic defeaj—It is only temporary. The sun will shine again.” ** Price of Milk Cut One Cent Robert* Dairy Announces Change Effective Sunday( Others Are Uncertain. A drop of 1 cent In the price of milk and cream will be made Sunday by the Roberta Sanitary Dairy, was the announcement made Saturday by C. C. Mahannah, acting manager. Milk selling at 12 cent* a quart today will sell for 11 eente on Sunday; 12 cents a half pint for cream will sell for 11 cents, and whipping cream will he reduced 2 cents. The mild wether and the plentiful supply of milk is given ea the reason for thn reduction. "We are not, sure that milk will be reduced In price,” said T. R. Jar min, manager at the Alamlto Dairy company. At the Friesland Dairy, Weet Dodge, It was announced that dairies are mnklng no reduction of the price "of ntllk and cream but that cream cries »re. DOHENY ARRIVES IN MEXICAN CITY Mexico City, J*n. 24.—Edward I, Doheny and Herbert O. Wylie, Amer lean oil men, arrived yesterday at! 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Short of Breath. i A little later Mr. l.ane complained to his housekeeper, Mrs. Lea Klrwin, who, with her son, keeps the home where Mr. Lane lived, that he felt a shortness of brfath and asked her to sail Dr* K. B. Ilenda, masseur, ■.. ■ who frequently attended him. White treatment was being administered he was seized with an acute dilation of the heart. Dr. J. F. Schleier was summoned, but death ensued shortly afterward. "Charlie” Lane was one of the most popular railroad men in the country, and espeleally along the Union Pacific his coming was every where greeted with pleasure. Pos sessed of a breezy, witty, jovial man ner, he was the life of every party^. Combined with this was a deeply sym pathetic nature and understanding of men, and a remarkable business ability and capacity to get things done. Was a Friend of All. Rich and poor, small and great, were alike to him, and there was something in the man that made the humblest track-worker warm to him as easily as did those of his own of ficial standing. At legislative meet-! ings it was often said members would leave their duties to attend committee meetings where Igtne was to talk. He had many friends among the foremost railroad men, Including the late E. H. Harriman, who was par ticularly fond of him. Many called at the house late las' night after his death had been re ported. General Manager Jeffers. Vice President Munroe, Edson Rich and David Cole were among them. Mr. Jeffers declared that no death In the Union Pacific "family” had caused such widespread regret as that of Charlie I.ane. "He was Just a real man who understood other men and saw good lod rich herb ads, cor rects wnnkie* around the eyas and wilted lids. i.oo. 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