Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1926, Page 16

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., DECEMBER 26, 1926—PART 1 3 % Abe Martin Says: Iflmmmumum" THE NATIONAL FURNITURE CO ;||||||||||||ummmuI N.E. Corner 7th and H Sts. N.W. lmummmuuuun‘ THE NATIONAL FURNITURE CO, ,l PRE-INVENTORY SAL This week we make ready to take stock and as we wish to count as few of the odd pieces and discontinued lots as possible, we reduce prices materially throughout the store. It will be to your advantage to buy furniture now—USE YOUR CREDIT. Easy Terms at “The 127 TOEXHIBI 3 ECLIPSE SHOWS s Three of Sun and Two of| % sy £ . Moon Wil Be Among (A _gq [ Heavenly Attractions. DELIVERS ANY DELIVERS ANY SINGLE PICCE * Yive aclipses, two of the moon and three of the sun, will be the principal ®stronomical events of 1927, though only one of them will attract much 29, which will be visible in England, the first there in two centuries; so even though conditions for observa- ing are rather unfavorable, British astronomers, both amateur and pro fessional, will make the most of this opportunity of a lifetime. The diffi- culty in England is that the eclipse occurs so early in the morning. The eclipse track, over which the moon’s shadow passes, and in which the total eclipse is seen, passes over part of Wales, over Liverpool Bay, and then over England from South port, on the bay, to Hartlepool, on the North Sea. From there, the shadow cr the North Sea to Nor ‘way, crc s the horthwest border of Sweden and Finland, and leaves the northern coast of Norway to cross the Arctic Ocean, where it just misses the northern tip of Novaya Zembla Then it reaches land again and crosses the northeastern corner of Siberia and leaves the earth for good Just south of the Aleutian Islands. Will Go to Norway. With the chances for clear wez in England rather unfavorable, the short duration of the total phase, astronomers who want to be as sure of seeing it as possible will probably 80 to points in Norway, where the weather chances are a little better, the eclipse 1 a little longer and occurs a little later. Several good sized towns in the interior of Norway have the advantage of being easily ac- cessible by rail and right in the center of the eclipse path. The British Astronomical ' Association has already announced an expedition of its mem- bers to Aal, one of these towns, while astronomers from other Euro- nean countries will locate their in- ctruments nearby. So far only one American astrono- 11er has announced his intention of wbserving this eclipse, Dr. Samuel A titchell, director of the Leander ormick Observatory of the Univer ty of Virginia. As the eclipse onl asts about 40 seconds in Norway: nobably none of the other American colipse observers will make any great «ffort to observe it. For Dr, Mitchell's ) wrpose, however, a short eclipse is as :v0d as a long one. He has ohserved « zht eclipses in different parts of the * orld, chiefly to photograph the “flash ectrum,” which appears just before :d after totality. Colored Lines Appear. When the light from glowing gases inder high pressure passes through a ver at low pressure, the resulting + ectrum is a band of color crossed i dark lines which correspond to the 1-sition of the bright lines of the low prassure layer. This condition takes Plice in the sun at ordinary times, Jut when an eclipse occurs there I = instant just before the dark disc of thy moon covers the sun when the 1hotosphere is hidden, and only the culer, or reversing, layer can be seen. The same thing happens when the on is leaving the sun, and when the 1t from the reversing layer is sed through a spectroscape at such i 'me, a series of colored lines appear. '4s iy the “flash” spectrum, nnd{ ords the astronomer the opportu: 7 to study the sun In a way possi - at no other time. As it is only of mentary duration with even the gest eclipse, the coming one is just good as any for this work, and t is why Dr. Mitchell has decided observe it. : ‘he two other eclipses of the vear * unimportant, because in neither them will the sun be completely ‘cured at any place on the earth's face. But there are two eclipses the moon which will be of con- >rable popular, though little scien- , interest. Happens June 15. ‘ne of these happens on June 15, | will be vieible throughout the ted States. Its only disadvantage hat it will oceur in the early morn- A solar eclipse is caused when moon’s shadow falls on the earth: . the earth fitself casts a shadow > space, and sometimes the moon s into it. This is what will happen June 15, but the darkening of the on as it enters the earth’s shadow I be gradual. If the sun were a nt of light, our shadow would be uwply defined, but as the sun pre- its a circular area of light, there part of the earth’s shadow, called umbra, from which an observer the moon could not see the sun all. Around the umbra is a larger 't of the shadow, in which an ob- ver would see part of the sun ob- ired by the earth, just as before a al solar eclipse we see part of the 1 obscured by the moon. This ser area is called the penumbra. \t 12:34 Eastern stapndard time the morning of June 15 the moon | begin to enter the penumbra, but ¢ until 1:42 does it begin to enter umbra, while it will not be until i that the total eclipse begins, an the moon is completely within inner shadow of the earth. The pse will last until 3:35, but even le a Junar eclipse is total, the moon + still be seen, shining with a dull lish light. This is because of the -h’s atmosphere. Light Is Red. Ve see the sun, even after it has in the evening, because the solar t is bent around the horizon by layer of air which surrounds us. » sun looks red at such a time be- se the great length of the path of light rays through the atmosphere ses the ‘blue rays to be partially orbed. Even when the moon is in umbra of the earth's shadow, wugh light s bent by the earth’s wsphere to lluminate it to some ent. To do this, however, the light | st pass through twice as much of atmosphere as at twilight, so the it reaching the moon and refiected m it back to the earth, 1s of a dis- :tly red color. \nother eclipse of the moon will ur in December, but it will not be ible in the United States. How r, people in Indla and other parts the Hastern Hemisphere, who sed the one in June, will see the * in December. ‘imilar to an eclipse is an occulta- 1, when the moon passes in front a star or planet. Every night, of rse, some stars are occulted, but phenomenon {s more uncommon - stars bright enough to be seen the unaided eye, and occultations planets are quite rare. Two of urn, however, will occur in 1927, sugh neither will occur at night. Most Interesting Event. The first will be on January 28 st before sunrise, or after sunrise southern parts of the country, the on will pass in front of Saturn, at t Eastern standard time. Through elescope, this is a_most interesting | ||! nt, for the ringed planet, Saturn, It's fine t' belong t' lots o’ different things, but don't ferget when joinin’ that ever'thing thals organized is run by two or three people. There's nothin’ new or wonderful about Mussolini, ‘cept he bosses a little bigger area than's generally bossed by our own politicians. 1 guess th' reason so few folks think fer 'emselves is 'cause th' hate ' be outnumbered (Con. 192 COMFESSONIVEN UNDER THREAT HT Judge Says Prisoners’ Con- stitutional Rights Often Were Grossly Violated. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 256.— Methods employed by police and Fed- eral agents in obtaining “voluntary confessions” of gullt by threats and coercion was denounced by Judge Dickinson in the United States Dis- trict Court. He characterized their tactics a violation of the constitu- tional hts which every citizen is privileged to enjoy. Judge Dickinson denounced the practice of using statements obtained under the guise of a “friend” as evi- dence against a defendant, and termed these methods a ‘‘violation of every principle of truth and fair dealing.” “Many prosecuting officers, a few policemen and all detectives,” he said, “have the notion that when they have muttered the talismanic words, ‘All you gay may be used against you,’ they have a lawful, God-given right to knock a defendant on the head, drag or frighten him into making a ‘free and voluntary' confession of his guilt. “We can listen with complacency when such men proclaim their devo- tion to the law, their abhorrence of its violation, and that they are sound con- s | Stitutional lawyers, wise statesmen and humane gentlemen, because we are bellevers in free speech and in the right of every one to advocate changes in our law, constitutional or other- wise,” The judge made these remarks in refusing a request by the Federal pr hibition department to change his pre. vious decision -suppressing evidence against Samuel Griffin, cafe owner of this city, hecause at the time of the raid Federal agents destroyed several barrels of alleged . beer which they were said to have seized at Griffin's place, instead of placing it in a ware- house. PARENTS YEARN FOR SON. Police Are Asked to Locate Boy, ‘Wanted by Father. With a sick father in Sibley Hos- pital wanting to see his boy-—on | Christmas day—whom it iy stated he hasn’'t seen for nearly three years, the boy's grief-stricken mother, Mrs. Harry Poole, 56 years old, of Cedar Grov Md, yesterday appealed to the Washington police to help her locate him. The son, Norman Pres- ton Poole, 33 years old, Mrs. Poole told the police, has not been seen by either of the parents since the Spring of 1924, it is said. Police suy she stated that the son used to reside in Southeast Wash- ington, but that she had forgotten the address. “His father may not recover,” she continued, according to the police, nd_he 1ts_to_sel 01 fainter as its light was absarbed by an increasingly greater section of the ailr. The “emersion,” when the planet reappears at the other side of the moon, occurs at 8:30 a.m., when the sun has completely risen. The second occultation of Saturn will be in July, on the tenth, but as the immersion, or beginning, will be at 4:30 in the afternoon and the emer: 5:31, it will be dificult to see y powerful telescopic aid. Occultation of Star. More rare than an occultation by the moon is an occultation of a star by one of the planets, or, very rarely, of one planet by another. Several stellar occultaitons by planets will oceur in 1927, of which the best for American observers will be on the night of December 7. This is an oc- cultation by Jupiter of a faint star in the constellation Pisces, the Fishes, which is not quite bright enough to be seen without a telescope, How- ever, as such an'event affords a good opportunity for checking up on the planet’s position in the sky, it will probably be well ohserved at observa- tories. 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