Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1937 — Page 37

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FLOOD CONTROL BOARD PASSES ON DAM PLANS |

WPA Projects to Harness County Waterways - | Given Study.

The first official action of the new Flood Control Commission was taken yesterday with the tentative approval of Indianapolis Power & Light Co.'s plan to rebuild its dam in White River. The light company's plans include the rebuilding and extension of the dam north of Oliver Ave to meet requirements of the proposed new river channel and levee lands.

Commission members, who include City Engineer Henry Steeg, Carl Kortepeter and Charles Jefferson, also discussed WPA projects in Marion County and their possible relation to flcod control projects.

Survey Is Proposed 1

ission’s first step toward a longime flood control program for the ounty would be a comprehensive urvey of waterways and flood pre'ention conditions.

He said that the survey would start immediately. Commission memers were to make an inspection trip i of certain portions of White River today. The Works and Sanitation Board rdered condemnation of right of yay along the east bank of Fall Creek from Indiana Ave. to ¥6th St.

tion was taken before the establishent of the commission. Mr. Steeg reported at yesterday's eeting that the flood board has pproximately $62,000 working balince on hand. These funds were secured through a flood prevention ond issue.

ACTRESS HURT IN FALL By United Press { HOLLYWOOD, April 9. — Joan iy motion picture actress, was recovering today ‘from a wrenched back suffered in a fall on a studio stage. She was taken to a hospital

only minor injury.

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SCIENTIFIC CRUSOES TO STUDY ECLIPSE U. S. Group Expects to Be Marooned for Six Weeks on Coral Atoll in Pacific

By NEA Scrvice

N the early morning hours of next June 8, the moon, loitering in the heavens above the southwestern Pacific Ocean, will propel itself as if with studied insolence directly between the rays of the sun and the planet known as

Earth.

Out of this colatiial rudeness will grow that most majestic and awesome of all natural phenomena, a total

eclipse of the sun. From science's irritating eclipse. ing as any eclipse can possibly be, a matter of seven minutes at its greatest duration, and in fact the longest eclipse recorded in 1200 years. Good, too, because occurring in the region of the Equator where there

are chances of excellent vis-

ibility. But it will be irritating because it will be staged almost exclusively for the benefit of the Pacific Ocean

and nobody has vet discovered a way of cementing fragile record-sea-water. The 150-mile-wide black-out, 8800 miles long, will pass over almost no land until it reaches Peru at twilight, long past the time for proper observations.

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HAT is why an American scientific expedition, organized by the National Geographic Society, will perch on one of two eligible little coral atolls not far south of the equator, about 2000 miles southwest of Hawaii. These are ~ Enderbury and Canton Islands, in the Phoenix Group, almost the only spots with solid foundations in the full track of the eastward-rushing circle of darkness and situated where the angle of the hidden sun to the earth gives promise of good results. ! The two reef-fringed islets, ris-

point of view, 1t will be good because almost as last-

it. will be a good but

only 30 feet above the sea, are about the loneliest specks cf land in the Pacific. Ever since world navigation began they were ignored by mariners until, toward

the end of the last century, Great |

Britain claimed them in the name of her gracious majesty, Victoria, as part of a “bulwark” to protect the all-British cable destined to link Canada and Australia. Since then, nominally British, they had a short career as guano-producers and have since lapsed into their ancient, undisturbed dream. The surf beats upon the coral, the sea birds cry and wheel above quiet lagoons, the sun and the rain fall upon utter loneliness save when on the horizon the masts of some craft, astray from the trade routes, slip heedlessly by.

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ANTON, the westward of the two islands, is 9 miles long, 4 wide. The eclipse will strike it first and will last barely four minutes. Enderbury, 30 miles to he eastward, is 212 miles long, 1 mile wide. The total black-out there will last 4 minutes, 8 seconds.

On one or the other of these

forgotten reefs, Dr. S. A. Mitchell of the University of Virginia will establish his base. Others of the expedition are Capt. J. F. Hellweg of the U. 8S. Naval Observatory; Dr. Paul A. McNally of

Georgetown; Dr. Heber D. Curtis |

of the 'University of Michigan; Dr. Floyd K. Richtmyer of Cornell; Dr, Irvine C. Gardner of the National Bureau of Standards;

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The area in which the June 8 eclipse of the sun will be visible is mostly uninhabited except by unconcerned denizens of the Pacific

Ocean.

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Dr. Theodore Dunham of Mount Wilson = Observatory; John ~W. Willis of the Naval Observatory; Harold E. Sawyer of McMathRichard H. Stewart of the National Geo-

graphic Society, Merryman, radio engineer.

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Francisco in groups between April 15 and April 27, bound for

Honolulu.

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From Honolulu they will take the Navy mine sweeper Avocet to the Phoenix Islands, departing on May 6, which will give them about a month to reach the islands and prepare their lonely outpost. The party, apart from its scientific equipment, is carrying food and water for six weeks, cement for laying instrument foundations, and a complete radio broadcasting station. | No more respectful of solar dignity than the rude moon, they hope to photograph the eclipse, time it, feel its pulse, take its temperature, analyze it, and even-broadcast it. By photographic plates, delicate recording apparatus, and other observations they plan to make a thorough record of this immense affair and take it to pieces

‘in the laboratories afterwards.

They will give special attention to the sun's “corona” and the chromosphere, a thin ring of reddish light from which reddish prominences project, these matters being visible only during total eclipse. Photographs of the “flash |spectrum” will permit

measurements of heights to which

vapors rise from the sun’s surface.

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ERE is just what will happen when the moon shoulders her way between the sun and the earth: A vast cone of blackness will be formed extending earth-

ward from the moon 200,000 miles. .

At its base the cone will reach a diameter of 155 miles. This will commence just after dawn on the date known to dwellers in the Western Hemisphere as June 8. But since the eclipse begins on the further side of the International (Date Line, it will have the unusual distinction of beginning there on June 9, a day after it ends in Peru. By the time total blackness has reached the Phoenix Group, the sun will be about 22 dégrees up in the heavens. This will be at 8:08 a. m. for Canton, almost half a minute later for Enderbury. Owing to the fact that the earth is a ball, the shadow will move over the surface very rapidly near the beginning and end of its path where it will strike the earth a “glancing blow.” The shadow thus formed will of course

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be elliptical. As the blinded sun mounts the heavens, however," - toward noon it will appear to be moving less rapidly, will reach its greatest diameter and will be circular. It will then be sweeping eastward at about 21 miles a minute. Because the eclipse will cross nine standard time zones it will appear to be taking virtually all day to complete its course. Actually the time of totality will be 3 hours 21 minutes. The breadth of partial eclipse ‘will be many thousands of miles wide on either side of the total track. In the early afternoon it will be visible over a large area of Southwestern United States, including all California south of the 40th parallel, .the southern half of Nevada, the southern third of Utah and the southwestern corner of Colorado, all of Arizona, prac= tically all of New Mexico and Texas, most of Louisiana, the southern tip of Mississippi and the southern third of Florida.

SEEKS DAMAGES FOR ALLEGED DICE LOSSES

George Bego asked $2000 damages in a suit on file in Superior Court 3 today against the proprietors of alleged E. Wabash St. gambling place. Bego charged that he lost $800 in dice games at the establishment in the last 30 days.

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