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THE HONGKONG (TELEGRAPH. - SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1987.

WORLD'S LONGEST ECLIPSE IN JUNE

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· Strasbourg, Apr, 25. MAN who is.described as having "hands like an ape" and herculean strength, has been detained by the police here in connec tion with an extraordinary series of murders of women by strangulation,

The man, tall, fair-haired Jacques Feldman, has been ar- rested following the strangling of a young brunette, Mlle. Marie Karcher, who was found dead in her home at Strasbourg dur Ing the Easter holidays.

Shortly afterwards another young woman living. in Strasbourg. Mile. Madeleine Schaffer, a blonde, report- ed to the police that in 1930 she was} seized by the neck as she was walk- .ing down the road, and held until

she was unconscious.

*THREATENED REVENGE"

Now the police allege that Feldman was concerned in thla affair, and also In the strangling of two other women in 1933 and 1934.

It is alleged that he would get to know attractive young women in Strasbourg, and that in every case be seized them from the back, and robbet! after

them. strangling £liem.

Mile. Schaffer to-day fold the police: "He has enormous hands and terrific strength-a monster of a man. I have been terrifled up now to report what happened to the that he has been police, but now arrested I have.decided to tell every- thing. He threatened to take his revenge if I gave him away."

Greta Garbo's dental that she had Sch- received $10,300 from David latter, European theatrical man, to finance her film, career, was made public to-day in a deposition obtain-

ed from the Swedish film star.

Knitting is the vogue again. Even film actresses have laken to it belween shots at the studios. The British star June Mallory is one,

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Washington, Apr. 10.

The longest solar Eclipse visible from the earth since the 8th century will be observed by scientists next month.

Path of the eclipse will be about 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, and the maximum duration of 7 minutes and 4 seconds will occur at noon at a point in the open ocean about' 1,500 miles from the nearest land,

The path will cross the Interna tional date te in the mid-Pacing, according to scientific explanation, consequently the eclipse will begin on June 8.

The chief centre for American scientific observers will be in the Phoenix Islands, about 1,800 miles southwest of Ilawallan Islands and 3,000 miles northeast of Australiin. There on either Canton or Enderbury Island, according to local landing camping conditions will be the expedition of the National Geogra- phic Society and the United States Navy.

The calipse will be visible from the mainland of Peru about sunset, but the sun then will be too low in the sky to permit satisfactory, observa- tions.

MID-PACIFIC PARTY

The navy mine sweeper Avocet will transport the party from Honolulu to the Phoenix Islands carly in May and the instruments will be sent to Honolulu on the cruiser

of the Quincy, by way Canal.

The National Geographie Society Issued the following information con- cerning geographical and scientific

"COMPANY" TO NAMES aspects of the expedition:

Toronto, Mar. 1.

The Dionne quintuplets will be incorporated, If is successful.

a move afoot

A bill to that end will be presented to the federal Parliament and its purpose will be to prevent unauthorized firms from using the designation "quins," "quints" and "quintuplets" for advertising purposes.

David Cross, Welfare Minister of the Ontario government and chief guardian of the quintuplets, said passage of the bill by the Dominion government would be requested by the provincial Cabinet, -United Preas.

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The scientific programme has been initiated and La being,

directed by Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, chairman of the research committee of the National Geographic Society,

tlon

The scientific leader of the expedi- director of Leander McCormick Ob

will be Dr. S. A. Mitchell,

servatory University of Virgina. Captain J. F. Hellweg, superintendent of the U. S.-Naval

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the vatory, Wil have change m

Other members of the group will include: Dr. Paul A. McNally. director of Georgetown College servatory; Dr. Heber D. Curtis, direc-

девет tor of the University of Michigan Observatory; Dr. Floyd K. Richtmyer, of Cornell University; Dr. Irvine C. Gardner, National Bureau of stand- ards; Mr. John W. Willis, of tlle Naval Observatory, and n

photo graphier from the National Geogra- phle Society. A naval surgeon qualified to carry out the work of. a naturalist probably will join the party at Hawall

ESTABLISH CAMP *

After arriving in the Phoenix 'Islands and-determining which island. offers the best conditions for land- ing, they will establish a camp.

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There are eight islands altogether in the Phoenix group. They are all low, coral islands, surrounded by reets, with no permanent inhabitants. They are under the protection Great Britain.

The expedition's "scientific pro- onc of the gramme most complete and comprehensive ever carried out by eclipse observers. Special attention will be devoted to observation of the sun's corona, visible only during a total eclipse, and the chromosphere. or outer layer of the sun, by photo- graphing the "flash spectrum," which permits the determination of the heights to which vapours rise from the surface of the sun,

Dr. Mitchell will devote his atten- tion to observing the flash spectrum, which becomes visible during a few seconds just after the moon's dlak completely covers the sun, and im- mediately before the sun begins to emerge from behind the moon. Dr. Curtis will observe the spectrum of the sun's corona. Dr. McNally will photograph the corona with light of different colours by using various types of fillers. Dr. Richlmyer will measure the total light of the corona. ECLIPSE CAMERA

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Dr. Gardner will take with him an celipse camera of his own design which employs a new type of lens and he will also make, photographs

colour,

The Naval Observatory party will be especially interested in observing, the exact times at which the eclipse begins and ends. This will serve as an Important check en calculations of the movements of the heavenly bodies, which is the official function of the Naval Observatory and which aids it in perfecting know- ledge of the motion of the moon and hence in predicting the time of future eclipses.

There is believed to be an dx- cellent expectation of clear weather in the Phoenix Islands at the time. of the eclipse. The eclipse will oc- cur on Enderbury Island at 8:04 a.m, and 22 seconds earlier on Can- ton. This corresponds to 2:15 p.m. eastern standard time-United Press.

Vatican Worried

Vatican City, Apr. 20." Persistent reports that Chinese Communists are regularly plundering Catholic missions in China caused grave concern among Vatican City authorities to-day.

Reports from various vicarates were being studied.

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