MUTT AND JEFF
{COME ON, MPLED UP
MY MAN -
BUT YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ME WHERE
IM IN A HURRY!
YOU WANNA
60 YET!
HEY, TAXI! LOOK! CAN YOU DO THIS COIN TRICK? WATCH
IT DISAPPEAR!
(HEY) HEY,TAKI! İDON'T CHA WANNA SEE THIS CARD TRICK I MADE
Up?
NO!
I CAN'T DRIVE AND WATCH YOU AT THE GAME TIME!
OH, GETTIN' HASTY, EH! WELL, I CAN GET MAD TOO!
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 16, 1940
ZAWHERE. ARE YOU
GOIN'?
By: BUD FISHER
·NONE OF · YOUR:BUSINESS!}
I WON'T TELL!
WARMONINGA
ΤΑΧΙ
TAKI
TAXI
TAXI
TAXI
Studio
Piano
Recital
6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.
as
Today's Wireless
7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
7.02 p.m.-Gracie Fields, Arthur Askey and Mantovan! & His Orchestra, 7.30 p.m.- LONDON RELAY -
News.
The
8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-STUDIO - Two-Piano Re. cital by Herbert and Bernhard Ruff (from The Gloucester Hotel). 8.20 p.m.Selections from
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
and Her Viennese Orchestra.
8 33 p.m.-B.B.C. RECORDING "Poor
· Polly". A Sketch.
8.47 p.m.-Barnabas Von Geczy and
His Orchestra. Hindu Song Korsakov).
('Sadko'
Kalman's Valse Triste (Sibelius).
Rimsky-
"Countess Maritza". Edith Lorand 8.53 p.m.-STUDIO-"Chinese Paint-
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken... World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
VARIOUS BLAM BIDDING METHODS
Inga in Hong Kong". A talk by Elsic Cholmeley, Secretary to the Hong Kong Committee of the Chinese In- dustrial Cooperatives. 9.05 p.m. -- STUDIO
Recent Events.
Comments on
9.16 p.m.-LONDON RELAY
Summary.
News
MR. JOHNSON GOING TO CHUNGKING
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Pelping, To-day. Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, American Ambassador to China, accompanied by the military and naval attaches yes- terday boarded the U.S. transport "Henderson" at Chinwangtao for Shanghai.-Havas.
STOP OVER IN SHANGHAI
Peiping, To-day. Mr. Nelson T. Johnson left for Chinwangtao en route to Shanghai
by his private secretary, the military attache (Major Mayer) and the naval attache (Lt-Comm. H. E. Overesch), The party boarded the transport Henderson in Chinwangtao.
Nathan H. Kaufman of Baltimore, | "Partner, I have more than a mini-early yesterday morning, accompanied Md., sends us the North and South mum and if you want to try for a hands shown below. They are of great interest since, while the Com- bined hands would be bid to six notrump by practically any number of fine players, the number of bidding sequences would be legion.
South, Dealer
North-South vulnerable
A KJ 8
QJ 10 9 8
◊ K 9 7
♣ A
W
N
9 7
♡ A 6
OA J.86
♣ K Q J 65
Our own bidding:
South
Weat North
1
Рава 1♡
Fast Pass
2
Разб
34
Pare
40
Pass
ENT
Pass
6NT
Pass
Pass
Pass
Now let us see about the variations. Every one would open with one club,
HIGH LARE VALUES OF THE POUR-ACKS SVETEN,
ACE.
KING
QUFEN
but a lot of North players would respond two hearts, and that
Slam, I am ready to go with you." At the same time this bid denies particularly good support for either hearts or spades.
Tchaikowsky "Pathetique"
Symphony
9.30 p.m.-LONDON RELAY-"Carda
on the Table".
Sym. 9.45 p.m. TCHAIKOWSKY -
phony No. 6 In B Minor, Op. 74 (The "Patheticue"). Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Kous- servitsky.
10.30 p.m.-A Concert by Simon Barer (Plano) and Natan Milstein (Violin). 11.00 p.m.- LONDON RELAY - "In
England Now".
11.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN,
COLONY CHESS
Following is the draw for the first round of the Colony Chess Champion- ship:-
JANUARY 18:-B. S. Litvin v D. E. de Carvalho; L. Blaire v O. V. Prasalov; K. Weiss v V. V. Kalalchoff; E. Zimmern y A. Y. Birlukof; A. Kurrik v Sir H. Pollock. JANUARY 251-0. V. Prasalov v B. S. Lit- vin; V. V. Kalatchoff v L. Blaire; A. Y. Birtukoff v K. Welas; Bir H. Pollock v E. Zimmern; K. M. A. Barnett v A. Kurrik.
FEBRUARY 1:-B, S. Litvin v V., V. Ka- latchoff; D. E. de Carvalho v O. V. Prasu- Jov: L. Blair v A. Y. Birtukoff; K. Weiss Y Str H. Pollock; E. Zimmern v K. M. A. Barnett.
FEBRUARY 8:-A. Y. Birjukoff v B. S. Litvin; V. V. Kalatchoff y D. E. de Carval-" ho: Sir H. Pollock v L. Blair: K. M. A. Barnett v K. Weiss; A. Kurrík v E, Ziminern.
FEBRUARY 15:-B. 9. Litvin v Sir H.
kuff: O. V. Prasalov v V. V. Kalatchoff: .
Pollock: D. E. de Carvalho v A. Y. Birin L. Blair y K. M. A. Barnett; K. Weiss v A. Kurrik.
~FEBRUARY 22:-K, M.-A. Barnett-v-B. S. Litvin; Sir H. Pollock v D. E. de Carvalho: A. V. Biriukofť v O. V. Prazalov; A. Kurrik v L. Blair: E. Zimmern v K. Weiss.
FEBRUARY 29:-B. S. Litvin v A. Kurrik:
D. de Carvalho v K. M. A. Barnett; 0. V. Prasalov v Sir H. Pollock; V. V. Kalatchoff Chinese capital is notv A. Y. Biriukoff; L. Blair v E. Zimmern.
It is learned that Mr. Johnson is and six-going to Chungking after a short stay How-in Shanghai, though the date of his
visit to the disclosed.
He arrived in Peiping last month and spent Christmas and New Year
Reuter. with his wife and family.
From there on the five notrump bids follow logically. ever, if North and South should happen to be employing one of the conventions, they artificial notrump could easily use it.
*
were
Howard
You
Schenken's partner yesterday, neither side was vulnerable and you held:
♡ 9 8 5
0 A 9 7 64
♣ À 6
Burustrone
The bidding: Schenken Jacoby
You 14 10 (7)
ANSWER: You should double. This is a very close hand.
Score 100% for double, 80% for one notrump, 40% for two notrump,
QUESTION NO. 309
David Bruce Burnstone is
Neither side I vulnerable
.bid, is not bad. Com-partner.
ing to the second and you hold: round, many players
M
SAMPAN CAPSIZES
MARCH 7:-E: Zimmern v B. S. Litvin:
A. Kurrik v D. E. de Carvalho; K. M. A. Barnett v O. V. Prasalov; Bir H. Pollock v v. v. Kalatchoff: K. Weisą v L.. Blair.
MARCH 14:-B. 8. Litvin v K, Weiss; D. E. de Carvalho v E. Zimmern; O. V. Prata- lov v A. Kurrik; V. V. Kalatchoff v K. M. A. Barnett; A. Y. Biriukoff v Sir H. Pollock. MARCH 21:-L. Blair v B. 8. Litvin; K. Weiss v D, E, de Carvalho; E. Zimmern v O. V. Prasalov; A. Kurrik v V. V. Kalat-
MARCH 28:-D. E. de Carvalho v L. Blair: O. V. Prasalov v K. Weisa; V. V. Kalatchoff v E. Zimmern; A. Y. Biriukoff v A. Kurrik; Sir H. Pollock v K. M. A. Barnett.
The wash caused by a 'speeding mo- tor-torpedo boat off Kellet Island yes-choff; K. M. A. Barnett v A. Y. Birlukoff.
the terday capsized a sampan and three occupants were thrown into the the water. They were rescued by
and “Chung steamlaunch brought to the Colony.
Shan,"
The owner of the sampan told the baskets of fish-shell from Kellet Is- police that he was conveying some 47 land when the accident occurred.
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
REPULS
HONG KONG HOTELS
your
&
A HOTEL
JALK
would bid two dia- monds with the South hand, although
we
greatly prefer our own bid of two clubs, ⠀⠀
We would jump with the North the second round, but- some we know would bid only two stades (a bid we really don't like). South has any number of third-round. bids possible, but we vouré four diamonds since that bid clearly says, Inc.)
ding:
hat do you÷bid?.
ased by
Bell Syndicate
SHANGHAI
ASTOR" "HOUSE;
STTIOH