MUTT AND JEFF
BUT IF WE JOIN THE
RUSSIANS THE FINNS WILL GET
SORE!
SO WHAT! IF WE JOIN THE PINNS THE RUSSIANS
WILL GET SORE! ∙COME ON!
'YEH,WE'RE AMERICANS! WE'RE NEUTRAL BUT WE' GAME OVER HERE TO GET
IN THE WAR!
OH, SURE! YOU HEARD WHAT DO
OF US---{YOU WANT?) MUTTAND JEFF!
{RUSSIAN RECRUITING OFFICE
Recital By Caroline Braga
From The Studio
6.00 p.m.-A Ballad Concert,
WHAT DO WE WANT? WANNA
WE
JOIN
YOUR
WHAT! AND SPOIL RUSSIAS CHANCES Of WINNING THE WAR?
WELLER, CANT WE DO SOMETHING TO HELP YOU WIN THE WAR?
ARMY!
(SURE!)
WHAT?
拿
Today's Wireless
6.28 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quota-
tlons.
6.30 p.m.-Half An Hour of Dance
Music.
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7.00 p.m.- London Relay "These Strangers within our Gates". Stories about foreigners.
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m. Lawrence Tibbett (Barl- tone) Winnie Melville (Soprano)
and De Groot & His Orchestra.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
8.45 p.m.-Studio-Plano Recital by 19.40 p.m.-Cello Solos by Pau Casals.
Caroline Braga.
Vito (Spanish Dance), Op. 54, No. 5 (Pop- per): Spanish Dance (Rondalla Ara-
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
|9.30 p.m. ---- Songs by Tito Schipa
(Tenor).
'Plaisir D'Amour (De Florian, Martini); O Del Mio Amato Ben (Donaudy).:...with Orchestral accomp.
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken .. World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
A MORAL VICTORY
In yesterday's hand Howard Schen- tion of East, every one had a freak ken, holding a nine-card suit, won a hand. When the bidding reached moral victory by making a sacrifice Grand Slam bid. To-day we find an- other nine-card suit, and since they occur so rarely, we do not expect to see another one this year.
North, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable.
Mr. Dohenken
Q 8 6 3
A 10 7 5 %
♣ K 9 8 44
◊ KQJ10
W.
AK 10,5 4 V 9 8 6 ◇ A 73 2
9.8 8 5.4
♣ A Q
76 a 2
.
A J. 9.7 3
KQJ 4 8
♣ J 10.5
Mr. Rose
The bidding:
North East South
West
Pass 10
2♡
80
-AV.
40
BO
EV
80
70
Pass
Pass 70
Равя
Pass
Dbl.
Pass
Pass
Pass
seven- diamonds, Mr. Schenken, being undecided as to whether or not the contract could be defeated, left the de- cision to his partner. And while Mr. Rose thought that his Ace of spades might take a trick, he finally con- cluded that it was safer to incur a small penalty. Mr. Rose was set only two tricks, whereas the diamond Grand Slam would have been a lay- down.
**
✡
You were Howard Schenken's part- ner yesterday and held:
A QIII
J 10 x X
The bidding:
You Jacoby
Pass 2NT Pass Pass
Hurnstone
1NT
3NT
What do yon lead?.
Schenken Pasa Роба
ANSWER: - Lead your fourth-best spade. With a five-card suit you should be willing to give up one trick. as you then have, a good chance of winning four spade tricks.
We believe this hand constitutes one * Score 100% for a spade, 80% for à' of the greatest freaks we have ever|heart, 0 for any other lead. seen, and we wish to assure our rea-
HIGH BARS VALUES
TOUR-ACKS SYSTEM:
ACE... 3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK...N
• QUESTIÓN NO, 383..
10
ders that it actually "David Bruce Burnstone is your part- occurred in a Rubber ner to-day and you hold. Bridge game at the Harmonie Club in New York City. Actually, Howard Schenken, who dealt the hand, found himself winning moral victory, due to the fact that partner, ** - Albert tube,** mada?" the brilliant" sacrifice,
and Slim bid.
a worthy of note that at no time did any one of the four players make .a.jump: bid ́although, with the excep-
The biddingt
You
Pass
What do you bid? (Answor fomorrow.)
GEN. WAVELL TO FLY TO THE RAND
By BUD FISHER
JOIN THE
FINNS!
Beethoven Symphony By Vienna Symphony
Orchestra
gonesa - Granados); Goyescas Inter- mezzo.. (Granados); Toccata In G Major -Adagio (Bach)....with Piano accomp. 9.55 p.m.-Beethoven-Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 ("Choral") Felix Weingartner and Vienna Phil- harmonic Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
CHESS
COLONY
CHAMPIONSHIP
Results of Colony chess matches during
Capetown, To-day. General Wavell, Commander-in-the past week:-
Chief of British Forces in the Middle East, will fly from Capetown to the Rand to-day in a South African Air | Force "bomber.
General Waveil, who arrived on Sunday for consultations with the Union Government, yesterday visited various defence points on the Cape peninsula.
E. Zimmern beat B. S. Litvin. A. Kurrik beat D. E. de Carvalho. B. S. Litvin, beat K. Welss, D. E. de Carvalho beat. E.. Zimmern, K. M. A. Barnett beat V. V. Kalatchoff." A. Birlukoff drew with Sir H. Pollock. Positions of the competitors to date fol- low:
|E. Zimmern
He lunched with the Governor-K. M. A. Barnett General and Lady Duncan and dinéd B. 6. Litvin last night with General 'Smuts, the K. Weiss Prime Minister. Reuter...
PRECARIOUS SUPPLY
ROUTE
Basle, To-day. Swiss newspapers believe that an increase in German coal deliveries to Italy via the Brenner Pass is only possible if tremendous efforts are made and a precise time tabling and organisation is introduced.
The slightest interruption will danger the whole-Reuter.
Sir H. Pollock
D. E. de Carvalho A. Kurrik
A. Biriukoff L. Blair
V. V. Kalatchoff
P. W. D. L. Pts.
8 7 0 1 7
6 5 0 1 5
8 5 0 3 B
8 50 3 5
8 4,2 2 5
7 3 0 4 3
7 2 1 4 3
7 1 2 4 2
620 5 1 70 16 32
U.S. TO RESUME RELATIONS WITH REICH ?
Washington, To-day. According to the "Baltimore Sun" en-President Roosevelt is considering the resumption of full diplomatic rela- tions with Germany and his choice of Ambassador in Berlin will probable be Mr. Clarence Piccatt, a leading fig- ure in Quaker relief and peace activi- ties. Reuter.
GERMAN SHIP SEIZED BY NAVY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL")
Gibraltar; To-day. A German ship captured in the South Atlantic last week has arrived here with
a British prize crew board. She is being put into drydock for inspection.-Havas.
FRENCH CABINET
REORGANISATION
London, To-day.
on
DR. CLODIUS ARRIVES IN BUCHAREST (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Bucharest, To-day. Dr. Clodius, the Nazi trade expert, has arrived here with his wife and seven economic advisors. It is assum- ed a commercial pact is in the air. Havas.
Mr. T. V. Soong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of According to a French radio an-China and head of the Bank of nouncement the reorganisation of the Canton, boarded a "plane for Chung- French Cabinet is imminept-Reuter, king yesterday,
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