MUTT AND JEFF
I WONDER
WHAT HE'S
SMILING AT!
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GUR-SLU
FLIV--Z-
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THAT SOUNDED LIKE HE SAID MRS.-- I WISH HE'D TALK:
PLAINER IN HIS SLEEP!
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GA COD,
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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1940
By BUD FISHER
I'LL BET HE'S DREAMING.
ABOUT THAT BLONDE-
MRS. PIPPIN HE'S
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AH UM-MMMM
MAYBE HE 'WASH'T' BUT 'JÙST IN CASE
HE WAS!
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Recital By Barbara Gilmar
From The Studio
Today's Wireless
5.45 p.m.-8tudlo-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.47 p.m.-The Don Cossack Choir,
Cossack Song (Russian Folk Song-arr. Jaroff); The Nightingale (Alableff); The Song of the Terek Cossacks (arr. Jar- off); The Eple of Serge Jaroff's Don
YANKEES BEAT PHILADELPHIA
New York To-day.-In the American League, New York Yankees beat Philadel- phia by four runs to one.
No errors were committed during the game but Yankees outhit their opponents by 7 to 4.
All other games in the American and Na- tional Leagues were not played owing to bad weather.-Reuter.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
London Relays: Variety:
Dance Music
9.15-p.m.-London Rølay-News Sum
[mary.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay
„Franco"
9.45 p.m.-Dance Music,
"Vive la
Cossack Choir (Schwedoff)....conducted 19.00 p.m.-Marck Weber and His Or. 10.15 p.m. Varloty with Baphie Tuc- by Serge Jaroff.
7.00 p.m.-Rimsky-Korsakov-Le Coq D'Or Suite. London Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Eugene Goos-
sens.
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The Nows. 8.00 p.m. Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m.-Studio-Recital by Barbara Gilmar (Soprano) with A. T. Lay at the Plano.
8.30 p.m.-Magyari Imre and His Hun-
garlan Gypsy Orchestra.
8.40 p.m.-London Relay--"Scrapheap to Industry". A talk on the conver- sion of waste materials into new products.
inning
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 draten every other system in cxistence.
8ELF-MADE, CATASTROPHE
"Dear Four Aces," writes W. B. Coulter of Washington, D. C., "a few weeks ago there appeared a "Night- mare Hand' in your dally column which you thought should be labelled *Catastrophe No. 1. It was a hand in which South failed to take a trick at one notrump doubled although he held a strong hand. A short time ago I sat in a rubber game and the follow-- ing hand came up:
East; Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
Mr. Coulter
A A Q 9 7
8 2
♡ K J 10
94.
♡ 8 8
◊ A 9 7 6 4
chestra.
Menüett No. 1 (Paderewski). Coeur Brise (Gillet).
Reminiscences of Grieg (Urbach).
BRITAIN'S
EXPORTS HIGHER
A
ker, Reginald. Dixon, Frances Day and Others.
Comedienne He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
RUBBER
QUOTA CUT?
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE RUBBER MARKET IS AL- LONDON, TO-DAY, READY DISCUSSING THE OUT-
BOARD FEATURE: OF
OF COME OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE FIGURES PUBLISHED | REGULATION COMMITTEE MEET- YESTERDAY IS THE REMARKABLE ING ON MAY 21. INCREASE IN EXPORTS WHICH There is a growing belief that LAST MONTH: EXCEEDED IN small cut in the quota is very likely allowances VALUE THOSE IN ANY EARLIER to result as exportable MONTH OF THE WAR NOTWITH-exceed the present rate of consump- STANDING THE EASTER HOLI- tion and the fact that certain con- DAY.
Export figures for March were in £41,455,815 against £37,402,395 February.
In 1939, when Easter occurred dur- ing April, exports fell off by 18%. The figure for the present month is only £180,000 less than March, 1939, when there was no Easter holiday.
Largest increase during the month enough support for South to make has been in the vehicles group, which
amounted to £800,000. one spade doubled.
Imports in March were £108,543,- 354 compared to £95,638,991 in Fe- £78,021,721 in March, bruary and
Re-exports amounted to £3,- 800,000-British Wireless.
"The club lead was won by dummy's Ace: A trump was played, and to my surprise, my partner's ten won. He then cashed the club. King and I discarded my only diamond. All the tricks were now ours, including the 1,700-point penalty.
Never the moral. 18: "I suppose make a psychic unless you have a safe place to rescue.”.
*
1939.
YACHTING
2
suming centres have been lost as the result of the extension of hostilities.
At the same time, rubber quarters unanimously agree that a large cut would not be welcome in view of the position of United Kingdom stocks.
In this connection it is reported in
that the market circles
authorities it is desirable that have intimated
accumulate manufacturers should
quirements. Reuter. stocks amounting to three months re-
-
SENT STAR HOME TO MA
"He criticised my work, my friends,
Yesterday's yacht sweepstake race my clothes and everything about me, over eight miles resulted: True Blue
*
· 4.27.314.10.11 (Miss H. Cawhall. Wilson); Joss
4.28.40 -- 4.17.20
AQJ8.5
Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner, nelther side was vulnerable and you held:
(Capt. G. E., Neve),"
Jean
4.28,524.17.32-63
(Mrs. G. J. Tarr).
Gull
4.29.05 4:17.45"
▲ KJ-104
7A5
AK I II
I
(Capt. A. O. G. Mills), Isobel".
Q÷K 3·
W:
OK 10 9X X-
K.10 7
X: X.
(Major C, V. Seagrim). La Linda
36 2:
The bidding:
You
4.31.22 4.20.02 (Cdr. (E) R¡ 'B.- H. Jöhnstone).** Diana
14.20.44": 4,20.44.7
6
8 3x
(7)
Q 7 0 2
J10 8 5 2
The bidding:
Hast
14
Pass
J 9.4
South
14 Pass
West Dbl.
North! Pass
"While I was on the right side, the result would entitle me to call it
Schenken Jacoby: Maier
Pask
2❤ PANS.
Your
ANSWER: Bid two spades. hand is too weak to show your dia- monds at the three level. ver.
Score 100% for, two spades,;30% for three diamonds, 0-for any other bid. QUESTION NO. 887
Merwin Maler is your partner. You "Catastrophe 'No. 2.' From South's are. the leader and hold:
OF THE
ALL 3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK.....
"
bidding he evidently
HREN GARÓ VALUES thought his partner. FOUR-ACES SYSTEN ・・・ Was · R mind-reader, for not only did he bid the psychic spade, but he stayed right there after the double. South therefore thought that his part- ner held a bunch of spades for otherwise he would have rescued. As for North,
thought his two Aces should be Inc.)
x
>K·10:9x
The bidding:
Paren
What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)
(Released By The Bell Byndicate;
4.30.534.19.95 5
(Capt. H. 8. Stansfield).
and then sent me home to mother," testified Ginger Rogers of her hus- when she was band, Lew Ayres, granted a divorce at Los Angeles.
"Before the honeymoon was over, Low began to criticise me," added Ginger. "One spring morning ho sald, I wish you'd go home to your mother and stay there. So I went."
Mrs. Lela Rogers, Ginger's mother, corroborated: her evidence, adding: "Lew told me he didn't want. Ginger any more.
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