3-18
MUTT AND JEFF
MUTT, DO YOU
SURE!
DO YOU USE SUGAR?
YEP TWO LUMPS!
USE CREAM
IN YOUR
COFFEE?
DO YOU'STIR) OF COURSE
IT? I STIR
IT!
TELL ME -
MY RIGHT
bo You USE YOUR || HAND, OF
RIGHT HAND OR
YOUR LEFT TO
STIR IT WITH?
COURSE!
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 30, 1940.
THASS FUNNÝ. I THOUGHT YOU
USED A SPOON!
By BUD FISHER
HAR!
HAR!
HA
HEE
NEE
HEE
Dance
Music
6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.
Today's Wireless
7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tiona.
7.02 p.m.-Aldershot Command Search.
light Tattoo, 1936.
Massed Bands
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles
of The Aldershot and Eastern Com-9.00 p.m.-London Relay-Speech by mands.
7.20 p.m.-Songs by (Bass-Baritone).
Poter Dawson
The Man In The Street (Longstaffe); The Winding Road (Araby & An- drew); Outward Bound (Songs of the Sea'-Stanford)....with Or- chestral accomp.
7.30 p.m.--London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Latest Variety Numbers. 8.41 p.m.-Max Miller in the Theatre. (Recorded in the Finsbury Park Empire).
ken
Sir Ronald Cross, Minister of Econo- mic Warfare, at luncheon given by American Chamber of Commerce In- London.
9.20 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay-"Cards
the Table".
on
9.46 p.m.-Compositions of Moussorg-
sky:
Song of the Flea....Theodore Cha- liapine (Bass) with Orchestra. Pictures at an Exhibition-Sulte....
Boston Symphony Orchestra cond: by Serge Koussevitsky.
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce -Burnstone, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in cxistence.
+
A PERFECT FIT
N. J. Loprete of Hempstead, N. Y.,, fled in cue-bidding his opponents' South whereupon suit, writes as follows: "I am attaching heart
to afford herewith a hand which caused quite could
discussion at our
a
last Duplicate seven
*
*
to jump diamonds, on the theory that Bridge tournament, of which I am the North would hold something in clubs director. Although the hand is a lay-for his bidding. down for a Grand Slam in clubs or diamonds by North and South, not one team actually bid it. The team was forced that bid a Small Slam into it by a sacrifice bid of five hearts ex- by West. There were various cuses put forth by the North-South,
the players for their failure to bid
any Slam, the only one that
West good being that at one table doubled five diamonds for, some un-. known reason."
South, Dealer
North-South vulnerable
9 8 5 2
Q 10 5 3
O Q-9 7 5-4
K J 10
7 8
♡ K J 6 2
◊ J 8
N
W
was
4. Q-84
AQ:10 8:
5 4
7.0.2
J 8
♡ 9 7 8 OAK 10 8 # AK 94 Suggested bidding:
Bouth
West North
10
20
East 2♡
3♡
4♡
Pass.
70
Pass
Pass Pass
Yesterday you were Merwin Maier's partner and held:
A K Q x x x ♡ A X X X OK X
The bidding:
Schenken You
10
Dbl.
Burnstone Maler
Разв
Pass
(3)
ANSWER: Your correct bid is four
10.20 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording-"Money
for Nothing". A Sketch. 10.35 p.m.-Dance Music.
Fox-Trots-Minnie the Moucher's Wedding Day; Hot Toddy (film "The Big Broadcast')....Cab Cal- loway & His Orchestra.
FEWER CAR-OWNERS IN BRITAIN
London
Relays
Rumba-Mario La O; Bolero-Ten- dre Boléro..... Lecuona Cuban Boys with Elyane Celis (Vocal). Slow Fox-Trots-A New Moon and an Old Serenade; We've come a long way Together.... Harry Roy & His Orchestra.
The Veleta; Waltz St. Bernard Waltz....Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
ITALY STARTS NEW SHIP ROUTES
Trieste, To-day.
were
London, To-day.
Two new trans-Atlantic passenger The number of motor vehicles re-
first time during services between Italy and North and gistered for the
with South America, respectively, March was 14,500 compared 56,821 last
all inaugurated yesterday. March. Although grades of motor cars declined in num- engines ber, the total agricultural
885 last registered increased from March to 2,185 this March. The num- ber of smaller type motor cycles re- gistered also increased over March-British Wireless..
CHINESE INTERNEES IN CLASH
last
Shanghai, To-day. -The interned Chinese Lone Battalion
.The 24,500-ton motor-ship "Vulcan- in the morning for la" left Trieste South America and the 31,000-ton lin- er "Roma" left on the Trieste-New York run in the afternoon.-Reuter,
PLENTY OF EGGS IN ENGLAND
London, Today.
Lard, cooking fats, cheese and eggs will not be rationed at present, des- pite the cutting off of Danish supplies, an official of the Ministry of Food said and White Russian guards were in- yesterday. There are still plenty of volved in a clash in the camp yester-eggs on the market. Reuter. day afternoon.
There were no casualties but rein- forcements were rushed to the camp trained on and machine-guns were the internees forcing them to withdraw to their huts. Last night the matter was still unsettled-Our Own Corres- pondent.
SWEDISH DEFENCE
LOAN
Stockholm, Today. King Gustav was one of the first to subscribe to the new £25,000,000 defence loan launched yesterday. He bought several thousand pounds' worth of bonds. Reuter.
EIRE DELEGATES IN LONDON
London, To-day.
An Irish trade delegation has arrived
FOOD SITUATION IN OSLO SERIOUS
Oslo, To-ayd. The Nazi Administrator of occupied- Norway admits that the food situation in Oslo in very serious.
One-quarter of the country's cattle will have to be slaughtered to save fodder, he says.-Reuter.
ALLIED RESOURCES IN THE FAR EAST
London, To-day. Britain and France are now pooling their resources in the Far East, and India and French Indo-China are to supply each other with a wide range of war.materials-Reuter.
ANOTHER QUIET DAY - Paris, To-day.
Last night's French war communi-
spades, The chance of a Slam is very remote, but all your partner needs to make four spades is to have a double-from Dublin to take part in discussions que said it was a quiet day on the
with the British Government.-Reuter. I whole.-Reuter, ton heart.
Score 100 per cent, for four spades, 70 per cent. for three spades (an un- derbid).
QUESTION NO. 397
You are Howard Schenken's part- ner and again you hold.
THE
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It is always very dif- ficult for a to get
Slam partnership ||
Grand one play-
er has all the high cards and the other is vold in the op poner Bult, ever, in the
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The bidding: Jacoby You
Pass 10 Dbl. Pass
What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.) How-
10
(Released
The Bell Syndicate,
be fully Just Inc.)
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