MUTT AND JEFF
I HOPE
THAT VASE COSTS $100 AND IT'S THE RULE OF
YOU DON'T THIS CONCERN TO MAKE
THEY
FIRE ME!
IT'S SO
HARD
GETTIN'
WORK!
THE EMPLOYEES PAY FOR ANYTHING
BREAK!
WE TAKE TWO
BUT I HAVE NO
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OUT OF YOUR PAY
WOW! I'LL BE
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HUNDRED UNTIL IT'S ALL DOLLARS! PAID FOR!;
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POR FIFTY WEEKS!
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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1940
By BUD FISHER
WHOOPEEEE!
NOW I GOT
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LIFE!
London Relay
And
"World Affairs"
at
Today's Wireless
Sea;
6.00 p.m. An hour of Dance Music.
Fox-Trot Somewhere
Quickstep Little Boy Bubbles
Mantovani & His Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trot Ridin' Home....
Jack Hylton & His Orchestra... : Rumba-My Shawl; Conga-Cachita
Henry King & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Out of Nowhere; That's All, Brother ... Ella Fitzgerald with The Chick Webb Orchestra. Fox-Trots-If I Only Had A Heart; If I Only Had A Brain (both from 'The Wizard of Oz')....Victor Young & His Orchestra. Waltzes-Dearest Love (film 'Oper- ette'-Coward); Where Are The Songs We Sung (from 'Operette'--
Gibbons Coward)....Carroll the Savoy Hotel Orpheans. Fox-Trots-Grandma's Parcel: Mac- pherson is Rehearsing.... The Or- gan, The Dance Band and Me. Tangos Dear Madam; Summer Evening In Santa Cruz....Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orch.
&
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
Fox-Trot Let's Make Memories To-night (from 'All Clear'); Waltz Lonely Sweetheart ... New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. Fox-Trots-How Many Times; Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh....Orrin Tucker & His Orchestra. 7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock, Quota-
tions.
7.02 p.m.-A Varlety Programme.
Vocal-The Naughty Nineties-Part
1: London; Part 2: Romance. The Old Timers Sketch Company with Fred Hartley's Quintet. Comediennes-Darts, With Gert and Daisy (E. & D. Waters); At The Court of Good Queen Bess (Ellis- Waters)....Elsie & Doris Waters with Orchestra. Vocal-The Lambeth
'Me and My Girl')
Walk
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
(from Lupino
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.
RESOURCEFUL
In a recent hand at the Regency Mr. Malowan decided to play East Club in New York City, Walter Malo- for the club Queen, and then saw that wan gave a good exhibition of re- he had one additional chance. Ac- sourcefulness, and managed to make cordingly, he ran out the rest of the a Siam which appeared to be headed trumps, West winning the last lead for defeat no account of a very bad with the ten-spot. The fifth trump lead trump break.
squeezed East. His first three discards had been a low diamond and two spades. His fourth discard had to be a club. West led a spade. Mr. Malo- wan won with dummy's Ace, played the King of clubs and another club, finessing for East's Queen, and made his contract.
South, Dealer Both sides vulnerable
AAK 10 2 ~ Q 7
4 37
-3
* G 3
Q 10 8 6 4
&K 2
A Q J 9 G
4
K J.3
Q 8 7.4
V 10 9 6 5
◊ 9 7 5 2
A 53
AKJ82
AJ 10-9 3 Mr. Malowřan
The bidding:
O A
South Weat North
1
Pass
20
44%
Páns
'East Pass Разв
ANT
Pusa
Pass
Ранн
Рава
Pass
The bidding was quite good, although
other ways.
+
Sagar CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR ACES BYSTEN
PACT 3. KING..2
Yesterday you were Declarer and held:
A Q 9 X X X Dummy hold:
♡ J X X X What was your play to avoid losing a trick?
ANSWER: Lead the heart Jack and finesse (unless covered). This play loses only to the singleton King at your left. It wins against K-x K-10-x at your right.
*
or
*** Score 100% for heart Jack, 0 for any other play.
QUESTION NO. 454
You are Howard Schenken's partner-
a Slam could be arrived at in several West opened the eight
spades. Mr. Malowanand hold: won in dummy and now made the normal play of going after trumps. When East showed out on the second lead, he realiz- ed he had a sure trump loser and now could make his contract only by breaking the clubs 3-3 and successfully finessing for the Queen.
QUEEN 1 JACK.. };
A J 10 x I
◊ AJ X
♣ A QIX I The bidding:
Hurnstone ·Bebénken · Jacoby You
Pass
14 Рава (7) What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)
(Released by The Inc.)
Bell Syndicate,
Lane with Teddie St. Denis and (Re- Company with Orchestra, corded during an actual perform- ance at The Victoria Palace, Lon- don.)
Vocal & Piano-Watching the Stars (film 'Splinters in the Air'); May I Have The Next Romance with You (film 'Head over Heels')........ Leslie Hutchinson.
Comedienne--You're At Blackpool By the Sea (Waite)... Tessic O'Shea with her banjulele & Orch. 7.30 p.m.-London. Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Constant Lambert-The Rio Grande. The Halle Orchestra with The St. Michael's Singers. Solos: Sir Hamilton Harty.
p.m.-Compositions of Quilter. Children's Overture .... New Light
Symphony Orchestra,
8.18
Piano
Music When Soft Voices Die; Love's Philosophy; I Dare Not Ask A Kiss; The Jealous Lover.... Mark Raphael (Baritone) with Roger Quilter at the Piano.
FIRST-AID SUPPLIES
The Director of Medical
Services
Beethoven Triple Concerto In C Major, Op. 56
Where The Rainbow Ends-Selection.
.Sidney Torch (Organ).. 8.45 p.m.-Clara Serena (Vocal) and
Vivian Ellis (Piano).
Merrie England-Vocal Gems (Ed-
ward German)....Clara Serena. with Miriam Licette, Francis Rus- sell; Dennis Noble, Robert Carr and Chorus with Orchestra, "Top Hat" Piano Medley (Irving.
Berlin).... Vivian Ellis at the Piano.
9.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m.-London Relay "World Af..
fairs".
9.45 p.m.-Excerpts from Gilbert and
Sullivan.
10.16 p.m.-Saxophone Solos by Marcet
Mule.
Sadko-Chanson Hindoue (Rimsky-
Korsakov); Le Cygne (Saint-- Saens); Variations Sur Malborough (arr. Combelle) with Plano、 accompaniment.
10.25 p.m.-Beethoven Triple Con. certo in C Major, Op. 56. Richard Odnoposoff (Violin), Stefan Auber ('Cello) and Angelica Morales. (Piano) with The Vienna Philhar- monic Orchestra conducted by Felix. Weingartner.
11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
COLOMBO COUNCIL. MAKES WAR GIFT
Colombo, To-day.
The Colombo Municipal Council is requests us to gratefully acknowledge | contributing £15,000 for war purposes, receipt from Mrs. A. H. Steele-Per- and in a resolution to this effect the Council expresses the city's debt to the Royal Navy for the Security it en- joys.
kins, Chairman, Women's Air Raid Precautions Union, of the following surgcal supplies, etc., made for use at First Aid Posts if an emergency arises:—
(1) 21 tin cases
The people of Jaffna, in northern Ceylon, have started a fund to pur- chase fighters as
of: an expression
(2) Duplicate sets of four smaller their gratitude for the benefits they
enjoy under, British rule, -- Reuter. tins for 21 tin cases
(3) Spare bandages and gauze (4) Blue curtains (220) more to follow
(5) 84 sets of splints, (21 sets and a few odd padded)
(6) Screens at A.R.P. Headquarters, Happy Valley
(7) 277 triangulars for practices. The cases of bandages and screens, etc. have been made and filled by the members of the Women's Air Raid Precautions Union and will form a most valuable adjunct to supplies of first aid material.
In the
U.S. AVIATION OUTPUT
Washington, To dây,
The United States' aviation indus- try is now producing 2,000 aero en- gines and 500 military 'planes a'. month.
By using plant to the full and em-- ploying more skilled labour, the out- · put is expected to rise still further. shortly. Reuter,
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