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THE WAY •
by Beachcomber
"Oh!" TOMORROW begins "Con- monger!" "Hush!” --
fessions of a Woman "Damn!"-"Foul novelist!"" Horse-Thief," perhaps the Free knee-capa most revealingly human document of the century.
It
is no reading for the Anicky. It gets right down to essentials in a way that rips the nerves to ribbons, and leaves the reader sick to death of such It is a frightful occurrences, story of incredible dishonesty, played against a background of luxury and folly. In fact, it is the story of every woman who clumsy has ever let her first theft of a horse go to her head, Tomorrow there will also be an analysis of modern trends by at the an expert, a synopsis latest astronomical theories,
Joket by a band-leador, tricks
for plumbers?
A POLITICAL observer thinks the world, our Government can restore confidence by "playing down controversial issues." know what he means, bless his little heart. Let us concentrate of the Select on the findings Committee on Control and Dis- tribution of Tramway-Workers' the Draft Proposal for Cellitoid Medium-Width Shoe-Laces, and Collars for Fish-Porters.
that, in the present state of
By Frank Robbins
KHAIS
DUMB-BELLS
OJACOBY
This Plane Stays
On The Ground
An aeroplano that stays on the ground, but simulatos every hazard that could be mot over the Affantic, is helping to train pilots better-moro cheaply.
British and
American cuts out most of the conversion
Stratocruiser pilots have flying.
cheeked out on the trainer Similar trainers can be bullt before going up in the 70-as replicas of any now type of
plane. ton airliners.
Capt. John Nolan, 2,000,000- Invented by Dr Richard C. mile Pan-American Airwaya Dehmel, a scientist with one pilot, now the line's chief re- of the leading American plane lonal pilot at London Airport, engine firms, the trainer is in said:
a hangar at La Guardia Air- port, New Yoric,
"We simulate all kinds of which problems in the trainer
An exact replica of a Strato-you could not do flying in the cruiser control cabin, it works actual airliner, because rogne electronically.
of tarom would be dangerous,
EVERYTHING ON BRIDGE It is used to train fight en-
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OH, NO!,
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By OSWALD JACOBY
IN the Metropolitan Cham-
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was at ments, each of them
aiheers in the use of their in- struments, as well as pilots and co-pilots.
All the men are experienced
their jobs, but new Stratocruisers, and the trainer
in
to
"BACK-ROOM"
SAILORS
fault; but each insists that the OF WHALERS
other was the chief culprit.
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"WINGS OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM?
rise above
"The bidding was enterpris- |- ing enough to satisfy the most much effect on the real argu- ment, which concerned the play. West opened the queen of (hearts, East carefully played the three, and South played the six.
are tremen- sense this and always ask for
"South could not, of course, must learn to your aid so that a great deal of afford to win the first trick. If concentrate on some one objee your time and energy goes into he did, East would win the first tive if you are to get your full helping others.
round of diamonds (whenever You arc measure of success. Co-ordinate
quite shrewd
that suit was led) and clear the your talents and grasp all op judging character and handlinghearts. Then West would have the moment they business affairs. The combina-the ace of diamonds as entry portunities
Force of tion could make you wealthy for the rest of the hearts. present themselves.
sire for learning the truth is any ob- or two questions. Surely it help you would be cheaper
insatiable and your instinct for to have the stacle in your way.
Music and
hold a the arts
right and wrong is acutely per- bath and get wet, or not to have the bath and keep dry. It special appeal for you and you coptive. Your happiest
marriage should be a the Strabis-will probably be is reminiscent of
have the mus electric fire for use in heat-you select your profession from contented one. You waves. It cannot be turned on, these fields. Yet, except for capacity for maiding your mate and therefore keeps you cool. periodic moments of depressions extremely happy.
work is not pro- Another good idea would be an when your
it
to, you gressing as you hope umbrella, consisting only of handle, to be held up in fine show little if any of the so- weather.
about a called "artistic temperament." And what solld egg-cup
for not holding In fact, you are practical and Let your birthday star be your eggs when there is only porridge scent to know the solution to daily guide. for breakfast? Or a sold sieve
for things that you don't want
to sift? Or a hat filled with don't concrete for people who wear hats?
To and what the stars have for tomorrOW, pelect in store your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9
CAPRICORN(Dec. 23-Jan.20) Or a bottle with-Handle an invitation to some the neck at the bottom end to social function with diplomacy. patch some
when Guard against offending. having to tilt it
Avoid
with arms
frouser-legs
Instead of who for people
wear shorts in windy weather?
you pour out? Or an overcoat AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) -A good day for special re- seach in your field of major in- terest. Relax this evening with music.
Another PE.N. Uproar
PISCES (Feb. 20-Max. 20)- If there is money owing you, bring request may Mrs Giddle a tactful DON'T think should have used the word about its immediate return. At silly when referring
to the least try!
I
work of "Sloshemoy""Hear,
hear!" "Shame!" "Communist!"
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)—
attention to some "Keep polities out of this! Energetic
CANCER (June 22-July 29)--- Attend to daily routine and dis- important work.
Relax with music or read, this evening.
LEO (July 24-Aur. 23)—This afternoon may bring a difficult problem for you to solve. Go at it diligently. Concentrate on it.-
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept: 23)--- Place
emphasis
your upon career. You can improve your work methods now if you try.
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) Cooperate with those in au-
"West studied the first trick carefully and led the jack of hearts. This brings up the first Should West have question: shifted to spades at the second trick?
"South won with the ace of hearts
the ten and led diamonds. West played low, and
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BLINDFOLD TEST
engine fres and 'stuck up'
"We simulate nix crashes, undercarriages.
"When you come in to land' after a 'Night' in the trainer. I makes a noise just like the tyres touching down on a rum- way. There is a blindfold test to get complete familiarity with all the cockpit gadgets.
"Every type of weather can be similated, thunderstorms, rain, hall and fog" sald Cap- tain Nolan.
Crews do a total of 34 hours in the trainer and two hours' training in the air before getting their final two hours'
Difference. in, cost-£150 an
At the Tyne Dock En-check in the aeroplane itself.
gineering Company's yard
our flying in a Strotocruiser ut South Shields, the "back- £25 an hour in the trainer. room" sailors of the British
whalers Antarctic
have started to prepare to sail
and
New Night Search Technique
the supply ship Struan to feed stores and equip- ment to the Salvesen what- ing base on South Georgis Island, now that the three British whaling expeditions from the Merseyside Tyne ports are nearing the Polar whaling grounds for
search the 3 months season.
night They will join up with ex technique for locating dis- peditions from Norway, Hol-1 land, Japan, Russia and India. tressed crews of aircraft which have made emer- After re-fitting, the Struan gency landings on land or has already moved
has been adopted Shields to pick up coal for the at sea
bage.
to North
A now
She later goes upriver by the Royal Air Force. technique enhances to Newcastle Quay to load a This
diversity of stores for the the prospects of rapidly
Island, mufficient to meet
the
needs of 1,100 whale hunters finding a distressed crow. and the additional contingent of emergency shipyard kers from South Shields,
wor
The search aircraft, fying
from 10 to 20
and at a height
and 5,000 feet,
weather condi
a single green
tracks spaced miles apart Нет
cargo for the proper between 3,000
of plant maintenance
and according to
tions, needs of
will fire and the equipament the hunters and their as Very light at regular intervals. the this signal, soclates at the base calls for a On sighting
30 lot of planning and the pro- distressed crow will allow
thousand and one see
seconds for the search aircraft vision of a necessities, from
a packet
to pass away from the glire of needles to spare anchors. its own pyrotechnic, and will then fire two red Very lights, spare- thus drawing attention to their in such a position.
of
Food, clothing and parts predominate cargo, but there are also odd items, such as cranes, comerete mixers, machinery and even
At floating dock in sections. the other end of the list are footballs and playing gear for a
"Don't be foolish, Weygood!" project which is nearly finished thority and you will get a lot East won with the king. Second the island's sports club. "Don't call me Scarfdale in that will complete the job success-
fully. fashion!""It literature is to be" "Shut up!"-"Shut up, yourself!""Fascist!"
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- - "War-A hobby can bring you pleasure today. You might pay a visit to some elderly relative to ad- vantage.
CHESS PROBLEM
13%
By M. WROBEL Black, 12 pieces.
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)- Study and research is well re- warded at this time, Improve your knowledge in some field.
Check Your Knowledge
What is an ergograph?
1915 2
1.
2. To what country
White, pleces.
White to play and mate in three.
Solution to Saturday' problem:
11, Q-K4, any; 2, Q, or Kt (dis|
ch) mates.
POCKET CARTOON]
手
MARGC
usually take a bus or taxi to the offer, but I'm in a hurry this morning.”
(Solution con. Pide
Puerto Rico belong?
docs.
S. What is the "Book of the Dead"?
4. Who was known as the "Iron Chancellor"?
5. Name the most prominent: winter resort in the world.
What is apogee? -
(Answers on Page 12)
West have
acc of
to
This new procedure takes advantage of the excellent visibility properties of pyro- technics at night, arst permits et search aircraft to fly greater heights and over wider
of the tracks.
method SuOC659
the co-operation
of work done today. Success Inquestion: Should Fight.
with the hopped up
Most of the food loaded by depends on 121 diamonds
order lead the Struan will be tinned, but of the distressed crew, and it 22) SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov
she will carry a big consign- will normally be used in con- spades? fine day for love and -A
"East now laid down the ace ment of fresh potatoes which function with a day search. It A now pleasure is in of spac romance.
spades. Declarer rose to the will dally be picked over by a is a development of a method store for you, if wed. Some in occasion by discarding dummy's team of men
during the 35 evolved by No. 14 Squadron fluences are good.
iting. He was able to win the days voyage to weed out any in Transjordan before the war. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. spade continuation in his own bad ones and to prevent rot There will, too, bo and force out the ace of spreading. 22)-Tako some needed rest diamonds. Now, of course, West a big mall aboard.
Don't push matters.
had to lead to South, and de- clarer casily won the rest of the
todur.
CROSSWORD
Tests of the system under modern conditions' wero made-
at the suggestion of Air Vice- The Struan's.return trip will Marshal T. C. Traill, a Direc- tricks, making his redoubled start in the Spring when she tor-General of Personnel at the
will be
Bully loaded with Air Ministry, who commanded
whale meat and No. 14 Squadron when "This brings us to the third dehydrated question. Should East have led bone meal for processing into method was first used,
contract.
a low spade or even any club cattle feed and fertiliser. but the six instead of laying down the ace of spades? It he
had done so, the contract would have been defeated.
"For example, if East leads
low spade, South's best play
is to win with the ten in his own
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Across
4. Dimcult to detect what a thing
is when the warle. (7)
wrapped in this. (7)
7. A in-bsCENÍ
9. In bed it is out of 5oach. (3)
11. Provincial wear, (01
hand and lead mother diamond,
CUPS O' CHAR
discarding the king of spades BUT NO WADS
from dummy! West takes the ace
of diamonds and leads a spade
to East's ace.
"East then lends a high club
Doctors say that Oswald
.he
Experience has shown that surface signals from distressed orews are frequently, unseen by alrcraft on routine flights. Un- der the new technique, crews will roserve their stock of signal cartridges until they see signals from the aircraft which for specifically searching
19
them.
to dummy (which has only clubs Beard, 68-year-old wounded THEY WILL
left) and must eventually get veteran of the 1914 war, of
the arth defensive trick in the St Annes - On-Sea, Lan- shape of a club. No matter how
South plays, he must get locked cashire, is a miracle man.
12. Not the description one would the dummy or permit the He drinks plenty of tea
give to a bather. (3)
13. It's behindhand (
18. Farmzod but unfed. (3)
17. Boy who is an anagram of a
sonym of 18 Acruas.
SINTELLIGENCE TESTER
(4)
90.
BICYCLE BUILT
FOR TWO
By T. O. HARP
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the direction of Hwy 10,0 a.m. Lost Bunday. At the garde moment Trotter loft HWF and started off an foot-and also at a uniform pace along the road to lex, When, in duo couran, the two met. Pediar (by arrangement) banded
Trol
over bicycle to Trotter, ter completed his journey on the borrowed machine, and Pediar Anlähed on food,
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of Pediat.
Troster
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Pedlar ronched Hwy.
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be a pane in the neck. (4)
92. This would maxo lan Wormlike.
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bursts, (4)
2. Bouco &
A clerie briefly in the buckGI, (7)
28. Ben 12 Down. (7)
Down
I veer without a title, (5)
2. Othello returns to the room. 14).
3. Nelson's monument stands in one. (0) Spring flower. (8)
A. yes would make 12 (4)
0: They any poets are this ana
(41.
prowy people wonder why,
B., Theras.0% NO MADY to write in.
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talia and riveta, "(8)
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will turn over to dio mind. 10, 71
dog that
and Bet
1s. Band with these and people el
all tied up. (4)
1. Even a drip can become thik, (B) 10. Hail tropa brava mo. (3)
21. mop thaŤ MINIK
(A)
24. Turned hus lows mating Edward.
enainy
to set up a long spade. with milk and sugar, but
WATCH
"And now our fourth question ents nothing at all. THE CLOCK
is this: Assuming player was
in the
that cach ung zuilty of
crime at
At 10 he was shot the point described, who was stomach and was later award- Praiseworthy alm of the new-
ed a full pension. After 1941ly formed Plecadilly more guilty?"
The first three questions are he stopped eating normal food.
and St
Piccadilly
the clocks along casy West should have led, a Six years later ho returned to James's Association: to have all spade at the second trick. It a food diet after an operation, giving the same time, was clear that the hearts could but seven months after
spader
was
the
not be brought in. Perhaps the compelled to revert to his for A reporter went along there
could be developed. mer diet of oupa, of milked and the other day to assC39 Having
ing failed to lead spades sugared tea and a warm up magnitude of this tosit. Ho at the second trick, West should of milk at night,
ave taken the first diamond in
order to load spades.
This was
found power cuts had played havacı He sleep only two hours a
In Piccadilly Circus the four very unlikely to cost a diamond night and averages two cups
of tea every hour and four clocks vinble were all wrong, tricks whereas failure to do
punces of it a day. Two years showed Hanca varying from
B6-
might cost a spade trick.
When West failed to lead ago ho offered to give up all 8.25 to 11.22.
hia rations for extra tea. spades at either of his opportuni-
ties, East should have fed a low cause he is a diabette the au- spado instead of the ace. At thorities refused, and he that point he could practically not appealed since. prodlet what was going to hap-
pon.
Outside the Royal Academy, has at 11.20, one clock was right, three others varied from 11.25 But at Green Park to 11.30,
the clocks were
Neighbours, however, belp him out with supplies of tea, tube atation, Now for the fourth question and he relies on the care from Hood. Two in the street showed Molution of Saturday'a puikber Airers as to who was more guilty. I his wife, Dorts, whom ho met 11.35, one Inside the station
There's no glory in this when she was a huree in the 1134, which was right, pass. Afoot:
gent
The association will pross June 15 On 10 min hand for anybody but South Cardiff Hospital ho was
Each defender was so much to 10 from the battlefielda." -11e) blame that he should be far too spends most of his time reed- members to won their clocks are orestfallen to Argue with his Ing and writing dekoking restarted after bath cut and met cartier
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