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The open lead governs the re- sults in a great many hands. In the following hand' which was played in the team-of-four contest, a spade opening gave the declarer an opportunity to cleverly use the strip play.
3-2
AK-4
Q-10-8-6-5 ◆ Q-3-2
4A-7-4
AQ-7-
6-5 J-7
NORTH
A-9-
♦8-7-6
K-Q- 5-3
#4 ◆K-J- 10-5 Dealer J-10- SOUTH
9-6
AJ-10-8
A-K-9-3-2
♦ A-9-4
* 8-2
The Bidding
Lith
At all tables, South opened the bidding with one heart." In some coses, North went to four hearts, At other tables, North bid three hearts and South went to four hearts.
The Play
OBITUARY
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932.
DEATH OF INVENTOR OF SAFETY RAZOR
THE LATE MR. WOO0 HAY-TONG
BIG ATTENDANCE AT FUNERAL
Los Angeles, July 11. The death at the age of 77 is
The funeral of the late Mr. Woo Gillette, the inventor of the world shipping owner, who was shot by announced of Mr. King Camp Iny-tong, millionaire Chinese famous safety razor.
Besides his nephew on June 17th and died making this invention he published at the Government Civil Hospital a number of works on social and on June 19 after an operation, took Industrial problems. Reuter'a place yesterday afternoon, and Special Service.
was attended by a prominent
Mr. King C. Gillette, the inventor anthoring of distinguished loca of the safety razor that bears his residents. After the service at name and made him a millionaire, Caroline Hi! the remains of the was a remarkable example of the late Mr. Woo
Sookunpoo. value of advertising. He was born. at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in Jan.
were burled
nt
Among the mourners present at the funeral were Mrs. Woo Hay- tong, her five sons, including Mr. Woo Pak-fook, the eldest son, and several daughters, and the grand- sons and grand-daughters of the deceased. Many foreign and Chinese members of Messrs. But- terfield and Swire, with whom the late Mr. Woo Hay-tong served for thirty years in the Chinese freight department, were present.
1866. When he was 17, his father lost everything in a fire and he had to earn his own living. At 21 he was a salesman fond of new idens. At 36 he met Wm. Painter, who had originated the "crown soal" metal cork. Gillette was alware inventing and Painter told him he ought to evolve something that a man had to keep on buying as long as he lived, something that he aned and threw away. From this suggestion sprang the Gillette Among those present were the razor for while he was shaving he Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, the was struck by the dullness of the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotuwall, C.M.G.. blade and asked himself: "Why the Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso, the Hon. not a removable edge?" Before Mr. T. N. Chau, Mr. G. 1. de completing his shave he roughed | Martin, Mr. Li Yau-taun, C.B.E. out the idea.
Mr. A. E. Wood, and Messrs. J. R. Masson, K. E. Greig, J. D. Danby, C. C. Hickling, F. D. Roberts, A.
It was patented in 1895. but for a long time it was a fallure. Morris, H. R. Forsyth. Eu Tong- 1901 he found a master mechanic
seng, Io Kwong, Mok Kon-sung. T. Bolt, Jo Wing, H. K. Woo, Mok Ying-kwai, Kwok Siu-lau. T. T Laurenson, Chan Tin-son aud many others.
With the king of club opening, W. E. Nickerson who perfected the the hand can be held to three odd, razor and a company was formed but at one table, West fed the five but still no one would buy it.
In of spades, the four was played esperation Gillette began giving from dummy al East won the razors away. One business man triek with the are. East returned liked it and bought £12,000 worth
The certege Jeft the deceased's the jack of clubs, South the de- of shares in the company, but residence in Kennedy Rond at two clarer played the deuce, West the sales were few and far between o'clock in the afternoon and was five, and the declarer now makes and he had to support his family headed by the Pipe Band of the
"Crown Real"Int. Remment and a beautiful play, refusing to win by travelling for
followed by the trick with the ace in the dum corks in America and England. It detachments of St. John's Am was not til 1901 when a clover hulance bearers and nurses, mem- my, but plays the four spol. Buat continues with the ten of clubs advertising expert came along thatbers of Chinese free schools, men- which the declarer now wins in the razor began to boom. Gillette's bers of the family and then the the dummy with the ace. A small employer Painter had taken numerous motor card conveying heart is led from dummy, declarer £8,000 worth of shares and lived the friends. The coffin, which was winning with the are and then re-to rejoice that he had done so but carried by thirty-two coolies, was turning the dence of hearts pick-invention to keep the bulk of them white and four
Gillette, had enough faith in his covered in scarlet with a ball of white curlews. in up the jake from West, East himself. In a few years he was Special sheds were erected for the dropping the deuce of spares.
a rich man for the company came funeral service at Caroline Hill, The king of spades is next play-to have a capital value of which provided accommodation for ed from dummy and then the seven £6,000,000 and made a net profit the payment of last respects to of clubs which the declare trumps of £1,500,000. It had factories in the deceased at the memorial ser- with the three of hearts. The the U.S., Canada and England and vice. jack of spades is then led, West many imitatorą. But the fact re- covering with the queen, and mains that, excellent an. his Idea A profusion of wreaths were dummy tramped with the six of was, it was worthless to him until sent by friends to the bereaved hearis. Declarer returns the it was properly advertised in the family, including those from His eight of hearts from dummy, East
Excellency the Officer Administer- press. 4. dropped the five of diamonds and
ing the Government, the Hon. Mr. declarer overtook the trick in his Gillette's next
was the W. T. Southorn, Mr. A. E. Wood. own hand with the king of hearts, "Neracar" motoreju Keenly the Taikoo foreign and Chinese West playing the six of spades.
interested in social and industrial staff. Foug Bin Hospital, Canton, Declarer's next play is the nine problems he dealt with them in various river steamers, Chinese of diamonds and witen West plays several books Social Redemp-Boy Scouts, schools and commer- low, the deuce is played from tion," "Human Drift." "The Indus-rial institutions with which the dummy, Enst winning the trick trial Solution," "A World Comora-deceased was connected. with the ten spot. If East leads tion." In his early days with the the nine of clubs, Declarer will signed a new type of structure, a idea of abolishing slums he de-
He had many and trump in the other, while if several hundred families.
dome large enough to contain
When places who will regret his tragic
the declarer will allow it to ride cattle ranches and orange planta-months leave of absence when he East tends the jack of diamonds, he became a millionaire he bought end. He had been granted nine
discard a diamond in one hand
to the queen in the dummy and In this manner will make his contract of four odd.
While the opening lead was in favour of the declarer, you will
notice that he was not
slow
take advantage of the only portunity he had to go game.
DISTRICT COURT
NECESSITY FOR EARLY NEGOTIATIONS
to
tions.
friends in these
met his death, which would have expired in August and it is under-
Mr. William Wiley.
Mr. Britt Franklin Killed. sfood that he was not intending to return to service in this country. last week of the death in a motor
News was received in Shanghai-N. C. D. News.
of the National City Bank, who was car accident of Mr. Britt Franklin,
jon leave at the time. The accident
occurred on June 1.
The death of Mr. William Wiley occurred at the General Hospital at Shanghai on Wednesday after-
noon.
Mr. Franklin was travelling on the highway from Statesboro to The late Mr. Wiley, who was 37 Metter in the State of Georgia, on years of age, was born in County Ori- his way home to Register. He left Derry, Northern Ireland. Statesboro at 12.30 a.m. on June 1ginally trained in banking, ny a and about a half hour later was youth he went to Canada for the found pinned under the rear of Canadian Bank of Commerce. He his overturned car from Statesboro, quite dead.
seven miles later joined the C. P. R. and served on a number of this company's vessels.
London, July 11. The question of the District Court agreement was raised in the House of Commons by Sir Reginald Crad-i From the fact that a cigarette dock to-day. He asked Sir John was in his hand and a box of
During the war he was attached Simon whether he had seen Sir matches was found a short dis to the naval auxiliary service and Miles Lampson as regards the lance away it was deduced that he participated in the evacuation of necessity for early negotiations was attempting to light a cigar- the international troops from with the Chinese Government on ette when his car struck one of Siberia. the special district Court Agree-the small piles of clay which were The late Mr. Wiley worked in ment which expires on April heaped at intervals along the road,Harbin, Tientsin, Wuhu and other next year.
and overturned, pinning him un-places before going to Shanghai Sir John Simon replied he had
derneath.
where he settled down, having received
been associated with L. Moore and a dispatch from Sir
Mr. Franklin, had been three Co., Ltd., for the past two years. Miles Lambsen and hoped per-years in China and served the Na-f sonally to discuss the matter with tional City Bank in branches at by his wife, to whom deepest sym- The late Mr. Wiley is survived him shortly.-Reuter.
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