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JOSEPHINE CU
Function of a Redouble
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HOST players look on the redoublej probably became a bit rattled. The as an offensive weapon, to be diamond ace was cashed and ʼn low used only when one is sure of fut-diamond was continued, East duck-1 Alling one's own contract and is not ing. West's jack won and a low afraid of the opponents running out spade was returned, dummy's queen, to a "paying acrifice.
East That, of being captured by the ace. course in the prime function of a now took charge of the trump situa- redouble, but it is not the only one. tion, cashing the king and queen, also can be used to great advan- then forcing out declarer's last trump tage as a demand on one's partner by exiting with the six-spot. There to "get out of the way," and let the was very little
selnrer could do redoubler take charge, as in the fol-now. He led a diamond, which East lowing hand;
won. Now all Enst had to do was exercise a little care and judgment. The entire course of play had TO- vealed that declarer's original dig tribution had been five clubs, four diamonds,
and two two hearts, spades. Hence, East carefully laid down the Spade Jack, to sinother! deriarer's possible ten-spot. Dummy's to the hostage Iow spade became
out defenders and rounded
a peant- ty of 800 points. Since this was con- Linn East-West siderably
better could have carred by going game
Went, dealer.
Match-point dupliente.
Both sides vulnerable
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The bidding:
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West North Enst
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South
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It took considerable self-restraint on West's part, first to pass to the two club bid, and second, to leave in the double of that contract. He had
great confidence in lo partner, however, and although the leave-in of such a double, when void of the doubled suit, is not usually the best practice, he decided to gamble it out this time. Although the result was excellent from the East-West potat of view, I am strongly inclined to feel that West's "obedience" was a mistake and that it was only becausO declarer played hand badly that West did not Ilvo to regret it.
Three rounds of hearts were play- ed at the start, declarer rufing the third, while East discarded a spade.
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themselves, they naturally rejoiced.
trick Declarer should have saved a and thereby obtained un excellent score for his own team. He had no right to
a good trump break, expect considering East's prompt double, hence should have played to ruff one spade and one heart and to sur- render, in all, only one-spade, two hearts, two diamonds, and, two clubs. A 500 point penalty would have been cheap.
To-morrow's Hand
South dealer. Both sides vulnerable.
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How should South play his con-
Declarer then led a low club to the tract of seven hearts, doubled by ace, and when West showed out. West? Opening lead, club nine.
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ABOARD A ROYAL COR- VETTE IN THE NORTH AT- LANTIC. Fog closed over the Irish coast an a Royal Navy flotilla, including des. troyers and corvettes manned by
Canadian cager
crews.
chantman as the injured were being transferred,
Two bombs. fell' astern the Corvette.
A geyser showered
the quarter deck and the war- ahip rocked and rolled as the pom-pom gun burst into ac- tion.
steamed silently to the west, sweeping the choppy seas for submarines preying on mer-The-plane-turned-tail-and- chant shipping.
disappeared in the direction of Norway. The corvette re- turned unscathed to the con-
The Canadian - built cor- vettes making their maiden voyages and the crews, most of them fresh from Canadian naval barracks, were impati- ent. They wanted action. And before the trip was over the suilors had all the excitement they wanted.
The crews had barely set- tled to routine sea duties when Junkers 88-swooped from a cloud au a merchantship straggling behind a convoy. Before the warships could awing their anti-aircraft guns two bombs screamed down..
One dropped into the gas, but the other struck tho mer- chant ship's bridge. A puff of smoke rose and. the ship's engines stopped. Corvettes covering the starboard flank opened fire, but the Nazi zoomed into the cloud.
A "trouble shooting" · cor-· vetto stood by the damaged vessel while the convoy pro- cceded without breaking post- tion. After the convoy had disappeared the raider return- ed and tried to sink the mer-
Another young voteran of the films Is Virginia Weidler, who has stolen so many scenes from a sokmany.fa- mous players
WEIDLER in so many
pictures that' critics have.
lost count. You saw her again in "The Philadelphia Story.. Here she is cutting up in the playroom in her Hollywood home.
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June 25, 1941.
By Walt Disney
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Britain's Health Mystery
The United States is send- ing to Britain a committee of American medical men to try and find out why the people have come through the win- ter's blitz with better health than in the years of peace.
Medical men generally are completely baffled by the nation's fitness. They feared that, after nights of crowding in air raid shelters and ex- posure to all weathers on A.R.P. and fire-watching, epidemies would sweep Britain like a prairie fire..
In fact, there have been fewer cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, pneumonia and typhoid fever, and only half the number of deaths from in- fluenza. Whooping cough and meningitis have alone" been rather more prevalent than usuai.
Britain's own doctors offer various explanations of the mystery among them the dis- persal of densely populated areas, the improved system of health supervision, the spread of education in preventive measures, fewer people at "the pictures and in other public places.
All, however, are agreed that the busy, hazardous life. led by 45,000,000 people leaves them neither the time nor the inclination to brood over minor ailments. The war has taken them "out of themselves.":
yette. I was aboard the first MEDALS FOR -AID-
launched in Canada were eating dinner when the first alarm sounded. They dropped knives and forks, grabbed tin hats and gas masks and "doubled" to action stations..
A swastika-marked plane dived from the cloud and at- tacked the merchantman 100 yards away.
TO HUMANITY
NEW YORK-The National Ic- stitute of Social Sciences announces its gold medal for "distinguished services to humanity" will be award- ed 'Nerman: H. Davis, Chairman of the American Red Cross; Mrs J.. Borden Harriman, former Minister Norway, and former Gov. Alfred K. Smith:
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KENYA MURDER
TRIAL
EVIDENCE
NAIROBI, June 24 (Reuter).-The question whether bullets found by the Police at the farm where Sir Delves. Broughton practised with a revolver and the bullets fired at Lord Erroll were from the same or different weapons was discussed at the resumption of the trin! of the baronet on a charge of murder. ing Lord Erroll to-day.
Captain Thomas William Overton,: un army small arms expert called for the defence, had previously expressed! conviction that the bullets were from different weapons and not, as gov ernment witnesses had stated, from
American Air Observer Killed
WASHINGTON, June 24 (UP).—
the same weapon. Now, replying to The War Department to-dpy was the judge, he said that he would not advised that Lieutenant Follet Brad-
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swear that there were no "Leuc characters" .on
bullets used inley, J., Army Air Corps, observer the crime which were not on the 22 near Catterick, Yorkshire, Eng- was killed in a plane crash on June bullets found at the farm. He ad- land. No details were given.
mitted that he had not used a mic- roscope in his Investigation.
Court Adjourna
At the Crown's request, Captain Overton used the Govemment Chem- ist's microscope to examine the bul- lets, the Court adjourning for the
purpose.
Captain Overton asked the assist- ance of the Government Chemlat and a police officer with the microscope. Later he said that his examination
confirmed his previous evidence.
In the afternoon, Captain Overton withdrew his former criticism of the Crown's bullet photographs.
RUSSIAN ASSETS IN U. S. FREED
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuter)The Treasury has lifted the restrictions from Russian money assets in the; United States.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Henry Morgenthau, signed the order at the request of the State Departe ment and, after consulting the De- partment of Justice.
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The action in effect reverses, dent Roosevell's order of Juna 14 freezing alf.
-Russian assets in America. It is apparently the first concrete step to aid the Soviet against Germany. The freeing of the assets will make them available to buy war materials in the United elsewhere.
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All Possible Aid WASHINGTON. June 24 (Rett- ter)-President Roosevelt-has-de- clared "all possible aid to Russia."
Portuguese Lifeboat Is Missing
LISBON, June 24 (Router)-The] British Embassy here has issued, the following statement to-day. With regard to the sinking of the Portu- guese ship Gando, the British Em- BARSY la 1 In position to stale that no Bellish or Allied submarine was, on the date in question,, In the waters in which the incident occurred."
Despite diligent, search by sdn bhdị air, no trace has yet been reported of the second lifeboat which, it la believed, contained forty survivors of the Ganda.
It will be recalled that the Ganda was torpedoed, en route from Lisbon to East Africa, and that 23 survivors, mostly injured, were landed on Sun- day by trawler. Two persons were killed.
Calling Up Of New Zealanders
WELLINGTON, Jun 24 (Reuter) A further territorial call-up in- volves 18-year-old and those who have become 10 or 41 since the last territorial gazette....
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A similar call-up will be made again in about a month, bringing lo 18, 19 and 41-year-old men.
The age limit for overseas servico
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