THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1948.
SPARE MOMENTS
•MCKENNEY
ON BRIDGE NEWS SHORTS:
CHAIN
DOG QUIZ
Unusual Strategy
Defeats Easy Game
LETTER
BANK
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
MY
first article on bridge appear-
One reason this is possible is that bridge has changed a great dent in 20 years. When I first started to write, most of my hands were on auction bridge. When I did write on contract, which was then just getting staried, some of my renders resented it and said they never would adopt the silly game.
Johannesburg, Nativen are
The
ed in 1929, which makes 1948 nocking to Maritzburg from all my 20th year as a bridge writer. parts of Natal and the Transvant to Many people ask me where all my inke part in an extraordinary Ket- hands come from, and how it is pos-rich-quick scheme being run by a sible to write about a different sub-Zulu banker with 14 clerical assis
Is that scheme tonis. The ject every day for 30 years. .
native customer pays 22a, Gd. and receives a number of tokens which friends, he distributes among his persuading them to take part in the keheme. After 14 days the cus. equivalent tomer is paid out £27, to an annual divident of 67,000 per- cent. Ilitherto the dividends have een regularly paid and the scheme has grown Inte such terrible nowball that the proprietor enden- voured to deposit £15,000 in a bank Inte In Maritzburg, but was too owing to Saturday closing. Mean
standing while, there is not even room on the trains serving the, arca find housewives as farmers
and ' denuded of native themselves Today's hand came from John Eworkers who decamp for Ritter of Baton Rouge, La. It was burg In. rush to participate in the played in a rubber bridge game and new Golconda. combines strategy In both bidding
In regard to the hands, they come
tournaments, by mail, from
trom friends, from people who just drop in at the offer.
4752
AQJ 10 7 4
AJB
Ritter
AAJIOD
4
N
AK63
W
EKO
S
Dealer
832
• 652
107
South
3*
AQB.
❤95
+1073
60532
♦ AKQJ94
KQ4
Rubber-Neither vul.
West North East 1 A
· Poss
Pass 3 -Pass- -Post- Opening-K
Pass
Pass
+2
Marliz
BLITZ IN THE BUS11 Adelaide.ITT order to combat South Australian bush fires, the government Is Importing 10 National Fire Service mobile unlis used in the London blitz.
DANGEROUS NEW YORK
York. A
New
British schoolboy, Colin
17-year-old
Meredith, was injured by a home-made bomb
a New York totoy in a
school where for guest student he had been
cam- bomb, several, weeks. The posed of ammonia, nitrate and zine and known as a "cherry bomb," ex- ploded-in-the cloakroom of Grower. Cleveland High School. A touch of mystery is provided by the writing of Meredith's name on the clonk- room wall. Meredith was to de- speech. Detec- liver a farewell
trying tives questioner all pupils.
to discover who made the bomb Loud who left it in the cloakroom.
SIR DON?
Adelaide.-The Australian Brennan, says columnist, Columb
who there is talk among those
and play. When the billing starts should know, about Don with a diamond, the final contract being knighted on his
is often likely to be in no trump.
With this in mind West bid one spade over one diamond to moke sure thint East opened a spade it "Nörür"played the hand-at-ne-trump- North and South found the correct contract.
When the opening lend of the king uf spades held, Ritter (East) realised that he and his partner probably could do no more than cash the ace and king of spades and king of
for
"
a
Bradman retirement from cricket ifter the English tour Pelham this year. He adds: "Sir Warner's knighthoud established
ericketer being precedent knkhted for superlative service
Bradman is 40,-. to the game.
INTERNOWARDS New York. As American airline to tells customers it will fly them Hell (or Helle), which is just near Oslo in Norway, for a mere £100.
hearts. North in all probability had N
the nce of clubs.
Remember that
1his
Whe
bridge. Deciding
to
strategy, Ritter
ted
NEW RECORDS
dummy's queen held the trick. The playing, both the planist and harpist
and Apart
deserve alterition. 3002.
nine of hearts was led from dummy desert
and the finesse taken,
Polar Bade of The Tower, prize- wlaning Siberian Samoyed puppy owned by Mrs Kilburn Morris.
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SCIENCE SHORT:
DELING
INTO FOOD SECRETS
JA
By PAUL F. ELLIS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. scientist presents the pos- Albility that man may be able to produce his basic food with- out the use of plants.
•
Such an achievement, according to Dr. Edwin 3. Matzke, Professor ot Botany,, would "dwarf" the ac complishments of the atomig age.
Dr. Matzke says that selence is virtually knocking on a door leading to the secret of how plants manu- facture eirbohydrates, such as sugar and starches.
Once that secret is learned, he said, man will have unlocked one of tho great mysteries of nature, and will have assured an adequate food sup- ply for all earth. people.
DUMB-BELLS
FALGISTERED USI
WHAT COLOR IS BEST FOR A BRIDE
PATENT OFFICE
-WELL, I MARRIED A WHITE
ONE MYSELF
00
BOOK TO READ
HeTHE
IS THE
CENTRAL FIGURE
IN TODAY'S BOOK
"That baale foods may be made without the use of plants is certain- by NIE show arranged
the Hongkong Kennel Club last
ly possible," he said. "The most
TIE Sunday has helped 10
Important reaction by revive
for in the He was the apostle of the
Eclass-less intérest in the
society but realm of life on this earth is that in пла breeding care of dogs in
which carbon dioxide and water married a baroness, arid had a Hongkong. More and more pedigreed dogs
unite, in the living calls of the green snobbish regard for "the aria- are arriving every month, but plant, to form the simple carbo-tocrats, the genuine ones, those apart from owners who can
hydrates such as sugar." afford to keep expensive breeds there are thousands who find genuine companionship and en- Juyment froin maintaining one or more animals less "glorified" than the show dogs. The dog is truly a friend of man-sʊ, it you as owner, get to know your dog, inke good care of him and treat him as a friend.
This week's Quiz lo given - over-to-the, following, questions - about dogs. Answers appeur on Page 12.
UESTION 1: Why is a dog's
nose moist?..
2. A dog sees as clearly at dusk as it does in bright day- light. True false?......
Atomic energy may play on im-who are conscious of their aris- portant part in finding the secret, as | tocracy." radioactive carbon nlready is being
HE. one of its founders, exposed used to study the techniques of the Communism "in all ite
unwashed plants in the manufacture of the nakedness," when editor of a Liberal carbohydrates.
Production Of Energy
daily paper.
of
the
HE wrote: "The bourgeoisie has torn from the family the vell Dr Matzke mid that 90 percent of sentiment
reduced and has industrial energy and 100 percent of family to a mere money relation." human energy result either directly But when his daughters wanted to or indirectly from the
process of marry he, checked the social stand- forming carbohydrates.
Ing and "economic solidity" of their "The raising of crops," he said, suitors. "and the planting of countless seeds,
aim the quent
hollowfather en tectonis-of-the-process that broke out in his altictime.
nctual trail of a fox; (b) the
it...... scent rising from
4. A dog does not develop the bone-burying habit before
old. it is ten months
True or false?.
5.
A dog without a sense of smell would be better off in the wild than a blind dog. True or false?......
6. A dog's temperature is (n) higher; (b) lower than a man's
7. What is the greatest dis- tance at which a dog can see a man moving?................
AND
JESTS
JEERS
-
man's
In the Spring, n youth fancy turns to the same thoughts he's been entertaining all winter.
All
the world loves a sailor- whether he's in blues or whites.
*
•
You
has can tell the world changed by the fact that the Call of the East has gone west.
NEWCOMERS 10 Jazz records,
Arlie Baker ond
Salon his Swingtet consist of piana, harp, How could he defeat the contract? guitar, bass and clarinet. They in-
his troduce
OWN compositions, rubber "Pailer Chatter Jump" and "Micro-
little phonics": the try a
effect is Ingenious. & club
fron Baker's fine clarinet (Parlophone K.
nd Bliter Tex
Buncke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra offer good arrange- ments--and--performance with new could ents
of "Body and Soul" and see a possibility of muking six odd Stormy Weather" (H.M.V. BD on the hand, so he carelessly played 5996). And one of the first M.G.M.
Many a man has made a monkey issued presents
Lena
of himself, by reaching for the the five of hearts, dressed the
by Luther wrong Umb... spot and Ritter's king won. Now he Horne, accompanied
Henderson, singing "I Feel So quickly led a spade and he and his Smoochie" and "Deed 1 Do." She partner cushed two more spade is as superb on records as on stage
one and screen. (M.G.M. 111.)
ROBERT TREDINNICK.
let it hold the trick,
Now declarer thought he
tricks, trick.
defenting the contract
versions
fen- records
Skeletom
OLUES ACROSS
1. This cauLTI ČTY
might give
us alta.
4. Just the
thing to tho put breeza up
ano ?
. The
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woman is
little credit
to one
9. Capital let.
zer for 4 clorinaj domain.
11. Nobleman
1a New
York 7 NOL
quito i
13. It would
upset the
ohio to
give me a Jana.
14. Water colour from water
creature.
10. flow to cross-examine rigar
ously in a mixed way ?
16. A rubber, certainty, but not at
carda.
17. The sort or plia
might mako.
a farmer
18. Part of part of South Wales
providea the instrument.
20. It's short work to newspapers
to give unjust trentinent,
23. tio, presumably, one of the ittle plan which went to market? iLwo word).
24. Grounded, shall we say Y
25. 16 Nable to be seized upon by
pubila speakers.
20. Algy no scen on a threepenny.
bit.
27. Inclined to start with "X."
NANCY
A two-timer is described as fellow who doesn't let his girl friend mow when he him a date with his wile.
•
"I hear you've married a soldier." "Yes."
"A volunicer?"
"No, father made him."
rossword
CLUES DOWN
1. They should be known to those
who wish to be au fait,
4. This traveller just has to but
his hands op
3. A pain in enck eat.
4. "Second print” japs5,),
6 girl of a dozen biinare.
6. tr hoop on the water--
N. Atlantic. to be accurate.
7. Paper RÍJ 7
10. air-do for Pooh' in.
12. low on wild
expect
monopollet to write 7**
1. The Baller in the little bed is
a famous old navigator.
10. Very much, unfinished. It seems
(two words).
3. Pour down, waiting one to the
22. Quite appropriately it could be
jant
Two Plays Dat Gam
HERE COMES [NANCY--1 WONDER
IF SHE'S STILL MAD AT ME.
DON'T TALK TO ME, SLUGGO--- I'M BOYCOTTING
ALL BOYS
EN
in crosswúru the black
I squares and elle numbers, na well as the wordi, ore letti, for The solver to nii là. Four black bares and faite clue numbers have been inserted to give you a start
The pattery formed, uş... the Black squares la symmetrical; the top hair of the pattern matefies the bottom half and the two sides correspatid. So you can lit In 12, mora black squarea at once to correspond with those eiren,
As there is no 4 Atress," the quare next but one to the right of Uluit atrendy given in the top line and the corresponding one can be blacked in. Äis, 4 Down In a atagram, and the solution word must therefore be of 11 letters and occupy the whole nie duwn
Hince words of less than three letters are used only in phrases, you will have blacked
The at stage how
10
25 Aerosa, and is corresponding
word in the top bait ( Acro).
must be of Ave letters.
LAST WEER'S SOLUTION
OH --- IS DAT
So
WELL---FOR YOUR INFORMATION---
"bloodsuckers," *porosites"--but
German-
year after year, have as their under- HE condemned wars between capt- lying
utilisation of this and talist States as "imperialist," "pre- datory"--but welcomed every war have not been discovered, and we HE flayed capitalists on "Idlers,” are dependent
upon plants, set in the
for our food. "When this reaction is understood. the changes wrought in human wel- fare may well make the accomplish- atomic age appear dwarfed by the comparison."
relation ork of their ecological lived on the charity of à
ments
of the
Dr. Matike said that the "poten- tiafities are almost limitless.”
If man's base foods could be made without plants, according to Dr. Matzke, "our whole soclaŭ organisa- tion would be completely changed." -United Press.
CHESS PROBLEM.
By A. W. DANIEL (BCF Thurney 53)
Black, 8 pieces.
(2
1.2.
& A
White, 12 pieces.
White to play and mate, in three.
Solution to Thursday's problem:
1. B-BG, an; 2, Q, R (ch, or dis ch), or Kt mates.
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
born Blanchester cotton king.
HE urged the workers to revolt the and wanted a "dictatorship of
private proletariat-but spoke in of "the stupid workers," "the rabble,”
the asses,
and "the red, Com- munist mob"
HE, who claimed to be the greatest Idled scientific thinker of his age, away ble strident life in cafes, and was only able to obtain a degree by [correspondence from an obscure
university.
HE gave his life to the revolu- tionary cause-but destroyed the first Workers' International.
HE was Q Jew-and ah anti- Semite.
He wrote: "What is the
worldly cult of the Jews? Bargain- worldly god?
ing.
What is their
Money."
HE attacked political refugees as "emigrant swine who wallow in the he filth of newspapers"-although
himself one, a German living in Hampstead, N.W.
HE said: "I am not a Marxist.” BE found economics boring-bul wrote the world's longest, most in- duential book on the subject.
HE was Karl Marx, whose life story is told by Leopold Schwarzs- child-in-The--Red---Prussian?”- (Hamish Hamilton, 16s.).
· LIBRARY LIST
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Magnet of Doom. Simenon, (Roul- ledge, 9s. d.) Admirers of Simenon should Avold this disappointing example of the master's work. Those who do not know Simenon should Instantly
the omission repair
Watch- rending, say, The Man who ed the Trains go by.
Paris Interlude. Jeanne Gosse, (Bies, 85. 04.) A. charming little novel, sited in Paris, and giving de- lectable impressions of that city and its people. Aunt Heater is a superb creation. And, in the end, the gentlemen-callers of Mme. Alix are satisfactorily explained.
Solution of Thursday's puzzle Across: 1, Programme; 7, Entente 10, Vial; 12, Tomb; 13, Ten; 14, p.to.;
Telepathy and Medical Psychology, 15, Engineers: 16, Go: 17, Strays; 18, Jan Ehrenwald. (Allen and Unwin. Tin: 20, Troy; 23, Tangerine; 24: 12s. 6d.). This book, fascinating to Yachtsmen.
Down: 1, Posterity; 2, Revenge: 3, one lay reader, will come as a sur- prise to those who think that tele- Relent; 4. Ant; 5, Memory: 8, Epathy is still of doubtful selentine bassy; 8, Taxi; 9, Tote; 11, Ingot; 14,
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GORDON SEWELL
Rupert's Silver Trumpet-36
*
By Ernie Bushmiller
--- I'M GIRLCOTTING ALL GIRLS
BUSHMILLJÖKLA
In great excitement the three friends take off the parachute and unpack the large parcel. When they have pulled out some of the straw Willie gives a shout."Look, here's a fine big drum! But that was whal I asked for. You didn't want drum, did you, Rupert ?" Bur Rupert is gazing at a silver trumpet in his hand, This looks just like the other one," he cries,
but it
can't the same trumpet." "Look" in the box. There are lots of other things there." says Algy.
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