THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
SIDE GLANCES
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ABOUT once a year I publish a
series of articles on the sinother piny, one of the most fascitinting few smother plays have been pre sented to me.
It came as a surprise, therefore,
to receive a letter from John Harvey Jr. of Lexington. Ky., with today's hand. Harvey said he played it in a rubber bridge camt.
You will note that with South the declarer ut six clubs. IL East refuses to put up his club king, he never should lose it should he? Declarer. can lead dummy's
queen of clubs. And if East
-cover, he enn
eines not
lead a small club, win with the lock.
which
cash the ace of clubs, and the king will still be good in the East land.
The smother play is re smothers East out of his king of clubs. Here is the way Harvey
He won the opening leart in dummy with the nee of diamonds,
played it:
then led the queen of clubs. did not enver. A small club played and the finesse of the taken,
Enst
Was Jack
When West showed out Harvey decided to try for the smother play. He cashed the ace and king of snadog and trumped * small spade In with the six of clubs. Hoping for a break in the heart suit,
dummy
he
Check Your Knowledge
1. When did the twentieth cen- tury begin?
2. The inck of causes riekets?
what vitamin
3. Name the two British sister ships that are named for queens.
YOUR BIRTHDAY.
EXCLUSIVE 'TELEGRAPH' FEATURE
POCKET CARTOON
By STELLA
by OSDERT LANCASTER
THURSDAY, APRIL 15-
BORN today, you are one of those who can be all things to all people. In other words, you take your lead from your associates, for your own personal adoptability is
of
Talented In the arts, you might select впу опе of a number careers: music, literature or drama- tic acting. You would also do well in polities if you were Bo high that you are able to accom- mitted to have your head in m. Por, modate yourself to almost
You would never situation easily.
any of Importance, This can bo a be a strictly party-line man, how- great asset uced properly. or a ever
you are too much an in- terrific handicap if you become a dividunlist You could do well in human weathervane, turning in any business, if you found something to direction, uimlessly, according to interest you. Money seems
to how the wind is blowing,
You are quite psychic and seem to know what is going to happen bo- fore it occurs. Naturally, your in- tuitions are keen and in addition, you are a quick judge of human xture. You are inclined to pigeon- hole individuals on first sight,, and there they will always remain ng far un you are concerned. It might be well for you to realise that even you can make an error in judgment and it takes a very intelligent per- son to admit it--and start off anew. In this direction often llo the big pest successes.
ARIES
como your way, but you are
not
one to stick to a dull job even if you could make million. First of all, you want to be delivered from routine and boredom-and, when It comes to business, that is a hard kind of job to find!
You demand considerably from those you love but are ready to reciprocate in kind. Your marriage should be a good one.
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow,
select your birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph.
Let your birthday star be your daily.guide.
FRIDAY, APRIL 16
lost
backstep, either,
SCORPIO
23-Oct.
23)--- pro-
(Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-So- LIBRA (Sept. cial problems may loom more in- Facts and figures, not varuo portant than you might wish but, mises, should guide your decisions." be cautious, and all will well Don't push ahead too hard but don't
Ko with you.
21)- TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Vind up the week's business advan- tugcously. Make up for
any time. Get in licks now.
GEMINI (May 22-June 22)- Job decisions may need to be made so be calm can vold bitious or exelted attitude. a level heath
some
good
hat it.
over- Keep
23)
CANCER (June 23-July A good day to finish off some im- portant business and mark up your assets. Even personal,
romantic affairs look promising.
(July 24-Aug. 23)-Think LEO before you act or sign
any
im- portant document, He who does not hesitate today may be lost!
(Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Your health is important, so protect Bo diplomatic with co-workers, especially those of the opposite sex. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) Take your time over Important matters today. Be cautious in all expenditures; handle employment problems tactfully.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) This is a good day for your efforts 50 push ahead firmly with declafon. Salesmanship counts now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) If you are conservative, you will definite progress be able to make although it may appear slower than VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sent. 22) you might wish. Minor changes appear to be re- PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21) opening some previously closed Follow up yesterday's business ad- of doors. An improvement is getting vantages and get your feet firmly an
Act now.
Act decisively. upward path. under way.
4. Whose death was enused by drinking a cup of hemlock?
5. Name the oldest form
gambling.
0. In Irish and Scottish folklore
what does the walling of a banshee AROUND THE WORLD:
dencte?
(Answers on Column 5)
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By IL COLONELLI (BCF Tourney 54) Black 8 pieces.
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and
cashed the three heart tricks, then cashed the king of diamonds followed with the five of diamonds, which West won.
At this point West was left with the ten of hearts and lack of dia- monds. North with the nine and eight of clubs, Enst with the king and seven of clubs, South with the ten of
No matter and are of clubs.
would
what
vlat West led, North trump with the eight of clubs. If East overtrumped with the king. Harvey would win with the ace of clubs and the last trick would be won in dummy with the nine of clubs. If East underruffed with the Boven, Harvey would discard the ten of spades. Thus East was smothered out of his king of cluba.
White, 12 pieces, While to play and mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
I, Q-RS; threat, 2, RX QP.1. PQ6; 2, K-15; I . 、. P—B4 2. Ki-Q3 (ch).
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table, (4)
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17. Coups, (4)
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ON
Curacao; an Interesting Island
By TEMPLE MANNING
NE by one again, the names of erstwhile favourite ports of call for the tourist
in appear
the
news.
of
Now it is Curacao, star the Netherlands West Indies that is winning new friends as she
wel- comes old admirers.
The Netherlands West Indies is an interesting
of islands, one set group belonging to the Leeward Is- lunds, made up of Curacan, Aruba and Bonaire. The smaller group, Saba, St Eustatius and part of St. belongs to the Windward Islands
Willemstad, the capital and chief ort of Curacao, used to be a shop- per's delight, but we must wait for reports of friends on a cruise to see what conditions are in these high- priced-times- But we will-wager that its charm is intact, for this Is really ដរ delightful spot, clean, salubrious, tidy. vastly different from the majority of places in the West Indies.
Playing golf at a country club In Curacao,
the shops that used to carry mer- corner of the chandise from every globe,
Canal Through Centro The
town is spread along the waterfront and has what seems to be a canal running through the centre,
The canal
really channel, St Annabay, leading from ermaal Boulevard the sea through the town, to u huge landlocked basin. A pictures- que pontoon bridge which is swung channel opens at the call heroes of whisile,
Willemstad is
is guarded by two forts.so near each other that sol- diers enn exchange gossip across the separating water. To the right s the principal business section, the Pietermaal; on the left is Otra banda. The third section, back of The business section is Scharloo.
· Archdeacon or no Arch- Ideacon, a Doctor of Divinity still ain't a doctor within the meaning of the Act."
BY THE WAY.
by Beachcomber
TIDAL wave of anticuni- culism, relentless as the
mascaret great
or bore of Caudebec, is forcing up the price of ferrets to heights be yond the sweetest, dreams of avarice.
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
London Gilt-Edged Market Spurt
London, Apr. 14. The gilt-edged market, after. seesawing throughout the day, spurted towards the close today and generally showed gains, Old Consols being up ths at 75% and two nationalisation stocks up 4.
H.K. STOCK
MARKET
Signs of official interest In the stock market were a factor which improved its tone, though big institutional buyers were not conspicuous.
Industrial Issues were generally lower, though some leading In- On the Hongkong Stock Exclinnge | dustrials held gains of a few pence. this morning, transactions totalled Dil shares proved vulnerable, with $241,000 in value. Business done Anglo-Iranian Oll down 2/0 at during the morning session und noon | 10379—United Press.
quotations are as follows:
SHARES
DANKS
ITC Bank,
East Asia
INSURANCES
Canton Unfors
BUYERS SELLENS BALES
Underwritera
BK FI DOCKS. ETC.
10 2040 of
0er 140
To
2030 133
300 410
BVG
0
200
310
K. Whinrt (0)
160
Dock
30
Provident
2231
S'hai Dock
25
LAND, ETC.
IK Hole!
173 104-1700 @
S'hat Land
#
-
Humphreys UTILITIES
23
21
23
24%
1007
19 12
320
34 300 k
424 500
41
ilk Land
Tram
Yaumati Ferry C. Light (0) C. light (N) Electric
Telephong (0) INDUSTRIALS
Cement Rupe
Dalry (0) Wation
Watson
Strange men, dressed an squires, creep up to lonely ferret farms STORES, ETC. after dusk and cupping their hands about their mouths, whisper their offers to some tittering ferret-maid
What "Hey, my dear! or other. would your boss say to £12 42. 3.
Ewo ***** 20% for a full-grown milk-fed Derby MISCELLANEOUS
1K Construc- Grey?"
Llots (0)
Thoroughbreds from my ferrelry at Bottleburst, while being exercised, are often watched by suspicious- looking characters, and I have given orders to my head man, Crawford, to get them in early for the night. They are milked at 6.30.
"Beauty draws us with a
single lion"
The trouble In Piccadilly began when some men tried to climb Eros,
(News item.)
A
fo
the RT knows no frontlers, as man said when he declared a stolen Rembrandt at Harwich. There eannot be much wrong with n country in which the love of art is so strong that police are needed 10 protect
from statues
the exuberant admiration of the popu ince. In 1920 a woman- was with [d}Meulty ́"dissuaded from climbing one of Landseer's lions in Trafalgar Square. "I wanted to pat the Hille love," she said tenderly.
Acknowledgment
MY
1
thanks to the many people who have
sent me lately quatrains about
the man
In the wickerwork hatt Not single one of these little poems was written in the obscure and formless fashion of today, which leads me to hope that historians and critics-of-the-future- will date the return of sanity in poetry to the Era of the Wicker- work Int School.
___(Hights) COTTONS
Chancellor Confident
London, Apr. 14-The Chancellor the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, today predicted in the House of Commone that government stocks will recover their recent losses "in due course."
Asked whether ho thought his new scal policy was responsible for the slump during the past week slump amounting to £2 in many cases the Chancellor replied I think Buiritedly: "Certainly not. 508215 that the psychological factors which caused the fall were the same as those which often affect the market. 406 e 2215 I have no doubt that the stocks will
240 up again in due course."—United 19.35 Press.
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N.Y. FOREIGN EXCHANGE
N.Y. Stocks On Down Trend
New York, Apr. 14.-Prices moved irregularly lower on the New York Stock Exchange today. The decline wiped out all slight gains registered
Tradi
cracked in the one-million share market list, and at no time' during the day was any attempt nude to snap it out of its lethargy. Market news was thin beside a few favourable corporation reports. Late reports that the Communist New York. Apr. 14-Foreign exchange campaign in Italy seems to be closing rates today, wero:
losing ground made welcomp news. Argentine Peso (official) US$2077 2303
but it did not seem to exert any Argentine Peso (ùnomcial) Australia
3.23 materia! effect on the market's 6305 tendercy,
Brazil
Belgium
Canada
Chile
England France
India
Mexico
Now Zealand Peru
DOW JONES AVERAGES", Dow Jones averages at the close
of the session stood as follow:-
30 Industrials-$170.13...
02209
DOLL
4.03%
.0033
3025
2032
20 Rails-54.70.
3.2315
0700
15 Uulilles-03.00.
.03905
40 Bonds-92.63.
South Africa
4.01%
-Unit:d Press,
2000
Switzerland
2424
Uruguay
1300
Venezuela
3010
Shanghal (CNC3100,000)
Netherlands
Singapore
Portugal
Sweden
Balayin
Hongkong.
2500
United Press
NEW YORK SILVER
New York, Apr. 14. Silver, per the ounce, as quoted by 74 cents Messrs Handy and Harnon
United Press. LONDON SILVER
London, Apr, 14. Silver, Spot, per ounce
45<1 Sliver Forward, per ounce
-United Press.
No Argentinian
Crop Reports
14.-Broomhall's Liverpool, Apr. Corn Trade News shid today that Argentina is holding back crop "adopting in
U.S. Production
Of Steel
New York. Apr. 14-The Ameri- can Iron and Steel. Institute today announced that the 1947 U.S. per capita production of ingot steel and steel for castings was about eight times the per capita output of the entire world.
United States per capita pro- duction was 1,180 pounds, while the 'entire world'autrage was ̈148,
World production was near 150,- 000,000 tons, of which the United States
63 produced
percent, 84,704,000 tons.-United Press.
Sugar Futures
Easier
or
futures
Mimsie Slopcorner MIMSIE SLOPCORNER is to be Miss Snoek-Sausage 1048 in the Nether Sickening Pageant of Nutri- She will pose on a farm-cart, dressed as Queen Boadl- cea, surrounded by Human Shock-statistics, apparently
This matter an iron curtain polley." It is hoped Sausages-in-Waiting.
No oficial estimate of the maize that a Cabinet Minister may wind acreage for 1847 has yet been issued, were easier today, responding to N Te- up the pageant with a short address said the paper. and no productiun cent private higher Cuban erop estimato on carbohydrates as a body-fuel for
and persistent_"#iquidation of May cott estimates have been published for
tracts. personnel.
The slow demand for raw and Mimsie's mother said:
wheat and other grains.
refined
sugar "I do so think nutrition intake has
as a depressing factor. come to stay, and I am proud to
World sugar futures closed. one to four polnita lower on sales of 12 contr.icts, sce my daughter helplug the Gov-
wille the demestic market finished ong in three points Jawer 01 Roles of 100 contracts,
Pamileling the seashore is Plet-tion Intake.
lined with ftn- posing residences, impressive bulid- ings, churches of various failles, in- cluding a fine old Jewish house of
"that worship dates back to 1732. There are good restaurants, smari
such,
and some cafes, clubs and
clubs, really good country
The older parts of the city are interesting. Balconies of houses al-vernment, most meet above the narrow streets and there are frontless shops where the merchandise flows into the streets. Within walking distance there are some nice bathing beaches, What makes Willemstad so en-
and there are culbs and rest chanting is that it looks just like at the water's edge. But always, bit of Holland set down in the blue the visitor, at least, there is shop- Caribbean. The delicately-tinted plng to do. And we believe that re- huus
with red-tiled roofs have thr. port will be that things are fost 1. January 1, 1901. 2. Vitamin D. to normal for this, | 3. "Queen Elizabeth" and "Qucen rving eaves, the tiny peaks and coming back gables that bespeak Dutch archl- Curacao's greatest attraction.
Mary." 4. Socrates. 5. Dlee. 8. Death. lecture. The spotless streets and the
Bit of Holland
cancis with their
quaint bridges
further suggest Holland.
Running paral with the chan-
parallel
Is Heeren Straat,
nel, one block in, is
ncl.
crossing it at right angles, be- pontoon bridge, is
sinning with the
Breede Straat.
both big shopping
streets and both old hands al grup ping, with the
swarms of tourists used to crowd the stores when
that
a cruise ship
ship dropped anchor. South of Breedo is the plaza around which the administration bülldings are centred. Breedo Strant is really Impressive with its banks, blg mer- cantile buildings and those shops,
ZBW RADIO
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9.
lace itend by Captain Funt (Studio) 630. La Demi-laure Francoise (Studio); 7, World and Home News (London He Jay: 7.15, MITATA"
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Thursday Serenade"; | Barron and His Orchestra: 35, insky Kossakov: "Lo Cog D'O Suite"...London Bymphony Orch: World and Homa Newe (London Relay); 9.15, Weather Report: 0.10, Book Reviews: G. B. Endacott (Studio): 9.30. Plano Re- eltal by Tarry Ore (Studio): 10, Radio New Reel! (London Relay); 10.18, Bar- nabas Von Geory and sifa Orchestra; 10.30, Dance, to Chappie D'Amala. and Fil Orch, with Bette Roberis and Dava Fullerton. (Vocal), (BBCTS); 11; Close Down.
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Answers
"Perhaps the
Bald: The paper policy is to keep buyers ignorant
of the true situation with a view to keeping prices at high level but it that should be the reason it surely can be successful only for a Ume." -United Press.
CHINA PRODUCE
QUOTATIONS
New York,
geted
Prices closed, on follow:- Contract NO. 4----
May in cents per lb.).. July
·September
Märch (1045)
Any
4.43 nominal
4.40 nominal
4.40 nom!!
3.39 nominal
2.80 nominal
-United Prein."
New York. Apr. 14.-Closing prices for BLACK PEPPER
Citinn produce today were)
Aniseed oli,
15. F.O.. per
Now York
0.30/00 6514 Oil, per ib. F.O.B. New York,
2.40/3.00 Tung Oil. in tank cars, per lb, F.O.B. New York
F.O.B.
MARKET
New York, April Black popper closed Inactive and unclianged today. New busines
quiet in the spot Jas market.
****** 0.23 Sandalwood, in drums, depending on sellers quantity & quality. 13.76 nominat Grinders showed little inclination to
„Agar Agar, per
New add to inventories at current prices, York ......
.... 3.70/4.00 Prices closed as follow:- to 12 Berylum (10
percent) per May (in cents por 3.) 4450 nomino!
July ......... 10.00/10.00 Molybdenum (90 percent) per Ib... 0.43
United PILE. CHINA BRISTLES
COTTORE.PRESI SERVICE, ING,
ton
495
"Now, Jerry,' there, started off with two million `bucks,
and worked it down to a shoestring.
New York, Apr. 14—Closing prices tuday for China brlaties were:
Bristler, O.B, New York, per, lb, as follow:
Hankow, Regular Assortments ....3.20
nominal
Shanghai, Regular Assortments ..
2.20
nomina)
Asked
Chungking. Regular Assortments. 220
Tientsin, 20. shorte
Tientsin, 20'e regular
5.53 nominal 9.00 nominal United Press.
RUBBER FUTURES
New York, pr., 14-Rubber futures closed today as follows;
April iconti per b.).... 22.00 nominat May
22.10 bld
Juno
July
August
Beptember -Ocleber
November
December
January (1940)
March
21.00 nominal 20.00 traded 20.00 dominal
20.80
20.35 nominal
2030 nominal
September
October
December
January (1940)
March
Spot
Spot (While Muntok)
48.00 naked
45.50 nominal
45.50
44.00
43.00 nominal
$1.00
40,00/47.00 asked
43.00 nominal
United Press,
METAL PRICES.
New York. Apr. 14-Today's cleaing prices were:
Antimony, American
(09.0
percent
***
matal percent
0.33
0.94
grade in bulk of carload lots, FO..
Tin,
"A" grade
Taksa
__higher)
dollars
(In dollars рег t-ore duly
Tungaten, powdered
10, 03 to 10-percent). Wolframite, Clibreso
short ton Tungsten Tiloride)
New York
containing paid F.O.. ·
0.20/21
United Pres
Exchange Rates
Nusiners was done in the local un-
[20,25 bid | official exchange market this morning
20.28 nominat
20.25 nominal
LONDON RUBBER - May-per 1. (in pennies) July
September
nt the following rates:
Chinees dollars (per CN§1 m.) 0.00
Sterling notes (per £1)
US dollars (per UBII)
12-164
Gold bar per facl)
12-434
13-144
United Press.
Plastres (per 100)
·Blam temin iper 100) NEL finders (per 100)
13.09
3.55
337.00
11,40
45.00