THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JULY 19, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
SIDE GLANCES
By
Galbraith
COPR. 1946 BY NTA RERVICE, MIG. 7, M. 200. U. E. FAT, OFF.
"With dames it's always uniforms!"
• McKENNEY
ON BRIDGE
A Shrewd Defence Against 3 No Trump
BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
THE amateur pair
championship
of the Eastern States regional tournament in New York City had the exceptionally large turnout this winnera year of 100 pairs. The
were Miss Barbara Srenco and Jerome W. Brier of New York City.
I saw Miss Srenco execute a de- that fensiva play on today's hand any Life Master might be proud of optimistic bid- performing. With
at a ding, East and West arrived
no trump, Miss contract of three Srenco (South) opened the six of spades, which declarer won with the Jack, then led the king of diamonds. Miss Srenco knew that if her did not have the lack of partner diamonds, there was nothing she
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Cheekk Your Knowledge
1. Does the grapefruit or orange contain more vitamin C?
the
2. For how many years did George Washington serve as first president of the United States?
3. Where was Beethoven born?
EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPH' FEATURE
YOUR BIRTHDAY....
"MONDAY, JULY 19
PORN today, you have consider
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of projecting them." This makes you Buble act atrength and poise. a leader in Ideas and often, you become, also, an actual leader of some group fighting very definitely for a cause.
Your Intuitions are more than or dinarily rtrong and at times they are almost psychic in nature. Deeply nonlylleal, you aro able to get at rent motives behind superficial facts You are seeker after basic truths. You have talent in literature and should develop it. It is likely that your writing will be inspirational in nature. It is also more than likely That you will write some poetry 'although' that may be more for your own diversion and pleasure than anticipated publication.
You are, at heart, a disciplinarian. Believing that duty should be paramount, you have the ability to make others see your point of view. You are original and inventive in your plans as well as in your method
may
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You are intensely fond of nature and travel. You will not be
will enous! "tripper" either, but want to live for lengthy periods of time in the places you visit so that to become accustomed you
and manners of others. the ways You are so self-sufficient that mar- rlage will likely take a secondary place in your life. If you wed at all, select a mate' whose Ideas along this line are similar.
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the correS- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.
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TUESDAY, JULY 20
CANCER (Jane 23-July 23)-D CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) Don't take too much stock in vague Avoid expanding production or mak- promises.. Investigate everything being unnecessary changes until things
are more settled everywhere. fore committing yourself.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)--- the crafts may go The trades and
intervention, but forward without executives need to examine new
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)—An ex- cellent day for new enterprises, both business if you avold excesses. Conservative action pay
social and
of now.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept, 22)-Exert caution in everything us there are threatening appositional forces which cannot be entirely over balanced.
LIBRA. (Sept. 23-0cl. 23)-While delaying important decisions, don't be forced into a compromise. Hold your ground firmly; be patient.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)--Be confident and act on some dimcult Job which lles before you. Com promise isn't good solution,' either.
SAGITTARIUS, (Nov. 23-Dec, 22) -Irritating and confusing when it comes to trying to settle anything Important. Tred water for now.
SCIENCE AT WORK:
plans very carefully for flows.
"Might be worth shoving everything back and coming next week instead - see they'll have had a Bliver wedding by then. tool
BY THE
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FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
LONDON STOCKS:
WEEKLY MARKET
REVIEW
London, July 17.-The London stock market ended the week very flat, with millions sterling wiped off market values on Friday when 60 Superfortress bombers took off for “aircraft carrier" Britain.
HONGKONG SHARES
The Hongkong share market was
thi morning. a quiet
cautious atitude being evident on the part of operators.
The turnover was $120,020, De- tails of transactions and noon prices follow:-
BANKS
IIK Bank
2000 203:
East Apte .... 141
INSURANCES
Canton
Union
MK Fire
SHIPPING
Wsterboat
HUSH of expectancy, and Docks, ETC.
K. Wharf (0). Dock
Provident
LAND, ETC.
HK Hotel 11C Land Humphreys
Tram
none other. falls over the court as Mr Justice Cocklocarrot PISCES (Feb. 2-Mar. 21)-Rou- surveys, with a cynicism born tine action is best. Co-ordinate of long experience, the eleven plans and make ready, but don't male members of the jury, and,UNITIES shoot off your guns prematurely.
with a rather more than acn- Electric ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-Bcdemic interest, the one female alert to tag any schemes presented member.. you which are not strictly on the up- and-up. Don't be fooled by false promises,
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) Screen your business associates most that all carefully and make sure propositions offered are sound.
GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-I you watch your tongue and don't blow off steam at the wrong moment, you can see that improved con- ditions are being formulated now.
OFFICIAL NAME SOUGHT
FOR ORPHAN ELEMENT
By PAUL F. ELLIS
THE "orphan" member of the family of nature's elements may soon have an official name. This particular child of nature for as merely years has been known "Element 61," mostly because there have been confileting claims about who discovered it.
"This name," they reported to the American Chemical Society meeting "not only symbolic in Syracuse, the dramatic way in which the ele ment may be produced in quantity as a result of man's harnessing of the energy of nuclear fleston, also warms man of the impending danger of punishment by the vultyre of war."-
but
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The new campaign to give the element an offcial name has been launched by Jack A. Marinsky and Of course, the young chemists may other chemists still meet argument from E. Glendenin, young
world. in the chemical studying at the Massachusetts In- factions
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Vagwire, The accused, Henry bearing on his face all the marks of depravity one associates
with a man who does not scruple to nail down felf on a roof without licence the oath. The or permit, Lakes
The barristers shuffle their papers. solicitors peer over their spectacles, Mr Honeyweather Gooseboote, hide- ously suave, molsiens his cracked lips with the tip of a slightly furry tongue, throws out his paunch, and,
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easting on the bewildered carpenter Cotton Futures
Vagwire the kind of look a dray- man gives a stray. cat, begins his cross-examination.
A sharp exchange
Henry
Steady
Tho Stock Exchange jobbers, when they took their standa on Friday morning, were not a little mystified at the overnight | slump in New York. They were convinced that their confrères in Wall Street must "know something very unpleasant" which had not been divulged abroad, but it was not until afternoon that the facts came out, whereupon prices were marked down.
Since June 1, when the Berlin "Incidents" began to mulUplý, Bri- tain's "blue chip" Industrials have lost about 12 percent of their mar-
Financial ket values. The
Times Index of leading Industrials closed
at 109.7, almost penetrating the year's low of 109.5 touched on February 20.
Apparently,
WOB
Bome
there official support for British Govern- ment securities, but the Indox which Ja the closed at 111,80, lowest since April 20.
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Gold shares were not in demand and moved lower.
Compared with the beginning of the week, Royal Dutch lost 10- to £23, Anglo-Iranian lost 6/3, to reach its previous low of this year of 157/6. while Burma Oll and Shell both Jost 3/-.
EUROPEAN BONDS
Curiously, European bonds fored much better than might have been expected. German Potash "seven per- cent" lost only £1 to £50, while Italian "seven percenta", ignoring the front page news, lost only £1/2 to £45-1/2.
What is in store for the market in the coming week is anybody's guess. The past weeks have seen a big growth in short celling, and these bears," when
they decide New York, July 17-Cotton fu to cover their short sales, would TT soon transpires that
Henrytures held steady this week in the bring about a sharp recovery. But Vagwire's name fa
face, of numerous influences pulling when will they be driven to cover? Vogwire, and that he does not in- at the market. The list finished four
Britain, who has seen her over- tend to deny that he is a carpenter, points lower to 10 points higher than
in seas Income from Investments or that he feloniously made use of
Latin America steadily dwindling as seventeen nails, all that were left of 200 bought from Mesars, Owlson
The July 47/48 contract expired a result of her wartime indebted which enabled. the South on Wednesday at 34.87, which was ness, and Froste, of Gobhurst, in 1020,
countries to recover the on to the
19 points above the close last week América to nail a piece of felt
prises, has had another blow in. roof of a hen-house. The jury nod and only two points above its pre-ownership of British-owned enter their heads sagely, and in silent vious prices.
the past week-this time from India. condemnation of this damaging ad- mission, and are suddenly stung to
INTERESTS IN INDIA
Bir Gooseboote: You mado application. for licence or permit? Vagwire: No. I didn't. know had to.
the preceding week.
Prices wavered
the throughout a more active interest in the pro-week, but failed to develop a definite trend as traders adopted a "watch ceedings by a sharp exchange.
and wait" attitude towards the. Sir Shanmukhan Chetty, Indian
quoted no foreign and domestic political situa- Finance Minister,
tion and also market factors which having said in Calcutta apropos the
background
for recent interim settlement of the had been in the some time. These factors are crop, Dominions sterling balances: "We Ioan, the ECA export programme will take-over British commercial and crop estimates. The recall of enterprises whenever it is convenient,
made from. Mr Gooseboote: Don't you know Congress brought fears that restric and repayment will be.
of the accumulated the remainder the laws of your country?
tive legislation may be relfashed.
sterling balances for certain classes of transactions, mainly of a capital nature," This calm remark came as a bombshell in the City of London.
Istitute of Technology. They want More than 20 years ago, chemists Vagwire: No. Can't a man use his to call the clement prometheum, con- in the United States and in Italy own nails on his own hea-house? 5. Name the oldest city in North lending that the first pure samples claimed discovery of Element 61 in
Mr Gooseboots (in a voice of America.
of the element were produced in the natural ores and proposed the names
thunder, and playing to the jury): atomic pile at Oak Ridge, Tennessee of illinium and forentium, respecHe cannot, siri
They chose the name Prometheum tively. for Promellicus, the titan in Greek.
who
fre stole
from mythology heaven for the use of mankind and for his audacity was chained to mountain by the gods and set upon by vultures.
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Why did she not wait until the second round and unblock with the queen of diamonds? If she had, de- clarer could have led the eight of diamonds and let her hold the trick she put on the queen. Then she led a heart East could have taken the finesse and let North win with the king. But when North back with a spade, declarer could have won it, and could have taken two spade tricks, three hearts and four diamonds-enough for game.
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Marinsky and Glendenin say those Controversy claims have been proved incorrect- that element 61 actually
was not found until the atomic pile at Oak Ridge went to work,
They contend that there is по doubt that Element 61 was produced in the atomic pile in two ways, by purification of
of the products uranium Fission and by bombard ment with neutrons of a little known element called neodymium.
DEAR SIR,
WAGE BOOST
Friday's announcement of a wage boost for steel workers, which will be followed shortly by a price in- crease, induced momentary easiness as the list sold off in sympathy with stocks.
India long ago paid off her go- vernmental indebtedness to Brilish investors, but there is still a useful
inverted
Indian enter £75,000,000 sterling
sum
It appears that E. C. A. will be prises-about
and miscellaneous trade interests who lagging in the near future, and this in companies registered in India, acted to depress the market. There estimated at about 50 to 100 million in her
was a considerable foreign demand esti propelling backlog and some allocations
I see
that a Mrs Jelly, says that she saw a man
all fours, kitchen, on
it appears unt E. C. A. will hold off big purchases until most of the new crop is available.
U.S.
had pounds storing, or roughly a grund a pga with alternate nostriis, claims been made, although the fund re- total somewhere between £225, that he was pea-pushing in the lease is being held up pending agree. 000,000 and £275,000,000 sterling. Aberbananer manner." May I point ment to the United States terms. It-United Press.
believed that July/September normal, but out that the Aberbananer method is is to push the pea with the entire shipments will be above nose? The alternate-nostril push is the Hemel Hempstead method, and By a method known as lon ex-is suitable only in flat country, For 6. Programme Summary: 0.51. "Navy Mixture Melodies (ECTS): 15, New change and involving chemically mountain work the whole nose must Concert Novelly Ensemble; 6.30, Hospital Request Half Hour Presented by Nan active plastic powder, Element 61 be behind each stroke. Dickinson (Studio); 7. Accent on Rhythm was isolated in pure form; they said. #BBCTS): 7.15, Famous Overtures; 7.59.
among The friendly feud Portuguest Mail Hour (Studio); 6. World and Hame News (London Kolay!! B.15. Highlights on the Films presented by Viu chemists has been
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of 2nd Hait. The buffs. Conductor: W.D. decision was made.
Foster. A.1.C.M. By Kind permission of
Lt. Col. F. W, D. Parry. Offeer Com- Inanding: 9.30, "Scotland Yard at Work'
The MIT chemists are now offer-
honour of naming the element,
No. 2: The Allas" (BUCTS); 10, Worlding additional proof; they want the and Home News (London Relay); 10.15. Weather Report; 10.10, Selections from Operas: 10.43, Dance 10 Jack Payne and Orchestra: 11. Radio Newsreel London Relay: 11.15, Weather Report
Andi Cine down.
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nouco Parcel Post о! Попад, Rarvice to the Province China, is suspended,
MONDAY, JULY 19 Closing Times By Air
Blinnghai, Nanking, Hankow, Tsingtao,
Pelping. Lluchow, Kunming. Amoy, Foochow and walow 1.30 pm.
Closing Times By Sea & Train
Macko and Tainahan (Bex)_4_p.m._ Kongmoon (via Canton)·(Train) .5 p.m. Mat) Canton Parcels and and class
(Hea) 5 pm.
TOÀI. Wilyad.
The DOAC plang from United King- dom, due on Sunday, July 10, - im Dow
speeled to arrive to-day,
Drop the names of inturn and. forentium, and call it prometheum, they insist.
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Yours faithfully,
since July primary difficulty
off the board is the current difference between Spots
and Futures-United Press.
Evans the Hearse.
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Answers
1. The orange. 2. Eight years. 4. Switzerland. 3. Bonn, Germany. 5. St. John's, Newfoundland. the Isthmus of Panama.
EDITORS PRESS SERVICE.
RICE EXPERTS TO CONFER
..July
17.-Twenty
BULLION MOVEMENTS
Washington, July 17-The United States Department of Commerce movements today reported bullion for the week ending June 30 as follows:
Gold Exports US$14,080,462; GoldTM Imports US$84,932,180.
Suver Exports US$12,002; Silver Imports US$803,513.
Canada
Washington,
Exports of gold included rice experts from the Far East US$12,002,010; Canal Zona US$75; and other areas, including members Cuba US$25,050; Uruguny
6. By
of
US$31,-
the International Emergency | 038; Portugal. US$45,400;". Greece Food Council, will depart by plane US$1,003,589; Indo-China - US$20,-
East In 200; Netherlands
Indies for a special Council meeting Mexico City on Monday,
US$117,000; Philippines US$230,000. A spokesman of the International
Imports of gold Include Canada Emergency Food Council indicated US$200,207; Mexico US$2,057; EI
US$3,401; that discussions would be on a broad Salvador
Nicaragua scale, while informed gources said US$108,342; Cuba US$85: Ecuador the agenda would include discus- US$35,601; Chile US$34,079; Unlted Kingdom US$84,105,421; Portugal
United Press.
sloris on further rice allocations.
Nearly all the principal rice im- US$12,010; Philippines US$8,548 porting countries are reported to be seeking a share of the 100,000 tons of Siamese surplus rice after the made commitice had IEFC rice allocations for the current quarter Tational on the basis of preliminary silmatesUnited Press,
Exchange Rates
Business was done in the local un» official exchange market this moming in the following Tales:
Chinese dollars (per CN1 m.)
Sterling notes (per
UB. dollars (por US$1) Gold bars (por taoi]" Patres (per 100)
Ram lica (per 100 NKI guliders (per 100)
1)
1.10
14.30
3.42
Authorisations
By E.C.A.
Washington, July 18-The Econa- mic Co-operation Administration to- day announced new procurement authorisations' totalling. US$27,311,- 042 for Austria, France, Greece, Netherlands and the French zone in France's authorisation Germany.
tho...” largest,.
amounting to US$22.847.03530000
Metals and minerals," medieni 330.00 supplies, petroleum products, cotton and fertiliser, as well as food, were authorisedUnited Press.
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