THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
EXCLUSIVE.TELE GRAPH' FEATURE
POCKET CARTOON
YOUR BIRTHDAY..
By STELLA
COPE, 9668 BY MEA BERNICK, 190, T, M. REG. ÎL B. PAT, CES.
"I hoard his father is a millionaire, but my father says shucks, that's chickenfood nowadays!"
LESSON HAND
&
McKENNEY ON BRIDGE'
Know When to Pass Or Bid One N, T.
BY WILLIAM E. MCKENNEY
ERALD S. NAGLER, nyn there
Gala great deal or contusion in
nt bridge
the minds of beginners concerning the one no trump res- ponse.
It your partner makes an open- ing bid, and you have nothing, the correct thing to do is pass.
However, if you have as much as a trick, you probably should make a response of
kind, Some
and the weakest of all responsea is.one no trump.
To raise your partner to two of 'hls, suit shows a little stronger hand than one no trump. For this you should have nearly normal trtimp support and at least a side king.
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Lesson Hond--Neither viti.
You should not show a new sult at the two level unless you have
a trick and a half. With approxi- mately one trick you nay bid onD of a suit; for example, one 'din- mand or no heart over a one club bid by your partner..
However, remember that" even if you are void of your partner's sult, if you have no strength in your hand, you always should givo consideration to a pass rather than to making an artificial response of Dny kind.
In today's hand South maltes a normal bid of one spade, North hos a five-card club suit but does not have a trick and a half. He has a count of seven, divided be- (ween two-sults. --Therefore, tha proper response Is one no trump. South has a very good band with a six-card "suit, but knowing that
• his partner does not have, n" "good hand, He bids two spades,
This gives North another op- portunity to bld, in case he has the type of hand on which he has to bid one, no trump regardless of greater strength; but in this case. North Correctly passes. -
West, opens the Jack-of·dia- be pre- monds, buf South cannot vented, from making. two spades. He must either make; a heart trick or get a discard of a heart on the Icing of clubs.. Thus, he loses two hearts, two diamonds, and a club
DUMB-BELLS
DAEGISTERLO US. PATENT OFFICE
WHY MUST YOU DO THAT EVERY
TIME I POLISH THE FLOOR
Check Your
Knowledge
1. Is the Bald Eagle really bald?
2. What would you carry creel?
in A
3. Where is pidgin-English spolten?
4. Name the foods that are richest
In lodine.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12
PORN today, perhaps your most .... Although your lig may not be an marked talent is for writing, cary dde, you have exceptional although you hava a keenly daveloped resililoney, and no matter how far dramatic sense and you might and down you are. knockede, you come your happiest medium in stage, er. Bobbing up dizain to tackle the job screen production. If inhibited early all over again. With you, experience in life, you may not discover your. Is an excellent teacher. You may gift until you have tried other things, continue to make mistakes, but they But once you have turned your aro never the same ones! efforts fa the direction of wring, you should be eminently successful
Your magnetic penonality attracts. people and you will have friends You have a keen sense of justice.. wherever you go. Your happiness in What is right to right and you are fo is likely to be dependent upon not ond-to be swerved easily from a happy and contented homoè Ilfe. your opinions. "You give,others the. You women are somewhat Birtilious, right to disagree-bit rat :the right, but Conce, you · Nave made the to force you into anything gunst deeds for life. Your loyalties: are , selection of a life partner, it is in- your own will. You must guiard "against⠀⠀ one thing, however: Never deep and lasting
permit yourself to become stagnated
In a
mental groove or to become dogmalle in your thinking. You can defeat your own best interest in this
way.
To find what the stars have la store for tomorrow,:, select your birthday star and read the corres ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your dally guide.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-Employ- ment problems can be solved today if you are alert and show initiative. Personal affairs prosper; also,
VIRGO (Aug, 24-Bept. 22)-Friday the thirteenth can be a very lucky. day for you if you seize a new opportunity for advancement.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct 23)-An opportunity may come for a real advancement in your profession .It you tackle the hors today. Have a try'.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-Per- sonal affairs may be merely 10-so but business matters. especially in relation to real estate, are Improving,
BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 23) -Outdoor business projects are de- Anitely picking up. A fresh oppor- turity may help you toward your goal
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)--- Now the lights are green again. Make that business expansion or ac- cept that new opportunity, if offered.
AROUND THE WORLD:
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)-1 Job-hunting, don't wait for another day, but go out hunting right now. Prospects are good.
PISCES (Feb. 20-3far. 21)- Har- [ monious conditions prévall'again, so make your progress toward a goal very definite and sure.
agination.
"Quick boys, next field but one, pienie party with three kinds of jam."
BY
THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
IN
IN the morning of the world, ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20.)—I{ & when old Houndagneu kept problem bothers you, ferret out the the inn at Sainte-Engrace cause and you can correct It Be Lamong the forests, and Lou- your own detective. Use your Imben's house still stood in
the hamlet of Aramits (where the original of the Aramis of Dumas lived), I might have been seen fearlessly eating and drinking before thrusting on- wards into the high mountains.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-Be tactful when it comes to dealing with
the fair sex. A careless word might cause unintended offence.
GEMINI '(May 22-June 22)-itola the line until afternoon comes and
then go all out
for progress. 20 results. cautious and deliberate for the bes
CANCER (June 23-July 23)—You of the fair sex, beginuing vacatioris. should have good prospects for fur Make some new friends.
Grasse: City of Flowers
By TEMPLE MANNING
IT is difcuit to even regard, let
alone buy, a bottle of perfume from France, without conjuring up a memory picture of Grasse, city of. flowers. For there are over 80,000 acres in around this Rivlera town devoted solely to flower culture.
other
These forms yield some three million pounds of roses and more than four million pounds of orange blossoms each year, not to mention millions of pounds of violets, lilies of the valley, Jasmine and floral delights. Consequently, Grasse telegraphs its position, and one is aware of it by the beautiful aroma of flowers, long before the elty itself comes into view. And what a view it is, for all around
5. Name the principal religions of the ground seems to be one brilliant- the people of Palestinë.
0. How does Canada's navy rank with the other navies of the world?
(Answers on Column 5)
CHESS PROBLEM
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ly coloured Oriental rug.
Flower Farms
A fascinating old streat in Gra
France.
of
Apart from the flower farms and tillation. perfume ints and factories, Grassa are something else itself is an old and fascinating town, with magnifcont with a checkered history. It was ravaged many times by the Sara cens and sacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast. But even when pil. laged, destroyed, and razed to the ground, it has always made a re- covery. Which isn't too astonishing, for surely man would not willingly make a desert out of such an oasis of fertility and beauty.
ask and bottles, many in exqui sile Lalique glass, rich with en- graving.
I mention this partly to boast, and partly because I see that the Tribute of the Three Cows is sull continued. God be with the old customs! Every July since the Mid- dle Ages the men of the French valley of Barelous have paid three cows to the men of the Spanish valley of Roncal. The ceremony takes place at the frontier, in the pass of Saint-Martin.
How pleased you must all feel About thist
Scarcely credible
SUET, ESQ., has got rid of his C. lisping secretary, owing to a
misunderstandlog over the tele- phone about a thample of thnock thauthage. The new secretary work- ed in a circus with the performing horses,
and walks in circles, crack- Ing an imaginary whip. This does not facilitate dictation. Suet follows her round until she pokes at his front legs to make him kneel,
77.
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
BOOM SALES FOR BRITISH CARS
London, Aug. 11-The Ford Motor Company Ltd and the Austin Motor Company today reported. n boom in the sale of their small British-made car in North America.
HONGKONG
SHARES
Ford's managing director, Sir Patrick Hennessy, claimed a new dollar earning. record for British car manufacturers. He reported that 2,968 lght vehicles cars, trucks and tractors were sold to North Although the volume of business American customers in July, to put through this morning on the ring Britain US$2,750,000. Stock Exchange was' heavier than
The Austin Company reported yesterday, the market generally re- North American
totalling sales mained quiet and on the easy side. TIS$11,750,000 since a sales organisa-
This morning's transactions were tion was established in the valued at $230,000. Details and noon | States and Canuda nine months ago, prices follow:-
Arr Austin Company
United
statement
BHARES NUYERS SELLERS SALES said: "The demand for Austins in
BANKS
HK Bank
East Asia
INSURANCES
Canton Union
JIK Fire
5 @ 300
10 + 275
774
2030
32 2033
139 141
....
340
701
50 793
30
200
13119
IBU
2945 30%
22%
13 1514 BOL
DOCKS, ETC.
K. Whart (0) KC. Wharf (NY Dock
Provident
LAND, ETC.
Inc totel
HK Land
UTILITIES
Tram
Star Ferry
C. Light (0) ..
133
2115
1000 22
GOO 21
C. Light (N).. 17 Bectric
Macro Electric 2474
Telephone (0) INDUSTRIALS
Cement Rope
39 401 350 m 3024
41
America continues to
grow." It added that there appeared to be "Hittle likelihood of any of the big three American car manufacturers entering the light car market."
-Ford reported "total exports of 9,845 vehicles all over, the world during July, n gain of 1,413 over the Company's previous total in March. ---Associated Press.
N.Y. FOREIGN EXCHANGE
New York, Aug. 11-Today's foreign exchange closing rates werd:- Argentine Peso (Dffelal) US$0.2017 Argenilne Peso (Unofficial)
41 1215 1004 Australa
N.Y. Rubber
Futures
Brazil
Helgium
Canada
Chile England France India
350
002855
901
0350
00
3024
Mexico
1403
New Zealand
Peru
0700
Portugal
South Africa Sweden Sudtzerland
New York, Aug, 11-The Rubber Uruguay market here today was quiet and Venezuela easier,
affected by declines at Shana (CNC$100,000)
Netherlands, London and Singapore, plus the va absence of factory and stockpile Signore buying.
Dealers 'view the upsat as | Hongkong technical, but see no intileations of an immediate upward movement while buyers are aloof. They hold the long term view, however, that higher prices are pected before the end of the year because of the uncerulinty of production in the Far East and the expected stockplle. needs. Closing prices were:10 to 23 points Tower..
"Prices'closed as follows:- August fin cents per 1 22.50 nominal September
Oktober
***.................................. 22.40 traded
27.40'nóminal 27.40
Jamary (1049)
March
November
December
February
April
Mor
June
was about to receive
the bit
He of
Jutr
August
September
October
sugar one day when Sir Henry Chives came in. Tableau
vivant, in fact.
What do I care?
A
Tableau
REPORT that birds, climbed in-
to a pillar-box and picked the stamps off lotters is said to be en- The factory showrooms Office authorities. I can give them goging the attention of the Post thoughsorae
a hint. There is a village in War- collections
wickshire where sticks the stamps on
a. tame starling Why not round up these birds and telegrams. teach them something constructive? interesting and it is intriguing to little peaked hats to wear, and tiny The laboratories sre extremely Paint them blue and give them watch the professional sniffers work, as their noses pats judgment taught a hen to lay in an egg-cup. at boots, like the Mayor of Rodez, who on new blends. The really pretty picture, though, is of the women and girls in the huge flower fields, pluck- ing basketfuls of petals from the One of the historical chapters of endless stretch
of beautiful and Grasse deals with Napoleon, who fragrant flowers. visited it after his escape
from Elba. As he rode up through tho valley from the shore, doors ware barricaded and streets were empty, for somehow word had got around been revered thai pirates were about to attack.
instance,
Tail-piece
who
Mr Amery had a heckler, shouted something about Charles 1 and Barbara Villiers, But he talked long enough to make it fairly clear that his grudge was against the Bank of England.
(Report of speech,}
It's a delightful ride to Castelane, an ancient town set against a huge mass of rock, a rock saki to have as a divinity by the early. tribes of the Mediterranean region. One of the tribes, the Sall- But let's get back to the Grasse niens, went in for some extremely of today and its charming environs,
Interesting customs, Ideas that and, of course, its flower factories. might well be emulated today. For Idleness they .punished be- The flower factories in themselves
.DV are not such pretty eights, despille cause they regarded it as the worst
of vices.
If It was observed that the huge piles of flowers, for these af are waiting to be simmered in vats anyone, no matter the rank, was be- of hot fat to extract their essence, coming stout, his waist was girded by the tribe's standard-sized bolt, or are waiting for the process of dis and if it measured off more than the are white and this gives the
1. No, but the feathers on his Head prescribed limit, he was beaten, his pearance of baldness. 2. Fish. work increased, his food decreased, In the Straits Bettlements and on until his measurements went back to the China coast, 4. Balt water fish MAILS normal-as good a method of reduc-and shell fish. 6. Christian, Jewish ing as one is ever likely to discover. and Mohammedan, d. Third largest.
OUTWARD
THURSDAY, AUGEST U Cloring Times By Ale Lluchow, Kunming, Amoy, Shanghal Nanking. Hankow, Tsingtao, Peiping, Bwatow, floihow and Talpen, 3.33 p.m. Bangkok, Ringapore, Batavia, Colombo,
Sydney and Auckland. 3 p.m.
Closing Times By Sea & Train Parcels only for Canada via Vancouver,
3.C. (e) 3 p.m.
Macro and Tainahan (Bas) 4 pin, Kongmoon (Via Canton) (Teala) 8 pan. Canton (Parcels and 2nd Ciana Mad) (Suk)
5 pm
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1. Closing Timer by Air Canton, (Kowloon CPO): 750 7 km. 10 mm, 12.30 pm, 1 pm; (OPO) ́T sam, 930 m., Noon,, 150 p.m. Shanghai, 9 xan, (rég); 650"áza. (ord). Shanghal, Nanking, Hankow, · Thingtao, Pelping, Amoy, ·Poochaw, Śwalow and Tainan, 3.30 p.m.
Closing Times By Ses & Train Maeso and Tainshan (Bea)_8_am.. Formosa via Keelung (Bea) 2-paTI. Shanghai (Dua) 2 p.
Macao and Tainahan (Ben)-2, p.1. Canton (2nd class mail only)" (Train)
1 p.m.
Amoy and Swałow (Van) 3 p.m.
2angkok (Sea) 3. p.m.
Macas and Thinshan (Men) 4 pan. '' Kongmoon (Bea): 8_p.m.
Canton (Parcela & 2nd class muft) (Hes)
p.m.
Per The Amiřicha Mayeka ky Gene Cure
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Aniwers
ap-
3.
2235/40 Araded
22.30 nomirsal
22.20 110. 22.12 nominal
22.03
22.00
21.80
United Press.
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3770
2435
United Press.
Higher Sugar
Quotations
New York, Aug 12-World sugar futures today, closed
one to two· points higher on sales totalling - 60 contracts.
Domestic sugar futures closed and to two points higher on sales total- ling 40 contracts.
The Director of the Washington Marshall Plan Food Division, Dennis A. Fitzgerald, fold a press conference that his organisation had bought relatively small quantities of sugar for the European Recovery Pro- gramme, but he knew of no plan for large-scale purchases. He pointed.
METAL & SCRAP out that the European sugar beet.
MARKETS
New York. August 11-The following prices were quoted in the metaf market here today>
Antimony (American
2016 percent) in bulk
of carload
crop will be harvested in a few. months.
.;
Prices closed as follow:-
Contract No. 4 (World) September in cents per ib. 4.42 bid
| March (1919)
3.93 bid
May
July
3.93 nomina 3.04
September
"
Spot
4.45
Contract No. 8 (Domestic)
September
5.25 traded
1.03
December
8.15 nominal
March (149)
4.01
2.00
MAY
41/2
July
4.99
September
Spot
5.28
lots. F.O.D. Texas US40.30 Tin, Grade "A" (995 -
percent or higher) Tungsten, powdered,
(09.08 percent) Wolframite, (Chinese arc containing Tungsten Trioxide) paid F.0.0. York, per short ten 1985
duly New
Copper Electroly
the Export. F.AS. New York) per Ib. Zine, (Prime West- New York) per ib. Manganese
em
ec-
trolytic. 20.0 per cent) Manganese, delivered 'East of Mississippi River) Der lb. Iron ore 81% percent
Iron,
delivered lower port Lake Superior) per long
ton
O.RO/ZU
2315 cents (US)
15.07
"
$2.00
****** US$833
SCRAP PRICES
The following prices were quoted for
scrap:- Copper, F.O.N..
:
per Ion flights
********................. US$18.50/75 Lead F.O.B. per ton heavy
soit) Steel T.OIL per ton
(No. bravy' melling)
. 18.00/18.50
38.00/39,00 United Press.
CHICAGO GRAIN
PRICES
Chicago, Aug. 11-Chicago Board of Trade prices closed as follows WHEAT prior per bushel)
May
July
CORN
QAT!
May
July
May
July
Clone 21.2.39 ̃a20%-1/8
BLACK
United ProES,
PEPPER
MARKET
New York, Aug. 11-Black pepper futures today
closed Inactive ond nominally 100 points higher to 100 lower. The spot market was armer, alt.songl business war limited here, because malt #upplies were available.
Dealer indicated that recent sales at cheap prices, which were caused by reports of A weakening Indien banki, managed to frighten holders, They also maintained that supplies were at the moment lodged in stronger hands,
Prices closed as follow:-
September
October
December
March
January (1948)
16.00 nominal
65/87.00 GA/50.00
$9.00 Dominal 50.00
$5.00
04.00
Biny July Spat
60.00 asked Spet (White Muntok) 73.00 nominal- -United Press.
Cotton Exported
By Pakistan
Karachi, Aug. 11-Great Britain has received 85,018 bales of the total 1,168,000 bales of cotton ex- ported, by Pakistan between its in- last August and July 31 this ception
it year,
was announced today. China received the largest quanti- 7211ty 100,000 bales, followed by India with 131,595 and Soviet Russin with 120,000 bales. Cl
1.0214-1.62
1.4338030
United Prew
Cotton Prices
Smaller quantities went to Franco, - Belgium; Holland and Italy, in ad- dition to exports to "Japan, Aus- tralia and the United States--As- In-sociated Press.
New Orleans, Aug. 11-Prices, the cotton market here today closed
ng follows:-
Spot
October
December
March (1049).
May
July
October
December
"Stop, or I'll let go!"
31.20
a1.12-10 31.10-20 31.25
31.90-98
Exchange Rates
Brintese vs done in the local official exchisago market this morning, the following rales: Chiness, dollers (per CN81~m.) ..... Sterling note: (per &1) VB, dollar (ose URSI) 27.40 bid Gold bary(perklael)
Piastre (per 100)...... 27.80 #lam ticals (per 100)
NEE-Builder: (per 100)
30.34
United ProE