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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1948.
YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
By Galbraith
COPIL 1948 MY KIA SERVICE, INC. T. M. RES U. B. PET, OFF,
7-15
"I told that insurance man to come back lator! What could happen to a guy 25 years old, as healthy as I am?"
MCKENNEY
ON BRIDGE
Four Hearts Proves Best Contract Here
BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
On the past 20 years the Onto State champlonships tournament
the In Cleveland has been one of largest and most outstanding bridge Ben Creel. events of the country.
Whist president of the Cleveland Club, and his associates maintained that reputation for the tournament this sen.
It was especially pleasing to me because of the fact that i won suf- felent points at the tournament to become a Life Master. My official duties in the past had prevented me Important participating in from events. However, I had accumulat- ed 297 master points and needed three more for the coveled title of Life Master. These 1 won in the Ohio State mixed pair event with Anne Rosenfeld of Cleveland, when we finished third.
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YOUR BIRTHDAY
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 PORN today, you are more slow and dellberate in action than many of your signs. You go forward, step by step, with. considered and thoughtful intent. You are conven- tional
in your attitudes although you can be progressively con- structive,
have. you
been pursuaded that a new iden 13 sound oncl
Once
you
You are fond of the sea as well as all outdoor life and will feel con- Aned or restricted If forced to live permanently in n large city. Best for you to get away from it all" at regular intervals. If
must work in n metropolis, try to live in
suburb. Or, at least.
have summer home where you can spend You week-ends and your vacations, are close to the earth in some ways, and коет to need contact with Nature to bulid up your reserves of strength.
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You are a frm believer in peace and harmony and will go a long way
POCKET CARTOON
By STELLA
by OSBERT LANCASTER
to avoid controversy. However, you concessions to those will not makė who differ with you in iden: you prefer to ignore them. But, if your opponents refuse to ignore you and give open battle, then there is no ane more consecrated to a job than And you will stop at you are! nothing to win.
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Being a good organiser, you are able to take care of business matters efficiently and shrewdly. Your capabilities make it possible for you to make considerable money during your letime. In romarice, you are in one manner an idealist and the which you
be approached your better Judgment is against through your affections. Those you love cun do no wrong. Be sure your confidences are well placed.
can
the stars have In To And what
for tomorrow, select your store birthday star and read the corres- panding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 21) Health is important; guard it. Don't be guided by impulse Just now, Think carefully, before you nel.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 3) An early start will make your plans Inore than usually effective. It necessary to travel for business, to
20.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Morning hours are best for business Lennsactions, The transportation trades appear especially favoured.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-A trip, taken with a view to securing a better job, may bring about the resuits you most desire.
A new
21)
the
PISCES (Feb 20-MDT.
plan, started with approval of the boss, should click one hundred percent if launched elBelenty.
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-A11
windfall-perhaps unexpected
dealing legacy. Be diplomatic In with members of the opposite sex.
a
Would you think me the monk frightful excapist i), furt for two minutes, I asked you to suspend your inter usting forecast of the Inevitable outcome of the Moscow talka!!
BY
THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
ECA PROGRAMME
FOR
KOREA
Washington, Sept. 4.-As Korea's crops are expected to be good this year, food shipments will taper off. Most of the recent shipments have been wheat and barley. ·
HONGKONG
SHARES
FIRM UP
After several weeks of slackness, the Hongkong share market sudden ly firmed up this morning, and many
inquiries came to business. The turnover was the heaviest for some time, being valued at $688,772,50.
проп and Transactions
prices
BANKS
NUYERS SELLERS SALES
follow:--
SHARES
11K Bank..... 2050
DOCKS, ETC.
INSURANCES
Union
IK Fire
K. Wharf (O).
Dock
4
As much as US$100,000,000 may be turned over by the Army to ECA, this being what remains in the Army's occupa- tion funds. But when ECA gets down to deciding what can be done to rehabilitate 'Kores In- dustrinily, it will face the fact that for over half a century Japan used Korca as a source of raw materials and a market for Japanese manufactured goods,
FCA is expected to follow a course of, first, asking Congress for additional aid, but at the same time making it clear that the programme helll be adapted to changing condl- tions in a country where military considerations are an viini Cons
as in-
dustrial rehabilitation;, second.
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50 301
15:00 22:49 1000
270
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100 e 142
100 141
30 31
130 tr 301
100 op 31
Provident
.... 22.70
3700 as 23
LAND, ETC.
IC Hotel .....
10%
500
1315
300
15.30
1000
19.70
K Land
70
a waning moon
Shal Lond
1000 6.10
was haunted
woman wailing jor devilled liver."
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Humphrey UTILITIES
2215
Tram
21.30
Star Ferry
C. Lights (0).
"A savage place, as wholly un-
enchanted
As Cre beneath
IT is not true that S. T. Coleridge wrote those lines
Electrics......
30!
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)... A new job. begun today, can offer excellent opportunities. An inter-
should view with those in charge bring benefits.
GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-- Cultura
pursuits and intellectual will get fine results just now. Con- to poke idle fun at the servico centrate on some new idea; develop at the Women's Press Club. They were, in fact, a protest Recognition of your past efforts may against the establishment of a
pro- Ladies' Annexe at the Athenue- INDUSTRIALS bring you the much-desired motion or new job with better pros-um. When Swinburne read the
verse his only comment was: COTTONS "But 'ow, I mean how do you rhyme 'haunted' with enchant- ed?"
CANCER
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)- Continue the same path of progress begun yesterday. Exert caution if called upon for business expansion. peets.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)— Self control is one of the best methods of averting a wrong de- cision on something very important,
AROUND THE WORLD:
(June 23-July
33)-
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-If you need the okay from a superior on same new project, get it at once and start the Jobs. A good day,
A Delightful Italian Town
By TEMPLE MANNING
a
weapon
THE proof markings on THE
which we were examining Indiented Breschia as the place of , manufacture. Immediately this brought to mind a pleture of that most delightful old town, southwest of beautiful Lake Garda, a town,
1. What 15 regarded 15 the that since the Middle Ages, has, like national game of Canada?
2. What country is known as the Holy Land?
3. Where was the St Bernard dog originally bred?
Pistoin, been manufacturing wea
pons.
Breschio, which, as Brizia, was fourising Tioman colony, is an almost rectangular town, bounded on three sides by a canal, along one of which with main trolley line runs, branches bisecting from east to west,
north and southwest
n
and
4. What was the ancient name of which makes for easy getting around. France?
5. The Black Sen is what two countries?
6. Who Engle"?
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West
North
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Miss Rosenfeld was the declarer
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on today's hand. Some of the con- testunts made the mistake of get- ting Into four-space contract. which was defeated: We arrived at what
normat I thought was a four-heart contract.
Anne trumped the opening lead of the king of clubs. She realised that she had to guard against a four- one break in trumps, so
she eashed
the ace of spades, then led a small spade to dummy's queen.
When
both opponents followed, she led the
three of spades from dummy.
of
East trumped with the four hearts, and then made the mistake of leading back the queen of clubs. Anne trumped with the eight
heart ace, went hearts, cashed the
OE
over to dummy by playing the nine of hearts, then led the other high trump, picking up East's last heart. She returned to her hand with diamond, eashed the two
good ruffed a diamond spades and
dummy, making Ave-odd.
A
in
A diamond return by East after trick four might have given do- clarer more trouble with the hand.
called "The
between
(Answers on Column 51
Work of Art
Breschin has one of the most beautiful publie squares in the world a rue work of art that is refreshing the mind and spirit, even in
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Lone retrospect.
CHESS PROBLEM
By G. CHOCOLOUS
Black, 3 pleçon.
White, 6 pieces. White to play and mate in threo,
Solution to Saturday's problem:
1. R-B2, any; 2, Q, B. or Kt mates.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Acrose
1. Action by the housewife that would brighten, by the studens rovive. 12. 5. 2)
7. Keep wmpany. 10)
10 Bet chests an. Liseful containers.
11 and 12. A ever in my great
13. This
(Milton), (10)
book wrliten Author of KINE BOIGION'S
the
1. It's natural in the tropics. (6) 10. An action that satsin aboard.
ahip this way, (3, 4)**
19, shrewd, (6)
20. May be your proper place in Hre,
(3)
An undedged hawe may or you. (*)
at. Even
32. Not the man who throws things but a sort of hockey player. (0)
Down
1. sou go in for this you may
bo marked for life. (0)
#. Pora of propulsion that reminds Fou at early days of November (7).
. Site me a restful mixture. 10)
4. 2016 Way to serta ment. (6)
5. Extreme. (1)
0. Jis outlook 14 dark. (0)
Bounds like she family of a car- rous manual, yet it's a fur
(8)
s. le is not necessarily and for
how window; (4) -
12. Bes 11 Acrose.
15. Of a truth is might follow Vora.
17. To the Imp it would sharks with
grime. (4
15. He was one of Shakespearo's rosi.
trageding. (4)
The town of Breschia dates from the Middle Ages.
"With an Essex' becent, erelin,” replied the poet. "Go swallow your sisteroh sister swallow." He hath sensitive child since always been
he had been sent down from Weedon For translating "Mignon, allons voir si la rose.. as "Hey, nipper, cut niong
and see if Rosie's finished
with the bathroom."
Cultural note
FOLLOWING
the recent boom in art (2,000 people a day at-
200
and the reconstruction of power
facilities; and, third, making
at.
tempts to increase trade with China. If Korea has rice sufficient for ex- port some is likely to go to China, along with coal.
JAPAN MAY HELP
It is considered possible that Japan can help in the programme but to put Korca back on her feet econo- mically will necessitate breaking 1002335 away from the practice of one-way 21400211⁄2 exploitation, which was the basis of
150
pre-war Japanese polley.
ECA
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4122
Cement
Ewo
50022
1000 2216
500 2220 the expected to help to restore
100 2312 3800 69 302
hydro-electric facilities, which 1600 will help flood control and curb and 1000 & 22.30 erosion, as well as supply necessary current. ECA will probably also at- tempt to rebuild the fertiliser plant already there. It can also be ex- pected that the tungsten mines will get attention, as well as the textile mille
6 40
+ 40
DOC 40 200 or 32
100 42 100
Another field in which ECA van meve swiftly in that of fishing and
the
2012 2800 44 20% the gathering of edible scowced. This would provide exports to Chins. Before
war Korca exported Like Japan, Koren needs certain materials for what industry it hos.
JAP EXPORT 1,500,000 tons of the rice annually.
DEFICIT
DECLINES
At present ECA docs not even
Korean
section. Director
0
Paul Hoffman is
is relying heavily es both the Army and State Depart- ment for information in his task of transforming the Army recon- struction and relief activities into new
ECA.
Tokyo, Sept. 4. Japan's foreign trade in the Arst six months of Press.
this year moved nearer to an ex- an export de- port balance, with Aleft of only five billion yen, de-
programme.—United
tended a London exhibition the other cording to a Japanese Government RAW COTTON
week), we are given to understand that in Swancliffe (Yorks) the hanging committee of a local Joan exhibition had to ask the Reclining
report.
The Finance Ministry announced that the foreign trade total reached four billion усп, with thirty
ond fourteen billion yen exports to stand up to make room for a lady mayoress,
ninteen billion yen imports. (A U.S. dollar equals about 300 yen).
Venus
M.I. fiue to one bar one
Tus
The principal buyers of Japanese products were the United States,
order.
PRICES REDUCED
London, Sept. 4.-The 'Govern-
we found for your delight Java, Koren and Hongkong, in that ment-sponsored Raw Cotton Com- Circusually reliable diplo matte Cirec.... Let us be honest, More than twelve billion yen's mission today approved reductions worth of Japan's imports come from ranging from one penny to sixpence in the prices which British mill-
this is a printer's error, and not n
sly, classical dig at Mme. Tabourls the United States, with three billion owners pay for many grades of row
her
own
sphere
or even that little chammer in black velvet, operator XZ27/3 of the Foreign Office (who is perhaps better known in "the gel with the papers in her two-way-stretch"); You guessed as Very good, then; much, did you? but perhaps you did not know that when they abeak of "a well-informed the usual circle" in Whitehall they refer to Mr Bevin, and that "authoritative sauce" that they speak Cold so highly mution.
is uselesa on
NEI Oilseed
cotton.
yen's worth (mostly sugar) from Cuba.
The reductions are effective In- Japan's principal exports were
silkmediately. American type cotton is textiles, colton
raw Blik,
in that largely unaffected, but the selling textiles, china and coal.
rates of several varieties of Egyp- order--United Press,
Ulan and Sudan colton are cut,
It is the fifth downward change in colton prices in the past nine weeks, but I left the cost of the best grade Egyptün colton at twice
Tho Ra price last February when price boosts started.-United Press. SHIPMENTS FOR JAPAN Tokyo, Sept. 4.-The ship Carrick Washington, Sept. 6. The Agri- Bend is scheduled to dock at Kabe culture Department today said in this week-end with 3,500 bales of its weekly report on foreign crops Indian raw cotton, which will com- and markets that the Netherlands' | pleto India's commitment to supply 1041 ollseed nereage had exceeded Japan with 17,200 bales of cotion
under the existing contract.
Acreage
What's on next week
Monday: Changing of the guard
Waterloo Station, Tuesday: Snoek-testing party at that of the previous two years, as
a result of larger plantings of flax At the same time, government Ministry of Food.
arul rapeseed..
officiels disclosed that 60,000 bales of "Incomplete
American cotton will leave the reports show that
Japan during 43,000 acres were devoted to Bax, United States for compared with 32,800 in 1947," sald September, while negotiations to the
"This is the largest flax under way for the importation of a report.
since 1942, nereage
when 55.800 further 50,000 bules. acres were sown. Approximately Egypt is to deliver 2,500 bales of were re-cotton, 1,000 bales of which are ex- 39,000 acres of rapeseed
Kobe during ported. Average prewar plantingspected to arrive al
October-United Press. came to about 43,000 acres,"
Wednesday: Visit to St. George's Hospital.
The Plazza di Loggia is the centre church, the crypt and the presby of the town, and of the life of its tery. The Rotenda is now below the people. La Loggia is built of various level of the road, so the doorway marbles in early Renaissance style, opening onto it is not used. Instead and was begun in 1492, with the best it is entered by 26 steps downward architects,
the adjoining new cathedral, sculptors and painters of from that time contributing to make it It is a huge circular building, with a typical work of art.
enormous dome which is built on AL the northwest corner com. three arches on either side.
The new cathedral is a magnif- manding Breschia, and so ideal for
largest done cent is the
edifice with the castle. military purposes, Situated on
hill, it is surrounded in Italy. In the square in front is
with the alle-at a beautiful fountain walls with towers at the comers, a by and an overhanging top, a ne ex- gorical figure of an armed woman, ample, we were told, of 14th century in honour of the women of Breschia building. South of the castle is an who fought with their men for the amazing museum which is the re- preservation of their homes during nains of a temple of Hercules the many and constant sleges and through the centuries, erected in 52 A.D. A broad flight of battles that,
Thursday: Fiesta of Flowers, have eddled about the place. sixteen stups teads up to the en-
Until Breschia passed under Vene- be followed by Battle of Oysters, trance. Still standing are the lower
at Croydon Municipal Baths, century, the tian rule in the 15th portions of 16 columns that form a
hy Goths, Huns colonade. In the building are three had been sacked
Friday: Opening of cheese season. rooms which contain real treasures, and Lom
and Lombards, and during some of
and women, including the famous bronze statue, the battles.
children, fought with citizen soldiers "La Vilroria," excavated late in the
history, the 19th century.
ramparts. This
arsenal and the together with the Not far off la anolber' museum.
has various arms plants
given this one devoted to treasures and
milliant Breschla 27
air and
1. Lacrosse. 2, Palestine. 3. At the objects ecclesiastical, a collection
offset to But, almosphere.
this. Hospice of St Bernard, in the St that has brought
scholars, artists Breschia is rich in churches, some of Bernard Passes, in the Swiss Alps. from all over the which are and architects
truly architectural and 4. Gaul. 5. Between Russia on the world.
artistic gems, rich in paintings, north, and Turkey on the south. 0. Roman Forum
frescoes and carvings.
Charles A. Lindberg. Beyond the 'museum, surrounded by houses on three sides is the Ro- vine del Foro Romano. All that re- mains of the once huge Roman Forum is an arch, some columns and moulding. with part of the wall. A really amazing building the Ro- tondo, the old cathedral which con- sists of three parts the old circular
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"I wish she'd hurry up and move on...I want to lock up!",
The report also said Malayaa exporis of copra and coconut oil were "conalderably smaller in June than in the two preceding, months." amounted It sald copra shipments Ito 3,232 long_tons, compared with more than 5,000 in both April and May.
Coconut oil shipments como to
fans compared only 1,734
with 8,000 tons in April and 3,100 tons in May-United Press.
Rediscount Rate
Increased
дго
Bank of
Parts, Sept, 4.-Tho France today raised its rediscount by one rate of commercial paper percent. The new rate is 3.5 percent. A tersely worded communique in- dicated that this move on the part of the Bank was made necessary by
Increase Of Foamed the constant increase in inflationary
Latex Output :
Akron, Ohio.. Sept. 4.Cutput of than foamed Intex will be more
pressure and by the upward surge. in the size of the Bank's rediscount portfolio-United Press.
doubled at the Full River, Mas- OUTWARD MAILS
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Company In
A
US$1,000,000 expansion programme,
It was announced today.
Construction of JIOW buildings and installation of new equipment will also present employment of 2,000 by about 600 to 700 workers. Associated Press.
Exchange Rates
Business
was done in the loral ung official exchange, market this morning at the following rates
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Closing Tunes By Air Bhanghai, Nanking. Hankow, Tsingtao.
Pelping, Kunming. Lluchow, Ainoy,, Taipeh and Swatow 3.30 p.m.
Closing Times By Nen"da Trait
Mandia and South Africa via Durban.
[(hoa) 3. p.m.
Cold yuan (per yuan)
1.12
(per #1 m.)....
U.S. dollar per $1)
Sterling pound note (per £1)
0,41
14.29
Honow, Patio! via Hothow," and Straits.
(Ben) 3 p.375. ^
5.14
Macao and Tsinshan (Ben) 4 pa
Gold-bars (per fact)
208.00
Kongmoon (Sex) 8 pm,
FIC plastree (par 100)
11.00
Tamkong (yes) 8 pm.
Bam tical (par 100)
23.00
Canton (Parcels and End class. Mali)i
29.50
(50%) B.Jam.
NEI Mulders (per 100)