THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
1. 8. PAT, DET.
7-26
"Yes, the girls did buy a lot of cosmetics, but wouldn't you rather pay a few bills like that than have two froway
old maids on your handa?"
• MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE Suggested Play Can Beat This Contract
BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
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world the
championship
masters individual tournament, is
one of the most
to come
sensational hands
out of championship
tournament.
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to kibitz George Raper, of New York City, when he played the hand. It certainly looked as if West was correct in doubling the four-spade contract, and six of the nine players who held the West hand did double At practic- ally every table the bidding went as shown here.
Against Ropee the six of clubs was opened. Enat did not put up the king, He played the ten-apot,
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so South won with the jack. The queen of spades was led and won by West with the king. West re- turned the queen of hearts, Rapre won, cashed the ace of clubs and ruffed the small club in dummy with the four of spades.
His next play was a diamond 10 the ade, then a small diamond was zeturned, won In dummy with the queen and the king of diamonds cashed, on which Rapee discarded heart his last club. Then a small was rufled.
DUMB-BELLS
YOUR
FARE LADY!
OFFICE
TEE HEE FLATTERER
Check Your Knowledge
1. What is a gazelle?
2. Into what sea are the cilles of Sodom and Gomorrah said to have disappeared?
3. What English guards are nick- named "Beef-caters"?
4. How many climatic zones are there?
5. What was Ghandi's *lon?
profes-
0. What does Drummagem mean?
(Anneers on Column 5)
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. K. ELWORTHY Black, 10 pieces,
White, pleces. White to play and mate in two. Solution to yesterday's problem:
1, K-B7, any: 2, R, or Kt mates.
EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPH'' FEATURE
YOUR BIRTHDAY
Во
POCKET CARTOON.
By STELLA
by OSBERT LANCASTER
Iri- directed at ony one
You will have dividual.
many friends who are helpful and who
the will excuse a great deal. In
of "artistic temperament". name
Yon this as Don't trade, too heavily. an excuse to go drifting aimlessly through life, or you will never be the success which your real talents, Indicate should rightly be yours.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 ORN on this last day of the out-
nnger going sign. Virgo, you will be- gin to inherit some of the tenden- cles.of the incoming sign, Libra. Your interest
In knowledge will become increasingly pointed toward the arts, especially those in which Ine
and colour are paramount, This may
in # certain reatlessness, but once you have analysed yourself and properly re- cognised your basle (alenia and desires you can forge right ahead to achieve your goal.
result
You have a very active Imagina- Ulon and this often leads
you off into day-dreams and castle-build- lias no relation to the ing which plain, hard facts of every-day Uv- You must learn to get down ink.
arth" before you can hope to to earth"
commercial become any kind of
or business success. Impulsive and
qulek-tempered,
you soon want to forget and for- kive, for an outburst is usually en expression
of impatience at the slowness of progress, mther than
You have social charms and en- joy the company of both sexes. Bo very careful in your selection of a marriage partner. Not just "any- end" will sumee. You are very Idealistic and want to have perfec- tion in your mate, Don't however, put this person on a pedestal or you попу be seriously disillusioned. Someone born under Gemini, Can- cor, or Sagittarius will prove most. harmonious.
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.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-Em- ployees are favoured and should get their demands now. A new job or undertaking can be highly successful.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 24-Nav.
22) Personal efforts count for a great deal right now. Work hard: the results are good.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov.
23-Dec.
22)-Contracts, advertising, publicity and mall order business-all get the "go ahead", sigħal now.
CAPRICORN (Dee, 23-Jan. 20)- An advantageous opportunity may call for a change in plans. The future looms better and brighter.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)--- You may achieve a distinct advant- nge it dealing with superlors in business today. Be assertive.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-Don't be over-ambitious, but patiently push current advantages and future prospects will emerge brighter.
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr, 20)-Bet- ter working conditions, provided you do your share in effecting the change.
"It's all very well to laugh, Loftus, but if you'd been able to speak to our shareholders half as convincingly as Str Staford spoke to us, you and tight still be comfortably Inatuled in Leadenhall-tireet
BY
THE
WAY by Beachcomber
21-THE
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May You may receive some official re- cognition now for past works well done. Take full advantage of any awarded honours.
V
"Queen of THE Dunmow
Horticulture" who is to be chosen soon will have to pro mise that she will "retain her love for the countryside and all GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-its fruits." Energelle progressiveness, pushing We only wish we purposefully toward some definite
could be goal, will bring rewarding results there to hear
goes on, but char's night unfortunately it's the fortny.
CANCER
(June 23-July 23) out and all the smalls to do.
think it will sound a bit like this:- Material
for white collar galns workers and those in factories ap- Judge: "Now promise you will pear evident right now.
love the countryside, won't you, Miss-er-cr-?"
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)---Em- ployer-employee relations to aid the infter just now.
what
The Queen of appear
Simpkins:
VIRGO (Aer. 24-Sept. 22)--Con- tube to push yesterday's gains to- ward a successful conclusion. The domestic scene should be calm,
100.
MIDWEEK BOOK PARADE
AN
AMERICAN ATTEMPTS
TO WEIGH COURAGE
"THE STEEPER CLIFF"
By David Davidson
(Cresset Press, 10s, fd,)
་
Tha!
unsolicited testimonial' is from Mr Bussell Maloney, of the New Yorker, a man evidently with nbad adolescent fixation.
Brandel,
We
Horticulture, Diss "But of courer Ay will. all the lovely loverly Rohs, and of course the little furry animals too."
Judge: "Not forgetting even the teeny tiny little what-you-may-calt- ems, and those climbing things with pink blotches?"
The Q. of B "Do you mean ald Joe, the thatcher?"
Judge: "No, not him, he's an old nasty. I mean the lesser pig-wort, I think or it may be Mrs Wilkin- son's new hat."
Great big flat world dept.
THE Rev.. H. A. Harcup says that there are men and women churches in village preaching in
the world is Leicester who believe flat.
He does not explain if they mean NE of the many questions
Nat-like a glass flat like we mean The point is that Mare raised (and dropped) in "The
out last night and Steeper Cllr Is: How would the author of "The Ides of Sum of beer poured you, as a German, have behaved mer" is not comparable with either met with in the morning-in which Aldous Huxley or Norman Douglas. caseo we agree with them-or fint under Hitler's rule?
means flat- Perhaps he shapes a little like the like Mrs. Winchelson
Certainly like a pancake made with powdered Could You
have acquiescell, early Evelyn Waugh. knowingly, in the worst of his you want to apply comparative eggs. It is Mra Winchelsea who re- tyrannics. You could have given criticism to a trifle his novel reads fuses to go one step beyond Dover when without a parachute in case she fails or taken the most monstrous like a product of the 1920s,
was the fashion.
over the edge. orders. You could have carried on "daring" in bland ignorance.
of group
to you-know-who
SENSATIONAL
ΤΟ SCHEME END
HAT LIVE-BIRD
TRIM- MING VETOED BY PLUCKY
DECORATOR WEST END
Blonde Seen Loitering Near Cab-rank
It is a cleverish confection on a With acknowledgments You could have run with the famillar formula the hare and hunted with the hounds. people impelled towards their doom. You could have been martyr. As a thriller it is defcient in grue, Intervals of quile And you could, if so constituted, but there are have done all or any of these intemperate amusement. things with an easy mind.";
The horror hinges creakily, on a
named question Implied rather young musteinn
(with How Shakespearian allusiveness) Cassius. than posed by this book is: would you deal with the German He is subject to premonitions people now if you were an Ameri disaster. Friends of his have died can? Bully thera or befriend them? in shocking circumstances which he
your had foreseen.
Could he have saved Trust them or never relax
this book he feels his Forgive them or punish them? In suspicions?
premonitions coming on again. For them?
Another
of
"GET OUT UNLESS—” GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN
Mother-Crics
VI
Was Mu
Teenager.
Perhaps the American Journalist one implausible reason or another a
CILA" ask. too number of men and women con- IN the quiet parlour of a tiny in "The Steeper
was sent to verge on his little house in Fifty- village post office sits 81-year- first-street, New York. What was old bed-ridden Emily Wartz, known their fate? Was Caesius hom-to the local children as "Old-Picase cidal maniac? These questions turn to page.sta.
many questions. He
the news- Germany to reorganise papers there. He is in search of a
key man, an unflinching opponent Inger.
of the Nazis and all their works,
queer
themselves Before they present found. bo The man is not to
that he you will have been diverted by an Gestapo records suggest was, hiler all, a double-crosser, extravaganze with gyrating The American
write people, artists, writers, trilles, and authoritica
the Industriously Idle rich. him off.
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
Rubber Sought For Japan & Germany
New York, Sept. 21.-The rubber market hero today was quiet and mixed, with physicals largely un- changed and futures off slightly and closing six to nine points lower. Sales totalled 26 contracts.
HONGKONG
SHARES
The turnover on the Hongkong Stock Exchange during this morn Ing's short session totalled $102,- 033 in value.
Transactions candi prices follow: SHANER
DANKS
НК Палк East Asia
INSURANCES
Canton Union
- Underwriter DOCKS, ETC.
K. Whart {0} Dock ...
Provident.** LAND, ETC.
HK Hotel IK Land Humphreys UTILITIES
Trany
noon closing
HUYERS BELLERS KALES
2010 130
700
300 100
7.10
140%
20 3012
23
15 15.40
10 703
Il
The decline at London and also September liquidation upset the market little midway through the session after a steady opening, but futures later railled duo to dealer- Covering and to reports of an increase in factory demand for 'actuals' after the recent in- difference.
-areas
of
There were unconfirmed rumours that a SCAP buyer of rubber In Singapore was seeking to buy for Japan and the bizdnat Germany 25,000 tona for fourth quarter delivery.
The consensus of opinion still favours an improvement in prices
owing to misgivings about the out- come of the Paris meeting and the complexities of the political silua- tion in Indonesia.
Friees closed as follow: Y September (in resity pers
November
71 721
2415
Ib)
Star Ferry C. Light (0).
21.10 2000 13516
20,70
October
2112
500
21.70 December
500
21,70
January (1940)
400
21.70
400 21.70 March
February
April
40
Alay
37
41
300 4114
Juna
19.20
July
August
*.
September
Electric Telephone (0)
Cement Rops STORES, ETC.
Dalry (0) Dairy (N)
N.Y. FOREIGN
EXCHANGE
New York, Sept. 21-Closing rates for foreign exchange were:- Argentine Peso (Omelal)
Argentine
onell)
Australia
Brazli
Belgium Canada
Chile England
J'eto (Un-
US$0 2077
2032
3.23
0550
.02.237
02 1/16
0333
4.032
0032125
3034
.3450
4.0312
0770
04044
France
India
Mexico,
New Zealand
Perti
Portugal
South Africa
4.03%
Sweden
2700
Switzerland
2556
Uruguay
.4550
Venezuela
3010
Shanghai (per Gold Yuan) (nom.)
2600
Netherlands
3770
Datavia Singapore Hongkong
3760
.4735
2400
United Press.
POUND NOTE RATE New York. Sept. Si--The Brittan pound note was quoted in the unofficial US$2.14.---United market here today at Press
PARIS MARKET Paris, Sept. 21-The following eliange rates were quoted In the frea tarket here today:- US$20 (gal piece) USSI motel.
26,100 Fr. 311 Fra. United Press, ZURICH EXCHANGE Zurich, Sept. 21-The following ex- change rates were quoted in the" mar- ket today! 20 United States dollar + Sterling
... 13.75
October November
kib-traded
2041 nominus!
21.43
21.30 traded
21.48 nominal $1.45
21.40-42.traded 21.40 nominal
21.40 traded
21.39 nominal
21.30
21.35
21.20
21.10
United Press,
LONDON FUTURES
London, Sept. 21-Prices in $210
rubber market here Collows:-
today closed
BI
October in pennies per Ib.) 13-3/16 November
December
January (340)
13-3/10
13-3/10
13-15
United Press.
U.K. EXPORTS IN
AUGUST DOWN
London, Sept. 21.-Britain's **** parts dropped £15,100,000 during August, the United Kingdom's traditional holiday month.
Announcing the decline today, the Board of Trade sald the drop was about percent under July's record of £145,600,000 but because August had two less working days than July, the fall averaged only three percent in the dally value.
The seasonal drop compared with a decline last August of 15 percent for the month and eight percent in the dully rate.
The Board of Trade esumated that the August volume of £130,- 500,000, allowing for price rises, was 133 percent of the 1938 figure as compared with 149 percent in July and 138 percent in June. The notion's target this year 15 140 percent.-Assoclated Press.
LONDON 3.00 (Swine Fr.) United "Press.
NEW YORK-METAL
MARKET
following New York. Sept. The prices were quoted in the metal mar- ket here today:-
STOCK
MARKET
- London, Sept.--21 Dislike-of-the International situation was reflected icday in reduced trading and irregu- lar movement on the London Stock Exchange.
Oil issues were weak at the open♬ ing but closed above the worst, with
fron ore (835 percent Iron) deilvered
Inwer port Lake Superior, pero Reyal Dutch actually closing th•\,
ton
Copper Electrolytic. Export)
Ib
FA.S. higher at 23.
New York, per lb. ....... 231⁄2 ts
The only section, however, to Zine (Prime Western, New York per show much speculative activity was
............................ 13.03 .
percent that of Brazilan rails and utilities, (Electrolytic, 93.3 Manganese) delivered East of Misals which moved higher in Alppi River. per tb...
Monconese
32.00 cl. trading.
SCRAP PRICES
narrow
British Government securitics
The following prices were quoted for were casier and mostly down 1/10th.
ton
scrap!→→ Copper, FOD. per
(light) Lent F.O.. per ton
theavy soft
Steel, FO.D. per lon
1 heavy melting)
No.
The turnover in industrial issues US$15.73/10.00 was very small but "rearmament"
17.00/17.30
*33.00730.00 -Unlied Press.
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE CHINA PRODUCE
Answers
At this point he was down to the Jack, ten, seven and six of trump, while West was down to the ace, nine, eight and three. Rupee led the jack of spades, and no matter how Weat played, he could make
1. A small antelope of Asia and N. 'Africa, remarkable for its elegant only two more spade tricks. If he
As one of the characters says, it form and soft lustre of its eyes, 2, took the inck, he would have to
For the journalist it becomes both
(the vogue The Dead Sea. 3. The yeomen of give West another spade trick. If he
and a test of is all "shrubbery"
but taken in the Guard at London Tower. 4, Five: ducked, declarer would lead the
it holds continue with the nine of a point of honour seven of spades.
spades. Now declarer cannot ruff a personal courage to find the missing word for nonsense).
the right spirit, which appears to two frigid zones, two temperate and 5. He was a lawyer. one torrid. hand was discussed a great club or get in two club finesses. man, The
be gin, it is temporarily exhilarat-
6. Sham, showy, cheap. Short for deal, bs to whether or not any However, I do not think that any
Binningham where
sham defence would defent it, and I good player would suggest that line *bellove that the following play,
Jewellery was made.. of defence without knowing the Spiritually, in the labyrinth of the which was not made by any West hand,
player, will defeat the contract. Lead the king of spades, and when
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
12
1. Bounds like a fairy's nood, but actually it was used in treach warfaro, (9)
7. April is usually the most pro
no monto ar 15 (4)
9. A natural, object that is alten
bronted with respect. 16
10. frleby one month
superstitioXIA
the bed i
broken. ()
ground. (4)
11. To which... any #ised my
bd
10. Looks as though she's above the
bird..(0)
14, ktoré jucrative to the
than the theatre maneger. 13
10. No importance is attached to
·
tile pernah (0) -
17. TAD is what iv adds up to, 15)
10.-The photfu is
novelty. (3)
-21. A diferent
shored. (
dreed of
y to get
23, histımily a reply paid enclosure.
(3)
24. To the north-east this is clear
and unclouded. (4)
28. Bon of MAM. 18)
26. This put in girl you a rascally
monk. (0)
Down
1. Prige soon produce fare know-
tedco. (9)
2. A hot ekaer tanag.). 44-5)
a. à broken tior, 147
4. Innumerable. (9)
5. Hmall. 101.
Q. Wanting wibetanco. (8)
b. Apparently no sapper can maxs
an anchorage, 13]-
11. Give a letter ta's well-known
12. A top in action perhaps. (7)
10. Laxos Lore that's home to
at run like this does. (6)
10. One of many publlo conveyances.
(4)
20. Dues this make postry 7 (4)
puzzle.. Arrest:
29 Some BEN, ZO) A
solution of WUT!
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Levi 12. Inbrea, LE, Kimi It, Cilarini Puri: 20 KATOS PALMA – 23, K40: .Bennik: 95, Adder Dewar,
Bunk pin
VONE: 3, Tumbieri; 4, Kels "O, ARIE
rand: EN DIET, Onk: 10 "UDIO: Test.
Materially the quest is exciting. ing.
Journalist's soul, it becomes almost. exhausting.
There are so many fine points to. be negotiated, so many depths and shoals of honour to be sounded, 60 frequently д psychological book fash-back to be faced,
text-
But it makes a good story, with familiar American features: wild parties, for example, and a number of love interests; also graft and the impudence which kind of laconic
serves for 'humour.
The reat justification for it is the setting. Germany in the ruins of defeat and despair is vividly presented. So is America in the flush of victory.
"THE IDES OF SUMMER” By Marc Brandel
(Eyre & Spottiswoode, Dr.)
PUBLISHERS have old ways of
1
pushing their wares. Who, wonder, will be cajoled into read- ing "THE IDES OF SUMMER” by this statement on its jacket:
"It's a dead-ban, unmoral, and completely delightful job, and I'm who re- speaking now as a man reads Antle Hay' and 'South Wind' at least onto a your."
` (Tomorrow-Record Review)
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QUOTATIONS
New York, Sept. 21-China produco was quoted foday. In the New York market as follows: Aniseed oils, per ib. F.O.D.
New York..... Cassia per ib. F.O..
New York
Agar agar, por lb. F.O.B.
New York,
0.75/77
2.00/2.50
Tung oll, in sank cars,
F.O., New York per lb. 071 nominal Sandalwood, In drums.
depending
M quanuity and quality
13.00 nominal Beryllium 10 to 13 per-
cent) per tan
.: 20.00/20.00 Molybdenum, (90 percent)
0.40
per b
BRISTLES
Bristies, F.C., New York per lb, as "follow:-'
Hankow, regular ésseriments 4.29 nominal Chunrin
Shanghai:
Tientsin, 20's shorts
Tientsin, 26's regular
235
#
2.05
...6.00/1.80 *** 11.50/12.00 -Uniled. Pres.
Seeds And Oils
New York, Sept. 21-Prices for reeda) and oils today were as follows:
Castor seed, per longton,
FO.D. Draxi... US$125 Cotton #eed per longton,
F... Mempisis
Flax seed, per bushel, F.O.E.
Minnnapolis.
Linseed oil, per ib. in Tank Corn. P.O.D. New York.. Peanut oli, per 1b. 7.0.0.
Now York
shares absorbed current profit-taking. casily-Untied Press.
WALL STREET CAUTIOUS
New York, Sept. 21.--There was n recovery in the market today with gains ranging over one point.
The
Was upswing
considered "technical" as a result of the sharp cell-off on Monday which caused to decline to the level of early Despite the day's slight rally, traders remained cautious and re- frained from making any further commitments pending clarification of the troubled foreign situation.
Activity also dipped, and trans- actions fell to 920,000 shares.-United Pre55.
S. American Iron
Ore For Japan
Tokyo, Sept. 21-The Japanese Board of Trade today signed the Brat postwar contract for the import of iron ore from South America, The contract calls for shipment by a Rio De Janeiro firm,(Barclay and Company, of 230,000 tons high 27.8 cents grade iron ore from October to noxt
February.
- 70
0.10
34 cents
United Press,
Exchange Rates
Business was done in the local t-
The ore
win be used in the manufacture of fine steel for port, Gen MacArthur's Headquarters announced.
At the same time. SCAP officials
official exchange market this morning said 11,000 tons of iron ore arrived Sterling pound note (por £1) .... 14,00
At the following rates:
U.. dollar (per #1).
Gold bare (per (aet))
FIC plastres (per 100)
Nam Uicain (per 1003
NEI guiders (per 100)
0.10
the last few days from China, the first shipment on contract for 200,000 tons with the China Bronze:
Ins. Shanghai.-
207.50
10.00 Works,, Federal 2330 United Press. 35.70