THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FOR YOUR SPARE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1948.
MOMENTS
EXCLUSIVE 'TELEGRAPH' FEATURE
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
YOUR BIRTHDAY
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THERE
DUMB-BELLS
ARE YOU CAREFUL ABOUT YOUR EATING?
PATENT
YES, DOCTOR LALWAYS
WEAR
A NAPKIN
Check You!
Knowledge,
travelling across 1. If you were the Allantle from
west, east to would you set your watch abend er bark?
3. When and where did the Arst American Expeditionary Force Innd during World War II?
are few players who couki i
2. Which part of a ship is usually today's launched first? seven-odd with make
made. hand. That contract was however, by Henry P. Jaeger, of Cleveland, C. Jaeger was one of the
the of four original organisers
American
Contract Bridge League, vice He was the League's first president and terved as president in
he was 1028. In 1039 honorary membership.
elected to
Who invented the helicopter?--
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27
PORN today, your unture is geared
STELLA
By nature, you have a high tom-
to high-speed action. You per which your friends too often never valle; you always run. Work- may excuse as temperament, Learn ing in high-pressure jobs comes easy to control this, for something done to you and something slow, cosy or sold in anger might easily in- and routine would bore you to fluence the trend of, your entire life wrong direction. Always death. In selecting your profession, in the keep this in mind. Otherwise you remember. cannot be happy.
by",
You
the adage that to have competent control over others, one tusi Arst learn to have complate control over himself!
Since you are capable and com- petent, you are often called upon in
Your family ties are exception- an emergency "stand
ally strong and you are inclined to have tremendous personal magnetism be very clannish. An early marriage hop- and are able to work with people, win bring you the greatest. easily. Your powers of organisation piness. Although not usually de- are excellent and there is nothing monstrative, your
1lke better than to get order
you out of chaos.
affections deep and your loyalties unswerving. You are fond of children and will want a family of your own.
POCKET CARTOON
"I read better this way-t work in a bookstall"
aro
BY
and The power of the written
To And what the stars have in spoken word has been given to you
your and since you are also something store for tomorrow, select of a propagandisi at heart, you birthday star and read the corres- would do well as publle lender, ponding paragraph. Let your birth-
day star be your daily guide. statesman or diplomat.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
tho
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Morning hours are definitely most propitious for your efforts. I prove sue travelling this afternoon, exert care
to avoid an accident.
SCORPIO (Ort. 24-Nov. 22)-
Rocial Good for you on both the
socini Some and business fronts. Event at home should cessful nm exhilarating,
THE
WAY
| by Beachcomber
THE rather patronising at-
211 titude of a dramatic critic to n provincial theatre remind- ed me of a letter of Mme, de Sevigne, in which she said she BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
GEMINI (May 22-June 22) had been to a play in the 22-Additional recognition for past efforts may be received, today. In given added responsibility on the the afternoon avoid an accident dus job, take it with humility. Be country, and had shed four or practical rather than emotional for five tears, which she consider- to haste. especially if planning a
the best possible results.
ed enough for a provincial per- Journey.
CANCER
23-July 23)-formance. Morning hours are high-speed. Get Important things done then so that At Boulton Wynfeuers you may rest and relax when after-
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20).
best. Morning houre
the nre Anticipate an alirmative Answer from your employer to any request made yesterday.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)-
where energies Put forth your they will do the most good and get the best results. Continued physical vitality is Important. Guard it.
21)- FISCES (Feb. 20-Mar, Be practical and you will gain an All those in important advantage. the mechanical trades appear espe- cially favoured at present.
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)- New undertakings are favoured and
friends close
of great muy assistance in helping your materialize.
noon comICE.
(June
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-All are favoured, advertising projects
planning to especially if you are use a mall-order approach, Art and design ideas are well received, too. 221-Be VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. alert to an opportunity this morning and make your efforts count for n lat so that you may slow down when afternoon arrives.
wan
FOULENOUGH APTAIN CA
shown Into the
library Boulton Wynlovers by Travers, the butler. There he found the absent- Lord Shortcake playing minded
decanter well-alled patience. A and two glasses on a tray whetted for the job more for the the Captain's appetite af tutor, but still
Lord Shortcake, too, liked drink. his drink, so that for five minutes the two o! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-Added after shaking hands,
settled down to the work, responsibility may be yours today. them A romance might easily culminate and nothing was said. Then Foul- silence. "This is a in your making or receiving a pro-enough broke
good drop of stuff," he sald. The posal of marriage.
taciturn Shortenke nodded: "Not easy to get," he said with a cun- minutes ning leer. For seventy they drank in peace, until Lady Shortcake came In to Inquire whether the matter was settled. She was informed that it was being discussed, and, with a glance of foreboding at the decanter, she left the two men to it.
EMIDWEEKBOOK PARADE
NAVAL WARFARE IN THE
PACIFIC ANALYSED
movesault
CAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, com- menting on the third volume of his tremendous History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, notes that it well might be called a "history of the U.S. Navy in adversity."
The Rising Sun in the Pacific. 1931-April (Little Brown, US$0)
1942
record of Japan's the 13
Unlied on the thunderous States, the Philippine Islands and the colonial holdings of Britain, the Netherlands and France
The staggering scope of Japan's disclosed in full early victories is 5. What is the term used for the
Th The
admiral Hank's favourite play the dissection of an animal while alive perspective.
Is
smashed U.S. battleships in Pearl Port squeeze, and I have never seen him for the purpose of physical investi-
Harbour swept on to batter miss one. Today's hand employs the gation.
Darwin and rald Ceylon and Trin- comalee. The
British, combined
Accts Dutch. Australian
and U.S. in the Java Sea were exterminated. and the British driven to the African adge of the vast Indian Ocean. The Prince of Wales, Repulse, Hermes, the Langley, Houston, Perth, Juve, Dorsetshire the roll call of sunken Allied naval warcraft seems endless, lng record the Against thin U.S. could show only a futile raid token in the Marshall Islands, a bombing of Tokyo, a brief and for from decisive action at Balikpapan, the heroic but bloodily hopeless defence of Bataan, a single carrier thrust over New Guinea to Lae, and a scattering of lesser actions.
rare Vienna coup. Most South players
arrived at a contract of six spades.
took the diamond finesse. When it
failed they simply mnde six-odd-
but not Jaeger.
He won the opening fend of the and Immc- heart king in dummy
lately trumped
a heart. He went
over to dummy's king of spades anel trumped another heart. On the third heart East let go the eight of clubs.
Now Jaeger cashed the ace and king of diamonds from dummy, deliberately setting up the diamond queen. He returned to his hand by playing a spade and ran the balance of the spades, discarding from dummy the Jack and ten of dia- monds. You see, the nine and eight of diamonds had fallen on the ace and king.
He finally got his own hand down to the seven of diamonds and the two small clubs. In dummy he had the ace, king and ten of clubs. East had to hold the queen of diamonds. otherwise Jaeger's seven would be good. Therefore, he had to blank down to the queen and jack of clubs, Joeger then led his club over to dummy's king, cashed the ace of clubs, and the ten-spot was good for the 13th trick,
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Actual y
Claimed
One of the most illuminating.parts of the book is the cold summing up of actual against claimed results. When the U.S. submarino Sturgeon It was "no longer reported that
A smile and virgin" there was cheer at home.
the Actually, Sturgeon's torpedoes had failed to hit or sink anything; it was consider- ably later before she bagged a small The dashing PT Japanese ship. boats in the Philippines falled to sink single Japanese warcraft. thought they got at although they
Optimistic Army least a cruiser. (liers' claims to having bombed battleships shook down to wholly mistaken reports.
Morison devoles much time and space
Pearl Harbour attack. to the By his careful, chronological, sum- mation he brings home exactly, what He fixes no happened, and how. direct blame, but he unreservedly exposes the mistakes and failures of many officers. At the same time he gives credit where due, and many a hero's actions shine courageously
dismal backdrop against the defeat.
The Rising Sun in the
Pacific
is an extraordinary graphle history, of intense interest to all who suli wonder "how did it happen?" It carries its strategic and
inclical lessons, too, for Morison Khowa exactly how the Japanese, even while achloving their greatest victories, were opening the way to ultimate defeat.
Damon Runyon's Life PRACTICALLY Everyone hac heard about Damon Runyon since his death resulted in the cancer
fund
drive using his name, but little is known to the general pube about the man except that he was one of the county's leading news- The papermen and fiction writers. Damen Runyon Stor, by Ed Welner US$3) alms to (Longmans, Green, correct the situation..
The discussion continues
FOR THE; BUSINESSMAN
American Opposition To MacArthur Policy For Trade In
Japan
Tokyo, Oct. 26-American business quarters predicted today that the business community here will go on record in the near future as being opposed to the system of establishing competing government trade missions. They note that government to government trading is opposed to the American way of doing business, and they think offl- clala in Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters should take this ' into consideration.
In addition to trying to get some of Gen. MacArthur's regulations changed, members of the newly organised United States Chamber of Commerce will meet in the near future with a group of leading members of the Japanese Diet to discuss legislation designated to en- courage foreign investments.
The representatives of some big, any more radical than those of the And they feel that American firms in Japan say private-|United States. ly that many American concerns some of the present Allied-inspired will not come back to Japan unless laws for deconcentration of Japanese radical anti-cartel laws are changed. industry are for more radical than in the They also feel that there is no excuse any that have been passed for deconcentration laws here being United States.
American business circles are on- xiourly awaiting the long expected statement
foreign investment procedures. For some time Allled Headquarters officials
been saying that this policy was about to be formulated and would be an- nounced "In the near future."
EASINESS IN RUBBER MARKET
New York, Oct. 28.-Standard contract rubber today closed 43 to 60 paints lower with sales totalling 60 contracta. No. 1 rubber was 40 to 45 points lower, with totalling six contracts.
Ja
sales
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bave
INDIGNATION
Today some American business- men were told by Allied officials that the investment policy is "still It is reported to up in the air." be on the desk of Gen. MacArthur's Chief of staff.
There among American Q5
officials.
the Allied
businessmen. complain they "carbet baggers"
growing Indignation businessmen here a result of the treatment they Contiqued easiness in the primary are receiving at the hands of some market caused a setback
the minor Allled
At gather- The major rigs of American businessmen they rubber market here. part of the uneasiness is still attri- openly state they do not like the buted to recent production and con-attitude of some
towards oncinis sumption figures.
These busnessmen Talk of stockpiling is still holding
often called ore some dealers and "opportunists." trader interest, with stil slightly bullish, despite the re-
louchy point with cent setbacks. Over the short term,
businessmen here, and business however, the price trend still points leaders are trying to find a way to downward, reflecting the small constraighten out" those members of who Gen MacArthur's Headquarters Eeem to think all businessmen are undesirable low-class
people.. United Press.
sumer demand for rubber products.
Pricen closed as follows:- Standard Contract Rubber. October in cents per lb.) 2000 nominal November
December January 1949)
February
March
April
Miny
Junc
July
20.07
20.70
20,00
20.00 bld
20.52 nominal
20,45 bid
20.40 nominal
20.34
20.30
20.25
14
20.20
November
20.75
December
20,10
No. 1 Contract Rubber.
March (194
21.19 bid
21.10 trades
August
September
October
April May Junie who
This
is a
21.12 nominal
21.00 nominal
HONGKONG
SHARES
Interest in the popular issues was well maintained during this morn- ing's session of the Stock Exchange. Trading was fairly brisk, and the changing khares total value of
closing
hands was $307,900.
LONDON FUTURES
as well as the colourful later periods up," said Foulenough. Thank N.Y. FOREIGN
WHAT matter was she referring "WHA
Shortcake. to?" asked had forgotten why Foulenough was there. Faulenough shrugged shoulders. "You never know with said Shortcake. "Fill up. women,"
are in a hurry to sir. unless you
out his thrust go." Fourienough
a gawky glass. At that moment Suspicions that this might be one boy with a haystack of brown hair
the
and of those quick pleces of hack work lumbered Into frequently dashed off to cash in on menaced the peer with a catapult.
Mortimer," the death of an important person "My are quickly inid-to-rest-Weiner has Shortcake. "A--young savage, done an excellent job of research assure you, Colonel. We're getting buy shot In addition to capturing the unique a tutor for him." The flavour of the man. The story of out his tongue and retired. kicking! Runyon's hard early years is here, the furniture
July
20.00
August
20,80
Transactions and
noon
his
September October
20,10
20.03
prices follow:-
November December
20.00
20.55
United Press.
SHARES BUYERS SELLERY BALES INSURANCES
Union
700
175
DOCKS. ETC.***
K. Wharf (0)
136
N. Pt. Whart
room.
London, Oct. 20-Prices in the rubber market here today cosed as follow:- October/December (In
Dock
301 30
1300 305
Provident
21.00
2000 of 31
1700 22
pence per lb.)
nephew
said
January/March
Apri/June
122% 12-11/10 17-9/10
2000 1 22
S'hal Dock
5.03
0.10
LAND, ETC.
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when he was first an acknowledged said Shortenke "Where do you get
"From
a jolly old leader in sports writing, then an ace this sherry?"
gentleman
know," said Foul- all-around news writer and finally a columnist und unique chronicler of enough. the Broadway scene in short stories.
UTILITIES
Tram
21.40
100 21.00
2004 21.00
1100 @ 214-
1
500 25.0O
Story FerrY
Argentine Peso (Oficial) Argentine Peso (Unofficial) Australia
New York, Oct. 28.
US$0.2977 2007 31.23
C. Light (0)
2014
000 or 23.20
200 er 2120
C. Light (N)..
22 27!
1000 * 22 20 70 68 22
500
Brazil
.0500
Electrie
303 304
Belgium
0229
700 40 200 301
Canada
03-1/4
Chile
0230
England
4.03-1/4
Macao Electric 24 Telephone
1500 a 25
· 30 1
500 37
INDUSTRIALS
France
.0032-1/4
Loadin
3024
Cement
40%
30 #7 401%
4. Igor
400
40%
Mexico
.1450
New Zealand Peru
200 41
4.03-1/4
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1015
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South Africa
4.03-1/4
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Dalry (0) .... 40
500
200
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09
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300
2400
United Preks.
Weiner was an intimate of Run-
Answare
yon's in the latter's final years, but CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE he has kept himself completely out of the story. There is no tinge of
a always templa- mawkishness, tion in a work of this sort,
(Tomorrow-Record Review)
THE SATURDAY CYRKING 7967, 40
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EXCHANGE
Zurich,
V.S. dollar
Sterling
French Frong
301 Swi Franco
10.05
0.44
0.31
United Press.
મ
etega 10
22.20
10
EDITORE PRESE SERVICE,
Portugal
Sweden
Switzerland
Uruguay Venezuela
Flinghai Netherlands Palavin Singapore Flongkong
"ZURICH RATES
Oct. 20. The following uns
official exchange rates were quoted here
Inday:-
Argentine Peo
BLACK PEPPER
MARKET
New York, Oct. 29-Black pepper future today closed 200 points liigher to 700 points lower, but no sales were re- ported,
Prices closed as follow! 8 Imm
MISCELLANEOUS
Entertainment..
Output Of Jap
Silk Fabrics
Tokyo. Oct.
quarters
26.-Allied Head- reported today that
Japanese production of slik fabrics roce from 3,502,000 square yards in
occupation The second
year 8,050,000 yeards during the first 11 months of the third year.
It sald the postwar production peok of 12,110,000 yards
December (in cents per lb.) 09.00 nommas reached during May, 1848.
Spot White Muntok)
00.00 asked
A report issued by Gen. Mac- be- sald Arthur's Headquarters cause dollar prices for raw silk and been Blik
fabrics have woven
a lower level, raw stabille ut
silk stocks in Japan have declined 05.00 nominal since early 1948. At the same time, United Press.
Exchange Ratés :
rnwallk exports, including unles of Japanese stocks held In New York, increased substantially.
The total for the frat five months of 1048 reached 54,260 bales, over 4,000 bales more than the two-year
Business was done in the local wie | total of 1940 and 1947.
official excliange market this
et the following rates!
Sterling Dound note (per 21)
US dollar (per #1) Gold bars (per tael) FIC plastre (per 100) Biam tical (per 100) NEI guilders (per 100)
morning
The report said Japanese textila 14.10 output reached its postwar poak dur- 52 ing April Jast with an index of 23.8 305.00 new ruched the same level again in
OTO 1520 July. The previous peak was 23.2 17.00 in May, 1047,--United Press,
July
January (1949)
March
May
September
October
Spot
70.00
(15.00
34
19.00
41
00.00
44
00.00
57.00
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