THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
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you get into arguments
bridge lable? If you do not, you do not really enjoy the game. That is part of the fun of bridge, and, as I have often sald before, an argument at the bridge tablo just blows off excess lean It is better to argue about the five of
spades or the deuce of clubs than important" more
about some of the things in life.
Whenever I hear a bridge argu- ment, I slide over and kibitz, because there is often a good point involved. The real cause of the argument between North and South on today's hand was probably the fact that they had not arrived at a four spade contract..
Against the four heart contract, which South doubled, South opened the deuce of spades, a normal open- ing from an honour when partner has bid the sult. Dummy put on the queen and North won. He did not bother to return a
apade, but led back the three of diamonds. South won with the ace, cashed the king of spades and led a small diamond which declarer ruffed. East then picked up the trumps and conceded the ace of clubs-down one, and the argument was on!
South claimed that North should have returned a spade, then South would have cashed the ace of clube, found out that his partner was vold of clubs and given him a club to ruff. A diamond could have been led back and South would give North tinother club to ruff.
that when he But North
North argued had not returned a space, and did not lead the club sult, which South had bid, leading a diamond instead, South should have known that he had no clubs to lead. If South hud led the neo of clubs before eashing the king of spades, then given his partner a club ruft,
EXCLUSIVE TELE GRAPH". FEATURE
By STELLA
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24
YOUR BIRTHDAY
PORN today, you hove tremendous the affectionate nature which makes D physical energies coupled with a person lovable and highly po
Cultivate this, it you are to a tennelty which too often bordors pular. on stubbornness for your own gabd. ncquire the social graces and a more Once you get an idea into your permanent popularity. head-good or bad-it stays until you have developed it to its normal end. Make certain, therefore, that you are doing the right things be- fore you set your mind and energies. You are fond of the luxuries of life and
social heights. aspire to Don't make compromises, which you may regret later to attain temporary ideals, gains. Hold fast to your although the progress may be slower, the rise eventually will be much higher.
Spring and autumn do not appear to be your best working time. Start a now project either in the winter months and you will of summer make faster progress. Select your marriage partner with great care,
choice much for in this
of your lifelong contentment or unhappiness will rest.
To find what the stars have in for tomorrow, elect your store birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily gulder THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Your intelleet governs your heart too much. You lack, somewhat,
BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-You an agreement today or 22)-Your best judgment is needed may make when making decisions. Take care, put some plan into action with ex- CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-cellent prospects of a fine success. Definitely an unreliable day, ra check all promises made. Don't take risks.
AQUARIUS - (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Make no Important changes since the day is more adverse than favoUT- able. Stick closely to routine.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-Tact and diplomacy are both needed in handling even the smallest detall today. Postpone important mnt-
lers.
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-BC cheerful and you can cope with almost anything. If , be careful to follow the given treatment care- fully.
TAURUS (Apr 21-May 21)-Con- fidence should increase during the afternoon hours wher important affairs may be satisfactorily handled.
CANCER (June 23-July 23)--- Best for you to postpone any major change and follow through on rou- tine matters only. Be patient
or
| POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Now we have with us in the studia tonight Profess07 Haywire, the well-known
water-diviner --
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
LEO (July 21-Aug. 23)-A Are day for putting an agreement contract into writing. See that you get the best possible terms, too.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)-A fairly good day if you avoid ex-Oh, lighthouse set in the roguish travagance or overexpansion. Be
Why do you wink at me? thrifty today and you'll be wise,
(William Morris.)
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)—A fair- ly good day for business but better for all social contacts. Deal with the pubile advantageously.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Play a waiting game and concen- trate on established projects now.
Postpone anything new.
MIDWEEK BOOK PARADE
PARADISE LOST...
AS
TOLD BY FORESTER
By DANIEL CEORGE
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represented
waves,
THE sound of the great crowd roaring must have been music in their cars," says As for an article in a paper. me, I stick to my opinion that herd melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.. Dr Rhubarb's corner
E.N.L.R, writes: My brother put a mouse down the back of a lady who had come to tea with us. My father rebuked him, saying, "If you were a mouse, how would you like to have
human being put down your. back?" The lady said that wasn't the point, and left the house in a huf. My brother later confessed that he was in love with her. What ought we to do?
Dr Rhubarb says: Apologise to the for being such a foolish
mouse farmilly.
Freed from the trammels
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
NEW PAPER-MAKING
PROCESSES
Washington, Nov. 23.-New technical processes for the manufacture of paper from wheat straw have been developed at the Northern Research Laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry in Peoria, Illinois.
Potentially the research: is offers the possibility for utills- considered of extraordinary ing about 40,000,000 tons of economic importance,, since it wheat straw now wasted, or
burned each year in the USA.,
The new processes include,the manufacture of nowsprint from a combination of straw
pulp with wood pulp.
1
HIGHER
PRICES FOR
RUBBER
New
23.-Standard York, Nov. rubber futures today closed 20 to 25 points higher on sales totalling 22
contracts.
WIR
No. I Rubber closed 25 to 20 points higher on sales totalling 50 contracts,
The market
quiet
and steadler, affected by the paucity and plus unexpected and
of a
Officials here are displaying coples a special edition of the Chlearo Tribune, wh
which was printed on paper made
.and.
from combined woOKË. straw pulp. An
An edition of 150,000 was run through presses
break
Without a HA and the appearance of the newspaper was regarded as
satisfactory. But entirely
the cont of this special poper was higher thao ordinary newsprint and the use of straw in newsprint will probably be delayed until the costs of wood pulp pro considerably higher.
The
straw paper, of new procces
high prices of Eastern ned/her grades is already, commercially
the
drop
production for successful,
Sorts that further cuts developed at
October and
aro
in output
possible during the ensuing months. However, the more cautious observers are not inclined to
the pro draw conclusions from duction altuation.
Some observers hold the opinion that the declines have been overdone and that the market is ready for a. technical
Production recovery. figures have moderated the recent bearish sentiment, but some obser- Vers are still not convinced that a furnabout is under way.
Prices closed as follows:--
Standard Contract Rubber.,
November
December
January (1940)
February
March
April
May
June
July
August September October November December January
(1020)
No. I Contract Rubber, Marel (1040)
April
May
June
July
August
September
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October
November
December |January (1039)
and technical methods the laboratory have been introduced in Holland and England. Experts here sald that a mill in Argentine is now producing about 100 tons of paper dally from straw, but it is believed, that the
different from procesa is
that developed at the Peoria Laboratory.
BLEACHED PÜLP YIELDS.
forthcoming report: Bureau of Agricultural and Indus- trist Chemistry will announce that the new process for making paper from straw gives yields of bleached pulp about 10 percent higher than
A
of
the
19.60 nominal former methods, at lower chemical
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on
port said. Previous research straw utilisation by the laboratory has led to Improved packaging, ma terials and building board products from straw.
The report said: "In 1947 the US.
teduced about 95.000.000 tons of
wheat straw. About 40,000,000 tons 10.12 nominal were wasted or burned. The wasted
could have provided. thirds of all national requirement
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NOOD storytellers (they are not Journey homewards, he becomes Go
flows in his mental the best novelists) aware necessarily always have been and always will equipment and limits to his power.
to learns be rare, When, once or twice in a He
his recognise Reneration, conspicuous creative dependence upon others,
LONDON FUTURES it 18 the
his beginning of ability is necompanied by skill and
of family life
London, Nov. 25-Prices in the rubber a writer like education. The end of it is renched
market here today closed as follow:- force in narration,
In two stages. imperialistic C. S. Forester is produced.
FRIEND of mine tells me that January/March 1049 (In pence warrior latest ambitions make him
in craze
America April June
per lb.) As a yarn-spinner he displayed king; another king. Leopold of the is all-in wrestling for women in a July/September
in the Hornblower Belglans,
by Elx- his virtuosity
dead fish, series. On occasions when all his pounder shells, wipes out his com- large tank filled with
Sociologists will probably tell us that to work munity. talents
spell-binding art the the women must express themselves The harmoniously, as in The General"
their
I can own lives. THE THE SKY or in
AND
fails on no page of and live THE story-teller
bored FOREST" (Michael Joseph, 8s. Ed.), this book. If you must go to fiction Imagine
society pat saying, he is a novelist of the Best class for your philosophy, there is matter "One must do something. What else
small
is there to do but wrestle in a tank been my first class, a very
having
filled with stinking Bali?" Inability with no connection
to answer that question is a damning limitable parade, "the front rank
indictment of the modern world, of living novelists."
rald a pseudo-psychopathist angrily. In passing
2. What do the kangaroos of Australia and the opossum of North America have in common?
3. Name the principal languages spoken in South Africa.
4. How long has archery practised?
5. For how long a term 1s the poet laureate of Englahd appointed?
6. In what season of the year do salmon return from the ocean--to fresh water streams?
(Answers on Column 5)
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. W. GALITZKY.
Black 7 pieces.
White, 7 pieces.
210
White to play and mate in three.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
1. 4--17, any, 2, B. or Kt mates,
spades and he had given North an- ether club ruff the contract would have been set three tricks, 800 points. That would have been more pro
table than making four spades on the hand.
Both sides had a fair argument, and if North but just so that you can enter into had put him back in with the king of it, I am going to side in with North,
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ridiculous in
L.S.V. From America American Betion readily. sorts In the simplest terms, "The Sky and the Forest" is the story-of-a
itself out. Into the largest category noble savage-noble, that is to say, go the popular novels manufactured from the savage point of view, to the LS.V. formula. L.S.V. stands
one Mr. which is the
Forester for Liquor, Sex and Violence. undeviatingly takes. Loa, his hero,
treated Though
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such ingredients have seen only as a king, but as a god, brother these of the deferential sun, moon, and long service that our own novelists are shy of calling them up again. sky,
Few serious writers in Britain Into this paradise came Arab would care to offer us a book like the English language, So doca slave-hunters.
"THAT WINTER," by Merle Miller English opera, for that matter. As With most of his subjects, Loa (John Lehmann, 10s. 68.), a story to the argument that the audience is delven in a chain-gang towards lifelong captivity. The catastrophe is af demobilised conventional types won't understand French, Italian, or cares u rap the cynical, omniscient author, the German words, who beyond him.
favourite spoiled rich man's son, the suffering about that? Let them listen to the But, rescued by his
music and watch the acting. wife and son. and undergoing Semite told by one of them.
hardships on their unprecedented
It begins in the frank and simple Aero-receptionettes fashion of modern "American prose: much that "We all drank too winter." It ends: "I had to get it all down, the way it was. . the winter we got home..
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Nov. 3-The
following
prices were quoted in the Metals, mar- kat, here today:-
Antimony (American, 1914
percent) in bulk of car load lots. F.0.0. Texas US$1.38%
Grade "A"
Tin,
percent or higher) klu Tungsten, powdered (00-09
percent) N Wolframite, (Chinese gro
containing Tungsten Trioxide) duly paid F.Q.B. New York, per
Iron ore,*
percent Iron) delivered lower port Lake Superior, per short-toni
short ton
Copper
Electrolytic, Ex- port), P.A.S.. Now.. York. per b
Zino, Prime Western, Naw
York) per 1 Manganese, (Electrolyte. 10.9 percent Mangane) delivered cast of Bisa?s= elppi River
1.05.
2.00
U.S. Bullion
Movements
States
Washington, Nov. 23--The United Com- Department of merce today reported butllón move- ments for the week ending. Novem ber 3 as follow.
Gold exports, US$21,432. Gold imports,. US$16,880,417...
Silver exports US$39.107. Silver Imports, US$2,008,005.
Cold
Included Chilo the Philippines
US$9,700
exports and
ded
Canada US$42,602,
US$11,782.
Gold Imports US$0,107,000, Mexico Salvador US$4,061, Honduras. US$21,- |771; Nicáragun : US376,080, Papiamo Republic, VAUS$1,108, Colombla $23.80724.00US$975,960, British Gulatin US$6,409, Peru US$13,343, Chillo US$18,313, Netherlands US$5,700,988,
Belgium
and Luxembourg US$27,020, Yugo- Slavia
US$180 $2,405, Philippines
(correct) Australia: 23 cents US$7.100. British Pacific. - 'Islands
18.14 cents
US$327,624, Union of South Africa US$3,108,368, Northern
Rhodesia..
US$1,173.REA
32,00 cents ***Silver exports included. Canada United Press US$7,841 and Brazil US$31,646.
Silver Imports Included Canada US$180,400. Moxico
Exchange Rates
Business was done in the local un- official exchange market this morning at the following Tatos:
1)
Bierling pound note (per
US, dallar (per
1)
Gold bare (per tel) FIC plastres" (per 100) Flamtienle (per 100) (NEI gulkiers -(per 100) Gold" yuanI
Balvador
US$94,031,
-
US$2,800,
31. Nicaragua US$1,406, Panama Republic US$300,000, Peru US$40,507 Chile US$8,207, Nother lands US$231,005: Belgium and Luxembourg US$283,323, France; 18.40 US$00,024, Germany, US$890, Yugo
B.J2 205.00 sibyla US$111,803, Australia. US$85,
0.65 014: British Western Pacino. Islands, 28.00 US$3,329 und Northern Rhodesia 125.40 U930,644.United Press,