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By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
MR AND MRS John E. SIMMON of St Louis, Mo., were in New York recently and paid me a cull, Simon is associated with Simon & Co., of St Louis, the oldest brokerage firms la middle west.
Although
I.
One
M.
of
The
he bas for organiscil done a great desi bridge in that territory, his real Jove for
is in the game
rubber bridge.
Ho does not have the stamina to go through the gruelling grind of long tournament, 11- though we usually get in a ression or two in the tournaments Louis.
Jack
was telling me about
In St
DUMB-BELLS
EXCUSE ME, I'VE LOST MY
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COULD YOU
HELP ME?
SALE
WEAR
THIRD
FLOOR,
MADAM
Check Your Knowledge ·
1. Name the capital of the Union of South Afrlen.
How did the word "leftiste," meaning political parties having a more advanced or radical point af view, originate?
2.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1949.
SPARE MOMENTS
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FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
Silver Dollars May Be Reintroduced To Check Inflation
Shanghai, Feb. 16.-The readoption of the silver dollar by the Nationalist Government in an effort to check inflation was seen as a possibility by local financial circles quoted by Chinese press reports today.
talks with
Contral
The Finance Minister. thesa Banking circles linked the arrival of Mr Hau Kan, the sources siated, had held preliminary Government Finance Minister, in Shanghai oplelals and high Central Bank on Monday with the Govern- executives on a possible currency ment's contemplated currency reform and the adoption of the aliver
dollar alandard. change. to
The Introduction of the silver 10 National-currency Informed financial sources said i dollar as the the Government has enough white said to have been prompted by the.. incial to warrant a reversion to projected issue of puper currency by silver dollars as the National cur- several provincial governments with
accompanying disturbance to general financial situation.
IFTY Thousand Milen by Sen, Set against the colourful back-
n northerntiage Guidance Centres, there is Air. Rand and Rail" is the in ground of Salchester, viting sub-title of Compton enport, during. the mold-nineteenth only one man fit for the job of how the Director-General of Marriago Mackenzie's latest book. ALL OVER century, this story tolla THE PLACE. (Chatto and Windus, wilfulness and ignorance of Claudia Guidance, and that man is the
daughter. 18) la written in diary form and Mainwaring, the oldest
and 58 pages of gives the young governess the power eminent matrimoniologist, Dr photographs: a "must" for the arin- to make her future secure. Helpless Cyprian Rhubarb, whose inde- chair traveller and a good tip for in the face of the information about fatigable gubbling has meant so Claudia that Mica Flshamble holds little to the young of both sexes. the general reader.
which, if known In information
would mean ruin and The sillier their questions, the Salchester, ridicule to the family-Mrs Main-sillier his replics.
is compelled to pay the waring
It is not generally known that
Rhubarb, who governess the salary she demands. Dr Following the death of Mr Main- bachelor, attributes waring. the widow fries unsuccess what he calls his natural psycho- fully to dismiss the governess, but logical reflexes,
be zoned for "England should reallres that it is hopeless.
matrimonial purposes, with Regional anybody mees and a corps of Secret Ad- visory Police in every town," said Mrs Wretch. Rolling down to Rio MAN who called on
#friend was surprised to see a dog sit- the best armchair, and "I'm only acting in self-defence. Ung in
Under its pow When one has none of the things you smoking a cigarette.
મૈં stability, inc was A half-empty possess money,
packel and until house, servants,
recently a box of matches. "I see your dog wealthy husband-one is compelled smokes," said the man nervously, to use any weapons to fight with."Yes," said his friend Bghtly, "ind My knowledge of Claudia's doing the joke is that he can get cigarettes
and when I can't." and her present whereabouts occupation la a valuable asset. Can you blame me for employing it for Strabismus on my own advantage?"."
Compton Mackenzie travelled about Europe, Africa, India, Burma and the Far East for 10 months and through this journal we see magnificence, the squalor, luxury, starvation. comfort and terror that he saw on his way. Added to this are the author's own reflections and comments on people and places, and many personal adventures and anecdotes. The journey was under- quite so wicked and unscrupulous, taken for the purpose of collecting I didn't belleve until this minute material for his history of India's that a woman like you could exist'. part in the war, but this book, a
"Miss Fishamble shrugged her by-product as it were, la Compion Mackenzie's personal story for the shoulders. enjoyment of the rest of us who
3. Name the composer of the cannot manage a world tour
solves. opera "Norma,"
4. What name was given to the wine which the Greek gods drank on Mount Olympus?
the
5. Who was president ut Philippine Islands at the time of the Japanese conqueal?-
(Answers In Column 4)
our-
Why Miss Fishamble, governess to the Mainwaring girls from the age of twenty, was retained by the family for sixty years, long after her four pupils were grown up, le tald excitingly in MART OF NA- TIONS, by Winifred Duke, (Jarrolds,
12/6).
BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE Knarf Walked Down the Road
-And Squire Squirrel Thought Him Very Silly- By MAX TRELL
NARF, the shadow-boy
th10 Kturned-about rame,
hand shown today, which come up
at the Cavendish Club
York. Siting North, he
with the Was walk-
he suw
Newing along the road when in bid Avo Squire Squirrel sitting under a tree.
clubs over four diamonds to let his After they exchanged greetings.
partner know that he had a good,
Folid club sult. 1 dl with Jack, on this bid.
In my opinion, his hand
strong to bid Ave clubs.
Squire said: "Why down this rond?" not
agred
was
too
are you going
"I'm taking a walk," answered. Knari.
If he had "A walk!"
exclaimed
Squire
bid five diamonds over four ca-Squirrel. "A road is no place to take
monds, his partner
would
realised that he not only had
good club suit and a fin monds, but that he really hind interest in the whole hand.
have a walk on. The place to take a walk
{n
an
Д Is up and down a tree."
h bid
Jack thought that when
South four clubs,
should have mado a cue-bid of four hearts. Well, there are players who might have made that bid, though many hesitate to make a cuo-bid until they have shown the true strength of their own
What South
sults.
Kart thought about this for a Then he said he didn't moment. think he could manage to walk up und town a tree. So he sak! goodbye Squire Squirrel and continued walking down the rond.
to
across "I never came
As she approaches old age, Miss Fishamble retires to the reclusion of the Anne Primroy Home. where she meets Miss Waring who is very interested in all her talk about the Together they Mainwaring family. burn some letters that Claudia wrote to the young man she ran away with sixty years ago. As she watches her friend, Miss Fishamble remarks in a puzzled way that Miss Waring is 50, much like onc of her former puplis.
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CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers
In
the Amazon (XIII);
(From Strabismus)
'on
rency.
N.Y. Rubber:
TRADING IN FUTURES
A standard silver
to be necessary to
the
existing
confusion in lie payment of salaries cases of Government troops and expensca
the different provinces.
In the
The adoption of the allver dollar is seen by financial circles us, the most effective measure to forestall the impending collapse of the Gold Yuan.-Reuter.
MORE ACTIVE Wolfram Ore
New York, Feb.
15 Number 1
contract rubber futures today clored From
lower on sales
eight to 18 points totalling 105 contracls.
Standard futures closed eight points lower on sales totalling four contracts.
China
Reaching U.S.
FTER climbing a tortuous path A in single file, the guide leading, we rounded a large rock, and caught our breath so loudly that we cach frowned at the other. There above nest on the
The market was progressively
New York, Feb. 15.-The World us, squatting
of a dwarf rock- easy after a lower start, with trud- Telegram today reported that large stoutest branch willow, was a gorgeous yellow birding in futures more active.
shipments of wolframite or found in with the head of a parrot and the
Huncopi," said Physicals were neglected, with the areas in China recently seized by the body of an owl..
We
gazed in majority of buyer unwilling to Communists have been arriving from Chatta, our guides
Chinese ports in recent weeka calculated that meat the higher prices of Eastern It said the wolframite was con- wonder, while I
10 from 320,428 birds laying 35 36 shiptacats.
the sinced to
critical materials the Bureau of Federal eggs a day, we should get enough
Goodyear
as brunch of Government to allow every
Supply and would be stockpilled for of Department as many as they want- ed, We stared in silence. The bird stared back, unconcerned. "Is she broody?" whispered Hownde. Chatta explained that when night fell the bird would be
less
wary and wo The bird could then capture t
Ска
were accredited
oddod
buyers of nibbling amounts use in essential government produc- lower grades, but other consumers were not interested. P. W. Lich-tion.
The World Telegram eld, chairman of Goodyear, says "Customs officials sald they could that pipelines and inventories are ample, with the order backing for not remember when wolframite had come into this port in such frequent industrial rubber goods reduced,
Pioneer shipments. The freighter. which indicates a slowing down of
the Frenchinued to stare at us, but gave activity in the near future. He said Bay, arriving about 10 days
1. Pretoria. 2. National Assembly in 1780, when
no sign of recognition. Nor did we the extremists chanced to take seats Mrs Rawllas suggested giving it
of the hall. 3. biscuit, but was out-voted. Keep
ing the bird in sight, we crept be- hind a neighbouring rock to discuss the next move.
"A road is no place to walk." Squire Squirrel sald to Knarf
on the left side Vicenzo
Nectar. Bellini. 4.
Manuel Luis Quezon.
A little further un, he met. a duck. foolish. What you want to do is walk YOUR
On the Pond
"Walking <town the road?" attempted to do with the four- quacked the Duck. "Very silly? The diamond bid was to show a power-only place to take a walk is on the ful two-suited hand, i
pand."
I finally said to Jack, "If your partner had bid four hearts, what would you have bld then?" "1 would have bid-five-diamonds, or maybu
reminded him six," he replied:
bid five that he still could have diamonds over four diamonds.
n
So
quite I gathered that there was
nt the an argument
Cavendish
ol Club in regard to the bidding this hand and Jack and I had difference of opinion about it. perhaps you and your friends When would like to argue it out. ever a pair makes seven and fails
always to bid six, there is
Cood cause for un argument.
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Vessels used in common site, 191
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But Knart said he was quite sure he couldn't walk on the pond the way the duck did. So he continued walking down the road.
By and by, he met Blinkie Mole.
"Now just let me tell you some- thing about walking," said Blinkle. "The best place to walk is under the rond. You go down one hole and come up another," But Knart said he didn't think he'd like that so he kept on walking down the raudz
Then Kaarf met a Sparrow whe said: "Walking on the road is very
Rupert's Elfin Bell-12
. Entering her caravan the gipty Granny calls Rupert up on to the platform. A moment later she re- appears and, leaning over the half- door, she hands him a little ahining bell. I'm trusting you with some- thing very precious,' she says in's never lent it to
whisper.
anyone before. It's an Elfin Bell. I want you to go where the smoke it thick and ring it. Then come and tell me what happens." Bill, whe
is looking on. begins to feel more
nervous as Rupert joins him.
ALL RIGHTS Reserved
RED RYDER
in the nir over the road."
Poor Knarf! He had just about decided that taking a walk along the worst thing anyone rond was the
could do when all at once he saw PORN today,
cow, a sheep, a dog and a
horse, a
Лікі to his delight he farm boy. saw that they were ali walking con- tentedly along the road without try- ing to walk up and down a tree, or in walk on the pond, or to walk under the road, or to go floating above it. So-he-walted until they_caught_up_ with him, and they all took their walk together.
But later, when Knarf thought about the squirrel, the duck, the mole, and the sparrow, he suddenly thought of a very curious thing.
"They all walk along a road too," he thought to himself, "-roads that lead up and down, and across the water, and down under the ground, and in the air. Everyone has his own road, and I have mine."
CHESS PROBLEM
By W. VON HOLZHAUSEN Black. I piece.
W
12:
.A
White, 10 pieces..
White to play and mate in three.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
NL
A-13
2. H. or Kch or db) ch. Q or Ri Tidies.
(I'M GLAD WE'RE OUT OF DANGER, DUCHESS/
"BUT I'M SAO, "TOOP THE ONLY TIME RED EVER SHOWS HE LIKES
ME IS WHEN HE SAYES
MY LIFE!
RED AIN'T MUCH
FOR WEARIN, HIS HEART ON HIS SLEEVE, BETH,” BUT GIVE HIM TIME TOMORROW'S
ANOTHER DAY Z
5.
BIRTHDAY....
ago.
the increase in the production of carried 3,700,000 lbs. The Pioneer Tide brought in 1,000,000 lbs and the Pioneer Sei hael 3,200,000 lbs. natural rubber, combined with the
of. output
rubber, assures synthetic
"Other freighters on the way from. ample supplies which "should Chim are reported to have large stabilise the price and prevent the
shipments aboard...All inbound wide fluctuations so detrimental to ships from China in the the industry in the past."
Bearish sentiment was
past weeks have carried empocity cargoes. Ono predomi-importer attributed the heavy ship-
Importer ments to the fear that advancing Communists
will soon
have tho 18.07 traded whole of the country under their 17.93 nominal control,"~~~United Press.
nnnt at the close of business.
Prices closed as follow:-
No. 1 Contract Rühker Futures, March.
...... BY STELLA
Aprli
May
June
July
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
you are
games;
a natural, yet you will seem to have ample Ď·leader and this gift is very time for activities. evident,
your earliest. even from
You must guard against over- childhood. You probably will be the moodlness. There are times when one to organise
ak you you get depressed and feel life grow older, clubs; and in adult life hardly worth living and other time when you chuck full of enthusiasm. projects of considerable scale.
Try to cultivate a raore even tem- perament and the chances are that. 10 ife will be simpler.
this
at intrude
You are kindicarted and thought
will listen ful of others und their problems great length. Don't let
100 much Fond of the upon your time unless you can be literature and music. constructive
arts-especially
you prob
in your suggestions. ably will cultivate one of them for Just "commiserating" doesn't do your own interest, alone, if not as
much good and takes a lot of your life work.
me.
To find what the stars have in
select You women are the type to make store for tomorrow,
your excellent wives. and mothers. You birthday star and read the corres- are able to organise your home so pending paragraph. Let your birth- that it goes along smoothly and day star be your dally guide.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. Haste can
19)-
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)--The only make waste today, early morning hours are favourable 50 be cautious when making all for you, so make the best of them. decisions.
ones can be Some news may be very important harmful!
to your future.
Wrong
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20- VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 223- Romance is all right, but buciness Unexpected changes may arito, but Affairs are omewhat uncertain. If you take the right advantage of Beware of glitter. It may not be them, they can prove beneficial, gold!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct, 23) — ARIES
22-Apr, 20)- All merchandising, both on (Mar.
the Avold over-extravagance if you are buying and the selling and, oppear called upon to make any expendi- active at this time. Make progress. ture of importance today,
TAURUS
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov 22)—
Be alert to all that happens today. so if something unexpected arises, you will be prepared to meet it.
September
October November
December January (1030) February March April February
27.71 nominał
17.00 traded
17.02 bld
17.07 nominal
17.53 bid
17,47 nominal
17.12
1737
17.3
T
17.27
"
17.00
17.17
30.17. nominal
13.07
་་
Standard Contract Rubber Futures.
March April
May
17.07 17.07. United Press.
LONDON MARKET
London, Feb. 13-Prices in the rubber market here today closed as follow: March (in pence per 1.) April/June
July/September
1948 Boom
Year For
UK_Cotton
Manchester, Feb. 15.-Bri- tain's cotton industry enjoyed a boom year in 1948.
11-3/18
10-3/4
10-1/2
United Press.
lo
HONGKONG SHARES
Earnings for the year were-ex- cept for 1920-the highest recorded
were Drst since profis
tabulated more than 65 years ago, according the textile market recording W. Tattersall, agency of Frederick
Lid,
Reporting the findings of a special survey, Tattersall said the average profits of 80 spinning mills
was
parede compray in 1948, com-
with £14,058 in 1947. Mill owners generally obeyed: the government's anti-infalionary "di- This morning's turnover on the vidend freeze" and the average Stock Exchange WAS $117,050.00. distribution of profis rose Transactions and noon prices: one percent above, 1947, lo 15.25
GILARES
BANKS
HKC Bank INSURANCES
RUYERS SELLERS SALES Percent-Associated Press,
1780 1810
Union **** 710
Underwriters
DOCKS, ETC.
N. P. Wharf
Provident
5.20
1002
S'hal Dock LAND, ETC.
HK Hotel S'hai Land
12
13
18.30
10
1.00
GOOD 3.80
2000 $ 3.80
34.30
2014
Dock (Apr. 21-May 21)- Your personality and the right use of it-can help you to solve many a tangle today. Be diplomatic.
GEMINI
22-June 22)- (May Business is slowed up for now. Ba on your guard, too, against a health minhap. You will need plenty of patience.
CANCER (June 23-July 23). Complications may arise but you can smooth then out sausfactorily it you are careful. Be tactful.
Good-Bye
SO LONG, FOLKS,
SAGGITTARIUS (Nov. 29-Dec. 22)-Get good grip on your emotions and keep them well under Otherwise, you may find control. difficulties arising,
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20 If you have over-expanded, don't hesitate to retrench, This may lo the best policy now.
By Fred Harman
ADIOS/
Humphreys UTILITIES
Tram
Leht (0) C. Light (N) Telephone INDUSTRIALS
Cement STORES, ETC. Dairy (0) Dalry (N)
Watson XD
d
1. Crawford (0)
Sinceres COTTONS
Iwo
(N)
6.70
only
N.Y. FOREIGN
EXCHANGE
Argentine Peso (Official) Argentine Peso (Unofficiali Australia
Brazil
Belgium
:
Canida
Chille
England
France India
Closing. Hates
Feb. 15
US$0.2017
2003
9.33-3/4
.0600
D320-7/1
92-7/0
0230
4.03-3/4
0931-1/2
3014
Mexico
1450
New Zealand
.00k
Peru
Portugal
.0404
0.00
South Africa
1.03-1/4
Sweden
2310
1200 # 10
$300
100 R
2010
United Press.
Exchange Rates
2015 101% 7000 10
Switzerland
Uružudy
2000 or 10% Venezuals
Siamese Trade
With Belgium
Brussels. Feb. 15-Siam la inves- tigating the possibility of buying Belgian rolling stock and chemical products.
For this purpose a Siamese econo- mic mission arrived in Brussels to day from London.
The mission, which includes two Siamese railway chief engineers, will stay until February 19-Associated -Press.
Netherlands Fatavia Singapore Henckung
Shanghal
the following Yates:
Blam tenis (per 1003: NEI gliders. (per 100) Gold yuan (per yuan)
Business was done in the local
un-
oficial exchange market. Thin, enorming at
Sterling bound note (per E1)
15.30
·
11.8. dillar (pet B41, 42
Gold barn (per-tarli
300.00
FIO plastres (per 100)
573
24,50
33.00
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