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1.31 BY WILLIAM E. MOKENNEY
TVERY day more and more EVER
playera are adopting the point count for no trump old- ding, but I think that too many are abusing it. South's hand to- clay has a count of 18, counting the aces four and the kings three, With n count of 10 to 18 you
should bid one no trump, not on this type of hand. Why risk a good round hand when you do not have the club suit? The proper bid in one heart by South.
When North bids two clubs, showing { trick and a half, South is justifled in jumping 10 three no trump.
The important lesson, how- ever, that I want to point out today is the hold-up play. On the opening lead of the live of spades, declarer plays the, Jack from dummy and East goes up with the king. The careless de- clarer wins with the ace, and now when the club sull dors not break, he finds he has only eight tricks.
Do not win the spade until the third round.
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Check Your Knowledge
1. Why does land in desert areas cool so quickly at night in spite of daytime heat?
2, Estimate the length of the Nile and Yangise,
3. To what was Kipling re- ferring in the phrase "the bear that walks like a man?"
4. What character in history is nicknamed "Bony?"
5. Near what city is Chateau d'If
where located. This is the Count of Monte Cristo was imprisoned.
d. What part of the human for body acts as a storehouse calclum?
(Answers in Column 4)
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By ROBERT TREDIŅNICK
to
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
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ND who should Foulenough espy, as he peared through the small operture in the wall which enabled him to make .. rough estimate of the takings-- who should he espy but his old love, Vita Bravis, dining with soldierly - looking gentleman? What was that gentleman's sùr-
the rarest
est delicacies arrivede
unordered, accom
accompanied by the costliest wines? by no means rich, he unocked in like a uncomfortable. so the
Not who
vagrant sailor. "Compilments of Lie management," sald the head walter, as he replaced the emply bottle in the ice-pall with a
ber full one, Vita amiled to self. Cold perspirallon broka out on the forehead of her cavalier. Ho
working. harder at- arithmetic than any schoolboy.
TT seems that the Vienna gives à clear-cut version of the
Thilharmonic Orchestra are Death of Boris, from Moussorg taking the line of the Philadel- sky's Boris Godounoy, which he phia Orchestra and playing the sings in Russian (Decca I more popular classled
2229).
At the age of 18, Licia prise This month you can hear the A
Albanese recorded Mimi Intermezzo from Act 3 Manon Gigli's Rudolpho in Boheme. and the Cavallerin Rusticana Since then she has been in the
organist in United States and re-appear Intermezzo. Solo Anton Heliler, conductor Her with Marguerite's Aria from best Von Karajan. Both works Act 3 Meilstofele, by Balto, and
played with polich ar
1 est Doux 1 est Don, from (Columbia LX. 1208).
Massenet's Herodiado, a
a delight- only by a ful record spoiled slight tendency to on occasional vibrato (IIMV DB 6883).
**
Of the vocal records, the most outstanding are made by Ljuba Welisch and Raphael Arle,
And
*
Welltsch sings Love
I found the Lily Pons veralon Music from Act 2 Tosca with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and of the lovely L'Invitation au Musetta's Waltz Song from Voyage disappointing. The song requires n lyrical singer und Boheme with the Vienna State Lily Pons is not
that, but her Opera Orchestra. Both are sung
treatment
Rachmaninoff's in Italian and are as good as ea
wordless song, Vocalise, is
is de- lightful (Columbia LX. anything recorded for years word (Columbia LD. 82).
LX. 1309). In Duke Ellington's composi tlon Transbluceney, le usce the human voice Instrumentally. Icny Davies adds distinction with her part in a trio of voice, clarinet and trombone. On the back is a new treatment of St Louis Blues (HMV B 0794).
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Bulgarian-born Raphael Arle justifies the faith Decca have in him us a singer of quality. With the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Krips, he
OYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE Chirpie Went Out to Dinner
-But His Friends Didn't Eat Off a Table-
By MAX TRELL
RPIE Sparrow looked in through the window of the house and saw everyone sitting at the table, having breakfusi. Later that morning when he met Knarf and Hanid, the sha dows, Chirple said: "Seeing you
lead all sitting around the table
in-
was Then reminded me that I Jenel a small club and Anesse the vited to dinner by several of my
nine-spot. If the spades aro friends on different days dur only three spades and a club,ng the week. And not one of their dinner on, n
divided four-four, you will lose
them had
they are divided fvc-three, as table. To tell you the truth,
in the most they are in today's hand, West they will not be able to get in to castell ate
ferent way you can possibly
his good spades until after you think of. have made nine tricks.
Chirple wore his bathing suit to dinner.
"For Intsance there was the dinner with Mr and Mrs Suns P. Woodpecker. They asked me to be sure to cemo carly and to be sure to have bathing suit. And where did
We uto CHESS PROBLEM my beek good and sharp.
I came early
and I had my we eat our dinner?
course by diving for u beak sharp as I could one
As
fish in a brook, make Then we few around and pecked our damer out of course by diving for a fish in
a pond, and we got our des
By J. F. R. FLATAU Black, 5 piacos.
White, 11 pieces. White to play and mate in two, yesterday's
So
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£10 4. Dd.
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was
for
The gentlemen stared at the bill and grew pala. The lady affected Indiference. The head- waller was summoned. on earth," asked the gentleman, "was such a total arrived at, two people? The head-waiter explained that it was the extras which had mounted so
high. Thero was the
port in the soup. wag tha There wa
wine-sauce. There was the brandy in tha There was bread. There Irido,
There
I commend Casa Daley, the was butter, so-called.
was the cover-charge, the American comedienne, singing music-charge, the flowers,
That's the Beginning of the
the
FOR
THE BUSINESSMAN
Govt Warns New Yen-Sterling Rate May Delay Anglo-Jap Talks
Singapore Merchants
Singapore, Sept. 21- The Singapore Govern- ment, as a first MOVO toward the stabilisation of prices, today warned that price control would be invoked if merchants – In- creased their prices “under- 'the excuse" of recent
TOO EARLY TO ASSESS
sterling devaldaton, EFFECT ON AGREEMENT
com®.
A Government munique appealed to the Pabllo
to refrain from paying increased prick and stressed that the Malaran. Dollar - WIN WENI worth the same as before within Mskaya.
xiso The governmens formed a warning that the Federal Government Malaya had ordered the
freeping of
all wholesale and retail prices with expect from today at the levels existing before Sep- tember ||17) ----- Associated Press,
FAO Predicts
Bigger World Rice Output
Washington, Sept. 21-The United Nations Food and
From Our Own Correspondent;
London, Sept. 21.—A Board of Trade official' said today that it was too early to say what effect the new Yen-Pound exchange rate would have on the proposed Anglo-Japanese trade agreement · |now being negotiated In Tokyo,
Allied headquarters in Tokyo have announced that the new rate will be 1,008 yen to the pound, The Yen-Dollar against 1,450.8 before revision.
rate remains the same: 360 to the dollar,
trado
The
Anglo-Japançad talks are expected to be com pleted in a week or two," but progress may be delayed while the implications of the дет exchange rate-which puts the aterling area in an unfavour- able position—are examined.
-Trade between Japan Vio
and
United Kingdom, and the Colonica for the 12 months ending June 30, 1940, amounted to $50,000,000 each way,
India Clamps Down On
Black Market
New Delhi, Sept. 21,--Tho Indian Government has opened
End, and Mamma's-Gone Good-/ use of salt, mustard and poppers] Agriculture Organisation today agreement will provide for con- | devaluation bye (Brunswick 84245) and It's the table-charge,
DD 2561.)
(Tomorrow-nusual
Angies)
the chairs-
Parasols remained
fashion writer course they did. The mitteo
on
·
marketing.
It is hoped that the news drive to stamp out the post- boom In black a Cruel, Cruel World, backed by charge, the carpet-charge. And estimated that world rice pro siderably greater balanced trade duction, spurred by sharp rises between Japan and the sterling Kiss Me
The Government, said it was Sweet (Brunswick so on.
In the Far East, would increase aren, but the events of the past taking "measures to check anti- (4253).
by 3,800,000 metric tons during few days might put an entirely social activities" such as boosts A pleasing
new light on the matter, sentimental
closed the next two years.
in prices and the hoarding of American number, Again, is sung with
drugs. It said it Charta and personality by
The present talks are between would control The report by the FAO Com-
the distribution twenty-three-year-old blonde
world commodity Board of Trade officials and re- of drugs and would put price Doris Day. She has the support ladies of today look idiotic problems said that on the basis presentatives of the United King-ceilings on vegetable oils, oil of the Mellomen and John while manipulating anything so of "programmes and projections dom and Dominions on the one seeds, shellac, steel, tobacco and Rarig's orchestra. (Columbia feminine, The wielding of a of major producing and trading hand, and the Japanese Govern- vegetable products to prevent
parasal
their
and representatives of speculation. great countries" the world output ment expores hands, gnarled from contact of rice would rise from 100,400,- SCAP on the other, with steering-wheels. The 000 tons in 1948-9 to 102,300,000 opening, shatting, or moving of tons in 1940-50. the parasol calls for Brace and
It estimated also that in the poise, not for brute strength following year it would soar And the coarse gestures of the past the pre-war average of cotton, rubber, tin, jute, cereals, hockey-fleld. Finally, the under a parasol should be 102,800,000 tons to a new high and petrol.
"Previously there has of 104,000,000 tons, of charm, and not discontented, hard and Insolent.
no fixed Yen-Pound exchange Therefore The Far East will increase rate," a Board of Trade official the ladies of today do well to from 93,600,000 tons this year
guld. respectively. 3. Russia. 4. Napo-keep parasols, like fans, closed. to 95,000,000 in 1949-50 and "It was a very flexible 红心 leon 1. 5. Marseilles, France, B.
26,000,000 the following year rangement and Japan was The bones.
-={London Express Service)
and will account for the bulk charging ua by ona rate of the increase, but this will some commodities and by alli-be below the pro-war- different-rate-for-others”- average of 98,400,000 tons.
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers
1. Because of the lack vegetation, cloud banks, etc., which tend to hold the heat. 2. 3,600 miles and 3,400 miles
face
and another YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA
the bark of different trees. pert by diving for feit In a
river,
to come
now
in
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
Under the previous agreement the sterling area imported from Japan commodities ranging from soda to allk in'exchange för raw.
beeu
for
1
.
Hemisphere production will in- NY COTTON
It is estimated that Western
tons crease from 3,100,000 this year
to 3,700,000 nex!
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Committee sald
and
Tho
rice."
FUTURES
fell
below
Parliament will be recalled on October 5 for an emergency session to discuss the devalua- ton situation. United Press.
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Canada (dollar)' England official
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Australia" (pound)
export
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New Zealand (pound) South Africa (pound) Belgium (franc) Denmark (krona) We had one
on the course
France, officiat
commercial trunk of a maple. tree, and Then I was invited to haveDORN today, you must learn to You like all the good things of year.
ffolland (gulldor) and dinner with Hoollus Owl. Ho curb a very definite restless- this life-fine clothes, eating and another on oak tree,
Italy amcial dessert
trunk of an asked me to be sure on the
must guard elm.
Norway (one) late and to come with a flash- ness in your nature If you are to partying -- and
New York, Sept. 21-Cotton Portugal (escudo light.
reach the heights of success. against playing too much Invited To Dinner
So I came after dark
what you want working too tel You aro
another Spain (pescia) "The next day," Chirple and I brought along a very long Learn to know
klow scazion Prices epened Sweden (krons) went on, "I was invited to flashlight made out of a firefly and then go cut after it. Don's popular with your own as well meanwhile the Far East's out-futures "today passed
So all waver between two possibilities as with the opposite sex, and if put of wheat, and coarse grains dinner by Squire Squirrel. Ho inside a hollow straw.
the Egypt (pound) war, so that the 100 long or both may disappear a woman, probably will have had "Inercased. well above pre- higher and at no time during Switzerland free
combined the session told me to be sure
Iran (rial} to come night long we dew about
Iraq (dinar) make up your numerous opportunities to wed. availability of these for the first previous close. Buying was not to be the pitch black darkness hunt- before you can sure early and to be
but sellers were
Turkey (Uráð So I ready to dig.
that of cleaned aggressive, come ing for mice and frogs (which mind! In other words, cultivato
lime exceeds It is likely that your greatest
LATIN AMERICA even more timid. and decision regardless of what others Lke) and bright and carly and I brought I don't
happiness will come if you wed
The sharp rebound in comunedl Braz! (cruzeiro) may say. along a little shovel. So we then a moth and a mosquito
taste pretty
Impulsive and quick-tempered, someone born under Taurus,
Uschule oficial good if
It added: "This signifies a tien and the upswing in securities Dolivia boliviano) dug up, an acorn in one field, (which
Gemini or Sagittarius. Your temnatable, if transient, change in combined to restore confidence, free and a chestnut Ir. another, you keep your eyes shut while you often "speak out in Church,
much to the discomfiture of the peraments will "click" and you the food consumption pattern but the better feeling was not Colombia (paro)
buying orders Cuba (pero) the East. The prevailing translated into and had two hickory nuts for you're eating them).
Maxico (pero). Then I was invited to din more conventional souls. But you will find that you do your best in dessert which we dug up out
develope Peru-official a hole of
onner by a bee, and we had it have a great deal of personal creative work when you are emo high prices of rice, in combina-pending Washington in the ground
tree able to keep tonally happy.
the low purchasing menta on the form price sup And I was in charm, and are
tion with hivo. the other side of the hill..
friends although you may often
power of rice consumer, has port bill and ECA appropria-Uruguay, (paso) To find what the stars bave in tended to shift some of the Fartion re-entry of Japan into the India (rupee) "And the third day. I was 'vited to dinner by an sat, and antagonise them by your
Venezuela (bolivari acid
FAR EAST Shirley we had it inside a hill. And ant 1. PKG, any; 2. Q, R.(dia ch, invited by my friend
Sho
ba I was invited to dinner by a tongue, Being witty also helps store for tomorrow, select your Eastern import demand in recent Enid to Kingfisher or dbl), or Kt mates,
for 12,000 bales of Hong Kong and we had it under- you get away with it. You enjoy birthday star and read the cor-years from rice to cheaper food market
United Press. sure to come early and to be mole,
people and make an excellent responding paragraph. Let your grains."
American cotton, with a promise sure to bring along something ground.
host or hostess.
blrühday star be your daily guide.
of further
purchases to swim in. So I came carly
Good Dinners
"Asian countries were forced and I brought -along my They were all rood diln-
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
to import over 7,000,000 tons of subsequent procurement, aroused
favourable comment, but any OUTWARD MAILS "but tho ners," said Chirple:
cercala other than rice, mainly optimism on the export pros Rupert's Queer. Path-46; odd thing about them was that LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) mar. ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)—A] from hard currency areas, in
was a different Emotional
pecia
pending con was blunted upscia can wreck pleasant journey can lead to add- 1048-49, as against 1,200,000 kind of dinner, In different; your plans for a productiva ed business opportunties if you tons before the war."Unitedgressional action and a detailed
of the kinds of places.
And not business day.
repercussion of Make sure your play things right.
study Side-step Fress
currency devaluations. single one was a dining- friends are loyal,
romance.
Prices opened four to seven room, on a fable, with knives
ACORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)----
and closed un- end forks and
points higher spoons and A geod, progressive day. Work plates and napkins." And: that|| things out carefully in detail and
changed to 12 points higher, as follow. reminds me of something else. you will be rewarded. Get re- Would you Knerf, and you suits now. Banid, care to have dinner with me some day?"
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Dacons of Kif the qudana. 14, 81) Quadrupedal mattock, (4) Attampl(5)
12. The swallow twittering trom
the steam-bullig maaarinRA 14. Zhia tota la nostaining. {a} 1 Island of sodal and politicas
perfection. (0)
15. Le choke after it but more food:
appoare, (3). 17 and 28. At the dogs or in Chlie
terrace, (8, 4)
10. At a distancë, (4)
Terrible. Russlan, (8)
23.. A change pores oyer the caterer.
25. Where the famous courting moor
bogtos. (3)
plays many in his time. (5) B06 17.
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1, a mute, becomes an invaite.
2. Kito, 1DE 2pose" he ¡learn his chorala'? 17;
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Famous Italian royal family. (8) "Operve in Buffolk, (1)
1. Till water was useful in A.MP.
10. This board is nahe, (4) A
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Bij) kwepa quite still at the edge of the rock platform and gazes in anslaty downwards. For a time ha i hears, and; s880 nothing.... Then, to his intense relief, Rupert, appeara agala flying up, through the mist. "Mind you don't make the same mistake xa. I did," calls the Bitle bass as he floats lato, the tunnel. *We'm still in Crazy Land, so if you want to walls forward you must it to walk backward. Az phút ha disappears into the darknes, and
Bill follows with great cart,
ALL RIGHTS REJERVED.
BRONCHO BILL
each of them
Yes!"
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Des. 22) Be alert to the double-cross Hanld sold in business by someone you
trusted. You can avoid complica
Pramewould we eat, Chir-tions.
"We'd eat,” sald Chirple, "on top of the garden wall"for, our first course, and on a window-
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)--| If your energy equals your am bition today, then you should be able to get what you want out of Hfc.
GEMINI (May, 22-June 22) Be self-confident of your success and the battle is half won. You can get what, you want now. Make a try.
4
CHICAGO GRAINS
The
October in cents per,
December
March (1950)
May
Kulys
October
Chicago, Sept. 21-Grain December
wheat against moderately larger LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)—Con-flour sales. inue to exploit yesterday's busi- ness potentials. You can also
SPOT
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20.08-70 20.60 bid 20,03-6 21.24 17.15 nomiasi 17.08 30.01 -United Press
New Orleans, Sept, 21-Prices in the celton market here today closed as follow:- October in cents
per lb.)
ple?" Knurf asked, affer, ho CAPRICORN (Dec, 28-Jan.
CANCER (June 23-July "23). prices today became firmer March (1051) and that he would. love to 20)-New ideas will pay exce This is a time for you to sit back in company with the outside come too.
lent
deriving additional dividends now if you pro- and lot the world go by. You can markets, mote them wisely.
Make those avold serious illness by resting support from mill buying in NEW ORLEANS MARKET dreams come true.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19) aill for our second course. And This is your day to be alow.
Prices as closed as follow: our dessert we'd have on the and steady if you want to win branch of a ripe cherry tree. this racet Conservative action is make wedding plans propitiously. WHEAT-price per bushel.
ho And be sure,"
added, "to best now. early. come early-very
VIGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)--September Bo- PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21) ---- cause if you don't come early, A good day for all employees. If you are tactful at home, you December someone else is sure to eat Demands that are made now. will find everything working out March (1930)
May your dinner 'first."
should be complied with at once. smoothly for you. Moderation is And Chirple flow away.
best.
·Make progress.
Bare-Fist Brawl
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March (1960)
October
March (1950) БРОТ
May
July
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By Harry F. O'Neill March (1050)
CORN Ярос September December
1.30-4
1.25-14-36:
May
July
1.20-1
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66-71
STUNG VER SMART, DONTCHAP
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December DATA
September
December
...
"2045
20.71 28.05 bis
20.58
bid
27.10 bi
27.05 bidi
20.00
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Closing Times by Alt Talpen, Luchow, Kunming, ios. how, Bwatow and Anwy, 3.30 p.m. Rangoon Calcutta, Karachi, Basra, Catro (Nairobi, Mombasa, SAMRIT, MALrikius ardi Johargesburg vis Catro), Rome and London, (How- Ilangkok, Bngapore, Batavia, Co- loon cup), 4.30 pm: (GPO) à p.m. Lombo, Bytihar and, Aucklawid, 6
Closing Times By Bas Manila, Balavisa Mauritisak, Mmegama
Afric sat South qurban, 3 p3.
Via Canion, 8 p.m. DAY BROTINDER 23 ClOKIES Timer By:Air,
Swatow, 1130 km, USA and Canada, 2 Pitha v Bwalow and Amby, 530 pm.
Chungking and., Chengti, 3.30 pm
Mall, Guam, Honolulu, UNA/and Canada, 5 pm
Faisal
Alt Parpol Poste for Bimille. Tono- 4,80 (DPO) -5 pm. Ordinary Air, Mali (Printed Mat
and Prekont
Seeknd TEA (Kowloon (0) Jap Techniciansfers, dimples e quen Hogoiting
Tokyo, Sept. 21-The State and UBA (Kowlood 170) 450 pan; Department economlat, My Carl Singapore, Sourabera," "Býdney and NEW YORK FLOUR-per 200 lb, 8. Boehringer, said, today that Auckland, a papus mack. 11,55. dollars,
India plans to Invita -147 Haiphong, salgary and Mayla, 3 p.rt. snpatients technicians toʻqnist in: Brizona D * LEWAT
'WINNIPEG-MARKET.
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December
May (1055) „HARLEY
October December May(1000)
OATS
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the development of Indian Brand, Ceylon! Madigascar Maurio textile, leather and hide, Tikes and Last, and south Africa Adeo machinery and electrical goods
am
industries
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Japan's Federation of Economic 34-15 Organisations that the Pakistan government had also stipresned interest in obtaining the ser vices af 147Japanese technicians, -United Press.
p.m.
Bangkok,
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