THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1950.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
.MCKENNEY DUMB-BELLS
ON BRIDGE
Cross-Ruff Needs Expert Timing
By WILLIAM E, McKENNEY TUIE other day I found a hand
which had been played by Col. Richard II. Skinner of Alex- andria, Va., who was president of the American Contract Bridge League in 1944.
There is an old saying that man is wallding the many streets of London because he Skinner failed to len trump,
proved that is not always true in today's hand. He cront-ruffext the hand and I think he timed it very
well.
The opening Jeud of the eight
of diamonds was won by Skinner
REGISTERED USĂ PATENT OFFICE
SO HES BEEN IN JAIL TWO WEEKS, WHATS THE CHARGE?
THERES
NO CHARGE
EVERYTHING IS FREE!
RECORDED MUSIC
Exploring the works
BY THE
WAY
of young Beethoven by Beachcomber
N William Primrose and David
article THERE'S been a bit of phong-
Intely Stimer play . Pre-Eroica Bee- examples
all.
graphic. exploring
thoven ha
n formallam which
Indeed,
if
docs, suppress content.
of the Notturno, you'll formances
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
PEKING MAKES
DEAL WITH KAILAN MINES
NEW YORK EXCHANGE.
werb :-
New York, May 3-Closing rates Canada (dollar) England-metal
* unoffic
30-day futuren
DO-day futures
Bouth Afrin (pound)
Denmark (krone)
West
San Francisco, May 3.-The Chinese Com-Ausira pound giving
munists' state-owned Coal and Building Materials New Zainul (pound) of high among the works of the young invites inflexibility of line and courage made me think of Company and the Kailan Mining Administration Belgium (franc) Beethoven. Rewarding. projects, contour. This cat, and often two astonishing incidents. have signed a one-year agreement affecting the an
you've ever heard inept per- The Duc de Biron, before export and domestic distribution of coal, Peking be surprised by its freshness and setting out from the prison Radio reported tonight.
and to be guillotined, ordered a Its multiplicity of lights
In slindey
performance, bottle of wine, and offered this thanks to the free Primrose bowing and uninhibited modula Lions (RCA Vietor: three 12-inch 78 rpm's or three 7-inch 45 rpin's).
One in the Notturno which the master himself arranged for viola and plans from his Trio. Opus Seven, composed in his 26th
your.
(sitting South) with the king YOUR BIRTHDAY............ By STELLA
when East correctly refused to play the ace, which would have established two diamond tricks for declarer,
THURSDAY, MAY 4
URGENT GIANT
glass to the executioner. "You must need a lot of
A job courage for youra," he said,
stumbled
like
On
Malesherbea No less warming to a Beetho since ven worshipper because it, too, step on his way Your wit is chart and
to be con- facility of verbal transmits the sense of the giant derned by the Revolutionary good you have
guard tearing urgently at his musical expression,
others with swaddling clothes, is the playing Tribunal. "That's a bad omen," against hurting
Straight-Artur Balsam, plano, Daniel he said, "a Roman would have! barbs of
violin. and
Andre gone back home." forward in your criticism, you Guilet. are sometimes a little too frank Navarra, 'cello, have given to the
trio with the dramatle designa-; for diplomacy!
The sco and king of clubs were TF you are born today, the in-
are dications
for n then ended by declarer, and on the king dummy's seven of din-business success. You have an monda wan discarded. The aine alert, quick mind and get down of hearts was led i won with to basic facts without too much mersing around with unimpor- tant detail. You are
pre adaptable to conditions, Yet, if you don't like things as they are, you
Im- make a definite effort to prove them rather than sinking your energies into getting along with the status quo.
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Under the agreement the
Delhibark Holland guilder) Italy-official Norway (krone) Somn (pes) Portugal (escudo)
weden (krona)
Switzerland-free
export of Kailan coal will Opposes Gold
be handled by the Kailan Mining Administration and Price Hike
sale of Kailan coal in China Egypt (pound) will be in the hands of the Tran triat Weshington, May 3-The Company, except in the caseTurkey (ra) Executive Board of the Inter-of the Tientsin Railway nctional Monetary Fund today Bureau and the Tangshan recommended the rejection of South Africa's proposal to in- create the price of gold.
Its present price is $35 an
DINICE.
The Board also recommended the rejection of South Africa's proposal to allow gold producing countries to pell half their gold output at whatever price could be obtained above the pegged TAGHAM was clever enough to rate.-Reuter.
-tell-tale blueprint, and Dingi-
dramatise your own personality.the seventh violin-piano sonata pretend he had not seen the
scen
New York, May 3-Rubber futures today turned reactionary after Larly steadiness and closed
Iract (climax)
Power Plant which the Kal-Argentine-oficial lan mines will continue to Chile-tree supply direct.
The Company stopped export- Ing Kallan coal as from April 20 Just.
Every
US$0.00 3/16 100-10 2.03 bky/- 2.50 od 2.70-1
2.70-3
2.79-11
2.00-1
0199-15 1459 0038-11/18
4.20
.1100
.1400
*100*
.0037
2331
Middle East
3.00-1 OGL
5.59-
3073
Latin America
1120.
Hranil (cruzeiro)
.0350
.1170
Columbia (peso)
Cuba (po)
Alexion pero)
.1100
Uruguay (peso)
.3750
Venezuela bolivar,
3010
For East
2100
2000
.1700
3040
3304
300 yen to USHI..
-United Press.
| Peru-free
month the Company will exchange approximately 130,000 tons of Kailan coal for India (rupee)
flour. Addl« Pakistan rupee) ..
Hongkong 150.000 sacks of tionally it will, every month,
Netherlanda Est pay cash for the 20,000 tons of Indies coal It will buy.
Singapore Japan
The agreement will provide a
China, Radio Peking mid--
Router,
OIL PRODUCTION
Lion, Opus One (No. 2). A fest Venus in the Ascendant
Hall, dramatle recording, this, (Concert a flair for wearing 12-inch LP.)
to
than these, la Better known. art clothes and an ability
No. 2. in C minor, Opus 30, Be onutious in marriage, for you You have a genin) nature and are highly selective in personal Existing recordings were
reason or Poos was clever enough to pre- NEW YORK RUBBER good market for Kailan coal in Fomeone
ausfactory for one a magnetle personality. You associations and need
harmonious to your personality,nother, largely that of are, and tend that she didn'k know be make friends easily although
Intuitive almost
had this new one, by Joseph Szigeti,
But Bumpov holds You are certain natural reserve
Mieczyslaw picked and
with It up, and cak with intimacy
any psychic at times. Recognise this violin, you from
you Horazowski, piano, can bo wel- elaborate sangfrold: "Ah! the except those who have been re- and don't let it disturb
with enthusiasm even plans for the new gun for har- cepted into your circle of real emotionally or it can bring un-comed
though it merely is a conven- toning whales." Is that what 50 to 70 points lower on sales be happiness. friends. You are likely to
Egham incom. 1otalling 255 contracts. itional performance by Arst-rate it is?" asked the centre of some small group
To find what the stars have artists. (Columbia; three 12-inch fortably. With a mocking smile Prices closed as follows:- of assoentes who admire you,
Dingi-Poos drawled, "I expect stay (in cents tomorrow, select rum's or one 10-inch LP.) Their in in store for perhaps exorbitantly.
our
per lb.) distinguished merchant- fluence probably will be con your birthday star and real the let
tome siderable, 28
for you
July the corresponding paragraph.
star be your
Weapon.
August faculty of attracting influential your birthday
daily guide.
trump her
Secret?" asked October eres it may the queen in dummy, The king off and important prople,
Egham. "My dear Shra-Hul," November December Bumpor amlenbly, want every country to go February about the place harpooning SPOT things with our device." All this
Tournament-E-W vul'
Werl North
Bouth
Ext
Park I
Double
14
Pars 24
3A
PRES
PAS PILS
Opening- &
hearts was enshed and Skinner
discarded his three of diamonds.
The three of clubs was led and vulfed in dummy with the dence of
spades came back and
The three of hearts
conpervatam enution.
have
FRIDAY, 'MAY 5
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can
Next he led the ace of hearts.) TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) portant decision a second, serious East ruffed with the three of There are changes in the air, thought. spades and Skinner over-ruffed but your best policy lies in CAPRICORN (Dec 23-Jan. with the five-spot.
for now. Exert 20)-If
conflirting condition blur your juftinent, postpone GEMINI (May 22-June 221) definite decisions until later on.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) when Bast re-New opportunties are, but
popular personality fused to ruif, decinrer won the check everything carefully her win friends and inhieure deci- trick with the six of spades. He fore dreiding. Intuitions are
sions. Use your personality to- now gave up a diamond trick, goort gunde.
lav. throwing East in the lead. Eust
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)--- CANCER (June 23-July 21)-
favour decided to try to stop some of the
morning's Conditions are in your prudent in the cross-rulling, so he led the king Be
Partnership: are now if you don't permit yourself this of spades, which declarer with the nee,
benefitted-especially there in to be side-tracked carly
morning. Now the nine of clubs was the domestic realm. trumped in dummy with the ten
LEO East, still hoping to of spades make two spade tricks, refused Aveld being pricked into show to over-niff. The six of heartsing altos of irritability. Colin- was let from dummy and now ness and diplomacy w pay East was helpless. If he trumped good dividends now.
་་
with the queen, it would
won activities.
tallisk declarer's Jack of spades,
(July 24-Aug.
23)
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)— If he trumped with the nine-Be conservative now and make spol, as he did, declarer would future plans for expansion with over-ruff with the jack, concede cure and in great detail, the last trick to East, and make five-odd, for top score on
the Haste only board
Check Your
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 233-- makes wasic this morning. Be deliberate in all you undertake. Things are better in the
afternoon.
SCORPIO (OcL 24-Nov. 22)-- Exert caution this morning. Then
Knowledge: you may embark upon a journey
1. From what is agar-ngar obtained?
2. What was Columbus seek
ing on his voyage to America?
સ.
Where was the Uncendi-
tlona Surrender Conference (World War II) held?
4. What is a champignon?
Can you name
6.
Fame
that is played with two fingers? 6. How does a baby bird crack its shell?
(Answers on Page 8)
CROSSWORD
1. 1 x tou to solVO ESIIN
10)
7. To revel Botally in so err. 11
D. Evidently straw up. 101
12, it returna round about ten (4)
13. She trads a shellerea existance.
131
14. Could po etong but not on the
tido. (3.
10. it makes a pale blad. 1)
17. When Brut goes to thin,
mative is honest. (B)
B:4
21. After a good fail of snow, out it
comes (513
23. Ever orielly put (31
24. ) log in when rating anything.
101
25. It up to doing some miscliief.
771
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1. Apparently suitabis fruit for
Negro, 10)
2. Another name for a perch, 13)
3. re-war complt (2)
4. It may be a trap. (3)
5. to till, (d)
6. To carry tan taalde a car must
be this, (5)
H, A good horap to bet on. 17,
10. It's always the same. (7)
11, ut of comeback for pussy, (3)
15. When goes congregate you gut
otte. 10)
15. tlo mar be just the one to prate.
18. Vex. 14)
19. Rain for the lady, plesao i 14) 20. A good time for & iman to retire.
22. You will and one in the Board
of Trade. (3)
Belution of gewerday's purais
1. war:
which can be beneficial to you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22)-Cuard against being too impulsive. Better give an im-
INTELLIGENCENTEST NOT SO VERY DIFFICULT
by 7. O. HARE
Want's the Deaman
tel: asked afr Dinge. 3 tils daughter Cicely came in Tratu stood Cicely lushed. "Just secret society. WIL **Tin ong of the, vites presidents."
"An you're to-night, is that want!
"How on earth did you know?" asked Cicely.
“You left thi tyin B About That's no why to He keep seriels, my girl' hunder Cleely this paper i DOMINANT FIFTH
REASM NENVE OIMLE SEHST TAOEI
How did you manage to read
asked
t
Cicely
The code is only kaowu to about eight of us
Change it." said Dingo "Any tool can read that
This may be an exaggera. tion. But it'ænut a dificult corir.
Can you decipher 7
(Solution on Page 2)
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. KRAKMEL
Black, 8 places.
While, 10 pieces,
Q B
White to play and mate in two.
Solution to
problem!
yesterday's
1, Kt-87, any; 2, B (ch, or dia ch), or Kt måtes.
ARIES (Mar. 22-Anr. 20)— Legal and business matters cull for attention now. Results can
Le promising. Act constructively,
BOYS'
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"What do you mucan, is a safe?"
Lahon Express Seritor."
AND
A Visit to an Old Friend
visitor thought it was
dreadful #ceret
repiled
don't
was
At London
London, May 3.-Prices in the San Francisco. May 3.-Re- rubber market here today closed storation of the oil industry in slightly lower as follows:- Communist China has resulted Spot No. 1 fin pence natural and the country's
June . . . synthetic oil output going up, July/September 24.50-34 traded Peking Radlo reported tonight. October/December
January/March (1051)
25.50 tid
25.20 nominat
20.55 montinal 2,65-70 traded 22.30 nominal 27.00 110minol 21.50 tracomel
In
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badly
January (1931)
1. nomina)
21.00 naninai
United Press,
time the "Cod Director"
At Singapore perspiring with fear and anxiety, while trying to look like a Fish moment Executive,
Singapore, May 3.-Pricen in At that there was a knock at
door, the rubber market here today at the and the
large man put his head closed as follows:-
room, and said, s
into
though repeating o
lesson: "I t
(per 1.) ...
the order of the Cod Director Number 1 rubber, May. that I round up the strays and
June fillet
abrod. them?" "Go
July Pajamboltz." cald the Director Number rubber, May Number 3 rubber, May, In a strangled voice. All this
Number 4 rubber, May rol was a bit too much for ar
Spot rubber, unbated. Blanket C. rep. eminent plutonologist.
No. 1 pale crepe.
--London Expicts SerVION,
GIRLS'
--Shadows Find King Nep Near the Brook-
By MAX TRELL
NARF and Hanid were walk- ing near the edge of the where the the spot brook t
the willow tree dipped into water when suddenly they heard.
He sounded King Nep's voice.
talking on the as if he were telephone.
he was
"Ab, yes,"
saying, "This King Nep.....What!.. You don't sust.... Don't do any thing, do you hear me? Don't I'll be right leave the water! over. Good-bye."
Largo Seasholl
was just puling King Nep
This was down a large teashell. his lefephone. If you put it to your car, you could plainly bear the round of the waves. It was connected with all the King Nep could speak to all his fish, from the amallest berring to the largest whale.
Erven
SCOR
King Nep Jumped to his feet when he saw Knart and Hanid. I've just had a piece of bad news," he said. "One of my trouble. Soine whales is in Knarf and Hanid immediately fishermen just threw a harpoon run around to the other side of at him." the willow tree.
sald "Harpoon?" flat white rock that hung over "What's a harpoon?"
There, on il
"But how ket there?"
Kart
are you going to
said that plants in the coalified allegedly damaged by the Nallon-
alists during the
fighúng~~
per
21-16-22-13
20-1-46
18-44-14
17-4-11
United PreRT.
werd working again. In the HONGKONG
days of the Japanese occupa-
tion of Manchuria, theso plants produced 300,000 tons of paso- line and kerosene annually from orale.
began
A synthetic oil plant producing at Dairen in February, and other plants--at Chinchow, Stralia cents Chinhsi, Stepingkai and Kirin
13-14 are expected to start working 71-shortly.
70-3~12
the zaid that Peking Radio 65-65-14 output of the Yumen ollfield in Northwest China is now greater
74-15- 58-29 **
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MAGAZINE
Rupert and the Dragon Pills—20
eeing that both the creatures are in such triendly mood after swal lowing the pills, Rupert screws up his courage and climbs up on to the scaly back to try to catch the per dragon. The little creature enters into the fun, and the big dragon.
thinking this game, does nut interfere, but looks on indulgently until the little bear is firmly an ho
Then be spreads his great back. wings and soats into the air withe warning. ** Hi I'
gasps Rupert. "What are you doing?" But the dragon doesn't understand.
ALL HOHTS RESERVED
Everything
behind the
than during the Kuomintang crit. The
Yenchang oilfield, near Yenan, doubled its crude vil output last year.
The Japanese synthetic kerosene plant in Shanghai has
SHARES
Transactions at the Hongkong
Stock Exchange this morning were worth $227,250.
SHARES BUYERS SELLERS SALES
Noon, quotations were: GOVT. LOANS
Union
ጋ!
120,000 @ 00
BANKS
HK Bank..
1:73
Fast Asia..
104
INSURANCES
GCG
130 k 550
B
2500 £ 6.00
COD 32
LAND, ETC. Humphreys UTILITIES
C. Light (N) 0.70 STORES, ETC,
Dotty
also been restored, the Radio Exchange Rates
added.---Reuter.
MORE COTTON
Busines
きせ
was done in the locat unofficial exchange market morning at the following rater B Sterling pound note (per £) 15.01 NEI quiiders ver 1001
San Francisco, May 3.--Com-U.. dollars (per $1 munist China is out to get more cotton produced this year.
This was reported by Peking Radio recently. and tonight it further details of tho
Cave scheme.
It said that in Hopei Province alone the object this year is the planung of 000,000 hectares of cotton 25 percent more than last year's
Cotton acreage. sowing is being hastened and attempts will be made to Gur- paus the target pet,
Ten countles in the Hontan administrative area have already Bown 40,000 hectares of cotton above
their target of 140,000
hectares.
In the cotton areas of Nor- east China the acreage under cotton is double last year's, and been for 1950 has the target exceeded by 26 percent.
INDUSTRIAL GEAR
They got behind the plants at whirling around. furned green, They heard the Inst (though Kearf almost did the bank of the brook, sat fille "A spear. They're trying to crash of waves and the far-off to shooting up to the top of the Then they water and had to be pulled down
It is estimated that 55,700 there. and King Nep who, once upon a time catch him, of course.
And that's y of a see-gull.
again by Hantd); There aren't stopped whirling
was the whale. tons of raw cotton will be the plants long, long ago, was known as an awful thing. King Neptune, Ruler of the many whales left. I don't like
"Here we are right in the ile had a harpoon slicking in yield from the fields of Linosi,
Liaotung and Jehol Provinces- Seven Seas.
any more of them to be caught. middle of the Atlantic Ocean." him all right, with a long rope Reuter. Well, I'll have to go and get King Nep sakd "Step off the attached to the other end of the Far overhead they rock. Come on, don't be afrald. harpoon. him out of his trouble."
bottom of the "Where is he?" Hanld asked. There's good hard sand to walk could see the
San Francisco, May 3.—A "At the bottom of the Atlantic
un. Now, where's that whale?" fishermen's boat.
Fortunately King Nep, with company to supply industrial Ocean."
деат лий Under Water
the help of Knart and Hanid, equipment, electrical was able to pull the harpoon out, construction materials to Man- Knart and Hand saw with
raid the whale. "Ichurian Industry has been form- "Oh dear." "Pil be there in a minute.
they really hupe I
I don't
get stuck again. ed by the Northeast People's Come along with me, if you're astonishment that
were under water. It was the It didn't hurt much, but it al- Government. Feking Radio said I may rot busy or something
water that made everything nost frightened the life out of tonight. need your help."
The Company witt have me. Thanks very much." And! look green. Not for off were
of fall
branches in Harbin, Changchun underwater off he swam. number
"I'm glad and other cities, plants, growing quite close to-
King Nep smiled.
in time. I like we got here gether and looking like a sort of wavy forest.
those whates. I hate to see them
what to those get caught."
Then they all stepped back on the rock again, King Nep struck his trident....and they were all back at the brook in no time at all.
King Nep had had bad news.
Knart and Hnnid said they wanted very much to get along. "Fine. I'll see that you don't drown. I'll even keep you from getting wet. Here - step
Knart and Hank This stone,"
on
"I think he's behind ald. The King Nep picked up plants," King Nep was saying. "Follow me, both of you. And his three-pronged cane (he call-
ed it a trickent) and stuck it on don't take too big steps or you'il the rock. The next Instant go shooting right up to the top. Knarf and Hanid felt themselves Walk slowly."
BRONCHO BILL
WITH ODDS EVEN NOW, THE TIDIANS ONE UP THEIR ATTACK ON BRONCHO BILL AND CLINS UPON THER MOUNTI AFTER WOUNDING ONE RANGER BOY --
Doctor Needed
WE'VE GOT TO GET SPH TO A BOCTOR, A PRONTOS E
It will also supply industrial equipment to factories south of the Great Wall-Reuter.
Sugar Unchanged
New
York, May 3-World sugar futures today closed un- changed to 2 points lower on
By Harry F. O'Neill sales totalling 16 contracts
THE KUNS ARE IN FULL RETREAT NOW); LET'S GO /
Domestic sugar futures closed with no sales TU-
ported.
Contract No. 6 closed 1 peint lower on sales 'totalling 36 con- tracta.
Prices closed as follows:-
Contract No. 4 (World),
July
September
January (11)
SPOT
1.29 bid 4.28 bid 4.14 nominal 4,02 4.30
Contract No, & (Domestic).
July
3.50 nominal
september
November
SPOT
Contract No.
July
September
November
Star ticals per 100)
(Strait) Singapore FIC potros (per 100)
0.10
4.50
ALZO
107.40
11.00
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