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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934.

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CULBERTSON

CONTRACT

by Ely Culbertson.”

THE CHINA MAIL.

World's Champion Player and

Greatest Card Analyst

A PSYCHIC SUCCESS

One of the hands in the recent for

world championship match the Charles M. Schwab trophy in London resulted in a psychic suc ¡cess for that great English player, Sir Guy Domville, who played the through the greater part of match as the partner of Colonel H. M. Beasley. As a result of his psychic foray, which had its effect both on my

partner, Mr. Theodore A. Lightner, and Small CO., LTD..

myself, we reached only a Kowloon Bay Slam contract on a hand upon Call Flag "L" which our English competitors bid Kelvin Motors.

The land made a Grand Slam.

band is a rather interesting one, and the bidding deserves close analysis.

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North, Dealer,

East and West vulnerable. North:-

S.-9 4 2

HJ 10 9 3

1.---G 4

-C.-8 7 6 5

West:-

5. K J 10 7 5 3

H-K 8

D.-A K Q #

C.-Q

East:-

5.-A Q 6

H.-A 7 4

D-3

C-A K J 9 4 2

South:--

S.-8

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H.-Q 6 5 2

JUST A RACKET~WILL ROGERS

* movies are an art, it leak out sometime, but personally think they're just racket," said Will Rogers, screen comedian at the Los Angeles banquet of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, where 1033 best performances" were solemnly rewarded. Rogers is shown above, right, awarding the "best direction" trophy to Frank Lloyd.

NOT MUCH TO SEE FROM 1.000 FEET

DIVER DRUNK

SIXTY FEET

UNDER SEA

Daring Feat While Salvaging.

FOUND WHISKY IN HOLD

London.

All deep-sea divers have iron nerves--but this man's exceptional coolness impressed even Sir Robert H. Davis of Messra. Siebe, Gorman

& Co., the famous salvage firm.

He is "Tom"-a, diver who was calm enough to unscrew his helmet. disconnect his life line and get drunk on whisky at a depth of 60 feet below the surface.

In a lecture at the Royal Society

FRADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

The following programme will ble broadcasted to-day from the Hong: Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. од з wave length of 355 metres (845 K.Cs):

1-2 pm-European Programme, 1 pan-Local Time and Weather Report.

103 p.m.-Recorded Music.

1.15 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Roon.

1.30 p.m.Rugby Press, News. 2.15 p.m.-Close Down, Recital of Gramophone Records_by A Talk from the Studio.

Mr. C. B. R. Sargent 4.30-7.30 p.m.--Chinese Programme. 7.15-7.30 p.m.--From the Studio. A Talk on the "Activities of the Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals".

7.30-10.30 p.m.-European [gramme..

of Arts Sir Robert revealed how; 7.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock "Tom" was working on the halvage Quotations.

of the famous Laurentic" "which 7.33-7.45 pm. From the Studio.

A Talk on the "Activities of the struck a mine off the coast of Ire-Society of the Prevention of Cruelty land in 1917 and sank with the loss to Animals" by the President of the of 200 lives and £5,000,000 In Society.. bullion.

8 pm Local Time and Report. "Tom," said Sir Robert, "had sent 7.48-8.27 p.m-Variety.

Weather

up no cargo for the last couple of Fox-TrotTrouble in Paradise,

Let the World go Drifting By, hours and everybody became anxious

Howard Jacobe & His Orchestra. about him. At last he shot sudden-Vocal Whistling in the Dark,

The Seven Viennessé Singing

Sisters. Fox-Trot-

ly to the surface and was dragged to the ladder. Then it was seen that

BABY BORN IN A he was drunk

MANGER.

"Yet he went down as 'anber as, a horse at a furieral', and the chief]

the mystery.

The Sun In Sound the Corner,

Oceans of Time (Mr. Whitington), 4

Ray Noble & His Orchestra:

Stanley Holloway. Fox-Trot-Count Your Blessings.

Cinderella's Fella,

Sunbathers' Complaint Mother's 100-Mile Search Salvage officer set about clearing up Humorous The Lion & Aibert

Investigated.

COMMITTEE IN AIRSHIP

For Relatives.

Benton, Tennesse.

A baby has been born in manager here.

The mother appeared

"This is how "Tom' did it. As the ship sank she had heeled, ovar] slightly to one side. Some of the: lair in the hold, instead of escaping

down the hatch when the water i one poured in, had been trapped in the

a

ship and the 'tween deck."

Vocal-

Fred Grofe & His Orchestra.

Wanting You (From "The New

Moon"), Lover Come Back to Me (From

7.

"The New Moon"),

St. Petersburg, Florida. Viewed from a height of 1,000 feet the human form is nothing evening at the door of a house angle formed by the side of the Waitz- to make a song about, according and asked the occupant's permis. to a fact-finding committee of The bidding: (Figures after the St. Petersburg Solarium So.sion to sleep in the barn, bids refer to numbered explana-ciety, tory paragraphs).

D. . 10 9 7 6 2 C-10 3

LAMMERT BROS. North

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS.

· Public Auctions –

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Fublie

THE

AUCTION

ON

Saturday, the 28th. April, 1934 commencing at 10.30 am.

at No. 307, Prince Edward Road,

SATURDAY, 28th April, 1934, cum-Kowloon Tong mencing at 2.09 p.m.

The First Bell will be Rung at 1.80 p.m.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.

Members are notified that they und; Their Ladies must wear their Badger: prominently displayed throughout the Meeting

and

A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE also One Upright Piano by Moutrie & Co.

and

No One without a Badge will he admitted to the Members' Enclosure.

Badges admitting Non-Members to! Some places of Blackwood Ware the Members' Enclosure and Club, Rooma at $6.00 for Gentlemen

On View from Friday the 27th. $3.00 for Ladies. (Both Includ-April, 1934, ing Tax)

through are obtainable the SECRETARY upon the personal application of a a Member, auch Mem ber to be responsible for all visitors Introduced by him, and for Payment of All Chita, &c.

The Secretary's office, 3rd Floor, Gloucester Building, (Tel. 27794), will close at 12 O'clock Noon.

Badger admitting to Members' En- closure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course.

On Ne Pretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.

Tifine are obtainable at the Club! Hoore provided they ATO ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Tele- phone 21920.

the

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE The Price of Admission to Publier Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate. Soldiers and Safiore In Uniform are admitted Half Price.

Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, dc, will- not be permitted to operate within the Precincts of the Hong Kong Joc key Club during the Bace Meeting.

By Order, C. B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 23rd April, 1934.

YOU

ARE INVITED TO INSPECT.OUR STOCK OF ASIATIC, FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

POSTAGE STAMPS IN BETS, SINGLE, PACKETS, BAGS AND IN APPROVAL

SHEETS. N

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Terms: Cash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneera. Hong Kong, 23rd April 1934.

AN INTRODUCTORY

HISTORY

by

A. H. CROOK, ORE, MA W. KAY, MA.

W. L. HANDYSIDE, M.A., B.Sc

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HONG KONG HEIGHTS

For the information of visitors | the following list of some of the |aighest points on the Island and

Mainland is publfabeds-

Ioland

Victoria Paak

Signal Station Mt. Parker.

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Fort

*1,774

1,7842

*Mountain Lodge

1,728×4 1,725

Peak Hotel

Taikoo Banatorium

1.800 „000

The Eyris

Mt. David

Bowen Road (filterbeds

Talmoshan

Kowloon Paik

West

Lawrence Tibbett - (Baritone).

Lover of my Dreams ("Cavalcače"),

Jack Payne & His B.B.C. Dance Orgán 'Solo-

Orchestra.

Sidney, Torch.

Round the Marble Arch,

8.27-9 p.m.

La Valse (Ravel),

"When the cargo was worked out She of this side more air was released. refused to accept an invitation to Some of this, instead of making its way up the hatch in bubbles, was The committee, composed of stay the night in the house. East South

three married couples, went aloft Later, the owner heard the also trapped under the 'tween deck.

Drank In Air Pocket IC 1D (1) Dbl. (2) in an airship to determine the 3C (3) Разя

degree of justuless in complaints woman calling from

"This was supplemented by the mude that passengers in the and, hurrying out, discovered the

air from the escape valve of thei pleasure-cruising airship were newly-born child.

diver's halmet, until a pocket of air, Ballet spying upon patrons of the munj-

The woman said that she had perhaps 18 Inches deep, was formed icipal sunbathing temple.

in the angle.

.ANT (5) Pass

3S (4)

5D (6) GS (8)

but

of

GS (7) Рава Рабв Pass

Pass PASH Pasa Pass Pass 1-An atrocious psychic,

worked to the eternal shame the American team of two. 2-First step in amoking the1

psychic fox cut. So far Mr. Lightner knows only that I

the barn

Three times Chief Pilot Ver-walked 100 miles from her home ner L. Smith steered his craft to Benton, in search of relatives. over the solarium and three-Reuter. times the committee members looked down in vain for grounds upon which to be officially, shock-

have plenty of diamonds. I éd.

may be weak elsewhere.

"Why, we couldn't even tell 3-East fears that an invulnerable which was the men's side and penalty may be below the value which was the women's" said of a game, which scema reason, the chairman of the committee. ably certain.

"The complaints are absolutely

4-Weet begins to lay the ground groundless."-Reuter.

work for a Slam. His main worry is how to convey the im- pression of the overwhelming strength of his hand. 6-East

abstains from bidding five notrump directly. After all, West's response of three spades may have been forced by the three-club bid.

CHORUS BEAUTY AS REAL HEROINE

Unrehearsed Rescue In Lake Scene.

FILM EXTRA INJURED.

THE "SCREWDRIVER

BURGLAR"

Long Island Police Victimised

Floral Park, Long Island.

"

"The diver, working under the] 'tween deck, suddenly discovered that his hands were out of water. Not long afterwards he discovered the cases of whisky,

"Having carried up a case and broached it, he sat on top of the cargo and, with water within. an inch of the bottom of his mouth- piece and 60' feet of water above his head, unscrewed the mouthpiece and knocked the neck off a bottle.

"To avoid interruption from the surface and to defeat any attempt

A burglar, who has been nam-made from the diving-boat to pull ed the "screwdriver burglar" be. him up unexpectedly he took a tura with his lifeline round a convenient cause his only equipment, in a ■tanchion. screwdriver, has already suc. "He was then free to enjoy him- cessfully pilfered 521 houses In self-with the Imowledge that if he' Nassau County since July, 1981.jslipped, if there was any sudden His work included several "jobs" movement in the water, if for any

on houses of policemen.

reason the aff should cscape from

A very strong bid, Indicating decisively desire for a Slam and at the same time placing

He takes whatever ta handy under the 'tween deck, or if he had the Ace of diamonds. East

and his hauls are varied. Frora miscalculated his own capacity and Hollywood. failed to grasp the full import of this inference.

Toby Wing, a choras beauty whoone house he took more than $30 failed to screw his mouthpiece of worth of goods including three again, he would be drowned like a 7-East should have bid aix spades, learned to swim in order to obtain newly-pressed sults, while at an-rat in a trap,'

a featured role in which she was other he was content to carry oft "But divers cannot afford to auf- 8-West should have bid Beven

to play, has found an alarm clock.-Reuter, affer from nerves.”—Beuter. spades, even though East bid very anxious only five spades. It is difficult that as a result of learning to swim to reconstruct East's

hand the is the heroine in an accident for without expectancy of a Grand (which the script of the film in Slam: on something better than which it occurred, did not call.

■ finesse.

Mina Wing, with Miss Ida Lupino, came here In Room No. 2, as I have said, the English star who

some months ago, and eight other the English players reached Grand Slam. Their bidding was: girls, was frolicking in a “jungle” North -East South

lake on the lot.

Pass Pana 3S Pags PRES

10

..78

Pask Pase Peso

West 2S 63 Pass

a

Her part called for her to swing across the water on a long rope of vines.

As the swung, Mary Tom Black- This bidding is in true "Papa-wood, a film extra, who had just Mama”. ́fashion. No safeguarda dived from a tree, came

up and

are adopted, such as the use of the caught the full force of Miss Wing's Four Five Notrump Convention feet on her nose. Unconscious, and

iar instance it worked. Amply provides. But in this parti- with her nose fractured, Mias Blackwood sank in 10 feet of water. Richard Arlen, who ance sarved As "lifeguard" at a St. Paul, Minnesota, bathing centre, was ashore, on the far side of the lake. He leaped into the water folly clothed, and began to swim towards the spot where Miss Blackwood {disappeared.

"WORLD TOO OLD

FOR LOVE. Tragedy Must Figure

In Art

Budapest.

But, Miss Wing stayed on her rope 'vine until its swing brought

¿ The world has grown too old for her back over the spot where she Love....

had struck the extra. Then the -Dr. Hermann Robbeling, director let go, dropped into the water and the famous Burgtheater of collided with Miss Blackwood's

ys that the time of love conscious body,

atori din paal de Arte

Mine Wing swam with her vic sʻzdeclaren, muxt, bold up a to the ahore, Miss. Blackw

the times, To-day it can taken to hospital where only through tragedy tion was sald not to be

Router.

Stalin Choice as Successor

First photo of 1. M. Kaganovitch (2), reported to have been chosen by Stalln (1).'dictator of Russia, as his succes Bor. They are shown at gathering of notables in Stalin's Moscow apartment. Others: (3) W. B, Vorobilows (4) B. S. Manulleki: (5) G. Dimitror, one of Reds froad in German Reichstag fire trial.

Orchestra De La Societe Des Con- certs Du Conservatoire, Paris Conducted by Philippe Gaut

1.

- suíte (Luigirl)

Concert Orchestra. 9.9.35 p.m.--From-the Studio,, A 13th. Recital of Gramophone Re

cords by Mr. C. B. R. Sargent. 9.55-10.12 Violin Solos by

Kreisler. Fritz

1. Gypsy Caprice (Kreisler)

2. Shepherd's Madrigal (Kreisler) 3. Thals Meditation (Massenet) 1 Tambourin Chinois (Kreisler) 10.12-10.30 From Opera. Prince Igor

p.m.-Band Selections

Ballet Dances Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4.

(Borodin sir. Sir. D. Godfrey), The

Wireless Military B.B.C. Band conducted by B. Walton O'Donnell Selection-Tales Of Hoffman

(Offenbach)

The Band Of `ILM,

Coldstream

Guards conducted by Capt. B G. Evans,

10.38 p.m.-Rugby Mid-day Press. 10.38 p.m.-Close Down.

MEXICAN BORDER REGULATIONS

23 Radical Changes Proposed.

FACILITATING' TRAVELLING

'El Paso, Texas.

All bridges and other ports of. entry on the Mexican border will be open day and night, and pay- ment of passport head-taxes by temporary crossers will be ell minated, if Mexico and the United States.

adopt. recommendations. made by border Chambers of Com mercs to the first convention of Mexican and American immigra tion officials,

Twenty-three recommendations for radical changes, in present im- thigration regulations, designed to facilitate international trade and travel and to eliminate red tape, were submitted to the convenion.

Among other recommendations were:

That all inspectors English and Spanish

speak

That travelling salesmen and prospective investors be Kllowed to enter Mexico without restriction

That crossing-card régulations be broadened to fusinde "all per sons restälug in Mexico defiring to vlalt any border clly in America fór commerce or plemedres an

That Europeans had "Asiaties in Mexico be allowed to visit America. That so called) Wandésirable", plummen be adailttel for trade, trips; }/Thit mbdicalisáxamination first class áliens" be visual only.*** Beuter.