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MUTT AND JEFF

JEFF REMEMBER THIS ESKIMO AND HIS WIFE WE

HAD HERE LAST

SUMMER?

WELL, IT'S COOL ENOUGH

HERE NOW FOR US TO TRAIN HIM TO BECOME A FIGHTER SO I WIRED HIM TO COME DOWN AGAIN AND BRING HIS LITTLE FAMILY!

THEY'RE COMING IN ON THE 10:45 TRAIN!

GREAT!

YEN!

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RESERVED

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 19, 1939

1

By BUD FISHER

WANT UM GUM-DROPS!

AND HOW!

Eva Turner (Soprano) From

The Studio

2.15 p.m.-Close, down.

5.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-London Relay-News Sup.

plement.

Today's Wireless

6.55 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.57 p.m. Variety including Renara, Harry Torrani, Elsie Carlisle, Jan Garber & His Orchestra & Others. Fox-Trots-It's The Little Things That Count; Moonlight In Waikiki

Jan Garber & His Orchestra

Because Duettists - All

Of You Go (Browning & Others); Let's Ballyhoo (Starr & Others). Browning and Starr with Piano. Vocal-Grandma Said (Magidson- Wrubel); Deep In A Dream (De Lange-Van Heusen)....Elsie Car- lisle with Orchestra.

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.

9.52 megacycles)

Piano-Rhythm Of The Rain, Intro: Valentine (film 'The Man from the Folies Bergere'); I Was Lucky (Alm "The Man from the Folies Bergere')...... Renara. Yodler-Dan, Dan, The Yodelling Man (Torrani); Sitting In A Jail House (Torrani)... . Harry Tor- rani, accompanying himself on the Guitar.

Fox-Trots-In A Little Dutch Kin- dergarten; Daddy's Boy......Jan Garber & His Orchestra. Votal Somebody's Thinking Of You To-night (Powell & Others);

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Mater, Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schen- ken'. World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has "beaten every other system în existence.

diamond. West promptly cashed two diamonds, then played still another, whereupon South naturally trumped with dummy's heart Ace. Now a trump was led from dummy. South

THE CORRECT PLAY LOSES To-day's hand was played in one of the early rounds of the Team-of-Four Championship at Asbury Park, N. J., in which we retained our world's championship title. At both tables South obtained the contract at four hearts. In each instance South was an expert player, and yet he went was set. down one, whereas we are quite cer- We admit that all South would have tain that almost any novice would to do at any point is to lay down his

make the contract.

South, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

AAK 6 8

J 7 8

A 3 8

0 A 6 4

#8

KQJ9.8

WE

J 7 6

10

A AK 993 ♡ 8 7 6

finessed the nine and when West won with his blank Queen, the contract

King of hearts and drop West's blank Queen. But we are rather stubborn and are convinced that South played the hand properly according to the mathematical odds, for if East's three trumps had included the Queen, there would have been no other method of making the contract.

&

held:

Q 10 4 8

♡ K J 10.9.04

The bidding:

10 7 5 8 9.8

Mouth West: North Bast

PRES Pass 14

SV

· Pass

Pass

40

14 Pass

West opened the King of diamonds, which was won by dummy's Ace. South still had three diamonds left and quite properly perceived that unless the muit were evenly. divided he would have:| to

the fou

ACL

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You're An Education (Dubin & Warren)......Elsie Carlisle with Orchestra.

Harmonica Duet-Krontjong Suc- cessen (arr. Hodlars); Italian Fa- vourites (arr. Hodlars)......The Hodlars. Vocal-Take Me Away From The

Children's Hour:

Dance Music

quette)-Selection....De Groot & His Orchestra.

"The Maid Of The Mountains❞— Light Gems (Fraser-Simson) Opera Company with Orchestra. "Chu Chin Chow"-Selection (Nor- ton)....Gaumont British Orch. "Miss Hook Of Holland"--Vocal Gems (Rubens)......Light Opera Company with Orchestra. 10.05 p.m.--Violin Solos. 10.19 p.m-Dance Music. River (Parker); Young And Heal-11.00 p.m.-Close down, thy (theme song '42nd Street')..... The Four Musketeers with Piano accomp. Piano-Variations on. 'Tipperary' (Williams & Judge); Miracles Sometimes Happen (Ray Noble) ....Renara.

8.00 p.m--Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio - Recital by Eva Turner (Boprano) and A. T. Lay (Plano),

1. Three songs by Arne: (i) When Daisies Pied; (ii) Where the Bee Sucks; (iii) The Plague of Love Eva Turner (Soprano).

2. Piece by Balfour Gardiner.. ..A.

T. Lay at the Piano.

3. (a) I Attempt from Love's Sick- ness to Fly (Purcell); (b) Hark the Echoing Air (Purcell); (c) My Lovely Celia (Munro)...Eva Turner (Soprano).

4. Erotikon (Grleg)............A. T. Lay

at the Plano.

5. Micaele's Air from 'Carmen' (Bi- zet)....Eva Turner (Soprano). 8.30 p.m.Bizet The Fair Maid Of Porth-Sulte. Sir Thomas Beechami conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

8-45 p.m.-Studio-Talk on "The Trade

of Hong Kong' by P. 8. Cassidy. 9.15 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 9.30 p.m. - Selections from Light

Opera.

"Les Cloches De Corneville" (Plan-

CLUB'S EASY

VICTORY

יי.

►

CLOSING IN

ON WUNING

Pingkiang, To-day. Chinese troops are closing in on Wuning, 70 miles northwest of Nan- chang.

A Chinese column has forced its way to the north-eastern suburbs, and -another force has recaptured Liki,

west of .Wuning.-Central News.

HANKOW

EXODUS

Chungking, To-day.. Foreign reports state that there has been a noticeable exodus of Chinese from Hankow since the recent Chin- ese air raids.

It is rumoured that Chinese forces the will soon launch an attack on Wuhan cities.-Central News.

Y.M.C.A. HOCKEY

TEAMS

Following are Y.M.C.A. hockey fixtures for the remainder of the week:-

TO-DAY

-..

"A" Team (v Roval Scots):-H. Milling- ton: P. Lotley and R. Goldman; D. White, M. Dunne and R. Baldwin; W. Stone, G.

·Bartlett, Dr. Rose, A. Rix and C. Bevan,

SATURDAY

Hong Kong Hockey Club beat Euro-

First X (v Radio S. C. 4.15 "Y" Ground): pean Y.M.C.A. by three clear goals atv. Benwell: B. Jordan and D. Taylor; 1. Kempton. R. Bates and E. Yurieff; D. Yesterday you were the dealer and King's Park yesterday.

` Club's forward line, despite the ab- Smith, M. Dunne, E. Fowler, A. Austen and sence of Divett, proved more than L. Coombe. adequate to cope with the "Y" defence. 4.15 Marina Ground):-A. N. Other: K. Mol- Whitley, played at inside-left, broke ler and H. Tomlinson: H. Smits, W. Stone. through twice to score a goal in either and K. Broch: A. Mackenzie, R. Dormer. half, while Carey, at inside-right, | G. Greenberg, D. Spare and C. Bevan, Um- netted the opening goal of the match. pire B. Banks.

♡ 8 6.4 3 0.10

AJ S 2

What was your correct open. ing bid?

ANSWER: Your correct bid is one club. If partner responds with a dia- mond, you bid a spade: If he responds with one notrump or two clubs, you pass: if he responds, in a major sult you raise him.:

Score 100% for one club, 40% for one spade (you cannot handle a two- diamond response), 2078 for pass......

QUESTION\NO,§285-

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Second XI (v. Battery team H.K.S.R.A.

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