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MUTT AND JEFF

BUT IF WE JOIN THE

RUSSIANS THE FINNS WILL GET

SORE!

SO WHAT! IF WE JOIN THE PINNS THE RUSSIANS

WILL GET SORE! ∙COME ON!

'YEH,WE'RE AMERICANS! WE'RE NEUTRAL BUT WE' GAME OVER HERE TO GET

IN THE WAR!

OH, SURE! YOU HEARD WHAT DO

OF US---{YOU WANT?) MUTTAND JEFF!

{RUSSIAN RECRUITING OFFICE

Recital By Caroline Braga

From The Studio

6.00 p.m.-A Ballad Concert,

WHAT DO WE WANT? WANNA

WE

JOIN

YOUR

WHAT! AND SPOIL RUSSIAS CHANCES Of WINNING THE WAR?

WELLER, CANT WE DO SOMETHING TO HELP YOU WIN THE WAR?

ARMY!

(SURE!)

WHAT?

拿

Today's Wireless

6.28 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quota-

tlons.

6.30 p.m.-Half An Hour of Dance

Music.

C

7.00 p.m.- London Relay "These Strangers within our Gates". Stories about foreigners.

7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m. Lawrence Tibbett (Barl- tone) Winnie Melville (Soprano)

and De Groot & His Orchestra.

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles

8.45 p.m.-Studio-Plano Recital by 19.40 p.m.-Cello Solos by Pau Casals.

Caroline Braga.

Vito (Spanish Dance), Op. 54, No. 5 (Pop- per): Spanish Dance (Rondalla Ara-

9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-

mary.

|9.30 p.m. ---- Songs by Tito Schipa

(Tenor).

'Plaisir D'Amour (De Florian, Martini); O Del Mio Amato Ben (Donaudy).:...with Orchestral accomp.

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

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

A MORAL VICTORY

In yesterday's hand Howard Schen- tion of East, every one had a freak ken, holding a nine-card suit, won a hand. When the bidding reached moral victory by making a sacrifice Grand Slam bid. To-day we find an- other nine-card suit, and since they occur so rarely, we do not expect to see another one this year.

North, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable.

Mr. Dohenken

Q 8 6 3

A 10 7 5 %

♣ K 9 8 44

◊ KQJ10

W.

AK 10,5 4 V 9 8 6 ◇ A 73 2

9.8 8 5.4

♣ A Q

76 a 2

.

A J. 9.7 3

KQJ 4 8

♣ J 10.5

Mr. Rose

The bidding:

North East South

West

Pass 10

2♡

80

-AV.

40

BO

EV

80

70

Pass

Pass 70

Равя

Pass

Dbl.

Pass

Pass

Pass

seven- diamonds, Mr. Schenken, being undecided as to whether or not the contract could be defeated, left the de- cision to his partner. And while Mr. Rose thought that his Ace of spades might take a trick, he finally con- cluded that it was safer to incur a small penalty. Mr. Rose was set only two tricks, whereas the diamond Grand Slam would have been a lay- down.

**

✡

You were Howard Schenken's part- ner yesterday and held:

A QIII

J 10 x X

The bidding:

You Jacoby

Pass 2NT Pass Pass

Hurnstone

1NT

3NT

What do yon lead?.

Schenken Pasa Роба

ANSWER: - Lead your fourth-best spade. With a five-card suit you should be willing to give up one trick. as you then have, a good chance of winning four spade tricks.

We believe this hand constitutes one * Score 100% for a spade, 80% for à' of the greatest freaks we have ever|heart, 0 for any other lead. seen, and we wish to assure our rea-

HIGH BARS VALUES

TOUR-ACKS SYSTEM:

ACE... 3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK...N

• QUESTIÓN NO, 383..

10

ders that it actually "David Bruce Burnstone is your part- occurred in a Rubber ner to-day and you hold. Bridge game at the Harmonie Club in New York City. Actually, Howard Schenken, who dealt the hand, found himself winning moral victory, due to the fact that partner, ** - Albert tube,** mada?" the brilliant" sacrifice,

and Slim bid.

a worthy of note that at no time did any one of the four players make .a.jump: bid ́although, with the excep-

The biddingt

You

Pass

What do you bid? (Answor fomorrow.)

GEN. WAVELL TO FLY TO THE RAND

By BUD FISHER

JOIN THE

FINNS!

Beethoven Symphony By Vienna Symphony

Orchestra

gonesa - Granados); Goyescas Inter- mezzo.. (Granados); Toccata In G Major -Adagio (Bach)....with Piano accomp. 9.55 p.m.-Beethoven-Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 ("Choral") Felix Weingartner and Vienna Phil- harmonic Orchestra. 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

CHESS

COLONY

CHAMPIONSHIP

Results of Colony chess matches during

Capetown, To-day. General Wavell, Commander-in-the past week:-

Chief of British Forces in the Middle East, will fly from Capetown to the Rand to-day in a South African Air | Force "bomber.

General Waveil, who arrived on Sunday for consultations with the Union Government, yesterday visited various defence points on the Cape peninsula.

E. Zimmern beat B. S. Litvin. A. Kurrik beat D. E. de Carvalho. B. S. Litvin, beat K. Welss, D. E. de Carvalho beat. E.. Zimmern, K. M. A. Barnett beat V. V. Kalatchoff." A. Birlukoff drew with Sir H. Pollock. Positions of the competitors to date fol- low:

|E. Zimmern

He lunched with the Governor-K. M. A. Barnett General and Lady Duncan and dinéd B. 6. Litvin last night with General 'Smuts, the K. Weiss Prime Minister. Reuter...

PRECARIOUS SUPPLY

ROUTE

Basle, To-day. Swiss newspapers believe that an increase in German coal deliveries to Italy via the Brenner Pass is only possible if tremendous efforts are made and a precise time tabling and organisation is introduced.

The slightest interruption will danger the whole-Reuter.

Sir H. Pollock

D. E. de Carvalho A. Kurrik

A. Biriukoff L. Blair

V. V. Kalatchoff

P. W. D. L. Pts.

8 7 0 1 7

6 5 0 1 5

8 5 0 3 B

8 50 3 5

8 4,2 2 5

7 3 0 4 3

7 2 1 4 3

7 1 2 4 2

620 5 1 70 16 32

U.S. TO RESUME RELATIONS WITH REICH ?

Washington, To-day. According to the "Baltimore Sun" en-President Roosevelt is considering the resumption of full diplomatic rela- tions with Germany and his choice of Ambassador in Berlin will probable be Mr. Clarence Piccatt, a leading fig- ure in Quaker relief and peace activi- ties. Reuter.

GERMAN SHIP SEIZED BY NAVY

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL")

Gibraltar; To-day. A German ship captured in the South Atlantic last week has arrived here with

a British prize crew board. She is being put into drydock for inspection.-Havas.

FRENCH CABINET

REORGANISATION

London, To-day.

on

DR. CLODIUS ARRIVES IN BUCHAREST (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Bucharest, To-day. Dr. Clodius, the Nazi trade expert, has arrived here with his wife and seven economic advisors. It is assum- ed a commercial pact is in the air. Havas.

Mr. T. V. Soong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of According to a French radio an-China and head of the Bank of nouncement the reorganisation of the Canton, boarded a "plane for Chung- French Cabinet is imminept-Reuter, king yesterday,

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