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MUTT AND JEFF

SOMEBODY REPORTED ME AND SAID THAT I HAD POOR EYESIGHT! NOW:

I:GOTTA TAKE A TEST. TO RENEW MY

DRIVER'S LICENSE!

O.K. NOW MAKE A LEFT TURN-AND--HEY, LOOK OUT!

YOU ALMOST HIT THAT:

CAR!--HOW'S YOUR EYESIGHT?***

O.K. WHAT'S

OH, MY EYESIGHT'S THE NUMBER

FINE! ON THAT CAR IN FRONT. OF US?

*26787

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 25, 1940-

By BUD FISHER

WHAT

CAR?

X26781

KID, I ALWAYS KNEW YOU HAD WEAK EYES BECAUSE

THEY'RE LOCATED IN SUCH

A WEAK PLACE!.

GOSH,YA CAN'T. EXPECT ME TO SEE EVERYTHING

~HM÷M,

NOT BADI

Dance

Music

Today's Wireless

5.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.47 p.m.-Elgar-Sonata in E Minor, Op. 82. Albert Sammons (Violin) and William Murdoch (Piano). 7.15 p.m.-Studio-An appeal on be

half of "Toc. H",

7.18 p.m.-Songs by Peter

(Bass-Baritone).

Waltzing

Matilda

Dawson

arr.

(Cowan,

with

Wood); Waiata Poi (Hill) Orchestra and Chorus.

On The Road to Mandalay (Oley) Speaks); Sylvia (Oley Speaks).

by Hubert with Piano accomp. Greenslade and Organ, accomp. by Herbert Dawson.

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

9.52 Megacycles

7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8:00 p.m.Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Two-Plano Recital by Herbert and Bernhard Ruff (from the Gloucester Hotel): 8.23 p.m. Marok Weber and

Orchestra.

"A Waltz Dream"

(Straus, arr. Dostal),

His

Potpourri

The Music Comes (O. Straùs). Song of Paradise (Reginald King). Columbine's Rendezvous (Heykens).

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

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

A SUCCESSFUL LEAP

While generally we don't think much of "one-two-six" bidding, it should be explained that South was playing with. North for the first time and they had no well defined Slam procedure. Otherwise South might have tried to get to a Grand Slam. After all, if North held the King of clubs instead of the Ace of spades, Slam could have been the Grand made.

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

AA 10 7 4

0.3.

65 4.3

A 10 6 2

KQJ8

A 9 6 3

5 2

♡ 7 4.

9

W

◊

0 Q 96

KJ 7

The bidding:

South

1♡..

6♡

J 10 8 7

Б 2

10 8

K

J 85 8

◊ AK 4

AQ 9 2

West 14 Pass

North 2♡ Pass

Last Pass Pass

The King of spades was opened and dummy, while quite sound, was just about..as undesirable as South could get. Declarer won the HIGH CARE VALUKS opening lead with the spade Ace, discarding

OF THE N

· FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

ACE KING QUEEN 1 JACK

AVERAGE HAND 67%

club from his own hand. He next led a low spade and trump-- ed it, played two rounds of trumps, stopping in dummy, trumped another spade in his own hand, cashed the Ace and King of diamonds, discarding a spade from dummy, trumped his one re- maining diamond In dummy and no having stripped his own hand and dummy, of spades and diamonds, he played a club from dummy.

East desperately went up with the ten, but this did him no good. South

Declarer spread his. played the Queen, West won with the King and now hand since any lead by West would be a loser.

*

Schenken's

As Howard yesterday you held:

9 X X X ♡ 10 9

"Die Fledermaus"

Strauss).

Selection (J.

8.45 p.m.-Jessie Matthews (Soprano), Rale da Costa (Plano) and Reginald Dixon (Organ).

Organ-"Chorus Gentlemen, Please". Intro: Hunting we will go; Sally in our Alley; John Peel; Oh Dear what can the matter be; London- derry Air; There's a Tavern in the Town; Men of Harlech; Drink to me only; British Grenadiers; The Minstrel Boy; Sir Roger de Cover- ley; Auld Lang Syne....Reginald Dixon.

Vocal-Slipping Through My Fin- gers (from It's love again'). Jessie Matthews (Soprano) with Orchestra. ·

Piano A Thousand Goodnights (Donaldson); True (Samuels & ..Whitcup)....Raie da Costa with and Vocal Orchestra accomp. Chorus. Vocal-Let. Me Give My Happiness .to You (Alm The Good Com- panions'); Three Wishes (film "The Good Companions') Jessie Matthews (Soprano) with Orch. Organ-Dancing Time No. 5: The

POLICE RAID

AT LAMMA

Early yesterday morning à raid was carried out by the Water Police on partner junks and sampans in. Yung Shu Bay,

Lamma Island.

♣ AKQ 10

The bidding: Schenken Burnstone

You

Jacoby

1♡

Pass

20

Pass

24 Pass 3NT

Pass

BA

Pass (?)

ANSWER: Hid three notrump. You have no honour in spades, and since you can be certain your partner holds | but four in that suit, break might defeat you at four spades. Nothing is likely to beat three no- trump.

No arrests were made.

It is understood that the police re- ceived information that pirates, res- ponsible for recent attacks on cargo junks, were using the bay as a base of operations against junks leaving Colony's and about to enter the waters.

KOWLOON ROBBERY,

Posing as detectives and police.sear- chers, three men and a woman, gain- a bad spade ed entrance to the second floor of No. robbed 27, Reclamation Street, and the inmates of $871 in money and jewellery shortly after 10 p.m. last night.

Score 100% for three notrump, 60% for four spades, 0 for any Slam try (if your partner had bid two spades over two clubs, you could afford to invate a Slam. As it is, his bidding merely shows he does not like no- trump.)

QUESTION NO. 898 You are Declarer at six notrump. Dummy holds:

KQ 10 I AQ OAKQJ.10.

K-

Your hand is:.

8% K 10 9. OX.X MAJ XXX

The deuce of hearts is opened. How do you play the hand? (Answer tomorrow.

(Released By The Bell Syndicate

Two-Piano

Recital

Fox-Trot-Grandma said; I miss you in the morning; The Waltz-I shall always remember you smil- ing; Where the, Shannon flows down to the sea.....Reginald Dixon.

9.15 p.m. London Relay-News Sum-

mary.

"Vive la

9.30 p.m.-London Relay

France".

9.45 p.m-A Light French Programme, La Polka Du Roi (Trenet); Le Grand Cafe (Trenet)....Charles. Trenet (Vocal) and His Orchestra, Le Bonheur est entre dans Mon Coeur (film 'La Goualeuse'); Dis- Moi Pourquoi (film 'La Goua- leuse').....Lys Gauty (Vocal) with Orchestra.

Il Est Un Doux Pays (Nutile-Lau- (Pierlas-Fer- rent); Colombella nay).... Micheletti (Tenor) with Orchestra. Mon Meilleur Ami (Berthomieu-

Tabet); Entraineuse (Tabet). Lucienne Boyer (Vocal) with Orch. Pigeon Vole-Fox-Trot (Misraki); En Quittant Une Ville (Trenet)

Charles Trenet & His Orch. 10.15 p.m.-Grieg Incidental Music to Peer Gynt. Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Chorus conducted by Paul Kerby.

hour of Dance 10.30 p.m.-Half an

Music.

11.00 p.m.-CLOSE' DOWN.

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