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MUTT AND JEFF

MUTT, DO

OH,

SURE!

YOU STILL LOVE ME?

O.K. GIMME FIVE DOLLARS!

WHAT FOR?

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1940.

By BUD FISHER

BECAUSE,DARLING!

·I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I COULDN'T BEAR LOSING AN OUNCE

OF YOU!

THANKS!

FIVE

I'VE BEEN GAINING SIX POUNDS A

WHAT? YOU LOSE WEIGHT? OH, NO!

WHY?

DOLLARS? WEEK! I WANT TO A THOUSAND TIMES

SEE THE DOCTOR Í NO! THAT WOULD BE ABOUT LOSING

AWFUL! TERRIBLE! WEIGHT!

"Pathetique"

Symphony

6.00 p.m. Tchaikowsky

Today's Wireless

Symphony (The

No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathetique" Symphony), Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitsky.

8.45- p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tlona.

6.47 p.m.-Tartini-Sonata for Violin and Plane ("Devil's Trill"). Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) with Piano accom- paniment by Arthur Balsam. 7.03 p.m.-Ina Souez (Soprano) in a

Light Concert.

Victoria Regia (from the Suite The Won- der of the Flowers'-Kunneke); Waltz (Finale) (from the Suite "The Wonder of the Flowers'-Kunneke).... Grand Sym- phony Orchestra.

Love Will Find A Way (from "The Mald of the Mountains').....Ina Soucz (So- prano) with Orchestra.

Melodious Intermezzo (Kotcher).... Erich

Olschewski & His Orchestra.

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

9.52 Megacycles

My Hero (from 'The Chocolate Soldier') 9.00 p.m.-The

....Ina Souez (Soprano) with Orchestra. By The Fireside Romance (Hippmann) .Frederic Hippmann & His Orchestra. In The Sudan (Sebek); Babylonian Nights (Zamecnik)....Alfred Van Dam & His Gaumont State Orchestra.

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 Jazz Recital by Hal Lorenzo and Toby Gray.

"Hall 8.30 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording

Variety". Written and devised by Gale Pedrick. Production by Roy Speer.

Minning

Organ, The Dance Band and Me. Fox-Trots-I'm Reading Your Letters; I'm

Sorry I Didn't Say "I'm Sorry". Waltz-The Umbrella Man (from "These

Foolish Things'). Fox-Trots-There's A New Apple Tree: Sweet As A Song (film 'Sally. Irene and Mary').

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

mary.

9.30 p.m.-Talk on "What Oil Means To Us" recorded by Robert Byron. 9.45 p.m.

Saint- Compositions of

Saens.

"Samson

-

and

Delilah"-Selection.....De

Groot & His Orchestra.

The Deluge-Prelude, Op. 45....Toscha Seidel (Violin) with Max Rabinoviich at the Plano.

Studio

Play

to) with Orchestra,

Le Cygne....Marcel Mule (Saxophone)

with Marcel Gaveau at the Piano, 10.00 p.m.-Studio-"The Blagden Le-

gend".

A Play produced by Evelyn Wood. Scene: Blagden Castle on Christmas Eve, 1938, Cast: Colin, Master of Blagden....C. Jones; Helen, an American guest....Ma- deleine Van Metre: Bruce, another guest ....R. Norsworthy; Elizabeth, Colin's sister....Diana Duncan; Margaret, Co- In's fiancee....Minks Boas. 10.30 p.m.-Billy Cotton and His Band

in Dance Music.

Fox-Trots-There'll Always Be An Eng- land; Wish Me Luck (from 'Shipyard Sally'); To Mother With Love; I Miss You In The Morning.

►

Waltz-Where The Shannon Flows Down

To The Sen. Fox-Trot There's A Lady In Calais. Novelty Fox-Trot-The Chocolate Soldier's

Daughter. Fox-Trots-Thanks

For The

Memory

(from "The Big Broadcast'); Have You Ever Been In Heaven? (from 'Manhat- tan Music Box').

Softly Awakes My Heart (from 'Samson &

Delilah').... Maria Olszewska (Contral-11.00 p.m.-CLOSE_DOWN.

CHUNGKING

CONTRACT SCOTCHES

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken.

World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.

SURPRISE

Theodore Lightner is noted for the extreme soundness of his bidding. Nevertheless, here is a hand on which he not only opened with a psychic, but boldly rebid the hand with very successful results.

Bouth, Dealer Both sides vulnerable.. Q J 7 3

A 10 65

Mr.

opened the King of diamonds. Lightner ruffed and proceeded to make the hand, losing a trick to each of West's other three Aces but trumping his long club and heart in dummy.

*

*

Yesterday, with neither side vulner- able, you were Oswald Jacoby's part- ner and held:

K xx

♡ I

◇ A J 9 XI JI XX

♡ J 4

◊ 10 8. 6 5 2

K9

A A

N

10 6

♡ 9 8 2

◊ AK 94

W

◊ Q 3 7 3

AJ 8 2

S

Q10 64.

The bidding: achenken

You

Maler

AK 9 8 6 4 2

Jacoby Pass

♡ K QT 8

+8 7 6

Mr. Lightner

The bidding:

South 14

West Norti Dbl. 2A Pass 4A Fass Dbl. Ранв

088

Bast

Pass

Pass Pass

course

HIGH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES SVITEN

ACE... 3 KING..2 QUEEN 1 JACK....

RUMOUR

Chungking, To-day.

In identic, telegrams to the Shang-

hai Municipal Chamber of Commerce,

COLONY CHESS

BARNETT TAKES LEAD

4

P. W. D. L. Pts. 14 11 1 2 111⁄2

Following are the latest results in the Chinese Bankers' Association and the Colony Chess Tournament:-K. M... the Chinese Money Dealers' Associa-A, Barnett beat B. S. Litvin; D. E. de tion the Ministry of Finance has Carvalho beat Sir Henry Pollock; A. categorically denied rumours cur- Biriukoff beat V. V. Kolatchoff. rent in Shanghai that the National Positions of the players-follow: Government will impose new restric-

K. M. A. Barnett tions on the withdrawal of bank de-

E. Zimmern posits.

The rumours are believed to have. E. de Carvalho

K, Welss speculators at- been circulated by

B. S. Litvin of the sir H. Pollock tempting to take advantage present seasonal slump of the Chin-A, Kurrik ese dollar to create greater distur- | A. Birlukoff bance in the financial market--Cen-L. Blair

V. V. Kolatchaft. tral News.

A RUSE AND A COMMENT

London, To-day.

Lillehammer:

12.10 1 1 10% 14 9 1 4 81⁄2

.13 8 1 4 82 .14 8 0 6 8

.14 6 3 5 7%

.12 4 2 6 5.

.14 3 2 9 4 .12 1 0 11 1 ....13 0 1 12

1/2

in a

on

This statement was. made German broadcast in Greek Monday.

Authoritative military circles point out that this ruse is condemned by the the German General Staff in official work: "Kriegsbrauch in Land-

Pass 10 Равн (7). ANSWER: Your correct bid is two diamonds. Obviously the opening bid Mr. psychic-otherwise has been Schenken would have responded to his partner's forcing: one-over-one. British detachment by surprise near kriege."-British Wireless. You must re-open in case your part- ner has a good hand.

Score 100% for two diamonds, 70%! for double (with four spades or greater high card strength this bid would be correct), 0 for pass.

QUESTION NO. 404

Lightner's opening bid was of way below normal in high cards, and his partner's immediate

raise to two spades You are again Oswald Jacoby's part- over the double could ner and again you hold: be construed as strength in any way. Nevertheless, Mr Lightner reasoned to himself: "It my part- ner has four or five trumps and is short in clubs, we might even make four spades. In any event, if i don't bid again, the opponents will probably get into the bidding." Hence, his rebid of his psychic.".

When North raised to four, West was of course delighted to double, and

A German lieutenant and ten men disguised in British uniforms took a

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20

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