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MUTT AND JEFF

OH, I'M SO HAPPY! I CAN JUST FEEL THE POUNDS FALLING

OFF ME!

MUTT, I'M SO GLAD I TOOK UP RIDING TO REDUCE! I FEEL LIKE A FEATHERI HELP ME

OFF!

NOW WHERE'S THE SCALE, MUTT? I WONDER HOW MANY POUNDS.

I'VE LOST!

THE CHINA MAIL; MAY 16, 1940.

By BUD FISHER

YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT,

·M'LOVE!

YOUR HORSE

WAIT? WHY?

BEAT YOU

TO IT!

Variety Programme

5.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour.

Today's Wireless

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

tlons.

6.47 p.m.-Hawallan Selections.

Fox-Trot

Moon Over Miami

(Burke, Leslie)....Roy Smeck & His Serenaders.

Waltz-Song of the Islands (King)

.....The Moana Serenaders. Hawaiian

Fox-Trots

Honolulu

Stars and Hawaiian Guitars; A Little Rendezvous In Honolulu.. Roy Smeck & His Hawaiian Ser- enaders.

7.00 p.m.-Dance Music.

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

9.52 Megacycles

B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. Tangos-Song of the Sea; Cham- pagne Bubbles....Jose M. Luc- chesi & His Orchestra. Fox-Trots-Tiger Rag: Bugle Call

Rag....The Ballyhooligans. Waltz The Family Album (from "To-night at 8.30-Noel Coward); Fox-Trot-You Were There ("To- night at 8.30'-Coward)....The Phoenix Theatre Orchestra, Lon- don.

Fox-Trots She Shall Have Music ́

(from the Alm); Do The Run- around (film 'She shall have mu- sic')....Jack Hylton's & His Orch, 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. Quicksteps-Many Happy Returns 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

of the Day (film 'Music Hath Report and Announcements. Charms'); I'm Feeling Happy (film 18.03 p.m.-Carroll 'Music Hath Charms')

The

Gibbons

and His Boy Friends.

Winning

(Piano)

CONTRACT

(By The Four

Aces)

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

ken

.......THE. WORST DEFENCE

B. F. Crane of Elmwood Park, Ill., [dummy, discarded a diamond from his writes: "The following hand, which own hand and ran the spades. On the occurred at Duplicate, is, I think, one last spade lead, East, who thought he .of the finest examples of the drama was squeezed,

that is Bridge that I have seen in a long time."

South, Dealer

Dance

Music

Vocal-Congo Lullaby (alm 'San- ders of the River'); Love Me A Little To-day (Herbert & Brod- szky)....Comedy Harmonists with

Piano.

Humorous Monologue-The Voice of Inexperience (Wakefield)....Oli- ver Wakefield. Comedians "Big" and "Stinker's" Parlour Games (Askey & Mur- doch)....Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch.

You Never Looked. So Beautiful (film The Great Ziegfeld'); You (film 'The Great Ziegfeld'); Let's Fall In Love (from the film); Love Is Love, Anywhere (film 'Let's Fall in Love'); Coronado-Selec- tion; Thanks a Million-Selection. 8.22 p.m.-Variety Programme with 9.16 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-

Arthur Askey, The Duncan Slaters, Florrie Forde and Others.

mary.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay

France".

-"Vive la

Franck - Prelude, Alfred Cortot

Aria and Finale. (Piano). 10.08 p.m.-Compositions of Sibelius.

Tone-Poem "Finlandia", Op. 26, No. 7....Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Sav, Say, Susa, Op. 36, No. 4; Flic- kan Kom Ifran Sin Alsklings Mote....Marian Anderson (Con- tralto) with Piano.

Vocal-Oh, Ain't It Grand to be In The Navy (from 'All at Sea'); Down At The Hole In The Wall|9.45, p.m.-Cesar (Hylton & Others)....Arthur As- key with Jack Hylton & Some Of His Boys, Vocal-Sweet Onion Time In Ber- muda (Duncan Sisters-Coslow); Daniel In The Lions' Den (Dun- can Sisters-Granatt)....The Dun- can Sisters with two piano accom. Vocal Gems Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs:...Chorus and Or-- chestra directed by Jay, Wilbur. Comedienne

Old Florrie Forde Time Medley.... Florrie Forde with Chorus and Orchestra. Orch. Will You Remember---Waltz (film 'Maytime'); Swing High, Swing Low (from the film).... Louis Levy & His Gaumont-Bri- tish Symphony with Vocal Re- frain.

ANALYSIS OF NAZI

next discarded his

to the last club, whereupon South CLAIMS

overtook the ten the clubs with dum- my's King and made his ninth trick with the eight of clubs.

*

*

*

You were Merwin Maier's partner yesterday and held:

A 10 3

A Q 4

◊ 8.7

K 8 7 6 5 2

Q 8 7 4

9-6

10 9 6 5

♡ 8 7 2

8

W

◊ AQ10 6

◊ K J 2

♣♣ A 9 4 3

J

A A K J 6 2

You

♡ K J

South

14

096·4.8

Q 10

Mr. Crane

The bidding:

West

North Bast.

Раев

2.

!

Pass Pass

3*

Рава

Разб 2A

Pase 3NT

Pass Both North's and South's bidding was optimistic, and a glance at the four FOUR-ACES EVITEN - hands indicates little if any play for the ACE

contract. However, KING QUEEN 1 JACK.

HIGH GARD WALLJES

OF THE

1. (?) ·

AK 2

AQ 10 4

A Q 10 9 7 8

Burnatons

Pass

The bidding:

Schenken Mater

Pass

10

ANSWER: Your correct bid is three diamonds. The hand now shows dis- tinct Slam possibilities and you should make an absolutely forcing bid. Score 100% for three diamonds, 60% for three clubs (your partner might conceivably pass), 40% for two dia- mons, 0 for all immediate raises. In hearts (with only three of partner's sult you should avoid giving an imme- diate jump raise if possible.)'

QUESTION NO. 411 Howard Schenken is your partner here is the defence and again you hold;

which gave Declarer the hand. Almost any other play would have beaten it.

A heart was opened and won by the Jack. The Queen of clubs was led. East won with the Ace and led the ten of diamonds, which held the trick," A second diamond was won by West's Jack and a second heart played and won by the Ace in dummy. The ten of spades was led and finessed, losing, to West's Queen. Now West led a third heart. Declarer won with the Açò in

AK

AQ 10 4

♣ A Q∙10 9 7:8 The bidding:

Jacoby Schenker

Pass

10 20 PAKA

Pass

Pass

(Answer

What do you bid? tomorrow.)

(Released by The Bell Syndicate,

London, To-day.

Valse Triste-Kuolema

Symphony Orchestra Frederick Stock.

Chicago cond. by

Karelia Suite-Alla Marcia, Op. 11 .Symphony Orchestra cond. by Prof. Robert Kajanus.

10.30 p.m.-London Relay

"Eye of

Apollo". A Father Brown story by G. K. Chesterton.

11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN,

becomes immediately apparent.

Indeed it seems the Germans themselves do not believe their own claims because on May 7 in broad- cast to Greece, the German ganda Ministry stated: "After sinking of Royal Oak, Britain possesses only 14 battleships and nineteen when those struction are completed."

will under

propa-

the

have

con-

It is worthy of note that this broad-

cast was given only four days after the Nazis had claimed to have sunk a Bri-

Analysis of the German claims to have sunk or seri-tish battleship off Norway.

In actual fact, no British capital ship ously damaged British battle-

other than those announced by the in ships show that, according to Admiralty-the Royal Oak sunk

October, 1939, Barham damaged by Nazi propaganda figures, 21

torpedo in December 1939, Nelson of these vessels have fallen damaged by a mine in the

month, Rodney, superficial damage by victim to German attack. a bomb in April, 1940-has suffered As at the outbreak of war, Britain even superficial damage let alone or sunk... possessed only fifteen capital ships, been seriously damaged the absurdity of the German claims British Wireless.

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