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CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
AND
How to Win
-By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
The Right Deduction
DEAR Mrs Culbertson: I should East
Was
like some advice on the play player. Let
ment.
of the following hand;
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me prove this state-
Suppose East's trump holding had, been one of the following: (a) the jack alone; (b) the J-x; (c) the Q-J-x. In case (a) East's lead of the jack would be atrodious because, could tell, declorer's heart holding might be headed by Q-10-9, and the lead of the Jack
for nil East
LATEST FROM NEW YORK
By Hannen Swaffer
LEONARD LYONS, the
best of the Broadway columnists, is an old crony of mine.
Even in wartime, he cor- responds weekly. I take, from his last batch of stories, the ones printed
wouki take all the guess out of it.
clear up the situation and below.
in possibility (b), the lend of the fuck would be infinitely worse. West,
might hold either the K-x or
Q-x-x of hearts. If East let the COUNT CIANO went into
strit alone, declarer would have to
rhapsodies when, return.
tose n trump trick, whereas the leading from Berlin, he reported of the Jack by East would give de- to Mussolini. clarer the
opportunity to guess right and clear up the sult wlibout 1038,
in position (e) the lead of the jack by, East would be atrocious in that it would jeopardize the sure setting trick.
Thus, if East had any conception East won, of good defence, he would not have and returned the heart jack. Now, led the heart jack from any holding
"It was wonderfu.," said Ciano. "Hitler brought us into the dining-room, and we all sat down at a long table. Then the service plates were brought-all solid gold.
as you can see I was squarely up except Q-J alone, and his idea in all solid gold. against it. With only eight trumps this
case would be that his best
In the combined lands, my chance chore to take a trump trick was of dropping the queen on the second to lead seemed remote, hence I fcit to try to throw dust in the declarer's
had better finesse one way or the
I eyes. other, but which way? After seme
In the final analysis, it is usually thought, I decided to play for a divisable to draw
"The dishes handed round And then the knives and forks, yes, even the spoons--all solid gold."
The
Duce, unbelieving, sound inferences stared at his son-in-law,
manded: "Let me see!"
sion of honours, therefore I took the from the play af n sound opponent. tended his palm, and
Jack with the king and then let the ten-spot ride through West, As you will note, East, won this with the
blank queen, and down I went
"Question:
"What still rankles is that we were the only team in the room to bid a star.
Is there any way, either by inference or a safety play, that I should have known to play the trump suit without the loss of o trick? Yes, I know six notrump was cold and I suppose that was the spot, but we did not bid it.
H. L., New York."
To-morrow's Hand.
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WHEN Bruno and Vittorio
Mussolini were being tu- tored in warfare by n wise and ancient general, Bruno reported his mistakes to the general, who said:
That's terrible. As punishment, walk ten times around the Colosseum."
Vittorio_then made his con- fession of errors. "For your punishment," said the general, "walk twenty times around the Colosseum."
After the boys had done their turns, they saw their father about to enter the general's office.
"Pop," they warned the Duce, "better take your car --and bring a spare tyre."
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cor-
friends who oppose Ald-to- Britain to ascertain their pet brands of cigarettes.
"If we don't send help," Maverick explains, "the time will. Boon
come when wo'll have
to start sending favourite cigarettes to our favourite concentration camps."
[ARRY HOPKINS was re- HA
luctant to accompany the President on his ocean cruise because he has a delicate stomach and is a poor sailor.
Roosevelt, however, refuses to believe that anybody can really dislike a sea voyage, or fail to benefit from one.
Hopkins' trip to London re- sulted in his losing fifteen pounds-all the weight he had gained since his discharge from a clinic!
By Walt Disney
End," has won the respect of his colleagues at Fort Jay fot these reasons, in the order of their importance.
1. He's cleaned up in every order of their importance.
2. He did two days fatigue duty for being late to morn- ing drill.
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3. Although, having had O.T.C. training and is college gradunte, and so is eli- gible for a commission, he has refused to apply for it.
"I like being back with my Dead End boys," he explains.
His wife, Madge Evans, is surprised at his newly-ac- quired toughness.
"I thought I married n sen- sitive playwright," she says.
IN Madrid, they say that a
sausage is raised in Ger- many, fattened in France, salted in the Channel, and canned in England.
Live Bomb
Under Bed
During his month's stay in For Months
London, Hopkina spent all but three days with Winston Churchill.
Philip Arthur Stonard, 30, "That isn't the safest place, Bush, who since October has cabinet maker, of Shepherd's though," he confessed, "be slept with a live bomb, which cause Winston doesn't know he thought was harmless, under how to duck or run to cover when the bombs start fall-London Police Court recently his bed, appeared at the West ing."
charged with receiving a 2516. bomb which he failed to deliver LARRY ADLER played his Forces or police and failing to to a member of the Armed harmonica before the Pre-report the nature and situation sident last week, and then of the
He pleaded was invited to make a tour of "Guilty," the White House.
Claunch, the White House usher, took him first into the Cabinet room.
bomb.
Detective-inspector Sands, said that up to two weeks ago Stonard had lived at Shinfield Street, Shepherd's Bush. After he had left, another tenant found a bomb, under the bed.
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Air Expert Talks Of New British Planes
How the Nazis lost the first Battle for Britain through their own "efficiency" in planning it some years ahead appears from a review of the race for air supremacy given in an inter- view by Major F. A. do V. Robertson, the British neronautical authority.
"In time of war," he explains, "one of the great difficulties of a belligerent Power is to maintain the supply of aircraft while at the same time arranging for the production in quantity of new types. It is no simple or quick matter to convert a fac tory from production of one type to production of something quite different,
"All through the early months of the present war Germany suffered Ave
from having arranged came New Zealand's
Big Order
years ago for the manufacture in large quantities of the Heinkel 111 bomber and the Messrschmitt 100 fighter. By 1030 both had been out- classed by British types, and it
New Zealand is calling for months before
was large quantities of British-made the bomber and the Messerschmitt 110 in all to £100,000, have recently,
Junkers
88 machinery. Orders, amounting twin-engined fighter, both improved types, appeared in any numbers.
been placed in Scotland, the... "But, whatever the difficulties," he Midlands and in Oxfordshire went on, "both sides are obliged to for a wide range, including make berangements. for turning out new types, for fear of being ulterly material..
out copper, cables, and other metal defeated in the air. Senior oflcers
of the R.A.F. remembered how, in
A
Despite the blitz, Britain has suc-
the last war, the sudden appearance cessfully, shipped to the Dominion of the Fokker monoplane with machine-gun firing through the ore quantities. In the Arst eleven months engineering products in unexpected of the airscrew without hitting the
blades,
then
grent havoc planes,
year £175,560 worth of agri- novelty, wrought cultural implements reached New avoc among the British -aero~ Zealand in safety from the Old was presently defeated Country, or £72,218 more than dur- by the FaE.2d, and the D.1.2,
Then the Germans got ahead again
ing the whole of 1038. with an Albatros fighter and
Over the same period, railway and the tramway equipiñent accounted for Fokker triplane, which in turn were £300,273, an increase of £223,474 countered by the Sopwith Camel and over 1930, illustrating the continuous the S.E.5s.
process of expansion of trade within World's Best Bomber
the Empire. "In the present war," said Major ing
New Zealand's policy of stimulat Robertson, "the RA.F. fighters, the ing home manufacture by import Hurricane and the Spitfire, with duties does not touch the importatlon their eight machine-guns apiece of these. categories of machinery have easily dominated the air. They from Great Britain, as the Dominion have forced the Germans to put ortour into their machines,
has no plants equipped to produce them herself. which calls for the use of shell-Aring guns on our side.
"The Wellington has been called OFFICE BOY IS
NOW A PEER
the best bomber in the world', while the Whitley and Hampden have also done
Grand
bombing work. Nor should we
forget the medium bomber, the Blenheim, nor that ex- cellent, flying boat, the Sunderland.
Behind the appointment of MYF. "Still, we must improve on past J. Leathers as Minister for Shipping performance,
and for
regular raiding and Transport, and his elevation to targets in Eastern Germany still the Peerage lies, the romance of a longer
ger range is desirable. The next poor boy's rise to a high position. few months will surely see new types
He was born in a humble street in
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in action. Recently, the Beaufort the East End of London in 1881 and torpedo-bomber has been at work, his father a carpenter-led four and hes sunk thousands of tons of ca
years later. The widow bravely enemy shipping.
brought up the two sons, and educat published an artele which professed boya left ofice boys for
American Journalist huscd
ed them at a: Council, school. Both
school at the age of 14
and- a firm of
to give a lot of information about
Larry saw a piece of paper on the table which bore a pen- cilled memo: "25, 76, 185."
"I had been, there since last October. Another man brought it to "Tell me," he asked the
the house and the rod was taken from usher, "docs that represent thought the bomb, which was British, the nose, and by doing that they bundreds, thousands or mil- lions?"
had been rendered
coming RAF. machines, but he was chemical manufacturers. harmless. In fact, the detonator was still there and
not right in all his particulars, and The new Minister's brother, who is was very much alive
dock superintendent for a London The Magistrate, Mr Paul Bennett,
by correcting him. However, Lord Orm, sald; "He is the right man in the ordered a wee
a week's iemand and said be
Beaverbrook, himself mentioned the right place. In everything he bas wanted to
to know what the other man
Whirlwind fighter in a recent broad- tackled all his life he just could not was doing with the bomb. "It is a
cast. It is a fighter of unusual design, go wrong." strange story at the moment and t
and it is safe to forecast that its wont to hear all about It next week," He said..
"In these days," was the reply, "you never can tell."
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MAURICE ENGLISH, the PRIVATE SIDNEY KINGS-
"Chicago Tribune"
LEY, the Pulitzer Prize respondent, who has just re.
winner, who wrote. "Dead turned from Gibraltar, told the Overseas Press Club of the catechism now making the rounds in Spain:-
Q-"What is an English- mon ?"
A "An Englishman is a soldier in uniform."
Q-What is a Spaniard?" A—“A Spaniard is a soldier without a uniform."
Q.-"What is a Fascist?" A-"A Fascist is a uni- form without a soldier."
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DURING the student-picket-
ing in front of the British Embassy in Madrid, English said, Sir Samuel Hoare saw a crowd of youths suddenly 08- semble, in front of his doors,. carrying signs, "We Want Gibraltar."
Houre, who knew that these demonstrations were Government-inspired, immedi- ately phoned the Foreign Of- fice..
. "We're sorry about those disturbances," Sir Samuel WAH assured. "We'll send some
more police immedi-
ately."
"I don't want more police," replied the diplomat, "I want fower students,'
MAURY
MAVERICK,
Mayor of San Antonio,
has written to those of his
Stonard was allowed bail on his own recognisances of £20..
Free France Marches with Britain. -
NEW MERCHANT NAVY
The Free French movement now has its own merchant navy. The Marine Marchande Francaise Libre, which has now reached a quarter of the total tonnage of the French merchant navy before the 'Petain armistice last June, contributes to a significant extent to the Allied war effort.
Particularly valuable work has been performed by this service in the transporting of supplies to Britain and in carry- ing troops and material to Egypt and other regions in the Middle East.
The growth of the Free French merchant navy is beat ex- plained by these few facts. In July, 1940, all French merchant ships in Great Britain and the Dominions were immobilised- and disarmed. In September, 200,000 tons had already again put to sca. In December, the gross tonnage reached 400,000 tons, while other ships were in the process of being refitted and rearmed for service,
Worldwide Recruiting
"At the end of December, 160,000 tons were manned exclu sively by French crews, the rest being manried by French or English crews combined. Recruits are now coming from all parts of the world to assist in the operation of the Free French merchant navy. The greater number join their ships in Eng- land, but there are others who embark in such distant places as India, Singapore, Egypt, Palestine, French Equatorial Africa, Australia, New Caledonia, Bermuda and Trinidad.
The British Ministry of Shipping is doing all it can to holp, the Free French merchant navy and is providing for French sailors in the case of sickness or injury, na well na pen Blons for widows and orphans. To asauro completo co-opera- tion, the Free French merchant navy's staff have their offices i at the Ministry of Shipping.
It would not do to help the
enemy a
speed, gun power, and other charac- Ambassador Now A.
teristics will not endear it to Axis airmen.
Reconnaissance
"The Blackburn Botha is connaissance. machine which
the
Home Guard Colonel
the
# rc- Sir Nevile Henderson, Britain's last has Ambassador to Berlin, has been op- come into use by the R.A.F. Most pointed a Colonel in modern monoplanes have their wings Guard, it is announced.,
Home placed low on the sides of the fuss-
Sined his recall from Germany at lage, but the Botha is of the high-the outbreak of the war, Sir Nevile wing class and therefore, looks un- has been Diplomatie Adviser to the usual. Of course, no figures of its Home Omlee. speed and range may be published,
tance
It may be
be sald that the impor Panama Canal Work of reconnaissance cannot
exaggerated.
be
The RAF, has to watch the coast,
of Europe from Norway to Bordeaux,
nght
To Cost $22,436,860
and to
patrol far out Into the The Henry J. Kaiser Company an- Atlantic. Moreover, its reconnoltring nounced in Oakland, California, re- nuchines must be able to drop cently that its bid of $22,436,800 for bombs, to some of them can occasions, and the enlargement of the Panama Canal can launch torpedoes. has been accepted by the United The RAF aims at ever greater States War Department for the ex- range in its bombers and recoh- naissance machines, and,
The project, which calle In its envation In third set of locks on the fighters, ut greater speed, greater Pacife side of the canal will begin fighting power, and a high degree of in 30 days. manoeuvrability, British designers are well qualified to comply
The accepted bid was nlnost with $2,000,000 below the next lowest these demanda."
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