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Op 194, Wah Dancy Production
CONTRACT How to Play BRIDGE How to Win
ALMOST everyone
JOSEPHINE
Bad "Reverse" Bid
in this en- West opened a spade. East won lightened age knows about "re- and returned a diamond. Declare verse bidding." Hence, it is scarce- Ancssed, and that was that! ly necessary to say that when you
start, out with one diamond (for As I have said, the contract was example) and partner responds with far from sound, but, as a matter of one spade, you need a really good fact, it could have been made by hund-substantially over a minimum proper play plus a good guess. to "reverse" and now bid two hearts,
Declarer should have realised that North, in to-day's hand, made a East would not have returned a bad reverse bid, and as a result a diamond if he had held the king. bad slam contract was reached,
on
Match-point duplicate.
Both sides vulnerable,
North dealer,
QJ 103 ♡ÁK±542
K72
487
Q73. K1000
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The bidding:
North
Enst
South
1♡
Pass
20
24
Pans
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Foss
Pasa
North's two spade bid was wrong two separate counts. For one thing, it is almost always wise to rebld a six-card major suit before four-card major; fcr
nother, a
the two spade bid was a "reverse," and North should have had about one more honour-trick to justify it.
South might well have gone a bit slower toward his slam, but in view of his excellent hand he cannot be blamed for feeling that, after North had reversed, there must be a splen- did play for twelve tricks.
Dummy had no diamonds, hence East would scarcely give declarer a Binesse
that he could never take for himself. The proper play was to win East'n diamond return with
the ace and
lead the heart jack through West, The latter would cover and the king would win. Now the success of the contract would depend extirely on declarer's guess of the next heart play. He could finesse against the ten in West's hand, or could play for the drop of the ten-spot from East, The latter plan would win, of course, and considering East's play of the eight-spot on the first heart lead, this would be the correct decision-- unicos East had false-carded.
.To-morrow's Hand
Rubber bridge.
- North-South vulnerable.
North dealer.
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AKQE
AJ 100G
J 20 93
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7642
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How should this hand be bid?
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12-Wind Instrument
13-Gtringed instruments
16--Dwedish pama
18-Checking device
17 TO WIE
18-Concerning
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40—1feld back
53-Hawaiian bird
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"TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
Raff
WH
WHAT do you make
of this?
"Chiefy, I expect 2 brown type, and don't take umbrage if he looks as if he has a lot of lakhs. We may have to give him charpoy, but it's all right with the fit commode, and he might have the pukka gen about that- H.Q. flap..."
Freely translated, that ob- servation from one R.A.F. man to another would be:: "Flight Sergeant, I expect an Army man, and don't be offended if he looks as if he has a lot of money.
We may have to give him a bed, but it's all right with the flight he might commander, and have the real news about that headquarters panic."
Yes, these wars make words, The RAF. (Raff, if you please) are responsible for most of them. Young pilots never speak of Army men. They always speak of brown types. They themselves are always boys. The boy who sits around in the institute ogling the girls is a Canteen Cowboy or a NAAFI Romeo.
THEY are queerly res. pectful about their -business. They never talk about flying, or use words like flip. Always it is a aviate.
And you
never aviate 11 crate or a kite or any of these ċivilian slang words. You aviate an aircraft, à machine, or, more particularly, a Daffy (Defiant), a Wimpy (Welling- ton), a Hurrybox (Hurricane), a Spit (Spitfire), a Lizzie (Lysander), Blenburger (Blenheim),
Faithful Old (Anson), a Maggic (Miles Magister).
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When you land, you hit the deck and, if you damage the plane in landing, you bend it. If you are tired of it all, you are browned off, and, to lesser degree, a member of the Jabo Club. That means that you are Just About Browned Of.
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The boys award their own crosses, in these three grades: Wooden Cross-For bending one aircraft and staying alive. Iran Cross--For bending two aircraft and staying alive, Stone Cross-For bending three aircraft and not stay- Ing alive.
Nowa is always gen, good or authentic news is pukka gen. The opposite is duff gen. If you have clearly understood your-orders, you have them buttoned up. When you are all set to start you are teed- up. You organiso. You don't disapprove. You take a uim view.
ERE are
others
some
Snake Charmers--Band. Spout Gun barrel. Pyrotechnic or rocket-A reprimand,
15 PUMP 'EM
UP
AGAIN!
Slang
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by
Prang-To damage an air-
craft.
Ticketty Boo-Perfect. Wnd-A piece, of NAAFI cake.
Groupic, Wingcom, Chiefy- group commander, wing-com- mander, flight sergeant,
Mae West-Life-saving juc- ket.
Brolly-Parachute. Sprog-Recruit. Binder-One who annoys. Gone for a Burton-Died or killed.
Shaky Do-Nearly a seri ous accident.
Irons Your knife, fork and
spoon.
Drone-Air gunner, Tear off a strip-Admonish.
ON
NE of the most useful words of the lot is kerdumpf. Originally it in- dicated the bumping noise made by an aircraft when it landed. Now it is an ex- clamation of surprise, or an ejaculation of emphatic agree-.
June 18, 1941.
By Walt Disney
WILT DISNEY
John Macadam
ment, a sneer-or alm ist any- thing.
You'll hear one of the boys maybe shooting a line (that is, telling a tall story). He will be received with a chorus of Kerdumpf.. Kerdumpf ... Kerdumpf... It is de- vastating.
Most of the slang words are affectionate. The padre is a devil dodger. An air- craft hand is an erk, tanks are roller skates, ai Italian plane is an Eye-tic. You don't have several beers; you have a couple of jugs. Tho sen is the drink.
Sometimes the derivation is rather involved. For in- stance, Pilot Officer Dicken- sen was pronounced to look like W. C. Fields. From that you get Gracie-Fields, and the pilot officer is now generally known as Gracie.
When all looks black and things are in a mess, every- body says Situation Normal and carries on with the job..
There's a peculiarily R.A.F. way of saying everything ex- cept Kamerad.
WOMEN IN WARTIME-NO. 2
Women
in
New Britain
BY ELIZABETH ANDREWS
the
Welsh National Organiser for the Women's Section of the La-
WILL
bour Party..
FILL women win economic free-
dom in this war?
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After the Inst war women won their political freedom.
They become M.Ps., Cabinet Ministers, aldermen sheriffs, ma- yors, council choirmen, county, urban and rural councillors, magistrates, lawyers, preachers,
Government They served on Commissions, and entered indus- tries and professions hitherto closed to them.
Now we come to this war-and the future.
Many questions aro asked by thinking women.. What will hap- pen to us when the war is over? What part will we play in the New Britain?
Shall we be driven out of in- dustry and the professions or kept on to reduce men's wages, or to keep them out of employment?
When shall we ret equal pay for equal work? When will women get economic freedom?.
These questions need attention now.
Women are called to work of national importance that needs in- telligence, skill and courage,
They are called from the kit- chen to all up every kind of posl- tion, and are expected to work well with little training.
Never Again!
No ban on married women in war-time! They are called upon to man our industries, to keep the home fires burning and to keep up the health and morale of their families.
Married women, doctors, nurses, teachers, are called back to the job for which they were trained but which they had to give up on marriage. The country had been
all the poorer in peace-time be cause of this restriction, +
It must never be imposed again. The Government is prepared to establish day nurseries for, tod- dlers and feeding centres for school children to help the women who go into industry,
These war-time measures could be extended and Improved in peace-time.
Day nurseries, nursery schools and the feeding of school children are reforms that should, have been made long ago.
Mothers and children would benent in better health and deve- lopment. We must press' for these now and develop them after the
war.
Women who have enjoyed eco- nomic freedom before marriage find it very difficult to be depen- dent on their husbands for every penny they need, and spend.
Heavy Toll
In working-class homes, it in taken for granted that mother docs all the sacrificing-she often prides herself on it but the toll in ill-health' is a heavy one.
Economic freedom for the mother in the homa may appear to many far-fetched, but it de mands some consideration.
It is time that the home minker had a square deal. Home making. has been the Cinderella of all the *Industries: *
The early Socialists believed in the economic freedom of woman. The war in helping to bring it about-temporarily. It is up to woman to keep it, permanently.
Tho best way to achieve this is for every woman. In Industry and the professions to foln trado unions and stand alongside their mon in the demand for batter conditions generally.
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SETTLEMENT
OF STRIKE
Paint-Scrapers' Demands For Higher Wages
In connection with the report that about 2,000 paint-scrapers in local dockyards and other places went on strike last Thursday following a de mand for an increase of 40 per cent. in wages, the following facts were obtained from Mr B, C. K. Hawkins, Labour Officer, yesterday:
During May, the Paint-Seropera Guild of No. 81 Bulkely Street, Hung- hom, put forward certain requests for increases in the daily wages paid to paint-scrapers. The Labour Officer arranged a meeting between the re- presentatives of the Guild and repre- sentatives of the paint-scraper con- tractors
on Juno 3. The ques- tion
of an increase was discussed, and a further meeting fixed for June 10.
At this meeting it was pointed out by the principal contractors that in November, 1940, they had increased their contracts with the sub-contrac- tors by seven per cent. They now offered to increase their contract rates by 20 per cent. It should be noted that this increnso is on the whole of the contract rates and not proportion of the merely on that pro
workmen's rates which represents wages.
The Guild pressed for
the further Increase, and
Labour Officer suggested that the principal contractors should immediately in- crease their contract rates by 20 per cent,
Contractors' Agreement
the bring
paint- would scrapers employed by these contrac- tors on to equal terms with the paint- scrapers employed by the big Euro- pean dockyards. It is common knowledge that these dockyards are at present considering the question of further wage increases and the that the Labour Ofeer. suggested principal contractors should guaran tee to grant to their workmen exactly the same increase as might be agreed between the dock companies and their
This
workmen. The principal con tractors immediately agreed to this suggestion, but the Guild representa- tives sald that they would have to consult their members. On Wednes
and
June 11 the Guild representa tives saw the Labour Officer stated that between. 80 and 90 per cent. of their members were quite prepared to agree to the above terms. stated, however, that a smey They minority were not satisfied, and asked the Labour Officer to
The
on
small
10 see those men personally and explain the post- tion
to them.
Labour Officer tion
Wednesday agreed to do this evening, but the Guild said that it would be impossible to get hold af the men by that time and suggested that Friday morning would be the most suitable hour. On Thursday, June 12, the paini-scrapers went on strike.
This was a
most extraordinary action in view of the fact that so large percentage of the workers were said to be satisfied with the terms which had been agreed by their Guild. It would appear either that the majority of the workers were not fully aware of the agree ment reached by the Guild or else that they were being intimidated.
On Friday, June 13, the Labour Ocer issued a full statement of the case and of the principal contractors' offer to the Chicese Press and also caused a notice in Chinese to be dis- played outside the Guild premises. On Saturday, June 14, all the men returned to work.
Murder In Macao
.in
Macao, June 17, Hiding, in the crowd round the Sal Nam Yat Po office to-day, unknown gunman assassinated Mr Chiu Yat-ngok, who was recently appointed by Canton to be Magistrato in Chungshan district.
The gunman was among the crowd outside the office reading the bulletin boards and fired several shots at Chiu } as he alighted from a car, one strik ing him in the head. His bodyguards were taken completely by surprise and the panle stricken crowd pro- vented them from firing back. In the
gunman escaped: confusion the gunm Chiu was taken to hospital fra mediately but was dend on arrvial—– Our Own Corremondent.
Wedding
News has been received by cable of the marriage; on Juna: 11, at St John's Church, Napier, New Zealand, by the Rev. C Francis,, B.A.: Of Pamela, only datighter of Birs S. G. Hollington, of Napier, to the Rev. John Buller Davles ("Jock"), only the Rev. Herbert Davies, ∙of MA, and Mrs Davies, of Canton and Cheung Chou. The bridegroom was born in Hongkong and received his earlier education: at Chefað, before going to Otago University, New Zealand,
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