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(United Press Staff

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NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (UP). -A vast majority of those who compose the city's financial United States will enter the war as an active participant; yet Wall Street is already discuss- ing the question of what indus- tries are likely to benefit with the return of peace.

American companies listed by brokers as among those whose earnings should be favourably affected by peace include manu- facturers of food, glass, chemi- cals, electrical equipment and automobiles, as well as motion picture producers, air trans- portation lines and some Phone 27770-0 branches of retail trade.

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DAWN OVER CHINA

Wall Street's conviction that the United States will eventual- ly be drawn into a "shooting war" is based on the theory that the conflict will be protracted, and that Germany and the! United States will clash over! control of Atlantic shipping lancs,

Meanwhile brokers have been answering requests by clients for the names of companies that might be benefited by a return to normal peace-time activity They have also been compiling tabulations of industries likely to experience depression after the end of the war.

Industries Affected

August 18, 1941.

UKRAINE

ONE MAN AND HIS DOG WOULD LIKE TO MOW A MEADOW

UTILITARIAN

OF

CHINA'S

THE WORLD IS GOING TO THE DOGS. In a iteral sense this is true, for during the Inst twenty-five

years,

the breeding of the ubiquitous canine has assumed

By T. Paul

Gregory

the aspect of a major industry, with the marvellous exploits of the super-canine termed the "ngno"-u Although His Highness the Dog creature of such supernatural saga- has been numbered as man's city that it could run ringa

and other

around

vaunted

ROLE DOGS

role of watch dog is tinctured with Kuperstition. Fido's various physical trafts are eited as pregnant proofs of canine ability. If the tail-of-the- family quadruped inclines to the left, It is a sure sigh that it is a good dog. The Cantonese say in this connec- tion:

"Mel chuen choh

Moon-hau mi-shai soli"

"If a dog's tall hangs to the left, A survey by the National As- most faithful friend and com- Rin-Flu-Tin

It is not necessary to lock the

door!" sociation of Manufacturers,panion for countless genera- quadrupeds of Hollywood fame. Re-

Your amah will also nver that Hongkong, on the date of publication by summarising opinion as to pro- tions, it required the stimulus ferences in Chinese history assist the

apparently bable adverse results of cessation of the first Great War to put dog a venerable antiquity, and the such and such a pooch is a cinine

black-tongued Chow is

perhaps the

wonder, and another

of of hostilities, listed the follow-the canine creation in its proper. descendant at the domesticated equally good-looking specimen

the Middle ing industries as most likely to light. Perhaps the reason for wolves brought into

an unlucky animal. On dogdom be affected, in the order men- this was on account of the tales Kingdom by the first members of the asking this oracle for her reasons for

"Black-haired"

race.

such sweeping classification, you will tioned: armament producers, of the family quadruped doing Ton dog-lover, the two chief find that she bases her judgment an machinery and machine tools, its hit in the trenches along varieties of Chinese dogs-the Chow, the presence of the tuff of stiff hairs construction, shipbuilding, tran-with its muster. Doga were and the Peke-nre among the most beneath. Fido's chin. In fact the

the canine Cantonese have 'n saying: sportation, aviation, mining, the rated among the heroes in the fascinating wonders of

fanclers unite - in "Yat -- lung automobile industry, and indus- 1914-'18 conflict, and some re- creation. Dop

oxtolling the qualities of these two ceived medals for their exploits. breeds, and to them such dogs are

Shank དགའ་དགཝ་ tfutul tries with rigid prices.

Sel thong Investment counsel point out For instance, Lieutenant "Bob- the only peaches worth having.

meaning by,' An unusually sagacious that the nature of the peace

TO THE CHINESE man- eltin makes the canine like a dragon, will fundamentally affect indus-pup, was the only dog officer In

Another Din-the-street, a dog is a dog two like a tiger, and three unlucky, try and securities. If it should the American Army.

China has a brighter future visible through the smoke and flames of conflict than she has seen at any other time in this second world war.

action.

that one hair under a dog's

For this she has to thank the

a creature performing a purely while four signify that it is a har adjustment to conditions that

utilitarian role in society. It's a binger of prosperity. One wonders has been effected in four years be merely an armed truce, in-cat-chasing terror was "Rags,"

dustry would continue to be who carried messages under fire, good peoch that can guard its mas how our friend Fido will react to of upheaval over a vast contin- geared up to huge armament and was gassed and wounded in ter's house, and a worthless cur if this classification. Perhaps, the dog

Reduction of ar ent under a stern administration production. that has won for the first time maments would, of course, en-

tirely change this picture. a unity over all China with the important exception of the Communists. They may yet be weaned wholly to China nationalism.

Secondly,

she thanks

the events that hate turned the democracies against Japan and

to China's aid.

It is a comfort to those friends

of China in the know that Chungking is enduring its Inst unrestricted bombing season. The fogs and rains of winter will soon slow down the Japanese offensive and shortly after that there will come into operation the first effective air force of Free China. What this heralds is a matter of surmise yet but it can be expected that the war front will recede from South China and Hongkong. Canton

from

Shipbuilding

a shortage appears inevitable

I can't. As might be expected, the has man better "sized-up" than wa The growing interest in dogs selection of a Chinese canine for its think. has not been curbed by the ̄nd- vent of another war, more utter- ly savage than the bloodiest conceived by Although

CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

How to Win

By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

The Double of One Notrump

case

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Some brokers disagree with dog-fight ever the Association of Manufac-simple-minded Fido. turers when it classifies ahir-the-blitz may reach new heights building as one of the industries of ruthlessness and warring which will not benefit financially nations may exterminate whole contend that the United States ram

peace. These brokers populations in their efforts to their doctrines down will never again be without a others' throats, the love for large navy and merchant marine man's best friend cannot be eradicated. A pooch is a pooch in the battle for world trade.

whether living in a democratic Less than a dozen companies or in a totalitarian state, and

JOTHING is more relative than not take it out unless he holds a are now engaged in large-scale though a man's political NOT

the term "weak hand." Most five-card or longer suit with less ship construction, and their ca-opinions may be as cockeyed as players seem to feel that unless they thin one honour-trick, or an extreme pacity could be utilised for many a crazy quilt, to his dog he is hold two or three top tricks they are freak upon which it appears that a years merely in completing the just a two-legged being to be helpless: they are not at all impress- game can be made. In this

ed by such low honours (and pater- East had no five-card sult, hence present programme. With ship- loved, worshipped and obeyed.

tial stoppers) as queens and jacks. his pass was automatic. Moreover, ping being destroyed at an es- timated 5,000,000 tons a year,

THE DOG IS LOYALTY Yet on countless ocensions just such the fact that he had the minor suits

holdings are all that is required to reasonably controlled made -PERSONIFIED and "wallop the enemy. Note to-day's all the more attractive. for a long period. Private ahip-doesn't care a bone whether its deal.

North dealer. yards have contracted to con- master is a humble Democrat, a North-South vulnerable. struct approximately 900 Ves-ranting Bolshevik or a militant sels of a total of 6,000,000 tons, Fascist. In a world of chang- and less than 1,500,000 tons are ing ideals, the faithfulness of the canine creation is the only scheduled for delivery in 1941.

Proponents of investments in thing that appears stable. It no mystery that glass manufacturing point out is, therefore, is the weak link in Japan's north that this is the most destructive

canine population to south movable fortification war in history, and that a heavy doubled during the last quarter system comprising navy, alr bomb which tears a building of a century. In the United apart will also break windows States the host of faithful Fidos. squadrons and garrisons.

over a large area, Some ex- has attained the estimated num Rather than strengthen Cantonperts argue that all the blass ber of 12,000,000-one dog for ut the expense of the important factories in the world would have every ten people in the land of canine con- north and south expansion pro- to work for many years to re the Stars and Stripes. The food

is bill for this vast glaze Europe when the war grammes it is likely that the ended.

Course runs to about U.S.$624,- 000,000 annually. invaders will leave its defence

Before the war, American mo-

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The advantage of treating the double of one notrump in this fash- ion was well exemplified in the play. West opened the king of. spades and then shifted to the douce of hearts. South ducked and East held the trick with his queen. He resisted the impulse to lead back n. sunde, and gave thought to mond shift.

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strong South could not have diamand sult, since in that case his response would have been one dia- mond Instead of one notruinp. A diamond lead, therefore, would kill high card in the South hand, and East still could be pretty sure of regaining the lead later on to return

spade

Neither side vulnerablo,

four

The lack of diamonds, therefore, was led to tie third trick and from South's

one, notrump response that point on things were easy for was a shade too light according to East and West. Declarer managed in the hands of Wang-controlled tion pictures were supreme in In China, the canine popula- the now requirements in the Cul- to win only dummy's three high

one notrump response, though penalty of 1,100 points for a puppet troops. Such defence world markets. The industry tion is extremely large, for inbertson: System. These provide that cards and suffered the staggering

#til? of e "negative" character, trick set! has adjusted itself to the loss of this ancient land every creature"

To-morrow's Hand based on at least one-plus would not hold out long since the European market, but Holly-ia given the right to survive. If should be

lepat South dealer. Canton is already completely wood authorities anticipate re- you estimate the number of honour-trick and, with this little,. two auits. Since a separate, king surrounded by Chinese troops newed Income from that source wonks on the same basis as in stoppers should be held in at least

when the war ends, while many other countries, you have a two who can be easily reinforced. [ of them hope for the release of figure of at least 40,000,000.no, qucon (in different cults) are no longer counted as one honour- The new Chinese air force too, funds now tied up in Germany, Dogs in this part of the East trick, but only on one-half for the can be expected to make naviga-Italy and other warring nations. are not usually the pampered hing and a plus value for the queen, pets they are elsewhere: they it follows that South was short of tion of the Pearl River a

have a more utilitarian role as the requirements and that his best

action was a simple pass. hazardous matter. In view of to assume that the defence of watch dogs. Practically every these events, which will certain- Hongkong is bound up with the Chinese household has its coun- West's double of one notrump In

angacious Rover. ly occur unless some remarkable fortunes of China notwith- terpart of faithful Fido and the old system was for a takeout, withdrawing of Japan's horns standing the absence of a olsewhere on the front takes military agreement between the place, it is a logical conclusion two countries.

but even then there was a strong invitation for partner to pass and

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thereby convert it into penalty THE DOG IN CHINA enjoys double. The new system goes even

an almost legendary status, further. The double itself is of the

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