1948-06-02 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1948.

FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS

SIDE GLANCES

POCKET CARTOON

By Galbraith

EXCLUSIVE Telegraph' fEATURE

YOUR

BIRTHDAY..

By STELLA

by OSBERT LANCASTER

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2

ARCTIC BÍRALĂVICE, INC. T. SL REG, LE. IL PAT, OFF,

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They've boon fighting for a wook, no when the dashed out today with a grip i thought auro. I had a house for you-but it was only laundry!"

• McKENNEY

ON BRIDGE

Safe Six Is Turned Into Seven Hearts

By WILLIAM E. MCKENNEY

THERE

VHERE are 40,000,000 cord play- ers in the United States, and I Ruppose every one of them plays at least once a year in a charity event. In January Mrs Ralph H. Schel-

Harry J. lenberg and

Fishbein, who run the Mayfair Bridge Club in New York, put on a game from which all entrance fees were given to the March of Dimes. I played with Nick Minuskin, chairman of bridge tournaments for the March of Dimes. Nick and I had won the tournament.

Today's hand came up. On the opening lend of the diamond threc, Nick played low from dummy' and Enst, feeling from the bidding that the ace of diamonds would be

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give up play, put on the jack. Nick won with the queen, cashed the king of clubs and led a small heart over to the king.

Now the average player might make the mistake of lending the ace of clubs and discarding the five of spades. But there is a chance to make seven on this hand and L always can be played safely for six.

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Nick made the correct play of the seven of clubs, trumping in his own hand with a small heart. Then he laid down the ace of hearts, picking up East's jack. He went over to dummy with the ten of hearts and ruffed another club. The six hearls was overtaken by the seven `in dummy, and now the ace of clubs

was laid down.

When

the jack dropped from the East band, Nick discarded the six of diamonds. The ten of diamonds was discarded dummy's hith club, then the queen of spades was led. East refused to cover, declarer let it ride and thus made seven.

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Check Your Knowledge

1. Give two other names for the flower Rose of Sharon.

being one who performs his acts of kindness as a regular part of living. Much of the good you do, may never bo losown to anyone except to those whom you give help.

PORN today, you are enough of the talk about "doing good" so much as

Individualist so that you must always adhere to your own ideals and plans if you are to succeed. To follow the advice of others against your own best judgment can bring misfortune and unhappiness. How- ever, you are also enough

You will make all kinds of per- of the diplomat to know that you

can fonal sacrifices for thoro you love, listen attentively to others; learn Your own family is very close to something new, perhaps and stil! you, but you also have the embrac- go right ahead with your own Ideas, ing love of all mankind in your

Ideas, heart. If You are good at analysing others hea

you marry, it will be and seldom make a mistake when it someone whose idealn ara as lofty comes to Judging character. There as your own and who will help you I spiritual side to your nature in furthering your Ideals.; You are that needs full expression. If to not one to be demonstrative In

Do trained, you might wish to enter the showing your affections and this is Church. But the chances are that often mistaken for aloofness. you will devote certain part of

To find what the stars have in your life to the welfare and help of store for tomorrow, select your. others, thus expressing your spiritual birthday star and read the corres- nature and still remaining part of ponding paragraph. Let your birth-. the outside world. You are not one to day 'star bo`your daily guide.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 3.

GEMINI (May 22-Jono (2)-A Food tune for making new plans, signing contracts, and getting a pro- ject well started. Step up produc

tion.

CANCER (June 23-July 23)-A deal may bring you an unexperied proft today If, in the past," you have played things exactly right.

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-Flest really good day of the month for you, so take full advantage of what it can bring. Ask for and get what you want now.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)—Minor changes, probably for the better, are on today's schedule

full so tuke advantage of them now,

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-Any handleaps brought about yesterday by competitors should be easily done

away with today. Make good pro- Kress.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-A progressive day where in the good 4. What is the national summer overbalances the bad. Be optimistic game of England?

and you can proceed admirably.

3. Name three countries that have

an important river called' Don.

4. From what is mother-of-pearl obtained?

5. What is meant by the abbrevia- Lion 410?

0.

For what are tanbarks used?

Answers on Column 5.

MIDWEEK

GREAT MORNING

By Osbert Sitwell (Macmillan, 15/-)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) An all-around favoumble day. Business and personal affairs now dovelall advantageously, too.

CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20)...... Being too adventuresome right now is inadvisable. If you are conser- vative, all will run along very well Indeed!

on

"I'm warning you for the last time-one more attempt to sabotage the 'Andante' and I purge the wood-wind"

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

T

FOR THE BUSINESSMAN

H.K. Stock Exchange

Has Active Session

The renewed buying interest which first became noticeable in Ice House Street yesterday kept up this morning, leading to an active session.

Hongkong Banks are still

climbing up; so are Wharves, N.Y. FOREIGN

Telephones and Cements. Large parcels of Shanghai Lands changed hands at improved rates.

Turnover for the morning totalled $1,027,000. Transactions and' noon prices follow:-

SITARZI BUYERS BELLENS SALEB BANKS.

IIK Bank Ear! Asin INSURANCES

Underwriters DOCKS, ETC.

K. Wharf (0) Dock....... Provident LAND, ETC.

HK Hotel

JK Land

S'hai Land...

Humphreys

UTILITIES

Tram

Peak Tram

EXCHANGE

New York, June 1-Foreign exchange closing, rates today were:- Argentino Peso (official) US$0.2677. Argentine Peso, (unofficial) Australia Brazil Belgium

Canada

Chile England

Franco

India

2003

A

0005

03-5/3

4.03-1/4 00:35 3025.

2001

9.23-1/4

2165 140

ศ 744

+

184

180 1100 165

Mexico

New Zealand

0700

Portugai

South Africa

Switzerland.

2414

2000 * 11

100 31

Peru

Sweden

Uruguay

Venezuela

Shanghai (CNC$100,000)

Netherlands

020 3000 5.00

11000 ** 0.

500 0.10

2414

2374

24 400 0 24

Batavia

Singapore

(Old)

"M

500 € 22

Star Ferry

131

C. Light (0)

2140

C. Light (N) ..

1500

Electile

1934 8012

2000

Macao Electric 2015

Telephone 09

INDUSTRIALS

Cement

Rope STORES, ETC.

Delry (0) ..... Watson (Old) Watson

HE new dynamic method of growing vegetables, by im- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) pregnating the soil with boiling Judicial divisions

important business matters can assure you of hot electricity, will mean eight adequate profit on a job.

or nine-hundred crops a year. It is objected by superstitious countrymen that this will wear out the soil in no time. The reply from Whitehall is that we can always import more soil MISCELLANEOUS from abroad, in exchange for agricultural machinery.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-Be practical and avoid lusions. If you are clear-headed and factual in your approach you can progress now.

ANIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)---A deal, opened today, should bring excellent results, provided you do not antagonize a member of the opposite

LCX.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Prosperity oppears just around the

21) next corner and you are making the turn! Be diplomatic, to one of the opposite sex.

BOOK PARADE

Centipede's eggs in shell

TALKING of food, it was not sur

prising to read that "Fish Of The Month Is A 3lb. Roach," and that "A newly arrived centipede at the Zoo laid fifty eggs." Halt an egg for each foot. Can no way be Borracks. He writes as one

to who found

make them

edible? had an entry to the inner regimentat world and who was also a friend omelette with dried centipede's oppe.)

(Tomorrow: How to make and contemporary of tho future Field Marshal Viscount Alexander

TO less brilliantly executed of Tunis "the Notes Lift Hand Right

Hand" and "The Scarlet Tree," this third volume of Sir Osbert pre-

DUMBBELLS Sitwell's

A MONTH AGO I WAS CRAZY ABOUT GEORGE NOW I DON'T CARE FOR

HIM A BIT · AREN'T MEN CHANGEABLE ?

CHESS PROBLEM

By L. L. KUBBEL Black, 11 pieces.

White, 10 pieces.

White to play and mate in two.

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1. Q-R4. 2 .. X-K: 2.

Kt others: 2 Q-K8 (ch); } QQI (ch); I ... PRS, 4: / B-K13

CROSSWORD

Across

1, itą a gamma that could make

rable into

B. Something you try to dodge

when youou and crich-up willi in later year.

191

. The man in possession. 101

'11. Cupolished. 181

13 A blahop wild, naturally overlook

14. in 'n' way pator gets this thi

WAY. (8)

15. Looka Uke the test word in beda.

20. Often precursor to a touch; (4) di, le makes the tanker duo. (9). 22. Opriously can't be loss, tõi 73. Ted. 7)

Dawn

1. In song it describes the morning

and the day. (0)

2. A broken up home. (8)

3. Exact. (8)

5. Return call (

4. Тепло (8)

0. Noel by himself seem upsat (4)

Taken from the open terrace. (8)

10. It's a kind of club, (8)

12. Anagram of 10. 14)·

15. Bkeleton framework, (9)

10. Bries depot the tram returns to.

*_*).

17. Looks close in ons aren. (4)

16. Member of the Upper House, 14) 19. A dish and what a dust co

Colution of vesterday's pussię. -- Aeros and 5%. Bleeping BERKLEED. THIS

Vita: 12 Lesbarts 17. · Military Pounde Cat Sandpaper: 2

15. Ofteil_5.

Frenta

is

120, Bay

autobiography

sents, if anything, an even more" dazzling picture of a re-created age an ago when hopes were buoyed high, but unfulfilled.

Brit Tuesdales Welling greatest soldier

ton".

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HALL

By B. H. Liddell-Hart

(Carsell, 10/6). How did it come about that, after their lightning break-through in 1940, the Germans gave the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force the opportunity to reach Dunkirk first?

an

Prodnose pricks up his ears

CONFIDENT that a quotation from Shakespeare, made during a speech in a public hall, unlicensed for drama, might be said to con- situte G breach of the Act of 1183.

r Prodnose, is organising a corps of be given common informers, These men will a special allocation of England-and Europe-had never

round petrol, so that they

travel been so prosperous and gay as in

breaches

the country to discover 1911 and the two subsequent years,

of the law at meetings. Young

Mrs Wretch has promised her help families from

of An answer to that baming questo "stamp out the scourge of quota- affluence, such as Sitwell and his tion has been given by Hitler's own

tions in unlicensed halls." brother officers of the Grenadier generals In conversation with Cap- Guards, would find themselves in taln Liddell Hart who, in contact vited to as many as five or six cn- with Germany's military leaders at tertainments

night. In Porlio- the end of the war,

men

a

ment an ambitious programme of

Social reform had just been carried through, and old age Pensions and Insurance schemes had removed the most bitter-spectres that haunted

the poor.

able to

gather their evidence and opinions

on strategy.

Field Marshal von Runstedt stated Fuchrer's direct order that Kicist's categorically that it was The

armoured forces should halt on the Aire St. Omar canal.

"I questioned it in a message of

aro

to

That last lump of stone

FOULENOUGH determined to let

But

the public decide for Itself what thought it was a cannon-ball, then the round lump was. If anyone cannon-ball It should be. Failing that, it might be a fossilised dino- sour's ekg found in the Gobi Desert, In Western Europe there had been

or "Abstract Thought," by Szisko. war for two generations, and protest, Runstedt told Liddell Hart, wise by a very no

the matter was settled other- the youthful Sitwell was able to "but I received a curt telegram indy

learned American rellect in his study of history that reply saying: The armoured divi- lady, who was buying for the Car-i political

and religious expression sions

(Missouri) Art Museum. This thage was unfettered.

remain at medium lady There was, indeed. artillery range from Dunkirk". Von the stone, cried out like a night- Miss Woshabocker on seeing no hint of the sorrows and terrors Kleist himself has said that the or- bird surprised by a trapper. that lay in fornt of the most highly cultured races of the world.

"mode no sense". When lie runic stone!" she said. "But there Yet, Sitwell belonged to a doom- ignored it and sent his armoured should be

ancient

writing on it. el generation, to a military element curs to cut the British lines of "It is very

said Foulenough, that was to be wiped out by a war

retreat, he received a more empha- "In this late light. Come tomorrow, which would bring the death or

the order to withdraw behind the madam. You will see it better." disablement of two million of his

canal. It appears that the ban was

The lady promised to return, and fellow-countrymen.

not lifted for three days, and then the evening was spent by Foulenough it was only infantry units which

In carving with his jack-knife mys- terious signs and symbols on the stone.

than

*

and

der

This book is in three parts. First-

the

CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Answera

Ιπ the course of his expansive were allowed to complete. the oc- and glittering chronicle of those pre-cupation of Dunkirk-afier. the World War I days. Sir Osbert Sit- British had gono! well's arilatic prose style-at once elaborato

precise is no less social history. It reveals praisal of the men who built up the 17, thore. la Liddell Hart's own ap- the Arst glimpses of the modern

German Army and directed it in acts: of music, painting and of the Russian Ballet. As in the previous battle. Secondly, there is a search- military volumes the graces and oddities of ing analysis from relatives inevitably overshadowed viewpoint of Hitler's rise to power by his eccentric father and also and the development of armour in

Aaron's Beard and St. John's acquaintances

warfare. Thirdly, and by Wort. are portrayed with modern

2. Cricket. 9. Russia, Eng- to vision and vigour whether against far the most interesting the land and Scolland. 4. From the the background of London, Alder- general reader, is the Nazi generals'

inner surface of the shell of the pearl shot, guard duty et Buckingham own account and criticism of the oyster. 5. Quarto, a sheet of paper Palaco

folded to make four leaves, or eight and the Bank of England, Russian campaign, of the German or abroad in Sicily and Florence. resistance to the Allied invasion of pages. 6. They supply the chemical Normandy and, finally, of Hitler's | for tanning leather. They come last desperate gamble in the Ar-from the oak, chestnut, hemlock and dennes counter-stroke.

other trees.

In this work, which is difficult to overpraise, readers with recent or present links with the Servlees will revel in that considerable part of Sir Osbert'a narrative which com- cerns his Army career at Aldershot, Pirbright, Purficet and Wellington

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1.

"I don't think I've ever cried so much in all my life.”

(New)

Lano

Crawford COTTONS

Ew

800 EF 50

500 441%

2004

300 45

8004014

403% 47%

$500 @ 47

ID

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1505115

571

.... 5414

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207 @ 1315

21

1000

London Stock

Exchange

way a

London, June 1-Anglo-Iranian Oll surprised the London Stock Ex- change today by reporting doubled carnings for 1947-18,584,857 com- pared with £9,824,030 the previous year. This

well-kept secret, for the bears, in recent weeks, threw the shares for sale on the strength of the Palestine disorders, Since the dividend was unchanged at 30 percent, the shares advanced only 2/8 at 182/0. idle day.

This was the sole feature of an Cape selling of Kaffis losses were small. dried up early in the day, and net

Tia shares were up sixpence to 1/ on the increase of the tin price.

-United Press..

Hongkong

0501

4,03-1/4

2705-1/4

2400

$300

2010

2100

3762

3785

4750

2490

Unked Prers.

POUND NOTE RATE New York, June 1-The British pound tiole was quoted in the untomcial market here today at US$2.84.-United Pres

PARIS FREE MARKET.

Paris, June 1-In the free market here today the US$20 gold plece was quoted at 10,500 francs.

Tho US$1 note was quoted at 300.2 against the. black market rate of 242 franca-United Press

ZURICH MARKET

Zurich, June 1-The following rate were quoted in the unonicial exchange market here_today!~~~

Argentine Peso

U. S. Dollar

Sterling

Ew. Fr. 0.75

11.20

United Press

NEW SYNTHETIC

RUBBER

Detroit, June 1.-The United States Rubber Company research director, Dr S. M. Cadwell, today announced the development of now synthetic rubber whose resistance lo abrasion "exceeds by as much as 30 percent of the best natural rub- ber compounds. It performance in tyre tread promises to be superior,

to

berthing we have ever known

Dr Cadwell said the secret of the improvement was in the develop ment of chemicals which permitted polymerising at low instead of at high temperatures. He described the process at a meeting-of-the-De- troll Rotary Club-United Press.

Gilt-edged securities drifted lower. BLACK PEPPER

CHINA

PRODUCE QUOTATIONS

New York, June 1-China prices are as follows:

Cassis

Aniseed oil, per 1b. F.0.3.

New York

oil per b. F.O.B. New York Tung all, in per

MARKET

New York, June 1-lack peppar

futures closed 100 points higher with no

Lales reported.

Prices closed as follow:-

July **** September

October

produce December

0.75/00

302/23/50

January March May

(1049)

60.00 bid

42.00 48,00

40.00 μ

44.00 nominał 43.00

43.00

United Press

15. FOD. New York 20. 02/02 SUGAR FUTURES

Sandalwood, In drums de-

оп

Dending

quantity & quality Agar agar per lb.

New York Beryllum, 10 to 12 percent),

per ton Molyddetum 100 percent)

per ib........... 0.45

BRISTLES

...

one higher on

13.78 nominal

New York, June 1-World BUEAT futures closed three to four points lower 3.00/3.10 on sales totalling three contracts.

Domestic mugar futurer closed paint lower to three points 16.00/10.00

sales totalling 43 contracts. Prices clowed as follow:- CONTRACT NO. 4. July in cents per b.)

March (1949) May

Bristles, F.O.B. New York per lb. as September follow: Hankow, regular assort-

ment

September

3,10 nominal

July

Shanghai, regular

Trente 22. 2.50 Chungking regular

pasort-

assort.

menta

Tiantain, 26' shorts Tientsin. 23' regular

N.Y.

2.70 4.10 lect

0.60 nominal -United Pres.

RUBBER FUTURES

New York. June 1-Rubber

SPOT (World)

SPOT (Domestic)

4.10 nominal 4.14 FF 5.40

United Press.

New York Cotton

Market

New York, June 1-Prices in the cot- ton market closed as follow: SPOT (In cents per lb.).. 38.83 nominal

July...

October

December

futures March (1049)

closed 22 to 32 points higher on sales May totalling 08. contracts,

Prices closed as follow:- June in cents per lb.)

July

October

37,00

$4.73

54.50

31.00

The New Orleans cotton market closed

follows:---

SPOT

21.07 nominal | July

21.04 nominat

October

December

March (1949)

July

October

22.41 nominat

August

22.07 bid

September

21.07 bla

November

December

January (1940)

21.00 nominai 21.77 bid

May

February March

21.72 nominal July

Ami

21.82

May

Jurig

7157

July

21.32

August

Spot

21.53

United Press.

LONDON PRICES

London, June 1-Rubber futures closed

1/4 to 6/10 higher.

Prices clored an fallow:

Junto. Ein pennies per Ib.)

July

September

October

November

December

January (1940)

February

Marc's

13-11/16 bld

13-11/10

13-13/10

13-13/14

13-13/10

12-15/18 2-15/10 12-13/10 United Pres.

October

38.00

36,03-0

33.70-01

13.00-0 32.91

32,78

20.50

United Press.

1. Closing

Bombay, June Zarilla in rupees):-

July

September

prices for

-United Press.

Adjustment In

Tin Prices

London, June 1. Tin circles here today expected an adjustment In the United States and Bolivin tin prices no the United Kingdom price rose to 2500 for Malayan Nigerian tin.

and

The present United States con- tract price is 90 cents a pound, which is equal to the former United

| CHICAGO | GRAIN Kingdom price.

PRICES

Chicago, June 1-Chicago Board of Trade closing prices were:- WHEAT (price per bushel)

May 2.33-3.31-1/4

Cinta 233-1/4

July 3.32-1/8-2.32

CORN

July 1.93-7/8-4

May 2.17-1/4-1/2

OATS

May Da-1/8-1/4'

July 84-7/8

-United Prets.

The new British price represents

In at US$1 a pound.--United Press.

Exchange Rates

Business way done in the local un- official exchange inarket this morning at the fallowing tales:

Chinese dollars (per CN1 m... Sterling notes (Der £1)

UA, dollars (per US$1)

Gold bars (per tan))

Plastren (pur, 100)

1 Sism ticals (per 100)

NEI guilders" (per 100)

15.00

328.00

11.50 23.70