THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
SIDE GLANCES
By
Galbraith
POCKET CARTOON |
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By WILLIAM E. MCKENNEY
VERY interesting new deck of Acards in eating on my deck
a few week ago. Il was made by the Forcolar Playing Card Com- pany, each unit a different colour. I have seen many new Ideas in cards in the past 20 years.
All of
them went by the wayside except the narrow deck we use for bridge. However, even with the narrow deck players frequently mis-sort. The new Forcoular deck should eliminate many revokes,
For example, see what happened In today's hand. There was a crowd of kibitzers around Jack Cushing, a fine player from New England, when he bld the North cards. They expected him to go to six clubs or six diamonds.
But Cushing was not seeing his hand correctly. The oed of "dla- monds was with the heart sult, and he stopped at five hearts be- cause he was afraid they would be off two diamond tricks.
West overlook the opening lead of the king of spades with the nce, and Cushing refused to ruff, discarding a club. West came back with the Jack of spades, and Cush- ing discarded the nine of clubs.
Now a small club was led by West, Cushing finessed the queen, and then he saw that what he had thought was the ace of hearts was actually the ace of diamonds. He pulled four rounds of trumps and the balance of his tricks were good. If he had ruffed the first spade, he might have found it more dif- cult to make even five hearts,
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Check Your
Knowledge
1. Are plant and animat life found in the dark depths of lakes and
occans?
2. Chartreuse is a combination of what two colours?
3. Who composed "The Magic | Flute?"
4. What was called "The Man's Graveyard?"
White
5. Who was Engelbert Dollfuss?
6. Do you use more gasoline when driving fast than when driving slow- ly?
Answers on Column 5
DUMB-BELLS
FREGISTERED US.
PATENT OFFICE
I LIKE THIS MODEL BUT WILL YOU PLEASE CHANGE THE COLOR OF THE REAR LIGHTS: RED DOESNT MATCH THE COLOR SCHEME OF THE CAR !
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By A. K. ELAFORTHY Black, 9 pleces.
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Solution to Saturday's problem:
3, Kt--B2, ong; 2; Kt (èh, or di ch) or P (disch) mates.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
2
27
and 7. Anything, onane 28 7. (anag) try the end of the last century, 11, 81
8. Fielders for the second innings.
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1. sroly this day may be cloudy.
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13. Pifty short of tothai for a change.
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14. Adrolt. 101
18. Wooden result to a letter from
the fair. (3)
Bounds Ake a Paltio ending. (0)
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(3)
23, implemento. (8)
24. Poors, hid this way. (0)
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9. That's batteri
6. Early youth. 135
11. by Iring on it you commit
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broken apar. (4)
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YOUR BIRTHDAY.
MONDAY, JUNE 7
BORN today, you have an alert, an error without suspecting that you have been giving advice. This talent could well be used in the field of diplomacy, 'You also would prob- ably do will as an instructor or a jccturer.
quick mind. Your convictions are strong and your judgment in usually good, although you are prone, occasionally, to act on im- pulse. You should guard against doing this, since your decisions pro not always as sound as they should be under emotional stress.
You have a deep emotional nature and you women, especially, are in- clined to be guided by your affec- tions. However, since you are also firtatious, you are very often un- predictable. Your. "of again," "on ngaiq". attitude toward romance may not break your heart-but it might damage those of oibero. Be a little more cautious in this respect. Once you have selected your mar- riage partner you are loyal and true, and making an excellent homemaker and parent.
Sympathelle and understanding of the problems of others, you are one to offer good advice. You are some- thing ol a philosopher about life and never lot
problems or your own those of others get you seriously down. Your sense of humour helps in their true per- to see things spcellve. You are an expert con- versationalist and often, by your wit and humour, are able to point out To find what the stars have in the folbles of others in an amusing store for tomorrow, select your Instion without giving offence, birthday star and read the corres- Those who get the point of your ponding paragraph. Let your Jocular remarks will often correct birthday atar be your daily guido.
you
TUESDAY, JUNE 8
GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-Push
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) business affairs but postpone expan--Expand a new Iden now. Make
alon plans, especially if they Involve the introduction of new expense.
CANCER (June 23-July 23)- Exert extreme caution in everything even remotely connected with business. Personal relations im plove,
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-Good and bad rather miscellaneously in- termixed, so be prepared for every- thing and no serious mishap should
occur,
22)-
new
An
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. Merchandising improves and friends may prove stimulating.
a mental emotional, rather than day.
an agreement; seek full co-operation with your co-workers; write an im- portant letter.
Aw, Mister Flukenpusher, d'ya mea to say this Bundles front Britain schemo means I don't have to sell my auxillary imming pool after all 7
BY THE
WAY
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20 by Beachcomber
Restraint should be today's keynote. Conservative, rather than impulsiva, nction will be productive now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10.7-
A
IN
TN the old world, which was so rich in variety, there used to
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
HONGKONG SHARE
MARKET
**
The Hongkong Stock market opened this week to restricted interest, and this morning's trading reached only $340,187.
Transactions and noon prices
follow:-
BIARES
BANKS
BUYERS BELLERS BALES
East Asia..... 140
INSURANCES
Canton
Union Underwriters
HK Fire DOCKS, ETC.
K. Wharf (0) Dock Provident ..... LAND, ETC.
HK Hotel HK Land Abel Lond Humphreys UTILITIES
ram.
Star Ferry
C. Light (0) ..
C. Licht (N) .. Electric
400
20 70711
7.15 TH
Cuban Sugar
Production
Washington, June 5-The Agricul- ture Department reported that 104 160
Cuban sugar production continued 331% 200 331% at a rate higher than that of last 24 2434
year, but the final figures might ahow to increase.
0331
10 2000 e 18,40 100 + 0435 0!%
34 24 800 x 24 120
40
100 i 5042 BUO 4515 100 c 4614 1030 e 40%
24.60
23
000 # 25
20 21
30 80% 1000.0 603
Telephone (0) 43 INDUSTRUALS
Cenient 4512 401%
47
STONES, ETC.
Dairy (0) ....
012%
Watson (Old 6814
Watson (New) 84 4511
-100 85%
200 83
Lane
05
MISCELLANEOUS Entertainment
20
4112
Crawford COTTONS
100 BO'S
better-than-fair day all your be a most entertaining type of Week On Wall
activities, co act Recordingly. Bo alert to even the smallest oppor- tunity,
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 213-Con- solidate any
Ruins recently mado but don't attempt new expansion just now. Make fulure plans only.
food-manine.
He was always getting people into a corner, to tell them about a marvellous le place in Paris where
they stew eels' feet in maraschino, or serve apricot fritters stuffed with Bauerkraut. I heard ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-This him talking the other day, in that
I LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-Yes is not one of your best days so anti-confidential tone of his, and drew
may be
con- elpute recognition for past accom- | near to eaves-drop. He was saying. terday's beginnings cluded successfully now.
well Thrift in plishments
done. Make A "There's a little place in the Totten-
kom profit. expenditures is still necessary,
Court-road where you can sometimes get mation broth." The bon viveur goes down fighting.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 2%)-One of those fifty-fifty days something good and something not so good! Avoid borrowing or lending.
AROUND THE WORLD:
TAURUS.
(Apr. 21-May 21) What seems like a misfortune today may turn out to be a real blessing in disguise, so be optimistic.
Baghdad: City of Legends
By TEMPLE MANNING EVEN were it fantastically beautiful, it would be im- possible for Baghdad to live up Every to its advance billing. traveller who is fumillar with the stories of the Arabian Nights has his or her own con- ception of a fabulous city,
wondrous place, all fairytale. palaces, golden domes and dis- guised caliphas roaming fabled thoroughfares.
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And what do we find when dreams of childhood come truc? A large mud-coloured city by the banks of a mud-coloured river, the Tigris.
The west bank part of the city isn't so bad, mayhap a little in keep- ing with what Daghdad ought to be. White-balconied houses stand amid and there palms and green-fringed date are nice gardens. On the east bank is the so-called modern part of the elty with one principal thorough- fare and an incredible chaos of les ser streets and narrow lanes.
Arty days ahead
Street
New York. June 6.--Railroad shares led the stock market during
mille
It said that Cabin sugar produced up to May 15 this year 0,249,000 short tons of sugar row value, compared with 5,000,000 short tons produced in a similar period In 1047. It added, however, that cane grinding
year than mills began earlications for many Jast, and up to May 15 a total of 00 out of 101 mills had finished grinding, compared with only 37 up to the samo date in 1947.
now oppenred that the total production for this season would be only
little larger than the 6,440,- 900 short tons produced in 1947, instead of the 7,000,000 estimated carlier United Press.
Edible Oils From Cuba
Washington, June 5.—The Agricul- was ex- ture Department said It pected that Cluba would
linve the week in the lightest dealing of available during 1948 larger supplies of edible vegetable olls than in any any week since March 19. The year since the war. It said that the weck
WOR shortened by the suggested allocations of about 10,000 Memorial Day holiday.
short tons of edible oils and probable The daily average was
1,250,000 peanut oil supplies, would give Cuba shares.
a total of 15,000 to 16,000
tons of edible olls compared with an Prices made irregular gains during estimated average yearly consump Tuesday and Wednesday and small¦tion of 11,500 tons in 1915/47. xdeclines during the following two
It added, however, that Cuba might not purchase all the olive oil
ENCOURAGED by the success of sessions..
the recent exhibition, Foul- The vacation was blamed in part allocated from Spain and Italy and enough to contemplating opening a for the dullness. Other factors palm oil from the Portuguese shop for the sale of whatever he included technical considerations colonies because of the high prices.- can collect in the way of art. Con- such as profit-taking, some worry United Press. vinced that every undertaking, from over the rise in the reserve require- an hotel to an airline, must today
ments of New York and Chlengo have beautiful girls,
fantastically dressed, to awaken the customer's Banks, and the cut in ERP funds.
નવા ને પી Interest, he hopes to recruit a num According to Wall Street experis, ber of Art Hostesses, under the the market behaved well and re- leadership of the lovely Lune Moon.sisted pressure. Steels closed with They will wear Czech pensant cos- slight gain, rail equipments tumes, and sing Czech folksongs all gained--some setting new highs- over the shop. If music helps farm implements were strong, and
Gold to give more milk."
oils enjoyed a good market. Foulenough, "It ought to make hu- man beings buy more pictures."
COWG
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THE Independent member is a chap who cannot play with the team," said Mr Dalton in the House the other day. It is odd bow difficult politicians find it to avoid sparting talk. If Mr Dalton had thought for a moment, he would discovered that the whole point have of the Independent is that he is In the market place, Baghdad. - not a member of the team, and has It seems no desire to play for it. absurd flerce sunlight,
to have to make such used to be very lively, but their stock was scarcely elementary criticism, but it forms of the fabulous treasure of the East. part of my
night school Rather
of cheap Polytechnic course for chaps who was it a mixture cotton prints, come silver and gold are on sticky wickets. work and a variety of copper, work,
Write for Miss Barrel's brochure but nothing of special value or even
Metaphors
For Publle beauty. But then when a city has "Halma been plundered and destroyed, re- Speakers." bullt and flooded, time and time again, so that virtually nothing re- Dean's grandmother turles has been dried mud brick with architectural decorations of mains of the great and cultured city
swallows giraffe glazed tile, all of which doesn't of the Abbasid Caliphate, one can- make for beauty. But, in the city of not. expect to find many relies or the Caliphs there is an Al Raschid reminders of the days of its great-elephants, which is not much e pift for training Street, and Is something
that
11 is
sness,
(News item.) little shops and there are lined
with
two-horse open carriages
"Born with a white elephant In fending interest to the traffic, People
his mouth" vouchsafed a spokes-
Twisting Streets
Except for some modern build- Ings and residences, the native building material through the ce
Babylonian Relics
who have lived in Baghdad love There are some wondrous remain those little two-horse victorias ders and reminders of ancient times which are so reasonable. For the in the Muscum of Baghdad, with visitor, the idea of riding around the emphasis on the Babylonian objects city where once the good Harunal- discovered at Ur. Raschid reigned has always been a thrill
con-
He
с had
to him now.
man.
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers
But to get back to the present, we And that there are all sorts of Im- The small shops that line tile provements, most of them twisting streets, with cloth cover- templated, in what is now the capital Ings overhead to protect from the of Iraq. Agriculture depends upon
the flood waters carried down by the 1. No, bath must have illumination Tigris and the Euphrates, both of to live and, even in the clearest which were harnessed by the water it is too dark below 250 feet Chaldeans, the Babylonians and the for life. 2. Green and - yellow. 3. Assyrians Yes, centuries ago, Mozart. 4. Panama. 5. He Was thero
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The declines ranged to over one poin! in a sizable group, including Chrysler, Johns Manville, Lockheed, Pullman, Southern Pacine, United Aircraft. U.S: Rubber, Union Pacific, and Western Union.-United Press.
London Stocks
Close Lower
London, June 5. After moving throughout the week within a nar- row range, industrial prices on the London Stock Exchange during the
through past week broke
on the lower side and lost ground every single day.
The Financial Times Index of in- dustrial issues closed the week at
U.S. Cotton Exports
Washington.
June 5.-The United Staten Census Bureau today reported that exports of cotton manufactures
during March were as follow:-
Drazil
Canada 13,040,000, Newfoundland and Labrador . $202.000, Mexico $335,000, Guatemala 1104.000, Salvador $374,000, Honduras 200,000. Nicaragua $20,000, Costa Rica #382.000. Panama $233,000, Canal Zone $240,000, Cuba $3.003,000, Jalti $41,000, Dominican Republie $704,000, Curacao $300,000, Colombia $023,000 Venezuela D13,000, $330,000, Argenting $1,431,000, United Kingdom $17.218,000, Belgium and Luxembourg $304.000, Germany $0,000, Czechoslovakia $1,000, Italy $10.000, Greece -- $107,000.Iran-$285,000, Saudi Arabia $181,000, India $174,000, Pakistani $37,000. Ceylon $340,000, Slam $2,000. Malaya $3.455.000, Netherlands Indies $300,000, Philippines 15.220.000. China $21.000, Hongkong $131,000, Japan $4,000, Australia 1031,000. New Zealand $115.000, British
West Pacific Jalands $23,000. French Pacific $9,000, French Morocco 1182,000, French West Africa $265,000. Nigeria $511,000, Bolgian Congo 331,000, Ethiopia $723,000, British East Africa *374.000, Madagascar $264,000, Union of South Africa 4,070,000-United Press..
110.8, which was the lowest since LESS RICE FROM
the last days of March.
the
BRAZIL
un~
The chief factor was the unex- pected slash in the Marshall plan and which unleashed misgivings
Washington, June 5-The Agri- about the probable future of the culture Department reported that whole European Recovery Pro- the 1948 Brazil rice crop is
officially gramme. Another factor was
estimated, nt 100,000,000 rising volume of evidence that come bushels compared with 133,000,000 sumer demand has been sharply bushels last year. curtalled, and the third was the unfavourable impression mado by It said that most of the decline foreign trade returns-United Press. was due to the reduced acreage, but
both acreage and production still far above the prewar average of 60,000,000 bushels. It also said year than last, there might be reductions in Brazilian rice exports later on-United Press.
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U.S. COMMODITIES, a result of a smaller crop
•
DECLINE
Chicago, June G. The recom- mendation that E... expenditures
percent caused all Dull Print Cloth
commodities to decline here today with the exception of hogs, which advanced 25 to 50 cents per cwt.
Colton closed 10 to 38 points lower on the proposal to slash foreign aid funds, together with the favoidable tenour of the crop news which em- phasised
prospects
larger
be cul by 25 wero magnificent irrigation chanceller of Austria and was mur- the waters dered by the Nazis on July 25, 1934. d. Programme Summary: 0.01, "Fan- experia who harnessed fare" Variety and Geraldo and His Dance of the rivers and by an involved 6. Yes, as more power is necessary Orchestra, (ORDS); 6.30, Hospital Request
system of control
distributed the to move at high speed. Half Hour presented by Nan Dickson (Studio): 7. "The Vagabond King" An water as it was needed. Abridged Version of Rudolf Frimi's Light Opera with Anne Ziegler and Webstor. Booth. (ENSA): 7.30. Portuguese Half Hour (Studio): 0, World and Home News (London Relay) 0.18. Viv Gartor pre- sente "Highlights on Filma" (Studio): 8.30, "I Like What I Like" Presented by Alleen Dekker (Studie): D. Accent on Rhythm (BUCTS): 0.10. Grieg: Holberg Suite...London, String Orchestra; 0.30. A Play-Dreams (DUCTS): 10, World and Home News (London Relay); 10.15, Weather Report: 10.10, "Take Choice": 11. Radio News Heel (London Relay); 11.15, Weather Report and Close dawn.
Your
OUTWARD MAILS
MONDAY, JUNE 1 Closing Times By Air
Hothow, Swatow, Foochow, Shanghial,
Nanking, Hankow, Tsingtao, Petping, | Lluchow, Kunming and Amoy 3.30 p.m. Saigon & Parte 5 p.m.
Closing. Timbe By Sea & Train Sandakan, "Habait," "Australia & New
2.30
p.m.
Zealand via Sydney (Ben) (Par. & Neg.) 3 pm. (Ord.).
Amoy (Rea) 3 p.m.
PERITONE PALER SENYIDEJ
acreage.
for
0
Wheat closed 24 to three conta lower, corn was off 1% to 23%, oats 11% to 1%, soybeans 74 to eight cents, 1 seven 19 29 points.- United Press.
Market
04
New York, June 3-Lower prices for print cloths and sheetings failed to arouse new buying Interest in Worth Street this weck
the market entered its fifth dull month. The prolonged Memorial Day obser vance may have been a factor, in minimising now business, but brokers attributed the dull situation more to stiffening price resistance in
the retail field.
The optimistic outlook for the now cotton crop
and accumulation of
CHICAGO GRAIN finished goods combined to
PRICES
Chiengo, June 8-Chicago Board Trade closing prices today were:-
WHEAT (price per bushel)` May
J
CORN
May
July
OAS
pm.
Haiphong (Sex) 3 p.m.
:
May
July
Macao (Bea) 4 p.).
TES BATURDAY KVvistaro zor ©
Canton (Parcels & 2nd Class Mall). (Ben)
5 pm.
Japan (Ord, Loiters & Cards only) (Ben)
of
2.3134-2.30
humper
Press.
buying Interest-United
Exchange Rates,
Trainers was done in the local un- Close-2.30 umcial exchange market this morning at 2,2016-2.2011e following rates:
Chinese dollars (per CNIL m3 1969 -4.50 2.104-2.10 Sterling notes (per £1) 1.931-1.03 U.S. dollars (per US$1)
flold bars (per tari), 0216-34 Astrea (per 100).... B4-% | Sim ticals (per 1001 United Praan. NEI guidors (per 100)
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