FOR
SIDE GLANCES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1948.
YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
By Galbraith
Cork, 1944 BY MEA BIÊVICE, THC, T, RIG U. 1. FAT, OFF,
"Sia hates to cook and do housework-ahe says if she ever gets married, sho'll live in a hotel and eat in the classy restaurants!"
MCKENNEY DUMBBELLS
ON BRIDGE
Distribution Carries This Slam Contract
BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
JACKIE, who operates the Carousel
Club Pittsburgh, did a splen- dil Job, especially with the wish- nising ing well at the parly for Children's Cancer Funct He also
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card tricks. Later on, distribution will carry you through."
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of Pittsburgh's outstanding bridge
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How ran imagine
quickly
doubled.
East
McClure won the opening lead with the ace of spades and led the West refused queen of diamonds.
to cover. Declarer took the finerse, led another diamond and finessed ten-spot, When it held. dummy's
he cashed the nee of diamonds, on losing which he discarded
Feven of spades.
his
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EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPH' FEATURE
YOUR BIRTHDAY
By STELLA
world is too large; too wide and toa full of interesting opportunities. The stars give you ono caution: learn to save something of what you are extravagant” in earn, for you your personal tastes, and-generous and sympathelle toward all who are less favoured than yourself.
MONDAY, AUGUST 30 PORN today, you are one of the imppy-go-lucky couls who seems to float through life with the greatest of case. You are a natural money minker and practically everything you touch seems to turn into gold. This does not mean, however, that you
also a hard worker. are not When you are committed to a job, you tackle it with a vim and vigour which seems to step up the produc tion of everyone around you.
You are always willing, to take the long-shot. You would be bored to death in any kind of routine work, and must have varioly and interest. You are accurate in all you do, and this, combined with your high-speed emciency, makes it easy for you to get n job done. If burn in humble etrcumstances, you will not be con- tent to remain there for long. The
You are violent against injustice- the one thing which seems to rouse your ire. If you see something of this sort, you will stop everything cise and battle for the right. You are wonderful as a friend-but a 1 someone fo. CL bitter enemy. "wrong 'un", you let the world know It and do something to correct con- ditions.
To find what the stars have in
select store
your for tomorrow, birthday star and read the corres- Let your ponding paragraph. birthday star be your daily gulde.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)-Plans should future activities made for
be sound and prove, later on, to workable. Marriage and the domes- the fronts are favoured, too.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 33)--Mental activity can solve anything today. Put the old brain to work and it can indlente a successful method. "
SCORPIO (Ocl. 24-Nov. 22)-
avoided to be Legni matiers ure whenever possible today. Business caution is also indicated. Go slowly.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) -Morning hours can be used to put the elineher on some Important deal. Romance is good this afternoon and evening.
CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan, 20)— Moderation is today's watchword. Watch expenditures and don't over- expand your resources now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. favoured Romance is more
business transactions.
19)
than Everything
should be ane on domestle front.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-An unexpected trip my bring about a real, romantic adventure. Be pre- pared for something exciting and in- teresting.
of
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POCKET CARTOON
"We should be quite safe Humphrey--this "is a rubber tree i"
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN LONDON & NEW YORK STOCKS:
WEEKLY MARKET
REVIEWS
London, Aug. 28.-During the past week the market had quite a good tone, but the complaint was that there was "more tone than business.”
WARNING GUIDES FOR
BUSINESS
Optimism about the outcome of the Kremlin talks drove a good many "bears", to cover their previous short sales, with a small price swell resulting.
The Financial Times Index of Industrials closed nt -leading
115.3, which was the highest since June 15. while the index DI Government stocks, Closing nt 112.75, was the highest since May
Both indles owed much to the general realisation that some of the £47,000,000, which the Argentine disburse Government will shorly
Washington, Aug. 20.-the United States Chamber of Commerce has 21. 101 the country's businessmen that they can do something about sustalaing prosperity, preventing de- pression, and solving the
"boom bust" problem
To guide them in this undertaking, to holders of preference phures in
Chamber hag published
Argentine Railways, must go into 16-page booklet containing a series leading industrials and Government of "dog" and "dont's"
the stocks. guidance of business management. The War Loan was extraordinarity fue Chamber says that it le designed strong, rising 7/10ths to £103-%, Three per- Others gained
The
for
of the
£00- cents to 5/10ths.
WHAT fool you must fe
WHAT fools you must feel
to help the management ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-Per- conal affairs still continue good, far away.
For these words country's four million separate bust as did biso Transport
business signala You may need to make a careful
were written within range of hesses to "read
and study of some angles in a business
your reproachful pens ("Dear and storm warnings properly
on time."
Although the European situation deal.
n gives The booklet 21-Sir, does Beachcomber think it
warning was Increasingly discussed, the only TAURUS (Apr. 21-May
that "well-informed judgment is noteworthy change in European and alert to amusing to make fun of water.
firm on the part
essential" and "there is no
Bonds was in Czech six percents, misrepresentation You are conservative
free economy which rose £4 to £65. out all snakes, our lowly cousins, who
Austrian In dynamic rule. созде schemers, you will
cannot answer him back?"). there are no enduring normal refour and a half percents rose £1 to right,
Jations of different prices or of sup- £60 and French Rails, Midi and GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-Ro-
Jily and demand." mance takes a front ceat today. A
It is suggested that businessmen Orleans,, rose £1/2 to £01-1/2. wedding may be the cause of all the
guide at frequent STRONGLY RECOMMENDED excitement. Plan to enjoy yourself.
should study the Intervala.
Elsewhere the trend was easier, Below are listed a few of CANCER (June 23-July 23)-Per-
with German Potash seven percents "do's" and "don'ts" sonal affairs become more important.
down £1 to £89 and Peland four Do study inventories. You can afford to let business ride
DO watch for
and a half percents down £1 10 for a time. Enjoy yourself.
£16. The last named is strongly recommended by this week's Inves- tors' Chronicle for those looking for
in appreciation and capital position to take risks. Italian seven percents were unchanged at £145, as were also Maramanna Ralls at
£74.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-Be alert to any possible dupllefty on the part Make sure everything is nf others. brought out into the open.
AROUND THE WORLD:
By
Historical City of Verona
TEMPLE MANNING
IN common with many a traveller we have always had a penchant for massive-walled, strongly-fortified towns, which is why we often hark back to one of our favourites, his- torical Verona.
particularly
the
We remember massive walls to the northeast on the high part of the city, walls built around 1537, and when we saw them last, still in perfect preservation. Above the walls, the bastions and against the forts, gleaming white
blue Italian sky and glistening sun. compose a remarkable picture.
Delightful Town
Verona itself is a delightful town. and we can still recall the excite- ment and interest of our journey
A stena in Verona, Italy.
so rich in feet-high tower, erected in 1370, and 4. Where does the cuckoo bird from Milan to Verona,
view of the action and history, glorious with offering a wonderful Jay its curs?
beautiful palaces and priceless art city.
5. For what is Carrara, Italy
famous.
(Austrers on Column 5)
CHESS PROBLEM
By SAM LOYD
Black, 3 pieces.
White & pieces White to vlny and mate in three Solution to Saturday's
problem:
- 1, Q-R8, any; 2. Q. or B felis en
or dbl ch) mates
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13. Sufficiant to say that it stretches
between two pointa (7)
15. Grind to faa powder. 195
10. Metal. (3)
17. The matintain ash. (5)
19. River of the Middle Eant (42
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to the
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10. Understanding.
treasures.
in the
A narrow street by the tower leads The river Adige, second largest in to the Plazza del Signori,
Verona is built, northwest comer of which is the Italy, on which makes a huge bend and almost sur wonderful paince built by one of the rounds the old part of the town, world's greatest architects and
and most Fra Giocondo, rounded which is triangular with a
remarkable of -men,
He bulit it the town
05 apex to the northeast. How won- in 1467. derful it was to stroll from our hall, and it is worth coming from hotel near the western end of the far to see, especially the sculptured
Cavour, main thoroughfare, the
to. Dante. is a monument to the Piazza dell Erbe, past those figures on the roof coping. In the
square 10th cen- mostly palaces,
was banished from who, after he exquisite tury structures richly ornamented. Florence in 1903, spent the first part some with balconies and loggins of his exile in Verona, Then comes the Porta Borsari, one
of the most famous of Roman gate-
205 ways, erected in
A.D. It con-
Ol
It
On the banks of the Adige is the sists of a wall of two rounded arches famour Church of St Anastasia.
and the west over the main road, with two tlers was begun in 1920,
been never
Anished. of six small, shallow, round-headed facade has
Built
of brick and the houses
of a mixture arches built into
marble, as was the Veronese custom aither side, which are arcaded.
then, it has a lofty vaulted roof sug- ported on twelve huge white marble columns. It contains the exquisito Pellegrint chapel whose walls are panelled with terra colla reliefs of Passing through this, the road biblical events. Near the church is narrows. Trolleys follow this route, the beautiful Emile Palace where along the Corso Porta Borsari into Napoleon stayed during the Italian the Plazza dell' Erbe,. which was campaign.
Tho Tribuna
once the ancient Farum and which is now content to bo a fruit and vegetable market, every stall with A huge white umbrella above it to keep off tun and rain with equali impartiality.
In the centre of the square is the "Tribuna," a canopy supported by four columns, which was the ancient Geat of judgment. The fountain, dating back to Homan days, once rich with statues, now serves as dunking place for fruit and' flali washing. Not far beyond is a 273-
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But by the time they appear in print your bizarre faces will be but repulsive memory. For once more the bird that sang to Ogier in the wood of Vauchelles has lured me out into the world, and I go to seck that
Water of Youth and washer cut
of cares
Which Raymond of Saragossa
Bought of old...
I go also to full a certain duty. a humble member of the Soclely for Cultural Relations and Intellec- tual Friendship, with the Wakawaka Tolstoy Group, who will give me pretty beads and bottles of gin in exchange for nicely bound copies of "War and Pence," with an introduc- flon by Amabe! Hopcraft, and notes by Ernst Hummerpudding. I shall, of course. make
the a report of proceedings when I return, and a full account of the whole disgusting nffair will appear in this column.
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Furtir. c'est mourir 142 pen. Last time I went abroad I stood on deck to walch the fading coast-line, and my checks were wet-but not with spray or beer. A humble sen- man, moved by my tears, approach- ed, and thus addressed me: "Doubt- less, sir, you are leaving behind you all that you hold dear?" Chok-
SOBE I ing back my
made reply: "Sailor man, I leave behind me the dearest, sweetest publié a man ever bad."
"Oh, sir," vouchsafed the honest mariner, "surely, one day you will return, when
their hatr has turned to silver and find them "Yes, yes," said waiting for you."
roar "in a month" "A month" o ed the infuriated salt. "Then what the devil are you blubbering about?" And he left me smiling-through my tears, and somewhat comforted. The before my last new item I read
"Very fat women departure said: are. easily pleased." Let us, then, sing a little to keep up our spirits. Lower her gently by crane. To perch upon my knee, Like some great beast in a fairy-
tate,
Or a monster from the sea. Steady, there! Don't let her crash, Or we'll both go through the floor. Who sticks in her own front door? Oh, granny, hote can i marry a girl
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The show goes on. I leave this well-trodden space to the capable fect of one who...Treat him as you treat me, and he will think he has blundered into a forest full at de- mented bluebottles,
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers
1. Arabia and north cast Africa. 2. An overdose of sunburn. 3. They contraction of are caused by the
attached to the hair tiny museles
"stand follicles, making the hairs
In other birds' nests, on end." . 5. For its fine marble quarries.
D. Wislinjern
TINATULUAT
KYKSINKI POME
which
the
In the changen rate of expansion in your industry.
DO spread capital expansion over an extended period.
DO watch your Liabilities with a
eye. "forward-looking"
DON'T let short-term considera- tlona beguile you into over-exten- ding credit to your customers.
DON'T rely on short-term non- cing.
DONT overlook warnings in rising Interest rates.
DON'T conduct your own business as if it were in a vacuum. -United Press.
S. AMERICAN PRODUCTION
OF GOLD
1
Among Industrials, the most note- worthy gain was in Hudson's Bay shares, which were up 4/-d., while Ford Motors and other leaders were up 3/-d.
Royal Dutch led the Oll Issues and was up £1/2 to £24.
Kaftirs were
only moderately better-United Press,
WEATHER HITS WALL STREET
stock New York, Aug. 21.---The marke! made little real headway this week in spite of Friday's rise. During the week trading dwindled to around the slowest pace for four Washington,
28. The years as an intense heat wave August Federal Reserve Board has issued engulfed New York on Wednesday. of statistical tabulations As the mercury kept on rising on series
status of Thursday attendance at Wall Street revealing the Important
American the Latin
countries in was at a minimum and many production, reserves and movements houses sent their employees home as of gold.
early as possible cach day.
The weather and comparisons of the record 20
Production statistics showed that Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua and Chile, in that order, were produc- the present heat with
relieved ing large quantities of gold, while snowfall of December
the Venezuela was accumulating gold he recent concentration
Moscow talks and the
German partial settlement
for export problem. As the talks continued
in
of petroleum, ferquently called pro "black gold".
was
during the week with no indication
Besides cutting down attendance in brokerage house board rooms, the high temperatures all over the cast of the United States pul heavy hand on production.
Mexico last year produced gold of the trend they might be taking. In Wall Street traders became more to US$10,250,000. equivalent
that, no ren! January this year the production and more convinced
US$650,000, and in market turn will come unless ond Worth
tintil a decision is reached on February USSI,307,000.
Colombia last year produced gold Berlin.
In January worth US$13,400,000. this year the production was US$1,- 124,000 and in February US$1,302, 000, and in March US$809,000.
Nicaragua exported about 00 per-
Retail trade was up seven to 11 cent of her total gold production in percent over 1947, but retailers were 1947 and the exports totalled NS$7,- reported to be becoming alarmed 100,000. In January this year the aver the trend of retail sales, What total Wit5 US$048,000,
February is going to happen after the new March $034,000, April 'Credit Control Bill becomes law on $682,000,
September 20 is questionable. Many $852,000, and May $611,000.
Chite produced last year gold retailers are frankly offering bor- worth US$5,000,000. In January gains in an endeavour to persuade this year th total was US$309,000, customers to buy as much as possi- deadline.-United February $288,000 and March $474,- ble before
I'ress. 000.-United Press.
Production, Goals
Set By Yawata
before
and
the
Factory Workers' Earnings
Washington, August 28.-The
that
Kokura, Aug. 20. The Yawata Stect Works-the largest in the Far
the war has set Labour Department estimates East September production goals for pig factory workers camed an average iron, steel ingot and steel products of $52.00 a week during July-a new
all time record high. respectively at 35,000, 43,000,
The Department said that a pre- 31,000 metric tons.
showed that the liminary survey The production goal for plg, fron average, time spent at work by shows an increase of 3,000 tons over thirteen million production workers August following full operation of last month amounted to 30.8 hours the 50-ton blast furnace.
per week. This was a decrease of Steel Ingot output is scheduled to about 24 minutes a week from the tons-United June average. The shorter, working Increase by 2,800 Press,
Franc Drops In
Black Market
Paris, August 28.-The French franc fell heavily on the black mar- ket following the fall of the Marie Lovernment.
As the Bourse was closed, thero
were no free market quetallons, but
week was caused chiefly by cur talled operation in some plants due the summer vacation-United Press.
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Floods Submerge 100 Villages
Cawnpore, Aug."29.-The .flood. have
the black market showed that waters. of the river Ganges French 20-frane gold pleces jumped subinerged about 100 villages in the from 4,300 francs 5,000 francs, Cawnpore and Unng districts in the and the United States $20 gold piece heart of the United Provinces. They extensiva damage to from 21,000 francs to 23,000 francs, have caused
crops and property, but the villagers United Press.
have been evacuated to safety and to far no loss of life has been re- ported,
Violent Earthquake
Tonight, the river was only tv. London, Aug. 20-Tirana Radio reported tonight that one man was feet below the 1024 record. level, killed and several persons injured here, and the heavy rain which whet a violent earthquake shock started this evening was considered the Scutari region of Albania during almost certain to swell the Doods still
moreRouter. the night-Router.
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