THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
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COPR. 1947 BY UNA SERVICE, 190. 'T, M. REG U. 11. PAT, OPT.
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PATENT OFFICE DOESN'T MATTER.
A PENNY: ISN'T
WORTH
MUCH
THESE DAYS
Your
Knowledge
1. What female butterfly has per-
fect wings, cannot fy, you gave its name to a famous scroplane?
2. What is rudor?
3. Who wrote "Lili Marlene"? Of what nationality is he?
4. In what country is the bird of
5. Of what metal is bronze com-
4. What does the French word soupcon' mean?
NEVERAL years ago Parks John-paradise found almost exclusively?
son brought his "Vox Pop" pro- gramme to the Eastern States con- posed? tract
bridge tournament lu New York
recently City. Just
I had the pleasure of playing bridge with B- is now Warren Hull, who
Parks on the pro- sceinted with gramme.
and
In-the-10 years that this show has been in existence, it has travelled
miles, more than a million Warren saya that in every country they visited, they managed to get up a bridge game. He said it was a little cold up in Alaska when he played today's hand, and he also was a little chaky about making the contract. But he handied it well.
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CHESS PROBLEM
By A. K. ELWORTHY
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He won the opening icad of the queen of diamonds with the king. It looked as if the only problem was the club finesse, but Warren was shaky about it, because if it falled, his contract would go down. How- ever, if he could And West with the blank ace of spades or the ace and one spade, he thought he had chance to make the contract without the finesse-
ace of diamonds He cashed the and ruffed the five of diamonds in dummy, fed back the five of hearts and won in his own hand with the queen,
At this point I told Warren that the hand reminded me of one of the questions Parks had asked when we were on the Vox Pop" programme Her had wanted to know what poker hand is often called with the seven-spot. He had to try) "The Washington Monument." to get West to make a mistake, The answer is threa
fives, because
White, 13
pieces.
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He led the Ave of spades, and sure enough, West. did make the mistake of not going up with the ace, so dummy won the trick with the eight-
n spade was led from duramy, Warren put on the jack and West had to win. He had no more hearts. If he led a diamond, Warren would get a sluff and a ruff. He led
the monument is 335 feet tall, and
were playing an im five-spots portant part in this hand.
The six of hearts was won spot. Now dummy with. the king and on the heart
ace Warren discarded, the Ave of clubs. He led back the seven of hearts, trumped it in his own hand, and then came the all important play, a club, which, of course was right
If he had led the king of spades, into the tenace position and gave West could have won it and got out
Warren the contract.
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EXCLUSİVE 'TELEGRAPH' FEATURE
YOUR BIRTHDAY.
POCKET CARTOON
By
STELLA
of art. You enjoy travelling and will probably vizit many fer places. Interested in the greult sciences, you probably would find the Orient of deep interest.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 |Bo
PORN today, you may become a tremendous power in the world and whether it is for good or ill depends almost entirely upon you and the ideals to which you hold. The stars have been exceptionally kind in bestowing talents upon you. Your magnetic personality draws people to your standard, and once you have made up your mind on an issue. you are not one to change your point of view. You will make a lifetime-enemy rather than con- cede. Unless you are always in n position to give directions to others, you may find this a hardship.
You have good judgment, but are Inclined fo he hot-tempered at times and to show your Impatience with those, who are not as alert mentally
You as you are.
вау exactly what you think,
Being exceptionally fond of beauty and with an excellent colour sense, you should use this gift in the fold
You will do your best mrad{ive" work when in harmonious, sur-
Ond yourself roundings. If you
unang people who continually are rubbing you the wrong way, make a real effort to change your en vironment. vi
To be completely happy, wed al an early age, for your love nature is strongly marked and you will be happiest if surrounded by your own family who love and understand you as no one else can.
To find what: the stars have in for tomorrow, select your store birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth day star be your daily guide.
: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
In
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)~}{ SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)--II entertaining today, you should be contemplating a journey by water, especially successful Romance this could be a good day for be-
affairs may also hand you a very pleasant ginning it. Shipping murprise. Be on the lookout for it. commerco are also favoured,
22) SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
GEMINI (May 22-June 23-Dec.
doubtful. suspicious or 22)-Go to any extreme to avoid a Don't be
positive attitude and all quarrel today. Be diplomatic and Take a
out even nide-step acting on matters of im- should turn
better than portance.
anticipated.
CANCER (June 23-July 23) Protect your health. It is a better day for retrenchment than for ex-
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)- Minor difficulties should not be per-
lent day for both social and artis- Be cautious. tic pursuits.
mitted to mar an otherwise excel- pansion. Safeguard all your assets.
LEO (July 24-Aug- 23)-Take
in dealing with elderly per AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)— care Be patient and wierant of everyone sort. If a paper needs signing, today and you can easily avold un- postpone it. New plans, too,
walt for a while. necessary sorrow. Be optimistic.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)—A fair day for normal activities, but don't start a new project until later Merchandising can be all right.
ARIES
con
LYNCH-
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
THE collection of athletes" TH
breath
in little pigskin bugs, to which I referred yes. terday, is to be carried a step further. Each runner will have one of the bags attached to his mouth, and will be accompanied by a chemist on horseback. Each horse will be tested in a similar manner, and it is hoped that the analysis of human and animal breath will enable Science to determine the difference between horses and mea and to explain why a horse can run
faster than a man
1
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
Almost Nothing For Reparations
New York, Nov. 1-Wartime destruction of Japan and Germany was so complete that almost nothing worthwhile is left for the Allies to take as reparations, according to Cliffords Strike, president of the construction firm of F. H; McGraw and Co.
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Strike and his engineering
LATE RALLY associates have made postwar
IN RUBBER
FUTURES
surveys of German and Japan- ese industries in connection with reparations questions.
New York, Nov. 1.-Rubber fuiarty-potent disagregnenia-on
and
mis-
He told the University of Bilinols Alumni Association today: "I cannot sco how it is possible for Japan, Germany or any nation which has fought and lost a total war to have anything left for reparations."
related the different inter today rallied feebly at-the close of the session due to technical
"Strictly and added pre-holiday covering, but demand reparations was discouragingly fint. Standard from an engineer's standpoint, a lot
talk is rubber closed 30 to 35 points lower, of this reparations with sales totalling 50 contracts. No. Kulded anyway. You cannot lear & rubber closed 60 to 60 points lower, steel mill apart, crate it up and with sales totalling 95 contracts. move it 2,000 miles and expect to The ensiness In the London have anything very good. Machine tools enn be moved, but if you and market
falling deepening the dismantle a blast furnace you find factory demand is
yourself with
a pile of materials bearish sentiment.
cost of Buyers are expected to maintain which are not
elsewhere." their position on the sidelines in freight and
Strike said it of the fact that production is
appeared certain and Yalla, Roose- Government is supplying the needs velt and Churchill "I advisedly" of industry through
the resale of yielded to Stalin's demand for $10,000,000,000 in German repara~ low grades.
Some observers are of the opinion tions, despite lack of proof thereof. yot come that, unless domestic demand picks lie added "nobody has up. the Singapore market will find forth with any way to show dimculty in holding a premium over that promise can be kept."-
the
oft
In
the worth
reassembling
***ing consumption and that the that at Teheran
the domestle basis.
Prices closed as follows:- Standard Contract Rubber.
November (in cents per lb.) 20.00 nominal
December
January (1949)
(See Profersar Panirel's "How Much Does A Horse
in the Current
Tile
February
March
Apell
May
June
July
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)-Mo-Breathe?" deration сать bring
better Peggers' Argus.) you
An- may have ticipated. Make social and business The drink situation gains now.
Buccess
than you
can'
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)--Rest- (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)—Ex-
and hasle perience will help you to make a lessness
cause ahead proДt now if you have planned considerable trouble, 50 go things well. Push
to slowly and think before speaking your plans completion.
or acting.
SCIENCE AT WORK:
LIGHT
ON
A DANGEROUS
DISEASE CARRIER
By PAUL F. ELLIS
worry that their ancestors may have been the THE spider need not
he'll have stomach ulcers such as "ruling class"" in the world 500,000, plague many a man.
000 years ago.
The spider digests most of his food before eating it. That's why he can devour backbone animals, such as
ilznods and fish, which they hull with their poison fanga.
Such new information on the spider comes from R. E. Snodgrass, of the U.S. Department of Agri- culture, in a report Issued by the Smithsonian Institution. His report is 30 exhaustive description of 'the feeding organs of an insect
group, including spiders, mites and
ticks.
Spiders and ticks, the, report says, must live on a liquid diet. In the
feeding of spiders, digestion outside
AS Foulenough and his host sat in the library, Lord Shortcake savi, after clearing his throat noisily: "Er, by the way, Lady Shortcake and I were wondering if this business of tutoring young Mortimer could be-cr-settled."
that
Recollecting
be had been in the house a week, Foulenough wondered how the supplies of drink were holding out.
August
September
October
20.50 traded
20.40 nominal
20.38
20.30/1 traded
2025 nominai
20.30
Press,
how
"--United
HONGKONG SHARES
There was n elacking off in activity
on the Stock Exchange this morning.
prices
The turnover amounted to $138,350.
Transactions and noon follow:-
BITAILES
20.52 nominal | GOVT. LOANS
BUYERS GELLERS SALES
31948) ...
HK Bank ... 1000
DANKS
INSURANCES
Canton
Union
101
20.15
20.10
EN
20.05
20.00
"
10.05
November
10.00
*
December
19.85
January (1050)
10.00
No. Contract Itubber.
March (1040)
2055 bid
April
May
20.50 bid
Junio
20.40 nominal
July
20.30
August
2020
20.10
970
October
20.03
755
November
20.00
0.20 400 0
December
10.95
54
Jamiary (1950)
10.00
Waterbont
371
200 3715
-United Press.
DOCKS, ETC.
K. Wharf (0)
140
Dock
20% 201
Provident
2231
S'hal Dock
LAND, ETC.
13-1/4
HK Hotel
12-3/16
12-1/10
United Press.
September
LONDON FUTURES
London, Nov. 1-Rubber futures in this market today closed a follow October/December.
in pence per lb.)
January/March
April/June
He therefore replied, as though any discussion of a business nature was rather distasteful to him, "Yes. Oh, yes,
Of course. By the way, this is first-rate sherry. Have you BARTER AGREEMENT much of it?" "Very little loft," re-
Batavia, Nov. 1-A trade com- plied: Shortcake. "Very littic of
mission from China has begun work anything
Whisky nearly here on a barter agreement for ex- Onished,"
changing Chinese textiles for Indies rubber. Foulenough nodded gravely. I don't think that boy Mortimer takes
left.
A nine-man commission, the first since the of its kind from China war, is expected to complete
Underwriters
SHIPPING
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(fo) UTILITIES
Tram
Star Ferry
C. Light (0)
100 2015
18.20 1000 # 15.30
120 de 75
600 6 8.60
7%
150 T
21.70
135 136 100 13
100 13312
24.40
C. Light (N)
paid-up Electric
2219
30 40
500 40
50
40
200 39%
or-
to
day's
rangements, which were begun with INDUSTRIALS
Cement the Commercial Counsellor to the
Rope Netherlands Embassy in Nanking---- | STORES, ETC. Associated Press.
Telephone....
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413%
20,20
Watson 10119
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'300 2
Watson (N)
COTTONS
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the body plays an important part. me much," he said, "Hardly the Snodgrass reports that a powerful job for me, perhapa" digestive fluid from the stomach is The "perhaps" was intended discharged on the prey and liquefies reserve the right to another the soft tissues.
drinking.
The report points out that one type of African spider con liquefy fish two inches long almost completely in less than three hours. Another large *****spider in captivity has been observed to devour small andkes in the same
Small With Legs Snodgrass also found that leka smell with their front legs, and that the tick of today as well as the spider hos changed little since the days
Radio Hongkong
#KT
d. Programme Summary: 6.01, Children's Buy: "Shoe for Queen" A Fairy Tale by Grium (BBCTS); 6.23, Drinking Songs; 0.40, Pele Valderrama at the Pleno
(Studio); 7. World and Home News London Relay): 3.13. "See Tee"
Prevented by Alleen Woods (Studio); B. "From the Editorials" (Londen Relay): 4.10, University Programme: Medicine No 5: A Specialist Surgeon" by Profes sor. Jefferson (BBCTS); 8.30, B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra: 0.15, A Short Story: "The Amateur Alchemlat“ Written and Read by Jack Shepherd (Studio);
Talks on Spart Studio): 720. "Memories"
way.
"Noses" On Logs Snodgrass reports that some ticics have their "noses" on their front legs.
moist,
Bishop and actress
LIKE the story about Gaby. Deslys. In Sir Osbert Sitwell's auto- biography, When she was dancing
LONDON STOCK
--EXCHANGE-
London, Nov.
1.-Shareholders
114פי 9 000
300 @ 1035
N.Y. FOREIGN
EXCHANGE
New York, Nov. 1. Argentine Peso (Melali, US$0.2017 Argentine Pexa (Unofficial) Australia Brazil Canada Chile England France
Belgium
at the Palace Theatre, before the clung tight to stocks of British stee! of 1014-18 war a bishop complained of companies today in the face her indecent costume. When told strong buyer demands for shares in and of this she said, "I love your bishops, the best known of 107 iron but they show los much leg." steel firms which the British Go-
vernment intends to nationalise. The fact that Barrie once wroto Prices moved very narrowly, how- a revue for Gaby Deslys has always ever, st. levels alightly below those
will seemed to me a bit of literary history the Government pay for the worth remembering. But I have shares when and if it buys out the never believed the tale that Henry steel Arms. The Government com- James wrote tong for. Lottie pensation prices are to be computed India
Oxford from Stock Exchange -prices at Mexico
New Zealand previously selected dates.
Peru Most shares were marked Up Portugal silghtly by Jobbers at the opening South Afrien today after Q week-end which Sweden
Switzerland showed what the Government take- Uruguay over payments
bc.-AS- | Venezuela sociated Press.
When the legs are ampatated, the studies show, the tick gives no reaction to odours. It cannot smell blood but will feed on almost any kind of liquid through a warm membrance like skin.
Presumably, according to Snod-Collins to sing at the old Grass, a tek in nature recognises an Music Hall. animal as the proper source for its food by a sense of smell, while a combination of warmth and mois- ture from the skin given a stimulus for feeding.
The tick is a blood-sucking animal and is a dangerous disease carrier.
0.30, Elements of the Orchestra" That is why science is interested in
Talk by the Rev. Fr. T. F. Ryan, S.:
No
: Trombone and Tuba” (Studio)!.
finding out about its feeding habits 10, Rado News Reel London Relay); Perhaps the day will come when man 10.15. Erle Barker in "Waterlogged Spa" can make himself unpalatable to (London Relay): 1045, Variety as the ticks. "Moulin' Rouge: 11.13, Weather Report |
and Close Down.
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Answers
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1. Gypsy Moth. 2, An electric de- vice for detecting the presence objects ahead. 3. Norbert Schultze, German. 4. New Guinea. 5. Copper and tin, G. Small quantly of Bavour- Ing, quality, etc.
would
ARGENTINE PAYMENTS Lontiun, Nov. 1-The Central Argen tine Railway today distributed 11,137.- 605 tu holders of preference, ordinary, and deferred stocks.
This was the second largest distribu- tion of compensation money to shares holders of the former British-owned rallways in Argentina.
Out of the amount of £42,000,000 un to the stockholders of the various com pantes, a folat of 10,040,000 has been distributed-Unlled PrEKL.
Coconut Oil Exports
To Hongkong
Singapore, Nov. 24-Singapore ex- ported just under 70 tons of coconut oll to Hongkong in Septem- ber, the Registrar of Stallsties an- nounced.
Shanghal
Netherlands
Batavie Singapore
Kongkonk
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4730
2400
United Press.
POUND, NOTE
New York, Nov, 1-The British pound nnte was quoted in the unomictal market here today at US$1.77-United Press,
CHINA PRODUCE
QUOTATIONS
New York, Nov. 1.. Aniseed oll, per 18. F.0.8.
New York *******... US$0.00/02 Casale ail, per lb. F.O.D.
New York lat AFor Agar, per lb. F.0.0.
New York Sandalwood. In drunk. depending on quantly
quality
Sep-ungoll, in tank cars.
The Federation of Malaya pro- duced 10,403 tons of copra in tember-Associated Press.
I
FUD, New York, por... ib,
Berylum (10 to 13 per
ent porton ** Molybdenum, (90 percent)
per lb.
BRISTLES
2.00/2.00
3.15/3.25
1300 nom.
a31-15 nom,
24.00/20.00
0.45 -United Press.
STEADY UNDERTONE New York, Nov. 1.-The copra market continued dull today but the undertone was more steady, The price was around US$200 a short
Bristles, were quoted "FOB New York ton, CIF, Pacific Coast, on the basis persib, a follow; k of a reported bid of US$275 CIF, askow, regular amort- Atlantic Coast, with sellers asking Chungking regular asort US$200.
...monis
mejis
ments
The coconut oil market remained Banghat regular assort unchanged at 23% cents a pound. Tientsin, 20' shorts nominal United Press,
Exchange Rates
Business was done in the local inte dficial exchange market this mornin
at the following rates:
Tientsin”, 20% regular
US$450 nominat
2.89
2.00
0.50
1000/11.00 -United Press.
Silver Prices
London, Nov. 1. 13.00 Silver, Spot, per aunce 45-1/2 4. Silver, Forward, per ounce 24, 49-1/2 d. NEW YORK SILVER
Sterling pound note (per £11
US dollar (per #1).
8.23
Gold bars (per fæel)
300.00
FIC basifor (per 100)
10.15
13.60
$5,00
zēšudna pipe
Blam tiesia (per 100). NEI guilders ((per 100) Gold Yuan
New York; Nov;~ 1-Silvar," par "fine sunce, as quoted -by. Messrs. Händy and Harmony. 76-3/4, ceritamUnited PreOS.
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