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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1948.

FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS

MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE

Not Finessing Wins Game, Rubber Here

DY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

RTIE DUNN, Morty Neving and ♫AL Nevins, known to

music lovers as The Three Suns, dropped In the other day.

Morty told a few stories, in- cluding the one about Lito cord player who Joined Alcoholics Anonymous and was ofrald he might be expelled when he took up the game called gin.

After a

game of Kalabriasz with Morty, we decided to play bridge. I played with Arife, who is con sidered a very good pinochle player. His pinochle experience gave LIS game and rubber on today's hand.

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cards without wasting time taking finesses. So Artle did not make the mistake of going over to dummy with a spade to take a heart finesse, which would have lost. If he had done so, he might have tried going back to dummy and taking another heart finesse. Artie simply laid down the ace and queen of hearts. Morty won the queen with the king and now there was no return he could make that would prevent Artle from making nine tricks.

DUMB-BELLS

A LITTLE- BOY LOST! WHAT DOES HE LOOK. LIKE?

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OH, HS IS THE IMAGE OF HIS FATHER

Check Your Knowledge

1. Name the ocean that complete- ly encircles the earth,

2. Where was George Bernard Shaw born?

3.

fur.

AROUND THE WORLD:

Delphi: City of the Oracle

By TEMPLE MANNING

A LETTER

from a member of the American mission in Greece giver a vivid account of a wonderful day spent at Delphi. It led us to retrace in retrospect the 150 miles between. Athens and Delphi-a won- derful run, filled with history and Interest, every mile of it. In ancient times the road was covered horseback or by charlot. They went up from the Gulf of Corinth on foot, for charlots could not climb, the steep mountain to Delphi.

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The city of the oracle is situated on the Elope of Mount Parnassus, high, very high, but with the moun- tain rising above it for another mite There is a good motor rond up to Kaatri, a town. Delphi.

or more.

Magnificant View

nour

The view from Delphi is magni- fcent, with the Gulf of Corinth more than 2,000 feet below and the ter- rain dropping In terraces until it is lost in the water, To the left, in Which is the most expensive the valley, are olive tree groves, and everywhere are the excavated re- principal

theatres and mains, the temples, paved streets of this wonderful old city. The ruins cover hundreds of peres and are backed by gigantle pink and gray cliffs that rise straight

opera

4. Name the house in London.

5. What rond is called Vin Dolo- rosa?

6. From what breeds of dogs was the bulldog developed?

{Answers on Column 5)

upward for thousands of feet.

Even those that generally clasalty all ruins as bils and pieces unworthy

BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE

Willy Toad Found an Acorn

-And He Didn't Know What to Do With Items By MAX TRELL'

WILLY the Toad was hopping

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along under the oak tree when

all at once he stumbled against something. Looking down at his feet, he saw he had stumbled against a small brown object with a little cap on it.

"Ah!" he said to himself, “An acorn!"

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Willy looked around to see if it belonged to anyone. But no one was around except the oak tree. "I don't suppose it wants this acorn more. Its branches are full of them. I'll just take It with me. It's a preity he continued as he hopped along with it. "I wonder what I could use it for."

He led a diamond and when Alittle acorn," put on the queen, Artie won with the ace and led the three of hearts, thus establishing dummy's ten for

the ninth trick.

Now i have a plnochle challenge match on my hands. If Artic plays pinochle as well as he plays the orgah, I may not do well.

CHESS PROBLEM

By L. and E. BETTMANN Black, 5 pieces.

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Willy thought and thought, as ho hopped and hopped but by the time he reached the end of the field, he still hadn't thought of what he could do with the acorn he found.

Mot a Cricket

Just then, he met u cricket. "Cricket," Willy said, "I've just found this pretty little acorn. What can I do with it?"

"You could make a pipe out of it,” replied the cricket. "Hollow out the inside with a knife.-Then make-a hold at the tide near the bottom, stick a straw in it-and there you have a pipe!"

"That's all very well," said Willy. "A pipe is a wonderful thing to have. But Toads like me don't smoko pipes.”

With that Willy hopped off agala. A few hops further, he met a robin. "Robin," said Willy, "I've just found this acorn Cricket said I should make a pipe out of it. But Toads like

Rupert and Margot--21

After a while the hillade gets less wobbly and, as the shaking dies Away, Rupert climb out of his hollow tree and hurries up the hill. As he reaches the overhanging chill he atope and starea in amazement. None of the rocks have fallen, but the little painted house has vinished! He starts forward and looks at the marks in the grass Where it had stood.

"Mirgot, Margot," he shouts, "Where have-

What's happened to you got to? the house?" Then he agen interitly.

STÄLL NIGHTS ZKERRVED,

RED RYDER

TRIBE HAS FURS READY

TO TRADE FOR MEDICINE. AGAINST EYL COTOTE SPELL, DOC COLD/

17-10-

Willy Toad found a acorn.

me don't smoke pipes. What else can I do with it?"

"You could make a beautiful hat out of it," said the Robin. "All you have to do is hollow it out and put it on your head. If you make a lite hole near the top, I'll give you a feather to stick in it."

Then Will hopped on again. The next minute he met a chipmunk. "Flatten off the top," said the Chip munk. "and stick the point in the ground, and you'll have a wonderful stool to sit on."

Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber THE raising of the Federal

Reserve Bank rato from 11⁄4 to 28 percent means that the American banks will be able to replenish their contingency ac- counts without paying any attention to central credit con- trol.

FOR THE BUSINESSMAN

U.S. Bolstering Of Jap Economy Seen Against China Crisis

If the

Chinese

towards

Washington, Dec. 18 The Intest United States move to strengthen the Japanese economy is highlighted against the background of the China crisis. A State and War De- partment spokesman today flatly denied any connection whatever between China events and the directive instruct- ing MacArthur to carry out an economic stabilisation_pro-- gramme. However, anything occurring in the Far East, A corresponding rise In bond

especially anything which might have such vital effects prices will have An effect on

as the unilateral directive announced on Friday, naturally Marshall aid by forcing us to drow

instead on our Interest bills

of Is thought to be related to the entire Far Eastern picture. pooling them nt the normal discount fevgl. One not very satisfactory

Informed sources here view | They added that

Communists follow the policy of reply would be to freeze the Na-the stabilisation programme as

orienting their economy tional Debl.

one more effort on the part of Siberia or other Soviet-dominated the United States to strengthen areas, rather than with China's Strabismus

Japan, not only for the sake of traditional outlets, the effects will drain on the be felt more widely than in Japan. alleviating the

They said, however, that if the United States' own economy, Communists gain control of the but for other. far-reaching Yangtse valley, they might find it reasons.

necessary for their own sake to do business with the outside world. Informed quarters sald, that the Whatever trade they carried on Commust sweep southwards in would have to be on a barier basis

Communists' China is bound to have an economic because the

victory the inheriting of a impact on the Japanese--one example would mean

bankrupt state. was coking coal from Manchuria. They sold

Reports from London and Shang- that, despite China's

hat indicate that British and Amo- naturally

hostility understood

rican businessmen will sit it out in to Japan, there was a good chance China's coastal trading cities in the of developing trade between the hope of continuing business. thus helping their mutual economies.

Meanwhile, there increasing just speculation in Washington da to Informed quarters said that

strategic

In Importance one example of what Japan vitally Japan's needed and might have obtained view of the changing picture on Lt-Gen through the good offices of the occu- the Asintle mainland. As patlon powers was coking coal from Robert L. Eichelberger fold the Manchuria, but there was little like United Press this week: "When we Ilhood of obtaining any now and the defeated Japan, we removed the United States must now supply this. balance of power in Asia."

Elchberiger urged the "Imperative necessity" of establishing

a well- armed

Japanese-manned con- stabulary of up to 150;000 men. Es Bald that such a force was necessary for reasoria of Japan's internal

CHINESE WISH

DR STRABISMUS (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht thinks that of even a first look, are amazed at it may be easier to land on the far the sight before

them. It Is side of the moon than on its near On his next attempt in a stupendous, worth coming half way side. round the world to visit. Few rocket-ship, ho will try to go right people remain unmoved by the climb round the moon and come in at the up the Sacra Via to the Temple of back, thus taking advantage of the Apollo, or what remains of it. The gravitational pull which is lacking

it Sacra Via is a flagstone stairway

you

come in at the front. lined with broken columns, bits of rockset-ship is being slowly built at atatues, and the beautiful carvings Waggling Parva under conditions of of a civilisation of twenty-five hun- such secrecy that the workmen have dred years ago.

no idea what they are doing, and the overseera and foremen uro

formulae given meaningless

and

Stone Blocks

DEAR Sir,

-The

The Temple of Apollo, under the prints, in order to mislead them. floor of which the oracle is supposed The tomato controversy to have held forth, Is ail gone now, save for some columns and the great stone blocks that made the founda-Your correspondent Miss Legros tion. Fifteen huge columna support- ed the great roof of the building, in seems to forget that if there is no televised which there was a great egg-shaped dummy tomato and a televised real

resemblance. between stone that supposedly marked the

On this stone tomato it would be absurd to put a centra of the world. the two eagles that Zeus had caused stalk on the dummy, apart from the to fly from the opposite ends of the uselessness of using the real tomato if it cannot be mistaken for the earth, met and roosted together, or

says mythology!

dummy. And the same holds true of the opposite case.

Above the

Mount temple, on Parnassus, are the remains of 'a great theatre, and higher still aro the remains of the stadium where ancient games were held. Tha theatre, an open-air hall of limestone slabs, with seats of stone, was in

for

existence two thousand years ago,

Yrs truly,

Jameson Lethwidge.

CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers

that was when distinguished Athenians gave money for restora- around tion work on it. The acoustics nice just about perfect, as many sound engineers have

stated. Like the great staðlum, it must have been a terrific spectacle when in use.

(Tontorrow Science At Work)

of

SOFT COAL RESEARCH

security.

Is

These developments-Eichelber- ger's words, the economie stabilisa- tion programme, and the SCAR

PROGRAMME budget mission, which is now draft-

soft coal as a new

*Climaxing two years of extensive coal. research, the world's biggest

biggest company. and the world's

began joint petroleum producer operation of a $500,000 pilot plant for full-scale production testa in the now field.

they

ing financial requests,for the re- habilitation programme-all point to Pittsburgh, 19-Industry's experi-what is felt here as a need, for more than one reason, to strengthen with 1. The Arctic Ocean which extends ments the earth north of the

source of commerical gases and Japan.

Chinese sources said that flquid fuel took an important step wish that similar concern was being Arctic Circle. 2: Dublin, Ireland. 3. Chinchilla.

Covent Garden forward today.

shown on behalf of China, Madama Theatre. 5. The rond lending from Golgotha,

Chiang Kai-shek has completed her, the Mount of Olives to

second week in the United States, which Jesus traversed on His way to

apparently without having decom- His crucifixion. 0. From the British

plisted her mission. There were mastiff and the Largo pug southeastern Asia.

some speculations, however, which favourably Interpreted Under Secre-

of State Lovett's tary of

press ference utterances that the United States-China policy remains up- Speculation was to the changed." effect that Lovett's words might have been a "token indication that, although the United States is re luctant to send more aid to Chlang Kai-shek, it had not "written of the Nationalist Governpient lost cause.-United Press.

YOUR BIRTHDAY ·

MONDAY, DECEMBER 20

Knowledge gained from the pliot

By STELLA Plani will form the planning basis for a multi-million dollar com- mercial plant for the production of gas, gasoline, chemicals and other potential by-products of biluminous

Bon

DOBN today, a naturni versatility dislike showing them. However, may become mislabelled "In when they do break out, they are "That's all very well," said Willy, stability" by those who do not a hundred times more forceful and "only Toads like me don't wear

thoroughly understand your Lem- astonlah even yourself by their hats."

perament. Quite frankly, you do power. You are inherently patient always understand your own and it takes a lot of piling up of not motivations. Highly sensitive to the opposition to make you break out. critical-reaction-of-outsiders,-you-But once the storm-does-burst, dislike showing it and will cultivate your self-confidence, powerful will a blustering bravado to cover up. and aggressive constructiveness

assert themselves. Although highly co-operative at

to go out You may have difficulty in finding heart, you are, not one looking for someone with whom to a marriage partner unless you ex- co-operate. You will go your lone press your true nature without re- way until someone makes a request pressions. and will get the reputation for being either egocentric or too individualis-

But Willy shook his head, saying, Toads like me don't sit on stools

Willy was just about to give up trying to think what he could do with the pretty little acorn, when along came Knart, he shadow-boy with the turned-around name. Willy immediately asked him the same question

An Oak Trea

Knark smiled, "You can make an oak tree out of it.”

"An oak tree" exclaimed Willy. "You mean a great big oak tree, with spreading "branches-just like the one at the foot of the hill where I found this acorn?".

"Yes," said Krárf

Why," said Willy, joyfully, "I'd love to have an oak tree. Could I have it right here-right where I'm standing?"

·

"Indeed, you can," said Knarf,

"How do I go about it?" asked Willy.

"Just dig a little hole," sald Knarf, "and drop the acorn in. And if you walt-long enough, you'll 'sure- ly have a beautiful big oak tree with wide spreading- branches right on this very spot"

And that's what Willy did. And Knarf, of course, was right. For acorns make the best oak trees of prything in the world. In fact, they're the only things that oak trees can be made of.

IVE HAD A BOTTLE OF DOC'S MEDICINE EXAMINED.

BY THE RIMROCK DOCTOR,

CHIEF BRDFEATHER AND IT'S NO GOODÍ JA

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To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres Your emotions actually, are near ponding paragraph. Let your birth- the surface, but here again you day stor be your daily guide.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-Be 22)-Good for travel and business, careful of all detall work. During but avoid any possible argument the morning, some new job op- with members of the opposite sex. portunity may open up for

Grasp It..

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)-- A romantic day for you, perhops combined with a short trip. Employees may anticipate recognition for past work.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10) Not a time-wasting day. This is a moment to tako full advantage of all opportunities offered to you.

you.

CANCER (June 23-July 23) Moderation in love and romance is now indicated. When it comes to new business ventures, be cautious.

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)—Personal affairs may loom very important Don't let them conflict with other matters. Keep your own counsel. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)---Bust- -PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)—Good ́ for expansion and business progress, nesa expansion is indicated if you.

are very wise in knowing how to you avoid having ar provided argument with members of the operate properly. Profits in sight opposite sex.

20)-Mer- ARIES (Mar. "22-Apr. chandising appears in a favourable light," so take full advantage of opportunities now offered you."

"TAURUS...... (Apr. 21-May 21)—' Morning hours are the best for all projects. Don't overdo things, how ever. Be moderato in your demands.

The Chief Is Sold

CHIEF BIRDFEATHER WON'T BELIEVE IT, RYDER ?-

HE KNOWS IT CURED: HIM WHEN HE GOT SICK AT THE

BUG FEASTI.

now.

LIBRA (Sept, 23-Oct, 23)—AJI employees are especially favoured particularly if in transportation or public business. Act accordingly.

all

coal.

Some 40 executives of transpor tation, power and mining companies and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers' Union, were among those present for the formul opening of the pilot plant at Library, Pennsylvania, about.12 miles south of here.

Executives described the research programme as threefold; availability as a defence weapon in the event of a national emergency, establish ment of new markets for coal, and creation of a supplementary store

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EXPORTS OF COCONUT OIL

AND COPRA

Washington, Dec. 18-The De- of synthetic fuels in case of a declinepartment of Agriculture bulletin, In present petroleum supplies. "Foreign. Crops and Markets," sald

that Philippines copra exports of 58,748 long, tons during November

But how long it will be before construction of a commercial plant constituted can be contemplated or how great its capacity might be, are among the questions that the 130-men research division is still unable to answer.- United Press.

HONGKONG SHARES

The turnover on the Stock EX change this morning totalled $211

Transactions and noon prices 500.

were:

BRAKER. BANKS

HK Bank: INSURANCES

Union

DOCKS, ETC

BUYERS SELLERS SALES

K. Whart (0) . Provient

LAND, ETC. HK Hotel Humphreys

Humphreys (RU) UTILITIES

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the largest monthly shipment since February, It said. however, that coconut oil exports dropped to 3,431 tone in November, compared with 8,033 tons October..

It recalled that during September, a new crushing plant began opera- tion

in Manila, and said: "When copra supplies become. mone abundant and prices stabilised, it is expected that this new pinnt" will furnish

quantities of

signport»

coconut oil for

said that Netherlands Indles coprn exports, in November werd 25,461 long tons, à substantial in-, crease over the comparatively small quantities shipped in October, January

The

to November exports from that area now total 221;768 tons, or 48 percent more than the

1850uantity-shipped in 1047. ****, entre 1830 lands Indles copra exports for De

cember are estimated at 17,300 tons The bulletin said that the Stamese rice crop for 1048 shad been est- bushels, or mated at 250,000,000 nearly a record. The exportable surplus for shipment from the crop in 1940 is estimated at 2.750,000,000 pounds, compared with 1.700,000,000 pounds in 1018-United Press.

20 800 1954 13.70 14.10 3000 ₺ 13.00

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10.70

13.30 13.70

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-A ticipate excellent results from efforts expended at this time. Know C Light (H) 016 6.40 what you want, and ask for it...

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Seeds And Oils,

New York, Dec. 10.

Castor Send, per long ton.

YOB. Brazil - US$125 nom. Colton Sead per long tona?

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Flax Brod per bushes.

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New York

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POUND NOTE HIGHER

New York, Dec. 18-The British pound noto was quoted in the unofficial - mar- kest here today at US$3.30-United Press,

ZURICH RATES

Zurich, Dec. 16-The following ax change rates were quoted in the · UDH official market here today:

V.B. Dollar, 3.96 Swells - franci, Sterling, 12.00 Swiss francs, Argentine Peso, 0,48% Swiss francs- United Press,

Exchange Rates

Business was done in the local un official, exchangeferħarket, this morning. at the following twice), 232. Sterling pound note. (per

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