1949-01-06 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1949.

FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS

•MCKENNEY

ON BRIDGE

Usual Play Will Meet Defeat Here

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By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

WHILE in Chicago I

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hind pleasure of meeting Mardon, the maglolan, and a charming wife. I like tricks and do not mind being fooled by them, but these two had a otunt that I never will be able to fathom.

shuffled n deck, dealt myself 13 corda and sorted them out. Mrn Mardoni. blindfolded, slowly

carefully name every eurd in my hand. It is true that Mordani stood behind me, but I assure you he did not say enough to indleate to her the cords that I held.

Do I think there "wan trick in 1t7 Yes, I do, but I admit that it' was as amazing to me as the cle- phant that Hourlini produced on the stage when I was a yuungater.

Later Mardont

around the went room, pointing to a te, a necklace, and other articles and Mrs Mardoni named them. Si blindfolded, she

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Of course, we played a few hurts of bridge, and my magician friend played this one as if he were looking

ut all of the enrds. He won the opening tend of the queen of clubs with the king and led the five of (linmonde.

West played the seven-spot, and I am sure that most bridge players would make the mistake of winning this trick in dummy with the queen of diamonds. Then they would lose the contract. Mardoni played the deuce and let West hold the trick.

Now, regardless of what West and East did, Mardont was sure to inke 1lve diamond tricks, two hearts and Iwo clubs.

CHESS PROBLEM

By A. K. ELWORTHY

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Check Your Knowledge

RECORDED music:

THE

OF

COLUMBIA

has

FIRST SYMPHONY DARIUS MILHAUD

By DELOS SMITH

given Darius (Massachusetts) musle shed during

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

CORRESPONDENT

AND

rc-

Millinud's First Symphony the the Berkshire music festivals is the

is not perinnency of a fine recording. It Brandenburg No. 6, the longest of Is one of unquestionable authority, the concertou and certainly one of always sure whether some of fantastic ovents and because it has the composer himself the most appealing, it only for its the more conducting the Columbin Broadcast concertino for two violas.

sayings reported in this columu ing Symphony Orchestra (four 12-

The Boston Symphony under are inventions or not. I., b.).

Serge

Koussevitzky rarely hau Bounded

and A good guiding rule la to, suppose records, particularly noteworthy is the per-that the wildest and most outrageous formance of the violists, Joseph do things related here are the truth. Pasquale and Jean M. Cauhape. Milder versions of similar occur-

Commissioned by the Chlengo Symphony for its 10th anniversay Milhaud composed the work in the last months of 1939-diMcult months emotionally for nny Frenchman. what with a new war getting under way. Yet the travail is not reflected in the score, which is predominantly pastoral in mood, as though through it the composer escaped neiuality,

He is a bold artist, however, and 1. What do you menu by the he speaks out boldly, in his own Idiom "to cross the Rubicon".

voice. That you can cay First Symphony with complete con- Adence. You can't say it is a muster work in the form or suggest it will beenme ns everlasting part of the did repertoire. It is improvisional and

often tentative.

2.

Where is Cape Sable.

3.

What is a mascot?

4.

From what fiction Beethoven suffer?

6. What country controls Macin- Coscur?

d. What is siliensis?

(Annivers on Column 4)

Tanglewood Bach

of his

Fifth in the series of Bach con- certos recorded in the Tanglewood.

ND GIRLS MAGAZINE

King Nep Had Had Complaints

-Not Everyone Liked the Brook Frozen-

By MAX TRELL

AS Knart and Hanid, the shadow-

children with the furned-about names, were near the brook, they heard the sound of cracking lee. Á few minutes Inter, they came on tho thy figure of their friend King Nep Clony, long ago, he was known as

King Neptune), standing at the edge of the frozen brook and break- ing the lee with sharp thrusts of his trident. His trident was sharp like

pitch fork, with three sharp points. King Nep was wrapped in a great many warm clothes, with a huge thick green muffler around his neck.

On seeing Knarf and Hanid, he stopped cracking the lee and gave thein

a pleasant good-morning. "Why are you cracking the lee?" Hanid asked him.

boulder

and

"Well," said King Nep, leaning his trident against clapping his hands together to keep them warm, "It isn't that I mind the brook being frozen but I've had some complaints."

Easier to Cross

Knart and Honid were surprised to hear this. "Why," said Knart, "I thought everyone liked the brook to be frozen. It makes it easier to cross and the children can go fee- skating on 11”

"Who's been complaining?" asked Hanld.

"The_ducks_and the geese," said King Nep. They came waddling down here a little while ago and sel up a great cackling when they found there was no place to paddle in. They don't cure for ice at all.

Then there are the ash. They're not the least bit happy to be in a frozen brook.'

"Yes," agreed Hamid, "It must be quite cold for them."

1-17-

King Nep was breaking the ice with his trident.

they're about to take a map, glòng comes a rabbit, or a chipmunk, or a squirrel, or even a child, and goes scampering across the roof of ice, making more noise than the beating of drums.

"Besides," he added, "the brook's not really a brook unless it's run. ning A frozen brook is no better than a slippery path. I have no use for it at all."

"But it's going to be frozen all winter lang," said Knart.

better on

Koussevitzicy's views ол

how nach should be performed are most denile, even to the point of being arbitrary. Whatever may be the opposing opinion, he gives the score the ring of ita utter majesty. (RCA Victor; three 12-in, alb.)

Notable Singles

:

rences or pronouncements are my to keep paco own feeble nttempt with the jet-propelled lunacy of life today, when even folly flies faster than sound. RIDENTEM DICERE VERUM QUID VETAT? Brighter lecturca

R. DARLINGTON, who "pushed

D". his tongue in the form of

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FOR THE BUSINESSMAN

US ECONOMIC surveY:

Experts Wonder How Much Longer U.S. Prosperity Will Last

Another sorica of notable record-.

cylinder and challenged his to the. same" at п ings with a fresh addition is that audience to

in Association meeting of the Metropolitan Opera-Colum- British bla collaboration. It 18 of Hans Brighton, Ling probably start- Sachs' baptism recitative followed ed something new. What lecturer by the noble quintot from the last has not longed to liven things up by

of Wagner's The act

Master-pausing, in the midst of a long pas-

and singto.) singers." (12-in

Herbert Bage on the desiccation of the Ifone; Swedish inices, and crying, "I bet Janssen, baritone, is the

Eva. Polyna Stonka, soprano, the The other singers are Torsten Ralf in his mouth"7

none of you can put his left elbow and John Garris, tenors, and Herta Glaz, contralto. The performance has genuineness--it is an entirely authentic excerpt.

From its complete recording at Verdi's "La Traviata" made by the Rome Opera, Columbia has prean- ed a 12-inch single of the drinking БОГД and of the loo-late-for-love. duet of the third act. The purpose was to make more widely avail- able the striking tenor volce of youthful Lalgi Infantino," and a inost commendable purpose it is. Andriana Guerrini. soprano, sings Violetta against his Alfredo.,

(TomorrowUnusual Angles)

CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers

1. The final decision in an action, originating from Julius Caesar cross- ing the Rubicon on return from Gaul. 2. It is at the tip of Florida and is the southernmost point of the United States. 3. Person, pet or article believed to bring luck. 4. Deafness. 3. France, 6. A disease caused by: inhaling rock dust containing quartz and silica.

Twenty years of uproar

She seemed to falter at the last | high note.

(Music critle). WHAT do you do with a horse

when it refuses the last high Jump? The singer should go back and start again, encouraged by the conductor, who crles in low

and vibrant tones (unheard by the

"Come

203' up. there, my co-o-o-ome up! Chek, chck! dues Easy

it Gently now, my pretty one!" At Salzburg in

1930 Rustiguzzi simply, omitted the high notes. "Those occasional silences,' I wrote in the Rochdale Observer, "were na delightful as they were un- expected. Had she omitted all the notes, peace

reigned might have In that hall of din supreme turmoil."

Sauce for the Gandar

and

Dower

IT is being said in the parrot-house

Dower, that Mr Gandar elected for Calthness at the next General Election, will publicly pledge himself to resign at the end of the next war.

YOUR BIRTHDAY

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6

New York, Jan. 5.-The United States enters 1949 reasonably confident that it can avoid an economic depression in the immediate future, but a little uneasy over how long it can stand the sort of prosperity it has had during the past decade.

The immediate question as the year ended was whether the U.S. had reached the peak of its post- war inflationary cycle. A look at the national figures for December, 1948, would indicate that the peak was here and that a period of stabilisation was im- minent. A few "soft spots" were beginining to show in prices and production.

ten

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years

But a look ahead at the uncer-¡covery programme for Europe and

would tainties of 1949 made some experts China which

cost between worry. There were signs

and that | US$4,500 millions

US$8,000 America was about to become again mililons for the year storting July 1.

Nobody a big scale "arsenal of democracy"

that U.S. pretended while carrying on the economle help economy was even

neartist under way.

basis." For programmes already

"normal Exonvinists were asking how much American steel, oil, food and dollara it would cost to arm friendly nations hnd been pouring Overseas and the US itself against the Soviet policy seemed such that the Soviets.

flow would continue to be heavy. Nobody knew for sure. Some Many Americans were worried estimates of the cost of rearming about the effects of this- prolonged western Europe alone ran as high ex jimbalance. US$5.000 millions. This would be on

The year just ending was a record one for carnings of the minimum of US$15,000 top

of the nation's millions estimated for the U.S. manufacturing industries. One com- armed services In the next fisent pltation of the earnings of some Industrial enterprises showed that At the same time, the Economie net profits for the first three-quar ported to be working on a new re- higher than Co-operation Administration was re-ters of 1048 were about 33 percent during the similor period of 1947. Strongest among these industries were steel, motor, construction, mining and other basic concerns. Thin

with contrasted como "softness" In the. consumer goods held in the face of diminished demand and increased competition. Some experts felt that the durablo goods industries in 1949 faced what the consumer goods industries wont through in 1048.- Others were sure that the vast requirements of na- tional defence and foreign aid would carry the durables indefinitely.

year.

HONGKONG

SHARES

The turnover on the Stock Ex- change this morning totaled $300,- 000. Transactions and noon prices

were:

SHARES BANKS

1K Bank East Asia INSURANCES

Union

DOCKS, ETC. K. What!

1 Land

BUYERS SELLERS BALER

18:0 1830

51540

275 2014 200 $75

700 ZA 1000 11 500 11

SOME WEAKENING The National City Bank of New York commented that. weakening of tho Intensity of demand for durable goods which are still under pressure apparently could be

without contemplatel much alarm. A spreading out of demand would benefit both indivi-

It duals and the general situation. the rebuilding of industry, the r

otber 2006 6715 housing of people, and the

things we are trying to do all at a longer ance can be done period, it is safe to say that it will

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PORN today, you men and women effort to get it. Your impulsiveness STORES, ETC.

are apt to appear to be from two often leads people to 'misunderstand different worlds. Bath have a highly you, for many times you net before intuitive and almost psychie nature. you think. Then later when you do "It'll be frozen for a little while. But those of the fair sex probably think, and judge yourself to be But I keep breaking the lee all will display this their deep wrong, you

r: the time that I'm awake. I only

བ་་་་་ wish," he said, "that. I can get more understanding of human beings and thus leaving yourselt open to the help from the Sun and the Wind." In their desire to help all those in charge of inconsistency.

need. You men, on the other hand,

By nature, progressive in both Knarf and Hanid said they could will go deeper into the caises which understand how the sun could keep make up human misery and attempt thought and action, you often are Be patient! melting the ice but they didn't know to stop suffering at the source. This not understood because you how the wind could help.

is being eminently practical and ahead of your time.

major Eventually the rest of the world will perhaps

one of the

entch up with you! differences belween- the men and women barn on this day.

A Great Help

"It isn't that so much." said King King Nep nodded. "Wind can be Nep. "It's thank sheet of ice over n great help-even the cold North

Both of you have great ambition their heads that suddenly nukes wind. Just let it blow hard enough, and pride in what you do. You them feel they were living in big, and blow the water lato waves, and want the best that the world has to glass cage,

They can't swim up to the ice will have a mighty hard time offer and are going to make an honest the top and look at without bump forming. Just look at this ice," be In their

noses. And just when said, picking up his trident again and pointing with it to the centre of the brook. "It's as nooth as glass. There isn't a wave in it. No, not even a ripple. I only wish I had more time and more strength. I'd keep the ponds tend lakes from gel- ting frozen too."

Rupert and Margot-34

Rupert leaves the high port and pushes his way through shrubs and brambles as he tries to find the door into the case. It is hat work, and he gets tired. Whew, I'm bail- ing." he puffs. "I only 1 could get a drink of water." Hearing the splash of a waterfall, he follows the septid and is soon drinking grate fully.

When he refreshed, he places upward to the top of the nie waterfall. Then he gets on to boulder aud starch again. There's something odd about this." he muTMUTS.

ALL BIGHTS RESERVED,

J

like "Children wouldn't

that," "They'd never get a said Hanid. chance to skate."

King Neptune sighed. "Yes, I You just you're right. suppose

aro

To find what the stars have in for tomorrow, select your store birthday star and read the corren ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7

CANCER

(June 23-July 23)-A CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20)— Oll friends and business connec- good wedding day-or one in which proposal 20 enn go a long way toward to make or receive tians

you previously have been 1- furthering your career right now.

decided. (Jan. 21-Fch, 19)-- AQUARIUS Prudence in all you undertake today will pay the best dividends. Post pore important decisions.

PISCES (Fch. 20-Mar. El- can't please everybody. If you try Opposing forces may become con- to make the ducks and geese happy, fusing unless you are prepared to with lact and re- you're sure to displease the children. meet conflict Well, you can tell the children they solution. have nothing to worry about. They won't want to do much skating on

are

ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-Those this brook anyway. And as for their public offices very much ponds and lakes, I may crack a bit favoured. Expect rewards for past of lea here and there among the

services. Romanes is also good. edges, but I'll let the rest alone. I'll just make a paddling place for the lucks and the geese and a window or two for the fish and the rest will be all for them. I'm sure they won't nind." Kaarf and land were quite sure they wouldn't either,

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) Employees appear favoured in al Heneral

lines of endeavour. It seeking a favour from the boss, ask ****for it now.

"Just warn them," King Nep shid and an he pulled on his mittens started cracking the lee in the brock again, "not to fall in."

GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-New plans and opportunities can be made and accepted today with anticipation, for increased success.

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-A letler you have been expecting could bring you the news you've been awaiting. Optimism pays off now.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)—A new idea or a fresh solution to an old problem may swing things in your direction now.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-A

·LIBRA good day to comblue business und pleasure. A journey or even a short trip may Augment unexpected events,

sconrio (Oct. 24-Nov, 22)- Changes in your activities may bring added benefits. Minur expansions may also mean increased business."

SAGITTARIUS • (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-De very conservative in all your expenditures. Think carefully before granting a loan.

He's Lost Now!

I TELL YOU.KILLBEAR, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE THAT COYOTE S

RED RYDER

WHY,THIS IS A PET COYOTE BELONGING TO DOC COLD! AND THE INDIANS THOUGHT

HE WAS AN EVIL SPIRIT

GET RED RIDER/ IL WAIT HERE

YOU BETCHUM) MISST BETH! THEN WE TAKE LM COYOTE TO

INDIAN VILLAGE

By Fred Hurnitin

N.Y.

over

be realised by holding off the excess time comes of demand until tho when the industries apo again need of orders and their workers in need of employment."

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Another report on 1849 economic 1100 185 prospects came from Harris Vennema, editor of the magazine "Pennsylvania Bonker." He anticipated an econo mic recession "in full swing" before next summer.

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FOREIGN

EXCHANGE

Vennema observed - that "Econo- mists generally are stringing along with the theory that the current boom is good for another six months,. eight months, or a year or more."

Ho added that "we have found that the econofhists generally are a little too close to the figures to seo the forests. Bankers, themselves, with their cars close to the ground, Argentine Pran (Omelil) ... US$0.2017

take a much less optimistic view of Argentine Peso (Unofficialy 2031 the next six months. We are inclined Australia

3.37%

Lo string along with the bankers' DAGO

the shakedown is viewpoin!--that 12-7/16 upon us and will be strongly felt 1230

after the New Year."-United Press.

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Slogapore

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Hongkong

Shanghai

United Frest

Exchange Rates

Rubber Market

Still Quiet

New York, Jan. 5.-Standard rub- ber futures today closed unchanged, with two sales reported.

No. 1 contract futures closed un- changed to five points lower, with three sales reported.

Both futures and spot markets were very quiet. Buyers and sellers Business was done in the local un-were both holding off and watching official exchango market this morning the Indonesian developments and

Talca

President Truman's message to at the following Sterling pound note per E1)

Congress.

D4 dullor (ver $11 Gold bars (per toel) FIC plasters (per 100) Stament (per 100) NEI Fullers (per 100) Gold yuan

OUTWARD

13.20

200.23

Despite Dutch control in Indonesia,' 3.50 traders are still apprehensive of the

23.00

34.50 outbreak of guerilla activities.

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Factory interest In physicals was practically non-exkatent ay consumers were unwilling to reach. up for the MAILS expensive Eastern offerings.

Prices closed as follow:- Standard Contract Rabber.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6 Closing Times By Alr Kunming. Aluchow, Amay, Nanking, Innkow, Tsinglso. Peiping, Swatow, Chungking and Rwellin, 330 p.m.

Balgort and Parle, 5 p.m. Shanghal, 3.30 p.m.

Ilangoon, Calcutta, Karachi, Bahrein, Alexandria, (Nairobi, Johannesburg and Marselles via Alexandris). floins and London. (CPO) 430 p.m.; (GPO) 5 pm. Bangkok, Singapore, atavin, Colombo, Sydney and Auckland, a p.m.

Заран. В раn.

Closing Times By Bea

January

February

March

April

May

Juno

July

Aurust

September

October

November

19.03 nominal

13.00

10.85 bid

19.80 normiopt

18.03 bid

18.77 nominat 10.70 traded

18,60 nominat

18.72 numital

11.20

18.09

10,37.

10.45

дало

December

18.35

January (1050)

18.36

February

1015

Bangkok. 3.pm.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7

March......

10.20

No. 1 Contract, Rubber,

Closing Times By Alt Shanghai, 0.30 a.. (reg: a.m. (ordy. Ewatow and Amor, 0.30 am. (reg): 0 a.m. (ord),

Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, Tainglass, Pelping, Swatow, Amoy and Taipeh, 3.30 D.M.

March

18.95 bid

April

May

June

July

August

September

Tangkak, & p.m.

6 p.m.

Mania, Ironolulu, U.S.A. and Canada, November

Air Parcel Posts for Manila, Honolulu January and UBA (CPO) 4:30 pm.: (Gro] 8

pm.

Ordinary. Air. Mall, (Printed. Matiers, Samples and Small Packet Poste) for Manlia, Guam. Honolulu - and

(CPO) 430 p.m.; (GPO) 3 pm.

Closing Times By Bes

Straits, 10 ..

Manita, 10 4,0%.

Straits and Hangoon, i p.m.

Tarmkong. Ifollow

U.B.A...

and Pakhot vin

February

March

20.00 --Unlled Press. LONDON MARKET Lanion, Jan. 5.-I'rices'Jn the rubber market hiero inday closed as inttow January

>March (in pence per lb.)

Aeriline

Juty/September

11-7/18

101

United Prezo.

October

December

18.30 bid

1835 nominal

18,20

18.15

JA.10

18.00

14

Holnow, pan.