THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1949.
FOR YOUR SPARE
• McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
Trick One Safety Play is important
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
DRIDGE players
do. not
often which the
D.send, me bands in
that is what we
opponents get all the glory, hut have today. The Dayboch, hand came from 11. N. president of the St. Paul, Minn., Dispatch-Pioneer Press Grand Slunt Club. Each year Mr Dayboch playa prominent part in the promotion unil conducting of the bridge tourna iment held in conjunction with the St. Paul Winter Ice Carnival.
Was
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Check You.ir Knowledge
AROUND THE WORLD;
MOMENTS
The Famous Cro-Magnon Caves
WE
By TEMPLE MANNING'
with
year
IJE remember meeting up an interesting family one while crossing to Europe. Father and mother liked the good things of life, so they were planning a side trip to Perigueux, home not only of those wonderful trumles, but. of equally worthy time and cooking. Brother was on his way to
most cassonne, to see the world's wonderful walled and fortified town, while sister, an honour student at Vassar, had listed as her star at- traction a visit to the Cro-Magnon
caves.
Since Perigueux and Cro-Magnon are adjacent and both pn the road to Carenssonne out of Parls, there had been no trouble in preparing that Itinerary. From their letters afterwards. It seems that alater had the most profitable time since she did magazine articles on the
won- derful caves In the valley of
the
1. When and by whom was Dordogne, enves that have yielded an amazing plcture of the dawn of uranium first discovered?
2. Fighting broke out recently in Indonesin's capital. Wbut's the name?
In regard to the bidding. North's a cue-birt bid of two spares showing no spade fosera. The four, Blackwood, the no trump bid was response showing one are.
10 direct The bidding helped the opening lead. West knew that to leati the king of It was neciess
3. What does ECA stand for?' spades because North hod inot- spades. that he held na cated
on the Therefore, West decided
1. Who succeeded Jack Johnson ins henryweight champion of the play on world? he win it with
trump opening.
What is South's correct
Should
trick one?
• None
5. Give Muzarnbique,
unother name
for
6. Where is the Parthenon?
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the queen of clubs? I he does, he will not make the
Mr Daybach's opponent hold the first let him
contract.
Cro-Magnon man drawing in eare.
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
HAVE always regarded mix-
ed reading as even more of a social menuco than mixed bathing. I therefore deplore the decision of a certain public Ibrary to follow the pagan example of the British Museum, and to allow men and women to read in the same room.
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
38 Nations Accept Invitations To Wheat Conference
Washington, Jan. 22.-Thirty-eight› nations, including Russia, have accepted invitations to attend the International Wheat Conference, which opens here on Wednesday,
Under the sponsorship of the United Nations Food and Agricultura Organization, the conference will sock to fix standard international wheat prices and to create machinery for allocating, the world wheat supply,
Whispered words over the cala-
The State Department said that 021 American oficials. are optimistic logues, the pressure of a hand, A
nation had been invited, and that about getting a new world wheat wild cry from one of the desks other may accept before the con- agreement this time which will be these are commonplaces in tho ference opens. A spokesman said approved by Congress. This, oficials |Museum Reading Room... "Rhodal
la that the American Embassy in Mosaid, would assure American farmers Rhodal You must choose between
cow had notified the State Depart of a market for 185,000,000 bushels mo and Calabrian ceramies
sment that four Russians would attend annually for at least five years if the "Norman!" "Mr Dailey?" "Peep the conference, and visas had been agreement, were drafted along the bo. Mrs Fossiter-Carmen-1
Bee granted. Itussis did not attend the lines favoured by the United States, you behind these fourteen volumes 1948 conference.
Lichens on
and claim to being a scientist, recognized of eggstaedt
World." that these could not be the skeletons Mosses of the New
"Hush. Martin, that woman behind of humans as they know them.
"For one the the follo is listening!" Experts soon arrived contents of the cave, together with smile, so I throw Vou Boppenheim
floor." Huddled beneath the ledges of other discoveries soon made nearby, on the Calculus to the
"Bird Migra that "Oh, Mr Sprott!" offered
convincing testimony zics. Until 89 years ago, it Was
the prehistoric race, which, for the pur- by Just a lovely little vilinge Vezero. Some workmen, engaged in poses* of
poses of science, has been dubbed What it leads to the construction of a railway C-
The skull know as the bankment between Les Eyzies
"old Reading Room still talk of a small of Cro-Magnon" carried the evi- Cro-Magnon, unearthed 11
Tiny Villago
huge rock is a tiny village. Læs EF- the region had been inhabited by aflion be damned!"
and
and
eave, almost full of unrecognisable
debris, and then came upon skeletons, with skulls of such usual construction
that
even would men, none of whom
ND GIRLS MAGAZINE.
Willy Toad Wanted to Fly
-And Sure Enough He Almost Did-
By MAX TRELL
E the Sparrow came to the window
sit for his morning crumbs, and by and by, Knor and
with. shadow-children Hanid, the the turned-about names hurried up to watch him cat.
"Good morning," said Knort and netimlly Hand. trick by and "h the bag,
playing the three-spot,
the contract
was
Παν
replied Chirple Spar- "Morning." row between guips. "Td you hear Dayboch could not leat another what happened to Willy Toad tast
diamond, night?"
trump. If he led
South would overtake the queen of diamonds in dummy and cash all of dun- picking up
win with the jack.
my's diamonds after
the outstanding trumps.
It is rather
onusund
trick
to
DRC
see 14 that ins safely play of this type
"In to be made, ni tournament bridge," Mr Dayboch justified 11 sal, "you might be hoping for a better break in the club suit, but in rubber bridge a valuable you cannot Jeopardise
to make slam contract by failing this safely play."
CHESS PROBLEM
By F. W. WYNNE Black, 9 pieces.
21
White, 7 pieces.
White to play and mate in tien.
to Saturday's
Solutio
problem:
1, K-B, any: 2. Q. R. or Kt mates.
1
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and s. Point on the horizon indi cated by direction of a certain
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of diasunt, 19).
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11. This gang le
12. Drenenes. 'FRE
Ta. Soustanyer. (b)
jackdaw. (3)
14. Cloth face not facecipti. 13)
15. Each end of the see-saw is
diferent one, (a)
17. Bit for chaingo (0)
19. Bre 3 Down.
21. les through the air." (5)
23.. The rod rides for a change. 181
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and. Anything
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ing 110)
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4. Britio. ED)
2.2018 01 1 obtained from the
Chinese Yarnlah tree; Prols, 18)
B Bee O' Acroan.
12. To port it would aintains (0)
10. Utir up the mire, (4)
10. A cry for help; (8)
20, Listener (3)
Knarf and Haniel said they hadn't they'd likes very much to hear. Chirpic Sparrow always had news about the various friends who lived
the other side of the
Harden wall. He was a great gossip.
Eaten Up Crumbs "Well," said Chirpie, after he had eaten up most of the crumbs, and was resting for a moment so that he could pretend that all those that story remained were dessert, "the about Willy is that he wanted very hodly in 1 able to fly like a bird." "Toads can't fly like birds," said Knart.
9.7
Mr. Hoo lives in a tree trunk.
VIE· attendants in the Museum
the
dence of its antiquity in the staing-roguish girl who used to cause a
from Ave mile deposit on it from a calcareous rint by blowing kisses un- drip from the roof of the rock-agallery. One day a party, of the formation that could only have been fessors caught, lier,
Iny
10
pro- nad carried made during thousands of yeurs her down and holsted her оть They were
"big folk, varying from desk K. 9. She did a dance, and nearly six feet to nearly five inches the readers crowded round, applaud- more than that.
A very high official, was sent The skulls were ing.
the professors were very well developed in the frontal for, and
back to their books. region, no it wasn't surprising that ordered scientists, when digging further in-
Her name? Spinelly, of course." to the eaves, came upon astounding art work, all the more remarkable In that the men who did them, had 10 Oght for survival against giant animals.
Something To See
..
• See Kohlhaus; Das Betregens Leuter Vol. II., pp 24-36 et seq.
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Also hum. DD.
Julie Chaptal's Le Long du Canal (Pochette 1937); Grossweiler passim; Jugeranch's Idiotiskus in the Varn The drawings and the sculptures edition, revised
by Spleget and are something to see and to marvel Retzwein, with commentary by
As our friend cald, the caves Kortright. at. of Cro-Magnan certainly do, or should, tend to deflate modern man Indian commentary who thinks he knows all and does
it
has пия
(News item.)
Soviet Trade
Pact With
Bulgaria
Olelals here reported that Ire- land had accepted an invitation to attend the conference, and would have a three-man delegation, Iraded
O'Connell, by Timothy
assistant Ire- Secretary of Agriculture. for land.
Authorities here said that Ireland would participate with Its main Interest as an importing country, and therefore
that Порез
the prices agreed upon will be somewhat Sofin, Jan. 23.-As a result of the lower than in the agreement drafted
lost year. trade agreement signed Inst week
This prospect is based upon the between Bulgurla and the Soviet
recently increased world supplies of Union. Bulgaria will receive goods wheat,
that and the probability from Russia "In quantities so for not
said the Bulgarian within two or three years there will received by us,
some producing surpluses in Foreign Trade Minister, Mr Dimiter Ganey, who returned from Moscow countries,
The decision of Russia to attend. yesterday.
be
the conference surprised nearly here, ns Russia everyone
ignored such conferences before the
war,
Among other goods, Bulgaria will receive considerable quantities of black and coloured metals, iron and petrol products, tractors and other The decision indicates that Russin has also foreseen that the world agricultural machines. lorries,
whent, supply In the near future construction machines, cotton, rub- ber, artificial fertilisers and chemi-will be abundant, making it harder for Russin to export her wheat cala," the Minister said, "We shall export to
fully to the Soviet once the harvests there are Union mostly tobacco, ores and ore realored after the wartime ravages Other countries who will partict- concentrates,
he continued.
pate in the conference include pate in
the pulps," he
other largest The Minister pointed out that the world's four
to be volume of goods
exchanged exporting nations, Canada, Argon, United was 20 percent more than last year, tina, Australia, and the
The Afth of the big ex- and said that the agreement "ensures States.
cement
said
and fruit
wlicat
as the United Kingdom, France and Italy.
Others who have accepted invila-
our national economy of most valu.porters is Russia). Also present will everything far better than
The Gurkhas will, in future, be able materials" which will help the be some of the biggest consumers, ever been done before. What in- called Gorkhas.
first year of the Bulgarian five-year such economic plan. terested her and the thousands that
Mr Ganey
the negotiations have visited the caves, is that these people knew full well that when TT was the Rajah of Daundurtipore were carried on and the agreement understanding on signed in "mutual bottle an is he is pale, and that when who, while breaking a he dies, he gets pater
So the stern of an
erled, and a most friendly atmosphere." the Dominican Republic, elephant, they coloured the bodies of their "Thereby hangs a tal." But that Associated Press, dead with a rosy pigment to sinu- is another story, as the architect said Inte life glow. They knew, 100, the when the householder complained relative position and shape of the of a smell in the attic.
still.
heart, as a cave mural indicates.
On the road to Cro-Magnon from
some Perigueux there are
really lovely little hamlets and towns, each "And that's just what I told him. In a picture-like setting. One of the Cadouts, whose But he wouldn't
He must beautiful in #sten to me. I didn't know anything. He sald said he was going to speak to a very old bird and and out why wise he couldn't fly after eating all those fes. So, Inte last night, he went to see Mr Hoo,"
and
"Who?" exclaimed Khari Hand in one voice.
"Mr Ilon. He's an owl, and a wise "Certainly not," said Chirpie. ld bird if ever there was one. Mr ""But that "didn't prevent Willy-from-Ho-lives-in-a-hollow_trunk down wanting to. As you know, he lives at the edge of the pond, and under the Oak Tree and spends always stays awake at night (which most of his time sitting on a toad- is n wise thing to do if you stoel, eatching flies. He was telling all day). Now there's one thing
would listen to him: ought to tell you about Mr Hoo, in "Since the beginning of Spring, I've unse you don't know it, already, He's swallowed about
a thousand ties, very fond of toads." wings and all. With all those les inside of me, I don't see why I can't fly in the air as well as a bird'."
everyone who
Hanid,
"Willy's very silly," said "Just because he swallowed so many flies is no reason why he should be able to fy himself!"
"Exactly right," sold Chirpie.
Rupert and Margot-49
Saying goodbye to the friendly trog. Rupert squeezes through the hole under the door, and then helps Margot, taking care not to tear her Sure dress on the tough wood, enough, just curside, they find bridge. and lurry over it. Margos looks puzzled. The frog called thin a little bridge," she murmura. "expect he means ille for the castle. It's almost too small for the "It's but gaht to use, isn't it?" enough for us, and it's jolly useful.". laughs Rupert,
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church has what people hereabouts belleve to be a shred of the winding sheet of Christ, brought back from the First Crusade.
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Answers
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YOUR BIRTHDAY ....... By STELLA
MONDAY, JANUARY 24
you
JOUK.
hePORN Today, you are a good wor-must-learn-to-conserve
ker as well as an excellent or energies for the important things in sleep ganiser. This rather rare combina life and not waste them on side-line will sit I tion will make you a much-loved enthusiasm. You never
and "do executive and one whore ideas are down with folded hands
Rather,
will start
too followed enthusiastically by others.
nothing"xelting. Don't be rather You are inclined to be
A new egocentric and this, if you are not impulsive in setting out on careful, may lead to a certain de project without fully investigating If a thing fails, don't blame can it flest. gree of selfishness. But you guard against thin easily if you will others, but look to yourself, first, only recognise it as a minor fault for the cause. You have tremenous
that they You conquer. You you
tuny
properly at all times. To find what the stars have in store and loving. Your difficulty is that you want these good traits to "pay for tomorrow, select your birthday read the corresponding ull!". You believe in reciprocation
with loads?" said Knart.
"You meats, he likes to be friends "No, I mean he likes to eat the Though, of course, I don't think he really meant to eat Willy."
need to
"My goodness cried Knarf. "What are, by nature, kindly, theaghli tentialities. Ste
did the ow! do?"
A Laughing Chirp
con'!'
star and
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ATOMIC FERTILISER? Hobart, Jan. 23.-Atomic research in Canada may produce better wheat crops in Australia, 'Professor G. M. Schrum, Physics Professor at the British Columbia University, told the Australian and New Zealand Science Congress in Hobart,
coa-
Experiments were being carried. out with phosphate fertiliser inining radioactive phosphorus, The. sald.
Australian economy, was working. at only 70 per cent capacity, despite full employment, Professor D. B -Copland, former Australian--Prices-
Commissioner, told the Congress.
Infe Unless
dollar Australian policy was changed, he said, Aus- tralla would have to import some food should the population reach the 10 million mark
and agricultural products remain at the prewar level. "Instead of making strenuous efforts to meet dollar difficulties by and borrowing expanding experts
in the United States to meet the dollar deficit," Mr Copland, added, 15.10 "we are adopting a course of re- 30stricting dollar Imports."-Reuter.
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You have the ability to Inrulente paragraph. Let your birthday star enthustanin on a project. But you be your daily guide.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)—Morning Be hours can bring delays. Be patient, let for matters unprove later on in the
Act then. VIRGO (Aug.
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AQUARIUS (Jan 21-Feb. 19)--- A restless, and irritating day, patient; remain calm and don't sald
Impulse rule. Think before you nel. day:
PISCES (Feb.
Chirple Sparrow uttered a laugh- ing chirp. "Willy asked Mr 100 why he couldn't fly after eating so many lies. and Me Hou looked down at him from the top of the hollow tree and said: 'You can fly, Willy!''Oh Willy. I'll show you that you can fly faster than I can, sald Mr Hoo. And with that," said Chirple Spar- row to Knarf und Hanid, "Mr Hoo love straight down at Willy with his beak wide open!
110,
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TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— False friends ban be harmful, so be very careful of all your associutes,
GEMINI Serven your activities wisely.
22-June 22)- (May Be deliberate and calm although You may others appear excited. that moment. He didn't stop until make, gains through, the errors of
"Well," said Chirple ns he started pecking at the last of the brend- crumbs again, "you should have
Willy scen
wasn't go. Maybe it exactly dying but he was certainly more off the ground than on it. And he went much faster than Mr Heg. In fact, I don't think any bird could have flown as fast as Willy went
at
tree and was he reached his own safely under his tandestool, You see," Chirpic added, "It wasn't. so much the dies that Willy ate that made him fly so fast; he just didn't want to be eaten up. Yes, that owl is a very wise old bird!"
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"Victory Over Inflation’
Paris, Jan. 23-All indicatlong showed that the stability of the franc. and victory over inflation were in
Maurice sight, M.
Petsche, the French Finance Minister, sold in a broadcast today.
He was appealing to the French
people to subscribe to the new na
tional reconstruction loan, for which
subscriptions open tomorrow.
M. Petsche sald French production. bitions
Be well are
directed.
Washington, Jun, 23-High United last year was 15 per cent more than.
offlcial Government Slatest specific in your demands on life.
In 1938. The Government had made the pro-economies totalling 50,000 million recommend SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 22) prepared to
of a legacy if it motion of industrini development francs in four months, Reuter, should come to you just now, Usenbroad by offering long-term agree- it to further your ultimate goal. ments to buy vital materials, it was
learned here today. SAGITTARIUS
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Jan. 23-The Rome.
Italian. Be direct in your objce-oversens
of Shipping. Signor Truman in his inaugural speech on Minister
Gulseppe Saragat, announced hore CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan, 20)— Thursday. can
Mr Paul C. if offered a new venture, accept it
Hoffman, the ERP that Italy will build new passenger totalling 700,000 Marriage 1 favoured today, as well Administrator, is known to be among and cargo ships fa all orgy business projects.
those favouring such a plan tons between 1019 and 1052, thanks Itouter.
to Marshall ald,
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The Italian merchant shipping fleet is now estimated at little mere 30 per cent of its", prewar tonnage-Reuter.
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