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By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

R. LEO F. SCHIFF, of Pintle-

DR

burg, N. Y., sent me

hand, which he kibitzed in 4

ber bridge game.

In the actual play of the

East won the opening diamond lead with the nine-spot, cashed the king of diamonds, then played

with the ten of spades, West over-

back the king of hearts. Declarer won this trick in dummy and

South

the

diamond queen.

trumped

trumped with the king

and

lod

took

three rounds of trumps.

Κοιν

ho

eashed the king of clubs and led

a small club to the ace, only

to

And East out of clubs.

wrble

Dr

something

"South's opponenta,"

Schiff, murmured

had distribution.

expect to find the against you

clubs way?

was not so cooling.

Who would

bunched

But North IIo insisted hand

that South had thrown the

away by careless play.

South ob-

jected, anying it was easy to

how it should have been played out now that all the cards were but how was he to know the dis

before sult position of the club

any were played?

plained."

So North exTM

At trick seven there was a par- slx tial count on the East hand,

and at diamonds, three spades

Probably East hnd Icast one heart. three hearts because he had played

trick. the deuce to the first South had two or three hearts, he probably would have led a towards the jack to establish t

So, North pointed out, if hoshing the king after

continued

of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1949.

YOUR SPARE MOMENTS

ZALGISTERED US IS PATENT OFFICE

THERE ARE AT

DUMB-BELLS

IMPOSSIBLE

LEAST A DOZEN" DIFFERENT CARD

THR

CAPTAIN GAMES GOING. HIMSELF ON THIS BOAT

ALL THE

TOLD

ME THE

BOAT

TIME!

HAD ONLY

THREE DECKS!

CHESS PROBLEM

By U. SOMIRDEWAN Black, 12 pieces.

A

White, 11 pieces.

White to play and mate in there.

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1 R-B3, any; 2, Q. B, or Kt mates:

́SCIENCE AT WORK:

INSECTS MAY BE EATEN

IF FOOD SUPPLY FAILS

By PAUL F. ELLIS

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

OBJECTIONS

have

been

rulsed to the new method of auctioning professional foot-

MAN, 11 it ever becomes necessary. he opens up new nuttural lands ball players, on the ground that

can live off the insects of the via irrigation or reclamation. land,

And, according to Dr E. O Essig. an entomologist of the University of California, Berkeley, California, mon's plight on earth may lead to using insects as food.

At a meeting of entomologists in New York, Dr Essig recalled that insects have been on the earth for some 50,000,000 years and that their than survival rate is much better man's. Each year, the insects take

millions of tons of food away from man, and they follow man wherever

CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers

for 1. They supply the chemical

from tanning leather. They come

and the oak, chestnut, hemlock other trees. 2. Quarto, a sheet of leaves, paper folded to make four

or eight pages. 3. The Cleveland In- dians. 4. Russia, England and Scot- 0. Aaron's Beard Innd. 5. Cricket. and St John's Wort.

BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE®

Knarf Was Very Puzzzled

-He Thought Whales and Penguins Were Fishi

By MAX TRELL

were

Hurned-about name, said to her TANID, shadow-girl with the brother Knarf: "If a fairy come to heart you and said she'd change you into ir fish. what kind of a fish would South, you tell her you'd want to be?"

clubs,

The two shadow-children with the club sitting in the playroom, just under

have

Hthe aquarium where Alphonse and queen, the situation would

cards

under: Suzanne, the two gold Bah been down to the

Now he would Looking at the gold fish is what lined in the hand.

of

trumps lead the seven

made Hanid think of asking Knart about being changed into a Ash. West would have to let go the ten Ave of of hearts. When the

West would trumps was played

He would have to be helpless.

of hearts

is not too difficult a situation

and

lived.

throw away the queen

or ten of clubs.

As Dr Schiff pointed out,

even

Knart remained thoughtful for moment or two, then he answered: "If a fairy said she'd change into a fish, the kind of fish I'd want to be is a whale."

A

md

for the home bridge

player,

this

to

figure out.

And when

you

da

"A whale Isn't' a fish," Itanld sald promptly.

figure one out and make it, it is -rent thrill-

a

"It swims in the water. It?said Knart. "It looks Ash. Why Isn't it one?"

doesn't like a

Feeds Baby Milk

9-8

"A penguin lives in the water but it's a bird," said Hanid.

A

Essig cald it's about time that selence made some earnest invés- Bigations into the possibility of using insects`as food.

and

it may lead to the commerciali- ention of the game.

This new method is the solling and buying - of the players in market-places. Those who are up He said human beings -ln" màny for sale are brought in vans to the lands already are eating Inacets and various towns, and are

there.cx- that "probably the most generally hibited, ruped together, on a large avaliable

In the markol-square, The dals preferred thsecta world the

over are locusts or representatives of the clubs mark

bids,

under the direction of on migratory grasshoppers.”

Belloneer. Each director then takes his newly acqhired slaves. away: The grasshoppers, he said, "often They are branded with the club's appeared unexpectedly from un-name, and segregated in the soccer known lands in counties numbers compound until needed for a match. and,' wille in most cases, they

Hogwasch and the critics

destroyed the local vegetation, in- cluding crops, they became food for hungry huminn beings."

He said certain

types of grass hoppers now are being sold as food in Mexico and the Philippines. In Chinn, he reported, water beetles are "consumed fresh, cooked, dried or pulverised

in soups and other ways,"

Indians Eat Moths

Indlons, he said, ale California butterflies and moths.

"They were enten, elther fresh, toasted, dried, bolled or roasted," he

Bald.

Tis suggested that Hogwatch may follow the example of his food abolish free colleagues and and drink for

when new critics films are to be shown. Hogwasch asks

mc

to say that the fact that this move of his happens to coincide with a sudden spirit of independence dence hosililty" is his word) on the part of the critics is merely a coinci- dence. Hospitality offered to critics to influence their was never intended opinions, but merely to induce in feeling, them Бл amiable and

which

might predispose "on what verdict on Just

them to a

friendly

they were about to criticise, Mean- while Hogwasch belleves that flo Freddy Fungur is the only hope for English pictures. as nobody likes to a child under two

In Mexico, he said, white cater-to be cruel pillars are "put up

in cans and years of age." sold," and in China no less than 50 In passing. species of insects are consumed in the daily diet.

Dr Essig also said that records chow the Indinus of the Monk Lake region in Californin gathered and ate the ephydrid fly which were washed up on windows on the shores of the lake by windstorms,

They are the size of a kernel of wheat and are apparently

very nutritious," said.

[TOMORROW-BOOK

PARADE)

LETTER to a paper, calling on the public to insist on less noley alreraft, ignores the fact that most people under 30 today love noise, perpetual noise, naise of any is why the radio is so sort. That popular, and is left on all day and half the night, and why crowds collect to laten to electric drills. Does anybody doubt that. If the BBC broadcast nothing but the sounds of road excavations, aircraft, and open exhausts of racing cars, the radio would still be left on all day and half the night?-

YOUR BIRTHDAY.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 25

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By STELLA

DORN today, you are a "fact Incer" Your mind being set on SONIC- D and no matter how distasteful thing, you can be as determined as the truth may be, you are willing any

But sometimes it takes to accept it and go on from there you an unconscionably long time to But you are too inclined to live for deelde! And, in the meanwhile, you

wasting

-talents your

and the present and should develop little more foresight If you are to energies on things that don't count. learn that

to which your reap the rewards

Be a little more selective in your greatly surprised to

alma as well on in your choice of native talents should entitle you. ash); so he set to whale wasn't

_close friends and you will develop thinking again and finally said: "I'd

Literature, the dramatic arts and your latent potentialitics faster. let her change me into a seal."

While for predominance

scorning "A real isn't a fish either," Hanid the musical professions may tug at

sentimentality, just a regular your

and at loving

Umes said agat.. "It's

and, in youth, you may have dif- you "I don't know why" suit ad animal like a dog or a big mouse.ficulty in settling on a career. Once emotional-much to your own sur- "except that when, a whale has

must also prise. Wed to the right mate, you baby whale, she. feeds if milk, Just It lives in the water because it can decided, however, you

can find exceptional happiness. Wed like a cow feeds milk to a calf. That move faster there than it can only decide to put a lot of hard work in-

wrong one great unhap- of none-to plness and a possibility that only a 2. What is meant by the abbre-isn't what fish usualy do," she lips. But it can siny under water to it or you will end up a jack of all

trades, but master added.

whale isn't a So a

can water. for a very long time, and it

change can bring you any degree of most paraphrase an old sayingt, even though it lives in the

much quicker than swimm

contentment. You'd better choose some other kind fishes. You'd better think of some-|

Once you have gained mastery of fish for the fairy to turn you

thing else!"

over yourself, you may unticipate To find what the stars have in store into."

For the third me, Knarf stopped mastery over others. Cultivate your for tomorrow, select your birthday

they talents, for

are slar aud read to corresponding to think. At length he smiled and executive

existent in your nature, though paragraph. Let your birthday star said: "I'd let her change me into a

rather well hidden,

be your daily guide. penguin."

Check Your Knowledge

1. For what are lanbarks used?

viution 4to?

3. Who won the World's

Scries

in baseball in 19487

that

4. Name three countries

fsh,

Kmart was disappointed not to be have an important riyer called Donable to become a whale (and was

6. What is the national summer

game of England?

land. of having it has

Hanld shook her head. "A pen- guin, lives in the water but it's

*

6. Give two other names for the

Rupert and Margot-50 tra

"Then I'd be Knari.

a, tadpole."

said

Young Frog

flower Rose of Sharon.

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21 Trigi for a change.

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20. How a tear led to machinery. (7)

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2. Unatom

3. This font was the fountain of

Aganippe, (8), 4. Unbiased. (DI troduce by tiltage. (D)-

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friend. (5)

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30 m 3 bỏ hi hi, Keren x becounted: land £9, Införliesas 4, Orlap:

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Once he is back among the trees Rupert feels, safer. 1 haven't much idea where we are." he says, "And I expect Rex and Reggie are tired of me in their bout." waiting for Finding a good viewpoint; he apres the river not far away, "I believe we can reach it this way," he declares, helping Marger down the rough hillside. All at

to

to the

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)—

The unexpected can bring less up- set if you are forewarned and pre- pared to cope with it..

(Feb. 20 Mar,

21)- PISCES

make Unexpected changes would travelling risky. Avold it It-you car. Control angry words, too,

20)---

She Ifere Hanid looked puzzled. wasn't sure whether a tadpole was a fish or a young frog. It was very difficult to decide. "I don't think

ARIES

22 - Apr. (Mar. the fairy would be very happy change you into a tadpole," she said Changes in business activity to her brother. "It isn't a regular mean an advancement today. Act fish. It's just a part-Ume fish. You decisively if called upon to do so. can only swim around for a or so and

LEO (July 24.-.Aus. 23)

If health seems under par, don't delay seeking professional advice. Serious flness can be prevented,

VinGo

24-Sept. (Aug.

22) Mind can control matter if you give a chance just now! Catch up on correspondenco if it's been neglect-, ed.

LIBRA muy

month

TAURUS (Apr. 21-Day 21) sudden, then, al of u you'd find yourself with legs and Definito gains can be made in buy- you'd hop out of the water and siting and selling if you are astute in

making important decisions. on the rock and, be a frog."

(May 22-Juna 22)- GEMINI

especially In Merchandising, feminine accessories, is good, just now. Anticipato an exciting event.

CANCER (June 23-July 23). Not too good a day, so be very cir- cumspect In all your dealings, whe- ther they are business or personal.

But Knart refused to think of any there fish ho, wanted to be turned into. He was quite satisfied to be 4 tadpole, grow legs, hop out of the

frog. " water and turn into a once he

for really be getting two wishes " can hear something

one, if I did that," he kept saying, moving down below," he breathe. "Let's keep quite quiet a moment." and fell very proud of himself for

having thought of it. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

pauses

RED RYDER

FOLLOW ME LADIES/ AND REMEMBER I'LL SHOOT IP YOU TRT „TO GET AWAY?

End of the Lino

YOURE SURE YYES DUCHESS. TAKIN PLENTY | IT'S VERT DRY OF WATER, WHERE WERE LACE HANLONS. GOING

THASNY RAINED HERE FOR SO LONG THE WATER

RGÓW WHI

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THE BUSINESSMAN

World Bank Ready To Support President Truman's "Bold Plan"

Washington, Jan. 24-The President of the World Bank, Mr John McCloy, has announced that the Bank has enough funds at its disposal to partici- pate immediately in President Truman's proposed world co-operation of free peoples.

He added, however, that few of the "o-called backward and misery-ridden areas of the world" were in a position to accept-immediato financial aid.

Mr McCloy said in an interview: "Under-developed areas need help in the form of technical advice and skill more than dollars."

HONGKONG

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Mr Truman's "bold new pros Gramme" for world economic co- operation was designed to make

attractive Communism. less

by raising. the living standards every- where.

Mr McCloy said he outlined his views on the subject. In a talk with about ten days pago, Mr Truman in which he stressed three points.

Firstly, "These under-developed countries need technical knowledge, and need it badly. In so many of these countries they think that all they have to do is to get money and start rolling. They have no Idea of the amount of survey and development work which must bo done before financing can even be considered.

Secondly, "These countries could not be helped by loans. It is neces sary to get rid of the concept that 10.60 such countries could be developed 15.10 under debt. A great deal of risk

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you can bet it will draw in the right kind of technical help"

Thirdly, It is important to use agencles such as the World Bank. said to the President that it was necessary to distribute the obliga- under such a programme round the world that the United States should not tako full respon- sibility."

Millikin Senator

of Colorado, ranking Republican on the Finance Committee said that any system of government guarantees for investors abroad, as proposed by Mr Truman, would be "ridiculous

Senator Robert Taft said it would be unfortunate to "over promiso United States help to other nations. 700 9.40 for raising their living standards. Ant 500035

Democratic leader Scott Lucas, of Illinois, however, said that the

"long run" programme". President's

democratic was in line with the philosophy of "developing resources for the interesis of most of the people."

N.Y. FOREIGN

EXCHANGE

Senator Paul H. Douglas. told To porters. that he thought the Pre- sident's plan might be centred on. developing adequate food crops

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ther development of friendly coun- --Mr trica throughout the Johnston told United Press: 1 in- iend to take this plan up with the State Department and other adminós- tration oficials. I propose thy get- ting up of a body to be called the 'World Economic Corporation, with a total capital of one billion dollars.

"I propose that this tund should investors against loss through an-

and

confecation tionalisation

This corporation would not guaran- investments against losses in- teo

of the ordinary course curred Rangoon, Jan.

24.-Burmese, business, because I want investment British and Indian food representa- abroad to be developed with..busi- tives mot in Rangoon today for talks ness acumen and enterprise. Also, on the 1949 price for Burma rice, I will not guarantee return on In-

United Press. be used to guarantee United States

Rice Price Talks their investments in other lands.

In Rangoon

"The price of Burma rice was £30 af vestments, a former president

ton

..that

Private

(free on board) in 1940. It was Mr understood that the Burmese of the United States Chamber of Government wants the 1949 price Commerce, said the › corporation should guarantee investments up to Air Commodore E. L. Ridicy. and 95 or 90 percent so lifted to above £240 a ton. Mr Li E, Winteragilt represent

capital would carry some small per- Mr N. centage of atte British interest and Bhojuant represents India

The Minister of Agriculture, talks.

the Burmese Thakin Tin, heads team.

"Burma's rice export quota for the

year first half of the current

at tho

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risk.

The corporation would work in partnership with foreign nationals or foreign governments accepting a minority interest. He said, "In this way real co-operation can be deve- loped. I would prefer the corpora association with the local capital provided by private enterprise, but I would not exclude it iri varsocia-

flon to use its dollar capital in

on with government undertalings."

Mr Johnston enid he believed that the greatest scope for the corpora tion would be in South America,

(S¢pl. 23 - Oct. 23)-300,000 tons. It was authoritatively New confidence in both rocial and learned that of this 201,000 tons has business life can bring you increased been allotted to India-Reuter. roluri. There's romance, tool

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 22-US Move To Extend Continue the promotion of property interests and you will find things

Reciprocal Trade moving in your direction.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. Washington, Jan. 24-The new the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. 22)-Haste makes waste-and care-

Democratic Government took the

soid that in India, for Iic the a loss, Be

Arst steps today to extend

might lessons can result in careful; take your time,'

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, instance, Premier Nehru

United States without the crippling" restrictions want to construct a dam for which CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20) imposed on it by the last Republican ho would require

machinery and "technical" advice, would back Your destres may be fulfiled today, Congress. Follow up yesterday's benefits and,

The agreement empowers Presl and this corporation

.was' needed for be positive about what you want.

dent Truman, to negotinte tarlit cuts whatever capital

nation. The investment. with any signatory

fccl Me Johnston continued: both Houses of Commilice and

that this corporation, could do Ins Congress were expected to pass the

valuable work encouraging enter- When the Act came before Con-prises in Aslatie countries, including gress Inst year, the Republican the new democracies mentioned by Trúman in his inaugural address,

WELL, HANLON, YOU'VE LED US INTO A BLIND CANTOISA

By Fred Harman

GET OUT,BETHA JO STAT WHERE YOU ARE, DUCHESS LIS

measures

majurity exterided it for only one corporation : would ́bo; able to

year and inserted a "doloying" The clause insisting that Presidential encourage the investment of United on partnership

approval of any tariff reduction Statescapewold form should go before a Tariff Commis- basis, replacing sion-Reuter.

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Exchange Rates

Business was done in the local onicled exchange luarket this morning at the following rales:

Sterling, pound hole (per, £1)

U.S. dollar (per $1)

Gold bars (per fasl) -

YIC piantes (per 2003 Bila cals(per 100) NEI guilders (per 1001. Gold, yuan (par yuan)

of

Imperialet exploitation, which has

not yet died out in the policies of some nations with territories in Asia,

helping to modernizo there countries

and in- agriculturally

coun

15.10 dustrially it means that new diploy- 511ment will be created and that pro- 312.75 ducts needed by Western Europe will be made available and the 31.80 danger of Communism will do

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