1950-06-05 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1950.

• FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS

• McKENNEY

ON BRIDGE

Take First Trick In Right Place

By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

of this might came to the

NY habitual reader

column

conclusion that the fate of every

contract depended upon

DUMB-BELLS

REGISTERED US PATENT OFFICE

BY BOY 14 TAKING MEDICINE AT COLLEGE!

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that the

265

clarer's play to the flest trick.

It is certainly true

right

play to the

first trick

means smooth sailing juter on

fn hands.

a aurprising

number

of

In today's hand, for example, North cannot make his contract

I he wins the Arst trick with

REALLY, WHAT'S

WRONG WITH

HIM?

AROUND THE WORLD

Ragusa,

where East

West

meets

By TEMPLE MANNING

BY THE WAY

FOR THE BUSINESSMAN.

on the Wheat held

back at

Pakistan

look-out for

by Beachcomber Jap technicians

HE now term nt has begun

T Narkover

Chicago

Chiengo, June 3-July soFA- bean futures reclaimed most of Friday's drop to the 10 cent with one of those scandals Tokyo, June 4.-The visiting President of mit on Friday and sat futures the Board: which would finish off a Pakistan's National Chamber of Commerce told registered gains on

of Trade here today. DUBROVNIK, the Yugo- south for several hundred miles more priggish academy in newspapermen today that bis country needs

Wheat was held back by one slava call it, but we between the mountains and tie no time. It appears that a Japanese technicians and machinery to develop its company's prediction

castern shore of the Adriatic.

that the house-master who got into infant industries. much prefer the Italian

south-west would yield a better name of Ragusa.

difficulties with the bookles

winter crop than predicted month ago. Gains in onts re- during the holidays, signed

presented the same company's away his house to a synd

statement that the condition of cate of them.

cats suggests that the crop will be below that of a year ago and also below the ten-year average.

But whatever it is called, it is a city of charm, a gem of Dal- malla, that narrow strip of ter- ritory that extends north and

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MONDAY, JUNE 5

born today, you have to earn a living, you will and highly be able to pick and choose to have a forceful

Bul individualistic personality, Yo your heart's content. to live want out of you must work

then know what you

You and will go after It, life

not had better learn to make a few exactly in The conventional practical compromises in n manner. Your moods are tran highly competitive world. You slent and sometimes even your enn always hold to your high closest friends do not know how ideals and work toward them to take you.

while doing something else for necessity's sake.

Your impulsiveness in very likely to get you into a lot of You know how to hat water.

way out wriggle your

of any difficulty, as a rule, but it takes

Fortunately, you are a good organiser and can get a lot done. with apparently very uttle effort. You are very efficient

never permit an idle moment.

Dalmatia itacit in seemingly the end of Europe and the beginning of the East, and this quality is very apparent in Ragusa. It is

Anelent Fountain, Ragusa lively, it is picturesque, it

and charming.

The syndicate turned up to lake possession of their proper

H. M. Habibullah declared

Pakistan's that

greatest

need over and above foreign London Stock

investments is foreign technical assistance and he

ty much to the amusement of the boys, with whom the new- comer did rouring trade. The here. master, a Mr Warblow, joined the syndicate to

to avoid being evicted.

He pointed out Dr Smart-Allick, whe

that this had been away selling stuft to ug vernment has nlr:ady cm- friend, returned to hear the barked on a long-range plan of odds being shouted from the modernising The country's

Thinking that agricultural and downdustries.

was in Japan to seck it Exchange

upper windows, the boys

were settling happily he went on his way, Four boys playing cards on the chapel steps told him what had occurred, and he at once saw the value of this new arrangement. The Governor, however, and a few old-fashioned

parents, seo the matter in a more sombre Ight.

Bring me an Alp

collage in

has

a good time

A

The effect of the whent fore- cast was partially countered by buying by export dealers tu cover sales of 5,000 tons of United States hard wheat to Hollaud.

London, June 4.-London The Dutch also bought 7,000 Stock Exchange is having tons

and af malze,

export a good time. Here and there sources reported that Spain had requested offerings on United voices are raised, warning

States malze. There was buy- com-investors to be careful, buting in, the market on these re-

"The Japanese have petent experts In these Indus- tries and we can use them," he

added. He said Pakistan had enough munpower and all the workers needed

was technical guidance.

aint of energy which could be when working out a project and strange, but always colourful Hampstead Heath may lead to hides and skins

spent to better advantage. Your life will never be a dull one.

nurnit very

The stars have given you a To find what the stars have of talents and your in store for tomorrow, select versatility may make it your birthday star and read the difficult for you to settle down corresponding paragraph. Le la serious concentration on any your birthday star be your dally one profession. If you do not guide.

TUESDAY, JUNE 6

GEMINI (May 22-June 23)- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Make the most of all business Business projects should prose or career potentials. Relax per at this time. The stars are when evening comes. Enjoy in fortunate aspect for you

Founded when Rome was dy- in the Latin influence came to Ragusa indirectly, so that from the start the settlement was more spotsive to other interests and influences. How

pleasant It used to be to take a steamer up the Adriatic, landing at Gravosa, a little har bour a mile or so away!

unexpected delights, among them a revival of the plan to being a mountain from Switzerland, to be

up on Salisbury Plain. In 1000 a man called Taplow want ed to start a syndicate to bring

we niso was also

ar

needed.

Investors every boom has its croakers, have plunged in.

recalling that ports from the start,

Institutional

which Japar this week to

more than a year.

SELLING BETTER

Prices closed as folow:

July

2.14% Th 2.15-16 -2.16 2.10-2%- 2.19-2.10-45

1.51-15-$2

1.47-36 - 44

1,43 -1.44-12

1.30-1

137-12

1.2885

13-36-26 78-1 NEW YOUR PLOUR-pet 200 th,

_ WHEAT-price per bushel, Spot

2.20 buying of Bri-July tish Government locks

September has Decenter lifted the Index to 106.24. Maret (1951) Pakistan, on the other hand, highest since last August, and CORN is THE despatch of show from being essentially,

agricultural, ordinary buying of Industrials Spot Norway for a ski-jump on had cotton jute, fuodstuff, wool, lifted The appropriate index

September 113.30, highest in December

March (131)

RYE Only gold shares are under a July

September cloud wit: index closing week DATS

124.31, lowest #ince de July valuation. There is

one factor September one of the Italian lakes to Lel- Japanese manufacturers of under pinning the market, that

estershire. When told that the electric power generating equip. American stockpiling is increas-k, in collars. Unquoted.-United scene was impracticable, he ment and

Ing the sterling arcos receipts electric wires Juve it's only "But it's

of dolara bid gold, thus im- been keenly interested in sales proving gold reserve. There water Pottishly:" BLUE OF THE SEA American who had a

Pakistan. Bavarian

Habibullah pre-

Bir Stafford Cripps' Hexi Against the Dalmatian moun-castle removed, stone by stone, dicted that the country's power

When it had been development programme would announcement of balance pay- ans, a headland projects into to Chicago,

these ments Position promises to the deep purple blue of the sea, stuelt up he said it lacked some create demand for und on this cliff is Ragusa, D

the best yet made. The stock thing, und he sold it at a loss to goods,

market likes to feel that "cor- FISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-white-walled city, bastions, low-the Daughters of Liberty. Profit

net has been turned" and this Employ this day to its fullest Morning and afternoon bringers and turrets giving a medieval and Schloss, commented a West-

There improvement is Inter-

werc numerous en- Progresa from advantage.

toward better resulta than anticipated

the leastphalian immigrant, with appearance that is not

He said his people were not current some delinite goal now.

to all oppor-part of the city' sa wharf, an Clergyman's thumb If you are alert

quiries on the Stock Exchange siderable hauteur.

hostile to the Japanese and said preted in that fashion,

trans- this morning, but the trilites.

that, goods made in Japan were From the Gravosa

Industrials moally rose actions up to noon remained at LEO (July 24-Aug. 43)-

electric train follows an exquisite

Selling better after Pakistan's

miling or SO but there were

a low level, the total volume Follow Through with some ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-road. Grant trees covered with

caught in egg-cup separation from India.

some big rises such as in

the being valued at $56,455. Noon money-making; plan. Expect A fine day for shopping or for huge pink flowers, oleanders, N attempt to tool the famous

Imperial Tobacco, Co, up 4s to quotations were: more than ordinary success, If getting a particular job of werk olive groves, all interspersed with Albert Hall echo with n picce job seeking, you should find one. Gnished. Rest and relax when wonderful views make the ride of music containing a

Pakistan, he believed, would 100/3, and Rolls Royce up 3s to RIFARER BUYERS SELLERS BALEK passage continue to buy Japanese goods 09/9.-United Press. into the city one big delight.

for t echo failed. When the even after the squabble with So one reaches the hotel,

He cald TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) standing in a beautiful, tropical echo passage was played the echo India was sotlied.

that it sounded as Pakistan echood it, 50 and You can be adventuresome 10-garden and considered before the if the orchestra were echoing the bleached Japanese clull

un- buying day and probably make a de-war to be one of the nicest in

which was 30 percent higher than the Anite gain by it. Relax when Europe, or anywhere else, for

Indian product.-United Press. that matter. evening comes.

through duma-

my's strength, and a careless

play Jow declorer might

trick ride dummy and let the

up to his jack.

ww

1:1

If he counts However, tricks before playing from dummy, he will see that he has one space trick, two heart tricks, and to make his contract he must And West with either the king of diamonds or ace of club. Therefore he must win the first heart trick in dummy ten of diamonda, and lead the taking the fincese.

When the ten holds, declarer should cash dummy's nee of hearts, discarding a small spade from his hand, then lead a11- other diamond and inesse the

Now the queen,

rest of th diamonds are cashed, then the ace of spades, and the contract is made,

yourself.

CANCER (June 23-July 23)--

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)-- Personal relationships are im-

today. Friends portant acquaintances can be very help ful

LJBRA (Sept, 23-Oct. 23)- Exert your

fullest energies on the job today and the rewards will be better than usual for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nav. 22) – Get into production this morning on some new and exciting idea. Afternoon is excellent, too,

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.

Job all day and you results.

If the finesse had failed, de-Keep your mind on the

clarer would have had a din-

will get

mond re-entry in dummy fo play up to the king of clubs.

INTELLIGENCE TEST

SELECTION COMMITTEE

By T. J. HARE

THE Headmaster of Dim-

chester Granimar Schorst beamed upon file unless

"A pleasurable

lask awala us Four boys and threa diria from our sixth form: are to be offered bursaries for a vacation catarie in Paris would like you to regard your- Jelver as an ad hoc selection committee

Guard your health.

HOW.

evening comes.

BOYS'

AND

charm.

echo.

con-

London Express Service)

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was

GIRLS' MAGAZINE

A Hunting Trip Was Planned

-And General Tin Headed the Expedition- By MAX TRELL

General

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jaung as he sled plagion, 20)-Morning hours are part-t Khart

Check YoUI miss your

Knowledge

2. What continent

and

You

tour

thai

Rupert and Miranda—5

Rupert, Bill, and Edward sopo make up their minds. ** Jennifer mt have a Chrimmas present, although it's so late." says Rupert. If ale'd like it she could have my football." 'Or my new boat,” adda Bill promptly. "Or By glider," says Edward.

Or my beautiful cost. though she might

look funny in it," says Raktus. 'Right ho, then let's atárt, Laughs Rupest. So, full of their kindly thoughts, they mop away and tro into the hollow. Rastus finds it hard to run in his new coat, but he manages to keep up with the others and soon Edward it knocking at the cottage door.

For through the secret Tin behind the curtain In tho and were Jorging Hanid. "you along and

on old Giddap thu cularly important, Make good don't have to come hunting Hobby Hor's back, progress. Plan a social evening with me. know it's a good Ceneral Tin spoke again.

dval of trouble going over Today, my

we're going mountains,

searching to hunt for through

burner. But if you greatly disappointed.

might "Flower!" Kraart excinimed.

want to comm

come

"Anybody can hunt for How- "We do! We do!" Knarf and ers," Hanid Bald. "There's Hand both sho

shouted.

nothing hard about catching 1. How fast can giraffes gal-

"If you do

want to come." flowers. All you've got to do is Jop?

Generni Titl continued as nd them."

heard them The are wild flowers I'm enntains though he hadn't

"I can promise talking world's say anything.

about." General Tin you the best

"Wid hunting you've said quietly,

flowers. Name the first child born we're going to hunt for some-animals," he added."

ever had.

Today,"

said, They're wild. Like

"They're called wild because suddenly. Dut

them roaring." jycho-don't ask me to tell you now, nobody ever planted them-be- We're In too much of a hurry," caurs they grow by Birm-

They nil kept still. Sure large book that he was carry Secret Door

selves," Hand started to say. enough, from behind the next ing luride his coal. It was only after Knart and But by this time they bad clump of leaves and vines and

At that instant they heard brunches they

could distinctly another rear, "Aha!" exclaimed of a dark- and General Tin had reached

looking jungle and General Tin hear a roaring sound.

General Tin, "It sounds like "'It-it's lime

like get

for

alarmed. wild the Giddap was glad to

practically half the population?

1.

on earth.

4. What is the Golden Rule? thing really amazing.

3. Name the first

analyst.

the

It shouldn't take us long." Maid Mr Lidland-Stult, Classes Maxter." There are Jenkins, Rowe, Wilson,

Pardon me," said biɛ, Surd We can't go at the thing in quite that buil-hended way. May remind you, Ladtands Scott, tent our selection can be made in-tet me ace~~~1200 different

said AXIA Gouacht,, the Art Sistress. What 1 don't understand. Headminer, is why the girli get fewer húnaries when there are more giris than boys in the form.

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yellow

0. What causes the colour of the Yellow Sea?

(Answers on Page 8)

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How many members of the ith forta are there f

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CHESS PROBLEM

By B. F. E. FLATAU Black, 10 pieces.

1. The actor who becomes aged in

art 191

Bounds comly; (4)

White, 11 pieces. White to play and mate in two.

Solution to Saturday's (problemiyor D

"matet."

1

Acrux

[Unnid

1

A shot from General Tin's gon felled the tirer lily.

9. A broken rotres. (3)

11.

this you must have 15. 13!

12. Movo smoothly. (4)

13. Regards, (7)

14. Colloquially nothing, 13)

Courtesy title sometimes. (3)

is on your cue you should ind

with 15. (9)

17. Anagram of 11, 13)

20. A medicinal drink. 15)

21. Minua thirteen. (8)

43. It's great fun in the numery, (4)

43, Cop it? It could bot (5)

21. It don't matter which sort you

choose for they are both blind.

(3)

26. 15'take fruit before time seem

natural with birds, (7)

Down

1. To punish in this way bas little

wolght (7)

9. Bhould certainly be appropriato.

vo shot at what this is. (5)

one who blow his own trumper

**(7) D. Prood for a change. (5)

4. One end of a otro way stroot cas

7. For your information the peep

warns thile, (9)

8. Obviously "he" was in. (5)

10% famous honour in dato. (B)

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BRONCHO BILL

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was

to

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hear

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of teeth like a Hon.

picked it up and

NY Textile

Review

be

New York, June 3-Adverse weather conditions, with the attendant decline in consumer apparel buying, plus the inter- vening midweek holiday, com- bined to hold activity to routine limits in basic textile markets this week.

The interest of shoppers in apparel remained below censon- al

In expectations.

Worth Strect th: buying of cotton ray good reverted to selective

th

HONGKONG SHARES

BANKS

......

1240

100

540

IK Bank East Axin.. INSURANCES

Union SHIPPING

Asin Nav DOCKS, ETC.

Dack 1715

.079 ct.

Provident .. 9.20 S'hal Dock..

Wheelock

LAND, ETC.

HK Land ... S'hal Land.. UTILITIES

Tram

C.

25 540

2,00

21

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1.05

2500 1 1,30

10.70

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5000 35

500 20%

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Light (0) 9.30 C. Light (N) 6.20 Electric.... 2014 Telephone 11.50 STORES, ETC.

Datry Watson K. Sang Tiong COTTONS

Zwo

1000 @ 10.00 ·

212

300 # 2114

14

ET

2.30

1000

2.35

1000 P 2.40

pattern. Apparently converter OUTWARD MAILS

considered themselves safely govered for the time being, ful- lowing the rush of buyini in early May when sales spiralled 10 around 200,000,000 yards over a ten-day period.

are

#

Good weather would revive demand in wholesale and retai channels, affecting the milis within a short time, Chala store outh is also

buying splurge a few weeks back, but their commitments for the third believed to be quarter relatively limited. That segmen General Tin | of the trade could be a factor

In the season

more put it in later

extensive coverage ware sought;

FABRICS UP

Steady ascent of raw cotton

Increased possibility prices for denims

Itaw cutton this week

a l'on," said a tiger, doesn't it? In that case futures Come on the off Ciddup's back and begin Hanid beginning to feel a little it's the wild tiger-lily.

searching

flowers.

tear this. Ho

didn't care much about going into jungles,

A

soon na Knarf and Hand

This

this

branches.

good

discussions of higher

and

other

a year.

.was

A surface mail to United King- dom per RM18 Canton will bo closed as follows:

G.P.0-Parcels June 8, Noon; Registered June 9, 9 a.m.; Or dinary June 9, 10a.m. Kowloon C.P.-Parcels June 8. Noon; Reghtered June 8, Noon: Ur- dinary June 1, 9 A.M. This mall is expected to arrive at London an or abent July 18.

Unregistered letters and printe ed matters for China mainland & Itainan island can be accepted at neticera' risk and will be fer. warded as opportually uners.

Enless otherwise stated. Ita- tltered Articles (by air or ca> and Parcel Posts close tine logr earlier than the ordinary mus. If malts close befors 10 am.. Registered and l'arcel Posts clea as 3 p.m. on tire previous day. Kowloon Mails are closed Central Post Office one boar earlier than the .P.0. closing tintes.

MONDAY, JUNE 8 Closing Times By Air

Rangoon, Cnicuile, Karachi. Bauer,

Salaam, Mauritius and Johannesburg vin Cairo), Hone & London, 3 p.m. Singapore, Djakaria, Sydney” and Bangkok and Colombo, 5 p.m. Japán, 3 D. m.

Auckland, & p.m.

Taipeh, & p.m..

Closing Times By Sea Manita, 10 a.. Japan, a p.m.

Korea và Inchor 4 D..

en! Follow inc!"

Catching Clump of Leaves

the tigerlily fabrics,

than penetrated beyond the 33-1/2 Cairo (Nairobi, Mombasa, Dar-06- much harder General Tin nodded. "Just wasn't

the dandy-lton for cents level, setting the highest It's the dandy. -catching so, my dear. lion." AL this he crep dandelion as almost everybody price in more than and General Tin sprang oft his exutiously through the clump else called it

except General Tyre chafer fabrics remained in demand, allgning with back he trotted off and began of leaves and vinca and Tin); the General simply had automobile manufacturer plans nibbling grans,

POP with his gun, and for accord to go POX Knert and Honid to

breaking production But when way,

way."

schedule in June. General Tin was paying as he crept right behind him. They it fell right over,

saw General Tin raise hi they heard a third roar coming come branches acide. musket--Lake pushed

aim-ond

behind them and Pop! from right

Meanwhile Indonesia "They're all right in here. 3: he fired 1, Then he shouted: Knarf shouted: "It's a real reported to be inquiring for up- careful. Don't let them bilo

"I got him! I got him!" and ran lion!"-they all ran ns fast as wards of three million yards of YOLL"

out

they could back to Giddap ond twills for July, August and "Bite us?" Knart said. “Are Suet

enough, lying on the galloped all the way home. September delivery. there flowers we're bunting ground with its stem bent over

"Wild llowers are much for going to blte?"

than wild animals,"

In wool fabrics the price a great yellow flower. tamer "Certainly,

pattern hardened as wool tops

were wild.

futures rose above 2.07 a pound, the highest level on record, close

However, wholesale demand fox men's sultings slackened

Was By Harry F. O'Neill and ardering for autumn

reported to be below the sume period last year,

to me.

was

I told you they It looked ilke a dandelion Hond catt And General Tin Now just keep except that it was fifty times smiled and agreed that this was Sh-h" he said bigger and It had a face and 50,

On the Lam

FAILING TO HURDER LUKE JACKSON,THE CONSCIENCE - STSBOKEN BLAZE GORMALEY ||FLEES THROUGH AN UNDERGROUND PASSAGE TO HIS SECRETLY OMNILO HUDGET

THE BOSEP

WHAT'S

UPP

CAPE

THAT YOUNE WESTFF'S IN MY

BAEK HI THE ELDORADO DEVICE PAR LED GARETHINK THE PURPOSE OF A TRAP DOOR

PITCH A LANTERN, RAAMIDE /

ILL

MOVE THE SHER- IFF OUR WINE

CELLAR DOMM

AND YOU'RE COM DOWN FIRST,

DODKU PWWWY, WITH NEWS FOR fes BOB'S HOING OUT IN THE

Rayon gray goods were in fir demand ai steadier prices, despite the retarded movement' of finished goods-United Press.

Exchange Rates

Business was done in the local unofficial exchmgo market tals morning at the following rules Sterling pound note (per £) 18.30 V.B. dollars (por 81) 17.

6.04

NEI guilders (per 100) Samticals (per 100) Singapore (Balta) FIC plastres (per 100)

2.20

20.00

1.TB

3.34.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4 Closing Tires By Air

Manila, Jonolulu and USA ·(let- fers, second class mail and parcels), Guam (letters and second clus mali), Canada (letters only), § pas.

Saigon and Paris, & p.m. Bangkok. 6 p.m. Talpeh, 8, p.in.

Closing Times By Bea Strails, 1 9.0

USA, Canada, Central and South America via San Francisco (No Parcels for Canada), 2 p.m.

Formosa via Keelung, a p.m. Etania, p.m.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7

Closing Times By Air

Manila, 11 a.m. Taleh B p.m.

Closing Times By Kes Strells, Rangoon and Calcutta, p.m.

THURSDAY, JUNE, S Closing Times By Air

Canada and USA, 10 à.m: Okinawa, Noon.

Rangoon, Calcutta, Karachi, Baits, | Cairo. (Nairobi, šiombaKE,"DATOS Salaam, Mauritius & Johannesbur via Cairo), Stome & London, Node;

Bangkok, Singapore, Djakarta-abd Colombo, Neon,

Haiphong, Hanol, Belgon,"cand Paris, Noon.

Taipeh, Noon,

Labuan, Aydney and Auckland, Noon..