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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1950.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
ON
.MCKENNEY BRIDGE
Count Your Tricks
To Insure Success
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
ONLY
ILY experience will make u However, good card player.
n person may become
DUMBBELLS
VREGISTERED USIM) PATENT OFFICE
YES, MADAM,
WE SELL
"A" "B"
AND "C" BATTERIES!
a food
3AR
player more quickly learning to
use the gadgets employed by the experla,
safety
us end
plays, squeeze
coups, and so on.
plays, plays
Of course,
the first lesson you must learn
WELL, GIVE ME
AD BATTERY IT'S FOR
THE DOOR.BELI
AROUND THE WORLD
A visit to the
isle of Capri
By TEMPLE MANNING
THERE'S no doubt about to the Riviera, and of course
it, Italy is really being the famous week at Deau- So ville. Sometimes they madu "discovered" this year. many folk we know used to a flying visit to Rome, but spend most of their Euru that was all. pean holiday in London and Faris with mayhap a jaunt
Is to count your tricks. Then, YOUR BIRTHDAY
if you have a barle
knowledge
of the different expert plays,
you can quickly become a fine
card player.
This week I am going to give you a series of safety plays. other words, we will count our tricks, and then see if we can play the hand safely to make the contract.
I.
MONDAY, JUNE 12
BySTELLA
You are tidy and like every- thing arranged neatly-ideas as Don't well as material things.
you were born today, the wagon to a stor-and see how charni and comforts of alt fur you can get. fe's refinements appeal to you You will want your highly. own home to be one of perfec- What should the declarer dotion and will work hard to make
You have a love of music this at trick one in today's hand?co. Should be play
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You thrive best under babits. In fact, it is a rood itlea of harmony and cot to adopt extremes in any- Your basic motivationa thing. are excellent
when not carried
the motifa teauly.
You
business have antive nality which should help you to get these thugs. You are determined, even to the point of stubbornness, on many
ur ambitions are po
fanaticism.
indo
You women are exceptionally
should intuitive and follow
your hunches best possible results.
to-
in
always for the
To od what the stars have
store for
about an outpost of New Now we find that Rome is York and Hollywood, and that folks who live in the same
BY THE
WAY
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
Economically, things look rosy
by Beachcomber to Mr Hoffman
A
WOMAN was reported to have fainted when a dogi Jumped into her lap and said "Hello!" I telephoned to Fife
Middletown, Connecticut,
U.S. BOOM · GOES STILL
HIGHER
11.
Washington, Juno -Government economista June 11-The crossed their fingers as the Economic Co-operation Administrator, Paul Hoff-nation enjoyed one of its day, where thin dog lives. man, said today that the first half of the 20th cen- biggest peace time business "Hello! Is that you, doggie?" tury had been the most fruitful 50-year period in booms. Production, income
Yez Who's that? Trixley
world history in terms of economic security and and employment
The best guess was they "No. Bunch! Mick Fidor"
It' human being opportunity.
would go still higher and speaking"
hardly anybody know exact- "Really? Can you bark?”
ly why. "No. How did
"So you say. You sound like Bunch to me. So you can't bark, ch? Bing me up again with you've learnt the trick, Wulf,
Good-bye. wulf, wuff. you've been troubled."
A fragrant memory
-on,
Innrried womin
a
Sorry
that Europa
in
Yugoslavia planning
The
were up.
Commerce Departinent reported that personal income from insurance and
trade dividents rode to the annual rate
extension
of $212,600,000,000 in April, nearly $3,000,000,000 higher than the annual rate inst year,
The Labour Department also 11. -
It said that Belgrade, June
added a rory note.
workerd WCTC Yugoslavia is planning to 300,000 tewer
in- extend her already substansurance last month then in Mor
drawing unemployment tin trade ties with
the 1849.
It was believed that the German Federal improvement was due to more West ever Government by a new pact jobs in the construction in- for large-scale deliveries of dustry, agriculture and summer |German capital equipment vital to the continued suc-
resorts-United Presa.
cess of her five-year indus-! Wheat prices
integratrialisation plan.
and
a
little
Chicago, June 11.-The osta
Mr Hoffman told Wesle-
that they should have "un- trick of speaking?you learn theyan University graduates
"How did you?"
limited opportunities" "I tell you I'm a human the next half-century and being."
recounted benefits under the Marshall Plan to show that' Europe had been making in the "most progress courageous comeback in his- tory,"
He said that US$15,000,000,000 the United States would spend by 1952 in ECA nid would help EARS passed, The dreamy win the cold war and "is the
bargain America Jule best magnate from Bombay, and mode," He said recent news became the noted hostess of indicated Clacktwhidden Castle. On the turning from the doctrine of night of the Hunt Ball 42 guests cconomic nationalism and to broke 107 teeth between them ward economie unity.
Ho
paid tribute of all things, caylare.
A big Yugoslav delegation of "Still at it?" and the chatelaine Schuman proposal for waspishly to
of European economy, the distinguished tlon
Assistant Minister of Foreign down peer on her left, who was none hailed Britain's reported will trade experts. headed by the
co-operate
in the other than the skate manufac-ingness to
Trade, Mr Silane Pevec turer of old days.
"If every
European Payments
Union Mr Dolinsek, Vice-President of
there and cald body did this, we should have "heartening"
Dlher moves in the National Bank, is expected and yo haven't were various no caviare." "You
weeks to upen negotiations in trade session and fard values at ward something important, this
with Jaughter,
"it's all ball of greater economie health.
Frankfurt or Bonn, the soat of one time were down 70 cents your birthday star and red the Harbour of the Isle of Capri uny," replied the peer, purple, Europe which gave indications to leave here in the next few heavily in Saturday. The board
bearings" "Oh, don't let's
the West German "Government. | per hundradweight. BOLD PROPOSAL
-Reuter. over all that again," said the hostess, making a mouc, and
Mr Hofman Bald "From wistfully recalling the magis-
France we have heard the bold trate she had once loved.
of and Imaginative proposal All very nice, and all to the
Foreign Minister Schuman. The We hope that they'll do
effect of the Schuman Plan will good!
not be to control production and divide markels in the old Euro- more than just being in Capri,
expand but to pean fashion, that they will take the Ume to 21-Feb.
enjoy the marvellous drive along Suct gives a hint
production and search out new of all
that runs south the Amaln
markets, A fine from
Pompell, the Italian
From Great Britain came the raw The position is auch that,
Wheat was weakened by re- Corniche Drive, and every
ports of expansion in the south- while willing to reveal, to a cer- good news that England is will-checked.
shift its position and at Liverpool 10
west winter wheat harvest. The picturesque and wonderful as tain extent, what is necessarily ing
export business in Amerlean Union. counterpart along the French being done at present, those who work toward membership in a week show a fine topmaking.
Payments
grains was slow overnight and Riviera.
support my ideas are handi- European
Australian merions are down on Saturday. Only sale report- of Castellumunure capped by the reasonable margin That is a big step forward in
Interest the
full-bodled Beginning at
en much as 7-1/2 percent from ed was 100,000 bushels of maize ed by what was
se. European trade.
London auctions thood at
to Norway for June, July ship- ARIER (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)- continues along the Sorrento af delay imposed
A in a scrise, breath-taking Project your
ideas and Fealusuln
The progress being made, by Before a full
tralian crossbreds are from 10 ports. anticipate success. If selling on vistas of beauty perched high | made, certain preliminary con- the Council of Europe is an-month ago, while prices of Aus- ment from St lawrence river the road,
should breakabove the Bay of Naples. ditions must be fulfiled, and other indication on the topmost percent to 10 percent cheaper.
level that Europe meons to records.
these, governed by circumstances It looks west to Procida and
obtaining from time to time, compose
New Zealand crossbreds TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 21) Ischla, then runs overland to
and then
Amat, are, of course, independent of these moves give evidence that
turning frm the realized from five percent to 7- There's an opportunity all day Positano
else has to be con Europe in
Wheat-price per bisha. nation-1/2 percent less than a month from whatever
doctrine
of economic of beauty Be twelve miles skills. exhibit your
allern.
economie ego.-Unlied Press and toward cautious,
during Castelammare lo Sorrento, and however,
unity."-United Press. evening hours,
19 from Sorrento to Amal,
-(Lendum Express Service)
Is a fine nitribute, if the objec
tive in a trivial one then It cun corresponding paragraph.
star be birthday become a lot of wasted energy! your Make it a practice lo hitch your daily guide,
TUESDAY, JUNE 13
select
Let your
Bouth
1.
Pass
1
Paza
2N, T,
Pass
3 N..
Opening 10
Pos
20
Today is particularly GEMINI (May 22-June 22)- fusion.
progressive good for mechanles, Industry A new iden plus
excellent and the various trades, artion
bring can salts, especially in merchandis- Ing.
from dummy and let the ten of spades ride around to his queen? It he does, he will VIOL make the contract, because East will win and shift to a clu
tlub. The correct procedure here is Declarer hould safety play.
dummy's are of up with spades. Now he leads the jack of diamonds ant takes the fesse. West will win with the king and lead another spade, which East will win with the king.
new
AQUARIUS (Jan. 10) Take advantage CANCER (June 23-July 23)- business opportunities.
this day for buying or selling, too. job Start some
A fresh Iden can PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)- morning. result in something surprisingly A message from a relative may exelting.
bring interesting news, Perhaps 23) journey will bring pleasure.
LEO (July 24-Aug- Well organised activities ean bring excellent results if you plan things well. Later, aspects are not so good.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Hept. 22)---- There is promise of success. But now, when he shifts to a this morning. If you extend your club, it is too late because de-energies to their utmost now. clarer has the club suit stopped.
LIBRA (Bept. 23-Oct. 23)- He can count two spade tricks, two hearts and live diamond good day for merchandising. tricks, enough for his contract, especially this morning. General and in addition, he will take a success is indicated now. club trick, if West does not cash his ace and queen.
Check Your
the
SCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov. 22)- Your
own talenis arc
true success. keynote to your Evening is a time for relaxation.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
29)-Partnerships, domestic or
laustness. are. favoured Anticipate success
Knowledge undertaking.
1. In
CAPRICORN the what season of year do salman return from the 20)-Complete ocean to fresh water streams?
2.
Who
conceived the
of using mercury in thermo-
meters instead of alcohol?
(Dec.
ו
today. your
23-Jan
10
You
own
apartment house at home, aro becoming better acquainted on the beach or n cafe table at | Capri.
with
BOYS' AND
Pixie McLittle's Flashlight
bil
(For Peruvian bark see under Chentworth Brick By-Products,)
emphasised vestere can be.
sidered.
its differences. Al
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
-Ho Lost It Because It Crawled Away-
What do you By MAX TRELL down at once!
think you're doing! Set NARF unel Hanid
were down!"
a job already sitting in the shade under the garden wall when they both
iden
CHESS PROBLEM
3. Of the known supplies and reserves what continent
richest in coal deposits?
*. Name the
types of twins.
By ARTHUR A, PAUL Black, 6 pieces,
13
three inaln
5.
Who
appointed United States
of Secretary Commerce to succeed Henry A. Wallace?
was
I
X
(Answers on Page 8)
CROSSWORD
Acroi
1. not out it's a bolds at Wundle-
CUL. 199
W. Orlen used for removing gresse
SZAJNA, 175
ju. Nocturnu
mankey, (5)
12. Only part öbanged. (4)
18 Ext 15
Like A
14 in the yea will tind the cost.
18 Died to make a
doubt. 10).
red bat
00
Thu i ista «ithough there la e lot of water around. (0)
34 A the French
Babaid I Us là bots vinh. Di
20. What you expect the drone to
bo. (e
22. Despite its outbreaks it could be
SLAG. 14)
23. You may nad this mark in satin.
24. The famous cartoonist's
might have been sidney. 18
25. It' at a ramble (8)
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1. A live bat in deformsad in Latiss
grammar. (8)
called the GoG Y
3. What the apie taxijk. 10)
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想
·DOMEILLION. 節
Vary explosive 1811era (3)
it beide to receive, a broadcast.
7. A telda go shia ona sa tope 431
falcone. 15
White, 11 picers.
White to play and mate in two.
Solution
Saturday's problem:
1. R- mates.
Lo
Kt4, any; 2, Q, or Ki
INTELLIGENCE TEST
PINHEAD
By T. O. HARE PINHEAD'S Pomaluin may not do all that is claimed for it; but a
It has
. allowed Lord in send number of his employees to Oxbridge Univarity, Twe years ago te arranged to send in many Pinhead Käkisbitioners
BC
RASIL. of a 11or tu
colleges the same
each cullege, The following year he increased the number of colleges by aven, and the number at exhibitioners sent to each collage by 25 And "has "gain added this year he h sover to the number of colleges participating in the scheme, and has again increased by 23 exhibitions the number, ot tenable at each,
The raplà expansion of the acherna (to which the univer- aity'a liniied resoureas must now call • hali is shown by the fact that the number of exhibitions awarded in the third year Of N scheme -excorded the number awarded
in the first year by 870..
How many colleges are now participating T
ma
Knarf set him down on a bit For several minutes
saw something moving in and of moss.
#
over
out of the clover patch a few he was so angry that he couldn't feel away. They could see the speaks. But then Hanid brought jelover blossoms bendling him a drop of honey from the
boliom of a dragon's-slipper. and supping up again.
that was growing nearby, and They thought it might be u beetle..or
grasshopper that that made him feel better. had got hurt. So they both ran
for my flash- "I'm looking the clover patch, and
light," he said. "That's why I making after
several grabs
around la that among the stems, Kaart finally was crawling
patch of clover!" shouted: "I've got it!"
Hank
while watched opened his hand.
Ta
over
their
ho
astonishment it wasn't a beetle, or a grasshopper, or any bug or insect whatever.
I was Pixie McLittle,
Kicked and Yellod
He squirmed and kicked and yelled: "Sel me down! Set me
"Are you sure you dropped it there, dear?" Hanid said. "Per- haps you los; it some other place."
to
Ket
angry
Rupert and Miranda-
The tremendous winds do not last long. They are followed as once by a fall of snow so thick and bravy that Rupert has to remain in the sheer of the tree for quite a long time. When at last the clouds rall away the whole countryside has thick white covering. A he
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starts home be ses some light marks the snow and a label lying neat. It looks as if a fox or some animal has passed here." he murmure, He picks up the label carelessly. Then he stares hard, for on it are written the words " Tu Jennifer with love from Santa Claus."
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Raw wool
price check
in
London. June 11-Boom
wool prices has been Prices were realized this wool sales
The grains generally showed divergent trends at the opening session a definite but by mid lower trend developed behind losses in Oats and Rye. Soya beans 1ost opening gain nearly two cents. Belling oats and rye followed higher than the expected new production estimates.
1.60
- 1.30-16
1.45-16-11
1.43-3-11 13-11
The price of the most grains were a little lower.
Prices closed today us follow:-
Spot July September
2.10
- 2,17
2.11
2.13 -2.15-16
December
2.38-44-14
U.S. Cotton
Exports
March (151)
2.17-4
Corn
Spot
July
September
December
March (151)
1.57-
1.36.
September
CATE
July
Septeinber
1.30-
81-11- 78
- 76-14
US$2.144 000
433.000
$410,000
240,000
163 000
281,000
300,000
311,000
Washington, Juno
11.---Col- nye
ton manufactures exported July from the United States during March, 05 reported by the
Department of Commerce Cen
rus Bureau:
Canada Mexico Guatemald El Salvador Honduras
Nicatogua
Coria Rica Рапата
New York Flour-per 200 lb. rack, dollars angɔoted.—United Press.
Singapore Rubber
Singapore, Juno
11.-Prices
210,000 in the rubber market here today
573.000 cloged as follow:- 344,000
Number 1 rubber, per lb.
fil
Dominican Republic
Netherlands Antiles
Columbia
$10,000
June
90-0014
Venezuela
1,300.00
Bolivia
19,500
July
August
United Kingdont Den lux Lebanon
58,000
Number 2
rubber, June 80% - 8014
153,000
Number 3 rubber, ane
87-08
Sweden
Iran
Slam
Malaya
Indonesia
Philippines China Lone
Hongkong)
Japan French MoreCCO
somewhere"unless South Africa
Bomewhere else.
think it did. It
tired flashlight.
Pixio McLittic, notleing that again. Ho was quite sure it Belgian Congo
to under was there didn't seem they "I didn't lose it at all!" Pixie stand what kind of a flashlight it crawled MeLittle answered in a shark he had, said:
"It is a glow- But I don't voice, starting
worm Bashlight. I don't sup- was a pretty have glow- I had it out gein. "It crawled away."
pose most folks
That's the night and flashlights. in worm
kind we always use," he added. sleep at all.
"Oh, a glow-worm Aush. ghir sald Knarf.
Knart eried "What!" amazement nt hearing this "Your flashlight crawled away!" "It did indeed!" sald Pixie McLittle. "I left
it under a
"No wonder
flat stone while I went to get a
I could crawl right next
drink of water out of a butter- away," said Hamid.
cup not a half dozen feet away. When I came back and lifted the stone, my flashlight waz gune! IL had crawled clean Away!
it hardly got any
01,00
183,000 Number 4 rubber, June 2012-0 404.000 Sput rubber, unbaled
221,000 Blanket C. rep.
14,000 No, I pelo crepe
1,231,000
2,205,000
correct
United Pr
470,000
€6,000
75 -74
-13 United Press
12
100.000 OUTWARD MAILS
307,000
with me all last Gilt-edged week
în London
It was Hanid who came upon
London, June 11-The young it a fast, fast asleep under an
half-rotted tree trunk and old.
adventurous who looked booming to the buttercup forward eagerly lo where Pixie McLittie had stock markets this week were
drink of water. disappointed. gone for his "It must have followed
But the cautious and serious there poor tired thing" Pixie who expected and hoped for than steady more McLittle murmured as he care nothing
of confidenco and
by
Still Wanted it
help this didn't However,
And to Pixle MeLittle
fully put the glow-worm gathering flashlight. He still wanted to
in his pocket. extension of the public interest nan Hanid, who was Just as find it.
"I need it for walk- flashlight back
It has been You've
got to irent
were than
Pledged" week. the woods at puzzled as 'Knart, broke in to ing around In
of Bashlight kindly,
mainly you for edible Kinds ask: "But what could it crawl
night, searching
The Government's decision keep them up haven't
ans know: can't Edible means
genuine funding mushrooms. away on? Flashlights
them to undertake ho all night and then expect them
issue of ont cut lega,"
you can cat,” Comething "Mino hos," Gald Pixie hastily explained,
Being that to keep their eye open all day, operation "It has x legs, of Knart was McLitus.
beginning to look Well, thank you for helping me hundred million of 2% percent
my flashlight stock stimulated the maybe eight I never counted puzzled again.
thanks you, 100, I'm sure," and added confidence,
possible conversa- Pixie Melillie was no mad he them exactly."
and Hanid helped And with that, Pixie McLittle Talk of 312 Knarf
tion if hugo percent 1,010- and Knarl couldn't
for Boveral speak
This puzzled minstco.
Hand more
and more until han to look in the clover patch curted off.
890,860 sterling warloan at first. optional date on December 1, 1952 was another factor in up- ward surge Government stocks. -United Press.
BRONCHO BILL
ŜINTO THE YOUNG
Holding His Own
BILL LOSES
And 1
By Harry F. O'Neill
**AND BOOKS THE MAI IN AFTER THEM/
market
HOROWITZ FOR LONDON. TALKS
Juno 11. Davkl
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London,
D.C., a Horowitz. recently appointed P.ma
Straits. Ceylon, Madagascar, Bois- economic adviser to the Lacli bay and Karachi, noon, Government and director Ken- cral of finance in Jerusalem, arrived here today for talks oil and other financial mattery.
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