Evening star. [volume], February 06, 1942, Page C-7, Image 54

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Winning Contract
By THE FOUR ACES.
IDevld Bruce Burnttone. Merwln D.
Meier. Oeweld Jecoby end Howard
flehenken. world's leedlnx tesm-of
four, Inventors of the system thst
has beaten every other system In
existence.)
Bridge Swindles—No. 83
In tournament bridge every trick
Is important. Making an overtrick
at a laydown game contract means
nothing at all at rubber bridge, but
In a tournament' it’s just as im
portant as bidding a slam. In to
day's hand South managed to ''steal”
an extra trick by means of a very
persuasive swindle.
South dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
A A# 7 3
S>95
O Q93
A K 10 5 4
A 54 M A 6 2 *
<7KQJ103 _ <7872
OAJIO 087652
A 8 3 2 A 9 7 6
AKQJ108
t? A64
O K4
A AQJ
The bidding:
Bouth West North East
1* 2<? 2* Pass
4* Pass Pass Pass
West opened the king of hearts.
South winning with the ace. South
now saw that he could draw trumps,
6et up one diamond trick, and
either discard a heart on the fourth
club in dummy or ruff the third
heart in dummy. No matter how
he played the hand he was sure
to make 11 tricks.
With the contract not even re
motely in danger, most players at
rubber bridge would spread the
hand and claim 11 tricks. But since
this hand was being played in a
tournament. South was after all he
could get and he could see a good
play for 12 tricks.
The idea was to discard a diamond
on dummy’s fourth club. If he
could make one diamond trick and
discard his remaining diamond he
would put the diamond ace to sleep.
That would be impossible if, after
drawing trumps. South ran the clubs
and took his discard before be
ginning the diamonds. It had to be
the other way around—he had to
get his diamond trick first and then
get his discard.
West’s overcall located the dia
mond ace in his hand. Hence, after
drawing trumps South led the four
of diamonds from his hand. West
saw no reason to play the ace at
once, so played the ten, and dummy
won with the queen. Then South
ran the clubs, discarding the dia
mond king on the fourth round. It
was then just a matter of con
ceding one heart and ruffing another
In the dummy. ,
Yesterday you were David Burn
etone’s partner and. with neither
side vulnerable, you held:
*J9763
(7 7533
0 84
*93
The bidding:
Bumstone Schenken You Jacoby
1NT Pass Pass Dbl.
Pass 3* (?)
Answer—Pass. You are glad to be
out of the bidding, and It would be
the sheerest madness to re-enter
the auction.
Score 100 per cent for pass, noth
ing for any bid.
Question No. 989.
Today you hold the same hand,
but the bidding is different:
Bumstone Schenken You Jacoby
1NT Pass Pass Dbl.
Pass 3* (?)
What do you bid? (Answer to
morrow.)
(Released br the Bell eradicate, me.)
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contract bridte. send with your reouest
to the Pour Aces, care of The Evenlnjt
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larre-sise envelope and you will receive
an outline without any charse.
Take My Word for It
By FRANK COLBY.
• Wumman's Pot in the
Wuld Waw
Akron: Really, some one should
do something about the women
broadcasters and lecturers who
affect what they believe to be an
Oxford accent. Whenever they
apeak of the “wuld waw” I could
ac-ream! Do your duty, please!—
Mary B.
Answer: Perhapa this will help:
RHYM-O-GRAM.
Mrs. Q. Puffingham Spanner,
Ro6e to deliver her speech;
Beamed on the “girls” in a manner
She felt would captivate each.
She’d ‘studied “diction” at college
(Clahss of eighteen nine-two,l
Which meant she fairly oozed
^knowledge,
And dripped with eloquence, too.
Said she: “Gulls: With the wuld
at waw, every wumman must lun
to do huh pot. Ah country is wuth
wucking faw, now maw than evah
befaw. We gulls must gawd huh
as we would gawd a fought. The
pyaw hots of ah wummanhood, the
rich, and the paw, will paw fawth
new cuhrage as in the faw yuzz of
the fust wuld waw. Remember,
gulls, you must wuck and wuck hod
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
—By Gluyas Williams
/ THE MEMBERS Of 1HE WOMEN'S CLUB DEFENSE COMMIT! EE
/ WERE CONSIDERABLY STARTUP WHEN THEY ARRIVED TOR A
MEETIN6 AT THE "PERLEVS AT THE VERY MOMENT THATFRED HAD
INSISTED ON SEEING WHETHER HE AND HIS WIFE COULD BOTH 6£f
UNDER THE UV|N6-ROOM TABLE IN CASE OF AN AIR RAID
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CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
HORIZONTAL.
l.To drudge
4. To satisfy
8. Chief of the
janizaries
11. Hindu lan
guage
12. To run easily
13. Chalice
14. Teutonic deity
15. Cry of sheep
17. Indian money
19. Pouch
21. Thus
23. Chance
24. Aroma
26. Dowry
28. Cried
31. Man's nick
name
33. At once
35. Female ruff
36. French con
junction
38. Nosegay
41. You and I
42. To weaken
44. African ante
lope
45. Unit of work
47. Pacific archi
pelago
49. Roman bronze
51. Antiquity
54. Epoch
56. To decay
58. Your
59. Hazardous
(coll.)
62. Large snake
64. Conjunction
65. Pronoun
66. To seize
68. Citrus fruit
70. European fish
71. To box
72. To hit aloft
VERTICAL.
1. Unit of elec
trical capacity
2. Indian mul
berry
3. Tomcat
4. Serious
5. Land measure
6. To haul
7. Eskimo settle
ment
8. Spruce
9. Ostrichlike
bird ,1
10. Sweet potato
11. Mexican coin
16. While
18. Throat
20. Male swan
22. To vanquish
25. To steal from
27. French coin
29. Church seat
30. Mound
32. Morass
34. Small
36. Worm
37. Greek letter
39. Spencerian
character
40. Attempt
43. To choose
46. Obtained
48. Vase
50. No longer in
toxicated
52. Six-sided
prism
53. Circuit court
55. Behaves
57. Toward
59. Greek letter
60. Concealed
61. Snappish bark
63. Completely
67. Egyptian
astral body
69. Maiden loved
by Zeus
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LETTER-OUT
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Lttt*r*6ut M4 t*hw « ter oil.
FRANKEST ' Off
Letter-Ou> and tat Ihth without
ASSERTED ' permission.
Lrrttr-Out and lt’i another knot.
WRESTED
Letter-Out and he sett more dartnc.
LABORED
1 Letter-Out and stuff with It.
DAWDLING
1
2
3
4
5
Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word
called for in the last column. Print the letter in center column opposite
the word from which you have removed it. If you have "Lettered-Out"
correctly it's deathly.
Answer to Yesterday's, LETTER-OUT.
Letter-Out
<G> GARISH—HAIRS (they make a good head).
<R> CROSSLET—CLOSETS (storage places).
(A) OBDURATE—REDOUBT (a fortification).
(S) URSINE—INURE (habituate).
(S) ASPIRING—PAIRING (two together).
in adwah to do yaw pot in winning
the waw!”*
And at this point in her tirade,
She braced herself for applause,
Peeling her discourse was high
grade;
But all she heard was guffaws,
saddened, she started to make off,
But Madam Chairman sincere
Said, Mrs. Spanner, your take-off
On Rathbone's the best of the
year!”
•Translation into correct Amer
ican: “Girls: With the world at
war, every woman must learn to
do her part. Our country is worth
working for, now more than ever
before. We girls must guard her
as we would guard a fort. The
pure hearts of our womanhood, the
rich and the poor, will pour forth
new courage as in the four years of
the first World War. Remember,
girls, you must work and work hard
to do your part in winning the war.
UNCLE RAY'S CORNER
—Nazi Fire Bombs Fail to Destroy London
It is strange to hear of a city
with a daytime population of 1,000,
000 and a night population of only
30.000. Yet those are the estimates
given for the so-called “City of
London” in a year before the pres
ent war broke out.
“The City,” as it is called for
short, is just one small part of
Greater London. It has an area of
s little more than one square mile.
In it are hundreds of office build
ings and stores, but it is not a place
of private homes.
In daytime the city is thronged
with clerks, typists, delivery boys
and customers who go into the
stores. The customers were counted
in figuring the day population a^hen
there was peace. In wartime London,
there is not so much private busi
ness going on, but the night popu
lation has grown. More men are
needed at night to guard the roofs
of the buildings in case the Ger
mans drop fire bombs again.
That part of London is called
“the City.” but the real London is
of huge size, by day or by night.
Its population before the war was
well above 8.000,000. It is of Greater
London that I shaU speak in the
rest of this article.
Hundreds of thousands of children
have been moved out of London
since Hitler set Europe aflame with
war. Reports say that some children
Scene in London during the
German fire-bomb attack of De
cember 29, 1940. The doomed
building is St. Paul’s Cathedral,
which was damaged.
have come back in the past few
months, but many have stayed as
far as possible from the way of
harm.
Time and again the Nazis have
tried to destroy London. Thousands
of bombs have been dropped on it
from airplanes, and some of these
have been fire bombs. More than
once a huge fire has spread in one
section or anothe%
London, however, remains a great
and strong center of life. The people
have taken the worst blows Hitler’s
forces could deliver. They have
suffered, but they have not been
knocked out. ijondon is far better
guarded today than when the war
started.
News report* have given the out
side world notes or, how London is
protected. There is, in the first
place, a fine balloon barrage which
lets down strips of steel to halt
low-flying warplanes. Anti-aircraft
are ready for action. Squadrons of
fighter planes go out to meet the
enemy scores of miles away from
the edge of Greater London.
In addition there are thousands
of men and women with the special
duty of watching for bombs. The
watchers know ways to handle fire
bombs which drop close enough to
be reached quickly.
(For travel or ceoeral interest section
of jour scrapbook, l
If you want a free copy of the
illustrated leaflet on the “Seven
Wonders of the World” send me a
3-cent stamped, self-addressed
envelope in care of The Evening
Star.
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Boys and Girls, Read the Junior Star Every Sunday
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—By Frank Wead and Russell Keaton
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—By Bud Fisher
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understand
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