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Jack or clubs a will pass. because IL will
be V that Will he in difficulty and not A.
If Y plays the smallest club under the
jack he will be forced to win the next
trick. no matter what is led or what A
plays. Then he must lose "A diamond
and n spade. because the only way he
can put II back into the lead to come
through that king of clubs ~ with a
heart.
This lea yes y free TO discard his re-
naming AIT So as to keep the spade
and a guard To the King of diamonds. as
Y viii have nothing left To lead hut the
diamonds after he win the fourth round
If clubs.
II Y sees this and tries to avoid II by
u%nderplaNing the initial lead Of the club
is"k with the ten. intending 70 under
pa. 'nc nine with ire nvc. A 'vi,i put
the King on the nine when 2 icads ,h6:
card,
II is then useless Tor Y to put Y M -.
IN the lead with the heart. because he no
longer holds n tenace over a in clubs.
the hve being q sure loser. Played In
this way \ and % ma, make three tricks
instead of one only.
correc, solutions from
+. H. Hay, Rainey Hustler. u. Perry.
Herbert ". Nealc. Herbert &. Nm. l.. :.
Hart. Jr.. Henry ANDERSEN. W. y. john
son. w. i. w. J. Warren Miller. q. u.
Boston. Tobias Brill. v. G.. Mankowski,
j. e. Hume. Z. +. Johnson. keystone.
Roscoe T.. Harris. +. H. Fairfield. George
u. Glover. Frank =. Busser. Il. T.. W.
I. W White. J. +. Maffett. T.. l.. Dash
i.ll. j. W. Wortz. Mrs. Elizabeth Ames,
w. 4. Fabian and T., n. Parkinson.
The homo of starting the contestants
for the next honor list seems 10 ha We
fallen naturally upon Ernest Bergholt.
whose problems are always interesting.
Solvers are reminded that all answer
to problems must reach the office Of
The L not later than the morning
Of the second Thursday after the prob
lem appears. From the series Of ten.
starting with No. al. four will he We.
lect.d ON accoun, of either their diff
Guilty or their novelty.
The names OF those who succeed in
solving these four will be placed ou the
honor list. and II they can stay on that
list for another series they will get n
star after their names and rank az 'x-
perts. The experts nj present struggling
:or the championship are W II. Brush
of Austin. Tex. Frank y. Busser of
Germantown. Pa. and j. Warren Miller
Of Harrisburg. Pa.
BRIDGE problem so. al.
Hy Ernest Hprghuli.
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There are no trumps and T. is in the
lad. Y and n wan seven tricks out
Of the eight 70 win the game.
Tho solution depends on two things
preventing A from making n club trick
and forcing u to unguard one or the
other OF the red suits. In the stor,
of course Il did not know who had the
king Of clubs. but Non Mastin managed
the club suit In such a way that IL did
not matter how the suit lay. and the
tricks were secured as follows
u led the nine Of clubs SO that dummy
should be able TO under play two rounds
In case A had the king and did not
cover. The Intermediate card makes no
difference II \ has three of the suit only.
but II A has four il makes a great deal
Of difference.
The club nine wins the first trick
dummy playing small. The jack Of clubs
follows. and II \ still refuses to play
the king Y underplsys with the ten
queen ana ace.
In III. meantim, what has Y dis.
carded" Il let go the spade OF
the fourth club regard ess Of Is dis
card. II h sheds II spade and Il dia
mond. which Is he best he can do. Y
leads the queen of diamonds and Il wins
IL with the KING
Now Is cannot lead spades 10 me- part
ner's queen. as h. has none left. and tn.
retu II OF the diamond gives Y two tricks
in that sui,. after winch Il makes "A
reNrt. II Il leads the heart T. makes the
.-lcf AMI then leads the diamond to Y,
Who makes the ace aud trey.
II II keeps the spade. distardiug one
heart and one diamond. Y viii lead the
he3rt for III. nth trick. 81 that T. shall
make both Jack ami sewn aud force q
to discard again This forces y to give
up that spade az make all the diamonds
In VS. hand good for tricks
II is obvious that " Il discsris two
diamonds V and viii make eight tricks
instead OF seven.
The instructive point in the hand Is
the opening lead. which is designed Ia
meet a situation typical Of many hands
at the card table. If u starts with the
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betrayed an expression which plan
said: II hope you're not ashamed {
he seen with q Bible"
Thu" man WAS quick TO psrco
expression.
i know this is an unI..IA. .ruIC
and an explanation nigh. '"'
YOU. II" AID 4 want iu ',.i
Bib'e, want to read il al, ~, >
require some time, as you kt," a
as ! sm very busy. and H. = ?
spare inn IL of the odd. l.' 90
variety. I'll nave t. read . a "'"'.
ana Whenever | have the ,p,'... o q
and ! desirr 10 read i &c.,.
causing comment. yuu see l,.r.'
been a churChgocr. and NJ, l.~ r.-
associates II acuIa!ntan,c ...'r
had reason 10 regard me A. ed
patron OF religion. should tie. .'.'
reading q Bible n, odd mou,''' d
The train, say, or when mu,oI.r 500"
I'm afraid they might uc ~.''
apprehensiNe or Disguised ur
They'd probably rcmark SOM. -
this:
look at that old rerroh,'" "
'"' 'Nn'lHE ~ tFP' ~ 10
p'ous, oh" And him moi . -
than any OF the res; uf u, rr""
'oh. ] see" the ltt'e ~i'. ~ 900.
exclaimed, smiling undrrs'a't'.
They might think. Tor .nsta.,s '"i'
You're tr1ins To rut someth'r. -
hi man beamcd on her ,'.''
ativ.iy.
I'm afraid they m Sh' NJ, see 49,
motives and think | m.sh' he '"'
10 do something like tina h
$50 I'm going 10 put snm"'.rS "''
on them by disgu.s.ug my b..
think that il will hH the a.''g' 500
for Il while. IN take this "r' 'r'
III have paper Covers lifted or
then ! can perusc i, in pea . ..' y
feaf q precipitatinG a raE,,h' $50
picion among my friends"
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Correct solutions from
James 4. Green. Albany. Thoma .
Foy. i. T. N. NJ. James Hylard. =. !.
Mct;arry. G. r. Corliss. Hoboken. Ed
ward Mulrooncy. William n. Clarke. r.
". Mcmahon. Conrad .Alheidt. J.. p.
DeGrofr. Nareik. George n. Lord.
James q. Pinkerton. J. n. Noremac.
T. J. r. Bronx. L. =. Hart. Jr.. John
Ryan, George Bauer and Il. J. Graf.
Perhaps some reader Of THE SrN can
tell us who composed this one, sent from
Holyoke. IT has a very neat point to
It. but is not too deep to prevent II
from being a good starter for the next
honor list.
Those who solve all ten Of the prob
lems from No. al TO 3S1 will he en-
titled to white membership cards in
Tug SrN Checker club. Those vino have
white cards now will get a star after
their names and rank as c~rackajacks.
Those WHO miss only one problem In
the ten will get red cards. n those
who misc two will be entitled 20 blue
cards. Any who fail on three will get
green cards. no matter which seven they
get correctly OF the remainder.
PROBLEM Nc. al. CHECKERS.
Mat
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SOMETHING OVER.

LIS fac" was Of the kind char
Hrtrristic of men who have
gone up agains, the world and
Won over all obstacles and he wanted
u bible,
"HaNvn't YOU got II with n back
last Ike amy ordinary book aud with
lettering ~ it, he asked.
The slim littlc brunette sa,eswoman n
looked surprised and shook her head
decisivc;y IA she produced a volume
of the scriptures bound in the Gus
iomary fashion with the usual IN
scripl.un.
Nothing al all Ike that" she said.
II doubt if yuu can md such a Bible,
We " have amy rall for them
bound that way"
Then perhaps YOU a fnd me one
w!ih a good sti.r back w!,l,ou, the Top
overs At ia" edges. so | can put a
cover on IT,"
The sa'eswoman handed him a Bible
So bound. She was too well trained "a
ask questions, but she unconsciously
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regularly shaped pieces Of the most
precious metals. To this end the Grand
Nixier ordered to be sent to the palace
q number Of pieces Of precious metals.
When these were delivered to the
craftsman who was to do the job he
found there were nine squares. which
would make the table top the same
length on each side. One Of these pieces
was pure platinum. which. although not
very pretty. the workman knew was val.
liable. and he contrived to steal It. leav-
ing only eight pieces. like this:
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Y and 2 want seven tricks against any
defence.
The distribution Of the cards il a.
follows.
Y a the ace ten Ave Of hearts queen
eight seven five Of trumps king and six
Of diamonds. no spades.
A has the Jack eight four Of hearts /:
jack OF rumps queen Jack ten seven
of diamonds and the ten OF spades.
Is has the queen seven six OF hearts
ace nine six of trumps Jack eight six
of spades no diamonds.
Il has the king nine three OF hearts (:
-four Of trurnps nine eight or diamonds :
queen seven and deuce OF spades.
CHECKER BINDINGS.
-. J. r. Bronx writes that problem
Ne sac. cent to THE SuN by WILLIAM
Evans Of New Haven (who made no
claim to being the author " VI was a
prize winner IN he Liverpool Mercury
,oLtraI,cnt in 1898 and Was arranged
Ny =. Ferguson.
The distribution OF the pieces was
Black men on 1. :. ~. 10. II and ~
king on -. White men on .. ). -. 70.
80 and 80 king on I. white 10 play
and win. Here are the moves that, solve
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PROBLEMS FOR SUN
READERS TO SOLVE
Useful Point for Players in
Bridge Hand Composed by
Capt. Frank Roy.
a PUZZLE IN GEOM ETRY

s.'idgc problem No 36e. by capt
Frank Roy was not quite as tricky as
his No. 36s. nut II was probably more
instructive. as II illustrates a position
that comes up in various ways ut the
card table.
Capt. Roy writes to TIE StS that the
idea OF the problem was suggested by
an incident in a story published in the
American Magazine some years ago en-.
titled The Head Convention and writ.
ten by ". r. Foster. In which the pre-.
else situation stated in the problem
arose.
Here IL the distribution
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Here * a rather interesting little
study in cut up problems. a. they are
popularity called. suggested by F.. II. s.,
who is too modest TO allow the publ
cation of anything but his initials.
The Grand Vizier OF Teberistan was
ordered to make a IA bile for the kalif
the top OF which hould he composed OF
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Il bid u heart, Al some tables Y mad.
tn" mistake of denying the hearts by
i'dd ny ~" diamonds. which is very bad.
a. he has not a trick IN diamonds. The
correct TAX" out Is no trumps. which .ocs
gam e making four odd.
At one table y did no, bid ANYTHING,
ard u was satisfied with the hearts
\ led a spade. ana dummy led n small
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After some study he discovered that
he could cut the remaining pieces. just
as they lay on the table before him. by
Two straight lines. dividing the layout
into three pieces. and could reassemble
these pieces So as to produce " per-
fectly symmetrical square. How was
his done?
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
County Courts Decide to Push
Work on Dixie Mountain Road

Baker-Meeting at the dividing line
of Grant and Baker counties at Austin,
81 miles west of here, Tuesday after
noon, members of the County courts of
the two counties decided to push the
work on the Dixie Mountain that will
give a thoroughfare connecting the
counties. The road on the Grant
county side was found in worse shape
than that on this side of the line, but
this the Grant County court consented
to remedy at once, with the ultimate
idea of building road along the John
Day river from Susanville, touching at
the Dixie Meadows mine, which will
make much safer grade than that on
the road now in use.
In regard to the state highway, fol-
lowing the John Day river and con-
Meeting Baker, Grant and Malheur
counties, the Grant county commits
sioners announced that they will push
preliminary survey. 1t was ascer-
tained that the United States Forestry
department would pay the greater part
of the survey in Baker county. No
arrangements were made as to how the
balance of the expense could be met.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
Japan and Russia Agree on China;
Open Door Policy Not Endangered

Tokio-The Japanese foreign office
Saturday announced as the substance
of the Russo-Japanese convention
signed at Petrograd on July 8, the fol-
lowing:
First-Japan will take part in no ar
rangement or political combination di-
rected against Russia. Russia will
take part in no arrangement or politi-
cal combination directed against Jap
an.
Second - In case the territorial
rights or special interests in the Far
East of one of the contracting parties
which are recognized by the other con-
tracing party are menaced, Japan and
Russia will consult each other on meas
ures to adopt with view to support
ing or extending assistance for the
safeguarding and defense of these
rights and interests.
. To question from the Associated
Press representative as to what effect
the alliance would have upon the open
door and the integrity of China, the
foreign Office replied:
1.-THE convention is effectually an
emphasis upon and an extension of the
Anglo-Japanese alliance based upon
the territorial integrity of China,
whose open door and integrity are not
endangered. American trade and in
terests are in no wise affected"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14

one OF Captain koenlgs flrst acts
after he moved his ship up the harbor
from quarantine early Monday was to
announce that the Deutschland was
only one OF a fleet OF mammoth SUD-
merslbles built or building for regu-
lar trans Atlantic freight and mail
service. lie said the next to come
would be the Bremen, and that she
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
Mills To Pay Families.

Oregon City - Families Of guards
men who were employed in the local
mills of the Crown Willamette Paper
company will be cared for by the mill
as long as the Oregon soldiers are
away from home. Mill officials have
found IL families which were left by
guardsmen employed in the local plant.
The money will be paid to the wives Of
the men, the mill giving 26 days pay
a month, less SIS paid by the govern.
ment to the soldiers. The Crown-Wil-
lamette mills and the Hawley Pulp &
Paper company are holding jobs oper
for men now at the border.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
OMNIBUS REVENUE BILL PASSES
HOUSE, INCREASING INCOME TAX

Washington, D. C.-The administra-
tion omnibus revenue bill, creating a
tariff commission, imposing a protec-
tive tariff on dyestuffs, repeating pres
ent' stamp taxes and providing for new
taxes on incomes, inheritances and war
munitions profits, passed the house
late Monday by vote of 240 to lao.
During the closing hours of debate
several amendments, providing for
elimination of the bankers tax and
modifying the tariff commission sec
tion, were adopted over the opposition
of Democratic leaders.
The amendments cut the salaries of
members of the tariff commission from
$40, 900 to $7500 annually; struck out
the provision under which no member
or former member of congress could
serve on the commission, and provided
single appropriation Of $500, to
pay expenses of the commission the
first year, instead of the bills stipula-
tion of continuing annual appropria-
tion of that amount. The entire sec
tion levying tax of 81 for each $1,000
of capital, surplus and undivided
profits held by bankers was stricken
out.
Many amendments proposed by the
ways and means committee also were
adopted, including one under which
cigarette manufacturers must pay
special tax offs cents for every 10000
cigarettes.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
RED CROSS TO AID
IN n. Y. EPIDEMIC
Health Authorities Send Out Appeal for
More Trained Nurses.
CAUSE Of DISEASE MYSTERIOUS
Frantic Mothers Inferno Children in
Tenement Homes - As Cases
Found Outside Gotham.

New York-An appeal to the Amer
ican Red Cross for nurses to aid in
stamping out the scourge of infantile
paralysis here, which, since June l,
has caused the 1876 deaths among
children, was made Saturday by
Health Commissioner Emerson. There
are not enough trained nurses avail
able in New York to handle the work,
he said, and it had been found neces-
sary to ask aid of the chief of the Red
Cross bureau of nursing at Washing
ton. 1t was intimated that several
hundred workers were needed.
The call for help was sent out after
day devoted by health authorities
and the most prominent physicians of
the Greater City to discussion of
means by which the spread of the dis
ease can be checked. Some encourage
ment was found in the fact that fewer
new cases were reported Friday than
on Thursday or Wednesday.
All the medical men agreed, how
ever, that only by unremitting vigil
ance and the strict enforcement of ev-
cry known sanitary precaution could
the epidemeic be kept within bounds.
Another serious phase of the situa-
tion was reported by the Association
for Improving the Condition of the
Poor, which has found that in the con-
gested districts Of the city frightened
mothers have interned their children
in their tenement homes, in many in.
stances with windows closed. Such
action, it was pointed out, is likely to
have serious effects, not only on the
children, but on adults as WELL.
Children's reading rooms in the pub
lie libraries have been ordered closed
as a'precautionary measure, and the
order barring children from moving
picture theaters will not be modified
until conditions improve. Fairgrounds
in various parts of the city were or
dered closed earlier in the day.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
NEWS ITEMS
Of General Interest,"
About Oregon
Buyers Week Dates Are
August 7 to IL Inclusive


The fourth annual Buyers Week to
be held in Portland has been fixed for
August to IL, for the convenience Of
Northwest merchants. Invitations are
ready to be sent to all the merchandise
ing trade territory, where Portland
jobbers and manufacturers maintain
affiliations.
Plans for the event are being worked
out by the arrangements committee Of
that city and it is intended to mix bus.
mess and pleasure in most allurine
proportions.
Following the outline of the highly
successful Buyers Week of 1915, the
work of preparing for the 1916 Buy
ers' Week visitors will be in the hands
of the trade and commerce bureau Of
the Chamber of Commerce, of which
Nathan Strauss is chairman.
1t is believed that the Forthcoming
Buyers Week will attract much
larger attendance than any of its three
predecessors.
The number of buyers has grown
each year, and the territory they rep
resente has spread, so that the annual
Buyers Week has become one of the
fixed institutions of the city. Portland
jobbers and manufacturers get to-
gether with their retail friends from
upstate. downstate, across the river
and east of the Cascades for a week of
profitable conferences.
Neither the out-of-town merchant or
the representatives of the big mer-
chandising establishments of the city
would permit Buyers Week to be
thrown overheard.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
Corporations Are Formed.

Salem-The Peninsula Lumber com.
pany, of Portland, which in the past
has been operating in Oregon ss Wis.
consin corporation, organized as ar
Oregon corporation with a capital Of
81, 900, 900. The old corporation will
withdraw from business in the state
Officers of the new company are
Charles A. Hart, G. C. Frisbie and F.
C. Knapp, of Portland.
The North Pacific Shipbuilding com
pany, capitalized at 500. 900, was in
corporated here, with headquarters il
Portland.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
Road Appeals to Its Men.

San Francisco-The Southern Pacific
company ordered posted in depots and
engine houses throughout its system
an appeal to its 81, 800 employees to
use their influence to avert a threat
ened strike of enginemen, firemen,
conductors, trainmen and switchmen.
The poster says that strike ballots
have been sent out to the members Of
the unions threatening to strike, who
constitute l3a per cent of its en-
ployes. The company asks the men
who receive the ballots to vote against
the strike.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
Bond Issue Carries.

Medford-By vote of nearly 8 to1
1000 for and 366 against-the people
of Medford Monday approved the con-
tract with Mr.. Bulls for the construc-
tion of a railroad to the Blue Ledge
mine, just over the California line,
about SO miles from Medford. The
Blue Ledge boosters celebrated their
victory by a parade of automobiles
with footing horns through the streets,
bright with red lights, led by the Med
for band. Leaders of the movement
were serenaded and speeches were
made on the street by enthusiastic cit
iZens,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
Forces To Be Combined.

Bandon-R Roderick l.. MacIeay, man.
ager of the Wedderburn Trading COM
pany. which a few months ago pur-
chased the Fishermen's Cooperative
Cannery, on the Lower Coquille river,
announces that forces of the local plant
at Wedderburn. on Rogue River are to
be combined. This is made possible
by the fact that the salmon do not
commence to run here until after the
season is over on the Rogue.
improvements and additions to the
local plant are being made in prepara-
tion for the fall season.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14

chihuahua City Large Carranzs
forces, better organized and more COM
pletely equipped than any other units
Of the de facto government troops,
Saturday were closing in on the band
its Of Southern Chihuahua and North
ern Durango, intent on wiping them
out. Jiminez, which the Villistas cap
tured after defeating an inferior force
and killing General Ignacio Ramos.
has been occupied again by government
troops.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
King of AMMAN penosed.

Paris - Duy-Tan, the 16-year-old
king Of the French protectorate of An
nam, on the China sea, has been de-
throned as a result of a revolt of An
NANTES at Quang-Ngai, which he has
been accused of having fomented. The
governor general of French Indo- China
reports that the outbreak was sup
pressed quickly and the king arrested
near Hue. He is succeeded by Prince
Bun-Dao, who has just been crowned
king in his stead.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
King congratuIates Men.

London-The following message was
sent by King George to General Sir
Douglas Haig, commanding the British
troops on the Franco-Belgian front
"Please convey to the army under youi
command my sincere congratulations or
the results achieved in the recent fight.
ing. am proud Of my troops. None
could have fought more bravely." Gen.
eral Haig, in reply, said: "All ranks
will do their utmost to deserve You
Majesty's confidence and praise"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14

while he ate his dinner neighboring
growers inveigled his employees away
by offering the bait of higher pay.
The larger growers have suffered ir-
reparable loss, and their fruit is spoil
ing on the plants because of the labor
shortage. That is the reason they are
resorting to outlawry to harvest their
cropg.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-14
Banks Opinions Differ.

New York-A wide divergence of
opinion among the banks of the coun-
try as to whether the Federal reserve
act has been successful after years
operation is shown in report issued
Tuesday by New York trust COM
pany, which has completed a nation
wide survey Of the attitude of banks
toward the act. More than 5000 re-
plies were received to the queries sent
out, 1760 Of them being favorable, 1773
unfavorable, and 1911 noncommittal.