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Of clubs from Dummy; Mr.. White
head played the 10; Mr.. Wyman won
with the ace.
In order not to run the chance Of
the adversaries making a singleton
trump. and also to catch the king
should it be a singleton. Mr..
Wyman led the ace Of diamonds.
MI. Work played the 4: Dummy
the 3; Mr.. Whitehead the 3.
AS the king Of diamonds was now
the only trump out against him.
and as 1t was sure to make any.
way. Mr.. Wyman led the ace Of
spades; Mr.. Work played the 2;
Dummy the 3: Mr.. Whitehead the
Mr.. Wyman continued with the
queen OF spades; Mr.. Work PLAYED
the 8: Dummy overlook with the
king: Mr.. Whitehead PLAYED the Z.
Dummy led the lack Of spades:
Mr.. Whitehead played the 8: De-
clarer discarded the Of clubs: Mr..
Work played the 8 of spades.
Dummy led the 8 Of clubs: Mr..
Whitehead played the tack: De-
clarer trumpet with the Of dia.
monds: Mr.. Work played the 2 of
clubs.
Mr.. Wyman now had stripped
both his hand and Dummy's Of
spades and clubs. While he did not
know the location of the king Of
diamonds 1t made little difference
to him which adversary held it. All
he had to do was throw the lead to
this high trump. If the winr ing
adversary should return a spade or
club. Mr.. Wyman could trump in
his own hand and throw off a
heart from Dummy. He would thus
lose only one heart trick. and would
go game.
Felt Safe
II Mr.. Whitehead. East" should
win with the king Of diamonds. and
return a small heart. Mr.. Wyman
was prepared to pass It, so that
Mr.. Work. West" probably would
win 1t. Any card that the latter
would then lead would give Mr..
Wyman game.
Therefore, Mr.. Wyman led the
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2 Of diamonds; Mr.. Work played the
king; Dummy the 8; and Mr.. White
head discarded the 3 of clubs.
Mr.. Work was now in a bad fix
Tor 9 lead. He knew Mr.. Wyman
could trump either spades or clubs
and discard a heart from Dummy.
His only chance to save game was
to find Mr.. Whitehead with either
the ace or jack Of hearts. II Mr..
whitehead held even the jack, De-
ciarer, even though he held the ace,
could make only one heart trick.
Mr.. Work. therefore, very cleverly
led the of hearts. He did not lead
either the king or queen because he
knew. from his own hand and the
cards already played, that his part.
ner could hold but two hearts. If
he led high heart. and his part.
ner held Jack and one small, the
latter might win the second round
OF hearts and be compelled to re.
turn either club or spade, which
would be playing into the Declarer's
hand.
On Mr. Works 2 of hearts, Dunn.
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the king Of diamonds and the king
queen Of hearts, he thought 1t safer
to pass. inasmuch as his partners
bid had been made In the lead-direct-
ing position. Game in clubs was not
to be expected. nor did 1t seem, from
his hand, that the opponents would
90. game in diamonds. He was con-
tent to allow the opponents to play
their minor suit.
Mr.. Wei, North" also passed, as
he was more than pleased that Mr..
Wyman had bid the suit in which
he, Mr.. Wei, had the greatest length.
Mr.. Whitehead passed. Mr..
Wyman became the Declarer. with
his contract two diamonds.
Mr.. Work led the of clubs. the
highest Of his three small cards OF
his partners suit. With Mr.. Work 8
holding, this lead was correct against
either suit or a no-trump contract.
Reckoned Possibilities
Mr.. Wyman, before playing from
Dummy, reckoned the possibilities
Of the cards in his two hands. par
ticularly from game-going view
point.
To 20 game in diamonds. Mr..
Wyman needed IL tricks. At first
glance, he had no spade losers; he
had at least one, and possibly two,
heart losers; one club loser, and per-
haps one diamond loser.
However, he saw that his own
losing club could be discarded on
Dummy's third high spade. This
eliminated one of his losers. There
were only three diamonds In the al.
versaries' hands. one of which might
be the lone king. If so. he would not
lose a diamond trick.
After looking his cards over care
fully, Mr.. Wyman had his campaign
planned in q manner that was pretty
sure to give him game. perhaps
Small Slam.
On the first trick, he played the 5
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This distribution Of cards prom.
lsed an interesting game:
Mr.. Wyman, dealer, in the
South" position: Spades. A, q:
Hearts. A. J, .. 8; Diamonds, a. 6.
Mr.. Work, west; Spades. 10 6,
5, 2; Hearts, K, Q, 4, 3; Diamonds,
K. 4; Clubs, 8, &. a.
Mr.. Wei, NORTH: Spades. K. J.,
3; Hearts, 10. s 3: Diamonds, J. 10.
Mr.. Whitehead, East: Spades. 8,
8. Z, 4; Hearts. z. S; Diamonds, 8;
Clubs. Is, Q. J, 10. 4, 3.
Mr.. Wyman. the dealer, with his
100 aces naturally opened the bid.
ing with one no.trump.
Mr.. Work passed. M. Wei also
passed. Although Mr.. Wei was
very weak In hearts and clubs, his
holding did not Justify q take.out.
Moreover, he felt that his long
diamond suit and short but strong
spade suit might be Of great value
to his partners no-trump.
Mr.. Whitehead made a lead-direct.
ing Did Of two clubs. He was will.
ing to play the bid at two clubs,
but made the bid primarily to direct
lead from his partner in case the
opponents went to two no.trump,
MI. Wyman could not afford 10
say two no.trunp. however, because
ne had the clubs stopped only once,
ana his hand was too full Of holes
to prevent his opponents from get.
ting in again and running the club
suit. He therefore bid two dia-
monds, az he was sure that his
partner. Mr.. Wei. would not allow
the diamond bid to stand II he held
as good as a secondary bid Of his
own in any other suit.
Mr.. Work Passes
j. Mr.. Work passed. Although he
mad normal support (three cards. In
the club suit. and raising strength in
The Washington times., 1927-01-12
BANDITS ROB
TWO STORES

Backing the manager and two
customers into a rear room, q
bandit last night robbed the sanI-
tary Grocery store at Bethesda,
Nd. Of $1os, making his escape, in
an automobile.
Policeman Joseph oIdfield, OF
montgomery county, was advised
ny q woman customer of the store,
Lnat she had entered and asked
TOT the manager. A strange man
nad told her that he was the man.
1ger, she said, and, not believing
ms story, she reported the affair.
an investigation revealed the fact
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John N. SwartzeH Is
Named Civitan Head

John n. SwartEell was elected
president Of the CIvitan Club at the
annual banquet and election held
last night at the Lafayette Hotel.
George Harris was chosen first
vice president; Thomas L. Phillips,
second vice president. and Horace
Seal. third vice president.
James M. Proctor. Leonard Ruoff
and Ralph Wolfe were elected to
the hoard Of directors for years,
and Sidney Kent to serve 2 years.
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Fingerprint Expert
Will Give Lecture

Major G. c. Bennett. fingerprint
expert Of the War Department, win
give an instructive Illustrated lecture
on the Importance of rngerprint
clues at the entertainment tomorrow
night o fthe Mems Club of st.
Marks parish.
The entertainment will be held in
the new parish hall, and members
OF Congress are especially invited,
d. w. Gall. president Of the club,
said today.
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that the three men were still
locked in the back room.
Louis Scribbante, 1917 First St.
N. W., told police that two bandits
entered his store, produced q pistol
and ordered him to hold his hands
down 30 that persons from the out.
side could not see what was going
on. They took $50 in bills and a
small check.
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my played the 3; Mr.. whitehead
the Z; and Declarer won with TIE 8.
Mr.. Wyman led the ace Of hearts:
Mr. Work played the 4; Dummy
the 6; and Mr.. Whitehead the 5.
Comedies One Trick
Mr.. Wyman then conceded one
heart trick to the opponents, all the
rest OF his cards and Dumpy's cards
being good. giving him game. with
four honors divided.
While the hand was not especially
difficult. Declarer could easily have
lost game by failing to discard his
losing club on Dummy's jack Of
spades. before allowing the oppo.
nents to get the lead.
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Fine Playing Marks
Radio Bridge

W. Lock Wei Harvard graduate and famous athlete,
puted be the best bridge player of the Far East formed
Of the quartette Of exhibition players in the radio bridge
broadcast last night from WRC The other participants
were Walter Wyman, Of Arlington, Mass Milton Work,
and Wilbur. @. Whitehead, Of New York city.
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OFFICERS TO BE INSTALLED

Officers of the Stuart Walcott
Post, American Legion. viii be in.
stalled tonight at a meeting and
dance in the Mt. Pleasant Masonic
lodge rooms. Fourteenth and Kenyon
Streets Northwest. at $50 o'clock,
Gen. Amos Fries. department COM
mander Of the legion, officiating.
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The above wants and offers
are only q few Of the hundreds
OF interesting propositions adVeF.
Using Section. Turn there NOw.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
India NatiOnaIiStS
Protest Against
British Commission

LONDON, Nov. 9. - The British
commission that will investigate and
report whether India is ready for
further measures Of self government"
will probably take about one year in
hearing witnesses and forming its
conclusions, it was understood today.
The bill containing the personnel of
the commission, which was introduced
in Commons last night by Premier
Baldwin, is expected to meet opposi-
ton from laborites and liberals be-
cause it fails to give Indians places
in the membership.
Indian nationalist probably are ex-
)ected to make a vigorous protest
against the commission.
Sir John Simon is chairman of the
proposed commission and other mem
bers are Lod Durham, Stephen
Walsh, Col. g. R. Lane Fox, Lord
Stratheona, Major the Hon. E. Cado-
AN and Major c. R. Attlee.
1t was originally intended that the
commission should not be appointed
until 1929, but Premier Baldwin moved
up the date two years so that the
work could be started at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
Bratianu Planning
Dictatorship, Carol
Newspaper Declares

BUCHAREST, Nov 9.-That Pre-
mier Bratianu has been planning to
establish a dictatorship like that of
Primo de Rivera's is the charge made
by the opposition paper "Adeveru,"
just before Bratianu's press CEN
sorship went into effect.
The "Adeveru" declares:
by the Prime Minister'S order a
project has been elaborated which will
place Rumania under an exceptional
regime, in which Draconian punish
ment win be applied to offenders. All
essential public liberties which until
the present existed at least on paper
will be abolished by this project,
which will restrain the liberty of ac-
ton Of all citizens in intolerable
fashion. The project has been sub
mitted to the National Assembly.
"This is the last number of AIDE
veru' which will appear without CEN
sorship. We protest against the sup
preston Of the liberty of the press
and the trampling under foot of the
constitution by a government which
only few days ago declared the con-
stitution inviolate"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
SOVIET EXPERTS
HERE TO STUDY
BRIDGE BUILDING
U.S.S.R. Plans Big Rail
Construction Program

A delegation Of Soviet bridge build
ers headed by Prof. v P. Nikolaev,
manager Of the bridge building sec
ton Of the Metal Administration of
the Soviet Union has arrived in the
United States for a study of Ameri-
can bridge building, according to an
announcement of the Amtorg Trad
ing Corporation, the principal firm
in SOviet-American trade.
According to the delegation, the
restoration of bridges destroyed in
Russia during the war has practically
been completed. An extensive pro-
gram of bridge construction is
planned both for the existing lines
and for new railroads.
Study U. S. Works.
Our visit here is in connection
with new developments in Soviet
bridge construction stated Prof.
Nikolaev. Before the war Russian
railways had locomotives of a maxi
mum size of from 60 to 70 tons. Since
at present the Soviet Union is build
ing larger locomotives, the new
bridges are being designed for loco
motives up to 100 tons. Within the
next five years it will be necessary
to reconstruct at least so per cent of
the railroad bridges in the whole of
the Soviet Union.
"Our eXistin G structural iron
works, although up to their pre-war
capacity, cannot produce enough parts
for the new bridges. Therefore. the
Government has decided to build two
new bridge plants in the Donetz Basin
and in the Urals. Each of these
plants will have an annual capacity
OF 10000 tons of metal shapes. aside
from other structural materials. We
expect to visit many bridge works in
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Gary, Indiana.
and Bethlehem. We shall study also
the equipment market in this coun-
try"
The Soviet Union has now 10000
miles of railways, 1000 miles more
than before the war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
FOUR COMMUNISTS
FRAMED IN ITALY
Get LONG TERMS
Unrest Grows as Result
af Wage Slash

LONDON. Nov. 9.-Long prison
terms were meted out to eight Com
munists charged with completely in
an alleged plot to assassinate Mus
solini last March, according to Cen
trail News dispatch from Rome.
Sofa, the man who was alleged to
have been chosen by the group to
assassinate Mussolini, was sentenced
to % years Imprisonment, the longest
term received by the eight men.
The next longest sentence of Is
years was given to Busca, and Ma
wore was sentenced to II years. Five
others charged with being in the con-.
spiracy received sentences rangir !.
from four to seven years.
The Fascist have repeatedly framed
plots to assassinate Mussolini for the
purpose of boosting Mussolini's stock
and failing militant workers engaged
in struggle against the fascist
regime.
The Fascist reign of terror has been
redoubled lately with the growth of
unrest resulting from the wage slash
decreed by Mussolini several months
ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
General Strike in Biscaya
Against Rivera Regime

PARTY is very well organized, furn-
ished the answer to de Rivera's asser-
tions.
Immediately after the discovery of
the alleged plot" the Party had
doubled its activity. One illegal
pamphlet followed the other and
everywhere the slogan was heard of
a "24 hours general strike on October
10TH" the opening day of the Ad-
Wsory Assembly, a general strike for
the purpose of protesting against the
dictatorship and winning the bulk of
the working masses.
General Strike Breaks
The proletariat of Biscaya obeved
our parole and proved its readiness
to fight. On the morning of October
10th, the general strike set in. The
big industrial enterprises, the ship
yards, mines, and workshops, waited
in vain for the working masses. The
appeal Of the Party was answered
with enthusiasm by the overwhelming
majority. Although from the very
beginning the entire armed forces of
the bourgeoisie patrolled the streets
and guarded the works, the partici
patton in the strike exceeded all ex-
pectations. In the mines and the
building trade in particular the strike
was carried out to its fullest extent.
Nor should we fail to mention that
for the first time in the history of our
revolutionary movement no violence
occurred. This strike will remain a
milestone in the history of the Span
ish proletariat.
Police Raid.
AS a matter of course, the police
subsequently initiated a successful
raid on our Party members and young
comrades, the latter having been in
the forefront of the movement. Ac-
cording to the announcements made
by the Governor, yet severel
measures of persecution are to be put
into operation against our brave
Party.
Political Strike.
Among the lessons we may learr
from this great movement, mentor
should in the first place be made OF
the fact that, since the coup d'etat
Of November 1923, this "a hours gen.
eral strike on the part of the work
ers of Bilbao represents the first
purely political movement of the
Spanish proletariat. After four years
Of silence and submission, the Span
ish workers again raise their heads.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
Negotiate With Riff
Chief for Release of
Four French Captives

RABAT, Morocco, Nov. 8. - M.
Duclos, representative of the French
government, departed today for Tadla
to attempt to hasten the negotiations
for ransoming two Frenchmen and
two women who were seized late in
October by hostile Riff tribesmen and
carried into the Atlas mountains.
M. Duclos will confer with tribal
chief Ben Daoud, who demands the re-
lease of number of natives held
prisoner by the French.
The captives are Yves Steeg and
Jean Maillet, relatives of Theodore
Steeg, French government general of
Morocco; Baroness Steinhel and her
daughter, Nine. Marie Ppokoroff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
British Soldiers
Murder PROTESTING
Nigerian Workers

LONDON, Oct. 90 (By MaiD.-
Trouble has occurred in the Warri
province of Southern Nigeria in con-
nection with the recent enactment of
direct taxation" states the Times
correspondent in Lagos.
at appears that a recent meeting
of chiefs with the Acting Governor,
Mr.. F. M. Baddeley, at Warri town,
was followed by considerable uproar.
cat Sapele Mr.. Baddeley addressed
the chiefs and people, explaining the
purpose of the new taxation, but the
meeting was followed by disorder, and
subsequent attempt to liberate an
arrested ringleader nearly resulted in
the overpowering of the small avail
able police force.
"The police were eventually COM
PEELED to fire into the crowd. One man
was killed and few persons were
wounded. The crowd then dispersed.
All Over the Empire.
ram oil ana rubber are the main
products which capitalism exploits in
Nigeria, where the late Lord Lever
hulme complained of the "silly senti-
mentality" which allowed the natives
to retain their land. The anxiety of
the native chiefs, who saw their rights
threatened, was shown when Mr..
Ormsby Gore visited Nigeria a year
ago and quoted them down with
empty promises from the Colonial
Office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
MANYWOUNDED AS
POLICE SHOOT AT
POLISH WORKERS

BERLIN, Nov. 9.-Hundreds of
Polish workers have been wounded in
street fighting with police and hun
dreds have been arrested in connec-
ton with the celebration Of the Tenth
Anniversary of the Bolshevist Revo-
luton in Russia, according to advices
from Warsaw this afternoon.
Polish workers observed the date
with widespread demonstrations and
forced stoppage of work in many
factories in the larger Polish cities.
The recent gains made by the Com
munist Party in the local elections at
Warsaw, Grodno and Lodz have
alarmed the government considerably,
it is believed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
By p. NOEL (BarceIona).

/ On the occasion, four months ago,
of the last extended session of the
! Central Committee of the Spanish
Communist Party, it was resolved
that the tactics of secret propaganda,
to which the Party had until then con-
fined itself, be replaced by tactics OF
agitation aiming at mobilization of
the proletariat against the Dictator
ship of Primo de Rivera by means of
public demonstrations.
1t was a question, therefore, of
initiating a campaign on large scale
with view to preparing real action
on the part of the masses. This tactf-
cal alienation was naturally con-
nected with series Of difficulties, for
some of the members were under the
influence of the passive policy"
which had prevailed in our Party for
a long while. $685.
The difficulties at issue were, more
1ver, of an external nature, arising
from the disproportion between the
)rnmental measures of oppression and
rom the dsproportion between the
strength of our organization on the
one hand and the organi2atory posi-
)ilities of the bourgeosie on the
o5her. Our lack of experience in this
lew direction, Furthermore, was an
)ther obstacle in the path of the ac-
ion we had undertaken to carry
through.
Prepare Rivera Overthrow.
The conviction, however, that the
general meeting of the Central Com
mittee in June had been right in its
resolutions, G u d ed our activity
throughout the last few months. The
Party, therefore, set to work with ex-
ceptional zeal.
The convocation by Primo de
! Rivera of the Advisory Assembly"
the object of which was the consolida-
ton of the great Bourgeois Dictator
ship in Spain, was favorable oppor-
tunity to initiate this mobilization Of
the masses which we have set up as
our tactical objective, considering it
to be the one and only means of the
Spanish proletariat to overthrow the
regime of the dictator at some future
date When week ago the Govern
ment of Primo de Rivera, alarmed at
our growing influence, again pro-
ceeded against our Party with all pos
sible means of oppression, great de-
gree of preparatory work had already
been done.
Dozens Jailed.
Dozens of our best fighters were
now thrown into prison. The dictator
published an official communication
from which it appeared that "all
danger had vanished" A week suf-
feed, however, to destroy this happy
illusion of the dictator. The prole-
tariat Of Biscaya, in which region our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
HORTHY TERROR
METES OUT LONG
TERM TO SzANTO
Forty Other Militants
Sentenced Also

BUDAPEST, Nov. 9. - The trial Of
Sc Hungarian Communists ended to-
day when Zoltan Szanto, head of the
secret communist organization, was
sentenced to eight years and six
months at hard labor.
Forty others, including two women,
received sentences of from one to six
years. Fifteen were acquitted. The
Communists were accused of "agitat-
ing" against the Horthy government.
Long live the proletarian dictator
ship" each prisoner cried as he re-
ceived his sentence. Each prisoner
was sentenced four days in dark
cell for "insolence."
Szanto was loudly cheered when he
reminded his comrades in open court
that the tenth year of the November
Revolution was being celebrated in
the Soviet Union. AS the cheers rang
out in the court room the Judge
shouted, "Who gave you permission
to stand and shout in this impertin-
ent fashion? More solitary confine-
ment for you"
At the opening of the Szanto trial
on October 10Th, the Communist lead
err so enraged the fascist Judge by his
denunciation Of the Horthy regime,
that the judge suffered a stroke of
apopleXy and the trial was Temporal
lily adjourned.
Referring to his Confessions"
Szanto said, Il signed false state
ments invented by the police because
| was threatened that l would undergo
the same tortures as my companions
who we're dragged half-dead and
bleeding and blue from strangulation
into my cell by the police"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
Gales Government Is
Stamping Out Remnants
OF ReactiOnary Forces

MEXICO CITY, Nov 8. - The
Gales government is moving swiftly
to complete its work in suppressing
the Gomez-Almada counter-revolution
Numerous men and women, arrest
ed Irapuato, Leon, Monterey and Tam
pico, have been brought to Mexico City
by the secret police.
Buildings occupied by anti-re-elec-
tons, together with many documents,
have been seized.
Unconfirmed rumor has it that
Hector Armada has been captured in
Vera Cruz near Jalapa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
Big Militarist Budget
Planned by Tory Govt.

LONDON, Nov. 9-New British
warcraft under construction at pres
ent consists of one battleship and ~
cruisers, first lord of the admiralty
w. c. Bridgeman revealed in the
House of Commons this afternoon.
Replying to question regarding
limitation of naval ornaments,
Bridgeman said that Britain has not
yet laid down the 1927 program for
new cruisers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-10
JObless British Miners
Sing International as
They Start London March

NEWPORT, Wales, Nov. o.
Singing 1.-THE Red Flag" and the
international" hun dred $ Of
miners from various mining towns
in the Ogmore, Rhonha and Aber-
dare Valleys marched into this city
last evening to join the march Of
unemployed miners on London.
The miners were fed yesterday
by the wives of employed miners
here. They hope to start on their
march today.