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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

Mrs. Bertha d. Wright, one of the
most capable players and teachers in the
East, held the South hand as dealer and
opened with one heart. To her partners
three diamonds she responded with three
no trumps, which became the contract.
If her partner had said two spades she
would have bid two no trumps, the three
diamonds and she three no trumps.
Vests lead Of the S of spades caused
East's king to fall under the singleton
ace. Mrs. Wright now let the queen of
hearts ride through to the king, East re-
turning the of clubs, which West cap
tured with the ace.
Now came the crucial trick. When
West returned the 9 of clubs Mrs. Wright
took careful account of her situation. If
she made the natural discard of spade
from dummy she could not run the now
established hearts in her own hand, for
ON the first of them dummy would take
the lead with the ace and she could
never get back into her hand. If she
tried the diamond finesse and it failed
the foe would get that diamond trick
and spade trick, too, at the end.
BY discarding the ace Of hearts ON this
club trick, however, she would be enabled
to run her four established hearts, dis
carding three diamonds and a spade
from dummy, then enter the dummy by
mee ms of the ace and cash the two good
spades.
That is exactly what she did, so that
she lost only one more trick, the finale
spade, instead of the two tricks which
would have flown had she not discarded
the heart ace.
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Contract Systems.

IN passing goulash how can partners
regulate their second and third passes
profitably when it happens that they
unfortunately exchanged cards of the
same suit or suits on the first pass?
The simplest way to control this, and
keep from continuing to swap cards OF
the same suit or suits, is for one of the
players to be nominated as "goulaSh
captain" of the side in advance. Then,
when such a duplication in passing
occurs, the plan laid down by the cap
tain is followed on the remaining passes,
giving him the cards his first pass has
requested and having him continue to
pass those he originally intended to.
A somewhat more effective way, when
partners understand it, is to have the
later passes determined by the height Of
the cards first passed; the one who
passed the highest card of the suit de-
sired on later passes would be the one
to become the captain" that particular
time, his expressed wishes being fol-
lowed.
In the following hand, with nobody
vulnerable and North as dealer bidding
two spades, would East be justified in
bidding three hearts?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
II LaqU a Week.

DOUBLING or redoubling and naming
a bid which Is not the one that can
be legally doubled or redoubled. A
player is not required to name the bid
he is doubling or redoubling but if he
do so and name any bid other than the
correct one, his declaration is void; he
must declare again and his partner is
barred from further participation in the
auction.
Next week-What occurs if dummy
warns declarer he Is about to lead from
the wrong hand or suggests a lead or
play by word or otherwise?)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

cause of the freakiSh hands held by the
opponents, and his partner blundered
Sible game.
Your skill is uncanny," he exclaimed.
"An expert would have gone down three
tricks on that hand"
Sam ought to know, for, besides being
an outstanding humorist, he comes
pretty close to ranking as a bridge ex-
pert himself.
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Continued from Ninth Page

Continued from Ninth Page
order to settle the terms. They could not agree
Then Washington drafted terms which he sent
to Lord CORVALLIS, requesting that they should
be signed by II o'clock the 18th, and that
the garrison should be ready to march out
within three hours. Lord Corvallis seeing it
useless to hope for better terms, yielded. The
articles were the same those which Clinton
had imposed on Gen. Lincoln at Charleston
All the troops were to be prisoners of war: an
public property was to be delivered up. Run
away slaves and the plumber taken by officers
and soldiers as they marched through the coun-
try might be reclaimed by their owners and
under this clause Tarleton had to dismount
from a splendid horse he had taken from a VIZ
ginia gentlemans stable. The private property
Of the British officers and soldiers was to be
respected. Lord CORVALLIS was allowed to send
of a packet with dispatches, and secretly put
on board persons who would be most obnoxious
to the outraged people of the South.
Lord CORVALLIS had lost $50 men during the
siege. Seven thousand two hundred and forty
seven, the very flower of the British regular
troops, with $40 sailors, thus surrendered
The last act of the drama was enacted at
o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of October,
1881, and It was the Tooth anniversary Of this
act that the Nation was celebrating by laying
the corner stone of monument at Yorktown in
1881, and In which the patriotic people Of
Washington we're taking a part as they always
do where the opportunity is afforded.
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clarer to exclaim: IF it were not for
your reputation I would redouble."
The epitaph inscribed on the tomb
stone of this hand reads: Down three,
vulnerable, doubled, score 1000 minus,
though six no trumps could have been
made easily"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Enlarged Capacity

Mary-If was fairy, I'd change everything
into candy and then eat it all up.
Mother-But I'm afraid you aren't big enough
70 eat so much.
Mary-Oh, III change myself into an &C.
plant first!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Uncanny Skill
Habby-Go-Lucky.

Happy-Go-Lucky once climbed up a tree,
Just to look round and see what he could
see;
Crack went the bough, such a terrible
fall!
Didn't hurt Happy-Go-Lucky at ALL
Happy grew up, but he never did
change
All of his friends said that Happy was
strange.
Even at bridge he would grin all the
while;
Happy Go-Lucky was famed for his
smile.
'"'t .sS.N.a. aesfaa.l- ,xSiF H-.a
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NORTH

When he was set he would beam just
the same;
Happy would say it was all in the game:
Never disturbed, he would keep playing
right
Soon luck would change and he'd win for
the night.
Even If Happy Go-Lucky was queer.
All of the bun-h wish that Happy were
here;
Since it's fact that we yer will see
him,
Let us agree that we'll all try to be HIM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
NORTH

a A K Q 10 3 9
VAC 10
%763
= None
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
The Fit 0fHand.

SOMETIMES a player can infer that
his hand would make a good dummy
for his partners best bid, but his
partners hand may be useless as a
dummy at his best bid, due to probable
lack Of entries and therefore inability
to get into" the dummy. Such was the
case when s. Benjamin, in a rubber
game Of contract, a goulash deal, held
these cards
AAQ4 VAKJ1os6s4s2A- A.
He bid two hearts His partner.
Howard G. Cornwell, called six clubs,
Benjamin six hearts and his partner
seven clubs Benjamin. fearing hack of
entries into his partners hand, missed.
He was right; the club grand slam was
in the cards, but the heart slam was
not, for his partner had this hand
Aes " %AJ1o72 AAkoI,o.
Cornwell's little spades were worth
their weight in gold.
Uncanny Skill.
Sam HELLMAN'S partner botched nm
hand fearfully, with at least five
execrable plays. Each time, however,
the terrible play proved profitable be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
4 The BRIDGE Forum d
Daarding ice assure More Trick Gi0es Rare Thrill

Y KAVE you ever had the thrill
of deliberately throwing away
III an ace and thereby managins
to make an otherwise i'm
possible trick? If not, you have new
kind of experience ahead of you, with
peculiar delight that may transcend the
fun of making grand slam.
A hand with such play in it came up
the other day, with four astute contrac-
tors on the job. The cards were dis
tributed thus:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Aucti0n Problems.

Ancti0n Pr0blems.
WITH hearts led at no trump, the ad-
versaries taking the first four tricks
and then Leading a club, how would you
plan the balance of the following hand?
DUMMY
AAK7532 V6542 oak ~
DECLARER
As6 H1o973 %QJ10s &AKQ
When this hand was actually played
recently in club game, the thoughtless
declarer, after taking the fifth trick in
clubs, Immediately set out to establish
his longest suit in either hand-spades.
He took the first two spade tricks with
his ace and king, on the second of them
dropping both the queen and ten. This
left the jack still out, and it took the
next trick. The opponent then led a
diamond, so that the dummy's ace and
king scored also the last three spades,
giving declarer a total of eight, or just
one less than game.
Any person who can count as high as
nine should be able to make sure thing
of such hand as this, if he will only
stop, look and listen. He will see that
three club tricks, four diamond tricks and
two spade tricks would make game The
one difficulty is that he has no re-entry
in his own hand unless he can get rid
of the ace and king of clubs in dummy.
This is easy to do, however, by leading
his two perfectly good clubs, discarding
the ace of diamonds on one of them and
the king on the other. He then would be
enabled to take tricks with the queen,
jack, ten and nine of diamonds, then
lead his little spade to the ace and king
for the two remaining tricks.
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The Neqe, Problem.

HOW would you bid and play the fol-
lowing hand?
AJ91
was
~J54
&Q1O76
a None A5AS4
V652 IL ri WK0S
AAQ9s2 g al AKlO
&KJ986 SA4a9
AAKQl086
VAQJ1O
~763
= None
Ymkto10n Centenary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11

donment OF the work of the Central Com
mittee owing to other reasons The state
ments of Ramsin on the 10th of October con-
tain the following:
"a second and not less powerful spur was
the assurance conveyed by Laritchev and
Ramsn at the end of 1928 from the Trade
and Industrial Committee that there was
firm hope of an intervention in 1880, j. e.,
in short space of time. The fractional
struggle which flared up in the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, the development
of great difficulties in the collectiviZation,
the progressive economic crisis, the growing
discomfort of the broad masses, the speedy
growth of the hold of the T. K. P. tKondra-
tyev's group on the masses and the financ-
ing of the Industrial Party by the Russian
emigrants, all these facts formed the basis
of the calculations for the success of a coun-
ter-revolutionary coup detat which was the
next task of the Industrial Party.
under such circumstances the activity of
the Industrial Party was, of course, continued,
but noticeably reduced. The chief task here
was the preservation and careful increase of
the cadre of the Industrial Party, the con-
Solidation of the tactical relations with the
T. K. P. and the efforts to maintain the
organization until the time of the interven-
ton" statement of 10th of October, 1890
The new destruction of the Central Com
mittee took place in the spring of 1880 with
the arrest of Fyedotov and Laritchev. But
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11

Chrennikoy, Ramsin, Fyedotov and Tchar-
novsky attending; the second in the spring
IN the building of the State Plan Economic
Commission, Chrennikov, Kalinnikov, Larit-
chev, Fyedotov Ramsin- and Paltchinsky at
tending, and the third also in the building
OF the State Plan Economic Commission
Chrennikov, Paltchinsky, Ramsin, Laritchev,
Fyedotov and Kalinnikov, dealt just with
this question -
These three later conferences also dealt
with the following questions: the report of
Paltchinsky that, according to his informa-
ton from abroad they might reckon on an
intervention within two years, in 1890, and
that it would be necessary for them to carry
on their work in such a fashion that gen.
eral crisis could be brought about to coin
eide with the intervention. 1t was reported
that France would be the leader of the in
tervention, that Russian industrialists had
conferred with BRAND and Poincare, and
that the military leader of the intervention
would be General Lukomsky. At the same
time the candidates for the various minis
terlal posts after the counter-revolutionary
coup d'etat were discussed. At the next ses-
sion the question of these candidates was
again discussed. The new methods of sab
otage were discussed These consisted in
making capital sterile by placing it in long
term and expensive building operations And
finally, at the fifth session of this period
the bloc with the Kondratyev- Tchayanov
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11

group was discussed as the main question.
The questions of the intervention began
to mix themselves with the questions of sab
otage in this period. In fact, the latter ques-
tons were even subordinated to the former
without, however, the former questions as
Stunning overwhelming Importance
In the second half of 1928 decisive change
took place in the work of the Central Com
mittee. The arrest of Paltchinsky, Chrenni-
kov, Krasovsky, and Strichov, following on
the arrest of Rabinovitch robbed the first
Central Committee of the Industrial Party of
its leaders and caused temporary interrupt
ton of its work. In consequence it was the
end of 1923 before another session was held
Laritchev, Fyedotov, Tcharnovsky and Ram
sin took part and it was decided to continue
the work and to organize a new Central
Committee The above mentioned journeys
abroad of Ramsin and Laritchev took place
at this period, and the negotiations with the
Trade and Industrial Committee and with
French military circles From this moment
on the questions of Intervention were placed
definitely into the foreground and the whole
work took its alignment from them Ramsin
declares that in the spring Of 1929 a session
OF the new Central Committee took place,
Fyedotov, Ramsin, Tcharnovsky, Laritchev,
and Kalinnikov attending The following de-
cision was arrived at:
"Our chief task is now to maintain our
selves until the beginning of the interven-
ton; our main tactic must therefore be di-
rected to preserving the head of the Indus
trialiSt Party and its cadres, even if this
is purchased at the price of weakening of
the leadership of the various branches of
the organization and its lower groups This
is all the more the case because the crisis
has already begun and will inevitably deepen
OF its own accord. Therefore, the work must
be carried ON with maximum amount of
care. With this end in view the former tao
tics OF the ninimal plans shall be abandoned
absolutely, because they are impossible of
accomplishment and obviously dangerous, and
in this connection, to review our plans if
this be possible without risk The work of
the most prominent members of the organic
cation is to be transferred to the. field Of
rational and technical undertakings, as their
results will be of value to the future State
Statements on the 2lst Of September, $780,
The arrests in 1895 did not cause the aben-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11
The Character of the Work of the
Central Committee of the Industrial
z'arty in the Years 192S-29.

Tie situation altered in 1923 in accordance
with the general alterations of the political
CT ( ,nlStances spoken of above.
HI the first half of 1928 the sabotage &C
tillty of the Central Committee was of an
elementary character. The session of the
Central Committee in winter took place in
the building of the Supreme Economic Coun-
Gil, and the following took part: Paltchinsky,
ChIennikov, Tcharnovsky, Kalinnikov, Larit-
cneV and Ramsn. Paltchinsky and Ramsn
reported on the instructions they had re-
ce4Vea from abroad and informed the session
thu, nc earlier tactic had been approved
I must be pointed out that the arrest of
the Sehachty group which took place in the
first months of 1923 did not restrain the
sabctagers in their work. On the contrary,
just at that time the question of turning the
Central Committee into a political party
was considered. According to Ramsin, the
arrest of a number of members of the Gen.
trai Committee had no influence on the
activity of the latter In connection with
the arrest of Rabinovitch it was pointed out
that greater care and conspiracy was neces-
So
s1 ee isteis sessions, Of which the first
Vas a1rati@i the Building of the; Association
o. fs,ginees in the Soviet Ulion, Psitchinsky,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11

this also did not lead to the stopping of
the activity of the Industrial Party as Ram
sin seeks to prove in his statement of the
Dist of September:
Il cannot remember any further session
of the Central Committee Industrial PARTY
throughout the following period, Up to the
last destruction of the organization by the
arrest of Fyedotov and Laritchev, came into
touch only with individual members of the
Central Committee or with small groups"
The Criminal Activity of the Central
Committee of the Industrial Party
in the Year 1880.
This contention of Ramsin is refuted bv
a series of statements made by others of the
accused, concerning plenary sessions in the
years 19291930. For instance, Kalinnikov
declares Con the 31st of october, 1890:
"The Central Committee of the Industrial
Party organized two conferences on its own
initiative: one to receive the report of Gintz-
burg on the economies of industry in 1880.
tSokoloVsky Byelozerkovsky, Schein.~) Tchar-
novsky, Laritschev and myself were present.
The session took place under the chairman
ship OF Schein and in his room in the Scien-
tific-Technical Institute of the Supreme Eco
nomic Council. The second conference was
held in the building of the State Plan Eco
nomic Commission in Laritchev's room. in
order to hear the report of Gromann ON
the general economic trend of 1880. 1 did
not attend this second conference and cam
not say who was there
With regard to the estimation of the eco
nomic situation to be expected for 1880 these
conferences came to very similar conclusions.
namely that production and investments in
building would experience great difficulty
with regard to the supply of fundamental
raw materials and building material and
chiefly with regard to finances and the sup
ply OF food. This analysis of the economic
trends OF 1880 was not unexpected, for the
Central Committee of the Industrial PARTY
as its members were already aware of these
circumstances at the time the Five Year
Plan was drawn up. Still greater economic
difficulties are to be expected for the sum
mer of 199Lp & $50 W. 80 - tss
The act.yity of THE persons named here
is being made the s,ttjeok ~ = s,,eS,;al IL,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11

The act- yity Of the persons named here
'isshesng made the sab5eOt = = special in
quiry
The Washington times., 1930-12-01
7BUI[DING URGEDIHOOVER CALLED
.DUR|NG WINTER BAR To REPEAL
staff Photos

President Hoover is the chief
political asset of the drys, and
the drys should work for his re.
nomination in 1882, Stanley
High, editor of the Christian
Herald, declared in a statement
issued here yesterday.
High said:
"TO defeat Herbert Hoover
for the Republican nomination
is the first and major point
in the present strategy of the
wetS."
At the same time the Meth,
odist Board of Temperance, in
a last,minute blast, warned:
'1f the Republican party
wants to die and die as the
fool dieth, the quickest way
is to hedge 6n prohibition"
High declared that Hoover re.
mains the chief obstacle to repeal
of the Eighteenth Amendment.
The Washington times., 1930-12-01
Dry Referendum
Is Asked by AndreW

Representative A. Piatt Andrew.
of Massachusetts announced last
night he would offer a Joint reso-
luton when Congress convenes to-
day providing for the repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
Andrews resolution will call for
conventions in each of the 4S
States, delegates being elected by
the people, thus making the con-
ventions equivalent to a popular
referendum on prohibition. The
resolution provides that the States
have seven years in which to hold
their conventions.
The Washington times., 1930-12-01
Board of Education
Meets Wednesday

The Board of Education will
hold a special meeting Wednesday
at $3.50 p. m. in the Franklin Ad.
ministration Building, Thirteenth
and K Sts.. N. W., it was an.
nounced today by Harry o. Hine,
secretary.
The board will take under con.
sideration the amendments to the
truancy laws proposed by the Dis
trict Commissioners. The third
section of Superintendent of
Schools Frank w. Ballou's annual
report, which deals with working
projects for the year 1930-31, will
also come under discussion.
The Washington times., 1930-12-01

Elimination of the seasonal
aspects of building construction
activity would contribute much
toward checking unemployment,
according to a statement issued
today by the Presidents Emerg-
ency Employment Committee.
Col. Arthur Woods, chairman,
made public a scientific view of
winter construction activity pre-
pared by James S. Taylor, chief
of the division of building and
housing of the U. S. Bureau of
Standards. Mr.. Taylor said:
actual experience shows an
exaggerated Importance Is at
tached to the effect of winter
weather on construction. Results
show year-arOund building is
sound practice"
Taylor insisted that the usual
decrease of construction in win.
ter, is chiefly a matter Of habit,
not of climatic conditions, point
ing out that I'VE find construc-
ton dropping off in warm South.
ern States, about the same time
in the fall that it does in North
err States"
In spite of experience during
the world war when necessity
forced all-the-year-around con.
struction, many connected with
the construction industry still be.
lieve it is impractical to build
in winter, according to Taylor.
The Washington times., 1930-12-01
BOARD REFUSES
To CONTINUE
PERMITS
Dispute Between Supervisors
and Gas Co. Heads Leads to
Resembling Ditching Rights

ARLINGTON, Va, Dec. 1.-Ap.
proxilnately 200 men. now EN-
ployed in laying gas mains in
Arlington county, will be turned
out of their jobs today unless the
board of supervisors of the
county change their minds and
grant a continuation Of the per-
NIT to the Rosslyn Gas Light
Company to carry on this work.
This action came as the re-
suit of a letter from the Pub
lie Utilities Commission of Ar
lington county requesting that
the matter of the new rate
schedule of the Rosslyn Gas
Light Company be brought be-
fore the State corporation com
mission because the rates, ac-
cording to the letter. are not as
low as the commission believes
they should be.
Permit Refused
After a lengthy discussion of
the gas rates, which A. G. Wood,
president of the Gas Light Com
pany, stated were as low as they
could possibly be made at the
present time, Chairman Duncan
moved that the board refuse to
grant a permit to continue lay.
ing the mains on the ground
that bitches had not been prop
erly refilled by the company af.
ter the pipe had been installed.
Water Discussed
A second bombshell was eX-
ploded in the meeting when a mo-
tion, proposed by Fl. c. Safell, of
Arlington, and asking that the
money yet remaining from the
$502, 900 received by the county
when a portion of it was an.
nexed by the City of Alexandria
be turned over the county water
fund to take care of the danger,
Gus conditions existing from lack
of water due to the drought, was
placed oefCre the oard for con,
sideration.
Chairman Duncan, who is the SUI
pervisor from Jefferson district.
refused to entertain the motion
and he was upheld by Supervisor
Turnburk. Mr.. Hedrick expressed
himself as being in favor of the
motion. stating that he disagreed
with the distribution of the $502,,
COO at the time.