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The Washington times., 1932-06-24

z made an opening bid of
Heart. His partner shifted
into Diamonds. z tried 2
Spades, upon strength of five
probable playing tricks. Y
counted six probable tricks,
with spades as trumps. That
strength called for three raises,
so Y ended contracting with
4-Spades. 1t was we'll that he
did so, rs z had bid every
value that he held. Had Y bid
only 3-SpadeS, it would have
been improper for 2 to bid
game.
Values hold only when a
hand is played at it's best
make, and in the best manner.
z had an idea that the first
duty Of the declarer is to pull
trumps. He expected trumps to
fall in three leads, which would
leave him with a long trump.
In reality the odds are IS to
35 that six missing trumps will
not be divided 3-3. A made
a crazy lead of his top club,
simply because that suit had
not been. bid adversely. rs
K won the trick, and he led
four rounds of spades. pulling
all trumpS. Then z found him
Salf able to win only four
side tricks; he won one heart,
two clubs, and one diamond
trick; eight tricks in all, and
went down two tricks. z re-
marked: Partner, we bid too
much" Y replied by recon
structing the hand, to show
that II tricks could be made by
proper play.
Sitting in rs place, Y re-
played the hand as it should
have gone. He won the first
trick with the K, as z had
done. The second trick was
won with the Ace of Hearts.
Dummy ruffed the second lead.
of hearts. The fourth trick
went to dummy's Ace of Dia-
monds. The fifth trick was a
lead of a low diamond, and
ruff by z. The sixth trick
was a ruff of heart lead by
z. To avoid losing dummy's
Ace of Clubs, through per-
mitting A to discard clubs, and
then ruff the Ace later on, the
seventh trick was won by lead
ing the Ace. For his eighth
trick. the demonstrator led a
diamond from dummy, and
ruffed in the declarer's hand.
The ninth trick was won by
having a dummy trump a heart
lead from rs hand.
That used up dummy's last
trump. The declarer still held
the K-Q of Spades. z used his
@ of Spades to trump a Dia-
mond lead from Dummy. Then
he led his K of Spades. to win
his eleventh trick. 2 had left
only one Heart and one Club.
A had left only two low Spades,
so that the hand ended by hav-
ing to give A the last two tricks,
but the demonstrator had won
the II tricks that the point
hand of declarer and Dur:my
counted. 2 lost three tricks by
dropping Dummy's three trumps
with three trumps of his own.
The demonstration allowed
Dummy to win three tricks by
ruffing losers held by z.
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The Washington times., 1932-06-24
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Bridge
BY E. V. Shepard
When To Pull Trumps

The best index to a players
ability is his knowledge of the
proper way to handle trumps;
when to puu trumps at once;
when to establish a suit before
pulling trumps; when to ruff
off losers before pulling trumps;
when to ruff trumps out of
opponents; when to cross-ruff,
instead of pulling trumps. Out
of the five distinct types of
hands, there are only two types
that call for immediate trump
pulling.
The following hand illus
trates the difference in results
between proper and improper
trump management.
Evening star., 1932-11-27

matter is there any magic of the West. Con-
Jurors everywhere work their mysteries by dex-
terity and miSdirection and by recourse't to the
science of mechanics, chemistry, ETC.; theirs Is
an art which exploits nature-never actually
transcends it and becomes supernatural.
Suggestion, of course, plays major role In
this art The sorcerers of the Orient nowadays
even here borrow from the skill and devices OF
the Occident, aping their Western colleagues
down to the minor details Of dress and deport-
ment-so much so that Calcutta journal only
recently made the statement that In magic also
the West is teaching the East
Science which has taught us to mistruSt all
miracles" operates through the skill and in
genuity of conjurors to make us believe in
science! Let us see how, I'M that border line Of
science which is magic, Past meets West.
Every one visiting India has seen one or
another variant of she Hindu basket trick"
This consists in placing boy in an oblong
basket made much in the form of a shoe, the
bulging side permitting the boy to hide him
self while the fakir r1n5 sharp rapiers and
swords through the basket, causing the occu-
pant to scream and give other apparent signs
of being in great pain.
Then the top Of the basket Is removed the
performer jumps inside to show that the boy
has "disappeared'-and then conjures him
back from the bulging sides where he had been
safely hiding all the time
This variant has been exposed very IRE
uuently But have seen il done much more
effectively-in honor of the celebration In Cal
cutta of the marriage of the daughter OF the
viceroy Oady Violet Minto).
The trick was performed by one Of the high
caste fakirs from the mountains. and consisted
Evening star., 1932-11-27
Base Ball Once '.R0Nnders"

THE modern game of base ball is the out
growth of the old English game of FOUNDERS.
which was gradually changed into the present
game. The Knickerbocker Club IN New York
City was the first organized club devoted 70
base ball, its organization occurring In 1913.
The game grew in popularity until the hrss
professional league was established In 1874.
From that point on the game grew rapidly In
public favor.
Evening star., 1932-11-27

in the use of sqaAre-shaped hamper In which
there was no space for any one or anything TO
be concealed.
A boy was introduced into the basket which
was elevated from the floor about or 10 inches,
thus permitting every one to look underneath
to prove the impossibility of escape through
trapdoor or subterranean passage or any SINH
lar device.
IA /HEN the lid was closed swords were thrust
w through the basket; cries were heard as
though they came from suffering boy inside
at which point the basket was turned on its side
so that the top faced the audience. In this
position the lid was raised-and every one could
see that the boy had disappeared.
Then the lid was closed, the basket righted,
Immediately reopened, and the boy jumped out,
smiling and unscathed.
This trick which Is undeniably impressive, Is
nevertheless quite simple. Let us look behind
the scenes and see what actually takes place In
this clever trick.
The bottom of the basket was Of itself a
movable trapdoor, and as the basket was tipped
forward the boy remained on the bottom, being
concealed by the magician and his assistant
standing on either side
simultaneously another flap in the basket fell
into place closing what would otherwise nave
been telltale opening at the bottom When
the basket was tipped back, the boy found him.
self again inside, and had only to make nS
cheerful appearance when it was opened.
Nevertheless this trick always Is p1zzling as
is the equally well known rope trick" And
thereby hangs an amusing tale.
In india not so long ago, 1 offered l,OOO
pounds (roughly $50oO) to any fskir or adept
Evening star., 1932-11-27


message from the beyond. There could just as
well have been two taps, or three, or dozen;
bIt the great god Coincidence had arranged for
exactly four.
Out of such filmy stuff have men ever made
their dreams of the supernatural upon such
hinnsy evidence rests the inexhaustible BELIEF In
miracles!
Yet there are profundties both in ancient
and modern magic which by the layman are not
easily fathomed; even to many initiates the
mystic craft, with its confusion of theories, of
mechanics and phychics. becomes mystery"
or a ready means of impressing the gullible,
or changing the lead of deception into the sub
stantial gold of personal gain.
Fraudulent mediumistic activities, such as
tabIe-tapping the naturalization Of spirits,
spirit-painting etc, have all been repeatedly
exposed: every traveller to India expounds his
individual theory as to how the East Indian
Yogi sends a boy climbing up an unattached
rope only to disappear in mid-air.
l.
\AI IE have the chicanery of the type OF mind
Wv reading which is merely muscle reading;
GaglioStro's grandiloquent tranSmutatlon OF
baser metals into gold; the burial of picturesque
and bewhiskered Arabs whose suspended ami
nation" is aided by concealed tubes of oxygen
and multiplicity of other necromantic stunts
All these seem to have the public utterly
-plussed confusing the judgment until any
thing that appears to be beyond the layman's
ken is designated as magic" and becomes, in
the collective mind, an ally Of the super
ylatural.
For most of us magic means "the East" But
there Is no magic of the East"-nor. for that
tYtt 10 D.
Evening star., 1932-11-27
A celebrated
magician takes
you behind'he
scenes OF eastern
necromancy and
exposes some OF
its mechanics

the air; but when the hlm was developed ana
printed it showed the fakir and his assistants
standing on terra firma, with neither boy nor
rope in the air.
The reward was never claimed-nor has any
one seen the rope trick done in the open, in
broad day. How, then, explain" it? Some
appeal to hypnotism; others, more reasonably,
attribute the delusion to the system of deep
breathing taught by the Hindus.
| IERE is one of the low-caste fakirs from the
lowlands of India. the pariah of Bengal
society; he who travels hundreds Of miles, an
outcast everywhere, poor, agile, resourceful-a
true knight of the road"
Watch him with me as he performs the
ancient trick of making mango tree grow from
a magic seed.
"Gullie. guile, guile gullie!" he cries. "Juldie
jow, little seed. Come, oh! Gunga wala!
Now, good masters. watch me closely;
have no little tiger in my sleeve! make little
hole here in sand and plant mango seed. now
sprinkle panie-you know, water-I have small
cloth from Kashmir: cover very quick mango
see Now masters, him grow!
"Now good masters, looki Cloth push up
in center real slow like tent. And by-hy whole
manga tree grow pity quick under shawl, very
wonderful Watch, sahib, him grow taller and
taller right out of sand as you see"
And there, sure enough is a tiny tree.
Now we will have him do the trick again.
and if you watch still more closely you will
learn the secret of this inscrutable fakir from
The HimalayaS
He is squatting on the sands on the banks OF
the river Ganges, and as he raises his shawl
you see the two inches of mango bush which
he has adroitly put there.
AS you look at the little plant just growing.
tn the sands the fakir tosses his left shoul-
der the CLOTH keeping completely covered the
left arm and hand directly underneath which
Is his bag of tricks into which he now stealthily
thruSts a hand to withdraw therefrom live,
dormant cobra, curled in small coil.
Then, transferring the cloth from his left
shoulder to the little hole in the sand, he
quickly substitutes the lethargic serpent for
the plant, allowing the cloth to rest upon the
ground Reaching now for his reed instrument,
he blows thereupon, a high, shr1ll note, where
upon the serpent raises his head under the
cloth, pushes it up slowly to an apex perhaps q
foot high
To the uninitiated it would appear that the
plant was actually growing.
Here the fakir peers under the cloth, deity
tosses the cobra into his bag, from which he
removes a real mango tree placing 1t in the
hollow Of the sand where the snake had pre-
viouSly lain Then, with dramatic gestures, he
raises his shawl and shows you the tree.
Evening star., 1932-11-27

The famous trick by
mhich a mango tree
''grOtUs" from a magic
seed Performed
tUith the aid of a sleepy
cobra and a little sIeight
Of hand.
who would actually perform this
trick of tossing into the air
coiled rope which unwinds itself
and stands perfectly rigid while
a small boy climbs it hand over
hand to the top, and vanishes.
The reward was posted in all
my newspaper advertisements in
India; I knew that, If the trick
could really be performed, a sum
of such magnitude would not fail
as an inducement.
To eInbarrasS me I had been
told that photographs had been
made by investigators while the
boy was at the top of the rope in
Evening star., 1932-11-27

The fakir pIunges a stUOrd through the
basket in mhich the boy has been hid
den, but the boy emerges unframed.
The secret lies in hidden compartment
in the baskets bullying side, t0here the
boy can lie whiye the S,Vord pierces the
nsasn com pdrtment.
Evening star., 1932-11-27

we were taking, harry
and I, of magic and M
of superstition and the
natural. Inevitably, Il
turned toward SPIRITUAL
the ancient yet ever new belief in hur
yiyal after death Having INDUCED
eood-natured skepticism on this popu
ject, Houdini laughingly made me a
ton:
eff you die first, Charles" he saic
back and give me sign that there
thing after death; and if I am the fl
I shall try to return and tell you If
Balm in Gilead.'"
So it was agreed that when one or
of us passed on, the deceased was TO
his initials in the Morse code-four d
taps to signify H" for Harry; two Il
pause and tap for &C" in case pre-
him. A month or so after the death o
Houdini was engaged IN conStructin
my bird's-eye maple spirit cabinet,
which had been lying in a storage
warehouse and had been neglected
since had given up performing the
Davenports' seance trick.
One bleak December evening I had
finished working on this abode OF
ohliging spirits, whence for many
years in all lands had material1zed
Sir William Crooke'S favorite ghost,
"Katie King" About to leave the
warm theater. preparatory to the
evening performance, I distinctly
heard, clear as a Javanese lizards
"chocktaw," four sharp knocks on
my spirit cabinet"
4 PAUSED in astonishment; chflls
] ran up and down my spine as
listened for further sounds. But all
Was silent until, remembering the
agreement, I ran to the cabinet and
tapped out, fearlessly, two dots, q
pause. a dot. Then waited, but IN
vain; I repeated the signaEbut the
spirit" OF Harry Houdini failed me!
Returning to my senses, calmly
fnvestigated-and discovered one Of
the panels Of the cabinet cracked in
several places, thanks to the action
of steam heat on the sensitive wood,
.-o.,.Iksxc. ~, fI,ic y1nt Oltita STIcceeSfIll
Evening star., 1932-11-27
BY CHARLES J. CARTER.

NE evening, not so many years ago.
we were talking, Harry Houdinl
and l. of magic and magicians,
of superstition and the super
natural Inevitably, the talk
turned toward spiritualism and
The Washington times., 1932-05-23

Bette L. Gordon, %, asked for
a heavy sentence on an intoxica-
tion charge in Police Court today
and she got it, plus 48 hours in
jail for contempt of court.
The woman was arrested Sat
urday on Delaware Avenue South
west, by Fourth Precinct Police
man H. D. Williams. During the
policeman'S testimony, she inter
rupted with frequent denialS, sev-
eral of them profane. When Will
liams left the stand, she said sar-
caStically:
"Give me plenty, Judge"
Judge John P. Mcmahon oblig.
ingly sentenced her to 80 days in
jail, whereupon she retorted:
80. K, Colonel"
Judge Mcmahon then imposed
the additional 48 hours-the max
imum contempt sentence in Po-
lice Court cases,
The Washington times., 1932-05-23
Story of Double Tragedy
Awarded News 7ip Prize

For tip phoned in at a..
m. on the early morning tragedy
81 the suicide Of a father and
the death Of one son and critical
injury Of two other sons in an at
tempt to save him, The Washing
ton Times this week awards the
first prize of $40 in its weekly
news tip contest.
From now on, the Washington
Open Forum will be forced to
hold its weekly Sunday meetings
in some place other than the art
galleries of Sears, Roebuck and
Company. The tip on the ex-
pulsion of the forum from the
galleries, following a lecture On
the sex Side of Religion" won
the second prize of $40. =.
Information on the death OF
Lowell Barlow, 24-year.old student
Of George Washington University,
who was stricken while playing
tennis on the courts at Seven
teenth st. and Constitution Ave
N. W., won the $5 third award.
ne GIdS4C SGO4y VI S1OuP Va
Tech High School boys who had
skipped" school for an afternoon
swim and the drowning of one
member of the party received the
fourth prize Of So.
Six So awards were made for
the following stories: The injury
Of Representative Francis Seiber.
ling, of Ohio, in crash at Twen-
ty-second and K SITS. N. W.; rob.
The Washington times., 1932-05-23
TAX|MAN LACKS
PERMIT, FINED

Times being what they are,
Johnnie A. Adams, colored, told
Judge Isaac R. Hit in Traffic
Court today that he couldn't get
any other job than driving a
taxi. He was in court for the
fourth time since January /,
charged with driving a cab with
out a license.
He was also charged with a
second offense of speeding. Traf'
fic Policeman j. E. Bennett said
he had chased Adams for several
blocks at 40 miles an hour.
Adams said he had at last got
a job and if he were let off, he
would go to it, leave Washington
and stay away: The court fined
him $40 on the no permit charge
and $25 on the speeding charge.
The Washington times., 1932-05-23
COURT ENJO|NS
CLEANERS ON
APPEAL
Price-Fixing Ban Upheld; 5
Firms, 8 Persons Involved
In Suit by U. S.

The Supreme Court of the
United States today sustained
an injunction against five
Washington firms and eight
individuals here, who were
charged with violating the
Sherman antitrust law by con-
spring to fix prices of cleaning
and dyeing clothes in 1928.
The prosecution was brought by
the Department of Justice, and on
November S, 1881, the Depart.
ment announced that a decree OF
the District Supreme Court had
granted a permanent injunction
to prevent these firms and indi.
viduals from fixing prices and
dividing customers among them.
Appeal Was Taken
An appeal was taken from the
District Supreme Court to the
Supreme Court of the United
States on Januay 80, 1882.
This appeal has now been de-
cided, and the District Supreme
Court is upheld.
The injunction was to prevent
continuance of an alleged COIL
spiracy.
Those Involved
The defendants in the case
were: Atlantic Cleaners and
Dyers; Globe Dry Cleaners: Ar
cade-Sunshine Company: Mutual
Cleaning Company; Vogue Dry
Cleaning; Samuel and Charles
Rubenstein, John F. McCarron,
Samuel Grosjean, Isidore Janet.
Joseph A. Gier, Harry Viner and
Samuel Goldenherg.
The Washington times., 1932-05-23
c. CAS- 'F|RIMIASKS SENTENCE
OFT S96,715 AND GETS IT

The Washington Gas Light
Company made a profit of $685.
715.56 for the first quarter Of
this year, according to it's finan-
cial report filed today with the
Public Utilities Commission.
The company'S profit for the
month of April was $50, ,156.15,
compared with the business done
in April 1881. The net return for
last month was $170,291.21 while
that of April, 1881, was STA
1866. The return for the first
quarter was $625, ,140.52 compared
with $528,425.06 for the first
quarter of last year.
The Georgetown Gas Light
Company's return for the quar-
ter was $69, 9,594.01 compared with
$55, ,661.65 for last years quar-
ter, q profit Of $13,932.36. The
April net was $16,009.62 and $12,-
1924 last year, a profit Of 3d.
277.38.
The Washington times., 1932-05-23
4-AU 7 D CRASH
BRINGS DEATH
. To WOMAN, II
Mamie Levine Dies Instantly
When Crushed Beneath
His Machine

Automobile accidents took
two lives and injured ten per-
sons on highways near Wash
ington yesterday.
Crushed beneath his car wher
it swerved from a sharp curve
near Sunnybrook, Md, Mamie
Levine, 26, 910 E st. N. W., was
instantly killed. A companion
John c. Fitzgerald, 26. IA Fifth
st. N. E., was taken to Casualty
Hospital with critical injuries.
Aged Woman Dies
The second fatality occurred al
Beltsville, Md, when four automo
biles on the Baltimore Pike col
lided, fatally injuring Mrs. Bird
get O'Connor, II, 3715 Rhode Is
land Ave. N. w. She died in Casu
atty Hospital shortly after the &C
cident. Others injured were Mr.
and Mrs. Archie Fletcher anC
Miss Julia Shea, of Mt. Rainier;
Mrs. Margaret Smith, 40, 141;
Rhode Island Ave. N. W., anc
Helen Teer, colored, 81, 1101 Fair
mont st. N. w.
Pinned beneath the wreckage
of their car after it plunged from
bridge, then catching fire
David Keppell, a., Of 81 M st
N. w., was another badly in
jured crash victim. He is at
Casualty Hospital in a critical
condition while his companion,
John Burke, As, first block OF
r st. N. E., is at Emergency
Hospital. The men were return.
ing from North Beach, Md.
Wife Severely Cut
Mrs. Estelle Arendell, of Sandy
Spring, required medical care for
severs cuts on her head and
shoulders after she was thrown
partially through the windshield
Of her husbands car when it
struck a telegraph pole near
BurtonSville, Md, s. M. Arendell
escaped injury.
The only accident reported
from nearby Virginia occurred
on the Mt. Vernon Boulevard, four
miles south Of Alexandria. Cath
crime Straub, 81, of Congress
Heights, required treatment at
Casualty Hospital for fractured
ribs and bruises.
The Washington times., 1932-05-23

geratiOn of Puritan severity 49,. - >,
This ia notably the case in regard to drink. 1t could
be regulated Prohibition preferred. Drunkenness
can be punished All drinking has been made punishable
The result has been that enormous number OF decent
citizens who would be quite content with beer or wine
have been pushed toward alcohol and ether.
"AbOve ALL the result has been that great army OF
rebels against the law has been created, with legion OF
cheats falsifiers proeers and hypOcres AS long as
the American people imagine they can make laws and
treaties whOC creating the material force necessary for
their execution they will build sand and in wind They
will erect the clouds magnificent temples of equity and
Justice while on earth the worst inques and legall-
ties will continue to flourish and prosper"
Clever Shifting
This is to me- an almost perfect example of political
skill M. Lausanne has begun by being clear and OBJ
jective; he has also begun by ayzng the causes OF
a certain moral breakdown in America. And then,
right at the end without word of warning, he has
erected parallel between Prohibition and failure
to enter the League of Nations is merely suggested
it is not pushed too far But the average reader
ried along by the emotion and the logic of the first
two paragraphs will assent to the third.
Yet did not create the League we gave the Kellogg
pact to the world agreement and remuneration;
we undertook to enforce aspirations for world
peace, and enforcing prohibition with police
numerous and powerful enough to enforce any law
against which the conscience of the country does not
rebel The two things entirely different, and it is
the business of good political pleader to make different
things alike, to slip his special pleading at
the very he to be expressing not his but
our inmost thoughts.
The Washington times., 1932-05-23
FUNERAL RITES
FOR ADMIRAL

The funeral Of Admiral Will
liam Shepherd Benson, 76, re-
tired wartime Chief of Naval
Operations, who died Friday, was
held at 10 o'clock today from ST..
Mathews Church. Monsignor Ed
ward L. Buckley, assisted by the
Rev. John j. Coady and the Rev.
Edward H. Roach, said the high
mass. s..
The papaI delegate, Mgr. Pietro
Fumasoni-Biond and Archbishop
Curley. Of Baltimore, also were
present at the rites.
Burial was in Arlington Ma.
tional Cemetery, where Admiral
Benson is the second admiral tc
be inferred. The first one was
Admiral Dewey in 1915.
Pallbearers were Admiral viii
liam D. Pratt, chief Of naval op
erations; Maj. Gen. B. H. Fuller,
U. S. M. c.: Rear Admiral
Thomas c. Hart, superintendent Of
the Naval Academy at Annapolis;
Rear Admiral e. B. Larimar
chief Of the Bureau of Ordnance
Navy Department; Rear Admiral
D. j. Peoples, Supply Corps, U
S. NJ Capt. j. W.. Greenslade, a
member of the general board OF
the Navy Department, and Capt
r. E. Ingersoll, of the Operations
Department.
Every embassy and legation
sent naval attaches in full uniform
to the services.