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CONT R ACT
A BRIDGE a.
WRITTEN FOR osITRAL PRESS
By E. Y. SHEPARD
MASTERING BRIDGE 4D

BEFORE ENTERING upon the
most up-to-date blind opening leads,
consider a few of the general princi-
pies of the best defense. Half the
time the opening lead and what de-
clarer does with it, determine
whether or not he goes game. Blind
opening lead against trump calls and
those against no trumpS differ in
principle in many cases. Against
trump calls one of the best possible
blind leads is from honors in Sc
quence, as the suit cannot be eX-
pected to go around more than
twice before being ruffed. Against
no trumpS the opening leader must
be very long in suit to expect that
both declarer and dummy will hold
no mere than 3 cards of a suit. Hav-
ing only 3 honorS in a suit often
makes it necessary to depend upon
partner for one of the missing hon
ors, if the suit is to be established.
Often the fall upon single trick of
one of your honors and an honor
held by partner means that declarer
will hold double stops to the suit,
whereas allowing partner to play his
lone honor, while you preserve your
3 honorS intact, will allow declarer
to stop the suit only once. Perhaps
that may make all the difference be-
tween defeating the contract and al
lowing declarer to go game. Be care
ful of this waste of two honors on
single trick. The following three
rules give general ideas concerning
the differences in the best blind
leads against no trumps and those
against trump calls.
| |. Against no trump it does not
pay to lead an honor from fewer
than 4, unless holding A-K-Q or
having a suit of cards. Against
trump calls lead from honors in
sequence is one of the best possible
openings.
2. Against no trump makes, lead
your longest and strongest suit not
bid adversely, regardless of the char
acter of its honors. Against trump
calls one of the worst possible leads
usually is from suits headed by ten
aces tgaps between honors, as 40
Al, XII, etc. or either Ace or K
unaccompanied by touching hon
or.
3. Only special reason and un-
usual circumstances justify blind
opening leads of short suits against
no trump makes. With many hold
ingS short suit openings are proper
against suit calls. Periodically some
player suggests an opening leac
against no trumps of a short suit
rather than an opening lead of suit
headed by tenace. The practice ha,
again and again been proved faulty
in principle, but that never seem,
to be known to each new crop OF
players.
When possible to avoid, do moi
blindly make an opening lead of {
suit bid by dummy. The usual re.
suit is either to help declarer es.
tablish that suit, or perhaps, enable
the declarer to at once secure val
liable discards of losers of anotheI
suit.
AT any time when you can defea
a contract by leading winners, dc
so. A delay may enable declarer t.
secure discards and fulfill his con
tract.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07
ZULU MASSACRE HERO DEAD

DURHAM, Eng, U.P)-A man be-
lieved to be the last survivor of the
Isandhlwana massacre of British
soldiers during the Zulu War in
1879 died in Addington hospital
here. He was Robert j. M. Kin
cade. Only about 40 Europeans
escaped alive from the massacre,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07

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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
December Z, 1920

Alice Verlet, internationally
known coloratura soprano, will be
presented in recital at the high
school auditorium tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07
Horoscope for Sunday

Persons born today are prophetic,
may be psychic, have much native
intelligence and generally quick
Witted.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07

There amt no justice, moan Florida
and California With not a single boom
Ethiopia has to fight off thousands of
prospective settlers.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07

History and philosophy are your
favorite studies, and you have a re-
tentive memory if you were born on
this date.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07

Official says Chicago got rid of Grim
inals by keeping them on the move"
We understood that gangland provided
for its own rides.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

wouldn't be soaking himself IN ar
MICA for the next week. I've no
tion to 90 over and give nm Sharp
talking to. But it's none OF my busl-
ness. | can't spend my life running
around telling pedestrians how TO
handle themselves in a Sleet. AnYS
way what happened when spoke TO
that truck driver on AND street tor
beating his horse? Well, he chased
me clear through the Salmon Tow
er building. that's what happened.
There stands another bunch OF
webster's Timid Souls afraid to
walk over a slick place near the Hip-t
nodrome. Ever see such fraidy cats!
IF someone yelled "Boo!" they'd be
scampering up lamp posts. Watch
me push 'em aside and show what
a brave soul does in a crisis. I'm
going to get off to flying start and
slide right across. just ike we used
to cross old Chicamaugua creek III
a freeze. Here 1 60 Gangway hoi
polloi. See you around! -
A bit slicker than thought or the
wind is against me. Anyway I'm
down on one knee. know. I'll make
out I'm going to sing Nanny
song. Let them giggle. I'm crossing
over and they are still standing
dumbly like a lot Of bleating lambs
in a blizzard. What if 1 did musS
my clothes? I'd rather pay for send
ing a garment to the cleaner than.
lose self poise. What was it Addi-'
son said about self poise? BE true
to thyself" No, that's from some
where else. You can't expect a fell
low sliding across a sidewalk hell
for breakfast to get a quotation
exactly right. Still staggering, are
they? Well, they laughed at Ma
poleon. They laughed at Auster-
litz. That's not right. Austerlitz was
not person.
AS soon as I catch my breath I'll
arise nonchalantly, dust myself ofds
and the back of my hand to those
Soandsos. Maybe I'd better stretch
Ouf and rest a minute. I'm not feel
ing SO well. have a notion my sac
ro-illiac, ouch, isn't exactly, ooch,
what it was. And that egg on the left
side of my head feels as though it
might have been laid by an ostrich.
/ hope nobody'S home when they
carry me in. I'd just as soon be
alone with my torn pants and skin
ned knee.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07

Working bees and drones are sup
posed to live from one to nine
months, while the life of the queen
bee is rarely more than three years.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07
L O king
B a c k W a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 7. 19915

The social given by the ladies Of
the Presbyterian church in honor
of the new pastor was an event
long to be remembered.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07

For the first time in several
months all five directors OF the
Imperial Irrigation District were
present at a meeting of the Board.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07
GRAB BAG

In what opera is the Toreador
song?
Who wrote Certain People of I'm
portance"?
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TEN YEARS AGO
December Z. 1925

Preparatory to the opening of
lettuce season, produce men are
beginning to arrive in Ell Centro.
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Answers to Foregoing Questions

l. OdIIIItII.
2. Kathleen Norris 1890.
3. One who subscribes to the doc
trine that pleasure is the chief good.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07

Imperial County YMC.A. had
the next largest delegation in at
tendance at the Older Boys Con-
ference at Whittier last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07

With some 50 members and
guests playing. the El Centro golf
course was in continuous use yes
terday.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-07
What is a hedonist?
Correctly Sneaking-

For force in writing, close SEN
tences strongly; put unimportant
phrases elsewhere than at the end.
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Words of Wisdom
TOday's HOroScODe

Confidence is nowhere safe
Vergil in "Aeneid", w. 373.
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Down goes a duffer across the
street. And does he suggest a pref
zell One Of those tWiddledy walkers,
mincing along like hen on a hot
griddle. A little courage and he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18

sibility, but because they know that
Rakosi free is another revolutionary
fighter free to continue the strug-
gle against hunger, fascism, and
war. Because they know that Ra-
kosi free will come back Immediately
into the ranks to carry on the
struggle as undauntedly as before,
seeking to inspire all those he will
come in contact with, with renewed
ardor to carry on the fight against
fascist oppression and terror.
Eight and half years in a foul
Jail. Twenty-four hours in a day,
three hundred and sixty-five days in
a year, eight an a half years of
this slow torture and suffering, and
yet to be able to face the gloating
hangmen with a smile born out of
the proud knowledge that the rev.
dictionary cannot be crushed.
We Must Free Him Now
Our duty is plain. Rakosi has
done more than one man ought
to be called upon to bear, but he has
had to do it because the protest
of the workers have not been loud
enough, have not been forceful and
sustained enough. Now to action
to end this nightmare of suffering
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18
HARRY PoLLITT Secretary Party Great Ba

Rakosi served the sentence origin
ally inflicted upon him, and on the
day that his liberation was due,
instead of walking out of the death
house of the Hungarian hangmen,
he was just told that a new indict-
ment was being prepared against
him.
Death Sentence Awaits
Since April, 1884, he has been
kept in prison waiting. Now the in
dictment has been drafted. Rakosi
is to be tried by what is technically
described as summary procedure"
which means he has no chance be-
fore such a court, and that the
death sentence by hanging is al
ready written out.
That is the intention of the Hun
garian fascists, who have never for
gotten the heroic stand of the Hun
garian workers and peasants in the
short days when the Soviets ruled
in Hungary.
But there is another court that
must and can not only speak but
act. 1t is the workers international
tribunal. At once we must rouse
the workers TO the knowledge of
this new infamy that is being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18

paign for this program, is the only
means OF winning the six-hour day
with full pay and the other pro-
posalS for full crews, etc. 1t is
especially important to conduct a
mass campaign for these demands
in view of the fact that Eastman's
wage cut, layoff program, which is
backed by Roosevelt, will go to
Congress this month.
The railroads plan to put into
effect their anti-labor program de-
parment by department, taking ad-
vantage of the division of the rail-
road workers into twenty-one diff
ferent unions.
Semi official associations of union
members, officials, and lodges of the
tweny-one unions at the terminals
are already being formed. This
united front campaign should be
extended, so that the unions can
act through their lodges on a ter
minal or system basis, or jointly
as the occasion arises. The united
action of the workers in the unions
can defeat the Eastman Roosevelt
anti-labor program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18
Official Budget, $67.3O;
F.E.R.A. Budget $500
For an Average Family

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. ia
minimum annual income of $500
is necessary to provide reasonable
human needs for a statistical
family" of 4.23 persons, the Pennsyl-
vania State Planning Board stated
in a report to Governor Pinchot
and the National Resources Board
last week.
In defense Of the position that
this budget is not extravaganza, the
Board argued that the man in the
family is allowed one suit a year
and one oVercoat every two years"
The report further said that zap
proximately 90 per cent of Pennsyl-
vania's families had incomes, even
in the prosperous year of 1929, that
were inadequate for the complete
attainment of reasonable comfort"
Another State board, the State
Emergency Relief Board, has also
drawn up budgets. It's budget for
a family Of 423 persons amounts to
$l4.l0 a week in contrast to the
theoretical budget of $3.50 a
week prescribed by the State Plan
ming Board. Relief budgets for the
nation average $3.50 a week, ac-
cording to the F. E. r. A.
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planned. At once We must get the
same mass mobilization that was
secured when the Hitler hangmen
thought that Comrade Dimitrov
and his comrades were secure in
their clutches.
1t Can, Must Be Done
World protests and Comrade
Dimitroff's magnificent stand sue
ceeded in confounding the plans of
the German fascists; world pro-
tests, strengthened by the memories
of the splendid stand and speeches
of Comrade Rakosi made eight and
a half years ago, must now this
very moment be organized in every
land, in order that we can snatch
Rakosi from the scaffold.
1t can be done, it must be done.
1t will be an indelible stain on our
revolutionary honor If we let Rakosi
die. 1t will be heavy blow at the
international working class move
ment that RakoSi has served so
nobly and so well if we do not use
every minute to fan the wave of
protests already beginning into a
mighty ocean Of demands for the
immediate release of Rakosi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18

and uncertainty. Rakosi belongs to
the international working class
movement; We have the responsible
ity OF freeing him, and doing it
now.
Less than one week remains until
the 2lst, when Rakosi goes on trial.
Believe me, they will seem to ny
to those whose lives are at stake.
In every large city there is some
representative of the Hungarian
government. Let us organize the
workers to make their presence felt.
Resolution, protest populations, all
these must be got under way. In
ternational opinion still counts even
amongst fascist hangmen. Let it be
so exerted now, that the Hungarian
government Is forced to realize that
under no circumstances are the
workers of the world prepared to
let this trial proceed. That they
demand the release of Rakosi, and
that they intend to secure this.
1t is the duty of all the Commu-
mist Parties to take the lead in
developing this agitation TO rescue
one of the bravest and most daunt-
less fighters Of the Communist In
ternationaL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18
Only Short Time Remains to Snatch Rakos from Hangman

What would you feel like if after
serving sentence of eight and a
half years lin torture prison, when
the time of your release came you
were calmly told that you were now
going to be held in prison to wait
new charges being levelled against
you for events that took place six
teen years ago?
That is the question that must
be put to every worker and friend
of the heroic fight of the Hungarian
working class and one of it's great
est leaders, Matthias Rakosi, who
now stands menaced with the
death penalty arising out of the
farcical trial that is being staged
on January 81.
For eight and a half long years
Comrade Rakosi has given an ex-
ample Of exemplary courage and
bearing in the face of the terrible
suffering and provocation that the
Hungarian fascists are past masters
OF. These hangmen had hoped that
in this time they could have killed
Rakosi as result of their prison
treatment. But the spirit of the
revolutionary is unconquerable, and
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Bruno Hauptmann
Aided By LeibOwitz
Continued from Page u

and offered in corroboration the
evidence that the body of the Lind
bergh baby was two inches shorter
than the body found in the grave.
The best the prosecution could do
to answer Reilly was to say that
the discrepancy was due to an
oversight" on the part Of the per-
son broadcasting the real length of
the Lindbergh baby's body.
Wash to Testify
Among the witnesses who are ex-
pected to testify today is Deputy
Chief of Jersey City Police Walsh,
who stated last week that Lind
bergh on several occasions threat
ened to break" Jersey City detec-
tives who were questioning suspects
in the kidnapping too closely. 1t is
safe to predict that Walsh, who
has every militant worker in Jersey
City catalogued in his very receptive
memory, will suffer a sudden lapse
of his good memory when he takes
the stand to tell all he knows about
the kidnapping.
The prosecution will try to prove
that the Lindbergh baby was killed
by fracture Of it's skull rather
than by bullet. The hole found
behind the baby's left ear will thus
go unexplained.
Attorney General Wilentz an
nounced yesterday that he will not
put the relatives Of Isidor Fisch,
dead Jewish furrier named by Reilly
as the real criminal, on the stand
unless "the situation requires it,"
They are being guarded closely in
the Hildebrecht Hotel in Trenton
in an atmosphere of great secrecy.
Wilentz declared that under no cir
cumstances would he allow report
ers to speak to them.
The story launched by Reilly in
timating that Fisch was a dealer
in counterfeit money has been
traced to Henry Kress, q German
private detective with headquarters
in Nazi Yorkvllle.
A witness has come forth at the
trial who says he can prove that
Hauptmann was known as the Shy
lock of Yorkville, lending the Lind
bergh ransom money out at high
/ interest. The witness, Reinhold
Haberbond, has deposited a prom
issory note showing that he bor-
rowed money from Hauptmann with
Attorney General Wilentz, but the
prosecutor has apparently buried
the note along with all the other
evidence in his possession showing
that Hauptmann is Nazi adherant.
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just now the social democrats are
making, as usual, a united front
with their various capitalist gov
ernments against the Soviet Union.
Their crocodile tears are bespatter-
ing pages of the bourgeois press
about the recent trials and execu-
tons of known counter-revolution
aries, the scum of the earth, the
bandits and terrorists who would
try and bring down the Soviet Union,
who work in close relationship with
the terrorists of all the European
capitals, and who can always rely
upon the support and hospitality of
the Hungarian government. But
these same social democrats are
silent where the case Of Rakosi is
concerned. He is only a worker
with a lifetime of service to the
working class, with lifetimes de-
votion TO the revolutionary cause
of the workers.
The Hungarian fascists want to
kill Rakosi, not because of the
events that took place in a rev.
dictionary situation in Hungary
sixteen years ago, and for which
Rskosi as Peoples Commissar for
Social Production had no respon-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18
Farley Fails
To End Strike
At Biscuit Co.

Conferences between representa-
tives of 5000 strikers and Spokesman
of the National Biscuit Company
have failed to bring about an agree
ment, James A. Calvin, President
of the Inside Bakery Workers Fed
eraI Union, Local 1885, stated yes
terday. Efforts to get the coopera-
ton of the National Labor Board
at Washington, to settle the strike
have likewise resulted in failure.
At a meeting of shop delegates
held Wednesday, it was made clear
that only determination to carry
through the strike without relent-
ing will result in victory.
Calvin charged that two large
companies, the Bond and Ward
Baking Companies, are utilizing
their plants to bake for the National
Biscuit Company and placing its
labels on the products. This he
pointed out is a united move Of the
large corporations to smash the
union.
With developments apparently
heading towards a bitter struggle
to save the union from destruction,
active strikers are increasingly rails
ing the demand for large strike
committee including representatives
Of each department, for a mass
picket line, and daily strike meet
ings. Strikers report that when q
suggestion was made for a leafet
telling the unions side Of the story,
to be given wide distribution, Calvin
stated that this is a Communist
method, and would not be practical.
On the proposal of daily meetings Of
strikers he stated that they are too
expensive.
The Food Workers Industrial
Union has made a decision to give
full support to the Nabisco strikers.
Its Grocery, Dairy and Fruit Clerks
Local 104, has adoped motion that
all its members, employed in many
stores, will refuse to sell any Ma
tional Baking Company products.
Reports from other plants on
strike state that scab-herding and
terror continues at Atlanta, Ga. and
York, Pa, where the workers are
out, while at Newark and Phila-
delphia, as in New York, the COM
pany has not yet dared to open the
plants. The union reports that more
plants are expected to come out in
others Of the 40 cities where the
company has factories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18
U. S. Steel Lengthens
Work Day in Offices

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 1.-THE
U, s. Steel Corporation has re-
stored the half day work on Sat-
urday for all salaried employees,
with a corresponding increase in
wages. Saturday work was elimin-
ated last September when the steel
industry operated at 10 per cent of
capacity.
Now, having reached ATS per cent
of capacity, the corporation, instead
Of hiring more workers, is extend
ing the time of Salaried employees.
The present increase in the opera
ton of steel mills, is particularly
spurred by an effort to push out or
ders especially for the automobile
industry, as a strike of steel and
automobile workers is anticipated.
As soon as the automobile season
is over sharp fall Is expected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-18

JnrOugn 1urJner consultation.
Eastman, speaking to 1000 rail-
road union executives in Chicago
declared his proposals will
be introduced into Congress this
Eastman demanded that the
unions accept a dismissal wage"
but said nothing about a dismissal
wage for the employers. His pro-
posals mean that railroad labor
would bear all the burdens of the
crisis. Eastman opposed the unions
demand for the siX-hour day with
out wage cuts. He demanded that
the railroad workers approve new
labor saving machinery (paid for
by government loans) and the &C
oompanying layoffs of additional
thousands.
Would Cursh Rank and File
Eastman demanded that the rail-
road union executives crush the
growing rank and file movement
within their unions. He said, ut
has often seemed to me that while
the leaders are in the front rank
they do not always lead but at
times are driven. They are able,
longheaded forceful men but they
are dealing with elemental forces
which now and them get out of
hand"
The heads of the twenty-one
standard railroad unions who were
present at the meeting (they are
organized in the Railway Labor Ex-
ecutives Association, feeling the
pressure of the rank and file, re-
fused to abandon the unions legis-
lative program. They issued a state
ment that they refuse to accept
Eastman's program, and reiterated
their stand for the six-hour day
with full pay, and the other meas
ureS to better the railroad workers
conditions, in Congress.
George M. Harrison, chairman Of
the executives of the unions de-
clared, 1.-THE principles announced
in the address of the coordinator
today contemplate effecting eco
Monies in the railroad industry at
the expense Of employment and
purchasing power. If possible of
application, they would result in
increasing unemployment, reducing
purchasing power and transferring
to the shoulders of railway en-
ployes the financial Obligations of
the carriers, for which the en-
ployes are in no wise responsible. y
Mass Pressure Did 1t
This statement was the result OF
the mass pressure of the rank and
file in the union against EaStman's
program. But most of these rail-
road union heads are not doing
a thing to mobilize the workers for
a mass campaign for the unions
legislative program. Instead, they
confine themselves to lobbying
which will mean the defeat of the
six-hour day and the other labor
unions proposals.
Thefore the immediate united
front actions at the terminals and
in the lodges, to create a mass cam