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Evening star., 1937-02-14


r Asst week we started q discussion
of bidding weaknesses common
to many bridge players and
- commenced with the first phase
of the no trump complex. namely.
the tendency to respond with one
no-trump to partners suit bid when
you properly can make a one-over-one
bid. The second phase Of this no
trump complex is illustrated by the So
called tenace theory. For example,
John Smith, dealer, holds:
Hearts AQx
Diamonds AQxx
Clubs A OK
High card value IL, with six honors
or AZ honor tricks and hence SUM-
cient high-card holding for an OPEN
ing one no-trump in any system. Yet
in the -Four Aces system we are ex-
plicitly against bidding . no-trump
with such a hand. Why? We do
have tenaces in three suits, and 1t
might be nice to have one Of them
led up to us. But If we do bid no
trump and our partner raises us the
suit which is most likely to be opened
Is spades, our doubleton, and there
we have no preparation. What good
can all those tenaces be in three suits
If the fourth suit is going to be led
at US?
Furthermore, in many instances,
it is just as well to have a tenace
led through as up to. For instance,
let us assume that We have ace-queen-
small in one suit and partner holds
ten and two small. The contract is
no-trump. If the guarded king and
jack both lie in back Of our ace-queen-
small and the suit is led through US
twice, we will make but one trick;
whereas If led up to us, we will make
two. If the king lies in front of US,
1t does not matter which opponent
leads the suit, we will make two
tricks only. The same applies II the
king Is in front Of us and the jack
in back of us. But now suppose that
the king and jack are both in front
Of the ace-queen and that suit Is
opened. II the ace-queen holder Is
declarer, he makes two tricks only.
If it Is in dummy, the low one Is
played and the ten-spot wins the first
trick and the queen and ace the Sec
ond and third. In other words, the
chance Of our gaining . trick by hav.
ing the ace.queen-small in dummy
Is Just as great as the chance Of our
losing . trick.
Now suppose We again have ace
queen-small and In this instance our
partner has the jack. There Is no
way we can avoid making two tricks
in the suit, but the only chance of
making three is by having an op-
ponent lead away from king through
the ace-queen and up to the jack.
The next phase Of the no-trump
complex Is the improper two-no-trumr
response. Here once more, irrespective
of the excuse the player who makes
this bad bid may advance, there Il
one underlying reason for it. he
suffers from . no-trump complex and
wants to be the first on his side to
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Pilgrims Society Plans Dinner.

LEONARDTOWN. Nd, February
13 R.-The Pilgrims Society Of st.
Mary's will meet at st. Aloysious
Roman Catholic Rectory March ! to
make plans for the annual banquet to
be held March rs. DR.. r. A. Camalier
Ia president of the local unit.
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, bid the no-trump. The number Of
points lost in the course Of q year
by this bid Is staggering. For in
stance, here are few costly examples:
Example South held:
Spades xxx
Hearts XXX
Diamonds A Xxx
Clubs Axxx
His partner opened the bidding with
one diamond. South bid two no
trump and his partner went to three
no-trump, having the following hand:
Spades A1ox
Hearts Xxx
Diamonds K Q Jx
Clubs Kxxx
A heart was opened and, since the
ace happened to be in back Of dunn
my's king, the defense took the first
i've heart tricks. Had South made
the correct response Of one spade,
North would have bid one no-trump,
South would have raised to two and
North to three. Then three no-trump
would be a laydown, since a heart
OF space lcaU WOulO uuulCOldVCly SlNC
North his contract, while with dia-
mond or club opening North would
simply win in dummy, lead q spade
up to his own hand and finesse the
10-spot.
Example 2-South held
Spades Jx
Hearts AK
Diamonds A Qxxx
Clubs XXX
North opened with one spade, hold
ing
Spades A 10xxx
Hearts K
Diamonds X XXX
Clubs AQx
And after his partners two-no-trump
response, made his correct rebid to
three spades. Now South bid three
no-trump and made four-odd without
any trouble. However, If South had
made his correct response Of two dia-
monds he and North could without
any trouble have gotten to . six-dia-
mond contract, which was equally .
hydown.
Example 3-As Q final example Of
the improper two-no-trump response,
We have the following, taken from a
recent rubber bridge game in which
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Teachers Get Refund.

Teachers Of the Philippines are
receiving q refund Of over $2,500, 900
from q pension fund Liquidation.
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South passed in second position,
holding
Spades K 10xx
Hearts XXX
Diamonds A Xxx
Clubs Qxx
North, holding
Spades Axxx
Hearts Axxx
Diamonds
Clubs K 10 XIX

opened fourth hand with one club,
hoping to elicit q heart or spade
response from his partner. However,
South promptly bid two no trump.
North now decided to get on as cheap
ly as possible and passed, whereupon
a diamond was opened and the hand
set one trick. However, II South had
made his correct response Of one
spade, he and North would have
eventually played the hand at that
suit, and the cards lay in such manner
that four-odd would not have been
missed. OF course, there Is no guar
antee that game would have been
bid, but certainly it is far better to
fulfill . good partial score contract
than to be set at a bad one.
Incidentally, the South player who
made the bad two-no-trump response
offered an excuse which is all too
common, namely, that he had passed
originally. One Of the worst fallacies
from which bridge players suffer is
the idea that passing hand originally
improves their cards and enables them
to make as many bad overbids as
they feel like thereafter. This fault
will be treated at greater length next
week.
The next article in this series will
appear tomorrow.
tCopyrisht. 1935J
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Winning Contract
By THE FOUR ACES.
More Bidding Flaws.

Maisr OSWALD Hovsrd s.nken world
~ everyoth n
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Evening star., 1937-07-06

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29
TRIBUTE PAID
MUSIC GENIUS

NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (UPD-
Fifty years ago, on the night of
Nov. 90, 1887, an 11-year-old Polish
boy, dressed In a sailor suit and
knee breeches, sat down at a piano
on the stage Of the Metropolitan
opera house and amazed an audi
ence of $500
Last night, an audience of 1000,
including some who had been pres
ent in 1887, cheere'd a 6l-year-old
world recognized genius, and listen
ed to him play the piano on that
same stage.
The boy and the man were the
same-Josef Holman, whose jubilee
program was heard by one OF the
most distinguished audiences ever
to assemble in the Metropolitan.
DR.. Walter DamroSch, who con-
Quoted for young Josef in the 1887
concert, recalled that there had
been little boy in that audience
who asked his mother if she thought
he would be able to play as well
as Josef if he practiced "ever so
hard"
"The muses. were not at the boys
cradle" Damrosch said. HE did
not become a great pianist. But
he did all right. He is President
of the United States"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29
CLUES TRACED
IN CALIPATRIA
MU RIDER CASE.

Investigators still are attempting
to establish the identity of the
murder victom found in a zippered
sleeping bag near Calipatria last
week.
A man answering the general de-
scription of the murder victim and
who sold engraved bracelets and
rings, worked in a Calexico cafe
last year. On the body Deputy
Coroner Herbert Hughes found a
bracelet resembling one ordered by
fellow worker in the cafe.
An address given by the cafe
worker last year to fellow employees
revealed that a man by the name Of
Croft lived there. Fingerprint clas-
sifications. however, failed to estab-
lish the identification.
Pea plckers remembered a man
named "Waldon", Hughes said, try
ing to sell jeWelry similar to that
found on the body Of the man
murdered in an abandoned field
near Cslipatria A silver ring en-
graved with the letter wv" was
found on finger of the dead man.
ALos Angeles resident tentatively
identified the man as his brother.
Fingerprint clasSifications again
failed to tally satisfactorily, Hughes
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29

P. R. Heily.
Heily said the confession describ-
ed weird plans for a duel between
Robiieau and Kuntz as the cul-
mination to quarrel over the own
erShip of wheat.
The confessed slayer said it was
a part of the agreement for the
duel that IF I won I would kill
KuntZ's wife and kid"
Robideau said Kuntz, accompan-
led by his wife and child, drove to
the Robideau farm to argue the
matter and during the argument,
they agreed to the duel
Robideau said he climbed in the
back seat of the car and they drove
out on the road between Columbus
and Wheat Basin. Then Kuntz
got yellow" and wouldn't go
through with the duel, the confess
sion said. Robideau said he then
placed the gun against the back of
KuntzS head and fired
The Staying of Mrs. Kuntz. the
beating of the 6-year-old Larry
Kuntz and the concealing of the
bodies in a grain elevator followed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29
LEWIS HURLS
FIERCE BLAST
AT CONGRESS
Labor Leader Warns of
Another Economic
Tailspin

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
(UP)--J ohm L. Lewis said to-
day the nation is entering
another economic tailspin"
and that the ravages of in
dustrial recession are a matter of
life and death to thousands of
workers being thrown out of jobs.
In speech before the unity con-
ference of furniture workers called
by his committee for industrial or
ganization Lewis attacked congress
for lack of accomplishment and
told the legislative body it should
give thought to ''how Americans
can be given the right to work.
Congress, he said, should cease
milling around"
Workers should organize and
obtain the right to work when they
want to-" Lewis declared! and
not when Walter Chrysler or Hen
ry Ford want them to work"
The conference which Lewis ad-
dressed comprised more than loo
delegates from furniture workers
unions affiliated with both the CIC
and the American Federation of
Labor as well as independent or
ganizations.
Lewis said unionization was es-
pecially necessary at this time be-
cause of critical economic condi-
tionS.
In addition, he said, militant
labor movement was essential "be-
cause the United States govern
ment has developed a passion for
economy and has e abli S h
amounts to be expended on relief
when employers are turning work.
| ers into the streets by the tens OF
! thousands"
He said that economists and in
dustrial leaders could classify pres
ent conditions as "just another re-
cession or just another depres-
sion but to the thousands of men
thrown out of jobs it is a matter
of life and death"
He declared that the workers
were not satisfied with the system
that brought peaks and valleys OF
prosperity and depression.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29
ACCURACY OF
JOBS CENSUS >,
TOBE TESTED

Results of the recent voluntary
unemployment census in Ell Centre
will be tested for accuracy by an
actual house to house canvass cov-
ering several city mail delivery
routes between Nov. 30 and Dec. 4,
Postmaster Frank Richmond said.
Returns from the canvass will be
compared with the mail census
taken by the government.
The Ell Centro routes were select
ed when president John Gar
ner drew the number from a hat
in Washington. Routes in various
cities throughout the nation were
selected for the test in this man.
ner. Richmond was not permitted
to reveal which routes were to be
used in the test.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29
FIRST LADY.
DORIS DUKE.
VISIT NEEDY

UNIONTOWN, Pa, Nov. 30. CUP)
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt today
guided Mrs. Doris Duke Cromwell
through squalid mining communi-
ties which gave a picture of power
ty existing before these families
are moved to rehabilitation pro-
jects.
Before the nations first lady and
Mrs. Cromwell, one of the world S
richest women, inspected a re-
habilitation settlement that is
sponsored for unemployed miners
by the Quaker American Friends
Service committee. They visited
some homes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29
F.D.R. Calls For
Three Billion
Building Boost
Urges Legislation
To Stimulate
Industry

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
(UP)- President Roosevelt
today submitted a special
message to congress calling
for revision of present hous-
ing legislation to stimulate a $12,-
000,O00,O00 to $4,000, 100000 con-
struction boom to be financed by
private capital over a five year
period.
The message was accompanied by
specific recon- m n d a i ms for
changes in the national housing
act. Sen. Robert F.. Wagner, D.,
N. Y. Immediately introduced a
bill Immediately embodying presi-
Dental recommendations.
Mr. Roosevelt, who blamed the
lag in building for drag on all
industry and trade" said the effec-
tiveneSS of the stimulus to con-
struction would depend mainly ON
the cooperation OF industry and
labor
To facilitate this cooperation, he
said.
1T is my intention to initiate
series of conferences with repre-
sentatives of industry, labor and
finance, with view to giving hous-
ing construction a fresh start in
the coming building year
Six Amendments
The president proposed these
amendments to the housing act.
l. Expiration date for federal
housing administration activities
would be extended indefinitely from
July /, 1939--when present insur-
ance features end-and the limita-
ton of $2,00,0O0,O0O on the amount
of mortgages insurable would be
modified. -e .
2. Encouragement of national
mortgage associations by allowing
sale of debentures up to a 20 TO l
ratio to their capital. Financing
of a $50.0O0,OO0 association by the
reconstruction finance corporation
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29
Woman's Body Recovered
From Irrigation Canal

BONDS CORNER, Nov. 29.-An
irrigation canal near here gave up
the lifeless body of Mrs. Theresa
Procsal, A. Sunday morning after
she had been missing from her
home for more than l6 hours.
The body, fully clothed, was
found at 2:20 am. Sunday morn
ing at the lower end of syphon
under the Yuma highway near the
Procsal home. Imperial Irrigation
district crews pumped the water
out of the syphon to permit search
ers to find the body.
Investigation revealed that she
had lost her footing while trying
to turn water from the canal into
a, settling basin, slipped down
Is foot bank into IL feet of water,
Deputy Coroner Herbert Hughes
said. Neighbors told the deputy
they heard screams about o.
clock Saturday morning but no.
ticed no disturbance to lead them
to investigate.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-29
GIRLS CLEARED
ON CHARGE OF
SEX OFFENSE
Athlete, Murder Suspect
Discharged; Witness
Called Liar

PHILADELPHIA. Nov.
20. (UP)-Magistrate Jacob
Dogole today discharged, for
lack of evidence, Mrs. Marie
Phillips, Olympic athlete,
and Mary K. O'Connor, when they
were brought before him for q
hearing on warrants charging them
with sex offense.
Mayor s. Davis Wilson. sitting as
a committing magistrate, had held
Miss OConnor, 19-year-old school
girl, without bail on charge OF
homicide in connection with the.
death of Nancy Glenn, 5. Mrs.
Phillips bail of $500 as material
witness in the Glenn case was con-
tinued.
Then both girls we're arrested
and taken before Magistrate Do
COLE. who had issued the warrants
on the basis of two affidavits made
by John j. Tunney, former en-
ploye at Camp Happy, municipal
institution for children. Miss o.
Connor and Mrs. Phillips were
counsellors there last summer.
Related Incidents
Tunney's affidavits purported to
relate incidents he saw at the camp
when he was sent there last sum-
mer to work out a disorderly con-
duct sentence.
Tunney seemed reluctant to testi-
fy at the hearing today. After he
had dismissed the charges against
Miss O'Connor and Mrs. Phillips,
MAGISTRATE Dogole announced he
would hold Tunney on perjury
charges.
"He is contemplate liar and
I'll hold him in as high bail as the
law viii allow the Magistrate
said
When the hearing on the war
rants started. Tunney said he would
only say that he saw Miss O'Con-
nor and Mrs. Phillips commit a sex
offense.
Listen, Tunney" Magistrate Do
gcle said, you have made a charge
u50A-Aat IlItaE III u diltA NOQ ildA
better substantiate II. 7 don't know
II you've lost your nerve. Are you
going to tell us more than that"
mo" Tunney said
The magistrate then discharged
the girls.
Blames Letter
Tunney said he had signed the
affidavits because of a letter he
had written to "a friend of mine"
while he was working at Camp
Happy. II don't want to embarrass
these girls" Magistrate Dogole said.
Neither do t. said William A.
Gray, attorney or Mrs. Phillips and
Miss O'Connor. But this is a pre-
liminary hearing and we don't know
exactly whether these charges are
true unless this man tells exactly
what he saw"
II don't want to describe 1t here
Tunney said.
These ladies futures are at
stake Magistrate Dogole said
Il don't want to talk any more"
Tunney insisted
Then I'll discharge the defen-
| dants," Magistrate Dogole said