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Evening star., 1940-02-10

Vests spade bid over SOuth's dou-
BILE was, of course, an out-and-out
psychic, made because he feared his
opponents had q game in that suit.
North promptly doubled, being fairly
well convinced that West had made
q psychic bid. When South left the
double In it was practically con-
drmed.
In order to make things more
difficult for his opponents, West
now jumped to three diamonds.
whereupon North showed his club
suit. When East doubled, South bid
four hearts. He reasoned: IF my
partner has some hearts 1 am per-
fectly willing to play for game in
that suit. Otherwise he will go to
four spades. since I have already
shown him that have spades"
Then North failed to come through
In the cAnch! He thought to him
self: In spite of the fact that
doubled one spade for business,
South has seen fit to bid for game
in hearts. Therefore he must have
. long solid suit"
While four hearts was set three
tricks, four spades would have been
q laydown. It is reliably reported
that North and South are no longer
speaking to each other.
+ \ y +
Yesterday you were Merwin
Maier's partner and held:
4 AQxx
JOCK
ok
= JXX
The bidding:
6chenken You Jacoby Maier
/ Mt Pass 2 Mt Pass
3NT Pass Pass Pass
What do you lead?
Answer-Lead your lowest heart.
II partner holds any honor you
will probably win two heart tricks.
Your ace-queen of spades are re-
served for re-entries.
Score 100 per cent for the heart.
30 per cent for spade, 10 per cent
for any other lead.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
No One Was Fooled, But

A great many players are of the
opinion that psychics have no place
in the game of bridge and should
be outlawed. We do not agree with
this, for we feel that in order to
be good player one needs, in
addition to technique in both bid
ding and play, the element of psy-
chology. Bridge psychology is to
q certain extent bluff and to a fur
tiner extent deception, or making
things seem what they amt" Among
experts psychic bids can usually
be read, but even so, they occa-
sionally work Take the following
hand in which four of the country's
leading players were involved:
East, dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
AJ1Os 54
oo2
KJ9763
A72 N 4 AK
= Q865 WE y 1043
9 98763 S KJ105
4 "A &Q1082
4 Q863
q AKJ972
o "A
As
The bidding:
East South West North
o Dbl. "A Dbl.
Pass Pass 80 4 i
Dbl. ~ Pass Pass
Pass
Evening star., 1940-02-10
1meA Ra4

II you wish to 5oin the 1910
Uncle Ray Scrapboek Club, send
me . Scent stamped envelspf,
carefully addressed to ysarseK.
You win receive . membership
certificate, . lea1iet telling how
to make y scrapboek, and y
printed design to paste on the
cover Of your book. Address me
In core u The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1940-02-10
Contract
DON'T TOUGH!
BY THE FOUR ACES.

(Devid Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier.
Oswald Jacoby Howard Schenken,
worlds leading team -of-four, inventors
Of the system that has beaten every
other system in existence0
Evening star., 1940-02-10
BY Fred keher

The bidding:
Jacoby Schenken You Maier
/ 4 Pass 20 Pass
z 4 Pass (?)
What do you bid? (Answer Mon
day.
Evening star., 1940-02-10

Question No. 36S.
Oswald Jacoby is your partner and
you hold:
xxx
0xx
8 AQxx
4 AKxx
Evening star., 1940-08-26
British, UNLIMITED, Provide
Raid as Leipzig Fair Feature

Parachutists are among the fea-
tured toys, and the war theme also
is carried out in a variety of me-
chanical playthings.
Holland sent exhibits of dairy
products, tulip bulbs, handicraft and
pottery, while Finland was repre-
sented by pelts, cheeses and miner
ais. From Norway came skis, fish
cry displays and milk pals, and
from Luxembourg porcelain and
wine.
Silver Work From Denmark.
Denmark featured the work of
her silversmiths, surmounted by a
copy Of the crown of King Chris
tian and photograph of the
monarch.
Russia was represented by lum-
ber, pelts and cotton.
Other countries sponsoring ex-
hibits included Bulgaria, Greece,
Slovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Ru-
mania, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil,
Iran and the protectorate of Bo-
hemia- Moravia. Individual exhibits
were entered from Turkey, Sweden
and Liechtenstein.
The German dye trust displayed
new spinning device, which it was
said would revolutionize the textile
industry and prove of great i'm
portance to the Reich's wartime pro-
duction.
Great emphasis was placed on the
radio exhibit, where it was disclosed
that the German television system
recently had brought to the Ger
man public an action picture of Nazi
speedboats attacking an English
convoy.
Evening star., 1940-08-26
Berlin
Continued From First Page. }

tives in these sweeping raids.
Seventy-two British planes were
shot down yesterday, the high COM
mand said, with IA German planes
missing, raising Saturday and Sun
day totals to 1876 and "a.
Mines are still being laid in Brit
ish ports, the communique said, and
one German plane ventured 225
miles west of Landsend into the
Atlantic to sink a 4,000-ton mer-
chant ship.
Two U-boatS reported the sinking
of 76,170 tons of shipping, including
four ships shot out of a convoy.
Warning of Reprisal.
Meanwhile, Germany dispatched
a note to Britain, by way of Swiss
diplomatic channels, warning that
reprisals will be taken unless British
aircraft stop firing on first-aid
planes sent to rescue airmen shot
down in the sea. Just before dis
patch of the note was announced,
officials said the crews of two British
bombers were rescued last night by
these nrSt-ald planes.
(The British have charged
some of these planes with doing
reconnaissance work.
Hundreds of anti-aircraft guns
went into action against the British
squadrons which thundered over
Berlin.
At least one explosive bomb fell
about 20 miles from the heart of
Berlin in a village north of Spandau,
industrial suburb west of the capi-
tai, but Nazis said there was no
damage.
So incessant and ear-splitting was
the Berlin cannonading it was i'm
possible for observers to tell whether
blasts of bombs were mingled with
the gunflre. The British planes
came over the city in at least four
waves, but authorities did not esti-
mate their number
Warnings in Many Cities.
The air raid alarm conceded with
the appearance of British planes
over extensive areas of Prussia and
Saxony, causing warnings in many
cities. Leipzig, crowded with visitors
to the famous fall fair, had a 25-
minute alarm.
German authorities said first re-
ports indicated nc bombs had been
dropped in any of those localities.
Appearance of the British raid
ers over Berlin was regarded here
as a possible attempt at retaliation
for intensiflcation of German raids
yesterday on England, where the
Nazi high command said important
military objectives had been struck.
ReportS from Switzerland said
the Germans had reopened the
Basel Railway, frontier gateway
between Germany and Switzer-
land, which had been closed since
June 30. Its closing was re-
ported at the time to have been
ordered to mask German prepa-
rations for attempted invasion of
England.
Those whose duties kept them
Evening star., 1940-08-26
Hungary Summons
Many Additional
Reservists
Rumoniu Is Reported
Reinforcing Troops
In TronsyIvoniu
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Aug. 26.-Thousands
of additional Hungarian reservists
answered a call to the colors today
amid reports that Rumania was
sending reinforcements into the dis
puted border province of TranSyl-
vania.
The summons came with return
of Hungarian delegation from
Turnu-Severein, where negotiations
with Rumania over Hungary'S de-
mands for slice of Pennsylvania
collapsed Saturday.
Reports from Bucharest said the
Rumanian government was consid-
erlng appointment of a new delega-
ton to resume negotiations and at
tempt to satisfy Berlin's demands
for quick settlement of the dispute,
but informed circles there said that
under any circumstances it was un-
likely agreement could be reached
before several months.
The Hungarian government press,
meanwhile, declared Rumania was
not acting in accord with the desires
of the RoIne-Berlin axis and said
Hungary would stand firm in her
demands on Pennsylvania, which
Rumania gained in the World War
settlement.
Official Hungarian circles said
both Germany and Italy were ex-
ercising strong pressure on Rumania
to make territorial concessions.
In addition to calling up addi-
tional army reserves, Hungary re-
Questioned thousands of automobiles
for military use and took special air
raid precautions, which included
screening of street lights in principal
cities and organization of freight
ing units.
Evening star., 1940-08-26
Hindsight and Foresight
Is America Going Soft?

cans came in and started things
humming.
A high standard of living does
not necessarily mean sOftness,
as long as we realize that this
standard depends on an honest
days work. 1 believe that most
people who count recognize this
and live up to it.
Evening star., 1940-08-26
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEIPZIG, Germany, Aug. 90
British warplanes carried out a
promise to provide a foreign fea-
ture" for Leipzig's famous fall fair
by visiting this German industrial
city early today and driving thou
sands of visitors and residents to
cover for 25 minutes.
The British, who dropped leaflets
several days ago warning of the
raid, were greeted by a heavy anti
aircraft barrage. No bomb damage
was Immediately apparent in the
city itself, crossroads of Central
Europe since the Middle Ages.
Approximately 5000 foreign buy
ers were among the visitors throng-
ing the city when the British raid
ers thundered overhead.
Despite the background of war
against which the fair opened, Ger
man officials declared it differed in
no wise from its peacetime prede-
cessors with some 20 foreign coun-
tries represented among the more
than 5000 exhibitors.
Visitors found an ironic touch in
the Rotterdam exhibit which fea-
tured a display of cranes and
wharves against a painted backdrop
of the city-now battered by Ger
man bombs.
Dutch representatives explained
the day is not far off when Rotter-
dam, like other great harbors of
Holland, again will be active in
world trade"
One Of the biggest exhibitors is
Italy, whose display of model fight
ing planes attracted large crowds.
Evening star., 1940-08-26
Reich Still Pressing
For Balkan Accord
By WALTER DURANTY,

BUCHAREST, Rumanla, Aug. 26
(NANA., by wireless The Ru-
mano Hungarian negotiations
reached the expected deadlock Sat-
urday but I have learned that Ger
many continues to exert great pres
sure on both sides for a settlement.
There were two insuperable OBJ
stacles. First, bloc of nearly 50O,-
600 of the Oldest Hungarian settlers
in Southeastern Pennsylvania, who,
incidentally have not the slightest
desire to be restored" to their
Magyar landlords. They were grant,
ed minority rights by the Ruman-
ians and have benefited by the Ru-
manian land reform, which has no
parallel in Hungary. Nevertheless,
the Hungarians claim that no set
tlement is possible which fails to
restore to the fatherland" these
500 900 Magyars, and, therefore, de-
mand practically all of Transylvania.
The second obstacle comprises
some 100000 Transylvanian citizens
of German stock, who are pressing
for greater local autonomy, but also
do not want to exchange Rumanian
for Hungarian rule. Their case is
complicated by the fact that many
of them inhabit the Satu-Mare re-
gion in Northwest Pennsylvania near
the Hungarian border. Other Ger
man groups in Cluj and the more
central parts of Pennsylvania are
equally opposed to Hungarian DOM
ination. Their resistance which
daily becomes more solid and Or
ganized has contributed to stiffen
Rumanian backs.
1t is not true, however, that all
leaves have been Cancelled in the Ru-
manian army and reserve officers
and non-coms have been recalled to
the colors. Rumania, of course, has
taken precautions against any rash
action by Hungary, but she does not
want to fight unless compelled to by
Hungarian violence.
Evening star., 1940-08-26

area, an Associated Press CORE
spondent in the Suez Canal zone
reported formal incorporation into
Britain's Middle Eastern Army of
trained, fully equipped French
troops who had fed French colonies
after their homeland's defeat.
At the British island naval base
of Malta one Italian plane was re-
ported downed and another dam
aged in a raid Saturday, with no
British losses. The Italians claimed
four British planes were shot down
and one Italian plane lost.
Evening star., 1940-08-26

warplaneS, communique said.
British air raids on Italian positions
in East Africa were said to have
killed eight colonistS and wounded
about 40 persons at Gallabat, injured
several civilians at Mogadisco and
wounded Is ASkari troops at Com
bolcia.
The Fascist high commands COM
munique yesterday reported a new
attack by British naval forces on
the port of Bardia, an air raid
on Tobruk, another Libyan port, and
an Italian bombing attack on Brit
ish motorized forces between the
border and Sidi Barrani, Egypt, in
which three armored cars were said
TO have been destroyed.
The two destroyers which under
took the attack on Bardia Saturday
night were driven off by bombing
planes, the high command said,
while the Tobruk raid caused lex
tremely small damage and wounded
five persons.
Britain Warned of New Surprise.
While Gayda warned Britain in
obscure terms of some new sur
prise" she will have to face in mot
many more days." authorities re-
ported the latest British direct at
tack on Italy had caused little
damage.
Bombing planes which attacked
Piedmont and Lombardy, in the
north, on Saturday night were said
to have dropped very few bombs,
which killed two persons. The
planes were reported put to flight
by Italian fighters.
(The Swiss government filed
new energetic" protest at Lon
don against the British raiders
violation of Swiss territory
Fascist officials declined comment
on reports from abroad that Italy is
maSsing troops on the Greek from
tier in order to enforce territorial
demands in behalf of Italian-an-
neXed Albania. Italian-Greek ten
sion remained high.
Evening star., 1940-08-26
Rome

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1940-08-26

prove that we are soft, however.
IN the last war, our boys proved
they could hold their own in en-
durance with anybody.
Our critics say things arr, too,
easy for us industrially-that we
have far more than our share of
raw materials. Well, I can show
you places on the world map
: where there are plenty of raw
materials with nobody using
them, and I can show you other
places where raw materials
were never used until Ameri.
Evening star., 1940-08-26

diary bombs which injured three
Moslems
Large batteries of British search
lights picked up the planes, and
ground defenses Immediately swung
into action. The bombers were en-
veloped III a cloud of anti-aircraft
fire and several were believed to
have been damaged.
Earlier reports said one person
was killed and five were wounded.
The raid was the sixth Alexandria,
site of British naval base, has ex-
perienced since the start of the war,
Evening star., 1940-08-26

above ground during the alarm in
Berlin saw a spectacular display
as flashes of gunfire rent the black
ness and hundreds of tracer shells
arched into the sky like Roman
candles.
Heavy clouds, which hung only
a few hundred feet over the city
obscured the enemy planes from
view but the roar of motors was
audible in the heart of the city.
Splinters of anti-aircraft shells
fell on rooftops like hail as guns
followed the sound of the raiders
across the sky from one end of
the city to the other. The gunners
apparently controlled their fire
solely by sound-detecting devices
Some spectators gained the i'm
preston the flyers were not sure
they were over the city and were
cropping about trying to find an
opening in the clouds Searchlights
seemed to be of little use and were
used sparingly by the ground de-
fenses.
Most Of the invading planes
seemed to approach from the west
and north. Firing was particularly
heavy in the western suburbs. There
were reports that pamphlets had
been dropped at several points.
Leaflets to Be Published.
Inforced sources said that the
contents of the leaflets, reported to
dwell on the imminence of American
aid to Britain, would be published
later in the day.
These sources declared the leaf
lets cited Gen. PerShing'S recent
remarks urging that average"
United States destroyers be made
available to Britain and also dis
cussed the poor character of the
German harvest this year, forecast
ing suffering ahead for the Reich.
Meanwhile, the German high
command reported German raiders
had inflicted paralyzing damage
Saturday ON the Royce fac
tory at Derby, 60 miles south of
Manchester, which was said to be
turning out motors for Spitfire
fighting planes.
Heavy damage also was said to
have been inflicted on the Ports
mouth naval base, where port facili-
ties were set afire; at Dover. where
dive bombers attacked British troop
concentrations, and on Great Var
mouth, where storehouses were left
in flames.
Other Bomb Targets.
Other objectives bombed, the
communique reported, included air.
plane factories at Birmingham,
Kingston and Rochester, Bristol
Harbor on the west coast and a
number of military airdromes.
A submarine was reported to have
slipped into convoy and sunk a
British destroyer of the Viscount
class and a 7,0OO-ton merchant
vessel.
Increased attention. authorized
sources said, is being paid by the
German raiders to disruption of
British rail transportation facilities.
Railway terminals are being sys-
tematically attacked, it was said,
with the result that Britain is<being
increasingly hampered in trying to
move supplies from western ports to
southern industrial cities.
Evening star., 1940-08-26

Perhaps we
are ridin G
w h e n W e
ought to walk.
Maybe we are
sitting in the
stands when
we ought to
be playing in
tn e 6 a m e.
That doesn't
Evening star., 1940-08-26
Greek Troops on Move.

In Athens troops continued on the
move to key frontier positions, more
private vehicles were requisitioned
and Greek reservists from IA classes
in a district bordering on Albania
were said to have received sum-
monses to serve in border garri-
SOILS.
Elsewhere In the Mediterranean
Evening star., 1940-08-26
BY HOLCAR J. JOHNSON
President Institute of Life Insurance

THE enemies of democracy
l. are saying that we are going
soft. I recognize the danger, but
I challenge the fact.
Evening star., 1940-08-26
Alexandra Is Roided
BY Italian Bombers

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Aug. 26 Up.
Italian Savoia bombers raided
Alexandria early today in a low-fly-
ing, Commute attack with incen-
Evening star., 1940-08-26

ITO me a real proof Of the
L toughness of our moral fiber
is our willingness to sacrifice
some of today's luxury and
pleasure to gain tomorrow's Sc
curity for our families and our.
selves. A nation where GA million
people carry life insurance for
this purpose certainly hasn't
gone soft. H
And l have 3 aeep-seated CON.
,yiction that anyone who tries to
take away from the rank and
file of America its hard-earned
standards of living and its hard
won security, will find he has
caught a Tartar.
This regular Monday column h provided
by the Institute of Life Insurance to per-
mit its President to speak to Americas
policy owners. Address Inquiries to 90 East
<2nd eersst New Yeek City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Early Placing of Stock
For Christmas Praised

The placing of Christmas stock on
display in Washington stores ear
lier than usual this year was COM
mended yesterday in a statement by
Arthur j. Sundlun, president of the
Merchants and Manufacturers As
ISOLATION.
"The old custom which prevailed
in this country of universally post
poning Christmas shopping until .
week or 10 days before the holiday"
he said, threw a serious overload on
the entire industrial machinery.
with the tremendous volume of
holiday sales reaching sudden
peak, the production facilities of the
country were faced with q difficult
problem. 1t was probably more acute
in the retail stores, which were sub
jected to a tremendous overload, but
the entire fabric of production and
distribution was affected. The new
attitude of the buying public will
prove beneficial to almost every
branch OF production In industry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Sigrid Arne's YuIe Story
Soon to Appear in The Star
'Suntu and the
Giant Killer
Is the Title

Fourty- eight weeks out of the
year, Sigrid Arne of the Associated
Press Feature Service stan at WASH
ington, is q hard-driving newspaper
reporter. Then for four weeks she
takes time out to write her annual
Santa Claus story.
This year 1t is Santa and the
Giant-Killer," the first installment
OF which will appear in The Eve
ming Star December S. Miss Arne's
Christmas fairy stories, drawn from
memory well stocked by an
imaginative and companionable
Swedish mother, have been hailed
by editors and readers alike as
classics in that field. The stories
have been a pre- Christmas feature
for the past eight years, each time
used by an increasing number of
newspapers.
That the attractive young author
of stories like Santa and the Giant
Killer" can spin fanciful yarns for
children is no surprise, considering
her versatility as a writer and her
broad experience In covering the
news. For pursuit of the news
from race riots to interviews with
poets, politicians and princesses has
kept Sigrid Arne in the thick of
interesting things for the past Is
years.
Aided BY Experience.
Aided by this experience, Miss
Arne has utilized a keen sense of
the dramatic and the colorful, to-
gether with an intense interest in
social welfare and the economic
problems of the average citizen, to
provide her stories with depth of
feeling and widespread reader
appeal.
Her Washington contracts range
from friendship with Senate pages
to acquaintance with duchesses and
dowagers, women In Congress and
administration posts, and to in
Innate gltmpses of world tangles
by listening to diplomats discussing
international relations over teacups
and cocktail shakers.
Sigrid Arne is a New York girl
born on Sixty-sixth street. At 4 she
saw her first COW in the Catskills
and was so startled she talked her
parents into going to Europe. She
still remembers the wooden shoes
on her uncle's farm in Denmark
and the day. the elephant at the
Copenhagen zoo lifted her into the
air on his trunk. A year later she
was back in New York and then
went on to Cleveland, where the
family home still Is.
There she attended grammar
school and high school-was bac
in arithmetic and good at every
thing else. At Ann Arbor for foul
years she majored in English, writ.
ing for the campus daily and tn,
monthly magazine.
Taught School for Year.
Before starting work on a Musko.
gee (Okla.) paper she taught schoo
for a year and wrote adverti- FOL
a department store. She orkec
on the Oklahoma City Times, tn,
Detroit News, the Cleveland New.
before going to Washington in 1882
Features, news assignments, ar
and dramatic criticism and tn,
usual run of cityroom work such a.
rewriting, editing of special edition
and coverage of foreign population
groups were all tumbled into thos'
years.
During the Oklahoma City perioe