The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1936, Page 8

Declarer Makes 12 Tricks by With Suit Declaration American Bridge League) & worthless trumps in dummy be utilized for ruffing declar- er’s losers, ‘This is not always the case, how- ever. For instance, in today's hand, Today’s Contract Problem North is playing the con- trac. at seven clubs, doubled and redoubled. N. & S. vul. Opener—# 10. Solution in next issue. 30 played at the recent national cham- Pionship tournament of the Ameri- can Bridge League in Chicago, Julius C. Bank, of New York, made 12 tricks at no trump, a result impossible at a suit declaration. The bidding with other players might have followed different lines, but the eventual contract should, no doubt, be reached, as either a dia- SLAM ONLY IN NO TRUMP THE BISMARCK TRIB WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1936 THE GUMPS—FAITHFUL “BO” : Means of Squeeze, Impossible mond break or a guess of the club finesse, with a break in that suit, will make it. SOLUTION OF PREVIOUS IF YOU HADN'T STARTED SUCH A ]|(YOUR MOTHER IS RIGHT, “TELL YOU ABOUT FRECK.... PUSS ABOUT FRECKLES BEING ||TAG! I DON'T WANT YOU To THAT GIRL IS RESPONSI- BLE, I BETCHA!! TATTLE-TALE, “TAGALONG © UPSTAIRS, SHAVING WITH HIS. FATHER'S However, as you can see, both clubs and diamonds were divided 4-2 in the hands of the defending players. This proved no obstacle to fulfillment of the contract. Winning the first trick with the ace of hearts, Bank led a low club and, when West played the seven, Bank went up with the king in dum- my. A club was returned and the finesse takén, West running with the ace. West returned another heart. Bank now ran down four rounds of spades and East was squeezed. East discarded the queen of hearts, but the next discard proved his undoing. With four diamonds and the guarded club remaining, whatever choice he made gave Bank the re- mainder of the tricks. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) NOT SO LOUD JACK! I DON'T } WANT TO AROUSE ANYONE'S, SUSPICIONS... ILL NEED YOUR] ‘SST ~ MYRA-WHAT ] ABOUT THAT CLUE NEVER IN MY ENTIRE CAREER HAVE I ENCOUNTERED SUCH A LACK OF INSPECTOR EMPTREE «I BELIEVE I CAN TELL YOU DEFINITELY WHO COMMITTED QUARTERS, | AT THE ‘Gold Diggers’ Girls Are Easy to Look at “Gold Diggers of 1937,” latest in the famous series of every-other-year musical comedies made by Warner Bros., opens today at the Capitol ‘Theatre, with Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, the newlyweds, as its stars. It has, like its predecessors, a lot of fast-stepping, lovely-to-look-at dan- cing girls trained by Busby Berkeley. Victor Moore, popular comedian of the New York musical comedy stage, helps support the Powell-Blondell star combination. There is also Lee sych familiar fun-makers as Glenda Farrell, Osgood Perkins, Olin How- land, Irene Ware and Charles D. Brown. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, as chorus girls out of job, hit a new high in fun-making, love-making, and money-making, outdoing all their Previous performances as gold dig- gers. And there's love interest a » With Joan and Dick romanc- ing, and the brand-new comedy team of Farrell and Moore doing a Mr. and Mrs. at the end. Insect’s Heart Kept Beating by Apparatus Atlantic City, Dec. 30.—(4)—Devel- opment of an apparatus in which the hearts and other organs of insects an be exposed and kept alive and working for many hours was an- nounced Tuesday before the En- tomological Society of America. Dr. J. F. Yeager of the United States department of agriculture de- scribed the apparatus and exhibited it at work. A lowly cockroach was the insect under study in the exhibit and Dr. Yeager projected on a screen Picture of its heart beating hythmically. ‘The appartus is being used to study efte of poisons in killing in- } ny RE Indian corn, or maize, is the most completely domesticated grain in the LONG DISTA lower rates will be the and all day Sundays. > |erly REDUCED NEW YEAR’S DAY All day New Year’s there will be reduced rates on long distance telephone calls. These in effect every night from 7 p. m. to 4:30 a, m. HELP FOR A LITTLE EXPERI- THE BRUTAL MURDERS..8UT, WITH FIRST, 1 WOULD LIKE A EVERY ONE WHO WAS IN SIR CEDRIC'S HOUSE AT THE TIME. OF HIS MURDER, INSPECTOR EMPTREE IS AT HIS wIT'S END. MOVIES | \Miss Powell Teaches Unusual Dance Class Eleanor Powell, started a tap dan- cing class on the set of “Born to Dance” new musical extravangaza opening Thursday at the Paramount Theatre, which will give her the title of “teacher of the most unusual dan- cing classes in the world.” During her dgncing career both on Broadway and in Hollywood and even while touring, she says, she has made ft @ point to start dancing classes| BOUTS AND HER BUDDIES among her co-workers, “I think my most unusual class was OW, BUT YOU COULONT ! 1 MEAN + at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Bev- OF COURSE NOU COULD + BUT, WE says the star of “Born to HEARD THAT HE WAS OVER IN THE ORIENT SOMEWHERE Dance.” “Here my class was com- Be e 9 EXACTIN ! tL TALWED TO HIM ABOUT TEN DANS posed of the bellhops in the hotel who arranged their free time so that I could give them ten minutes in- struction every night after I returned from the studio. “While working in ‘At Home Abroad’ last summer in New York my class started with the chous boys and girls who were also in the show. Then gradually the orchestra joined in and soon the stage hands were doing time steps. I still get letters from some of them telling me just what step they're having trouble with. CONTINUE BARTO HEARING Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 30.—(P)}— Preliminary hearing for Matt Barto of Greenbush, charged with first de- gree manslaughter, was ‘continued ‘Tuesday to Thursday at 10 a.m, The charge against Barto is in connection with the death of W. C. Stockfeld and three children of Dr. J. L. Sayre Dec. 13 on a highway north of here, JUMPS TO DEATH New York, Dec. 30—(?)—Max Pin- cus, 56, awaiting trial in the restau- rant rackets inquiry, fell six floors to his death Tuesday from a Bronx apartment house, after bystanders vainly attempted, police said, to dis- suade him from suicide. Georgia Tech is the only intersec- tional foe of the past decade to win a football game from the University of California, The Engineers trimmed the Bears 8-7 in the Rose Bowl game of 1929; they play again in Atlanta, December 26. WASH TUBBS SEE HERE, JACK, I GOTTA KEEP BOW WOW SONES FROM TAKING OVE! MY SHOW, GOTTA MAKES. S R OKA MONEY, UNINERSTAND, BIG EY, Er NCE RATES \ -yaR>=— SAY, WHAT S THis—~ TH’ DEN OF AU BABA AND His FORTY Zi THIEVES? | WHO PUT TH! SNATCH YOUR CLOTHES MUST BE HANG— ING AROUND SOMEWHERE, HAVE YOLI GONE Be with Your JA VALE-FACED UNLESS TH’ BROTHER, CHIEF 7 JUNKMAN SITTING BULL? 7 CALLED OR 6 IT FIRE- AND TOOK WATER THAT | THEM AT Gj same as those already JAKE ALWAYS HAD A ON MY COAT’ ! 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