Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1927, Page 13

WILL SUIT PLANNED W. D. Shepherd Nearer Pos- session of $1,000,000 Estate Despite Move. By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, February 5—William Shepherd today came nearer estate Nelson than at any Iln\e since ? the youth for whose For France, Germany Juropean countries contract has ex bridge in popularity. various ceeded auction This has also been Latin American countries and in some | parts of the Orient known countries would have none of it. course, all our prominent players had heard of contract, and several times |Fate just happened to ordain me the subject laws was broached her BY E. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, —The New est Game V. SHEFARD (Bridge Authority and Author of Text Books on the Game) The metto of contract bridge might well be veni, vidi, vicl. started more slowly into popular conquered more completely advanced feature of auction bridge. Belgium, less’ conspicuously, adv vears Austria, Holland and in rue in reason English - of formulating No craze ever esteem or than this For some un-|me for speaking | common for those standard bridge, skilled team bidding exceed those the older game. Contract bridge only need lessons from competent teachers decline to study its intricacles About three yvears ago T fel learn contract bridge, other who tion. These clients referred lessons, an thers it became intending he first American teacher of co never because its opportunities for a great gamble for those who refuse to read its text books, to take ad of at quite taki Of | trips to Europe to acquire knowledge {of its peculiar strategy before salling partners average to know in advance within a fraction of a trick what they can jointly win. Any auction player may bid one spade and perhaps make a grand slam, but at contract he can score toward game only the amount of hie bid (3 points, in this instance); the tricks won over his bid must be scored in his honér column. Game cannot be scored unless it is bid; lams cannot be scored at full value unless 6-odd or 7-odd are bid and made. If you wish to score game or slam you must bid their value, even when no opposing bid is made. The bidding must not be permitted to die out before your side bids what it ex- ’ | pects to score. Fewer Boresome Hands. Aside from offering greater rewards - skill, contract bridge largely owes € lits popularity to the rarity of boring At anction a pair able to win < or two are glad that hand ends. At contract ame weak pair galvanize into of is|® or to LEITER SUIT LIKELY TO BE PROLONGED Judge Announces Intention of En- gaging Neutral Accountant to Examine Figures. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 5.—Possibility that the litigation brought about by dissension among the heirs of the Levi Z. Leiter estate might be pro- longed several months more was seen yesterday in the statement of Judge Denis J. Sullivan to counsel that he contemplated directing employment of FEBRUARY 6, 1927— PART 1. a neutral accountant to examine all figures and technical evidence pre- sented to him in the months that he has presided at the trial ‘The court was not fully determined, however, and said that he would an- nounce his decision before completion of presentation of evidence. Judge Sulllvan was forced yester-| day to warn counsel that the stream of figures and involved testtmony con- cerning them, which has run mtn‘ the trial record during the past sev eral weeks, had him ‘“‘completely up in the air. “If this s going to be a battle of experts I want to get under cover before the shooting starts,” he sald. Mrs. Loretta M. Howard is secre- tary-treasurer and one of the active directors of a large shipbuilding firm at New Albany, Ind., which has been in control of her family for nearly 100 years. 720-22 24 7th St N. W Greater Reductlons T in This Wide-Sweeping han Any Other ' Tlme FEB. CLEAN-UP SALE WOMEN’S COAT . but such pro- |bridge. 1 have known posals were frowned down | player who really studied and mas- tered the game who did not end by bridge, but it ve interest as the unopposed bid- ing soars to game or slam value, be- rause an overbid, a slip in play or a shrewd bit of defenslve strategy ma give that weak pair a score, mere because the declaring side had to hid tor what they belleved it could make, to score game or slar constant need of bidding than 1n auction bridge obliges ct players to bid more accu ately than at auctios These higher contrgets fo to become etter strate] the older game. Just 1c ons 1 ave added a fin ing course in con- traot bridge, ¢ n for those who dld: not care for the game except as a matter of drill in better bld and pla; The next article will give the ful text f the ‘“Laws of Contract Bridge.” at Bridge \inistering typhoid germs. he was tried and a(nurl(le: Judge Henry Horner of the Probate o e adh bCATHINg Sidetracked by Authorities. | Shepherd as executor of the will, but | The Whist Club had wisely foster directed that funds of the estate|eq bridge whist and auction bridge: | should be spent only under court|ine Knickerbocker Whist Club had order sired duplicate bridge; last vear the American Whist League, gfter con sultation with the Whisto Club and the Knickerbocker Whist Club, for-| “ocial leaders have shuddered. tnsted | mally adopted auction bridge, but approved, adopted, have ended by not one of these three law-making |becoming its enthue stic backers, so bodies even considered contract bridge | that contract seems here to s as o promising orphan needing a | Therefore all bridge plavers may as will be the chief allegation, said attor-{home. Why? 1 cannot say. The rea | well learn this advanced step in auc- neys for the helrs-at-law, with other [son commonly given was: “Contract |iion bridge now, to avoid serious em- Points of the bill not yet determined | bridge gives experts too great an ac 1). wrrassment fater on. It \ill be m upon vantage.” This sounds like a joke ‘)mwlm- to play away from home with- The will was drawn up by Shepherd [or a poor alibi. Who ever heard of friri eonlitact Tt {4 avet | of attorney at law, and |'any game or sport, containing ele- ¥ tutiise ade w By McClintock shortly | ments of luck or hazards, becoming ar as quaint as bridge | : after he became of age. It was wit- | unpopular or being red just be 'ms now. | rom i g Tessed by two maids employed in the |cause its experts had an advantage!| Contract bridge demands greater | B,V MoClintock home, in which Shepherd | More recently our ultra-conservative | knowledge of hand valuation and part- | e his wite had lived with the “mil- | players, those wo dread innovations, |nership biddinz. TIn fact. 1 had lionaire orphan” since the death of |have decried contract as a great vise a more s te method of v: hiz mother, when he was 5 years old. | Eambling game. In reality it is less | uing hands to meet ¢ o of a gambling game than auction nceds of the newer Miss Pope Not to Sue. &® Lansburgh & Bro. “BASEMENT”’—On the Fourth Floor A temporary arrangement only until our enlarged regular Base- ment is ready! Watch for announcements of its opening! 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Come in and Pll Tell You Why Dr. D. L. Rose Optician 1209 G St. NW. Optometrist llence at the older game. Ultimately contract bridge. just had to become popular here, and it has “ived with a_crash. Experts at the old game have In vain striven to fgnore it; ex Suit to Break WilL Immediately after the order was entered it became known that soon, possibly next week, suit to break the will will be filed in behalf of eight ¢ the 10 surviving distant relatives o voung McClintock. Undue influence | G St. N.W. With Sures Co. Copyright, 1927 by d Shepar Los Angeles woman seeking a stified that she and her hus- only one quarrel, but it 1l through their married LADY KATHLEEN EN FINED ON CUSTOMS CHARGE Paid $350 for Trying to Evade Duty of $50 on Silk Dresses. By Cable to The Star and New York World. (Copyright. 1027.) TMINSTER, England, Febru- ary h.—Lady Kathlees Villiers, a re: ident of Windsor, has been fined $35 for an attempt te evade customs on two silk dresses amounting to $50. When summoned here and ques- tioned by Mr. Gibson, the prosecuting attorney ascertained that upon Lady Kathleen's arrival at Victoria Station December 14 last, she declared that she had nething taxable but a small bottle of perfume. Agents saw the silks and when questioned Lady Kathleen informed them that they were English goods and only taken out of the country to be fashioned by her dressmsker. When about to sign a declaraton to this effect <he r=ud- denly declined, confessing her guilt to the officers an4 requesting at the same time % pay the duties. As 3 re- sult of har st'empt. besides havipg to pay a V0 fine, her dresses weré con- fiscated. COMET CALLED “GHOST.” Object Sented by Observer Held Reflection of Mars. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 5 P).—A cometary object observed in the heavens on January 20 by a French estronomer was a “ghost” in the opinfor of Harvard observatory officials | Yesterday the observatory received a cablegram from Copenhagen ask- ing fo- confirmation of a discovery made shortly before midnight on that date by the astronomer. €haput. The photographic records at Harvard failed to show any object in the posi- tion mentioned Chaput repor'ed & cometary object of the sixth magnt'nde which would be one of the largest comets ever dis- covered. Objects of the sixth magni- tude Harvard observers said, would be visible to the naked eye. Its posi- tion was givem as right ascension 3 hours 37.6 minutes; = declina- tion plus 25 degrees 16 minutes; mo- tion § degrees south per day. 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