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NEW YORK, December 24— 'Twas & couple of days before Christmas and all through a de luxe 12-room suite of the a hundred bridge Kibitzers were stirring last night on the side lines of the Ely Culbertson-Sidney Lenz contract war. Mr. Culbertson remained quiet for ever so long to wait for Santa Claus to bring a possible successful finesse. Mr. Lenz fell asleep. About them were green walls, buff drapes, Italian engravings, early Ameri- can and modern furniture, Oriental and old English screens—the whole blended | nicely into early Hollywood. Butlers appeared suddenly, mid-ses- sion, with pork and beans. ~Everybody, excepting the working press and Ossie Jacoby, who plays opposite Lenz, came | dressed for b'ar. Culbertson came 15 minutes early and brought his own clock. It was 20 minutes fast. Mrs. Culbertson Glad. Mrs. Culbertson remarked that she | was glad the war movefi out of her bali- wick—because now the spirit of contest | that was there could give way to peace | mearth and a Christmas tree for the s. The players grew sentimental about bringing the war up the Waldorf and, prompted by a ‘couple of press agents, told how bridge playing in America got started in the old Wal- dorf—how Betcha-a-Million Gates used to bid for high stakes with those who could afford it. Culbertson became bored by the |mounting score in his favor. He lapsed into a bridge patols of his own. When his partner was dummy he called for the plays instead of reaching for them. ‘Let's have the picolo,” he said. “I beg pardon?” said Theodore Light- | ner, the partner. 1 “The picolo. picolo—four of dia- monds,” said Challenger Culbertson im- patiently. “Teddy doesn't speak Swedish,” re- minded Lenz. Jacoby spoke up and said he had been going through life thinking a picolo was a musical instrument. Snore Disturbs Culbertson. 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Gruenther, referee, ruled that Lenz would have to wake up and continue. He backed up the ruling with a poke in the ribs. contract?” “Go back to sleep, Sidney,” advised Culbertson, “on the next card I am going to take longer.” Lenz threw down his pasteboards and ran into the hallway, shouting back |that a telegram would probably reach him if Culbertson decideod to play within the next hour or two. Mrs. Culbertson met him and con- soled him with a funny story. Several minutes later he was called back. Culbertson intimated he intended to take his time again and it looked as if the performance would be repeated. But Culbertson caught him by the lbow. “See. Sidney,” he said, “I play a little club with nice little black spots!” Victory in six of eight rubbers at the last pre-Christmas session, egding early today, added 3,820 points to‘the lead of Culberston's side. When the eighty-seventh rubber of the 150-rubber match is started, at the Tesumption of play at 2:30 p.m. Sat- urday, Culbertson will be 14,525 points ahead, with a total of 78,150, compared | with 63,625 for Lenz and Jacoby. MISS ALICIA PATTERSON, AVIATRIX WEDS BROKER Daughter of Head of News Syndi- cate Company Is Holder of Three Speed Records. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24—In a simple ceremony at the Broadway Tabernacle, Miss Alicia Patterson, daughter of Joseph M. Patterson, presi- dent of the News Syndicate Co. Inc., and Joseph W. Brooks, investment groker, were married at noon yester- ay. Mr. Brooks and his bride, both of whom hold transport pilot licenses, are planning to make an extensive honey- moon tour in a new airplane delivered to_them last week at Roosevelt Field. Last year Mrs. Brooks with Elizabeth Chase of Chicago, made an air tour of Australia, flying to Darwin, some 1,900 miles northward of Sydney. 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Mayo of the | Ramapo: “Happy Christmas to the admiral from the only ship in the Navy that| will have no Christmas day. Crossing the 180th meridian December 24.” L ROAD TO CROSS ANDES gtruction in Long Dispute. SANTIAGO, Chile, December 24 (). —President signed a decree last night authorizing canstruction of an international Trans- icmmn President Authorizes Con- | | Juan Esteban Montero Andean railroad from Antofagasta, Chile, to Salta, Argentina. This action cleared up & 20-year-old | discussion during which™ the Chilean government several times decided in | favor of the project and then cl'm'medi its mind. The president has advocated going 2head with the work in order to aid {unemployment and to give the north new trade connections. The government | hopes that all northern Argentine prod- ucts will be sent via the new line for shipment from Antofagasta to points throughout the world. A copy of the decree will be sent to Buenos Alres where, the Chilean gov- ernment expects, tine officials will nsfmve bufl their nation’s share of the line. * ‘Waldorf-Astoria not more than a half | pe, “Heh?” said Lenz dreamily, “What's | p, THE EVENING STAR How the Cont Lightner’s Psychic Bid Nearly Draws Partner Into Slam Declaration. BY ELY CULBERTSON. NEW YORK, December 24.—Theo- dore Lightner and I increased our lead last night in the bridge tournament with Sidney 8. Lenz and Oswald Jacoby to 14,525 points, & 1 net gain of 3,820 for the evening. We played the quota of eight rub- rs and of these we won six and our opponents two. The hands were rather prosaic, ex- cept for the 1,400 penalty s wing which we collected on a minimum overcall by Mr. Lenz, and it ap- pears to me that with the cards we hild our h’:‘{fl of victory should have been even greater - Ctberts than it was. I cannot point out any particular mistakes that we made. We will now take a recess in the match over the Christmas holiday and in keeping with the spirit of that day, I wish to thank the thousands of friends in all parts of the world who have sent me letters and telegrams wishing me well. The number has been so great that personal acknowledgment has been utterly impossible, but the messages have cheered me greatly and have made me feel that in this contest I was their champion and fighting their cause. Psychic One Bid. I was treated to the experience of an original psychic one no trump from my partner, Mr. Lightner, which, like the lightning for which he was named, is usually deadly. This one almost resulted in our getting into a slam contract in spades, which should not have been made. The hand follows: East—Dealer. Neither side vulnerable. Deal No. 3 of the eighty-sixth rubber. NORTH (LENZ). WEST : EAST (CULBERTSON). (LIGHTNER), SOUTH (JACOBY). 5—10 6 H—AJ43 D—65 C—107654 The bidding: South. West. North. East. 1 No trump. 3 No trump. Pass. Pass, 3 Spades. Pass. Pass. 5 Spades. Pass. 'ass. After Teddy Bear's minimum re-| sponse of 3 no trump to my forcing bid of three spades, I restrained my im- pulse to go directly to the slam and, | until the dummy went down and I realized that my partner’s 1 no trump had been very much shaded, I felt that we had probably missed the boat. | When I saw his hand, I was glad that T had left the slam decision to him. Brilliant Play by Lenz. Perhaps shifting o the Waldorf- Astoria, where the last half of the match is to be played, did bring good | luck to our opponents. In any event, | they won the first rubber in five hands | and the last hand of the rubber, which | was plaved by Mr. Lenz in 3 no trump, gave him an opportunity for a brilliant end play. The hand was: NORTH (LENZ). WEST (CULBERTSON). S—K 1762 H—8 6 D—K Q10976 c—10 The bidding: | West. North. East. South. Pass 1Spade Pass © Clubs 2Diamonds 3 No Trump Pass Pass Pass In the play, when Mr. Lenz found that the six-card club suit did not| break, he established three heart tricks | and utilized a club from the dummy to| throw the lead into Mr. Lightner's hand, forcing him to lead up to his major spade tenace for the game going trick. This was a very beautiful play and showed the old master at his best. | The opportunity given to conceal | strength through the elasticity of the | opening bid of one, which is the bid made on 95 per cent of all hands in | the approach-forcing system, was clear- 1y demonstrated on a hand in the next Tubber in which Mr. Lenz stepped into a penalty double of 1,400 points through disregarding the fact that opening bids of one in the approach-forcing system | may be “T. N. T.” for the opposition. Second Largest Penalty. | The hand and bidding which brought | about the second largest penalty of | the match were: MR. LENZ (NORTH). 5.—9 | s. MR. CULBERTSON MR. LIGHTNER (WEST). (EAST). 8—KQJ52 H—QJ8176 D.—None C—A Q6 MR. JACOBY (SOUTH). SOUTH. WEST. The bidding: 1 Diamond Pass Pass The play was extremely interesting. | Mr. Lightner opened the Kking of spades, which held the trick, and con- | tinued with another spade which Mr.| Lenz ruffed. Mr. Lenz then led a club which I won with the knave and led the king of diamonds. When my partner discarded a spade, I continued with the deuce of diamonds and Tedd: ruffed with the six of trump. He thes led the queen of hearts, which M Lenz won with the king and led a club. I overtook my partner's queen with my king in order to lead another round of hearts. When Mr. Lenz led the third round of clubs, Mr. Lightner won the trick with the ace, picked up Mr. Lenz’s last trump and we won the three last | tricks. Mr. Lenz thus made three | tricks on a contract to take seven. i Such a penalty as this wo)i’l‘d not be possible had I used the officlal system | of bidding. Mr. Lenz's overcall is per- | haps as light as swan's down, but is| of the type frequently made and which | can be heavily penalized by users of the approach-forcing system, but not by those who use the intermediate two- NORTH. EAST. | 1 Hearl Double ase id. (Copyright, 1931, by Ely Culbertson.) i The following toast was pronounced | at a firemen's dinner, and was received with mltH: flu; “The Ladies— their eyes le the only flame against which there is 2o insurancel” H. estants See It Lenz Declines to Take Advantage of Error by Culbertson. BY SIDNEY S, LENZ. NEW YORK, December 24.—In spite of our great expectations because of change of surroundings, the result of the first sesslon at the Waldorf-Astoria was not any dif- ferent from what we had experienced for a number of nights at the Hotel Chatham. ‘We won only two rubbers and lost six. The only bright spot was that no slam was scored against us. We lost 3,820 points during the session and our total minus score is now 14,505 points. Hand Brings Argument. On thefirsthand gidney 8. Lens. we bid two spades and made three. The next hand was the cause of a long argument with Mr. Culbertson. The hand: LENZ (NORTH). 5—Q J H—J 2 D—Q 1075 C—A Q 6 3 2 CULBERTSON LIGHTNER EAS’ ro-trump, which my partner doubled informatorily. Culbertson took & long time before he passed after the double, and I, thinking that he had passed, asked to have the bidding reviewed in order to make certain. Lenz Could Have Passed. Culbertson objected, and during the dis- cussion he made some unintentionalrefer- ences to the bidding of his hand. The ref- erees decided I was entitled to make my request, but, on the other hand, Culbert- son's remark automatically barred his partner from the bidding. I did not take advantage of the opportunity to pass, which would have produced a big set for our opponents, but I bid two clubs. My partner bid two spades and made five, giving us the first game. After our opponents scored a game, we came off victorious, taking the first rubber, scoring our second game at three no-trump. Partial scores are very dangerous in contract bridge, as opponents are often forced to overbid their hands in order to prevent the fortunate possessor of the partial score from going game. Good | players, therefore, usually prefer to take a small set rather than allow opponents to score a low contract. The following ! hand offers a good example: LENZ (NORTH). LIGHTNER (EAST). S—AKJ109 4 —K 7 D—Q9 4 CcC—82 JACOBY (SOUTH). 5—8 H—J 10 4 D—J 1073 C—AJ1075 After passes by South and West, I bid one club, which East overcalled with one spade. My partner raised me to two clubs, West went to two spades and after my pass East bid three spades, which could have been made easily. Jacoby preferred to risk a set instead of allowing East to make three spades, so he bid four clubs. West and 1 both passed. Honors Cover Losses. East, however, reasoned along the same lines as my partner, and, fearng that we would score four ¢lubs, he biu four spades. ‘The contract was set tne trick. Of course, he did not lose any- thung on the hand, as we had 100 hon- ors. We would have been down une tr.ck at four clubs. 1 suppose our unaccustomed good fortune in the first rubber made me overoptimistic, for when we were vul- nerable in the second rubber, I over- called Culbertson’s one diamond bid with one heart on a somewhat weak hand. I was set four tricks doubled, as five hearts to the queen, jack were concentrated on my left and my part- ner had a trickless hand to crown our misfortune. We lost this ruber. Four Hand Rubbers. The third rubber was won by our op- ponents in four hands. We had com- paratively better luck in the fcurth rubber. After we had scored the first Bame our opponents made a partial score of 35 points on tap of which they held a tremendous club hand. They could easily have made four clibs for a game, but they preferred to play the hand at no-trump and went down two tricks. We then won the rubber on the following hand: LENZ (NORTH). H—1 6 D—K108754 c—8 CULBERTSON (West). —3 LIGHTNER (East), 86 24 Q92 Q7 JACOBY (SOUTH). 4 East was the dealer and bid one no- trump which my partner overcalled with two spades. Had our opponents been vulnerable he probably would have passed to give them a chance to get nto trouble. West bid three hearts end I assisted my partner, going to three spades. I had very nice distribu- tion, and realized that Jacoby would not have bid against a no-trump when vulnerable if he had not had an ex- ceptionally strong hand. After a pass by East he went to four spades, which East doubled, and contract was m:de without difficulty. (Copyright, 1931 GUARDIAN GAS HEATERS Simplest and _most perfect burner of its kind. 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Saltzman, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission; Capt. 8. C. Hooper, director of communications, United States Navy; Gen. J. G. Harbord, chair- man of the board, Radio Corporation of America; T. G. Miller, vice presi- dent, American Telephone & Telegraph Co.;' J. W. Adams, division manager, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Lloyd Espenschied, radio tele- phone engineer, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. In Honolulu those taking part were: Gov. Lawrence M. Judd, whose admin- istration is under the Interior Depart- ment; Princess David Kawananakoa; Rear Admiral Yates Stining, jr., com- mandant, 14th Naval District, Naval Operating Base; Maj. Gen. Briant H. Wells, commanding Department of Hawall; Willlam R. Castle, sr., father of Undersecretary Castle, and J. A. Balch, president Mutual Telephone Co. of Hawaii. Secretary Wilbur also had about 90 guests, who listened in on earphones. Of those joining in the exchange yesterday, only Mr. Espenschied had taken part in the test that was made on September 28, 1915. At that time, as an engineer, he was sent to Hawali to listen for the call which came from Arlington. At that time the feat was widely hailed, Theodore N. Vail, then presi- dent of the A. T. & T, writing J. J. Carty, then chief engineer in charge of the test, that it presaged a tremen- cous advance in communication. GARNER CAN’T OVERRIDE VETO OF FLYING PLANS Speaker Forced to Abandon Idea of Using Plane for Yule Trip Back Home. By the Associated Press. What Speaker Garner calls a “veto from the boss” canceled his plans for en_airplane trip to Texas during the holidays. “I found out T could get a big tri- motored plane to take us down there for $300," he said yesterday. “It would have been worth that much to see the grandchildren, and I could have done some hunting, too. “But Mrs. Garner decided we ought to stay here and rest. That's a veto that can't be overridden.” Rail Deal With Japan Denied. MOSCOW, December 24 (#)—Recent reports that the Southern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria was to be sold to Japan were officially denied yesterday. The sale never has been considered by the joint Russo- Chinese board which operates the road, it was said. | | | , WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931. “Christmaé Spirit” Reporter Mingles With Throngs on Street, Busy Shoppers and Finally With Ragged Stranger—Each Has Different Thought of Day’s Significance. BY BILL HILL. The reporter’s idea was born of lines that Christmas shopping left on men's foreheads. White bundles tied in green and red nurtured it. It matured in the strains of “O Little Town of Bethle- hem” pouring from the open door of a radio store. ‘What is this “Christmas spirit?” With the wusual material-minded doubt of a man whose working days are filled with human emotional out- pourings of thé day's hot news, the re- | porter wondered if this “Christmas spirit” was not just another commercial matter, based on cupidity. Crowds swirled around him amid the cacophony of automobile thorns, the wheeze of & traffic policeman’s whistle, and the multicolored glare of lighted store windows. Only one more shop- ping day till Christmas. Every one hur-| ried—seemingly to nowhere. Voices babbled by and feet scraped. Christmas Spirit, Bah! There was a middle-aged man peer- ing into a heavily freighted shop win- | dow. One arm was piled high with parcels. He peered nervously as if dreading packages yet to purchase that | would pile high the other arm. “Great thing—Christmas,” the re-| porter ventured. “Looks as though you | have the spirit.” | The burden-bearer raised one eye-| brow. “Bah!” he muttered. “Bah! Just the day you buy things for folks you never think of the rest of the ear.” 7 ‘The reporter moved on. This time he selected a jovial-looking fat man— | one who carried no bundles, i “Christmas?” the rotund individual replied te a conversational sortie.| “Just another excuse to pull the old! man'’s leg, but —" he winked—— “he likes it.” | ‘The questioner dug his way into a department store. | Standing by an elevator stood a man laden with toys. Primarily for Children. The waiting one brightened at a chance for conversation. “What does Christmas mean to me? Well, I think Christmas is for chil-| dren primarily, particular those who wait for Santa Claus. But this is one| birthday I thnk grown-ups can ob-| serve happily, t00. | “Wasn't it Dickens who wrote: ‘It is good to be children occasionally, and | never ‘better than at Christmas, when its great founder was a child himseli?’ We can drop our old man ways, you see, our fretfulness, our peevishness | and selfishness. It's a kind of day of youth for everybody——. the wife arrived. ‘The reporter talked to a young man in his early twenties. | 1 tell you what I'm doing this' Christmas,” the young man declared. | “A lot of people are in trouble. You know—the depression and all that. So instead of dancing Christmas night, my girl and I are going to take the money we would spend and use it to make some poor family happy. Food for the parents and toys for the children.” | All Men About Equal. ! ‘The reporter passed on and accosted a well dressed. handsome youth, a little older. and distinctly the college foot ball kero type. The seriousness of the conversation clashed with the hubbub of the crowds. " Ycu know the only time I ever got_the real Christmas spirit? I was in New York,” he said. “I didn't know any one. I had left my overcoat at the FOR THE HOLIDAYS Just then .. hotel and was walking along the crowd- ed street at night in the cold. The wind whistled between the walls of buildings around me. I noticed some ragged and dejefted looking old men dragging along—cold and lonely looking, with their coat collars turned up. They hunched over as they walked. “I longed for home, where there was always a big, crackling fire at Christ- mas. I could smell the turkey cooking. Then I began to get cold. I suddenly felt like one of those dejected men dragging along in front of me. I hunched over and turned my coat collar up. Then it was that I felt that all men are just about equal. I think that's the Christmas spirit.” The reporter wandered into the book department, where nervous fingers ‘were thumbing over “gift suggestions.” Music Expresses Christmas. He watched a woman there. hands caressed the volumes. a real booklover. think? “Music expresses Christmas to me,” she said softly. “The beauty of the occaslon expresses itself best in melo- dies we hold sacred to the There's a poem by Margaret Sangster, too, that I like particularly. remember it? ‘At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For love is heaven and claims its own.’ “I like that idea of none grieving alone. Somehow I fancy that Saint- Gaudens’ statue of ‘Grief’ in Rock Her What would she Creek Cemetery must not seem quite| s0 unm?py on Christmas day. The music of happiness must reach even there.” And she went back to her friends— the books. The reporter, still wondering what the “Christmas’ spirit” is, went home Occasional lawn Christmas trees, lighted in red, yellow and green, and candles burning in windows, deepened his per- | plexity. That night he took a walk. People Change at Christmas. He wandered out Sixteenth street. Just north of the bridge he saw a shape- less bundle of clcthes climbing up to the street level from the dump below. The bundle drew nearer and became a man. He was dirty and ragged and carried a gunny sack over his shoulder. What would this man think? The inn was too crowded for Mary and Joseph, he recalled, and the virgin mother bore her babe in a stable. And hadn't the reporter been questioning the people of the “inn” and not cf the “stable”? “Have a cigarette?” he asked the ragged strangei. The man laid down his bag. hanks,” he muttered. “Well, it won't be long Christmas.” “Nope. And you ought to see some of the swell things you find on the dump after Christmas. I like Christmas. Then if it wasn't Christmas time, I don't s'pose you'd be standin’ here talkin' to me. People don't act iike they was so much better'n other people at Christmas. It's a day when there ain't no jars, no— ah—ah—" ‘Discord, perhaps?” “Yes. Yes. Discords. Discords sort of takes a holiday and you love every- body and everybody loves you The reporter felt relieved. Maybe he had found the answer. A line from Shakespeare rattled in his head. He had forgotten whether it was written to apply to Portia’s wedding day or Christmas. But it applied. “This day shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.” until She was | day. | - Do you NEW TYPE BULLETINS i ON AIRWAYS ISSUED Aeronautics Branch, Commerce De- partment, Improves Service 0 to Aviators. 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