Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1936, Page 38

GUATEMALA READY FOR MARDI GRAS Indians Start Long Trek to Fair to Participate in Ceremories. GUATEMALA CITY, October 10.— High in the Cordilleras, Guatemala’s capital is preparing for the largest influx of vacationists, travelers and tourists in its history as the spectacu- lar grounds of the national fair, or mardi gras, near completion. Ar- rangements have been made by hotel and resort men, and steamship and transportation agencies, for more than 150,000 visitors at the fair, a re- ligious celebration of prosperity and good harvest. It will run from No- vember 15 through November 22. Already from distant villages in thefar reaches of Guatemala reports have been received in the mile-high capital city that the colorful Indian tribes have begun their trek toward the scene of the annual celebration, bearing their gifts of quaint patterns of weaving and pottery work. Since the earliest days of the Spanish conquistadores, the national fair has been the outstanding event of the year, with the tribes performing cere- monial dgnces of special meaning in the harvest fiesta. But with the passing years this national fair has also become an event of marked commercial import, displaying hundreds of exhibits of handicraft, * furniture manufacture, perfumes indigenous to the Guate- malan jungles, powders and other cos- metics of extreme rarity, and many other commodities of significance in the international market. Guatemala’s ascendancy in the travel horizon has been rapid, with convenient sailings from New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans con- tributing immeasurably to the popu- larity of its mountain resorts and seaside cities, . WHERE EAGLES SOAR Engadine Country of Switzerland Abounds in Game. PONTRESINA, Switzerland, Octo- ber 10.—In the Upper Engadine, Bwitzerland, 6,000 feet above sea level, the rare golden eagle can be seen circling majestically in the blue sky. Chamois graze in herds on the hill- sides, and the shy deer, the proud ibex and the marmot may be encoun- tered here and there. Beautiful Alpine flowers, many of them quite rare, bloom in abundanmce on pastures and rock-strewn heights. They are a joy to behold. and botan- fcal excursions, under expert guid- ance, may be joined by any visitors interested in this subject. | cise local option and for year upon | no longer forced to climb out of deep BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, JR. BOUT three decades ago, when the horseless carriage began to be practical, there was in New England one especial form of to-do over the grotesque and sputter- ing, though often stubbornly quiescent, demon of the road. The fight—there were several notable battles—involved the right of horse and buggy minded farmers to close to the mechanical monstrosity the narrow and winding strips of raw earth then called roads. The courts sided with the automobile and outlawed efforts to block any ave- nue the motorist was brave enough to venture upon. How deeply rooted was this aversion to motor vehicles is shown by the fact that Massachusetts’ island of Nantucket contrived to exer- year banned automobiles. Then, un- like Bermuda, it succumbd to this de- velopment of the mechanical age. The years have wrought vast changes, New England boasts of its network of paved goads, many of them designed especially for high- speed automobile travel. And cal mudholes and straddle corrugations of high ridges and low ruts, are being built closer to the ground. These days, the motorist generally shuns anything but the easiest and speediest route. And the old mud roads—there are still many of them left off the beaten track—are again left to the wagon and’ the horse and, whether he likes it or not, to the backwoods farmer. Hugging the ground, cars ven- ture upon them at the peril of getting stuck. This flash-back to pioneer auto days | is not concerned with paved highway | travel today, but with the undeveloped | roads and the fact that the horse, | through a twist of circumstances, has them again. SEV!:RAL interesting experiments in vacation diversions have been inaugurated in New England of late years. Although that section has de- veloped exceptional facilities for mo- toring, at least three of these refrea- tional novelties frown on the automo- bile; their success is based not on the | popularity of motoring but the de- | sire to get away from such traffic. ! One of these innovations, growing | | rapidly in Europe and especially in | Germany, is the chain of hiker hostels | that is spreading through New Eng- |land. Another was the introduction last Fall of the bike-and-hike train— | an adaptation of the snow trains— | | which carries excursionists to some | remote but lovely spot in the country | where, free from the whiz of modern | traffic, they may cycle or walk in| peace. Another, the latest idea, is to | turn backwoods roads over to the horse and the equestrian, guiding Winning BY THE FOUR ACES. tine, Merwin D. Maler, Oswal (David BUMmEn, o four. inventors of the other system Playing Favorites. E RECENTLY received (as individuals, not as a team) one of those questionnaires which people have a habit of sending to bridge players. The first question is: “What is your fa- vorite card?” and being sensible peo- ple, we naturally have but one reply, which is, “The ace.” They next asked us about our favorite suit. Again we are sensible and reply, “Spades’— after all, it outranks the others. At first glance the third question ! reems equally silly, since it asks what is our favorite contract, and we might | well reply, “Seven no-trump.” How‘i ever, if we assume that the question | means what contract do we play best, | we have & chance for a very long enswer. While we flatter ourselves that all | four of us play the dummy pretty | well, there are certain types of hands which each of us considers his spe- eialty. Howard Schenken, for in- etance, likes to operate on a three- no-trump contract, which cannot be made without a little help from the opponents, and he seems to persuade them to give him that help with great frequency. Oswald Jacoby, on the other hand, feels the same way about four of a major suit. Jimmy Maier likes to op- erate on difficult slam °contract, which can be made if he selects the | proper series of plays out of perhaps | 10 or 15 possibilities, while David | Burnstine's specialty will undoubtedly | meem very unusual to most of our | readers, since it consists of worry- ing out two spades or two hearts with a hand on which the opponents ehould either make a partial score | themselves or set him one or two tricks. INCIDENTALLY, this specialty is particularly valuable in games in which all the participants are master players. In ordinary games a great many hands are passed out, but when experts meet they are trying for every point. As a result, one frequently will see third and fourth hand open- ings made with hands in which the bidder has no intention of getting to game, but merely hopes that he and his partner will be able to make a valuable partial score. When they proceed from rubber bridge to duplicate, these hands be- come even more important. Here a plus score of 110 (60 for making two- odd plus & 50-point part-score bonus) 1s likely to give just as many match points as making a slam on & triple squeeze on the next hand. Just what constitutes a sign-off bid is a rather complicated problem. In one of the early chapters of our book we state that the only real sign- off is the pass. However, suppose you cannot pass, since your partner has given you an absolutely forcing bid. Now your problem is to make that next bid one which is most Jikely to stop him. Usually a simple rebid of your own suit is the best of this type. But in a recent rubber bridge game Mr. Schenken realized that the only way he could possibly Contract d_Jacoby, Howard Schenken. world leading system that has beaten every in existence.) MB. JACOBY opened with & bid of one spade. With no score, Mr. Schenken would merely have passed, but with a part score of 60 he‘realized that it was quite probable he and his partner could make a contract of two- odd in the right suit. He could not respond with one no-trump with a singleton club, and hence bid two | hearts. Mr, Jacoby’s next bid was | four clubs and now Schenken realized that he was in trouble. Of coutse he could not pass. He felt that a re- turn to four spades would surely be followed by a bid of five or six spades by Mr. Jacoby, and was certain that if he rebid his hearts, Mr. Jacoby would mark him with a better suit than five-to-the-jack. Accordingly, Mr. Schenken fnally chose what | seemed to him the least of all evils | and bid four diamonds. Mr. Jacoby now went into a long huddle and finally decided to bid only four hearts, his reasoning being as follows: If Mr. Schenken had a good hand, he would bid over the four hearts, whereupon he (Jacoby) could go on to six or seven as he desired. But Mr. Schenken might have a heart suit, in which case it would probably be impossible to make a slam. Mr. Schenken naturally passed the four hearts and fulfilled his contract. In subsequent discussion Mr. Schen- ken asked what Mr. Jacoby would have done if he (Schenken) had bid four hearts, and Mr. Jacoby naturally replied, “I would have jumped right to six hearts.” occurs when partner opens with one heart or one spade, you respond with two clubs or two diamonds and he rebids to two no-trump. If you then rebid your original suit to three, you are making a definite sign-off and saying in effect, “Partner, although you naturally thought my first re- sponse was a constructive bid, it was in reality a rescue bid. I have a fairly long suit, but it is not solid and I hold no re-entry. You should there- fore pass unless you hold all suits well stopped plus at least a high honor and one in my suit.” The type of hand on which a player should make such a sign-off would be something like six to a king-queen and nothing else. With such a hand the player would naturally wish to play the contract at his own suit, which must be the safest declaration for the combined hands. However, if his suit be as good as six to an ace-queen- jack or six to a king-jack with one sure re-entry, instead of signing off he should contract for three no-trump over his partner's rebid to two no- frump. Question: “Recently I was defending & three no-trump’ contract. Dummy held seven diamonds to the ace-king- queen and no re-entry. I held three’ to the jack. Declarer made his con- tract by running seven diamond tricks, However, it occurred to me that I could have beaten the contract by deliberately revoking on the third diamond lead. This would have cost the declarer four tricks in the play stop his partner would be to bid the fourth suit. North dealer. * Both sides vulnerable. North and South 60 on seore. Mr. Jacoby. M#AKJ1005 VA9 S8 * dAQ63 N W+E 8 and, in spite of the two-trick penalty for the revoke, he would have been down two. I wonder if it would have been proper for me to revoke delib- erately?” i Answer—Decidedly not. The penal- ties provided for violation of rules are intended to cover only those instances where the rule is broken accidently. A deliberate violation is unethical. (Copyright, 1936, The Four Aces will be pleased to answer letters from readers if a stamped (3 cent). NE of the most common sign-offs 1nd public_conveyance rates. self-addressed envel 1s_inclosed with each communication. If you desire the pocket outline of the Four Aces' system . l, wi our ues| ol Ve e F I lope to the Four n THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, The Traveler’s Notebook Maine Puts Chain of Unpaved and Abandoned Roads to Use as Bridle Paths, Far Removed From Dangerous Traffic. the rider.through rustic beauty over clearly defined autoless routes. Tms vacation development has re- cently been announced by Maine. The idea, thought about vaguely by horsemen for a number of years, was given impetus sbout a year and a half ago when riders of the State formed the Maine Horse Association, [ The organization now includes prac- tically every major riding club in the State. Visiting vacationists who are horse enthusiasts have helped crys- tallize the marked-trail idea. The plan has brought about & net- work of roads extending 13,000 miles and into every county of the State, where the horse will reign supreme. In laying out 17 distinct routes tap- ping Maine’s most picturesque areas— the lakes, mountains, seacoast, for- ests and farm lands—the State has utilized quiet, unpaved country roads, abandoned roads, discontinued trolley roadbeds, “tote” roads and narrow woods trails. Routes, marked by numbers and & horseshoe on an or- ange-painted signpost, have been laid out for tours penetrating the sparsdly settled sections of the State and re- quiring several weeks down to day- long jaunts. For overnight riders and those who do not care to be troubled by pack- ing along food, the State Develop- ment Commission and npative horse- men have arranged for accommoda- tions along the routes. Farm couples have agreed to provide rooms and meals, and camps are springing up| incorporating special provisions for horses as well as riders. A guide- book, listing trails and places where paying guests are accommodated, is being prepared for distribution by the State next Spring. The system of trails was officially christened last month when a party of riders from Massachusetts, Con- necticut and Rhode Isiand left Bangor | for a two-week trip into the heart | of the Maine woods, the famed Moose- head Lake region. Rides were ar- ranged to cover 20 miles daily. CRIBBLINGS: The tourist in Ger- many has a choice of 60,000 ho- tels. And 800,000 beds. Taking a leaf from the legends of Hercules in the light of the tremendous chore of washing dishes, the builders of the monastery of Alcobaca, in Portugal, contrived to have a clear, wide brook flow over a stony bed through the kitchen. It is one of the largest kitchens in the world. The monastery now serves as a barracks. What tulips are to Holland, canaries are to Norwich, England. The fine points of the birds are discussed there with the same interest that the Kentuckian talks of horses. Lo- cal shops sometimes stock as many as 5,000 of the songsters. Shooting Gessler, the crowning | achievement of the tyrant-hating Wil- | liam Tell, is still a festive thing to do in Switzerland. Annually in Oc-| tober at Thun there is held the *“Aus- schiesset.” Youthful archers as well as adult marksmen take part. Am- | bitious youths don medieval garb and | take shots at a huge picture of Gess- | ler on a horse. If an arrow hits Gess- ler, a man known as the “indicator” and dressed like Tell, gives a signal to two cadet drummers, who sound a roll as short or long as the serious- ness of the ‘“wounds.” The youlh‘ who pierces Gessler's heart gets a valuable prize. DOLLAR BUY.S MORE TRAVEL IN ITALY NOWE With Charges Supervised, New | Rate for Lira Gets Approxi- mately 50 Pct. Additional. NEW YORK, October 10—The | most marked effect of re-establishing the lira at its 1927 level of 19 to the | dollar will show in greatly increased travel to Italy, in the opinion of Aroldo Palanca, general manager of the Italian line for the United States and Canada. S$ince 1927 the traveler in Italy has not felt the benefit of currency exchanges to the extent now existing, as the dollar now purchases nearly 50 per cent more in the Italian market. The previous rate was about 121; lira to the dollar. With the cost of vacationing in Italy cut virtually in half, it is expected by travel authorities that the Fall and Winter seasons will almost immediately show notable increases in the number of persons wintering in Italy. = Palanca points out that rigid man- dates have been set up over the prices of hotel accommodations, gasoline Where reviously hotel accommodations may have cost 50 lire, purchaseable at $4, now the same accommodations would cost only $2.50, with approximately the same reductions prevailing in all travel facilities. RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. ATLANTIC CITYS DISTINCTIVE HOTEL Seaside HARRISON COOX . MANAGEP Clarion European Plans—and Y RESORT 70 STAGE MILITARY RITES Atlantic City Begins to Plan Anniversary Celebration of Morris Guards. ATLANTIC CITY, October 10.—Ar- rangements are getting urder way for the greatest military celebration that Atlantic City has ever seen. It is the 50th anniversary of the Morris Guards, the resort's city troop and one of the two oldest civilian soldier organizations .in the United States. While the event does not take place until next March, the committee has started working on the elaborate program. ‘The military company was formed here on March 12, 1887, and has con- tinued active drilling since that time, listing among its members practi- cally all of the social, political and civic leaders in the resort down through the years. The three-day program, which will consist of a series of parades, drills, dinners and military balls and dances, will find the Centenial Legion, made up of the old military organizations in the Thirteen Original States, tak- ing part. Some 40 units will partici- pate, & few of which are the Old Guard of New York, Ancient and Honorable of Boston, Essex Troop of Newark, N. J.; State Fencibles, 5th Regiment, 1st and 2d City Troops, all of Philadelphia; 5th Regiment of Baltimore, the Richmond Blues, Blue Hen Chicks of Delaware, Gate City Guard of Georgia and the Fayetteville Guard of North Carolina, Vienna Minting Coins. Vienna, Austria, is minting coins for Bolivia, Greece, Poland, Uruguay and Yugoslavia. RESORTS. _ PENNSYLVANIA There's Magic in the Mountains these erisp Fall di Every facility for rest or play. 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All-expenses 363 to Havana 17 days: By sea to Miami; thence by steamer to gay, captivating Havana. All-expenses 81 Fares include meals stateroom accommodations and all expenses ashore. For full information, write, phone or call at M. & M. Travel Bureau, 1418 HSt, N. W., Washington (National 4612)--or authorized tourist agents. ot your oun TRAVEL Al !"fl' the Amers- 624 _TFifth Ave. New York City (Willard Hotel Bldg.) 1414 F. Slvfl'l:‘-"n. S D. C. OCTOBER 11. 1933—PART TWO. We Have Just Six of These 1936 Super Model 5-Cu. Ft. Size Frigidaires— Regularly $187.50 (Slightly Damqged or Used) NOW= ${57.50 Nothing Down—Monthly Payments =805 ann he Avenus"=Tth. Sth snd O Stse CLUB ALUMINUM 'WATERLESS” COOKWARE cLus ALUMINYM —These models were slightly dom- aged in delivery to customers, and because of this fact and the fact that they were used for a short while, we are selling them at this low price. With the purchase of each refrigerator, we will extend a five-year guarantee. 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