Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1931 — Page 5

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BRIDGE EXPERTS ARE READY FOR 'STARTER'S GUN' Culbertson Claims He Has Half Million at Stake in Duel With Lenz. BY H. ALLEN SMITH I ml*d Prri Staff ( r 1 1 1 npnnrifnt NEW YORK Der 7—Ely Culbertsons confident assault upon the now official .system of contract bridge bidding will begin lonieht. After an hour of pretentious openinß ceremonies. Culbertson will sit down for the first eicht, rubbers of his 150-rubber match with Sidney s. Lenz. an acknowledged contract master. Theoretically it. will be a bitter ficht between Culbertson's ap-proach-forcing system and the official system developed by Lenz and hi* colleagues of Bridge Headquarters. Inc., an organization popularly supposed to have been formed for the purpose of challenging Culbertson's dominance of the bridge world. But over and above the clash of the bidding systems will be the battle of the actual players—enemies in every sense of the word save the fact that thev can sit down at n card table together and adhere to >he common co^.. of ethics without coming t- blows. Opening Rids, Issue Culbertson and his wife, Josephine, his playing partner, will employ an opening two bid to force partner to keep the bidding going. Icnz and Oswald Jacoby will use a two bid to invite an answering bid from partner, but the Lenz two bid will not be a demand bid. IT Culbertson makes an opening bid of two in any suit, he is indicating that his hand contains five or more tricks, whereas Lenz’ two bid indicates three or three and one-half tricks. Lenz' forcing hid of three is a sign that he holds nine or ton tricks. This is,siic, of what should constitute a forcing bid, is the prime point of difference and the cause of a million or so quarrels in the United States. Prestige at Stake Both Lenz and Culbertson stand to lose a huge, though intangible, amount of prestige in the six-week battle. Financial losses, over and above the money actually wagered on the outcome, will be reflected in loss of followers, with consequent decreases in book sales and lecture Tecs to Culbertson, who claimed today that if he and Mrs. Culbertson lose, he will be out at least a half million dollars. Lenz’ losses, however, will be confined to prestige chiefly. Although he has written several books, he is a strict bridge amateur and is reputed to have refused an offer of SI,OOO a lesson. We know that 90 per cent of the contract players in America use our system of bidding,” Culbertson said. "If we lose, hundreds of thoustnds will swing over to Lenz and the official system. But if Lenz is defeated, he will lose completely the mall group which follows him as an authority, but he will remain one of the world's greatest card players.”

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GASOLINE BIDS HANGING FIRE Low Prices May Not Decide $500,000 Contract Winner. Promise of quick deliveries again may place the $500,000 gasoline, oil and grease contracts of the state highway department in the hands of the Standard Oil Company. Decision in the matter is expected to be reached at a meeting of the state highway commissioners Thursday, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown of the department. In no classification is Standard the low bidder, according to tabulations prepared by Ralph Simpson, assistant director. Indian Refining Company is low on gasoline, Shell Petroleum Corporation on kerosene, and the Denham Oil Company on oils and greases, Simpson said. Both Shell and Gulf Refining Company bids were rejected originally because no bond was furnished. but reconsideration was granted.

COLD HAS NO EFFECT ON RABIES. STATE TOLD Every ' Hay Is “Hog Hay," Indiana Health Board Official Savs. Every day is “dog day” and the cold weather has nothing to do with the danger of dog bite and rabid infection, Dr. C. F. Adams, director of the state board of health laboratory, declared today. Twenty persons who had been exposed to rabies were treated at the laboratory today. "The popular idea that hot weather makes dogs mad is entirely erroneous,” Dr. Adams asserted. "Our greatest number of patients this year was during a cold spell last March. “There is no explaining the rise and fall in the number of rabid cases. If is a germ disease and dogs and hunans may catch it winter or summer. Over a ten-year period the seasonal changes would be meaningless.” HELD IN CIGARET THEFT Charged with offering cartons of cigarets for sale at an unusually low price, Robert Moore. Negro. 27. of 2030 North Capiotl avenue, w r as arrested today on a vagrancy count by Lieutenant Ralph Dean. Dean said Moore said he had been given the cigarets by another man and told to dispose of them. Police believe they may be part of an enormous supply stolen recently from a wholesale grocery company.

Baroness Eveline von Maydell, Russian artist, and a silhouette of an Indiana landscape scene she made recently. Impressed by the beauty of the Hoosier countryside. Baroness Eveline von Maydell, guest artist at John Herron art institute, has included an Indiana scene in the exhibition she is displaying this week. Baroness von Maydell “snipped out” the scene near Indianapolis when she stopped at a country home while en route here from Chicago. The scene will be. included in her group of famous silhouettes to be exhibited in other cities in the country. Benefit Party is Arranged Women of the Moose will give s benefit, card party Thursday nigh at 8:30 at 135 North Dalawari street,.

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1,500 RAILROAD UNION LEADERS IN PAY PARLEY Gather at Chicago for Con- j fab on Proposed Wage Slashes. By I i lni Prr* CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—Rail union officials gathered today to consider the request of railroad executives for a 10 per rent wage cut. Early arrivals for the joint conference of 1,500 union leaders representing all railroad labor groups indicated opposition to the proj posed reduction, which will be discussed Wednesday. The meeting was unique in railj road labor annals in that all of the 1.500.000 organized emDloyes arc represented. Prior to presentation of the wage slash proposal, the exj ecutives will consider means sor 1 i permanent stabilization employment. A committee of the Railway Labor Executives Association, which j includes heads of the twenty-one ! major unions, will report on a proj gram for a shorter working day to give wider distribution of employment. j Necessity for revision of. the employment structure was pointed out : as due to insecure and diminishing employment and inadequate "wages. Union heads declared less than 50 i per cent of rail workers were asi sured o' - continuous employment and that traffic requires a third less woikers than twenty years ago. ! In addition, the unions stated 400.000 members earn less than S2O a week and 600.000 more earn less j than S3O a week. I Th° leaders said they would ask 1 that regular employes be assured

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as uniform compensation for their money for a fixed return. Union officials said they would labor as investors who place their propose establishment of a national placement bureau to relocate rail employes permanently unemployed due to force reductions and to distribute temporary workers for seasonal traffic increases. The 6-hour day has been suggested as a temporary relief measure. i Motorist Robbed By Timm Special HUNTINGTON. Ind., Dec. 7.—An overcoat and a pocketbook were taken from Jack Lee, Indianapolis motorist, by a hitch-hiker picked up on U. S. Road 24 eight miles west of here.

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Successor to the late Senator Dw’ight W. Morrow- is William Warren Barbour, above, millionaire sportsman and mayor of Rumson, N. J.. who has been appointed to the vacant post by Governor Morgan Larson of New Jersey.

SZIGETI PLAYS MODERN MUSIC ON HIS PROGRAM Achron’s ’Stempenyu’ Suite Strikes New Note of Haste. BY WALTER H. HICKMAN There were many interesting things at the violin recital of Joseph Szigeti at the Academy of Music Sunday afternoon but none so interesting as the first performance of the violinist of Joseph Achron's •'Stempenyu," suite written in 1930. The date is modern and the composition is modern in its haste, certainly the "Freilachs.'' 'Quick Dance), which brought the experiment to a close. | I confess, Ido not know that this Achron suite will be living music ■or sot. But yesterday it was very interesting to me because it intro- ! duced anew tempo of haste, even j satisfactory confusion of sound. New' 1 sound, yes. And the large audience spoke its approval of the very modern composition. The third group included "Invocation” from “Thp Blue Bird,” by Strawdnskey-Grunes. and “Gavotte.” from “Symphonie Classique"—l9l7. . Another interesting fact was the way Szigeti allowed the piano to be of tremendous power in Brahms’ “Sonata in D minor Opus 108.” The violinist even permitted Nikita de Magaloff, the accompanist, to share the applause evenly with me. Both are right Many a violinist not only does not permit sharing of the honors in applause in this sonata but causes the piano to be secondary. j Szigeti is right in this because I I have never heard this Brahms’

> sonata more beautifully and effecttively played as yesterday afternoon. Will always remember the way Szigeti plyayed Bach's “Chaconne” with no piano background. Here the violinist showed his finest conI ception and mastery of tone. A I masterpiece in playing, i The Maennerchor again gave another concert, which wdli long linger in my memory. c i v i c~T ea g ueTt (f meet Session of Sherman-Emerson Group to Be Held Tuesday. Meeting of the Sherman-Einerson Civic League will be held at 6 Tuesday at the home of F. A. Muehlbacher. 811 North Wallace street. Reports from the public utility committee, by delegates to the federation of community civic clubs, and on transportation and traffic will be made. for the January meeting also will be discussed. How to Get Rid of RHEUMATISM New Medicine Drives Rheumatic Poisons from Joints and Muscles or Money-Back. EASES PAIN FIRST DAY j Poisons settling in she joints and | muscles cause rheumatism. You can- ! not get rid o£ rheumatic agony rill j these dangerous poisons are driven 'out of your system. Thar's why external remedies and pain deadening j drugs only give temporary relief. What you need is RU-MA. the new ! medicine now sold by all druggists ! that acts directly or. the liver, kidj neys and blood, and helps pxpel j through the natural channels of elimI ination the dangerous poisons that cause rheumatic misery. No tong waiting for your suffering to stop. RU-MA eases pain the first j Hay and is one rheumatism remedy I | that's guaranteed to free muscles and joints from painful stiffness, swelling and lameness, or nothing to pay. ! Hook's Dependable Drug Stores has j iso much confidence in KT'-MA that I they want every rheumatic in town to try it: and guarantee money-hack if it does nm stop all your rheumatic ■ suffering. Advertisement.

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