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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1938- Bridge Beware Oh, For The Life Of A Sailor Eoast Guard Ready to Kill Giant Whale 1 00-Ton Visitor In San Francisco Bay Called Menace. I r-i Trumping Partner's Ace Led Players to Court 0 PI' Wzr i i 7 mil training ship Damnark, which visited Savannah, Cojtenhagen from Buenos Aires. Take a lonson in the ways of men at sea from those Danish cailots as they work in the sails aboard "the Danish By Richard Heckman 0 February 26," Mrs. Wood told the court, "when Ave again found ourselves partners in a progressive game, I trumped his original aee lead." "How did you come to do that?" the judge asked. Mrs.

Wood's lawyer arose. is permissible to trump an ace if it gives vou a chance for a double While bridge-playing spectators argued the point with fierce looks, Chicago's Judge William M. Gemmill, listening to Mrs. Gerald C. Wood's plea; for divorce from her "bridge cruel" insurance broker husband, pondered on the bench, finally nodded thoughtfully and permitted the witness to proceed.

"Mr. Wood didn't wait to see why I made the play," Mrs. Wood continued, "but stood up and struck me. As a matter of fact, it was really a fumble on my part. After this we separated for a while and then made a solemn pledge never to play together again.

We were happy on that basis until August 19, when we were visiting some friends and they brought out a bridge table. Mr. Wood doubled a one no-trump bid, and disgusted with a bust hand, forgot to take him out of it. Again he hit me, and we have been separated ever since." Mrs. Wood's divorce was ultimately granted, but not until Judge Gemmill had sadly expressed his opinion on the dangers of the game of bridge.

"More married couples should hear your stary," he told Mrs. Wood. "If husbands and wives didn't play partners in bridge there would be fewer failures in matrimonial partnerships. I am hearing too much lately about spouses who failed to recognize an indicative bid. Bridge should be limited to single persons." Circumstance has justified his words.

More than one placid husband has been transformed into a maniac over the bridge table, and murder and mayhem have passed over the top. Most remarkable phase of the impending divorce of the famous Cul-bertsons, indeed, is the faet that it is not the result of card playing, but the clash of two different temperaments away from the table. Some Games End in Court ORE than one sensational court trial has grown out of bridge quarrels. When Mrs. John G.

Bennett of Kansas City, spread down a good dummy and watched her husband bungle a game bid, she grew so angry that she frankly informed him that he was the world's worst bridge player. Mr. Bennett replied with slapping her twice, but Mrs. Bennett got the last word and rendered him incapable of making any more misplays by killing him with two FAIREST SKIPPY'S SEEN NEAR BOATS Did, Barnacled Denizen Of Deep Can't Find Way to Open Sea SAX FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.

United Tress.) United States' coast guardsmen today had Orders to "kill on sight" a 60-foot gray-back whale which has been loose in San Francisco bay tor three days, unable to find its Iway back to sea. Guns on coast guard cutters Were prepared. Lookouts with binoculars scanned the waters as Ihe swift craft made the patrols between the Golden Gate and the far-reaching bays and inlets. The gigantic sea estimated by veteran whalers to weigh More than 100 tons, seriously menaced shipping. It came up to spout 35 feet from the tug Gerald and Captain Frank Olivera reported he thought it would attack before he could bring the tug about and reach the protection of Redwood City harbor.

Covered With Barnacles. "It came up like the bottom of the bay," he said, "and one of the men yelled, 'Thar she It i blew all right, like a geyser, right beside us." Captain Louis Lane, veteran whaler, was the first to report the whale. He said he saw it blow 1,500 feet off Pier 25 as he piloted a Norwegian ship out to sea, "It's very old," he said, "and covered with barnacles. Evidently it followed herring schools into the bay and can't find its way out. a gray whale gets trapped or lost it goes crazy and becomes even Ciore vicious than normally.

Might "Swamp Boat." "If it attacked a ferry it might Very easily stave a hole, or in a I direct rush, swamp the boat, Lane said. "A mad whale is something to keep away from. A hundred tons rushing through the water would crush a wooden ferry or tug. And it might damage a big vessel pretty leriously." The history of Pacific whaling is full of talcs of gray whales which wrecked whaling ships and killed scores of men. "We used to call them devil fish," said Lane, "because they were man- I killers.

There are quite a few left in Alaska waters, but you seldom see one this far south nowadays." The last whale ia San Francisco Bav died on the shallow shoals eight years ago. It was too lied" whalers jargon for berserk to swim out when the tide came in. A similar fate may await the i present whale, seamen pointed out, for it was twice seen near shallow waters. GOLDFISH Raked In TOMS RIVER. N.

Feb. P. IT) The striped bass are so numb from the cold that fishermen are raking 'em in. Barrregat Bay has been dotted with fishing boats since Clinton Cooper of Seaside Park discovered the fish were too cold to object to being jerked into a boat with an oyster rake. Local Izaak Waltons said the bass came into the bay looking for blood worms in the mud.

SERVICE AND HOW! SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 6. United Press.) A man fainted on the mezzanine floor of a hotel here today. A bystander shouted: "Is there a doctor in the house?" Dozens turned to help revive the man, who had fainted in the exhibition fcall of the International Post Graduate Medical Assembly, meeting this week. ALMOST A I 'iVf All AvTAS-y GosyG 1IAIC? shots from a revolver.

After 20 hours of deliberation, a jury decided that under the circumstances Mrs. Bennett was not guilty of murder. Violence stepped short of murder when the Jean Stewart Lingquists of Chicago last played together and Lingquist contented himself with merely giving his wife a good beating after the game was over. There were no revolvers in Mrs. Ling-quist's bedroom, but the court found the whipping sufficient grounds for divorce.

A White Plains insurance adjuster spent three days and nights playing in a New York bridge marathon. Although he won more than an entire year's salary, he lost a wife, for he had failed to inform her that his playing would keep him away from home, and when he finally arrived, exhausted and pale, she refused to let him enter the house. Shortly afterward she divorced him. Henry Meacham, a University of North Carolina summer student, paid the final price for bridge playing when, after receiving a series of intolerable hands, he laid a revolver on the table and declared that he would blow the brains out of the next person who dealt him a poor hand. It was his own deal, and following it he took one look at the cards.

The hand was a PICKER i i I Ha: vi face card. gun and calmly OST crimes w.i- Velma Van Wm r' V.j-. r. husband ohjrt-; .1 him one after: bridge party, v. i to kitchen, picked struck him over th- with her strength.

The cr.iy creased her fury, iind the kitchen she wn the table and head and he was dead. Then she pi .1 found the keys i rolled him up in a narted for her h. nket ard df-Arnvirc ys in time, she played rh s'Ci and remained, with her frscc throughout the the night at her he. ment, slept i following day w-i! mother. There i She was to life impnsf.i'.nii i be eliRible for pare The prospect not cite her, however, for She en r.f content in prison, every day with nthe apparently, like ih jarnr wit- what better than hT h.i.-Nr.a J0KKS IRK MAYOR Tradesmen Should 'IJurnnl I (Ml.

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four taxieahs mention food fnme medical clothing. The mayor v. not to accept t' his name. "This is a ch. he declared r'i' meet the BEWAKK" HORSE THIEVES Anli-TIicfl Still I'imk tionin: riiOE.vixvi I'.

stolen, the 1 1 bers of the ance of horse a' are still on the They held annual meet Haws of Nari- president. He i "For the v. i year no arrest connection wrn 1 coaches. In that any horse It must be conf -few horses and GOOD Samat KENOSHA. Sheriff 1 took Harold Li'.

kroner in his jail. pital, where Dal.i:. years old. was hi A blood transfu-i-' sary, but the youn- before physicians pie of his blood vv deputy sheriff rin'" and then took his iaU. A A HERO HOLIDAY fit Tt.

2Jr A 'f ap SOPHIE OBJECT OF SPECULATION CAT'S KITTENS RESEMBLE RABBITS. Special to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Chicago Tribune. NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Sophie, a black cat, was the object of some speculation today among residents of Armonk.

It was revealed that she was the mother of two black kittens with striking characteristics of the rabbit family. The kittens, Bunny and Blackie, are in the West Chester S. P. C. A.

shelter. Bunny's forelegs, chest, ears and teeth are like those of a cat, according to Ernest Sapey, manager of the shelter, but his back is high and his tail is short and fuzzy like that of a rabbit. His hind legs are considerably longer than those of a cat and resemble those of a rabbit in structure. Blackie has the same characteris tics though they are not striking as in the case of Bunny. Sapey said that the kittens were given him by F.

F. Lloyd, who said that their mother, Sophie, disappeared last October, in Oscawanna Woods and returned about Christmas time, giving birth to the kittens shortly afterward. TOO MUCH MUCH TOO MUCH So Says Frank of Wife's Bohemian Dish. Special to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from the Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO, Feb.

6. There is nothing that Frank Janecka likes quite so ell as knedlicky and zely dumplings and cab bage. He likes them especially with pork, like his wife, Polly, used to fix them. But, he complained to Julge J. J.

Lupe, even knedlicky and zely (famous Bohemian dish) get tire some when served every day for a month. Ke explained that he and Polly, who is 35, have been married for 10 years, but have not been living as man and wife for the last year, although they occupy the same house. She prepares his meals, he said, but won't talk to him. The knedlicky and zely diet started a month ago and he wanted an injunction to keep her from serving the dish any more. Judge Lupe said he couldn't restrain her from cooking and serving what she wishes, but he did enjoin her from drawing money for a joint bank account or disposing of the family home pending the hearing of Janecka's suit for divorce.

i i I i I i I 'J. 3 en route to GHOST CHASER Associated Press Photo. Although Hickman Whittington uses a Biblical passage to rid "haunted" houses of spooks, he won't disclose the scripture. The 68-year-old self-styled "ghost chaser" had many offers to give his powers a trial, but said he wouldn't begin work till about May 1 the weather is against him now. He lives in Benton, TIL BRAKES FOR PRODIGY Ten-Year-Old Complains 'They' Held Him Back.

CHESTER, Feb. 6. (A. Charles Herman Fritz, ready to enter high school at 10 years of age, figured today he might have done a lot better if "they" hadn't held him back. Because school authorities decided a prodigy needed brakes, Charles spent three whole years dawdling through the primary course in which ordinary children remain for eight years.

Charles finished the first five grades in seven months. Then, school authorities clamped down. The 180-pound boy smiled. "They needn't have worried," he said. "I get along fine with other boys.

"I just talk slang to them and they think I'm all right. At first I talked correctly the way they do in books, but I had to stop that." There's going to be some doings with the men's styles this year. The clothes are going to be plum colored, raspberry, lemon etc. Can you imagine going in and saying "I want a pair of pants" and the clerk says, "what flavor?" I suppose you read where Constance Bennett was awarded for a picture that was never produced. It was from a foreign company, which probably means that she'll be paid off in money that hasn't been made yet.

What's new around the house, mom? You say brother Willie was sent home from school again? Why? The teacher asked him for a sentence with the word What did he say? Dizzy Dean is not pigeon for the Cardinals this year. Well. No wonder he was sent home. Goodbye, Mom. I'll call you if i f.

ft till- 1 Skippy, a black and white tomcat, wears bronze medal for bravery, awarded by the American Humane Society after he had saved two elderly sisters, Mrs. Anna Augustine and Mrs. Mary liiippert, from asphyxiation. The women were napping in their Chicago home, unaware that gas was escaping from their stove. Skippy leaped upon Mrs.

Luppert, bit her nose and saved the pair. POSTMAN'S ASC -1 At i if i flu 3 I I i I I I i -f -v-r'; tV jl George Jessel Telephones To Mama Hello Mamma. There's great news out here in Hollywood from now on nobody has anything to worry about. The a test quest ion the world has ever asked has eventually been answered. Pauline God dard will play the part of Scarlet O'Hara in the picture "Gone With the Wind." I hope they make "Gone With the Wind" fore all the picture money has gone George Jessel.

with the stock market Arline Judge gave birth to a baby. And she is very happy about it. He's still got a chance to play Rhet Butler. it jt Pittsburgher go through his paces before the camera in Hollywood. They are shown (center) with Dick Koran, left, and Triscilla Lane, and Fowell (right).

Harry Kalmino, head of Warner Tiros, theater interests in Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Kalniine, pending a month's vacation in California, dropped in on Dick Powell to watch the former Associated Press Photo. This attractive young miss, Jean Kobey, has heen given the title of champion orange picker for the winter fair at Orlando, Fla. Sh won over a score of contestants..