LARGEST DIAMOND SUCCESSFUL
CLEAVING OF
HUGE STONE
Jonker Gem Weighing 726 Carats
MAJOR PORTION TO FORM $2,000,000 NECKLACE
New York.
The eyes of Lazare Kaplan,! diamond cutter, shone with happy tears as he told how he performed the biggest job of his career the first cleaving of the Jonker diamond.
THE CHINA NAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1936
Above in a view of the Reich motor-road from Cologne to Dusseldorf ine neighbourhood of Hilden, which was inaugurated on May 21 by the The 726-carat gem which was Rei a Minister for Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels. till then the world's largest and finest uncut diamond, is now in) three pieces. Later these will be split into 12 which the owner hopes to see sold in a $2,000,000 necklace.
It was 3ir. Kaplan's task to tap the uncut jewel, which Jacobus! Jonker found in a south African; hammer and: mine, with a brass
sever it for the first time-an -operation so delicate that even the owner, Harry Winston, wouldn't. look on.
ly.
IR
DANCING DENOUNCED AS "IMMORAL"
Scottish Synod's Verdict
Modern dancing was denounced the a report submitted to Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland meeting in Glasgow recently, by
committee
The diamond fell apart perfect. on morals and temperance.
Mr. Kaplan's son Leo, who held! the wedge while his father tapped the hammer, said: "There was a silent moment. Then I shouted: with joy. It's perfect!""
Anxiety And Relief
Mr. Kaplan, who has been cut- ting diamonds for 37 years, smiled, "I didn't say anything. I was so' glad it was over. Then I rushed to a telephone and told my wife.”
The cleaving took place at 4 pm. on April 27 in Mr. Kaplan's mid- Lown office. A detective who was on guard left the room when the pro- .cess began, and the two diamond- -catters were alone.
"I felt that the whole world was watching." Mr. Kaplan said.
No reference was made to the Dornoch dispute which resulted in the suspension from the church
of Provost John Murray, one of be allowed the elders, because dancing at a party for his daugh-
ter at Christmas, 1924 Provost Marray was present, but took no part in the proceedings, his case being down for discussion by the Synod in private.
CAR REGISTRATIONS
IN BRITAIN
March Creates New Record
NEW LIGHT ON
UNDERGRAD'S DEATH RIDDLE
Scotland Yard Helps Oxford Police
"STARTLING" INFORMATION
RECEIVED
HYPNOTIC BAGMAN
WIDOW PARTS
WITH SHARES
TRACTOR ACCIDENT
John Arthur, former, of Muthill, Perthshire, was driv- 'ing a tractor on his farm when it was checked so vio- lently by a large stone that it
TO STRANGER somersaulted backward. Mr.
Irresistible Method
Of Swindler
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"He sort of hypnotises people,”
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Arthur was crushed to death underneath.
BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936.
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PARADE OF TIN SOLDIERS.
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ALICE WEERE ART THOU,
CRASH AFTER PARTY
said Mrs. Mary Acason, of Well- Inquest On Officer And
Old Somerset. at the ington, Bailey, when treferring to Dorel Isidore Baumgart, 41, a traveller.
Girl
Pi
Baumgart pleaded not guilty to CAR CRASHES INTO LORRY conspiring with Clarence Young
Egham. and Charles White, and other per- isons unknown, to cheat and de!
Misadventure was the verdict at fraud by false pretences persons the inquest at Egham, Surrey last who might be induced to part with month on an officer and girl who certain share certificates to Percy were killed when their car struck Bennett and Co. Ltd.
the back of a lorry at Cut Hills. Mr. G. D. Roberts, prosecuting.] Virginia, Water, at two 2.m.
one
said it was alleged that Baumgart morning. The victims were: toured the country and persuaded Miss Rosamund Kattering E- persons to part with share certi-ches, aged 24, of the Secretary's ficates amounting to a substantial Lodge, Bisley Camp,
2nd Lt. Allen Bartlett, aged 23,¦ The various principals in the of the Wiltshire Regt. and Lyne business and the various assis-wood, Church-lane. Aldershot.
Charles Edward Etches, secre- tants disappeared before the end
of May," said Mr. Roberts. "When tary to the National Rifle Associa- the financial balance-sheet was tion, father of Miss Etches, said Oxford, May 19. What is described as "startling" reckoned up it was found that the his daughter and Lt. Bartlett were information has been received by company was owing about £107,-returning from a party at Staines. Richard Thomas, an officer of the police regarding the death of 000 to the investing public-all of Mr. Thomas Patteson Moss, aged it, in the submission of the pro- the 2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regiment, Camp, Bisley, stated Balliol secution, having been obtained by Cowshott 21, an undergraduate of College. Developments, are ex-i pected during the next few days.
The charred body of Mr. Moss
fraud."
Plansible
.,
that he and two other officers were at Staines early on the morning Mrs. Acason, a widow, said that in question. They say Lt. Bart-
was found in a burned-out hayrick Baumgart almost pushed his way lett's car and followed it, but later
at Stadhampton, 10 miles from into her house. She described lost sight of it. Shortly after- him as being "very nice and very wards they came upon the accid- here, early on Friday.
plausible."
and
iert.
At the request of the Oxford.
"He made me believe him," she
Skull Fractured police Scotland Yard is now help
Very Dr. Eric Gardner said Miss Et- ing to unravel the mystery of Mr.added. "I told him I was Moss's death. I learn that Scot-poor, that my husband died sud-ches had been thrown against the land Yard men have been bere denly, and that I had hard work wind screen, and her skull was
to keep my home.”
fractured. Lt. Bartlett's neck was since Saturday, but the greatest She added that she did not give broken. secrecy has been observed.
Baumgart the shares, but pro- Arthur McCabe. of Southamp duced a deed box, and he chose ton-street, Camberwell, driver of mem-what he wanted. He stated that the lorry, said he was driving to the shares would not be cold, but Exeter. Finding that his engine deposited in a bank and held as was not pulling well he got out on. collateral security.
а wide piece of road to examine Mrs. Acason added that she it. His rear light was all right heard Sir Thomas Inskip's broad- before the accident. cast about sharepushers. She ques- tioned Baumgart, who told her that it was the company that had asked Sir Thomas to make the broadcast
Three Theories
A return issued by the Ministry Chief Insp. Jesse Keech Before I did it, I went away of Transport shows that the num-Sergt. May have interviewed for three days.”
ber of new motor vehicles regis-bers of the college. Young Kaplan wore an apron to tered in March-52,909 was the catch diamond chips in case any highest monthly total on record. The police have almost ruled dew off, but none came.
It compares with 47,922 in March,jout the possibility of suicide or faccident, and there are now threel figures for the several theories-that
3.
Six Months' Study
1935
The actual cleaving took but a The few seconds; but Mr. Kaplan had classes are as follows:
the diamonda been studying grooves and planning the cleft for
six months. He is a brown-eyed, Cars taxed on H.P.
Cycles
bald man, a native of Belgium. Hackney vehicles Winston said the cleaving was Goods vehicles uninsured, although the uncut gen Other vehicles was insured for $1,000,000. He said his insurance brokers were told by Lloyd's of London, "the risk is too great."
One piece of the gem, when the cleaving and polishing is com plete, will be 165 carato. This is expected eventually to go" to a
March March
1926 1935 34.935 32.950 -6.884 5,792 SST* 54 8.446 7,280 1,757 1,176
52,909 47,922
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Mr. Moss was murdered;
He was knocked down by a car and the body taken to the rick;
He was drugged and dumped there unconscious before it was set alight.
The vital times in the tragedy jare:
10.50 pm Thursday.-Moss was zeen in Broad Walk apparent- ly on the way to his hostel, a short distance away.
1-10-
2.Fly Friday A postal worker passed the rick and found nothing amiss.
“CRIMINAL FACE"
Proves Difficult Of Identification
STUDENTS PUT TO TEST WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
MORE “NEW LIFE” OUTBREAKS Shantung Shocked By Female Fashions
Following in the footsteps of the Cantonese purity promoters," the Shantung provincial authori- ties have Isunched a campaign Jagainst female attire which they "There is no such thing as a consider detrimental to the morals A new light aeroplane, which, it If not sold in a necklace or as as claimed, costs less than a half-210 Mr. Mosses's watch had criminal type of face." Dr. Frank of the community. The Tsinan collection, the gems will be sold penny a mile to run, was demon-, separately.
strated for the first time in Bag-2.45 am-The rick land at the Great West Aerodrome,
museum.
ANOTHER MILITARY COUP IN BOLIVIA
Thirty-Fifth In 108 Years
La Paz (Bolivia)-A military -coup has been carried out in Bolivia. President Sorzano has resigned and the Army has taken -over the Government.
The capital is calm and the military Government announces that there has been no violence and no arrests. The movement is described as "without hate or ranceur, and inspized by a desire for social improvement.”
This is the 35th coup d'etat in Bolivia's 103 years of independ- ence. Both Bolivia and Paraguay. have now been the scenes of suc- cessful military coups Bince the signing of peace last January ended the four years' war be- tween them.
LORRY
It is a British machine, named
stopped.
flames.
Tred. "
was seen in
E. August told his criminology police have begun to go through class at the University of Kansas the city in search of "queer City, and to prove it he passed out dresses." They have stopped quite la number of women on the streets near Hayes, Middlesex, last month. 3.30 am-The body was discover 75 newspaper pictures from which who were wearing dresses expos-
he had clipped the identifying cap It is now certain that Moss was tions and substituted numbers.ing their elbows and knees. These "Tipsy," and it was tried out by M. Eyskens, the Belgian airman. taken in a motor, dead or alive, to About half were of criminals, the women were permitted to go on their way only after promising The machine is said to be the the place where he was found.
other half good citizens, and the that they would not wear latest development of this type of
dresses again Seven young wo aircraft. It costs £265, has a
The average of the 40 replies men were taken to the police head- was slightly better than half right. quarters because they were wear- An Ohio kidnapper was voted aing dresses with "sex appeal.” good citizen by 30 per cent, of the They were later released. class. One man was rated as a
cruising speed of 70 miles an THE ENGLISH CUP
.OF TONIC. hour, a top speed of 98 m.p.b., a landing speed of 37 mph. and a range of 400 miles. For an hour
run it consumes one and a half gallons of petrol costing 2s. 3d and half a pint of oil, costing 78.
PRESIDENT WHO EARNS £2 A DAY
Finance Minister's £1
Boy Patient Cheered By View
students were asked to designate which
good citizen on the basis of a photograph of him in business;
The English Cup was placed clothes, and as a criminal from a
EIGHTEEN-OUNCE BABY
such
at the bedside of a small boy picture of him in dishevelled at- A baby girl born to Mr. and who is on the danger list at the tire with several days' growth of Mrs. Legge, of Beatrice-street, Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-beard. The best reply classified Swindon, weighs only 1802, al- road, recently.
53 of the 75 pictures correctly. though she was perfectly formed.
Mr. George Allison, manager
of the Arsenal, who won the Cup, The salary of the President of received a message from the hos
Chile is 22 a day, while the pital that a boy who was critically Non-Smokers Claiming
Finance Minister earns £1 a day!ill had one desire in life-to see!
This disclosure was made by the the famous Cup.. Finance Minister, Don Gustavo
He took it round at once in his
Afterwards, a sister at the hos
Recognition Of Rights
VULTURES ATTACK Ross, at a banquet of the Ibero-car
Manchester. Theatre forbids smoking on Tues American Benevolent Society in
pital told Mr. Allison on the tele- The restriction of smoking in day evenings. London recently.
To be able to meet our obliga-phone that the sight of the Cap pablic places is the aim of the Non-In no other country, it is held, Driver Badly Injured tions," said Senor Ross, we live was the best tonic the boy could Smokers Defence League here. The has the habit of indiscriminate
modestly, bordering · I might zay,
A horde of vultures numbering on poverty.”
have had.
*
“Ele brightened up at once,
about 200 have "attacked a lorry "The modest servant of the Re is all smiles now,” she said.
loaded with goods returning from public who stands before you and Thebes to Levadia, say an Athens controls her finances devotes to report. The driver was seriously his task from 12 to 14 hours a day injured.
of hard work in return for his He tried to beat off the vultures daily. £1* with an iron bar.. He managed to kill aix, but was wounded · during:
TWO DEAD FOR A HEN
league has striven for and in some amoking been allowed to become and instances, obtained, more and so great an offence to the com- more carriages on railway trains(munity. In Russia, one" member in which smoking is forbilden. It reports, the interior of public has also persuaded several res-buildings is strictly preserved taurants to set apart provision for from pollufion, although the po Trying to rescue a hen which diners who object to eating their lice are allowed to smoke in the
street. had fallen into a ten-foot-deep pit, meals in a cloud of smoke. Ferdinand Matthes, a labourer, in Little, if any, success has been Members of the league also hail the Nikolas-See suburb of Berlin, achieved in a request to theatres with anxiety news that smoking the struggle. He was in danger tures off with revolvers and stones, fell into the pit, and was overcome and cinemas to reserve certain is now allowed in a branch library when a passenger bus from Athens killing 20 of them and capturing by the fumes. His sunt, 70-year-old days each week for those who ob-in one English town. Hitherto arrived.
three, which they took on to Berts Eock, went to his rescue, ject to smoking, in such places, al-such places have always been free
but also collapsed. Both died. though the Altringham Garrick from this habit. The passengers drove the vul- Thebes.
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