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May 27, 1941.
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Diamond is Cut VESTS and BRIEFS
By
PIERRE VILLERE United Press Staff Correspondent
On May 1, the first piece of the Presidente Vargas din- mond fell onto the cutting table in the iron-barred office of Harry Winston on Fifth Avenue, New York.
The Vargas, weighing 726.- 60 carats, is the largest in the world, and the third largest ever found. When it has been cut up, the 23 resultant dia- monds will weigh from five to fifty carats each, and will have an aggregate value of $2,000,- 000.
At noon un April 9 phosphor-bronze wheel, its edge charged with diamond dust, began culting the huge stone. The first piece, the size of a small bon-bon, re- quired 21 days in the cutting.
That initial operation mark- ed the climax of a series of events the discovery, pur- suit, and final purchase of the Vargas-which provides one of the most fabulous and dra- matic episodes in the history of a fabulous and dramatic industry.
On the afternoon of August 13, 1938, two brothers, Jon- quim and Manoel Evancio, far- mers, discovered a dull looking piece of rock in the bed of the Rio Sun Antonio in Brazil. At first they tossed it back, but Manoel insisted upon a second look. For a moment he saw -the-rays-of-the-sun-pierce-the- dull exterior, and he knew he was holding a diamond in his hand.
Real Gem
He took it to a broker in Rio de Janeiro, who, quickly satisfied it was really a dia- mond, paid the brothers a good-sized fortune for it. He named it the Presidente Var- gas, after Brazil's chief execu- tive.
Within a few hours, the wheels of the glamorous in- went into furious dustry'
Ant- action. Dealers from werp. Amsterdam, London, Johannesburg, and New York began conveging upon Rio. One of them was Harry Wins- ton. His jump from New York to Rio was only the first move of a race that took him four months and involved more than 20,000 miles of
travel.
For in the meantime, the broker had sold the diamond to one Oswaldo Dautez dos Reis for $400,000 and from him it had passed to the Hol- landsche Unic bank of Rio. By the time Winston reached Rio the stone had already been shipped to Amsterdam. After a great deal of negotiations, which included, a quick trip back to London and involved the buying up of many options, he won possession of the stone.
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Insured For Million
le insured the stone for a mil- lion dollars, and shipped it to the United States, taking no elaborate precautions. It was sent by or- dinary registered postage costing exactly 70 centa.
was
For months the diamond studied behind the iron gates of the Winston offices. A plaster im- pression of the original stone was and hundreds of glass 'dum- made, mies
cast from it. After much experimentation into the "planes of It was decided that the Vargas
could be cut into 23 good stones ranging in size' from five to fifty corals, the majority bo- Ing from 10 to 30 carats.
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Cutting Procedure
Most of the world's great dia "monds, including "" the. Jonker, a*
CUTTING BIG STONE-The Vargas diamond, largest existing,
is weighed in New York preparatory to cutting it into 23 pieces. The gem was discovered in 1938 in Brazil and was named for President Getulio Vargas. It weighs 726.60 carats.
50 percent vanishes into List in the cutting.
traction of a carat smaller than the Vargas and also owned by Winston, Arst have to be cleaved. This means that after a tiny groove has been made along the grain, a steel rule, placed in the groove, is tap-
with a wooden pad ofice
mollet. The stone either splits exactly it two. or shatters into ruinous chips.
After studying the Vargas, Wins-, ton decided to reverse the procedure. The first piece is being sawed of and only then will the stone be cleaved. Adrian Grussely, the ger-
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tleman who will do the cleaving, has existed on black coffee and cigars for four weeks. One minute miscadeuiation could cost his em- ployer hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The entire operations, including culling, cleaving, girdling, block- ing, faceling, and polishing, will re- quire at least 15 months. In the course of that time, nearly half of the stone will vanish into dust, sacrifice to the brilliancy and beauty of the Anished pieces.
BILLY BROWN
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BY WILLIAM DOWNS United Press Staff Correspondent
ILLY BROWN of
London Town is the city's wisest and most prudent person. To-day and every day you can read of this -British John Q. Citizen on any
subway or bus.
This perfect Londoner is a little man always dressed in a bowler, dark striped trousers, stiff collar, black business cont and armed with an umbrella. Millions of London workers know him as well or better than they know their next door neighbour.
They know that he always car- rles his gasmusk, that he stands patienty in queues. that he is extremely careful in the black- out, that he always carries sune- thing white so he can be seen by motorists in the darkness and that he lets his employees go home from work so they won't jum black-out traffe.
BROWN'S FAME is due to the
combined efforts of a poet named Richard Usborne, a car- tounist, David Langdon, and the London Passenger Transport Board. Usborne and Langdon created the mythical Billy Brown the central character of a scries of goodwill advertisements designed to aid bus and subway passengers travelling about, war-time London. Here's an example: ~
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When Billy Brown goes out at
night
He wears or carries something
white.
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When Mrs Brown is in the "
bluck-out
She likes to wear her old white
mock out.
And Sally Brown straps round
her shoulder
A natty plain white flas-maske
holder.
The Browns want people деп
and for
To known exactly where they
are.
ANGDON DEPICTED. THE LA
ENTIRE. BROWN FAMILY walking joyfully through the black-, out, with all their white"en; Government sielais-havajicom-
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mented on the London Transport lighthearted public campaigns safely value..
To those used to push, shove and off-tackle methods of boarding buses, street cars and subways, it secins queueing is a favourite down- town sport among Londoners. Get five of them together on any street and they appear automatleaf- ly to form a line. Here's how Usborne and Langdon attacked the situation;
Billy's standing In quene As we all must sometimes do, Queueing in these days of rush Means you don't have any crush, And the Seconds saved will lend Extra minutes to journey's end. But, says Billy, see you choose, The proper one of several queues.
BROWN'S INFINITE WISDOM
of black-out life also pro. duced the following ode to night- time trame.
Down below the station's bright But here outside It's black as
night. Billy Brown will wait a bit And let his eyes grow used to it. Then he'll scan the road and see Before he crosses, if it's free; Remembering when lights are
dim
That cars he, sees may not see
him.
London Transport alac posted this versified chronicle of Citizen Brown.
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Billy Brown's own Highway code For Black-outs is 'Stay off the
Itoad,
He'll never step ouf and begin To meet a bus that's pulling in. He doesn't wave his torch at
night
Lat
But 'fings' his but with some
thing white. He never josties in a queue, But wolls and takes his turn, Do
you?
AND finally here is Brown on A kindness to employees:
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Are off for home by four p.m.. Wish that every boss in town Could do the samo Bs Billy
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