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World's Largest Diamond is Cut
By
PIERRE VILLERE United Press Staff Correspondent
On May 1, the first piece of the Presidente Vargas dia- 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 on April 9 * phosphor-bronze wheel, its edge charged with diamond dust, began culling 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, Joa- quim and Manoel Evancio, far- mers, discovered a dull looking piece of rock in the bed of the Rio San Antonio in Brazil. At first they tossed back, but Manoel insisted upon a secónd look. Fora_moment_he_suw. the rays of the sun pierce the dull exterior, and he knew he was holding a diamond in his hand.
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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 glamorotis in- furious dustry went into nction. Dealers from Ant- 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 Unie 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.
Insured For Million. He Insured the stone for a mli llon dollars, and shipped it to the United States, taking no elaborate precautions. It was sent by or dinary registered postage costing exactly 70 cents.
Was
For months the diamond Atudied behind the iron gates of the Winston offices. A plaster im- pression of the original stone was made, and hundreds of glass duin- mies cast from it. After much experimentation into the "planes of cleavage," it was decided that the Vargas could be
cut into 23 good stones ranging in size from five to fifty carats, the majority bo ing from 10 to 30 carats."
Cutting Procedure
Most of the world's great dia monday thetuding the Jonker,à.
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 Gotulio Vargas. It weighs 726.60 carats.
About
50 percent vanishes into dust in the cutting.
tleman who will do the cleaving. has existed on bluck coffee and cigars for four weeks. One minute miscalculation could cost his em- ployer hundreds of thousands of dollars.
fraction 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- ped once with a wooden inallet.. The stone either splits exactly in two or shatters into ruinous chips. After studying the Vargas, Wins- ton decided to reverse the procedure. The first piece is being sawed off and only then will the stone be cleaved. Adrián Grassely, the gen-
The entire operations, including cutting, cleaving, girdling, block- ing, faceting, and polishing, will re- quire at least 15 months. In the course of that time, nearly half of the stone w vanish into dust, a sacrifice to the brillancy and beauty of the finished pleces.
BILLY BROWN
BY WILLIAM DOWNS United Press Staff Correspondent
BILLY BROWN of
city's wisest and most prudent
To-day person.
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 u bowler, dark striped trousers, stiff collar, black business coat 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 cor- ries his gasmask, that he stands patiently in queues,
that he is extremely cureful in the black- out, that he always carries some- thing white so he can be seen by motorists in the darkness and that he lets his employees yu
home from work Bo they won't fam black-out traffic.
♪ car-
PROWN'S FAME is due to the combined efforts of o poet named Richard Usborne, toonist, David Langdon, and the London Passenger Transport Board, Usborne und Langdon created the mythical Elly Brown (19 the central character of a serles of goodwill advertisements designed
to aid bus and subway passengers travelling about war-tinie London. Here's an example:
When Billy Brown goes out at
night
.
He wears or carries something
while.
When Mrs Brown
block-out
ક In the
She likes to wear her old white
mack out.
And Sally Brown straps round
her shoulder
A nalty plain white
holder,
das-mask
The Browns want people near
and for
To known exactly where they
uro.
mented on the London Transport campaigns lighthearted public safety value.
of
To those used to push, shove and .off-tackle methods
boarding buses, street ears and subways, it scems queueing is a favourite down- lown sport among
Londoners. Get five of them together on any street and they appear automatical- ly to form a line. Here's how Usborne and Langdon attacked the situation:
Billy's standing in a queue 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 minules to journey's end. But, soys Billy, see you choose. The proper one of several queues.
BROWN'S INFINITE WISDOM
of black-out fe also pro- duced the following ode to night- time traffic.
Down below the station's bright But here outside it's black na
night.
Dilly Brown will walt 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
him.
cars he sees may not see
The London Transport also posted this versed chronicle of Citizen Brown.
Billy Brown's own Highway code For Black-outs lo Stay off the
Road.
He'll never step out and begin To meet n bus that's pulling In. He doesn't wave his torch at
night
But flags' his bus with, some-
thing white.
He never jostles in a queue, But waits and takes his turn. Do
you?
AND finally here in Brown on
kindness to employees:
The office says that Billy Brown Js far the nicest boss in town. For instance, since the blitz be-
Hou
to organised a simple plan Whereby his staff or · most of.
them
Are off for home by four pim. Wish that every boss"in town Coud:də life same · 6: Bulÿ
LANGDON DEPICTED THE ENTIRE, BROWN FAMILY walking joyfully through the black- but with nur thel white on, Government indielaks: havalceoma blade Brown. !),
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