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May 27

By Walt Disney

World's Largest Diamond is Cut

By

PIERRE VILLERE

United Press Staff Correspondent

On May 1, the first piece of the Presidente Vargas dia- niond 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.

AL noot on April 9 a phosphor-bronze wheel, its edge charged with diamond dust, began cutting the huge stone. The first plece, the size of a small bon-bon, re- quired 21 day's 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 it back, but Manoel insisted upon a second look. For a moment he saw the rays of the sun pierce the thull 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 n He good-sized fortune for it. named it the Presidente Var- gas, after Brazil's chief execu- tive.

Within a few hours, the wheels of the glamorous in- dustry went into furious, from Ant- action. Dealers 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 up of many the buying options, he won possession of the stone..

Insuged For Million He 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,

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CUTTING BIG STONE—The Vargas diamond, largest oxisting.

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 dust in the cutting,

fraction of a carat smaller than the Vargas and also owned by Winston, first have to be cleaved. This means that after a tiny groove has been made along the grain, a stcel rule, placed in the groove, is tap- ped once with a wooden

mallet. 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. Adrian Grassely, the gen

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tleman who will do the cleaving. has existed on black coffee and cigars for four weeks. One minute miscalculation could cost his em- ployer hundreds of thousands of dollurs.

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 wil vanish intò dust, a sacrifice to the brilliancy and beauty of the finished pieces.

BILLY BROWN

BY WILLIAM DOWNS United Press Staff Correspondent

ILLY BROWN of

B 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 tar- ries his gasmask, that he

stands patiently in queurs, that he Is extremely careful in the black- nut, that he always carries some- 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'i black-out trafic.

Juan

BROWN'S FAME is due to the efforts of a poet named Richard Usborne, R car- toonist, David Langdon, and the London Passenger Transport Board. Usborne and Langdon created the

Billy

Brown mythical

the central character of

series of goodwill advertisements designed to aid bus and subway passengera 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.

When Mrs Brown

black-out

In the

She likes to wear her old white

mack out.

And Sally Brown straps round.

her shoulder

A nalty plain white gos-musk

holder.

Dear'

For months the diamond studied behind the iron gates of the Winston offices. A plaster im- pression of the original stone was made, and hundreds of glass dum- mies cast from it.

The Browns want people After much

and far. experimentation into the "planes of cleavage," it was decided that the Vargas could be cut into 23 good stones ranging in sizo from Ave to Afty carats, the majority be- Ing from 10 to 20 carats..

Cutting Procedure Most of the world's great 'dia-' "monds, "-Including the Jonker, a

1

To known exactly where they

arc.

LANGDON DEPICTED

THE

ENTIRE BROWN FAMILY walking joyfully through the black-

all, their white on out with Government oficials have' com-

mented on the London Transport campaigns lighthearted publle safely value.

To those used to push, shove and off-tackle methods of boarding buses, street ears and subways, it seems queueing is a favourite down-

town sport

Londoners. among Get fire 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 minutes to journey's end. But, enys 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 traffe.

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. The London

Transport also posted this versified chronicle of Citizen Brown,

Billy Brown's own Highway eode For Black-outs is 'Stay off the

Road.

Ho'll never step out and begin To meet bus that's pulling in. He doesn't wave his torch at

night

But flags' his bus with some-

thing white,

He never jostics in a queue, But waits and takes his turn, Do

you?

ND finally here is Brown on

kindness to employees;

The oflco Anys that Billy Brown Is far the nicest boss in town. For instance, since the bliiz. be-

gan,

He's organised a simple plani Whereby his staff or meat

them

of

Aro'off for home by four p.m. Wish that every boss In town Could do the same DB Billy

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