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DIAMONDS are kind of nice. You know, I wish I had a potato sack full of the things. Diamonds are hard, too. Joseph Berning, diamond cutter, currently showing off his trade on the main floor of Rost Jewelry Co., 25 N. Illinois §t., has been telling me interesting things about “ice.” The fact that diamonds are hard comes straight from Mr, Berning. I figured that part about diamonds being nice all by myself. Anyone have a diamond mine they want to sell” Of course, a guy can't look around the store for any length of time trying out the locks on the showcases and carrying chewing gum on the tips of his fingers without attracting the attention of Maural Rothbaum, treasurer of Rost. Mr. Rothbaum also is up on his diamonds. He sald I could buy a diamond for as little as $49.00 all the way up to one for the paltry sum

of $10,000. The alligator leather on my billford jerked a couple of times and called it quits.

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“SEE this rough diamond?” asked Mr. RothBaym, to whilch I said I saw the rough diamond. 0? ; ! “If you saw this stone in the street you'd kick it,” chortled the treasurer trying, no doubt, to illustrate how unpretty a rough diamond is and how pretty a polished stone is. The kind of stone he sells for $10,000, for instance. He was wrong in thinking I would kick the rough diamond. True, the stone he held between his fingers was dull and resembled nothing more glamorous than a chunk of glass but, he didn’t know that I only kick empty tin cans in the street. The habit of kicking rocks and stones was broken several years ago.

Falsies . . . Reproductions of world famous diamonds catch the glances of the curious. With the real McCoy on display, Rost Jewelry would be showing more policemen than diamonds.

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about’ kicking stones. He had me by the arm and " we were walking to see diamond-cutting as being : demonstrated by Mr. Berning. i “If you should select a 160se diamond and a mounting,” explained my friend, “we'll have our diamond setter set the stone while you wait.” I thought that was a peachy service. “What's the difference between a diamond | setter and a diamond cutter?” was my question) . of the day. i | - The man behind the cutting wheel, who rep-| resented the J. P. Knight Co. diamond cutters, and importers, Cincinnati, glanced at Mr. Rothbaum. “Expert?” he asked. . While everyone waited for someone to break]: the silence, I inspected the machine. Rather a crude affair with a iron polishing wheel as the main attraction, The wheel (all this stuff I found out later): when we started talking) was impregnated with .. diamond dust and olive oll. Diamonds, you know,| ¥ are so hard it takes other diamonds to cut them. And don’t ask what was used to cut and polish the first diamond because you're liable to get|# into the same kind of a predicament you get|’ into when you ask: What came first, the chicken or the egg? é Mr. Berning. explained his trade to me. Try, 4 to imagine a short course in diamond-cutting! which normally requires a four-year apprenticeship. In a few thousand words I gathered a few basic facts. Not quite enough to get a job, though, | cutting diamonds. 1K Usually a stone is cut in half making two pyramids. These two pyramids in the rough (not to be confused with making small ones out * i of big ones) then are squared up. That means a i; i 3 cutter has put in eight facets on top and eight pe ; i on the bottom. 2 : « Welw 18 Hw Ma $

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‘School To Present hnual ‘Sketchbook’ Tomorrow

Photos by Bill Oates, Times Staff Photographer

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Confused? So was I. But listen, the “table” | # is the, flat top surface, the “girdle” is the ex- |. treme edge of a. stone from which point the if tapering downward begins and ends in the “culet,”| ** ’ the very bottom point. { ; ’ From there a process called “brilliandeering” § is applied to the diamond. This brings out the : or

sparkle. This puts the stuff in a diamond that| Tech High S ' " "woe . . Ke loose. ch High School's 17th annual "Sketchbook" will be given at 8:15 p.m. knocks your peepers loose tomorrow in the school auditorium. Song and dance in the first act will be offered Can't Knock Out Any... by Nancy Pearson, Milly Davisson, Mike Springer, Dorothy Straub, Jo Nell Alcorn

ALONG with the brilliandeering a cutting! 2d Jean Buel (left to right). process is going on which eventually puts 58 iy facets in a stone. That number of facets is recognized as being correct for getting the maximum | brilliance. “How many stones can you knock out during one working day?” Mr. Berning seemed hurt. “I can’t knock out| any during one working day. What do you think I'm operating, a drop forge?” | Well, he can, if everything goes right and a stone isn't exceptionally hard, cut and polish a small one in 12 continuous working hours. Once he worked 1d days on a stone. I was hoping one of his samples dropped accidentally in my cuff. No such luck. Imagine, - his firm keeps a close inventory of the ugly, rough unpolished stones he works on. I declare, )

Roberta Moon, Pat Bradway, Mary Lou Hurley, Mary Lou Beck, Martha Sue Beck, Sandra Hunter and Janet Spall Nett to right) rehearse one scene from the "Cornbelt Symphony" act of the Sketchbook. These girls are members of the chorus line appearing in the third act. '

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The Hucksters

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By Robert C. Ruark|

NEW YORK, Mar. 31—All admirers of the hair-trigger action for which America is noted must delight in the last gasp of the dying Gaul, Jim Forrestal, as he bows out of the job of Secretary of Defense. This is the sharp order to the fighting factions in Army, Navy and Air Force to clear all future stories on new gimmicks in deathedealing through the headman’s hands. mil met gesture, shaped to restrain the feudin’ Services from competition for newspaper space, has only taken some three years to flower —during which time Mr. Forrestal was always ostensible boss of eferything in the war business. All this time, the competing forces have phenagled fresh wrinkles in planes and guns and germs and rockets and ships and stuff to rain down credit on their own individdal heads, and to shove a scornful finger at the opposition. The fact that it all was in direct disobedience to presjdental decree never made any difference whatsoever,

Brass Hats Well Stuffed

EVERY TIME the pressure kids wanted to make a point, they dusted off a tame brass hat, stuffed him with new statistics, and untethered him at a chicken-patty party with press and radio present. All the services were guilty—the Ground Forces selling the draft, the Air Force peddling the planes, the Navy hustling carriers and subs and anti-subs. The atom-smashers chimed in, on the side, with the rocket boys and the germ-growers shoutin’ Hallelujah in a chorus of doom. It was noisy hucksterism in the best modern sense, practiced callously and cynically. And often, it would seem, with small regard for truth or consequences. We have been belabored, say, with germ warfare for the last three years. Mr. Forrestal himself came up with a statement the other day that there wasn't much pure fact in all the loose talk about winning one or losing one with microbes. Were all the germ-vendors lying, then? Secretary Forrestal also lost a knee-and-

thumb battle with young Stu Symington, the Air Force fellow, which is one of the reasons why | Mr. Forrestal ain’t top dog anymore. Mr. Syming-| ton, who is real pretty and tall and smart and as! tough as a willow switch, bluffed James right off| the table,

and made the mutiny stick. | There

is no harder thrower in Washington than Mr. Symington, who has made his own] rules and faced down the boss and who has sold | his Air Forces and their 70-groups over all the opposition they could heave at him. This is an admirable quality for any Rover Boy, except | when you're trying to synchronize a military force. ‘Then it becomes simple sabotage. Possibly » W one solution would be to see how Mr. 8. comes out 3

Tech actresses call this song-and-dance act the Woo Ga Ma Choo Ga, with a scene setting in the year 1929. Left to right are Sharon Baldwin, Jackie Maddox, Joanhe Dennis, Fran Forbes, Charlotte Green and Gertruge Weest, For the Sketchbook theme, Tech has chosen, “Gold Is Where You Find It."

2’ Woman With Year to Live Find Hoosier, 90, Churchill to Talk Walking in Daze |

with $4000 Cash | Boston Tonight

CHICAGO, Mar. 31 (UP)—The little shabby old man attracted the attention of cruising police as he hobbled along on his crutch and cane yesterday. In fact, they felt sorry for him. He identified himself as Willard

Betty Wilson, Peggy Cantrell, Mary Payton (foreground), Jim Kimmell, Bill Sullivan and Raymond Van Busum (left to right) are®part of the "Cowboy and Cowgirl" number included in the all-schodl talent show. Pupils have chosen '"Westward Ho" as the scene title. ¢

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TN “» ° . 'Y Plans $10,000 Grim Fling he whips Looie, too, then we might promote him | : : i!

to be he-coon of the whole whole business. ! J But Oklahoma Heart Victim Is Puzzled

The Navy, although not so floridly successful & Over Just How to Spend Modest Fortune

as the Air Force, has sinned as wishfully as Mr.’ Symington’s boys. They staged their recent dra- OKLAHOMA CITY, Mar. 31 (UP)~If you had only one year matic maneuvers to throw a cramp into Air to live and $10,000, how would you spend the time and money? Force prestige. But Mr. Symington called and 4 That is the question a 51-year-old Oklahoma City widow asked ice. i» _ ire - | today. jalsed Wil te globe-circing nom-stop wip pions A retired business woman, she has worked hard for 17 years CT to ’ : | to build up a modest fortune. Now she has learned a heart ailhistrionics. iment will probably end her life . :

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West Political Union BOSTON, Mar. 31 (UP)—Wine ston Churchill arrived here today to make a much-heralded speech in which some observers

. | withi ] i Burley, said he was almost 90 beli he i ‘Lady’ Had Her Seamy Side within a year. Refuse to Finance [believed he might propose a ve wor an sacr ced Future ‘Oscar’ Awards and told them he was from Lo- political union of the western YOU HAVE read much of the Lucky Lady, long time for security,” she said (Up) 8ansport, Ind. Police said he ap- world.

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 31 [never learned how spend| —Major movie studios confirmed! peared in a daze and kept mum- | money.” today that they no longer will bling something about his being { She has more than the $10,- pay for the expensive ceremonies |; Chicago to collect money a { 000. But that's the amount she at which Oscars are awarded, but ” h |picked at random to give her denied Actor Jean Hersholt’'s|™an owed him. {grim “fling” the flavor she feels charge ‘that they were against] The patrolmen wanted to help | her life so far has missed. the awards themselves. him out, so they gave him a lift | Her 27-year-old daughter will “We shall no longer provide|i, the station and offered him a be well provided for. If death de-| for the ceremonies attending the

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but little of the deaths of the crew of the crashed | B-29 which made her dramatic flight possible. | You can call it an unfortunate accident in line of! duty, one way, but you can also call it a sacrifice | in human lives for a publicity point. The Lucky | Lady’s flight was not so much a routine opera-| tion as a stunt to kill the Navy’s bid for public favor, and nobody has denied it. That is the kind of stuff the new Forrestal |

The 74-year-old wartime British Prime Minister, who .came by train from New York, speaks at Boston Garden tonight in the high point of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's mid-century cone vocation.

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ruling is supposed to throttle. It won't, of course, | lays its arrival, the $10,000 won't annual academy awards,” said a ers, were present when Mr even though it should, unless the new secretary | {be needed. So how to spend it? statement released by executives a matter of routine they found churchill's train arrived at South of defense, Mr. Johnson, is tougher than the old.| “The first thing people think of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Para- almost $4C 0 in $100 and $20 bills Station. But What troubles ne - wey it Sook [ree Years) lof is travel,” she said. “But you moun’ oon OL stuffed in his wallet. He had a Tendered Dinner o file a restrainer to, kee e competitors from | what’ > ner Brothers anc . “We inplaying Hamlet to each other's diseredit, and to think. what's the use: tend to continue our moral sup- 08aNsport bank book. The two cars carrying the the nation’s loss. . “The Preacher Says” port of awards of merit for Folice said they would take British minority leader and his

| “You talk to a preacher and he Superior achievement of motion care of the little old man until party were detached from the

Necessities

By Frederick C. Othman

|tells you to give it to the church pictures. Our action (doesn’t) pre- a brother, Eben, would pick him

rest of the train a i or to some needy people. Maybe clude future academy awards up A and held in the

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[I'm selfish, but I can’t will money IY TNS Tee ’ for those purposes. 1 want to CARNIVAL By Dick Turner riainciotiesmen patrolled the spend it on myself. IT want to area po

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31—The ladies of this nation, who have trouble enough as it is keeping their hips slimmed down, are about to converge on Congress, which seems still to believe in bustles. The ladies are sore. I don’t blame ‘em. The war's been over now for four long years, but they're still being socked a 20 per cent luxury tax on their handbags. Hmpf. Last time they degcended upon Washington to protest- this palpable injustice the Republicans were in-charge. The ladies sald their handbags were necessities. The Congressmen were unimpressed. Tw”

A particularly unhappy female with a feather in‘ her hat and a gleam in her eye leaped up, strode to the big desk of the Ways and Means Committee, opened her handbag of red alligator skin, and turned it upside down. “There,” she said, as an incredible assortment of merchandise, including one nylon stocking (in case she should get a run) cascaded to the mahogany. What, she demanded, did the lawgivers expect. her to do with these necessities, except carry ’em in her bag?

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, are not taxable.” ‘

THE THEN chairman, Harold Knutson (Minn.), said he had spent his entire lifetime without a handbag. He sald he used pockets to carry his plunder. “Madam,” he said, “pockets

The lady was aghast. She said pockets in her dress would put bumps on her hips. The gentleman from Minnesota said what was wrong with Bumps! ‘If they saved 20 per cent, that is? The lady glared at him, swept her belongings back into her reticule, and stamped out of the room. Her delegation stamped along with her. And you know what happened then. Rep. Knutson lost out in the last #lection. I have no doubt that the ladies of worry-

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ing about bumps on their hips, in large part were responsible

plan a way to spend the money so every day I will know what I'm going to do that day. “What would you buy if

vi He was tendered a dinner in 1" New York last night by Bernard - M. Baruch. elder statesman and financier who will introduce him

Take warning, lawgivers. The ladies are about you

to return. The. gallant Rep. Robert LL. Doughton were on a shopping tour? New tonight (N. C.) is boss man of the committeé this year | clothes? They wouldn't interest | His hour-long address at 8 p. m, and I have no doubt he'll avoid political suicide | £5 me. A new home? A new car? | Indianapolis Time) will be care

on the hip problem. He'll keep out of any such! controversy.

The trouble, from the ladies’ viewpoint, is that |§ the Democrats are as old-fogeyish about luxuries | as the Republicans were. Mostly they want to | hold on to their wartime excise taxes. Claim the |

country needs the dough. |

The one 1 have is in good condition. : “I just know somebody, some- | where, will have a. better idea {than I have.” | Yes, she has thought of marry-| ling. Her first husband has been | dead since the first World War, | {and she lives alone with a Peki{nese dog.

ried to the nation by three na« tional radio networks and four television systems. Short wave stations will beam it abroad to the rest of the world. Mr. Churchill himself refused to disclose in advance the subject of his speech.

Paula Dee Hawkins portrays So the Assoclation of Handbag Manufacturers, "Moytle" in her solo dance

tailers, and everybody else connected with hand- | routine. i

bags are about to descend upon the Congressmen . ’ ° to tell them once again about the facts of femi- Editor's Daughter nine life, ‘ ’ That isn’t all. The ladies are angrier still about | Unaware’ of Search - the 20 per cent nick on cosmetics. Every time a CHICAGO, Mar. 31 (UP)— female gives her lips a swipe with rouge, (and| Anne Bernhard, 20 - year-old hgw many billion times a day this happens inthe | daughter of editor Andrew Bern: aggregate nobody knows) she pays a small tribute hard of the Pittsburgh Postto Honest John Snyder, the Secretary of Treasury. | Gazette, said today shé never! The annual take runs irito the millions, knew t - , : m new that a four-state search| “yu.ih “the warning of her death, | [4

. had been under way for her. | ' {the anonymous widow, named! Congressmen Worried The auburn-haired girl, report-| Mrs. Heart by the Daily Okla-|

THE LADIES claim that if their face powder [ed missing since last. Friday, human here, has found fate playis to be taxed, then why shouldn’t- their husbands [turned up at her University of ing its tricks with fine irony. pay a similar duty on their shaving cream? Chicago dormitory late last night “I've lost all fear,” she said. Hasn't a woman got as much right'to look nice She said she had stayed with Chi- “I used to be afraid to travel by as 'a man? ’ cago friends ingtead of going to!plane—made me ill. But now it These questions the lawgivers already are try- |the campus after returning from doesn’t bother me at all. ing to answer, because their wives are asking 'em.|8 vacation visit with her ‘aunt,| “And another strange thing. 1 And the big drive for witnesses now is on in the Mrs. Floyd Pfeiffer, Chillicothe, O.|play cards sometimes, and I used cosmetics industries; the housewives’ associations | University officials had reported tc lose at poker all the time. Now

Pneumonia, Measles Put Family of 9 in Hospital

OAKLAND, Cal., Mar. 31 (UP) Several days ago, Robert Groll, |36, an unemployed carpenter and |father of seven children, was ade (mitted to Highland Alameda {County Hospital suffering from (pneumonia, Monday saw the {arrival of Mrs. Rita Groll, 29, (and son, William, 8, also with | pneumonia. Last night. the remaining six children arrived at the hospital, | They were: Kathy, 6; 5; Rosie, 3; Robert, 2; Wallace, 1. and Rita, 3 weeks old, all suffer ing from measles.

— | FIRE ENDANGERS SCHOOL, |

“Terribly Lonely”

| “I am terribly lonely,” shécon- | /|cedes. “But I would want to] know someone pretty well before % thought of marrying him.” { Even if she finds the right man, | however, she won't leave her| estate to him. He will just help spend the $10,000.

and the Womes clubs. hes missing. but they said that I'm a consistent winner. - I can't] Ne TLE TOWN N, ae . The embuttled ladies are going to have a few |Miss Bernhard, a graduate En-{lose. If I spend $10 or $15 on COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. Y. mes grade school a things to say to those Congressmen and the lat-(glish student, was not required to|a dinner, I win it back. I just|’.. .. — me IEIs eo. Se her — in ngered ; ter, I hasten to report, are worried. They remem- be in her dormitory room at cur- tell my friends my luck has "You'd think SOME «ompany would put up a signboard out hes |forest fire swept. 2 “ iy lchanged. : | . : pe ’ oy a

ber what happened to Knutson. Pocketed. “few time. SOME place! / v - i . * : =" Sr . f >

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