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Said Jonker next day: "I entrust everything of value to my wife. That night we bound the diamond in a cloth and tied it around my wife's neck. I saw her to bed after carefully locking and barring all the windows and doors except the front door. There my two sons, myself and two friends kept guard with loaded revolvers until dawn. Then I handed the diamond for safekeeping to the manager of the Premier Diamond Mine." Hastily last week Prospector Jonker sold his precious find to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, board chairman of South Africa's Diamond...
...Venise lace banqueting cloth...
...first photograph of the President and his Cabinet, taken some two months ago, was tardily released last week just before it became obsolete. Pictured at President Roosevelt's left was beaming little William Woodin in cloth- topped high laced shoes. On New Year's Day the President with "great sorrow" accepted Secretary of the Treasury Woodin's second offer to resign his post. Near Tucson, Ariz., where none but his immediate family was admitted to his bedside, Mr. Woodin's throat ailment (reputedly cancer) had not sufficiently improved, he thought, to warrant a continuation...
...commercial competition, particularly in the field of textiles, threatens to drive European products from the market. The Italian outburst is typical of world feeling toward Japan; England, seeing her textile market in India ruined by the infiltration of Japanese goods and Lancashire weavers jobless by the thousand while Japanese cloth undersells British in Manchester, is sufficiently alarmed to talk seriously of abrogating the Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty; in France and the United States sentiment is the same...
...rips open a shark's belly. He has discovered tin cans, horses' hoofs, a small pig, bottles, parts of other sharks. Once, in a shark caught off Big Pine Key, Fla., he found a man's arm, six pieces of human flesh and a square of cloth from a blue serge coat...