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...Johannesburg, South Africa...
Died. Charles William Anderson Scott, 43, British war (I) ace who thrice broke the England-Australia flight record (1931-32-34); winner of the Harmon Trophy as the best aviator of 1934, winner of the 1936 Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race; by his own hand (gunshot); in Germany...
...greatest gold rush since the Klondike was on last week. But most of the prospectors were the slick, sharp-eyed speculators of the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. In the "kaffir circuses"-the usually cautious sections of the exchanges where South African gold stocks are traded-the market value of Orange Free State shares zoomed $100,000,000 in 48 hours...
...unprecedented boom grew beanstalk-fast from a 3,022-ft.-deep borehole in a cornfield near the dusty little village of Odendaalsrus, southwest of Johannesburg on the Free State's sandy veld. A Canadian engineer, G. W. Hicks, employed by Diamond Tycoon Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's Western Holdings and Blinkpoort companies, brought up the diamond-drilled ore core. It assayed 62.6 oz. of gold to the ton-33 times as rich as the phenomenally prosperous Blyvooruitzicht mine, 120 times better than Canada's best...
...strike climaxed years of only moderately successful drilling in the Oden-daalsrus vicinity, may-if the rest of the reef bears out the first core's promise-prove an old geological theory. Geologists have long guessed that Johannesburg's famed, rich Witwatersrand and its wealthy western extension are part of a prehistoric geological basin whose opposite curve cuts beneath the Odendaalsrus district and could produce a similar bonanza...