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...examination of the Jonkers, London experts last week threw doubt on the first theory that it had once been a chip of the Cullinan, world's No. 1 diamond, found in 1905 only three miles from Jonkers' diggings. The Jonkers is bluer and purer, so pure that Diamond Corp. officials were hoping someone rich and ostentatious would come forward to buy it as a single stone. Otherwise it will be sent, possibly to Amsterdam, to be cut up into small diamonds to fit smaller purses...
Near Waynesboro, Va., Howard Gibson, C. & O. Railway employee, spied a supply train clacking down the mountain at 40 m.p.h.. saw a freight train standing in its path. He threw a siding-switch, shunted the speeding supply train to safety. His reward : severe reprimand for unauthorized possession of the switch...
...outstanding bout of the afternoon will be the Varsity heavyweight match between Gridley Barrows '34 wrestling his last Varsity match and Henry Snowden of Yale, Intercollegiate champion. Last year Snowden threw Barrows in 7 minutes, but the Harvard star has shown better form this year and hopes to revenge the defeat...
Professor Schmidt threw in with the ice pack. Working fast, his remaining 71 men and women lugged food, scientific instruments, tents, clothing, records and baby on to the ice. Most important, they got off a little radio sending set with batteries. With a huge glop the Chelyuskin followed the chief steward to the bottom. Even before they set up their tents, the Russians radioed the bad news out. From North Cape, Siberia, 155 mi. away, 60 dog teams mushed off to Professor Schmidt's aid through a screaming blizzard. Rescue planes waited in their hangars for the blizzard...
...obscure, ambitious general deserted the once potent Hoji family of military tyrants and threw his army on the side of the exiled Emperor Go Daigo. The Emperor's side won. Having set Go Daigo, descendant of the Sun Goddess, back on his throne in Kyoto, Takauji Ashikaga lost no time in pulling himself up by the sacred boot straps of the Emperor. As the Emperor's most trusted adviser he hoped to become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor...