HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-16, Page 7Is The Curse ,Off
Famous Diamond?
Officials of the world -''Parlous:
Smithsonian Institution and mu-
seum in Washington are 5,l
wearing happy smiles nowadays,
Why? Because no misfortune
foes befallen anyone there since,
about two years ago, the muse-
um acquired a 441/s -carat deep
I blue diamond - the fabulous
Hope Diamond which has long
been said to bring bad luck to
its; possessors,
When Mr. harry. Winston, .its
former pwner, presented the
nerd to the museum, it is said
that he heaved a sigh of relief,
The jewel was insured for
$1,000,000 before being sent by
registered .past from this inter-
national gem merchant's head-
quarters in New York to its
present "home" in Washington,
Not that Mr, Winston had found
it unlucky, Quite the reverse.
He had used it to raise fund
for charity in America and
abroad. The diamond, which is
popularly supposed to have been
torn from the forehead of an
Indian idol, travelled thousands
of mites to various exhibitions --
end no one seemed to suffer
after seeing it!
Yet a Frenchman named Ta-
vernier who is -said to have
,smuggled the Hope Diamond out
of India in 1642 was bitten to
death by a pack of dogs. A
Greek broker who owe owned
it was killed with his wife and
ebild in a cliff fall,
But is it really a gem of ill
omen? Millions of people refuse
to believe this legend.
One who didn't was a woman
owner who continued to wear it
Mee
a•.
RENDEZVOUS - Ulan Solar,
capitol of Outer Mongolic, le
the setting for a mid-March
meeting between Nikita S,
Chrushchev and Mao Tse-tung,
The Russian and Chinese heads
of state previously met in Oc-
tober, 1959.
after her millionaire husband,
who had bought it for $300,000.
broke down in health and was
estranged from her.
Then her son was killed in a
car accident. She went on wear-
ing it, but much later she wet
reported as saying; "I am con-
vinced now that the (irmend is
unlucky,"
She died a broken woman,
Can Opener Versus Hoe; It's
again that time of year when
the average suburbanite ponders
whether to plant vegetables in
the spring or stock up when the
next canned goods sale appears
at the local supermarket,
Sir Winston Breaks Long -Time Movies Ban
By TOM A. CULLEN
Newspaper. Enterprise Assn.
LONDON - Sir Winston
Churchill, 86, and retired, is still
getting precedents. He has be-
come the first living British poli-
tician to be impersonated in a
British motion picture.
This is a ban that goes back
to Queen Victoria and includes,
Of course, all members of the
royall family.
Now Britain's greatest modern
Btatesima t willl be:seen briefly in
a new film, "The Siege of Sid-
ney Street," but he will be seen
as a young, up-and-coming poli-
tician.
To make a film of the Sidney
Street siege without Churchill
would be like trying to produce
Hamlet without the Prince of
Denmark. Churchill, then 37 and
British home secretary, was one
et the key figures in this classic
gun battle, in which five London
policemen lost their lives.
He personally risked his own
We to direct police operations at
the scene of the battle. He
er," shot and killed four London
policemen.
The gang had beensurprised
by the cops while tunneling from
an empty house into a jewelry
shop. Scotland Yard concentrat-
ed its entire force on tracking
clown the desperadoes. This is
where Churchill, as home secre-
tary, came into the picture.
On Jan. 3, 1911, Churchill re-
ceived an. urgent message. that
the anarchists had been cornered
in a house at No. 100 Sidney
Street, Thegangsters were firing
on the police, and had already
killed one constable, raising the
total of police dead to five.
Churchill was in his• bath
when the message came through,
he recalls in his memoirs. "Drip-
ping wet and shrouded in a tow-
el," as he describes himself, he
ordered out the Seots Guards as
police reinforcements. He then
dressed himself and hurried to
the scene of the battle.
"I must admit that convictions
of duty were supported by a
strong sense of curiosity which,
"Sir Winston" watches "The Siege of Sydney Street."
erouohed in doorways under a
fusillade of murderous gunfire,
and wormed his way to within
50 yards of the house where the
desperate Sidney Street gang
was barriceided,
And for his pains, he was
severely criticized both in the
press and in Parliament.
Regal Films International have
gotten around the censorship
ban by an artful dodge, The ac-
tor who plays the role is a dead
singer for Churchill, He is pic-
tured
iatured wearing the elegant silk
hat and the coat with the astrak-
han collar which Winston Wore
as home secretary. Even the ci-
gar
igar is there, But Churchill's
name is never mentioned in the
film. -
In the film a little boy asks
his mother, "Who is that• man,
mummy?" "The home secretary,
lute" the mother replies, but his
name has slipped her mind.
The Sidney Street Siege, 50
years ago this January. is to the
British what the St, Valentine's
Day massacre was to Americans
of the prohibition era.
It began in mid-December.',
1910, when a gang of Russian
anarchists, exiled in London
end led by a 'mysterious charac-
ter known as "Peter the, Paint -
perhaps, it Would have been well
to keep in check," he admits.
"There was a considerable
crowd of angry ,er-1 alarmed
people, and I noticed the unusu-
al spectacle of metropolitan con-
stables armed with shotguns'he-
lily precured 'from a local gun-
smith.
"Just at this moment, ' how-
ever, a shot rang out, perhaps a
couple of hundred yards away,
followed by another and another
until there was a regular fusil-
lade,
"The bullets struck brickwork
and ricocheted hither rad thi-
ther."
Finally, tt: besiege I house
caught fire, Found in the ruins
were two charred bodies, a
Browning automatic, two Ma-
ser pistols and bomb cases. Of
"Peter the Painter," no trace was
ever found.
As for Churchill, he was ridi-
culed in the press, and in the
House of Commons. An appeals
lion member arose to remark
acidly, • "We are concerned to
observe photographs in the illus•
tratecl newspapers of the home
secretary in the danger zone, l
Can understand what the photo-
grapher was doing," he continu-
ed, "but not the home secretary"
S.Fxees,y G'"..twt'h Of
Great Airline
From 74,000 passengers in 1955
to 786,000 passengers in 1959,
This statistic, reported by Luf-
thansa German Airlines on the
eve of its fifth anniversary, re-
weals the most rapid rate of
growth in, international commer-
cial aviation, The German air-
line established scheduled open-
ations within the Federal Repub-
lic of Germany ern April 1, 1905;
between European airports on
May 15, 1955; and to the United
States on June 8, 1950. It has ac-
complished a ten -fold expansion -
in five years, developing to mat-
urity with a speed that, has... out-
paced all other international air-
lines,
This rate of progress is es-
pecially significant because of the
complexities in the development
of an airline. For example, Luf- I
thansa's route network has been.
extended from 8,000 miles to 58,-
000 miles, Trained personnel had
been increased from 600 at the
beginning of 1055 to 7,441 in 1959.
Lufthansa's school at Bremen,
the only flying school maintain-
ed by a commercial airline, had
graduated 194 pilots, 34 flight
navigators, 35 dispatchers and 31
radio operators. Ground crews
have been trained at Lufthansa's
maintenance base in Hamburg.
The German airline's fleet has
multiplied from 13 aircraft to 49
aircraft. Maintenance bases and
ground service facilities have
been established and expanded
to keep pace with Lufthansa's
progress; and sales and service
officers and personnel have in-
creased correspondingly to ac-
commodate passengers, tray e l
agents and shippers.
Currently, Lufthansa's fleet
consists of 32 passenger aircraft,
including 3 Boeing B-707-430
"Intercontinental" jets. Two ad-
ditional Boeing "Intercontinent-
al" jets, and 4 Boeing B -720-B
medium range jets are scheduled
for delivery inthe near future.
Lufthansa's w or I d network
serves a total of 41 cities in 26
countries on 5 continents. Sche-
duled non-stop jet service be-
tween New York and Frankfurt
was introduced on March 17,
1960; service from San Francisco
via Montreal to Paris and Frank-
furt was inaugurated on May 13,
1960; and from Chicago non-stop
to. Paris and Frankfurt on May
14, '1960.
Lufthansa also provides sche-
duled daily service across the
South Atlantic to Montivideo,
Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires
and Santiago de Chile, and main-
tains scheduled air service to
Baghdad, Teheran, Damascus and
Cairo. The airline has recently
branched out to Karachi, Calcut-
ta and Bangkok.
Lufthansa's cargo operations
have risen sharply. The Ger-
man airline's cargo -carrying ca-
pacity on the North Atlantic
route totals over one million
pounds per month, with connect-
ing service to the Middle and
Far East and Africa, as well as
to all parts of Europe. Cargo
service is maintained also to
Great Britain, within Germany,
andto other European points.
Despite the fact that scheduled
jet service was not available un-
til the end of the period, Luf-
thansa's operations for the first
quarter of 1960 indicated a con-
tinuation of its record -making
rate of growth. During this pe-
riod, 195,000 passengers were
flown across the North Atlantic,
as compared with 125,000 during
the first quarter of 1959; 2,830
tons of freight were transported,
as against 1,749 tons in the first
quarter of the previous year.
WAS HIS FACE RED
When Judge Beverly Boushe,
of Memphis, Tennessee,' showed
up at church to deliver an eve-
ning lecture on "memory train-
ing" he found the place dark and
deserted,
The reason;: He forgot the date,
got there a night catty.
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