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TWE C SPORTS COLUMN
That Grey Cup battle of last week
may be the last of the classics to be
played in Toronto — unless, of course,
Toronto 'Argonauts are rebuilt into
Eastern champions, and win • the right
to meet the West.
It's a couple of years since this column
raised its voice in favour of eight other cities getting a
first-hand "live" peek at the Grey Cup battling, Nothing
happened, although the feeling for a more equitable division
of the colourful spectacle is still growing. Montreal Alou-
ettes, for instance, have come out flat-footed for a home -
and -home series. Before now, the team representing Canada's
biggest city was scarcely in a position to push its Grey
Cup claims, for the . park in which it was playing, built
for baseball, had neither the proper yardage, nor properly
arranged. seats.
But this year the Alouettes moved to the massive McGill
bowl, a perfect football stadium with a comfortable seating
capacity of 25,000. They are now expressing the sentiments
originally voiced in this column, namely, that the two
cities creating the clubs which clash in the final, are entitled
to a Grey Cup game each.
Toronto, in proportion to its population perhaps the
most sporting on the continent, has had. a monopoly on the
Grey Cup these many years. This great pigskin event draws
thousands of football followers to that city. Montreal, and
undoubtedly every other city that boasts a major football
team — five in the West and three others in the East is
drooling at the economic delights of such a sports invasion.
There will be talk, of course, that such a gathering
holds great advertising value for the city concerned. Don't
let that fool you. Every city concerned is thinking in highly
practical terms of the economic windfall accompanying the
Grey Cup game, which could run into half a million
dollars or so.
Quite apart from this, we believe the West is entitled
to a portion of the spectacle; that the city which made the
Western champions possible by paying at the box-office
to support it, should have a glimpse at the finals. And the
same for the Eastern cities, now fretting' a little because
Toronto, whose Argonauts didn't make the Eastern play-
offs again, gets the big plum, sporting and economic.
Your comments and suggestions For this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House", 431 Yonas Sl~„ Toronto.
DISTILLERS L MITE
AMHERST$ORG, ONTARIO
MGM
Diamond smugglers in West
Africa may soon find them-
selves in queer street For they
must pit their wits to -day
against one of the world's
shrewdest crook catchers, Sir
Percy Sillitoe, former head of
.1.5, who has been called in
to investigate reports of an in-
ternational diamond smuggling
ring.
The Mwadui mine, lying in
the Shinyanga district of West-
ern Tanganyika, was first open-
ed up by a Canadian geologist
.in parcels of diamonds with, to
legal output of $6,000,000 worth
of diamonds. No one knows the
extent of the illegal haul from
this neighbourhood. The police
realize, however, that diamond
smugglers adopt every kind of
ingenuity to convey illicit stones
to world markets in London,
New York and Amsterdam.
Indian "merchants" are often
pretty thickly involved plot-
ters. One well-dressed Indian
woman entertained lavishly un-
til it was discovered that the
folds of her sari were a virtual
1l D.B. (ilicit diamond buyer)
"bank." Another woman sent a
very precious gem by post to
London buried in a book. She
left the ends of the wrapping
open, and trusted the postal
authorities to do the .rest,. They
did!
West Africa knows of one
afficker with a partiality for
pinkcoloured candies. These
pink
though are not quite
what they seem. Their centres
are hard—diamond hard—and
by the coating material's colour
pattern, varied according to a
pre -arranged code, the receiver
of "sweets" from this gentle-
man knows precisely which he
must operate on and which he
can give his children.
At Bloemhof, a few years ago,
one man seemed to be picking
up everything on his own 45 -
foot -square claim. While others
grunted. and classed; he turned
in 1940. Last year it yielded a
their minds,sickening regular-
ity.
But analysis of his stones be-
side other gems from the same
alluvial deposits showed clear-
ly that they were not Bloeinhof
diamonds. All bore a vivid re-
semblance to stones being mar-
keted in. South West Africa.
One day the police raided this
digger's headquarters. Their
painstaking search yielded
nothing, until a detective sat
down for a smoke on a derelict
old mattress and felt something
hal d digging into him. Out he
pulled a bag of I.D.B. diamonds,
just such stones as the wily
trickster was "planting" on his
claim. As a result the racketeer
was himself planted in jail, fin-
ed heavily • in addition and all
his, gems about $30,000 worth,
returned to the syndicate from
which his agents had smuggled
them.
An unrivalled range of smug-
gling tricks have been attempt-
ed since, in 1866, a child picked
up a diamond at Hopetown and
started an industry which has
yielded South Africa over a bil-
lion dollars in honest money to
date.
For a time one I.D.B. special-
ist employed runners in a
Transvaal f i e 1 d. Whenever
searched, these men produced
only a few pennies and a black-
ened old pipe as their personal
ON STAGE, EVERYONE—Two wooden tables serve as a stage
for this cute four-year-old ballerina performing for o TV show
to Munich, Gerniany. The tiny performer was one of many who
answered a station's call for a talent show.
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NOW LISTEN HERE—When Rin Tin Tin met Nealy, the chimpan-
zee, during .the filming of a nalw movie, it was friendship at
t.
first sight. Here, the two enjoY,,each other's company on the
move set.
possessions. The police passed
them by, Then one native, dis-
gruntled because he felt his em-
ployer was swindling him, gave
the game away. "Look at dem
pipes, baas, dem have funny in-
sides" was his tip to the police.
And sure enough, each pipe had
a built in cavity in which the
smoker could secrete a real star.
of Africa!
Some rascals often tried—and
try it still—to use dogs as their
dumb and innocent accessories.
For sticking their ill -got dia-
monds into lumps of raw meat,
they found no trouble in tempt-
ing half-starved dogs to snap
up such lures. Then, when the
dogs an outside the compound,
the thief or his confederates
shot them dead and retrieved
the precious stones.
There is a story that the
missing hall of the world-fam-
ous 'Cullinan diamond disap-
peared on the black market,
perhaps in a thousand shim-
mering pieces. The Cullinan it-
self, spotted by Frederick Willis,
surface manager of the mine,
on June 25th, 1905, weighed
3,023 carats in the rough. Sent
to Amsterdam, it was cut into
nine 'large and about 100 small
stones.
Legend says that although
volcanic pressure separated the
other half from it, a native ac-
tually picked up this half and
spirited it away. True or not,
according to one magistrate's
testimony, a deal for it was once
struck at an isolated kopje be-
tween Pretoria' and the Premier
Mine.
The native purloiner met there '
a notorious taafficker who had
promised him $5,000 in gold for
his prize. The trafficker, how-
ever, went back on his bargain
and tried to fob him off with
promises of $500 installments.
The native, it is said, eyed him
sharply, sensed treachery in his
eyes, and then flashed away
with a black mamba's speed,
dodging and twisting as revol-
ver bullets whistled after him.
He was not hit, nor was his
prize ever recovered.
The big -shots in the diamond
smuggling world rarely toil
themselves in the alluvial
fields. Labourers in the fabul-
ous Kimberlite, the so-called
blue diamondiferous soil, are
simply their pawns, wretchedly
underpaid, even for clever
tricks, in contrast with their
rake -offs, A native received a
bicycle as pay-off for a packet
of diamonds he'd stolen from
his employers. The agent who
paid him cleared about $400
on the deal. When the packet
-finally reached New York, the
"firm" handling it disposed of
its contents at the dollar equiv-
alent of $100,000.
Nowadays, at all important
diamond mines, smuggling risks
are ingeniously reduced. The
police use X-rays to screen boys
coming in and out of the wired -
in, heavily guarded compounds.
This defeats swallowing, a fov-
ourite trick formerly. Several
years ago, a boy went to his
employers and complained of
stomach-ache. An operation
brought forth six diamonds in
all, weighing thirty carats.
Vigilance must, of course, be
unremitting. No sooner are
smugglers stopped at one cen-
tre than they tend to regroup
elsewhere. But Sir Percy SU -
toe will, we hope, instigate
measures not merely to deter
or disperse -Africa's diamond
gangsters, but to ]and them
neatly, one and a11, into police
custody.
All right, so you may be argu-
ing with a fool—but watch that
he isn't similarly engaged.
as.
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Dark colours are so depressing
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tendencies in some people.
That is the view of a Bristol
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other day that if • the authorities
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bridge, fewer people would be
tempted to commit suicide there.
"A gay, brightly -coloured
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the present "sombre, dark red."
He added that since the colour
of Blackfriars Bridge, London,
was changed to light green the
number of suicides from the
bridge has been reduced by one-
third,
Yes, colours have an extra-
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and temperament of many
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A London woman proved that
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a dull man to sky blue.
Certain shades of green in-
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Blue is. a peaceful colour and
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Black usually suggests sorrow,
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