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10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mdf0,J, 0gaw, Monday, May 12. 1958 ' Diamond Smuggling Big Business in African Colony B7 CHARLES RIDLEY United Press Correspondent Freetown, Sierra Leone OPS' Diamonds literally sprout from the ground in this British West African crown colony. Ana where there are dia ish and their native levies to patrol the far-stretching bush so thoroughly that the dia monds can be protected. When the rivers shrink after the rainy season, cus toms men use slow-moving planes to spot the main cen- monds. the Km,,i k rs piraie activity. Any smuMlin raokt bush pilot will tell you how Diamonds are smuggled out of the country to the tuneof bout S42 million each year. n nobody is able to stop it. The experts say" the ready tlunder robs the colony of as many rough diamonds as . it legally exports every year err?bryo sparklers valued at mori than $42 million. They are scattered on the ground like pebbles, or lie just underneath the surface soil in the bushland, the dia monds of Sierra Leone. They ar washed in from outside th colony by five rivers and rovide easy pickings for tens of thousands of native farmers. atfrls Unfeasible It is impossible for the Brit- I the diamond pickers scurry for cover at the sight of a plane. But the planes and other pa trolling schemes merely serve as a slight harassment to the farmers who merely stoop to reach a diamond bonanza. Sierra Leone it got its name, which means ''Lion's Head," from the early Portu guese traders has the added advantage of having a long frontier with Liberia, the easy-customed state that at tracts most of the illicit dia monds. British customs officials say there are bush landing strips just across the border in Li beria where big-time operat ors keep planes waiting to whisk the uncut stones far away to lucrative markets. Smuggling Widespread But not all the smuggled stones pass through Liberia. Many are smuggled out through Freetown airport, by apparently bona fide travelers. Only two months ago a Bel gian was arrested at the air port with S112,000 worth of illicit stones on his person. He was a recognized diamond buyer and had legally ac quired stones in his suitcase. The illicit jewels were carried in little bags strapped under neath his armpits. What happens to the river of illicit diamonds that drains the lifeblood from one of Brit ain's best-run and least-restive territories in Africa? The customs men believe the vast majority find then way behind the Iron Curtain, via the Middle East. There, in the Communist states of Eastern Europe, a diamond is worth greatly inflated sums in local currency and no body asks its pedigree. ' skl vCoPft :nfl (7 " " i.mmmi mm ir tf Jy i..A.wnrr..r,.JAJl ife Matches In Bed. Kill Mother, Babies Chicago (IPi Two boys playing with matches in bed caused a fire Friday that killed a mother and two babies and injured three other persons. The blaze spread swiftly through more than half of 32 apartments in a crowded tene ment and drove panic-stricken families to the street. Many had to be rescued by fire fighters. Authorities identified the dead as Minnie Grant, 20, her son, Stanley, 1, and her niece, Rochelle, 2 months. City Fire Attorney Earle Downes said two sons of Mrs. Grant's sister-in-law confessed they had been lighting match es and accidentally started the fire. "The bed caught fire and flames spread immediately," Downes said. SCREAMING INSULTS at Viae President Richard M. Nixon, mob of Communist-led stu dents creates international incident outside San Marcos University, Lima, Peru. Police made only a half-hearted effort to protect Nixon party. (International Soundpkoto) What Is The Law? This column is prepared as a public service by the Cellege of Law, Willamette University. Salem, to explain basic legal principles, not to provide legal advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases his own problems without an attorney's advice, for differing facts may change the outcome. STlo Killed the Camper? Abe planned to take a trip inte the mountains. It would take him a week to reach his objective and a week to re turn home. During this time he did not expect to see any other person or have access to any food other than what he took with him. Abe had two Saskets of food each contain-, Sng enough to feed him for a week. Sylvester had a grudge against Abe and planned to kill him in such a way that if his body was found, it would appear to be a case of acci dental death in the mountains. Sylvester followed his victim into the mountains and while Abe was asleep on the eighth day put poison in all the re maining food so that any food Abe ate would be fatal. Similar Plan ".Ibert, who also had a grudge against Abe, had a plan similar to Sylvester's but he had no idea of the poison ; inf plot. A few hours after Sylvester poisoned the food, ; Albert stole it before Abe had ; chance to eat it. Abe even tually died of starvation in the mountains. The question: Who killed Abe? The question involves a problem of causation. Before one can be convicted of homi cide, it must be established that he caused the death of his victim. The question is thus hot what would have happened but what did happen. If Abe had eaten the poisoned food, he would have died. But Abe died from the lack of food and Albert stole the food. Albert killed Abe. Mental Gymnastics What if Albert had been Abe's friend? Perhaps he took the food hoping he would save Abe and hoping that Abe would find other food. Would Albert still be the one who killed Abe? Maybe Abe had detected the poison and had destroyed the food, hoping to find other supplies. Would his eventual death have been a case of suicide? These are problems which arise and provide mental, gym nastics for those who must solve them. ATTENTION!! Sawmill Operators, Loggers, Farmers and Other Employers EFFECTIVE JULY 1st INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT RATES ARE . AGAIN SHARPLY INCREASED t JUNE 1st IS DEADLINE IN ORDER TO CHANGE o You Can Make Substantial Savings Through a Large National Mutual Insurance Company Assets Over, $210,000,000.00 18 Years in Oregon For Information Without Obligation Complete and Mail Form Below D. A. Breakey Sales Rep. PHONE CA 2-1621 TIMES BLDG., PORTLAND 4, OREGON Name. Address- Kind of Business. No. of Employees- Phone No. Daughters of UN Envoy Attacked New York W Police today sought two teen-age girls who attacked and slash ed the 16-year-old daughter of Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in a Bronx park. Frieda,! Abdoh, the daughter of Dr. Djalal Abdoh, was walking in the park with her sister, Masty, 12, police said, when she was set upon by two Negro girls. She was cut on the right hand and her dress slashed almost to ribbons. As their 'assailants ap proached, one threw an elec tric lightjsulb which exploded near Frieda. One of the girls ordered Frieda to remove her dress. She refused. The Abdoh girls also re fused a demand for money. One of the assailants pulled a switchblade knife, slashed Frieda's dress, and fled. Tito Warned To Return To Bloc Belgrade - (ID The So viet Union has delivered an ultimatum to President Tito demanding that he return to the Communist bloc or face the consequences, it was dis closed today. Delivery of the note coin cided with announcement that Kliment Y. Vqroshilov, the So viet head of state, had "post poned" a visit to Belgrade scheduled for this week end. The ultimatum was re ported to have been delivered by Russian Ambassador Ivan Konstantinovic Zamchevsky last Saturday. It was expected to be fololwed by economic pressure on Tito. Soviet sources said the let ter came from the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and was addressed directly to Tito, who is vaca tioning on the isle of Brioni. Voroshilov was to have started his visit Sunday. There was no formal reason given for the eleventh hour postponement, but political sources in Moscow said a technical reason was the con tinued visit of U.A.R. Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser. Actor Injured In Auto Collision Hollywood (IP) Actor Peter Lawford suffered an in jured left arm early today in a two-car collision in West Los Angeles, police reported. Officers booked Aaron Wal lace, a Los Angelas man who claimed to be a minister, on suspicion of hit-run felony. Thev said Wallace was under fthe influence'of alcohol. -.- Police said witnesses who saw Wallace's car .cross the white line and side-swipe Lawford's vehcile chased the suspect, forced him to stop and brought him back to the scene. . , Five gallons of gasoline in Canada, imperial measure, equal six gallons in the United States.'. - -, 1 Ssi1a CONGRATULATIONS ARE GIVEN Mrs. Louise Lake, Salt Lake City polio victim, by President Eisenhower as he presents her with trophy as "Handicapped Person of Year" at annual meeting of President's Committee on Employ ment of Physically Handicapped. (International) WCTU Farm Home Aide Promoted Corvallis (W Richard W. Thomas, 41, assistant sup erintendent of the . WCTU Children's Farm Home near Corvallis, has been named as superintendent, H. V. John son of Eugene, president of the Farm Home board of di rectors, said today. Thomas will succeed Ron- j aid R. Hewitt, superintendent jfor the past' four years, who lis resigning to ,work for his ! master's degree' in sociology at UCLA. Johnson said the changeover will take place about the middle of June when Hewitt leaves for Cali fornia. - Thomas is a graduate of MUNITIONS TRUCK HIT Calera, Ala, (TO A muni tions truck collided with a train here Sunday, scattering several hundred 105-millimeter shells over an entire city block. No shells exploded. Police said the truck was torn in half but the driver, R. T. Lindbon of Indianapolis was not hurt. Linfield college and obtained his master's degree in social studies at the University -of Oregon. He taught at a Van couver, Wash., high school and was in child welfare work in' Yamhill county for five years. ' The Farm Home k an in stitution for children from broken homes. Says Nevada To Grow If Given More Water San Francisco 0P A New York City economist declared in the Colorado river suit that Nevada's population will grow from 270,000 to 1.300,000 by the year 2000 if it has enough water. Eric D. Dodge said Nevada grew faster in the last seven years "than any other state in the union." . Its population jumped 66 per cent in that period, he said. Only lack of water could keep Las Vegas' Clark county from growing from its present population of 115,000 to 600, 000 in the next 42 years, he said. Several States Involved Dodge testified in the suit as a witness for the state of Nevada, one of several fight ing over distribution of Col orado river water. He is an expert of the firm of Tippetts, McCarthy and btratton. Under questioning by Spe cial Master Simon H. Rifkind, Dodge admitted that growth rates decline when areas be come crowded, but said Ne vada's deserts would not have too many people "for some time to come." Rifkind upheld objections by California attorneys who argued Dodge should not be permitted to testify about in- FATHER RE-ELECTED . Rome (IP) American Fa ther Malcolm of Mary Sunday was reelected Father General of the Chapter General of the Passionist Fathers. Father Malcolm, born Francis . La Velle in Rock Island, 111., wifi serve a six-year term. The Passionist congregation has 3,763 .members in various parts at the world. It has two provinces in the United States with headquarters in Union City, N. J., and Chicago. dustrial development . in the Las Vegas area. He restricted the economist to predictions about population growth. Other Testimony In other testimony. Dr. George B. Maxey, an Urbana, 111., geologists said that in figuring Nevada rights it should be remembered that Las Vegas' underground water basin receives no water from the Colorado river. The basin is "structurally closed," and recent years have not brought enough rain fall ' to fill the natural sub terranean reservoir, he "said. NOBEL WINNER WEDS Summit, N. J. HP) Nobel Prize winner Dr. Walter H. Brattain of Chatham, N. J., was married during the week end to Mrs. Roland B.fiMUler of Walla Walla, Wash. Brat tain, now a research physicist for Bell Telephone Co. Lab oratories, Murray Hill, N. J., was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956. TWA Hires First Negro Stewardess New York OP) Trans World Airlines announced on Sunday it has hired the first Negro airline stewardess ever employed by an international carrier based in the United States. TWA said that Margaret Grant, 21, a Hunter College psychology student, will grad uate next month and a few days later will enter the air line's hostess . training school at Kansas City, Mo. Miss rGant is the daughter of a registered nurse and a chef at a Saranac Lake hotel. She is the second Negro to be hired as a stewardess by a U.S. airline. The first was employed by Mohawk Air lines last December. v New York Airways, a helicopter line, hired the first Negro pilot employed by a domestic airlines. Scientists at Armour Re search. Foundation have de veloped glass ribbons, which are expected to provide a better building base than fiber glass.' Gibralter produces only one thing. Other than serving as a British army and navy garrison, vthe native popula tion depends almost upon en tirely upon fish for export. British Health Service rec ords show yearly payments for auto mileage to a doctor total ing $4,800 for 64,000 miles of travel, equal to 175 miles a day. MAN FOR A MAN-SIZE JOB REPUDUCAN FOJ? Positive Experienced ' Leadership for Oregon : Paid Adv., Unander for Governor Comm. Charles A. Sprague, Chairman, 1138 S. W. 6th, Portland, Ore. 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