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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1951 PAGE NINE A! Fabulous Hoard of Gems Going on Ruction Block ; THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE By ADRIENNE FARRELL New Delhi (Reuters) -- The Ni- zam of Hyderabad is putting the fabulous family jewels on the auc- tion block -- he says he'd rather have the cash. He plans to save only a few treasures, as family heirlooms and for use on state occasions. The rest, filling three trunks, goes to the highest bidder. Total value is put at $28 million. Included in this glittering mass is the 180-carat Jacob diamond, one of the largest in the world. The enormous egg-shaped dia- mond, large as a crystal paper- weight, was bought by the Nizam's grandfather in the United States 73 years ago. Dealers fear it is too big to find a buyer today. Its value is estimated at between $3 and $4 million, There are few men in the world who could pay such a price for a single jewel these days. But unless a buyer is found it may have to be carved up-into-several lesser diamonds of more marketable value. The Aga Khan is understood to have offered $2 millioft for the dia- mond. FOR GRANDCHILDREN Although he owns several strong- ly-built modern safes, he has al- ways kept the jewels in three old tin trunks, covered with cobwebs. Pearls lie jumbled in cardboard shoe-boxes, to be brought out into the light from time to time so they will not lose their color. The nizam himself has always lived in spartan simplicity, shuf- fling through his palace halls in shoes split at the seams, wearing thread-bare clothes. The sale of the nizam's jewels will probably take place either in Paris or in Switzerland, where im- port conditions are most favorable. The jewels include some of the finest emeralds in India, for green is the Hyderabad royal family's re- ligious color. Now in the vaults of a Bombay bank, they will be put on the mar- ket gradually as conditions offer the most favorable prices. Life Span Higher Actuaries Told Toronto (CP) -- People are liv- ing longer, the Society of Actuaries, the men who study such things for insurance companies in Canada and the United tSates was told en Thursday. Mortimer Spiegelman and Dr. Louis 'I. Dublin, both of Metropoli- tan Life Insurance Company New York, said in a joint paper to the society's annual meeting, that the post-war period has seen a con- siderable improvement in the health of wage - earners and their families, Further, within five years, deaths among 'industrial policyholders of Metropolitan fell by one-eighth; the age - adjusted death rate at ages of 1 to 74 declining without interruption from 529.2 per 100,000 in 1946 to 463.2 in 1950. In the past 20 years the rate dropped by about one-half. The average length of life of in- dustrial policyholders increased from 65.6 years in 1946 to 68.3 years in 1950. Since 1930, the gain has been more than 10 years; and since 1911 - 12, more than 21 years. The paper said further that nearly all the important causes of death showed declines. In the five years, 1946 - 50, the long - term downward trend for tuberculosis accelerated, the death rate drop- ping 40 per cent, reaching an all- time low of 18.8 per 100,000 at ages one to 74; th e death rate from pneumonia and influenza was cut almost to half; the principal com- municable diseases of childhood dropped three-quarters. External causes -- suicide, homicide and accidents -- showed reductions. The paper credited the favorable trends to new medical and surgi- cal advances; extension of public health service; an increase in hospital use as the result of the growth of insurance; and a mark- ed rise in the standard of living. Yesterday the society elected as its president a Canadian, B. T. Holmes of Toronto who" succeeds Valentine Howell of New York. More than 500 delegates from Can- ada and the United States are at- tending the convention. P-C CANDIDATE CHOSEN Arthur (CP) -- Progressive Con- . servative party memberssast night chose John Root of Orton as can- didate for Wellington North in the next provincial election. Mr. Root, a livestock dealer, was chosen when Marvin Howe of Arthur, the only other person nominated, with- drew. Present member for the con- stituency is Ross A. McEwing, Liberal. VITAL PRODUCT While nylon first became famous as a yarn for women's stockings, it now is used for over 150 different textile purposes. New Commandant --Central Press, Canadian. The establishment of an inter- national "West Point" to train of- ficers and senior officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion's def army, a d by General Eisenhower's headquar- ters in Paris will be commanded by Vice-Admiral Andre Lemonnier (seen above) of France. At the same time, Admiral Lemonnier will continue to act as General Eisenhower's naval deputy. Mother of Three Is School Doctor Calgary (CP) -- A doctor hus- band a home an¥ three pre-school age sons are not enough to keep Agnes O'Neil busy. A doctor hershelf she went back | to work this fall as a school health officer for the city of Calgary working three mornings a week keeping othér people's children healthy. Dr. O'Neil leaves her three sons with their grand father and a com- petent helper and visits schools checking students' health. Most of her work is in routine physical ex- aminations. Dr. O'Neil is well - versed in child care. Before coming to Cal- gary two years ago she spent a year in the Vancouver metropoli- tan health unit and visited schools and baby clinics as part of her job. It was while interning at Van- couver general hospital that she met her husband. : She spent a year and a half in general practice in Vancouver be- fore taking the health unit position. During that time two sons were born. The third was born in Cal- gary four months ago. Dr. O'Neil was, born in Owen Sound Ont. and was educated at the University of Toronto. The tall slim brunette is also a director of the YMCA and teaches a Sunday school class. Publish Dictionary Of Nursery Rhymes Alton, England (CP) -- Seven- year-old James Opie and his four- year-old brother, Bobby, are no- table authorities on the latest in Oxford "dictionaries." For James and Bobby helped col- lect the 550 rhymes that make up a new volume called '"'the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes." And they can recite more rhymes dating back hundreds of years and traceable to many countries. It seems that Humpty Dumpty is international. In France he's called "Boule Boule," in Denmark "'Lille- Trille," in Finland "'Hillerin Liller- in" and the Germans call him "Humpelken-Pumpelken." The book was started more or less by accident. 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