Show JOHN dickinson bherman ass S ERE s a sob for the sob als tera no ordinary manupu j 1 lator of the typewriter Is K h equal to the magnificent pos 18 r J 1 of the theme they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more the famous and familiar from isaiah but in the language of mr average citizen isaiah in 6 it with a high up painting the picture of the selling of the rus aslan crown jewels so that he may get ftp work with american farm machan cry 2211 we want to turn the glitter of our into ter of american steel so alet these magnificent jewels were bought by dussias Rus sias former tyrants pr alth the sweat toll and trial of our j peasants we desire now to give them aback to the peasants in the form of implements with which to till the ground or machinery for industries we have already turned millions of k military bayonets into plowshares we sh now to turn the imperial jewels which now are a dead asset into american tractors and farm machinery russia makes no secret of the fact hat she lacks money tor equipment to reconstruct her shattered industries having failed to obtain loans abroad in the last eight years she Is ay iy obliged to utilize her own resources for the rehabilitation of the economic fabric 1 l X the government intended to spend as the receipts from grain exports for W american machinery but despite the crop the plan for collecting grain the peasants was not fully real laed and orders for foreign machinery had to be curtailed R officials point out that the crown jewels are only one of many resources that russia if pressed might convert into cash others include aln tag and oil concessions and museum pr treasures among them several hun si dred paintings by such masters as ruy bens rembrandt van dyke and ra phidel phi iel valued at the soviet officials say they are deter however not to part with the treasures athe jewels in question date from reter tl great to nicholas IL they comprise separate pieces of jewelry the total weight of the diamonds alone Is barats carats pearls emeralds and gnout rubles 1800 and also a great variety of miscellaneous stones avo other historical collection of gems whether royal or private according to the russian officials approaches pro aches the crown jewels either in value or historical interest the present collection does not represent all the russian crown jewels only choso the last years the jew worn by russian potentates grevl to the seventeenth century are in the kremlin at moscow or the cis ezzy hermitage gallery at leningrad the jewels offered tor sale are appraised by russian french and czechoslovakia gem experts variously bat the average of their estimates Is about greater than dussias Rus sias debt to the united states of the items in the collections 20 per cent were supplied by peter the great cent by elizabeth catherine the great and paul 25 per cent by alexander I 1 and nicholas I 1 10 per kcf by alexander II 11 and alexander and 5 per cent by nicholas IL so contrary to general belief the last czar and czarina were relatively moderate in their expenditures for crown jewels during the last years of her life the empress was so absorbed in mysticism that she regarded the wearing of jewels as unlucky and cast them aside the imperial crown of all the Rus pictured herewith Is con among the display it waa made for the coronation of catherine the great in 1762 and contains diamonds 75 huge pearls and many other large stones surmounting the crown Is a superb cross of diamonds supported by an uncut ruby of barats carats one of the world s largest resembling sem bling the dome formed by the miter this diadem fles the association of the sovereign with the the crown Is valued at 52 next in interest comes the coronet worn by the slain empress alexandra picture herewith perhaps the most beautiful mass of diamonds ever brought together in a single ornament it Is appraised at another object of great attention Is the imperial scepter of power used by the last czar which Is surmounted by the world famed orloff diamond as large as a bisected egg and containing barats carats this slender graceful cm blem Is yarned by the at 30 according ta tradition this famous diamond lay in the forehead of an idol in cochin china until the bayonet of a french soldier pried it from its resting place eliat soldier deserted with his booty but murder aboard ship was his lot then began the trail of death that has followed so many of the celebrated crown jewels of the world until at last an armenian sold it to count gregory orloff in paris for half a million dollars and the count presented it ta cath erine the great as a peace offering the emblem of the imperial realm a globular object of gold sur mounted by a cross of diamonds sap chires and rubles and valued at comes next in interest among the single gems the so called shah diamond of 89 barats carats and appraised by the soviet authorities at Is probably the most striking it is a unique memorial of the respect entertained for imperial russia by her mohammedan neighbors in the days before the bolshevik took power the great stone being a gift to the emperor of russia by the shah 0 persia among the other articles are scepters and chains of fine craftsmanship containing diamonds pearls and rubles weighing as much as 50 carata each 23 magnificent crosses many stars miscellaneous ornaments 10 gorgeous necklaces of diamonds and pearls KG brooches ten giaras tiaras nine diamond studded dockets lockets lock ets 29 pairs of earrings including one act of gigantic emeralds of barats carats each clings 74 pins and ial gold snuff boxes heavily jeweled vl at this writing the sale Is on the soviet authorities selling a minimum of 2 worth of stones at a time the first sale was of diamonds emeralds and sapphires sapp hires weighing about barats carats they became the property of french diamond merchants who paid the soviet government for the lot or more than offered by american jewelers among the jewels was the magnificent crown worn by the last empress it will be disjointed and the stones scattered on the french market jewelers from a dozen capitals who bad flocked to moscow when it was announced that the government intended to dispose of the imperial gems contended sharply against the americans tor possession of the jewels most of the bidders however retired when the government decided that it would sell only a minimum of 2 worth of stones at one time this left the field to the anglo amer ican group and the armenian buyer frankland Fran klano representing a number of paris firms the government had accepted frankland Fran klano s initial offer of when william a new york lawyer representing the anglo american group alleged to the kremlin officials that his group had not been given a fair chance to counter frank lanos bid the government thereupon annulled the bale and ordered new bids the anglo american then made B fresh offer of but this was topped by frankland Fran klano with and the gegg became the property of the firms be represented although the americans thus lost the first chance to acquire a part oi the famous imperial treasures the intercession ter cession of the americans added to the bolshevik treasury which the government would otherwise have lost in the meantime the soviet government Is turning an honest penny by exhibiting the treasures |