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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1947)
Doyle's Column Bahama Still Leader In Sun And Scenery Business By HAL BOYLE NASSAU, Bahamas, March 13 (P) A flight of wealth from more disturbed lands may bring this colorful sea-girt British archipelBgo long a playground . of the rich its fourth flood tide of prosperity since Christopher Columbus landed in 1492. First privileged class to enjoy this blue and coral paradise were the pirates, including the notor ious Blackbeard. He impressed the happy natives less with his bloodthirsty executions than by his genial habit of tying sulphur matches into his tremendous beard and setting them afire. - Prosperity came again during the blockade running days of the American Civil war, when the desperate South sent over its cotton and household treas ures in exchange for guns and ammunition. This trade enabled British colonial officers to build most of the government build ings still standing in Nassau. Prohibition Profits Profits garnered during the prohibition era, when stateside rum runners found here ample supplies of Scotch and rum, sup plied the funds for the island's fine roads. One local liquor dealer made so much money the activities were all legal on the British side he built a fine 35-room steel anchored mansion on a 'ridge overlooking the sea. "Him and his wife lived alone in dat big house," said a native taxi driver. "Him on one side her on d' udder." The biggest boom came during the war, when Nassau was a great airbase, and local employ ers still complain of the effect high wages had on the native population. "It ruined their character," one said. "They don't want to go back to the old standards and that's ' all the island will sup port" Native women are less choosy than the men. Winter residents can hire a maid for $4 a week "with basket." The "with bas ket" clause means she has the right to tote food leftovers home to her own tamuy. Businessmen now see as their only hope to avoid a slow decline the influx of foreign capital by investors attracted by the cli mate and the colony's freedom from income tax. British See Future "This year an unusual number of people came from the united kingdom," one businessman said. "A lot of English people are in vesting here and we've had more lords and ladies than you could shake a lorgnette at. These people are convinced the Ba hamas have a good future." In any event the food and weather are better than in Eng land. There are unofficial re ports that the British labor gov ernment is considering action to halt the flow of cash here from the financially-beleagured home islands. Bahamans have resisted all pressure from Britain to help in this program by adopting stiff local income taxes. "We need investors here, and an income tax will scare them away." is the Bahaman position. "This has always been a re sort for wealthy people, and in normal times we must have them to exist. Our 700 islands are scattered over 70,000 square miles of ocean and aren't suit able for much large-scale agri cultural development." So the Bahamas are back in business as a high-priced tourist farm, selling sand and sea, sun and scenery the enduring gold that Columbus missed. City Delivery Service. Ph. 8417. INCOME TAX RETURNS Expertly Pre part 4 Br N. J. Rosenbaum 1213 Main St. ' Telephone 151 Fr Ttoinr ppiattatnts ' call S6C3 No Surplus Goes To Reds WASHINGTON, March 13 ( Paul H. Homier, former official of the state department's foreign liquidation commission said to day that none of the United States surplus property being sold in Europe is going into Rus sia. He added that he had no way of knowing whether surplus property was transferred after it was sold, but said lie believed there had been no transfers, Bonner estimated that the gov ernment had disposed of surplus property costing about $2,825, 000.000 in Europe and will dis pose of about another $800,000, 000 worth this year, exclusive of ships, aircraft and railroad equipment. Catholic Mother Of 1947 Named CHICAGO. March 13 (rf) Mrs. Math Lies of Andale, Kns., the widowed mother of 14 chil dren, Tuesday night was pre sented the medal for "the Cath olic Mother of 1947" by Samuel Cardinal Stritch, archbishop of Chicago. Mrs. Lies, who has operated a 560-acre farm since the death of her husband in 1931, said in an interview: "Do things for your children with a smile, and they will smile back. Be with your children as much as you can. Pray, because the Lord is the giver of many great things." Two of Mrs. Lies' 16 children have died. Of the 14 living two daughters are nuns, one son is a priest and another is a doctor. Marin Reserves To Hunt Plane SEATTLE, March 13 lA') A renewed hunt for the marine transport plane which disap peared December 10 with 32 men aboard will be undertaken next week by party of 31 ma rine corps reservists. The parly, on skis, will be commanded by First Lt. Karle F. Scydel, 11th reserve infantry battalion, and hopes to cover a 200-square-mila area, Eugene Murder Trial Proceeds EUGENE, March 13 Eugene L. Florence of Elmlra Junction, first prosecution wit ness in the trial o( Mrs. Vir ginia Harington, charged with the second degree murder of her husband, told the court late yes terday of a cafe party the night Eugene Harington was killed in his home. Florence told the court that after the party broke up,' Har ington reappeared at the Flor ence home at 2:30 a. m. and asked the real estate man to ac company him to one of his saw mills. There they met Sam Murphy, a watchman, and while Haring ton was phoning his wife. Flor ence said he overheard Haring ton say, "You have a drawcrful of guns." In the defense preliminary statement, it was asserted the shooting January 28 was the climax of a long period of drink ing bv Harington and that the defendant killed her husband in self defense. ' New York Post Editor Dies NEW YOHK. March 13 (fl'l Edward P. Flynn, 41, executive editor of tho Nov York Host and the Bronx Homo News, died early yesterday in a phmgo from a window of his eighth floor apartment during a firo there. "I'm trapped, I'm going to Jump," Flynn was l.cnrd to call before he plunged from a kitchen window of the smoke filled apartment, police said. Police said Flynn's body fell to tho skylight of a one-story build ing extension, scattering glass on the beds occupied by Mrs. William Logun, wife of the apartment superintendent, and their daughter, Eliiabeth. They were mt injured. Firemen quickly brought the fire under control. Flynn had worked on the Bal timore Sun and tho New York Journal before joining the Post's staff in 1936. He is survived bv his widow, Deborah Flynn, and two daugh ters, Eliutbeth and Judith, of New York City, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Flynn, and a sis ter. Mrs. Ruth Johnson. The Business Recession Seen Coming Soon 1 PORTLAND. March 13 (A'l A business recession is just around the corner, Lawrence Ot tingor, president of the U. S. Ply wood corporation, predicted to day. "The recession Is coming be cause people are getting tired of paying $13,000 (or $0000 homes, and that applies to everything else," Ottlnger said. Mo added, however, that some Industries with a heavy demand, such as plywood and other lum ber products, would not be af fected. 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