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.
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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. If your Job will not permit
you tu call at the navy recruit
lug station for information re
garding the naval reserve, phnnc
3431 and a recruiter will call at
your home In the evening.
latter three are residents of
Metuchen, N. J.
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JEWEL THEFT
BOSTON, March 13 (I') Five
well-dressed Jewel thieves today
slugged a guard and snatched a,
$23,000 tray of broaches and dia
monds from one of Huston's big
gest jewelry stores, Keiiniii'il and
company, In the fashionable
Kttz-Carlum hotel,
Store officials told police the
lout might even run to ISO, 000.
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