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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER-
DON
IDDON'S
1950.
DIARY
HERE is troublo again in Paradise. It The death that won't
is more than seven years since Sir
Harry Oakes, the multi-millionaire
properly you must realise that
Butto understand. Nankatr
the white people have to'kling most tenaciously to their culture
master of the Bahamiss, was murdered, take a holiday-in and their Heritage:
The case is still hot, and smoking...
Today a coloured tax-driver, Nicholas Paradise for tourists Musgrove, ls on trial, charged with at- tempting to extort £40,000 from Lady Oakes, widow of the murdered tycoon.
According to the prosecution, two letters were written last May 10 and 16, and three telo-. phone calls made on May 15, 10, and 17, threatening Lady Oakes with grievous harm and death.
The island bubbles and ed too. seethes with gossip, and the ghost of Sir Harry will not rest.
Grim guessing
TIVER since I arrived here in Nassau, Intending to write a travel column about one of the world's most enchanting spots, the Oakes case has been an insistent intruder.
Alfred de Marigny, the son- who was married to
At 2.30, 5.15, In-law Sir Harry's pretty daugh ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30
ter, was acquitted of the mur der after an involved trial, and he has departed and is almost, forgotten.
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Instead, other names are con stantly being brought into the conversation ot the zwank
country club, at the tourist bar, Dick's," in the lounges of the swagger hotels, the Royal Victoria and the Fort Montagu.
All day and Half the night the guessing game goes STUсBome
Who on who killed Bir Harry? battered in the head of the gold- mina, millionaire?
Many amateur detectives, be Heve that the mysterious. mur- der, last April, of an American woman, Betty Ellen Renner, aged 37, on a deserted rond ave miles from the heart of Nassau,
violent death.
TUESDAY
When one
sourcu
the
Out of Nassau'a 30,000 people, nine-tenths are coloured: They fine folk-happy, handsome, and intensely Inyal. They have good Red 100s,
fair houses, and they
have to vote. (No women, either black or
ullowed to
Princess Dances
Until
4a.m. At Sharman's Party
My Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret danced b however, are
candlalight—and kopt on dancing till the small hou Is there any trouble between of the morning. They were the guests of hondur at th black and white? Very little. farowoli party for 72 people given by Mir Sharina be ashamed of in their adminis- Douglas, 22-year-old daughter of the retiring America
We are fortunate Ambassador."
The British have nothing to
tration here.
in our officials,
who owns
as Nassau's
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Princess Margaret missed dinner. She was attending, t 25th anniverary display of Brady Girls Club in Stepa At 10 o'clock, in a 'short dri first of blue taffeta, she left Stepm time At 11 o'clock she arrived for t dance in argown of black Is with diamond brooch and eml Capo
Chief Justice Oswald Ban- Princess Elizabeth in 13
me, around tookc That murder remains unsoly deep in your pockets to bathe, croft, who
doop rose taffeta full handsome and la a sall, fish, or just keep alive. everywhere,
Property is particularly ex- distinguished man who has done skirted evening gown and But the gossip and the speculation persist. It is im- ponsive, and little beach-houses great service for this island. three-quarter length ermine
private citizens possible to stay here without which cost £4,000 a few years And
such as cape, was one of the hearing the most extraordinary ago now bring £12,000. The Miss Mary Moseley,
money made out of the tax-free and runs the Nassau Guardian, arrivals. She was in charges and slanders,
real estate is prodigious.
have worked untiringly here. Í for dinner. At least half a dozen people
rate Miss These islands have always
Moseley "First Lady." been lucky. have told me, mysterloitaly: "I
At the moment, owing to the know the name of Sir Harry of income falls, another appears
were made out of sudden death of the Governor, Fortunes Oakes's murderer-but enough said and one resident even rum-runhing during America's Sir George Ritchie Sandford, the aland has an Acting Governor, when Prohibition and advised me: "Be careful and
Anthony Evans, keep out of the case.
States went wet there came the Frederick I have no intention of enter tourists; then the war money handsome young man with Ing. It. I am no Scotland Yard financing bases here; and now quick wit and a round of duties man, but I find it strange and the tourists again. Nassau is as long as your nam almost sinister that the scented beautifully placed strategically air of Nassau should be tainted and the great liners and aircraft
bring in visitors by with such gossip and feat.
thousand.
ĮVORMALITY is strict and pro- The British Overseas Airways tocol is pursued strenuous- do would be to fad the mur Corporation has just startedly but that is the way of the derer or murderers and hang direct service trom New York, Colonics, and they know thele them, or forget about the whole and I flow here in less than own business. If I have business.. Because, this is a four hours in a Stratocrulsor suggestions to make
it would place for pleasure and leleure, as luxurious as a cocktail bar. bo to the merchants.
Our
airways are not sudden death.
doing In many ways it is similar to magnificent job here challenge in Bay Street expand their pre- I suggest that the shopkeepers the climate is ing the Americans for business. Bermuda, but
Increase their stocks, even better, the water. brighter Oakes Field is as British us mises
decrease their prices. Ame- the beaches Heathrow. decked with Ualon scans want to spend their dol- blue and green,
Jacks. whiter.
The best thing Nassau could
ALA
Prices are high THE Bahamians are proud of la linked with the baronet's their Island and they have a right to be. It's as close to Miss Renner, who worked in Utopia as you'll this side
got a Government office in Wash of heaven. In all of
Coris
ways ington, came hero for a holt-
There for
is, instance, no in- day, but told friends she was come tax. Inheritance taxes Investigating the Oakes cata are only two percent on per She went on a cycling trip to sonal property. And there is a
of great northeastern the
big bouncing boom. Now Providence Island, on Although November is not which Nassau la altunted. She supposed to be the "season," as the snobs and the nobs tell me, never came back.
Here body, half naked, was Nassau is crowded with tourists, found in a water-hole just of 10 percent of them Americans. the lonely
She There never has been such an country road. had been battered and beaten invasion, such prosperity. and shoved Into the makeshift
Nassau Kves by and on well, where she drowned in the tourists. It has no other means afternoon of April 19.
of support.
My
end
Today people tell me she was murdered because she know "500 much" about the Oakes
case.
I
Place for pleasure
own bellet is that the prices are high. Even though it off-sexison I am paying £5 per day for my room; 30s. for, my steak, 88. for my planter's punch, and
and 10s, for a two-mile)
taxi drive.
HAVE discussed this murder This is too much, and I am with the authorities, and not surprised that some vialtors they say: "Nothing of the kind, say: "Nassau is a rich man's She was set up by some hood- Paradise and a poor man's lum or killed by some native grave."
whom she might have engaged Around Christmas the prices in conversation."
really soar; you have to dig
A British Crossword Puzzle
1 Beach
ACROSS
4 Invigorating
7 Closely acquainted
B Humid
9 Instigate
11 Bet on Ara
18 Imprisonmerit
18 Cotundifom
10 Sweet stuf
10 Wandera, about 20 Abido -21-Come-out
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10 Charge on property
12 Relevant
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14 Ordinary
10 Evádo
17. Fallow
WEDNESDAY'S CROSSWORD. Across 1 Pomp, 4 Breadth, BAbin, 0 Pier, 10 mitate, 11 So-co, 12, Dodo, - 14 Sterile,-17-Inann, 19 Epped, a Manoble, 26 Rags," 27 Ergo, 20 Similar, 29 Fail, so sore, #3: Deleted, 92 Remp, Downs 2 Crison, 3 Parkin, 4 Diis, & Remoto, d'Altor, 7 Total, 12-Duw, 19 Dawn, 15 Idos, 10 Enda, 18 Fresa, 29 Predor, 21 Egoian," 25" Natyo, 24 Olive, 25 Errat. ·
FERDINAND
Home Bails Talk
the
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My suggestion
any
perialais, crowns, and Im-es, but they want a bigger
insignia,
British goods, as in range of that matter, so le the Bermuda, and more reasonable whole island. Despite the Influx
charges. of Americans the place remains Hotels ETC building exten- proudly even awashbucklingly- sions and introducing air-con- British.
ditioning a necessity, in my There is no blaze of neon, view. The barons of Bay Street, hot-dog
stands, no soft-drink
Nassau's
thoroughfare, main signs, no Coney Island atmo- should do the same.. sphere, and no hoop-la. pillar boxes are solid and red, the shops are on a modest Bond Street model.
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Intensely British
The
**
∙LMOST all the goods for sale here are British; and the local society is so intensely British that I have had difficul- ty in understanding the ultra- Mayfair accents.
After all, the motto here is Erpulele •piratis restituta.com- mercta The pirates are expell- ed, commerce restored. It would
the be unfortunate
pirates were still to be found Nassau's shop counters.
And it would be unfortunate if there are any more unsolved
casca, murder
In... Paradise everything should be perfect.
Footnota: In Nassau 1+ always Jone in January.
WOMEN TO CROSS THE SAHARA
1. Miar fons Capa! (left) studies the route with Mian joan Freeman. They set off by motor-truck from London next, washi, mbleuve du
Two Young women leave London next week to drive to Johannesburg.
June Capel, whose
Peking Radiofamily have a sheep station:
Diatribes
Tokyo, Nov. 22, Poking Radio. vileged today Lat the United States was planning........tqaj
military encirclemom of Ching
"Australia, is a Uvely 27. On a Continental halidný thay - BUTIK- show aber, med Miss Joan. Free-
ERMINE PRINCESS
... under her capa a gown of
birck lace.
ALDERSHOT
TATTOO
IS OFF
Next year's revival of the Aldershot Tattoo, which was to have been the big- gest and most colourful spectacle lantalde London in the Festival of Britain, has been cancelled. This deci- | sion was aṁounced ‚« by Mr Strachey, Secretary for War, in a written reply.
- Ee said the decision Hwas mado unavoidable by the Army commitments in 1951, únd by the need to complete the 'now -divisions -^ recently, ennounced, Smaller displays_în 1931 were unlikely to be,
affected.
R was announced In the summer that a large-scale tattoo would tako, plazo, in the Festival, yoor, but it was, off- claysonied. Two months afer, there was an official, an nouncement that the Aldershot tattoo would be revived.co prewar scale,
She was met at the door hostess Miss Douglas, who wo
a midnight-blue tulle crinali with halter neckling.
The Pribotsses danced to coven-ploce, onchestra in t pastel blue ballroom of 1 Ambassador's offićini residej in Prince's Gate, Kensingt Long white candies In si candelabra shadowed the cold of the deep and curtains and massed vases of yellow ch manthemumse, ang dam
At 11 o'clock it was the trot. At midnight, the sy At 1 am the Princessca (** dancing a Charleston. By ofclock it was the turn of i congn, and by 3 o'clock it v Dixieland. Among the Princes partners were Lord 'Ogilvie, turquess of Blandford, Earl of Westmorland and t Hon. Peter Ward,...
But. Princess Elizabeth, w had an early engagement. next day; loft the party at 10 Princos Margarot danced the band stopped playing 4 o'clock.
Ambassador Lowls Doug and Mrs Douglas ronched th daughter's party at 11.15 p They had.. boen dining w Foreign Minister, Ernest Be and Mrs Bevin
GAS ARBINE PRINCESS-
iWunder her ospe a mia laž
man, from South Adrien 30 SIDE GLANCES By Galbrait
ber. Miss Capel disclosed a plan to drive her British car across North Africa to Suez, than ahíp it home..
Miss Freeman, dark-haired
by intervening in the Chinese and 21, had another: plan, a Commumlet "Uberation"
Tibat.
of jointly-owned truck. With this
sho propped the Journey porqÍS | | the Bézēra to Johannesburg,
The broadcast atleta sphere her parents live.
The adventure will cost each about £200.
marking every effort to obstruct the liberation of Tibet In prior to retain Imperialist Influenco: avor Tibet so that ki may turn on Tibet into - military bam for VAT SAN.
today claimed verainst Enebarn bases, aggrcsalogi
Indo-China and Koren had be
· qʊme · stronitholds. for American "Tioʻradlo, which?? yesterday "anolycoment of China in pre- 'claimed.?) Allam-was? cocondly | poration, de approarion - againat addfod"to the United States Färl Ctrinja.”----United Prosa.
further
China
By Mik
WAGONMASTER