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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1950.
Life sentenco
I UNDERSTAND
WILL RECOVER IF - -1 GIVE EVERYTHING
DOCTOR
up
-THAT MAKES ME
WANT" "TO
A race is on to test if
ACCRA. 6
N. unsleeping Acera the dance bands and juke- box taverns are blaring at full volume, the cur
rent hit tune of Africa's Gold Coast.
It is, a sumba-like dance number labelled
on
the
everyone loves'
THE
MAN IN CELL 9
jake-box list as "Everybody by W. A. Crumley
Likes Kwame Nkruma."
lyric- is "Everybody" writer's licence, for I found Kwame Nkruma in Cell No.
ihe
to
Nkruma's party 14 the only one organised fight at election, and
nble only one
find
a £50 Ueposit for nl its candidates. Omcially, the C.P.F. has, perhaps, 100,000 members,
recruits is increasing ህቡ tae prospect of "Jobs for the boys"
9 of the whitewashed pri- vill remain as the representa- but the number of G. a month
son fort perched over Accra Harbour. He was moodily cane in stripping weavers' the hard-labour workshops.
Nkruma (pronounce his name Nek-roo-mah) one of The Six Ambitious
was
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The
timely
gift
power on the Gold Coast in the riots of February 1948.
He was leader of the clumsily and contradictorily
A Governor-with a power of vete similar to that of the President of the United States.
tive of Britain.
Briefly, what with happen on polling day is that 84 mem: elected to a new bers will be central Legislative Assembly.
A Cabinet of nine-some Europeans, some Africans will be appointed by the Governor, and must be confirmed by n two-third majority in the Assembly.
£50 deposits
THE
election will be a fight
gets nvarer.
Even this growing member- ship-only
fraction a minute
of the one and a half million voters now being registered gives o false impression Nkruma's power.
of
Municipal elections have shown that the moderates in the five towns are politically opathelle or afriad, and most of them slay at home
Nkruma's party polling day.
able to get landsilde
between Nkruma's Conven- has been
default.
on
named "Positive Action, tion People's Party and the victories purely by opposition Non-Violence, Self-Govern- moderates. ment Now" general strike which collapsed after
Sedition
days.
NK
TKRUMA'S
crime
ten
was
sedition in an attempt
to anticipate British plans
to give a form of self- government to the Gold Coast.
For as the barefoot Nkruma stares througli classless Gold
gool
Coast is
WHERE THERE'S
SMOKE
by BILLY ROSE
YESTERDAY, at one of Forgive me,
H
but-would
you
"Naturally I did no such thing. I picked up my bag, gave him one of those 'how-dare-you looks and walked straight out
of the room."
those cocktail parties mind opening that bag and his barved but where only pedigreed olives showing me the three hundred?" windows, the are used in the Martinis, I
beginning its
who first general election campaign. met a movie actress
Acera on one of used to dance in one of my I flew into the hottest days of the year to chorus lines back in the solve, the Gold Coast riddle: '30s. How powerful can a convict be when voting is going on out- "Glad you're doing so well," side?
I said. "You've really gone The object of the ballot-places since the days when which takes place in January you made a fast 40 a week.” -is to give the Gold Coast popularly elected Assembly. the first of its kind in Colonial
Africa,
CYMA
for all
occasions
"Have I changed much?" she asked, lighting a gold-tipped cigarette.
Well, for one thing," I said. "you never used to smoke gold tipped ciggles."
"Matter of fact I started smoking them while I was working at your club," said the actress. "One of your customers introduced me to them."
"Boy friend?"
"Yes, if a man in his 50's can be called a boy. Remember Biz Joel?"
"The oil fella?"
"That's the one," sald the star. "Know something? I probably would be married to him today if not for these cigarettes."
Tell me about it." I prodded. "Well, it's not much of a story," said the actress. "One night Big Joel threw a party at the Central Park Casino for a bunch of his pals-Jimmy Walker, Billy Seeman, Jules Glaenzel and that crowd. And
It was quite a shindig-guinea hen under glass, buckets of
champagne and gold-tipped
cigarettes on overy table. I was one of the girls invited-but what I didn't know until later was that Joel intended to sur- prise me and announce Our engagement that night."
"Were you stuck on the big lug?"
'Not particularly," said the star, "but he was a nice enough fall and had he made the announcement I don't doubt but that 1 would have gone along with it."
"What stopped him?”
"It was one of those things." zaid the actress. "A little after midnight, when I come back to my table after a dance, I found my pocketbook was missing. started to look for it, but Big Joel told
me to relax and handed me hundred bucks. thanked him but kept right on looking, and when he asked me why I was to worried about the pocketbook I told him there was 300 dollars in it.
had hardly gotten the words out of my mouth when the wombo who worked in the ladies' room came up and handed me my purso-cald she had found it under "the make- up table.
Big Joel looked at me and grinned kind of funny, it ain't
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"In other words." I small- joked, "Big Joel caught you with your purse down."
"Nothing of the sort,” said the movie star, "Matter of fact, I had been paid off that after- noon for a series of modelling jobs and had closer to four hundred than three in my bag." "Then why didn't you open 11?"
"How could 17" said the actress. "He'd have seen the 10 Packs of Gold-Tips I had swiped off the tables."
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Vast education campaigns - by leaflets and mobile cinemas arc now being conducted to counter this apathy,
Since many of the population of the Gold Coast are literate, Instructions for getting on the electoral register have been simplified by the use of pin- men illustrations.
For example: people are being told they may vote: (1) If they are British (a pin-man waving a Union Jack gets the Icten home); (2) If they are 21 (a plcture of a baptism cate explains it); and they have paid their lový (for this, there is a little holding two bags marked with the sign).
Dollars.
certin-
(3) It
Tinzi
THE daring nature of Bri- tain's experiment in trans- ferring
to power
political novices and the importance of education in voting is shown by a look at the Gold Coast's balance sheet
Nearly half the world's cacoa, gold, manganese, timber, bauxite, And diamonds ali these help the Gold Const to scoop £40,000,000 a
year in llars into the pool.
went to see Prison
Graduate Komla Gbedemah,
the "strong man" who, leased from gool eight months ago after a term for publishing false news, is reorganising the party for the man in cell No 9. He sat in the absent chair- mon's seat at the three-room- Nkruma's booka still on the deska Koran in English,
ed party headquarters,
to Marx," and Quintin
RUBB
g's "The Purpose of Par-1 Homent", among them.
He said: "I will say or do nothing disloyal to Kwame."
realises that the
new
Constitution is not full self- government; that even were his party to capture every possible seat it must certainly remain a minority in Parlia ment.
I asked if he was prepared to try to make the Constitu- tion work, to accept majority decisions in Parliament.
"It all depends if the Governor is reasonable about (Continued on Page 19, Col. 6)
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