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Tropically clud
and
DeW
WEST
of
The ration-card
system
Bre Schools
reopening; prefabs, 500 of them, costing £100,000 are rising two a day
Barbados No for 1 had only Scen # pxme Government building, in-
cluding
ended this week. administrative HAVE flown out fraction.
offices. Tho modernisation here to report a cataa-
be halted. must Barbadians Bridgetown trophe: the stil! ul Tom Lashley
Kenneth Land drainage must stop. realised catastrophe Hunte. directors of Housing and
added up Hurricane Rellet. that Hurricane Janet has juggernaut bil left by Janet's brought to the British West four-hour visit: Indies.
I have come first on Bar bados: it is one of the worst hit areas. I report:
Ruin-even
plane landed.
One-seventh of the topsoil of Barbados was washed away and one-tenth of the sugar crop. or which the island nlnost en- the tirely depends, was ruined. before
• Twenty- five thousands As my Stratocruiser houses were permanently wreek- circled over
the laland, 30 d or badly damaged and half the population of 230,000 were hours from London, I saw homeless on the Arst right. hundreds of gaping roofs scattered
On Seawell Airfield at the hard-hit southern end of the
A
"A campaign agalni culoels and other diseases to be abandoned.
tuber- had
"A staggering housing prob- lem has arisen."
00
Barbados has not had a hurricane
und for 57 years only seven in her history, that the £100,000 reserve fund has been exhausted. So is the
about
Trinidad £25,000 from £50,000 grant from Britain and and Jamaica, beside 220,000 subscriptions.
All 10 main roads were Not that Barbados is squeal- the hilly, over
blocked by thousands of huge ing. Although this is the "hard green, English looking trees, 40 of which fell in Gov- tune" -between June and Feb- countryside 14 by 21 miles ernment House garden alone,
ruary when work on sugar plan- across and as large as the
lations stops ind torrential rain
• Telephones were out of pours through the shacks which Isle of Wight.
action for a week and electric pass for dwellings, most inces light and radio for 10 days. look happier than London rush
All the 124 schools were hour crowds. only Caribbean Colony which either wrecked or converted into has always been British, I shelters for the stricken popula- for 32,000 found two smashed hangars, tion and education one wrecked aircraft, and boys and girls was stopped. buildings being patched.
• Two pumping stations were pul out of action so that water İrad to be eked out to the thirat- crazed population in drops.
A$
A FRACTION
Thousands of small shops were wrecked and food supplies
SO HOPEFUL
orc
lodging the PEOPLE
homeless with that wonder- of the poor to the ful charity poor which keeps this crowded island going.
"It might have been much worse.
You should look at Grenada, an island 30 miles away over the horizon. That look a real crack," every- body says,
Grenada, they say, been ruined for 10 yourTS.
I am going there now.
has
(Britan 4)
Cummings
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THE CHURCH
THE INDIES
EJAMAICA
WEST INDIES
BARBADOS
DOMINGO PUERTO
RICOS
HURRICANE JANE,
CARIBBEAN SEA
CENTRAL AMERICA MİLES
500
S. AMERICA
LENA'S HUSBAND IS
THE 'SVENGALI
ELECTABLE
By John Gay
DHC, Justifiably talle a pinned
The
Lena planned every song almost as a
bobby-goxers mren't for voice and instru- raving to buy the record, but
them ments, transforming
so the experts ure calling it as one of the world's moat they matched to perfection his masterpiece, a disc that will will beautiful women, let
from me wife's honey and molasses voice. be played 20, 30 years
now: Said Lena: "It was made into the secret of being able "Everything depends,"
he that way quito pocidentally. I to walk in the kind of tight says, "on how Lena feels about was singing the song one day in would send a song. When she chooses what rehearsal and George Duvivier, that
10
gown
[The population is 1.400
beaten by Belgium. Malta, OT China.]
8 we drove 12 miles up broke down, despite merchants the square mile, which is hardly almost any other woman fiat she wants to sing I interpret the my bass player, joined in. the coast into Bridge- generosity. town past the brilliant blue ●
Barbados's 160 A190
Sixty of water and golden sands it shing vessels foundered. was ruin all the way. Thou- several schooners on which the sands of huge flattened trees island's coastal traffle depends,
cinema. had crumbled 2
balls, and three mission streets of tottering wooden cottages.
Even luxurious stone villas were blitzed.
SETBACK
were
Some nature notes pinpoint Janet's force. Strange birds have been swept to the island and stranded. They include yellow cuckoo which builds its own nest and disturbs my siesta
more than the teeming, whist- ling frogs.
White Barbadian storks have taken refuge in Bermuda-1,300
$2
"We liked the result so much that we decided we had some- thing. I shall make more records with a double-bass, but not too One thing Lemle has many. dnsisted on is that I work only - with the finest."
she
Though she is a perfectionist,
a woman who has made popular
best style of putting it over for on her face. Her gowns are her voice. It has been most "architecturally built." They satisfying." are so cleverly cut that they THE REFUSAL look as if she must fall over any moment "but the eye,"
Up to 1050 Lena Horne Then corded for MGM. sald Lena, "is deceived."
The fabulous Lena earns refused to make any moro £4,000 a week in cabaret records because they wanted her
she sull admires ons singer and last year only bothered sing the popular songs of the singing an Art with a capital A, above all others. The mine's This year she signed with Frank Sinatra. to work 16 weeks. She is moment. the singer who deliberately new record company which Sald Lena: "Back home he's a There's nothing bigger All foliage has been wizened refused to make a record for willing to let her sing the Lena legend.
Horne way, just the way the in the States-and she was in- Pink olean five years while the disces in her cabaret act. brown by Janet.
Her cluding the Empire State Build- carrying Bawa, hammers, of Colony with only £3,000,000 ders, white, yellow, and red were turning unknowns into first record was of "Love Me Orin planks. Lorry loads of build revenue, means a lasting
set hibiscus and multi-coloured
Leave Mejs un valméstately? Lena's modesty wouldn't nibile material and bulldozers back.
bougainvillaen creepers are only stars overnight.
with double b
Corbaani:=her to admit that she's quite Jammed the narrow streets.
to flower
ogain
a ment
legend herselfy Just starting
Lena is the singer with despite five weeks of tropical rain and sunshine,
musical genius behind her-her Lamie nisband, 44-year-old
until two years Hayton, who, ago, was musical boer at MGM in Hollywood.
Everywhere while and coloured Barbadians were
Eng
THIRTY-FIVE THIRT
people killed and 160 seriously injured. There were 17 casual- ties in one stone church.
The bill £1,500,000, to п
found solid window shutters had Civil Secretary Noel Turner. been blown from the ballroom of who was Acting Governor when a swagger £4 a day hotel which 120-mile-att-hour Janet struck, suffered foods six feet deep. explained during
Obviously, all this that I saw through the stricken third
catastrophe. But Barbados: "We must now post-- was a major
HIS
NDRE
¤
drive of
miles away.
But Barbados is full of hope, Nine-tenths of the Iattered cane is growing well,
JOB IS TO SILENCE
From SYDNEY SMITH
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Theirs is unique husband- and-wife partnership. In those two years Lena Herne has flowered from a fine artist into a great singer with poise, passion and strength. She is now TG- maiting
records and the connoisseurs are raving. She frankly admits ber debt to her husband.
Paris. Parisians were themselves ing in barmed areas In the Lammle. He knows
The 400,000 drivers centre of the city. DUBOIS, new amazed.
just stopped hooting, and if some-
sloner in Morocco, is famous street in France as the man who store. stopped 400,000 Paris drivers from hooting.
Paris 62-year-old
today
"I know how much I owe everything there la to know about my vodce. "When he's playing the piano Toughest of all, he limited
conducting the orchestra, people stop and parking to one hour on the there's an instinct between us. Avenue des Champs Elysees I'm all emotion and he guides (Hundreds of cars are still being that emotion in the right direc- The noise was not the only given "tickets" every day there). tion.
Silence" thing "M.
attacked. And be established special times Bland and balding, he challenged and zones to limit the hours at THE BOND chief, some other old customs.
which
delivery heavy bachelor and
COLLE #work mud halt in the crowded streets.
police
He found a bus took 55 minutes career civil servant, grey- to travel less than seven miles eyed "M. Silenco" succeeds across the city. tough veteran North
African campaigner General Boyer de Latour in charge of North Africa's toughest job.
At the
war
vana
"We've never argued profers- Honally reti. I feel surer, of thna shore confident, same time he waged myself, against crime, particully I've ever been in my life. We among the 180,000 dissatisfled were married in 1947, but we and mostly unemployed North Joined up professionally only Africans who exist in the capital, two years ago. It was just that I needed a pianist and my bis-
is more
So he revised the one way Visitors to his green-furnished band is a wonderful planet, He street system, put up more than office police headquarters is great with a singer. He bes But Parisians are wondering 2,000 now no parking signs, would sometimes hoer again, on that sympathy that so many ster
ordered podosirions who crossed his recording machine, the shrill, pianists haven't." now if it is really
Elut Lemale. Hayton a much against traffic to be fired on the discordant noise of Paris on that tougher task then Dubois set spot, demanded cash payment of last day before the big silance, than on accompanist, He is alw himself when he took change of finos for parking offences.
most a Svengal complete with M. Dubols will not need to guatem board. During: Lena's Paris's 20,000 police #ixteen
He did not leave it at that, take that tape with him to cabaret turn yout sexme the tele- pathic bond between husband months ago.
Ho created "the Magpler Morocco.
and wife. He decided to clean up the title four hp. black and white The noise he will now, con Lenale Harton: Paris traffic and end the raucous radio police cars, dashing from centrate on will be the confici MGM job because he was tired cacophony from Impatient and one tracte block to another, ing: volbem: of French colonists of his contract: Devoting him. angry drivers which made Paris.
4 and rabid Arab nationales, thenolsiest city in the world porting things out,
He did it in one month-end esrded his nickname,
He formed a squad of recovery. That is the much silencing job vehicle to tow SWAT CHE parke for, the turbace, "24, Bilance,
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