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fl bermuda jb recorder | always fsebb for tv 5 mnvn a iu im published bi weekly price 6d wednesdays 9d saturdays canada's best volume xxx hamilton bermuda wednesday april 7 1954 no 77 jamaica demands return press censures churchill his leadership questioned winners of merchants protest surf contest of u.s sailor for trial named licencing of competitor to peddle in city london april 6 politi cians of all shades were freely predicting in the corridors of tie honse of commons thai prime minister churchill's per formance in yesterday's hy drogen bomb debate will make tt difficult for him to remain in office had degenerated into a sterile angry and pitiful p arty wrangle and the responsi bility wm the prime minis ter four alert housewives who had the right tliiii<r to show to a mysterious man who knocked on their doors last night and who were also able to answer correctly the simple qaestions asked by the man are today wmrttbier by the k i kg ston the house of representatives lias adopted a resolution requesting the gov ernment of jamaica to de mand from the american government the return of a white sailor of the united states xavy who seriously violated the laws here by firing a rifle at one of the island's colored policemen on duty so that the sailor may be dealt with by the laws of jamaica tired a shot winch went over the policemen's bead wills isaacs nienfbcr of tlie pxp who moved the resolu tion said that the sailor's ac tion in firing the rifle was a barabrous and uncivilized act and action of tbat kind certainly gave the american nation a very bad name abroad the conservative daily telegraph said it was a pity he tried to blame mr attlee for the memahon aet sir winston in his speech argued that mr attlee could have blocked the memahon act which restricted ameri can exchange of atomic in formation by disclosing the s e c r e t roosevelt-churchill agreemenl of 1943 for full ex change of such information a representative group ot last week the issue was raised on the floor of the house of assembly by mr w leroy tucker who expressed alarm over the corporation's action he said it seemed rr tliat big business was step ping in to compete with men who had done this business all their lives city mmm-mrr crp xx arms over a recent action oi the corporation of hamiltor granting a pedlar's licence tt a hamilton firm to sell vege tables in the city from i merchants by attacking clement li attlee who was prime minis ter of the post-war labor gov ernment on grounds which are generally considered unsound sir winston's stability as a political leader is being ques tioned by members of his own conservative party as well a by laborite opponents ami in dependent minded liberals _.,. •• .• t 1 .... _____ sum of o each the lucky ones were mrs mary scott mrs b h o d a landy mrs s jensen and mrs william bulley all of the warwick and paget districts • » a when people irom jamaica go to the u s tbey have to obey the laws of that country . . . and it was very unfor tunate that such a thing should have taken place t _ 11 .. vehicle mr august kego propri etor of the people's market acting as spokesman for the group told the recorder this morning that this move was regarded as unfair competi tion to other city merchants and that plans are underway for the corporation to be re quested in writing to revoke this licence or else other ac tion will be taken possible by way of a petition to the legis lature the resolution also asked f^fcit the government of the t nited states be requested to apologize to the people of jamaica for the uncivilized behavior of a member of its xavy mr lucker declared that it was particularly interesting to note that the trend today was for business to get in the hands of a very few people he added that s uch a trend pointed to the need for legislation whereby people with limited means should be protected from big business the dai.l y telegraph agreed with mr attlee that the primary responsibility for not informing sen memahon of the existence of this secret agreement was president tru they were the first ot many housewives who will cash in <„, the many yellow-backs which are literally b e i bg thrown around by a mr surf who initiated a mew fansrled door-to-door quiz v r0 ' gramme last night iu connec tion with the promotion of surf — reputed to be the greatest washday miracle of "\\ e are a very small coun try but we are proud people and we do not want anybody to come here and nsult the people of thsi country he de clared the times of london led the majority of great bri tain's newspapers in censoring sir winston for his behavior tlie resolution is tlie result of an incident last week on one of the city wharves ni ni s ihe liberal news ( lironi .•" declared sir winston an edtional which will ap pear in tomorrow's edition of the times said the p'riine minister's sense of occasion is usually one of his greatest strengths in the house of commons it deserted him ■_ _____ ____> mr bustamante the chiet minister in seconding the mo tion said that they should not condemn the united states be cause one drunken sailor came to jamaica and did something that was wroiig t ______ t ' _ .. 1 ______ made one 01 the biggest mis judgments of his long career and turned what should have been a council of the nation into as bitter a parliamentary drawl as experienced observ ers could remember another assemblyman the hon w w davidson said that mr tucker had given voice publicly to something that thad been discussed in private for some time the answer to the problem he said was to stick to one's dealer and not be misled into buying some thing for a time cheaper but which may result in higher cost later i5 tt vavy evsei wai docked at tbe pier and mem bers of the crew were coming ashore aaa tlie agt according to mr kego other markets which are be hind this protest include moniz & rego's on front street ; thomas miles and company also front street handy market court street and piggly wiggly market parliament street tonight mr surf will visit two other parshes and will continue on through the week until saturday giving away 3 to housewives who can produce a packet of surf and answer his questions sadly yesterday tentive and anxious house was ready to be united toward whatever purpose could come out of the debate so winston churchill began in the same tttgh mood fas attlee before he had ended the proceedings an at a customs guard aud a member of the police force went to the ship to investigate a suspected case of smuggling o fcigarettes and an argument took place between an officer and the local men the sailor is reported to have called the local policeman a n — r and it the american people had no respect for jamaicans they would have driven out all jamaicans from their country a long time ago the matter would be taken up however by his government npi .. _..____ _________ ( lenient davies l i li e r a i party leader and a great ad mirer of sir winston said in a statement to the ominous it will be a day he sir win ston | will regret the organizer of this scheme is a representative who ar rived in the colony a short while ago from the kingston jamaica office of unilevera exports company he is play in ir the role of mr surf and all his visits will be made after li pjn evenings the spokesman added that this group also has the back ing of the recently formed bermuda merchants associa tion and the bermuda retail grocers association ihe resolution was later put to the house and carried raid home of jamaican labour head ask force to clear s a slums local artists to be in religious drama personal and social jagan free for few hours but lands in jail again the city fathers who have for a long time drawn fire from hamilton markets in re spect to the granting of per mits to vegetable pedlars an nounced several days ago that a new licence had been granted this time to the firm of gibbon's company i he rev edward e e ben jamin pastor of st john's . f c /<! u !___,__ '.. !_.._,- the reason for this he said was to give as many house wives as possible an oppor tunity to participate in the contest he felt thai some may be out working days and by six o'clock they ought to be a religious drama eniuiet the symbol of a cross wil be resented in the lecturt rooi of st paul's a.m.e church hamilton on frida l'ighb kingston jamaica — in an all-out effort to drive com munist elements from tlie islands jamaican p o 1 i e e swooped down on the home of ferdinand smith one-time harlem labor leader currently secretary of the communist dominated world federation of trade unions a.m.e church bailey s bay __• __■_■__ i_i a l..i i capetown — in a hitter attach on housing conditions the soutli african minister of xative affairs last week de manded power to move johan nesburg xegro slum dwellers by force the demand was contai i in the first slum clearance measure introduced in parliament by ilendrik v erwoerd was informed by cable that his maiie had given birth to a son on friday march 26 in char iest on south carolina mrs bejkmin a native of charles ton taught iu public schools here before becoming the colony's female probation offi cer ( . eorg bto w british guiana april 5 — dr chetldi jagan former prime minister of this british colony got out of jail for a while today then was arrested with several other persons in a police raid on the headquarters of his leftist people's progressive party they were charged with taking part in an illegal assembly mr rego said today we are definitely against this ac tion it is unfair because it allows the firm in question to set np shop in tlie city from morning to night and at the same time escape the burden of taxation antl the heavy ex penditures for employment and rentals we are faced with ?! w tm iwo-aci pia wmem wnu tiave a musical background pro vided by the hi-y glee cluh will feature such well-known artists as wycliffe stovell miss dorothy hughes miss joycelyn wilson arnott richardson quinton smith mrs olga tute and mrs gladys jackson home we teel that this is an innovation which is tanta mount to taking a quiz pro gramme to the housewife with the difference that we will be only running it a week with big prizes instead of over a long period with small ones mr surf told the recorder police said they seized sev eral documents in smith's home which identified com munist organizers and fellow travelers iii jamaica later in a raid on smith's offices of the left-wing people's educa tional organization pol i <■t seized files and papers on the educational group which are similar to others which have been banned in the islands lr ilelecna \\ llliains and a * a in johannesburg center ot tic largest xegro urban popu lation in africa lots iu two sections inhabited by xegroes arc about 100 by 125 feet verwoerd said adding that buildings are usually one story st ruetures sons hollis and ronnie ot . » jiappy valley pembroke left i^iu thursday tot xew york where they will reside perman ently proceeds from the play will go toward the church's sani tary improvement fund a police riot squad made the arrests under emergency regulations decreed last fall when the british ousted dr jagan and his government on the ground that the p p p was following the communist line dr jagan his american born wife and eight other top leftist politicians had been picked up originally at the week end we have to pay two taxes he added one to the city and another to the parish a pedlar — if you could call him one escapes all this ihe first annual ball ot the western district of the police force which took place at the armoury somerset was a tre mendous success more than 250 person we're present and danced to the music of sid ottley and his band prizes donated by merchants in the district were awarded to mr and mrs francis powell for being the most recently mar ried couple present ; to mr peroral lovell and mrs edna hazell the first couple to dance in the first dance to mr stuart perinchief and miss sheila lee winners of the spot waltz mr peter rogers for being the 150th person to enter the hall mrs donald simmons mrs a saltus and mrs reuben pear man winners of door prizes * * * a v . in soplnatown and martin dale 47 percent of these par cels arc inhabited by 20 to 30 people the minister of xa itvc affairs said 32 percent of thi families live in one-room huts or singles he added that 16 percent of the families sublet from these families recently lt was not indicated whether any personal action had been taken against smith but there have been strong outcrys to have him banned from the island since he began a cam paign of causing unrest anion sugar workers here last year mi . _ __ t_!i _• . i negro to run for parliament ordained continuing mr rego said the whole idea about pedlars and pedlars permits was mis represented he explained that a pedlar was a man wbo went from tloor to door sell ing his goods how on earth could you call a man a pedlar who merely sets up shop on a sidewalk and remains there he asked -_. i 3_1__.j ame deacons in england police alerted \ erwoerd described t h e right to rent as a privilege sold for key money adding that tenant often must pay again for the right to stay key money yerwoerd said ranges from 30 to 140 iroops and police were alerted for emergency duty officials said they expected t)r j a g a n's followers to launch an anti-british dis obedience campaign in a show down fight with the govern ment they particularly feared an attempt to sabo tage the eolony t s dike system and send atlantic salt water sweeping over sugar and rice fields along the coast rni _ .___ :___ _. i ihe one-time official ot the xational maritime c n i o n smith was allowed to volun tarily leave the united states in 1951 to avoid deportation on charges of subversion and of being an undesirable alien tt ii 1 . i hree men who have rentier < il long and outstanding servic to the spiritual and moral up ■- m loxdox a lormer i«i dent of barbados bwi has been nominated by the britisl conservative party to run foi elective office in the maj municipal elections in mau chester_knglantb signally hommr nl last week when they wen ordained local deacons of tin african methodist church furthermore ne a u ti e u there were sufficient markets in the city to take care oi the regular demand for vege tables he saitl there was nc argument against a man or a firm pedling in actual fact but there weren't that many house holds in hamilton to warrani ih following h 1 s departure from the united states in 1951 he spent several months in moscow before returning to his native jamaica he can not return to the united states sex change in trinidad w mnumm tt iiacii — oto vioeri tslliot hoodith who lives with his english wife and three children in manchester hood ith is believed to be the first xe»ro ever to be nominated for elective offiee in england if elected he would be the first negro to sit in the british house of commons hoodith came to england as a war worker in 1942 and has been active with the conserv ative party here for ovei 8 vears last year he was elected as a member of the executive council of the gor ton division of the conserva tibe party they were mr hilton carol richardson retired school master from st david's island whose orders entitle him to per form all the duties of a mini stei at st luke's a.m.e chureh st david's mr t b price of vernon temple south ampton and mr a copeland simmons of allen temple i'ol.t-of-sl'aix — great interest is being evinced here over the discovery of a 25-year old girl tris now awaiting operation to change her sex sic was discovered throe weeks ago in the oil town of san fernando and was examined by dr ii c shepherd who has placed her in a bed reserved for females iris told nurses that she had long been plagued bj doubts whether she was a buy or a girl although she walks talks and dresses like a girl mrs dolores calvin allen ot southampton east returned k in the colony last week after spending three months in xew york while there she assist ed in launching her family's latest journalistic enterprise a magazine entitled beauty trade the first issue of the magazine appeared on the newstands in january it car ried a feature on bermuda the publication is devoted primarily to the xegro beauti cian and her clientele 1 he security forces also pre pared for the possibility that communist-led unions control ling sugar and rice laborers might call sympathy strikes _______ ■r — i *■■_ mr rego further added tuai a pedlar's prices were sup posed to be lower than com petitive prices but we havt proven that this is not tht case tn additoin pedlar are supposed to sell local pro duce only he emphasised strikes smee his ouster irom power in october was picked up saturday at a coastal vil la lr e forty miles from here or jagan had been released in 200 bail earlier today pending a hearing april 12 on eiiarges he violated an order bv gov sir alfred savage for bidding him to leave george town the former govern ment chief who has vowed a campaign of boycott and accused of violation dr jagan s wife janet and the other jailed p p.p leaders were released on 50 bail each they hail been arrested sun dav for leading a protest de "; nstration in defiance of a ban on political gatherings their ease is scheduled to be heard april 24 homersei phe ordination the first ot its kind to be performed here by the a.m.e denomination was carried out by bishop d ward xichols presiding bishop of the first episcopal district ol the a.m.e church the spokesman in answer to a question said that no petition had been drawn up as yet but whatever was neces sary would be done when the time required it fae why not try these two
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Title | The Bermuda Recorder |
Date | 1954-04-07 |
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fl bermuda jb recorder | always fsebb for tv 5 mnvn a iu im published bi weekly price 6d wednesdays 9d saturdays canada's best volume xxx hamilton bermuda wednesday april 7 1954 no 77 jamaica demands return press censures churchill his leadership questioned winners of merchants protest surf contest of u.s sailor for trial named licencing of competitor to peddle in city london april 6 politi cians of all shades were freely predicting in the corridors of tie honse of commons thai prime minister churchill's per formance in yesterday's hy drogen bomb debate will make tt difficult for him to remain in office had degenerated into a sterile angry and pitiful p arty wrangle and the responsi bility wm the prime minis ter four alert housewives who had the right tliiii |
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