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...When the Bermuda railway was completed in 1931, many local patriots violently opposed it by stealing out at night, driving spikes intended to derail trains. This the Assembly thought no joke, legislated that in Bermuda attempting to wreck a train is punishable by 15 years in jail, squelched the wrecks...
Rumors titillated last week in the island of Bermuda, where the Assembly decades ago voted to outlaw automobiles, that loggerheading Lieut.-General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., D.S.O. will go back to England and stay there unless as Governor of Bermuda he is permitted to have a motor car. Before the Assembly itself it was hotly argued for Sir Reginald that the 100 troops under his command ride in motor trucks, that even the island's garbage is collected by motor lorry, so it is unseemly, illogical, ridiculous and in bad taste that their Governor, who is, moreover...
...offer, has yet to publish the book. Last August he went into bankruptcy listing among liabilities of $4,907.39 a $1.48 laundry bill. Last January he went out of bankruptcy when creditors failed to press their claims. Last week, while his son-in-law was sporting himself in Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result...
Engaged. Pamela Barbara May Gordon-Howley. 20, daughter of British Actress Gertrude Lawrence (Susan and God. Tonight at 8:30); to Lieut. Perley Edmund Holmes, 26, of the British Royal Engineers; in Bermuda...
...Legislature empowered Captain-General* & Governor Sir Edward Brandis Denham to declare a state of emergency if necessary. Eighty British soldiers and 400 native policemen were mobilized; 100 local militiamen, 250 special constables were called out. The British cruiser Ajax, with 550 well-armed bluejackets, rushed to the scene from Bermuda. On Britain's Empire Day-May 24-police and mobs clashed. Three Negroes were killed, 30 persons went to the hospital, 70 labor leaders, including forceful chief Labor Leader Alexander Bustamante, were jailed. At week's end the dock workers' strike had been settled...