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Fear of starvation and a long-smoldering resentment at economic senility and past exploitation have made the natives in the slumlands of Spanish Town and Old Harbor increasingly restless. On the fringes of Kingston there are 9,000 now unemployed inland and mountain laborers, who refuse to go home after a taste of higher wages on Jamaica's new U.S. naval base. The cruiser Ajax and troops from Bermuda quelled Kingston's strike riots in 1938. Now 1,300 white vigilantes patrol the streets at night with clubs and revolvers. Last week Canadian and U.S. troops were ordered...
Lieut. Hans Strehl, 23, and Lieut. Siegfried Schmidt, 25, both Nazi airmen, both prisoners of war at the Fort Henry internment camp outside Kingston, Ont., seem to have literal minds. Not long ago they apparently got a copy of Pickwick Papers from the camp library, and came across the passage in which Weller the elder suggested that the hero escape from his imprisonment in the Fleet with the help of a piano...
Finally they asked their captors if they might throw a little party in Fort Henry's recreation hall. The captors said yes. Might they rent a couple of pianos from Kingston for the party...
Radio caused other casualties. Sheet music sales began to toboggan, and many a music publisher reduced personnel. Busy was Billy Rose with the production of an ASCAP on Parade program for independent stations in Manhattan, Washington, Pittsburgh, Kingston...
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