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FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 1946

A TOURIST LURE—Picturesque sights such as thi

tourists this winter to Nassau, colorful capital of the Bahamas, which has been spruced

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By EPSIE KINARD NEA Staff Writer

NASSAU, Bahamas.— Seventy minutes’ flight away from the cosmopolitan bustle of Miami, this tiny comic opera land in Gilbert and Sullivan rhythm is touting its tourist attractions to Amerieans with a elipped British sosent and s warm tropical smile. If you're one of the fortunate 15,000 for whom the Bahamians are dusting off the welcome mat and polishing up tropical charms, you can come here easily and swiftly by air or water. During the “season,” opening this month, 10-day West Indies cruise ships from Jacksonville will make Nassau the first port of call late in January there will be weekly steamship sailings from New York to Nassau and other stops made here on 13-day cruises to the West Indies. Tri-weekly boat service from Miami is planned. There will be 10 plane flights daily from Miami. Gleaming DC-3's hop the turquoise-tint-od Gulf 11770 minutes. Direct chartered flights from New York or Philadelphia te Nassau take mx hours. > What will greet you when you

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coconut palms and walled by scarlet hibiscus and bougainvillea is a town: spruced up for tourists in its best bib and tucker. The whole place is feverishly renovating, redecorating, landscaping and coaxing out more garden blooms. Hotels closed for six years are reopening. Others are undergoing extensive repairs. Bahamians who don't usually cater to tourists are listing rooms for Tent. Rates, increased only slightly, range from $3 per day for. a single room ‘in a small apartment hotel to $320, American-plan, in the island's most de luxe hotel. Tourist attractions range from an underseas floating observatory which out-Vernes Jules Verne to thatched cottages as primitive as jungle huts. Transportation facilities for seeing sights range from horse-drawn surreys driven by benign, colored oldsters to swift island-hopping planes which link the For the first time In six years there will be horse-racing and a

UNDERSEAS SCENERY—An excellent swimmer ean dive down to explore Nassau's tropical sea vegetation, but most tourists will prefer the unique underwater observatory from which this

picture was taken,

Miami-Nassau ocean race. Revived attractions are headline golf, polo and tennis matches and water-skiing, swimming and sallboat races. :

And spiced up for tourists’ savor in this British-speaking Graustark are dark-grinning policemen wearing musical comedy uniforms and native basket-weay-ers who, swarming like flies in outdoor market places, beg you to buy their wares in sing-song chants. Providing local color are dark guitar-strumming minstrels whom tourists first bribe to sing “Bahama Mama” and other native walls, but later on beg with generous tips to “please go away.” Tiny night clubs with “royal bokes” for the Governor General and his Lady and solemn proceedings of be-wigged jurists and of a formally dressed parliament remind the visitor that this tiny sun-drenched island is an outpost of the British Empire. Intensity almost unknown in England since Gladstone's day marks election battles for seats in this miniature parliament, one of the oldest in the Empire. Politics that thrash out everything from whieh

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local gossip. Despite rock-bound British conservatism, the long shadow of Uncle Sam has a solid substance here. Thousands of native Ba« hamians who Went to the U. 8, to work on truck farms during wartime labor shortages are returning home with American ideas of wages and hours which do not fit too well into the tight economy of the little island. On the other hand, colonists catering to wealthy Americans, freer with their money than the British, are allowing the New York firm of Charles of the Rits to install a beauty salon in the British Colonial, the island's topdrawer hotel,

P. 8. Oh yes, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor used to gove ern these islands. In their place are installed Governor General W. L. Murphy and his Lady, who, unlike her illustrious predecessor, is reporter-shy and refuses te be interviewed,

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