International: Jubilee

¶ In Bombay, a fireworks factory, working double shifts to get ready India's celebration of the Royal Jubilee (May 6), last week blew up.

¶ In Windsor, Ontario, sturdy subjects of George Windsor decided not to celebrate the Jubilee with a beauty contest "because such contests give the girls a false idea of good looks and importance."

¶ Anchor Line executives credited a 48% quarterly spurt over last year in cheap tourist bookings to the Jubilee.

¶ In their high power London news-organs, England's Press peers complained that the program of George V's Jubilee...

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