fore the
House
the
Chairman
declared
the meeting closed at
4.50 p
m.
Red Cross
Movie Benetf:t
EDNESDAY ' night
at
8.15
at
the
Christiansted
Theatre
the Christian-
sted Branch of the Red Cross will give
a picture ;show,
the
proceeds
of
which
-
will
go
toward
the
purchase
of
a
car
for the
municipal visiting
nurse.
Chris-
tiansted people
have
already
shown
the
interest
in the securing
of a visiting nurse
and
one :has
been
secured.
In
order
to
do the
most
effective
work,
means
must
be
provided
thenuirse for
g ting about
Christiansted
and
her
country
district.
By
your presence
at
th= movies
Wednes-
day
night
you
will show
your
interest
all
21
wiil als)y 2aj2y
a
dcst
elass
31
v,
ce-cream
and
cake
will be sold at inter-
mission
-hy
members
of
the
local
Rad
Cross
branch.
Admission
will
be
the
sam2
as
at
the
regular
performances.
Reserved
seats
may
be
se cuared
Wednes-
day
at
the ticket office.
:
LOCAL.
A large States
and
other
mail
by
the
Mystery
via
Frederiksted
was
received
hera
Saturday
evening
and
delivery
by
box2s
was made
th2
same
night aad
yes-
terday
forenoon.
A n2w serial
comm=nces
at the
theatre
this evening.
See
programme
1n
this
is-
sue.
Correspondence
august
19,
1921.
My dear
Mr. Johansen:
1..
From
reporis
received
it
seems
to
be®eurrent
that
the
Department
of
* Education
Intends
to
teach
only
instru-
‘mental music.
This is
not
true.
Music,
as
a prescribed
subject,
will
be
introduced
into all grades,
from
one
up.
This will be vocal
music
until
the
Juni-
or High Schools
are
reached,
and
even
there
the
vocal
music
will supplement
the instrumental
music.
Bandmster
Adams
will visit St. Croix
early in September
to
examine
the can-
*didates and
he
will have
more in
migA
the applicant’s
qualification fcr
teaching
vocal
musie,
than
for
teaching
instru-
mental
music.
The Phonographic
method
will
be
used,
supplemented
by
certain
texts.
:
Very respectfully,
ARTHUR E. LINDBORG.
Asst.
Director of Education.
TELEGRaMS.
_
ST. CROIX STATION.
London,
Aug.
13th.—All soldiers
on
leave
from
Ireland fin
Aldershot
and
ST ORI
ANILIS
Farnborough
have
b2en ordered by
tele-
graph
to ftheir
regiments
immediately.
It
is
stated
that
this'
step
was
takszn
merely
as
a
procaitionary
measure
against
surprise
and
has
no
other
sig-
nificance.
Belfast,
Aug.
16th.—After
a
meeting
of the
Ulster Cabinet,”
which
was
held
today,
an official report
was
issued
stat-
ing that the general situation
was
care
fully reviewed
and that
there absolutely
was
no chang?
in
the position
so
far
as
Ulsterwas
concerned.
London,
Aug.
16th.—A despatch
from
Rueter’s
enrrespondent
at (Cairo
says
that
an aeroplane
in which
Bragadier
Gener-
al Newman,
Chief
of the
General
Staff
in Egypt,
was
a
passenger,
crashed
to
the ¢round
at
He'iopolis and
was
demo-
lished.
The
pilot of ‘the
the
machine
was killed.
General
Newman
was
ser-
seriously
injured,
and
his
recovery
is
very doubtful.
Portland
Springs,
Maine, Atg. 16th.
George Duncan
and Abe
Mtchell,
Brit-
ish
golf experts,
won
two
foursomes
here
yesterdzay.
In
the
forenoon
they
defeated
Frank Gilman.
of
Augusta
and
Striley of Waterville,
five and
four, and
in the afternoon
won
from
Alex.
Chis-
hol, of Portland
and
Kenn
of
Portland
Springs,
six and four.
Belgrade,
Aug.
16th.—King
Peter
of
Serbia
died today.
Washington,
Aug.
. 16th.—The
trea-
sury
has
received
inguiries
from
the
foreign powers
for
details
of
a possible
International Conference
in
Washington
to
disenss
measures
for the
stahilizing
of exchange
rates,
Secretary
Mellon said
yesterday..
The
powers
were informed,
he
added,
that
the
treasuryv
was
pro-
posing
no
such
coaference.
Controller
of
the
ecurrency.
Crisinger,
however
declared
today
his
original
suggestion
of
the Jadvisability
of
such
a
meeting
still stood, although
no datails” had been
considered.
Riga,
Aug.
16th.—Prohibition
had
been abolished
in
Sovier
Russia
and
the
country
iz
now
on
a
light
wine basis.
A despatch
to
the
Letvian
telegraphic
agency,
confirmed by the
Moscow
news-
papers,
announced
the
issuance
of
a
decree permitiing
the
maunufacture
and
gale of beverages
containing
up
tn 14%
of
aleohol,
which
will be highly
taxed.
Warsaw,
Aug.
16th.—The Polish
Govt.
has handed
a note
to the representatives
of
the
Allied powers,
concerning
the
decision of the
Allied Supreme
Council
to
submit
the
Upper
Silesian
question
to
the
League
of Nations
for
settle-
ment.
The
communication,
which
was
discussed
by
the
Polish
Council
of
State
declares
that
the
unexpected
de-
cision of the Supreme
Council has caused
some
feeling in Poland,
and
draws
the
attention
of :the
powers
to
the -possi-
ble
consequences
which may attend
the
postponement
of a settiement.
London,
/iug.
15th.—The start of the
fiftth and
la-t
cricket
match
between
Australia
and
England,
at Kennington
Oval
on
Saturday
was delayed
until 2-15
owing
to
the
rains
that fell during the
morning.
4
large
crowd
was
on hand
to
witness
the
mateh.
Tennyson,
the
English
Captain
won the toss,
and
deci-
ded
to bat first.
The
wicket %as
wet on
top, but
hard
lower.
Two fast
bowlers
Gregory
and
VMcDonald,
cpened
the
at-
tack
for
Australin.
After
luneh
the
mateh
was
resumed,
but
was
soon
stop-
ped by rain,
and
234 hours
elapsed
before
tbe weather
b2camea
brichter.
An impa-
tient
cerowd
invaded
the
orouads
and
Armstrong
refused
to insyect
the wicket
till
the
ground was
clear.
The
vame
was
resumed
at 5.20 o’ :iock
on siippery
~round
and
scorinz
was
slow.
There
were only 156
minutes
play
on Satarday
Scores,
Rnsseil
C. Oidfield,
B MecDonald
13.
Brown
B.
Mailey
32.
Tyleesley
C.
Macartney.
B, Gregory 39. Wooli:v, run
out,
23.
Mead.
naot
out,
19.
Saandham,
not out,
1. Extras
2 .otal for four wickets
129.
Athens,
Aug.
17th.—Greek
[orces
which early this week
beoan
a
new offen-
sive
against
the
lurkish
Nationalists
east
of
Kskisher
have
driven
a
deep
wedge
into
the
Turkish
lines,
and
have
reached
the Sakaria
river, says
an official
statement
issued
here.
Sivri Hissar
has
heen
taken
by
the
Greeks,
whe
have
established
a
line
running
to the
south-
east
from
that
city
until it touches
the
Sakaria
river
at
Tajir.
It
1s
asserted
that
the
Turks
are excavating
Ismid
56
miles
southeast
of
Constantinople.
Washington,
Aung.
17th.—A
new
al-
titudz record
.for seaplanes
was
claimed
yesterday
when
a
monoplane
flying
yacht,
piloted
by
Commander
Davis
Mc-
Culloeh, U
S. N, and carrying three
pas-
sengers,
reached
and jaltitude of twenty
thousand
feet.
Freezing
weather
pre-
vented
the
flyers,
who
were
dressed
in
summer attire
from
going higher.
The
flight
was
made
in the
presence
of offi-
cials
of
the
Aero
Club
of America
and
army
and
navy
aviation
experts.
The
old record
was established
here
two years
ago by Caleb
Bragg,
who reached
an
alti-
tude of
16,000
feet.
London,
Aung. 17th.
—The
'‘Manchester
Guardian’’
publishes
the
following
re-
garding
strictures
by the public accounts
committee
upon
the
gifts,
without the
formal
consent
of
Parliament,
of
war-
ghips
to
the
Dominion.
'‘Our
Cabinets
proper relation
to
the
Dominions
is not
that of
a3 wealthy
uncle
visiting
his
ne-
phews
school
and
stimulating
personal
regard
by
handsome
‘‘tips.””
The
tax-
payers
are the
uncles,
and if
the
uncles
so deeply
impoverished
by
the
war are
to ‘‘tip’’nephews
so
much
enriched
by
it,
as
were
some
of
the
dominions,
we
might
be
allowed
to
know
we are
doing it.
*“‘The ‘'Westminster Gazette”
remarks
that
such
gifts
would proceed
with
all
the
more
grace
if given formal-
ly through
Parliament.