NOTICE
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&®
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i
!
OWING
to the necessity
to-increase
the
|
compensation
of the personnel
of this
|
office, the
subsecription
to
the
St.
Croix
|
Avis will be augmented
to
50
conts
per
|
month
from November
1. 1919.
!
St.
Croix
Avis
Office,
Christiansted,
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Oect.
27,
1919.
l
G. JOHANSEN.
!
Last
night’s
show
at
the theatre
was
|
very well attended
and
proved
as
enter-
|
taining
as
the
Bull’s
Eye promises
to be
|
throughout.
* We hear
it
remarked
how- |
ever
that
the
English
reading
on
the
scereen
is not being
displayed
as
clearly
as
could
be desired.
As the
audicnce
is
practically
only
english-speakinz,
the
spanish
text which is as
a rule
very
dis-
tinet,
is little help.
Perhaps
the
manaxze-
ment
can
do
something
to rectify this
matter
CORRECTIONS.
In the
Colonial
Council’s
Proecedings
in yesterday’s
Avis, 2nd
page.
21d
coi-
umn,
37th
line
from
top,
please
read
“Mr. R.
E. Higgins’’ instead
of
Mr.
A.
M. Golden.
In communication
signed
‘‘lnterested”’
in
same
issue,
Tth
line
from top, please
read
‘‘getting
the
same
value’’ instead
of “‘getting the small
value.”’
OFFICIAL NEWS.
October
27,
1919.
The
U.
S. S.
Vixen
sailed
at midnight
Sunday
for San Juan,
Porto
Rico.
A meeting
of
the
Food
Comniission
was held
on
last
Friday
afternoor
in St.
Thomas.
Messrs.
©Curry,
Dunlap
and
Francis,
three
of
the
four members
re-
cently
appointzd
also
attended.
Mr. J.
C. Roberts,
recently appointed
a member
of the Commission,
was
absent
as
he has
not yet accepted
his
appointment.
The
new
members
stated
they
were
unac-
|
quainted
with
the
matters
tr be discuss-
ed and
requested
an
adjournmen:
until
»
|
3.00 p.
m.
Tuesday,
which
was
granted.
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The following passengers
for St.
Thom-
as
will
arrive
by
the
U.
S. S. Kittery:
|
Commander
Owen J. Mink, Medical Corps
|
U.
S.
Navy and
family, Lieut.
Edward |
C.
Megzers
Medical Corps,
U. S.
Navy
|
and
famiily
and
Lieutenant
Charles
L. |
Oliphant,
Medical Corps,
U.
S.
Navy.
|
|
The
American
steamer
Dade Ccanty,
|
A.
Arnoli,
master,
from
New York and
|
Newport
News
with a general
cargo,
in-
|
cluding powder and
lynamite, bounl
for
|
Brazilian
ports.
arrived
and
depar.ed
at
St.
Thomas
on
Saturday.
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The
Shipping
Board
steamer
Clarles
|
E. Harwood
was expected
in St. Thomas
|
at noon
on Monday.
:
w1 ey eRN
38
Due to the
present
shortage
of
sugar.
com manding
officers and othersin author-
ity f ave been
directed by
the Secretary
of
the Navy to take particalar
care
to the end
that strict
economv
inits use is observed.
~
Whleit
is
not
experted
that the Navy
|
yyiH rungout
of
sugar
the
pn“’;lic in the
Stafesls
already
on
reduce:l
allowances.
Ext-avagance
and
wastefulness
are
to
.
be guarded
against.
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|
The daylight
saving
?dw
has
been
re-
.
pealed,
effective
at
2.00
a.
m, October
|
26,
1919.
It
did
not apply in the Virgin
'
Jslandsof
the I], S
:
NAVY PRESS
NEW>.
;
Oectober
27,
1919,
VWashington:
The
Cabinet
aiter
two
hours
session
chis
morning
adjourned
|
untl
four-thirty
this
afternoon
whien
meidbers
again
went
into session.
Pos-
sibiy statement
will
be
issued
later
to-
nigit.
Morning session
devoted
largely
'
to mpendng
strike
of
miners
of
soft
coa!
in
hopes
of finding
seme
basis
of
.
settlement
betweep
ecapital
and
labor,
Def nite programme
to be
placed
beiore
President
Wilson
as
to
Governinent’s
ai-
titu le in strike under
discussion
this
af-
terroon.
Meeting today
callec
by Pres-
ider
t,
and
rail-road director
fiines
was
'
theie
to represent
rail-roads.
Kvening
|
Star
says
that Uabinet members
are said
to
Lold
belies
that
strike
action
was
|
neecssary
in
face
of
grave
indus-rial
|
situution
all over
country.
Just
betfore
.
the
Cabinet
met.
Lewis,
President
of
.
Mine
Workers
sent
word
to
union
throighout
country
that
mine
workers
-
woud
stop
work next Friday
nizht.
_
Washington:
A
threat
o
general
|
strikers
was
made
by officiais oi
Ameri-
|
can
Federation
of
Labour
who
decla:ed
|
that
passage
by
either
branch
of
Con-
|
gres:
of
the
anti-strike
lecislarion
1n
|
rail-oad
bill
would
result
in
general
|
strik» throughout
the country.
|
Co.umbus:
On
receiving
serious
re-
.
ports
of rioting at
Canton
1n
copnection
|
with
steel
strike,
Governor
(ox
this
afternoon
ordered
practically
all
Ohio’s
|
National
Guard
mobilized
at
Akron
ior
|
duty at Canton.
At same
time
sens
tele-
|
gram
to Canton’s
Mayor telling him
he
|
woull
be expected
to bring about
order
|
immediately
or
he
would
be
forced
o
.
show
cause
why he should
not bz
remov-
|
ed from office.
|
Weshington
:
Demands
made
on
Mex-
jcan
sovernment
today
by State
Depari-
'
ment
that it effect the release
of William
'
00.
Jenkins,
Consular
Ageat
at
Pueblo
|
unha
med
even
if Government
had
(o
.
pay
he one hundred
and fifty tnousard
dollars ransom
demanded
by baundits
who
kidnaoped
him.
While this
note
was
on
the w.y aresolution wasintroduced
in Sen-
ate asking
the President
to use all armed
forces
of United
States
in seecuring
the
release
of
Jenkins,
Carranza
forc2s
helieved in eontrol of Puebls.
Washington:
President
Wilsonisslo
v-
ly improzing
in
sirengti,
said
builatin
issued
by
his
three
physicians
today
Admiral
Graysoa,
however,
said
be
did
not approve
of President
being
bothered
withbus ness
cares
and
tnis
was
taken
to mean
that he prohibition enforeement
biil would not be
taken
up with him until
next
week.,
Officials estimate
bili
niay
he allowed
to become
a law automa
ically
October
twenty-eigth
without
his
signa-
ture.
Copenhagen:
Eotire
staff of Troisky;
Bolsheviki
Leader,
has
been
captured
says
Reval
dispateh.
Trotsky
himseli
escapad
by elinging
to
railway
car
and
later fled in an antomobile.
He was fired
upon
by
troops
of
north-western
arimy
but escajed.
{,ondon:
It
Isreported
in
dispatehe:
that Poriaval
had
grauted
United States
a
comeession
in
the
Azores
for
a
Naval
Station.
Auckland,
New
Zealand:
britis:
Dieadnovght
with
Jzilicoe
aboard
has
picked
up two white
men
and
a naduve
on
Christmas
Islanc
who
threatened
land-
ing party
witn revolvers
believing
them
to be
Ge:rmans.
They did not
know
tne
war
was
over
having been
cul off
Trom
outside
world for eignieen
monchs.
s
v
b
L b
S
i
alaidl
Deterara,
Oet.
24in.—the
Hon,
(,
C.ementi
C.
M. C..
Colonial Secretary
ot
this eclony,
left
tor Engiand
yesteriay.
During
his absence
the Hon. 8. U. Eamp-
den King will
aet
as Col.
Secretary.
Barbados,
Cet.
25th.-——A
fire
broke
out
yasterday
and
blazed
fiercely
m
the
bra-
zilian
steamship
‘‘Gua.any’
whiclk
has
been
herc
for some
time.
It
Is
under-
s:ood
that
the
steamer
has
a
caruo
of
gasolene
and kerosene
oil.
tSte
is
sull
burning.
:
Grenada,
Oct.
25th.—An
ordinance
to
provide
for a
tax
on profits
of trades
and
businesses
in
excess
of
pre-war
prefiis
was
pa<scd
by
the
legisiative
Ceuneil
of
Grenada
on
-the
24th
inst.
This
Is
based
cn profits of for y
per
cent
made
during the
past
two years.
New
York,
Oct, 24th.—Unless
the
un-
authorized
strike of longshoremen
a!
this
port
is
celled off by tomorrow
night, the
United Si:tes Shipping
Board will urder
take
to end
the tie-up by loading and
un-
loading its ships with
men
who
will be
quartered
on a vessel
now moored
it one
of the tran;-At'antie piers, according
foan
announenent
by the
Boavd officials nere
tonight.
'he
Government
has made 2 its
last
appeai
to
-he striking longshereaien
to return
to work, the statement
said
the
tiuce
terminates
at 5.30
o'clock
tomor-
vow nirhi.
Poiice protection
for workers
will be requested,
and in
the event
ot Its
being inadequate,
it was said tha'
hig her
authority
would
be appealed
to.
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