'
EDITORIAL.
Tomorrow
the
eleetion
of a candidate
to fill
the
vacant
secat
for
Frederiksted
country
district wil
be
opened
at
1 p.
m.
Tnasmuch
as the whole
councii
1s
only as
g rong
or as capable
as
the
able
minded
men
constituting
it,
1t is to be hoped
that
t9e election
will
result
in increasing
the
efficiency of the council
by placing there
a
man
who
will
do
justice
to his
trust
Personal
feelings
should
not
enter into
the selection
of a
member
for
the
coun-
¢il nor into objections
against
competent
men
who may fail
to pleaze
each
individ-
ual in every
wav.
As
a
matter
of
fact
it shouid
be
more
a
question
ot waether
ahility is present
in the
chosen
candidate
and
pot
whether
he
will use
that ability
right as
seews
to be
the
present
trend.
It i 3 better
to have
a man
who
18 conver-
sant
with
thz
problems
affecting
the
istancd’s
welfare
than
one
who has
to b 2
told
how
to
vote
by
others
who
Ima-
gina they
know
all
sbout
it
nl
in
re-
a
.y accompiish
little
them:e've:,
It
is
our
opinion
that
Mr.
W.
H.
lFleming
meets
the
need
in
many
senses
at this
time,
and
it is
to be hop:d
that
a rational
clectorate
wiil elect bim. As far as family
connections
go
in
'ne
council
whica
are
among
the
slicht
objections
rais-
ed
againstd
Mr.
KFleming,
1t
appears
that
it
would
b»
.awfully
difficult
to
transact
any
business
at
all if we
scru-
led
over and
had
to dive down into
the
genealogy of everybody
before
we
could
deal
with
somecne.
Many
friends
are
more clannish
than
r2lations
and we know
that
many
men
in
the
council
at
this
very time are blamed
by the so-called
pro-
gressive
party for siding with tamily atti-
tudes.
If strangers
can
act like relatives,
relatives
may
act like
strangers,
or may
act fairly at
least.
It is a bad practice
to
make
a suit for
a man before
he
has
been
measured;
it
is
likely to
prove
a misfit.
See
next page
for sample
veling
ticket
as
same
should
appear
when
deposited
in
the ballot box
tomorrow.
LOCA®,
The
s.
s,
''Parima’’
from
New
York
is
due
at Frederiksted
today
atll
p. ~
having 37 bags
of mail and
597 packages
We
have information
that the saiiings
of the
Romanita
in
the mail
service
be-
tween Porto
Rico and
the Virgin Islands
will be maintained
throuzh
the month of
Septembar
after
which
the
new
contraet
goes
into effect.
Fo_tbali.
On
the Holger Danske
Ground
Sunday
afternoon
at 4.30 o’clock,
an inter-mixed
match
will be played
between
members
of the Dreadnought
Football
Club,
*'Star-
ST UL
%
VlO
light”>
and
‘“‘Lincolnpites’”’.
Names
of
players
will appear
;-
tomoirow’s
issue
of this paper.—
Com.,
/
St. Thomnas
News
Assistant
Director
of
Edu ation
Otoo
Me Donald,
who
was
recently
appointed
for
the
Virxin
Islands
arrvived
here
on
the
s.
s. Bridgetown.
He is from Seattle,
Washington
and
is
a
graduate
of
the
University of Washington,
Miss
Maud Gumbs
was
apoainted
for
Lincoln and
Miass Ashtor
or Washington
Schools
today,
«s teache.
Captain
Arthur
Lindborg, Director
of
Edueation.
is quietly but
steadily
work-
ing for the results
in the schools.
Teach-
ers
an.
vupils would do well
to cooperate,
St
Thoma
bil Notes,
Sept.
Isi.
TELEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIX STATION.
Forest
Hills,
New York,
Sept
3rd.
Tae
United
States
sen-ed
a clein
sweep
today in the final two
sinzles
matehes
of
the Davis Clp challenge
round,
finishing
the
international
championship
seri=s
with 2 margin of four
ames
o one
over
the Australian
challengers.
After Joun-
N 0 had
elineh the cup by routing Hawkes
in the first
mateh 606 26
1,
Tiiden
con-
queréd
‘Anlorsen
62
63
16
75
in
a
match
filled with both briiliant and
nedio-
cre playine.
Rome,
Sept.
3rd —Premier
Massolini,
it
is understood,
is ready
to withdraw
the
{ia.lan
delecates
from the
Goneva
con-
ference
if
his
viewpoint
concerning
the
conflict witn
Greece
is
not shared
by the
League
of Nations,
Athens.
Sept
3rd.
—A violent
demons-
tration against i:aly
took place today,
af-
ter solemn
funeral services
had
been
held
in
the Catholic cathedral
for the
victims
of the Corfu bombardment.
Paris,
Sept.
3rd.—News
was
raceivd
here
this afternoon
that the
Italian
re-
presentatives
had
informed
the
council
of
the League
of
Nations that [taly
re-
fused
to
aceept
the
League’s
jurisdic-
tion
in the
Greco
Italian
dispute.
Thnis
was
taken
here
as
disposinz
of
the
proposition
for
the Lrague
iatervention,
and
it is
thouzht
highly
probable
that
a
direct
meetingof Greek
ard
Italian
re-
presentatives
wiil be
held
within
a
day
or
two,
probable
at
Athens.
Informa-
tinon
received
at
the Foreizgn
Offica
from
Greece
indicates
a desire
on
the part
of
the
Athens
Govermment
*o talk
directly
with Italy and
a
disineiination
to
insist
upon action
by the Leazue.
It is declared
in
diplomatic
circies
that
the
League
Council.
has
already
set
a
precadent
against
intervention
in a case
which is be-
fore the Ambassadors’
Council.,
It is re-
called
that
wben
Albania
deman
led
[League intervention
to prevent
encroach-
ments
upon
her territory by
Juzo S'avia
the
league Cancil decided
It coull
not
rake
up
the matter
so
long as it
was
in
the hands
of the Ambassalors,
London,
Sept.
3rd.—ltaly.is
holding
Corfiy
which
commands
the
Adriatic,
as
a ‘&edge for Greek
reparations
and
is
waiting grimly for Greece
to comply
with
her ultimatum.
Grz2ece
having appealed
to the Leazue
of
Nations
is also
waiting
and
lizly thus
far has
ignored
the
pro-
test
of
the
Council
of
Ambassadors
against
her action
1o seizing Corfu
The
Greek
Legation
here
made
publie
the
text
of the
Greek reply
to
the Ambassa-
dors’
Council
pronosing
the
appointment
by .the Couneil of a
commission
consis!-
iaog of three
members
for
an inquiry into
all the circums
ances
of the Janina
erima
and
declaring
readiness,
if
Greece
i
3
found in any
way
respopsible,
to
grant
aill reparatiens
decided
upon
Dy
such
a
commission.
The reply requests
the
in-
tervention
of the Council with Italy.
T'he
prospecis
of an early settlement
are
not
improved.
The Itahan
Governmcont
takes
the s*and that it did not
sign
the
treaty
of 1864
which
confirmed
the
noutrality
of Corfu and
is
therefore
not
bonnl
by
the
treaty.
Further
Premier
Missolini
has
instructed
the Itulian reprosentatives
at
Geneva
to
abstain
from
further
dis-
cussion
of the affair.
and
the
o ly
hopoe-
ful aspeet
is
that
ftaly
seems
disposed
to have
the Court of
Internatioval
Just-
ice
pronounce
on
the
Lerague’s
compe
tency
‘o deai
with such
an
iaternational
dispute.
‘T'he Bri ish Government
is siill
firmly supporting
the view that
the
dis-
pute
is eminently
one
for the
Leazue
of
Nations and regards
the
whole
question
as
sub judige. pending
the
[eacue’s
de-
cision.
In
the
event
of
the
Lleague
Council abstaining
from
irtervention,
it
is stated
that the Scandinavian
delegates
are
resolved
to
withdraw
from
the
League,
as
did Argentine
in 192).
Great
despondency
prevails
in
Athens,
wiere
the fact that
Italy
was
able
so
quickly
to land
15,000
xen in Corfu is eonsidared
proof of Mussolini’s determination.
The
oceupation
ol "Coriu
seems
to
bz
com-
plete and
the
Italians
have
thorourhly
organized
tho
place
as
though
for
a
long stay.
San
Franciseo,
Sept.
3rd.—Every
re-
port received
from Japan
throughout
the
day
either
confirme=d
or
increased
pre-
vious estimates
of the
havoe
wrouaght
in
dz2ath
and destruection
by
the
quadruple
catastrophe
whien
has
befallen
the
cen-
tral eastern
section
of Kondo,
largest
of
the Islands
of the Japanese
Empire.
Be-
gwnning
at
noon
on
Saturday
with
a
series
of earthquakes,
which
raz2d
most
of the city of
Uokio and large
sections
of
Yokohama and other eities
in the vicinity
of the
disaster,
was
continued
by
fires
which
broke
out
in
scores
of
places.
Tidal
waves:
followed
and
then
came
a
typhoon
adding
a
fina
touch
to whatgs
probably
the grearest
calamity in moder
histery.
A composite
of reports
depic:s
Tokio and
Yokohama
as
shattered
wild-
ernesses
of mortar,
bricks,
2ud
stones.