for
the
4th
Ordinary
Meeting of
the
Colonial Council for St.
Croix,
MONDAY, February
14,
1921,
at
ONE O’CLOCK P.a/l.
1.
Colonial Council Bill No. 53.
Introduction
of
and
Ist
Discussion
on
Colonial Council Bil: No. 53,
Ad-
ditional
Money
Bill introduced
by
Government
granting
the
Depart-
ment
of Education
the
sum of Fres.
923 .812.00
for transfer
of the
Fred-
eriksted
High
School and
a
further
sum
of Fres.
312.50
for
the
re-im-
bursement
of
Theodore
Roosevelt
Grammar
School for over
payments
of rent.
"
2.
Colonial Council Bill No. 54.
‘
Introduction
of
and
Ist
Discussion
|
on
Colonial
Council
Bill
No.
54,
|
Draft of an Ordinance
introduced
hy
Ist Member for
Christiansted
Coun-
try District
(Stakemann)
repealing
|
an Act passed
by the Colonial
Coun-
|
cil and approved
by
the Governor
or
June
20th
1918.
Colonial
Couneil
Office,
St.
Croix,
February
7,
1921.
|
ROBT. L. MERWIN,
i
Chairman.
j
|
LOCAL.
|
The
show
at
the
theatre
last
night
|
was'as
forecasta good
one,
ard
judg-
|
ing by
the
pleased
faces
all around,
ev-
|
erybody
was satisfied.
The plan
to keep
|
the
gate closed
during intermission
did
|
not
work,
the
people
having
clamored
for
access
to
the
street
which
was
f
gained
at
the
instance
~f
the
policé.
|
It
is
to
be
hoped
that
there
will not
|
arise
any
further
wrangling
over
this
!
matter,
and
that
away
will be found
to
I
meet
the
people’s
wishes
without
pre-
|
judice
to
thz
interests
of
the
theatre.
|
|
The .court yesterday
fined leading
mer-
:
chants
here
for illicit traffic in bay
rum.
The highest
penalty
was SSO.
For
some
|
time rumors
of this bootlegging
business |
have
been
in
circulation.
and
events
|
indicate
that
the
people
are
not
the
'
prohibitionists
they were
represented
to
|
he,
however
undesirable
this is
for
the |
welfare of the communitv,
a fact deplored |
by the
editor
of this paper
whose
posi-
|
tion in the liquor questiop
is well known.
|
The court
last week also
imposed fines
in
the
cases
of
hucksters
found
to
have
|
been
importing
goods
and
retailing
same,—mostly
cigars.
To CORRESPONDENT:
—Mr. E.
Svend-
sen
your
letter
will
;be
published
to-
morrow.
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Ly
l{
b\
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2\
A\
V
i
Frederiksted,
Sth Feb.
The
British
s.
s. *‘Guiana’’ ‘rom New
York
via St.
Thomas
arrived
here
at
6
p.
m. vesterday
with '1.870
vackages
for
Fredariksted
an® 842 packages
for Chris-
tiansted
and
sailed
for
Windward
at
90
Feb.
Tth.
The
American
szhnr.
“Ppeahontas’’
arrived
on
Saturday
at 9.30 p m with
mail and general
cargo
from Porto
Rieo.
The
American
sloop
‘‘Carib”’ arrived
at 8 o’clock this
morning
with
a
load 0
gasoline.
TELEGRAM -.
:
ST. CROIX STATION.
Washington,
Feb.
2nd
—A
warniog
against
pacificism
anl unpreparedness
wasgiven
in the House
Naval Commi
(ee
today by General
Pershing
wvho appearad
to
discuss
world
disarmaments.
Waile
expressing
approvai
of th= proposal
for
a
worid
disarmam=ni
eonferance,
he
said
the United
S-ates
should
go
aphead
with its present
navy
programme
until a
definite
agrzement
had been
reachad
by
at
least
five
great
world
nations.
We
should
steer
clear
of drifting into
a
pacifist state
of
mind simply b2cause
we
are
discussing
this
subject,
General
Pershing
asserted.
“‘None
of us
vani
war.
but
we
d»o not
want
to
b 2 caught
unprepared
it war
comes.
The
nations
of
the
world
know
that
the
economic
position
of the
United
States
wouald
en-
able
it to outstrip
the
world in
military
preparations,
if it
30 desived
and
tazre-
fore they woull r2aliz:
raz2 sincarity of a
move
for ‘disarmament
if
initiated
Dby
this
count
y
and
would
subscr
b 2 ©
1t
madly.
[
don’t believe
zermanv
waat
anothar
war’>.
He gav: it as
ais vpinidn
that
th2 Pywaes
inta2
Leayu»
of
Na
tions
would
not
go
ahead
with any
dis-
arman2at
36203
420:33a330°:d
caal
a2
United States
would
take
similiar action.
We know
that America
is not militariste
as
she
does
not
wish t) expand
at
the
expense
nf other
nations,
but
she
has
no
designs
on
other
countries,
bat
the
other
nations
may
not believe
that.
In
concluding,
the
witness
said that it
was
his
belief
that
deveiopments
in
aerial
warfare
will
have
agreat
effect
on
(he
military
and
naval
establishments
of
the future.
Dublin.
Feb.
3rd.—Four
men
are
dead
as
the result
of an ambush
of a squad
of
quxiliary
police-at
Ballinalee
nzar
here
yesterday,
two of
the
wounded
having
died
late
last dight.
Details
of
the
at-
tack
have
not
yet
been
reczived
here,
but it
is known
that
one of the twe
mo-
tor
lorries
was
blown
up
by
a mine
set
in the road.
It is said
that
this
was
the
firsc
time such
a method
of
attack
had
been
used against
the
Crown
forces
in
Ireland.
[hree
lorvies
loaded
with
po-
licemen
were attacked
last
night, several
bombs
were thrown
at
them.
[l'wo offie-
ers
on board returned
the fire, two civili-
ans
being
wounded.
A
eonstable
in
plain
clothes
who
was
cy’ling
aionwr
Trinity Street
was
shot
dead during p 2
evening.
An attempt
t>
ambush
thre:
lorries
was made
in Bishop
Street
eariy
last
night.
Four
bombs
were
thrown,
but
none
of
the
tryops
in
th2
lovries
were injured,
'
Skibberezn
County,
Cork.
Fab
3rd.
Memb:ors
of
a
party.
said
to
numbaer
several
hundred
Sinn
Feiners,
weare
ki'led
and s:veral
others
woundad
in
an
attack
last night
upon
a
detachment
of
fifteen police b>twe
n
Burgada
and Ross
Carbery according
to reporrs
from polic:
souress
reaching
here
this morning.
['he
attacking
party
was
bea‘en
off after
2
fierce
fight,
abandoninz
a
quantity
of
ammunition.
The
police
sustained
o
casualties.
Birmingham
veby
3rd.—M:.
‘Austen
Chamberlain
in
a
speech
h:r>
today
announced
that
the
profits rax
in
Great
Brita'n
would
pe
withlravn.
Not
o,
ly
would
this
be
abolished,
he
added,
but
no
new
tax
proposed
to replage
it
and
no
new
taxes
would
b>
proposed
for
the
coming
financial
vear.
There
might be
new
duties
in
conn=ziion
vith
‘“‘tumped’’
goods
or
depreeia
21
oX-
change.
but ther2
would be
no
n2w~
tax-
es
on
business,
the
Chancellor
d clarad.
Mr. Chamberlain.
who
was
speaking
to his constituents,
d-onied
that the
Gov-
eroment
had
anv
intention
to
promote
and
rush
an
electio~
on
a
popular
bud-
get
None
of
tha
ministers
had
any
such
idea,
has
said,
and
if
the
Govt
should
wish
to appeal
to the
couniry it
would
not
be
on
finance
thar
they wouli
find an
opporiunity for
means
for grad-
fying that
wish.
With
reference
ro
the
abolition
of
the
excess
profits tax,
Mr.
Chiamberlain
said
that all
business,
ex-
cept
those
begun
since
the
war,
wili
pay
the tax for
a period
of seven
ysars,
dating
from
their
first
accountancy
period.
But for all
n2w
businesses
the
tax
ceases
from
Decemb=r
31st
last.
Before
makine
the
announcement
the
Chancellor explained
that
he
was
taking
an
unusual
ecours2
in announcing
Budget
intentions
in
aldvance
and
nothing
but
the
present
abnormal
conditions
would
justity such
a
course.
The
war had
left
Britain
a debt r nation,
but
the
coun:ry
has
made
progiess
and
transformed
ihe
daficit into a
balance
on
the
vight
side
and
had
2ven
begun
tc
redeem
its
obil-
gations
oward
foreign
nations.
The
excess
profits tax,
he said,
had
many
de-
fects.
It tended
to
encourage
extrava-
ganey
and discourage
enterprise,
but
the
conditions
which
made
it
necessary
h
d
changed.
and
ils renewai
was
no
longer
necessary.
Dublin,
Feby.
3rd.
- Nine
policemen
were
Kkilled
and
two
wounded
today,
when
two lorries ran
into
an ambuseade
hetween
Orunkeen
and
New
Pallas,
County Limerick,
Dublin
Castie
announe-
ed tonight that another
ambuscade
to
K
place
this
afternoon
near
Ballinhassig,