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EXECUTIVE ORDER
No. 23.
BE IT KNOWN:
That.,
in
pursuance'
of
the
resolution
adoped
by the
Colonial
Courcil
for
St.
Croix
17 October,
1921, which reads
as
“ follows:
:
“"BE IT RESOLVED:
That
this legislative
body,
viewing with
deep
concern
the
serious
fconomic
situation
confronting
this
island
a.
present,
request
the
(Governor
to appoint
a select
commis
sion
to
investigate
and
endeavor
to
mediate
the
present
agricultural
dis-
pute between
employer and employee.”’
I,
Sumner
E.
W. Kittelle,
Governor
of
the Virgin Islands
of the United
States,
who
have.,
with
sympathy
and
grave
solicitude,
learned
of the
éonditions
rul-
ing
in St. Croix and
who
would be
glad
to furnish
any kind of
assistance
which
would
centribute
towardsa
reasonable,
just and satisfactory
soiution of the
ques-
tion,
which
might
be
aecceptable
to
all
perties,
do
hereby
appoint
@.
C.
Tim-
mons,
Esq.,
Chairman,
and
Messrs.
Axel
Bolst,
Dr.
J.
B
Thompson,
Robert
Skeoch,
John
1.. Curry,
Joseph
Alexan-
der
and C. R. T. Brow.
associate
mem-
bers
of a Commission
to investigate
and
endeavor
to
mediate
the
present
agri-
cultural
dispute existing
in the island
of
St.
Croix between
emplover
and
em
ployee.
That the Commission
shall
convene
at
(Government
House,
Christiansted,
St.
Croix,
Thursday;
3
November,
1921,
or
as
soon
thereafter
as practicable;
That
the Chairman
and
the
Commis-
*
sion
are iereby empowered
to carry
out
all investigations
and
inspections
which
may be
necessary
or required
to
comply
with the request
of the Coloniai
Council
or St. Croix:
That,
in
order
to
facilitate
its
work,
the
Commission
is
furt
iler
empowered
to summon
witnesses,
administer
oaths.
take
sworn
declarations
and
to
require
the
production
and
presentation
for
examination
of
suach
books,
records
and
other
papers
as
may
be
necessary
in
carrying
out its investigations:
That
the’ provisions of
the
St.
Croix
Code
relative
to
contempts
of
cou:t
are
kereby
made
zpplicable.
in all
respects,
to
the
proceedings
of
the
Commission.
and the Commission
may
.ppear
and
be
heard
in
prosecutions
for
violations
or
contempts
of its
owers:
That
the Commission
is authcorized
to
employ such
technical
advisory
expeiis.
clerical
and other
assistance
as
may
be
necessary;
i
That,
upon
conecluding
its
hearings,
said
Commission
shall
make
to the
Gov-
ernor
such
report
and
recommendations
as
in
its judgment
will bring
about
or
tend
to
bring
about
an
adjustment
or
amelioration
of the present
situation:
That
it
1s
the
Gowvernment’s
earnest
desire
that all
persons
render
such
as-
sistance
and hearty cooperati-n
as
may
be in their power
to the end
that
success
may attend
the work of the Commission.
Witness
my Hand and
the Seal of
the
Government
of the Virgin Islands
cf the
United
States,
this first
day of
Novem-
bar,
A. D.
1921.
SUMNER E.
W. KITTELLE,
.
Governor.
[SEAL]
SERVICE IN THE LUTHERAN
CHURCH.
The Rev.
J.
P.
Christiansen
Pastor
of
the
St.
Thomas
Lutheran
Church
will
preach
at
the
eleven
o’clock service
in
the
Christiansted
Lutheran
Church
and
assist
inthe administ
"ation
of the
Holy
Communion.
At the evening service Rev.
Christiansen
will preach
at Frederiksted
LOCAL.
The
Christiansted
Post
Office is
now
sporting
a
sign
reading
'‘Post
Office,
Christiansted,
V,
I’’.
The
Fostmaster
tells
us that this is in compliance
with the
requirements
of a lease
for the quarters,
it being
the
desire
of
the
Postmaster-
General
that all post
offices be provided
with signs
as
a guide to strangers.
The S.
S.
'"Guiana’’ is
expected
to sail
from New York
on Thursday
Nov. 10th.
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERT.
We have been
informed
that the Chris-
tiansted
Native
Brass
Band
will zivea
concert
on the Wharf
to-morrow evening.
;
TELEGRAMS.
.
;
ST. CROIX STATION.
Budapest,
Oect. = 3lsi.—Ex-Emperor
Charles
has again
refused
to
sign
his
abdication
to
the
Govt.
plenipotertaries
who went to Tihany,
where
Charles
was
interned.
What
is de:lared
to
be
an
ul=
timatum
was
delivered
yesterday
to the
Hungarian
Govt
by
representatives
of
Great Britain,
France,
and
Italy,
in be-
half
of
the
Entente,
demsznding
that
Charles
be handed
over
to th2 Command-
er of
the British
squadron,
and
the
im-
mediate
proclamation
of his
depesition
as King.
Paris,
Oect.
31st
—Miss
Lines of
Eng-
land
yesterday
established
a
worlds
re-
cord for
women
by
running
one
hundred
yards
in
11 3/5
seconds.
Miss
Bleard,
of France,
ran
the
1,000
metres
in
3
minutes
17 3/5 seconds.
lhe events
were
in
connection
with
a
meeting
between
British
and
French
women athletes
at
the Pershing
stadium.
Havana,
Oct.
31st—Threats
against
Major General
Crowder,
and
the United
States
legation in Havana
are contained
in proclamations
distributed
here
in
con-
nection
with
the
Sacco
Vanzetti
case.
The posters
denounce
General
Crowder
as
a
"‘Representative
of
the
United
States
Bourgecise’””
and
threaten
the
“*dagger of vengeance’” against
him.
Moscow.,
Oect.
38lst—Paper
money
reaching
the enormous
total of 5,750,000
000.000
rubles
has
been
issued
by
the
Soviet
Govt.
the
latest
output
being
750,000,000,000
rubles
in new
money
for
the opening
of
the national
bank.
The
city
Soviet haa
published
an
order
per-
m'tting newspapers
to publish advertise-
ments
which
have
been
absent
from the
columns
of journals here for four
vears.
Advertisements
have been
taxed heavily.
Buenos
Aires, Oct.
3lst.-
A despatch
to ‘‘Lanacion’” from
Asuncion
says
that
President
Gondra
of Paraguay
hes
hand-
ed
his
resignation
to
Dr.
Felix
Paiova
t_he
Vice
President,
owing
to
a revolu-
tionary movement
by the followers ~f ex-
President
Shaerer.
The
revolutionists
are reported
to
have
the
support
of all
the troops
in the capital
and country
dis-
triets.
_Caljcutt,
India
Oct.
31st.—Companies
of
military police
prnceeding
to
a spot
near
Vayakad,
where
depredations
had
been
reported
were
attacked
tonight by