BY THE
GOVERNOR
OF
THE
VIRGIN
JSLANDS
OF
THE
UNITED
STATES.
BY
virtue of
the authority
vested
in
me,
I
do
hereby
set
apart
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
12,
1924,
|
and
proclaim
it
a
public
holiday
within
the
Municipalitr
of
Saint
Croix, Virgin
Islands
« £ the United
States
for the purpose
of observing
LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY.
PHILIP WILLIAMS,
FOrernor.
Government
House,
Saint
Thomas,
February
1,
1924,
BY request
of Government
a meeting of
the
Colonial Councils
of
St.
Thomas
and
St.
John,
and
St, Croix
assembled
1n joint session
will
be heid
on
FEBRU-
ARY Tth.,
1924 in the Council
Hall
at St.
!
Croix.
.
1.
Colonial
Council
Bill No.
17.
Fourth
Council,
First
Session,
19273-
1924,
Introduction
of
draft
of
resolition
embodving
recommendations
to bet-
ter
the
cconomic
condition
1n
the
Virgin Islands.
forwacded by the Municipal Com-
mittee
of St.
Urelx
farwarded
by the #aniecipal
Com-
mittee
of
St.
thomas
and
DL
John.
|
Colonial
Council Office, St.
Croix,
leb-
ruary
4,
1924.
ROBT.
1..
MERWIN,
Chairman,
FLC A
|
The
s.
s.
"‘Surinam’™
will not
call
at
Frederiksted
¢n her way north.
|
The
U. 8.
S.
'Swan’’
was piloted
into
|
this
harbor by Capt,
C.
F.
Mgiler
at
8
o’clock last
nizht the ship’s
searchlichts
playing
oo
tie channel
und
town.
She
I:ft again
this
morning at 6 30,
‘
There
were
hearings
by
the
Federal
|
Commission
yester
lav and
last
evening.
wo
far
Mr.
Morris
Navis
was
the only
|
person
on the stand
last
nizht.
|
The
sloop
Mizpah
will
be
dispatched
ST
Ly x
Y1
frem
here
this afternoon
with the weekly
St.
Thomas
mail.
~
The
*‘Grebe’’ rveturned
to St.
Thowmas
yesterday
afternoon
carrying
some
mails.
CORREZTION
Avis Feb.
4,
1924.
I'em referring
to hydroplanes:
second
sentence
1s corcected
to read
“'Yesterday
there
were (instead
of was) some
Interest-
ing performances’’
etce.
TELEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIX STATION.
Washinoton,
Jan.
31st.——The
move
to
oust
Seeratary
of the Navy, Denby, from
the United
States
Cabinet
has
reached
a
point
where
parsons
close
to the
Presi-
dent
have niainly intimated
to
Secretary
D-nby
that
he
should
resign
and
that his
presence
in the
Cabinet
is
no longer
de-
gired.
The
feehnyg
here
today
is ihat
he
is
sure
to he torced
out.
Balief
coantin-
ues
to
grow
that
Attorney-Geoeral
Dougherty
will also
resign.
Both
men
have
been
under
fire in
connection
with
the investigation
into
the leasing of
the
Goverrment
naval
oil
reserves,
Adopt-
unanimous'y
the
Walsh
resolution
for
the annullment
oo
leases
of naval oil
re-
serves
in Wyoming
and
California,
the
Senate
today plurged
into
a bitter
fight
over
the Robinson
resolution
asking
for
the
immediate
resignation
of
the
Secre-
tary
of
the
Navy,
Denby,
who
sizned
the
lease
of
the
oillands
to
Harry
Sin
Ciair and .
L.
Dobeny.
The
Walsh
ve-
solution
was
carried
as presented
by the
sSenate
without moditieation
of language.
It
eharges
that
the
lease
of
the
navai
reserves
by former
Sceretary
of the
In-
tevior.
A.
B,
Fall,
was
inade
without
au-
thority and
contrary
to
lav,
Meanwnile
Reeretary
Deonby,continues
to stand
pat
on
biis
deciaration
that
he
would
not
resigo,
A
new
development
which
arose
in
the
situztion
today
was
the issuing of a
sub-
poenain
for
K£.
L.
Dobeny,
¢l
mag
nate.
Wwhao
is
to app
ar before
the
Sengte
[nvestigating
Committee
tomoriov.
The
subpoenain
insuring
Ixabeny’s ap-arance
was
sent
out after
Senator
Reed,
Demo-
erat,
Misouri.
had
demanded
that
he
be
subjected
to a searching
examination
"'as
to
whether
he advanced
money
to
other
puolic
officials
aside
from
Fall,
Uader
a resolution
introducsd
Ity
the
House
of
Representatives
Harry
¥. Sin Clair,
now
in France,
would
be requested
to
retuen
here
and
explain
to Congress
and
the
American
publie the $25,000
loan
to
ex-
Soeretary
Fall,
Fail
was
today eonfined
(0
118 sick
rosm,
A medieal
ecommission
is expected
te
repart
tomorrow
to
the
Senate
as
to wherher
bis
condition
wiil
parmit
of his being examinad.
President
Coohidee
was in
conference
today
with
various
oticials
and
gave consideratioa
to
the
qualifications
of the
eounsel
he
has
selected
to prosecute
the
oil lease
cases,
Losdon,
reb.
Ist’ —A: already
in.wmat
ed,
the
Government’s
appointments
(o
the Roval
Household
wili be left
practi-
cally
to
His
Majesty.
The
Daily Mail,
today
savs
ti at Mr. Mc Donald
holds that
these
appoiniments
are largely ornament-
al and
thar
the Premier
is likely
to con-
sult
the Kinu’s wishes
to
the
matter.
It
i« probabie
that three Peers
will be found
willing
to act as
whips
for
the
Labour
Party
in the
House
of Lords.
The
names
of Lord Ki nberley and
Barl De La Warr
are
mentiored
in
this conrection.
London,
Feb.
Ist.—The
members
of
the Govornment
are
beginning
1o show
that they
are
at
homea
in their new daties
aad
they have
besun
to
use
the axein
the
carrviag
out
of anticipated
econo
mies.
[he first biz
cut in
expenditures
announezd
is
in
conne~tion
with
the
officas
at White Hil,
where
a redaction
is being
maide
in
tne
temporary
staifs.
A months
notice
has
been
given
to 14)
men
at
the
Admiralty
and
700
men
in
the
pensicns
department
have
received
wiarring
that
their
services
are
about
to
be dispensed
with.
In the Paymaster
General’s
¢ {fice 30
temporary
elerks
wiil
have
to le:ve
their
posis
with.o
a week.
Frederick
Owen
RQoberts,
Minisier
of
Persions.
has
sent
a
message
to
the
staff
of
the
department,
in
which
he
lays
stress
on
the
importancz
of d al-
ing patiently and
racttfuily with all
app
i-
cants
for
pensions.
The
Minister
adds
that
the
staff
must
not
forges,
in
giv-
ing decisions
on
claims,
that
the
bene-
fit
of
the
doubt.:
i
Ihére
1
any
doubt,
must
be given
to the applicant.
London,
Feb.
Ist—Something
iik>
a
“hands
off the
navv’’ campaizn
1s
run-
ning in
the
ne
vspapoers
1a
consequenc?
of veports
that Philip Snowden,
Chanesl-
lor of the
exchequer,
contemplatea
a
re-
duction
of 5.00,000
pounds
in the
budget
estimates
ol
53,000,000
pounds.
Thne
(Conservative
newspapers
not missing
an
opporiunity
to
make
tne
people’s
hair
stand
on end
by picturing
the
new Miniv=-
ters
as
economizing
at
the
expens»
of
their traditional
bulwark.
As fur
as
ean
be ascertained,
however,
the
cui
inthe
naval
estimates,
it any
i= ¢mtempPited
is
not likelv to
»=
very
drastic.
IPne
Daily
Herald
the
L beurite
newspaper,
savs
the
reduciion
wiil
not
b>
more
than 2,
200,000
pounds.
‘The army
1s said
to be
threatened
witk
acurtatlment
of I's
ex-
pense
aceount.
Fur hermore,
aceording
to the Daily Mail.the Government
has
de-
cided
upon
an additisnal
economy
in
the
dismissal
of one thousand
temporarily
em-
vloyed
eivil
servants,
Whatever
can
be
saved
by these
vartous
eunis
is destined,
it the reporis
are
uceurate.
1o
be applied
toward
a
ceauction
or
abobtion
of
the
duties
on svgar
and
tea
one
of the {abour
party’s
most cherizned
purposes.
Moscow, I'eb Isr--A n.ovement
to cano-
nize thejla:
2 Nikolar Lenine as a Bolshevik
Saint is gaining strength.
As
a further
tribute to ~he dead
Premier
the newspa-
per
“‘Labour’” in
Moscow the
organ
of
tue Communist
Party
in this 'y,
pro-