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YRAEL
THE
S7i.
CROIX
AVIS
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3.
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author’s
name,
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antee
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P LEGRAMS
BT. CROIX
STATION.
Atlanrtie City,
N. J.
Oect,
24ih
-The
In-
ternational
frade
“onference
closed
to-
night with
the adoption
of
a plan
sos "a
permanent
organization.
The
foreign
Delegates
wiil
leave
on
Saturday
night
fora
tour
of
th-
industrial
centres
of
the
country,
which will carry
them
as far
west
as
St.
Louis
and
Kansas
City.
At
the final session
of
the
Conference.
a
re-
solution
was adopted
recommending
that
all restrictions
on natural
economic
laws
should
be lifted
as
soon
as
the exception-
al circumstaaces
growing
out of the
war
will permit.
Another
reso
ution
recom-
mended
that Nationalists
of each country
should
be accorded
reciprocal recognition
in
toreign
countries
and
a
third
that
Govt. restrictions
on the purchase,
ship-
ment
and
distribution
of
coai
{rom
America
should
be abandoned
as
imprac-
ricable.
The
accomplishments
of
the
Conference,
which
have
for
tive
da’s
been
considering
the financial
and indus-:
trial aeeds
of Great Britain,
France
and
{ftaly
were
summarized
in
a speech
to-
night.
by
Mr,
A.
C.
Bedford
of
New
York,
Cnairman
of the Conference
Ex-
ecutive von mittee
as follows:
*‘Apermanent
commercial organization
has
been
formed through
which the busi-
nessmen
of
the
‘countries
represented
may exchange
information,
and
commu-
ni:ate their views
on problems
of mutual
concern,
and cooperatesin
promoting
in-
telligent
ard
broadminded
commercial
development
in behalf of
the
prosperity
of the whole world, problems of
interna-
tional credit and
the
methods
by
which
the people
of the United States
may
co-
operate
with those of Europe
in
hasten-
ing the reconstruction
ot the whole world,
CHRISTIANSTED,
V. 1.1& 8-
THURSDAY
307
UCIOBER
1919,
have
been
clarified’’
‘‘Saving
will
be
necessary
on the vai’ of all
our people’,
said
Mr.
Bediord' ''ln
order
to
lend
Euro
> the stupendaus
sums
she
needs”’
“This’’. he
added,
"‘Cannot
be
accom-
plished
by
turn oil
and
strife
at home.
Indusirial
- trife
means
not only
no
sav-
ings
for
Kurope,
it
means
disaster
for
ourselves
and
to
everyone
of us.
For-
mationsof large
cooperations
to
finance
foreign trade,
sucu
ds
these
proposed
in
the Kdge Bill, now before Congress,
were
recommended
in
a report
later
adopted,
submitted
by
the
American
Commitiee
on
ecredit
and
Fingnce
speedy
caact
ment of the
Edge 811
was
urged.
[lhe
46
sub-committees
1
the
Conterence
which
have taken 'l’%the
detailed requirs-
ments
of
the foreig®
countries,
will con-
tinue
theic
work in cooperation
with
thg
permanent
organization.
Three
thou
sand
delegates
weré
registered
for
the
sessions,
sixty of 'vzmm
were
from
Eu-
ropean- counfries.
Hepresentatives
from
the
Kolehak
Govt.
in Russia,
Portugal,
Sweden,
and
South,
American
business
organizations
also conferred
with
the
American
Committeee
but took
no active
part in the conference.
Washington,
Oect.®26th.—Holding
the
impending coal strike
to be
not
only
un-
justified
but
also
unlawfu!,
President
Wilson
in
a
statement
issued
tonicht
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250
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Lion’s Claw.
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3.
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TEREOR
EPISODE i
‘4
WOMAN'S SCREAM.
COMIC;
CUMIC.
Marry
My
Wife.
~
“Marry
My
Wife,
e
RS
MORAN
iteser
...
-
0. MIGNOM ANDERSON.
e
lee and Lucy have
Leen married
nearly
a year,
but—,
ADMISSION,.
ADULTS
&+
Reserved
Seats
40
cents,
General
Entrance
20
cents.
CHILDREY —Reserved
Seats
20
cents,
General
Entrance
10
cents,
.
with the
support
of
his
entire
cabinet,
.
called
upon
the
coal
miners
of the nation,
'
both
union
officers and
members,
to
re-
|
scind
the strike order, effective
on
Nov-
|
ember
Ist
The
President
declined
to
|
enterinto
the
merits
of
the
eontroversy
|
between
the mirers
and
operators,
bui
emphaiically
declared
that
the®strike,
|
whicl he characterized
as
the:
most
‘tajp-
reaching proposed
in the nation’s history,
-
torestrict production
and
distribution
of
\all necesseries
of life had apparently been
|
ordered
withouta
vote
of the
inaividual
miners
concerned
for
this
reason,
the
.
President
served
definite
notice
‘‘that
|
the
law
will
be
enforeced,
and
that
|
means
will
be
found
to
protect
the
1
interests
of
the
nation
in
any
emer
|
gency
that
may
arise
out
of
this
un-
|-
happy
business.””
The
Presfdent
state-
ment
was
issued
after
his
cabinet
had
gone
over the entire situation
with Secre-
|.
tary
Wilson
of
the
Labour Department,
l
whose
efforts
to bring miners
and
opera
i
tors
together
in negotiations
had failed.
-
The Cabinet,
with only Secretary Lansing
.
detained
at home by illness missing,
met
|
in tue morning and again
tonight.
t
London,
Oct.
26th.
Mr.
Bonar
Law
.
has
been
elected
Lord Rector of Glasgow
'
University by
1,073 votes.
Professor
Gil-
.
bert Murray (!iberal)
736 votes
and the
Hon. Bertrand
Russer
(Soeialist)
K 0 votes.