gion
houses
caused
early
advances
of
9to
16
poiacs.
lU'nare
were
changas
in
reficed
suoar,
which
is guoted
at 6 cents
for
fine
grauulated.
he
demand
was
less
active.
Refined futures
were
nomi-
nal.
Washington,
Aug.
Ist.-—Preparations
for
the relief of starving
Russian
chil-
dren
upon
the
reicase
of
United
States
prisoners
beld
by
the
Soviet
Govern-
ment,
was
ordered
begun
today
by
Secretary
doover
as
Chairman
of Ameri-
can
relief,
on
receipt
of
a
cable
from
Maxim
Cotky™trans.nitting
the
Sovici
authorities
unconditional
acceptance
of
his offer of
aid.
Mr. Hoover
instructed
~
Mr.
Waiter
Lynar
Brown
at
L.ondon,
-
Eurorean
director of the relief
adminis
.
tration,
to procead
to Riga
to
aegotiate
witii the raprasantarives
conczraing
do-
E
of suppiy;:
g fuod.
Mr. Browa
was
ca..lonad,
however,
that
negotiations
|
should
oaly be
begun
after
the
United
{
Stat-s
prisoners
nave
been
deliveired
out
of
Russia,
as
demanded
by
the
State
Depar:
neat.
Sace23sfui
conclusions,
of
. the
negotiations
however
he said
would
|
pormit
pronpt
shipment
of
food
from
| Danzir,
probably
iato
the
Pe:irograd
| district
first,
as it was
the
m»)st
accessi-
bie,
. Mr.
Hoover
anuanc:2l
that
there
would
be
o
public appzal
{or funids
o
|
aid the
work.
|
Antigwa
Aue,.
lst—H.
B
B¢
Kd
L ward
Merewarh:e
bnaving
left
Antigua
'vil Domiaica
and
Trinidad
f>r
Enogland
ton
leave
privr £
ratirzment,
H's Honour
Lt Golonst
£
R
St
Joanpsion
Asiumes
the aimin:stration
of
the
Presidency
of
Antigui and
on
3ir
Bdward
Me cther’s
final
depar:ure
{rom
Dominica
on
Taes-
day will a~t
as
Govarnor
of
th2
Leeward
islands
Coloany
until
a
new
Governor
is
appoin:ad
The
Hen
F.
H.
Watkins,
I
€
..,
will acc
as Colonial Seeretary.
NEw
YORK. August
2nd.
1921.
Fiour. Blendad Clears St. Lawrence
J-rand
or.
bri,
$9.00.
Meal, iladried per
190 Ibs $1.95
Naw
32s30n’s
Pork
per brl. $37.09
Heavy
vless
Pork
per bbi.
$24.00
Sugar---Crysials
maximum
per
199
ibs.
$4.86
Molassos
Sugar
892
test,
no quotation.
Cotton,
Middiing Upiand,
at
Liverpool
per
ih.
8
22-1004.
dxehange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’
sight $3.53
iixchange
New
York
and
London,
sight
£3.56
LoNooN,
August 2nd
1921.
Sugar,
Demerara
Urystals,
per
ewt.
455.
—bls
**
Museavado
per
ewt.
375. 0 -465.0.
(yerman
Beet 837 f.o.b.
no
sales
Whnite
Java
sugar
cif United
Kingdom
275.
June
shipments.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good Middling Red
no-
‘
minal
pes
ewt
565.
58s.
nominal.
!
Cotee:
good
Medium
West
Indian
Sea
Isiand
per Ib. 26d. noninal.
o
kv v
A kNS
Bank
of
Enzland
rate
of Disecount
per
gont.
5§
-
Consols
43.
GOVERNOR
S*liS
SATURDAY
Gor ernor
E.
Mont
Reiiy and members
of
his
family
and
staff
will
sail frcm
New
York
on
Saturday
on
the
S.S.
|
Ponee.
arriving
here probably
next iri-
|
day.
Details
for the inauguration
ceremon-
jes
have
not
been
completed
owing
to
the uncertainty
as
to when
ithe steamer
may
arrive
here.
[t
is
likely
thatthe
|
Governor
will
be
inaugurated
the day
|
after his arrival
here.-—Porto
Rico
Pro-
gress,
22nd July.
DOUBLE EXECUTION
¥MAY BE LAST
IN ST.
THOMAS
What
probapbly
will
be
the
last legal
execution in St. Thomas
oceurred
un July
12,
when
Evelyn
.nd
Hilton
Dawson
were
hanged
for
the
murder
ot
their
brother,
Charles.
On July
1 a new code
of
laws
went
into
effect
which abolish
the
death
penalty.
The
brothers
were
hung at 8 o’clock
in the morning.
They
RRE
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2
3
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S
N B
-
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ey
<HRISTIANSTED THEATRE
:
:
AT“‘ Y
R
A
&.15.
THIS
EV=EXING
8.15
~
“The
S
t Gitt”-
1
Ne
Jecre
1
FIVE REEL
UNIVERSAL SUBJECT
:
TELLS STORY OF
7TWO GENERATIONS
~
Story by
GEORGE
C
HULL
Dirceted
by HARRY L. FRANKLIN
The Story:
Jan
S#xe and
Peter
Harlingen,
t vo young
men from Holland,
in
" "Th : Secvet
Gift,”’
arrive
as
immievants
in New York
1o tbe
year
1890.
Onb
the
same
ship
with
them
comes
a preity orphan
girl, Bertha
Krueg:r,
who
is
going (o live wit
her aunt.
Both .
Jan
and
Peter
love Bertha
and Jan
secietly
puis
up SSOO. for an
operation
to save
her
aut frow blindness.
Bertha,
thinking Peter
made
the gift, marries
him.
Vwenty years
eiapse
and
both
Jan
and
Eeter
are
suceessful
in their own
way, Peter
in
worldly goods
and
Jan
in contentment
with
“is work s
a watch
repairer.
Peter’s
daughter,
Winnie,
comes
often
10
see
'‘tincie
Jan’’
as
she ealls
him,
and
once
in
the
shop
she
meets
tarry, a young
man
Jan
has helped
from boyhood.
The day previcusly
Larry had
saved
Winnie and
a companicn
from drowning.
‘
Peter
desires
Winnie
to marry
Sydney
iJllman.
the
soa
of a
business
friend
to
whom
he is under
obligations.
The girl du=s not
eare
lor Sydney,
having iearned
to love
Larry.
Uncle
Jan
is anxious
tv uave
her
marry
for
true
love and stands
out for
hijs
protege,
who is
now assistant
d
.iri¢c:
Aitorney.
Peter
at
first
proves
obdurate,
but
after
a quarrel
&ith Ullmagn.
...
:
show
concludes
with
-
ey
“
1 Reel
Scree¢.:.
Magazine.
Book your seats early for this fine Drama.
ADMISSION
RBochevod
Sea
g
w 0 o
S
e
b
e B A
e
ffopncral
finteange
-0
o
S
90
Children
20
and
10c¢
were
accommpanied
o ihe
the
scaffuld
by
two
ministers
who
prayed
and
sung
hymns
as
the
condemned
men
awaited
death.
Folio wing the
doukbie execution
a black
flag
was
hoisted
over goai
gate
and
the
bells
of
the
Wesleyan
church
opposite
the prison
were
tolled.— Porto Rico I ro-
|
gress.
A
correspoundent
says
thai
in
Brazii
(wo types
of
sugar
mills
oblain,
those
-
with the
old-fashioned
open
kettle
and
those
which
have
the
modern
and
up-
.
to-date
equipmenti
out.
Ihe [ormer
are
.
|
run by water
power
obtained
trom
near-
by
vivers
and
some
are driven
by, ani-
mal powel,
a
good
deal
as
ti.e
¢
.
SCre
hum
milis
were
run
in
the
noithen
stateu
yeais
ago.
‘fhLese
smaii
factories
however,
make
cnly
a sort
of
biown
su-
gar used
by
inbebitants
of
the
interior
The
modern
factovies
are
using
i to-
date machinery
as they
know
tha:
ihey
cannot
compete
with
the
nodern
no: -
kets
uniess
they do
['he¢ engincers
are
|
at_
work
to
use
-power
{for
motive
power
wili
be exemplary.
but
for
cvap-
'
oration
purposes
boilers
musi
siill
he
'
used.—Lousiana
Planter,
July 16,