St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
December 3, 1920

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Lac. %1920 C A SRR g€ 4( L\%‘} é\r S N &H 995 y IR\ 5 g{B b ,_,;\_,. 75TH YEAR. THE ST. CROIX AVIS 18 printed and published daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Johansen at the Avis Office. TERMS---50 cents monthly in advance. 2 cents per single copy. Entered as second-class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- l wted, St. Croixz, V. I. ofthe U. S. A.. un- der the Act of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glad- ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of geuneral interest, and is accompa nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor cannot be responsible for the views of his correspon- dentsnor does he necessarily endorsethem. UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE i DANG®R IN HORSE-HAIR SHAVING BRUSHES. W-shington, D. C. Oect. Surgeon- General Cumming, of the United States Public Health Service, has just issued a fresh warning against the use of horse hair shaving brushes, to which not a few cascs of anthvax bave deen traced. He says; '‘The Public Health Service has made every effort possible under ex- isfing laws and regulations to prevert the occurrence of anthrax due to infected shaving brushes, but in spife of its effort anthrax cases occur and will continue to occur unless the public ceases to buy and use horse-hair brushes for shaving. f “*it is ibe concensus of expert opinion that shaving-brush anthrax is contract- ed only when the shaving brush si made of horse-hair; and Congress at the I next Session wiil ve asked to prohibit the use of horse hair for that purpose. It is doubtful however, if any effective f measures can be taken by health officials to curtail the use of the horse-hair shyy- ing brushes now in trade channels, some of which are presumabiy infected, ex- cept a direct warning to the public not to buy or use such brushes. Dr. Cumming s'rongly urges she is sue of such an appeal by State Health Officiais und its widest possible pubiieity, ‘as the only way. pending additional legislation, to ohviate their potential danger. CHRISTIANSTED. V.I. U.S*A., FRI Publi üblicat:on. IN conformity with Slection 22 of the Co l lonial Law all persons residing in ‘the town of Christiansted who consider themselves tn have been, during the last year, in receipt of a clear yearly income of 1,600 Franecs and otherwise to be en titled to the franchise in conformity with Section 18 of the saicdl Colonial Law, or who before the 31st of Marich 1922 will attain the qualifications of firanchise (see Sec tion 23 last elause) are hereby requested to notify the same in writing to-the un dersigned Chairman of the Electoral Board before the expiration of this month. The Electoral Board for Christiansted’s Town and Suburbs, St. Croix, Decem ber 2nd. 1920. WILH. JENSEN. Chairman. L e 3

Publication. N conformity with Section 22 of the Co lonial Law all persons residing in the Country District o the Jurisdiction of Christiansted, who coasider themselves to have been, during the last year, in re ceipt of a clea: yearly income of 1,500 Francs and otherwise to be entitled to the franchise in conformity with Section 18 of the said Coloniai Law, or who be fore the 31st. Mareh 1922 wiil attain the gualifications of frunchise (see Section 29 last clauss) are hereby reguecsted to notify the same in writing to the under signed Chairmar of the Electoral Board before the expiration of this month. The Electoral Board for the Tountry District of Christiansted. St. Croix, De- cember 2aod 1920. WILH. JENSEN. Chairman. l i I e B ‘geo b l Publication.

T D ATRE sN conformity with Section 22 of the i Colonial Law uii persons residing in ihe town of Prederiksted who consider themseives to have been, during the last year, tn receipt of a clear yeariy income of 1,509 Francs and otherwise to be entitied to the franzhise in conformity with Seeticn 18 ¢f tle sgid Ccloniai 1 aw, or who bpe.. attain the qualifications Section 23, last clause, quested to notify the sar the undersigned Chairn. toral Board before the exp month. The Electoral board f Frederiksted, St. Croix, 1920. X L

N conformity with Sectio Colonial Law all persons re. Country District of the Jur Frederiksted who consider t: to have been, during ths izs! _ receipt of a clear yearly income of 1, o Francs and e¢therwise'to be entitled to the franchise in conformity with Section 18 of the said Cclonial Law, or who before the 31st. March 1922 will attain the qualifications of franchise (see Sec tion 23, last clause) are hereby requesteq to notify the same in writing to thd undersigned Chairman of the Electo Board before the expiration of this! i month. 1 The Electoral Board for the Co,"\gt)ryf i District of Frederiksted, St. Croik. we- cember 2nd. 1920. i C. H. PAYNE,. Chairnan. ee e N E, Jo W. UM/’“N, Governor of the Virgin Islands of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of Section 15, Capter 1, Title I, of the Code, do hereby appoint Y j GRORGE A. KEYSER as a Special Judge of the District Court, 1 Municipality of St. {Uroix. to take effeet November 24, 1920, and to vemain ir effeet during the absence of I Judge D. NOLi.on leave expiring Decems I ber 31. 1920, unless sooner revoked. ‘i Witness my hand and the seal of the Government of the Virgin lslands of the’, i United States this 24th day of Novem-- L bel 1920 J. W. OMAN. Governor.

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it AND SEE STOCK OF mnas Cards. e e S 1 OCAL. shipping the Peter’s Rest begun, the massive pieces yday taken in lighters in the arrival of the boat ze the cargo away. oceurred yesterday after- orner of Armstrong’s store waomobile and a small cart ge, the latter sustaining the v hael CORRECTION. In yesterday’s issue, the Jamaican to whom the Pathfinder is quoted as re ferring should read, Murcus Garvey in stead f Marvey. TELEGRA Mo. ST. CROIX STATION. Barbados, Nov. 30th.—The following _ js taken from one of our local newspa i perw l\g today’s date: ‘‘We understand i% that business of Dacosta and Coy. Gardiner Austin and Coy. have been con verted iptolimited liability companies and have heen duly registered as from yester ’]’EU'. The Barhados Shipping and Tra “ung Co. Ltd. nas also been form:d and registered with an authorized capital of £750,000 to acquire a controiiing interest inthe businesses mentioned above a$ well as in Manning and Co. Ltd., Wilkinson Haynes and Co. Ltd., S. P. Musson Son M\ and Co.and R. and G. Challenor which’ two latter firms are now in course of conversion into limited lability com panies and will be registered at an early date’’. Coiro, Nov. 29th.—The Government L has appointed a commission consisting of ‘three Egyptians and three British sub- L jeets to study the economic effects on Bgypt of the world-wide fail on the price of cotton and possible measures for alleviarion. o NLondon, Nov. 29th. -Haifa dozen men who were preparing to set fire to alarge lumber yard in the district of Finsbury, an important section of the City of London, less than a mile north e surprised by night. The at _oincident with the ipeendiary. fires in” pufceman chailenged immediately attacked the uted for help. Five men auswered his call emerg ohind some empty wagons the policeman who was compenic. liberatéd the men he had seen. Al ,he men; escaped. Search ing behind the wasons the policeman found that cotton’ waste soaked with gasoline had been pushed through a gate of alumber yard and he also discover ed two revolvers and 100 cartridges. One of the supposeid incendiaries was later arrested. i Belfast, Nov. 28th. —A statement is sued tonight from ‘Dublin Castle after giving account of the Liverpool fires and accompanying inctdients adds:—'‘Read in conjunction with the documents discov ered last week. inwhich plans for Sinn Fein reprisals agatnst the English towns of Manchester andd Liverpool, among a pumber of others were detailed, hese things have a very sinisier aspect. The “act of the police being fired on suggests that the methnds of the Sinn Fein mur der eang in Ireland are being employed against the Englich people, even if the personnel of the murderers ie not the same. f Madrid, Nov. 28th.--Serious earth quake shocks "have 'caused extensive damage in north-western Spain centering in the rontevedra district. In tha. cities of Corunna, -Lugo, Vigo ‘and Ferrol buildings were shattered by the force of the coneussion. QGeneva, Nov. 29th,——The question whether countries will be allowed to con trol and dispose of at wili their natural resources is the subjeet of a sharp conflict in a committee of the /Assembly. Thecon troversy is over a ravolution by Gustave i Ador, Switzerland. setting up a perma nent economic and financial commis sion, one of the |duties of which would be fto examine measures for pre venting monopolies in-the raw materials and the méans of controlling their distribution. The resolution is based on article 23 of the Covenant, which assures all states equitable tréatment. It is sup ported chiefly by Italy, Swiizerland and other countries rich in raw materials. i One of the strongest opponents of the re solation is Sir George Fapter, Canada, who has taken the same attitude as Mr. Rowell'also of Canada who served notice on the Assembly ‘g an impressive speech recently that any attempt to exercise such contro} would be- regarded as inter ferenee in international affairs -te which Canada would never submit. Mr. Row il at the same time said that the entry of the United States eould not be hoped for if such interferences were attempted. London, Nov. 29th.—As an additional precaution against suspected ®inn Fein v outrages, a police motor boat armed with i a machine zun was placed on patrol along the river front of the Houses of Parlia _ meat today. i~ Dubiin, Nov. 29th.-——Raids and arrests continued in Dublin today. Among the persons tuken into custody was William Bears, Sinn Fein member of Parliament for the southern division of County Mayo. London, Nov. 29th.—The public gal leries of the House of Commons were closed this afternoon and the.approaches to the House of Parliament were guard ed by extra police as a precautinn against possible untoward incidents- following the disclosure of' n alleged Sinn Fein i conspiracy for operations in KEngland. i The speaker, Mr. Lowther, stated in the House of Commens in answer to a ques i tion, that he .had ordered the galleries i closed as a result’ of information h~ had i received from the chief commissioner to day. The latest Sinn-Fein developments i in England were discussed at an impor tant conference this afternoon at No. 10 i Downing Street, between members of the t Government and the heads of the pulice organization. The conferees, included the Premier Mr. Winston Churchill, Sir Hamar Greenwood, Mr. Lowther, speak eof the H-use of Commons, and the i heads of the Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard. The closing of the pubiic galleries of the House of Commons fol lowed this me:ting. The public will not only be excluded from the galleries of the i House of Commons, but denied admission to the Sinn Fein precincts of the House. l Members of the House of Commons will only be able to interview their constitu ents in the outer lobbies. Persons hav ing business in the House and unknown w 0 the police will be searched. Motor traffic into the palace vard also will be subjeect to special observations. The House of Lords has adopted resolutions similar to tne House of Commons. London, Nov. 29th.—The premises of the Sian Fein bank in Harcourt Street, Dublin, were set on fire this morning, i says a despatch to the Telegraph Ex change this morping. London, Nov. 30th.—A bomb was ex ploded at one o’clock this i orning in the building occupied by a hide merchant in Old Swan Lane Rar, London. A floor of the building was wrecked, but nobody was iniaved. The bombs apparently had been left in the building in a gripsack. _ (Gedsl, Nov. 29th.——The terms of the treaty with Nikolai Lenine, the Russian Soviet Min:ster, being concluded with Mustapha Pasha, leader of the Turkish Nationalists, striking at alli d influence, has been received by the '‘Journal de l Geneve’’ from its. Constantinople corres pondent. 'There are eight sections. The i first assurcs the integrity and restoration of Turkish authority in all pre-war terri torries. The second assures Turkey the control of the new states of Syria and Arabia. By the third, Mosecow is atford

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ed facilities for -propaganda throughout Turkey. i Maecroon, Ireland, WNov. 29th.—-Two lorry-loads of new recruits in training the ““Black and Tan’’ auxiliary police were ambushed last night by from 80 to 100 men near -Kilmichael, ancfmfifteen of them. were killed. The bodies were brought here this evening. Already reprisals have begur, and reports from the village of Johnstown, between Mac room and Dunmanway, state that scarce ly: a house is undamaged, and the most of ‘the shops in the district have been set on-fire. The residents are fleeing from the place in terror. Here shops have been closed, and all business is suspended. Large parties of auxiliaries bearing rifles and revolvers are patrolling the town and the people are apprehen sive that the auxiliaries will take re: venge. London, Nov. 29th.— Despatches re lating -to the killing of fifteen auxiliary police cadets near Kilmichael were read in the House of Commons by Sir Hamar Greenwood, during the course of the Irish debate today. The party which ambushed the-cadets consisted of from 80 to 100 men all dressed in Khaki and wearing steel trench-helmets. They fired from both stdes of the road on the lorries, and also directed an enfilading fire straight down. By force of arms some of the men had been disarmed and brutally murdered. Their bodies were rifled of all money and valuables and even clothing ‘was taken from the corpses. Arms and ammunition were also taken, and the lorries burned. The Secretary thought ithat with fif teen former officers of the late wua. thus lying dead, the House would not wish to coutinue the discussion in the face of such a challenge to Parliament and civilization. The subject was then dropped.” Belfast, Nov. 30th. —-The City Hall at Cork was set on fire this morning and reports from that city state that the Thomas Ashe Sinn Fein Club and the Charlotta Quay are ablaze. Much damage has beoh done, it is stated. Paris, Nov. 30th.—Proposals by Great Britain as a basis for the Anglo-Russian commercial treaty which has been ap proved by the British Cabinet, have been handed to M. Krassin, head of the Rus sian trade mission at London, says despateh to ‘‘Le Journal.” London, Nov. 30th.—Public buildings in London and in many of the other large cities 'of England were “closely guarded againsi apprehended Sinn Fein attacks by heavy detachments of police and detectives last night. In this city the patrol was limited to the streets, but armed motor-boats moved up and down the Thames in iront of the Parliament buildings. Doorn, Holland, November 30th-—Au gusta Vietoria, fermer German Empress, who has been suffering from a grave 852 Uk heart attack for worse this mornin, fever and was only sem. London, November o stock on the 27th inst. was Last year 102,000 tons. Berlin, Nov. 28th.-—The B which have been part of the oc ~army in Donzig have left that announced in a Danzig despatc one it -day. In ecommenting on thei .cparture the ‘‘Tageblatt’’ says: During the ele ven months of their stay in Danzig the British behaved in an exemplary man ner. General Haking of the British command will leave Danzig auring the day, the telegram added, while the French contingent will leave from Neu ‘fahrwassen in the Danzig district during the week., Geneva despatches Saturday announces that the League of Nations military force for the occupation of Vil na pending the plebiscite there would include two British companies with machine gun section from the Danzig forces: of occupation. The French con tingent was exnpected, it was said, to proceed trom Memel, East Prussia. @Geneva, Nov, 29th.--Removal ol the mandates commission as far as possible from governmenta! influence was the task undertaken by the Councii of the League of Nations today. It was decided that the members of this commission shali be appointed by the Council on personal merits and competency and that they shall not occupy any position in volving dependency upon their Govern ment. The mandates question occupied almost the entire seszion and necessarily postponed’ the election of 2 successor (o Sir Reginald “ower, as High Com missioner at Danzig. The mandates commission will include ons member named by the international labour or ganization who will attend all the mectings in an advisory capaci y when questions of interest to labour are discussed. Mandatories will be required tc submit annual reports through duly authorized representatives setting forth the situ ation in the territory under jurisdiction. These reports will be examined by the mandates commission which -will de cide what poirts therein shall be called to the attention of the council. The mandates commission will sit in Geneva. The sub-committee oo blockades today %a:)ased a resolution proposed by Lord bert Ceci! that the Council be asked to name an international coramission on blockades, whose duty it shall Le to report (0 the Assembly the measures it finds ‘necessary to put a blockade in to effect. “This is reported as quite likely to put off a definite solution of the blockade question until the next meet: ing of the Assembly. The committee on the admissicn of new members to the As sembiy of the League of Nations finally agreed today that it is impossible to ad mit now the new states carved sut of old Russian territory. Tine theory of tae Geneva, Nov. 30th. to the assembly of the which today resumed 1 the coming week as the the history oi the or; tions decided in comm: ity vote must be settle by a unanimons vote. tion is in the case oft! members and amen< sembly proves capatb out a dissenting vote blem to be placed b next few days, it wiil in the of some of the leading men:: passed a most dangeroux poir Southampton, Nov. 3\ placed urnaer detention si rived on the Aquitania today. Aceording to the Sinn Fein gunmen. AMERICAN MEMORIAL A NICA PROPOSED. Charles K. Dxarling propo tion of a wmonument a° mark the landing of A there on July 25th, 189¢ At the Rotary which members of Commission were g that the twentyfifth ann landing be the occasion i “*We did not consider it the Sixth Massachusetts m erected at Guanica because er troops participated in the ac... there,”” sald Gen. Darling. ''l do be lieve, however, that a suitablc miemorial should be erected there on the twenty fifth anniversary of the landing of American troops. hope that this may be brought about.”’--Porto Rico Progress, Nov. 19th. NOTICE. ARTIES having claims again:: the P Jeint-Estate of the late Planer AL FRED BENONI WHITE, of S:n Jun, and surviving widow ALICE MAUD WHITE, are hereby notified to file tieir claims within 3 montns with the aunder signed widow, who remains in possession of the undivided join.-estate. San Jan, Virgin Isiands, U. 8. A. November 9th 1920. ALICE MAUD WHITE. Estate ‘Contant’’ Sar Jan.

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n January 1, 1921. A‘ participation. in the 4 certified, should be grundersigned on or be er, 1920 m'zretary’s Office, Chris- Y'V.1.15 Novenber, £0 14 C.W. FOX: gpatching Secretary. shipbintr=r+oitne i begun, i ewGroce il U OFFERS wael REEF pickled Zocts 0y e compd. ge. the Ib. Tins $1.50. N h.;;,)cl“ IS '{’))'so., g T Swm el BACON lse., "In yesterE Amr. Brich, Swiss etc. whom the -45—54 and 64e. per lb. gfg;:ing;%?u'“ HAMS 58c., 't Varvey., BONELESS CODFISH, v a-boc. per th T HLEG 0 e al, Barbados, Nov. 30tk in. is taken from one of ‘qh '"'”OOdfg' pers, f today’s dalal staple articles re that 7 busin--s ofyossible. Brdincrßuatin gl o verted jpto limiter g o have heen duly Ordel‘ Rales. day, Thedewey T "Mfll‘he following rates of convei sion are now inforce and effect in the transac tion of international postal money order business. Great Brifaia....l Pound $3.75 Netherlands. ....1 florin 35 cents Sweden.... ....1 Krona 2 Denmark .---..1 Krone i Norlhy 16 franes .91 13 t:'n‘ncs Belgium ..81 o 4 gy ‘sl ~20 lire Post Office, Charistiansted, St. Croix, V. K Now. 22, 1920. B. R. LARSEN, Postmast’r. ATz on King .St. in this =QB 53 town: 1 silver safety pin, about 13 in. long with a Britizh 3d. coin attached. o Owner mav claim same 2° the c¢ffice of "this naver EL INSTRUMENTO DE CALIDAD 'CLARO COMO UNA CAMPANA UNEQUALLED IN TONE: Exquisite beauty of tone of this instrument sets it on a pinnacie by itself S the nearest approach to perfect sound reproduction so far achieved. You do not cate y much WHY this is so, but you are most emph tically interested in knowing that it is so. To demonstrate to you the remarkable superiority of thz Sonera, we ask you to hear the Sonora, in comparison with others. You willdecide that it is unequalled for beauty. Magnificent models Prices $60,---to 2,500,--- F. CHRISTENSEN. BETHLEHEM DISTRIBTTORS. ST. CROIX. 3 iy A Z2l e NEa N

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