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Sl. UHU LX A vaD CHRISTIANSTED THEATRLEL 8.00. MONDAY EVENING 38.00. THE LAST SHOW OF B ' 22579 “Pearl White | v ‘ : In “The Pearl Os The Army”. Episode No. 13: : Episode No. 14: Episode No. 15: (Final Episode). SYNOPSIS: Pearl traces the Silent Menace to a tramp steamer it Baltim: re where she learns of a plot to destroy the canal and the departure offthe foreign alhance by submarine to (plon. On board she meets Adams, who claims to be watching the Silent Menace. Pearl warns a United States cutter and the submarine is destroyed, while the vessel with Pearl, Adams and the Silent Menace, heads for the Panama Canal. REMEMBER ....... ...REMEM8ER........... REMEMBER IT IS THE LAST SHOW. ADMISSION: Beoiorved Bents. .... .oheihe it o and 40c. General Entrance.......... e e s TN, : Children 20 and 10e. We Plan To Perform Special Ser- vice This Year. A ALL at our newsstands and purchase L copies of the nation; Life & Létters of Debbs, Searchlight, Crisis, Ameri- | can Musician, Saturday Evening Post, | Ladies Home Journal, Wood Worker, and the wonderful New Success. We’ve se- lected these books. and magazines to sell | you, because we’re confident that they will perform special service to all classes of the community, and because we mean to eonvince you that “‘Reading for Pur- | pose Puts Knowledge in the Head.”’ GIELMO EDWARDS, JOHN BENJAMIN, CARL SCHOU | News Distributors, Christiansted. | R ——e .' H E JOIN THE RED CROSS. Has the Red Cross given any evidence ,’ to Santa Crusians that it is sincere in | its ideal of service? Nearly $60,000 has | been given for division among the three | municipal hospitals of the Virgin Islands; | the public libraries have been made | possible through the efforts of the Red | Cross in eonjunction with the American | Library Association; and a school nurse | to look after the health of the school | children has been provided. Whether | you want the Red Cross to continue ifs | services in Saint Croix will be evidenced | by your sapport. ‘: The Red Cross is the iargest organiza- tion in the world that has its sole object for the betterment of conditions under which humans must live. That is why it is called a humanitarian organization. Everyone knows that she largest army in time of war means victory; just so, in time of peace, the largest number of people banded together to "fight the causes of disease and misery, the surer the victory for human progress. Are you going to be one oi the helpers? St. Thomas has already attained a membership of nearly a thousand mem- bers and will pass that mark. St Croix with her larger population shouid far exceed that mark. Shall we not show St. Thomas that we are as ready to im- prove condiftions as she is? Monda ', January 17th, is the day set for the beginning of the Fourth Red Cross Roll Call and opportunity for join- ing will be provided for every citizen during the week. A call will be mad 2t every home and a booth will be station.d outside the Red Cross office under the Post Office for all tliose who may have been out when the call was made. Monday, 17th instant, being a legal holiday there will be no is:ue of this paper. Readers are reminded of the Red Cross campaign to be launched that day, and are urged to give. any help possible to further the cause of the movement. The s. s. ""Korona’’ from New York arrived at Frederiksted yesterday. TELEGRAM-. ST. CROIX STATION. Washington, Jan 12th.—The decision as to the de ortation of Lord Mayor O’Callaghan of Cork, who arrived in Newport News last week as a stowaway without a passport, was referred yester- day to President Wilson. President Wilson’s advice was sought at yester- day’s meeting of the Cabinet. The President thus was called upon to decide the pocition® of Acting Secretary Davis of the State Department, who has insist- ed on the exclusion of the Lord Mayor from the United States for attempting to enter without a passport, and that of Secretary of Labour, Wilson, who has refused to acknowledge jurisdiction of the State Department until the case has been formally presented t it by the Labour Department. Ottawa, Jan. 12th.—Foilowing a con- ference between Mri. Carvell, <hairman, and other members »f the Railway Commission and representatives of the Canadian Railways, the Canadi- an Manufacturers’ Assceiation and other bodies, it was anpounced today that a solution had been found to ihe exchange problem as avplied to in- ternational freight rates. Commissioner (arvell said that he was unable to make 4 detinite announcemeitof the new ar- rangement, because 1t must be ratified by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States. He said, however, that it amounted to a plan whereby the Canadian shigper pays the Canadian por tion of the haul in funds of the Domirion of Canada, while the remainder is paid at the American rate. London, January 12th.— The last in- formation as to the reorganization of the Colonial Office w ich will be carried oui before Viscount Milner leaves, is ihat two departments wil be formed unce: one ministerial chief, one olf these wili deal with overseas dominions affairs and the cother with those pertaining to the middle east and the Crown Colonies. London, January 12tn. —kKliis Powel, editor of the ' Financial News”’, speaking on Canada before the Colonial Institute expressed the convietion that Canada and not the United States was destined to dominate the future of the whole Nor'h American continent. because she would overcome her climatie diiticuities and her sparseness of populaticn anl become the focus of the empive. Washington, January 12th. A bili pro- posing federal regulation for the coal in- dustry in the United States and empow- ering the President to fix prices and pro- fits in case of emergencey or shortage, was introduced today by Chairman Calder »>f the Senate Committee investigating the 1920 coa. shortage. New York, January 12th.—A gencral rounding up of all oriental ineligibles in the United States will be launched on Jany. 22nd. This announcement was