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ment’s figures are 800 tons under the | Soler statement. - Ibid ; 42ND REGIMENT MAY | ' COME HERE TO RECRUIT . | Scheduled for Duty in Canal Zone, 1t i Needs men: iLocal Regiment { __ Not to be Moved. | An inauiry as to whether (he 42nd - Regiment. of Infantry, now stationed at | Camp Meade, might be recruited to | full strength here.has lel.to rumors that the 65th Infantry, old Porto Rico Reyi- ment, might be moved from Porto | Rico. : . < So far as army officers herz have neen | informed, there is no intention of trans- | ferring the 65th Regiment elsewhere. Camp Mezde 1s to be demolished and the | 42nd Regiment. it is “understood, is | scheduled for duty in the Canal Zone. | The 42nd is said to be only half enlisted | and the suggestion has been made that | _this regiment may be sent to Porto Rico | for several months, during whien time it | would be recruited to full strength. When this has been done, the regiment, ir is understood will proceed to the Canal | Zone for duty. Bxcept for the possible transfer of eniisted men and a number of non-com- | mission officers to the 42nd Regiment, | army officers here have no information that other changes in the 65th Regiment | are contemplated. ! The army here has been looking for | recruics reecently and several hundred men have been examined with com- | parativeiy saw accepted. The physical | requirements are now far more strict ! than during ihe war and many men who § were accepted in the draft have been ‘ rejected by the recruiting officers for the | regular army : ' - Anemia, bad teeth and other causes | are given for the large number of re- | jeetions.—lnd. | L e | SU'AR MADE FROM COEKN. - ‘ New York, Sept. 15th.--After more | than three years of experiments, Frank | K. Gardner, President of the General ‘ Food Products Company, yesterday an- | nounced that Dr. Arthur W. Smith and | S. P. Evans of Baltimoie have invented | and perfected a process by which white ( sugar may obtained from corm and man- | ufactured for less than 4 cents a pound. l Seven per cent, of the present corn | crop would supply this country’s sugar | needs, it estimated. The sugar is 80 per | cent, as sweet as cane sugar and should sell for Bc. a pound. | ““To fullyrealize what this new and unlimited sugar supply means,’”’ said Mr. Gardner, '‘lt is necessary to under- | stand the present situation. Sugar now is the product of sugar cane, beets, | fruits and starcn. Cane and beet sugars ' S ot g g gk N gt ] ™ : ~ v:*'}Y/ w 4 > ¥ : CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE 8 *8.30. THS EVENING 8.30. “Naughty Li And Wild Men.” aughty Lions An ud lvien. COMEDY. i 2nd REEL “The Carter Case” e Larter Lase . Episode No. 5: “The Aerial Bomb”. Episode No 6: “The Wireless Deiector”. After the Serial you will get the laugh of your life when you se : “EDDIELYONS and LEE MORAN IN “BUNGLED BURGLARS’’. Exira! Extra! “Ten Nigats In A Tea-Room”’. What you think about ten nights in a tea-room in the vea: 1950, when liguor was o memory —and tea was the po;)ular drink. Cap you imagine such a I}ll”g‘f 5. 4 ADMISSION. Reserved Sea's . ; s . . .30 and 40 _ Geperal Enteabice. ... . ..... . . : & e Children 20 and 10c. represent the great bulk of that now used. ' The production of these for the last year was about 16,000,000 tons, whieh is about 5,000,000 tons under the amount produced during 1913-14 and which aceounts for the present shortage and high prieces. One bushel of corn will produce about forty pounds of the syrup, and the an- nual eorn crop is more than three billion bushels. Just ahout7 percent, of this crop would produce all the sugar this country can use.—lbid. LABOUR UNREST ON THE ISTEMUS. REPORTED SPLIT AMONG COMMISSION The commission which has been ap- pointed in Panama to dezl with the re- cent labour troubles on the isthmus and Bocas-de! Toro, and the treaiment laet- ed ont to Ja aicans and the other West Indians has had a ‘‘spiit””with the Ameri- can authorities, but accordirg to private advices received here the matter is be; ing patched up. It is learnt that a communication has been addressed by the commission to the American authorities on ihe Canal Zone in which they are asked to give their views in respect to four points and whether they wouid agree to extend cer- tain terms to the West Jncian tabcurrers as @ whole. Tt is not kncwnp what reply the ‘Americans have given hut op their attitude would depend a seitlep ent of the differences which have arisen. It is learnt 47t there are numbers of West Indizans on the Isthnus who are finding difticuity in petting empleyment, Many cf them wouid like to retu;p home but are without funds: and then arothor hardship is the lack of steams hip accon.- mcedation, As we nentioned = few daye ago the Hon I.d Berttam, O ¥ € ihe Spe- cial Commissioner from Jamaica who went to the Isthmus to investigate Ja- bour conditions, bas sent in an interim report to the Government and the aq- thorities are awaiting Ihe finding of the commission which is now sitting on the Isthmus.- Jamaica Gleaner - Barbades Globe, 20th Sept. " How loug does it take to get to San- turce?’’ asked a new arrival in:San Juan. “Ten minutes by motor, thirty min- utes on foot, forty-five minutes by tel- ephone, one hour by trolley and a week by mail”’, answered one who lives there. —Porto Rico Progress.