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Im-’O€Y {E WY /%:\ '\ ‘% e v [ A < Y A : - 4 } “;\ ) Li@ K ‘M/%L@/\\" ?@\ mgw 77TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED V.ll, BA, FRIDAY G6IH APRIL 1920 D. H. Dunton, C. V. Haynes, Guy Kirk- sey, N. Longfellow, Geo C. McDonald, Ivan G. Moorma,a, Erik H. Nelson, Ed- gar Y. Selzer, Rex R. Stoner and James A. Woodruff. During their stay here the airmen weve extensively ent rtained, commencing with luncheon at the Rotary Ciub Tues- dav. a luncheon. by Acting Governor Huyke, a dinner a. the Jnion Club and an informa! dance by the officers of the 65th regiment on Wednesday; a luncheon by the legislature, a theatre party to see Paquita Eseribano and a reception at the home of Senator J. J. Benitez on Thurs- day. Capt. Lanphier told the Rotary Club .1e purpoze of the flight. *‘ltis part of a War Department pian to find a port from which land planes ean operate if necessary so protect the Caribbean from invasion of an 2nemy. [ believe we have demonstrate~ that in an emergency | d planes can fly here from Florida ir two days flying time, with a landing in Cuba or possibly Haiti or Santo Domingo. ““We have found the landing field here much better than we had expected and at comparatively no expense it can be converted into an ideal landing field for land planes. It is near the city, near the harbor and a!l transy ..ation facili- ties anl this should *: made a perma- nent lan”...x piace. ““We have been looking for a suitable field for a base and 1 think it is useless to lonk further, ““The West Indies, vou know, ave only a sort of a link between North and South America. Soon there will be daily air service between the maimland and South Ameriza and I would suggest that your commercial bodies get busy now and have this field coaverted into a perma- nent base rather than wair until possi- bly other factors develop’’. The airmen used as a landing field a portion of the governwent reservation adjoining the rifle range in Puerta de Tierra. A large white eross marked on the ground served as a landing mark as well as a poirt from which to take-off. Thursday Capt. Lanphier and Lt. Aus- tin lew near to St. Thomas but put_ back because of a severe rain storm. The return trip to the mainland will be across Santo Domingo, Haiti, Cuba and then to Florida. Instead of returning to Kelly Field, San Antonio, the planes will continue up the Atlan:ic coast to Wash- inQ’tLon. —Porto Rico Progress, March 24th. THE ST. CROIX AVIS 18 printed and pu*lished 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- gted, St. Croixz, V. L. of the U. S. A., un- der the Act of March 3. 1879 Contribution to this paper will be glad- lg received when the same deals with mat- ters of general interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a guar- antee of good faith. The editor cannst be responsible for the views of his correspon- dentsnor does he necessarily endorse them. FIND BASE HERE FOR AIR DE- FENSE OF CARIBBEAN. Landing kield on Rifle Range Near Wire- less Station Almost Ideal Flyers Assert, AIR LINK WITH MAINLAND. Qix Land Planes Cover 3,900 Miles in 34 Hours Flying Time; Complete Trip About 6,000 Miles. Having found here what is believed will be a suitable base for an airplar~ defense of the Caribbean, six army ob- s rvation planes, the first caravels of wne air to link Porto Rico with the main- land, took the ciouds at 10:15 vesterday morning for a rewurn flight to Florida and thence to Washington. Capt. Tho- mas G. Lanphier, in command of the flizht, said he expecied to land at Santo Doming~ City, 250 miles away, in less than two heurs. The flight schedule calls for arrival in Washington not later than April3. Arriving here Monday morning at 10:51 o’clock the twelve fliers completed an air journey from San Antonio, Texas, a dis- tance of approximately 3,000 miles in 34 hours flying time. When completed their flight of 6,000 miles will be one of the longest recorded for army planes over land and sea. Next year, according to tentative plans, army planes will not oaly fly here but aftera rest will continue on down the Windward islands to Panama and \ South America. In advanrce of the flying party was Lt. 0. S. Ferson and the flyers were Capt. Lanphier, and Lieuts. Chas. B. Austin, No. 78. GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES ST, THOMAS. Executive Order No. 1--1923. XECUTIVE Order No. 17 concerning Pardorns and Paroles, issued on the 28th day of December, 1918, is so fur modified that the Judge of the Police Court at Christiansted is appointed «a Member of the Board of Pardons and Pa- roles vice the former Judge of the Or- dinary Town Court of Christiansted. The Government Attorney for the Municipality of Saint CroiX is hereby appointed a Member of the Board of Par- dons and Paroles in addition to the mem- bers appointed by Executive Order No. 17 above referred to, as modified by the first paragraph of this Executive Order. The LBoard of Pardens and Paroles shall seleet 118 own Chairman, Vice- Chairman and Secretary. WITNESS MY HAND and the Seal of the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States this twenty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty- three. : ‘ HENRY H. HOUGH. {b‘li.\!,] (Fovernor. üblicatron. IT is hereby brought to public no- tice that the Government has this date authorized Reverend C. F. BROOKINS to perform civil- religious functions in the Viggin Islanas of the United States. Government of the Virgin Is- lands of the United States, St. Thomas, 238 March, 1923. J. J. GAFFNLEY. Government Secretary. Quebec Steamship Co. THE S. S. “PARIMA” is expected to leave New York on the 12th inst. and is due at Frederiksted on 0 -about the 19th inst. ROB’T. L.MERWIN & CO. INC., Agents.