USVI Public Records

Document text

\\‘\Q\‘,/ ";\ | ;| | : / e ‘,"’ N 1 soB S 49 TN S4B ¢~ N\ .' j i I :(“/\‘l ‘\/\\/ : \\\ \B\ }/\l J ‘:r /:-: l\ ' \\w<I% ! | /R\\\/ : \ \‘\ /| ‘i | ‘\\\/\\i | & Y @ W O & ;Q \ 3 ; /e ) o 79TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED, V. 1. LS A.. FRIDAY. 14tH NOVEMBER 1919 of the groceries were without sugar for nearly a week, bu. a car oad ccme later on and was equally distributed among the grocers of the city. United States District Attorney Welfe, of Madison, has been warning tke publie of this State that 11 cents was he price to be paid for sugar. Aceordirg to Mr. Wolfe sugar dealers may chafe uader this ruling, but they are going (o se | at rhat price or spend mon2av for their lawvers to keep them out of jaii. He also sent out this statement:” Wholesalers holding stocks of sugar mav as weli put them on the market now, because .hey have small hope of getting a biggoer price for this commodity. The "overnm>:nt has set a price and [ am here to see that dea'ers do not charge any more. If dealers wan: 1o geep out of jail { would ad.ise them to be satizsfied witn the 11 cents allowed them. Strikes and other ‘nfluences have caused a sugar shoriage all cver the country, and if it had not bzen for the Federal regaiations sazag woulc be selling for 50 cents a pound. Regulations of food and eclothiarg will tollow shor:ly. The unheard of price of 72 cents a poind for butter [cr instance is & disgrace as is the sl2 shoe.”’ In Seymour, near Green “ay, ¢ carload of sugar arrived but the grocers refused to accept the sugar because it was :aid they ¢ould not sell'it at 11 cents a pound and come out even. ‘lhe mayo- of the town then seized the sugar and reta led it at that price. ! in Mi.waukce they predict that sugar wil Le 14 cents 1q pound. In that city District Attorney H. W. Sawyer holds that the Gov:rnment has no right to set any price. Mr. Saw- yer claims a dealer can b> prosecuted for hoarding or charging a1 exorbitant price. Mr. Sawyer explains: ‘‘Tae qiies- tion of whether any certain nrice is exor- bitant depends on the margin of profit for the dealer. The margin dep>nds on many factors. The first consideration is the price the dealer pays for sugar. Thaen there are the expenses in handling it. Sometimes the dealer seiling it through quantities of one or two pounds has a considerable added expense of paper bags and labor. ‘We have investigated many complaints and have fcund in each case the price was just. A typical complaint was that a desler was charging 14 cents. We discovered that he had paid 134 cents ro a dealer in Chi- cago. After he had paid freight, stor- age and labour charges bhe was losing money. If there was any profiteering it was on the part of the man who was THE ST. CRUiX AVIS 18 printed and published daily (Sundiys anwd Holideys excepted) by G. .Johansen at the Avis Office. TERMS---50 cents monthly in adgarce, 2 cents per single copy. [lntered as seccond-class matter Vay 26th 1917 at thz Post Office at Christion- sted, S 8 Croie: V. L ofthe U. S. A., un- dev the Act of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glcd- ly ireceived when the same deals with mt- ters of general 11iterest, and is accompa- nied with tie author’s name, as a qucr- antee of gool juitn. The editor eannot be res,onsibleHr the views of his correspon- derts nor docs he necessarily encorsethem. HOOK AND LADDER STORY. A painter at work on a water tank at Buhl, Mina., foresaw a c=atastrophe when a cow be:an to seratch her back on the bottc:n of his ladder and startad to come down. That frightened the cow and sh. ran her horns thr-ough the lower rung:. of the ladder and startad off in a ¢aliop, carrying the ladder, painter, paint and all. The louder he yellead the sister the cow travelled. It was but a suort ride for the painter. who striuck the 2round uninjured, but tae cow carried :he ladder for a quarter of a mil>—lnd. News. —Po to Rico Progress. THE SUGAR FAMINE. (By N. G. Ruegg.) _ The sugar famine continues in the North Central States and no immedi:te reli=f is promiszd. It has been excepticn- ally trying during the preserving seasin Recipes have appeared in the daily parers as to how to preserve wiih- out sugar and how to make cook.es without the sweetening iniluence of sugar. But this does not say that the sweeting powers have not been used. for corn syrup, common molasses and-rcane syrap have come in very handy. Tae countrv stores in Wisconsin have be>n ransacked too and some of the denizens of Milwauk~e hava come in with as hi:rh as 50 pounds of sugar. Thisis largely dle to the fact that the turn-over in sugar in the countrv stores is not as rapid as in the cities. Some consumers 1n our sectim have gone for two weeks without a morith- ful. In La Crosse, Wisconsin, 90 per cent No. 263 charging 134 cents wholesale. We made a report to the Chicago authoritizs The grocers seem to hold to the theory, that if there is a shortage of sugar that it ought to bring a higher price for peo- ple were willir.g to pay 14 cents to get it. The Wisconsin sugar companies will meet the nea situation with sugar and the United States Sugar Company at Madison will put out at least 5,000,000 pounds. The campaign for at least two new sugar factories is going on and fron' present indications Green Bay and Oshkosh will have the two new factories. Louistana Planter, Oct. 18th. ORDER OF THE DAY for an Extraordinary Meeting of the Colonial Council for St. Croix, MONDAY, November 17, 1919, at one o’clock p. m. (Convened by request of Government) 1. Colonial Council Bill No. 13. Continuation of Ist Discussion on Colonial Counecil Bill No. 13, Draft of an Ordinance. intreduced by 2nd Appointed Member (Noll), to pro- vide for a re-organization. regula- tion, and government of the Muni- cipal P~ lice Foree of St. Crnix. 2. Coloni2' Council Bill No. 16. Continuation of Discussion on Col onial Council Biil No. 16, Resolution authorizing the Chairman of the Col- onial Council to appointa standing committee of nine members to re- ceive 2and consider advance copies of a Code of Laws to succeed the pres- ent existing laws. : Colonial Council Office, St. Croix, No- vember 11, 1919. ROBT. L. MERWIN. Cha’rman. Reward Offered. A REWARD of Francs 50.00 is hereby offered for, the appre- hension of the well known prisoner Thomas Williams, alias “One-hand Tom”, who escaped from Richmond Prison on Friday evening October 3let a. c. Frederiksted Police Office, November Bth 1919. : JOHN .. CURRY, acting Direetor of Police.