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Ar've_‘..", 'r‘ir?, ’ F‘! i. aiiinisiiators woiice, IN THE DI TRICT COURT OF THE VIR- GIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES. CHRISTIANSTED SUB-JUDICIAL DI:- TRICT. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF A M COLEBETH DECEASRED. OTICE is hereby given, that A. E. STAKEVIANN, Auxillary Administra- tor of the above entitled estate, hav- mg filed in the Distriet Comt of the Virgin Islands of the United States his final fecount of the administration of the said estate the hearing of the same has been fixed for SATURDAY THE 1718 DAY OF MAY A. D. 1924 AT 100 CLOCK A. M. of that day, at the Office of the Judge of said Court in the Town of Christiansted, Island of St. Croix, and all persons interested in the said estate are hereby rotified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why the said aceount should Lot be settled and allowed. Christianstel, St. Croix, April 14th 1924. A. F. STAKEMANN, Auridlary Administi ator. LOCAS, In this issue we reprint ar article headed *‘T'he Virgin Islands’ from the Calitornia Times bearing on the situa- tion here and presenting in substance a somewhat different version of the Federal Commission’s report to what we have seen elsewhere, Attzntion is in- vited to this article. As regards re- ference to the impoverished state of St. Cro x b:ing due to drourht, that is simip- ly a fact which we have always harpail upon and which do nout see how a change of government will improve. That the restriction of suffrage is not an Ameri- ¢an inpovation we all know, but on this point we would have to say that the writer fails to essay whether he advo- cales it or whether conditions would be bettered with a change in this respect. That th: judiciary system is identical with that ot Alaska is not say- inz that itsuits the islands here, and again we are coustrained to feel that the writer has withheld arguments or recom- mendations where the same would have been vailuable whiie passing over the matter as done leaves roown for miscon- struction. Os course everybody knows there is n) rapine by marines nor any- body else for that matter, and peither is the unprosperous state ol the i lands due to any such false cause, Word was received by the Guiana that Misses Ulive Abramson and Kathleen s 1 [UI X AV Samucl had nassed the Junior Cambridze Examination which was taken December last. They are now preparing for the Jenior examination. We congratulate the pareots and children on this eccasion. Lawyer Hamilton Jackson informs us that he will speak on the whari on Wednesday night. His subject wiil be “*The Declaration ()Mndc;)un:lefnce and Senate Bill No. 2876.” We are askad so invite all eitizens. He will speag in Frederiksted on Thursday night. Our words about the price of milk are proving prophetic. she Cooperztive Dairy has gone back to the oid prices of 10 cents a bottle 2nd 12 cents a g:art. Whoever imagines that there is any special consideration for the eonsumesr in matters of this kind 18 siply fooling himself, The Virgin isiands. Ectract from the *‘Californit Times’” of Los Angcles, California, dated March 20, 1924 The *‘outraces’’ of American rule in the Virein Islands have dininisnzd on ciose examination, Recently a commission named by the S-eretary of Labor and headed by George H. Woodson of Des Moines, lowa, made a tour of inspection of the islands. 5o terrible were the stories of starvation, exploitation and beggary thalt arrange- ments had been made to send a relief ship on receipt of a radio message from the visiting commission. Une reliet ship was not sent: neither was the radio mes- sage. Tne conditions of *‘oppression’’ van- ished upon being subjected to the cold light of actual investigation. The commission found that the com- mercial depression in the islandsis due not to the demonical conduet of the United States marines or tc tie sway of the American Governor, vui to the druzht which bas continaed for three years. The restriction of suffrage was feund not to be due to the inequitadle rule of the American admnistration, bat 13 an inheritance of the Danish regime. The judicial system which was bittzrly eomplained against 1s aln)sl an exact replica of the system in Aiaska, which has been satisfactory. The economic problem of St. Thonas is different from that of St. Ciroix mainly in that the latter isiond suffers froin a great dechine of commercial and shipping iaterests and the disastrous effects of the prohibition laws in tne muking of bay ruwm. The commission found, however, that, in all, abdat thirfy persons are concarnad in the bay rum irade and that the shin- ping had been diminishing for many years previous to the American rule, Depression in St. Creix, the interests of wh ch are agricultural, is undoubtedly due to the effect of the drought upon the sugar cane. : As a whole the charges were found tp be without forrndaiion and to be obvious- ly ihe result of propaganda started in cprtain papers of the United States hav- ing racial uxes to grind. TELEGRAMS. : | ST. CROIX STATION. Pepeville, K. Y., Apmil 18th.—Two | army tanks fron Covingion tcday were | occupving commanding positions on the | property of the iaberty Coal and Coke ' Company at S raight Greei, the scene of | a week’s warfave between soldiers and . persong who would prevent operation‘of | the mine- § New York, April 11tb.— Willie Hoppe | retz ned his title of World’s Balk Line . Billiard Champion last night despite the | fact that he was defeated in the final block of his 1500 point match with . KEdouard Horemans of Belgium. The | score was bl¥ to 50 in thirteen innings, "~ but Hoppe’s enormous lead gained - Wednesday night, gave him the match [ 1500 to 958 London, April 10th.—The Russian Delegation, which is to negotiate with Britain on outstanding quesirons follow- ing the recognition of Russia by the Labourite Regime, arrived here on Wednesdiy. Ap Anglo-Russian Treaty will be drawn up in the forthcoming ne- gohiations, London, April 10th -Captain Thomas, s n of the Colonial Secretary, is an. emn- ploye: of the Caradian Nationa! Railway in Canada. After a vears residence in the Dominion he has written au enthusi- astic article for the Daily Herald, urging British young men to emi.rate to the on- ly country cffering real opportunity for a career- He gives fair warning. however that bhard work is necessary, bhut points out the splendid educational op} ortunities, emphas zing the clance of energetic young men to work themsefves through the universities ‘o.nd draws a vidic con- trast between chances for sucecess in (Ca- rada and in England. Washington, aApril 9th.—Harlan F. Stone New York, tzking up the post of Attorney General today, arnounced as his policy the keeping of the United States "'in the straight path of justice under the law.”” He proposed he said to make the constitution and the laws the '‘shield «f innccence, but the swift avenger of guilt.”’ St. Johns, Nfid.. April Sth.—The Pre- mier announced today that the Govern- ment has decided to request the British Colonial Office to select a commissionor to conduct a new investigalion ¢i govern- ment departments, recently decided up- ! on bv the exbinet, The immediate :1m + of the second inquiry, us announced,