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St iusig e ol ey g ST 1"V ey ¥y i 8.30. THIS EVENING 8.30. ey THEMAST SHOW OF .\ igp™ The Lure of the Circus” " Episode 17 A.-RACE WITHFIMB. |-=% v - " Bpisode 187> PHE: LAST TRICK..» 'y i o.pue 1o “EDDIE POLO’ for the-last time in THE LURE OFTMI& : CIRCUS‘ ~ Show conclud‘mg with 2teels :Comi;c.' ; oy ,' C Nidactety St it ABRSO v m- () R gt Resorved Sea's. =i BRNb oo S GIiRQECT R 0 h 308 i R Two first and two:last rows of reserved seats......iceoid Tvon 806,70 o o 0 Coverat Botranee., ..... o1 b Bae 00ns. 08 Leid .il e 7 : 'fi‘b%}dren 20 and 105:. G o Thusday Evenng ~ “A Petal on The Current” when you can have your wants sup- plled— : E - AT i y - Mclntosh’s Grocery. See tomorrow’s ad.. . . Christiansted 26° April 1920. The Lure of the Circus will be con- cluded this evening, the show winding up with a two-reel comic. "In Satur- day’s issue the programme was Tt üblish- ed as for that evening instead of tonight which readers will please overlook. = The Creole arrived ‘here ‘yesterday morning with mails and cargo from St. Thomas, and will return some time today.. The Navy Band played ‘in pu’b?é"- ‘yes- terday afternoon aud evening when the usua! enthusiastic gathering tuined out to hear the fine music consisting of well rendered 'selectionis.” ™#7C : The 'Governoi?' i§ expected here this morning to attenda meeting of the Colo- nial Councilat 9.30 a, m, today. ... 4 TELEGRAMS™ = - Sati ST. CRQIX STA LION. '(Delayed 'in transmission.) : New York, April13th. —lnterest in the nationwide strike of railway workers which appeared tobe subsiding west of Chicage; ‘while' ‘spreading "speradically in the east, centred tonight in Washing- ton, -the !eaders, who had striven in- effectually toinducethe strikers toreturn to work. saw'a ray of hope in the ap- pointment ' today by President:Wilson of “a labour board provided: under'the trans- ‘portation -det''to’ dealwith labour dis- putes. The 'President also issued a eall for a cabinet meeting tomorrow. In the meanwlhile,"the offiecers of the Depart- ment of Justice announced that ‘evidence of the activity of the'industrial workers of the world towards inciting and retain- ing ‘unauthorized stri%es. continued to accumulate ‘and’ they say signs of an attempt -to extend" the railway ‘strike ‘into_one phase of “a “:world ‘revolution. While “officialestimates' are Tacking, the number of‘persons who have been made idle by the 'strike directly and indirectly, runs into hundreds of thousands, in' the Staté of ~Ohin, one hundred thousand persons- being ‘reported-out iof : work ‘today, -with “industrial plants -in: .vitu- tually- '""e’vétjv‘-.‘section?,gentfnui‘ng -+0 TBUs- spend~ operations. ‘lnithe’ mining:-dis- tricts ‘around “Scranten,: Pennsylva- ‘nia, ‘five thousand mine’ workers <have been idle for ‘three-days -and>it is . re- ported ‘that ° their ‘nrumber will'Be "in- creased tomorrow. The Jmain: battle- ground. of the: strike, which “was: cen- tred ‘for “several days in the 'middle “vest, switch ‘tnday to the east. The strikers of Gr w' New' York; ‘whose ranks were steaully augmented during . the day, unanimously rejected all over- . tures of-peace ‘at: a mass meeting in - Jersey Citg tonight, and- further com- . plications were rejected -into the -situa- . tion'by- a strike of Pennsylvania -rail- ~ workers:: ' railwaymen ;. and: officials,. - while, admitting the -gravity. of the sitmation txpressed the ‘hepe that to- ~ morrow would 'show an - improvement ~ i n .the- demoralized freight -and pas: - senger service here, and -this optimism ~ iswbased ‘on the increasing.-volume of ~ offers of: volunteers to man-. the. 'trains, - Thus-far, the attempts of the strikers to - ‘spread -the strikes. to the . street ~ railway lines 'in the district have been ~ unsueeessful. .-In the west-the railway ~ officials have reported that- the strikers of‘half a dozen' cities have voted to re:urn to-work,' the ‘railwaymen 'at. all points have voted -not to join the. walkout and -embargoes have been lifted by several ‘ ‘railways. “The strike {eaders have refus . @d {o-eoncede, however, that they are los- ing ground. -The first positive action of -Federal interventien was reported todgy from: the Department ofJustice, when several arrests- were made -for interfer- ‘ingwith: the: mails. Local officials:in - various other seetions es the countey have continued their efforts to end the strikes in their distriets.. The Pennsyl- -vania Railway today agreed to a propo- -sal of the -Strike: Buveau of- Arbitration 1o bavé iis generai manager meet .the rTepresentatives .of the = strikers, pro- vided they can speak for .all the mer who -are not' working, and that the ’ Union “representatives: also shall be permitted to be present, There was growing alarm--aver the. stortage of - perishable food 'and coal in. the east, but the railway officials expressed the belief that sufficient quantities could be brought into-the metropolitan districts to ‘supply current - needs. The War De- partment today madeavailable to theState and Municipal authorities supplies of ‘frozen beef, canned roast beef and bacon, - which had been held in storage in a score -of railway centres, and hundreds of mo- tor trucks were also being pressed -inco ’- - service- to bring food to this and also - other eastern cities.- ~ . - Warsaw, April 13th,—A pronounced - vietory for the Poles over the -Bolskeviki - ~on'the South ' Eastern..front was reported ‘by the'General Staff:today: -.After sever- dl days .fighting .the Forty-First Soviet Division was put:to flight and. four guns ~‘and:more than a sgore as machine-guns ':vvlgitlh much bodty, were.captured.by . the VEOIBSE it S U QMET sy ek - = Copenhagen, . April -13th.~—The strike -of --seamen is becoming. . increasingly ‘-serious vand - Denmark .is. . now . virtyally ~veut off frem: Great Britain.and. Amerjca. It is understood that the.avthorities at- “tempted “to’enter :into ‘an- arrangement - -with . the ‘ather Seandinavian. Pewers: to - get ‘the:. British/ :and iAmerican - mail -through, but “theSeamen’s Union_ coynt- ered with an appeal to the seamen of the