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A FAREWELL addrzss will be given ! by the delegates of the Virgin Islands | Protective League on FRIDAY EVEN | ING 23rD INST. at the hall of the United | Lahoring Association at Frederiksted, ; St. Croix. 3 Miss Hendricksen’s subject will be the | Negro, Past, Present and Future. Mr. | Toften wiil speak on what it mean to be | a Person of color in the U. S. A. ! The cinematograh exhibition of last | night was a thorough success both as re- | gards the excellence of the pictures and the interest they calied forth, as that the | andience was among the largest in a iong while. | It is advised that the mail-boat, Vir- ‘ ginia, will leave San Juan, P. R. this | morning. With favorable wind she may arrive at Frederiksted .by ,tomorrow af- ternoon. | Frederiksted is out of ice through fail- | ure of securing someone who under- ! stands to manufacture the article. The reference in West End News of yester- | day that Christiansted cannot supply | both places is denied. The proprietor of | tne r'actory here will certainly give a | helping hand as he has done in the past. | A concert by the combined Naval Bands of both fowns will be rendered on § the wharf, Christiansted at 8.30 ,n Sun- | day evening; programme later. . REAR-ADMIRAL SIMS whose name | has figured in racent news dispatches in | connection with the naval affairs sub- | committee’s invescgation of awards o° naval medals, is according to an Erglish pewspaper which we have just happened Lo run across, the vice-admiril who was ‘ in command of the United Sta‘es des. | troyer flotilla in European waters: and is | a Canadian by birth having been born in 1 Octawa.b9 years ago. The paper, how- | ever, says he has spent practically the whole of hds life in the United States, | where he graduated in the Annapolis Na- | val Academy with honors in the early | eighties. He is deseribed as one «{ the 5 most expert officers in the American | Navy, and as having made a record in | the Atlantic destroyer flotilld which he " | commanded frem 1913 to 1915 Speak- | ing of him Sir Edward Carson- said that | he worked’” in close touch and enovera- | tion with our splendid First Sea Lord, | Admirai Jellicoe’’, now with a Brirish | squadror visiting the West Indies. Ad- | miral Sims is further mentioned asa man | who neither smokes nor drinks Editor of St. Croixz Avis: Christiansted, St. Croix. Dear Sir. An atteck made on the delegates of the Virgin Islands Protective [.earue by Mr. D. Hamilten Jackson, and pub. ST RO RE . A V.S. | lished in the West End News, has also 1 appeared in your paper, and the people’s | . paper the Herald. ] | I therefore request that the public be | . given an opportunity through you to | ~ read our defense. | 'g Whatever private interview or cor- | . respondence Miss Hendrickson might . have had with Mr. Jackson, and which | | he so ungentlemaniy made publiz matter, | ' must not be considered as a back down. ] - @ If Miss Hendrickson did not tnake the . statements appearing in the News rela- | . ®tive to our lecture on class hatred, I did, | and will not move one INCH to retract ; | same. ; ; ! And if all boastful prates made in pri- | . vate were similarly published, we would . be impressed that the great Cwesar had | | the Government and all in authority | . trembling with fear. i ' Bat we know that AMERICA never | . took water and AMERICA never will. l f Now I say to Mr. Jackson thatl am | | here to defend Miss Hendrickscn wrong | | or right, just as his disciples defend him | | wronyg or right. | | We seek no further controvarsy, for | | he has the advantage es a newspaper, | and we have not. ! I hnld nn malice, and s 1 uunderstand | . he wants an apology, I repeat my will- | | 3oA cie evkbl b e RALAAL en A | ; llls’,ll\OO UL Lo SUUU L vl MYviae Chiava | ' with justice to him. I But I must be eonvinced of the wrong | I have done him upon a public platform, | . and aceording to such a decision handed | - down by intelligent JUDGES. E 1 Until then I charge Mr. Jackson with | bloeking our work for the welfire of the | . people of all classes, because of personal | . grelvances against me. | Thanking you kindly | . I am very respeectfully, | | ASHLEY L. TOTTEN. | U.S. NAVYX PRESS NEWS { » Sl s ’ i \ | January 20, 1920. | WASHINGTON: Admiral Mayo, Com- | . mander-in-Chief of United Stures Fleet . duaring war, was witness today before | Sena.e subecommi. tee investigating naval | | awards. He told committee that his let- | | ter to Secretary of December 23rd, re- | ' centiy made public, in which he said that | . board of awards did not give sufficient | . ~ consideration 10 service at sea particular- ly to staff officers ot fleet, was not t1 be considered in any se2nse one of protest. | ~ Admiral took view diametrically opposed | to that of Sims who took ground that boagd had ziven too liitle consideration to records of officers who sérvei ashore. Saye bhoard and Secrerary were within their rights and prerozatives in changing | recommendations for awards. De-lares he do2s not assert he is satisfied with re- | sults oif action of boird and Seecrotary but says they had rignt to take such ac- ti;,m. ds they wished and o assume the 1 responsibility. Asked regarding status - of men who.lost ships by submarines or | mines MBe replied that he did believe . policy in honoring such officers would be . good thing for seivice, but said there . were cases like Captain Christy of tae ' “‘San Diego’’ and Commander Foote of . the "'President Lincoln”” whose conduat . during and after thé sinking would el- - title them to high distinction. Testifi:d | that during war Admiral Sims was sup- . posed to b~ under his ecommand but that ' in order to racilitate matters, Sims ve- j ported directly to Depariment. Says he | made very few recommendations for . awards; jeven in case of Chief-of-Staff . Captain Jackson he ouly recommended navy cross. General Barne t, omman- ‘ dant Marine Corps, to testify tomorrow. | FINLAND: Russians deported from ! America were given offizial reception o- l day. After brief conference they were | permitted to enter Bolsheviki Russ a. . Were given warm welcome., 5 NEW YORK: Police borib squeds i and Federal Agents today scaching Lor . half a dozen radicals, be ieved leaders in bomb plots, reported to have Leen nippad ' in bud yesterday by arrest here on eigh- | teen reds. Evidence o’ plots found in | raide, : 5 HAILTFAX: Transport “‘Powhatar’’, disabled about three hundred fifty miles [ at sen, reported by wireless today that | her two hundred seventy-one passenge rs . would be taken off y destroyers whon | sea moderated. Despatch say . steaner ' ""dardice’’ trying to get line ab~ard now. . Both fire rooms full to water line. Bu:k- . beads shored up and tizht. ‘‘Northern | Pacific” due tonight, will ask Ler to stand . by also: Signed Randall. WASHINGTON: General Wood, who, ' in speech Sunday night, is reported to ~ have stated that Navy i¢ a floating dez.th - trap will be called upon by House Naval . Affairs Committee to appear before the . Committee to explain statement. In ~ Boston, General Wood denies making ~ statement attributed to him and says e . meant only ships filled with untrained men but sterographic records disag:ze ' with him. : ; NEW YORK: Serum rushed here tfrom Washington is believed to have - saved life of eight year old Lena Delbene ~vietim of olive poisoning at hospital here. ' Her parents, a brother, sister and two uncles, died wi:hin week frum eating ~ germ laden olives. WASHINGTON : Private adviees from . Mexiro reports arrest of General Alvara- ~da, former Governor of Yuecatan by offi- cers acting under Carranza’s orders. Charged he was on way to join re- volutionary movements and; set up So- viet Government in Yueatan. LONDON: Viscount Frediech, Lo:d Licutenant of Ireland. has besome.a con- vert to Home Rule says Gazettes Bulle- tin corresp ndent