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ficHooL ATTENDANCE REPORT NO. 31 ! Week Endirg May 2, 1924, Municipality of St. Croix. j Per- Percent of cent of Pupils not Attend- School Ciass tardy. ance, | Frederiksted Public 9956 99.24 | Peter’s Rest Rural 100.00 9923 | Christiansted Jr. High 9884 9913 | La Vallee Rural 100.00 99.04 Liamond Rural 100.00 98.38 | Christiansted Public 99.18 96.72 | Friedensteld Rural 99.50 9500 | La Princesse Rural 95.50 9432 | Frederiksted Jr. ilizh 99.68 93.28 | LOCAL _ Although mail from the States arrived by two direct boats during the week the | mail from Porto Rico on Saturday wasa | fairly large one. However, it arrived | somewhat earlier than usual, in conse- | quence of which by 7.00 p. m. every- body was served, and the postmaster ! tells us that the next morping was ap- ! preciably free for the making up of the | outgoing mail which was dispatched in i good time. | The meating called by the ‘‘Civil | Rights Committee’” to take place in the theatre vesterday after.oon, convened, | and was presided over by Mr. Joseph i Alexander who was there elected chair- | man. Admission being limited to the | electorate, the attendance was necessa- rily small. Addresses were made by | Messrs. H. Berg. R. de Chabert, R. ! Bough, D. C. Canegata and others, but | it 1s understood that the meeting failed | of its object, partly through the small | number ot persons who met.. The police, armed, was well represented, Chief Es- persen, llnspector lobbesen, two ser- | geants and a patro man comprising the | force which is said to have marred the | occasion it having been discovered alter ihe meeting had been opened that three cops were behind the screen taking notes. Being a private, orderly meetiog of ecitizens, the presence of the police was co sid rod superfluous and this was commented on oy one of the speakers. 'Phe proprietor of the theatre claimed tnat he did not know of their being behind the screen, and Chief Espersen said they were aeting upon his orders, Editerially we would say that while we are indisposed to support the eivil gov- | ernment scheme or even pay much attention to the activities toward it, we do ot consider the sending ofa squad of armed police necessary where peo- ple Wave assembled peacefully togeth- er for any purpose whether religious ’ or political, and it bas simply given rise | to muech needless criticism in this in- | stance, being taken as .an insult to the ST CROLIEX 88 VIS community by inference that they could not gather together unless they built a row. No report has been received as vet in regard to the meeting in Fred- eriksted, As the s. s. Guiana may be returning to the States on or about Thursday or Friday this week, we are requested to advise the public to have their matter for mailing ready. as the notice concerning the closing of the mail may be snort. The Virgin Islands. On March 10a bill was introduced in congress, aiming to provide a civil form of government for the Virgin Isiands, formerly owned by the Danish Govern- ment, and which were taken over by the Uaited States in 1917. When the bill was introduced we had in mind that the people of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John were in no way back of the movement, and we are now in receipt of a resolution adopted by the colonial councils of the thrze islands in which they join in a protest azains:jan cetion of that character by congress. The people of the islands are well sat- isfied with the form of gov:rnment that they now enjyy, and the resoluiion waich was received by thez lwriter this morning ealls atteniion to the fact that the nevy novement did not oriz.na‘e on the islands. There is no question but what the people of the Virgin Is!lands would like a government whercin more power was granted them, bui )jenct any measure which would §olace the gov- eramznt in the hands of the pzople and take away the protecrion of the United S ates, would be bitterly opposed. There is 1 loyalty on the part of the people of S-. Thomas and the other islands to- wards the United Siates thet has a pleas- ing atmosphere tfor any vis:tor from the states. i There is progress and a determination on the part of the residents of theis lands to promote tie very boest in gov- ernment. We need not be ala 'med about the Virzin Islands, for they have a type of citizenship that easily understands and is ready to grasp the very bestin timely suggestions. As the writer stood in the colonial council chamber at St. Thomas, and listened to the president exiol the vir- tues of the United States, and promising a form of government in the islands that would be in keeping with the history of our achievements, one could not belp but feel that the affairs of the Virzin Islands rests in safe and sane hands. ; The resolution introduced in the Uni- ted States senate, opposing as it does the wishes of the people of 'he Virgin Islands, and in direct oppcsidon so the plans that have been so successfully carried out during our ownersaip of the islands, should be defeaied, and un- doubredly will be.,—Sheboygan Press-Tel- egram, 15th April. _ TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Atlanta Ca., April 30th.—Eightyone persons were killed, four hundred in- jured, many persons fatally, hundreds were m:de homeless and untold property damage was caused by storms of eyclonie proportions which devasrat>d sections of the Southeast today. Fragmentary re- ports, coatinuing to trickle in from the storm area, wrotea steadily increasing list of dead and injured early tonight, as the disturbance swapt to North Carolina, the fifth state to suffer. Riodejaneiro, April 30th—The pending legislation in the United States to ex- clude Japanese immigration, has caused widespread agitation in Brazil for similar action in this country. Many newspap2ls are urging exclus'on of Japanese aud the National Acadetwe of m=dicine has adop- ted a resolution urging the amenlment of the present iimmigration laws to re- strict the Japanesa quota to 5 percent of the present Japanese population of Bra- zil. The resolution d2c¢lares that the Ja- panese are a race tha: cannot be assimil- ated and that Japanese r'mmigration threatens the economic stability in the euuntry. Falsepass, Alaska, May Ist. —(By wire- less via Dr. Werton Washingion). Fears are expressed here for the safety of Major Martin, commanding the United States army squadron epcireling the globe, who left Chignik, Alaska, at 11 10 a. m. yesterday for Duteh Harbour and who was not reported passing any points up to six o’clock last night. Residents at the small cannery station hare, have just passed through the worst days ever known for this period o the year. The North Pa- cific Ocean has been lashed by terrific gales, the wind fregnently reaching a ve- locity of 100 miles an hour. The air at the wireless station has been tilled all day with snow, blown from the mountain sides and neighbouring peaks. ['he resi- dents all belicved that a mistake was made in attemp ing the 400 mile flight from Chigoik to Dutech Harbour during the gale. Paris. My Ist--Lieutenant Pelletir Doisy has postponed his departure from Karashi, British lidia, in continnance of his flight ‘rom Paris to Tokio, until St urday, he informed the under secretary of aviation in a te.egram received today. The motor of his plane needs a thorough overhauling, he said. Atlanta, Ga. May Ist—With nire:yfive persons known to be dead. ;more than a score missing, approximately 500 injured some perhaps fatally, the Southeast set about teday to relieve the regions stricken yesterday and Tuesday by the worst hizn tension storm in its history. Tornados, descending with devastaling violenc2 up- on widely separated seciions, caused da-