St. Croix tribune. [volume], January 23, 1934, Image 2

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ST.CROIX TRIBUNE
Fublished daily except Sundays & Hol
days at 53 BCompany St Caristiansted
Sst..Croix. V' I U S. A bySt. Groix
Coopzrative Society
ntered assecond class matteron July
Ist 1922 at the Past Of.ice at Christian
ted, St. Croix, V,!. U.S A under the
Act of Maren 31d, 1879
R. DE CHABBERT, Editor
Tuesday January 23rd 1934
~-Random Notes
St. Ther as has a new fire engine. The
municipa ity could hardly make a wiser
expenditure. Like St. Croix, St. Themnas
could never replace her grand old build
irgs if th=y be destroyed by fire. Th:y
stand as monuments teca by-gone pe
riod when there was wealth in the is
land, when the ships of the world call
ed at the port of St, Thomas and coal
carriers and stevedores’ wives wore
bracelets of gold.
Today her people depend mainiy upon
such employment as the Government
can create and they greedily rush to re
hef head quariers for their supply of
food. ;
St. Croix is in no better position. We
must do our part to protect the buildings
in our cities,
Lieutenant Goverror Cramer and
Commissioner of Public Works Tiley are
working seriously to introduce adequsate
protection against fire in the commu
nities of Christiansted and Frederiksted
and it seems to us that soon the publie
mind will be set at ease. »
It is being whispered that the National
Bank may continue its business in the
Virgin Islands for three years after its
charter expires.
Every American banking institution
which was approached refused to esta
blish a branch in the Virgin llslands.
With the closing of the National Bank
in July St. Croix would be im a despe
rate situation.
The Agricultural Experiment Station
is prepared to plant about fifty acres in
a new variety of sugar cane de
veloped at the Station. This variety is
supposed to have a high sucrose content
and.to have greater jresistance against
drought than the older varieties. From
this fifty acres plant tops would be fur-
ST CROIX TRHIS V 47
Thought f>r the Day
Tuzs. Jan. 23 3. Riynani
‘Tis n>t waat a min d 023 which exalts
him, but what he woulid do.
: Browning.
H. M. PIGGTT Rector.
St Joan's Church., Christianste
pished in the next couple of years fOl
more exiensive caltiviiioa of this pro
fit-producing variety of sugar cane.
Two large sharks were brought 1
shore in Frederiksted yesterday The
one mxyasured 10ft: 6 inches. and the
o:her 9t 6 inches. In the stomach o
of the male was found a goat with a
rope around its neck, Tne sharks were
harpoonzd by Earle Jeffersen from
among a school exceeding iwenty. One
of the persons who saw th: landinz
of the sharks siid that when the male
opened its mouth it would take in ‘lg-
Inspecior of Police Kobesen.
Paul Simpson, of Fred-:riksted, St.
Croix was heard on the radiojat 1z :45
P M. vesterday frombroadcasting etation
WKAQ, San Juan, Puerto Rico, He
sor.g ''Have You Ever Been Lonely,
Have You Ever B:2en Blue”’
Those who listened in said the song was
well rendered. :
The District €ourt will be in session
here on Thursday night from 7 o’clock
for the purpose of trying Philip Daniel
who is held ona charge ofmanslaughter.
Senior Chief of Police Espersen, who
was il since last wedk is rezoverinZ ra
ridly.
Ham and bacon are now included in
the articies of food being distribu:ed
by the relief committee in St Croix.
CHANGE IN CONVERSION RATES
FOR INTERNATIONAL MONEY
ORDER BUSINESS, EFFECTIVE
JANUARY 22, 1993.
Belgium Belga equals 224 cents U. S,
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Netheriands Fleria * 65 o
Spain Peseta ‘' sy LY
Swltzerland Franc *' 32 A%
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Berlin:— On the grounds that there
was '‘no further need for their exis
tence’’, Herman Wilhelm Goering, the
Prusian Premier, summarily wiped out
the three principal Prussian masonic
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DR. PAUL M. PEARSON
All eyves are tarned toward Governor
Pearson who has gone to Wash
ingion so plead for tha Virgin Islands,
Thoush he has securad approp-iations
aggregating avout a million dollars—
for the construction and the renova
ticn of public buildings; for the con
struction of houses for home
steaders: forproviding wor k
for the uremployed and
for feeding the poor, he is uot satisfied,
Heis ariinripding - at the doors
in Washingtun He wants to know if
they wiil give another million for work
of a pe:manentnatare.
- The Giovernment of the United States
must have unlitmited confidence in the
Governor since” they give all that
he asksj.
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are the Grand National Mother Lodge
of the three Terrestial Globes, the
Grand Lodge of German Free Masons
of the Germman Christian Order'and the
Graad Lodge of Prassia. Goering, he ex
plicitly stated that while he did not wish
to go into the question of whether the
organizations constituted a danger to the
state he simply saw no further use for
them and then left it to the lodges
themseives, to vanish voluntarily, In
another decree. Guering gave permission
for political refugees from Germany who
upheld the Nazi regime abroad, to re
turn to the Netherlands - The refugees
included communists and jews.
FOR SALE
At Estate Constitution Hill Pure bred
and graded Milkidg goats
WM BEATTY