Like Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands are suffering from an acute food shortage, owing to the shipping situation. Rum production has also had to be curtailed, since lack of export shipping space has caused a surplus. Rapidly rising prices add to the islands' distress, and relief can no longer, as heretofore, be found through WPA funds.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the transfer of the Virgin Islands from Denmark to the United States was celebrated on Mar. 31. The Legislative Assembly, on Oct. 6, unanimously approved the selection of former Senator William H. King of Utah as the islands' first resident commissioner. The office of resident commissioner had been requested by the Assembly and when it convened in September Ex-Senator King was its unanimous choice.
In the interest of national safety the power plant, dock and warehouses of the West Indian Company were taken over by the United States Government in March. This company has been one of the economic pillars of the islands, furnishing work to thousands through its operation of a coaling station, harbor works, a power plant and a bauxite transshipment plant. At the same time agents of the FBI struck against enemy aliens on Charlotte Amalie and St. Croix.
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