25. Hearings before the Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations on
 H.R. 10022, 72d Cong., 1st Sess., 65 (1932).

26. See, Boyer America's Virgin Islands, 145-147. Reasons for the transfer are
 explored at length by John Frederick Grede in his unpublished Ph.D. dissertation,
 "The New Deal in the Virgin Islands, 1931-1941," (University of Chicago, 1963),
 pp. 60-67. Grede cites a 1935 letter from George Foster Peabody to Mrs. Franklin
 D. Roosevelt in which Peabody, a wealthy New York banker friend, claimed credit
 for inducing transfer of the Islands to civilian control; ibid., 64-65.

27. Luther Evans, 280.

28. Leon A. Mawson, Persecuted and Prosecuted (New York: Vantage Press, 1987),
 236.

29. Luther Evans, 280.