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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
1
Washington reports that wage negotiations between railroad conference committees and unions broke off this night after railroad reps refused to continue considering demands estimated at one billion dollars.
In Santa Fe on April 1, two skeletons a boy and a girl presumed victims of a prehistoric volcanic eruption were found in a lava bed near San Rafael. The remains well preserved in a white stone house with turquoise earrings and fur or feather coverings, shipped to Washington, D. C. for study.
Ellis Searles of the United Mine Workers denounced the 27 percent wage rise for bituminous mine workers as not justifying new price hikes of 65 cents to $1.50 per ton. He argued operators plan these increases despite the wage gains.
Ottawa defeated Seattle 6 to 1 to win the professional hockey championship in Toronto. The series ended 3-2 in favor of Ottawa after five games with each side holding two wins earlier.
A new coalition called the Constitutional Liberty League was announced by prominent business and professional men in the city. The group aims to oppose the 18th amendment and enforcement of the Volstead act, shocking Prohibition supporters.
President Charles 8 Rackemann notes that top city influentials include league directors as the group shapes the upcoming season and civic plans. Continued on Page 15 Third Col.
A Cunard liner Saxonia arrived in New York today with a shipment of 10 million dollars in gold from Great Britain. The week’s total gold received climbs to about 20 million dollars with two more 10 million dollar shipments expected soon.
The Mississippi Republican State convention voted to elect eight delegates at large to the national convention, each with half a vote, and instructed them to vote as a unit for Major General Leonard Wood. The slate includes several Negro delegates.
President Wilson will refuse to sign the peace resolution now before Congress if adopted. Democratic chairman Homer Cummings predicted in Washington that there was not agreement on a third term idea and that the president would keep to his campaign promises as the item moved through Congress.
Joseph A. Gahm president of J Gahm & Son Bottling Co and Racine Horseshoe Tire Co of New England died last evening at his Brookline home 1038 Beacon St. He served 90 years as local representative for Schlitz Brewing Co of St Louis. Funeral arrangements to be announced today.
Richard C. Cox, the young man who sparked attention by purchasing 10 large Cambridge apartment houses valued at two million dollars, was arrested last night by Inspectors Dorsey and Haggerty at police headquarters on a war related charge.
Compromise proposals from the Berlin government were accepted by the workmen's general conference at Essen, ending the Ruhr revolution according to a telephone message from Essen tonight.
In New Orleans, suffrage leaders predicted Louisiana would become the 36th state to ratify the federal amendment as the Legislature set to meet on May 10. In Dover, Delaware, the house defeated the ratification deficit bill to make 36th state.
The initial tally showed 22 to 9 but three members switched from aye to nay and one member requested a negative recording. The final record read 26 nays to 6 ayes, with 18 affirmative votes required to pass. The House adjourned until Monday in a parliamentary sense.
Chronology lists the U S mint creation in 1792, Richmond evacuation by Confederates, German submarine actions in 1915, Wilson’s 1917 war declaration request, Mexico’s denial of land sales to Japan, and the Leviathan transporting 12,274 troops to New York from Brest, marking a record troop movement.
Forecast for northern New England: cloudy and warmer with rain Friday and Saturday. followed by clearing and colder weather. Southern New England and eastern New York: cloudy and warmer with rain Friday and clearing and colder on Saturday. Winds along the Atlantic coast from Sandy Hook to Hatteras: fresh and strong south winds with overcast skies, fog and rain.
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