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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1920
Page
3
The Constitutional Liberty League filed a petition in the Legislature to lift federal restrictions on making selling and prescribing alcohol for medicinal use. The signers include leading medical professionals from Greater Boston and nearly all local hospital staffs.
Over 200 petitioners led by Samuel J. Mixter and Massachusetts hospital officials including Henry M. Pollock and John J. Dowling back repealing the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. The effort, backed by Boston medical elites and many citizens, seeks to legalize medical alcohol use and repeal national prohibition through legislative action and public education.
Lieutenant Kliefoth, formerly secretary to the American embassy in Russia, condemned Bolshevism as an autocratic threat to family, patriotism, democracy, and religion. He recalled witnessing the 1917 revolution and events through 1919 during his time in Russia.
State committee of the American Commission on Irish Independence proposed jubilation meetings in Greater Boston on Sunday afternoon and evening April 25 to celebrate the Massachusetts bond certificate campaign. The gatherings would be led by Irish societies and replace Patriots' Day parade plans.
Boston organizers abandon the parade due to time and coordination limits and opt for mass meetings and a possible open air demonstration. Wor cester retains plans for April 19 with speakers including state officers and bond drive leaders. Three Sunday mass meetings are set in Somerville Stoughton and Needham with local officials listed to speak.
H. Ware Barnum general counsel for the Boston Elevated Railway Company is chosen as arbitrator on the three member board to consider wage increase demands from the Boston Carmen's Union. James H. Vahey will represent the union. A third chairman will be named later to represent the public. The process targets only unresolved issues and the parties foresee a brief proceeding as the company declines the full union wage increase.
General Manager Edward Dana and a union committee will meet to settle as many questions as possible by direct negotiations. Items unresolved will be referred to the arbitration board for final decision.
Protection under American copyright laws applies to subjects of Great Britain and its dominions, colonies and possessions except Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa and Newfoundland, under a presidential proclamation issued April 10 and released by the State Department.
New York April 14 The International Gordon Bennett aviation trophy competition will run September 27 to October near Paris starting from an airdrome. Three U S teams will enter the event. The trophy has been won twice by the United States and once by England and France.
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