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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1919
Page
11
Throughout the metropolitan area including Boston, telephone operators joined a strike, replaced by special delivery letters, messengers and motor vehicles. Exchanges across Somerville, Newton, Waltham, Wellesley, Charlestown, South Boston and others operated sparsely or shut, with pickets, limited local calls, and aid from police and volunteers for sick calls and emergencies.
Amid a strike by local operators most toll and local calls are blocked. 130 nonunion AT&T workers stay at their boards handling long distance but cannot connect New England to New York or other cities without local help. Banking firms with direct links remain able to call out, yet public calls fail. News offices and reporters only access buildings above the first floor.
Police report emergency calls including fires doctors and ambulances were handled well yesterday. Superintendent Crowley said the department will aid all urgent cases through its own telephone system due to limitations from the telephone company. Police telephones throughout the city were staffed and ready.
St Albans Vermont reported uninterrupted local telephone service with Franklin county exchange operators at work despite widespread outages. The city stood among few in the state with continuous service today.
Chicago April 15. William Marwitz assistant postmaster of Hinsdale shot his wife after hearing a physician’s verdict that she had 60 days to live. He fatally wounded his two year old son and six year old daughter before dying by suicide.
Harvard University promotes six new professors and eight assistant professorships plus one associate professorship in recognition of meritorious wartime work. Appointments include Hugh Cabot in genito-urinary surgery, Alexander Quackenhboss in ophthalmology, Kirsopp Lake in ecclesiastical history, Arthur Ope in fine arts, George D. Furkhoff in mathematics, and Rioland Thaxter in cryptogamic botany. Assistant posts go to Richard Hawkins in French, Julius Klein in Latin American history and economics, L J A Mercer in French, George Weston in Romance languages, J L Dawes in electrical engineering, William Graustein in mathematics, W. Riddle in cryptogranic botany, and F A Sanders in physics. C K Drinker becomes associate professor of applied psychology.
Herbert Hoover and Lieutenant-Colonel Robert E. Olds announce a coordinated Red Cross food relief effort in Europe for all allied governments. The note outlines aims, responsibilities, and the need for continued support and distribution channels across occupied and liberated areas.
The Red Cross states no request has been made for it to relieve Europe or to combat Bolshevism with food. It explains its aid is limited to medical and hospital supplies, clothing, and food for the sick, while famine relief is a government matter. The program uses over 200 million dollars monthly and depends on 18 governments. The food administration and Red Cross cooperate closely to meet the crisis.
Heavy squalls of wind rain and hail dampen hopes that Major Wood will arrive from West Church to begin his Atlantic crossing attempt. If weather does not clear soon he will miss the full moon advantage and petrol awaits his arrival before deployment to the aviation field.
Washington reports revised World War II casualty records showing 274,860 major casualties, up 1,755 from last week. The update includes killed in action 32,384, died of wounds 13,485, died of disease 22,356, and wounded in action 197,574, with 4,563 missing in action.
Hugh Frayne general organizer for the American Federation of Labor discusses the spread of Bolshevik influence and the growing labor unrest in an insightful article slated for next week's Boston Sunday Post.
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