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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1920
Page
1
The supreme council of the Allies accepts Marshal Foch plan to employ allied armies if needed to enforce the Turkish treaty. About 200 000 troops now stand ready within the Turkish empire as San Remo reports. The council also reviews relations with Germany.
The new State daylight saving law takes effect at 2 a m Sunday. Clocks and watches should be advanced one hour. The public is urged to set ahead Saturday night as well, following prior daylight saving practice.
In Omaha on April 21 amid slow returns from Tuesday's primary Senator Hiram W. Johnson led the Republican preference. William J. Bryan gained enough votes to reach the first four candidates for delegate-at-large to the San Francisco convention.
With less than half of the 1349 precincts reporting, Senator Johnson leads General Wood by 8645 votes, Pershing in third. Bryan narrows in for delegates at large and sits near the cutoff as counts come in.
The bill permitting sale of 2.75 percent beer and light wines was approved by 21 to 8 in the Senate. Opponents urged postponement until the Supreme Court rules on the Volstead Act. Senator Wells noted the bill could proceed through both branches and be tabled if needed.
The American League game Chicago defeated St Louis 7 to 4 despite rain interruptions. In the National League Pittsburg beat Cincinnati 5 to 3 while Boston and Brooklyn were postponed by rain.
Bishop William Lawrence told clergy and delegates at Trinity Church that mob rule must be put down and urged film censorship. The address, delivered as the Episcopal diocesan convention opened, drew a marked audience response and was endorsed by a unanimous vote. A business session in Huntington Hall discussed creating a 12 member council to be named by the bishop, despite opposition from some clergy.
Charles Roy was killed and Ernest Bouchard seriously injured when a Boston & Maine passenger train struck an auto truck at Baker Street crossing in South Manchester. The truck was crushed. the locomotive damaged. three others sustained minor injuries.
The slightly injured are Anna Cha bot Anie Giegeire and Dernit Boissert all of Manchester. The Baker street crossing is partly obscured and the track is on a downhill grade as a fast moving train struck the truck.
A promotional note states 8 percent makes it worth saving with a partial payment plan. A few dollars weekly could buy preferred stocks under this program.
A young woman known to police as Thief De Luxe appeared in court after stealing fine clothing from an apartment renting at $105 a week. Police traced the suspect through the stolen finery and placed her under detention pending further proceedings.
Florence Sennott known as the queen of the shoplifters was sentenced to 23 months in the Sherborn women’s prison by Judge Duff after larcenies totaling thousands of dollars. She was arrested at a Back Bay hotel with lightweight boxer Cleveland Johnny Downes as she entered the lobby.
James Mack and Michael Grisi prohibition enforcement agents were arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct after a fight with waiters at a Tenderloin cabaret. They fled in a taxicab through the theatre district, a patrolman chased them, and a bottle of whiskey was found on Mack. Bail set at $50 each.
City councils of Woonsocket Pawtucket Central Falls and Warwick adopted daylight saving ordinances effective next Sunday. With five cities and three towns now on record the action comes after the Rhode Island Senate refused to concur in a state law.
President E J Pearson told Charles A Ufford at the New York New Haven Hartford annual meeting that officials are deeply interested in and participating in plans to improve metropolitan passenger traffic facilities around Boston for public and company benefit.
Mr Ufford sought a resolution to name a committee for joint conferences with Massachusetts officials, but the proposal could not be considered as the subject was not in the call. Vice-President Buckland said Boston & Maine stock remains in trustees hands under a sale order by October, with time extension possible. Stockholders must decide grouping or sale once the ICC acts, while director votes totaled 924,298 with no opposing ballots.
Thomas W. Lawson was fined $1000 by Judge Michael J. Murray in Municipal Court after being found guilty on 13 counts for advertising mining stocks without filing a financial condition statement with the commissioner of corporations. The judge noted this showed a lack of awareness of the law and complimented the Attorney General for vigilance.
Sir Roger Casement was arrested in 1916, allied fleets bombarded Gallipoli forts in 1915, Oklahoma opened for settlement in 1889, and the first shot of the Spanish American War occurred when the Buena Ventura was captured. Also notes a 1898 Nashville reference and an Iowa I. W. W. convention crackdown a year ago, plus Margaret Carnegie’s marriage to Ensign Roswell Miller.
Weather bulletin notes fair and warmer conditions for Boston Thursday with unsettled, likely showers Friday. Northern New England partly cloudy and warmer Friday, southern New England fair and warmer Thursday then cloudy with showers Friday. Eastern New York fair in south, cloudy north Thursday, warmer with showers Friday. Disturbances travel east. eastern storm brings rains south of Mississippi. western disturbance moves toward Atlantic States with Friday showers and thunderstorms. winds from the Atlantic coast shift to moderate westerlies.
The text forecasts a bright fair day and night with daytime warmth and slightly cooler nighttime temperatures, noting a stable pattern for the period.
Yesterday's temperature readings from Thompson's Spa show an average of 48 with highs near 62 and lows around 46. The record includes times 8 p.m and 9 p.m with temperatures in the 50s and 60s, and notes the average yesterday was 48 compared with 52 a year ago.
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