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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1920
Page
8
Mexico City November 30 The Associated Press reports President Obregon said Mexico will not seek admission to the League of Nations but would consider an invitation if extended.
General Alvaro Obregon, president elect, spoke with the Associated Press at his home near Chapultepec Castle. He said Mexico would maintain aloofness from league membership to avoid humiliating national pride. He cited issues including petroleum regulations, labor, radicalism, and upcoming legislative projects as priorities at midnight inauguration.
The president-elect pledges to establish a commission to regulate oil Articles 14 and 27, seek fair treatment for all parties, and avoid new petroleum recommendations. He lauds Mexico's pacification after last summer’s revolutionary movement and backs labor rights within the law. He also notes a pension and insurance plan for long-serving or disabled workers and promises lawful governance toward peace and prosperity.
A solemn high mass of requiem will be celebrated at 10 o'clock this morning at the Blessed Sacrament Church in Cambridge for City Clerk Edward J. Brandon who died Sunday afternoon after a short illness. The Rev. John J Powers will preside, assisted by Revs John J Ryan and Charles J Maguire. Burial will be at St Pauls Cemetery in Arlington. Honorary pallbearers include Mayor Edward W Quinn and others.
Final figures on army casualties in the World War are announced in the Surgeon General Ireland annual report. It shows 34 249 killed and 224 089 wounded.
A report compares killed to wounded in World War I with Civil War rates, noting 8.26 percent mortality for gunshot wounds versus 13.6 percent then. Improved surgery and sanitation saved 5.34 percent of wounded. Of thousand sent to France, 110 ended in hospital from battle, seven per thousand died. Infantry most casualties, signal corps next. Deaths from wounds total 13,691, about six percent. 158,585 wounded returned to duty. rest invalided. Shell wounds most deadly. a number of limb and eye losses detailed.
Jack Moss, arrested in Pittsburgh, was brought to Philadelphia as detectives say he confessed to not killing Henry T. Peirce but implicates Peter D. Treadway and a woman known as Boots Phillips. Moss claims Smith and Treadway planned to blame Boots Phillips during the ride from Baltimore to Hagerstown.
A Boston column collects testimonials from Mrs Catherine Lyons Mr Charles Tabor Mrs Alice Mallory and Mr William Dempsey praising Doan's Kidney Pills for back and kidney pain lumbago and related symptoms. Each says the medicine relieved pain and restored function after periods of distress. The notes span several years with Mrs Lyons and others describing notable relief and lasting benefit.
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