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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1922
Page
9
The 0th annual Massachusetts State Grange convention opens this morning in Tremont Temple with 1500 delegates. Welcome addresses set for 11 o’clock by Mayor Curley and Master Edward W. Connors of the Metropolitan Pomona Grange. Chess first prominent in America by Benjamin Franklin.
The Supreme Court decided two major national prohibition cases. In one ruling from Washington, the court held that both federal and state governments may prosecute and punish the same illegal act in manufacturing owning transporting or selling intoxicating liquors.
A California case rejects the government’s claim that an executive officer may enforce national prohibition by levying and collecting assessments and penalties under the Revised Statutes. The court finds the executive lack authority to tax for enforcement.
The article reports that Massachusetts rejected the Volstead Act’s concurrent power concept in a referendum, leaving state prohibition intact while federal cases against Vito Ianza and others proceeded. It explains the Supreme Court decision on concurrent state and federal enforcement under the 18th Amendment and clarifies state independence in enforcing prohibition within territorial limits.
Fire at the Charles 8 Lom bard drug store at 38 Somerville Avenue Somerville caused about 2000 in damage. An overheated stove ignited the woodwork in the rear of the store.
Washington reports President Harding approved court martial sentences for midshipmen Bruce H. Robinson of Arizona and Stuart H. Hawkins of Massachusetts following hazing cases at the Naval Academy. Denby advised, with others receiving one year loss of standing. Harding concurred.
Midshipman Stuart H Hawking belongs to a Springfield family. His mother Mrs Harriet Hyde Hawkins is mentioned and he is a nephew of a former postmaster. The charge alleges hitting Midshipman Ralph B Pearson in the back with a fist and using abusive language toward him. The evidence showed that Pearson.
Testimony described Hawkins teaching Pearson the Naval Academy big hand cheer. Pearson said Hawkins struck him and humiliated him. Hawkins denied striking, claiming friendly instruction. The court reviewed the cage incident for about an hour before ruling.
The American steamship Eastern Glade bound from New York to Table Bay is in flames at sea. The Aimanzora, which picked up a wireless from the burning vessel, reports the fire gaining rapidly at latitude 12.5 northern, longitude 3.26. The ship sailed Nov 30 and is owned by C. D. Mallory & Co with a 3521 ton net cargo.
Ernest L. McLean Democrat won the Augusta mayoral race by 384 votes over Republican Melvin E. Sawtelle. Total 2181 for McLean and 1817 for Sawtelle. Republicans retain city government by control of five wards. first Democratic mayor since 1914. Edith B. Pierce defeated for Ward 2 council seat.
Gen Frank Sherwin Streeter longtime New Hampshire lawyer and former judge advocate general died at home after a long illness. Born August 5 1858 in East Charleston Vermont he taught in Iowa then practiced law in New Hampshire. He served as general counsel for the Boston and Maine Railroad and held multiple party and state roles including trustee of Dartmouth College. He is survived by his widow a son and a daughter.
Three inmates including a life term and two life-sentence cases were pardoned at the Connecticut board of pardons semi-annual session in Wethersfield. Charles G. Claffey Hartford Mrs Sarah L Lusier Moosup and Mortimer Wells New London were released after county prosecutors did not oppose clemency. Sixty four petitions were filed. forty were withdrawn or did not appear.
Miss Hazel Guggenheim heiress to a million and Milton S Waldman former New York and Cleveland newspaperman plan January wedding. Guggenheim 22 youngest daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim copper magnate who died in the Titanic disaster. She divorced Paris last month from Sigmund Kempner. Waldman, a Yale graduate, left New York after the divorce to pursue literary work in Paris. Natives of the Fiji Islands educated mainly by the Wesleyan Mission.
Edwin T. Meredith secretary of agriculture under Wilson said in Moines that McAdoo would win support from farmers labor and business and is the logical 1924 Democratic nominee likely to be nominated.
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