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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
8
A December dispatch outlines a purported Christian peace terms associated with German Foreign Minister von Kühlmann. The text, said to echo summer proposals once denounced as political posturing, reaches via neutral channels and mirrors earlier intimations of a new peace offer.
The terms would leave Alsace Lorraine to a plebiscite, impose payment to Germany for colonies to aid rehabilitation of Belgium, Serbia, Romania and Northern France, and redraw borders with new independent states under suzerainty. Analysts debate whether the proposal is propaganda or a genuine peace feeler and whether it could form the basis for a satisfactory settlement.
Governor McCall ordered all 55 newly appointed medical advisory boards to organize tomorrow at district headquarters. Major Fred Rolund, from the Medical Reserve Corps, aids the boards as they select chairmen and prepare to classify registrants under selective service rules.
Italy's treasury minister Francisco Nitti announced the metallic reserve stands at 1.74 billion lire, up 85 million, despite reduced income from tourism and emigrant remittances. He attributed the favorable exchange in neutrals to political instability and soaring living costs, not real prosperity.
After a full day’s hearing divided between consumers arguing against price hikes and producers insisting on higher milk prices to stay in business, Philip R. Allen of Walpole, chairman of the Federal Milk Commission, issued a statement yesterday.
State House commission hearings on milk prices invite all other consumers to testify or mail facts. Yesterday prominent consumers Mrs. William Lowell Putnam of Boston and Frederick T. Fuller of Walpole accused producers and distributors of wasteful practices. They cited unprofitable cattle and distribution duplication as major expense drivers. Witnesses argued for parcel delivery cuts and farm profit guarantees similar to England.
The 15th Regiment Companys of the Massachusetts State Guard under Major Augustus Reynolds will provide a one week relief along the barred zone on the Boston waterfront. They will relieve Company I of Chelsea and Company K of Everett as their tour ends this afternoon.
Senator Newlands met President Wilson at the White House to discuss the Interstate Commerce Commission's wartime railroad operating recommendations. He said the talk was full and comprehensive and noted the Cummins-resolution inquiry would be planned by his committee in a meeting set for tomorrow.
Captain John M. Magie of the Quartermaster's Relief Corps arrived from Camp Meade on War Department orders and joins Base Hospital No. 7 at Boston City Hospital. Dr. John J. Dowling leads the hospital as major and commanding officer while Captain Magie will perfect equipment in readiness for summary front departure orders expected momentarily.
Washington December 2 Major General William A Mann commander of the Rainbow division has been relieved due to physical inability to stand field duty and will return to the United States to retire next July His successor has not been announced
Anti-Suffrage Day at the Liberty Bread Shop on Huntington Avenue features 20 war condition bread recipes prepared and served by volunteers including Miss Julia Prendergast Miss Martha Salvey Mrs Albert Thorndike Miss Eleanor Clarke and others.
Edith Godbey testified at a federal hearing on Johnson's removal to face a white slave charge in West Virginia. She admitted she wished to see Johnson suffer and positively identified a Negro as the man who induced her to cross from Charlester into Kentucky.
After a full day of cross examination, the government rests its case in the Johnson hearing. Edith Godbey’s testimony remains largely intact amid tense exchanges with Attorney Lewis, including claims of past poisonings and a police arrest involvement, with a final resumption date set in a week.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge says Congress debated age limits seriously when set and is unlikely to change them now. He would oppose any move to reduce the age requirement at this time, according to a Harvard Crimson communication received yesterday.
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