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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1920
Page
12
New York City officials debate a hard line crime drive as Commissioner Enright seeks 800 extra officers. Orders limit patrol car breaks and require street pedestrians to be questioned overnight. Civic groups discuss parallel anti crime plans while calls for financial probes rise.
In a charged city meeting President Curran calls for more patrolmen while demanding a new police commissioner. Police Commissioner Enright urges cab usage for clues and warns on crime. City squads patrol the streets, focusing on the Bronx as five men are ARRESTED in an Eighth Avenue jewelry store with $15,000 worth of goods stolen from a warehouse.
Reports state Mr. De Valera left a hotel days before the Aquitania sailing and was not seen aboard. Sparling noted he would have kept out of sight if aboard. Police insisted on passport verifications for passengers landing in Cherbourg from the ship.
London authorities issue orders to port officials to watch incoming steamers for Damon De Valera. If aboard the Aquitania he would travel in disguise as a fireman or stoker, with Dublin circles speculating he would head to Paris for possible peace talks.
Bishop Cohalan of Cork called the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic scandalous for defending touch and run ambushes. He questioned why the Irish republic had not been recognized by the United States in response to the protesters against excommunication of Irishmen fighting British crown forces.
In a public reply, the bishop calls the association’s claim that he uses spiritual power to aid the British nonsense. He asserts sincere Irish independence and says he will act as chaplain only when armed forces defend the weak. He condemns ambushes and calls Cork's ruin a result of policy, urging recognition of the Irish republic by the United States.
J L Fawsitt writes to the Boston Chamber of Commerce denying British Admiralty claims that fog signals and lights are unreliable and could endanger navigation off the Irish coast. Cork Harbor officials report no ships avoiding the coast due to warnings and attest that approaches, anchorages, and wharves are safe.
A Cork mail train raid reported from Charleville sees fifty armed masked men halt the crew at the station and seize twelve mail bags, later found in a hedge. two bags emptied. The attacking force had previously repelled an assault on Ballinalee barracks. An anonymous message to the resisting sergeant warned, Congratulations, but you will not escape.
The Misses Annie and Susan Walsh sisters of the late Cork Lord Mayor McCurtain arrive in Washington to testify before the Commission of the Committee of One Hundred investigating conditions in Ireland. The hearings resume tomorrow with Miss Ellen C Wilkinson and Mrs Ennet Erskine Robinson of Manchester representing the British branch of the Womens International League.
In a packed John A. Andrew School hall parishioners presented Rev. William B. Whalen to a purse of gold marking his twenty fifth year of ordination. Nearby at St. Augustine's Church Rev. Joseph F. Coppinger celebrated his silver anniversary in the same manner, both former Boston College classmates.
Dishonest dentists nationwide allegedly overcharged for ex service men and used inferior materials, costing the government hundreds of thousands of dollars. Authorities prepared to arrest those implicated, with some tied to Boston practice.
The Public Health Service and local officials report a broader graft probe implicating 600 dentists nationwide while urging licenses for all soft drink venues to curb mingling of sexes and illicit sales. Jamaica ginger under scrutiny. calls for tight controls on lodging houses cafes and various day and Sunday licenses.
Evelyn Nesbit testifies before Magistrate Levine in West Side Court alleging she gave her brother Howard Nesbit a Marquise ring worth 3500 dollars to pawn. She says the ring was pawned for 1500 dollars with one payment of 500 received and 150 paid to her while the rest was withheld. Howard Nesbit denies the charges and a further hearing is scheduled.
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