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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1918
Page
14
Full trolley service over Harvard bridge was resumed yesterday for the first time since repairs began several weeks ago. Traffic jam not materially increased as one side of the bridge remains closed to vehicles. Reconstruction work continues but is slowed by a lack of materials.
The Public Service Commission held a hearing on protests by Bay State Massachusetts Northeast and the Union Street Railway against city and town ordinances aimed at restricting jitney operations. The case involves multiple systems and local measures affecting how jitneys are regulated.
Crowds crossed the Dudley street Harvard square bridge all day after the Elevated added safety devices to prevent derailment. Workers laid heavy beams along open repair gaps and began a lance of further safeguards while using local lumber treated with creosote oil. Citizens urge both night and day work to speed completion as material arrives in quantity.
The United Textile Workers with over 40,000 Lawrence members ask textile manufacturers to set a 48 hour work week starting March 8. President James T. Hughes warns a major strike could follow if demands fail, though he doubts a strike is needed as many large Lawrence mills already lean toward the change.
Samuel H Pillsbury for the Bay State says jitneys should meet street railway rules with fixed schedules and caps on riders. John J Ryan reports his firm lost 15009 to jitneys in Haverhill Amesbury and Newburyport. City solicitor Wilber suggests district based regulations. Hearing postponed to three weeks from yesterday as regulators urge joint talks.
Ex Emperor William Hohenzollern plans a German style Christmas at Amerongen Castle near Amersfoort converting a drawing room into a chapel. He will deliver the sermon with a German missionary presiding, while gifts are declined and a traditional plum pudding and carved turkey dominate the feast for a small invited group.
Frank V. Thompson, superintendent of Boston schools, says friction between the Boston Teachers' Club and the School Committee is purely personal though teachers cry foul. They allege the club opposes the committee and resents a move to censor the teachers' News Letter. Thompson says the aim was to unite the official news organ with the Educational Standard, the committee's spokesman.
Washington Dec 23 Names of two officers and 102 enlisted men in the expeditionary forces reported as prisoners in German camps were released by the War Department. Fourteen enlisted men were at Camp Rastatt with others at Swicken Strassburg Dulmen Merzburg and unknown camps. Names include Alfred Langais Oldtown Maine Edmund A Reardon Lawrence Mass George R Dahlquist Winchester Mass and several others from Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island and Maine.
Washington reports a War Department change in divisional commanders in France and Germany. The 26th Division is now commanded by Major-General Harry C Hale. On November 28 the unit was at Montigny Le Roi in the Meuse valley near Chaumont, where Pershing has headquarters.
London December 23 British Wireless Service reports Leon Trotsky Russian Bolshevist minister of war and marine condemns Count Czernin for his attempts to excuse his part in negotiating Brest-Litovsk.
Attorney General Gregory announced the removal of all restrictions on German enemy aliens except those for entry and departure from the United States and internment powers. The action, effective Christmas Day, follows President Wilson’s cable instructions and will affect about 500,000 German men and women.
The order ends permit and pass systems against aliens, abolishing registration controls and freeing Austrians and Germans from residence and employment restrictions. About 260,000 Germans will no longer need permits for entering restricted zones, with DC, the Panama Canal Zone, and waterfronts reopened to them.
The document lists commanding generals for multiple divisions including First through Ninth, with names such as Major General FE M McGlachin and Major Generals Howze Tassiter Rhodes Sturgis Ballou Lyon Martin. It also shows divisions lacking regular commanders and locates combat divisions across Luxemburg Germany France Belgium and Le Mans with numerous place names and unit numbers.
Trotsky criticizes Count Czernin and former German foreign secretary von Kuehlmann over differing policies on self-determination for Poland Lithuania and Courland. He notes Hoffmann's role in Brest-Litovsk and claims Czernin carried out orders. Shorthand talks from Brest-Litovsk to be published. Austro-Hungarian troops are described as having invaded Ukraine and oppressed its people.
Middlesex School hockey seven will play 10 games this winter with two dates pending. The opener is January 11 at home against Milton High School. Student manager David A. Williams of Philadelphia announced the schedule after a brief informal practice on the school rink this week. Practice resumes January 6 when the winter term begins.
Next week's Boston Sunday Post presents the four great attacks on the Moros in the Philippine campaign as told in the famous fighter's own words. General Pershing leads the narrative detailing engagements, strategy, and outcomes from the campaigns against Moro resistance.
The Department of Justice announced that the President has directed the Attorney-General to discontinue enforcement of most regulations governing German enemy aliens after Christmas Day. Interned aliens and those restrictions on entry remain in effect where applicable.
Bridgeport Connecticut December 23 more than six thousand workers were laid off with little notice as Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Company announced cancellations of most ordnance department contracts. Fewer than one thousand will remain at the plant.
Plant works managers Gauchet and Williams announced that production will continue at the Union Metallic Cartridge plant. A posted notice says employees dismissed before August 1914 should apply after January 2, 1919 to be re employed on the company’s commercial work, which will be rapidly resumed.
Funeral services are held for Mrs Annie Moley wife of John A Moley Boston representative of Underwood and Underwood news service company at Sharon. The obituary notes her husband and family and marks a local ceremonial farewell in the community.
York residents gathered yesterday for a funeral at the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Sharon. The Rev John T O'Brien pastor officiated and interment followed in New Calvary Cemetery.
The former German submarine 126 collided with the American torpedo boat destroyer Parker in Plymouth. The Parker was damaged but no crew members were injured.
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