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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1922
Page
14
Washington December 25 The census bureau will begin on January 1 a decennial survey to determine wealth and public debt across the United States including state county city and other subdivisions for the purpose of issuing securities and assessing costs.
Officials say plans are nearly complete for work expected to take about six months. Much interest centers on the census and public debts as a constitutional move to ban further tax exempt issues. Treasury notes continued tax exempt securities push up federal rates due to large taxpayers favoring such instruments.
A historical notice lists deposit guidelines for savings across banks and trust companies. It notes specific dates in January and February for Savings Banks in Boston Framingham Roxbury and related institutions, with details on deposits and interest timing. It also mentions National Banks in Boston Malden Waterford and cooperative banks with deposit dates and conditions.
Officials note the challenge of estimating the total of tax exempt securities as wartime and postwar issues by political subdivisions increased the overall debt. They say the federal government faced higher interest and taxes to fund the flow into tax free bonds. Census data gathering will survey every county and may require reviews of school and road district records.
France nears a complete reparations program after a conference with Premier Poincare and cabinet members. Disputes remain on Rhineland customs control and mechanisms to hasten an international loan to stabilize the mark, with no military seizure planned.
Washington report notes employment prospects are bright for winter. The Department of Labor survey finds nearly all states with conditions much better than last year and descriptions ranging from fair to good in most regions.
The Armenian national delegation will present a plea for a Turkish national home to the near eastern conference tomorrow. Noradunghian Pasha, former Turkish foreign minister, will address the minorities sub commission. Turkey rejects any Armenian territorial provision and argues Armenians should seek redress with Turkey itself. Reverend George R. Montgomery, Armenia America Society head, continues to press for a territory that would inspire Armenians.
Otto H. Kahn urges a U S backed plan to relieve Allied debt while avoiding outright cancellation. He favors partial relief tied to reforms, outlines staged interest rates and sinking funds for Britain France and others, and calls a commission to tailor terms with Congressional approval.
Birkworth announced a questionnaire to all non members with wire connections or ticker service. Firms failing to answer satisfactorily would lose ticker access and wire service. He stressed quotations of the exchange are a key asset for small brokerages and must meet member standards.
The Interstate Commerce Commission will elect a new chairman this week to serve during 18. Commissioner E. H. Meyer is favored to win the post after McChord retires from the chairmanship. Meyer has prior one year in the chair and will remain a commissioner.
Louis H Chalif an urban dancing instructor launches a society with leading New York orchestra chiefs to curb suggestive song and dance. He cites objectionable modern steps as driven by vulgar music and plans broad review of popular dance music for distribution nationwide.
Senator McCormick after touring Europe warns of gravest events this winter if allied nations fail to adopt wise reparations policy. He calls for priority for northern France reconstruction, a multi year German moratorium, and troop withdrawals from the Rhine. He stresses Christian will and comity as essential to lasting peace.
State police and Woburn police hunted yesterday for the arsonist who set fire to the rectory of St Charles Church in Woburn endangering four priests and three servants. City officials consider lighting church properties at night and plan tighter guard measures after a church fire three weeks earlier. Police say no proof links the Ku Klux Klan to the blaze though KKK propaganda elsewhere sparks concerns.
At the Workers' Party of America convention delegates decided to form a national labor party under direct orders from the Russian government. The plan aims to establish a workers' republic in the United States led by Ludwig Lore. DOJ agents attended and noted sedition and anarchy charges against some attendees.
Krastue Brainerd longtime Poat-Intelligencer editor and reader in Dub Mc life in this state, died of pneumonia in Seattle. Born Middletown Connecticut in 1955, he graduated Harvard and served as curator of engravings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts before entering journalism. He worked with the Times and the World in New York and the Press in Philadelphia, and the Constitution in Atlanta.
In Battle Creek Michigan two children Willison ten and Barbara eight suffocated in their home after a basement fire swept to the first floor. Parents Waynard and Mrs Watts were decorating the tree when the fire started and searched the home before escaping, believing the children were elsewhere.
The musical comedy Good Morning Dearie opened at the Colonial Theatre with Louise Groody as Rose Marie and a large, talented cast. Ada Lewis and Harland Dixon draw laughs and applause as supporting leads while the 16 Sunshine girls deliver spirited dancing. The show features bright costumes and novel scenic effects, with a lively but familiar score that still delights Boston audiences.
Vincent Lopes Orchestra headlines a high caliber Keith's bill with star acts. May Wirth and Phil clowning drew encores. Around the Corner by Billy Chase and Charlotte La Tour staged parallel love scenes. Freda and Anthony spoofed Gallagher and Shean to applause. Harry Mayo sang richly with opera and popular numbers. New comic Jimmy Savo debuted alongside Helen Higgins, Natalie Bates and Horace Bently.
Senator Borah prepares to urge President Harding to convene a world economic and arms limitation conference, backed by organized farmers. Farm State senators expect heavy farmer telegrams urging support, while the American Farm Bureau Federation presses Europe to be heated and for Rhine disarmament after reparations are settled.
The Lancaster Theatre features George Fitsmaurice's screen version of Mary Johnston's To Have and To Hold led by Bert Lytell and Betty Opson with Earle Williams in Restless Souls on the same bill. Thursday shows include Dalton and Hart in On the High Sea and Bert Rewlinson in One Wonderful.
Edward H. Crosby reviews the Hollis Theatre bow of Lightnin by John Golden with Percy Pollack as Lightnin Bill Jones. The piece, long a New York favorite, follows a lovable but flawed drunk who wins audience sympathy despite misdeeds as Mrs Jones faces divorce and a court scene.
Louis Simon and his comic partner Shep Camp headline at the Majestic this week. The duo, praised for strong timing, perform in two vaudeville turns and in The Rose Girl with Irene Wilber as Blossom and Grany Kimball as La Garde. The cast also includes the Arco brothers Sithoft sister George Libby and May Parrow.
Twenty five underprivileged children cared for by the Balva tion Army were entertained at the residence of Mrs. John Johnson located at 117 Eutaw.
Edward E. Rose’s mystery melodrama The Rear Car receives a metropolitan premier at the Selwyn Theatre. Taylor Holmes stars as the clever but eccentric crime deflector with Marguerite Maxwell and Jane Seymour supporting amid a three act thriller set entirely in a trans continental train rear car. Secrets center on a murdered attorney and a heiress daughter, with a gorilla masked figure adding danger.
A detective story unfolds with a staged tomb and a dramatic unmasking. The play features Mr. Holmes Miss Marwell Miss Seymour and others as they are saved from a doom plotted to trap the audience. The performance grips the crowd with engaging suspense.
The class of 1897 at Annapolis endows a trust fund to award an annual prize for the midshipman showing the strongest officer like qualities and positive character. The fund was created to honor the academy and commemorate the class's 21st anniversary and gratitude toward the U S Naval Academy.
Three children drowned after breaking through thin ice on Conestoga Creek near Eden Paper Mill. Victims were Martha Weinhold 4, Mary Weinhold 7, and Martha Beppler 5, ages listed. they had received sled gifts hours earlier.
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