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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1918
Page
9
Senator McKellar of Tennessee declares the American people and the Allies endorse all of President Wilson's 14 peace principles and favor their incorporation in the coming peace treaty. He warns that Republican opposition to some principles may cause incalculable harm.
Senator McKellar denounces Republican leaders for pressuring delay on Wilson’s Fourteen Points and warns a treaty on five disputed questions would be rejected. He accuses Lodge and Knox of undermining aims for a lasting peace and says Roosevelt favors England’s sea control, hinting at party campaign dynamics for 1920.
Northampton December 30 influenza prevalence forces postponement of Smith College reopening after holidays to January 9, five days later than the original date.
A state house conference on labor readjustment highlighted a clash between Secretary Wilson and Harvard President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot. Wilson urged continued public and private construction to revive the economy while Eliot warned high wages and prices threaten housing, urging a sustainable path. Assistant Secretary Louis F. Post and Mayor Peters attended. discussions centered on financing, wage levels, and public works as a transition from war to peace.
About 60 delegates from across the United States met at Winthrop Hall to draft resolutions urging President Wilson and all nations at the peace conference to return Coritsa and Argirokastro to Albanian rule. Talks focused on methods, with mass rally planned in Massachusetts at Franklin Hall.
Leviathan remains in port at Hoboken N J after a turbine fault halts its scheduled sailing for France with many passengers bound for peace conference duties. The George Washington will transport the travelers and mails instead, with January 7 tentatively set for the Leviathan’s next departure following repairs to a broken turbine stud.
Jerome B. Landfield warned at the Economic Club that Russia could swing back to autocracy unless the United States offers steady guidance. Thomas Thatcher urged allowing Russians to decide their fate, echoed by Albert Rhys Williams who just returned from fourteen months in the former Czarist realm. Moissaye J. Olgin, a Russian revolutionary and journalist, also spoke. William H. Lincoln moderated the event.
Two Boston sisters and teachers Mrs Theresa Cunningham and Miss Helen Cunningham wed dentists now serving as lieutenants in the federal forces. Mrs Cunningham married Lt William O'Neil of Amesbury and Lt McKinnon wed Miss Cunningham, both ceremonies held at St. Leo's Rectory Dorchester.
A Marine Corps casualty list shows 765 names nationwide with most listed as killed or severely wounded. Officers Lieutenants Edward H. Locke of Madison Maine and Charles R. Wilbur of Walpole are the only commissioned officers among fatalities. The tally includes 53 killed in action and 569 wounded with various degrees, plus missing in action and slightly wounded.
A list of New England service members reported as killed in action or died of wounds. Names span multiple states including Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island and include officers and enlisted personnel with home addresses in towns such as Madison Walpole Exeter Bridgeport Holyoke Lynn Fall River and Boston. The report notes casualties among Lt Edward H Locke Lt Charles R Wilbur Corp Earl Brock and many others.
Emile Jessen of Denver Avenue Bridgeport Conn Szt Herbert A Paine Bangor Me Pt Robert J Toomey Beacon Street Somerville Corp Wolcott Wickenbaugh Federal Street Boston Pt Joshua A Goyette North Bridge Pt Raymond S Whitmore Wollaston Avenue Arlington MIA Corp James A Brown Oak Street Wellesley Previously Reported Missing Corp Channing McDonald Atlantic Avenue Nantucket Pt Whiting Geer Warehouse Point Conn
Major Thomas Murphy Lieutenant Mark King and Private Stanley Bolton of the 1011th Infantry tank service will give a recital of their front line experiences tonight at St Francis de Sales School hall Roxbury. The New Year's gathering benefits the reception fund for Chaplain O Connor of the 101st and the parish service members.
Paris dispatch reports British foreign secretary A. J. Balfour to pass through Paris for a short rest in southern France. Prime Minister Lloyd George will follow soon. The interallied conference is planned to assemble in Paris in mid January, with President Wilson expected to return from Italy for the opening.
London reports that mobs in Frankfort Germany plunder on a large scale while authorities are powerless to stop it Troops reportedly refuse to fire on the rioters according to a Central News despatch from Amsterdam The article notes notable disorder and the inability of local forces to quell the unrest
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