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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1920
Page
2
London February 8 The British Parliament will reassemble on Tuesday facing heavy questions on finance nationalization of mines and railroads and the Irish problem as top priorities for the new session.
Predicts a lengthy royal speech framed by the cabinet outlining national priorities. Lloyd George to open with Europe review, Russia relations, and Polish Italian matters. Labour pushes mine nationalization. Irish Nationalists oppose repression policies. Cabinet changes stir Labour strength fears amid speculation on a new ministry and cabinet posts.
Premier Lloyd George resists embedding Sankey Commission nationalization aims in a miners bill. Talk of direct action and a general strike returns to the political scene as Paisley by election draws attention. Asquith campaigns for Liberal seat, with conservative journals urging votes for him to keep a great parliamentarian in national service.
Dr. Edwin H. Place of Boston City Hospital urged continued vaccination in schools citing smallpox mortality by age. He detailed 1803 early U S inoculation on Noddle Island and credited vaccines with sharp declines in deaths.
Weymouth announces a memorial building in Colonial style to honor soldiers and sailors who fought and died in the war. The structure will house town offices and Veterans' Association quarters with a forecourt of honor for war relics. Memorial hall seats 1100 on the floor and 400 in the balcony, with the second floor hosting veteran association headquarters.
A double funeral will be held at St Benedicts Church Somerville for John J Hennessey 52 a Charlestown Navy Yard machinist and his brother James M Hennessey electric ion in Boston Maine railroad employ, who died within a day of each other. Both born in Charlestown they are sons of Patrick and Mary Hennessey. John a Spanish War Veterans member. Burials in Holy Cross Cemetery Malden.
William N. Stoddard, noted newspaper writer and War Labor Policy Board member, spoke to the Cambridge Prospect Union on How to Get the Reds Out of the Factories. He praised shop committees at General Electric Lynn for uniting workers and employers and improving results.
Tenor John McCormack opened his four recital run at Symphony Hall drawing capacity crowds. He offered a largely English program with Mozart Brahms Irish songs and new pieces by Lehmann Waldrop Schneider and Coleridge Taylor. Kennedy and Schneider accompanied with notable encores and strong audience praise.
TOKIO reports Bolshevik uprisings against the Japanese on Sakhalin Island with attacks on mining and petroleum plants. A rescue party in two sledges has been dispatched to the scene.
By 6 o'clock tonight a copy of the proper federal income tax return for 1919 will be mailed to every person in Massachusetts who paid the tax last year. At close of business Saturday only 6000 farms remained to be sent out to complete the alphabetical list of taxpayers under $5000. Nearly 300000 forms mailed in two weeks.
The Internal Revenue Service will deploy 300 deputies and clerks in Little Building offices to process 10,000 returns daily across 80 working days. Farmers receive special rules: gains from sale of farm products are included unless inventory is used. depreciation affects machinery and draft animals. farm produce used as barter is valued at market price. livestock sales deduct cost from proceeds. farm produce consumed by family is not taxed. recreation farming losses may ignore product sales and treat expenses as personal.
Colonel and Mrs. Fred A. Lindsay of the Volunteers of America bade farewell to the prisoners of the State prison during a general service in the chapel before their departure for Seattle to expand VOA work there. Rev. William Bradley Whitney officiated and heard prisoners’ thanks for their kindness and interest. During the service duels were rendered by Mrs. Myrtle Leman and Miss Gladys Lindsay, daughters of the Lindsays.
H C Witwer plans to resume the amusing adventures of Alex the Great in the next Boston Discovery Post Magazine with the installment titled You Can Do It.
James J. Wilcox vice president announces the Newfoundlanders M B Association will host its 29th annual ball at Odd Fellows Hall Berkeley and Tremont streets next Tuesday evening February 10. The arrangements committee promises an event to eclipse prior socials, noting the war cancellations end and a real get together.
A full day of meetings and lectures including Brighthelmstone Club and Pilgrim Hall sessions in Allston Dorchester Codman Square and Roxbury. Highlights include Edwin A Shaw on mental testing at New England Women’s Club 3 pm Ruskin birthday at the public library and Talcott Williams on The Arab at the Lowell Institute 8 pm.
Final preparations for the 15th anniversary of the L C B A were completed at a diocesan meeting. Supreme Trustee Mrs Alice C Maloney presided with presidents from chapters across the diocese. A rehearsal is scheduled for next Sunday at 11 o clock at the opera house.
Mothers wives daughters and sisters of American Legion members will organize a national auxiliary body. The move was approved at the Minneapolis convention and a Washington meeting next Monday will launch the first steps. Eligibility covers female relatives of men and women who served in the wartime government forces.
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