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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1919
Page
16
The U S cruiser North Carolina and the French liner France docked in New York today with six U S officers and men of the American Expeditionary Force. The North Carolina carried 11th and 12th Battalion troops along with engineers and various casualty units from Georgia and other states.
In France the 870th Infantry and units including the 269th and 368th fought under shell fire in the Vosges while engineers rebuilt bridges. Harlem Negro citizens greeted veterans from the 269th as they returned, and Major L’Esparance noted Croix de Guerre awards among the regiment and marines. The Fifth and Sixth Marines’ Croix de Guerre ribbons mark Bel leau Wood Soissons and Champagne battles, now waving from the Rhine line near Koblenz.
Simultaneous conventions of metal trades councils were called for Feb. 17 in New York Chicago Philadelphia Galveston New Orleans Portland Ore and other cities to discuss new wage agreements to replace the Macy scale for shipyard workers Delegates said the convention would vote on concrete bargaining for all metal trades with shipyard operators Another proposition contemplates a uniform wage scale for all shipyard metal crafts nationwide
Union slasher-tenders voted to strike unless manufacturers restore the 15 minute daily machine shutdown privilege left when a 48 hour week began. The privilege allowed preparation time for the next day and was withdrawn with the new schedule.
Chelsea honors the 55th Coast Artillery Corps supply company returning from France. Twenty thousand residents lined Broadway and South Station crowds cheered as Major Breath and Captains addressed 66 returning men. The unit, originally Fifth Company of the Coast Artillery Massachusetts National Guard, remembered the Marne and Meuse-Argonne fights, with two members killed and one officer surviving pneumonia.
The birth reached a French town where her father served with his outfit and boys nicknamed her Clermont-Ferrari. Her mother Mrs Edward Rood of 70 Summer Street Chelsea and the father, injured in service, lay in Fort Wright hospital recovering from surgery and expected home in three weeks.
The Red Cross lunch room marks Feature Week with special preparations for Lincoln's Birthday and Valentine Day. White linen uniforms with red crosses will be worn. Volunteers include Miss Madaline Beals of Boston and Miss Mary Sigourney of 77 Beacon Street.
More than 60 soldiers and sailors enjoyed a free Sunday noon dinner at the Methodist Service Club in the vestry of First Methodist Church on Temple Street. Afterward Rev. Barton Pogue led 80 Epworth League members on a hike to Cambridge to visit Longfellow's home.
Paris February 8 The Associated Press reports Professor Ferdinand Lamaude dean of the University of Paris Law Faculty and French delegate Leon Bourgeois on the commission on a society of nations say the most important part of the preliminary work has been concluded and the effort advances.
Professor Larnaud outlines progress of the Society of Nations commission with plans for a executive assembly to settle disputes among member nations. Delegates from the United States Great Britain and Italy to represent their countries as major staff changes occur.
Captain Alice McAllister and Lieutenant Violet McAllister of Portland sisters who served under shell fire in France for 11 months sailed from New York for France after a six weeks furlough spent commanding groups of workers meeting troopships. Adjutant Helen Purviance accompanied them and is said to have cooked the first Salvation Army doughnut in France for an American fighter. Eighteen more Salvation Army women workers also sailed for France on another vessel.
John Fay was relieved of his watch on Chandler street early yesterday as three tall dark clad men fled toward Clarendon street after threatening him with a gun. Fay recalls the attackers were under three years in age, wore caps, and spoke of heading to Columbus avenue.
Advices from Kovno report Bolsheviki ordered evacuation of Vilna following victories by Lithuanian troops and advances by Finnish and Tithonian forces. The move marks a shift in control as regional fronts realign.
The opening service of the triduum in honor of Our Lady of Lourdes at St Mary's Church North End drew a crowd too large to seat. The triduum and novena run the last three nights of the novena and will close tomorrow night.
The first of Wallgren's humorous cartoons from Our War Library will appear next week in Boston Post Sunday Magazine. It is featured in Stars and Stripes, the newspaper printed in France for U S forces.
A thin home menu is disrupted by an unplanned visitor causing mental unrest in the Helen and Warren household. The scene is part of Mabel Herbert Urner's entertaining instalment for next week's Boston Post Sunday Magazine.
Hewes Potter of Boston announce a public sale of all machine and equipment from their two Trade Building and Summer Street plants plus leather stock. Items include electric motors sewing machines cutting machines and heavy dieing out equipment with hundreds of lots described in detail in the catalogue. The sale begins at ten oclock on Wednesday February 12 1519 at the premises and excludes the Bedford Street home plant.
Paris reports 50 000 Portuguese Republican troops surrounding Oporto the royalist stronghold. Royalist attacks on republicans were repelled and railways run normally. Government mobilization of youths was carried out without orders.
William T. Sheridan longtime telegraph operator for Red Sox training trips and Boston media offices died at his Somerville home after weeks of illness. He worked with Western Union at the Journal and Advertiser then Water Street branch, helped at the Harvard Yale boat races, and served in Charlestown residence 17 years. Survived by wife Mary and sisters Esther Carroll and Mary Sheridan. buried in New London. Funeral from 69 Adams Street at 9:30 a.m. with a high mass at St. Aim’s Church.
Waltham residents dedicated a Roll of Honor on Waltham Common to the 1975 men who served in World War II. Mayor George R. Beal and Samuel Clark led the program with prayers by Rev. Francis E. Welch and oration by Rev. Peter J. Walsh. The Italian Band provided music.
Chignole a deeply human hero suffers a great victory hampered by a terrible mistake in the next installment of The Flying Poilu by Marcel Na daud. The Boston Post Sunday Magazine promises the continuing tale in the upcoming issue.
Zhang Sun Wan and his brother T. L. Wan, NYU students, were formally charged with the murders of Dr. Theodore T. Wong C. H. Shie and Ben Sen Wu at the mission headquarters. Wan allegedly admitted writing Wong’s name on a $5000 check stub, a clue police call a virtual confession.
Boston Episcopal churches joined a nationwide Bring the Boys Home drive led by the War Work Commission chaired by Bishop Lawrence. Local churches including Trinity Emmanuel St Pauls Advent and Messiah contributed to a total surpassing $100000 over the asked amount. The drive, overseen by Bishop Lawrence from home, aims to allocate at least $850000 for servicemen.
Three delegates Thomas F. Morgan Louis Magn et and Ames Starrs were named by the textile workers council to join the joint manufacturers workers committee. They will ask the Federal War Labor Board to set a temporary schedule in silk mills while the 47 hour week demand is settled. The manufacturers have not named their committee. The joint committee will appear before the board Tuesday.
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