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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1919
Page
14
Washington hearings reveal attitudes of shippers, railroad securities owners, and state commissions toward railroad legislation as representatives prepare to present before the Senate interstate commerce committee next week.
Shippers oppose a secretary of transportation and federal railroad incorporation, urging liberal rates and ICC regulation with state co operation, while rail security owners favor private ownership and a quick return to management. State commissions push intrastate rate control and regional ICC support, with a twilight zone debate. The plan will be presented to a state committee next week as the Association of Railroad Securities and the National Industrial Traffic League report partial agreement on private ownership restoration. Guy M ér of the traffic league says railroads need reasonable returns to fund facilities for shippers.
Naval officers said tonight that the bases at Block Island and Nantucket would be closed by month end. Supplies from the stations are being shipped to headquarters of the second naval base in this city, and all submarine nets protecting Newport and Narragansett Bay have been removed.
The City Board of Estimate denied the Interborough Rapid Transit Company request for a five cent fare increase on elevated and subway lines. The New York Railways Company also had its surface line fare increase request refused.
Manager Weinstein in Court on Court Street admits fitness and resolve but cites extensive injuries from three weeks of trials as he positions Giant Sailor Frank Walaga as the final challenger among about 30 man o warsmen.
In Scollay Square a drunken crowd clashed with manager Weinstein who kept order with force, while the court ruled the brawl but deemed Walaga unfit for further punishment due to drunkenness and distance, suggesting probation aboard ship.
The War Department lists 52 American prisoners of war freed from German hospitals and others reported to have been returned to France. The only New Englander named is Clair H. Fisher of East Glastonbury, Connecticut.
A London cabled document published in New York on January 10 is identified as the constitution of the Irish Republic but is in fact the political platform adopted by the Sinn Fein convention in October 1917. Diar muid Lynch, national secretary of the Friends of Irish Freedom, issued a statement tonight clarifying the matter.
Fire in Chatham destroyed the town hall early today causing losses over 25000 dollars. A dance had been held there last evening. Firefighters from Harwich and naval station units helped fight the blaze for about three quarters of an hour, threatening the church schoolhouse and George Snow's residence nearby. A. M. Burns’s home was lightly damaged by sparks.
Washington, Jan. 10. Department of Labor officials told the Senate educational and labor committee that unemployment in American industrial centers has risen in the last four to five weeks due to actual cessation of industry. They warned of a dangerous buildup as employers fear unrest and wage cuts while buyers defer purchases. The need for a permanent peace basis for the U S Employment Service was urged by New York’s employment service head and others.
The funeral for Percy B. Dakyn an artist with the Boston Post died after five days illness was held at his Brookline home. Rev Charles Garland led services with a large Post staff delegation Knights of Pythias and a firing squad from B Company 12th Regiment M S G present. Burial followed at Newton Cemetery with a volley at the grave.
Private John Maslosky of K Company 31st Infantry was cited for bravery in action near Grandpre France on October 26. He advanced through enemy machine gun nests and captured numerous prisoners, returned with prisoners after being believed lost, and listed Williamsburg as his home.
Major-General George O. Squier, chief signal officer of the U S Army, told the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York tonight that aviation development in the United States during the war was marvelously rapid. He called it more like a fairy tale than a formal account of hard facts.
General Squier cites the radiophone as a top war device and lauds 14,000 Liberty motors producing 6.7 million horsepower. He notes aerology experiments, helium production for balloons, and forecasts safe transcontinental travel by dirigibles. About 8600 aviators trained, 350 firms employing 200,000 in plane production. strict tests show flight limits by altitude.
New York January 106 The injunction suit by Commercial Cable Company and Commercial Pacific Cable Company against Postmaster General Burleson to stop the government from seizing cable lines was dismissed by Federal Judge Learned Hand. The court held it lacked jurisdiction because the seizure was an executive act by President Wilson for war purposes.
Several hundred workmen at the Victory plant in Squantum were delayed overnight when a New York New Haven Hartford train split a switch near Neponset bridge, derailing three to five cars after leaving Atlantic for Boston at 4 03. Traffic was diverted for about three hours as the third passenger car left the rails and the fourth and fifth cars also came off. The train was slow and passengers were only slightly shaken.
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