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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
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Elwood B. Wade, 23, a milk man, was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a Bridgeport jury after a trial that lasted two weeks and five hours of deliberation. Wade showed a brief smile when the verdict was read in the Superior Criminal Court, ending a tense courtroom drama.
Reports diverge on the Langdon tragedy with Japanese officials promptly apologizing. Langdon was a well known local figure from a prominent family.
Henry T. Lummus of Lynn, long serving justice of the Southern Essex District Court since 1907, was promoted by Governor Cox yesterday to the Massachusetts Superior Court to succeed Jabez Fox who resigned. The governor also named Hill of Salem as associate justice of the First District Court of Essex, and announced nominations for several judicial and public posts.
Vice President-elect Calvin Coolidge urged Massachusetts to raise a larger share of its food and feed at the Franklin County Agricultural Society dinner in Greenfield. He praised agricultural fairs state aid through the State Agricultural College conservation and new highways and urged extensive dairy farming development.
The article reports Mayor O Callaghan facing a deportation question with Wilson declining to intervene. State and labor officials are urged to decide the issue, while counsel argues a position on the matter.
Washington January 12 The State and Labor Departments remain at odds over the fate of Lord Mayor O Callaghan of Cork who arrived at Newport News as a stowaway without a passport. President Wilson will leave the inter departmental dispute to his cabinet officers to settle.
Officials said Secretary of Labor has not acted on Acting Secretary Davis request to deport O Callaghan. State Department plans to seek Justice Department help to enforce orders while Lord Mayor prepares to testify before the committee investigating Irish conditions. Labor refuses to recognize State Department authority to order exclusion until formal referral.
Schenectady Jan 12 The General Electric Company will reduce its workforce by at least 10 percent across all departments and plants including Lynn Massachusetts and other locations. The move is expected to affect thousands of workers and signals a major restructuring within the firm during this period.
The largest shipment of fallen veterans from France arrived at Boston South Station from Hoboken last night. Bay State Gold Star families, mothers and fathers, gathered in groups to receive eleven of their loved ones who paid the supreme sacrifice overseas.
Relatives receive the bodies of veterans from the Transport DeKalb in New York. Local undertakers take charge at stations while State Legion officials arrange guard of honor by post commanders. A firing squad and burial detail will be provided by American Legion posts for the funerals.
In Mattice Ontario the dispute between Lieutenants Stephen A Farrell and Walter Hinton over letters from the free balloon Ass598 drift to Moose Factory appears settled. Hinton denies authorizing publication of the wife letters and says they were marked not for release. Farrell declined further comment.
Mrs. Philip Franzen of Madison after eloping with Pierre Paul Auther the Highland Park grandee loses both home and relationship. She followed him to Chicago then learned he had returned to his legal wife and refused to take her back, leaving her without husband or home.
New Haven Jan 12 Secretary Anson Phelps Stokes of Yale is agreed upon to head the university, succeeding Dr Arthur T Hadley. Formal election expected when the trustee board meets next week. Since Hadley’s resignation last winter he has been favored by the corporation faculty alumni and students as Hadley’s logical successor.
Gervase Elwes, 50, premier English tenor, arrived in Boston for an engagement. He was struck by the same train that brought him from New York and died shortly after being injured.
The tenor and his wife alighted at Back Bay station where a coat mix up led to a shuttle on the platform. He tossed a coat to the conductor but it hung out and was struck by the moving car. He sustained a broken collarbone and multiple injuries and died later at City Hospital.
A spectacular blaze gutting the four story building of M. F. Driscoll at 208 210 Milk Street left one fireman hospitalized after he was injured. Three others slid down a blazing ladder to safety as flames swept from street to roof and falling slate endangered scores of onlookers.
A mysterious blaze on Central Street drove flames onto Milk and Central streets for over an hour. Firemen fought the roof collapse after 8:30, as an explosion ripped slate from the roof near Edward J. Coveney of engine 25 Fort Hill square.
Morris Aronson of 113 Pierce Street Hyde Park bought eight hundred fifty dollars worth of alcohol from Harry Shapiro at 795 Cambridge Street Cambridge. The product was water, police say. Shapiro was arrested, released on two thousand bail, and surrendered at West Roxbury District Court. The alleged sale occurred on November 25 and Aronson reported larceny.
Washington January 12. Plans for the inauguration of President-elect Harding may shift away from Jeffersonian simplicity. Senator Knox said Harding suggested moving the oath and address to the East Portico of the Capitol, a historic site for presidents. The joint committee will meet to act on the proposal.
Governor Miller called for strict enforcement of the 18th amendment and the Volstead act, asking the Legislature to act. He argued that honest enforcement could support law or lead to modification, while tolerated disobedience breeds disorder and contempt for law amid widespread violations and corruption.
Langdon, Lt. W. H. of Boston, was shot by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok at 4 am Tuesday. He fired two shots before collapsing, reached the American cruiser Albany where he served as chief engineer, and died later.
Washington reports the U S government will conduct a careful inquiry into the fatal shooting by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok yesterday of Lt William H Langdon of Boston chief engineer aboard the American cruiser Albany. The action was taken by two government departments.
World War II era note recalls two German submarines sunk by Dover shore batteries near the harbor. The item lists historical wartime coastal defense outcomes and reflects on submarine losses tied to radar and coastal guns.
Weather bulletin outlines fair and colder conditions for Boston and vicinity on Thursday, with increasing cloudiness and warmer temperatures Friday followed by snow at night. Northwest winds diminish. Northern New England and Mid-Atlantic regions see fair, colder Thursday with varying Friday effects including possible rain or snow.
Forecast calls for bright and fair daytime conditions with stronger winds. Tonight cooler than yesterday, bringing a brisk and windy end to the day.
The report shows yesterday's average temperature at 36 degrees with readings at 3 pm and 1 pm. It compares to the previous year’s average of 28 degrees and cites multiple illegible data points from the spa and weather source.
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