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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
2
The Atlanta City Council prison committee voted to discontinue whipping of women at the city stockade after a public hearing prompted by the Atlanta Humane Society. The panel will study flogging of male prisoners and the stockade houses convicted police court detainees.
The Franklin Park zoo extends care beyond cages with 20 feeding stations. Curator Morse and an assistant drive the park after snowfalls to shovel paths and sprinkle corn wheat and oats, with walnuts for squirrels. Robins and pheasants sample the snow-fed treats while shy pheasants and hungry robins gather at sheltered stations.
William J. Bryan, speaking in Norfolk under the Anti Saloon League of America, declared he would oppose any move to make Governor Edward I Edwards of New Jersey the Democratic nominee for President in 1920.
John L. Scanton Jr., 11, of 50 Burnett Street West Roxbury, riding downhill on Weld Hill Forest Hills, struck a telegraph pole at Hyde Park Avenue Weld Hill Street and suffered a possible fracture to his left wrist.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court in a unanimous ruling to the Governor and Council yesterday declared the entire constitutional convention's work to rearrange the state Constitution as without value and of no effect.
The August three day convention adopted a rearrangement plan containing all previously ratified amendments. Voters approved it in November, expecting it to form Massachusetts government. A dispute over the treasurer title and bond issuance prompted a Supreme Court opinion on the new draft with amendments.
The court unanimously ruled that the 1780 form of government remains valid and that the 1790 document stands with its amendments in effect. It stated that amendments from the 1917 and 1918 constitutional conventions, ratified by voters, remain unchanged. The initiative and referendum and all 21 approved amendments retain full force and effect.
The hearing on the petition by Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway employees seeks an injunction to block a special city election on jitney licenses. Justice Crosby will hear the case Friday at 9 30 in the Boston Supreme Judicial Court, with a likely day end decision. The pivotal question is how to define a measure, marking a first test before the state high court. Jitney drivers voice confidence of victory, citing a California ruling in a similar dispute.
MISS GERTRUDE N. HUBAN is named the real pretty girl at the Gillette Safety Razor Company's factory, celebrated by her Dorchester and Roxbury friends as the beauty among workers.
The Gillette Safety Razor Company in South Boston enters three of its workers in a beauty contest to prove their firms employ the finest types of loveliness in the Northern States. Miss Gertrude L Julian and Miss Margaret H Coyman are among the selected trio, both clerks in the packing room with several years of service.
Representatives of Estonia Latvia Lithuania and Poland closed a weeklong conference in Helsingfors with a plan to form a defensive alliance against Soviet Russia. A peace talk with Bolsheviks was not discussed. Lithuania and Poland sharply clashed over terms, with Lithuania unwilling to join any Poland led pact and ultimately acting only as observer.
James H. Horman a 44 year old resident of 110 Marquette avenue Quebec was arrested in Malden by Inspectors Burke and Morrisey on charges of being a fugitive from Quebec. He is sought for sorcery uttering and larceny of 6800 the Canadian government property in a crime span from February to December 1919. The Quebec police chief traveled to Boston to assist in the arrest.
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