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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1919
Page
3
Health Commissioner Copeland announced steps to guard against a smallpox outbreak from Italy. Incoming passengers from Italy will be vaccinated, and any ship leaving an infected port within 16 days will not land. Residents not vaccinated in six years are urged to vaccinate as a precaution.
Melbourne January 22 reports the Australian government has approved formation of a company to survey an aerial route linking Australia with the Far East. The plan aims to map a potential long distance air corridor across the region.
Washington the War Department faced proposed gradual disposal of vast armistice surplus. R J Thorne outlined likely losses to the government and years needed to sell 1918 wool and items such as 45000 tons of heavy barbed wire 150000 horses 2000000 rubber hip boots plus food and clothing as preparations for feeding 250000 drafted men monthly continue.
The Interborough Consolidation Corporation reports a steep fall in net income from 3,263,910 in 1917 to 724,914 last year. President Theodore P. Shonts told stockholders there is no imminent danger of receivership as long as Interborough Rapid Transit dividends continue.
William B. Mayo of Detroit chief construction engineer for Ford defends Navy contracts for the Eagle boats before the Senate naval committee. He says profits per boat would be far below the stated $26,000 due to free government service and land and equipment supplied at lower costs.
Archibald Stevenson of New York testified before the Senate propaganda investigating committee that many American college faculty members espouse radical and pacifist views, especially in sociology economics and history, with names to be released. He cited organizations he labeled pacifist or pro German and noted prominent figures and a broad propaganda push by the Socialist party with about 100 meetings weekly, mostly in New York.
Major General Leonard Wood told a joint Kansas Legislature session that the nation should adopt universal training for defense. He proposed training youths for six months with the Tenth Division cited as an example and praised industrial training at Camp Funston as successful. He warned war remains a constant threat and endorsed a large trained citizen army rather than a standing force.
Secretary Baker ordered the release of 113 conscientious objectors at Fort Leavenworth. Their sentences are remitted and they are honorably discharged from the army. The group includes 30 men previously recommended for furlough and a second group found sincere by the board of inquiry on re examination.
The ruling confirms that chauffeurs in the Motor Corps of the Quartermaster Department will stay discharged as part of wartime demobilization. Governor Coolidge and Mayor Peters led protests against mass layoffs, but the government states the resignations are part of trimming departments no longer needed after the war.
Thomas Kletcha, inspector for the Massachusetts Highway Commission, jumped into the icy Housatonic River as a crowd watched and saved five year old George Caswell who had fallen from the West street bridge rail. He stripped to his underwear, fought through mud and shallow water, and brought the boy to shore unconscious but alive.
Washington, Jan. 22. The War Department released a list of additional organizations to be sent home early, totaling 270 officers and 4927 men. The units include the 58th Regiment Coast Artillery with several detachments, various Aero Squadrons, Transportation Corps companies, Balloon and Signal battalions, Pontoon Train, Telegraph Battalion, Base Hospitals and multiple Tank Corps battalions and replacement and salvage companies.
Washington reports theatre managers secured a victory as conferees backed off a plan to raise amusement admission taxes. They rescinded a proposed increase from 10 to 20 percent and kept the existing one cent tax on each ten cents paid after receiving petitions with thousands of signatures.
Tax proposals would raise cabaret admissions to 15 percent and club dues to 15 percent while keeping a one cent per ten cents admission levy for theatres and amusements. Protests flood in with over 350000 petitions as legislators weigh changes. Simmons led Senate managers with a plan to keep the current rate, while Kitchin and Fordney pushed for 20 percent.
New York readers learn that the Holland America Line passenger steamship Rotterdam 24,149 tons gross, laid up in Rotterdam in March 1915, sailed for Brest to load American troops for New York. She is a large liner and sister to the Justicia, sunk by a torpedo.
Paris January 22 leaves from the American army will be more liberal. four new classes added. Class A remains unchanged for enlisted men. Class B allows up to 14 days every four months for officers and soldiers to visit Britain Belgium Italy or parts of France excluding Paris. Classes C D and E set three day Paris visit, ten day casual leave, and three day leave to other French locations. An Alsace Lorraine exception requires French military commission permission.
Advertisement claims thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble and may misinterpret symptoms as other ailments. It promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy and urges readers to obtain a sample by mailing ten cents to Kilmer Co. in Binghamton New York and to mention the Boston Daily Post.
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