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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1919
Page
4
The renewal by Boston and Maine New York New Haven Hartford Boston Albany and other New England railroads plus additional roads calls for an average $1.20 daily increase and time and a half for overtime beyond eight hours. Currently overtime is paid as straight pay though switch tenders and yard workers already earn time and a half.
A local union leader said W. H. Lee, grand president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, will meet in Washington Tuesday with Hines to demand immediate grant of their agreements. He warned the president can call a strike at once if denied. The Columbus convention empowered him to act without a full vote.
Dr Charles Fleischer leader of the Sunday Commons and former rabbi of Congregation Adath Israel is engaged to Miss Mabel Leslie a Brookline lawyer. The wedding is planned for this summer and will be a democratic marriage allowing both to continue in their professions. Miss Leslie born in Canada grew up in Vermont and graduated from Boston University Law School. She now practices with Marion Weston Cottle, a prominent lawyer in Boston and New York.
Middlebury Vermont July 18 Vicomte G D Dela Jarrie of the Middlebury College French school has been chosen by Queen Marie of Romania to act as her guide during her planned American visit.
Franklin Falls New Hampshire mayor Edward G. Leach rejects becoming a matchmaking official after receiving a letter from a wealthy Oklahoma oil man seeking a wife. He reports a flood of requests from women nationwide and vows to return to his law practice, while relaying comical details of the unusual pursuit.
The Deutsche Zeitung, close to former royal circles, calls William II's condition deep melancholy and critical. He rarely leaves his apartment, speaks mainly on religious topics, and shows high nervousness. The former empress may need treatment in Germany for heart trouble. In Amerongen, William II remained in bed after a cold, not rising for meals. Congressman Louis B. Goodall and Rep. James V. McClintick visited Amerongen.
In Washington on July 18, House Republicans failed to repeal daylight saving via a rider to the 1920 agricultural appropriation bill. Democrats and GOP opponents defeated the repeal provision, then the $33,900,000 agricultural bill passed to the Senate with no dissent. The day featured sharp clashes over the repeal and accusations of political maneuvering.
Memorial services at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul commemorated the first anniversary of the Chateau Thierry battle. The Rev. Edward T. Sullivan lauded the 26th Division's valor and audacity as attendees, including soldiers and families, recalled the famosa moment when troops advanced up the slope and drove back the Germans. The service featured patriotic hymns and organ music.
Major A. F. Ewell of Cambridge and Lieutenant John Pickett of Medford resigned their commissions with the Commission on Training Camp Activities in the Northeastern Department. Major Clifford Towner of the New York district assumed temporary charge of the local office.
July 18 report of a Brockton killing after Frank Gentile, a young soldier, was shot in his home. Witnesses say Gentile and John Arzenti were suitors for Mrs. Arzenti, with Arzenti winning prior to the murder. Gentile learned of the rival and returned home days before the fatal act.
Lawyer for Argenti argues he can prove the young soldier did not fire the fatal shot as police seek a second gun. Witnesses describe a coat exchange and a preshooting fist fight while Italian testimony complicates the case.
Eric Brienning a 40 year old leather goods maker from Saugus and Hattie Crawford wife of cigar dealer Charles I Crawford living at 88 State Road Beachmont were arrested in Los Angeles on charges of contributing to the delinquency of their minor children and violating the Mann act. They were found living together at 2345 Echo Avenue where they had eloped from Beachmont in June and were accompanied by Mrs Crawford's 65 year old daughter Marguerite and Brienning's two children aged 5 and 9. Charles Crawford and Police Chief William S Tappan arrived in Los Angeles to pursue custody of the child.
Boston patrolmen are invited by Commissioner Curtis through the Civil Service Commission to compete on Thursday Aug 14 for promotion to sergeant. Eligible are those with maximum patrolman pay and six years continuous service. Location and time to be announced. Experience sheets issued by the Civil Service Commission at the State House six days before the test.
A survey of recent novels and authors including George Allan England, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Muriel Hine, Futahatei, Mary S. Watts, Mansfield Scott, Sir Harry Johnston and H. G. Wells. The piece weighs brutal adventure against sentimental romance and notes varied settings from Malay waters to New England and Africa.
Grace C. Raymond widow of James S. Raymond and descendant of John Quincy Adams bequeaths almost all her about 2 000 000 estate to Maude S. Raymond wife of Irving E. Raymond in trust. A hundred thousand dollars is set aside to secure income to relatives of Mrs. Raymond. The will notes the trust estate not to touch her son’s heirs.
In Brockton on July 18 evidence grows that former Councilman William C. Deeham died from poison after a hospital death. The failure to receive Whitney's stomach analysis report and a federal drug investigation fuel foul play theories. Police search for $150 missing from Deeham's pocket after he left Dr. Cummings office at 2 am, while a jitney driver recalls a large cash roll in his possession.
Wartime telephone rates in Massachusetts will move to the Public Service Commission after December 1. The commission is expected to approve reductions toward normal pre war levels, with private ownership returning July 31 but rates kept at Postmaster General levels for four months or until December 1. If companies do not cooperate the July 31 1918 rates will automatically be restored December 1.
Miss Florence King of Chicago was elected president of the Woman's Association of Commerce at a meeting in St. Louis. Officers include Irene Behnke of Chicago as first vice president Ora Lightner of Tulsa as second vice president Emma Mays of Indianapolis as treasurer Anita Bauman of Columbus as auditor. The committee plans to extend activities toward forming an international organization.
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