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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1922
Page
6
The body of Henry McMahon, 10, was found in a dense gully near a busy Massachusetts road. Police believe murder. autopsy pending to determine cause. Parents and Boy Scouts aided in search. a foreigner seen with the boy earlier is being pursued.
Police tie the killing at 556 Tremont Street to a drunken frenzy as George H Mansfield allegedly murdered Mrs Alice Irene Jones after wild drinking and dancing parties involving middle aged couples.
Police in Salem arrest Thomas Williams 33 of Lynn on charges of accosting three Castle Hill girls near the scene where a body was found. Williams, married with five children, denied links to the McMahon case and is not connected to the stranger seen with the child.
Washington July 21 The government plans to stand pat for 10 days to two weeks to gauge coal production from reopened bituminous mines under federal protection to meet essential industry fuel needs.
Secretary Hoover announced a Monday meeting of producers in Pennsylvania West Virginia Tennessee Kentucky Alabama and Virginia to discuss a rationing plan and curb profiteering. He described a central wartime style distribution scheme pooling coal by district directing car movements under government authority with cooperation from operators and the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Mrs Clara Benton of Bayonne New Jersey filed for divorce in Jersey City Chancery Chambers claiming her husband wrote a love letter to Louise Taylor a Normal School girl in Jersey City sending her 3000000000000000 kisses. She says the letter provoked an attack by Louise that required medical and dental care. George Benton does not contest the suit.
Powerful searchlights were installed at the Boston & Maine rail road shops in Springfield to guard against strikes. Supt. Charles M. Woodward says the measure protects workers amid threats by pickets and mirrors the action taken after a prior incident in Concord New Hampshire where masked men mobbed sleeping workers.
President Harding summoned Railroad Labor Board Chairman Hooper from Chicago for an in person briefing on the strike situation. Attorney General Daugherty conferred with Senators Borah and Cummins about possible legal action in railroad and coal strikes and government authority to protect workers and production.
Labor Board Chief Hooper was called to Washington to confer with President Harding on the shopmen strike. Attorney General Daugherty met with Senators Borah and Cummins on possible legal action. A national settlement was urged. Hoover proposed a coal rationing plan and a central coordination committee. Troops moved into southwestern Pennsylvania to guard reopening mines.
Governor Cox issues orders to sheriffs mayors and police chiefs to enforce laws protect public safety and guarantee every citizen's right to work amid industrial unrest in Massachusetts. He cautions against disorder and notes plans to keep transportation running while monitoring for escalation. A report clears a strike breaker of being shot by a veteran rather than by strikers, amid evolving violence claims.
A local golf double bill unfolds at Lexington Golf Club in North Lexington this afternoon. Players will contest handicap medal play over 18 holes and the fourth round of the season's trophy tournament.
Detroit July 21 The United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Workers warns that any railroad refusing to meet with cn committees to adjust wage differences will face a strike. E I Grable says wage rates prior to July 1 will be re established or raised in some classes. The Railroad Labor Board promised prompt hearings for unresolved disputes.
Arthur Franklin, 25, of 3 Baxter street Westboro, arrested by Boston police yesterday on a July 17 charge of larceny of an automobile in Roxbury. The car belonged to A Abramson of Westboro, Franklin’s employer, who employed him as a salesman and he reportedly took the car and disappeared.
John Hurley former Holy Cross and Lehigh football player and St Anselm’s College prep athletic coach resigns to supervise community service work at St Mary's Penn starting Sept 1.
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