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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1919
Page
2
In Chicago on July 20 a riot flare up left 27 dead and hundreds injured. Police and Governor Lowden kept watch through the night as clashes spread from North Side Negro areas to the South Side black belt with knives and clubs. Troops were not yet ordered to patrol the black belt.
Chicago's tumult flared with a riot at State and Thirty-fifth street and along the South Side. Police and militia mobilized a force of about 6500 to shore up order as 24 dead and roughly 244 injured were tallied by night, with hundreds more likely uncounted. Governor Lowder and Mayor Thompson coordinated efforts while fire and police fortified junctions and Negro districts. A jail siege was thwarted by a machine gun, and officials moved to remove Negroes from public works crews to prevent further violence.
In Chicago’s West Side Italian district a Black man shot to death was found burned and stabbed after police answered a riot call. Casolene was poured over the body and set afire, revealing a brutal sequence of violence.
Federal agents in Boston arrested Paul Aslouglou a Peabody merchant on conspiracy to defraud the United States in a sweeping passport fraud scheme. The plot allegedly used Turkish and Kurdish suspects posing as Syrians to obtain departure permits, violating State Department rules.
Providence officials report that the Carmen's union will not participate in court proceedings aimed at settling the strike affecting traction service. The road is under receivers and arbitration would require court review, a step union officials reject.
Funeral services for William B. Buckminster, 72, who died at Beach Bluff summer home, will be held from his 41 Dexter street Malden residence tomorrow afternoon. A Malden native, he chaired the Malden Trust Company board, helped run Malden & Melrose Gas, Assabet Mills, and New Idea Quicksilver Mines. He served five years on the Common Council, chaired the Water Board, and was a cemetery trustee. A Mason, Harvard Club member, and yacht club participant, he leaves a son Harold. Interment at Forestdale Cemetery.
Brigadier-General John H. Sherburne takes the helm as chair of the Legislature created commission to investigate the high cost of living in Massachusetts following Governor Coolidge’s recommendations.
Chusett left for Washington yesterday to push cooperation between national and State officials in delivering relief amid current economic conditions.
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