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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1920
Page
2
Dr. Rendel Harris says the hull of the Mayflower may have been found and will reveal details at a Plymouth conference in September. The Daily Mail reports discovery of old timbers and oaken beams in a barn beside an inn named Old.
Dr Harris says Jordan's Hostel at Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire may have originally formed part of the hull and deck of the Mayflower.
Six year old Salvatore Garafalo of 1818 Washington Street South End is hospitalized at City Hospital with a fractured skull and deep head gash after attempting to dash across Massachusetts Ave behind a trolley and being struck by a car driven by Frank G. Cook of 8 Clarendon Street.
Two workers at the Fore River Shipyards in Quincy were injured when a sinking derrick on a lighter struck them on a coffer dam 60 feet above. Michael Tully of Dorchester suffered a broken arm, and William Gowdie of Weymouth was hurt with undetermined injuries.
A man identified as Gordon was arrested after a dummy package was mailed to Edward Gordon in Detroit as part of a $25,000 blackmail plot against Henry Ford and his son Edsel. Inspector Frazer led the investigation with help from postoffice and police officials. Gordon, once a train news butcher, faced US commissioner J Stanley Hurd with $3,000 bail.
Massachusetts faces a decision on whether thousands of World War I veterans may vote in the fall elections. Attorney General J Wes ton Allen will define their status after the Boston Board of Election Commissioners refused to register a former citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army before U S entry.
Fairhaven investigators convinced the right leg found in the Acushnet River belongs to an adult female and they appeal for State police help to identify the victim and solve the case.
Deputy Sheriff Walter H. Francis announced that all Fairhaven and New Bedford girls and women reported missing in recent weeks are alive and located with certain friends. The case, once seen as a possible assault and murder of a 20 year old unaccounted woman, is now baffling to investigators.
Hours of dragging with grappling irons failed to recover the body fragment. Police plan continued attempts and broader angles as they probe links to a missing 17 year old French girl who disappeared after childbirth at Fairhaven hospital. Investigators check New Bedford Harbor vessels, focusing on coal barges and crew wives, to locate the source of the limb.
In Pittsfield the jury in the Superior Court found Joseph Balzarano guilty of murder in the second degree for the March 25, 1915 slaying of Vincenzo Cresci. Judge Christopher T. Callahan adjourned without sentence as the verdict was announced after a short deliberation.
Regulations for bakeries drawn up by Herman G. Lythgoe of the state health division require strict sanitary measures in all food preparation areas. Flour and baking materials must be stored off the floor in clean racks, and tobacco use is prohibited in production areas.
Twenty new policemen were added to the Boston force early this week. They are drilled in Roxbury during lulls in regular duties. Training covers drill marching weapon handling law ordinances court procedure case handling and public tact.
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