02 Jun 1919
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1919
Page
1
Michael J. Ryan reports from Paris that Irish delegates pressed for independence while praising certain wartime concessions. He relays a strong stance against the Allies drawn treaty and outlines hopes for free ports and territorial adjustments, with cost-sharing ideas for the war.
Two army aviators Lieutenant Melvin B. Kelleher and Corporal Joseph Katz were killed when their plane collided with another at about a thousand feet. The wreckage fell and was crushed amid timber and debris.
In a small village the celebrated hero known as the one man army earned a marriage proposal victory after distinguished wartime feats. He killed 24 Germans and captured 132 prisoners with 35 machine guns single handed, earning a village tribute and honors from locals.
Grace Loretta Williams plans to marry Sergeant Alvin C York in Pall Mall Tennessee with local crowds gathering and news of the wedding spreading across the region. The ceremony is slated to make history on the Cumberland Mountains, drawing people from miles around.
The article reports a cross Atlantic flight completion with a landing in Lisbon at 9 p.m. Greenwich time, nine hours and forty seven minutes after departing from Ponta Delgada.
Germany seeks complete disarmament as a condition for joining the League of Nations and peace. The German delegation led by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau says the terms of the current peace treaty are more than the German people can bear and hints at surrendering colonies to the League.
Austro German forces retook two forts near Przemys as World War I updates report. On this date one year earlier the U boat sank the US schooner Edward H. Cole off New Jersey. Germans reached outskirts of the Forest of Retz as Allied air raid on Cologne claimed 146 lives.
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for fair conditions on Monday and likely Tuesday with little temperature change. Winds will be moderate and variable, shifting to southeast and south as shown in regional guidance.
In New Bedford a sympathetic strike of all local textile operatives is set to begin tomorrow. Unions voted to withhold labor until manufacturers sign the wage agreement demanded by striking engineers and firemen, amid plans by mill owners to reopen soon but a decision to wait was made.
National League results include New York 2 Boston 1 and Philadelphia 10 Brooklyn 9 in 14 innings. Cincinnati 10 Pittsburg 2 follows a 4 3 first game. American League games feature Washington 5 New York 2 and Detroit 5 St Louis 4 with Cleveland 5 Chicago 3.
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