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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
6
The Senate passed a House bill permitting telephone firms engaged in interstate business to consolidate with Interstate Commerce Commission approval. The measure now goes to the President for signing.
In London on June 2 the House of Commons pressed Lloyd George and Sir Hamar Greenwood on recent events in Ireland. It was stated that since January 1 1921 six women have been murdered seven wounded and three kidnapped by Sinn Fein operatives. For the fortnight ending May 20 police eight military and 40 civilians were killed with nine assassinations and two attempted killings of ex servicemen. No evidence implicating crown forces was found in May. The prime minister said reprisals policy rests with military necessity and authority for restoration of order.
The Princess Matoika under Captain K B Lowry arrived at Commonwealth pier from Naples and Genoa amid crew denials of any revolt. Officers and crew called reports of mutiny baseless. Passenger Esther Greene of Providence returned after relief work in the Near East.
The Sacred Heart triduum ends tonight at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross with a solemn high mass at 7 a.m. and final services at 8 p.m. Rev. Thomas J. McDonough will preach the sermon. Similar observances occur at St. Joseph’s Roxbury and Roslindale Church with Rev. William J. Murphy and Rev. John F. Cummins leading.
Harvard University library receives packing cases of official German war documents and wartime periodicals from Berlin. Donors include Ellis L. Diesel, American commissioner at Berlin, with items such as Parole and other military journals, casualty lists, prisoner of war news, and 1918-19 revolutionary papers.
About 40 women and girls who form Newton City Hall's clerical staff sent a petition to Mayor Childs requesting three weeks of vacation instead of two. The move reflects their demand for extended time off.
Washington June 2 United News Senator King of Utah introduces a resolution demanding a full Senate inquiry into all Shipping Board affairs. He claims government losses in shipping exceed 3 billion dollars and notes ships costing 4 billion to build might fetch only 700 thousand if sold now. Other senators plan to back his effort, signaling a broad probe into the government's shipping venture.
A federal grand jury will convene next Tuesday to consider hundreds of liquor cases, many in federal courts for months. It marks only the second time a large batch of Volstead Act violations has been submitted to a grand jury. Previously over 400 cases were dismissed during the Gallagher era, with only sporadic later prosecutions.
Chicago June 2 The status of negotiations over working agreements between railroad employees and individual roads is anything but satisfactory says B M Jewell head of the railway employees department of the American Federation of Labor Not a single agreement for any group of employees on any road has yet been signed despite the fact.
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