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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1920
Page
2
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Government moves against sugar brokers as four men are arrested in this city and two in Burlington Vermont amid alleged plan to raise prices by selling sugar among themselves to a profitable level.
Israel Rutstein Louis M Konitz Morris A Levine and Harry Leshner were arraigned on conspiracy to obtain an unreasonable price for 40000 pounds of sugar. They pleaded not guilty and were held for June 16 hearings. Co-defendants Israel Cohen and Harris P Prindle face trial next. Levine is described as the leading figure. The case traces a 27 cent a pound sale to Dunn Co of Canaan NY after a Boston refinery sold the sugar for one cent.
The American steamship Vanada bound from Norfolk to Genoa with 7700 tons of coal, now 200 miles out, heads for Boston with boilers leaking and machinery defective. It left New York Monday after starting May 13 and will arrive at Boston harbor today for repairs.
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway trustees propose a 60-50 deficit sharing to fund future operations in the Gloucester district with a June 20 deadline to discontinue the car service. A public hearing at 1 Beacon Street drew Mayor Charles D. Brown and local officials. Gloucester citizens recently voted against future contributions. The 50-50 plan would cover only the coming year and not past deficits.
In Springfield on June 11 the teachers' club denounced male educators as unjust unsportsmanlike and undemocratic after they testified to the school committee against equal pay for women. The school board rejected the request, and the women vow to press the fight further.
Tomorrow at 7 15 p m the hymn service on the porch of the Cathedral Church of St Paul Tremont street will begin again A brass quartet will assist the organ and the vested choir in singing patriotic and sacred hymns weather permitting
Mrs. Sarah F. McDonough, an employee of the Federal Reserve Bank, was awarded custody of her 6 year old daughter by Judge Fox while the couple's divorce trial proceeds. The father, James H. McDonough, a retired U S Navy chief machinist, is 45. the mother is 27.
Mrs. McDonough testifies life with husband in Quincy became intolerable and she secretly studied shorthand to gain independence. She says the child now lives with the father at Miss Katherine Moriarty’s home in 99 Francis Street and that visits require Moriarty’s presence. She describes drinking in the family and claims the husband boasted a Navy pension of 1700 dollars yearly while she worked in Washington.
Judge Fox heard arguments over custody with the father denying leaving many bottles at the Quincy home. He suggested the girl remain with her mother while allowing the father one week per month, after considering the parties’ statements and counsel remarks.
Leon Haigh 23 of Bowdoin street and Charles Trimble 21 of Cunard street Cambridge were held in 1600 dollars for the grand jury after a break at Scolponetti Costello tailoring, 12 Tremont row, City Hall avenue station officers seized them in Central Court yesterday.
Georgia Harkness of Harkness New York will be the only student among 408 graduates to receive two master’s degrees from Boston University at the Tremont Temple commencement. She earns master of arts and master of religious education and aims for a PhD to teach the English Bible in college. Only other double degree recipient is James G Joyce of Corbonne Newfoundland.
Brown University will raise salaries for professors associate professors and instructors effective September 1. Professors will earn 4500 to 6000 dollars, associate professors 3500 to 34000, assistant professors 2500 to 3500, and instructors 1200 to 2000, with a liberal noncontributory addition for staff who joined before 1919.
Brown launches fundraising to renew generous pension provisions once provided by the Carnegie Foundation and seeks an endowment of no less than 3 million dollars to support ongoing programs.
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