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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1920
Page
1
A bitter tilt between wets and cries at hearings unfolds as Ireland's advocates push sympathy as the best hope. Devotes energies to prohibition enforcement plank while Wilson programme stands unbeatably in the backdrop.
Senator Harding, the Republican nominee for President, argued in his first campaign address that the nation needs no foreign powers to guide American duty. He urged Americans to preserve Americanism as the foremost duty of every citizen, with the remarks released on a phonographic record for the Fourth of July.
Demarest Lloyd and Randolph Wellford Smith of the Loyal Coalition faced a stormy hearing on the Irish question before the resolutions committee. Lloyd was rebuked by Chairman Glass for an unwarranted jab at Senator Walsh, while Smith narrowly escaped an attack from a hostile woman objecting to his remark that the Friends of Irish Freedom took 10.9 million dollars from servant girls.
Continued on page 21 with results from yesterday. In the National League Chicago beat Pittsburg 14 to 3 in the second game after an 11 inning first game 8 to 1? The Yankees, Dodgers, and others posted scores as New York 6 Boston 5 and Cleveland 9 St Louis 6 in the American League. Eastern League standings show Worcester 12 Hartford and New Haven 8, with Albany Bridgeport and Rain and Pittsfield Springfield Rain listed in regional results.
A severe southerly gale battered Greater Boston causing injuries as a man was blown from a staging and others toppled by torn gates and falling limbs. Traffic was disrupted as street cars faced delays from downed trees while duststormed streets blasted windows and damaged trees and crops.
James Harrison an alleged Navy deserter is held by police on suspicion of setting five fires in Boston hotels over six days. He was arrested after a storeroom fire near his Essex Hotel room. his name appears on registers at the Brewster and Hotel Hollis, and Frank Wiane identifies him.
Mystery surrounds the Hodges Crossing wreck that killed Frank E. Huxley and Miss Josephine Burke of Jamaica Plain and seriously injured another, with early police belief centering on Mrs Huxley before later clarification. The auto carrying the trio struck a train and was destroyed, leading to hours of confusion over the victims identity.
June 29. Woodtow Wilson arrives and is christened in Provincetown. He weighs seven pounds and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson, who have settled in town.
San Francisco a Missouri senator Reed was barred from the Democratic convention for opposing President Wilson and the League of Nations. Only a handful of delegates voted against the credentials report.
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for showers on Wednesday then fair conditions Thursday with moderate temperatures. Winds from the southwest to west will be fresh.
Yesterday's temperatures are listed with scattered digits and units from a local spa column. Averages show 75 degrees yesterday with two ranges 20 to 24 and 24 to 20 for high and low estimates, while last year averaged 57 degrees with 15 to 24 range.
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