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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1919
Page
3
The Boston Post Sunday Magazine will feature William Seeks Variety, an amusing edition in George Brinton Beal’s Spudd Dialogues series for next week’s issue.
President Wilson appoints Herbert Hoover as director general of the American relief administration with full authority to direct food and urgent supplies from the relief fund and to arrange transport distribution and administration across Europe famine relief efforts.
President assigns Herbert Hoover as director-general of the American relief administration with full power to decide which populations receive supplies and in what quantities. Edgar Richard and Theodore Whitmarsh named joint US directors during Hoover’s Europe assignment. The order also authorizes contracting with the grain corporation to stock and transport food for relief under the Feb. 24 1919 act.
The Italian liner America and the transport Niagara arrived from France with 8017 officers and enlisted men of the American Expeditionary Force. The America carried Coast Artillery brigades and regiments, plus 107 casual officers and 143 Italian veterans. The Niagara brought artillery detachments, casual companies from several states, and Chaplain John J. Brady returning with a DSC. Lieutenant Carl Payne of Belmont, Mass., described being captured and held in a prison camp after an air battle.
Mrs May Whelen of Arlington formerly Lexington rejoices as her son Private Gordon Colon 19 Sherman Street Lexington who was listed missing in action is alive. He has been gassed and suffered influenza and was treated in a hospital. He expects to rejoin the Ninth Machine Gun Company with the army of occupation in Germany.
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