Legion to Help Only Deserving Ex Service Men
Boston area relief drive chief Dr. Eugene J. McCarthy announces funds are strictly for vetted cases. All disbursements are audited by the Federal Trust Company with daily ledgers and 40 percent returns required from posts. Readville Dorchester and Back Bay posts reported large, while many appeals were redirected to local posts for processing.
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Greater
Boston
American Legion
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Rushe’l
Thomas P. Forter
Dr. McCarthy
James Barry
Bertha Hazel
Mattapan
The
Legion
Federal Trust Company
Back Bay
State Committee
Dedham Post
All-Dorchester Post
All-Dorchester
Dedham
Ceee Eee Ewer Serene
Back Bay Post
Mansfield Post
Plymouth
Avon Post
Somerset Post
PRR Ee
James J. Phelan
H. P. Hood & A
Lucy Lowell Migs
Cede Wees
Gardner Pe
Edward F. Eagar
William T. Russell
Pene
Chelsea Ee
George
Winslow
Altice C. Hydees
Liv. Heyer
Friend of the Boys
Robert Coyle
John Burke
Girl Admits Loss in Town Treasurer Shortage Case
Miss Kenney admitted a cash shortage after she vanished, claiming she had lost ten thousand dollars. Authorities say the total loss is nearly double that amount and the town treasurer Wright, aged 79, faces losing his life savings and the Wright homestead. The case prompts an official audit due at the adjourned town meeting.
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Ncy
Wright
Miss Kenney
William Kenney
Gardner
Connecticut
Wright Homestead
West Springfield
Miss Ken
Phineas
Pope Benedict Leaves Minimal Personal Estate To Nephew
The late Pope Benedict’s will, dated February 20, 1916, reveals he possessed no property beyond preexisting belongings registered in Pegli near Genoa and Bologna. He names his nephew Giuseppe Della Chiesa as heir to those goods and states all other assets belong to the Holy See. He selects the Vatican Basilica as burial place and orders no embalming, abolishing the papal praecordia custom.
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Rome
Associated Press
Pope Benedict
Pegli
Genoa
Bologna
Giovanni Antonio Dela Chiesa
Benedict
Carlo Patriarca
Holy See
Joseph
Peter
Paul
James
Bologne
Giuseppe Della Chiesa
Giovanni Antonio
Vatican Basilica
Lowell to Speak at Newton Centre Church
President A Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University will address Trinity Church in Newton Centre tomorrow evening at 7 15. He will discuss The Washington Conference and urge churches to discuss the Senate treaties promptly and intelligently, with Lowell’s addresses supporting ratification.
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A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Trinity Church
Newton Centre
Washington
Federal Council of Churches In America
Senate
Lowell
Magnetic Springs Mayor Balances Duties From Kitchen
Mrs. Mary McFadden, 80, serves as mayor of Magnetic Springs Ohio and handles official duties largely from her kitchen where she is often seen baking cookies and cakes.
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Mary McFadden
Magnetic Springs
Ratcliffe Faces Alimony Arrest in New England
James W. Ratcliffe once a noted automobile salesman is again pursued by police for failing to pay $15 weekly alimony ordered by a court last September. He was arrested in London Derry New Hampshire on a default warrant after officers trudged 15 miles through snow and had horses pull their car to reach his farm home. Ratcliffe was returned to Boston and jailed on Charles Street awaiting arraignment in Superior Court.
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James W. Ratcliffe
Ratcliffe
Londonderry
N. H
Walter Brown
Prighton
Arthur Grant
Derry
Brown
Boston
Charles Street
Superior Court
Fire Breaks Out In Dormitory Wall At Police Station
A dormitory fire at the LaGrange street police station alarmed nine officers who woke early. Patrolmen McDeavitt Bamberg and Dunn raised the alarm as Lieutenant Dunlap and Patrolman Sullivan fought it with water until the fire department arrived and extinguished the blaze with a $1200 loss.
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LaGrange Street
McDeavitt
Bamberg
Dunn
Dunlap
Sullivan
Man Arrested After Knife Battle At Home
Harry Magazine 49 of 22 Normandy street is jailed at Dudley street station after a late night quarrel in which he is accused of using a carving knife. His son in law David Rothchild is wounded with a stab in the hand and cuts to the head and face as police reserves quell the disturbance.
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Harry Magazine
Normandy Street
Dudley Street
David Rothchild
Magazine
Leah
Morris
Rothchild
Miss Rose Magazine
Man Praying Arrested in Boston Church Fraud Probe
John Gaynor of Brooklyn was arrested yesterday afternoon at Gate of Heaven Church in Fourt Street South Boston after he kneeled to pray while a second man broke open the church poor box and fled. Police found on Gaynor a small axe a four inch chisel and a screwdriver as he was held as a suspicious person pending investigation.
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John Gaynor
Brooklyn
N. Y
Gate of Heaven
Fourt Street
Boston
Gaynor
John Tracey
Tracey
Committee Agrees on Compromise Soldiers Bonus Plan
Washington March 3 Congress Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee reach an unanimous compromise on a soldiers bonus bill along general lines outlined yesterday. The move aims to settle a problem that has concerned administration and congressional leaders for weeks.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Government explores adjusted service certificates and loans
The measure faces a long path to law with costs shifting to government and public. It proposes cash payments to men with adjusted service pay under 50 and four options including loan backed certificates. The loan terms cap bank rates and loan periods and foresee government cashing certificates to reimburse banks if defaults occur. Pessimistic estimates put the ultimate cost near four billion dollars if all men take certificates for 20 years.
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Bowers
West Virginia
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Banks
Fordney
Treasury
Montreal City Hall Annex Fire Destroys Building
Flames swept the first three floors of Montreal City Hall Annex late tonight. Firemen held out little hope of saving the building. Loss estimated around a million dollars.
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Montreal
Montreal City Hall Annex
Premier Lloyd George Rescinds Resignation Threat
London reports Premier Lloyd George has suspended his resignation threat at urgent Unionist cabinet pressure. There is no clear justification for withdrawal, and no immediate move to depose Sir George Younger as Unionist leader. Austen Chamberlain and Balfour urge continued leadership while Conservatives back Younger against the Free State bill with amendments.
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London
Associated Press
Lloyd George
Sir George Younger
Younger
Arthur J. Balfour
Austen Chamberlain
Lord Birkenhead
Oxford
House of Commons
Commons
George Younger
Laming Worthington-Evams
Colchester
Chamberlain Pledges Leaders to Premier
Austen Chamberlain in Oxford states after cabinet consultation that he and colleagues unanimously support Lloyd George continuing as prime minister. He recalls Lloyd George did not seek the post when Asquith resigned, and that Balfour and Bonar Law urged him to accept the premiership for national service.
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Oxford
England
Associated Press
Austen Chamberlain
House of Commons
Lloyd George
Chamberlain
Asquith
Arthur J. Balfour
Andrew Bonar Law
Mr. Lloyd George
Salvation Army Leader Evangeline Booth Ill in Long Beach
Evangeline Booth national commander of the Salvation Army was taken ill with influenza and confined to bed in Long Beach California on March 3. Officials said her condition was not serious.
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Long Beach
Cal
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
Memorial site protest delays Massachusetts soldiers memorial
Lieutenant Governor Alvan T. Fuller blocks approval of the proposed memorial site 10 miles from the St Mihiel battlefield. A special committee convened with veterans representatives opposing the location and pledging to review the plan again at the executive council meeting next Wednesday. Brigadier General Sherburne Major Duane and Commander McDonald aligned with Fuller on the controversy.
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Alvan T. Fuller
Executive Council
Massachusetts
France
Special Commission
St. Mihiel
Sons of Massachusetts
Cox
Fuller
John H. Sherburne
James T. Duane
American Legion
John L. McDonald
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Funeral services for Mrs Vina D Proctor
Mrs Vina D Proctor of 179 Mt Vernon street Malden died Thursday. Funeral services will be held today at 2 p m from her home. She was well known in Concord New Hampshire where services will be held for her on Sunday.
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Vina D. Proctor
Mt. Vernon Street
Malden
Concord
N. H
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