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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1919
Page
2
Washington reports no official word on a Korean declaration of independence. State Department and Japanese embassy say there were no advices of unusual events in Korea, with potential strength centered in San Francisco and Shanghai rather than Korea.
Five thousand captured German helmets sent by General Pershing were sold by the War Department for 1 dollar. Frank R. Wilson, Liberty Loan publicity director, bought them and plans to ship them to district HQs for use as prizes in upcoming Victory Liberty Loan work. Lawyers had ruled government gift of materials illegal.
Botchkareva, famed head of the Russian Battalion of Death, planned to kill her husband after he supposedly stole her 50 roubles savings. Her mother questioned the motive as she prepared for violence, a story featured in the Boston Sunday Post.
The War Department announced the departure from France of about 100 officers and 5000 men on five transports and cruisers. The Dakotan carries the 27th Engineers and 17th and 137th Aero Squadrons to New York by March 20. Charleston sails for New York with 27th and 147th Aero Squadrons. Venezia heads to New York with 27 casual companies from Massachusetts and Connecticut. Tiivel carries detachments of Base Hospitals Nos. 7 and 27 to New York. Melrose sails for Newport News with a 317th Tank Corps detachment. Westboro headed for New York with a Massachusetts casual company.
France's representative urges American youth to be friends with their French counterparts. The program aims to keep alive the bond forged during a moment of danger and to foster lasting Franco American goodwill among teens and students.
Mile. Clement, famed French educator and representative, urges letter and student exchanges to foster friendship between France and the United States. She cites a Boston Latin School pledge of 70 letters and envisions future scholarships, weddings, and cross‑Atlantic study as war memories fade. She spoke at the YMC A Open Forum on food, man, leader and patriot.
Advertisement claims the war's reach heightens Spring illness and urges Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify blood restore appetite and ease rheumatism. It notes Hood's Pills as a cathartic. Reports it as an old family remedy used for blood humors and digestive health.
Four New England soldiers receive the Distinguished Service Cross for risking lives under fire to deliver messages and aid wounded comrades. Sergeant William H. Crompton of Fall River, Private Napoleon Legassey of North Oxford, Private Frederick W. Craven of Roxbury, and Private Charles Gistofson of Waterbury are praised for bravery near Blanc Mont Ridge Septsarges and related actions in October.
Arthur J. Balfour plans to retire as foreign secretary at the end of the peace conference. Earl Curzon will succeed him as foreign minister and government leader in the House of Lords.
General Pershing cabled the War Department that the 42d Rainbow Division is to prepare for embarkation. Orders indicate the unit may sail between April 10 and 15, following typical one month from orders to departure.
Fighting and looting continued across Berlin on Sunday as Spartacans were captured and exposed to summary executions after an order from Herr Noske, secretary of military affairs, with heavy roof sniping reported.
Three looters caught in the act were the first to be executed as government soldiers welcomed Herr Noske's decree. In Kaiserstrasse a sailor misled by treachery led to a clash where insurgents disarmed troops, and Spartacans were arrested after swift government intervention. The sailor, a Laborite in marine uniform, was shot. Over 230 wounded were taken to hospitals, with many women and children among them. many bodies were moved to the morgue as Spartacans removed numerous victims.
New York March 10 Hugh Mullen president of Brown Durrell Company importers and manufacturers in New York City and Boston died of pneumonia today at Bretton Hall Hotel where he lived Born in Boston 61 years ago he joined Brown Durrell after public school education and established the New York branch seventy years ago later heading the business He was a member of the local community.
The notice cites connections to New York Athletic Club Boston Athletic Association Great Neck Country Club Aldine Club Catholic Club of New York City and Friendly Sons of St Patrick. He leaves a wife three sons and two daughters. A Brown Durrell Company veteran who started 35 years ago as a stock boy earning $2 weekly and later headed European offices and New York operations. He was elected to a pivotal position before retirement.
Yale will award Jean Julian Lemor dant the Howland Memorial prize for distinguished achievement in fine arts. The blind French soldier artist, to receive the prize at Yale, will exhibit 300 works and then depart for a limited exhibition period.
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