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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1922
Page
2
Gordon Donald of Wellesley Farms and longtime member of Hallowell Jones and Donald at 22 Summer Street died yesterday at Phillips House due to complications from an operation.
New York March 24. Elbert H. Gary chairman of United States Steel Corporation urged business and the public to exercise courage and maintain industrial honesty and laws to revive prosperity. He said steel interests would follow others in price, crime prices must drop, and workers deserve fair wages while Senate treaties influence trade.
The report notes that obstruction still impacts building and business, yet improvement appears evident. Subsidiaries are operating at about 65 percent of normal capacity and, due to existing orders, shipping at least 7 percent of normal capacity.
Representative Ansorge announced Emile Treville Holley of New York City as a candidate for entrance to the Naval Academy. Holley, a College of the City of New York freshman, will take mental and physical exams on April 19 along with others. if he fails, an alternate is chosen. The appointment could mark the first Black midshipman at Annapolis since Reconstruction.
The Boston School Committee will open an evening school in the Frederick W. Lincoln building in South Boston on April 24, continuing until late May. It will serve 225 residents seeking English and citizenship instruction. The opening follows a petition by the Boston Chamber of Commerce Americanization Committee which enrolled Italian Lithuanian and Armenian residents.
Boston ministers unanimously condemn a church conference proposal that young people should be encouraged to spoon and hold courting bees in church. Dozens interviewed yesterday found no preacher agreeing with Dr. Owen C. Brown of Los Angeles.
In Spokane a Baptist leader urged pastors to let young people court in church events to form matches under Christian influence though several ministers rejected the idea as inappropriate for worship. Critics warned such matchmaking would misrepresent church aims and misinterpret his views. Dr. Brown, editor of Western Baptist publications, defended the proposal as a way to foster healthy connections.
Boston lawyer Ed ward M. Shanley asked a federal court to quash an indictment alleging the grand jury venire was unlawfully drawn because qualified women voters were arbitrarily expunged from the juror lists. Judge Morris denied the motion, with an exception, and an appeal is likely on the fundamental issue.
Newport dispatch reports City Solicitor Sullivan ordered the arrest of William H. Peckham of Middletown on a charge of manslaughter after Traffic Officer Robert C. Scott was struck by Peckham’s car in a rain tied accident and died several hours later.
Screen gossip notes Edward Connelly ranks among the era’s finest character players. He is praised for Rasputin in The Fall of the Romanoffs and Uncle Nat in Shore Acres, with a career spanning stage starts at age two and forty years in both stage and screen. His latest role appears in Rex Ingram’s The Prisoner of Zenda.
Film comedian Snub Pollard wed Elizabeth Bowes in Hollywood on Wednesday. The marriage sparked chatter in the film colony after reports of his engagement to Maris Mosquini circulated, only to be denied by Mosquini.
Sessue Hayakawa is likely to sever ties with Robertson-Cole as Pauline Frederick has done. The two stars reportedly refuse salary cuts, prompting exits over reduced weekly pay.
D W Griffith was guest of honor at a luncheon hosted by the Woman Pays Club in New York. He was the only man among about 100 women members who are prominent in art music literature and drama. Griffith spoke on the motion picture industry focusing on censorship.
After completing The Green Goddess Boston engagement George Arliss aims to vacation abroad. He may accept a continental film project if a suitable vehicle becomes available. fellow screen star Gilorta Swanson also plans to sail for the other side in April.
Mrs Nettie Ainsworth of Montpelier Vermont says extreme nervousness and indigestion after overwork were cured by seven boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills She reports restored health cured sleeplessness and improved appetite and recommends the remedy to friends Sold by druggists or direct from Schenectady New York for sixty cents per box.
The George E. Keith Shoe Company announced today that beginning March 27 a full time working schedule would go into effect at the firm’s women’s shoe plants in East Weymouth South Boston Rochester NY and Brockton. Full time will be resumed soon at the men’s plants after several weeks of half time operations.
Reader queries about film cast details and theater appearances are addressed. Names include William Farnum Eva Novak Tom Mix Edna Murphy Agnes Ayres Frank Thomas and projects The Bride's Play The Ordeal and His Greatest Sacrifice with locations Lasky studios Hollywood New Haven Worcester stock companies and Hawthorne of the U S A.
Attorney George T. Perry of Somerville, alleged leader of the Middlesex automobile ring, drew a five to six year State Prison term from Judge Brown after a 19 hour East Cambridge jury verdict finding him guilty of receiving stolen autos from Thomas M. Howard and David B. McPherson and of conspiracy. The case spanned three weeks with bail set at 6000 dollars and an appeal window until June 24. Prosecutors planned further actions against three state’s evidence witnesses.
A tidar wave swept the northern Adriatic coast flooding many villages and reaching Trieste where the entire waterfront and several large city squares were inundated.
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