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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1921
Page
7
President Harding ordered an exhaustive investigation into how the government treats disabled war veterans. A special committee will be appointed within days to conduct the inquiry, announced from the White House in Washington.
The President will urge Congress and the nation to correct abuses and proposes an inquiry with five officials including Dawes Miller and Roosevelt. Investigators will study reforms and suggest legislation as needed. The group met at the White House and later consulted Pershing, with no timetable set.
Brockton and Quincy police along with the Metropolitan district police Blue Hill division are probing the likely fatal injury to Miss Marion Monahan of 22 Bunker Avenue Campello after she was found with a fractured skull and taken to Brockton Hospital.
Miss Monahan a 20 year old woman on a Boston trip was injured when Scates of Sudbury allegedly blinded by approaching headlights and sideswiped a telegraph pole on Randolph avenue Quincy. She lies unconscious at Brockton Hospital with no usable statement. Scates, a foreman for Emerson Shoe Company, is about 40, married with no known local address.
About 300 members and ladies attended the Sunday afternoon tea at the Masonic Club. Dr. Agnes Lake poured, assisted by Mrs. May Johndroe and Mrs. George Miller. A musical programme featured violinist Margaret Carabillo, soloists Miss E. Smith and Miss Mabel Randall, and readings by Miss Genevieve Addleman of Emerson College.
A uniformed patrolman pumping a hand car along three and a half miles of the Boston and Maine Saugus branch startled Sabbath walkers yesterday. The incident also surprised Police Chauffeur Charles Costello of Malden who confronted eight or nine youths attempting a risky joyride from Everett Junction toward north and east in the misty afternoon.
In Everett and Malden a band of nearly a dozen youths stole a handcar from a tool shed and fled toward the tracks. Patrolman William Meehan and Costello pursued, Costello recapturing the handcar near Ferry Street while Meehan chased on, then both returned to the station after a perilous night. Rumors swirl that Costello bought cigars for Meehan during the caper.
Florence G. Hodgkins, 29, of 211 Duffield Street Brooklyn N Y, vanished after visiting friends in Westminster and Leominster March 4. Husband fears kidnapping and police in Boston and nearby towns search for her and the two to three children she left behind. she is 5 feet 6 inches, about 140 pounds.
Trustees of the road issued a statement linking James H Vahey the attorney for the eastern Massachusetts street railway employees union to a strike, calling him a lawyer who has enriched himself at the expense of street car riders. The statement says strike and Vahey appear synonymous and questions his conduct.
The public trustees criticize Attorney Vahey for stating the public has no rights in street railway wage cases and claim his threats to strike aim to stop reductions in car fares after a 20 percent wage cut for conductors and motormen.
Needham Post 14 American Legion presents a minstrel show at Town Hall directed by Dr. Arthur H. McIntosh who wrote lines and music and coached the cast. The production features village highlights around the Town Hall park. A legion auxiliary committee sold many tickets and may see another show. Mrs Powers assists in canvassing townspeople.
The funeral for Samuel Edward William Holoway, famed for making picture frames and restoring old paintings, will be private this afternoon at his home in Lexington. Born in Bath in 180, he spent 35 years at 61 Hanover Street, Boston, with his son Samuel E. Holoway joining the business.
Events today include 11 30 a m graduation at Massachusetts Nautical School North End Park 5 30 p m Payson Smith at Boston Congregational Club Kingsley Hall 8 p m Ladies Hairdressers Association meeting Huntington Chambers Trinity Club and more community events at City Club Franklin Union Vendome Mayflower Descendants and Boston Methodist Social Union venues with noted speakers Dean Charles R Brown of Yale scheduled
Waltham police increase uniformed road guardians with a new juvenile traffic squad to protect parochial school pupils at dismissal. Rev Father Peter J Walsh of St Charles parish proposed the plan to Chief McKenna and Mayor Beale, who approved it. Harold White serves as captain of the St Charles auxiliary patrol.
Natchez Miss March 27 the condition of Lieutenant W D Coney trans continental flyer showed a decided change for the worse today and physicians announced they had little hope for his recovery.
A campaign for funds for the Y. W. C. A. starts today and will continue throughout the present week. Appeals have already been sent out to many individuals and business houses.
The notice states appeals have been sent to individuals and business houses to solicit contributions. It outlines the effort as part of a fundraising drive and mentions expected responses and deadlines for donations.
Dentists urge daily Pepsodent from first tooth to combat film coating that traps plaque and acids, causing decay and tartar. The ad touts five effects including whiter teeth and constant film removal, with a 10 day tube and a short explanatory booklet.
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