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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1919
Page
2
Washington March 28. Health conditions in the army at home and abroad remain very satisfactory per the surgeon general’s report for the week ending March 21. No unusual disease prevalence at U.S. camps or stations and the non effective list in expeditionary forces continued to decline, now lower than in the United States.
In Jeffersonville Vermont sap ran wildly for days as frost nights and warm days fueled a record maple season. Farmers rushed to empty buckets and boil sap into syrup while prognostications point to a strong statewide crop if warmer days persist through mid April.
Paris March 28 telegram from Mr Heims relief worker in Tiflis to the Armenian delegation transmitted to the peace conference says thousands face starvation. Erivan has 45000 in need and Igdir lacks meat as villagers fight for horse carcasses. Relief estimates 10000 deaths weekly without aid.
Lieutenant James Reese Europe and the 369th United States Infantry Band performed at the Boston Opera House to a large, enthused crowd including Governor Coolidge. The concert featured jazz, spirituals, and European rivaling marches with soloists Creighton Thompson Noble Sissle and others, praised for precision and energy.
Paris march 28 the Australian peace delegates argued that amending the league covenant to recognize the Monroe Doctrine would validate Japanese claims to dominance in China and the Orient. Fear grows that opposition could block the amendment, and experts seek a formula to overcome objections as the amendment is withheld.
Major James A. Roosevelt dies of spinal meningitis aboard the Great Northern and will be buried with military honors in New York City. Services are set for Old Trinity Church. he was a 77th Division officer and cousin of the late Colonel Roosevelt and Harvard's President Lowell.
The Massachusetts Board of Conciliation and Arbitration split over investigating the Lawrence strike. Commissioner Wood sought an inquiry with Kerwin and Harenn, but Chairman Howland and Commissioner Mullen voted to table and then reject the motion.
Prince Ludwig Windish Grastz asserts in the Geneva Journal that two thousand determined French or British troops could crush the new Hungarian government and restore order. He contends the Budapest regime lacks wider representation beyond the capital.
Premier Lenine sent a wireless message to Hungary urging an army against Vienna and promising 100,000,000 kronen to finance the project, according to a Budapest despatch via Berlin and the Exchange Telegraph Company.
Children of textile strikers, thousands in number, will depart for temporary homes in New York New Jersey and Rhode Island mill cities and towns soon if strike leaders plans advance Feared disruption to families prompts relocation to mills and towns along the Northeast corridor
Leader P Pascal Cosgrove headed to New York to arrange reception and care for thousands of Lawrence children as strike actions continue. The midnight arson squad struck again with three incendiary fires in the district. At American Woolen Company, 300 workers voted to demand a 48 hour week and 15 percent wage increase, with a decision from mill owners expected by Thursday.
Time granted concessions on wage demands prompts operators to order a strike to begin within 72 hours after the meeting adjourns.
A request will go to the New England Joint Council of Telephone Workers to convene a special meeting the following Wednesday afternoon for synchronized greetings and a nationwide strike start. The action follows a report by an adjustment board and talks with Postmaster General Burleson who promised to study wage increases if warranted by revenue.
Stockholm reports Bolsheviki retreat along the western front north of the Pripet marshes. Vilna, capital of Lithuania, is expected to be evacuated soon as the Bolsheviki pull back.
In Hartford on March 28 the State presented two bullets in evidence in the trial of William S S Miller William Besslar John Neuss Fred L Klein and Michael McDonald for the Manchester January 30 murder of William F Madden. One bullet came from Madden s body and the other from the door of the defendants automobile both bearing a distinctive mark linked to a revolver found near the scene. The revolver is said to match the weapon described by Clifton B Macomber Madden s assistant as pointed at him by Neuss. Earlier witnesses placed the defendants along the Manchester Hoboken route where three were arrested. The trial resumes next Tuesday.
The first detachment of American railroad troops arrived on the Murman coast for work on the Murman railway. More detachments are expected to follow soon.
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