Will scrap victors of Santiago
Washington April 30 Three of the four battleships that helped destroy the Spanish fleet off Santiago in 1898 the Indiana Massachusetts and Iowa are to be placed out of commission and their names reassigned to new super dreadnoughts. The Oregon will retain her name and remain with the Pacific fleet. Indiana Massachusetts and Iowa will become coast battleships Nos 1 2 and 4 with final disposition undecided likely scrapped or used as targets. Indiana to name a new battleship No 50 Massachusetts to Nos 53 Town to No 64.
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Fighting Bob) Evans
Fisherman Rescued by Government Boat Near Chebeague Island
Portland news reports Fred F. Johnson 29 of Bailey Island believed drowned after a fishing craft capsized near Great Chebeague Island at noon. Scott Leeman, also from Bailey Island, was rescued by government boats this afternoon. An unrelated ad urges bond purchases with high interest.
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Fred F. Johnson
Bailey Island
Scott Leeman
Great Chebeague Island
Honors 10 War Heroes Are Vetoed
Mayor Peters vetoes eight city actions including six renaming squares for Boston WWI heroes. Also rejects a $5 nightly rent increase for Faneuil Hall and denies half pay pension for Jeremiah J Crowley, former public works employee.
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Boston Mayor vetoes war hero square names in open spaces
The mayor vetoes eight proposed public‑space names honoring fallen Boston troops. He urges a formal survey by military men and city representatives to select honorees, delaying action on current names to ensure fairness and proper process.
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Coyle Square
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Hyde Park Avenue
Shea Square
Savin Hill
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Highland
Marcella Streets
Thomas V. Murray
Warren Street
Warren Place
Harrison Avenue
Eugene Galligan Square
Broadway
Dorchester Street
Perkins Square
Boston
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Massachusetts Plans Split of State Departments into Twenty
A legislative committee agrees to reorganize ten existing departments into twenty under the 66th constitutional amendment, approved by voters last November. The proposed list includes the Secretary of the Commonwealth, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, agriculture, conservation, banking and insurance, corporations and taxation, education, civil service and registration, industrial accidents, labor and industries, mental diseases, correction, public welfare, public health, public safety, public works, public utilities, and metropolitan district.
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Legislative Committee On Administration and Commissions
Orore
Massachusetts
the Commonwealth
Labor Board bars unilateral withdrawal from disputes
The War Labor Board rules that the common law right to withdraw from arbitration does not apply to industrial controversies. The decision refuses to grant Akin-Erskine Milling Company of Evansville Indiana the privilege to withdraw a labor dispute from board consideration. Employers and workers who jointly submit to the board must await its final award.
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War Labor Board
Akin-Erskine Milling Company
Evansville
Ind
Communists flee Munich as government advances grows
Reported from Berlin on April 28 that Communist leaders are fleeing Munich amid Bavarian government troops advance. Landauer and Fechenbach vanish and Fechenbach is arrested at Ulm. Communists lack coal, heat with wood, and cut trees in streets. Government HQ moves to avoid crowd, tribunals replace courts, Cronauer named chief justice. North of Munich troops seize a Communist airdrome and arrest its commander.
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Associated Press
Munich
Herr Landauer
Popular Enlightenment
Herr Fechenbach
Wisner
Fechenbach
Ulm
Bavaria
Hofbrau Haus
Krupp
Uncle Sam Bonds Drive Urges Public Support
A civic note urges citizens to buy government bonds to fund national bills. It emphasizes personal responsibility and collective duty, calling on individuals to contribute their share through bond purchases.
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