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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1913
Page
4
Frederick J. Hoffman announced plans to form a society for the study and prevention of cancer in Washington. The new health body will mirror tuberculosis efforts with a strong educational focus and will be guided by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Mr. Hoffman will lead a New York meeting next week of a committee to draft definite plans for a cancer prevention society. The committee includes Dr LeRoy Broun James Speyer V Freritt Macy and George S Clark all of New York. Wealthy women including Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Mrs Russell Sage and Mrs James Speyer offer financial aid. He cites 75 000 US deaths from cancer this year and a half million worldwide with the death rate rising 212 percent yearly. The US ranks eighth among nations in cancer deaths with 72 per thousand. Switzerland leads with 128. Known factors include corsets heat from lip contact on pipes tar exposure brook trout and hot foods as possible causes.
Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard told the New York peace committee that many non English speakers fear the event signals an England United States alliance against Germany. He called the view absurd but urged caution in planning the centennial celebration.
A professor warns against movement fears that non English descendants face second class status, urging unity and warning of bias. Carnegie responds defending Anglo American inclusivity and proposes monuments declaring enduring peace with all nations.
Charles Boyd, a 10 year old Somerville boy at 78 Oak Street, won first prize of $25 in the Automobile Association contest for best advice to avoid auto accidents. His rule is stop before crossing a street, look left then right, and proceed if safe.
A boy clung to a piling as water rose. Officers Connolly and Toner improvised a rescue. Connolly lowered a rope, Toner shed his coat, and the pair pulled the lad and a crewman to safety. Both were exhausted but survived, and the boy soon went home.
A military biplane plunged nose first into a gully at Olive Hill near Los Angeles today. Lieutenant Joseph D. Park of the U S Army, said to be from New Hampshire, was killed when the radiator detached and crushed him after a somersault into a tree. His father is an official of the Boston and Maine railroad.
Patrolman Michael Hayes off duty rescued four boys aged 11 to 14 from a sinking flat bottom boat at City Point. The youths John Kelley 11 East Seventh Street John Shea 13 East Seventh Street Michael Kearns 14 East Fifth Street Thomas Maloney K Street were saved just before the craft sank.
Washington society and officials gathered for a 5 to 7 pm tea on the lawn south of the White House hosted by President and Mrs. Wilson. Threatening skies caused anxiety among fashionable guests, but showers did not arrive.
Lieutenant Park of the army aviation corps loses his life after an experimental long distance flight from San Diego to Los Angeles. The crash occurred on a hill slope after 108 miles of travel as spectators including school girls witnessed the scene. a girl, Hazel Greenleaf, later notified the coroner instead of aviation headquarters.
The article notes that the Japanese objections are unclear and likely rest on a claim California law discriminates against Japanese subjects. The full correspondence will soon be released publicly in both the United States and Japan. Secretary Bryan, after a brief second talk with the Japanese ambassador, left for New York to deliver a peace speech before resuming his return trip.
The Boston Theatre hosts Pastor Russell Sunday at 3 p m with the topic Heaven Hell and Purgatory. All invited seats are free and there will be no collection.
President and Mrs. Wilson hosted a reception with daughters and Cabinet families mingling. The President greeted guests on the lawn while Vice President Marshall Chief Justice White and Supreme Court members attended along with many Congress members. Two more garden parties were scheduled for May 16 and May 23. The House quorum call drew some members away but most did not respond. The Marine Band played as light refreshments were served under maple trees.
Amos Nason 35 of Reading Mass was killed in Sanbornville New Hampshire about 4 45 PM while preparing for his night run. He came on the 430 train and, entering the roundhouse, started his engine for the coal pocket to load for the ice train night run.
In Salem on May 9 two deceased women, a mother and daughter, become central in a board bill suit filed in the clerk of courts office. The case names the deceased daughter Mrs Lucy M Spencer as plaintiff against her deceased mother Mrs Percy S Buxton for board owed. The ad damnum is 5000 dollars.
A cab passenger head was crushed when squeezed between a heavy beam and the cab as it moved past a building. Firemen halted the engine, and trainmen found the victim dying beside his engine after being dragged through the window.
Charles P. Spencer of this city, a harness manufacturer, sues John M. Raymond as executor of Mrs. Buxton, claiming Mrs. Buxton owed Spencer's wife $2700.67. The attached account shows charges for room rent, nursing, care, and storage from 1901 to 1911, with nine years of credits and interest totaling about $3,024.75.
The three-masted schooner Colin Baker sailed from East Boston yesterday on its first voyage in ten years to St George New Brunswick. The vessel, once tied at the drydock wharf, East Boston, was sold a few weeks ago to Portland men and now resumes service.
A large Sunday meeting at 724 Washington Street proposes forming an Industrial District Council for the I W W. Delegates from all unions within 25 miles of Boston would join this central body to organize cooperative representation.
The meeting with 500 delegates from Greater Boston I W W unions will start at 11 and run into the afternoon. Joseph J Ettor will be principal speaker with many leaders present as the federation targets textile workers and many other trades across Boston and Quincy Fore River workers.
Firemen in uniform will ride free on ferries and trains of the Boston Revere Beach Lynn railroad between Boston and Orient Heights. Fire Commissioner Cole thanks Melvin O Adams president for the courtesy extended through the railway company.
A dealer touts Jaynes Perfectos as larger and heavier than many imports. Each hand made cigar sells for 7 cents, with claims of perfect sanitary conditions and quality rivaling imported brands. A trial is urged to prove the claims.
Price cut applies to Salisbury Mogul Murad Natural Mile Pall Mall with cuts of 10 to 15 cents across listed brands. Market listings show several tobacco products reduced in the local section.
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