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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1920
Page
2
Secretary Daniels told the Senate naval committee that President Wilson backed a bold wartime plan for the navy. He accused Rear Admiral Sims of opposing and delaying the North Sea mine barrage project against enemy submarines.
The President spoke aboard the flagship Pennsylvania to Atlantic fleet officers in August 1917. He pressed for bold action against German submarine nests, saying he was willing to sacrifice half the navy with Britain to crush the subs. Admiral Sims had blocked the North Sea mine barrage plan for six months.
Boston Post reports the American Memorial Day committee in Paris has funds coming in to decorate 800 Chateau Thierry and 500 Verdun Yankee Division graves. Colonel F. E. Drake guarantees care for all Yankee graves in Europe with flowers and flags on Memorial Day.
In the American League New York defeated Chicago 6 to 5 and Detroit topped Washington 5 to 3 while Philadelphia routed St. Louis 6 to 0 with rain affecting several games. In the National League Boston edged St. Louis 3 to 2 and Cincinnati won 9 to 4 over New York, with rain causing Pittsburg Philadelphia and Chicago Brooklyn games to be listed as off. Eastern League results show Bridgeport 7 Waterbury and New Haven 11 Albany 1 with other games postponed by rain.
Emily Knowles Spiker, wife of Guy S. Spiker, was officially recognized as a U S citizen in Baltimore as immigration restrictions on her residence were removed. Perley Spiker and his wife congratulated her. Mrs Cora Spiker will receive two bonds of 500 dollars.
A homeowner extols a compact stove offering both coal and gas ovens and flexible use. The coal oven bakes while the gas oven handles quick tasks, with a combined oven space of 62 square feet without racks and 13 with them. The stove measures 43 inches long, and the user records heavy canning and multitasking last summer.
Constantinople May 11 The Russian embassy reports Poles and Ukrainians have captured Odessa, the key southern Russian city and seaport on the Black Sea.
Prominent New York business and literary figures will attend the 11:30 a m service at the Church of the Ascension to bid farewell to William Dean Howells, the novelist who died in his sleep at his home. He was 83. The Rev Dr Percy Stickney Grant will officiate.
The writer will be cremated and the ashes sent to Cambridge Massachusetts. He spent winters in Savannah Georgia where a severe cold turned into influenza. He came to be near his son John Meade in our city.
A cylinder of phosgene released fumes at Tufts College forcing students to flee the chemistry building. Two men were seriously affected and many students evacuated as courses were disrupted.
Notable birthdays include journalist George W. Childs born 1820s and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge born 1850. A Turkish torpedo attack sinks the British battleship Goliath in the Dardanelles with 500 lives lost in 1915. A year ago Lt Col Beatty completed a Madrid to London flight in under 12 hours.
Weather forecast notes showers in northern and southern New England with possible Thursday rain. General showers expected across districts east of the Mississippi over the next two days with cool north portions. Winds shift from northwest to north and northeast from Sandy Hook to Hatteras.
Forecast calls for cool unsettled conditions with possible showers today. Clearing trend may come tonight with light frost. Yesterday’s temperature averaged 52 and readings ranged 14 to 24 in a terse regional report.
A body found in a coal bin at 517 Columbus avenue is identified as Alice Arsenault of Chelsea Revere and Montreal. She ran the lodging house with a man known as Paul Daskalakis or Pappas. She had been missing since the day after last Christmas amid a wide search for a husband figure.
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