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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1919
Page
13
Paris dispatch reports Vienna plans to replace the crown with the franc per a government report cited by the Neus Wiener Zeitung of Vienna. The move aims to simplify currency and monetary policy, reflecting broader postwar economic adjustments in Austria.
Contractors granted the men's demands and signed a new agreement. Since Wednesday about none of the strikers have returned to work and with 200 set to resume Monday, roughly 700 will stay out. If unresolved early next week, 1700 Boston mill carpenters may be called out by midweek. The strike committee may pursue this action.
Barree Barre May 16. Following arraignment of Mrs Isabel J Parker 69 and George A Long 39 authorities set to summon the Washington county grand jury to indict them on the charge of premeditated murder of Mrs Lucina C Broadwell. Boston detectives aid efforts to compile circumstantial evidence while witnesses are gathered, including Grace Grimes. Long now admits Broadwell was at the Parker house the night of the crime.
Berlin reports a semi official note denying rumors of cabinet splits and asserting full government unity with Versailles negotiators. The administration maintains it will not rush to accept or reject the peace terms and aims for a peace of justice, with Erzberger aligned with the cabinet.
More than 200 of the 1400 union carpenters who struck for $1 an hour and a 40 hour week returned to work yesterday. Reports say about the same number will resume on Monday as the independent workers’ actions unfold.
New York May 16 The American Defence Society called on the American people to take up the task of quelling rising dissent. The group urged citizens to begin with parlor Bolshevists and professors who pretend to be decent while preaching deadly doctrines of murder and rapine in the name of a perfect society.
The morning service at Trinity Church Newton Centre invites worshippers to attend a program featuring a prelude and selections with organ accompaniment. The post benediction includes The Lost Chord, followed by congregational hymn singing led by the organist.
Gustav F. Heim, renowned solo trumpeter of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will assist in church services. The announcement highlights his involvement as a guest performer during the upcoming worship events at the city church, drawing on his orchestral stature.
The civil service commission at City Hall confirmed Mayor's appointments of Charles L. Carr to the board of overseers of the poor and Frederic A. Fay to the city planning board. Both posts are unsalaried.
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