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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1919
Page
6
The Daily Mail announces if Hawker and Lieutenant-Commander Mackenzie Grieve are killed it will allot 50 000 dollars to their next of kin in the agreed division. The contest itself remains open and the prize distribution will not affect the ongoing competition.
In New York on May 2, Colonel L. A. Smith of the War Department left Washington at 9 25 by airplane after a 100 minute flight to Mineola. He was rushed to Manhattan and kept a noon business appointment to the minute. The flight was piloted by Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Downey.
May 23. The local street railwaymen's union voted 180 to 33 in favor of a strike on the lines of the Bay State Street Railway Company in this city and vicinity over the discharge of a motorman for an alleged act of discipline. No strike date was set, and the executive board guides the action.
Bangor line officials announced the Bangor service will resume Monday aboard the steam ship Camden of Eastern Steamship Lines. The schedule runs three weekly trips from India Wharf at 5 p.m. to Bangor and intermediate landings with connections at Rockland for Harbor and intermediate stops, plus service to Brooklin on Tue Thu. Saturdays include a full run to Blue Hill with all intermediate calls.
Miss Lorraine Pope presented distinctive Russian silk textiles in oriental colors and designs. Katherine Morey, a National Women’s Party member, aids designers Irving and Nathaniel Eastman in gowns and novelties. The exhibit featured dyed silks, waxing techniques, and a rose and blue palette with a Russian tea service.
A long list of marriage license applications filed yesterday at City Hall includes Harold L Sinclair and piesee. Shaun La Monica and Bors Ferra. Margaret M. J. Robis and Kelburne. Antonopoulos and Svroula Kaloeropulos. Join Boland and Margaret Glynn. Ralph M. Nickerson and Mary T. Cunning. Wasel Zaloba and Mary Solda. Anthony V. Baldwin and Pearl A. Oderkirk. Harry B. Webster and Addie L. Leach. Patrick J. Larkin and Anna Hogan. Timothy Concannon and Sarah Higgins. Wilfred Desonle and Margaret Glennon. Charles Coupal and Helen Delano. John Cannon and Marion Long. Charles A. Roberts and Doris Healy. Walter Fisher and Ella Monson. Sarkish Tishjian and Blanche Bryant. William Donlon and Catherine Bogaert. Robert Hillock and Margaret Daley. Joseph Cohen and Sylvia Topul. James Calnan and Mary Naughton. Peter Noel and Florence Kelly. Harry Davidson and Mary Roberts. David Sullivan and Teresa South. Harry Berlin and Sadye Newhoff. Angelo Clanatagaric and Carmela Morrow. Thomas Reche and Julia Flynn. Joseph Giuffre and Elien Norton. Harry Gluckman and Reita Wolfe. plus a note about Griffith’s master of picture making at the Colonial Theatre.
In Washington on May 23, incomplete returns from 494 offices show 65,268 job placements, 63.4 percent of applicants found work. Of 103,17 registered and 94,009 referred, 65,2683 were placed, including 13,01 women and 62,212 men. Among male placements, 10,792 were discharged service members. Employers placed 110,446 workers with the service in the same period.
Boston Elevated trustees announced an upcoming fare raise to 9 cents with potential further increases within six weeks. Despite higher receipts since the 8 cent fare began December 21, 1918 rising operating costs have produced monthly deficits of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the exact new fare will be set before July 1.
The Boston Elevated Railway board signals rising fares from 8 to 9 and possibly 10 cents per ride as relief for financial strain. Chairman James Jackson of Brookline says higher fares are inevitable but promises eventual economies and a possible return to lower rates, though 5 and 7 cent fares are not immediately feasible.
Lawrence May 23 Outspoken criticism of Colonel Francis Shunk was voiced by many citizens over his unfavorable report on Merrimack River navigability. Critics of dredging for commerce condemn the engineer for voicing any opinion on the project and say he was assigned to estimate costs only.
Photographs show the Bermuda SC-343 explosion near Bermuda with one dead and several injured. Witnesses H H Heineman of Elmore Ohio and Curtis W Horton of SC-39 describe the blast on May 5 as people were hurled into the air and smoke and rumbling followed. The cause remains a guess, possibly gas tanks igniting.
Washington May 23 Independence of Armenia including Russian and Persian Armenia and the northern part of the Province of Azerbaijan is urged in a resolution introduced in the Senate today by Senator Lodge and referred to the foreign relations committee The resolution also urged that the Syrians and other Christian populations of Asia Minor and those portions of Asia Minor where Greeks predominate be placed under the control of Greece.
The Roxbury Latin School observed Founders Day with a morning meeting in the school hall followed by a ball game. Local attendees included students and faculty as part of the annual celebration.
In the afternoon and the Pops at Symphony last night many graduates and friends heard addresses in the morning by Robert H. Gardiner president of the board of trustees Captain Andre Morize of Harvard and Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot of the British Army Medical Corps. A musical program followed by the students of the school.
Berlin May 22 German peace delegate Professor Hans Delbrueck criticizes President Wilson in a Tageblatt interview. He says Wilson ceded influence to France and Britain by following his 14 points and questions his grasp of European conditions. Delbrueck argues demands like ceding the left bank of the Rhine would have been better than current limits. He also suggests Wilson fears a conflict with Japan and that Germany is weakened to prevent an alliance with Japan.
Alfred Haly solo harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform a prelude at 10 30 tomorrow morning an introit for harp and organ and a harp solo meditation after the benediction at Trinity Church Newton Centre.
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