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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1919
Page
2
President Wilson transfers food administration authority from Hoover to Attorney General Palmer in a move to avert sugar famine and curb rising living costs. The action revives wartime powers to oversee the nation's food supply and price setting.
Officials outline a plan to raise Cuban sugar imports with refiners buying all available stocks at a higher price. A distribution committee will allocate stocks and curtail nonessential use by candy and soft drink makers to prevent shortages in the next 60 days.
Concord New Hampshire November 21 A four hour hearing found probable cause against Mrs Marion Loynes Otterson for the murder of Maurice Otterson and she was held without bail for the Merrimack county grand jury. Evidence included a diamond ring found in her room and a revolver linked to the case.
Angela Rekis six years old of 59 Summer Street Lowell was badly burned about the body while playing with matches this evening. She is in serious condition at the Lowell Corporation Hospital.
Back Ray music teacher Lyle Trusselle, long known as Miss Lil to students and locals, legally changes his name after a court decision. The move formalizes his professional identity as Trusselle.
Lyle Porter Trusselle shed the nickname and mail mix ups after persuading Judge Grant of Suffolk County Probate Court to change his name to Stanley Porter Trusselle. The long time annoyance of being called Miss and misaddressed mail ends with the court order.
In a Boston apartment, Lyle P. Trusselle recalls a life of taunts and mistaken names from childhood through Navy service. Known as Porter Ming Lil and Miss on mailing lists, he has adopted Stanley Lyla as his legal first name, to reduce confusion in business.
Checks totaling 100000 donated to the Communist party of New York are in the hands of Chief City Magistrate McAdoo. They were seized in raids on radicals on November 7 and 8 and will be turned over to a grand jury. The list includes 11000 from Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes. A deputy attorney general called the donors Bolsheviks to the core. The grand jury also questioned Benjamin D Kaplan of the Jewish Protective and Aid Society about members named in Communist records.
Eleven wholesale sugar dealers were arrested on charges of profiteering under the Lever food control law. Warrants were issued for 35 wholesalers rogbers and retailers. Prices cited ranged from 15 to 2 cents per pound plus warnings that jobbers profit limits remain in effect.
Promote Adamson's Balsam as a long standing remedy for coughs colds and grippe. Advert says 40 years in use highlighting established reputation and relief claims.
The attorney general will not yet activate all executive order machinery but could deploy full power if required. Palmer staff will start building a nationwide sugar distribution system to ration stocks and prevent concentration or hoarding. Tentative plans raise sugar prices except for Louisiana, already at 1 7 cents.
Albert Hurwitz, former president of the Associated Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations of New England, was appointed yesterday as assistant in the office of the Massachusetts attorney general. He assumed duties immediately.
Daniel J. Croke of West Lenox Street pleaded not guilty before a U S commissioner in a case involving the alleged receipt of stolen Army transport Goa. He was bailed at 1000 by his mother for a hearing set for November 28.
Boston hotels and dining rooms face a federal probe by the State Commission on the Necessaries of Life after complaints about hotel room and meal prices during the football rush. Investigators checked 40 hosteleries by phone and requested menus or price lists for November 224, 1919.
A survey found daily room rates from $3 to $15 with most hotels raising prices to capitalize on football crowns. Several low-rate properties were among the worst offenders, charging higher nightly sums than their regular weekly rates. One hotel sought $6 for a non bath room last night, far above its usual $9 weekly rate.
Winchendon police report the arrest of a man for questioning over the assault on Miss Emma A. Fisher a Walpole teacher in a rural school The inquiry was conducted with Sheriff Edward H. Lord and County Solicitor Roy M. Pickard of Keene New Hampshire cooperating in the case
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