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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1922
Page
12
President Harding may issue an executive proclamation appealing to the conscience loving and law abiding people to aid in enforcing the prohibition law. The move followed a Cabinet meeting reviewing the breakdown of enforcement and other enforcement challenges.
City Finance Commission seeks City Councillor William J. Walsh as a witness in graft hearings over the Beth Israel synagogue purchase in the North End. Process servers have twice failed to locate him, citing deposits in his account after the council loan order passed.
The Canadian Seigneur, part of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, was towed into St. John's by the Canadian Sapper after sending distress signals on November 2. The vessel, bound from Liverpool to Three Rivers and Montreal, had lost its rudder and remained in tow about 50 miles off port for two days.
W B Pinney and Charles Pool hunted near Norfolk when a ferret chased a rabbit into a hole. After two hours they left, later found the ferret curled in Pinney’s coat pocket, but no sign of the rabbit.
President Harding faces a perceived collapse of law enforcement under the Volstead Act as cabinet officials warn of widespread graft and public tolerance of liquor violators. He contemplates a cure, may appeal to the nation, and resists immediate Congress action while vowing to enforce the law. Separately, a Boston graft inquiry progresses with Councillor Walsh missing, Brickley absent, and Gartland's testimony revealing bank loans tied to synagogue property dealings and political payments. hearings resume Tuesday.
Nashua New Hampshire reports the sudden death of Col Frank W Maynard aged prominent citizen and longtime tailor. A Republican committee member and 1912 Taft delegate he helped organize Nashua Country Club Rotary Club and served on Governor Tuttles staff and Memorial Hospital boards. He is survived by his son Alexander Maynard of Detroit Michigan.
Mrs. Rose Kuperman sues husband Adolph for separation claiming he taught their infant to smoke cigars and misused the rings from her fingers for his typist. She seeks $125 weekly alimony and $750 counsel fees as trial nears. he says he has not recently misconducted himself. Judge Lewis reserved decision on alimony and fees.
John H. Gilmour a leading man in popular plays died in Yonkers New York aged 65 born in Ottawa Canada graduate of St Lawrence College retired ten years ago from the stage and taught at Chicago Music College He acted with Lillian Olcott in Sardan's Theodora with Maude Adams in L Aiglon and Julia Marlowe in Barbara Freitchie
Following a quarrel with her husband, Concetta Parnaude a 16 year old bride drank a quantity of iodine in an East Boston drug store yesterday morning and only the clerk's quick action averted a possible suicide.
Mrs Parnaude, staying with her husband at 388 London Street East Boston, left a suicide note saying she would take her life. Clerk Paul Kraser alerted authorities and prevented the tragedy, prompting police to investigate her disappearance.
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