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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1919
Page
2
New York October 17 reports Dr Kristine Mann of New York told the International Conference of Women Physicians that marriage is sought as a escape from drab city existence by working girls and women in the cities.
Dr. Mann warns that most working girls and women lead dull lives and seek marriage to escape economic hardship. She claims ninety two percent of female workers are dissatisfied and ill adjusted, blaming mechanical, unsuitable tasks for ill health and immorality in cities.
Attorney General Palmer released a progress report on the drive to lower living costs. It lists 86 seizures of hoarded food in 18 states and 22 cases under investigation with numerous prosecutions already started.
Lieutenant Cameron Wright in charge of the landing field for transcontinental air racers died when the airplane he rode as a passenger went into a tail spin and dropped 20 feet at St. Paul Field Nebraska.
Parson Maynard aims to finish the 5402 mile air race from Mineola with a noon arrival expected tomorrow at Mineola. He replaced a damaged crankshaft at night in a corn field near Chicago assisted by Mrs Maynard and Captain Roy Francis.
Lieutenant Maynard recounts a near crash during a cross country flight to Mineola. He credits his wife’s prayers and Nebraska support, praises mechanic William Wa. Kline, and explains engine trouble and improvisation to finish the journey.
Mayor Daniel J. Coakley removed City Marshal John C. Barnes citing four charges. A hearing is set for Monday Oct. 27 to allow Barnes to show cause for removal after a prior Enfield Conn incident on Oct. 8 earning a fine.
Judge in Baltimore rules on remarriage in church. bishops and delegates clash over uniform federal divorce law and women representation. Commission calls for social service focus and fair clergy pay. bishops propose a national field of honor memorial for fallen abroad.
Preliminary plans of the recon stituted Federal Sugar Distribution Board aim to curb hoarding. General John H. Sherburne, Massachusetts committee chair on necessaries of life, announced similar measures. The retail price of federally controlled sugar will stay at 11 cents a pound through 1919.
General Sherburne urges grocers to sell small quantities per customer to curb family hoards as shortages bite. Sugar shipments from Canada and Porto Rico appear at lower prices but must be labeled. Navy yard rations set seven pounds per week per family with possible cuts as supply fluctuates.
Doctors determine no operation is necessary as swelling subsides through the day and a simplified treatment is expected to relieve the patient. The medical team reconciles the change in plan and aims to avoid surgery tonight.
A favorable night bulletin notes President Wilson rested well with normal vitals. Doctors Grayson Young Fowler Ruffin and Rear Admiral Stitt conferred at the White House about prostatic swelling hindering recovery and plan further study to keep the ailment from delaying convalescence.
Dr. Hugh Frampton Young of Johns Hopkins, called for crisis consult, reported the President tranquil and comfortable with improved prostatic swelling. He noted cheerfulness and alertness, and shared a barber joke about surgeons, but declined to indicate possible operation.
After hours of debate Samuel Gompers urged the conference to keep session until the collective bargaining resolution is resolved. L. F. Loree defended extending regulatory reach to labor, warning of Bolshevik influence, as public and employer groups pressed for adjournment. Four labor members sided with employers to adjourn.
Washington reports that due to treaty obligations the State Department does not favor deporting 1745 aliens who withdrew declarations of intent to avoid wartime service. Secretary Lansing informs House Immigration Committee Chair Johnson that deportations are opposed by Norway and Sweden. The note cites treaties protecting Americans abroad from compulsory service and argues deportation punishes lawful draft exemptions.
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