PLAN "TEAM OF WAR" FOR ENLISTMENT
Calls for more recruits came yesterday from the adjutant general's office in the State House and from Washington. General Sweetser advocated a drastic change in the enlistment system to increase soldiers. Washington Navy Department headquarters asked for more naval reserve service men to replace rising officer numbers in coast defense.
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Adjutant-General
State House
Washington
Sweetser
Navy Department
Naval
Enlistment Reform Advocated by General Sweetser and Governor
Following talks with Governor McCall General Sweetser urged changing the enlistment system to a war term only. He said many men are ready to enlist if they can serve for the war period and not for six years. Navy Yard orders curb Coast Defence Reserve recruiting as eight-two new enlistments push Greater Boston’s military staffing upward.
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General Sweetser
McCall
Sweetser
Canada
United States
Navy Yard
Washington
Naval Coast Defence Reserve
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Boston
Sita
Boston Recruits Surge as Age Limit Changes for Service
Crowded Tremont Street and Tremont Row recruitment sites drew applicants from morning till night under a new age limit of 16 to 35 for service. At least 64 new recruits were tallied, including 18 year old John Leroy Brooks from Hyannis who joined the marines. His father, John Brooks, accompanied him to Boston. The naval reserve station also moved to the Old South Meeting House basement.
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Tion
Tremont Street
Army
Marine Corps
Tremont Row
Hyannis
Cape Cod
John Leroy Brooks
Shannahan Arrested After Flag Incident on Train
Patrick J. Shannahan of Lynn was arrested by special officer Eben W. Sears after he threw a small American flag to the floor on a Boston Revere Beach Lynn railroad car. He faced alcohol and flag insults charges.
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Patrick J. Shannahan
Lynn
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
Eben W. Sears
Shannahan
Morgan
Armory in Woburn Dedicated by Governor McCall
The new $50,000 armory for G company Fifth Regiment M N G was dedicated in Woburn with Governor McCall and General Sweetser as guests of honor. Other attendees included former Adjutant-General Pearson and Speaker Cox. About 1000 people attended the ceremony.
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McCall
Sweetser
G Company
Fifth Regiment
Woburn
Pearson
Cox
First German Admission of Losses Reported
Geneva via Paris April 11 The Lausanne Gazette quotes Colonel Secretan noting Germany finally admitted heavy losses at Arras. The report says Arras’s fall limits German pivot on the right wing and marks a significant step toward liberating French and Belgian territories.
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Geneva
Paris
Germany
Arras
Secretan
Lausanne
War Board of Railroad Men Named
Heads of the principal railroads in the United States met in Washington at the Council of National Defence call and named a five member board to direct railway operations for the war. The board aims to provide government with best possible service in transporting troops supplies and all necessary commodities.
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Washington
United States
Council of National Defence
Railway Board Formed To Coordinate War Transportation
A Defence Council announcement details a central executive committee and a 28 member board led by Fairfax Harrison to oversee national defence rail policy. Ex officio member Daniel Willard will join. ICC will name another. Six sub committees align with six military departments to coordinate army and industrial needs.
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The
Southern
Howard Elliott
New Haven
Samuel Rea
Pennsylvania
Hale Holden
Burlington
Julius Kruttschnitt
Southern Pacific
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio
Defence Council
Advisory Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Defence
American Railway Association
Harrison
Railway Association
Car Service Commission
Railroad Board
British Railroad Board
United States
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Man Arrested After Razor Assault in Revere
Carmine Giggi 32 of 16 Fenno Street Revere was arrested on assault with intent to kill using a razor after slashing Angelina De Pisa 693 Broadway Revere on her right cheek arm and two fingers. De Pisa was treated and then jailed for parole violation. She allegedly threw vitriol at Antonio Giggi, a brother of Carmine, Monday night.
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Carmine Giggi
Fenno Street
Revere
Angelina de Pisa
Broadway
Antonio Giggi
Suffolk North Assn Adopts War Time Prohibition Plea
At the First Congregational Church Charlestown the Suffolk North Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers adopted a resolution urging national prohibition as a war measure and sent it to Massachusetts senators and representatives in Washington for action.
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Ith
Suffolk North Association of Congregational Churches
First Congregational Church
Charlestown
Massachusetts
Washington
Turn N. E. Into Vast War Farm
The American Woolen Company directs 50 mills to place all land under their control into cultivation for workers. A 40 000 strong labor force in New England factories will till fields with seeds supplied and farming supervisors guiding plots. The Public Safety Committee launches a six state effort to grow corn beans barley and wheat by early summer and to mobilize labor for increased yields. 1000 acres of unused ground including 200 in Franklin Park can be cultivated. Public canning drives target housewives. 150 girls will study food preservation at Danvers Agricultural School.
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New England
William M. Wood
American Woolen Company
Great Corporation
Massachusetts
Committee On Public Safety
Philip Allen
Committee On Food Production and Conservation
Mr. Allen
Charles F. Choate, Jr
Wood
American Woodlen Company
Boston
John Db. Willard
Public Safety Sub-Committee On
Franklin Park
Greater
Danvers Agricultural School
Favor Subway Purchase Bill Moves Through Committee
The legislative committee on metropolitan affairs voted to report favorably a bill to purchase the Cambridge subway from the L line and to provide financial relief. The measure mirrors a recent commission report and requires immediate Commonwealth payment of 4 million dollars as the first installment. The Public Service Commission will fix the price, and the subway will be leased back to the company at 4 percent of the purchase price annually.
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Legislative Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Cambridge Subway
Special Commission
Commonwealth
Public Service Commission
Medford Girl Killed by Car
Katherine Cushing age 65 daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry F Cushing was killed by an automobile near her Medford home. Alton D Briggs of 391 Salem Street Medford driver of the car carried the child to Medford Hospital where she died within an hour. He was arrested charged with manslaughter.
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Katherine Cushing
Henry F. Cushing
Medford
Alton D. Briggs
Salem Street
Medford Hospital
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