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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1917
Page
10
New York April 12 125 students and alumni of Columbia University enroll as 4 unit in the Aerial Coast Patrol announced by the Aero Club of America. The unit approved in the National Aerial Coast Patrol and designated as Unit No Active training under an experienced instructor will begin soon.
In New Bedford on April 1 the Society of Friends adopted resolutions asking President Wilson to permit members to tender honorable service not under the military system. A motion to add Red Cross as an acceptable branch of service was defeated because the organization is considered semi military in nature.
A Cuban official commission will travel to Washington for talks with allied representatives on wartime roles of the United States and Cuba. Havana reports Cuba’s war plans proceed with energy and close cooperation with U S military and naval forces. A mutiny occurred aboard the Dutch steamship Wendyk as cabin and mess boys refused to work until candy ran out. Captain Stewart confined them until they capitulated.
The mining of Boston Harbor may curb pleasure traffic with boats diverted to the West Passage. Wanasket Beach Steamboat Co plans Saturday sailings but harbor mining could lengthen routes behind Long Island. Boston Nahant Pines line suspends Boston Nahant Bass Point service, may run Nevere Beach Nahant Bass Point instead.
Prospect of settlement in Gloucester fishery strike follows talks as owners and captains propose concessions and form a committee to present terms to the fishermen union. Strikers seek fairer division of proceeds after nine weeks idle and disrupted markets. Police augmented by 78 outside officers maintained order with no clashes.
The Olney will filed yesterday in Suffolk probate office makes no provision for any descendant. It notes the omission is intentional. The article mentions Mrs. Mary O. Abbot, wife of Charles II. Abbot, likely in Paris, with a Berlin residence, as a possible descendant not named.
The will of former Secretary of State Daniel Webster Olney states the bulk of his about 100000 dollar estate goes to a trust for his widow Mrs Agnes F Olney and his other daughter Mrs Agnes Minot widow of George Kd Minot. An outright gift of the Sea Robin yacht is left to Reuben B Handy of Falmouth. The trust provides the widow and later the daughter with use of real and personal property tied to the estate and mutual income shares with grandchildren receiving equal residual shares after deaths. Executors and trustees named are Charles H Tyler of Beverly and Antoinette M Straw of Bedford, a longtime Olney office clerk. The will is dated December 6, 1916.
Harvard to hold its first regimental drill of 1000 Corps members in Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 30 open to the public West Side seating to be used Most companies meet at freshman dormitories at 5 30 to collect rifles then march to the stadium for battalion maneuvers The regimental band will play and Captain Constant Cordier and staff will inspect the battalions in review This marks the corps first combined drill
Providence April 12 The Brown University students began intensified training with a nine hour weekly schedule enrolling 200 men. An additional 250 students maintain three hours weekly for drill and one hour for lecture. The plan adds three hours of drill, one hour of military science by Army officers, two hours of gymnastics, one and a half hours for military hygiene, and one and a half hours in map drawing artillery or naval instruction plus rifle practice.
Captains and officers of seized German and Austrian steamships in this port will stay at Deer Island with their crews imprisoned there rather than moved to downtown hotels. Washington ordered officers treated as first cabin passengers barred from the country but not deported. They will occupy special rooms at Peer Island and a separate mess.
An attempted bombing of the Woodward Iron Company benzol plant at Bessemer Alabama was thwarted when a night watchman engaged two men in a pistol fight guiding them off the property. A stick of dynamite was found under a tank near the initial sighting. The incident occurred early today and the men fled the scene.
The men of the class of 1917 at the United States Military Academy in West Point N Y will receive one month's leave after graduation on April 1 before reporting to their commands for war service. The graduation date was advanced and announced recently in Washington.
A fragment describes a prisoner refusing a ten dollar fine and facing a day in jail per debt. It mentions White and two companions under the same charge and references raising stripes at the prison entrance.
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