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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1918
Page
5
Colonel Lyile Brown of the Chief Engineer's office in Washington inspected all engineer organizations at Camp Devens. The 301st Engineers led the routine review, drawn up on their parade field with full personal and regimental equipment as a mounted detail stood by on the grounds.
A stream of Massachusetts draft men reaches the camp with 5180 in this last quota, including 19 colored soldiers in Division 3 from Roxbury. 2128 more arrive tomorrow with Maine and Vermont troops to follow. officers plan to send a few men to Fort Slocum and Portland for draft duties while Major Rupert Dunforth is named camp adjutant and Major Cecil Stewart departs retirements. The Rhode Island case ends with injuries to Vincent Broderick after a minor crash.
Joseph A Fitzgerald longtime Boston Post staff editor and reporter dies at noon at his home 70 Brooks Street Faneuil age 73. He was a Boston bar member and brother of Rev David Fitzgerald and Rev Joseph Burns. Survived by wife Dna Myers Fitzgerald and son Joseph. Funeral from Our Lady Church Friday at 10:04 a.m.
Harvard faculty rules that degrees will not be awarded to students who leave to join government service before completing degree requirements. A certificate signed by President Lowell will be given to all students entering military service, and those graduating in June will have their names appear in a special commencement list. Future Harvard catalog will list men in each class who joined the army or navy. Buy a bond.
Vast quantities of food are wasted after each meal due to bland flavor. Emphasizes the need for better seasoning and appealing taste to reduce waste and save resources.
Massachusetts launches a child conservation program weighing every baby five years old or under. Dr. Lyman A Jones and Dr. David D Brough endorse the effort, with volunteers stationed statewide starting in Cambridge.
Julia Arthur pauses stage plans to join wartime relief work and pledges time to charity. She will appear tomorrow in Boston at the Colonial Theatre benefit for the Actors' Fund as one of three visiting artists alongside Julia Marlowa and Beth Sothern.
Lieutenant Stephen Warner of New Haven Conn died in Wichita Falls Texas when a gasoline tank exploded on a plane crash during a vacation. He formerly worked for the Winchester Arm Company.
Clarence Benson a 25 year old Bridgeport Connecticut sailor on a United States battleship died by inhaling gas in Ada Gamble’s Harlem apartment. He claimed he overstayed leave and feared reporting to officers before taking his life. Gamble left to visit friends and returned to find him dead. Benson urged support for war bonds earlier in the encounter.
Somerset Vermont held the lead in the McCall Shield of Honor claims as the filing deadline passed. Post editors will verify government credits against pink figures before Governor McCall announces the winner. Final standings cite 1910 census figures with towns like Gay Head and Winthrop among leaders, Everett joining late with 160 servicemen.
Cardinal O Connell presided at a solemn high mass at the Cathedral yesterday. The Rev. William J. Finigan and Rev. M J Scanlan served as chaplains. About 2000 parishioners joined in prayer for service members. A weekly hour of adoration will follow every Sunday with sermon, benediction, and music.
The Spingarn Medal, given annually by the NAACP for top achievement by an African American citizen, will be presented Friday evening May 3 at the First Baptist Church in Providence. Governor Bruce Beeckman will present the medal with speakers Moorfield Storey and Major Joel Spinrarn.
Advertisement for Wolf's My Clothier on Hanover and Portland streets near Washington Street promises clothes with the same styles as Boylston Tremont outlets but at much lower prices.
The British and Canadian Recruiting Mission in the United States reports 17,553 men enlisted for the Canadian army. Major-General Newburn states that over 4,000 were secured through Boston’s Bromfield Street office and most are now serving overseas.
Donato Cocuoggo four year old son of Mr and Mrs Giuseppe Cocuoggo of 37 Shannon street Brighton was killed when struck by an automobile on Shannon street near his home. The driver said the boy darted into the street and could not be avoided. He was arrested on a charge of manslaughter but later released on bail.
London April 28 A Reuters dispatch from The Hague reports a bill in Parliament proposing stricter supervision of foreigners resident in Holland amid wartime conditions. The measure aims to address objections to expulsion and concerns about undesirable elements among the foreign population.
Paris April 28. Sergeant Vernon Booth Jr of New York, an American flying corps member in France, wed Miss Ethel Forgan daughter of Chicago financier David R. Forgan. The ceremony was at the American Church conducted by Rev Chauncey Goodrich. Booth recently shot down his second German plane and received 10 days leave to marry.
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