Service Men All Anxious To Work At Home
Discharge and home bring the Yankee Division back to work. More than 8000 men were paid off at Camp Devens in under seven hours as 101st to 104th infantry regiments and the 101st Engineers demobilized. Many headed toward Boston or trains home with about $100 in pay plus a $60 government bonus and railroad fare. Some cases of petty pedlars outside pay windows were stopped by military police.
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Camp Devens
01St Infantry
Reveille
Maine
103D Infantry
Henry P. McCain
United States Army
101St
102D
108D
104Th Infantry
101St Engineers
James, Foren
Springfield
Ayer
Boston
McCain
A. G. Lott
Clarence B. Trendell
Military Police
Blacklists Against Germany Abolished by Allied Pact
Berlin April 28 AP The British commission head in Germany says all blacklists and trading disabilities are withdrawn by the armistice commission The allies reserve right to reinstate any blacklist if needed The resolution came on a proposal by Britain Also noted is a separate appeal praising U S government bonds at 4 4 per cent interest urging purchase
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Berlin
Associated Press
Germany
German Armistice Commission
U. S
Raynham Flight Hampered by Strong Southeast Wind
St John s Newfoundland April 28 A cross wind at 25 mph from the southeast prevented the hop off in Captain Frederick P Raynhams transatlantic flight in a Martin Syd e seaplane from Mt Pearl Plateau today.
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ST. John’s
N. F
Frederick P. Raynham
Mt. Pearl
British aviator Raynham readies for 24 hour crossing
Captain Charles W. F. Morgan and Raynham waited three hours for favorable wind at Mt Pearl before abandoning the attempt at dusk. Weather remained promising for a dawn start if winds shift, while Harry Hawker and Commander Grieve tested a new propeller at Quindividi. Hawker would have started if ready, but learned Raynham was on standby and returned to their hangar.
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Charles W. F. Morgan
Raynham
Harry Hawker
McKenzie Grieve
Quindividi
Mt. Pearl
Hawker
Grieve
Army disapproves police methods in war time trials
Chaumont France March 28 a Boston Post and New York Evening Post envoy reports that American army courts martial reject the third degree. An ex detective used psychological coercion to obtain a confession before a court martial, leading to his removal after a controversial acquittal. The piece argues civilian and military evidence largely parallel in integrity, despite harsher penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepherd
Boston Post
New York Evening Post
Europe
New England
Chaumont
France
United States
No Reason for High Prices, Trade Leaders Say
St. Louis April 28 A W Douglas chief statistician of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States told about a thousand American trade organizations in convention that prices rise without reason and that with free operation of supply and demand a further decline to a normal level would follow though some decline has already begun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
A. W. Douglas
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Police urged to stop fake soldiers in uniform
Washington April 28 Colonel Arthur Woods special assistant to the secretary of war asked police chiefs nationwide to aid in stopping peddlers and street fakirs from wearing army and navy uniforms. He warned many men in uniform selling goods may never have served.
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Washington
Arthur Woods
Secretary of War
Army
Navy
Woods
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New York
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