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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1918
Page
10
A new casualty roll adds 432 names to the Franco American forces list in the Marne offensive. Among the tally 154 were reported killed in action with the army, including a half hundred New England men.
The killed list grows with about ten more names including Lieutenant Oliver Ames of Beverly an A Company 165th Infantry Harvard graduate and clubman. Also named is Second Lieutenant James E Breslin of Malden Princeton and Trinity athlete reported wounded.
Private John J. Padden 24 of Headquarters Company 5th Infantry was killed in action July 18. Son of Henry Padden 78 Maple Street Holyoke he worked for Hampshire Paper Company before volunteering for the draft quota at Camp Devens last October.
Authorities in Rockland seek Mrs. Lewis Kilbourn formerly of Union Street to deliver the War Department notice of death in action of Private Charles B Tibbetts age 23 a shoeworker from Brockton and son of Mrs Kilbourn.
Long list of New England servicemen and units named as casualties or wounded in action. Names include Oliver Ames Beverly A Co 165th Inf and Clarence Allen Turners Falls US Co 16th Inf, among many others from Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire and New Haven and Worcester area.
Overseas casualties announced today total 432 and bring weekly casualties to 4916 and cumulative American losses in France to 20 112. Most losses occurred on the Marne Aisne front with 345 soldiers and 87 marines in today’s list and 4198 soldiers and 718 marines for the week. The week’s total rose from 1430 last week.
A fragmentary roster lists individuals with home addresses and units detailing their ties to various infantry and marine corps groups. Names include John F. Granger Joseph Granger Albert Ladoucer Robert J. Sullivan Victor Walter Wysocki Howard J. Nickerson Paul Brosseau Carl M. Lind Earl Smith Leo F. Walker Roscoe Ellis James E. Breslin Frank Nakatuk Albert St Germaine and others paired with towns like Springfield Holyoke Northampton Boston and Providence.
A compiled list shows soldiers with names and home streets across multiple towns. Units include G Company 58th Infantry and F Company 59th Infantry with several patrol stations and fort assignments.
The German embassy in Moscow will move immediately to Pskov because of conditions in Moscow. Pskov lies 162 miles southwest of Petrograd and about 400 miles west of Moscow. Due to traffic, the embassy will travel via Petrograd Helsingfors Finland and Reval on the Baltic coast to its destination.
Aug 11 Mrs J Allan Dunn wife of fiction writer and former Sunset editor allegedly shot her two year old son Allan Jr and then took poison. She was hospitalized at the State Hospital for the Insane Northampton with expected recovery from poison while the baby’s prognosis is hopeless.
Allan Dunn and his wife Mrs Gladys Dunn involved in a deadly domestic incident at their Lenox Berkshire residence. Mrs Dunn allegedly fired a 38 caliber revolver striking their two year old son in the cheek, passing through the brain. Dunn struggled to subdue her and arranged for doctors and hospital care. He seeks commitment for his wife amid mental trouble claims.
Charles Harris a trusty at the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord escaped early this morning by climbing a 20 foot brick wall with a ladder and iron hook while a new guard watched him. He is at large and authorities report the escape as the first successful prison break since 1871.
Corporal Frank F. E. Haynes of Lexington has been promoted to sergeant in the 101st United States Infantry, with confirmation received by his parents Mr and Mrs Alfred E Haynes of 25 Hill Street. The promotion occurred while he served "somewhere in France."
A Cambridge Employees' Union member was killed when struck by a locomotive in the South Braintree freight yards early yesterday. The accident occurred as workers moved in the yard and the man wore his union badge.
Joseph A. Perry discovers his wife Edith and three children dead in their Malden home amid a gas incident. A farewell note from Mrs Perry and two children is read by the medical examiner, while investigators weigh suicide versus murder in a case that shocks the neighborhood.
Fire in North Easton damages the Harlow ice houses at Unionville thought arson. Loss estimated at 15000 dollars.
New York August 11 Merton E Lewis state attorney general said he could prove by affidavits that William Randolph Hearst received at his home Bolo Pasha a French treason convict and Count von Bernstorff the former German ambassador on two or more occasions.
The raid sent crews to dories as bombs sank nine fishing schooners. It followed prior U S submarine strikes off Cape Cod on July 21 and August 2 Canadian waters. Eight ships and one tank steamer were hit in three days near Maine and the Atlantic coast, with no further reports until tonight.
Captain Edward A. Proctor, driving the Gleaner into an Atlantic port, recounts a Hun prowler’s attack on five fishing schooners off Georges Banks. He claims to have seen one schooner lower its boats and heard shots after the encounter.
A German U boat sank nine fishing schooners off the Massachusetts coast. Among sunken ships were the Kate Palmer Amita May Redance Starbuck and Progress with four other names undisclosed. Four crew from the Kate Palmer were rescued by the Helen Morley after brief captivity.
Brockton shoe cutters voting 643 of 819 favor continuing the strike. A delegation from the cutters lasters and stitchers unions will travel to Washington to present the dispute before the War Labor Board.
William Sidman twelve son of Mr and Mrs Philip Sidman of 311 Main Street Everett is on the danger list at Malden City Hospital after being struck by a car driven by James P Hahesy of 74 Hawthorne Street Chelsea last night He was playing with other boys and ran in front of the car.
In Haverhill on August 11, the Greek Orthodox Church re elected its Sunday school teacher and shattered windows in the basement plus chairs strewn in the church yard show the result. The congregation offers its own account of the events.
In Haverhill a dry town election ends with 300 voters congratulating a re-elected leader while four men enter the basement. Chairs fly as the quartet is pursued by the crowd. police later learn the four wore soiled clothes and were found in a boiler room, with the city likely to pay their dinner tomorrow.
Old Orchard Me Aug 11 The Christian and Missionary Alliance reports a total of $20,300 raised at today’s annual campground meeting. Officials attributed the drop from past years to wartime conditions and ongoing war impacts.
An advertisement explains calories as energy to heat water and claims Father John’s Medicine yields 25 715.76 calories per teaspoonful, far more than milk or steak. It touts the tonic as nourishing, non alcoholic, non habit forming and a doctor’s prescription.
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