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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1917
Page
12
General debate in the Senate on the 2.006 billion war tax bill virtually ended. Finance committee amendments moved quickly to the House bill as leaders predicted passage late next week. Senator Simmons signaled a time limit on debate and a date for final vote.
The Senate acting as a whole approved most of the finance committee’s tax revisions including income and war profits, with debates highlighting a fight over war taxes and publishers’ levies. Minorities urged heavier taxes on incomes and profits while others favored limits on drawbacks for sugar refiners and moving toward reducing auto ownership tax.
German press in Berlin argues that Ambassador Gerard’s exposures of German diplomacy show no harm to German policy. It says the Emperor William, in his messages to President Wilson, strove for peace while British leaders pursued or were duped by prior war aims.
Three days east of Petrograd Bolshevik anarchists attempted to wreck the American Root mission by fire. Fire spread to passenger trains. soldiers pushed blazing cars toward the Root train but engineer backed away five miles. Root, on the platform, remained calm as the danger raged around him.
Four Massachusetts officers are among 200 nominated for major generals and brigadier generals by President Wilson. Clarence R Edwards, head of the Northeast Department in Boston, is named major general. E Leroy Sweetser, former Mass National Guard commander, is named brigadier general. Charles H Cole, former adjutant general, nominated brigadier general in the national army. Beaumont B Buck, chief inspector and Guard staff, nominated brigadier general and noted for border service.
The advertisement touts Father John’s Medicine as a tonic food medicine that strengthens children who are thin pale and weak. It claims the product provides pure nourishing help creates new flesh and tissue and restores vitality for the whole family.
FRAMINGHAM August 14 Lieutenant David L Rapport of the First Field Hospital Unit was arraigned charged with manslaughter after striking 70 year old John Driscoll with his motorcycle. He was released on $1000 bond for further hearing Thursday August 16. The case was continued because his attorney was absent from the state.
Survivors of the hurricane that swept Provincetown mourn 19 seamen lost from two schooners. Widows and orphans number in the hundreds as families with many children face poverty and waiting news. Local agents Joseph A. Manta and Joseph Perry remain focal points of concern.
British and American officials in Washington weigh Pope Benedicts bid for peace as a possible step by Germany and Austria. They foresee demands for a reply to the Vatican plan while insisting on Allied war aims such as armament reduction and recognition of small nations. Officials fear a rejection could undermine the grand alliance and prolong the war.
London reports that US position favors a peace clearing militarism and absolutism, rejecting status quo terms. Viewpoints say Germany must not retain colonies or subject races, with America as the key to stable, lasting peace and Allied support. Officials note central powers seek status quo peace, which would be German and unacceptable to Wilson and allies. Vatican note info reached Whitehall yesterday without surprise.
Petrograd reports a disastrous rail accident between Petrograd and Moscow. Sixty persons were killed and 150 injured as a passenger train collided with a freight train. Four coaches were crushed in the wreck.
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