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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1918
Page
2
Senator John W. Weeks filed Republican nomination papers with the Secretary of State yesterday. The 40 000 names on the petition are approximately enough to qualify him for nomination in 12 counties.
Stories of gallantry reach the War Department as Pershing commends 25 officers and men with the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in fighting the Germans on the Maine line. Three of the honorees died in the actions.
General Pershing released a list honoring soldiers who earned the Distinguished Service Cross and those awarded posthumously. Names include Lieutenants Adams Roselle Huebner Wilson Legendre Sheppard MacArthur Rucker. Sergeants Elsen Donaghue Ware. Privates Christenberry Ream Kendry Hardenridge Fleming. Captains Daly, Huebner, MacArthur and Lieutenants Chapmen Hoskins received citations for gallantry near Cantigny Toul and Lucy Torey roads in 1918.
Mobs burned houses at Sendai and 80 houses were burned in Tsumiye prefecture. Officials blame profiteering by wholesalers, middlemen and farmers holding back stores for the unrest in Japan as riots ease nationwide.
J. Frank Facey was yesterday elected as chairman of the Committee of Public Safety of Cambridge at a special meeting. He will fill the office left vacant by Walter C. Wardwell's resignation at City Hall yesterday afternoon.
Information from Washington indicates aid to Czecho-Slavs in the Baikal region of Siberia will arrive in time to block German Austrian prisoners and Bolshevik forces. Allies send large arms and ammunition including heavy artillery.
A State Department official notes aid shipments as part of a broader plan to rebuild the eastern front with hundreds of thousands of loyal Russians. The Trans Siberian line is key, with 88 Baikal tunnels cited. destroying one would only briefly delay transit. American engineers near Lake Baikal repair destroyed bridges and would fix any tunnel damage.
Members of the Middlesex and Boston Street Car Men's Union may be ordered to strike to enforce their demands. A meeting of union officers in the city this afternoon will decide if strike action will be immediate or if the matter will be referred to the National War Board for settlement after requests were rejected by George M. Cox.
General Pershing’s communique released by the War Department notes artillery activity only along the Vesle and in the Vosges with no other significant operations reported yesterday. The statement marks a quiet period on the Western Front.
Major General Henry P. McCain arrives as new commander of the 12th division at Camp Devens. Col Parmerter turns over duties, Lt Col Shuman arrives as adjutant, and staff from Washington joins. The 74th Regiment begins night marches and a bayonet course starts Thursday with instruction from British and French missions.
Paris reports Lieutenant Rene Fonck, famed French aviator, shot down three German aircraft in a record 20 seconds after spotting a formation of four two-seaters. He chased and destroyed the first two planes in 10 seconds each, while the fourth joined them. Fonck, 23, already credited with 60 enemy planes, is praised as France’s leading air fighter since Guynemer.
Earl A. Lawry and Joseph M. Arey, longtime acquaintances, ran into each other in downtown Boston yesterday. Lawry, expected to wed, spent the night in East Cambridge jail after Arey alerted Officer Manning that Lawry deserted from the army and had not registered under the draft law. Arey was also detained.
Lawry declared I am only 20 and didn’t have to register. Arey retorted. Federal authorities committed both young men to jail.
A woman recalls severe stomach pains and ten day attacks before two years ago trying Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. She says she has had no pain since and urges others to try the simple, harmless preparation that removes catarrhal mucus and intestinal inflammation. Liggett Riker Jaynes Drug Stores and druggists advertise the product.
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