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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1918
Page
13
The rise in letter postage from two to three cents and postal cards from one to two cents, effective November 2, 2017, and running through June 8, the end of the government’s fiscal year, added about 44.5 million dollars in revenue, per the Postmaster General’s report.
Acting Postmaster W S Hurley reports in a statement that the Boston New York division of the aerial mail service is tentatively laid out and will start when War Department deems it not to conflict with war needs. The Boston to Key West route and the Washington New York leg have operated since May 15.
A jury in the Sixth Session of the Superior Court awarded Mrs. Carolina Gebbhardt $5500 from Clearing House Parcel Dnes Company and $3500 to John N. Gebbhardt in separate suits arising from a December 1916 street car incident on Boylston near Clarendon. Mrs Gebbhardt, alighting from the street car, was struck by the defendant’s automobile truck, suffering serious injuries. The husband’s suit claimed medical attendance and loss of wife’s services.
Secretary Daniels tells House naval committee that about 250 million dollars will be asked to cover a current fiscal year deficiency in the navy. The total appropriation is 3.984 billion dollars, with overruns in maintenance and pay due to higher material costs and personnel increases. Some items will show savings, but those cannot cover other deficits.
Rear Admiral Spencer S Wood and Dr Henry Van Dyke opened the Wendell Service House at 81 Mt Vernon Street Boston yesterday under the Special Aid Society. The dormitory can house sixty men at a nominal 35 cent rate with a breakfast service, library, smoking room, Brookline room sitting area, and a low cost cafeteria. Frances G Lee presides, drawing from her Chicago house experience to foster a home like atmosphere for servicemen in transit.
The Commercial Pacific and Commercial Cable companies seek an injunction in federal court to block Postmaster General Burleson from further control of 10 000 miles of cable routes between San Francisco and Asia. The suit claims violation of international law and that seizure lacks consent from land nations without a Senate approved treaty.
The Commercial Pacific and Commercial Cable Company contend a British government department instructed representatives in London to seek approval before any changes from the American Postmaster General. The bill of complaint, filed by Charles E K Hughes and William W Cook, notes Burleson may answer or be served by publication. Creel, chair of the Public Information Committee, will be treated like any press correspondent at the Paris peace conference.
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