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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1915
Page
4
With 21 working days left in the Sixty-third Congress the government ship purchase bill stalls progress in the Senate. Decision on keeping the measure before the Senate until passage or ending the session March 4 rests with the President and administration leaders. A clearer understanding is expected in a few days.
Democratic Senators admit the situation is desperate as minority leaders deny any yield to allow pending appropriation bills to proceed. The contest centers on Senator Clarke of Arkansas urging the ship purchase bill to be recommitted without instructions amid the Senate stalemate.
Administration forces may let the Clarke motion reach a vote tomorrow with 48 to 47 seen as possible if Senator Smith of South Carolina remains absent. Newlands is also expected to arrive in Washington. If defeated, leaders plan to adjourn to Tuesday to open a new day and enable Gore to move to discharge the commerce committee from consideration of his ship purchase substitute.
Warsaw reports military orders prohibit speculation in food and other life necessities under court martial threat. Since enforcement began, artificially inflated prices have dropped about 25 percent.
George A. McKinnon labeled Ellen Hayes of Wellesley College a dangerous enemy of truth and unfit to teach young girls during a Common Cause Society address at Franklin Hall. He criticized her remarks from a prior Boston School of Social Science talk on Some Popular Lies.
The Rev Dr Herbert S Johnson told about 100 worshippers at Warren Avenue Baptist Church that Billy Sunday is neither saint nor angel. He called Sunday sincere yet mercenary and said his courage is overrated, noting his platform rhetoric against ministers and saloon-keepers.
King Victor Emmanuel received former Socialist leader Deputy Enrico Ferri in private audience in Rome. The lengthy conference drew much comment in political circles where Ferri may be invited to join the cabinet.
Worcester police recovered 82-year-old Joseph Brouell missing since Saturday after he fell into a small brook and drowned beneath a Park avenue culvert. The body was found today after a 30 hour search.
Rome reports the Russian ambassador notified the Italian government that Austrian prisoners of Italian nationality held by Russia will be delivered to Italy. The prisoners are organized in special groups and receive privileged treatment.
Police focus on a wandering man matching Mrs. Coffin and Coe descriptions. Detectives search Winthrop lodging houses and beaches while reports place the suspect in Roxbury and near Boston with various leads, including a Boston wager and a zoo of possible fates.
Henry Clarke Coe Jr., a Standard Oil salesman from a Boston suburb, has been missing for a week. A man asking charity in The Bronx on Saturday night resembled him and claimed Boston origins, raising fears of foul play among his family and authorities.
Advices to the Villa agency report General Villa arrived at Ira Puato about 100 miles north of Mexico City and is directing a large campaign aimed at capturing Tampico and controlling the northern half of Mexico.
Diplomatic corps are urged to enter Villa territory in a tit-for-tat move after Carranza invited diplomats to Vera Cruz. The Carranza agency lists 159 delegates to the Aguascalientes convention with 55 allied to Carranza and 11 loyal to Villa.
Mexico City reports General Obregon announcing relief stations will open to distribute money and supplies to the poor. Carranza's education minister says 100 teachers will be sent to Boston to study the public school system and all local schools will close until their return.
Four firemen narrowly escaped death when a three story brick factory of the Sherman E Envelope Company on Prescott street burned. Hosemen Arthur B. White Thomas P. Friend William B. Logan and William J. Karen were trapped but rescued and taken to City Hospital. all will recover. Damage totaled 2500 dollars.
George Hiram Sweetser, 84, longtime Wakefield resident and 25 year director at Wakefield Savings Bank, died after a short illness at his Pearl street home. Funeral arrangements not yet announced.
Washington February 7 reports say President Wilson may be shaping a peace plan as the European war nears end. Colonel E M House, a close adviser, arrived in London to tour European capitals and gauge prospects for diplomacy.
The White House says Colonel House will not negotiate peace in Europe but will coordinate American relief work and gather information. The President trusts his discretion and expects updates only if belligerents show willingness to discuss terms. House has strong ties with European diplomats and ambassadors and may inform Wilson on peace prospects.
A dubious ad urges pity for the intoxicated and promotes Renova as a cure. It claims Sirs I A Woods of Dade City Florida used Renova on his cook’s 20 year old daughter after a night of drinking and asserts she has abstained since. The pitch asks readers to request a free sample from the Renova Company in New York.
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