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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1918
Page
18
Washington reports favorably to the House the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. Principal items include 277.7 million dollars for airplane bombs 100 million for quartermaster storage plants on coast and interior points and 81 million for mountain field siege and other artillery plus contract authorizations for 779 million more in ordnance.
Major General Goethals outlines a wartime appropriation plan totaling 100 million for storage and ships facilities with 50 million more proposed. Projects include Bush Terminals in Brooklyn expansion and storage plants in Norfolk, Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston, plus interior facilities. Additional storage at Governor's Island Newark and completed sites in Harrison and Norfolk are noted along with medical corps storage needs and port debarkation work in France.
Allen J. Mills stepped from the Deer Island boat onto Eastern Avenue and was immediately arrested by a deputy U S marshal. He had just completed a six months sentence and faces an indictment for using the mails in a scheme to defraud.
Catarrh sufferers are advised to visit a druggist for Parmint double strength. Mix 1 oz with hot water and a little sugar, then take 1 tablespoonful four times daily. Relief from head noises and clogged nostrils is claimed as mucus drains, breathing improves, and the remedy is inexpensive and easy to prepare.
In a packed Circuit Court, William H. Lewis urged that John Johnson, a Black man wanted in West Virginia for alleged Mann Act violations, be kept in Massachusetts as a political refugee. He attacked Edith Godbey’s testimony as perjury and questioned the government’s entire case based on her claims. Commissioner Hayes planned a decision two weeks from yesterday on Johnson’s fate.
Nikifor Likuik, 28, of 7 Lawrence Street Quincy, said to work at the Fore River plant on government work, told the District 4 examining board in Quincy yesterday that he would not fight for the United States and was arrested and turned over to the U S marshal.
John W. Davis, after a DUI while intoxicated, was deemed ineligible for enlistment due to age and received 306 days in jail. He had previously been allowed a chance to enlist but did not meet the requirements.
Washington reports that camps including Camp Dix Camp Lee Camp Meade and Camp McClellan will be reorganized as troops prepare for European embarkation. The new selective service questionnaire enables direct calls by the provost general and allows drafting of qualified casuals to fill regiments abroad. Replacement detachments will form at the replacement division cantonment, with surplus troops retained for training locally.
Officers favor abandoning the current divisional depot brigades for replacement troops. A full division would be formed and trained at two cantonments with drafts sent from these centers. Engineers replacement cantonment is under construction at Belvoir Virginia. Two additional embarkation camps may be chosen at Camps Dix and Lee to prevent quarantine delays.
A Nazareth Academy Mother Superior in Concordia Kansas writes that Father John’s Medicine brings praise and benefits to several sisters. The note urges neglect of colds can lead to pneumonia and recommends the remedy to fortify the system and ward off disease.
Former Attorney General Albert J. Pillsbury told the public lighting committee that abundant water power in New England could make the region independent of coal. He supported a bill to appoint a governor's three member commission to study, test, and aid development of power, fuel, and heat amid coal shortages and railroad breakdowns. Dr Curtis J L Sopher of Wakefield, author of the bill, said it targets wartime coal and transport problems.
President Lowell of Harvard announces 11 Naval Reserve members selected to enter the second cadet school for ensigns at Cambridge on Monday. The nominees include E. W. Brewer A. E. Friedman P. R. Ladd A. L. McCobb Leonard Opdycke A. A. Sayre F. C. Seymour M. A. Shattuck L. W. Smith P. W. Thayer and J. L. Walsh.
The Department of Labor announced federal directors of employment for 12 states as part of a plan to weld federal state and municipal employment facilities into a national labor exchange system. Appointments in Connecticut Maine and Massachusetts were listed with others to follow. most directors lead state Public Service Reserve chapters to ensure centralized labor mobilization.
In Rockland Maine on February 14 the Republican Party nominated Arthur Lorne former city clerk and past commander of the Maine division Sons of Veterans for mayor.
Negotiations for freer interchange of foodstuffs and other products between the United States and Mexico begun in Washington are to be concluded in Mexico City. Mexican commissioner Rafa Nieto and Ambassador Fletcher will travel to Mexico to obtain President Carranza’s personal participation in the conferences.
Patrick H. Slavin aged 46 of Brooklyn and Chester Hallahan 3 of New York City were accused of swindling Fall River jeweler William O'Brien out of 75 dollars. They were arrested yesterday afternoon by Inspectors Hart Morrissey and Concanno based on Fall River police descriptions.
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