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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1918
Page
16
A wartime column answers readers questions on draft rules and exemptions. It covers age proof for aliens, waivers of exemption rights, class 2 and 5 designations, voluntary enlistment, medical boards, dependents, and weight standards.
Frank E. Starrett 26, a Brown University 1915 graduate and Athol High School alumnus, died in a postwar aeroplane accident at a French aviation school. He earlier served in France driving an ambulance and transferred to the aviation corps last autumn awaiting Italy duty. He was a prominent athlete and student leader in college.
Worcester police completed a city can vass and issued registration cards to British subjects asking pledges to join Canadian or British armies. Sixty men signified intent to report to Captain Kenneth D. Marlatt at the recruiting mission in Boston, with first medical exams to begin Friday.
London reports progress toward a limited aerial postal service between France and England. The system would carry official correspondence including inter allied committee mail from Versailles, enabling American communications to reach mail boats from England about two days faster than existing methods.
Harvard seniors face limited housing as the senior dorms are cut to Hollis Holworthy Stoughton and Thayer. Matthews and Weld will open to lower classmen and graduates. Senior housing assignments for 1919 will be awarded by lot.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry B. Joy announces a recruiting push for a new regiment of motor machinists in the U S Signal Corps. The call seeks 120 lieutenants to supervise automobile plants and motor facilities for immediate overseas service behind the front.
An examining board from Cleveland arrives in Boston to test applicants for a new regiment. Between 20 and 35, native born or naturalized Americans with three letters of recommendation may seek commissions as first or second lieutenants. The program targets experienced foremen and plant supervisors for industrial service abroad.
In the Canal Zone nine United States citizens employed by the Panama Canal were discharged for pro German sympathies. All were of German or Austrian descent, six born abroad, with one from Kentucky and another from Ohio. Discharges occurred individually after colleagues reported their hostile attitudes to the authorities.
Boston Elevated officials weigh hiring women for cars and stations as labor shortages grow. Patrick Dana, traffic manager, notes 200 to 300 rush hours trips cut from 16,000, with many men joining government service. Advertising draws few applicants. hundreds already enlisted or stationed at naval yards and arsenals. Women conductors and guards have run other systems, and are described as efficient.
A deaf and mute boy, possibly Clarence or Frank Machado of New Bedford or Fairhaven, was fatally struck by a Boston and Albany outbound train in Brookline. A card in his pocket bore the name Clarence Machado and two possible addresses, with a ticket from New Sedford to Fairhaven found on him. The card had issued by the American School for Deaf and Dumb.
First detachments of American staffs in Paris will begin moving to new headquarters tomorrow and all will be established some distance from Paris by January 15 at the latest. The shift will not unfold in one sweep by special train due to the complexity of winding up operations.
Officers from each branch have been in the new town for days arranging offices comparable to Paris quarters. They may forego hotel residence as accommodations are limited and will billet with private families, as Pershing’s staff does. The lines of communication, transport, and aviation depart from Paris, excluding the technical branch.
Miss Kathrine F. McDonnell, a veteran Spanish war nurse, criticizes plans to commission 100 nurses as state guard second lieutenants. She argues all nurses should have a chance at commissions with $1800 salaries and calls Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer’s selection arbitrary. McDonnell plans to contact Governor McCall to express her views.
The local board denied Shaffer exemption in the Suanet case on Seeauge street East Boston. Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo and railroads director general urged Shaffer’s release from military service to remain as his secretary in Washington, but the request was denied.
A State House conference drew 300 to 400 employers from Massachusetts mills and other industries to denounce alien activity and German propaganda. Richard Borden opened the closing discussion, joined by Otto Hockmeyer of Lowell whose resolution was adopted unanimously.
A Massachusetts conference at the State House on immigrant relations and wartime efficiency saw Bernard J. Rothwell preside over a pledge by manufacturers to back the America First campaign and a comprehensive Americanization program. Speakers warned of alien influence in industry, urged internment of enemies, and urged wage reforms and collective bargaining to unite workers behind the war effort.
President Wilson approves a national program to mobilize labor for war industries. The Council of National Defence announces the plan to recruit 3,000,000 workers under Secretary Wilson, directing the United States Employment Service to oversee factory and shipyard recruitment.
The work seeks a stable wartime labor supply through exchanges training workers and prioritizing demand. It outlines dilution of skilled labor, dispute machinery, housing and transport actions, and the use of the labor department mediation service and Bureau of Labor Statistics under Secretary Wilson and the Council of National Defence.
Two Beachmont children Howard and Addison Osterhout aged eight and six were injured while sledding down a Park avenue hill in Winthrop. They crashed into an electric light pole. Addison was taken to Frost Hospital Chelsea with a brain concussion and possible internal injuries while Howard suffered facial and hand cuts and was later returned home.
Navy officers and men from the Boston navy yard and Commonwealth Pier attended a Tremont Temple showing of The Prizma Color. The display, shot with the Navy Secretary’s consent, presents equipment and deployment methods for sending troops to the war zone.
An advertisement touts Orrine No 1 secret treatment and Orrine No 2 voluntary treatment claiming relief for men’s secret ailments. The pitch targets wives mothers and sisters and promotes a booklet and a one dollar per box price with Liggett's Drug Stores as a local seller.
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