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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1917
Page
4
Captain Bullen and crew of the British steamer Herschel fashioned a wooden spar as a Quaker gun to deter a German submarine off the Irish coast. Detonating caps and smoke heightened the illusion, but no periscope was sighted as the vessel passed the sub at close range.
Congressman Tague of Massachusetts announces plans to mobilize 100 remonstrants from multiple nationalities to urge President Wilson to veto the Burnett bill. Despite House and Senate approval, opponents push to the White House as Wilson weighs the conference report and potential veto.
Former Lieutenant Governor Robert Luce urged separating business from the Legislature and creating multiple administrative boards to draft rules for the commonwealth. He spoke at the New Thought Forum in Dr Edward Everett Hale's Church in Back Bay.
Mr Luce argues for limiting Commonwealth power and shifting rulemaking to administrative boards. He praises Massachusetts and cites England, warnings against despotic government, endorsing a legislature driven system and restrained gubernatorial vetoes. He cites New Jersey and Congress as despot driven.
Elizabeth Halbert, 22, a Metz Auto Company stenographer, faces arraignment in Wal tham Court for assault with intent to kill. Police theorize she is insane, will be examined by doctors, and may be committed to Westboro if found unsound. She spoke little, expressed relief no one was killed, and linked a former plant worker to rumors in her hallucinations.
The stranded cruiser Milwaukee, whose crew was evacuated safely, drifted closer to shore near Eureka California as its hull filled with water. Navy salvage teams abandoned efforts to rescue the submarine H 3, which the Milwaukee had been attempting to pull off the beach when it was wrecked.
Illuminating gas escaping from a leaking main on Newcomb street Roxbury swept into bedrooms yesterday morning overcoming three residents. James Marsh woke and alerted police while two women and Nicholas Dole were treated at City Hospital. The leak, burning at the front of No 33, echoes a 15 year old disaster nearby.
Rhode Island’s Revolutionary brass cannon stolen from Roger Williams Park on New Year’s night was found in a Chelsea vacant lot opposite the Boston & Albany freight yard. Two men removed it for scrap, gave it to a Providence chauffeur, who drove it to Chelsea in a taxi. Police traced the chauffeur, led officers to the lot, and the cannon was recovered and escorted back to Providence.
Weldon H. Wells a former Kansas City clerk confessed to County Prosecutor R. P. Duncan that he shot Mona Byron Simon in a Columbus hotel room last Thursday night. He arrived in custody after being arrested in Huntington Indiana and said the quarrel with the girl led to a fight during which she threatened him. police found two razors and a revolver among his effects.
City officials meet this afternoon at City Hall to discuss installing the high pressure fire system. They aim to finish the project quickly and ensure compliance with the Board of Fire Underwriters to secure a 15 percent cut in insurance rates.
Mrs May Timony 84 of 130 Park Street Dorchester died at Memorial Hospital Worcester after wandering during a snowstorm. Confused by blindness she boarded a Worcester car from Dorchester and fell through a second floor window at the Worcester Temporary Home and Day Nursery, later dying. Funeral to be held at All Saints Church Ashmont and burial in Knollwood Cemetery.
Shortage of male stenographers prompts Civil Service Commission exams for February 6 with salaries from 900 to 1740 dollars. Listings include male chemist at Watertown Arsenal 1400, junior chemist in Washington up to 1740, biological assistant 900 to 1200, junior land appraiser 900 to 1500, marketing assistant 1800 to 2400, forest products engineer in Wisconsin, oil gauger in Oklahoma 1200.
Owners of work horses are urged to have stables inspected by association experts at no charge. Entry blanks are available at 15 Beacon Street. Inspectors will share improvement suggestions only with the proprietor. Prizes unlimited in number will be awarded to owners foremen and nightmen three months after entry.
Mrs Elizabeth Kopp 9 Francis Street Dorchester collapsed and died as she walked with her husband up their home steps last night Doctors could not revive her she was 57 years old.
Thomas L. Hajer formerly of Lynn Massachusetts and once in the bakery trade hanged himself at a Burlington hotel by tying a curtain rope to the bed headboard and slipping from the bed, dying by strangulation.
A man named Hater, 38, found dead in apparently good circumstances with $734 on him, an expensive watch, jewelry, and a life policy. He carried calling cards listing residences in Lynn Massachusetts and Blue Earth Minnesota, and a brother in Blue Earth. Relatives are being sought as his body is held pending contact with kin.
Charles Fleischer of the Sunday Commons in Huntington Chambers Hall urged a five hour or shorter workday with Sunday ball games. He argued industry should be organized to meet needs and that leisure on Sunday afternoons, including play and outdoor activities, should be encouraged by the church. He predicted Sundays of ball games and play would come.
Harvard will send 40 students to France on February 17 to drive ambulances on the fronts. Captain Walter H. Wheeler, in charge of recruiting from Cambridge, said 25 names are enrolled with 15 more to sign. Notables include Richard Harte Jr and George Caner. others listed span Arlington, Cambridge, New York, Rochester, Egypt, and Great Falls.
Harvard professor William Bennett Munro told St. Joseph's Total Abstinence Society at Charles Street Hall that democracy loses efficiency under socialism and that true equality is a sham. He argued socialism undermines liberty and religion and urged social reform measures like minimum wage and old age pensions to reduce poverty.
The Benson oil portrait of Norman Prince son of Mr and Mrs Norman Prince of Boston and Beverly Farms was loaned to the allied bazaar in Chicago. Photographic copies of the painting by Frank W Benson of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts were offered for sale yesterday in New York.
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