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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1918
Page
18
Four men employed as waiters at the Boston Athletic Association clubhouse on Exeter street Boston were discharged. The action affects staff at the club in downtown Boston and is noted in the local record.
A club waiter says management discharged him for refusing to work with a German alien. He notes the same club employed another waiter with pronounced anti American tendencies.
Four English subjects and a fifth fellow employee claim a German waiter Alfred Penning insulted Americans and favored Germany sparking a dispute at the B A A in Cincinnati. Penning says he will clear his name with the U S Marshal while the club insists the waiters are troublemakers. Greening denies the men truth and threatens to queer them in every club.
Superintendent Franks declared Penning innocent of intrigue. He blamed four discharged waiters, described as floaters who moved between clubs, for causing the trouble and pressing Penning into fights. He noted secret service members frequent the club and said no objection to Penning had been raised.
The nursing committee of the Council of National Defence calls for 100 trained women to become second lieutenants in the Massachusetts State Guard for duty at the emergency hospital to be set up at the Commonwealth Armory. They would earn 1800 dollars a year for actual time on duty with Governor McCall backing the effort to commission top nurses statewide.
Lynn shoe manufacturers plan to run five full days instead of half days to make up wages for workers and restore production after a five day fuel administration holiday. Factories had operated half time for five months and were working until 6 PM last night.
Rome reports the Austrians yesterday launched a desperate assault east of Cape Sile on the Lower Piave front but were repulsed. Italians hold 119 prisoners and the field is strewn with dead and more than 3400 rifles.
Frank R. Shepard of General Baking Company urged banning white flour for individual homes to conserve wheat. Food Administrator H. B. Endicott and about 500 bakers attended in the State House auditorium. Endicott outlined four clear points toward a possible all-inclusive ruling, substitutes, gradual substitution percentages, and a potential standard recipe.
Mr Endicott told the gathering that 30 percent of wheat used for white flour must be conserved for other purposes. He assured bakers that any rules would apply evenly so no one would have an advantage. Endicott suggested the 30 percent could be saved.
Boston Fire Underwriters executive committee voiced opposition to a full commissioner shutdown, warning it would cause chaos for fire insurance offices. A committee led by James H. Carney C H J Kimball and Colonel H E Russell was named to seek a modification affecting fire insurance. Carney said policies are issued and cancelled hourly and insurers rely on banking systems.
Herman W. Schatzel former Columbia Yacht Club commodore and gowns maker was adjudged in contempt by Judge Raymond for failing to pay $120 and $15 weekly support. A friend paid $200 and the decree was modified to $10 weekly, with Schatzel discharged from custody.
Alexander Jackson pastor of Park Street Presbyterian Church for five years died of pneumonia. He was born in Scotland and trained at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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