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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1918
Page
4
The Post Office Department sustained New York postmaster’s decision to exclude the Irish World issues of January 19 from second class mailing for editorial content deemed in violation of the espionage act. Solicitor Lamar noted future issues will only be barred if objectionable material appears.
The Irish World Gaelic American and Freeman's Journal were seized and held pending a Washington investigation under the espionage law. Editors said the action followed publication of a Dublin petition to President Wilson for Ireland's inclusion among nations recognized at the peace conference.
Detectives conduct a census of raccoon skin coats in Back Bay and Fenway as part of the search for the slayer of Mounted Officer Joseph C. Reiser. Residents face sweeping examinations to uncover coat owners and their habits in relation to the Jersey street apartment murder.
Police patrols search homes for a coat worn by the murderer as clues pour in. A key suspect may pose as a respected resident in the district, with a woman possibly involved in the thefts. Funeral and formalities proceed for the murdered officer as authorities flag a wider dragnet.
High mass of requiem will be held at 10 o clock at Vernon street church with burial at New Calvary Cemetery. Six mounted squad officers Sharkey Connell McGowan E Kelly Daley and Counihan will act as bearers.
London dispatch reports the Austrian strike movement growing into a menacing force in Vienna on Sunday. By Monday morning many strikers had resumed work as the nationwide agitation begins to ease and demonstrations spread to the empire’s cities.
News from Switzerland and Vienna describe hunger marches and looting as the strike broadens its reach across Galicia and other territories. A crowd tried to reach the imperial palace at Vienna but was repelled by guards while police struggled to control the disorder.
Geneva reports that Austro Hungary faces a severe economic crisis with about one million workers on strike. War industry labor refuses pay raises and demands cheaper food while Hungary withholds cereals from Austria and Germany amid a strained military situation.
Immediate foreign service and good pay are offered to men enlisting in the 38th Engineers crane operating unit and the special road and bridge building battalions of the 20th Engineers. Recruiting at Military Training Camps Association HQ Room 330 84 State Street Boston. Enlistment open to men aged 18 to 40 skilled in crane operation road and bridge work stone crusher operation motor trucks road rollers and tractors.
Boston Teachers' Club moves Dr Healy's talk on Some Concrete Problems of Individual Adjustment in Child Life to Kingsley Hall Ford Building on Friday at 4 30 due to high ticket demand. The shift follows expanded coal price controls amid severe winter disruptions affecting delivery costs and the community coal needs.
The Boston Fuel Committee sets a temporary coal price increase from 9.85 to 10.25 per ton effective today. Chairman David A. Ellis says the higher rate will last a week or ten days while a permanent price list is prepared by an investigative committee.
Mr. McAdoo will study Garfield figures showing coal production cuts and seek best action. A two-man committee from railroad and fuel administrations will draft a plan to end cross hauls and route coal from mines to consumers via shortest paths, aided by Howard Elliott and A G Gutheim. Severe weather and heavy snow cripple transport and raise coal shortages.
Fuel Administrator Garfield reports faster bunker of ships and enough coal for domestic use. He outlines a five day embargo plan on freight except food and fuel to relieve congestion on trunk lines to the seaboard, with exemptions for war munitions. Coal production fell in late 1917 due to car shortages especially on the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, and related lines.
In Indianapolis on January 22 the men from the picks gained a temporary advantage over administration leaders of the United Mine Workers. A constitutional amendment would require all districts to be represented before any basic agreement or policy could be set, sidestepping a single district’s authority. The measure faced resistance from the constitution committee but passed a motion to refer it elsewhere was defeated. The convention adjourned to continue tomorrow as delays kept AFL President Gompers from speaking.
Governor McCall asked the Legislature to sell the steamer Lexington, which has served as a summer hotel for district police at Buzzards Bay. The plan would convert the vessel into a coal trade boat, saving the state about 20 000 dollars annually.
Chesterfield January 22 After more than five years liam Durkee was found living in a cave four miles from habitation He said he had stayed in the woods since last August Edward Barnes a nearby sportsman reported activity near a cave Wardens traced Durkee to his cave home with a small food supply He said he got food by walking ten miles to Florence and back for supplies
Immediate action by U S district attorney is expected after a Greater Boston manufacturer allegedly violated state and federal closing orders. State fuel administrator Storrow reported the case as first serious to warrant federal inquiry. He notified the owner to shut down or face further action. the owner refused.
Fuel Administrator James J. Storrow departed for New York to confer with A. H. Smith of the New York Central and the Eastern rep of Federal Railroad Administrator McAdoo. He aims to boost coal shipments to tidewater at Hampton Roads and secure more rail cars. Storrow cautioned against broader conservation, noting recent five day closing orders aided the supply though drastic steps remain necessary. A.S. Cobb warned Boston has only a four day coal stock, raising fear of a recurrence if a blizzard hits New England.
State Fuel Administrator Potter telegrams Dr. Garfield protesting coal shipments bound for New York and New England. He appeals for reconsignment of coal that can not go forward due to terminal and car congestion, warning Philadelphia will suffer for domestic coal and congestion will worsen.
Ernest J. Babcock of Roxbury is now chairman of Sub-committee B of the Boston Fuel Committee, in place of George Whitten who has resigned and returned to the Metropolitan Coal Company. Differences between Louis F. Kornfeldt and Whitten led to the resignation, it is said.
Ellen Keane a 70 year old widow was found unconscious from escaping gas by her daughter Florence at their home 24 Bradford street South End early last evening Dr H Ayer ordered her removal to City Hospital and an investigation showed a broken jet caused the leak
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