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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1918
Page
7
Nearly 200 delegates representing the motion picture industry opened their annual convention at the Hotel Lenox and appointed a war service committee. The panel will release new film productions to government departments.
After Lee A. Ochs opened the meeting the league chose committees to study means of protecting industry from hostile wartime laws. Al Black of Rockland Maine was named chairman and the first day’s session adjourned to 10 30 this morning for committee reports in the Lenox convention room.
More than 200 sailors from the battleship Georgia and officers with their wives join a star studded Motion Picture Ball at Boston Arena. A 60 piece ship’s band will give a preliminary concert before the formal opening. A brlliant sea of summer dress uniforms is promised and tickets are available at theatres and at the arena on ball night.
Washington July 16 President Wilson agrees to Charles Swem his personal stenographer enlisting in the army aviation service and joining August 1 Swem has served as the president's stenographer for over five years and has long sought military service Warren Johnson secretary to Tumulty is also set to enlist with consent
Chaplain M J O Connor writes from the 101st Regiment in France detailing fierce combat with German forces. He notes a prisoner capture, several enemy casualties, and two American deaths. He reports 62 American losses to date, gas exposure, and a strong fighting record while praising fellow soldiers.
Washington reports the War Department with Justice cooperation launches a centralized war material procurement system. Boards of control will review contracts, purchases will be centralized by commodity, contract clauses standardized, daily fiscal surveys issued, and public information on needs provided. Aims to correct issues exposed by recent contingency fee arrests and factory raids.
Arthur Guy Empey, who served with Canadian forces and saw early WWI battles, was today commissioned a captain in the national army and assigned to the adjutant general's department. He previously earned the rank of sergeant in Canada before being invalided home due to wounds.
The war labor board will decide the wage issue for the Boston Street Garden's Union after a conference yesterday between Boston Elevated Railway trustees and the union's wage committee.
Francis King ten year old of 1% BH street South Boston fell four feet from the Bowdoin Square Theatre roof while crossing to a fire escape. He was taken to Haymarket Relief Hospital with multiple bruises after playing on the roof with other children.
William Carter, 89, president of the William Carter Company a leading knit goods and salt manufacturer, died yesterday at his home in Needham Heights. He was the father of Congressman William H. Carter.
Frederick J. Macleod chairman of the Massachusetts Public Service Commission rebuked H. J. Rich of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts for imputations against the railroads. Rich warned that Director-General McAdoo might discriminate against New England in railway rate revisions. The commission held a public hearing yesterday at 1 Beacon Street with a second session to resume at 10 o'clock this morning.
Paris fashion adapts to air raids with cellar styles and boudoir caps with curls. Mules join the look as Parisiennes flee to cellars during alerts while Parisian fashion reporters in Paris continue sending sketches and letters from the front.
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