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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1918
Page
9
Washington reports that the House ways and means committee will omit the dry question from the $8 billion revenue bill. Treasury Department proposes doubling the liquor tax, with projected federal revenue of $900 million for the year ending June 30, 1919, if prohibition remains delayed.
The committee plans to draft revenue legislation doubling liquor taxes. If Congress enacts wartime prohibition, time remains to revise the tax bill. The dry amendment aiming to take effect January 1, 1919 could yield about 450 million dollars in liquor revenue, while total costs to the federal government may reach 650 million this fiscal year.
Jack Britton of New York delivered a decisive victory over Eddie Shevlin of Boston in 10 rounds at the Armory A. A. Referee Larry Connolly stopped the bout, ending Shevlin's championship hopes. The card also featured Charlie Parker defeating Joe Ferris in two rounds and Charlie Miller beating Willie Roberts in six. Shaver O'Brien defeated Max Green in eight rounds.
St. Louis July 16 Roger Hornsby will not oppose a work or fight order and will sign with an Eastern shipbuilders team within days. Branch Rickey said the club will not defend the case and expects to be in France before Hornsby dons a uniform.
Newton golfer Miss Frances Stebbins won the ladies cemetery tournament at Duxbury Golf Club with Miss Harriet Ellison close behind. Final holes and distances show Stebbins at 17th hole ahead, Ellison within a few feet of the 17th green as others finish on 15th and 16th holes.
Milwaukee July 16 Fred Thomas third baseman of the Boston Red Sox enlisted in the navy as an apprentice seaman at the Milwaukee recruiting station. He has been sidelined by an injured hand and will report to the Great Lakes station next Monday.
Strikers favor federal mediation by the National War Labor Board to settle the GE Lynn plant stoppage and return workers to production after conciliation talks. Company officials request more time to study demands and deny union-busting claims.
About 200 Mead Morrison Manufacturing Company mechanics, making munitions for the army in France, went on strike for higher pay. They demand 62 1/2 to 72 1/2 cents an hour instead of 5 to 60 cents. After about an hour, they walked out at 7 o clock when spokesman A. E. Jackson was dismissed.
Miss Jane Jeffrey a Boston nurse seriously wounded in the bombing of the American Red Cross Hospital at Jolly France. She is the niece of Mr and Mrs James Baldwin of Dorchester born in London and in the United States 15 years. She studied at Taunton State Hospital and Rhode Island Lying-In Hospital and has served in France about 10 months. Two enlisted men were killed and nine others wounded in the attack.
A company of 60 Akron Boy Scouts with a 15 piece band arrived in Boston after traveling 770 miles in 61 hours aboard five Goodyear motor trucks. They will camp at Green Harbor then parade through downtown Boston escorted by local troops.
The Sunday Post Magazine offers an array of fiction for next Sunday July 21. It highlights “The Runt” by John Tainter Foote as the day’s best dog story and includes a “Cleek” detective tale.
Tom Burke former quarter mile champion and Arthur Duffey former U S Aviation Corps director are ordered to report at Mineola Long Island July 27 with the team of Horse lieutenant Burke a leading New England sprinter and holder of the indoor 60 yard record Burke helped Boston University and Harvard track teams win intercollegiate titles and earned fame in the N Y A C versus London events at Traverse Island 1895 his record against Fitzherbert the English quarter mile champion is noted in athletic circles
Samuel P Kaplan was found not guilty before Judge Bennett in Municipal Court after being arrested on conspiracy and larceny charges from two insurance companies. Attorney Herman Loewenberg represented Kaplan. The case involved Dr William Green Florence Memello Ettore Coluzzi and Frank Spannelli.
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