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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
17
The August draft calls will total 9287 white men and 513 colored men. The information was released yesterday to the selective draft office by Provost Marshall General Crowder.
Washington reports the dead and missing from the cruiser San Diego sunk last Friday off Fire Island have been reduced to six as of today. Secretary Daniels announced the updated figure amid ongoing memorial and inquiry efforts.
Mayor Peters and Fuel Administrator Storrow secured a plan to obtain at least 15 000 tons of anthracite for municipal distribution this winter. The program will run 15 distribution stations in Boston with strict controls to prevent profiteering and ensure stock reaches the needy.
Gerald E. Street named by the government as official negotiator of the United States Housing Bureau for the Quincy district. He will acquire lands needed for a $2,500,000 program to build tenement houses for munition workers near federal plants in and around Quincy.
New testimony sought by George L. Rollins counsel who argued it implicated another person in the murder of Ordway Hall. Judge Keating in Superior Criminal Court reserved his decision yesterday.
Dr John B Swift, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, urged expectant mothers to seek physician advice immediately and biweekly. He advised six small meals daily, avoidance of violent exercise, proper corsetry and footwear, regular bathing, safe sea-bathing with limits, and dental care during pregnancy.
Washington July 24 shoe manufacturers were instructed by the War Industries Board to confine brown shoe shades to two colors medium and dark to standardize wartime footwear.
Williams G McNary of the Massachusetts Waterways Commission told Dorchester business groups that widening and deepening Dorchester bay and Neponset River could bring commercial and industrial benefits to Boston Dorchester and Quincy. He urged federal action and cited a proposed 175 foot wide channel to the Neponset highway bridge at an estimated 37000 dollars, noting the Victory plant at Squantum marks early upbuilding.
Attorney General Gregory and Assistant Attorney General Frierson traveled to New York to join Charles B. Hughes in probing aircraft production plants near New York. They will confer with airplane manufacturing experts and plan an inquiry at Buffalo next week.
A magazine notes women surgeons deploy where distress is greatest from Serbia to Roumania Russia and Italy, in a broad service to mankind. The piece portrays this awakening of women doctors and their international aid efforts.
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