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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1918
Page
12
A Taunton River murder mystery received a key lead from W Dale Turner a Massasoit Manufacturing Company executive in Fall River. Police say the dismembered victim found July 11 along the Somerset shore is identified as a blonde with reddish or auburn hair confirming the beauty’s hair color.
Mr Turner told police he saw a scalp with hair attached floating about a foot under the Fall River surface near the shore where part of a murdered girl's torso was found. The hair appeared reddish auburn when viewed in water. Investigators focus on identifying the victim and tracing a knife recovered in the river.
President Wilson condemn mob spirit in a personal statement to the nation. He urged that while fighting democracy abroad, Americans must not destroy democracy at home, denouncing mob actions including lynchings and the attack on due process and humane justice.
In a bold address Woodrow Wilson condemns lynching and mob action, contrasts American democracy with German lies, and urges governors and citizens to end disgraceful mobs. He calls for reverence of U S laws and unity in upholding liberty and justice.
A Newark grand jury indicted 10 individuals and New Jersey lumber firms for shipping lumber from the South falsely consigned to army officers to bypass a railroad embargo. The scheme allegedly allowed sales at higher prices to the government, with hundreds of thousands of dollars involved.
The National Colored Liberty Congress sent a telegram of appreciation to President Wilson from Boston on July 26 1918. The message praises his anti-lynching letter and expresses hope it will protect colored soldiers abroad and their families at home. It is signed by William Monroe Trotter chairman and Allen W. Whaley organizer.
The Boston Branch of the National Equal Rights League sent a telegram to President Wilson praising his address on lynching and urging federal action to make lynching a crime. The message asks to enforce the stance as a war measure if needed, under war powers, to suppress lynching immediately.
The Rev James J Carlin, Boston College graduate and Peabody native, is elected president of Holy Cross College succeeding Rev Joseph N Dinand. Dinand becomes assistant to Rev Anthony Mass S J provincial of the Jesuit order in New York. Carlin, 47, was ordained in 1907 after studies across Frederick Woodstock and Georgetown.
Frederick Collett of West Elm Street Brockton was arraigned before U S Commissioner Hayes on accepting a $50 bribe while employed as a leather government inspector. He pleaded not guilty and is held on $1000 bail with a hearing set for Aug 9. the arrest marks the fourth fraud related to a Brockton shoe factory.
London July 26 The Norwegian government protested the submarine action stopping the Norwegian steamer Hawk on July 10 in Norwegian waters. A German prize crew took the ship toward the south but a Norwegian torpedo boat overtook it returning the steamer to a Norwegian port and rearming the prize crew on the submarine. The government hopes Germany will apologize and prevent repetition.
Miss Ethel J. Bolling told Judge Bosson she is a cousin of Mrs Woodrow Wilson and pleaded guilty to speeding. She paid a $20 fine after a chase by Motorcycle Officer James F. Rogers on Revere boulevard at 4 am with three friends. Rogers injured a knee in the pursuit and fell returning the prisoner to the station. Bolling resides at 4519 Smedley street Philadelphia.
Amsterdam dispatch says Moscow telegram reports the former Russian Empress asked Lenin government for permission to enter a Swedish convent with her daughters. Berlin papers note permission is withheld for now.
Evening service at the Cathedral Church of St Paul on Sunday July 28 will be a thanksgiving for the allied victory on the western front and for relatively small troop casualties. Rev Edward T Sullivan of Trinity Church Newton Centre will give a speech titled Foch Organizer of Victory and Sword of God. Open air singing begins at 7 15 p m with a special choir from the Cathedral porch.
The Food Administration is formulating a system to determine and follow fair prices on all kinds of fresh fish so the public may buy to advantage. It also aims to maximize meat savings and advises eating fish in place of meat.
Adam Kiel, 20, of 25 Morris Street Lynn, dived from a raft at the Saugus River bathhouse yesterday afternoon after telling friends to watch him swim underwater. He was drowned when his body hit the water after a shock.
A Revere city committee and citizens will investigate the Revere Beach Great White Way lighting and report to fuel administrator James J. Storrow next Wednesday. They will decide whether ending the lights saves coal or improves moral standards, with Chairman Robert Pirie and numerous Revere amusement and civic representatives attending the State House conference.
New England citizens are urged to report to Fuel Administrator James J. Storrow at the Massachusetts State House any retail dealers who raise Sasolene prices more than one half cent a gallon after a wholesale increase. He says the federal fuel administrator will prevent unwarranted retail price hikes.
Mrs. Henry B. Valpey of Everett received a War Department telegram saying her husband Henry B. Valpey first class gunner's mate on the destroyer Warrington was washed overboard on July 21 and the body had not been recovered. Their 15 month old son David Henry was born the day his father sailed overseas and has never seen him since. Henry would have turned 25 on Friday.
The Ways and Means Committee finalizes a graduated excess profits tax from 30 to 80 percent on income above exemptions and keeps the $2000 plus 10 percent invested capital exemption. Adjournment delays further action until Monday to consider luxury taxation.
Several concerts are planned for tomorrow under the park and recreation department. The First Corps Cadet Band led by John B Fielding will perform on the Common. D Avino's Band plays Marine Park followed by Ives Band at Franklin Park and the Boston Band at Jamaica Pond.
The 16 year old Cyril McKinley from Jamaica, famed as a sea tramp, traveled freely between Jamaica England and the United States without paying. After being found hiding in a coal bunker on a fruiter en route to Boston he was handed to immigration inspectors.
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