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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1916
Page
4
James Morton a nine year old orphan from Charlestown drowned yesterday afternoon at Sluice Pond Lynn during a Bunker Hill Boys Club outing. Fellow member Edward Larson of Lynn was nearly drowned while attempting a rescue.
A fully clothed Morton boy jumped from a boat 40 feet from shore into 25 foot deep water. Edward Larson rescued him after the boy clutched him, pulling both underwater. The body was recovered at 7 o clock after police grappled for six hours.
A Caesarean birth at Scobey Hospital produced girl twins for Mrs. Wilfred T. Lufkin of Essex, wife of Congress man Gardner's private secretary. The operation lasted about sixty minutes, both mother and babies are reported safe. One twin weighs six pounds two ounces and the other seven pounds four ounces, with both in good health.
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association warns relief work may halt in September unless major contributions arrive. Red Cross seeks 1500 hospital equipment kits stored in Boston. sewing efforts expand with prices rising for bed outfits. over 1700 people benefit from the fund weekly, and donations exceed 5500 dollars to date.
Congress advances the national defence budget with a 700 million appropriation and a 2.29 million military academy allotment. A relief fund for dependents tops at 50 dollars monthly. a border voting amendment was dropped. Provisions include a defence council, pay hikes, higher enlistment age, and court martial revisions.
Conferees from House and Senate meet tomorrow to reconcile differences in the navy bill. President Wilson seeks approval of a large programme with four dreadnoughts and four battle cruisers as in the Senate version. Administration pressure continues amid some House opposition to such a scope.
A Lenox telephone operator notes support for separate vacations for husbands and wives. Miss Mary Haggerty argues distinct getaways could refresh marriages and boost later interest, while cautioning against overly long separations. In London, Justice Darling says five judges will hear Casement death-penalty appeal tomorrow, with unclear nature of the application. Public Casement execution at Pentonville prison on Aug. 5 is deemed highly unlikely unless government directs otherwise.
In Pittsfield a night session finished testimony in the murder case of Matteo Napolitano and Vincenzo Patrello over Vincenzo Cresci. Relatives testified Cresci kept company with the defendants for four days before the body was found and $200 was missing. The defense said they left for Brooklyn on March 25, the day Cresci’s body was found. Judge Hamilton planned to hear arguments tomorrow.
Walter L. Harrington, former headmaster of Washington School Boston and now a Rochester High School commercial teacher, disappeared three weeks after leaving for Charlestown to see his ill father. He left a substitute in charge and promised to return, but has not been located.
Agnes White, widow of Patrick J. White, seeks compensation after his janitor work at Abbey W. May School in Roxbury left him injured and later died from complications. The city argues janitors are not laborers under the workmen’s compensation act and appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court after the Industrial Accident Board award.
The annual outing at Massapong Grove Sharon features speaking sports dancing and musical entertainment tomorrow. Mayor James M Curley and U S Marshal John J Mitchell will attend as guests.
Birth Control League selects the Majestic as the only large Sunday venue to accommodate expected attendance. The film is presented as a factual depiction, not advocating or condemning birth control, with emphasis on consequences of tampering with nature and a fair, balanced portrayal praised by both sides.
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