Massachusetts faces August draft as June registrants fall short
A massachusetts Adjutant General communique warns that the June 5 1918 registrants are unlikely to meet the August draft quota of 9800. Class 1 men are scarce. only about 2 percent meet standards. Final classification and exams must accelerate, with shortfall filled by other states and possible age changes debated in Congress.
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Massachusetts
Washington
Massachuetts
Congress
Giant Airplanes For War Power Promised By Caproni
Paris reports Gianni Caproni, creator of Caproni bombing planes, predicts within three years aircraft carrying about a hundred men with engines as powerful as medium steamships will be developed.
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Paris
Gianni Caproni
Caproni
Caproni on future bombing planes and aerial code
Signor Caproni predicts bombers will become far more powerful, enabling single aircraft to replace entire squadrons. He cites Liberty engines as scalable for mass production and notes weather limits and fog hinder cross Atlantic routes. He foresees an aerial code and regulations before broad navigation, with war shifting to air power.
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Atlantic
Ocean
New York
Azores
Portugal
Future aerial warfare foreseen by experts in 1910s commentary
A discussion notes that battleships will be outmatched by airborne weapons, predicting wars will move into the air and that America will lead in aviation due to vast resources. Signor Caproni is in Paris on government business and plans a postwar visit to America, focusing on war machines rather than commercial aircraft.
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England
America
Signor Caproni
Paris
Submarine Battle Near Highland Light Believed War Game
A naval officer reported a close encounter between a submarine and a patrol boat off Highland Light Sunday evening. Officials said the event likely part of a war game in progress off the Cape, with the U boat submerged after an aeroplane appeared and the patrol boat engaging.
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Highland Light
Cape
Mutilate and Steal in Cambridge Church
Vandal(s) entered Immanuel Church Cambridge by smashing a rear window pane. They rifled the contribution box for blind soldiers and mutilated about five pages of the Bible on the pulpit desk. The Sunday School rooms were trashed and the bureau drawers emptied.
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Immanuel Church
That Avenue
Magazine Street
Cambridge
Almost All Steel For War Work
Government and private war industries have driven steel demand to enormous levels and daily allotments to less essential manufacturers are continually reduced. J. L. Replogle, federal steel administrator, announced this in New York.
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New York
J. L. Replogle
Federal Steel
Replogle Affirms No Steel Shortage Threat to War Effort
Mr. Replogle with Schwab Hurley Bonner and steel industry leaders says there is no alarm over steel for shipbuilding and munitions. The main difficulty is mills limited by equipment, being addressed by rapid machinery output. Demand for plate steel and war supplies exceeds capacity, with allocations to shipyards and private industry planned after Washington conference.
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Mr. Replogle
Charles M. Schwab
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Edward N. Hurley
United States Shipping Board
J. A. Bonner
American Iron and Steel Institute
Replogle
Washington
War Industries Board
Mother and baby drown in brook near Ellsworth
Mrs. Walter White aged 30 killed herself and her five weeks old child by drowning in a brook near their Ellsworth Maine home. Both bodies were recovered.
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Ellsworth
Walter White
Okesa launches boost Portland shipbuilding tempo
The 3500 ton wooden cargo carrier Okesa was launched at Portland Shipbuilding Company in East Deering marking the third Ferris type Emergency Fleet ship launched this season. The event drew over 5000 spectators and was christened by Miss Hope Rumery.
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Portland
Portland Ship Ceiling Company
Poland
Okesa
East Deering
Andra
Basaan
Hope Rumery
Irani A. Rumery
John F. Vaughn
United States Shipbuilding Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Cambridge Gas Rate Protest Before City Board
Citizens in Cambridge urged the Gas and Light Board to oppose a new gas rate of 1.15 dollars per unit, replacing 9 cents. Attorney A E Pillsbury for Cambridge Gas Light Co argued customers should pay amid wartime costs and urged postponing until war end. A further hearing was set for September 9.
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Cambridge
Gas and Electric Light Board
Cambridge Gas Light Company
A. E. Pillsbury
Pillsbury
Sioux Indian in full dress seeks pass at federal building
A Sioux man in full tribal costume rode an elevator to Marshal Mitchell’s office at a federal building. Dunbar Red Wing of Boxford called for a waterfront pass to meet Canadian Immigration Inspector Stahl at Long Wharf about traveling to Canada. His attempt to pass Atlantic Avenue without a permit was blocked.
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Federal Building
Marshal Mitchell
Dunbar Red Wing
Boxford
Stahl
Long Wharf
Canada
Atlantic Avenue
England and France sue for Black Tom blast losses
King George of England sues in Newark New Jersey seeking 1 022 000 in damages from Lehigh Valley Railroad for destruction of British munitions in the 1916 Black Tom Island explosion. The French republic also seeks 520 000. The total claims begin at about 2 000 000.
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Newark
N. J
King George of
England
State Supreme Court
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Black Tom Island
Jersey City
French Republic
Massachusetts grocers urged to limit to one daily delivery
Food Administrator H B Endicott calls on grocers and customers in Massachusetts to limit to one delivery per family per day to conserve labor gasoline rubber stock and feed. Householders urged to order once daily and shift nonperishables to early week while grocers post the notice.
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Henry B. Endicott
Endicott
Massachusetts
Conservation Division
The
War Industries Board
Wilson
H. B. Endicott
Food license revoked for Worcester potato merchant
The Massachusetts food administration suspends the license of J A Buzzell a Worcester potato merchant for three months from July 15.
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Massachusetts Food Administration
J. A. Buzzell
Worcester
Boston Common faces treeless future if replanting ignored
Chairman James B. Shea warned the City Council that Boston Common could be treeless in five to six years unless immediate action occurs. Professor Charles S. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum backs a full replanting plan, suggesting replacing about 800 old trees with healthy young specimens.
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James B. Shea
Park and Recreation Commission
Boston Common
Shea
Charles S. Sargent
Arnold Arboretum
Sargent
Gradual Tree Replacement Urged for Public Garden
Shea urged the council to shift funds from Fenway to a Common appropriation for removing dead trees and planting about 200 young ones, with gradual replacement as older trees die. He proposed $6000 for removals and planting, $5000 for Public Garden reforestation, and $2500 for bridge repairs.
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Shea
Fenway
Victory Oaks Proposed as Living Memorial on Boston Common
The Boston City Council approved funds to plant Victory Oaks named for fallen soldiers and sailors. The plan, urged by Councillor John J Attridge and Commissioner Shea, includes regrading the twin Liberty Mall and may add marble benches along the mall to honor regiments and heroes.
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Lars
John J. Attridge
Boston Post
Parkman Fund Commission
Shea
Jarge Peer
Attridge
Post
State House
Boston
Liberty Mall
Hoover's Order Allows Use of Half Wheat
National Food Administrator Hoover clarifies via cable from England that rescinding the use no wheat order does not permit full use of white flour. Massachusetts Food Administrator Henry B. Endicott warns against misinterpretation while noting the change frees hotels eating houses and housewives to bake and serve half wheat bread and pastry before the next harvest with preference for Victory loaves.
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Hoover
Cable
England
Massachusetts
Henry B. Endicott
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