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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1916
Page
9
The article notes Roosevelt's growing delegate support from Massachusetts and Maine as Hughes faces mounting opposition. It describes splits among Progressives on immediate nomination, Perkins denying improper aide, and Johnson leading Irreconcilables urging Roosevelt with a showdown against non Roosevelt candidates.
Washington reports show Meyer and Roosevelt backers pressing to bar Justice Hughes from the ticket while Hitchcock argues he acted for many Republicans. Hughes position remains noncommittal and suggests he would accept only if offered without compromising on principles. Bull Moose push continues with a $50,000 newspaper campaign to keep the third party united. Fairbanks forces deny any VP deal with Roosevelt and hint at staying in through the end, with rumors of a Hughes ambassadorship surfacing.
Forty teams competed in the open mixed foursome event at Albemarle Golf Club setting a club record for this format. Low gross honors went to Miss F D McCarthy and H A Roark with 84, while the low net of 76 was shared by Miss G W Smith and Paul Tewksbury and Miss M D Crosby and G B E Cole.
The City Council delayed action on Mayor Curley s $253 802 street construction order at a special meeting. The measure was referred to the council committee on appropriations which will meet Tuesday amid continued criticism of administration expense methods.
At a committee meeting during the council session Coun cillor Storrow questioned Edward F. Murphy and James H. Sullivan about recently drawn surfacing specifications for five streets in the district containing the Mayor's new home at Jamaicaway and Moraine streets. A resolution was passed asking the Finance Commission to advise if the specs are properly drawn.
Earl Kitchener faced about 200 MPs including the ginger group in a House of Commons committee room. He answered questions on war conduct after Harold J. Tennant promised a wartime statement, with Westminster Palace tightly sealed to prevent leaks.
The legislature ended its session at 7 p m prorogation marked by ceremonial gavel and the word finis signifying the year’s legislative work in the state. Efforts to set aside workers compensation insurance rates are noted as ongoing from earlier pages.
The mayor accuses the City Council of inaction and illegal street repair funding. He cites a 253 802 contract total with a 96.83 percent award to the lowest bidder after public bidding. He says once money is voted, council loses responsibility and he will bear expenditure responsibility under the charter.
The session closed after a disputed battle over workmen's compensation rates. The Governor backed a recess commission plan but the Senate Ways and Means backed away, allowing passage of the commission resolve. Also signed were the Springfield charter bill and reforms on corporate taxes and labor issues.
German forces repeatedly attacked the French line near Fort Vaux northeast of Verdun but were repelled with heavy losses. Paris reported unprecedented violence as French guns and machine guns dismantled advances, with reinforcements routed and retreating northeastward toward Dieppe.
In the sector of Bamloup east of Fort Vaux Germans capture part of the village while other parts are held by the French. West of the Meuse heavy artillery exchanges persist near Hill 304 and Le Mort Homme. On the Russian front the Ikskull bridge head is bombarded as Russian lines endure multiple big gun assaults. An infantry assault near New Zelbourg is repulsed by Russians. Austro Italian fighting intensifies between the Adige and Brenta rivers with heavy casualties. Bombardments dominate most of the front as Turkish forces force the Russian center in the Caucasus to retreat 20 kilometres after Turkish attacks. Turks also repulse a surprise left wing assault.
French war office reports intensified artillery activity on the left bank of the Meuse around Hill 304 and Le Mort Homme. German forces launch strong offensive on the right bank near Vaux Pond and Damloup, but French counterattacks halt progress. Heavy artillery duels continue along the Meuse.
Official communique says German artillery bombarded Ikskull bridgehead and attacked south of New Zeesbourg, three trench debouches repelled. Cossacks reconnoitered near Dvina. May 31 enemy fire near Smorgon. village Lutzkoff repelled. Bombs dropped on Budslave station. Caucasus front unchanged.
The Italian war office released an official statement from Rome via London on June 2 noting that the battle between Adige and Brenta fronts grows continually more desperate as fighting intensifies along the front.
In the Verdun area French troops advance slightly south of Courettes wood as clashes persist through Thursday night. German claims of capturing Caillette wood south of Fort Douaumont and adjoining trenches are released by official Berlin. A French counter attack southeast of Vaux wood fails despite strong forces. Reports speak of 76 officers and 2000 men captured along with three guns and many machine guns. German assaults between Vaux Pond and Damloup and near Fort Vaux are repelled with heavy losses. Austrians continue to press Italian lines but face strong resistance and heavy fire.
The report describes heavy artillery duels in the Lagarina and Posina sectors with our forces hindering enemy movement and gaining ground in Upper Val d Area. Violent nighttime attacks on the Forni slopes were repulsed with heavy enemy losses as our batteries destroyed assault columns. Further bombardments stretched from Colle di Zomo to Rocchetti while enemy efforts along Posina Fusine and Sergliaschiri fronts were repulsed after fierce fighting.
Seven year old George B. Fitzgerald of Malden was injured when he jumped from a moving wagon tailboard and collided with an automobile driven by Charles W. Hodgdon of Somerville. The injury required nine stitches and a doctor watched for internal damage.
An unsigned wireless message from the steamer Somer relayed to the Raleigh at Talara Peru reports Americans and British subjects killed by striking workers of the London Pacific Petroleum Company. The message arrives via radio to San Diego, California.
A long list of death notices with funeral details across Boston area towns. Names include James H. Arnold Catherine Bray Gertrude Brennan Mary Campbell Carl Carlson John G Cook Philip T Corrigan Adele Currier Gustaf Dahlin Thomas L Feeney James P Fegan Thomas W Flett Roland F Gammons Christ or Gieselman Isabel J Grover Roseanna Hapenny Charles L Hinds Adelaide Baldwin Marion E Koppehel Michael Lennen Adelle M Mahoney Robert J McMurray Alice M Minahan William L Mundy Mary A Murphy Jeremiah Oconnor John A Olson Maud Picco Charles W Sewall William K Sharpe Mary Sweeney Mary A Sweeney George Holt Todd John Whalen and others with funeral arrangements and locations.
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