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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1918
Page
7
Detroit defeats Boston 4 to 3 as Erickson shines with strong pitching and Ruth struggles yet hits a center field homer. Ruth walks and yields runs early, then Griff full rally denied, while Mays and Cobb bury past animosity before a 14,000 crowd.
John J. Kearney accuses cafe and hotel managers of replacing male waiters with women under wartime rules. Waiters' Union Local 34 cites patriotism and labor support, urging Boston Central Labor Union to back the protest and request President Wilson remove waiters from unessential work.
A Boston Central Labor Union committee met with architect Joseph E. McLaughlin to protest barracks like housing for workers. They warn such structures could be used to house strike breakers if labor troubles arise after the war.
The 15th annual charity beach show of the Ladies' Kennel Association of Massachusetts will be held all day next Friday at Norumbega Park Auburndale. All proceeds go to various war charities.
Beginning this afternoon and continuing through the Braves home schedule uniformed men in United States war service may enter Braves Field free of charge by paying the war tax on admission tickets.
Paris June 2. Aviator Carter Landram Ovington of Louisville Kentucky and another flyer were killed on the first day of the offensive. Ovington’s plane collided with a sergeant’s machine in the clouds. Both planes plunged from 1809 metres and the occupants died.
Rudolph Kramer of Jamaica Plain caught a cod weighing 17 1 4 pounds two and a half miles off Boston Light after a 15 minute battle. Edward Muelle held the fish for the photographer. The claim is noted as the biggest cod of yesterday per waterfront reports.
Indianapolis June 2 Charles W. Fairbanks former vice president is gravely ill at his home. His condition worsened throughout the day and his chief physician Dr. J A MacDonald says there is no hope for recovery. Fairbanks has been seriously ill for about two weeks.
Jack Barry’s First Naval District squad mirrored its early season form but Newport Naval Reserve, top of the Second Naval District, fell 5 to 0 to Charlestown U-9. Bader pitched for the navy, allowing only three singles as Charlestown’s Lundstrom yielded nine hits.
In 1918 Boston topped the North with a 92 degree reading as a heat wave grips the city. J W Smith, the weather observer, notes no relief soon with beaches crowded and a forecast of fair skies and little temperature change into Monday and Tuesday.
New York June 2 Western Union Telegraph Company declines to submit to the National War Labor Board and refuses to recognize the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America. Taft and Walsh report that Carlton insisted on a union referendum, and the board concludes no further mediation.
Fifteen thousand fans watched a heat soaked free service game at the park with the Boston Navy Yard band performing beforehand. King led the Barrqite with three hits and a sacrifice bunt while Barry Shorten and Walsh contributed runs as Boston Navy Yard defeated Newport Naval Reserves five to three.
Cities from Boston to Buffalo see heat and large crowds as Revere Beach draws 200000, Nantasket 80000, Phoenix tops 104 degrees. Police report no prostrations. Bath house opens early. 5000 spectators rush in. A child goes missing then found safe.
In New Bedford on June 2 the Textile Council and local unions voted to strike the cotton mills starting Monday morning. About 35 000 operatives will be affected as mills remain open for workers who choose to report.
Airplane mail service from Boston to Montreal and Quebec to begin tomorrow from Saugus Field with Lt. Vannelle arriving from New York. He will depart aviation field No. 1 for Boston early tomorrow morning using a French plane rated at 100 miles per hour and will end the trip at Saugus Field.
Thirty eight officers and men of the American expeditionary forces are cited by divisional commanders in divisional orders for gallantry. The only New England man named is Dental Surgeon A G Lyle, Navy, attached to the Marines, Gloucester Mass.
Miss Catherine Griffin of Dorchester and Mark Clougherty of South Boston wed last night at St Margaret's Church rectory. The groom works at the Essex Street Postal Station. Bride wore gray satin. sister Margaret attended. William Clougherty was best man. The couple to a reception then left for a trip to New York Philadelphia and Washington.
Albert D Willett an insurance broker based in Boston and Walpole died suddenly of heart disease at his home on Main Street Walpole late yesterday afternoon. He was in his 81st year.
The American Red Cross begins a nationwide drive to recruit more than 20,000 graduate nurses for army and navy hospitals at home and abroad. It also aims to enroll many civilian nurses for hospital visiting and public health work.
To maintain nurse supply young women are urged to join the Army School of Nursing and civil hospitals. The public will help by avoiding unnecessary nurse employment and using hospitals and visiting nurses. The Red Cross already assigned over 19 000 nurses in the first war year and plans to recruit 20 000 more from 60 000 registered nurses.
The Western Union company requires employees to choose between continuing work or joining the C T U A. A small share, under 20 percent, belong to the union. The firm states if workers join the union they must leave their jobs, while remaining employed carries protection and appeal rights. The policy targets maintaining uninterrupted telegraph service for government and the public.
Word from France says a Polish legion of 15,000 from the United States and 2,000 from South America will join allied forces next Tuesday. The unit fights with the French army but carries its maroon flag with a silver eagle and some U. S. companies may show the Stars and Stripes. Recruited mainly in New England New York Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio and Wisconsin these Poles are outside US draft ages or ineligible as enemy aliens and are paid five cents a day with small dependents allowances.
Lieutenant Douglas Campbell brought down a German two seater near the front lines after observing the enemy aircraft had exhausted its ammunition. Campbell flew over enemy lines, closed in from a safe distance, and forced the crash while the German machine attempted to fire.
In Toledo on June 2 Joseph D. Tinker was relieved as Columbus club manager and Mordecai Brown, formerly of the Chicago Cubs, was installed in his place. Brown announced the change and the team has won 14 of 17 on the road under his direction.
G. B. Stewart a local semi professional left hander is signed as a member of the pitching staff of the St. Louis Americans according to an announcement tonight.
Rev Andrew J. O'Brien of St Johns Seminary says during the Boston College baccalaureate sermon at the Church of the Immaculate Conception that Germans worship a clay god of their own fashioning whom they claim to be God.
Father O Brien framed the war as a clash between Christian civilization and German materialist philosophy. He warned the allies will prevail and Christian moral order will return. Boston College's front pews held 84 graduates to be, 36 of the 1918 class in service, with Father Lyons Lyons presiding at benediction and Father Corigan and Father Creeden assisting.
Word came yesterday of the death at St. Marys Monastery in Dunkirk New York of Rev Basil Malone CP a prominent Passionist missionary priest He was born November 3 1868 in Dunkirk and entered the Passionist order June 1 1881 He was ordained May 20 1888 in Pittsburgh and taught theology at West Hoboken and Baltimore for several years.
Cleveland June 2 Outfielder Bobby Roth of the American League club is indefinitely suspended today by Manager Lee Fohl for insubordination. Joe Wood will play right field.
Memorial services were held yesterday afternoon on the Ocean Pier in Revere by the Adelaide Worth Bagley Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans for the unknown sailor who died. Flowers and wreaths were cast on the waters.
General Leonard Wood told officers of the 82nd Division that their orders stand and they must do their best to win the war. He had planned to lead the division to France but was ordered to remain at Camp Funston to train another unit.
General Wood reviewed the division at an army camp near here before departing for Camp Funston. He spoke briefly to the officers saying he would not say goodbye and that orders had changed, sending him back to Funston. He urged the troops to keep up their high standards and win the war. Observers noted flawless marching as they bid him farewell.
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