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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
2
June 12 report from American naval HQ confirms an air skirmish off the Dutch coast on June 4 involving one American Ensign Eaton of Connecticut, three British seaplanes, and 12 German planes. Eaton's plane was forced to land in Dutch territory and he was interned, the first U.S. aviator detained.
Ensign Eaton captained a four hydroplane recon over the North Sea when German forces attacked. Lieutenant Hayjayne was killed when shot through the mouth as the British planes defended Eaton. Ensign K B Keyes then seized the controls and guided the damaged craft to safety.
The International Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Locals 223 and 209, after weeks of strike action, reach a settlement with the Master Builders Association. Workers will be paid 47 1/2 cents per hour for common laborers and 50 cents hourly for scaffold builders, mason tenders, and bracers. Time and a half overtime remains denied.
Investigation into a plot to smuggle Russian crown jewels into the United States led to the detention in Dallas Texas of Silliman Evans once a clerk at the American legation in Copenhagen. He is under inquiry about a legation sealed box he brought back weeks ago.
Evans, returning from Copenhagen, allegedly carried jewels with some later recovered in New York. He bypassed examination of a box said to hold consular despatches and did not deliver it to the State Department. Authorities link the incident to a broader smuggling plot touching the Stockholm legation and two indicted men in New York. His Texas appointment last December is noted while no attache connection is confirmed.
Italian navy chief of staff reports one Austrian dreadnought destroyed and another damaged by torpedo boats near the Dalmatian Islands during an air raid Monday. Venice June 11.
Commanders Rizzo and Milazzo led two small Italian torpedo boats to strike two British dreadnoughts at dawn. Rizzo fired at the leading ship and Milazzo hit the second. Rizzo praised the act for allies freedom and humanity and sent best wishes to America. paris report notes austrian battleship Szent Istvan torpedoed in the Adriatic.
Norwegian vessels Vindeggen and Henrik Lund were sunk by a German submarine off the Virginia Capes. Vindeggen, from South America, carried copper for the American Smelting & Refining Co. Henrik Lund was en route from Norfolk to New York. Two other Norwegian ships Vinland and Hidsvold had earlier fallen to U-boat attacks nearby.
The American steamer Edward Pierce escaped shell fire and a torpedo from a German submarine off the Virginia Capes after a two hour chase in darkness. The attack followed the sinking of the Norwegian steamer Henrik Lund about 120 miles east of Cape Hatteras. Captain Wade credited poor German gunnery, a wide torpedo, and coast lights guiding their escape with assistance from the Cape Sable station and the Walter D. Noyes.
Elaborate preparations have been completed for the visit of the company of Blue Devils to Camp Devens tomorrow. They will inspect the cantonment and observe training stunts as the men practice trench tactics. The only jarring note will be the absence of a real enemy.
Soldiers will undergo barrage firing trench digging bayonet drills and other daily exercises. Lieutenant Thierry Mallet will escort the Blue Devils to the 76th Division HQ for reception luncheon and an inspection of training. General Hodges will host a dinner and provide barracks sleeping quarters. Cardinal O Connell scheduled to officiate a military low mass on parade grounds with chaplains O Connor Ramsay and Lynch assisting.
Worcester June 12 N V Marotte of West Somerville was elected high chief ranger of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters at the convention held yesterday in this city. Wilfred G Lamoureux of Southbridge was elected Vice-High Chief Ranger. Other elections named Simeon Viger Lawrence state secretary and Camille B Champagne Haverhill treasurer.
Emily I Damery of Somerville graduates from Radcliffe College tomorrow after a flawless school and college record. Born August 11 1895 in Cambridge she attended Highland School 1910 and Somerville High 1914 then Radcliffe. Her engagement to Harry S Keut Harvard radio instructor and Tri State College graduate was announced by her parents.
Germany lodged a formal complaint in Washington and asked for safeguards after the lynching of Robert P. Praeger at Collinsville Illinois on April 4. The note cites Privy Councillor Simons and was relayed by the Wolff Bureau in response to a Reichstag question from Herr Mueller of Meiningen.
New York barber A. E. O'Brien promotes a home hair coloring powder Orlex. He claims dissolving the powder in water and applying with a comb will color gray hair to black brown or light brown. Each box includes instructions and a $100 gold bond guarantee against harmful substances. He asserts the product does not rub off or leave a sticky residue and makes hair appear twenty years younger.
Helsinki June 12. Government submits plan to create an independent Finnish kingdom with a male-line king. The monarch would hold a constitutional veto over constitutional changes and land sea traffic, with other vetoes overridable by two thirds Landtag vote. The king would have broad powers over foreign treaties and could not rule another state.
Against a Landtag free constitution, a proposed government model echoes the 1809 Swedish constitution. Agrarian senators resign over monarchic plans as 250 Young Finnish Party leaders publish a manifesto backing a monarchy.
Kenneth Blackburn aged 10 son of Mr and Mrs Albert J Blackburn of 30 South Street Stoneham slipped from a rock into Dark Hollow Pond while fishing yesterday afternoon and was drowned in 12 feet of water.
The engagement of Miss Elizabeth Steuer of Chelsea to Abner Cohen of Brookline was announced yesterday. Steuer is active in welfare and philanthropic work in Boston and with the Boston Council of Jewish Juniors. A reception in honor of the engagement followed.
A gathering is planned for next Sunday evening at the home of the parents of Miss Steuer, located at 67 Chestnut Street in Chelsea.
The Public Service Commission after a hearing yesterday took under advisement the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad fare schedule proposing a rate hike from 5 and 10 cents to 7 and 14 cents. No speaker opposed the increase, and the opposition group instead boosted support for the higher rates.
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