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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1918
Page
4
Washington June 16. Administrative changes in the 10 ordnance districts speed up overseas production of ordnance. A group of manufacturing specialists has been formed to supervise the different phases of ordnance production.
Brigadier General C C Williams announces that ten districts will be led by district chiefs to coordinate field work and contractors. Levi H Greenwood heads the Boston district and Waldo C Bryant the Bridgeport district. Night manufacturing specialists will coordinate parts production while Bethlehem Steel and all arsenals are exempt. Executives Coleman Humphrey and Davis will supervise guns carriages and optical instruments, loads for fixed ammunition and large shells.
J. H. Young of American Can and Herbert Wolff of American Car & Foundry in Chicago will specialize on machining shells for mobile artillery. K. H. Blood of Pratt & Whitney will follow up fuse and booster production, while George C. Brainerd of Hydraulic Steel will oversee shell forgings.
Two boats of fishermen were swept into breakers off Libby Island Machias Maine and overturned. One drowned before rescuers could reach him as Naval reserves pulled the others free by ropes and swims. Samuel Holbrook the first assistant lighthouse keeper went down during the rescue. Austin Foss the second assistant keeper was saved by reservists W. H. Kane of South Boston and Harry Kopel of Revere Mass after a long swim.
Harry C Williams 65 of 10 Buttonwood Street in charge of the yacht Thelma was cut about the face and head and thrown into the water while attempting a Marine Park landing yesterday. He kept afloat until aid arrived and was taken to City Hospital for treatment.
Police Captain Hugh J. Lee of Station 6 South Boston married Miss Catherine Arnold of Dorchester in St Peter's Church Meeting House Hill. They will live at 61 Farragut Road and travel on a combined trip to New York Philadelphia and Washington after a simple ceremony due to recent family deaths. Best man was John J. Lee of Framingham and bridesmaid Miss Bridget Arnold.
Cardinal O Connell visits Devens camp for mass with the 76th division and Knights of Columbus. He urges soldiers to discipline and courage in service, citing General Pershing and General Foch, and concludes with a blessing before departing for Boston.
Worcester police hunt in Albany and Lyons streets for a shooter after a man named Joseph Valone was struck by buckshot and left with multiple head and face wounds. He remains on the City Hospital danger list with no arrests yet.
A devotional appeal asking God to accept the speaker’s sufferings and life for past sins, to keep the heart pure, and to be with him in peril, death, and ongoing effort for God’s holy cause with the blessing of salvation.
A published casualty roster lists New England servicemen with ranks and assignments. Names include Pt John J Loudon Springfield Massachusetts 7th Field Artillery and Sgt Edward Harding Cambridge Massachusetts killed of wounds. Others are severely wounded or missing with units such as 23d Infantry and 102d Infantry across Massachusetts Connecticut and Maine.
Former Cambridge alderman Thomas E. Kennedy was seriously injured in an automobile crash in Jamaica Plain and is listed on the dangerous list at Forest Hills Hospital.
Ex-Alderman Thomas J Kennedy of 19 Day Street Cambridge crashed into a telegraph pole on Morton Street Jamaica Plain after throwing a rear tire. Kennedy suffered a fractured skull and broken kneecap and is on the dangerous list at Forest Hills Hospital. Mrs Kennedy and daughters Helen and Grace sustained bruises and cuts, were treated at hospital, then returned home.
The sugar steamer Bavaria bound for Cuba ran aground early today one mile north of the Atlantic port. Tugs and a government dredge worked all day to free her but failed. The vessel rests about 200 feet from deep water and is expected to be floated at high tide tomorrow.
In yesterday’s casualty list of 57 names only 10 New England men appear. One Greater Boston man is reported dead from wounds and another severely wounded. Washington reports locate four Connecticut men previously listed as missing, one in hospital and three in German prison camps. Regular army units again bear the brunt of early June fighting, with several more casualties from the 23d Infantry.
Corporal Ralph L. Whiting of Marlboro severely wounded on June 10 has three years in I Company Eighth Massachusetts Infantry and naval training ship service. Private George C. Ransom of Thomaston is missing in April but in a French hospital. Multiple soldiers, including Corporal Edwin J. Barnes and Percival Barnes prisoners in Darmstadt, and Sergeant Walter J. Reynolds in German camps, are reported. Private Joseph Alderick Veillette killed June 6 in action. Private John J. Louden killed June 5. Private William H. Noon dead of wounds June 7. Private Samuel W. Myers and others listed with hometowns across New England and beyond.
The June 16 army casualty list shows 57 names with 27 killed in action 13 died of wounds 1 death by accident and 16 wounded severely Lieutenant Whitney W Stark of Brooklyn New York is the lone officer named in the list The names span many cities including Portsmouth Ohio Lindley New York Winnewood Oklahoma Chicago St Paul Indiana Buffalo Pennsylvani a Tottenville Staten Island and more
James T. Sullivan, Boston newspaper man, spoke on The Irish in the War and Present-Day Conditions in Ireland at a Worcester Street meeting of the Nightworkers' Division A O H. The program included Irish songs and American patriotic airs with Women’s Auxiliary guests.
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