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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1919
Page
4
Captain Adolph C. Pedersen known as Hell Fire and his two sons A E and L R Pedersen mates aboard the Puako were brought to New York by the U S S Rochester and jailed as murder charges are investigated. Six crew members arrived as material witnesses.
According to the American consul at Cape Town Captain Pedersen and his sons face charges under the seamen's act for seven months at sea from San Francisco to Cape Town. They allegedly used handcuffings and beatings with towels and a club, causing the deaths of the ship's cook and a seaman, while crew say orders were enforced at gunpoint.
Seaman Axtell Hansen jumped overboard two months out of San Francisco and repented, clutched a trailing rope begging to be hauled back aboard, which Captain Pedersen allegedly forbade. The Rochester met the ship’s company at Puako Brest after being sent by the American consul at Cape Town.
Harris Hamilton and George Toney two red cap porters at Back Bay railroad station fought over who would carry the grip of a wealthy Back Bay resident earning the usual big tip. A razor and a knife were produced leaving both with cuts. Hamilton was held in bail for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and Toney remained in City Hospital under guard awaiting arrest and trial.
Senator Robert J. Peacock of Washington county introduced a measure in the Maine Legislature to raise standards for sardine packers and herring her men and boatmen. The plan aims to improve fish quality and establish measures standards for sardine person.
The wills of Gladys Louise Cromwell and Dorothea Katherine Cromwell, both Red Cross workers who vanished from the French liner La Lorraine on the Garonne in January, were filed in New York today and are reported identical in detail.
The documents show two wills with identical wording including a common disaster clause. If the siblings die in a disaster, the property and personal items are bequeathed to the same named recipients, with the residue split equally between Seymour Lae grand Cromwell and Mary Robinson Cromwell, each getting a $100,000 bequest, plus numerous smaller gifts to relatives and servants.
Private Edgar Anderson, wounded at Belleau Wood on June 11, is the first Marine to be detailed to recruiting duty in Boston at 22 Tremont Row. He served with the corps that fought at Chateau Thierry, returned from France after a year, and sailed with 600 fighters in December 1917 aboard the cruiser Decade.
The Volunteer Service Bureau of the Boston Metropolitan Chapter of the American Red Cross and the Special Aid Society will continue as a peace time organization with headquarters at 142 Berkeley Street. One hundred representatives from city social and food agencies approved the plan at a Berkeley Street Red Cross meeting. The bureau will coordinate training and create an education committee to train volunteers for social agency work.
Twenty six wounded veterans from Argonne forest Champagne front and Chateau Thierry arrived at South Station aboard the Shore Line express from New York. They were taken to Parker Hill Hospital Roxbury for observation and treatment. A naval band greeted them before transfer to hospital with army ambulances. First Lieutenant David J. Herlihy led the party. Lieutenant Theodore L. Story oversaw ambulance transport. The list includes Sergeants, corporals, privates from units such as 115th Infantry 39th Infantry 101st Infantry 111th Machine Gun Battalion 118th Infantry 103d Infantry 9th Infantry 61st Artillery and others.
The Commercial Cable Company said legal time will be advanced one hour in Portugal and the Azores from March 1 to October 31 and in Belgium from March 2 to an undetermined date.
In Paris Dr John Loudon former Dutch minister in Washington and ex foreign minister of Holland says Belgian press misreads Holland neutrality. He argues millions of Belgians who sought refuge in the Netherlands in 1914 reflect Dutch sympathy. He cites orange books as proving the real facts.
Dr Loudon said German troops were disarmed by Dutch frontier guards before crossing into German territory. The Germans reached Germany without arms or equipment. London said the former German Emperor and crown prince stay on Dutch soil is merely temporary until an agreement is reached between the Dutch and Entente governments.
A party of members of Congress headed by Representative Goodall of Maine will leave New York tomorrow for a trip to the Panama canal. The group includes many members and their wives.
The Sunday Post invites entries for a prize contest honoring the return of the 26th Division. Readers are urged to submit a song, prose, or poem address of welcome for a chance at cash prizes and to read the full details in next Sunday's issue.
Misses' afternoon dresses in heavy georgette with beads over silk slips in several shades priced at 25.00. Misses' velour coats in a new Dolman model offered in four spring colors at 29.50.
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