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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1917
Page
16
Miss Clara Neilson a 19 year old girl and Harold Powers her escort were held on $600 bail as material witnesses after a quartet allegedly attacked them Friday night. Powers a national guardsman claimed to have been offered money to leave town and both will be jailed awaiting Saturday hearing.
From Berlin via London May Day reports show Radical Socialists failed to secure a holiday in munition factories. No work stoppage or parades occurred. Conservative Socialists campaigned against a holiday and appeared to prevail by noon.
The House completed debate in one brief session on an omnibus emergency war bill worth nearly three billion dollars. It will pass tomorrow with few votes against it. No opposition arose, and the main change was an amendment doubling enlisted Army pay.
The bill totals 2.83 billion with 2.32 billion for the military and 503 million for the navy and the rest for other departments. Estimates total 3.46 billion after a 600 million cut by the appropriations committee. Army pay rises to over 325 million with a 125 million boost to enlisted men under the draft plan.
George H. Conant watchman for the Boston & Maine railroad was seriously wounded when a Sixth Massachusetts Regiment guardsman accidentally fired a rifle as Conant crossed a bridge near the passenger station. He was taken to a Laconia hospital with a fair chance of recovery.
Meyer Weisman of 2 Waumbeck Street Roxbury died Monday night at Deaconess Hospital and was buried yesterday He left bequests totaling 9800 for Hebrew charitable educational and free loan institutions announced after the funeral
Evidence shown in New York trial links the National Peace Council to financing labor strikes to disrupt the munition trade for the Entente and accuses Captain Franz Rintelen of directing funds. Testimony cites a 1915 deposit of 508000 dollars and 18000 paid to David Lamar as part of a plot to paralyze private arms traffic.
Maurice Ketten cartoon The Best Speech of All adopted by the Regiment of Engineers to aid recruiting. Boston society girls prepared the caption and placards will be distributed throughout Greater Boston.
The Women’s Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology comprising about 800 educated women pledges its services to the government and offers assistance in any way directed.
Massachusetts new income tax law will yield at least $10,739,765, per a report to the Legislature by Tax Commissioner William D. Trefry. Returns filed 180,108. 161,840 assessed. 18,468to be assessed. From assessed returns tax totals $9,584,375.82. remaining returns likely add at least $1,155,390.
Governor McCall yesterday signed a bill validating the holdings of the New Haven road across several railroad companies and ordering the company to dispose of certain holdings in other corporations.
Harvard faculty voted to conduct intensive ROTC training for the Harvard unit starting next Monday. Captain Cordier, back from Washington, said the War Department would supply equipment but not board. alumni offered to cover boards for students unable to stay.
The Harvard camp invites all men under eight years of age who are graduates or students of any college to enroll. Enrollment closes at 6 p.m. May 5 with training starting May 7. Cadets will move to barracks at commence ment. Eligible include Harvard students and New England college graduates up to age 36 for commissioning as first lieutenants.
A brief line notes that conditions allow everyone to stay within the unit. No other details are provided about rights, timelines, or exceptions.
Captain George Augur of Fairfield known as the Cardiff Giant was naturalized in Bridgeport on May 1 and returned to Philadelphia on the next train.
A civic gathering in Faneuil Hall square will raise support for the First Corps Cadets engineers' regiment. The Veterans' Association sponsors the 12:30 PM event with a parade of autos and a machine gun truck, followed by multiple speakers as rapid applications arrive.
A Berlin backed dispatch states France and Germany agreed to move prisoners to about 30 kilometres behind the front. The order to begin today was reported from Amsterdam via Reuters.
The Supreme Court in Brooklyn refused a motion to dismiss a damage suit against a subway construction company on the ground that the plaintiff was an alien enemy and not entitled to recover. The court cited President Wilson and urged treatment of alien enemies in the spirit of 1917.
Government boosts access to Glacier Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain areas via improved Cody Road and new trails. Automobiles replace horse stages for easy travel. Burlington Route touts a single ticket to Glacier Yellowstone Cody Road Estes Park Pike's Peak and Garden of the Gods. Agent Alex Stocks promotes the trip from Boston with contact details.
An advertisement touts Ice-mint as a soothing cooling treatment for tired swollen feet. It claims instant relief from corn and callus pain with painless application and easy removal, urging readers to ask drug stores for the product.
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