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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1917
Page
3
The Cecilia Society joins Nut contributors for a year end concert at Symphony Hall tomorrow night. Proceeds go to the treasurer of the local metropolitan Red Cross chapter. A stylish display accompanies a timely article in color in the next Sunday Post.
Leading Boston department store representatives and the Boston Committee on Public Safety agreed to cooperate after a conference yesterday to conserve the citys food supply.
A conference plans daily store demonstrations on budgeting food use and substitutes. Education by household economists aims to show equal nourishment from cheaper foods. A committee will finalize details while urging immediate action to curb hoarding and waste.
Conferees from the Senate and House will meet tomorrow to smooth differences over the annual army appropriation bill. A war army bill won Senate approval for the second time, but conferees expect no immediate start to discussions.
The Senate passed the war army bill to clear parliamentary tangles with no delays and no revival of the volunteer versus selective draft fight. A Roosevelt amendment offering a draft referendum failed 68 to 4. Differences include ages 21 to 27 in the Senate bill versus 21 to 4 in the House, and a proposed army prohibition. A compromise may set ages 21 to 35. The Roosevelt amendment allowing FDR to raise four divisions is unlikely to pass the House.
Mrs. Annie Cohen says in court filings that her husband Simon accused her of insanity and had her confined to Worcester Insane Hospital for four weeks. She alleges he struck her, used a harness on her chest and back, and refused to contribute 15 cents for hospital treatment.
Tufts College faculty voted to give students in good standing full credit for the rest of the year if they enter military or allied service before term end. Those leaving for immediate farm work will also receive full credit for the year.
Boston officials plan to catalog every cultivateable vacant lot and direct the Boston Committee on Public Safety to grow crops if owners do not farm. A conference between real estate leaders and the food production subcommittee led to an immediate city canvass for available vacant land.
Washington May 1. The Department of Agriculture asks Congress to reintroduce administration food control legislation in two bills. One provides a $25 million appropriation for a food survey and staff expansion for seeding supervision. The other includes licensing and control provisions for storage and distribution, facing likely opposition. Committees continued hearings.
Hermon E. Hibbard former eighth mayor of Newton and owner of Bryant & Stratton Commercial School in Boston died at his home 160 Washington street Newton in his 70th year. Funeral services set for Friday at 2 30 PM at his residence with Rev Grant B Berson of Eliott Congregational Church officiating.
The forecaster notes April has been colder and drier than normal with 0.83 inch below average rainfall. Since January 1 rainfall deficit totals 2.95 inches. The monthly average temperature stands at 44 degrees, about 1.3 degrees below normal.
The Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing on the Concord Maynard Hudson street railway petition seeking approval of one man cars. The session is at 1 Beacon Street this morning at 10 o clock.
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