War Tax Bill Moves To Shape In Washington
May 4 The war revenue measure moves toward a House report after committee action. Some opponents target higher excess profits taxes while others push for munitions taxes. Proposals include 3 cent per ounce first class mail, 2 cent post cards, 5 percent auto factory price tax, and 10 percent amusement tax including baseball and movie shows.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Ways and Means Committee
House
Senate Finance Committee
McAdoot
Sloan
Nebraska
Children saved as Jamaica Plain blaze injures firefighter
Three children were carried to safety by Police officer Timothy Gleason and John J. Fallon as flames ripped through a Jamaica Plain block at 710 714 Centre Street. Hoseman Martin Allston of Engine 14 was injured. The blaze started in the basement unknown cause and raced upward. Mrs Carey and her four daughters occupied the top floor. Helen Maryl and Margaret were in bed when the fire started.
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Martin Allston
Engine 14
Centre Street
Jamaica Plain
Timothy Gleason
John J. Fallon
Sarah J. Carey
Helen
Maryl
Margaret
Gas Tablet Relief Ad Stomach discomfort advertised
An advertisement touts a gas tablet product that claims to stop stomach gas fullness and distress with one or two tablets. The copy urges purchase from various sellers and emphasizes quick relief.
Guardsmen Get Chance as Officers
Three hundred eighty two enlisted men of the Massachusetts National Guard will be released for instruction in the reserve officers training camps. Orders from the War Department specify 25 men per regiment eight per battalion and two per company to be selected for training schools this summer.
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Massachusetts National Guard
War Department
Adjutant-General’s Office
State Guard Officers Training and Discharge Plan Outlined
Guards under State orders will be honorably discharged once selected for officer training and enlistment. Army orders direct selection on a uniform scale for special detachments and encampments with alternates named to fill shortfalls. National Guard members may be discharged upon commission acceptance or training camp enlistment. Coast Artillery units treated as one regiment.
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Adjutant-General
Adjutant General
National Guard and
National Guard Reserve
Oficers’ Reserve Corps
Coast Artillery
Huge British fish purchase at Boston for allies
British government agents have bought vast fish and cold storage in Boston to feed civilians and allied armies. The deal covers nearly all current and future supply to fill the contract, with an estimated 14 million pounds of haddock and flounder to be exported in coming months and a nearly $500,000 outlay. A leading Boston fish firm is working overtime to fulfill the order.
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Boston
Miles seeks son to join France in first U S troops
Gen. Nelson A. Miles urged to bring his son Captain Sherman Miles from Hawaii to France with the initial U S forces. He asked Governor McCall to request the War Department transfer for immediate overseas service.
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Nelson A. Miles
Sherman Miles
France
United States
United States Army
McCall
Miles
Hawaii
War Department
Tech Teachers in Air Corps Bound for Canadian Training
Three technology faculty members depart for Canada to study military aviation at a large training camp. Alexander Kilemin, Dean A Fales, and Robert De Gourey Ward will undergo instruction in aeronautics gas engines and climatology. Ward, formerly with Harvard, joined the institute staff after transfer. They took the federal oath in Dr Maclaurin's office.
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Canada
Alexander Kilemin
A. Fales
Robert de Gourey Ward
Ward
Harvard
Daughter of former secretary of state dies in Back Bay
Mrs. Hattie Sherman Evarts Beaman daughter of former Secretary of State William M Evarts of New York died yesterday at her daughter Mrs Edward J Holmes 296 Beacon Street Back Bay Funeral services by Rev Elwood Worcester will be held tomorrow afternoon at Emmanuel Church
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Hattie Sherman Evarts Beaman
William M. Evarts
New York
Edward J. Holmes
Beacon Street
Back Bay
Elwood Worcester
Emmanuel Church
Say Heths Murderer Was Sane
In Christiansburg Virginia on May 4 the prosecution in the Charles E. Vawter murder trial focused on proving Vawter sane when he wrote Stockton Heth Jr asking payment of a whiskey bill and saying he could now love Mrs. Vawter with less fear. The previous day the defense had presented evidence intended to show insanity.
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Christiansburg
Charles E. Vawter
Stockton Heth, Jr
Vawter
Heth
Local Radford Doctors Split on Vawter Sanity
In Radford opinions on Vawter vary as Dr J A Knoblin and Dr J C Dowman call him sane while Dr W A Wilson calls him a degenerate. Professor Vawter appears briefly, defense rests, and jurors set to visit the Blacksburg home where Heth was shot.
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J. A. Knoblin
Radford
Vawter
Heth
J. C. Dowman
East Radford
W. A. Wilson
Federal Agent Meets Lynn Shoe Workers
David W. Benjamin of the U S Department of Labor met with United Shoe Workers of America and Allied Shoe Workers Union officials in Lynn after interviews with shoe manufacturers about a lockout.
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LYNN
David W. Benjamin
United States Department of Labor
United Shoe Workers of America
The
National Organization
Allied Shoe Workers’ Union
Watertown Ministers Protest Sunday Gardening Ban
Four Watertown ministers signed a protest opposing the repeal of a Sunday gardening ban. A fifth minister did not sign, deeming the others views unsuitable.
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Watertown
Ministers Protest Sunday Gardening Against Law Change
Watertown ministers denounce a proposed law allowing Sunday gardening as contrary to God’s law. Signers include Rev. Joseph M. Sheppler, Rev. Edward C. Camp, Rev. Charles H. Day, and Rev. Ernest S. Meredith. Rev. Henry McS. B. Ogilby declines, citing disagreements and preferring silence.
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Watertown
Joseph M. Sheppler
St. John’s Methodist Church
Edward C. Camp
Phillips Congregational Church
Charles H. Day
First Baptist Church
Ernest S. Meredith
First Parish Unitarian Church
Henry McS. B. Ogilby
Watertown Episcopal Church
Howard Held in Contempt Over Child Custody Ruling
In Superior Court equity session Judge Jenney found William A. Howard in contempt for disobeying a custody order. The 2 year old was with his mother Arabella E. Howard during the hearing and returned home with her. Howard must pay 25 for proceedings. Divorce trial and custody decision set for next week in East Cambridge. The judge barred removal of the child from Middlesex or Suffolk counties until final ruling.
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William A. Howard
Arabella E. Howard
Superior Court
Equity
William H. Lewis
Lewis
Jenney
Howard
East Cambridge
Funeral for Slain North End Banker Alphonso Squillaciou
Funeral services for Alphonso Squillaciou the North End banker slain last Tuesday morning were held yesterday morning. Nearly 100 carriages formed the cortege.
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Alphonso Squillaciou
North End
Favors Grain Use in Beer to Ease Shortage
Arthur Brisbane of New York urged the Senate agricultural committee to prohibit grain use only in whiskey production as an emergency measure. He warned such a ban on beer would push workers to whiskey, noting beer supplies would last only a few months if production stops while whiskey stockpiles cover several years.
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Washington
Arthur Brisbane
New York
Senate Agricultural Committee
Malden Universalist Church Cleared of Mortgage
The First Universalist Church of Malden, established 1907 with a $20,000 mortgage, paid off the remaining $7400 yesterday. The debt will be extinguished with a burnings of the mortgage tomorrow morning.
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Malden
Universalist
Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Grants 10 Percent Raise
A Board of Arbitration grants a general wage increase of about 10 percent for employees of the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Company. The board notes the company can sustain this raise only if stockholders accept a reduced return on their investment.
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Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Company
Middlesex and Boston Rail Board Urges Wage Increases
The arbiters state the company lacks surplus to cover higher labor costs yet praise its thrift and efficiency. They urge the Public Service Commission to grant immediate wage relief, arguing workers deserve a living wage while stockholders receive a just return on invested capital. A dissenting member, Arthur A. Ballantine, cites the company’s inability to pay. Chairman Henry C. Sawyer and Attorney James H. Vahey join as the other board members.
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Middlesex & Boston
Public Service Commission
Arthur A. Ballantine
Henry C. Sawyer
James TH. Vahey
Name officers for N H Guard
Concord May 4 Colonel Paul Babbidge of Keene was appointed colonel of the New Hampshire State Guard Regiment. Arthur G. Shattuck of Nashua named lieutenant colonel. Treffle Raide Manchester F E Rollins Dover and tis G Hammond Concord named majors. F E Howe Keene adjutant J P Flannagan Keene supply officer Alpha Harriman Laconia George M Davis Manchester and H M Morse Nashua regimental captains. There are 12 infantry companies and one machine gun company in the regiment.
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Concord
N. H
Paul Babbidge
Keene
New Hampshire State Guard
Arthur G. Shattuck
Nashua
Treffle Raide
Manchester
F. E. Rollins
Dover
G. Hammond
F. E. Howe
J. P. Flannagan
Alpha Harriman
Laconia
George M. Davis
H. M. Morse
New York Files Appeal Over Hetty Green Tax Residency
Eugene M. Travis, New York State comptroller, today filed in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court an appeal from Surrogate Fowler’s decision that the late Hetty Green was a Vermont resident at her death.
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New York
Eugene,m. Travis
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Fowler
Hetty Green
Vermont
Harvard Law School en dowment fund seeks 1 million
A committee of three alumni William C. Loring James Byrne and William C. Osborn inaugurated a campaign for a 1 million endowment to free Harvard Law School from poverty. The appeal extends to alumni and friends and is separate from Harvard's 10 million general fund drive launched months earlier.
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Harvard Law School
William C. Loring
James Byrne
William C. Osborn
Law School
Harvard
Endow Two Or Three Additional Chairs For Law School
The law school faces a staffing strain as student numbers rise from 280 in 1891 with six professors to 856 today with 12 professors. The faculty now doubles teaching and teaches more students, prompting calls for two to three new chairs, scholarships, library fund replenishment, and new classrooms to prevent overwork and preserve health.
Ninth Regiment Officers to Convene at Exchange Club
Officers of the Ninth Regiment will meet Colonel Edward L. Logan at the Exchange Club for a noon conference on military matters. The unit and the Second Regiment in western Massachusetts have been on patrol and police duty for five weeks and company commanders are to submit full reports of their experiences and recommendations for future guardsman duties.
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Edward L. Logan
Exchange Club
Massachusetts
Liveryman Kills Himself in Brookline
Irwin L. Smith aged 61 shot himself at his Brookline home 99 Marion Street after business troubles. He ran the Metropolitan stables at 20 Sears Street in the city.
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Brookline
Irwin L. Smith
Marion Street
Smith
Metropolitan
Sears Street
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