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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1918
Page
2
Women attached to the naval district and yard hereabouts report discovery of men in uniform who do not approve of them. The finding was made yesterday. The incident highlights tensions between service men and local women in the area.
Reporters overhear exchanges in a navy setting where two geowomen claim the army needs discipline and threaten to salute all officers. Naval officers express mixed views, noting regulations call for salutes but not all agree on enforcing them. Yeowomen threaten to extend salutes to every officer encountered.
Patrolman Thomas F. Murray of Back Bay station resigned yesterday to take up shipbuilding at the Charlestown Navy Yard. He joined the department three years ago.
Cardinal O Connell announces clergy moves in the Pilot. The Rev John A Butler from St Patrick s East Cambridge becomes pastor at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament Cambridge succeeding the late Rev John A Crowe. The Rev Austin B P Doherty from St Mary s Seaside Plymouth becomes administrator of St Patrick s East Cambridge. Butler born in Cambridge educated at St Mary s Parish School St Thomas Aquinas College and St John s Seminary Brighton ordained May 20 1892. He previously led St Francis Xavier South Weymouth and St Patrick s East Cambridge. Doherty formerly curate at St Philip s South End remains active in Boston civic church circles.
Miss Isabel Marchant daughter of A H Marchant and Mrs Marchant wed Alexander Hollis Godfrey son of Dr Hollis Godfrey president of the Drexel Institute in Winchester at the parents home. The ceremony was by Rev Carlton C Mills with Ruth E Marchant as bridesmaid and Channing Lawrence as best man. The couple will reside in Washington during his military service.
In Boston the Hull Street Dispensary sits near Copp's Hill Burying Ground where mothers bring children for weighing and medical guidance. The facility has run clinics daily with two physicians and three nurses on call, aiding mothers and families under government requests.
Films showing Secretary Baker and General Pershing reviewing Massachusetts troops in France will be shown at the Copley Plaza tonight after a dinner where June plans for the official United States Government War Exposition will be discussed. Speakers include Governor McCall Mayor Peters and others with Addison L. Winship presiding. Elaborate June exposition plans are under way displaying German captured trophies and war work efforts.
Former French premier Caillaux was brought from prison to testify in the Bonnet Rouge treason case in Paris. He denied mentioning Marx in 1916 and said he learned of the name only in 1917 amid debate in the chamber of deputies. A slip bearing Marx’s name was found among Caillaux documents, attributed to a Swiss merchant.
Former President Taft and Frank P. Walsh, joint chairmen of the War Labor Board, were authorized to settle street railway labor disputes in Cleveland and Detroit. They will visit the two cities later this month to pursue settlements.
In Suffolk County Divorce Court William R Walton sues his 23 year old wife Anna L Walton whom he wed in 1916 A 17 year old youth known as Billy De Witt is named as co respondent Walton 22 a seaman third class in the US Naval Reserve testified amid unusual dictaphone sounds cited as evidence
Testimony from Mrs. Walton portrays a tense scene with Billy De Witt and her daughter in law at a South End lodging house. The mother in law defends not warning the daughter in law and describes the evening as the husband and detective arriving to find the pair in a dark room. Both women dispute impropriety while the gas incident with the baby is noted. Arguments will be made this morning.
George B. Johnson of R. H. White Company and Victor A. Heath chairing the event assist at the Circuit Drive ceremony near Franklin Park golf links. The food production committee has assigned over 30 war gardens each measuring one eighth of an acre to municipal gardeners this year.
The Philadelphia Board of Education voted to eliminate German from the public high school curriculum. The decision followed sustained discussion and petitions from city councils and many patriotic organizations urging the change.
Lowell fireman Charles J Meehan died at Boston City Hospital after several weeks illness of heart disease. He was born in Lowell and had many Boston friends. Surviving sisters are Mrs W R McCarthy and the Misses Jennie Catherine Meehan of Ashmont and Miss Margaret Meehan of Lynn. Funeral Friday morning at Sacred Heart Church Lowell.
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