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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1918
Page
12
Rear Admiral Spencer Woods led a morning inspection of the Harvard Cadet School with Captain James G. Parker and Medical Director John M. Edgar. The visit found the training facility for Naval Reserve officers satisfactory.
Pittsfield May 16 John Batuck under arrest admits to murder of a man in Naugatuck West Virginia. Batuck says the victim sent his parents a black hand letter demanding 1000 dollars and lured him to a lonely road where he was shot five times.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels avoids a flood of complaints from yeowomen in the Boston district. Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, head of the First Naval District, is praised as “the nicest man” by about forty seven yeowomen.
Rear Admiral Wood issued an order requiring naval and army officers to return yeowomen salutes as per navy regulations. Yeowomen insist they are fully military and must be saluted with the standard right hand to hat. Officers authorized the practice and faced social pressure from the yeowomen.
A petition to establish a Jewish burial ground on Canterbury street West Roxbury was filed with the Board of Health by J Wasserman for Congregation Beth El. Two prior proposals in Dorchester faced protests from more than 1500 residents and were rejected by the City Council.
An opportunity for college women to train as teachers of hygiene and right living for women workers in government factories and munitions plants will be offered by a summer school at Mount Holyoke College. The course runs June 26 to August 31, and candidates must have had practical ad- courses.
Dr Kristine Mann health supervisor of the industrial service section of the army ordnance department stated today in connection with the announcement of the plans related to administrative experience in labor fields.
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