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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1915
Page
16
Berlin May 21. Germany’s reply to President Wilson’s note will be a refusal to cease submarine warfare against merchant vessels. The Kaiser's government has definitely decided this, with approval from the supreme command.
A line refers to the monarch himself and notes that the message is nearly ready for transmission awaiting final approval or dispatch.
Officials say Germany may offer a plan allowing American citizens to travel on belligerent steamers without submarine risk. An arrangement could let the U S certify that such ships carry no contraband and use distinct marks to avoid torpedo attacks with warning and safe evacuation.
The St. Josephs Church Roxbury mission led by Father Kenzel Father Warren and Father OLeary has been extended to four weeks due to large nightly crowds. The schedule allocates a week for married men and a week for single men with prior weeks for married and single women.
Due to exhausted funds and a City Council mayoral deadlock, Acting Commissioner Patrick O’Hearn is directed to suspend all sewer department contract work on Saturday. Employees may stay only if willing to wait for wages until the council funds the department.
Mayor Curley and Commissioner O'Hearn face a second defeat as the City Council committee rejects the mayor's 10 item sewer budget. The 330 sewer workers receive notices effective Monday, risking disruption if they stop awaiting funding. Officials warn of possible citizen impact from continued deadlock.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee favored the governor's proposal to grant the tax commissioner power to revise local assessments and sent the bill to the General Court. The panel did not report on a compulsory property return bill.
Yesterday in the Legislature Governor Walsh signed the censor bill into law after the Senate refused reconsideration. The veto of the labor clean milk bill was sustained by the Senate, while conference committees on the B M bill failed to reach agreement. New Haven’s validation bill advanced to third reading with expectations of a fight next stage.
Street Commissioners order all advertising post clocks in retail districts bounded by Tremont Eliot Washington Essex Chauncy Summer Federal Milk Congress State Exchange to Washington Hanover Court Bowdoin square Tremont row Tremont to Eliot street removed by June 1. Clocks at Thompson's Spa Lloyd's Macallar Parker's and A Shuman's cited among violators.
At the annual meeting of the Boston Plant Chapter of the Telephone and Telegraph Society of New England officers were elected president Charles E. Ames vice president Edward P. Histon secretary Gordon S. Wallace and treasurer William J. Hadley. The chapter reports 840 members. James H. Flanagan did not seek re election as president.
The Vendome ball room was crowded yesterday afternoon with members and friends of the Chelsea Soldiers' Home Ladies' Aid Society. In the receiving line were Mrs. Sue Stuart Wadsworth, president. Albert H. Knowles, department commander G A R. Richard Foster, commandant. Miss Susie Burton, department president Women’s Relief Corps. Mrs. Nellie Goodman, senior vice president Massachusetts Daughters of Veterans.
District Attorney Pelletier did not press indictments against Dr. George H Underhill and Mrs Edith Carpenter arrested in January at the Rockingham Hotel. The action followed questioning of Arthur Carpenter son of Mrs Carpenter who returned from Central America. The case was discharged on government recommendation.
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