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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1917
Page
5
At Camp Devens a new theatre seating 3900 with modern stage has been prepared for National Army recruits. Today the men learned the secret about its construction and on Monday will witness the inaugural performance in the building titled the 76th Division Theatre presented by officers and private subscriptions.
Stage 38 feet wide features chorus maids and three vaudeville teams performing before 38 feet of footlights. A 19 piece orchestra from the ranks will accompany. Major-General Hodges and divisional staff officers will attend the opening. The theatre’s construction was a surprise to most of the men.
The 76th Division Theater opens with a $0.15 to $0.25 admission in front of the cantonment shop. Major Reginald Barlow and Gen Hodges organize a soldiers own venue with donations from Irving Chase and others. Fire inquiry blames a defective oil stove as crews salvage valuables, while heat and bagpipe bands expand camp morale. Congressman Gallivan visits and distributes cigarettes, denying ill treatment rumors.
Camp Devens mass November 2 Captain Arthur F Brown intelligence officer issues new mail addressing rules for national army personnel. Proper format reads Private L F Catton G Company 301st Infantry Camp Devens Mass. Camp Devens alone suffices with unit details to avoid confusion with Ayer or Fitchburg.
King Alfonso tasked Marquis Manuel Garcia Prieto with forming a broad coalition cabinet. Prieto, who has held multiple portfolios and served as premier from April to June this year, will pursue a wide basis for the new government.
Victor C Heath, chairman of the Boston Public Safety Committee, says more than 200 000 Boston women will enroll tonight in the great food conservation army. He praises the turnout by the city's women committees and calls the effort a proud showing.
Under Major P. F. O'Keefe and allied groups, suffragists antis and the Women's Peace Party coordinate a house to house signature campaign to "save and serve." Follow up meetings at public schools planned for next week with lectures and demonstrations by prominent women. Dorchester High School hosts the first meeting next Friday night. Grocery stores may spread campaign information and many stores already pledged cooperation to reach all city women.
A Democratic rally is set for Faneuil Hall with speakers from Washington and across the state. Mayor Curley Ex-Governor Walsh and others headline the indoor meeting plus outdoor events and ten additional city rallies. Out of town guests include Victor Murdock and Carl Vrooman, signaling strong cross party enthusiasm for the ticket in this state.
The closing sale at 278 Clarendon street begins under the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association for the War Relief Fund. A large display of summer canned fruits and vegetables is being sold by prominent society folk led by Mrs. George A. Crocker and Mrs. George W. Perkins with many ladies assisting.
Labor difficulties between the Lynn coal teamsters and chauffeurs, which threatened to close several Lynn factories, were settled yesterday by Executive Manager Henry B. Endicott, J. Frank O'Hare, and John F. Stevens of the Public Safety Committee.
Mrs George W Coleman president of the Women’s City Club has resigned from the presidency of the School Voters’ League citing lack of time for the duties.
San Antonio Texas November 2 identification of three negroes of the Twenty Fourth Infantry who joined the riot at Houston on August 23 and led to 22 deaths was testified by Captain Haig Shekerjian in the court martial of 63 negroes charged with mutiny murder and rioting.
Captain Shekerjian testified that Policeman Sparks shot at Corporal Baltimoore during an arrest. Baltimoore fled into a house, Sparks fired three more shots, then dragged him out and beat him. The clash escalated as soldiers and civilians argued about mobs and lines were drawn to defend the camp.
Federal conciliators failed to bridge gaps between Bethlehem Shipbuilding and 3800 Fore River workers on strike for higher pay. Quincy Board of Trade urged strikers to return to work as a patriotic duty and formed a 20 member committee to persuade them. Strikers refused to reconsider without all wage demands settled.
Picket duty at the plant and a call to avoid violence followed by E. W. Benjamin and J. J. Casey arriving to aid talks. They conferred with company management and later with the strikers' committee. Negotiations were reported deadlocked after a late afternoon session.
Reported sighting describes a 300 foot schooner flying U S colors and with a false funnel. Rear Admiral Schroeder warns steamers to look out for a vessel of uncertain identity off Halifax and 1000 miles east of Nantucket with three masts and a forward funnel.
Lake Constance correspondent of La Suisse reports a fleet of Zeppelin airships departed Wednesday from the Swiss lake region toward the Austro Italian Trentino front. The airships are believed to be part of ongoing aerial support operations in the theater.
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