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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1915
Page
1
Federal authorities investigate possible German plot to delay copper shipments intended for allies. An additional confession to Secret Service by Robert Fay, described as a former German lieutenant, is being examined as the probe continues.
William Shaw, candidate for governor on the Prohibition ticket, charges Republican leaders and McCall supporters with secretly undermining his religious work. He says they accuse him of using Christian Endeavor to advance his campaign and pressured his associates by threatening to withhold funds for a new International Christian Endeavor building if he loses.
Six year old John Buckley son of Patrick Buckley of 3 Marney Street Cambridge died en route to Cambridge Relief Hospital after being run over by an auto truck owned by the C Brigham Company George W Miller age 29 of 25 Grant Street Quincy driver of the truck was held on $1000 bonds on manslaughter charge pending investigation
Fay, among five men charged with conspiracy, gave a detailed confession to William J. Flynn chief of the secret service. He claimed to have repeated his police admission and added plans to bribe Russian vessel commanders to divert copper cargoes to a German port for a large payoff.
Washington reports the president and his fiancée Mrs. Norman Galt spent an afternoon motoring after a morning of work. Secret service entourages followed as housewives complained their dinners were delayed by the presidential visit to the Galt home.
The President and Mrs Galt return in a limousine bearing a coat of arms. He wears a dark gray suit and a gray Wilson-type fedora while she smiles in a dark red velvet gown trimmed with black fur and a black chiffon dress with scalloped crepe de chine hem.
Mrs Wilhelmina Meyer known as Mayo sues Virginius J Mayo wealthy New Haven manufacturer in New York Supreme Court seeking 250000 damages alleging fraud in marriage claims he falsely stated he was single and eligible to remarry after his first wife was living in Scranton.
Mrs Mayo the second, a Newark girl, married Mayo in a Brooklyn Mormon church and became linked to the Miss Cook case. After Cook revelations and the Scranton wife discovery, the second Mayo left Mayo. Mayo’s first legal wife has secured a divorce amid the scandal surrounding his name.
London dispatches report M Pachitch, Serbian premier, appealing for rapid help as Serbs fight Austro-German and Bulgarian forces. He claims 20 days of near annihilation threats despite soldier heroism and warns resistance cannot hold much longer. The Lords hears that northern Serbia faces mounting pressure aided by Bulgaria.
A potential spread of the freight handlers' strike to railways and transports was discussed by the Boston Central Labor Union executive board after support for the strikers was voted. A federal conciliator from Renova, James A. Smyth, will arrive to press a settlement as 1500 idle workers loom.
President Hustis of the Boston and Maine sent a reply to Mayor Curley detailing the strike events and stating the plan calls for arbitration once workers resume duties. The message outlines progress and positions as the labor dispute continues toward resolution.
New York Oct 26 Five members of the board of missions of the Episcopal church resigned after a board vote 26 to 13 refused to rescind a May resolution to participate in the Panama Interdenominational Missionary Conference set for February. The Roman Catholic church had declined involvement, deeming the plans hostile to its church.
Dr. Charles W. Eliot is reported by Mrs. John Balch to vote against the suffrage measure on November 2. A letter from the Harvard president emeritus confirms the position.
The forecast shows unsettled conditions in Boston on Wednesday with probable local showers, turning fair Thursday. Washington reports Southern New England showers Wednesday morning then fair Thursday, while Northern New England expects local rain Wednesday and fair weather Thursday.
Yesterday's readings include a morning 51 and 45, afternoon 61 and 66, and evening 56 and 62. The average yesterday was 57, and the average one year ago was 56. Burdett Business College Admits new students every Monday at 18 Boylster Street.
Brief item notes that there is continued coverage of the near Eastern campaign on Page I First Column, indicating ongoing war reporting without commentary in the current snippet.
This notice lists celestial events and times including Moon phases from late October to December and daily sun and moon rise and set times. It notes Jupiter in the southeast at sunset Saturn rising in the east Mars near Regulus and mentions car lamps timing and anniversaries of Theodore Roosevelt and wartime events near Singapore and Ireland.
An official despatch from Athens via Paris reports that Serbian forces recaptured the town of Veles Krupula on the railroad southeast of Uskup after heavy fighting. London dispatches say Serbian troops, holding a northeastern corner, are being slowly pressed back as Austro German and Bulgarian forces converge.
Reported battles show steady Serbian and French successes with heavy losses on all fronts. In Serbia Bulgarians are stalled in the south where French and Serbian forces entrench for reinforcements to push them from Macedonia. German efforts under von Hindenburg press Dvina fronts near Illoukst as fighting rages in Vilna Grodno Volhynia and Galicia. Italian and French actions persist in the Alpine Champagne theatre with trench gains north of Missiges and La Courtine activity continuing.
Slight improvement reported from City Hospital for John M. Minton, chairman of the Election Commissioners, who has suffered kidney trouble and poor health for over two years.
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