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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1917
Page
4
The Finance Commission calls for a board to oversee annual department reports. It cites $286,423 spent on city documents in eight years and says supervision could cut costs significantly under a publication-control board.
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union local with 8000 members voted to strike over demands for a 48 hour week and higher wages after officials said the entire membership walked out.
Nearly 30 000 motor vehicles have been indexed by the state public safety committee and are ready for use at a moment’s notice in case of military emergency. Massachusetts is prepared to place an army of autos at military authorities’ disposal when needed. William T. McCracken directed the indexing, and is linked to the Boston banking community and the committee on camp social evils prevention.
Bishop J N McCormick of western Michigan will sail for France in October to represent the Protestant Episcopal war commission. The panel plans to raise 500000 to reinforce chaplains, boost parish work near camps, and aid Episcopal service members at the front.
P H Schleimann a German farmer from Casper county Nebraska and a member of the county quota was placed in the guard house today after refusing to don a uniform. He said he was a German reservist and had never been naturalized.
A review roundup catalogs Under Fire by Henri Barbussi and The Fighting Men by Alden Brooks, plus Four Days by Hetty Hemenway, Faith War and Policy by Gilbert Murray, The Coming Democracy by Herman Fernau, A Green Tent in Flanders by Maud Mortimer, The Irish on the Somme by Hodder Stoughton, and Balfour Viviant and Joffre edited by Francis W. Halsey. The selections mix vivid front line scenes with essays and reports.
At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken on September 21 Dr Alexander Humphreys urged shooting enemies in Congress who conspire against wartime prosecutions. He said acts permissible a year ago are now treason and those in Congress aiding the enemy should be arrested, convicted and promptly shot.
William H. Bennett who lost to Mayor Mitchel by a narrow margin in the Republican primary announced plans to stay in the race and seek a recount while urging Mitchel to withdraw. Bennett offered to drop his independent bid if Mitchel would concede and let the Republican city committee select a nominee to defeat Tammany Hall. Final primary returns reduced Mitchel’s lead from 1119 to 597 votes.
Lavina Henry aged 16 of 24 Es sex street Cambridge is a City Hospital patient with abdominal injuries after being struck yesterday afternoon on Boylston street by an automobile driven by Marion Spaulding of 464 Commonwealth avenue Cambridge.
Mary Brown, a former city schoolteacher, was arrested in the South End on drunkenness charges after purse contents spilled at the station. Officers recovered $1051 in coin and bills from the bag sewn with a thousand dollars in the lining. The case was continued in Municipal Court and she was taken to a hospital for treatment.
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