Mayor Testifies at Fin Com Hearing In Curley Case
The mayor testifies before the Fin Com hearing with counsel Daniel H. Coakley present. Witnesses including Francis L. Daly Edwin P. Fitzgerald and Peter J. Fitzgerald discuss purchases and loans tied to Daly Sullivan Plumbing and the Oakmount Land Company amid questions about Monahan Cassidy and missing records.
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Fin. Com
Murnane
Daniel H. Coakley
Hurlburt
Francis L. Daly
Daly
Daniel P. Sullivan
Daly-Sullivan Plumbing Supply Company
John Monahan
Monahan
McMorrow
Dorchester
Curley
Sullivan
Spencer Avenue
Chelsea
Edwin P. Fitzgerald
Sullivan-Daly
John J. Cassidy
New York
Knickerbocker
Cassidy
New York Police
the Knickerbocker
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Peter
Nantasket
John
Peter J
Helena V. Bause
Daly Plumbing Supply Company
Mr. Daly
John A. Daly
Arlington
Oakmount Land Company
Luke D. Mullen
Concern
Changes in Tax Bill by Conferees
The war tax bill now raises 2.7 billion dollars in revenue and adds a 7 percent minimum exemption on invested corporate capital for the war profit tax. It trims liquor and tobacco revenue slightly, leaves surtaxes largely unchanged, imposes a one cent letter tax and a one cent stamp tax on checks, raises second class mail rates, increases passenger and Pullman taxes, taxes movie theatres and amusement admissions at a new level, boosts auto patent medicine fumes cosmetics revenues, and imposes a 16 percent special tax on munitions manufacturers.
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Senate
Sends Cipher in Laundry
Mexico City reports a new German message method using soiled laundry to link Mexico City and New York. Women travellers are asked to mail linen to a New York address, with ink and embedded telegraphic signals beneath embroidery. The scheme is linked to Captain Meintsche and the submarine Deutschland crew.
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Mexico City
New York
Mexico
United States
Meintsche
Deutschland
Conferees Agree On War Tax Bill Draft
Conferees say the revised war tax bill draft has been sent to the printer and only formal approval remains. The conference report will be presented to the House tomorrow night for first reading with enactment believed assured next week.
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House
Conferees Add Major Tax Increases to Bill Provisions
Conferees approve additional taxes totaling 250 million to 300 million, altering the Senate bill’s 2.416 billion and restoring some House provisions. War profits and income taxes mostly unchanged, with a rewritten excess profits system and new exemptions. Increases target postage, transportation, amusements, autos, medicines, cosmetics, and one cent bank checks tax. Some old Senate exemptions on parks and cheaper theaters are adjusted.
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Senate
House
Tax plan totals and muni tions tax repeal discussed
The draft conference report details retroactive 1916 income tax repeal yielding $108 million and a general 10 percent tariff raising $200 million, plus $30 million from gas electric and local telephone taxes. Restoration of a 16 percent munition tax is estimated at $29 million. Senate repeal language was struck out. official release likely tomorrow by Senator Simmons and Representative Kitchin.
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Senate
Senator Simmons
Representative Kitchin
Women Enlist With British Mission in Boston
Seven Boston women yesterday noon pressed through crowds at the British recruiting platform and enlisted to serve with the British or Canadian forces possibly with the Red Cross. They voiced pride in doing their bit and named the initial volunteers including Miss Theda Vosper Smith and six others with addresses across Brookline Revere Cambridge and Wellesley.
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Boston
Red Cross
Theda Vosper Smith
Colchester Street
Brookline
Ruth Hunt
Payson Street
Revere
Ann McDermott
Wellesley
Elizabeth Grant
Sydney Street
Cambridge
Doronda Davison
Boylston Street
Ethel Shepherd
Warrenton Street
Jessie McKeon
Charles Street
Artilleryman Fights Arrest at Public Garden
Frank McCaskey, 20, an artilleryman with the Coast Artillery at Fort Andrews, allegedly AWOL six days, resisted a provost guard member in the Public Garden last night. He was subdued and arrested after clubbing by Albert J. Hadvigar.
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Frank McCaskey
Coast Artillery
Fort Andrews
Albert J. Hadvigar
Scalp Wounds Prompt Transfer to City Hospital
After treatment, McCaskey was taken to City Hospital for scalp wound care and then moved under guard to the South Armory.
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McCaskey
South Armory
Four Promotions In City Fire Department
Mayor Curley approved four promotions in the fire department with pay raises ranging from two hundred to four hundred dollars. The action updates ranks and compensation for the promoted firefighters.
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Curley
City Fire Department Promotes Officers and Grants Raises
The Mayor signed off on promotions within the fire department. Lt Philip A. Tague of Ladder 22 rises to captain at 2000 a year, Engineer John H. Johnson from Engine 15 to lieutenant at 1800, Hoseman Michael F. Minehan from Engine 16 to lieutenant at 1800, Assistant Engineer Warren C. Stevens from Engine 23 to engineer at 1500. A temporary appointment of William A. Murray of Roxbury as inside wireman at 4.60 daily fills a federal-service vacancy.
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Philip A. Tague
John H. Johnson
Michael F. Minehan
Warren C. Stevens
William A. Murray
Tremont Street
Roxbury
Paraffine Deposit Found in Mexico Near U S Border
Discovery of a paraffine bed in Chihuahua near the United States line is announced from official Mexican government despatches. The bed is said to be the first discovered on this continent and yields 96 percent pure mineral. It extends for more than six miles.
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Washington
Chihuahua
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Beacon
Heywood
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