Planning Naval Bill Opens Next Year Budget Debate
Washington November 1. Work has begun on next year’s naval appropriation bill. A preliminary draft is prepared by Chairman Padgett and clerk Elisha Rheall with hearings set for November 20. Navy bureau chiefs and Secretary Daniels will be called to testify. The measure is expected to be larger.
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Washington, D. C
Padgett
House Committee
Elisha ‘Rheall
Navy
Daniels
House Debate Turns on Compare With Last Year Measure
The discussion centers on a proposed appropriation compared to a year ago when the measure carried 313 million dollars. Lawmakers weigh fiscal impact, citing the larger sum as a benchmark for current needs and program scope.
Officer Must Expunge Book
Capt. Leroy Eltinge of the US Army will be directed by the War Department to expunge from his recently written book statements about Jews described as highly objectionable. President Wilsons secretary, Joseph P. Tumulty, was informed by W A Ingraham acting secretary of war. Action followed a protest by Louis S. Berlin of Chicago.
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N. J
Leroy Eltinge
United States Army
War Department
Department
Wilson
Joseph P. Tumulty
W. A. Ingraham
Louis S. Berlin
Chicago
Virginia Embraces Prohibition Dawn Across State
Virginia joined the dry states as the new statewide prohibition law took effect at midnight. In Richmond and other cities crowds celebrated with Halloween revelry and church services while many kept stored liquor at home. Dealers estimated millions spent stocking cellars. Old Point Comfort and Fort Monroe also went dry.
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Richmond
Virginia
Old Point Comfort
Fort Monroe
Workmen Endorse Mr Wilson for Re-Election
In a statement signed by John W. Hays general master workman the current issue of the official Knights of Labor paper reviews and praises the record of the administration and declares for President Wilson’s re election.
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Wilson
Washington, D. C
John W. Hays
Workman
Order of Knights of Labor
Life Insurance Agent Turns The Conversation
In a chance meeting at a railway station room a man with a bag of tracts asks a stranger to reflect on life and death. The stranger replies with a cheerful twist, declaring I am a life insurance agent.
Progressives Sign Wilson Endorsement Details
Sixteen of nineteen Progressive resolutions committee members who backed Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 endorsed a Democratic committee statement praising President Wilson’s legislative achievements. Signers include Parker Garvin Carey Norton Halbert Howard De Baca Ingersoll Wray Strouse McCormick. others named White Hynson Stone Fairley Stevens reportedly denies endorsement and Stevens backs Hughes.
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Resolutions Committee
Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Democratic National Committee
Wilson
John M. Parker
Louisiana
Lucius F. Garvin
Rhode Island
Joseph M. Carey
Wyoming
Roosevelt
Albert D. Nortont
Missouri
Hugh T. Halbert
Minnesota
United States
Frank N. Howard
Vermont
M. C. de Baca
New Mexico
James H. Ingersoll
Idaho
Arthur G. Wray
Nebraska
Clarence B. Strouse
Virginia
J. W. McCormick
Texas
William Allen White
Kansas
George B. Hynson
Delaware
Andrew J. Stone
West Virginia
William R. Fairley
Alabama
Isaac Newton Stevens
Colorado
A Humane Person Seeks Views On Gold Fish Welfare
A quoted humane advocate asks for opinions on improving captive gold fish living conditions. The respondent expresses strong support and notes personal care, imagining the fish watching through their globe with appealing eyes.
San Antonians eye Guadalupe River power project
Hydraulic engineer Frank S. Taylor of Austin asks the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce for detailed soil and related data on a proposed Guadalupe river water power site above Seguin. He recently completed a Gonzales concrete dam for a municipal power plant. Secretary Carrington says no Seguin dam report has reached him.
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Guadalupe River
Seguin
Frank S. Taylor
Austin
Texas
San Antonio
Lupe
Gonzales
Carrington
Chamber of Commerce
Those Two Bills At A Seaside Inn
A famous author and a lesser known writer share a seaside inn stay. The proprietor, who previously hosted the famous author, is asked to minimize the young writer's bill. The great man then insists the bill for both guests be equal to avoid humiliating the younger writer.
Send poison by mail would permit medicines via parcel post
Congress would be asked to pass a law allowing medicines containing poison or anesthetics to be mailed from manufacturers or dealers to licensed physicians surgeons pharmacists dentists and veterinarians when properly packaged under postal rules. Postmaster General Burleson said the move responds to strong demand from doctors and others to use parcel post for such items.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Burleson
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