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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1916
Page
4
A partial report on the District appropriation bill was agreed to by conferees in the Senate, retaining school and road improvements while major items remain unresolved. Debates focus on the half and half financing plan, a tax on intangible property, and gas price cuts with no final settlement anticipated before adjournment.
Fragmented notices report infant Edward Adlphe Little died August 1 1914 private funeral August 19 at 1930 am Glenwood Cemetery and Mary Mulhall widow of William Mulhall funeral August 13 from 1416 Newton Street Northwest with requiem mass at Church of the Sacred Heart Wallace family notices list William Wallace death August 17 1915 and interment at Congressional Cemetery relatives urged to attend funeral processes.
Citizens Welfare Association appeals for relief funds for dependents of National Guard members. Congress passed the pew army bill adding aid, but War Department relief will take about 20 days. Eleven guardsmen families at the government printing office and Interior Department workers are being cared for, with donations accepted at the Munsey building.
London announces a new order in council under the defense of the realm act prohibiting entry to Ireland for any person not a British subject or for British subjects who since March 1 1916 have come or may come to the United Kingdom from abroad. Any such person embarking for Ireland or found there will be liable to a summary offense.
Sixty revolutionists stopped a Mexican National Railway passenger train near Aguascalientes on Tuesday and captured 25 Carranza soldiers guarding the escort along with two baggage men. The train crew and other passengers were not harmed and the revolutionists moved toward the hills with their captives. Juarez authorities reported no confirmation of the incident.
A tall nervous man named Josiah Pierce the seventh arrives at the New York marriage license bureau with Katherine Livingston, 21, daughter of Alfred and Katherine Close. Pierce declares he is the seventh son of a seventh son and wants the license recorded for the couple. They list his Princeton Club residence and her address at 36 East Forty-ninth Street Manhattan.
Senator Simmons and Secretary McAdoo outlined a plan to issue bonds totaling 134 million dollars to cover Mexican border troop costs. The first 26 million dollar tranche would be sold this fall with subsequent issues as needed to fund maintenance of troops in camp. Amounts would draw from the Panama Canal bond authorization, leaving about 69 million available after required expenditures. Senator Thomas opposed the finance committee’s majority report endorsing the 130.9 million bond plan.
George W. Hess and William F. Gude travel to Houston Texas as Washington delegates to the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists and the Florists Telegraph Delivery Association. Hess, superintendent of botanic gardens, is elected a director of the horticultural society. Gude becomes president of the delivery association.
London Aug 18 The week saw a shift toward women’s suffrage as Prime Minister Asquith indicated future franchise reforms could include women. The move followed wartime efforts by women on munitions and is echoed by Liberal papers urging swift action despite opposition from Earl Curzon and others.
Senate discussion on the shipping bill includes a Borah attempt to attach a literacy provision and later to attach the entire immigration bill as a rider. Votes fail 20 to 39 and 22 to 87. The bill creates a five member executive shipping board and allows government or corporate control of merchant vessels for up to five years after WWI.
The Washington Post Bureau reports a police driven campaign to force property owners to repair dilapidated dangerous sidewalks in Alexandria Virginia. Police may cite violators to appear in police court and levy fines. Also notes death of Archibald Hall at 76 in Fairfax county and other local property transactions and church group excursions to Marshall Hall.
Rome reports a sudden flare of Austrian activity on the Trentino front in the last 24 hours. Attacks and raids were repulsed, while Gen Cadorna continues bombardment east of Gorizia to clear the way to Trieste. Vienna claims all confrontations were beaten off after violent hand to hand fighting as Austrians reinforce along the Isonzo front.
Berlin reports Teutonic forces captured the Greek town of Florina from Serbian troops after a counter attack following fruitless entente assaults. Florina lies near the Greco Serbian border, about 15 miles southeast of Monastir.
A Swedish report, relayed from London, says Germany intends a Baltic sea attack near the Riga region. The Kaiser's fleet repelled Russians last fall in the Gulf of Riga, while ongoing Mosquito fleet clashes persist. London observers fear a major strike possibly aimed at Dvina, Dvinsk, Riga, and Petrograd.
Chicago report notes Helen Morton Bayly of Lake Forest sues divorced from Roger Bayly of Delaware, Va for desertion. They wed June 4, 1914 and separated August 1914. Earlier in July 1914 he sought her adjudged insane and guardianship placed with Col. George Fabyan.
Funeral services for Mrs Catherine Whelan of Athy Ireland will be held this afternoon at 4 o clock. Her body, disinterred by her son William Whelan of New York and daughter Elizabeth Whelan of Atlantic City, will be reinterred in Mount Olivet Cemetery in the lot of Thomas McDonald of 1133 Girard Street Northwest. Father Mackin of St Pauls will conduct the services.
Gasoline prices are set to drop to about 20 cents a gallon nationwide within two weeks, driven by newly yielding crude wells. Western and middle Western drivers report the lowest prices, with Chicago and Des Moines at 17 or 18 cents. Detroit 19. Indianapolis 21. Ohio cities 23. Albany 25. New York 23 cents after a recent three cent decline.
G C Todd of the Justice Department met with the Federal Trade Commission to report on causes of gasoline price increases. DOJ has monitored firms formed from the old Standard 11 dissolution but found no proof of a decree violation. FTC work on the gasoline report faces delays as the facts prove complex.
Baltimore Maryland August 18 an office building in Indianapolis was urged as a memorial to William S Prescott former president and father figure of the International Typographical Union. A bond issue was proposed to fund the building saving 5000 in annual rents. The convention also backed a unified wage contract for apprentices to be distributed to subordinates in the United States and Canada.
Railroad presidents and officials who met with the President refused to yield on the eight hour day. Hale Holden for Chicago Burlington and Quincy said managers decide for their roads. Officials favored no hasty decision and promised a further report. Wilson urged concessions to avert a strike. Jaffrean officials held two days meetings and votes.
Louis Hut, president of Great Northern Railroad, said in St Paul that the railroad would never accept the eight hour day principle. He warned adoption would threaten receivership for the big railroads and stated the Great Northern would stand alone if necessary, despite Washington conferences.
Quinto Vianna, 27, and Guido Dionesco, 33, both Italian residents of Northwest, were stabbed in a dispute at Thirteenth and streets. Vianna has wounds to the left chest and lung areas and is in critical condition. Dionesco has a stab wound under the right arm likely reaching the lungs. The assailant, Alexandro Enrico Pioneseo, 26, an Italian cook, resides at 1357 Ohio Avenue Northwest.
At 1 o clock this morning northern district guide Dioneseo was arrested at his home by Central Office Detective Sergi along with Burlin game and Policeman Wood Lambert. He was identified at Emergency Hospital by victims. Dioneseo admitted the stabbing and said his brother and Vianna assaulted him after he confronted his brother about a close friendship with Vianna.
Berlin dispatch reports Captain Walter Foratmann, commander of a German submarine, received the Order of Pour le Merites for sinking 100 ships of the entente allies. The vessels totaled about 260000 tons and valued around 150.9 million dollars.
The State Department seeks full details from the American consul in Hongkong after the seizure of goods aboard the British steamer Kafue bound New York to Manila. Officials note the Kafue cargo originated in American ports and was partly to American firms, with a prior seizure on the Chinese Prince. Secretary Lansing says a protest has been or will be lodged with Britain over the Chinese Prince case and the Kafue action.
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