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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1911
Page
7
Report outlines expected hearings on appropriations for city salaries and a district budget. Burleson cites Congress attitude as a factor while commissioners debate wage increases and economic efficiency for municipal staff.
The wide campaign by pun uisa in Sunday schools aimed to link boys aged around fourteen with religion and the Men and Religion Forward Movement concluded with a mass meeting at the YMCA. Rev H S Pinkham addressed about seventy five youths and several Sunday schools conducted recruit drives. Rev Do L Tutlle, Hf oRuffalo SY and others spoke. The effort sought to enroll more city youths in the eight day campaign era Fanuary 22. Five thousand boys in the city do not attend Sunday school according to reports.
The vice consul Poni ie WooMae in Rucca was drowned at Codon yedterdas while bathing near Colon Panama. The French embassy official Count oarettl da la Rixen, first secretary, learned of the tragedy. The consular mainte will be shipped to France for further action after fourteen years.
A report from Atlantic City details a chaotic scene as a deadly accident mars a home death and a young child suffers severed fingers. The piece also notes potential scheduling delays in the Supreme Court vacancy due to Justice Harlan's death and state rate cases across Missouri Minnesota Oregon West Virginia Arkansas and Kentucky.
Maj Farrow U S A declares a new force counteracts gravity and shows a scale dropping weight when current powers his condensing dynamo He envisions lighter trains ships and even floating buildings via electrical wave tension, with further tests in New York and Long Island noting patents and future applications against gravity.
The House Military Affairs Committee considers an army appropriation measure likely to involve President Taft and Secretary Stimson in the debate. Gen Leonard Wood leads the staff against several reform proposals, while Maj Gen Fred C. Ainsworth stands to be retired with lieutenant general rank. The bill merges the adjutant general into the general staff, restores Coething allowances, curbs uniform authority, and eliminates the chiefs of coast artillery and militia affairs divisions.
Congress schedules a busy week with the Sherwood pension bill likely to pass in the House, and an urgent deficiency appropriation measure to be enacted before holidays. The Russian passport question, Lorimer inquiry, and antitrust hearings proceed as committees shape tariff and trust legislation for later action.
Paria the magnificent and the Andean sweep from Argentina to Chile delighted Washington audiences at the Columbia theater. Burton Holmes presented a South American travelogue showing pampas crossing and Andes climbs, with scenes of Valparaiso Santiago and a return via the high-level tunnel. A Paraguay detour revealed the nation’s little known wild beauty and a mighty Niagara analogy. The show will be repeated this afternoon.
President Taft sent a personal commendation to Rear Admiral Reginald F Nicholson after his relief as chief of the bureau of navigation. Nicholson, urged by friends to resist resignation, plans to depart for the Asiatic station to assume command of the Asiatic Fleet.
The People's Orchestra led by William Laurier presented a Sunday concert at the Belasco Theater. Hans Kionold, cellist, soloed Bruch Ave Maria and a Servais fantasia with the ensemble, which encore included Traumerei. Walter F. Smith aided the cello numbers, and Laurier conducted selections by Mendelssohn, Burgmüller, Kommatik, Grieg, and a Telke march.
Weather Bureau notes show a storm moving from Oklahoma to Lake Superior with heavy rains in the Deep South and central valleys, high winds in many regions, and abnormally high temperatures east of the Mississippi. Snow and cold fronts are forecast for Monday in northern areas, with rain and cooling in the south and east, while the western half remains generally fair.
Rev J L McKihany at Memorial Seventh Day Adventists Church on Twelfth Street Northwest warned that arms races and war preparations threaten peace. He spoke of prophecies predicting wars among nations before Christ returns, with dreadnoughts and vast armies repurposed in future conflict.
Representative Stanley explains invitation to Rev Gates to testify at a hearing on the steel trust. Rockefeller was not addressed in the letter. The committee resumes inquiry with aims to conclude swiftly, and neither Rockefeller nor Gates was subpoenaed due to a pending government suit against the United States Steel Corporation.
In Lisbon a serious plot by bluejackets aboard the cruiser Sao Gabriel with Sixteenth Infantry and civilian allies aimed to strike the republican guard, long suspected of lukewarm devotion to the republic. The plan was thwarted when authorities sent the ship to the Azores and withdrew guards from streets. Despite the failure, agitation remains high in the city.
Reassuring messages on Harvard President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot, operated on for appendicitis in Kandy Ceylon, report satisfactory condition after first night and a comfortable day. He is in the care of a modern hospital and skilled attendants as his son Rev Samuel A Eliot notes.
The Novoe Vremya says no country can grant more rights to foreigners than to its own subjects and cites Russia’s view of U S immigration rules as cruel. It notes mass protest in New York’s Carnegie Hall and a Washington delegation led by William G McAdoo to seek Congress action to abrogate the 1932 treaty over passport recognition for Hebrew Americans.
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