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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1913
Page
8
Interior Department employees gather at the OMI Masonic Temple to vote on by-laws excluding black workers from club membership. Contenders demand a definite provision while many prefer an understood practice. The issue broadens into a public employment club dispute amid other notices and ship movements.
City officers and residents crowd a Tuesday afternoon gathering on Tenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW where Crl Browne of the Coxey army proposed a resolution forming the First Church of the Appeal to Reason. He urged conservation as mankind’s great quest both now and in the future.
Policeman J J Burke of the seventh precinct stopped a driver on M street near Thirty first street Northwest for a traffic infraction. A second car struck him from behind, crushing his bicycle and bruising his uniform. James Richardson, a liquor dealer of 218 Twelfth Street Northwest, apologized profusely and offered to pay medical and bicycle costs. Burke agreed to meet him in police court today and left the debris with a shopkeeper.
Burke recalls a taxi crash near Dunbarton Hotel involving Prof John T. Crosby. He dressed the driver’s bruises, then explained at the station he lacked Crosby’s full machine number, saying the professor swerved to avoid a street car. Crosby admitted the action to avert a collision, and Burke pursued the number.
A snow white haired man sat in the Union Station waiting room from Saturday night until yesterday afternoon. Lieut. Charles Broker identified him after hours of questioning. He named himself Daniel Mehmiing, 34, recalling Civil War service on the Union side. He had 76 cents and did not know his city, house, or street. Police placed him in Washington Asylum Hospital as relatives are sought.
Pancho Villa returns to Juarez with his army bivouacked south of the city. About 6,000 rebels encamped along a 12 mile front with heavy fortifications. Federation artillery clash near Samelacaya as reinforcements move in from multiple directions. Villa vows to defend Juarez and predicts a decisive battle that could decide Chihuahua’s fate.
The revenue cutter Bear under Capt. J. B. Ballinger brought 37 destitute survivors from Nome after the storm that wrecked the town on October before Nome. The crew moved Eskimos to their homes to spare the community from burden. In the Arctic, the Bear reached Point Barrow, the northernmost Alaska point, and was the sole vessel to return this year as ice trapped trading and exploring schooners. The Bear narrowly escaped destruction in the ice and Capt. Ballinger believes Arctic crews are safe, as they can reach villages if ice crushes their ships.
Vice President Koubakawa announced Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co will start a Orient to New York service via Honolulu Panama Galveston and New Orleans before 1916. Yokohama Takoma steamships will run to Europe via Suez. Both lines aim to an around the world service via New York.
Queen Victoria of Spain shows signs of improvement after influenza illness. She has sat up briefly, received visitors, and plans to stay in Paris until King Alfonso returns. Once allowed outside, she will focus on Christmas shopping.
Pittsburgh reports two letters from Harry K Thaw in Concord and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw in Buffalo share thanks for health improved fortunes and new friends. Evelyn notes earning her own income and plans to buy a Swiss chalet or Italian villa while hoping to resume her life work.
In Magdalena Sonora on November 2 daylight lit tired rooftops as Gen. Carranza and officers hosted a town ball. He did not dance but walked the floor in Spanish style while the party continued at the adobe hotel. He plans to depart with his staff to Hermosillo by special train and then on to a military exposition along the coast districts still under federal control. The extended stay for entertainments remained unexplained, tied to Carranza’s promise to host Magdalena’s people.
Henry Vane Wilson told Latin American listeners at the Belasco Theater that Huerta’s presidency is legally valid, comparing it to Roosevelt after McKinley’s death. He criticized U S policy in Mexico as scholastic and warned that if Huerta falls the blood would be charged to Americans. He argued Diaz ruled with iron rule and cited peonage and oil company intrigue as causes of the 1910 revolutions.
Secretary McAdoo confronts a staffing dilemma as the New York internal revenue job offers only six to ten thousand dollars a year for a duty handling millions in tax receipts. He notes wealthy New Yorkers could supply 40 to 60 percent of income tax revenue and hopes Congress approves a higher salary to attract capable applicants. The present appointee is Cheries J. Anderson, a colored Republican, who has held over since the last administration. Among early applicants are a butcher, a tobacconist, and a small grocer. Senator OGorman has not made a recommendation.
A 17 month old, William Clark Jr, and an 11 month old, Turner infant, were treated for mercury exposure after tablets spilled in a home. Doctors doubt full ingestion but find traces in washing stomachs. The Clark child showed alarming symptoms. Turner remains in critical condition.
In Avoca New York November 24 Miss Ella Rynders learned the shipped body from Jackson Michigan was not her fiancé James Greene who vanished before their planned wedding. Officials say the man likely suffered aphasia and wandered the country. Search to resume with renewed vigor.
Traveling in two special trains four troops of the Twelfth United States cavalry with hospital corps and commissary wagon train pass Albuquerque en route to Shiprock Navajo reservation. They plan a winter stay if needed, hoping for a quick restoration of peace. In Genoa rain halts a Connecticut Kansas football clash but the Connecticut team wins. Gen Bramwell Booth greeted in New York at Carnegie Hall by District Attorney Whitman and Eva Booth. Mrs Otto Schulz killed in Morris County traction company auto crash near Morristown.
New York reports that 200 local Housewives' Leagues were summoned by telegram to join a nation-wide egg boycott. The national executive committee led by Mrs. Julian Heath calls for 700000 members to stop using eggs amid an acute chaotic market. Jennie Dewey Heath and Agnes R. Griffin signed the message as national president and secretary.
Waterbury Connecticut reports a nine year old girl Annie Digbo died after sucking a small rubber balloon into her throat and lungs. The balloon formed an airtight trap in her airway and the tube was found later embedded in a lung.
Police search for a tall well dressed white man who accosted a seven year old girl in the Capitol grounds grotto yesterday afternoon. The child and two companions were playing when he grabbed her then fled into shrubbery. Capt Frawley reports the victim’s name withheld. Suspect described as 28 to 30, five feet eleven, slender, with light complexion, glasses, gray suit, and fedora.
Police chased a Maryland registered car driven by Arthur C. Smith across Ninth street and Pennsylvania, detaining him for court after he posted $10. A crash on Sixteenth street damaged a milk wagon. a car collision at Fourteenth and New York left both vehicles lightly damaged. A man was robbed of $175 after a beating near Thirteenth and C streets, and two youths sought for stealing a typewriter and lamp from a garage at 64 1 street northeast. the lamp was recovered. Randolph Brice, 4, drowned in the canal after a boat overturned while fishing with his brother and another man on the Canal road.
John Kellerman a carpenter was struck by an electric coupe driven by Miss Mazi Ames at 17438 Eighteenth Street Weret near New York Avenue and Fifteenth Street Northwest Saturday afternoon. He was reported dying last night at Inner-Beney Hospital. Miss Ames attended by her sister visited the hospital to learn his condition while Kellerman's wife was there several times. Police have made no charges and unlikely if Kellerman dies.
Witnesses describe an accident as Tellerman steps back into a vehicle path. A lobby quiz is revived as the Senate's special committee reopens hearings in Washington this week. Chairman Overman calls a meeting for tomorrow to outline a plan for a quick conclusion to the inquiry into paid publicity influencing legislation.
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