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Evening journal., 1918-08-26
FRANK BAKER TO GO
BACK TO THE FARM

Baseball will lose a real star who has
been one OF its finest characters when
the present season comes to a close.
John Franklin Baker, the slugging third
baseman Of the Yankees, has determined
to retire permanently from the game
when his club disbands next month
After a brilliant career in the big league
lasting ten years he is finally going
TO realize his ambition TO settle down
to quiet life and tn the soil.
As soon as the schedule is played
out Baker intends TO return TO his big
farm at Trappe, Md, there to turn in
his bat for the plow, as 10 were, and
henceforth to be a real farmer. He
says he will never again play profes-
sional baseball. though he will play for
his own amusement. But his activities
in the future will likely be confined to
the little town near which he lives.
The local team in Trappe will have one
real slugger.
Bakers retirement has not been
brought on by the war Under any
conditions he intended TO retire this
year. He is 80 years Old married. and
has a family, and is simply tired OF
travelling about the country.
When Baker came to the Yankees in
1916 he signed a three-years' contract
for a salary generally supposed TO be
about $4,000 a year His contract eX-
pires with this season, and he thus
takes the opportunity 10 give up the
game. Baker likes baseball and Is as
enthusiastic as a kid when he is play
ing. But IL has been no secret that
he has long disliked the active life Of
ball player. But for the exceptional
inducements held out TO him by Colonel
Rupert and Captain Houston he would
have remained on his farm after he left
the Athletics.
70 Is strange thing that until this
season Baker was never fully appre-
ciated by the public nor by baseball
men in general He has been one OF
the great hitters Of the game, a hero
Of two worlds series, and yet was not
generally appraised as highly as some
other players Of less ability. This year.
due to a little batting squirt and the
fact that he was with a club which
received considerable attention. he FIN
ally received credit for being a truly
great player.
Evening journal., 1918-08-26

II you are contemplating any busi-
ness venture. 1t will pay you to keep
in touch with the WANTS.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1918-08-26
FRAZEE REFUSES TO PLAY
FIRST GAMES IN CHICAGO

BOSTON, Aug. 26.-The Boston Amer
lean League club will refuse to abide
by the schedule arrangements for the
world series as given out by President
Ban B. Johnson, OF the American League
in Chicago on Saturday, President II.
II. Frazee. Of the Boston team, the
league leaders, announced last night
President Frazee said the proposal to
play the first three games in Chicago
was unfair to the Boston team.
To get yourself a better job. put II
up to the WANTS-they'l make good
ADV.
Evening journal., 1918-08-26
BRITISH.

LONDON, Nightl-Resistsnc in
creased today with the arrival OF
German reinforcements on the bat
tlefront. Many hostile counter at
tacks were broken down. Our troops
with great gallantry have overcome
IN resistance, and have made fur
ther progress. They have taken
many prisoners.
North Of the Somme the Austria
lians carried the enemy's positions
on the high ground east Of Bray.
British troops advanced in the d.
rection Of Carnoy and have taken
Mametz. Welsh troops captured Ma
metz wood.
In the centre we captured Martin
puich. lie Sars and lie Barque.
North Of Bapaume there has been
severe lighting in Favreuil and about
Mory and Croisilles. We made
progress east Of Behagnies and in
Neuville-Vitasse.
LONDON. Day Our attack 10
the north Of the Somme Is continu-
Ing. Our troops hold the road from
Albert to Bapaume as Far as the
outskirts Of lie Sars, and have cap
tured Contalmaison and Warlen-
court-Eaucourt.
To the north Of Bapaume we have
taken Sapignies and Behagnies.
The number Of prisoners taken by
the Third and Fourth armies on the
battlefront since the morning Of
August q and passed through the
collecting stations now exceeds
1900
A counter attack attempted by the
enemy early last night against our
positions recently gained 10 the
north Of Beilleul lin the Lys salienD
broke down under our flre.
Evening journal., 1918-08-26
ITALIAN

RONfE-Last night our airplanes
again dropped 1000 Kilograms Of
bombs on aviation camps on the
Friuli Plain and in tho Lagarina
Valley. causing large fires. Hostile
aircraft dropped bombs on the city
Of Padua, slightly damaging soma
buildings. There were no casualties.
There has been considerable fight
ing activity in the Semenl river
region of Albania. Hostile forces re-
peatedly attacked our advanced
posts north Of Fierl, but always were
repulsed with heavy losses.
Evening journal., 1918-08-26
Parkside-
WILLIAMS NOW RoOUE CHAMPION

NORWICH, Conn. Aug &c. G. vii
liams, Of Washington. won the nation
al rogue championship here by defeat
ing z. w. Robinson. Of Mansfield. Mass,
in the play-off after they were tied
with ten games won ard three lost.
George Huett. Of Chicopee Falls, Mass,
and Gerald Brassill, of this city, were
tied for third.
Evening journal., 1918-08-26
EIGHTEEN INNINGS,
HOME RUN DECIDES

Parkside defeated White Circle in
the Boys League on Saturday by a
score of to in eighteen innings.
Wolfe won the game with a home run.
The game was full Of sensational plays
from the first inning. and each team
had four double plays TO its credit.
Hayes. who pitched for Parkside,
struck out 2S men. Dougherty, the
White Circle southpaw, followed a
close second with q. Dougherty walk
ed four men. Hayes hit two, but
walked none. The game was error
less, with the exception Of McCafferty's
muff Of Hayes long fly. Parkside is
giving Hagley tight race for the pen
nant, and at this time it looks as though
Parkside may capture the honor. The
game:
R.H.E.
Parkside-
OOOOOoOOOOOOOOoOOi-t o
White Circle
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-O 5 1
Umpires- Kitchen. Rinard Struck
out-Hayes rs, Dougherty "a. Walked
-Dougherty !. Hit by Hayes, 2.
Merwick forfeited to Hagley Juniors,
Q to 0.
Wawaset lost a six inning game to
Shamrock, S TO 2. The Wawaset boys
as usual played In hard luck. Burke
starred for Shamrock.
Evening star., 1918-08-11
AMERICAN OCCUPATION
] AWAKENS FRENCH LIFE
Letter From France Tells of Re-
markable Development in Wake
4 of Expeditionary Force.

: A description Of how the arrival of
eAmerican troops transforms quiet
French villages into thriving. busy
towns is related by Samuel r. Dia-
q1mondsun, with the American expedi-
,tionary force, to Morris Hahn, local
anerchant-
8 Il know that you are not Il stranger
to the many wonderful sights over
here" wrote Diamondson, but l wish
] could get by the censor with de-
'scription Of the many changes
changes which have occurred even
since l have been here.
/" aNot long ago had occasion to visit
"a small place TO look up some friends
consisted Of ! cafe and d railroad
station.
Later when l went through the
same place to come to my new sta
zion ! hardly recognized the place
The Americans had been there and
left their mark in the way of new
buildings and railroad yards that
would do credit to one of our large
cities. From u little huddle of houses
and a small railroad station the place
had been transformed into one of the
largest depots in France.
. Touches like that are visible all
.over France today. Wherever the
Army goes the place is transformed.
asand naturally it will remain that way
after peace has been declared.
= have been stationed in one of the
strongest forts in France. We are
"a little world unto ourselves here
j like my new station and consider
1T an appreciable improvement over
.my last place How long l will re-
main here is problematicaI, but l am
a
yet.
I'VE are situated on the summit of
a mountain and the views from all
sides are splendid. II is continually
cool here, and at night it is actually
cold. 1t is a fact that on July at
q field meet held here for the boys
the majority Of them wore over
coats"
Evening star., 1918-08-11
TO GET HIGHER PAY.

BOSTON, August 10.-A general in
grease in pay for the officers of the
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers
international Alliance was announced
at the closing session of the conven-
tion of that organization. The presi-
dent will receive $500 instead of
$4,000; the assistant president. new
1y created ofice.i s3.25o: secretary
treasurer. $4,000. instead OF $4,000,
and the organizers. s2.400. instead OF
I s1.So0.
=. John J. Hynes of Boston was chosen
president and John L. Bray of Kan
( sas' City, Mo-. secretary.
4. St Paul was selected as the next
city.
Evening star., 1918-08-11
GERMAN BREAD RATION
IS REPORTED INCREASED
Price Has Gone Up and Amount
Is Smaller Than in Last
August.

LONDON, August 1o.-It is officially
reported from Berlin that the bread
ration in the German capital will be
increased by 100 grams (about 3h
ounces weekly, according to an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Co
penhagen. The price has also been
raised by il pfennigs. The ration will
now be 1850 grams weekly. as
compared with 1850 in August of
last year.
Evening star., 1918-08-11

Sergt Alvin Reiners. of Battery D.
18th Field Artillery, officially report
cd as missing in action" in the cas-
ualty list Friday. is brother of
Mrs. Hannah Fleming. 2s0s Georgia
avenue, and of Mrs. Antointtte Leh-
man, who formerly lived at AZ l.
street northeast. His father lives in
Philadelphia.
Sergt. Reiners Is serving his second
enlistment He Was for a time sta
toned At Fort Myer. but spent most of
his time at Camp Bliss. Tex. While at
that post he was presented with a
gold watch and seal by the men of
the company for which he was ser
seaut.
He was promoted 10 sergeant in No
vember and went overseas in April
His sister. Mrs. Fleming has a let
ter from him for her birthday, which
reached here on July .. That is the
last word any relatives in this city
have had from him. He was enthu-
siastic about the service and said the
spirit of the men "over there" was
admirable.
Evening star., 1918-08-11
BIG BUOY TO TAKE PLACE
OF DIAMOND SHOALS LIGHT
Place of Ship Sunk by German
Submarine to Be Marked
Soon.

NEW YORK. August 1O.-The To-
cation of the Diamond Shoals light
ship. destroyed last Tuesday by a
German submarine. will be marked
as soon as possible by a combination
gas. whistle and submarine bell buoy,
it was announced here yesterday by
the United states photographic office.
The buoy will be painted red and will
show sixteen feet above the sea.
Evening star., 1918-08-11
Close Daily at s p. NJ.
Store Hours

During August this big furniture
store luiU remain CLOSED ALL
DAY EVERY SATURDAY; other
week days the store .uiH close at
6 p. M.
Evening star., 1918-08-11
Closed All Day Saturday
Buy W. S. S.

Profit by this August Clearance
Sale and saUe money on the furni-
ture you need-then inuest the
money you saue IN u. S. War
Savings Stamps.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
CAN DEMOCRATS
WIN ELECTION
SLOGAN OF DON'T HAMPER
PRESIDENTS APPLIES TO DEM
OCRATIC LEADERS.

WASHINGTON, ID. CAS- the
campaign for the control of the next
congress gets into full swing it is
more apparent than ever that the
democratic leaders are trying to de-
ceive the voters into believing that
a democratic congress should be
elected in order that President Will
son should not be hampered. This
is made evident both by the speak
ing campaign and by the very in
tensive advertising campaign direct
ed by the democratic national COM
mittee
II is equally evident. however,
that in trying to make this the cam
paign issue. the democrats are GO
ing to run up against a stone wall.
as by such argument they are only
condemning the leaders and the ma
jority of their own party i'm congress,
rs shown by the records.
When the commander-in-chi
President Wilson. wished to raise
an army to back up our declaration
Of war with Germany he proposed a
plan OF raising an army which was
also the plan of the war department
The 4 dem ocratic leadership OF the
house opposed this plan by voice and
vote in April, 1917 Speaker Clark
led in hampering the president. He
was aided by Chairman Dent of the
house military committee; Chair
man Padgett, of the committee on
naval affairs; Chairman Kitchin. of
the ways and means committee. and
| also floor leader Of the democrats.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31

haven't been paid yet, but I only feel
natural when / am broke. We get
plenty to eat and plenty OF drill, so
| can't kick. | did big washing
this morning. We have good place
TO wash clothes right back of the
house where | am billited. We are
in the attic. | guess you would call
it, or the upper story. We climb up
here on ladder An old French lady
in the house comes out everytime
wash my clothes and either balls me
out for either washing on Sunday
or tells me how to wash or something
OF the kind in French which / can't
understand at all, but she seems
TO take great pleasure in conversing
with me so | don't put II kick
will have to get frame some
where pretty soon as my hair is
growing down on my shoulders it
feels like. They have a fine band
here, the old Third Oregon band
guess they have got little on the
Fist Iowa band, but not much.
hear the rest of our platoon get
rifles tomorrow. / haven't had a rifle
up to now as my cid rifle went on
with the company when was left in
England. ! hope its Springfield's and
not these Enfieds. We
had the Enfields given to us a while
down in Camp Cody so we'd know
how TO use them if We got hold
Of one. Everyone hated them.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
JUDGE ROCkAFELi.0W.

Ore of the things the voters of
this, The l5th juaidal district. will
have to do on he 9Th OF November.
election day, will he 10 select four
district judges 10 succeed Judges
Rockafellow, Cullison. Arthur and
Wheeler. ali of whom are candidates
for reelection. There is danger, if
he voter does not bear the matter in
mind. that he may overlook This mat
ter which is most important. as the
judicial ticket is placed to one side
OF the ballot and Il behooves each
voter to remember this that when he
goes into the election booth he may
not fail in the discharge of an inn
portant duty.
Judge Rockafellow. of this city.
who has served |capably on the bench
for number OF years, is candi-
date for reelection. He has given
signal service during his incumbency
OH the bench. He is keen student
of the law and has had minimum of
reyersals of his decisions, albeit he
has tried some OF the most important
cases which have been tried in the
district The object of the non-par-
Judges from the influence of politics
1t is in the interest of good govern
ment and the wise administration of
the judicial affairs Of the district
not only that the men wearing the
ermine be so removed from politics.
but that they be perpetuated in
service, for which long experience
and the wisdom and justice which
come from that experience especially
qualify them
The judicial mind is a thing men
do not acquire. II is born with them.
The judicial position is one which
calls for a high order OF this peculiar
ability. Before the judge on the
beach passes humanity in its kali
eidoscopic and phantasmagoric pro
ccssion; its frailties and its foibles.
lis weakness and its strength are
features of the story that is unfolded
before him day by day. TO be able
TO pick the wheat from the chaff to
be able to Judge wisely and justly:
TO enforce the laws stern dictum
with kindliness and yet with a regard
to duty to remember that men are
only human and prone to fall; to de-
eide disputes according to the law in
the case and yet with an eye to this
fact all these are the duties of the
Judge in his most eXacting place and
the ability to fill that place well is
given TO hut few men. 1t would
seem that there is every reason why
the voters Of the district should re-
turn Judge Rockafellow and his col
leagues to the bench. Experimenting
with the judiciary is likely to never
become popular in this section
Atlantic News-Tclegraph. Sept. 16
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
FROM CHARLES COLE.
Somewhere in France. Oct 10.
Dear Mother:

Somewhere in France. Oct. l3.
Dear Mother
Wen this is Sunday and church is
over, so | am writing you a letter at
the X. of c. Perhaps you have al
ready guessed that so it will not be
surprise to you ! am feeling kind
of bad today. | guess | have cold
of some kind | met boy from
our company who came across with
me but was left behind in France
near here. just after | was left in
England They thought he had tu-
berculosis. He is near here some
where but he doesn't know any more
about tile company than | do. He
was from c company when we were
in the l53rd infantry. | rememb ered
him when | first saw him. but could
not just place him a. he was in a
different company back in the states.
The paper looks pretty good these
days. We get the Paris edition OF
the New York Herald The chap
lain was telling US about some cou-
pons, or something of the kind, we
had to send home TO get Christmas
package. | haven't got one yet and
don't know whether | will send one
or not as it is so uncertain about
getting them. II | can't get mail
suppose there will be small chances
of getting package | would rather
have some letters anyway was on
guard one day last week and had Il
pretty good post
There are several fellows here
with us who have been at the front
seven months. They are from the
artillery. but are with us in the in
fantry now. | ran around with one
quite a lot. A little white haired
fellow from Massachusetts, We
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31

the president may receive proper
support to prosecute the war to a
successful close only indicates they
realize that unless they can make the
people believe they have a monopoly
on loyalty in the country their cause
is lost. To those who read between
the lines it means more than this. II
means they are using this deception
not in order to assist the president
to win the war but in order to keep
the present democratic organization
in control of all committees and
commissions so that when peace does
come, the democratic party will he
in Il position to play the same game
of favoritism to the south that it
has played throughout the war
The record of the republican par
ty and of republican leaders in con-
gress from the moment this country
declared war with Germany has been
the record of loyal Americans. They
have stood by their country. They
have stood by the war. They have
placed their nation above their party.
They have withheld no measure of
power, no resources OF money or men
needed to wage war to the limit
in the capitals OF Europe, the re-
publican leaders in congress are
looked upon as being a very Gibral-
tar OF strength to the allied cause,
because at no time since Americas
entrance into the war have the re-
publican leaders faltered in placing
at the disposal of the allied cause
all OF the resources OF America. and
AZ no time have the republican lead
suggested any truce or compromise
with Germany or her allies On the
contrary, they have insisted from the
very beginning upon a policy OF force
to the utmost and peace based only
upon complete victory OF armies in
the field. They did this months be-
fore democratic Congressional lead
ers realized that such a policy was
necessary if the allies were TO win
the war. They were doing this at the
very time the democratic secretary
of war was complacently declaring
that the war was 5000 miles away.
They were publicly demanding in the
press, on the platform and before the
congressional committees the raising
of an army of not less than 100000
men to be sent to France. months
before the democratic congressional
leaders became aware that only by
the creation of such an army could
victory be possible
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31

and nineteen other democratic chair
men OF the leading committees. all
of whom voted against the bill. Three
other leading democratic chairmen
did not vote, although present This
made total of twenty-seven of the
democratic leaders who led their
own party in hampering the nations
commander-inchief on this first vital
war measure.
On August 30, 1918, when the
commander-in-ch chief, President Will
son, asked for a modification of the
draft law that would enable Ameri-
ca TO raise the Army of Victory,
which is now Foch's strong right
arm. practically all the democratic
leaders. from Speaker Clark down.
and an actual majority of the demo
Gratis in the house, fought and voted
against the request of President Will
son. In this, war crisis, when
Foch and Haig were calling upon
America for more man-power and
Wilson was trying to give them the
help they asked. sc democrats voted
against increasing the army as the
president and commander-in-chief re-
OF il. Under the leadership of Rep
resentative Kahn, the republicans
gave Ill votes to help out the presi-
dent-or 81 more votes, than the
democrats gave him.
These were the two most vital
war measures of the present con-
gress, for without the passage of
either of these hills Americas par
ticipation in the war would have
been impossible and the Huns by
this time would have been in Paris
and have dictated a victorious peace
not only to Europe but to the United
States and the rest of the civilized
world. 4AA
The stubborn tenacity with which
the democratic leaders cling to the
deceptive argument that 1t is neces-
sary to re-elect them in order that
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-09
SERBIAN MISSION MEMBER PRAISES
 AMERICAN SPIRIT

Paris, Friday, March S.-The war will complete the development of the national individuality of the United States, is the convection expressed by pr. M. R. Vesnitch, head of the Ser bian mission to the United States, in statement given to the Petit Par isien. That, he said, would be the most positive and most fortunate re- suit of the struggle, and civilization throughout the habitable globe would profit by it.
 Dr. Vesnitch declared that he re- turned from the United States fully convinced that America would not stop halfway, adding:
 "She could not, even if she would furl her banners before victory has shone upon them. That would mean and this is fully realized in com petent quarters-not only stagnation but decline. It would be at the same time a setback for humanity in gen. eral Americans will never accept that.
 "One of the reasons for the success of my mission was that I always in- sisted on the necessity for carrying on the war to victory and of turning a deaf ear to Germany's hints of peace, although I represented a nation which has suffered and suffers more than any other from the war and which, in pro- portion, has made the greatest sacri- l fees"