, 1918-09-19

The newspapers announce that'Lieut.
Nungesser, the French aviator, has
scored his forty-fourth official aerial
victory.
According to L'Eclair, Emperor
William of Germany has been ex-
tremely profuse in his bestowal of the
iron cross.
Dispatches from Kiev report that
the peasants in revolt have wiped out
the German garrison in the village OF
Brusilvoka.
DR.. Carl Peters, a German, and ia
mous as an African explorer, died
Sept. 10 in Germany, according to a
dispatch received from Brunswick.
Rear Admiral A. v. Razozoff, for
sian naval forces in the Baltic, was
murdered in P%etrograd, according to
a dispatch from H%elsingfors.
Lieut.. Cecile Healy. a widely known
Australian swimmer, was killed by a
bullet on the Somme battlefield Sept.
l, according to Paris LIE Journal. The
lieutenant led a party of 500 swim
mers Lross the Somme, enveloped the
enemy positions and captured Mont
st. Quentin, the key to Peronne.
Reports from Petrograd state that
Maxim Gorky, the Russian author and
revolutionary. has accepted the post
of director of Bolshevik propaganda.
The reports add that Gorky declared
that the attempt on the life of the
Bolshevik premier, Lenine, caused him
to decide to cooperate with the Boil.
shevik government.
President Poincare of France visited
the from to observe the conditions of
the troops in the zone newly liberat-
ed, and particularly those regions
where the enemy carried out system
attic destruction before retiring. Ac-
companied by Generals Fayolles and
Humbert, he inspected Chauny, No
yon, Nesle, Guiscard and Ham.
SPORT
Manager Ed Barrow of the worlds
champion Red Sox will go to France
next season il the war continues.
Total attendance and receipts of the
world series game on the last day fol.
lows: Total attendance, 1928; total
receipts, $19,795; national commits
sion's share. $~1,979.50; each clubs
share, s ,9O7.75.
Verlie Patchen, sired by Roy Patch
en- and driven by Palm, romped off
with the Hotel Plankington stake for
a purse of $4,000, the feature event at
the Great Western meeting at the
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She won in straight heats.
Members of the Chicago Cubs will
not get round shouldered from carry
ing their end of the world series
money. Instead of the customary wad,
each got s574.62. the losers end. The
Cubs shared with six men who did
not take part in the series. They set
aside $1,000, Trainer Brady getting
$500, and the rest being split between
Alexander. Kilduff. DAILY, Elliott and
Aldridge, now of the army.
GENERAL
Gov. Charles S. Whitman of New
York received a total of 295,471 Re-
publican votes in the recent general
primaries, and Merton e. Lewis, his
opponent, 1882, according to the
primary results announced by Secre-
tary Of State Hugo.
William Grissom, a private In 18th
(Colorado) infantry, was convicted of
murder by a general court-martiai at
San Diego, Cal. last May, it was n
nounced upon receipt of orders from
Washington committing his sentence
from that Of hanging, imposed by the
court. to life imprisonment. The COM
mutation was by order of President
Wilson. Grissom and Horace st. John
Clark, a private in the same regiment,
were convicted Jointly of the murder
of Francis M. McCrary. a chauffeur.
the theft Of his automobile, and de-
sertion.
Newton D. Baker, the American Sec
rotary of war. with severa. other no.
tables, witnessed the beginning of the
battle by Americans from a French
fort close behind the middle of the
line.
Creation of the Grand Army and
Navy Union OF the Allied Nations" Is
one of the propositions to be consid-
oiSu ny thc hheiuhai cohNohttou VI tue
Army and Navy Union in session at
Atlantic City. N. ].
The Germans have lost 100000 men
in The last month. 100000 of whom
were killed. according to the Elk
change Telegraph Company. So low
has the German man-power become
that tas 1920 class is expected on the
firing line daily.
The number of prisoners taken by
the Americans in flattenIng out the
st. Mihiel salient Friday numbered
1890, Gen. Psrshing rerorted in his
communiQue. received at the War De-
partment. N 10 mention was made OF
the number OF guns and other booty
captured. b enemy, Gen. Pershing