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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
RIII,a Good Choice.

II you fans recall the appearance of
Babe Ruth, the big southpaw pitcher
and slugger Of the Boston Red Sox.
you'll gladly hand the laurel wreath
to "Slim Bill Farnsworth, the New
York scribe, who dubbed him 'Tarzan
of the SoX-" That is a classic.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
FIELD DAY BOOKED

Fort Myer soldiers will take part
in a field day OF fourteen events today.
Camp Humphreys and Fort Myer will
play baseball. The Officers Engineers
will play the Artillery. football
punting contest will feature the
sports.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
LOOKING EN- OYER
TAD
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER

John McGraws ambitious scheme for taking big
France for competition against crack
ground After
Raymond Fosdick chairman of the commission training
activities, the that might be well for MeGaw
FORGET his He
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
DREW OUT BIG CROWD

BOSTON, Sept. 1.-THE fffth game
Of the worlds series drew a big
crowd, 24,694 fans paying to see the
delayed contest. paying S31 ,069 at the
gate for the privilege. Each club
drew S13,9S1.o5, and the National
Commissions share was $3,106.90.
Here are the figures for the five
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
VAUGHN BLANKS 'EM.

VIUIu 5Ql ~ s3uOr IOJ pallCT
Runs-Flack and Hollocher (2). Two
base hits-Msnn, PssKrrt. Strunk Stolen
base-Hollocher Sacrifice hitS-Mann
Shean. publc plays -McrkIe t. HoIInCh-
er: Hollncher 10 Pick to Mcrkle CD:
Nhitenlan to Shean. Loft on bas.s-C,hi-
Cago. &. Boston. .. First base on balls
on Vaughn. !. Jones. struck nut-
ny Vaughn. I. Jones. 5. Umpires -O'pay.
behind thu plate. HiIdcbrand. at fTst
KLEIN, at second, and Owens. at third
base Time Of game-One hour and AZ
minutes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
EVENTS ARE LISTED.

Eight events are listed IN the canoe
regatta and swimming and diving
carnival under the auspices OF the
washington Canoe Club at Aqueduct
bridge, Saturday. at ) D. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
Il n Good Example.


Frank L. Kramer. for sixteen con-
secutive years bicycle sprint cham
pion. wants to go overseas with the
7. NJ c. A And where can the ~"
find a better man to act as an example
for the youngsters serving against the
Hun?
Passing his fortieth year. Kramer
was beaten last year for the sprint
championship, only to come back this
season and take back his crown from
Arthur Spencer, q comparative youth
Kramer could not have done this had
he not taken the best OF care of him
self for all these years. AS q mat
ter Of fact. Kramer is one Of the
athletic marvels of the age 1t Is to
be hoped that the "Y" officials grab
at the chance to get him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
PLAY TOMORROW.

Interstate and Ship Emergency are
due to play at the Princeton Club
events tomorrow afternoon IN tho De-
pa -tmeEt tai Tennis League match.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11

No change Is noted in the standing
Of the teams in the second section
Navy Yard. by reason OF the defeat
handed Clarendon yesterday. Is atop
the heap by a good margin The
standing Is as follows:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11

never makes Il easy for an opposing
infielder. But then, Ty Is out Of his
class, and has been for several years
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
REx's FIRST WIN.

Totals. y 34 . Totals ..56 II q II
Clarendon. u
Rex.... o o ("
Runs-Brown. Steel. Cafrey. Roche,
Carroll. DECENTRALIZATION. Gordon (2),
Sill, Steel Left on bases-Clarendon. 7.
Rex, 5. First base on balls-On Brown,
2: on Emmons. .. Struck out-By Brown,
4;by EmmonA s. Three-base hit-Mc-
Mahan. Two-base hits-Roche. Brown,
Emmons. Sacrifice hit-Lemerick. Stolen
base-Roehe, CaTrey. Double plays
Cafrey to sill. Livingston to Roche:
Gieble to Brown. Hit by pitcher-By
Brown (Bolen).
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From the time the players boarded
their trains in Chicago last Saturday
they have thought OF nothing but
money. All idea of baseball sports
manship has vanished from this
series, and this applies to both the
players and the maEnates. The ques-
ton came to mead here yesterday
when the players called for a show
down from the National Commission
The Red Sox and Cubs demanded
that the allotment Of the receipts to
place clubs in both leGaues be added
to their shares, thus bringing the
total up to the guaranteed $1,000 each
for members OF the winning team and
81 100 to each OF the losers.
Garry Hermann, chairman OF the
National Commission. tried to stall Off
the playcrs with "A promise Of a reply
PC - -amo. but the players com
mittee, consisting OF Harry Hooper
a..I rl'II.r Wagner, for the Red SoX,
and Leslie Mann and Bill Killifer, for
the Cubs. insisted on immediate ac-
ton.
Ban Talks Some More.
Ban Johnson, president OF the Amer
lean League, made "A long winded
speech. telling Of all his doings in
Washington, claiming that he per-
sonally obtained tho sanction OF the
Government for the series, etc, etc.
but the players then hurled a bomb
she'll into the commission by sug-
costing that the entire receipts Of the
series be devoted to the Red Cross.
johnson nearly died of apoplexy. So
did Hermann.
Tho chairman Of tho commission an
nounced that they had no right to dis
pose of tho receipts until the ssries
was ended, claiming that the other
clubs Interested would bo in a POSI-
ton TO sue for their shares. Then
Honey" Fitzgerald spread more
words upon tho atmosphere and Euc-
cssded IN getting tho players to climb
into their uniforms.
On tho basis OF tho now plan OF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11
SERIES SNIFTERS
Crowds picking up.

l. Nelson who manages the War
Risk team, is a hustler. He went
around his office and sold a bunch of
tickets for the game. ''Nelse" Is ex-
pecting to surprise the Marines today.
Cabbage O'Connor caught for the
Rex team yesterday and his players
won. The Rex lads seem to play good
ball with O'Connor behind the plate.
Country" Morris, OF Operations,
has collected two triples so far. Nor
ris cracked two beauties which count
ed for runs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11

Schanfcr, OF War Risk. Dennean. Nc
Grath. and Scrrin. of the Cappubs. and
Brown. OF Rex 4. G, are all south
paws. and are unusually successful
Keleher, Of the Army NEEDS, is another
southpaw, as is Clarke.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11

Northeast fans and southeast fol-
lowers pin their hopes on the Navy
Yard team. According to the Union
League Park followers there is moth
ing to IL but the shouting. Tom Crooke
has his hands full explaining why he
doesn't use all twenty players.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-11

Watch Ernie Schaffer today. He de-
feated the Marines once before this
season although all the Marine 2lay-
ers were not in the lineup.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Czech Officer Writes
from Vladivostok to
Bee About Brother

Frantisek Huzka, an officer with
the Czecho-Slovak army. has writ
ten from Vladivostok, Siberia, to
The Bee, to inquire about his
brother, Josef Hazuka, whom he has
not heard from for years. He wrote
that he believed the brother lived in
Omaha. In this connection it de-
velops that The Bee is read in the
Young Mems Christian association
rooms in faraway Vladivostok.
A family of Hazukas was located
in the South Side. Joseph Hazuka
and Mrs. Mary Bonanek reside at
S229 South Twenty-second street,
and John Hazuka, cousin. owns a
store in the South Side. Mrs. Bon
anek stated that her father died in
Omaha. She knew that several
members of her family were in the
Czecho-Slovak army. The Omaha
Hazukas came from Pohledi, in
what is known as the Kraj Caslaz
part of Bohemia, the same town
and district referred to by the SOL
der who wrote from Vladivostok.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Boys All Registered
In Working Reserve
Before Thursday Noon

Omaha boys are so anxious TO as
sist Uncle Sam in any way possible,
that before noon Thursday the reg
istration of boys in school between
IS years 7 months, and Is years for
the United States Boys Working
reserve had been completed And
the majority of the boys registered
for unqualified service" willing to
work during the summer vacation
wherever the need is greatest.
There were a number of boys alb
sent from school, but the absentees
will be registered as soon as pos
sible. The registration booths in
the three Omaha High schools had
begun tabulaticn3 of the number of
registrants before noon, but, the to-
tai was not known at that time. 1t
is expected that between 200 and ESQ
boys have registered at the Com
mercial High school, between 400
and 500 at Central High school and
about 200 at the South High school.
Dwight E. Porter, Commercial
High school, is director of registra-
ton for Douglas county and he ex-
poets that between 1000 and 5000
boys will be registered in the county.
The exact number will be known
next Monday night, when final re-
turns must be in. J
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Sugar Cards Will Be
Withdrawn at Once;
Allowance is Raised

Oscar Allen of the/Douglas coun-
ty food administration has announc-
cd that all sugar cards in. Omaha will
be withdrawn Immediately, and that
the sugar allowance has been in
creased to about four pounds per
person per month. The sugar cards
were adopted voluntarily by the
Omaha grocers and sanctioned by
the food administration some months
ago, as a precaution against any per-
son duplicating their allowance of
sugar in more than one store. but
with the increased allowance there
will be no cause for anyone to du-
plicate.
1t is also announced that bakers
and manufacturers of less essential
products will be allowed an increase
of approximately 50 per cent in their
sugar allowance.
The war industries board has re-
moved all restrictions on tin plate;
in other words tin may now be used
to pack articles of food in. This was
prohibited for a time.
The rule applying to the use OF
white bread without substitutes is
for homes only. announces Mr.. Al
len, and not for hotels and restau-
rants. For the present, at least, eat
ing houses will not be allowed to
serve an increased allowance OF
bread,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Recovered Shells Take
Place Of Stolen Kettles
in Many French Homes

With the French Army in France,
Nov. l4.-(By Associated Press. y
At Fourmies, on the French side,
and at Chimay, just across the bor-
der, trains more than a mile long
fell into the hands of French troops,
with billions of francs worth of ma
terial, which included vast quaint
ties of copper in the form of shell
and mine cases. Part of this was
this afternoon finding its way into
the homes from which it was taken
Ia the form of copper kettles, pans
and other household utensils.
1t was impossible to obtain here
the slightest impression as to how
the end of the hostilities impressed
the soldiers of the vanquished army.
Contact was broken early in the
morning, after having been main
tanned with difficulty during the past
few days. The Germans everywhere
were retiring so rapidly that the
allies advance guards were unable
to catch up with them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
CITY PLANS TO
HELP The POOR
THANKSGIVING
School Children Are to Bring
Goodies Which Will Be Dis
tributed by Various Re-
lief Organizations.

Plans for the annual collection
and distribution of Thanksgiving
goodies to the poor of Omaha are
now under way. The charitable as
sociations of the city have made
DR.. Ira Porter, chairman of the
Thanksgiving committee, with ]. E.
Fitzgerald to assist him.
Arrangements have been made
with Superintendent J. H. Bever-
idge to have the school children
bring canned fruit, Vegetables, jel-
lies and other good things to their
schools on the Tuesday preceding
Thanksgiving. These contributions
will be collected by the committee
and given out to the various relief
organizations. according to the num-
Der of families each is helping.
Each organization will make up bas-
kets of the good things and dis
tribute them to the poor families on
its particular list.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Street Railway Company
is Sued for Fifty Thousand

Catherine Simpson has entered a
personal damage suit in district
court against the Omaha and Coun-
Gil Bluffs Street and Railway COM
pany for $4,000, on account of al
legged permanent injuries suffered
by her husband, Eugene D. Simp-
son.
The petition relates that Simpson
was about to enter a street car at
Sixteenth and Farnam streets, Feb
ruary 3. 1918; had hold of the rail
when the car suddenly moved and
threw him down, causing injuries
from which he will not recover.
The petitioner further states that
her husband weighs 800 pounds, is
suffering from melancholia, earned
$4,000 per year before the accident
and that his expectancy of life was
20 years before he was thrown from
one of the defendent's cars.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
OMAHA Stacker
ESCAPES FROM
GUARD HOUSE
Rudolph Yer Mehren Makes
His Getaway at Camp Dodge
and Now He is a
Fugitive.

Word reached federal officials
here Thursday that Rudolph Yer
Mehren, Omaha's yellowest Stacker.
escaped Wednesday from the guard
house at Camp Dodge, la. Little is
known here of the manner of his
escape, but it is reported he is still
at large
Yer Mehren registered in the first
draft and was called for service last
spring but left the city the day be-
fore he was to leave for canton
mcnt. Then followed chase by
federal officials over several middle
western states which consumed sew
eral months. After leaving Omaha
Yer Mehren married a young girl in
Denver, ostensibly as ruse to
cover up his identity. He deserted
his young wife Denver and some
weeks later was captured in Des
Moines by federal officials from the
Omaha department of justice!
During Yer Mehren's flight, his
mother, Mrs. Sarah Yer Mehren.
was held by the officials on the
charge of aiding and abetting her
son, but after his arrest she was re-
leased.
Yer Mehren was tried by court
martial at Camp Dodge. The sem
tence he received from Washington
has never been announced.
Federal officials all over the coun-
try have been notified to apprehend
him:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Labor Peace Program =
Outlined by Gompers
at Laredo Conference

Laredo, Tex, Nov. l4.-President
Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor today made
known the program which organized
labor in America wishes. to be en-
braced in the international peace
treaty. A resolution embracing five
fundamental principles and seven
secondary plans was introduced by
Mr.. Gompers before the Pan-Ameri-
can labor conference which war or
gained here today.
The labor peace plan declares
against reprisals for the purpose of
punishment but makes no mention
of indemnities. Order would be Sc
cured by a league of free peoples
joined to secure justice and peace
between nations. Welfare of the
people affected, the resolution de-
clares, must be the sole factor in
determining changes and adjust
ments in power.
An International eight hour work
day and an international child labor
law are two of the results organized
labor wishes to see come out of the
war, the latter to be effected by
denial of shipping facilities to goods
manufactured by children under 10
years old.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Bride Of a Few Days
Dies Of Influenza
AS All Efforts Fail

Four days after her wedding. Mrs.
Harold H. Walker, daughter of Mrs.
L. F. Ramsey, 22ll Locust street,
died of pneumonia. DR.. Harold
Walker, a young Kansas City phys
ician to whom she was engaged, was
notified of her serious illness, and
came Immediately to Omaha. Al
though there was but little hope for
her recovery, relatives and a few
friends gathered around her bedside
last Sunday, and the marriage cere-
mony was performed.
DR.. Walker fought increasingly for
his brides life, and for four days and
nights he scarcely left her bedside.
Every means known to medical
science was resorted to, but without
success, and Thursday afternoon she
died.
DR.. Walker is a nephew of DR.. w.
H. Walker, 2o65 Harvey street.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
PACKERS HEAD
SAYS COUNTRY
FACES problem
Exports Of Bacon for Seven
Months Equal the Total
for Five Years
Previous.

Chicago, Nov. l4.-(Special Tel
gram)-"The American people do
not yet fully realize that the armis-
tice brings the United States face
to face with a gigantic problem in
food production and conservation,
which dwarfs all previous accom-
plisments in that direction" said
Thomas E. Wilson today.
Mr.. Wilson, president of Wilson
& Co., is chairman of the packers
committee cooperating with the
government.
He said: THE supreme war council
has pledged this country and its
allies to task which will tax the
food resources of the world, on a
scale never known before. Peace is
adding more than 200,000,00O new
mouths to feed, either wholly or in
part, and food will be in greater de-
mand than ever before.
THE latest statistics Of live stock
on the farms show cattle, 66,S30,000;
sheep, 4S,900,000; hogs, T,574,000.
This is not as greatly in excess of
the normal figures as one would
wish.
an 1918 there were 56,527,000
cattle; 81 $4,000 sheep and 81, l78,O00
hogs.
Our exports have gone to an un-
believable figure. Exports of bacon
in the first seven months of this year
were not far from being equal to the
total bacon exports for the five years
preceding the war. We have been
selling our products to the govern
ments of democracy at prices con-
trolled by the United States food ad-
ministration and although it seems
not generally known, our latest
figures show that we have been serv-
ing meat to the American civilians
within the profit margin fixed by
the government.
"The producers. the packers and
the people must strain their powers.
We intend to do our part"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
ZIG aGi SGelum.n

Brogans long to get what they went
afterw
Ensign Condict, in charge of the
navy mobilization station here. is in
St. Louis, Mo-. on a short leave of
absence. II.
Donald w. Lyle, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. c. Lyle, SOL Underwood
avenue, has been transferred from
the S. A. T. c. at Lincoln to the
infantry officers training school at
Camp Grant, III. He left Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. Friedman, 8l5
North Thirty-hfth street, have re-
ceived word of the safe arrival
overseas of their son, Arthur V.
Friedman, of the Twentieth balloon
company, formerly stationed at Fort
Omaha. Mr.. Arthur V. Friedman
was connected with The Omaha Bee
for three years and later was with
the Max Orkin Clothing company of
this CITY.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
City Booze Hounds Made
Some Bio HauIS Of Whisky

'"Booze hounds" at the police sta
ton spent busy night, and total
of 200 pints of contraband whisky
are held as evidence against boot
leggers.
Mike Gaughan and his sister, Mrs.
A. Cohn, Lafayette apartments, were
arrested and charged with unlaw-
full possession. Detectives Chap
man and Vanous discovered a car at
6l7 South Seventeenth street. which
they allege belongs to Gaughn. con-
tanning Isl pints.
Tony Nocita of Kansas City, Mo-,
was arrested with So pints in his
possession, and was fined $500 and
costs in police court.
Carl Krause and William Howe,
both from Hinton. Ia, were arrested
at the Union depot, with six pints of
whisky in their possession. Krause
claimed the liquor, and was fined
500 and costs in police court.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15

The following soldiers stationad
at Fort Omaha have this week taken
out naturalization papers and be-
come citizens: Karl Holm, Joseph
Moskowitz, Frank Barta, Gaspar
Buffa, AnthonytVolpi, Hans Hans
son, Thomas Madgen, Roual Tripet,
John Fleming.
"Tony" Ostronic, formerly en-
ployed by The Bee. has been made
a sergeant at Camp Dodge, Ia He
was planning to enter an officers
training school when the news of
the signing of the armistice caused
him to change his plans.
F. A. Brogan is stepping high,
wide and handsome" these days, and
his friends say he has grown
"chesty." He says:
"The day my son, Robert, landed
in France, the kaiser abdicated, and
the second day the Germans signed
the armistice. 1t never did take the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Britain To Maintain High
Level of Wages Six Months

New York, Nov. l4,-(British
Wireless Service premier Lloyd
George, in an address yesterday be-
fore representatives of employers
associations and trade unions of the
principal industries of the country,
declared the government wished to
have assistance and advice of the
associations and trades
unions as to provision for the car,
rying out pledges given by the gov
eminent in March, l9l5. At that
time the unions were requested to
relax during the war certain prac-
tees and customs.
Provision must be made, he said.
for conditions which are now arts
ing in connection with wages, owing
to the fact that with change from
work to private work the
rate of wages which should be fixed
by awards and orders under the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Law SpuEned by Kaiser
is His Protection Now

Boston. Nov. 14,-Dr. Henry Van
Dyke. former minister to the Meth
erlands, said that Holland has al
ways been country in which in
ternational law has been honored
and respected, and that I'VE can feel
sure in regard to the latest fugitive
who has taken refuge within its Dor
ders that Holland will do what is in
accordance with law
The very existence of Holland"
said DR.. Van Dyke, "as a small, in
dependent and intensely democratic
country, depends upon the sanction
of international law.
The kaiser's case must be set
tied in accordance with justice and
while he is waiting for this settle
ment, in my opinion there could be
no better place for him to be kept in
safety than Holland"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Secretary Wilson Urges
Federation of Unions

Laredo, Tex. Nov. 14.-The or
ganization of the workers of Mexico
and Central and South America and
the formation of reciprocal con-
federation of all the union bodies of
Americans are urged by Secretary
of Labor William B. Wilson and
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor.
Secretary Wilson said that be-
cause the history of industrial de-
velopment had shown that large en-
ployers always had attempted to
dominate the lives of their en-
ployes, it had been made necessary
for workmen to organize.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-15
Lonberg May Be Absent
from Kansas Lineup

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 14.-Roger
Lonberg, all-Missouri Valley end,
probably will be absent from the
Kansas University lineup next Sat-
urday when the football team meets
Nebraska at Lincoln. With 90 other
members of the Kansas University
S. A. T. c. including Adams, Wilson
and Boone, also members of the
football team, Lonberg left today for
an artillery officers training school
at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville.
Ky. An hour after the men had
gone, delayed telegram from the
War department reached here, order
ing that they be held at Lawrence.
Efforts to stop the party were with
out success and Coach Bond does
not expect them back in time to
start for Lincoln tomorrow.