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(By the United Press)
AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR
TERS, France, Nov. 5-rJust a little
matter of precedent seems to be all
that is keeping scores of patriotic
young men of tried bravery from of
fering their lives to their country.
They are fighting here in France, the
survivors of five battalions of Amer
icans who joined the Canadian army
to gain time in killing Germans. Those
who are living and still taking their
turn in the trenches have seen hun
dreds of their friends blown up by
shells, choked by gas or mowed down
by the machine guns. Although the
new American army could use these
Americans, particularily the specializ
ed officers, the transfer appears to
be blocked by the technical fact that
they alienated themselves when they
joined the Canadians. To join the
American army they must become Am
ericans and to become Americans they
must journey home and obtain their
papers. Very few can afford to do that
and besides, the Canadian authorities
are disposed to release from fighting
only those whom the American army
make application for. This is the for
lorn admission of one American of
ficer who applied for an American
commission the day we declared war.
“I have almost given up hope of ever
fighting with my own army. Our fel
lows in the trenches could certainly
give some valuable lessons in fighting
to the American troops. I wish it
would come to pass—we would like
to be with our own people. But they
don’t seem to want us".
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LOST THIRTEEN
(By the Associated Press)
8POKANE, Wash.. Nov. 5 -Warren
McLean, aged 80 years, has returned
to his home in Anoka. Minn, to re
sume the thread of his life, which ho
lost 13 years ago when he '.vat kicked
by a horse. Recently he was struck
by a falling tree on his homestead
near Rose Lake, Idaho where he had
lived for many years, and lost mem
ory of his life in the West. Finally
he was struck by a train and regain
ed his recollection of early days.
When he spent a night in a local
hotel recently enroute to Minnesota,
he imagined he was in Orookston in
the same Btate, according to his only
daughter, Mrs. B. S. Fairbanks of
White Earth. Minn., who came to
take him east. He commented on the
great change that had come over the
town, and in reading a newspaper
was unable to understand why he had
got so sadly out of touch with the
world events.
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With the close of the Pacific coast
baseball season, followers of the game
already are beginning to speculate
on the probable makeup of the league
for next year. Principal interest cen
ters at the moment whether or not
the Portland club will continue as a
member of the organization. Manager
McCredie, of the ‘'Ducks’* insists that
his team will continue in the circuit
notwithstanding the fact, he admits
that, as a money maker, it was more
or less of a failure.
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ANT-EATER 18 MASCOT
OF U. S. MARINE CORPS
(By the Associated Pfess)
AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR
TERS. France. Nov. 5—If the marines
had time to go fishing and some place
to fish there might be fish for dinner
every night, lacking these essentials
for angling—a lot of angle-worms are
going to waste.
Jimmy digs them and leaves ’em
around as he roots in the soft earth
in search of ants for dinner. He simp
ly abominates angle-worms as an Item
of diet.
Which proves that Jimmy is no fish
and on the contrary he Is an ant-eat
er, the only one in France, a hairy
monster to the French children and a
great deal of a nuisance to truck-far
mers in general.
The marines picked Jimmy up down
iin Vera Cruz. He's quite sizeable and
strappy enough to hold a high place
in tie camp. He fought a good draw
the other day with Nigger, the Brur
ette mascot dog that joined the Mar
ine Corps at Santo Domingo. Next
to ants Jimmy prefers cigar butt* fori
with hi* sharp claws he snuffs out the
light on a discarded cigar and then
slowly ( hews up the tobacco or what
ever the French cigar is made of.
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Miss Catherine Flaherty, a seven
teen year old San Francisco girl, is the
latest addition to the natatorial ranks
who Is receiving the critical atten
tion of the followers of the sport. In
a recent open water swim she cover
ed three and one-hall miles in one
hour and forty-twft minutes, ten se
conds. Miss Flaherty is credited in
this race to have negotiated a mile,
In twenty-nine minutes which betters
the National record held by Miss Clair
Gilllgan of New York, of thirty-one
minutes over a hundred and ten yard
tidal water course.
Miss Flaherty came to the notice
of the critics less than six months ago
when she competed in a number of
long distance events held in San
Francisco Bay
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Mrs. Kate Rolfe's.
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