The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 42, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 11, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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The Daily
n.
aftermath of the Dr. Chas. Ussher
University Fire At Christian Church
Carrying the Full Unite* Cress telegraphic Report
saturday, may 11, 1918
bulletin
norman, oklahoma,
01A3ME VI
NUMBER 42.
Our people do not want to for-
y,. V. McConnell. Assistant State hire I { ^ lecture by Dr. Chas.'Ussher
Marshal, Conducts I'robe to Iasten , which ig to be delivered at the Chris-
Blame for lire. but.W it^0"' <J*U ' jtian church on Sunday night at 8:30,
—Loss Now Fixed at !>18,000.—t at- ^ _t ,g reearded by a„ who hav(
alogues Almost a Complete Loss.
lor it is regarded by all who have
heard him as one of th e most inter-
! esting stories of the war ever made
No definite conclusion has_ been | jn Ok]ahoma_ ,t d(,als with the (;er.
reached Friday night when W. T. Mc-
Connell, assistant state fire marshal,
man and Turk atrocities upon the
™ , Armenians, Dr. Ussher having gone
and President Stratton D Brooks j tliroUKh that terrible experience and
halted their investigation of the tire j of it jn a most realistic way.
Paris,' May 11.—"Active artillery
fighting" around Grivesnes (where
Americans are in the line) and Mailly-
Rameval (four miles northward) was
reported by the French office today.
j, surprise attack north of Gri-
vesnes resulted in the capture of fif-
he tells of it in a most realistic way.
'here will be no collection and no
admission—everything free.
which destroyed the punior high
school and the print shop in the park J
row section of the University of Okla- j
homa campus. The investigation Oninion
will be continued today, but there I UD11C UpllIlOn
seems little liklihood that anything KlllS I HZe T lgnt
will be found to definitely fix the j
bame o/i anyone. According to Doctor j (The following United Press report
Ttmoks no evidence has been found j will be hailed with joy by ninety-nine
' , , p ,in lout of everv hundred American ci ti -
to justify reports that pro-German- ^ ]n this day of the Nation's
m ism may have been responsible for g^resg( when every effort is being
the incendiary blaze. The loss now is 1 made to push the war work, it took
estimated at about $18,000. limitles nerve and.i™™?c |*t®0,S''/to
l, „ lhoui:ht pr„b.W, U t
Germans are puilty for the reason I ^ i.u_ vmUam an/l thpn
BRAZIL STANDS WITH
THE UNITED STATES
By ROY W. HOWARD
(President of the United Press
Associations)
Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 10.-"Brazil te(m prisoners.
will follow the course of the United^ A minor operation in the Morguil
States to the end of the war. The wood (two miies northeast of Mailly
change of administration will not al- Ranieval) gave the French :« pns-
ter qur policy of backing up the j oners and several machine guns^
leadership of the United States in the Various raids southeast of Mont-
most friendly genuine way." jdier and in the Woevre region nette.l
The speaker was president elect, gome prisoners and material.
Rodriguez Alves, who will return to j
the presidential chair of Brazil for lx)ndon, May 11.—"French troops
the second time on November 15. In j advanced their line northeas.of'Loire
• most convincing manner and with- yesterday evening and took
out^quivocation, ^he ,ext chief exec- j prisoner," Field Marsha. Haig re-
,<tive in an interview Thursday, -the ported tqday,
fir t he has given -ince his election "A few prisoners and a machine gun
outlined his war policy about which ' were taken in successful raids west
h" " '
pSEt SSl?5. «? ' ""■ v""
ly, the original copy of which, Presi-
dent Wilson's letters of January lOth Tribute r rOTTl
n"f- The Red Cross
Sweet Carnation
t is inougni pruuKu.^ j even think of pulling off a prize tight, i dent Wilson's leuers ui
Germans . are guilty for the reason j Evgry one o{ the bruisers and their j t(j the United Press, in which he out-
that had thev desired to do damage ! hangers-on should be drafted and sent ( the aims of the United States,
they would have picked something( UoJfoefrMt. ^-EditorSpeaking slowly and senously, he
more important. These buildings and I . j
\
more important. These buildings Transcript.)
equipment had nothing to do whatever Chicago, May 11.—Col. J. C
with war work.
Forty-five trees estimated by J. H. j
Craven, landscape gardner, to be
■worth $100 each, on the campus near .
the buildings burned, were de
Miller,
promoter of the proposed Willard-
Fulton bojit of July 4, tossed up the
sponge today as his project, groggy
from the mauling of numerous state
officials, was hammered out of Mary-
Made beautiful with Divine hand
and filled with mother lo\e; a remind-
er that tomorrow is "Mother s Bay.
, 5 This tribute of respect is for your
who I ii „„
the DUiiainps dux u c | officials, was nammereu uul
stroyed by fire. Some of them caught jand colonel formally called off
afire and burned, and others were 1^ match.
singed by the heat until the lea\es ^ Miller asserts he went into the a -
turned black. _ J fajr for the sport of it, but finds pub-
"Trees may be bought at $45 each, , ^ sentiment against him too strong,
hut these large trees, in excellent con- j champjon jess Willard, who has not
dition, are worth $100 each," said Mr. : bepn jn training for several weeks, ae-
Craven. i quiesced in the promoted'- statenent.
Extra precautions to guard the ana- i chal]en(jer> Fred Fulton, is now
tomv building from a future blaze will ^ ^ cQagt
To the Mothers of Cleveland County I
sa'd: . ... I Soldiers:
••The statement expressed in this a doubt every woman wno 1 mother as well as mine
letter is worthy of the best traditions 1 the pr0U(, tit!e 0f "Mother of a THE CIVIC COMMITTEE
of the United States. It carries the | Sok,j(;r„ l0(lay> is prouder in her heart j
same conviction which has made t e ^ ari8twrat of the old regime rommunity Gathering
recognized spokesman of -he may grieve sadly for the absent —_
a man whose genius was not suspecie j t u ^ it nil pomes a tine pride,
be taken, beginning tonight. This is
the only building which can be easily |
burned. ;
No new buildings will be erected j
for the present, as there is no money
available for such purposes and the
state legislature does not meet until
next January. Even the insurance
money cannot be used by the school
as it has to be turned into the state
treasury. For this year the various
wlepartments of the university will be
^.housed in the Law and Administra-
tion buildings but quarters will be ar-
ranged for by next fall.
The last section of the 1918-19 gen-
eral catalogue was to have gone to
. . ooy, uut • , Cancel all other engagements that
before the war crisis, flit attention , Heaven sent> that she was chosen j yQU may huve jn your mind for Thurs-
drawn by his commanding style p)ay thjs nliKhty roll in the great ;,ay eveninE, May 16th.
unquestionable sincerity, based on ex- worj(j jrama. Tomorrow is "Mother's y\eet your friends next Thursday
treine prudence and patience before I I)ay „ am, all America takes off its eVening *at 8 o'clock in Edwards Park
action, has enabled him to catiy South , loya| ^otfiage to our Uncrowned am| spend an hour of profit and pleas-
American thinkers along with hlm_'n i Queen—MotheJ. And so, to her old-! ure jn witnessing an entertainment
sentiment if not always ir. action, the (jme tjt]e jg novv added a new and very (hat wilj prove to be pleasing to all.
self-abnegation of the United^States f,]orious honor u wj)] brinK 0ut rare talent that can
offering themselves as sacn ices in J «Mother of a Soldier." on|y be found in Norman.
We salute you! 1 it will be home-grown and fresh
—Mrs. Jas. D. Maguire, j £rom the garden of thought
Dr. H. C. Cram Found
Some Hog Cholera
Dr. H. C. Cram, of the United States
Bureau of Animal Industry, in charge
of control work in this county, was
in Norman on Friday to investigate
some reported outbreaks of hog chol-
era He gave a demonstration of the-
proper application of hog cholera sei-
um yesterday afternoon at the O. B
Knox Wagon Yard, Mr. Knox fur-
nishing the hogs.
In the afternoon, accompanied by
Dr. R. H. Monogue, the veterinarian,,
o visit was made to the place of J T.
Dilbeck, where eight hogs were found
afflicted with the disease. Dr. Cram
put the place under quarantine an<?
placarded it with hog cholera warn
ings; placarded to warm him from-
nloving his hogs and warning every-
one to stay away from the infected
hog lot, as this is one of the many-
ways in which hog cholera may tie
spread. Dr. Cram says it may be also
spread by dogs, cats, crows, buzzards,
and running streams, and that f.h«*
farmers cannot be too careful.
All dead hogs should be burnerl ami'
premises cleaned and disinfected with
a good disinfectant.
"To prevent hog cholera, locate youi
hog lots away from public highways^
line fences and running streams," says.
Dr. Cram. "What to do when youi
hogs get sick is to call your veteri-
narian and have your hogs vaccinated
at once and report all sickness among
your hogs to me—Dr. H. t . ( rani,.
Federal Veterinarian, El Reno, Okla.
—Phone 61, and 1 will immediately
take it up with you."
Dr. Cram says he found traces of
cholera at other points, and issues an
earnest warning to farmers and hog
raisers to watch out for it so that it
may not get a foothold in this county
the war and in abandoning the pufr-
uits of peace without selfish individ-
The Huns Are Taking j oal ambitions and without a single ob-
The Bells of Belgium
~ " 1 unprecedented moral authority and
has raised the United States in uni-
versal estimation to a position from
which it
solidarity of the democracies of the
German Naval
Base Blockaded
The Germans are seizing the bells
and the pipes of the organs in the j
churches of Belgium. It must be ad- j
mitted that they kept this stroke for |
the last. They had already taken the ,
leather, the copper even to the small- I
est fittings in the house, the wool even
to the mattresses and blankets; the
tells must necessarily follow. The Bel
gians have learned to be patient. The
women are spinning wool again as in-
eral catalogue was 10 nave "i . j o)d times on ancient and
press Friday, but the whole printing spinning wheels. The children
job. with the exception of 500 copies | ncKel;y._r__
Letter From Cleveland
County i5oy in France
Barney Young is in receipt of the
imation to a 'following letter from his brother,
•an accomplish the absolute . whU.h interesting as a Cleve-
of the democracies o , County,s boy.g jmp,.essions of the
western hemisphere without inciting ; w ^ and of France.
the slightest envy or suspicion.
of the catalogue, was destroyed. This
is probably the greatest single loss
of the fire.
A Delightful Rain
From all parts of the country sur-
rounding Norman come cheering news
of the delightful rain that has neen
f illing fur the last Kur or more and
promises to continue. East, west,
north and south it has been falling,
and is of such a nature that every
drop is going into the ground where
it will do the most good.
Evidently they got even more rain-
fall to the southwest than fell here,
for the lightning flashed and tnun-
der rolled in that direction Ml night.
The extremely hot weather of sev-
eral days this week withered the gar-
dens and dried out the ground con-
siderably, which makes the rain the
more acceptable. When the thermo-
meter gets up to 96 degrees in the
shade in May it is sure "going some"
and that has been the case several
oays this week.
Everything looks good in the matter
of crops and city and country gardens
^ are humping themselves as n?v r be-
iore.
Mother's Day
are sleeping on mattresses filed with
old newspapers—German censored pa-
pers—and now the singing clock tow-
and the loud mouthed organs will I ness
big war, and of France:
no - . i Dear Brother: Just a few words to
The support the United States is ^ yQU know that I am all O. K. and
giving to I're-ident Wilson, coupled feel'inK fine i have just got through
with his own faithfulness to Demo- j havinf, some teeth filled and outside
cratic fundamentals has undoubtedly I ^ j am jn jsj0 j condition to , concerts that „
strengthened the possbilities of his , mget Kajser Billi if ] should be given Park two years ago? They were on-
Genign activities. It has eliminated ^ cj,ance to do so. i ly shadows compared with what this
in Brazil, as in the rest of the world, prance js a fine country and believe one be.
the late prejudice that the United | ^ thjg "Somewhere" is some plac*>. i The merchants will keep open l ouse
' - if. ^ one would hardly realize that a on that night and a rare treat is in
- • 1 — - • not an adver-
Free seats on the grass and stand-
ing room for ten thousand.
Invite your friends from everywhere
to come to Norman next Thursday
night.
Everything will be new.
No old goods left on the shelf.
We will hang our reputation on this
entertainment. It will be given by
Miss Frona Asher, assisted by others
whose talen is always appreciated in
Xdrman.
Do you remember the Community
were given in Edwards
lllc iaic
States is open to suspicion of selfi
"The course of — : country, n ne uiu nui acc ™ ^
during the war crisis stirs my per- I sol(JjerS) and quite a bunch of Frend
sonal pride that, during my previous j women wearing mourning. There il
administration from lt'Oo to 1906, with | plenty (lf everything here except to-
Senor Rio Branca as foreign secre- bacc0 and that does not worry me in
tary, we gave much attention to pro- he Jeagt_
moting the closest relationship with j „j supp0Se you are plowing corn by
the United States. By raising our time. Wish I was there to help
Washington legation to the rank of you but ag jt jg j am proud i am here. , ,
an embassy and promoting the selec.- j rea(J jn the papers that the United arts an opera entitle<l "The Golden
ed Pan-American congress we so man- j gtates js ma)iing another big draft. 1 Threshold" will be presented Monday
ifested our regard that Brazil was j do hopg they wi„ not (lrop the agejeveninK at 7 o'clock on Boyd field. A
honored -With a visit from that other j ljmjt and get Jessej for I know that numher of interpretive dances will
great statesman, Elihu Root, w^0' mother worries about me. But you y,,, given by unversity girls and the
'ike President Wilson, greatly a()-| can tell the world that Coy is coming | university quartette composed of
• anted South American understanding j home just ag s00n as this little fracas j Franz Kuschan, Dean Holmberg
and appreciation of the high purposes , .g over Miss Louise Eldridge and Albert Leh-
of the United States. 1 "The worst objection I have to the rer wjj] assist in the production.
"For even stronger reasons, the prench is: they do not, speak "I'nitert jjiss HaZel Hamer will sing the
same policy will be forwarded during - gtates jf you should see Homer and \ Dart 0f the Snake Charmer, and
mv second administration. Our main t * -* j—^ ^ ^infnaU from
foreign policy will be to eliminate pre
judices and suspicions between a , inal we nau Just — xer rjCiiiiiiF, v..^ r—
American countries, just as, on the Ljeaf an(j dUmb school from amount will be taken by Clarence 1
occasion of Mr. Root's memorable | Qf gi(jng we make lf we want eggs ])Son.
and 1
cease to sing the praise of God.
Since 1914 all patriotic songs are
forbidden, and black, yellow, and red
are never to be combined, under the
threat of the most severe penalties,
even on a children's toy or in the dis-
play of a shop window. The church
was the last refuge of patriotism.
Tunes utter no words. The familiar
singing of the bells and the playing
of the national anthem on the organ
were the last comfort left to the peo-
ple, their last breath of freedom, the
only voice through which the coun-
try's soul could still defy th e ene-
my. It must be stifled, and the pipes
and bells will be sent to Essen, per-
haps to be converted into one of those
long range guns which are bombard-
ing Paris.
There is a strange symbolic mean-
| ing in this last measure taken by the
| German governor. Among no nation
| in Europe, except perhaps Italy, has
i the worship of the clock tower as-
sumed such importance as in Belgium. , endorsed extension
' In many instances the love of coun- ■ t gouthern re-1
try becomes the love of the native ; trip to
I I>UL UUC «UUH4 * Wll •••!->
i war was on, to be in thi^ part of the , for you. This is
the United States country if did not see so many j tisement.
I . .. i i. - i? r.' l. !
THE CIVIC COMM11TTEE.
FINAL PLANS COMPLETE
BOYD FIELD MONDAY
! Under the direction of Professor W
Ig. F. Schmidt of the school of fine
Dover, May 11.—The German naval
base at Ostend undoubtedly is ef-
fectively blockaded, as the result of
yesterday morning's daring raid. lhe
old cruiser, Vindictive, :i'20 feet
long, lies quartering in the :i27-foot
channel.
Officers and men who participated
in the adventure reported five dead,
twenty-nine wounded and ten mis-~
sing.
h. F. Fitzpatrick
To Washington, I). C.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Fitzpatrick ar-
rived from .Hugo, Okla., on l1 riday,
and Mr. Fitzpatrick left this morn
ing for Washington, D. C„ where he
will enter a training camp, having en-
listed in the Radio department of the
army. He is a fine looking young
man, is a graduate of Cornell and an
electrician of considerable experience
and there is no doubt he will "make
good" in every respect.
Mr. Fitzpatrick is the son-in-law of
Mr. and Mrs. S. K. McCall and during
his absence Mrs. Fitzpatrick (formei-
ly Miss McCall) will make her home
with her parents in this city.
States, ii you snuuiu =>=<= pari oi uic unor.'- ——
and I ordering a meal of victuals from \jjce Burress will be the Beloved. The
somle French waiter you would swear part 0f the lover will be sung by Ches-
that we had just graduated from ai(er Fleming and the part of the One
i visit
to Brazil, 1 personally
of the
Homer cackles.
I town or village. Local life so strong
! ly developed in the Middle Ages, is by
no means extinct, and the belfries
i stand as the truest and deepest ex-
pression of our national soul. Some
have been destroyed at Ypres. Dix
remain
Ul hlivy V HI
When the invaders indulged in their
The Christian church will observe
Mother's Day next Sunday morning.
The pastor is asking that all those j ^ iNjeuport; others
•who know of mothers who would tandin?j at Bruges, C,he.it. Toumai
find it difficult to walk, and who th ' win sin(, n0 longer
would like to attend these services
that they phone Mrs. C. A. Richards,
Mrs. E B. Johnson, or the pastor, or ! ^1-1. and smashed the carillon in the
the chairman of the automobile com- 'thgdrai_which was considered as
mittee, W. A. Paden. We will be gladh ^ ^ ^ a)] ^ wor,(, 0ver—there
to send cars after them so they may ^ ^ outcry af!ainst such an act of al
be at the church services. No charge- bai.barisnl. Today we have bt-
to be made for the service. Help the I ^ rq accustomed to the horror oi j
mothers to be present Sunor.y v e ... , ^ the requisition of the Bel- |
vhether they are 1 paggeg nearly unnoticed.
Only those who knew them by name-
Solemn Melchior in Bruges. Carolus
| in Antwerp, Salvator in Malines—will
I feel this new blow aimed at the very
i heart of our dearest traditions. * *
See i
Your brother,
CHAS. J. YOUNG.
'"''l'repeat that this will continue to | have Brazil has everything she de-
be the basis of Brazil's international j sjres territorially and she covets not1
policv. Meanwhile, we recognize that, jng 0f her neighbors. Naturally she
I |(V the enormity of her sacrifices and recognizes that the United States is
' her unselfish contribution to democra-1 equally endowed and equally uncovet-
Icy in the present trouble, the United |ous. Brazil has never taken seriously
I States in the opinion of the Brazilians 1 the myth that the United States is
! ha* earned the right to the liberty of ambitious for terrftorial acquisition,
voicing and interpreting the senti- "Speaking for Brazil only, pan-
rit- ( f the western republics in any \mei icanism is the most sensible po.-
! m ovement to promote unity of pur- icy. The resourcefulness and financial
I pose and mutual confidence which are , strength of the United States offei
! most essential to the common good of mUch that we need after the war. 1
the other hand, the development '
Owing to the heavy rain, this en-
tertainment has been postponed un-
til Monday. Note the change of date.
be glad to get them wl
members of the church or not
D.D A. W1CK1ZER,
Pastor.
! i
—Ford spark, plugs, standard
make, price 75c—Broken Dollar Store.
Then you prefer Pan-American-
, to the policy of Latin-American-
the president-elect was asket.
•Unquestionably Brazil stands for
Pan-Americanism," he replied, "hav-
ing been for years in closest sympa- j
thy with the United States and seem- , *
ingly having understood the Washing- j •>
ton policy better than some others' +
Brazil's natural wealth offers mue.;
to the United State-. Any state policy
which retards the meeting of these
interests is too shortsighted long (
survive.
SUBSCRIBE
FOR THE
TRANSCRIPT
—The Bible Study Class conducted
by Rev. and Mrs. F. M. Alexander
every F. iday afternoon at the home ]
of Mrs. John ardie closed yesterday j
with an interesting review of the i
Book of St. John. A pleasing i rv. ram :
was also rendered, as follows: Song.1
"America;" reading. Miss Noreen
Ellers; solo, Miss Margaret Harlow;
reading, Mrs. I). W. Griffin; song.
"God Be With You Till We Meet
Again." It was a delightful service,
arid at its conclusion, in beautiful and
appropriate words, Mrs. Hanlie, on
behalf of the class, presented Mr. and
I Mrs. Alexander with a silk umbrella,
as a slight token of regard and es-
teeni for their faithful service durii .
the series of meetings Special guests
were Re and Mrs pool and Misses
' i Harlow, Ellers tnd Saddler
Red Cross Gets $188.15
ihe local Red Cross Chapter got
the full amount of the proceeds of
the Red Cross auction held last Sat-
urday— $188.15. Some have endeav-
ored to make it appear there were
certain expenses came out of it, but
such is nqt the case. Every cent «T
the proceeds of these auctions is turrr
ed immediately into the treasury <rf
the Red Cross. There are no exp -iwis.
every official giving his services free
Owing to the heavy rain today die-
Red Cross auction was not held
advertised, there being nobody n
town. It will be held later, due notice
[of time and place being given.
Card of Thanks
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to friends and neighbors foi
their may acts of kindness and ex
pre .sions of -ympathy during the
-ickness and at the death of our be
loved baby.
Wilburn and Mattie i arker
Mrs. J. Wi Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ezzell
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the Transcript.
Leon F. Woods, instructor in elec-
trican engineering, will leave Satui
day for the naval reserve training
sehoolt at Boston School of Technol
ogy After aperiod of three months in
training he will be assigned to a ship
or to some station
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