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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL. VI. NO. 109.
OBJECT OF FIGHTING
IS TO DESTROY ARMY
SAYS GENERM. MARCH
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, JULY Si, l t -
PRICE 2 CBWTS
Weather Checks
Wedding Trend,
Declares Judge
Sole Objective of Allies Is
Kill Off Germans Rather
Than Take Land.
RAINBOW DIVISION IS
Al FERE-EN-TARRLNOI-,
One of Six New Divisions With
Nicleus of Regulars lleing
Formed at Travis.
t "No, it is not the right kind
to! weather," answered George
of
C.
MEN SELECTED FOR NEW GERMAN AJJA^S /
CAMP FREMONT, CAL, QN OURCQ LINE BY AMERICANS:
HEAVY FIGHTING IS CONTINUING
Local Draft Hoard Chooses Ten
to Go to California Tues-
day, August 6.
By CARL D. GROAT
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31.—
regular conference with correspon-
dents today, Chief of Staff March de-
clared that the lone objective of the
Allies now is to kill as many men as
possible. He held out slight hope of
bagging the German army, owing to
it3 resistance in the Soissons ana
Rheims sections—the two ends of the
allied pincers.
The Rainbow division is now help-
ing to hold the line near Fere-en-
Tardenois, General March announced.
This division, which in the early
days of the German drive, around
Rheims, helped withstand the enemy
attacks, arrived at its new post with-
in the last two days to reinforce
other Americans there.
New Division at Travis
Formation of six new divisions to
be numbered from fifteen to twenty
is under way at the following
camps: Logan, Kearny, SevieT,
Beauregard, Travis and Dodge. Two
regular army regiments will form
the nucleus of each new division,
March said.
General March stated that a cable
has been sent to General Pershing,
instructing him to send casualties a?
they occur, without any attempts to
separate them, according to the en-
gagements. The casualties will be
Burke, county judge, when asked by Ten men were selected Wednesday
the reporter if any marriage li- by the local exemption board from a
censes had been issued. He refusd jjst 0f fourteen applicants to go to ^ _ _
to give any information as to the Camp Fremont, Cal., on Tuesday,' came to see F. B. Swank,
kind of days when marriages are August 6, in accordance with an or-1 district judge, Tuesday, to apply for ,
most likely to occur, and said he had jer received Monday by Ed P. Ingle, naturalization paers. Mr. Mathis
_ „_i. ..in r*m^npini* a KnnrH -from Adit. Gen. his declaration of intention in
1892 in Wisconsin, where the law is
such that an alien may vote as soon
as he has filed his declaration of in-
tention.
Mr. Mathis has lived in Oklahoma
sixteen years and now wishes to be
naturalized. Judge Swank says
can'l be done until after the war.
i exington man seeks Americans East of Fere-en-Tardenois
full naturalization , Heights Beyond Seringues and Sergy,
Fred Mathis, a German from Lex- About Ten Mik'S FrOHl FiSllivS. ...
• i ♦« aon K R. Swank, i
ilokfc
no secret formula for producing a
wedding day.
Since one or two couples were is-
sued marriage licenses every day last
week, it is puzzling to know what
change in climatic conditions has
stopped the nuptial tide. Probably
the reason is that the young men are
waiting better weather for crop pros-
pects.
TO LOOK AFTER MEN
Local Red Cross Will He Given
Names of Draftees lleject-
. ed for Disease.
A letter has been received by the
home service department of the Red
Cross, from the Anti-Tubercular so-
ciety, Oklahoma City, stating that
200 Oklahoma boys have been given
honorable discharge from the army
because they had tuberculosis, and
that the names of the boys of Cleve-
land county who have been sent back
will be sent to the Red Cross chap-
ter here within a few days.
It will be the duty of the mem-
! bers of the home service department
of this county to visit the boys, se-
cure for them medical advice and at-
tention, and encourage them to do
their part toward recovering. The
boys will be shown how they may im-
clerk of the board, from Adjt. Gen.
E. H. Gipson.
This is the first time Oklahoma
men have been sent to Camp Fre-
mont, although this is not a new
camp. Fourteen, most of whom were
registered June 5, made application
to bo sent to Camp Fremont because
this camp near the seacoast would be
a desirable place to take training.
The men will be given the general
military training which is usually
given to drafted sodiers unless they
are to be given training in some
special line.
The ten men who have been select-
ed to go are the following:
Henry C. Greeson, Norman.
Wallace N. Abbott, Norman.
Julian Champeau, Norman.
Louis Champeau, Norman.
Tom Walter Arnold, Wheatland.
William Bryan Breatchel, Norman.
Otis S. Wilson, Blanchard.
August John Auwen, Norman.
Hudie A. Philpot, Noble.
Dave Mitchell, Noble.
VI, IBS
REQCROSSHM.ES ..
FARMING FURLOUGHS),
Home
Section to Assist
•idinc on Agricultural
Releases.
BERLIN CLAIMS DEFEAT OF
Reports to German People Declare Offensive At-
tacks Are Delivered in "Dense Waves
That Weaken Quickly.
| By United Press.] -4 5
W \SHINGTON, D. C., July 31.—Repulse <>f German county
attacks by Anit'ru:l>i] forces on the line of the Our,, «' > ™P
j ment of the American positions was reported toda>v by General
IPeiS "On the lint- of the Ourcq the enemy has renewed his c.nnUer-
! attacks to tom. oack our advancing
"In severe lighting we have repulsed his attac.Ws alio nnpr <v-
ed our positions."
A supplement to the handbook of
information for home service sec- ,
tions have been received by the
americans hold heights
1 ON1)ON July 31.—Heavy lighting at various points on the
local shecHonbofn the Red Cross here, in <!T.m^ 7.1-yo'nd Seringes and Sergy are ai the
stating that the members of this de- A]mein<ct* ; jed advance toward FismeS, the important
partment will be called upon to aid point of t.enter oil the Vesle river. Seringes is ahoui. teni
the army in deciding upon cases of German strategic center on uie
I soldiers who wish to secure furlough? milea from Msmes. par,s war office annountt rl (hat
i to do farm work. The home service 1 he night statement Serin wero maintained against
| can investigate such cases in Cleve- allied gaillh at lg. , ' th ight >)ank 0f the OlllVCl ltoHh-
I land county and report them to the enemy assaults. ^ ^van^e on tne iegQrted offic.aiiy
I field director, who in turn reports east of ^eie:en-'|ardenois wa j delivered m "dense
i them to the commanding officer Morlm described the a 1 ec .iJUcK.Al*erican, Fr),u !. ami
'whore the soldier who wants release stormillgwaves. h tUffl ^ ^ (|wroascd in violence
for farm work is stationed. British onfeldUghts
Soldiers in the camps may apply after these combats.
~ ! thrnnirti the Red Cross for such re- ■—
CAMP LOGAN, HOUSTON, Tex, thiou^h tne k
Smallest Man In
Army Is Private
At Houston, lex.
gagements. ±ne — t prove their chances for the reSai"
given out en toto as received, it was ing 0f health and vigor and will be
stated. made to understand that they were
—— I pot disgraced because they wera
Deseribes Capital discharged on account of having tu-
As Bustling Place beQfUl°^j3e none of the men who
—,, . , • • have been sent home knew before
Washington, D. C„ in , tfc entered the service that they
described by a Norman boy, Frank, infected with the disease.
G. Howe, in a sentiment in faver of
been received by the Daily Iran j ... . t hospital for the
script. Howe is a clerk ™ the arm^ tleatment of tubercular soldiers,
ordnance department, and is one of , (j{ the other states have
the thousands of people : « y to be 4
war work in the national capital. The them™
letter is as follows: i
Washington, D. C., July 26, 1918. J ■ • -
Dear sirs: Medical Students to
As I am an old Norman boy, hav- i'ieua«i
ing lived there seven and one-half
years, while attending the PreP
school, university and law school, I
am writing you of my whereabouts
at the present. . ..
Most of the 0. U. boys are in the
service in one capacity or another,
I am sure by this time. I am now
employed as clerk in the ordnance
department of the army and sta-
tioned here. . ..
Washington in war-time is a city
of about half a million people, a
great number of which are engaged
in some form of government service.
It is estimated that there are per-
haps twenty-five to fifty
people actually doing some form of
war service in or around govern-
ment buildings.
m Vnrv truly yours,
FRANK G. HOWE,
1330 Eighth St., N. W., Washington
Prominent Farmers
Are at Stillwater
T , ,, , -t | lease, and the matter will be turned p rj I>liel.)g GoeS to
July 31.—Private John Galasso of | ^ ^ th(, nearest field director, who - -
Tulsa, Okla, who is a tailor by trade | wiu communicate with the home ser-
the only soldier in Camp Lo^an 1 the soldier.s home county,
who has no coat.
This is not intended as a criti-
, vice in the soldier's home county,1,
' which will see whether the furlough
should be granted.
Only soldiers who are doing
PARIS REPORTS FAILURE
> ui m „WI OK HUN COUNTER-ATTACKS
Y M C. A. School Soon PARIS, July 31.—German counter-
attacks against new aliied positions
along the line eastward from Oulehy-
Le-Chateau have been repulsed, th®
cism of the quartermaster depart-
ment of the army. How was the
quartermaster to know that a man
of Galasso's size would be inducted
into the service of the army. Galas-
so, be it known to those who don't ^ dayg
know it is the shortest man (in sta-
ture) in the American army. He is
four feet, eight inches high.
Galosso was asked how he liked
the army. He replied that it was
great but he could not keep step ^
with the men who were so much big- knitting and sewing for the
phillip g. Phelps, field agent for
the extension division of the univer-
ine exLciiaiwn — 1
re-! sitv will leave August 12 for San | French war office announced today.
1 1 ..•111 ottiuul , ..A •
cruit"draining'"or"who"have district Antonio, Tex., where he will attend
assignments or who can prove that the m^m1^ for three weeks,
caro will be considered for release. M. C,. A. s Franc to
,„d .Ml b« for taw g „ c. A. ,««
; cry on the front as soon as his
„ r training is completed, although he
Women Oliallfy tor jhaa doubts about being able to get
Red Cross Emblems ip passport witliout delay since they
1 iire sending troops over in such
A large number of women doing! jarjre numbers.
Red) "Intensive is the proper adjective
Do Work in Vacation
Ten or twelve students in the
j school of medicine oi tne universu.v
or those preparing to enter that
school will take a course in physics
at the nuiversity during the vaca-
tion weeks, under the instruction of
Raymond Selders, a student teacher.
The course is open to all medics or
pre-medics who have not yet com-
pleted eight hours of physics which
are required.
•Mr. Selders is a graduate of the
college of arts and sciences and is an
upperclassman in the college of en-
gineering.
The first meeting of the class will
be on Thursday. The class will con-
tinue until the req^red amount of
work is completed, which will pro-
bably be before the fall term begins
at the university on September 19.
«-er than he He said that he could Cross have completed a sufficient f[ir our training, from what 1 learn
walk as fast as the others but he am0Unt of work to entitle them to, .llmut the preparation of the seer -
could not take the regulation thirty- seCure uniform permits to wear the: taries said Mr. Phelps e nes .
inch step. Red Cross emblem, according to Mrs. | .,We wiu get up at 5:30, make ou<;
Taken for Boy Scout j B. Thoburn, chairman of the wo-1 own heds, take setting-up eveit ises,
Whenever Midget John, as he is, man's work for the Cleveland county Uttend clases from 8 to 1^:. , *■■ U( y
called goes to Houston, which is the chapter. All those who have com-1 .mtomobile driving from ••
city near Camp Logan, he becomes; pleted seventy hours of work are re- 2 30( take athleticc from i\
the center of attraction. When peo- (,uested by Mrs. Thoburn to send ; .,.30i an(1 6tudy from 3:j0 to .>
... ..At six o'clock we are loaded in
tracks and hauled to Kelly field or
Five Cleveland county men, prom-
inent farmers or promoters of farm
interests, are representing this coun-
tv at the farmers' congress which
is in session at Stillwater this week
under the direction of the Agncti -
tural and Mechanical college
F L Hill, a dairyman and farmer
living six miles north and two miles
east of Norman, is collecting valu-
able information fo, the Cleveland
county dairymen. M. C. Boglle is
representing the creamery and Hol-
stein cattle business.
J. H. johnston, owner of the John- |
ston pure-bred cattle ranch in the
ten mile flat, is attending the con-
gress in the interest of the Short-
horn and Duroc Jersey cattle raisers.
William Barr, who is interested in
corn production in this county, is
repiesenting that phase of farming.
County Agent L. E. Bogan has
also gone to this congress, in the
1 ope of bettering the agricultural ac-
tivities of the county.
new barracks scene
of soldiers' dance
Cornmeal sprinkled on the newly
built floor for the .iew barracks for
the drafted men at the university
made a dancing floor almost as good
as hardwood, is the report made by
the many university students and
Norman people who attended the
dance given Tuesday evening for the
soldier boys.
Prof, and Mrs. e. s. Davis were
chaperons. "We had a very nice
| time," said Mrs. Davis. The music
was furnished by the university
band. Although only the floor and
sides have been erected for the new
barracks, lights were provMed by
stringing electric wires and bulbs
above the partly constructed build-
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cassity were
visitors to Norman Sunday.—Purcell
Register.
I IJUCOWU "J ,
ple see that he is a real soldier, in- . their names to her in order that they
stead of a boy scout they make ex-1 may receive the uniform permits
clamations of surprise. The ladies! without delay. .
are particularly fond of him, but he I Seventy-two hours are required be-
is no ladies man. Midget John is | fore women can wear the Red Cross
the only soldier who may go to town | emblem and following is a list of
without a coat after 6 o'clock p.m. sewing and knitting garments witn
The reason is that the army officials , the number of hours each counts to-
have recognized the necessity of giv-! war,t the uniform permit: A pair of
ing him special leave to go without i socks, twelve hours; a helmet,
one on account of the shortage of j twelve hours; a sweater, eighteen
coats to fit him. | hours; a bed shirt, two hours, a
While the regulations call for a, pajr 0f pajamas, three and one-half
man to be at least five feet tall in j hours; a pair of underdrawers, one
order to be accepted for service into anj one-half hours; and an under-
the army, the officers of the fifty- j shirt, one-half hour.
seventh regiment to which Galasso j , ~
belongs, are desirous of keeping the )UNJVEkMJY , TM ' V 1
ous midget as a mascot and utilize EEAV i' J
his services as a tailor in the regi-
mental tailor shop. There is no seating room - the
When the alien soldiers in the jitneys which meet the cais
camp recently renounced their al- ir the baggage cars for more
legiance to the foreign kings, empo- i trunks and not enough seatm loom
rers and potentates, Galasso stod on in the interurban cars as a result o
a chair to be seen and took the nec- the departure for their homes oi
essary oaths which made him an j large numbers of summer students
American citizen. He was born in I by train and car. The l- examina-
i | tions were given today, and most tne
Galasso makes the Y. M. C. a. his, students and some of t^ ^culty
headquarters during the off duty i members will be out of town .
hours ! night.
j The commencement exercises will
J. M. GRESHAM'S NEPHEW ^ °n the b,cac,'e" °n B°y''
\K
The statement said:
"On the right bank of the Ourcq
there was sharp fighting.
"Northeast of Fere-en-Tardenols.,
Seringes has finally Been taken in an
American counter-attack.
"Numerous German raids at Me -
nil-St. Georges, east of Muntdidier,
in Le Preterc wood, on the right
bank of tho Meuse, and in the Vosges
failed. Prisoners were taken in
French incursion into the German
lines north of Perthes les Hurlu."
Former Governor Is
Opposed to Mur?ay
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., July it.
—Repudiating the report being cir-
culated by agents of Bill
that he was supporting the "Sag**
of Tishomingo" for governor, 1««
Cruce, the second governor of Okla-
homa, writing from Arizona to a
member of his state administration,
declares Murray is unfit to be gover-
nor of the state In his letter Gover-
nor Cruet says in part!
"I do not think Murray is tempera-
, mentally fitted for the governorship.
„ , o, I iin is too uncompromising in his dis-
CAMP LOGAN, Tex., J y ' ' | uke8 „ 0K.nte«l he would feel that
"Oklahoma Night will be obs ^ hj . (,uty to bu governor only
in Camp Logan Thursday, Aut • • j f him amj
The Rev. Phil C. Baird l.^who omiosed him wouM only
City will he thespeaker -the , ^ ^ ^ mi(,ht fall irom
casion and the Oklahoma quartet . ^ ^ vr,.side<i over by htm, and
jlh„ m* regiment of « , ^
Oklahoma men who have been . „
ducted into the military service < ur^ 1 Governor Cruce will remain in th
ing the last two months. All hs Hjg d?1Jgh.
these men will receive specialjivr wes for s ^
tations to attend the celebration rf ter s nealin
Oklahoma night at V. M. C. A. ui < - jmyjg j, NOW OV1
'Al. makin'.r a tour of some | HIGH ALTITUDE STUMS
oi* the camps in the southern depart- j
ment of the army under the aus
pices of the national war work coun-
1 cil of the Y. M. A. His stay in Camp
Logan will be for a period of four
Camp Travis, where until 9 o'clock
we practice the actual work of the
y m. secretaries in one of the huts
in those camps.
pr baird speaks for
state at camp logan
Mr. and Mrs. e. j. Simpson, Mr.
and Mrs. Richards and Earl Simp-
son of Norman were here yesterday
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dooley.
All motored over to Lexington Sun-
day evening, taking their supper in
the park. Earl Simpson leaves this
week to join the navy.—Purcell Reg-
ister.
John g. Hardie was a bu-iness vis-
itor to Purcell Tuesday.
(;,v^tikf inerVNCE field this evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. Ar-
GIVES LI11 E IN I RAM t , u lee odelt president of Htnry
Raymond Burton Harrison, nephew Kendall college, 1 ulsa,
of Judge James m. Gresham and .he address.
erand-nephew of former President _ , _
h n^min Harrison, died of wounds Methodis, Pastor to Speak--Rev
received on the front in France last < c s. Walker, pastor of he ho
j dist Episcopal church, south, wi.l bt
" Harrison was presidential elector at she speaker at the regula
< Adn I I £.nwiTl/rn r\f f no CM lire
large
days.
KNITTING YARN FAST
FOR RED CROSS NOW
said ,
the weather
Oklahoma Weather: Tonight and
Thursday fair and somewhat warmer.
thi
that hip'
(fTicr.
barely eligible for
■.•mon
even-
■>! low-
11.
nnessee in 1912, and was1, service of the churches Sund
elec'or in the United j ing in Edwards park. On t:>
ing Sunday evening, \us?
Rev m. l. Butler, presidirj rl' " of
. the Methodist Episcopal church
s. c. Herrin and family "th, will preach.
"They are knitting fast nov
Mrs. j. b. Thoburn, chairman
woman's work for the Red
when she reported that on .
pounds of sweater yarn was left on j :mu!
aerial stunts at a height
let, is a daily experience of
Lewis vh< all, son rt Mr. and Mrs,
s h' 'leOall, who has just written
a letter to his parents describing
his training in aviation at Park field,
Tenn. h> is now Hying alone.
Just recently, aftjr having execut-
ed soio.. of the manevuers at a !<rw
altitude, he was ordered to go up
,f the | a greater height an.) repeat them. Hfl
"ross. made the a cent, to an altitude of
linetv more than a mile in thirty minutes
iaf« lv performed the r e ared
hand Tuesday out of 200 pou .iis re-
ceived Saturday.
Another supply of yarn w i.n has;
been ordered from the south^vestern
division headquarters at St Louis
ire expected to arrive any day
n<
commission
hope;
oon.
to recen
his
Prof. -
have returned from Norman, where
Professor Herrin has been attend-
Miss Novie Brown of Norman t
university.— Purcell Register.
| Miss Minnie Bell Jones
j Saturday from Norman, w
i h-s been ^he ijue.it of Mi-
j way Bentley Purcell Regis:
eturned
er< she
crowder issues cat.i,
| Hy United Press.t
1 washington, Ti (v, Juy hi.
i Provost Mairhal General Crowder u>
1 day issued a call for 5,586 dr 'ft mtai
. for specialized training and
Clara'to general military
will en tram for school
service. Th«y
i August 15.
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