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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
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VOL. VI. NO. 123.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA,FRIDAY, AUG. 16,1918.
PRICE 2 CENTS
TEACHING VACANCIES
IN SCHOOLS OF CITY
WILL BE FILLED SOON
Four Appointments to He Made
After Superintendent Ed-
wards' Return.
SCHOOLS WILL REOPEN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
Walls of South Half of New West
Side Building Already Up
Full Height.
The four vacancies in the Norman
schools have not yet been filled, and
the teachers will not be chosen until
N. H. Edwards superintendent, of
schools, returns to Norman August
25 from the University of Chicago,
where he has been studying this
summer, according to Charles S.
Standley, secretary of the board of
education. Since most of the mem-
bers of the board are out of town on ^
a vacation, the board will probably j
not meet until Mr. Edwards returns >
Two of the vacancies are in the
Jefferson school and two are in
the high school. There are several
applicants for these positions, and
there will be no difficulty in filling
them, the members of the board
think, when they have a meeting.
School Opens September 9
School will begin Monday, Septem-
ber 9, the second Monday in Septem-
ber, according to Mr. Standley.
Classes will be conducted in the var-
ious churches, as was done last year,
until the completion of the new west
side building makes it possible to pro-
vide permanent quarters for the pu-
pils.
Progress on the new Washington
school has been such within the past
three weeks that it is likely that the
building will be ready for occupancy
early in the fall. The exterior brick
work on the south half of the build-
ing is complete and the north half
only remains to be finished. This can
be done within a few weeks, provid-
ed the work is done as rapidly as on
the part already built.
Building to Be One Story
The greater part of the building
is cnly one story in height and once
the walls are up the interior can be
finished very quickly. The concrete
work of the basement occupying the
north end of the building is now in
•the course of construction and as som
ar it is complete the raising of the
walls can be continued.
The building with its dark red brick
and trimmings of fire brick presents
an attractive appearance. Large arch-
ways at the four entrances on the
north, east, south and west add to the
architectural beauty of the building.
The structure will resemble in many
ways the Jefferson building on the
east side.
EXCISE HOARD APPROVES I
I CITY EXPENSE ESTIMATE
| The excise board has approved the
' estimates of expenses sent in by the
I city of Norman, and the city coun-
j cil will meet either Friday evening or
Saturday morning to grant the
| claims made for salaries, improve-
| ments, etc., in the city.
] The excise board, which has been in
I session all this week, adjourned
Thursday, but will meet again with-
j in a few days, according to Ernest B.
J Helms, county clerk. It takes about
I a month for the excise board to get
; through with all the business but in-
] stead of having a continuous' session,
\ it meets two or three days out of
| each week until the business is fin-
i ished.
150 MEN REACH HERE
FOR SECOND TRAINING
CAMP AT UNIVERSITY
Enlarged Contingent of Men to
Receive Instruction for
Next Sixty Days.
LAST TWENTY MEN OF
FIRST CAMP GO EAST
Eighteen to Be Trained at New
York College and Two at
Yale University.
ALLIES CLOSING IN ON ROYE
AND ALBERT ON WEST FRONT;
INTEREST SHIFTS TO RUSSIA
nyicc M'IMNNFY WARN^ French Troops Progress on Avre River and Brit
DCPDIC A P AIWQT CIRFQ ish Cross the Ancre River A/,di^ New
rEbPLF. AGWNM hHto Approach to Former Lms.
EXPEDITION REACHED BAKl
Long Journey From Bagdad by Land and Watei
Says That Burning Grass With- 1
out Permission Is Most
Frequent Cause.
ROSS GAHRING CITED
FOB GALLANT ACTION
1917 Graduate is First Univer-
sity Man to Receive Mark
of Distinction.
to Great Oil Center Forms One of Most
Dramatic Episodes of War.
| By United Press. |
PARTS, Aug. 16.— (Noon)—Further progress^ toward Koy<
To Lend Five Million
To Stricken Farmers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Presi-
dent Wilson has placed at the dispos-
al of the treasury and agricultural
departments $5,000,000 to enable
them to furnish aid to wheat grow- j
ers in certain sections of the west i
who have lost two successive crops !
by winter killing and drought. The
federal land banks will act as finan-
cial agents of the government to
make and collect the loans.
This fund is not intended to be lent1
to farmers who have banking collat-
eral; the action of the War Finance
corporation in urging the banks to
finance such farmers and its promise j
tc support them in such financing, it
is believed, will amply provide for
them.
Loans from this fund will be made
to individuals who have no banking
collateral, and only where it is neces-
asry to enable a farmer to continue
to grow food products. The money
will be advanced upon the crop of
wheat or substitute grains planted on
the land, and no loan will be in ex-
cess of $3 per acre and no applicant
financed beyond 100 acres.
The use of the fund will be under
the joint control of the treasury and
department of agriculture; as the
machinery for the work is already in
existence, no substantial delay is ex-
pected.
The co-operation of local banks and
local associations and individuals is
looked for.
| The first University of Oklahoma
man to win the coveted honor of ci-
j tation for gallantry in action is
I Lieut. W. Ross Gahring, Ph. C. '17,
j who was one of the first two univer-
I sity men commissioned last summer
j at Fort Logan H. Roots to be sent
] to France for active service. The
| other man was Lieut. George R. An-
' derson, whose death in action July
22 was reported by General Pershing
i.bout ten days ago.
Lieutenant Gahring's name appears
among those of about one hundred
I and thirty officers and men of the
| Twenty-eighth infantry, regular ar-
j my, who have been cited by Maj. Gen.
! Robert L. Bullard, commanding the
j First division of the Second army
corps foj "conspicuous gallantry in
action during the operation attending
the capture and defense of Cantigny
from May 27 to 31." Gahring was at-
tached to this regiment immediately
after his arrival in France last fall
I and had been on the fighting line for
| a considerable time before the action
j at Cantigny.
Wounded at Cantigny
Reports are that Lieutenant Gah-
j ring was wounded in this battle, but
I accounts disagree as to exactly what
I wounds he received. It is understood,
! however, that he was shot in the hip,
| since he wrote members of the local
I chapter of his fraternity. Sigma Chi,
! in June, that he would be kept in T
| plaster coat for eight weeks.
Ross Gahring entered the first of-
| ficers' training camp at Fort Logan
j H. Roots in May, 1917. After being
I commissioned at the close of the
j camp in August he was almost im-
I mediately sent across to France. He
i was at first unattached, but soon, like
j Lieutenant Anderson, was placed in
I a regular army infantry regiment. It
I was in this unit that he saw the ser-
| vice that led to his citation for bra-
' very.
| Gahring's home was in Mt. Vernon,
I Mo. He was among those who re-
| ceived Avar degrees in June, 117,
! without having completed their full
i course.
• v ui/ k mot I Warnings against keeping defec-i
I tnev ears and taxicabs which met ? ...
jitney tais «nu | burning grass without per-
incoming trains Thursday were soon frQm the fire department,!
loaded down with ^which i permitting children to play with
lversity training <i^hment which ^ ^ with
SR.-- —•• z «^ *
IfordmofalJwPoar months' training here ! ™ef f,U? "OnVhe Avre front French troops progressed in the Viller*
Practically all the men expected der to P. t ^ ^ ^ ^ ; Leg_Roye an(, Snint A„rin reg,on," the communique sai.l.
came in before nightfall Thursday, j ■ ,„tiriiv to carelessness "East of Armancourt we occupied our ancient 15V15 first, lines
Draft boards in many counties sent ^ fn)m ex. In the champagne we took prisoners in the Pcrthes-Ies-Tlu^us sec'
contingents of varying sues to the, that ;>ver half of the fires tor East o( Maisons le Champapne a German ra.d was repulsed.
=rslcsh0r'f 'p | j- - ruilvs slowly e^llkg albert . j
and Norman each sent five A com- ^ u,( the blaze Ret beyond London. Aug. 16.—British troops nre slowly ennr.lmg
plete list Of the new arrivals will bt ■ „Thpro h nn ordili;ince hert the 0ff|cial report of Field Marshal IlaiK indicated fo« ay.
ready for publication soon. 1 c_ frr>m lhr> wpst and SOlltn,
Last of First Camp Lea
Twenty men who have bee
fk
university. Prof. W. W. Morrow has
j already gene to New Haven, and it
I is rumored that he will have an im-
portant part in the direction of this
j training camp.
Two Bank Saf&&
Refuse to Open
Friday Morning
\ university man named
for legislative seat
Alfred Stevenson, a graduate of the
school of law of the university in
1915, was renominated for membei
of the legislature on the democratic
ticket in the recent primary election
in Garvin county. He obtained 788
votes in a three-cornered race in
which his two opponents, Harry F.
Hall and B. D. Matthews, received
014 and 579 votes, respectively.
Stevenson was a member of the
1917 legislature and was one of the
I five students or graduates of the uni-
versity in the lower house during that
' session. His home is in Stratford.
their control. "There is an ordinance tierr, me omcmi i ... .■«=.« "'.T "V"" ""7vTot annt"Vi thf
against burning grass without the In addition to menacing the city from ,[
, - , 'permission Of the fire department,"; British have crossed the Ancre on a wide front to the noit .
Twenty men who have been here . • Mr McKj ,.But very f,,„ Further progress south of Albert also was reported.
for the past sixty days taft Friday, ^ q{ ^ ^ ^ want ..Durinflr the night we advanced slightly northeast of Morton-
morning on the northbound 6 so, mUe8 S(H(th of Albert the statement said.
Santa Fe train for the east Eigh- I ^ ^ apainst
whL°"ttSTwflT"tSJ"a il | ^Ping defective flues but there , New A<.tlvitleS OH Asiatic Front
advanced radio training at the Col-: s "u ' " Regarded aS Highly Significant
lege of the City of New York. Here 11 u'^ ^res'^eyer Come sinK|j- j while continued progress by the allies in Picardy was ^poi ec
they will be prepared to act as non- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ in j today directly threatening the fall of A J?™ tK'oaJ
commisioned signal corps . officers• an<J threes, it secms, in this west front was temporarily overshadowed by V. I t on ;
The other two men were sent to ^ However thps(. fires T1,ursday: front." which now is scattered in widely separatt d sectors ot Mil
College Park, the seat of the Mary-^ firgt since the buildings at -.an and Asiatic Russia, some 4,000 miles apart.
land Agricultural college, where a universit burned May 9. The " 'Reported arrival of a British expeditu). at
signal officers' training school s lo- >di that one, thirteen «r. Uussillll oil center on the Caspian sea. tollowing a 700-m e « miig
cated. This Will probably be moved ^ j^orma,^ i from Bagdad by land and water may be regarded as one of th<
to New Haven, Conn., e ■ ; There were three fires at the univer- rnost dramatic episodes of the war. innvc
tember l and 15 and eonducted un- ^ ^ ^ t(>n.iblp fire >t Uu, hos i N() revious announcement has been o _|j
t'er the supervision of the depart- * 1 «fnmniatod Thp exoedition mart' ned over land tniougn
„H„, electrical f dep.™. i ^opS by Sin hill Into. fr m SwWtj
Sheffield ScientiHc .cho.t .( Y.le ™ it c„,t, th- city ^ ,4^^rt of AnS I ,.f 500 miles. The rro.mder .,1 th.
ten to twelve dollars, in that ac-( ';stance was covered in steamers. . ■ „,J
count people should be careful about " A( Baku, the British joined forces with the! Armenians and
setting grass or bonfires in their. j^ussjans who had been defending the city agains ^ I . q
yards, calling the fire department, ™ns. The Baku petroleum fields are the g.^afJSpS6 1
and then putting out the fire before ( production in 1901 being more than •>(),( )• j
the truck arrives." j -—-— — ^ """" "
Sells His Goat
To Get Cash to
Give Red Crosi
What can a goat do for the Re<
Cross?
Lots of things, comes the answei
Patriotic women and men have da
nated sofa pillows, bed (juilts, knittei
blankets, iew garments and old ga«
ments, heifers and many othfl
things to the Red Cross, but Gen
i Hames, son of Hugh Manies, a fan#
er in School District 31, is the lira
person who has taken advantage 0
the fact that a goat also may be «
j service in furnishing funds to bu
I garments for the boys over theri
| and bandages and sanitary wipes f<
| the wounded soldiers.
Gene Hames had a little goat, aij
no doubt he would have liked to ke^
it, but he Sold it at a sale for $4(
and handed every cent of the monj
to the Red Cross. Mrs. E. .1. Kell«
secretary of the Cleveland couni
chapter, says that without questij
the money will be used in a
which will gratify the boy who
prompted by a patriotic motive
give up his pet animal.
blazing crates cause Details Received of
second alarm Thursday Hardin Davis' Death
Fire supposed to have been started , received by^Dr. and Mrs. J.
in a pile of old crates and boxes by ^ morning from their
I little boys playing in the back yard . - - - R Davis of Wac0j Tex., gave
At first it seemd that safe-break at Geroge Ellsworth s residence, 469 - ^ of (he d(,ath of Har.
ers, instead of opening the safes, had : College avenue, caused a number o ^ the 472 engineers, who
closed them securely in the farmers' people to become excited and a large ^ Washington, D. C., Thursday
| National and Security State banks , number to walk several blocks morn He submitted to an opera-
i Friday morning, but it was a false through the dust raised by the auto^ appendicitis last Saturday
'alarm. ™^iles of a still larger number reporte(, TueS(lay a.
Officers of the Farmers' National sightseers and caused the_ fire truck | He received the best
bank had failed to open the safe up to spill the hose and string it out do ng^ ^ ^ (k.uth
to noon, on account of some unknown over half a block, but no other .lam- in spite of the efforts of the
trouble inside it. It was closed (ages were done. j physicians.
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock but I he mai;JnK a "E ' a"' l' The t)0(|v js expected to arrive in
could not be opened Friday morning frightened Mrs. Ellsworth and she Sunday evening and the fu-j
and an expert safe opener was call- called the fire department. However., Waco take place Mon.
The difficulty in the Security State she and the neighbors had extin- ^ Tuesday. Miss Emma C.
ed from Oklahoma City. guished t e > a7.e >t ori it ire leave this evening to at-
bank was of no consequence, al- truck arrived. I. , th funeral, accompanied by her
though the employe, had a little bit The fire was the second that oc- tendUie fune ^
of trouble in opening the safe. The cured rhursday < ° er :) azt \ Har(Jin j>avis was the first mem-
difficulty was due to the fact that at t e °i man creamery, w en a -e Norman Masonic lodsre to
some children had been distrubing , feetive flue set tire to the roof of the ^of Jhe ^ thp of (hp
the time-lock, but it was soon opened boiler room. These weie the first h resent War. "We
with the combination. ! «-s in Norman for a month or two. country durmg^p ^ Davjs
this man will break 1 today, "but we realize that we are
Ralph Weir Made
Infantry Captain
j Ralph Weir, son of Mr. and Mrs.
| W. C. Weir, has been promoted from
first lieutenant to captain, according
to a telegram which they received
from him Friday morning, from
| Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio,
where he is training with the 336th
where he is training with the 336th jje expects to Win the war or some-
infantry. Captain Weir was former- ' thing by saving laundry bills and un-
I • r* TT f fhie voo*lmflit. ' I 11. . J . 11.. Kitffnn Vinnto
CRITFI I Vl N I)RV TK: -T Just beginning to face what the peo
LAUNDRY IK , ^ ^ ^ France have
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—S. Leigh- been experiencing for four years."
ton Brooks, defender of that great
American institution, the Adam's ap-
ple, launched a nationwide collarless
campaign today when he led a par-
ade of fifty thousand converts—more
or less—through the streets of New
York.
Miss Ada Smith of Oklahoma City |
is here today visiting her friend,'
Mrs. C. W. McComas.
Misses Rosa Lee and Celestine Ed- '
lestein of Oklahoma City are here
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Midden-
Now in Wyoming—Prof. T. F.
Pierce writes from Thermopolis,
Wyo., that he and his family have ar-
! rived in that city1 for a vacation stay.
! He says, "In this beautiful little city
the hot springs, with their many
sanitariums and baths are becoming
famous. The springs are kept up by
1 the state." Professor and Mrs. Pierce
t left with Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Brooks
! of Oklahoma City a week or two ago
i and traveled by automobile to Wyo-
| ming.
jit- - -
John Hirdie, cashier of the War
1 Saving.; Stamp bank, left Wednesday
i for Manning. Ia, on a business trip,
to be gone a week or ten days.
THE WEATHER
Oklahoma Weather: Fair tonight
and Saturday.
ly in Company H of this regiment
but the message did not state wheth-
er he was advanced to the command
of this company or transferred to
another.
Captain Weir has been at Camp
Sherman for six weeks, during which
he has been instructor in small-arm
| firing for the division. Previous to
1 this time he was at Fort Sill, in the
j school of automatic small arms,
where he made such a creditable rec-
der-the-dresser collar button hunts
Former Congressman "Cyclone"
Davis has been mentioned as presi-
dent of the proposed national or-
ganization.
new "y." secret v''
AT UNIVERSITY CAMP
Cannot Send Things
To Boys Over There
In answer to inquiries made by the
, relatives of several soldiers of Cleve-
land county in regard to whether it
is possible to send packages to boys
in France, Mrs. John Jacobs, execu-
tive secretary of home service section
of the Red Cross, wishes to announce
that it is not possible, according to a
Raymond Courtright
Enters Nav; ! S?ho<
Raymond Courtright, who enlist
in the nav.-l officers' reserve a <Ji4
time ago. hits received his call
come to iv * oh rs and will leave t|
afternoon for Municipal Pier, 0
cago, the naval officers' train
I IlclL It ID > —
letter which she received from Susan scnooi.
Sinclair Moreland, an army Y. M.
C. A. secretary from Kelly field, San
Antonio, Tex., arrived in Norman
I ord that he"was"'designated assistant Wednesday to take charge of the
j instructor. Before his period of work among the men of the training
! training at Fort Sill he had been at detachment at the univensty during
' Camn Zachary Taylor, Louisville, the absence of Secretary < hauncey
„ , 11 Black, who is away on his vaca-
i Ky.
Captain Weir attended the Univer-
, sity of Oklahoma for two years, th
' went to Purdue university. Lafayette,
'nd.. and completed his course except
, for the last month, when he was in
! the first officers' training camp. H^
was granted his degree, however, by
i the Purdue faculty.
tion.
Mr. Moreland, who is a trained ar-
my Y. M. C. A. man, will remain here
a secretary until about September I
1!.' has already ordered a large sup-
; p'v of balls, bats and other athletic
equipment for the use of the men in
(training here.
E. Ramsey, division supervisor of
home service, southwestern headquar-
ters, St. Louis.
Miss Ramsey writes, "The army
regulations do not permit relatives or
friends to send packages to soldiers
in France unless they have the writ-
ten request from the soldier signed
by his captain or higher officer. The
Red Cross does not distribute cigar-
ets; the army, however, through the
quartermaster department furnishes
1 eigarets to the soldiers and in addi-
tion to these, they can be bought at
the Y M C, A. canteens."
H L. Muldrow, county food
istartor for Cleveland county
has been in Holdenville loakir:
business this week, will not
until Saturday.
ldmin-
who
r after
return
His wife, Mis. Elizabeth Eagle
Courtright and little son Rtymc
Jr., will i take th#ir horn* with
and Mrs. W. L Eaglet on.
Courtright played left half o
varsity football tear- during t!.
three years he was in school hi
1911-12, 1912-18 and 1913-14.
next year after ho was graduf
from the university ho was athl
director in the University Prep
tory school at Tonkawa. The i
three year* he was athletic !:ie<
in the Kansas State normal, Pi
burg, Kan.
F.. R. Kraettli, -ecretary to
'Itratton I) Brooks, again beg .n
take his vacation Friday, which
already been interrupted three til
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