The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 124, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 17, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL. VI. NO. 124.
LOCAL BOARD CALLS
MEN TO FILL QliOTA
TO GO TO CAMP PIKE
Many New Registrants Are In-
cluded in Contingent to
Leave August 28.
TO BE SENT ON TRAIN
LEAVING AT 6:30 P. M
Instructions Given as to Cloth-
ing and Accessories Men .
Should Bring.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA.
SATURDAY, AUG. 17. 1918.
PRICE 2 CENTS
The local draft board today made
public the list of men chosen to fill
the call for 145 men to be sent to
Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark., on
Wednesday, August 28. The draftees
will leave here on the 6:30 train in
the evening and will arrive in Little
Rock at 1:15 p. m. the next day. This
is the first contingent of men from
Cleveland county to be sent to Camp
Pike.
List of Selected Men.
The following is the list of men
who have been called:
Warner Alexander, Norman.
William McKinley Adkins, Norman.
James Windsor Antrim, Moore.
Ambrose Bradley, Newalla.
Lawrence Bauernschmitt, Norman.
Walter R. Ball, Norman
J. Edward Benesh, Oklahoma City.
Homer Black, Noble.
Walter Butler, Norman.
Martin Cornelius Bode, Norman
Conrad Nathan Baxter, Lexington.
Charles Holmes Baldridge, Noble.
Roy Vernon Butler, Norman.
Frank Wesley Banning, Norman.
Carl Fred Bruemmer, Norman.
Herman Henry Boeskin, Norman.
Henry Richard Brauer, Norman.
Alfred Bacon, Newalla.
Carl Byrley, Tribbey.
George Blevens, Lexington.
Joseph Cobb, Tribbey.
Robert Ernest Church, Norman.
John Cullen, Norman.
Shirb "Couch, Lexington.
Benjamin Oliver Campfield, Nor-
man.
Cecil H. Coulter, Norman.
Henry Cobb, Tribbey.
Percy Paul Cooley, Norman.
Charlie Cronan, Lexington.
Pete Marion Crane, Lexington.
Claud Haden Coker, Noble.
Jonah David Connelly, Moore.
Trudy Van Buren Cable, Norman.
Arlo Ralph Davis, Norpian.
Joe Doussett, Noble.
Clarence DeValk, Norman.
James Wooley Dodd, Norman.
Clarence Edward Davis, Noble.
Michael Theodore Dallmeier, Nor-
man.
Oran James Dunn, Moore.
Fred William Diehm, Norman.
( Robert Clarence Ezzell, Norman.
Ernest Elliot, Lexington.
Walter F. Fanagan, Noble.
Lester C. Fishburn, Norman.
James Lamar Florida, Norman.
Velmer Denis Farnsworth, Newalla.
William Godfrey Fortmen, Nor-
man. _
John Hanchard Florida, Norman.
Charles Lester Gill, Wheatland.
Lee Gialliatt, Norman.
Lewis Loyd Gill, Norman.
George Elmer Guy, Lexington.
Finnis Edwin Griffin, McComb.
Palmer Allen Hodges, Moore.
William N. Hays, Moore.
Tandy W. Houchin, Moore.
William Wood Harris, Moore.
Jesse Hines, Norman.
Elvin Lawrence Hitchcock, Lexing-
ton.
Alvus Andrew Hagood, Norman.
Edward J. Hunker, Wheatland.
Carl Joseph Ille, Lexington.
Asher Johnston, Wheatland.
Wilhelm Jahn, Noble.
George Lawrence Jansing, Nor-
man.
Leonard Kinney, Newalla.
William F. Krohmer, Newalla.
Henry Heartful Ketner, Noble.
Thomas Benton Kelley, Norman.
Ray Kelley, Lexington.
Walter C. Larence, Moore.
Lawrence A. Leffler, Norman.
Cecil Theodore Langford, Norman.
John Thomas Lurey, Trousdale.
Homer Bryan Lindsay, Norman.
William Howard Lindsay, Norman.
Jim Edgar Lipe, Norman.
Joseph Ben Loefferholz, Norman.
Arthur R. McReynolds, Lexington.
William Martin McClure, Newalla. I
Taylor 0. McDaniel, Norman. I
Lewis D. McDaniel, Norman.
Raymond R. Maloy, Moore.
William E. Morrisson, Norman.
Garvin Melvin Moak, Norman.
Charley John August Miller, Nor i
man.
f
Tony Lee Monico, Noble.
Andrew Harvey Mayberry, Lexing-'
ton.
(Continued on page two)
NEW TAX MEASURE
TAI iiS MORE" THAN
U. S. READY CASH
The new $3,000,000,000 rev-
enue bill now in congress pro-
vides for taking more money
than there i3 in circulation in
the United States.
Experts figure our maximum
in circulation is $5,300,000,000.
The payment of these enor-
mous taxes on one day would
bankrupt the country tempor-
arily but this is avoided by pro-
viding for payment in install-
ments.
FRENCH WITHIN MILE OF ROYE;
EVACUATION OF WHOLE SALIENT
NOW ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
CAOrCR AUSTRIANS
KAISER'S LAST STRAW
Residences in East Norman in No Matter if Help Comes, It Will |.niT]ori ftATN ON ANCRE ABOVE ALBER1
r.—4— ™ A u0,.a.,Co Be of No Avail in Check- mvilion v/n
ing Allies
HOUSES AT A PREMIUM
EVERYWHERE IN GUY:
RENTS SHOW INCREASE
With Opening of University a
Month Away, Available
Places Already Taken.
BUILDING AT STANDSTILL
BECAUSE OF HIGH COSTS
Lnemy Repo f:t! to Be Withdrawing to Escape
Capture and Loss of Material in Oise
Greater Demand Because
of Lower Rentals.
AMERICANS OVERSEAS
BY J. W. T. MASON,
United Press War Expert
NEW YORK, Aug. 10—Nothing
shows more convincingly the desper-
' "Buy your ticket early," is the cry
| around the circus, but "Rent your
i house early if you want a roof over
i your head," is the advice given to snows II1UIC CUI|U„uiikij v..^
people expecting to move to Norman 1 ate search for manpower by Grmanv
NOW TfiTAI 1 dRjl 00(1 lt the last minute. before the univer- than the kaisei's demand for war
llUff I U s "*■ I j"wU|UwW sity term begins in the fall. weary Austro-Hungarian troop- to
lt is now more than a month be- , (-lght; aionK the west front.
Only as a final expedient will Von
Czecho-Slovak Forces Active on the Volga River
and Soviets and Cossacks Clash in
Southern Russia.
Officials Hope to Have Three
Million More in France
by June, 1919.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The to-
fore classes begin in the university,
but people are arriving every day
and trying to get small houses to oc-
cupy during the school year. They
, ~ always want to get near the univer
tal American troops in Europe and . -
enroute now number 1,450,000, Chief S1
of Staff March is quoted as having
told members of the senate military
committee today. It is hoped to have
4,500,000 in Europe by June of next
year, committee members said.
Speed with which American sol-
diers are being sent to Europe is
again on the increase due to improved
facilities.
March said that the 1,450,000
Americans which have left this coun-
try to fight, include those to France,
Siberia, Italy and Russia proper.
In the near future all figures of
American expeditionary forces will
include these sent to all parts of the i
Hindenburg dare to trust any part of
his line to keeping of th Austro-Hun-
garians. With the Germans themselves
— „ unable to hold before Marshal Foeh's
sity, but they are lucky if the find blows, there is no possibility that the
any houses at all. No vacant dwell- i[apsl,urgers can prevent Germany
ings are to be found now on Asp < defeat when America's
avenue or University boulevard or
any of the streets near the univer-
sity.
Large Houses Already Leased tQ h(, rea|jze(i at German headquarters
All of the large rooming and board- when America's millions have
ing houses also are already leaseii' taken over their predestined front
i along the Alsace-Lorraine
massive
strength is put to the task.
No Hope for Quiet Sector.
The terrible fact now is beginning
BY .JOHN I)E GANDT.
United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Aug. 17.—French troops are within a mile of both
I Roye and Lassigny. „ , , . ...
Camp Decar, a mile west of Roye has been captured, while
the Midian trench and Plessis de Roye, lens than a mile southwest
of Lassienv, have been occupied. A number of prisoners an eli.
great quantity of material were tagen. The enemy is raported to.
be preparing for evacuation of the Roye-La^igny-Novon salient.
German pioneers are said to be constructing another Hindenburg
'ine."
and the few three and four-room
houses have been rented all summer.
"I do not know of any
the vicinity of the univer-
MUST EVACUATE ROYE SALIENT
Evacuation of the Roye-LassigmO'oyon salient on the 1i-
cardv battlefront, appeals imminent
French troops have penetrated to within a mile of Roj c and
] -v'signv and are pushing northeast v, a1' 1 toward Noyon aim? the
f!' o;se vallev Capture of the dominotm-r Lassigny he'Sfhls has giv-
■1 (.,j the French control '
_ 0f all this territory and all threo towns are
. there will be no quiet sector anywhere ' '' '''l.nl]v untenable. . ' . ,
houses in ja thg west from the Norti, sea to ' j , tiioi north the British have 1 >:.de : ttditional tjama along
, , i Switzerland. • the Ancre. above Albert am', '-tweon lloye and th® Somme. iir
sity, in fact I know of only one hab- , Thg Austro-Hungarians therefore vindprs British liatrols continue to sei c German imsit ion.-
itable house anywhere for rent," said ( *... . nanuers, dhm i . , _
one real estate man of Norman Fri-
day.
world, March stated.
Iligh praise of American valor in
"We have calls every day for
five or six-room houses and cannot
fili any of them," said another real
I action has been given by
j commanders, March said.
I UNIVERSITY ALUMNA
DIES AT WELLSTON
Word has been received in Norman j
' of the death of Mrs. Mary Jane
! Bamfcrd Erwin, a graduate of the
j university and formerly a teacher in
! the Norman high school, which oc-
I eurred at her home at Wellston, Okla.
July 20. She was the wife of Perley
ttiui 444 I , ,
French estate dealer.
j There are very few residences
; being built in this city, and the real
1 estate men think that large numbers
cf families who want houses will be
unable to get them.
Rents Also Go Up
certain to
subsidiary
visions, Marshal Foch
strike at that point as
offensive.
The record of the Hapsburg military
machine in Russia and Italy conclu-
sively demonstrates that it cannot
hold before British, French and Amer-
ican attacks. It may, in fact, give
With the scarcity of houses there is bjKbiy valuable aid to major opfera-
an accompanying rise in rents, 'rations by the allies," for a complet ■
range of rents for medium-size 1 , V> ~v,
houses is from $15 to $40 a month,
uuc the greater number of them are
nearer $40 than $15. Modern six-
cannot be sent to hold a peaceful part ,r^incj vienz-Berquin and Morris and another enemy retirement
of the line and release Germans for *' westcrn edire of the salient seems pn liable.
the active areas. Wherever Von Hiii-1 Reports from Russia, received through Bolshevik sources, de-
denburg puts Austro-Hungarian di-1 ] r fi Czecho-Slovak forces have been surrounded in Kazan, on tn<-
Volga and that the city is being bombarded In southern Russia, a
violent battle is raging between Soviet and (,ossack forces. Fhc.
Bolshevik claim to be still driving the allies back toward Onega ir
northern Russia.
SEN\TOR GALLINGER DEAD
[By United Prtss.l
t^p avu'i t \* \ h. Aug. 17.—United Stains Senator Gall in k-
a uuu iv- years old, and a member of the senat- since (1R'( ^royn
break through against Austro-Hun- jie*art disease in the Franklin hospital here today. He had been in
Marians would be much easier of ac- ... «• 1
complishment than against the Ger-
mans.
Ludendorff Realizes Facts.
These facts are well known at Cier
BEKRV AND TAYLOR TO UBWJANTUOITV^
GO TO OFFICERS CAMP j I 1
: D. Erwin, a lawyer of Wellston, also '^m bungalows now rent for about
j a graduate of the university. • 1 1 a 111 " ■ 'inese tacts are wen unuwu .
| Mrs. Erwin, who was 33 years of One peculiarity of the present rent- ^ headquarters. The German mili- Norman will send two more men to Lieut. I C Lichty, formerly of th
age, attended the university from ing situation, according to A. Mc-1 have long been unsp:ivln- in'officers- training camp Sunday, when' engineering faculty of the univer-
| 1907 to 1011, when she received her I Daniel, of tne hipi of McDuUel «|- criticism o{ thu pl.OWOfS . : : - j..,,. c. IUrry, proprietor «'f the Um-' «ity. is in Norman for a few days-
| bachelor's degree. Both before and Matthews, is that there is a greater A tro.Hungarian armies. Germany ity theatre, and Robert Taylor, of while on hi« way bock to San An-
I after her graduation, she taught demand for houses ion the east sue ^ ^ come to the reiief 0f the the motor department of the Mintecr ' tonio, Tex. from St. Paul, where he
i school, having been employed in the than on the west. I his is accounted Hft burgers too often during the pas* Hardware company, will leave f<> was sent on an inspection trip to a
Norman high school, the University for> hu le a^. 11 ' four years to be under any delusic ns. Camp pike, Ark., and Camp Hancock,. training school for mechanics in th©
Preparatory school at Tonkawa, in j m East Xorman are sligh y ow Thereforei now when the kaiser calls Augusta, Ga„ respectively. Berry has j aviation esrviee. He is now officer in
the high school at Butte, Mont., and, than in West Norman. 1 he differ- ^ Austria-Hungary for men for been accepted as a civilian candidate charge of the transportation depart-
at Los Angeles, Cal. She was mar- i ence ranges from to per montn f ^ .g certain that h(. fo[. the schoo, for infantry officers and I ment of the enlisted mechanics train-
ried to Mr. Erwin at Phoenix, Ariz., or. similar ouses, e sa>s. is nm further offensive ambitions Tayi0r for the machine gun officers', inK school at Kelly field No. 1, San
has a number of houses for rent on ^ ^ relreat | school. Antonio. His work, which includes the
process of construction in the city at Nowhere can he trust the Austro- n;is3ion to the field artillery officers ;.hrect Oie tea^n g
the present time, and few are likely Hungarians to hold any lai,e school Camp Zachary Taylor Lou,,- j <1^ ™^ was piven a ten-
to be built, on account of the prohibi- of the line. , ville, Ky„ has received word that he, , L'eutenan^ ^ ^ ^ ^
tively high cost of lumber and other , has been accepted, but he has not yet, fo , one he h in, arui
materials. Lumber yards everywhere Miss Grace Warren returned Tues- , ^ glven notice to report at the j I ^ ^ ^ way to
are overstocked with expensive lum- day from Carnegie, Okla., waere she camp, _ .
i i.:_u i„ of nil covoral rlavs visitine her sis- !
November 7, 1917.
SIDEWALK IS ORDERED
BUILT ON MAIN STREET
A new concrete sidewalk 300 feet
long by 15 feet wide is being built by
orders of the city council to replace
the old worn-out walk in the 300
block on the south side of East Main j ber, which is scarcely moving at all
street between Crawford and Porter j under prevailing conditions.
avenues. The work is being done by
^r^rSedto'iV^S/iVG SCHOOL PLANNED
site, but none of the concrete has | pQg STATE TO ENCOURAGE
spent several days visiting her
, ter, Mrs. Milam.
YOUNG WOMEN TO ENLIST
CRITTENDEN FAMILY
RETURNS FROM TRIP
| Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crittenden and
: on, Leslie, returned Thursday from a
I three months' automobile trip
through Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa. Il-
linois, Michigan, Kentucky and Mis-
souri during which they traveled al
yet been poured, because the contrac-
tors are waiting for sand and other I
materials which have been ordered, to |
be shipped here. When the work is I —
once under way it will take only two | An army school of nursing will | gained by Mrs. Foster when she was most 6,000 miles They visited rela-
or three days to complete it, accord- ; 5ably be established in this state n Oklahoma City Wednesday to see tiveg inlnd.ana Kentucky andCh"
ing to Mr. Struble. The walk was I in Texas t0 train student nurses j Miss Irene Hickey, of the woman s , cago and enjoycf hunt.ng, fishing and
ordered put down at the expense of ( for service, as a result of the large ,committee of the council of defense, tups acio.-s a«. <
the property owners of the property : numbers of students who have en-1 Cleveland county s quota ot t e times.
fronting on this block. roTed and of the still greater num- nurses to be raised is six. These, Mr. Crittenden may move w h hi
hers of women who want to enroll nurses may go either to a civilian family to Oklahoma City, provided he the University of Oklahoma P-
D1717- n t? \ir vi 1/pd \TAir . , , , . fu0,r traininir school or to the army school, can sell his property here. He na.> tients will t" received from all part '
INWFSTFrSOKI ?HOM V ' ' eTorTl m't wS to g SStti to th. kind of , i in the oil bu ine . r the tat, and treated at a non,-
IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA ; School they prefer. The most impor- ,, in his Oidahoma City of- j inM char,, u. , public health „ea.
Rev. C. S. Walker, pastor of the ' the United States. This is the opin-|tant army school of nursing is in e . i.ki . e I i.
Texas,
noon.
He will leave here Sunday
WORK PROGKFSSFN J>\
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAI
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 17.--
Work on the new state hospital,
southeast "f the capitol. is progress-
ing according to schedulft, it was
stated at the office of the state bv/ard
of affairs The laving of brick has
pr>giessed above tho second story.
The new hospital, when equipped
and ready for patients, will be eon-
ducted l y the school of medicine ot
AVCV. VJ. o. VI aiaci, pnoiAji Ui MIC trie Uliueu OLatCO. iljio " | -
Methodist Episcopal church south, I j0n of Mrs. E. A. Foster, chairman of Washington, D. C., bu ere a e s
who is now in western Oklahoma | the registration committee of the
speaking in behalf of the endowment! woman's council of defense.
of the Methodist orphans' home at
Britton, Okla., will preach in Clin- :
ton Sunday morning and at the union
eral others in the United States and
more are being established, liiese
schools are always connected with a
training camp.
Civilian Schools Are Distant
The civilian training schools art
c innected with some civilain hosj ital
There is a large number of these in
months ago.
uro.
NO CALL HERE YET FOR
LIMITED SERVICE MEN
Women Take Vacation
Something will have to be done to
relieve the situation," said Mrs. Fos-
ter, "for ten or twelve girls have ex-
pressed their desire to me to enroll,
that he is having good success in but haye sajd that they coui(in>t pay
raising funds for the orphanage. . j r-wiies for a lone
In his absence Rev Mr Walker', 1 r , .u ! the country, but none very near Oh.
In his absence Kev. Mr. Walker trip t0 a hospltal ln some other state. uhoma and Texas. The courses taK-
On that account none of the women I _n faoth th(j civilian schools and
in this county have yet filled out the thg army gchools consist 0f from two
enrollment blanks. ,0 fbree years' training. Many civ-
Women Hesitate to Enroll !ian training schools will give from
The registration committe of the six to nine months and sometimes a
woman's council of defense in Okla- year's credit, on the thre
homa City has registered eighty course, to college graduate.
women, who filled out the regular icience training.
women's regisration cards, but did I" enrolling either for the army or t[iey wjj| bo taken at present.
rot fill out the enrollment blanks of civilian schools students may enroll
Fair tonight the student nurses' reserve, because in the preferred or the deferred
I of the uncertainty about where they (Continued on page two)
I Such w ither as we are havingr at
the T)resen*: enough justify the
housewives of Norman
nuusewivfs ui ixuiiiian a
l'rom wa; !i day drudgeries.
vacation.
pulpit here will be filled Sunday
morning by Rev. Frank Barrett, pas-
tor of St. Luke's church, Oklahoma
City, who will present the cause of
the orphanage at that time. The ser-
vice begins at 11 o'clock.
No call has been received by
Cleveland county draft board
men to help fill the quota of 250 lim- ; ^ us ;st Qur llflat.work„ ser
ited service men from Oklahoma who;^ fm ^ vacatjon at honie. It
are to be sent to Camp Dodge, Dei y ;|, M) ,itt,c to hav0 us
Moines, la., August 30 and 31. The
total call is for 12,000 white men of
ti.e special service class for training
! w ill cost yoi
launder your
about it. Give
, week Phone
and .
Laundry
"flat work." Ask us
us a trial bundle next
71 Norman Stean
THE WEATHER
Oklahoma Weather:
and Sunda'y.
in three camps, Dodge, Greene
Upton.
Cleveland county has only fourteen #
year . ., . l!rs .vlaes'ic lu'ss left this morn*
... limited sei-vice men on its drait lists, j '
with c . , I,... ho«n ing for Lawton to vi^it her ^i>ter,
None of the e men lias >ct Deen
, , , i (1,.,, Mi .\ al'.is until the first or Rep-
lied and it is not expected tnat
tember. She w is accompanied as far
as Oklahoma City by her daughter,
Mi> M irj Wilson, who will roturi
V/tnt ad, three lines three times, S5c. to Norman this evening.
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