The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 130, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 24, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL. VI. NO. 130.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY, AUG. 24, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
N0Y0N AND BAPAUME ARE ABOUT TO FALL
SEVEN MEN EXAMINED
BY DEFENSE COUNCIL
(SCHOOLS ENLISTED IN
WAR SAVING CAMPAIGN
| MUSKOGEE, Okla., Aug. 24.—
nil PAMDI IMP PUiDPr When the schools open ir> Sep-
Ull UAmOLIIlU UllAnut' tember every PuPi> is to be enlisted
i as an active worker to further the
Executive Committee Holds Ses-1sales of war savinKs stamps, accord-
sion to Ascertain Facts of |inK.to tbe p,an of tbe 0kIahoma war
— - — - 1 savings committee working in con-
junction with R. H. Wilson, state
superintendent of schools.
The plan provides that each teach-
er shall personally supervise the work
LONG DROUTH BROKEN
WITH SIX-INCH RAIN
OF GENERAL EXTENT
SOUTH BANKS OF OISE CLEARED
EAST AS FAR AS PONT ST. MARD-
BRITISH ARE NEAR TO BAPAUME
Recent Poker Games.
ALL IMPLICATED TO BE
HELD FOR COURT ACTION
. I — —rv.uvHuuj oupcivioc Luc won
Investigation Includes Examina- °f hls- or her pupils- This larEe ar
tion of Hotel Proprietor Imy st"dents will in addition to
and Other Witnesses. : Purchasjng stamps assist in collect-
' J >nK delinquent pledges signed nn
Seven men who were arrested Fri-' ^une 28.
— «"« ncic oucsica r ri- i Upon the opening of school
day afternoon at the Pierson hotel by j each morninK the teacher will devote
Marshal II. L. Sanderson, Deputy |fiv" " j: ' "
Sheriff Ben F. Clay and J. F. Jepsoni
five minutes to a discussion of the
thrift campaign. The pupils will
report their activities and receive in-
structions
JERSEY CITY YOUTH
HELD AS RING THIEF
Friday on
Charge of Stealing Jewelry
From Mrs. Cain.
Edward Murtha, who says he is 19
years of age and came here from Jer-
sey City, N. J., by way of San Fran-
on a charge of gambling were
were called before the executive com- I
mittee of council of defense Friday
evening and questioned as to the
facts of their participation in this !
and previous games of poker played j
at the hotel and in the country near!
by Norman. All seven men admitted i
having been in such games recently. Stranger Arrested
The men arrested and called up
were Clarence Rose, Dee Chapman, F.
H. Garrett, George Warner, Charlie
Todd and E. D. White, all of Norman,
and Ernest Reynolds, of Henry-
etta, Okla. Other men called before i . ~ •* ■ - ~
the council as witnesses were Hansel | c'sco' was arrested by City Marshal
Sellers and Leonard ("Doc") Manira, Sanderson Friday afternoon
who had been in other games but
were not arrested Friday, and R. L.
Pierson. proprietor of the Pierson
hotel.
No Final Action Taken
No final action was taken by the
council members in the case, pend-
ing further investigation of facts.
Rose, Chapman, Reynolds and White
spent the night in jail. Warner and
Todd made bond after their ar-
rest and Garrett was released upon
his own recognizance after giving
testimony Friday evening. All seven
will be given court hearings later.
Showers of Previous Day Fol-' '
^stTuckTyughtning Fren5^™J?,r,mIy Established North of Ailctte
lowed With Soaker Through
out Central Oklahoma.
COTTON CROP ASSURED
Lightning struck the barn on the
^ I G. Harn farm, occupied by B. F. j
River and Have Advanced to Point Four
Miles West of Noyon.
IF FROST IS r FT 4vpn ' 0CCUP'ed by ''
King, two miles west and half a mile ' f A TVC Drrrnr i rr ....
Alfalfa Willie, BIC Call'°<,r,h:,Nr",-,'rld,y "lshl'"*rt-1 RETREAT NORTH OP ALBERT
j_„_ „ . J , . h ^"ll" mg a fire which completely destroyed I ^ ..
' Shape for" wheat. j and contents'va,ue,) at F a,I°f Noyfon Expected Momentarily, Although
bnemy Is Resisting Against French Fire
Shape for Wheat. j $400 or jsoo
Relief from one of the longest and [ '^le barn was a good building and |
most severe drouths ever experienced I eontained feed, harness and other j
in this vicinity came Friday night, j ProPerty of considerable value. The j
when a rain estimated at from five to j Harn Place 's close to the New Hope j
From Commanding Positions.
| while loitering near the Santa Fe
j station on the charge of having stolen
two rings valued at $100 from Mrs.
F. D. Cain. 109 West Duffy street,
only a few minutes before. He is be-
ing held on this charge, but was also
given a hearing before the executive
committee of the council of defense to
determine whether he was subject to
the draft or not.
When arrested and searched, Murtha
had in his possession the two rings
I which Mrs. Cain missed only a short
j time before. He was identified by a
rs later. 1 description given by Mrs. Cain who
Testimony by the men called before ! ,lad seen and ta,ked with him about
the council was to the effect that j an ,10ur before. Shortly afterward, she
poker games have been held in the I 1"°" U ' ' '
Pierson hotel at several times during I
the past two weeks. Different groups I
of men are said to have been involved, |
six and one-half inches fell all over
Cleveland county. R. S. Davis meas-
ured the rain which fell in a gallon
can at the rear of his barber shop and
found the precipitation to be six and
five-eighths inches. Reports by other
Norman residents are that the rain
was about six and one-half inches.
This is the first heavy rain since the
middle of June.
Some little inconvenience to light
and power users was occasioned this
morning, when it was discovered that
one of the switches had burned out.
Although several of the electric light
posts which support the high-line from
the Oklahoma City plant were struck
by lightning, no damage was done to
the high-line.
Big Help to Cotton.
The greatest benefit of the rain to
crops will be to cotton and alfalfa, al-
though everything will be helped. The
school house.
WAR MOTHERS GATHER
BY JOHN DE GANDT,
, United Press Staff Correspondent
. AJ^IS- Aug. 24.—(4 p m.)—The south banks of tho Oise ancf
Pr'nt lt C^mpietdyuCleared °f the en,'my as far ^St Of
rnn pi rnpr uttT«if> 'Kite ® "* "°W «
run r LtUut MCt I INI' . Opposite Coucy Le Chateau, the French continue to progress
r. . „ „ —. „ , P1 mcipally in a southeasterly direction.
Charter Roll Must He Completed West of Noyon. French troops are advancing methodically un
Before Mate Convention jonuy (four miles west of Noyon and three miles east of Lassigny)
September 3-4. 1 he rate of progress between the Matz and Soissons, however liati
! generally slackened today. '
A meeting of the War Mothers' As-!
sociation has been called for next APPROACHING BAPAUME
Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the LONDON Ana- 94 n -on r> \ u't L
( hnstian church byMrs- John B. od forward to within less than two miles and ahalffrom Bapaumo
Cheadle, president of the association, it was learned this afternoon. Bapaume,
BFE ™ ~in
0 co"v on ° the War The British command was aware before Wednesday of th<>
Oklahoma CitT Thursday Teptem- AiSf frln^Th" ^th 1 ^ * ™nsiderafble retirement on the Albert-
ber 3, according to Mrs Cheadle il l I V was not permitted to be carried out
'Some Of tho mothers in the Nor- ut molestatlon, the British hustling the Germans continually.
man association have not taken the EXPECT FALLOF NOYON. ^
left her home and was absent almost
an hour.
On her return she noticed crumbs on
th floor in one of the rooms. Her sus-
including some who were not arrest-! Prions having been aroused, she went
ed Friday. Three of the men who j uPsta'rs to her room and found that
were called up Friday evening at ^wo r^nKs> which had been on her
evening
first testified that no poker was
played while they were present Fri-
day afternoon, but later all but one
retracted their statements and ad-
mitted having had a part in the gam-
bling.
Pierson Is Examined
R. L. Pierson. who conducts the ho-
tel. denied knowledge of the exis-
tence of gambling in the building,
but admitted having suspected that
card games were in progress. He de-
clared that he had made an effort
to stop reports that gambling had
been going on, asserting that such
rumors were false.
A feature of the testimony, as
brought out Friday evening, was that
Hansel Sellers, who is sixteen years
of ago, had lost about $60 in the
course of the last few weeks, and
that he had cashed war savings
stamps which he had held to recoup
his losses. Sellers, however, was not
in the game Friday afternoon, when
the arrests were made.
bolls still hanging on the cotton will i " , ,, . „
be benefited, and will probablv rmp>, i ge' ir "ames cannot go on ; LONDON Alltr 24 ti -18 n p„n (h
-5 ^. SaLa1Si53,l!&Bg
' the a.re,in a da"leTS posltion- as.the French guns now command all
ton will have time to
put on new \
growth that will mature a late crop.
Not only will the pastures of grass
be revived, but the alfalfa will take
they have taken the pledge,"
Mrs. John Franing, secretary of The "hwL" P081U0n' aR. ^ 'Tench guns now conimanr
association. "A complete list of all highway communications leading from the place.
the members enrolled will be made
new growth, and mature a bi* croiTof I &t th'S m,eetln!f' and the President is
hay, so that stock will have plentv of! fnxl0UB that a" members be present
feed at least for the present ' answer to r0'l call," she con-
i _4 ^ y tinued.
I^ate Gram Crops Possible. .
having buffered" ITrtaTlv "from^"^ Mrii' Cheadle wishes to ^announce MuJ'h °.f Credit of Winning Of-
drouth, will in all probabilitv fill 2 that tHe Wiv6S aml sist" of ^Idicrs ! ^"sives in West Attribut-
with a late nrnn of ti. , i are eligible for associate membership, able to Doughboys.
INFANTRY ESSENTIAL
TO ALLIED SUCCESS
dresser, were gone. One was a ring set
with a pearl and four garnets and had
been given her by her husband forty
years ago. The other, valued at $35,
was set with a pink sapphire.
Murtha declared before the council
of defense that he had bought the
rings of a stranger in a local garage,
who said he was going south. He said
he paid $2 for them, thereby using his
last cent. He had had no breakfast,
he said, when arrested, but had made
up for the deficiency by drinking lots
of water.
Murtha's answers to questions put
by County Attorney Cheatwood were
taken down, and they will be investi-
gated in Jersey City and Trenton, N.
J., where he says he has lived, to as
with a late crop of grain. The ground
is now in condition to plant and work
down for a good wheat seedbed, a
thing which was not possible before
the rain. The wheat crops will be sown
soon, according to the wheat farmers.
It seems that this rain was not c
local shower, but was general. Santa
r e train men reported a heavy rain
Friday night from Wichita south, with
not quite so much at Perry as along
most of the line.
and asks those who wish to become
associate members to be present at
the meeting Monday evening so that
their names may be sent in with the
charter membership list of the Nor-
man division.
The president has also called a
meeting of the executive board of the
association at 7:30.
BY ED. L. KEEN
I nited Press Staff -Correspondent
MRS. BENNETT'S DEATH
IS CAFSED HY PARALYSIS.
Mrs. Katherine Bennett of six miles
northwest of Norman, who was
stricken with paralysis Monday night,
died at 10 o'clock Friday night. Tfctj
funeral will be held Sunday, but tho
hour has not yet been set. Burial
will be in the I. 0. O. F. cemetery.
Mrs. Bennett was stricken with
paralysis in both sides of the body,
i * — ••• fiuco ui me uuuy,
LONDON, Aug. 24.—Do not ima- anc^ being an old lady, 69 years of
gine that because the doughboys have had very little chance for
not teen mentioned in the recent recovery- Mrs. Bennett is survived
actions of Byng and other functions j her husband and two sons. One-
that they are not on thv? job. I<)f her sons is now in France, and the-
f The- 'act is that although they are | other is expecting to be called in the-
NTNTF1 MADP r* A i t nr-v e'sewhere they are now contributing draft within a short time,
m iVIUKEi tA LLED to the allies' success even more effec-'
Have You Some
Watermelons to
Give Draftees?
From fifty to seventy-five water-
l T . — even muie L*iiec-
IN AUG. 28 QUOTA tively though less spectacularly than
' ^hen they are actua'lv going
certain if the boy is subject to the melons are nUd^ThtSu^: - "U
| lief committee of the RpH r„lc. <•„„ i Camp Plke August 2
| Board Selects Extras to Make up for
Possible Absentees Among
• amp Pike Men.
Nine men have been chosen by the
| local draft board to add to the list
148 chosen last week from which
145 men will be selected to go to
28, according to
Will Lick Huns
Soon, Declares
Frank Cornelius
"I am going to do what I can to
lief committee of the Red Cross fori., p , , ,
j the 145 men from Norman and the la °f th® ioCal boar<i
j forty-five men from Purcell who will1 °f the men in the Iist of 148
over
the top at Chateau Thierry and Soi-
ssons, along the Marne, etc.
For )' is primar 'y due to increases
in the American frirt lines south of
Ihe 11 esent battb area that Mar-
shal Foch has been enabled to ac- j help lick the Germans and then come
quire the necessary mobility and e-1 home and take care of you," writes:
lasticity of his forces for the pur- J Pvt. Frank Cornelius to his mother.,
pose of quick, surprising punches,) Mrs. E. M. Cornelius, of Norman,
here and there. The bewildering at- j Cornelius is a member of Com-guny
tacks have not only gained impor- [ Di 357th infantry, A. P. O.. 770V
tant strategic and geographical ob- ! American expeditionary forces. U(;
ed in Norman toward the fund of dents of Cleveland T t! tra men selected," said Mr Ingle ^ onsolidated
$18,000 which the Methodist Episco-1 want to spb • k county, who „becauge there . nossihilitv nf battle must more than ever,
pal church south of Oklahoma is I happy ^ ^ ® ,0°kin,f sickness or other things which may ^ C°nsidered as a who,e from YPres
.. wv wi,™SoT:trir Efr- "" "" - <■«-«- .
church in Norman. j "i " ^lhtary rel,ef committee.
at wo. .50, Norman, and inform her
THREE MEN TO HE GIVEN
HEARING AT LEXINGTON
The preliminary hearing of Dick
Stirms, Lon Brimm and Giles Cooley,
which was to have been held in Lex-
ington before Justice Jim Peters of
Lexington Friday, was not held, but
was postponed until Monday. It will An organized campaign to raise B,
be held in Lexington on that day, j funds has not yet been made in Nor I win u J?™* Ca" b<? plven' She
when Deputy Sheriff Ben F. Clay will i man, but a special service was held -it m i pr°babIy a[ran^e to have the
take the men from here down there. I the church when Rev. Frank Barrett ^ th"S u Sante Fe station''
These men have been held in the' pastor of St. Luke's church in OkW i y, 1 be convenient to the men ;
county jail since Monday, when they ho,,, City, delivered an addresl ! ^ 'T ,
were arrested on the charge of; Dr. M. L. Butler presiding elder nf . draftees have been sum-
agjir - s .'K«",Tr zx snsz-
TO CON-m-CT SERVICE ^
FOR MEN IN TRAINING W.J -ft «
to Rheims,
one Great Britain's
from mosj capable military writers obser-
ved.
It is th
The supplementary list of nine men
chosen is as follows: „ , , , ,
p;i„„ u ., , , powerful growing body of Americans
Ewing B.lan Abernathy, Lexington. that has mad(. possib,e the enerf,etic
Frank Hall, Newalla.
Jesse T. Henry, Wanette.
Edward J. Hunker, Wheatland.
Hugh Hunter, Noble.
David Lewis Reiter, Moore.
Charlie Snake, Norman.
Madison Aldridge Shipp, Norman.
Albert Isaac Williams, McLoud.
MIXER IS PLANNED FOR
MEN AT TRAINING ( AMP
H, A;zman , Wi" be Mthe ! funds'since August 13, and he thtata I
speaker and Mrs. As,.,nan, Miss that the prospects are good fm ^ I
SBr ^ni^fe fun amount
Games, contests and other amuse-
.ments have been arranged for the
handling of the enemy, which is now
the feature of the western campaign.
Experts are unanimous in the
opinion that the British could not
only have achieved the initiative
without the American help, but that
he could not maintain this advan-
tage without the steadily progress-'
ive increase of such help.
No Chance of Deadlock
There is every assurance now that
thanks to America, no matter how!
desperately the boche may resist ;
here and there, the days of dea.llo
, — .. eemw
I to be away behind our country," he;
| writes. "The railroad cars are one-
fourth to one-half the size of cars in
! our country, and the people here live
in small villages or towns. It was
much the same way in England.
"I have seen buildings here several1
hundred years old. All buildings,,
even .he barns, are built of rocks. I
have been over a great deal of thi;
country and from what I have seem
of it I would not like to live here. {
have not been able to learn to speak
their language.
"Don't you worry about me. I
don't think it will take the allies but
a few more months to whip the
Dutch, ami I think we can do it and
be home for Christmas."
ARMY Y. M. C. A. MAN TO
SPEAK SUNDAY EVENING
S. S. Waters, Y. M. C. A. educa-
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