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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL. VI. NO. 132.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, AUG. 27, 191S.
PUICE FIVE CENTS.
NOT A GERMAN LEFT ALIVE IN BAPAUME
TWO MORE ADDED TO
LIST OF MEN CALLED
TO LEAVE WEDNESDAY
Iloy J. Martin and L. N. Morgan
to Go With Contingent to
Camp Pike.
ALL REPORT TO BOARD
AT 9:00 TO HE CHECKED
Extra Coaches Provided on 6:30
Train to Take Purcell and
Norman Men.
Lusitania Sinking
Designated Piracy
[By United Press.]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The im-
perial German government through Speculation
an act of piracy, is responsible for Plans ni
the sinking of the Cunard liner Lus-
itania, the United States district
court holds.
In an 4,ri-page opinion made public
here today. Judge Meyer of the fed-
eral court here absolves the Cunard
HUNS MAY VENTURE
TO SEND OUT NAVY
as to Germany's
Plans on High Seas Stirs
Interest in England.
BRITISH ATTACK SOUTH OF TOWN
COMPLETES ENVELOPMENT OF CITY
FROM WHICH ENEMY SEEKS ESCAPE
By CARL D. GROAT
United l'ress tSaff Correspondent
u i .v, WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Will
eral court here absolves the Gunard| Germany make the great gamble of
company from liability and suggest Qut her fleet this fall or by
that the German government be made ,
. i ^.n^A next spring • t
"This question is again ca«sing
speculation here today following Lon-
The names of two men, Roy Jeffer-
son Martin of Trousdale and Law-
rence N. Morgan of Norman, have
been added to the list of men who
will be entrained for Camp Pike.
Ark., Wednesday, since the first and
supplementary lists of names were
published. All the men have re-
ceived orders to report to the draft
board office at 9 o'clock Wednesday
morning in order that the checking,
which will require the entire day,
may be done by the officials before
train time.
The contingent of men will leave
on the 6:30 p. m. tram, in two or three
extra coaches provided especially for
45 men from Purcell and 145 from
Cleveland county.
List of Those Called
The following is the list of men
who will leave Wednesday for Camp
Pike:
Warner Alexander, Norman.
Wiliam McKinley Adkins, Nor-
man.
James Windsor Antrim, Moore.
Ambrose Bradley, Newalla.
to settle when peace terms are made
Relatives of victims of the Lusi-
tania's sinking and the survivors j reports that bets on such
::izX' srjsjsrz I ■ « r.
company had applied for a ruling on
its liability, contending that on the
nation's maritime laws it could no*,
be held responsible for more than the
value of the cargo.
PLAY WEEK PROGRAM
PLANNED IN DETAIL
'This far there has been a strongly
divided opinion in naval quarters as
to the chance that the Teuton would
risk so daring a stroke. Some author-
ities said only desperation would
I force such a step; others that Ger-
! mar.y would not attempt it in any cir-
j cumstances, as it would mean sui-
I cide for her.
1 However, the military situation is
such now that the German war lords
. . ! may be agitating the naval venture
Each Evening From September jJea aRain gome months back author-
2-7 Filled With Events IOI | na^jye reports received here said that
City's Children. J the army leaders were striving to
_ , ! force naval action, knowing that as
The programs for th« children.- ^ ^ ^ EnKiisll fleet was intact
weeks of play to be held in the parks successes were rather empty,
during the first week of September with n() German successe
under the direction of the woman's j cha]kej up aI1(1 wjth the balance cer
committee of the council of defertse, ^.ajn| swinging apainst the boche is
have been arranged, and the girls who j rg);arcje{| as riuite possible that the
will have charge of the children in | war lords are trying to compel
the different parks have been selected, j admiralty to act as an offset to
Each evening in the week from Sep- ] ^ reverses on the west line.
,. I tember 2 to September 7, a 15-min- | officia]s will say nothing
Ambrose Bradley, Newalla | ute program of story-telling or songs j nublication.
Lawrence Bauernschmitt, Norman. j given, and after that the chil-
Walter R. Ball, Norman. I ()ren wi]1 play {or an hour and a j
J. Edward Benesh, Oklahoma City. i un(jer the supervision of Miss ; HAINES COMPLETES
Homer Black. Noble. j ^y]e McGuire and five girls who will REPORT FOR («0\ ERNMEN I
Walter Butler, Norman jhelp hcr j
Martin Cornelius Bode, Norman. j Mj?s j uoiie Wickixer will have1 Deborah Haitit's, datfpflter of
Conrad Nathan Baxter, Lexing n. j charKe of the children under five Hannah Haines, according
Charles Holmes Baldridge, Noble. ■ - - - ' ** 1
REQUESTS GINNERS
TO CONSERVE GOAL
Miss Luoile Wickixer will have J
charge of the children under five,
, years of age in Edwards park. Misses
Roy Vernon Butler, Norman. j Eveiyn Cralle and Hattie Poyntz
Frank Wesley Branning, Norman j Moomau WU1 have charge of the chil-1 for" the" bureau of education
Carl Fred Bruemmer, Norman. . from 6 to 8 years old in Club I ^ Washington. D. C..' and received
park. Misses Bonnie Giles and Dor- I
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, Norman.
Joe Doussett, Noble.
Clarence DeValk, Norman.
James Wooley Dodd, Norman.
Clarence Edward Davis. Noble.
Michael Theodore Dallmeier, Nor-
man.
Oran James Dunn, Moore.
Fred Wiliam Diehm. Norman.
Robert Clarence Ezzell, Norman.
Ernest Elliott, Lexington.
Walter F. Flanagan, Noble.
Lester C. Fishburn, Norman.
James Lamar Florida, Norman.
Velmer Dennis Farnsworth,
walla.
William Godfrey Fortman,
man.
John Hanchard Florida. Norman.
Charles Lester Gill, Wheatland.
Lee Gialliatt,'Norman.
Lewis Loyd Gill, Norman
George Elmer Gay. Lexington.
Finnis Edwin Griffith, McComb.
Palmer Allen Hodges, Moore.
William N. Hays, Moore.
Tandy W. Houchin, Moore.
William Wood Harris, Moore.
Jess Hines, Norman.
Elvin Lawrence Hitchcock, Lexing
ton- , X-
Alvus Andrew Hagood, Norman.
Edward J. Hunker, Wheatland.
Carl Joseph Ille, Lexington.
Asher Johnston. Wheatland.
Wilhelm Jahn, Noble.
George Lawrence Jansing
man. ^
Leonard Kimmey, 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.
(Continued on page two)
Guthrie will have charge of the
children from 8 to 10 years old in
Citizens' park. Misses Marguerite
Newblock and Jessie Frost will have
charge of the children from 10 to 12
years old in Citizens' park.
31 APPEAL CASES
SETTLED BY BOARD
Twenty-eight Cleveland County Boys
Kept in Class 1-A by District
Draft Officials.
to
j word received here, has just com
I pleted a clothing conservation inve*
reau
C..'
word that her report has been accept
ed and that it will be published in
"School Life," the official publication
of the bureau. *
Miss Haines will teach in the Okla
homa College for Women at Chick
asha next year. She and her mother
have been enjoying a vacation at
Pine, Colo., this summer. They will
return to Oklahoma early in Septem
ber.
pvt robert e. brown NewZealanders ort Northern Outskirts of Position
is wounded in action Take Beaugnatre, Capturing Bat-
talion and Commander.
Pvt. Robert E. Brown, son of Mr. f
and Mrs. William Brown of Noble. p \ qc TRFNCHES OF HINDENBUR( ; LINE
was wounded in action, degree unde-1 ' ASS 1 lvrj* "
termined, t. tk. I Cal)adiang, After Capture of Wancourt, Move
Eastward Beyond Guemappe and Repulse
German Counter Near Highwood.
[By United Press. 1
PARIS. Aur. 27.—The Matin declares (hat at noon
today not a sinule (Jernian was remaining in Bapaume.
BY LOWELL MELLETT.
I'nited Staff Press Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN PRANCE, Aug. 27.
I (Xoon) The British launched a new attack south of
' a.,- thi, morning with the prospect of making the situation be-
! tow that city m precarious as it is above, where the line is actually
hey°ThethNew Zealanders are on the northern outskirts of Ba-
State Fuel Administrator Asks having taken Beaugnatre (two m^les JlV^ thr^e'fjattaHons
(Jin Men Not to Fire up lor Jjurinp the night. They captured prisoners from three battalions,
„ row nato. fxwjjj ™ rvin,f "astw^
ADA, Okla.. Aug. 27,-Cotton gins the Scarpe. Highlanders on the north and Canadians on e s
Of Oklahoma have been requested by ,ook advantage of yesterday s important gam.^ (three
State Fuel Administrator P. A. Nor- The British last night swept.own theslopes; oHjneniMtn^
ris not to fire up until ten bales are m;ies 0f Croissiles) and over the advance
in sight for ginning. Mr. Norris has tjjndenburg line, which they captured easilN.
lists made public Monday. Brown s
home address is Noble, Route 2. He
probably enlisted in the service, since
the local draft board has no record
of his having been drafted from this
county.
Brown's relatives have not yet
come to Judsre James M. Gresham,
soldiers' legal aid, to ask about their
allowance from his insurance.
also requested the ginners to operate
only as many gins as are necessary CANADIANS DRIVE ON
take care of the crop. EAST TO GUEMAPPE
By complying with these requests ONDON Aug 27.—Canadian troops, after capturing Wan-
£.■5="«—•"<5™,pp"'FlcWMarahal *
•j&tr
my attention that gins in various Qn established east o1
parts of the state are firing up to gin up at that point and tne cnt . .
one, two or three bales of cotton. You Highwooci. ftenioon an(] evening there was severe fight If
realize that it take almost as much filui nf the old Somme battle between Maricourt (four
fuel to gin one bale as it does ten. on the AeUl of the old^omme ^ to (he north_
1 therefore request that you do not mitosSOuthwetofCommeS)
fire UP until there are at least ten j ward, the stetei cmin;t,r.attacked repeatedly in Strength ^cur-
bales in Sight to be ginned This ap- Th . ^ ^ unable to arrest our progress. We broke
plies to all gins, and the failure of -inj. j, attack asain advancing and established our lines
anv manager to comply with this re- up {he enemy s attack, again
quest will be taken as evidence that well east oi g ^ ^ enemy counter-attacke(l a secon.f
he refuses to comply with the fuel Ea rifle fire before reaching our posi-
administration in conserving coal or time, but was oriveii u j
°ther "L Should Combine JtiTffiJSS ^^3!^
in Oklahoma^it S'LTLSJS iff ,,^'back four hundred and fifty yards, where they Htopped._
of fuel for all gins to operate. I wish j
15 Watermelons
In Already for
Camp Pike Boys
to urge! therefore, in those places |)j{ J SCROG( ;s Sergeant Steele
TO SPEAK AT CAMP F.ninvs Transf
The cases of thirty-one Cleveland
county registrants, who appealed to
the district board for re-classification, i , j
have been passed upon by the dis- Fifteen
trint board and in all instances ex-j been donated to the military rei
ti ree th° men were left in Class , committee of the Red Cross to be
,cept three the men were , ^ to the boys from Cleveland
1 'The names of the men and the county, who leave August 28. "I nev-
! classes in which they now stand are er thought about receiving any
and the crop is not large enough to
n-ivp all the eins a fair run, that the 1 _. , . r.
give an me k iTnivernitv Extension Director to ui^e
ginners get together and opera eM n ^
only as many gins as necessary to | Traininc Detachment.
take care of the cotton crop. It is
as follows: Andrew Harvey May-
berry, Lexington, 1-A; Jonah D. Con-
nelly, Moore, 1-A; Charles Lon Ros-
elius, McComb, 1-A; Calvin Bradley,
Newalla, 1-A; James W. Autrim,
Moore, 1-A; Pearl Shepeard, Choc- _
;k!p m « ™ u u x - " tm
Nor-|?!shoP,M. Russet ^ Floyd | Milling & Grain company, and will
Norman, 1-A; Eddy J. Shro- probably get cold enough not only to
soon," said Eloise Eagleton, chairman
of the committee, "but if they keep
coming up to the time the boys leave
in proportion to the number coming
now, we will know that a great many
people are interested in making the
suggested that with gins not operat-
ing a division of the profits might be
made in some lawful and equitable
manner. The thing we are interested
in is to save coal, and the operation
of more gins than are needed is an
unpatriotic waste of fuel at this time.
"I understand the state corpora-
tion commission will approve the
plan for only a part of the gins to
operate.
"Those ginners who have laid in
their supply of coal and do not oper-
ate, under the arrangement above
suggested, can sell this coal at cost
or at the regular retail price in the
town where located."
Dr. J. W. Scroggs of the extension I
division of the univeisity will give • -
lecture illustrated with stereopticon
views for the soldiers of the univer-
sity training camp in the army Y. M.
C A. rooms this evening.
Wednesday evening the program
will consist of several readings by
Miss Marie Anderson, instructor in
public speaking at the university,( j
ind several music numbers by Ray
Enjoys Transfer
Into New Branch
"I have at last left my negroes and
am again with civilized men," writes
Sergt. James A. Steele from France
J. A.
'I feel
which'
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Steele, 702 East Gray street-
fine, and trust you do too,"
The following is the letter
Steele writes to his mother:
France, August 7, 191ff.
Dear Mother:
I have arrived safely at the train-
ing camp, and am a candidate for a
. commission here. I am in the en-
mond Selders, flutist. "The protrr^m j u, ^o'doubt b^ve^busy for
will be short that evening, beivus •] npxt fpw months. I like this
the boys are going to rehearse for .e fine aml trust that I shall never
stunt night, which will be Friday be so foolish as to hitch myself to
evening," said Sinclair More!and, Y, I a negro regim^t again
Claud H
Moore
| yer
hie.
-o^Ta. \va'lter ifrown, No- suit any picaninny, but the most fas- president Approves
Wbo ever tasted Registration Rules
we, t.A; ?Edgar ^ ™
11-A; Alfred Bacon, Newalla, , ""ST™ Kn^leton that she hopes peo-
rrBaileyaTxingtorr4-A; Lee M. P'e will keep sending in the melons
I Witt. Noble, 1-A; Luther C. Rollins, i from now until Wednesday
I Moore, 1-A; James W. Dodd, Nor-
j man, 1-A; Clare H. West, Norman, j S0N NOBLE PEOPLE
11-A; Henry R. Braurer, Norman, 1-A; j WOUNDED IN FRANCE
| Frank W. Banning, Norman, 1-A;!
i Theodore M. Dpllmier, Norman, 1-A; jn the hospital now, but I am
[Rudolph Straka, Moore, 1-A; Ray getting along fine." writes Milus E.
j Kelley, Lexington, 1-A; Carl Byrley, ] jyjagerS) son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K.
Tribbey, 1-A; Tom Jim Tiger, Ne- MagerSi 0f Noble, to his parents, tell-
[By United Press.1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-
M. C. A. secretary, today
No program for the soldiers will
b" arranged for Thursday, as all the
time will be spent in rehearsing, ac-
cording to the Y. M. C. A. secretary.
Mr. Moreland wishes to announce
Provost that Friday will be a typical stunt
.walla 3-B; Clarence E. Davis, Ne
I walla, 1-A; Tommie C. Thompson,
Lexington, 1-A; Roy C. Self, Norman,
Nor- j 1-A.
Marshal General Crowder today madf
public some of the regulations sub-
scribing to by the president to gov-
ern the enforcement of order on the
first registration day after the man
power bill is passed.
Federal marshals, deputy marshal ■
investigation agents and police offi —
:ers shall hold themselves in read!-- |J,fOfeSSOJ* r loyfl lO
night like those staged by the sol-
diers in the larger training camps.
"Everybody is welcome, and we want
to see every resident of Norman in
th bleachers just as if we were *ro-
in«£ to have a Missouri-Oklahoma
football game," said Mr. Moreland.
ing them of a slight wound which [ ness to render whatever assistant
j W. M. Newell was
City today on business.
he" received in action. "I was lucky | may be necesary in preserving order-
enough to get out with a small wound j an(i bring about a complete registra-
I from a machine gun bullet, and it tjon
I ,]oes not amount to anything. I I officers shall examine the registra-
Oklahoma thjn|. j wji] be back in the company tjon ij>t and report the names of any
' before long. j person known by them who have
! "I guess you saw in the papers ! f?iied to register and liable to regis
where we made a big drive on the, tration.
Germans," he writes. "I hope you j \ police officer shall require any
i have a good crop around there this j person subject to registration to ex-
— | year." Magers' address is Company j hibit his registration certificate.
Oklahoma Weather: Fair tonight I Thirty-ninth infantry, American! _ Transcript
and Wednesday. j expeditionary forces, France. I Subscribe for The Franscnp.
THE WEATHER
^ ■■
Lecture to Soldiers
Prof. M. A. Floyd left Sunday for
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he
will deliver a series of lectures on
war conditions in Europe at the pres-
ent time, and will study military tac-
tics. He received a telegram from
the Y. M. C. A. educational secre-
tary there asking him to come and
lecture to the soldiers in the Y. M.
C. A. buildings in the evenings, and
telilng him that he would have an op-
netfro rc^nnum «*«•« . t
I sent you some kodak pictures, ana
hope you tfot them. George
now in charge of the detachment f
left and 1 am sure he will make fcooa
for'he is quite a live wire, and area*
man. 1 have heard that E. E. Parte
is now a lieutenant, and m l ranee.
I suspect it will be some time before.
I get vour letters for there is always,
a delay after transferring, so you
answer as soon as possible.
Your son,
ALLEN.
A C. S. Engineers' Section, A. P.
O. 714, American Expeditionary
Forces, France. _____
portunity to study military tactics in
the daytime.
Professor Floyd is not sure about
the time he will tome back to Nor-
man, but will return some time be-
fore the -university open^ September
17.
USE EIGHT HUN DIVISIONS
LONDON, Aug. 28.—Since August
X the Germans have used seventy di-
visions on the wfst front between the
Scarpe and the Aisne, according to a
dispatch received from the British
I front today.
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