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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL. VI. NO. 159.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BOYS LAUGH IN MIDST "THE YA^KS
OF GERMAN SHELLF1RE
SAYS JOE B. THOMPSON
M!"
Americans Keep Up Their Cour-
age Even in Prison Camps,
Asserts Congressman.
FRENCH PRAISE MEN FOK
THEIR THOUGHTFULNESS
Cleveland County Boys Tell Him
They Want to Stay and Make
r Good Job of It.
"Our boys on the front lines have
become so accustomed to exploding
shells that when not on duty they sit
or stand and joke and laugh even
while the Germans are raining shell
lire in their vicinity and at any mo-
i lent shells may explo'de in their
midst," said Congressman Joe B.
Thompson while telling of his exper-
iences on the front in France in his
address Friday afteroon at the Chris-
tian church.
"The American boys," said the
speaker, "even while they are being
starved and tortured in the German
prison camps still keep the Yankee
courage." Mr. Thompson told one
story of a group of American pris-
oners who were being driven down
the street by a German guard. Some
of the boys were so weak that they
fainted and fell out of line, and were
shot by the guardrf. The other boys
kept their places, and at the sugges-
tion of one half starved fellow began
singing, "Pack up your troubles in
your old kit bag and smile, smile,
smile." The Germans were shocked.
"The Yankees have something
which the British and French soldiers
lack," said a French general to Mr.
Thompson. "As an illustration,"
pointed out the general, "You see that
broad-shouldered American soldier.
He has a soul. He is leading two lit-
tle French girls to a restaurant to
buy them some candy. There are
hundreds of little girls and boys
here, who have never seen a piece of
-•.Andy. What French or British sol-
dier would think of doing such a lit-
tle thing as buying candy for the
children?"
Meets Boys From This County
Congressman Thompson told of
meeting soldiers on the way to the
front, and then meeting them on the
nay tratn ifum uid xXOiit wltu a i£§
or arm missing or their faces shot
He talked with boys from Cleveland
county, and they were all satisfied
relief
t'uksfu uy ur- v-ensor. copyright 1J->
COUNTY GIVES TWICE
AMOUNT OF CLOTHING
icvcn me DCI mm?
AoiXLU I U.J ULLU:rti'iJ
Two Thousand Pounds of Gar-
ments Already Received and
Boxed Ready for Shipment.
OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE
STILL OPEN TO PEOPLE
A J TACK IN CHAMPAGNE
CONTINUED B Y FRENCH;
BRITISH ALSO ADVANCE
New Operations Between Ailette and Aisne and
Northeast of Sancy Results in Capture of
Jouy and Aizy.
BRITISH RENEW OFFENSIVE IN FLANDERS
atcs' Step May Indicate Long-Expccted on
Northern End of Line; Americans Struggle
in Heavy Rains.
Sept. 28.—The attack in the Champagne was ve-
il this morning, it was announced today by the French
in a
this
Twelve Times Amount Aske
Could Be Sent fcnd All Neeris
Would Not Be Supplied.
veland county has practically
d its qiibta of 2,000 pounds of
lg In the clothing drive for the
of the Belgians this week, ac-
cording to Mi i.'C. M. Griesmer, chair-
man of the Belgian Relief committer
At least 2,000 pounds of clothes
which have been brought to the stor -
eroom in the Ed Johnson building are
! already packed in boxes ready foi |
I shipment.
It is estimated that Cleveland coun-
ty will end a carload of boxes of. BRITISH ADVANCE ON CAMBRAI
| clothing. "Although we have doubled j LONDON, Sept. 24—The British advance on Cambrai was
our quota, the drive is not yet finished.1 contonued today and satisfactory progress was reported by Field
and we do not want people to read this Marshal Haig on the whole battle front. The battle continued
article and think that their bundles ^ throughout yesterday and last night.
are not needed, for every garment that j <pjje 8econ(j British Army commenced operation in Flanders
can be contributed is needed by the tjjja morning in conjunction with the Belgian, the statement said,
f. ians, and we could get twelve js mav indicate the long expected offensive in Flanders.)
times our quota and not be doing j
PARIS
sumed at 5:
war office.
The French are also attacking between the Ailette
Aisne and are making progress northeast of Sancy. In
gioh the French have captured Jouy and Aizy.
In the Champagne, French troops have occupied Somme-Py
and have passed northward of Fontaine-en-Dormois.
more than our duty," said Mrs. Gries-
: mer. "We are sendinfr them onlv
things which we cannot use anyway,
! and we can't send too many."
Will Send for Bundles
| "If anybody else has bundles and
we have missed them while collect-
i ing, we will send after their bundles
i has a like amount. Not all of the j
; collecting in Norman is finished yet. j
All day Friday women received the j
Here la the long, lean, ianKy Yank, the most t/picai p.cture yet published ;goods in the building and assorted!
of one of the American ,' flhting men in action. Each Yank, delivered F. 0. B. anj packed them in boxes, and men
Fr nCS, costs the • -occeds of <orty-one JSO Liberty Bonds. nai)etl ,,nd wjred the boxes. The Min-
Against all i<ieceUeut. It's aim- .trench. netonka Lumber company contribute'*
ply not done, you know." They astonish the Allies, but they
AMERICAN ARTILLERY IN MUD
WITH THE AMERICANS WEST OF VERDUN, Sept. 28.—
The Franco-American attack in the Champagne-Argonne region is
continuing.
Heavy rains have turned the roads, churned by shell fire, into
almost impossible bogs, but the America field artillery is
bravely struggling to keep pace with the infantry. Even the
heavy guns are being moved slowly forward, although with ex-
it they will phone their addresses to trem(, difficulty.
the war savings stamp bank. l.ex-1
INDUCTION OF S. A. T. C. WAR TROPHY TRAIN TO
TO RE HELD TUESDAY SHOW CAPTURED GUNS
Flag Raising and Procession to Norman People Will (Jo to Ok-
Accompany Organization of lahoma City and Purcell to
New Fighting Force. St* Liberty Lv.ar. Exhibit. •
An American and an Allied officer astonish the Germans still more. They
crouched behind a precarious shelter still follow the old set rules'of trench j
near Bois de Belieau during a short warfare where necessar>, as at Can-
bombardment preparatory to an at- tigny, but once in/he open the Yank
tack. It was the man experienced in is individuality itself.
years of trench warfare who made 11 ccsts forty-one $50 bonds to put
ttie remark. one Q( these long, lean fighting boys
The American laughed. "These fel- cn the front. His living expenses will
lows will break something else be- have cost nine bonds and his personal
tide precedent before they are equipment, six. It takes thirteen $50
through. It may not 'be done,' but bonds to buy his service equipment.
and wanted to stay for the finish of! look, they are doing it!" His pay up to the time he is trained
the fight. In Italy Mr. Thompson 1 Several platoon waves of long, lean, and in the fighting takes the proceeds
met Charlie Stephens, son of Mr. and lanky Yanks had emerged from she]- °f another nine. His housing and yards for lumber and have boxes
Mrs. C. R. Stephens. He was with J ter and were advancing in a typically fina! transportation to France takes j ma(je jn which to pack the clothing,
another navy boy and they had not. American style. There was no bar- four bonds more j -pyle shorthand and typewriting
received their pay on time and had no ! rage, no slow, methodical walk be- We must have millions more of him. | classes o{ M L Flemming, which
money He took them to his hotel hln(' artillery protection, which has Every advantage in numbers means a
and paid for their meals and beds 'on* been the proper thing on the quicker, less costly finish io the war.
, . . , . . ., , I Front. They dashed forward, took and it is a proud American who can
stephens wro e ionic o is .i m o cover dashed forward again in short. Fay that he has a representative,
rushing charges, cheerfully wiped out equipped and trained with his money,
a few impeding machine gun nests | "breaking precedents" somewhere
and mopped up a sector of Hun | France.
lumber for making lids for all the
boxes. The committee has been un-
able to secure enough boxes for ship-
ping the clothes, and requests mer-
chants who have any boxes to con-
tribute to phone the war savings
| stamp bank.
Lumber Is Needed
It is the plan of members of the
committee to have all the clothes
ready for shipment by
night. Mrs. Griesmer thinks that it
may be necessary to ask the lumber
The induction of more than 150,000
men in the United States into the
difference
vote for Thompson
what ticket he ran on.
The speaker said he asked one;
American soldier if he had an mes- j
sage to the United States and the / O Ofrt fl/f
boy answered that he wished he wolud J^leVenth IflSt<lllfTi€Tit Of ZjZbU
tell the girls back home to not mar-
ry the slackers and old men because
the boys would be back to claim the
girls, because they didn't like the
French girls.
Boy Dies Smiling
meet in the building, have been dis-
missed while the packing is being
done.
Lexington, Moore and Noble sent
a large supply of clothing Saturday
morning, and more was expected in
the afternoon. One of the larger
boxes packed to its capacity holds
600 garments, not counting the hose
it , t ti C e. L f O which are packed in sacks and count-
A\6f*lSl6YECl ticv*3 ijCpl €T7lP(Zr 1 ed as one bundle. With a few excep-
In this issue is given an addition-
al installment of the list of 2,247 men
who registered in Cleveland county
1568
Mr. Thompson told a story about September 12. The number preceding
seeing an American soldier a few
minutes after he had been shot. "The
boy had just finished shaving and had
sat down under a tree and placed his
elbows on his knees and was looking
straight in front of him. A rifle bul-
let. passed through his heart, and his
sitting position was not altered when
he came and found him. There was
a smile on his face, and look of sur-
prise in his eyes although he probab
ly died instantly."
A crowd that taxed the capacity of
the Christian church was present to
hear Congressman Thompson. Peo-
ple came f om nearby towns and
from the rural districts of the coun-
ty to attend the meeting. At first h
was reported that Mr. Thompson had
failed to arrive, but he came from
Oklahoma City in time for the meet-
ing and the big audience was not dis- 1552
appointed.
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1556
1557
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1559
1560
1561
1562
the name in each case is the serial
number assigned by the local board.
1541
1542
1543
1544
1545
1546
1547
1548
1549
1550
1551
NORMAN HIGH WINNER
IN GAME AT ARDMORE
The Norman high school football
team won a fast game from Ard-
more by a score of 13 to 9 on the Ard-
more field Friday. Ardmore's at-
tempts at end runs and line plays
were a failure.
Making all their gains on forward
passes, Norman succeeded in bucking
the line for good gains. Johnson, for
Norman, starred, while Potter, Free-
man and Anderson played a good
game for Ardmore.
Wayne Newton Rucker, Nor-
man, 409 W. Main.
Orla S. Braman, Norman, 113
E. Beal.
Walter Edwin Sadler, Norman,
106 W. Tonhawa.
Walter John Green, Norman,
117 W. Tonhawa.
Ray Elva Bullard, Norman, 310
W. Gray.
Homer Dewey Ives, Norman.
543 W. Main.
Floyd Albert Stephens, Nor-
man, 225 N. Peters.
Hutch el Adkins, Norman, 511
W. Main.
George William Stogner, Nor-
man, E. Acers.
Henry Joseph Eischeid, Nor-
man, W. Gray.
William Oliver Hoyles, Nor-
man, W. Gray.
Orville Jackson, Norman, 105
W. Tonhawa.
Fred Wilson Close, Norman,
215 W. Tonhawa-
Richard Whitten Seawright,
Norman. 327 W. Gray.
Ralph Lincoln Klein, Norman,
2271 W. Main.
Albert Pickard, Norman, 210
W. Tonhawa.
John Henry Anderhub, Nor-
man, 215 W. Gray. .
James Adron Andrews, Nor-
man, 218 W. Tonhawa.
William Freeman Dodds, Nor-
man, 124 N. Peters.
Alvin Stephen Manire, Nor-
man, 203 W. Main.
Henry Hickman Cochran, Nor-
man, 307 W. Tonhawa.
Charles Stowe, Norman, 210
man, 703 N. Jones.
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tions all the large boxes and lumber
used have been contributed by bus-
iness men.
Spanish Influenza to
Large numbers of Norman people
e planning to go either to Purcell
students' army training corps will be or to Oklahoma City on October 1
observed on the university campus and 2. when a special government
Tuesday at 11 a. m. with a flag rais- ,train carrying an exhibit of war tro-
ing and procession. "The observance i phies captured by American soldiers
of October 1 will witness the organ- j in the last big drive will stop for a
jzation of a unique and powerful I few hours in these cities and the
fighting force with peculiar signifi-' soldiers on board will tell the stories
Saturday cance for colleges. Patriotism is dem-1 of their experiences on the front. The
onstrated by the large number of j train was sent from Kansas City on
men who have enrolled in the college* j September 26, to tour the tenth fed
as candidates for the S. A. T. C." j eral reserve district in support of
These statements are quoted from the , the fourth liberty loan,
war department orders for induction, j The exhibit train will not come
The flag raising will be simultan- j through Norman, but will stop in
eous over the nation in more than 500 | Oklahoma City at noon Tuesday and
colleges. It will be at 12 o'clock by I stay until 5 a. m. Wednesday. It will
eastern time, but at 11 a. m. here. Al' j arrive in Purcell Wednesday at 11:1#
the candidates will assemble at this j a. m. and leave at 1:15 p. m. (>er-
time and will be inducted whether in; man howitzers, minnenv.-erfer •.
uniform or not. , guns which a few short wee!" 8T>
The townspeople are invited to the were raining shells on our troops,
university campus Tuesday to witness j French machine guns and field pieces,
the ceremony 1 some of which had been captured by
j the Huns and recaptured by our boys,
RANDOLPH CHANCELLOR 'as well as shells and all manner of
1« AffEPTED FOR NAVY : relics which show as nothing else can
what our men are going through
Randolph Chancellor, son ow Mrs.' over at the front are included in the
T. J. Chancellor, has been accepted exhibit.
in the naval service at the mobiliza- In addition to the captured tiophies
tion office at Oklahoma City. Chan- the exhibits will contain
type
John Odgen Martin, Norman,
110 E. Gray.
Rea DeWeese Lindsay, Nor-
man, 414 N. Peters.
Will Leonard Hopper, Norman,
111 N. Santa Fe. , - ,,
Henry C. Foster. Norman, Keep Men r rom Lamp cellor is a sophomore in the univer-
1204 N. Jones. i ! sjty and will be trained in the naval
Charlie Bcnjsniin (joins, Nor- , ,, j . %
man, 127 W. Gray, The call for thirteen men to be j unit of the students army training
Malcom Floyd McFarland, i sent to Camp Cody, M., on Octo-! corps. "A bunch of- fine boys, said
Norman 103 E. Hughbert. bcr g b the Cieveiand county draft the recruiting officer when six of the
V'Tain a"' board has been cancelled on account group of seven boys with Chancellor
Charles Burnard Kahoe, Nor- of the large number of cases of Span-, passed the physical examination
man, 322 N. Santa Fe. jsh influenza existing in the training 1
Ezelle B. Kimberlin, Norman, campSt aceordig to an order received 1 ce
William"' K Vinson, Norman, from Adjt. Gen. E. H. Gipson Friday.
Park Ave ! Similar orders for the cancelling , ,
Daniel K. Boyd,, Norman, 111 ,f calls are being sent out all over j Wheeler. The unit is now filled, the
man, 703 N. oJnes. Iir„if„,i States. Nearly all the remaining seven men needed having
ire infested with been obtained in Okie
and the govern-' week. All of the men '.v. 11 rece.v
ment will not aend more men to camps , training at the university unti
until the disease is checked. I fl' '"to aetual service.
, , TI , ,, ;he United
Robert Henrv Wingate, Nor-
man. 221 W." Gray ! training camps
Robert Lee Pierson, Norman, i Spanish influenza,
121 W. Main.
Henry Goins, Norman, 322 W.
Tonhawa.
,'orman L. Biggs, Norman.
304 N. Peters.
Daniel W. Boyd, Norman. 114
E. Frank.
F.lzie P. Green, Norman, 224
W. Gray.
Otto W. Williams, Norman.
120 E. Gray
Edgar J. Mays, Norman. 10
Daws
Other Norman boys besides Chan-
ellor in the naval section of the S.
A. T. C. include Elmer W. Wails,
Maurice T. McLaughlin and Robert P.
oma City this
Soldier Honor Rolls
Ready for Districts!
SWIHARTFOUND DEAD
HANGED BY OWN HAND
yr I
Honor rolls will be distributed ne>
week by the county council of de
fense to every district chairman in
U
several
of American machine guns
aero bombs, navy mines, shells, and
other American equipment which will
be taken to the front and used by
the American boys in No Man s
land in a few weeks. The soldiers,
who will -ccompany the train have
just returned from Frarce, ha\-
been "over the top" several limes,
and all of them have been wounded.
SOCIAL HOUR CLUB TO
WORK FOR RED CROSS
The Social Hour club, which ha-
been promine: . in war activities met
at the home of Mrs. H. P. Alden
Thursday afternoon and by unani-
mous vote in business session decided
to continue its regular meetings du-
i ini; the coming year. The club also
voted with one voice to spend each
Wednesday afternoon at work
any member 25 cents for
this work.
At its regular meetings
2 to 6
in the
to fine
absence
arm d that C. E. Swihart of Moore,
ho was found hanging in his barn
the county for the purpose of record- j Friday night on his farm two miles
Moses Henderson, Norman, N jng the names and addresses of all' east of Moore came to his death by
£ar'<-. „ , XT .no men in service from each district. \ bis own hands. Charles Swihart went will meet from 2 to 6 p. n
W.'1 Main. ir °' *°!nlan' i Dean Roy Gittinger, chairman of I to the barn on his father's farm about vote its full time to knitting f°r e
Robert A. Sewell, Norman I the Cleveland county council of de-' 5 o'clock in the morning and found lied < -s. a ii
1004 N, Peters. fense, has received the honor rolls i bis father dead hanging by the neck Mrs. Alden, wife of Major en, was
the club
and dc-
from the state council of defense, and
Charles I. Shears, Norman,
109 E. Daws. , . , j- 4. • t
Thomas H. Wilmuth, Norman. ! they wl11 be given to the district
Aor7 W. Gray. ! chairmen at a meeting which will be
William C. Stogner, Norman, called one night next week in the in-
t , Ac*Lrs- terest of the liberty loan campaign
John G. Hollingsworth, Nor- , , * v. •
man, 862 N. Jones. ^ C'y(le Pi^ard county chairman
(Continued on page two) of the liberty loan committee.
from a beam in the barn. This was present
the first that the family knew of the
death of Mr. Swihart.
The case was investigated by H. M.
Muir, justice of the police, and S. A.
Payne, both acting coroners, and a
jury of six members.
and spoke instructively of
military life "over there." The meet-
ing is reported as having been a very
enthusiastic one.
Special showing
Thursday at Ruckers.
of Furs next.
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