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OKLAHOMA. CITY
triSTORICAl, fOTWTY
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VOL. VI. NO. 186.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DON'T BELIEVE THE
STORIES YOU HEAR
BIG AMERICAN GUNS TALK PEACE
WITH SIXTEEN-INCH PROJECTILES
PIAVE GAIN SIGN OF
AUSTRIAN SURRENDER
Propagandists Are Spreading Lies' j
Concerning Conditions at Many
Army Camps.
WRONG IMPRESSIONS WERE
I The bombardment of the Mezieres- , . .
'Sedan-Longuyon railway is the most Crumbling Armies Remove Last
By FRED S. FERGUSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
1 With the American Army in France, serious the boche has yet faced, as i
'October 29,-The guns which are fir- this line serves for switching pur- |
ing on the Montmedy-Longuyon rail- Poses for troops from east to west,
flVFN OUT I AST WINTER | way are shooting 25 miles. (This and is also the mam line for supplies.
' shows the guns are emplaced from 11 *s the stem the bottle which the
When the Story Sounds Unreason- five to ten miles behind the Ameri- j Germans must keep open. Breaking
able, Ask Informer Where He [can lines, as the battle front is about °* -*ne means breaking of the con-
Got Information. j fifteen to twenty miles from this nectior. between the German armies
line.) They are much bigger caliber >n the east and west except by almost
CAMP TRAVIS, Tex., Oct. 20—Ger-'than the boche guns which fired < n impossible circuituous route,
man propagandists again arc seeking I Paris. The German gu.is \cre nine Big Guns Talk Peace,
to cause dissatisfaction and heart ] inch. The American guns, it has been I The commander of the big guns is
DEMOCRATIC CHANGES
DECLARED UNDER WA Y
Hope of Hapsburgs to Main-
tain Old Dominion.
HY J. W. T. MASON
United Press Staff Correspondent
..NEW YORK, October 30.—The
Austro-Ilungarian army is crumbling
before the British and Italian attacks
along the Paive, suggesting that if
the Hapsburgs plea for an armistica
is not granted an unconditional sur-
render in the field may be the result.
The allied advance across
BULGAR'S PEACE THROUGH
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
, 1
u. >
BY WALLACE IRWIN ..... :
Of all the elaborately worded peace
proposals which have come to us n-
cross the Rhine and the Danube there
has only been one worthy of our ac-
ceptance—that which was brought
to a French commanding general by
eager Bulgarian envoys who came,
crying:—
"We are beaten!! Disarm us and
make such terms as seem to you to
be just and fit."
Bulgaria did not write a circular
ria didn't do these things because she
aches among the thousands of home ' announced, are sixteen inch. the biggest peace spokesman on the Paive has carried the Italians nearly
in Texas and Oklahoma, and other! French Admire Guns. west front. He is a monarch when to the Livenza river. The stream
sections of the country, from which | The big guns made a great hit with ! it comes to consideration of his pets, fornix the midway Austro-Hungar-
men have gone forth to do their part the French who first saw them in the 1 In one instance, when he was notified ian di fense toward the famous Tag- no^e to t|lp p;ntente powers, intima- j
in the present war. lnsiduous and | St. Quentin and Laon regions. The j that the French intended to move his liamento positions. Beyond these ( something should be done
venomous as the plans have been, latter point was completely smashed | monsters at a certain hour, he drove there is a clear sweep to the Italian j n;.me of humanity or that
they have always been discovered by them, as were all the enemy rail- ; his American engines and cars out frontier. If Austria-Hungary remain waf, muc)l to be Rjlid on both
in time to prevent them being sue- ways leading from that town. |on the line regardless of other traf- for the war but a little longer, it ^ that a dispassionate lectur.
cessl'ul. j Guns of almost similiar caliber next fic, which was immediately cleared ; should require no insuperable effort courg'c at t)le nafrue WOuld do much |
Now comes the German and the appeared at the St. Mihiel salient, to permit him to pass. on the part of the allies to push the ^ s()othe the savage breast. Bulga
German sympathizer with stories where they fired on the Metz region. All questions of whether the guns battle line well into the enemy s
"from reliable people" as to the hor- Description of these guns is pro- could pass through certain tunnels, country once more.
rible conditions which have been hibited for military reasons, aside and whose jurisdiction they would The present season is the same as
found to exist in hospitals and mili- from the fact that they are trans- come under, were swept aside by the that selected by the Teutons last.
tary training camps of the country. porte(i by railway. The guns are of commander with the statement that year for their major offensive against
According to these people the men such gize that the French despaired he had to go through the tunnels and Italy. The German drive started ^
are given no attention, they are al- of the Americans ever getting them was not looking for the proper juris- along the Isonzo October 24 and the _
lowed to die of cold, or of hunger. tQ the front diction but targets. Italians were forced back to the Paiva
They have been given no medicine, or "Made in America" . The cars of the gun carry com- by November 9. The allies may
proper medical attention. A]1 the accompanying equipment is plete equipment, down to food and well anticipate the possibility of bet-
Wild Stories Circulated entirely American. The monsters1 clothing as well as the giant shells tering this accomplishment in the
Then some subtle German mind j were brought over lashed to the decks which are hurled over the hilb at the immediate future, since Austro-Hun-
conceived the idea of having doctors ' o(> shjps, boche.
and nurses caught in the act of in-
jecting influenza germs into the food
of men in the camp. To make this
more realistic they decided these man
or women should be "shot at sun-
rise.'" Then they spread their sto-
ries in the hope of making people
lose faith in the government and its
efforts. This story was started in
various sections of the country and
have been attributed to practicallj
every camp in the United States.
Added to this have been frequent
gary is now so near dissolution.
Army on Point of Mutiny
U. S. GOVERNMENT MAY DRY I COMMERCIAL STOCKS OF FOOD U ,s <llfficult t(l se®.1
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES | PRODUCTS IN U. S. OCT. X. 1918 g°veinment can countj y ^ g^ ^
WASHINGTON D. C., Oct. 29.—
Establishment of an industry within
the United States to dry fruits arid
vegetables as a means of conserving
the food supply of the nation is one
of the important projects started by
the Department of Agriculture un-
der authority conferred in the reg-
ular Agricultural Appropriation Act Member 1
telephone calls from anonymous par- , recent]y passed. stocks
ties to prominent Red Cross people An appropriation of $250,000 is in- j represe
peace by negotiation in 1914 when the
the loyalty of a large part of the
WASHINGTON, D, C„ Oct. 28.—i^oops fac^.. thC( sta- heavy German boots were stamping
According to a food survey of the de a lan~- 0 s" , over the twisted bodies of German
*-«* <•« Aru""re *r - ' •"/ r* <-
ober 1, 1918, the commercial stocks . jt cou)d re()uire on)y „ forth to conquer the world carrying
tha! ,dat'- slight urging to start a mutinous her terms of peace behind her flam-
bushels as b f . , enwerfers and her poison gas projec-
movement in the army.
was honestly tired of war, honestly
desirous of peace and—what is more i
important for us—honestly beaten.
Bulgaria has shown us on a small j
ale wh3f —e must exact of Germany 1
on a great stale. Germany o" course, j
would prefer to negotiate than sub- j
mit to the law—or just as any bandit j
would rather be ivied by a jury of j
train robbers thf)n by legal author-
ities.
Prussians Born Evaders
To the Prussian mind negotiation}
is merely another word for evasion !
, , „ _ . , . to this basic acceptance the question
Were the doves of Potsdam cooing,
[By United Press.]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Ger-
many has sent a supplementary
communication to the United
States on the subject of peace.
It reached the Swiss legation
this forenoon and was delivered
hy the Swiss charge shortly be-
fore noon.
The new message described
what Germany was doing in the
way of constitutional changes to
make the government responsible
to the people.
It was said that it does not al-
tir the peace situation as it
stands today by making any new
proposals.
It is understood to have been
unsolicited and constitutes a vol-
untary move on the part of the
German goiernment. The text
may not be made public immed-
iately.
VERSAILLES CONFERENCE
TO ADOPT WILSON'S PLANS
By ROBERT J. BENDER
United Press Statf Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—The Ver-
sailles conference will agree to ad-
here to President Wilson's peae.'
points.
This was stated in authoritativc-
American official and entente diplo-
matic quarters today. As a corollary
of wheat
amounted
reported for
to 195,997,839
an armistice has been given over
to the military advisers, and accord-
ing to the United Press' information
armistice terms will be forthcoming
before the week ends.
against 111,331,842 bushels reported
on hand in similiar survey for Sen-
Thereafter Italy might refuse to
consider any terms of surrender at
tors,
her
It was only when she started
disastrous course backword
STATE STILL UNDER
STRICT QUARANTINE
The following letter explains the
prominent Ked (Jross peop
in San Antonio and elsewhere alleg-
ing that men in camps were without
cover, were without food, etc. These
workers, often in the middle of the
night, have hurried in cars to the
places mentioned and found that their
informant merely had been seeking
to cause trouble.
It will be recalled that last win-
ten when pneumonia broke out in
the camps of the country that fre-
quent rumors of a very rimilar na-
ture were circulated. These were
found to be false. Then it was charg-
ed ground glass had been found in
food of soldiers at training camps.
Again this proved false. Then the
propagandists switched their efforts
to flying camps and it was charged
that engines had been tampered with,
that wires and nuts on the wings had
eluded in that act to enable the Sec- ^he country, nor do they include
retary of Agriculture to determine st0cks on farms. The stocks re-
the best means and processes of ported for October 1 were held by
dahydration and to disseminate in- ^2,979 firms, consisting of elevators,
formation as to the value and suita- warehouses, grain mills, and whole-
bility of dried products for food. Au- 1 ga]e deaiers. These holdings, like
thority is given to establish and op- j those of September 1, 1918, were
erate plants for drying fruits, vege- near]y three times as large as the
tables, and other edible products fox stocks held by the same firms a year
supplying food for the Army and | ear]jeri the actual percentage for
Navy, if such action is deemed neces- October 1 being 297.6 per cent of the
sary by the President. Co-operation jgjy stocks.
with commercial drying concerns is
also provided. MRS. DOROTHY WRIGHT
The Secretary of Agriculture has Mrs. Dorothy Wright, wife of
designated an advisory board to ad- Qarianci Wright, and a.ire thirty years.
1. These figures refer to a]] but would djctate her own peace through the mud of Flanders that it pregent situation 0f the influenza
a or. ly reported and do not - AuBtro.H ian soil. This pos-I dawned upon her that there was such pidemic;
.it the total commercial stocks ^ deyelo t undoubtedly is « thing as broad human.tansm and j oklahoma City, Oct. 26, 1918
ti«n AV l/i t ll Alf in/llllAO ! ,-i! J*, .. f > i Art /I nml T A A n 1 I Lr O — . .
justice for friend and foe alike.
Let the peace table be the battle-
field and the terms be pinned there
by the bayonets of the allies. If Ger-
many wants peace let von Hinden-
burg present his sword, hilt first, to
Marshall Ferdinand Foch. That will
strongly influencing the Vienna sta-
tesmen to plead with president Wil-
son for an immediate armistice. The
Austro-Hungarian government be-
lieves it will secure better eventual
terms even if it accepts a drastic ar-
mistice now. than if it waits until the , t
Italians again cross the Isonzo. be a peace note which will amount to The influen;:a epidemic still is at its
This means that Austro-Hungary I something and will save much paper, height. From many sections of the
wants American intercession to save ! anrl composition. ' state come calls for physicians, nurses
the Hapsburg empire from utter des- I In ttle west wllen the stlenff , and other assistance. We appreciate
truction. If America declines, the , the local bad man in the corner, hi:
Editor of the Transcript,
Dear Sir:—Constant inquiry is
being made of the State Department
of Health when schools, churches and
theatres may be re-opened. The pub-
lic should understand that the situa-
tion in Oklahoma is most serious.
Hapsburgers' end is
| that the quarantin e is an inconven-
not far distant, hands over his head, it's good form )ence gut Jt is imposed solely in the
minister this appropriation and out-; dieti at her home near Franklin Tues
line and control the work to be done j day afternoon; October 29th, at eight
under it. The advisory board is to! o'clock.
Consist of representatives of the bu- j Mrs, Wright ate a,, hearty supper
i reaus within the Department of Ag- and was sjtting in a rocking chair,
been loosened that goggles had been I ricuUure which are concerned with knittjng when she became suddenly ill
issued of such nature as to make vis- j food producti0n, regulation and con- , ghe fell {rom the chair and died in
ion defective and many aviators had servati0„, and of one representative j y few minutes before a doctor
been killed as a result. [ and of the Sanitary Corps of the .ml]d arrive
Charges Against Red Cross | Arrnv I .... ' , j • , j u n,
T .. , Army. The deceased is survived by the
Later came nation-wide charges i ..., ,
husband and two small children, and
DECLARE ALLIES SHOULD
SACCHARIN NO SUGAR SUB-
STITUTE: IS ADULTERATION.
to say, "You stand there pardner
I'll do the talking."
The Allies will know perfectly well
interest of the people,
be maintained an hour
necessary. It must,
It will not
longer than
however, be
how to frame a peace note when the ! maintained and obeyed as long as pub-
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 29,-
The use of sacharin in foods is re-
garded as an adulteration under the
Food and Drugs Act, according to a
time comes.
lie safety demands it, which is em-
phatically the case at present. From
present indications it will be ten
days or two weeks before it will be
safe to hold public meetings and open
HOLD FIRMLY TOGETHER
(By United Press.)
LONDON, Oct. 30.—Resolutions
unanimously passed last week at the
conference of French, Italian, Bel-
numerous friends, who deeply sympa-
thize with the bereaved ones.
The funeral services were held a
Franklin Wednesday afternoon at!
three o'clock and interment was made
in the Franklin cemetery.
that Red Cross garments issued to
the soldiers by the Red Cross were
being marketed generally at a price
from fifty to seventy-five cents. This
was an effort to discourage Red
Cross knitters giving their time and
money and assistance to the govern-
ment. The government since has ta- gjan and British sections of the inter- (;j££jjiaNY' ADMITS AUSTRIA
ken charge of all knitted garments j aujed parliamentary committee de-J ni'p OF WAR FOR GOOD
and issues them as it does other j c,are 4hat it is essential that the IS °
clothing, requiring a strict account- | nation!, now united in the fight for; (By United pres3)
m x", ,, f ,u tt •<- 1 liberty should maintain their close COPENHAGEN Oct. 30.—Com-
Now, with the soldiers of the Unit-j d cordial association until the dan- menting 0n the Austrian note Ger-
ed States carrying the Stars and | Kers stm threatening have been re- ,ibera, newspapcrs say there is
Stripes through Germany s impreg-1 moved by a completo overthrow 0f no use to complain and that Au?tnVs
lines, the prapagandists a.p the enemy powers, and the risk of a actjon was
TAFT APPROVES.
The President declines an armistice
statement issued by the United States the conditions of which in the judg
Department of Agriculture. ment of our military authorities do | schools.
The department had been asked by j not secure the present military su-
various interests to reverse, or, at.! premacy of our armies in the field. |
least to reconsider, the position which | He further declines an armistice as j
it took in 1911 upon the use of sac-j long as Germany continues her pres p
charin in food brought under the ent brutal, bloody violation of the
jurisdiction of the Federal Food and I laws of war, in her murder of inn .
Drugs Act. This position in effect j cent non-combatant passengers at j
is that investigation has shown that sea and her wanton looting and de-
the continued use of saccharin for a struction of French and Belgian vi!- At her home, 138 Ease A Street,
long time, in quantities over three- lages and the kidnaping of their in- Capitol Hill, Mrs. Gertrude Symcox,
tenths of a gram a day, is likely to i habitants. ^ wife of Scott Symcox, died on Mon-
DR. JOHN W. DUKE,
State Commissioner of Health
L. O. WELDON,
A. Surgeon, U. S. Public Health
Service.
MRS. GERTRUDE SYMCOX.
impair digestion and that the addition | The peace by negotiation is far re-
f saccharin for cane sugar and other j moved. The all-highest must throw
nable
(Continued on page twe)
REGARD AUSTRIAN NOTE AS
EQUIVALENT TO SURRENDER
recurrence in the future of disaster.,
such as have now befallen mankind
has been averted."
(By United Press.)
LONDON, Oct. 30.—The Austrian
note to President Wilson is tanta-
mount to surrender, in the opinion of
well-informed authorities and offi-
cials in London.
It is said by well-authorized sources | follows:
that the conference at Paris soon will
present to Germany the terms of an
armistice, which, it is believed, will
include the occupation of Metz, the
Krupp arsenal at Essen and other
fortresses of the enemy.
It is believed in diplomatic circles
that the publication of the allied
armistice terms will lead to hoisting
of the white flag of surrender by the
enemy forces.
ONLY FOUR OKLAHOMANS
LISTED IN TODAY'S LIST
as no surprise to Germany.
"We must regard Austria as defi-
nitely out of the war," is the concen-
sus of German press comment.
Austrian newspapers consider the
alliance with Germany as finally
broken.
forms of sugar reduces the food
value of the product and hence lower?
its quality. Therefore, the Secre-
tary of Agriculture declared that ho
would regard as adulterated under
the Food and Drugs Act any foods
containing saccharin, which might be
brought under the jurisdiction of thejcAPT. SUMNER T. BISBEE
law. IN WAR WORK CAMPAIGN.
The department declares it is aware |
of no investigations which contribute Oklahoma City, Oct. 28th.—The
off his mask and resume command.
The battle goes on. The throne of vuh pneumonia
the Hohenzollerns is the forfeit. We
should be profoundly thanlful.—
William Howard Taft in the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
day, October 28th, at 5:25 o'clock, a.
m., after an illness of about three
weeks with influenza, complicated
Mrs. Symcox was only 25 years,
seven months and two days old. She
was a daughter of John W. Grotts of
Norman, and grew to womanhood in
Cleveland county, having lived here
since a small child.
She is survived by her husband and
three small children, father, several
brothers and sisters.
The funeral services were held at
any more recent evidence pointing to position as Oklahoma State Publicity
the harmlessness of saccharin. It has j Chairman for the United War Work the undertaking parlors of Meyer &
The casualty list for the war de l MEN IN NEXT DRAFT CALL therefore declined to reverse its de- Campaign has been accepted by Meyer Wednesdsiy, October 30, at 1:30
partment of Wednesday gives tho| The local draft board has received vision and it has regarded it as un- Capt. Sumner T. Ilisbee, formerly p m > Rcv c S- Waiker officiating,
names of only four Oklahomans, as j Word that there will be a call for one fitting at this time to reopen the managing editor of the Daily Okla- and interment was made in the I. O.
Hows: hundred fifty men to go to Camp question for the reason that a case homan, but now working with the o. F. cemetery.
Corporal Joseph F. Webb of Roff, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, on j now pending in the courts in which i Federal Food Administration. Capt,
died of wounds. ja date sometime between November the issues are presented clearly. I1'' Bisbee has been an active man in
Sergeant Leonard B. Armstrong of | nth and November 15th. department will endeavor to press the j journalistic circles here since the
Oklahoma City, Private Cecil M. Bar- j This number of men to go will pos- j trial of this case.
; days of the opening.
nett of Durant, died of disease.
Private Eddie M. Whtson of Blan
chard, wounded severely.
sibly require an examination and clas
sification of many more than this
number, so those men who know they
| will be in class one, should get ready j
Will pasture and take good care j to answer the call, should
$6,500,000,000 IN BONDS SOLD.
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Indica-
their I tions here are that the total of the
of milk cows for their milk.—Robt.1 names be among the first few hun-! Fourth Liberty loan will reach $6,-
Lessly, Moore, Route 3. 186-7t* J dred on the list. j 500,000,000.
n::.k >ro:n Ft. Sill—Mrs. Frank
Starzer and Miss Florence Hare re-
turned Tuesday from Ft. Sill, where
they have been for several days vis<
Sixteen-Year Old Mother—Mr. and iting with Mrs. Starzer's son, Ser-
Mrs. Guy Morgan are the proud par geant O. W. Peters.
ents of a ten-pound baby girl, born
October 21st. Mrs. Morgan is tho, 1916 model Ford in good condition,
sixteen-year old daughter of Mrs. D ; for sale
J. Britt of the Ten Mile flat.
Parker.
at a bargain.—See L. P.
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