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CHICKASHA OKLAHOMA. TUESDAY JULY 23 1918.
NUMBER 172
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Chickasha
Daily
DVANCE
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PHYSICAL
EXAM. FOR
1918 CLASS
All Youngsters Who Registered
in June and Claimed no Ex-
emption Are Going
Through Mill Today.
RIGID ONCE OVER
GIVEN REGISTRANTS
Body From ers to Toes
Comes Under Scrutiny of
Doctors; L. .i of all
Defects in 'lurry.
The examination . 1 registrants'
who enrolled in the S draft class
and have waived c for exemp
tion began early this ning at the
First National bank ling under
a staff of six doctors I will con-
tinue this afternoon h. tomorrow
in case the work is not finished.
The man who has been through
the inspection rooms of the Grady
county draft department either
knows he is a man or has learned
what Btands in his road. From the
time the registrant answers to his
name at the door and start's to run
the gauntlet until he emerges ( from
the diessing rooms Uncle Sam's
draft requirements are administered
to him in dose courses. If he will
make a soldier he passes.
Examination aooiud used here are
divided into compartments and to
each division is entrusted the listing
of the man's fitness in one particu-
lar line. The war department must
know its draft soldiers.
The applicant for examination is
given the once-over and his physical
make-up from the slant of the ears
to the condition of the toes goes
on record. After the draft recruit
enters the examination quarters his
course is like this. An agent takes
his name age and residence and the
first data is listed on a card which
the man carries with him as a pass.
After he has stripped the weight
height chest measurements etc. are
noted and he is passed on for a
testing of the vital organs. Sight
charts ear nose and throat testers
then take him in hand and before he
is through every joint of the body
from the fingers back to the feet is
mapped on the examiners' books.
"Gosh it felt funny" said one of
the first youngsters who emerged
this morning. "They got more dope
on me in five minutes tnan I have
found out about myself in twenty-
one years. Believe me the dream's
short but you feel like you've been
omwhere."
There are about 100 men taking
the examination today and they
come from both the northern and
fouthern districts of the county. It
v.a?s impossible for doctors to state
(lis morning the probable percent
of the registrants that would pass
i he physical examination. The lads
rippeared husky enough and it i.i
ilioight that a high mark will be
i"! orded.
"Von never can tell ubout then
decors" sighed one youth. "A guy
may V.i'.nk he is ready to go into the
prize ring and when these birds get
tl.ruui.il. you may want to snexk
oft to some old man's home order
a pair of crutches an invalid's' chair
and hire a pair of huskies to carry
you around. They told me I have
the something-or other and I reckon
they are right. I told 'em I would
have it 'cut out and let it go at that."
Examining doctors are: S. O.
Marrs W. S. Corbin Walter Baze.
A. C. Crose C. S. Foster and M.
Coryell.
NAVY PASSES 500003
By United Press.
Washington July 23. The enlisted
personnel of the navy has passed the
half million mark. Secretary Daniels
announced today. The total strength
of the naval establishment is anpnx-
imately 594000.
REPRESENTATIVES
GORTON INTERESTS
AFTER FRANCHISE
George E. Montbomery and Clint
C. Steinberger of the Gorton com-
pany arrived in the city at noon to-
day to talte up the proposition of
securing a natural gas franchise in
Chickasha. Mr. 0jrton was here
a few minutes yesterday evening
but left on the Firefly for the north
where he will spend several days on
business His destination is not
krown but it is stated that he will
return to Chickasha Sunday.
Neither of Mr. Gorton's represen-
'ill'nfj linra rrrvt rit n ctitninAnt nf
the plans they have in mind at this I
PLANT FOR
HEATING IS
UNDER WAY
O. C. W. to Have Modern Cen-
tial Plant to Supply Heat
for All Buildings; Fin- (
ish by Sept. 15.
Touring the foundation for the new
$35000 central heating plant which
is under construction at the Okla-
homa College for Women was fin-
ished last week and bricking up on
the plant started yesterday. The
building will be finished and com-
pletely equipped for work before the
jrst of September L. U. Campbell
of the Campbell and Price contrac-
tors who have the work in charge
estimated today.
Practically all the material neces-
sary for completing the heating
plant proper is now on the grounds
and the delivery of remaining build-
ing stuffs is assured. Specifications
of the plant call for the laying of
heating mains to all buildings now on
for later additions to the college de-
the acmpus and also the provision
partments. Everything connected
with the building will be strictly mod-
ern the builders say.
Brickwork on the second story of
the dormitory annex will be fiinshed
by the middle of this week. Mr.
Campbell is convinced that all prob-
abilities of long delays to shipping
troubles and the failure to secure
brick have been forestalled. Brick-
masons as well as ordinary laborers
are plentiful Mr. Campbell declares
It is the plan of contractors to
have the dormitory finished before
September 15.
BELGIANS FOUND
NEW UNIVERSITY
ON BATTLE LINE
Washington July 23. The Pel-
giaus have actually iounuea a um-
; versity at the rront according 10 me
j Belgian official information service.
And the new seat of learning has
nearly 200 students.
The university is established in
the school at X and is equipped
with heat electric lights and chairs.
i The courses include rhetoric poetry
modern languages and courses for
degrees in philosophy and literature.
"It is easy to imagine how hard it
was to find competent professors"
J says the repcit on this latest effort
to restore old conditions to me pn-
laged country. "A soldier who is eli-
' gible for a course and anxious to
i follow it is detached and sent to
live at a unit maintained at X
itself. The university has received
me greater uii.mrM i.uu.
pouuet tne ueigian minister oi ans
and sciences and especially from
Lieut Cen. Bieuyck."
PRISONERS TO MUSKOGEE.
Deputies U. S. Marshals Jim Dil-
lon and Dick Worley left yesterday
'evening for Muskogee in charge ofnan jn the Bohemian Diet. She was
four federal prisoners who are to
await the next session of the federal
grand jury
The men were J. J.
Morton
Jim McLaughlin II. C.
j Kcece and E. II. Beals.
time but from their conversation
it appears that some speedy action
may be forthcoming. "We are on
the job and will get busy at once.
We are going to do things" said Mr.
Steinberger.
They' have arranged for a meeeing
with local business men this after-
noon and it is expected that some
definite action will result. A pro-
fessional man of Chickasha said
early this afternoon after having
had a short conference with the
Gorton people that Chickasha may
expect natural gas sooner than was
anticipated.
FARM MAN
IS STRONG
FOR SILOS
County Agent Declares They are
a Necessity to Farmer ; Ad-
vises Farmers to Get
Busy; Favors Pit Silo.
That silos are a necessity to the
farmer in the same ratio that a bank
with a safety deposit vault is to the
man who has money he wants to
keep is the opinion of J. W. Owens
county farm agent of Grady. Mr.
Owens says that he has been a silo
convert for many moons and advises
the farmers to get in Hue quickly.
Speaking on the subject this morning
Mr. Owens said:
"It ought not to take any argu-
ment now to convince a farmer that
silos are a necessity.
"If you should havo $1000 or any
amount of money which yon were in
danger of losing and decided that
a bank was the proper place to store
of deposit it and you should go to
the bank and learn that they kept
no safe nor vault in which to safely
keep your money it would not take
you many seconds to decide that
this was poor and unsound business.
'The silo is the vault or safe in
which you can deposit a crop which
may mean as much as the $1000 you
look to the bank but if you have no
silo then you are in the same pre-
dicament as the bank without a de-
pository. "There is nothing experimental
about the silo. If you have a loca-
tion to put down a pit silo there
should bo no time lost in doing so.
W. W. Yoder of Tabler and D. C.
Ilybarger of Chickasha were in my
office last Saturday and it took these
two men a few moments to decide
to dig one immediately. There is
plenty of idle labor now and plenty
of time if you begin immediately.
All necessary information can be ob-
tained from my office or the exten-
sion officee at Stillwater.
"I advise the farmers to think se-
aboilt lhs niatter and think
quickly. Their livestock can bo win-
tered for less money by saving the
corn before it Is too late to save."
BOHEMIA HAS
FIRST WOMAN
LEGISLATOR
Washington July 23. To Mrs.
Vikova-Kuneticka belongs the dis-
tinction of being the first woman in
Central Europe to be elected to a
neutral press relorts one of vhich
says:
"She was present at the Targue
constituent assembly on January 6
a meeting of all Czech deputies
elected by the free choice of the
people of the Czech lands to the
four legislative bodies the only wo-
(deprived of her mandate by the de
' cision of the Austrian government
on the ground that the Austrian con-
' stitution does not provide for the
J election of women deputies."
TO ENROLL
NURSES FOR
GRADY CO.
Quota is 15 of the 2500(3 Asked
of Entire Country; To Re-
place Those Gone Over-
seas in Service.
MAY SELECT FROM
INDUSTRIAL REGISTER
Will be Placed in Two Classes;
Work is Being Carried on
Through Women's Com-
mittee of Defense.
Active stops toward raising Grady
county's student nurse reserve quota
of fifteen volunteers will begin at
once according to a statement made
by Mrs. Orin Ashton chairman of
the woman's committee of the Coun-
cil of Defense. Mrs Ashton receiv-
ed communications from the national
committee- of the Council of Defense
urging an immediate response in
every district to the call and quar-
ters will be opened here for the re-
serve nurse enrollment.
Despite the fact that no definite
working schedules have been receiv-
ed from the national headquarters for
nurse enrollment Mrs. Ashton states
that the canvassing work has been
assigned to the woman's committee
of the defense council and she will
start recruiting . at nt'"e.
from nineteen to thirty-five years of
age will be signed up for the service
tin two classes prefrred and de-
ferred divisions. Registrants who
qualify in the physical examinations
will then be submitted to the chair-
man of the state division of tho wo-
man's committee and permanent se-
lections will be made. The local
chairman is convinced that practi-
cally oil volunteers will be accepted.
Selections will be started from
the names of two hundred women
who enrolled during the industrial
registration conducted here some
time ago and the names will be sent
to state division before August IS
Mrs. Ashton stated this morning.
High school graduates and women
with some college education will be
given preference in making out the
local quota.
Referring to the need of quick ac-
tion on enrolling 2lj000 student re-
serve nurses during the next few
weeks J. C. Gorgas surgeon general
of the U. S. army issued yesterday
the following statement' to all state
woman's committee chairmen: "Be-
cause the nation's reserve has been
depleted by the calling of literally
thousands of graduate nurses for ser- I
vice in military and naval hospitals
it is absolutely necessary immediate-
ly to call 23000 student nurses for
training in American hospitals."
The enrollment will begin July 29
according to tho surgeon general's
schednie.
SAVOY HOTEL WILL
HAVE NEW MANAGER
The Savoy hotel .which has been
under the management of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Johnston for several years
has been bought by T. H. Harris of
Duncan and the change in manage-
ment will become effective August
1. Mr. Harris has been here for the
past few days looking over the city
and the prospects for a modern ho-
tel. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston expect to
go north for several months after the
new manager takes charge but will
malic their home here.
TURKEY TO ASSUME ALL
RESPONSIBILITY TO U. S.
Dy United Press.
Washington July 23. Turkey has
promised to do her full duty toward
America should it develop that her
troops are responsible for the anti-
Anierican outrages at Tabriz. The
Swedish foreien office renorts that
I Turkey is still investigating but is
; having trouble with communications.
THE WEATHCR
For Oklahoma.
Tonight and Wednesday
partly cloudy.
Local Temperature.
Maximum '.18; minimum 73.
Rainfall today .11 inch.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES.
By United Press.
Washington July 23. General
Pershing reported today 105 casual-
ties. Twenty-four were killed In ac-
tion 13 are dead from other causes.
07 are wounded severely and one Is
missing.
There were 2 Marino casualties
reported. Four were killed in ac-
tion three are dead from wounds
15 are severely wounded and one is
missing.
ROLL CALL
FOR GRADY
MEN TODAY
20 Selectmen from Northern Dis-
trict Assemble; Will Leave
Tomorrow for Camp Tra-
vis; 20 More to Go
to Georgia.
Tomorrow afternoon twenty draft
registrants of tho 1917 class will en-
train from the northern board for
camp 'iravis Fort ' Worth Texas
and Thursday twenty more from the
southern board leave for Fort Ogle-
thorpe Georgia completing the July
quota for Grady county. First roll
call will be sounded this afternoon
for the northern district increment
and early tomorrow the southern
board boys will be called together.
With forty more men taken from
the Class 1 lists from the county the
draftable lists of the old enrollment
will be practically exhausted until
further reclassifications are made
the local boards state. Further calls
will be taken from the 1915 regis-
trants as soon as physlcial examina-
tions are completed.
S. C. Durbin chairman of the
local board received an order this
morning for tho induction of three
negroes two from the northern board
and one from the southern to en-
train between August 1 and August
5 for Camp Dodge Des Monies
Iowa. The names of registrants se-
lected for this call will be announced
i.i a few days.
TARE OVER
ALL LINES
ON JULY 31
Ey United Press.
Washington July 3. The na-
tion's communication lines go under
government control on July 31.
President Wilson today signed the
executive order providing for fed-
eral wire operation Postmaster
General Burleson will supervise the
work and David J. Lewis' will be the
director.
Take Over Cape Canal.
By United Press.
Washington July 23. The govern-
ment today took over the Cape Cod
canal as a direct result of the U-
boat menace off the Atlantic coast
and also to facilitate coal shipment
to New England.
The rail road administration ap-
plied fo rand received the executive
approval of the privilege of operat-
ing the canal.
AMERICANS TARE MORE
TOWNS ALONG MARNE-
S0ISS0NS BATTLE LINE
BROOM CORN IS
READY HARVEST
IN GRADY COUNTY
Some Fields Big Producers;
Straw of Good Quality;
Brush is Fine.
Broom corn harvest in Grady coun-
ty has opened in full blast according
to farm agent j. v. Owens who re-
turned Monday afternoon from tho
northern part of the county where
cutting Is under way. The broom
corn that was not killed by the con-
tinued drouth will yield an unusually
good quality of straw Mr. Owens
believes.
Samples of broomcorn raised near
Gilbert were brought .to tho farm
bureau this lornlng an t if the dis-
play which was collected at random
over the patches is representative of
the crop in Grady county it will turn
out much better than in some of the
exclusive broomcorn regions of the
state. One field near Gilbert which
has been overflowed this season is
producing a brush above the stand-
ard in length and the crop Is uniform
according to Mr. Owens
In the dryer parts of the county
broom corn yields will be much
shorter however the farm agent
believes. In many places the fields
are spotted only small patches pro-
ducing any broom straw. Crops that
were planted late have been dried
up.
Gathering and threshing the broom
corn crop usually requires nt least
two weeks but this year's yield can
be harvested in much less time it. i:i
thought. Kxhibits from the broom-
corn field north of Chickasha are
being collected today for tho Grady
county free fair.
STOCK BREEDERS
WILL MEET WITH
FREE FAIR BOARD
Short horn cattle breeders of Gra-
dy county will meet with the free
fai rboard at the Farm Bureau Satur-
day afternoon at two o'clock to per-
fect plans for a record stock show
at the September fair here fair
board members announced today. All
fine stock raisers of the county are
urged to be present and discuss an
organization of county breeders and
plan with fair authorities the ani-
mal display.
Although the full purpose of Sat-
urday's meeting has not been given
out it is known that special premi
ums for fine stock will be discussed.
Independent prizes aside from the
regular lair premiums may be made
up by the stockmen fair directors
state. Only registered stock will be
judged at the September fair.
DU RANT IN TOWN.
W. A. Durant of Ditrant candidate
for the democratic nomination for
governor was a visitor in Chickasha
today. Mr. Durant has been prom-
inent in public life in Oklahoma
since the state was admitted to the
union. He has been a member of
every legislature and is at present
speaker of the house. Mr. Durant
has always been a friend of the 0.
C. W. having supported every meas-
ure in behalf of it including the
act locating the institution in Chick-
asha. EAT POTATOES
SAVE
ml
French Also Advanca But Hun
Resistance Stiffens ; Enemy
is Withdrawing Big Guns
From Area.
CROWN PRINCE HAS
TROUBLE GETTING OUT
Only Seven Mile Strip Free from
Allied Shells in Threatened
Pocket; British Gain in
Picardy.
By-United Press.
London July 23. Tho Americana
are reported to have captured Buz-
ancy four miles south of Soissona
on tho Chateau-Thierry highway.
The French are reported to have
taken Oulchy-leChateau.
Withdraw Artillery.
By United Press.
Paris July 23. The German artil-
lery in the Rheims and Soissona
regions is comparatively inactive in-
dicating that there is a big with-
drawal of guns under way.
Yanks "Carry On"
By United Press.
London July 23. The Americans
havo captured Jaulgonne on the
north bank of the Marno and are
continuing the advance It was learn-
ed authoritatively this afternoon.
Three hundred prisoners were taken
at. this point. The German counter-
attack at Vandiers ten miles east
of Jaulgonno was repulsed. The
French hold the entire Marno bend
from Chassins to Prelop.
Between the Aisne and the Ourcq
the French and Americans are pro-
gressing. The French are .reported
today state that it has been regain-
ed. An unofficial report received
yesterday stated that the French
were driven back half n mile north
of Chateau-Thierry by a counter-attack
along the Marue valley. The
French experienced difficulty in
crossing the Marno at Verneuil ow-
ing to artillery and machine gun
fire of the Germans. The crossing
was completed at Fort Ablnson last
night.
Bomb Assembly Point.
By United Press.
Paris July 23. Allied aviators set
fire to Feere-en-Tardenois and Flam
the point of enemy concentration
within the Soissons-B.heims salient.
More than 32000 pounds of bombs
were dropped on the two cities.
The allies are still progressing
at several points on the Marne front
and the Germans continue their with-
drawal toward Velse. Operations
that were noted north of Montdidier
this morning are regarded as an
v(!ort ( Ive tho French post-
lions in that region.
German Defense Stiffens.
By United Press.
Witli the American Armies in
France July 23. Despite the stiffen-
ing resistance to the allies 'he ad-
vance of the entente still continues
in the Rheims-Soissons salient. The
Americans are pushing forward on
a five mile front between Grisolles
and Dezu. North of Chateau-Thierry
the French and Americans are mak-
ing some progress farther eastward
an dnorth of the Marne.
The British and Italians are ad-
vancing slowly on wide sectors be-
tween the Marne and Rheims. Be-
tween Oulchy-Le-Chateau nd Sois-
sons the Germans are making a des-
perate fight following unsuccessful
counter attacks. The battle here is
temporarily resolved into an artillery
duel.
In Tight Place.
Dy United Press.
Paris July 23. As a result of
the allied bombardment on both
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