The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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THI CARTER EXPRESS
CROWDER ESTIMATES ALL
OF CLASS ONE IN TRAIN-
ING BY JAN. 1; CLASS
TWO TO FOLLOW.
AMERICA HUS 800,000
MEN IN FRANCE NOW
<»«n. March 8aya There Will Be Mil
Non Over There By July 1,1918,
Better Than 100,000 Yet
To Go Over Thla
Month,
Washington.—Three million Amerl-
tans will be under army by August 1,
next, the senate military committee
was told by Provost Marshal General
Crowder. Ext'ension of the age limit
In the army draft bill will be neces-
sary, General Crowder said, If the
present rate of draft calls Is con-
tinued. He estimated that all th'e men
(n Class 1 would be exhausted soon
after next January 1.
Heavy Calls In 1919.
Requisitions from the draft to com-
plete the 3,000,000 total by August 1,
Gen'eral Crowder said, have been
made. Of these, 2,000,000 will be draft
registrants, and the others volunteers
and national guardsmen.
“Everybody thinks there will be
heavy calls during the first six months
of 1919," was a significant statement
made by General Crowder.
General Crowder approved the gen-
eral principle of the bill Introduced
by Senator France of Maryland, ex-
tending the registration ages from 18
to 45 years, thereby providing addi-
tional men for military and industrial
service. He did not, however, approve
the age limits fixed In the bill.
May Go'lnto Other Classes.
After outlining the plans of the war
department for additional calls, Gen-
eral Crowder said that at the present
rate class one would be exhausted by
the end of the pres'ent year and that
unless the age limits are extended and
another registration held, It will be
o'ecessary early next year to call men
In class two and probably soon there-
after In class three.
Final figures of classification of tha
first registration totaling 8,689,447’
Were given. The registrants were
shown to have b'een divided as fol-
lows:
Class one, 2,428,729; class two,
2,509,666; class three, 427,870; class
tour 3,483,326; class five, 1839,856.
* Progress of Draft.
General Crowder submitted figures
showing the progress of the draft this
year. A total of ,327,512 men, all
from class on'e, will have been called
by the end of July, divided by months
as follows:
January, 23,288; February, 83,779;
March, 132,484; April, 174377; May,
360,230; June, 83,354; July, 290,000.
Troops Limited Only By Ships.
To give the allies a mastering super-
iority of numbers over the German
Invaders, Am'erican troops are being
rushed to France as rapidly as trans-
port tonnage will permit. When the
purpose will b'e realized cannot be
foretold, but more than 800,000 men
have been sent overseas and this num-
ber will be increased to 1,000,000 early
in July.
These facts weYe announced by
General Peyton C. March, chief of
staff, Inaugurating the government’s
new policy of giving newspaper men a
weekly summary of battle conditions.
The numbers of American troops now
overseas and soon to go were dis-
closed by the general In explaining
the situation, which makes th'e need
for American man power urgent.
Graphio Picture Drawn.
Facing a great may in the battle
lines with every operation of the Ger-
man offensive shown upon it, General
March drew a graphic picture of a
single gigantic campaign extending
from Rheims to the sea where the al-
lied lines have be'en battered back In
four successive phases.
The great wedge of assault has now
Increased the allied lin'es sixty-six
miles from Rheims to Ypres.
“In condition of this kind," says
General March, with a quick gesture
at the map," where a new lin’e has to
be held and where the attacks of the
Germans have been made with such
largb forces as they have, the Import-
ance of getting American troops to
the front Is more and more pre-emi-
nent.
"We have passed the 800,000 mark
in troops shipped overs'eas," he said.
The extent of American troop move-
ment was particularly striking be-
cause Secretary Baker stated less
than a week ago that "more than 700,-
000" had embarked.
MEN 18 TO 50W0RK OR FI6HT |
PRESIDENT WILSON HAS AP
PROVED COMPLSORY MOVE
Othsr States Art Asked to Adopt Ex-
tenilon “Work or Fight" Rule
of Maryland.
Washington.—President Wilson has
approved a nation-wide compulsory
work movement to supplement Provost
Marshal General Crowder’s "work
fight" regulations. In a lotter to Gov-
ernor Emerson C. Harrington of Mary
land the president endorsed adoption
by other states of the Maryland com
pulsory work law .under which the
“work or fight" principle are made ap-
plicable to all men between the ages
of 18 to 50.
General Crowder also has approver
the movement and believes that It not
only will give greater effect to hla
new regulations, but will further ale
the country in Its task of winning the
war by reaching men below and above
the draft ages. Without some such law
as proposed, either state or national,
it was pointed out, men ot draft age
who cannot pass the physical require-
ments for active or limited military
service cannot be made to engage In
necessary occupations.
DUTCH PROTECT HUN SHIP
Peculiar View of Netherlands On In-
ternational Law Is Shown,
London.—Direct charge that the
Dutch government sheltered a Ger
man vessel at a Dutch port to save It
from being captured by the British, is
made in a British press dispatch just
made public.
The case was that of the Marla,
4,000 tons, which entered the harbor
of Tandjong Prlok, Java, Dutch East
Indies, In May, 1916. She was flying
the German mercantile flag, but is
believed to have been a German aux-
iliary cruiser.
The correspondence between Great
contains some very sharp language.
Britain and Holland on the subject
The British minister at The Hague In
a letter to Jonkheer J. London, the
Dutch minister of foreign affairs,
wrote;
“The question does not stand alone
as an evidence of the peculiar and
unsound views adopted or Invented
by the Netherland’s government dur-
ing the present war In matters of In-
ternational law.”
THEY DIO’T LIKE TO FIGHT
Conscientious Objectors Given 25-Year
Jobs at Leavenworth.
San Antonio.—Unofficial dispatches
from Washington Indicated that exe-
cution of sentence will be held In
Abeyance in the case of forty-five men
from Camp Travis who were sen-
tenced to life Imprisonment as “con-
sclent’ous objectors” to military serv-
ice, but whoee sentences later were
reduced to twenty-five years,
i Most of them have been In camp
since late In 1917. They have refused
(to drill, refused to wear the uniforms
'and also have refused to work at any-
thing which might be of a military
character. A number of conscientious
objectors who accepted non-combatant
service are working about the camp,
but the forty-five refused to do any
work.
A strong guard Is now posted over
the "objectors.” They are held In the
prison stockade, which Is a barbed
wire prison with armed guards contin-
ually on duty. It Is hoped to send
them to Fort Leavenworth without
delay.
Most of the convicted men come
from Oklahoma and many of them are
of the Mennonlte faith. This faith Is
well represented in a colony of “ob-
jectors" in Oklahoma. Recently a
number of their ministers visited
Camp Travis to confer with officials
as to the handling of their men. At
that time no complaint was made as
to their treatment, and It appeared
that the objectors would accept non-
combatant service as many of them
had done. This they later refused.
JAPAN LANDS MARINES
SECRETARY DANIELS TELLS
HOUSE COMMITTEE OF
NAVAL REQUIREMENTS
BUILDING PROGRESSING FUST
Navy Would Be 8erlouily Handi-
capped In Fighting, He 8ays, Un-
leaa More Recrulta Respond
In Immediate Future.
Washington.—Upward of 40,000 men
will b'e needed to man the great fleet
of warahlpe which the United States
will turn out during the next fiscal
year, the house naval committee was
advised by Secretary Daniels.
Chiefs 8ubmlt Figures.
In asking the house to concur In the
senate amendment to the naval appro-
priations bill increasing the navy's
enlisted personnel from 87,000 to 131,-
485 men, Mr. Daniels transmitted let-
ters from Admiral Benson, chief of
naval operations, and Rear Admiral
Palmer, chief of the bureau of naviga-
tion, showing In detail why this in-
ci'ease Is necessary.
8hip Building Speeded.
The correspondence revealed that
new warships are being turned out
faster than they can b'e manned with
the present limited personnel and that
should there be a chirage In naval tac-
tics and the nation be forced to a de-
fensive instead of an offensive fight,
the navy would be seriously handi-
capped In handling the fleet against
an enemy.
Shortage of Officers.
Admiral Palmer said In his letter
that a shortage of officers of higher
grade should be made up pointing out
that American destroyers now are op-
erating in the war zone without a des-
ignated commander other than th'e
British officer Admiral Bayley. The
submarine chaser force In foreign
waters is commanded by a captain,
the admiral said, whereas, there
should be at least one rear admiral
and preferably two for this force.
The two American divisions of ar-
mored cruisers also are without a flag
officer and there is no flag officer for
the dvlsions of superdreadnaughts
which will be added to the navy with-
in a year. Admiral Palmer also point-
ed out that the admirals and vice ad
mlrals In command of American fle'ets
should have rear admirals as chiefs of
staff.
“Merely to man our fleet properly
and to make our war organization ef-
ficient,” Admiral Palmer’s letter said.
Many R.ear Afnirals Needed.
“We must have immediately 27 ad-
ditional rear admirals, and by July 1,
1919, six more, in addition to those we
have now.”
Admiral Palmer said that specifical-
ly 42,146 men will be needed to man
th'e warships which will he turned out
during the next fiscal year ending
July 1, 1919. This force he divided
as follows:
For battleships, 4,400; destroyers,
29,992; patrol boats, 5,400; seagoing
tugs, 3,70g; submarines, 1,026; fleet
fuel ships, 1,070; gunboats, ammuni-
tion ships etc., 553.
On last April 1 he wrote 83,475 mea
were required for the permanent navy
as follows:
On battleships, 33,486; cruisers and
monitors, 18,590; gunboats, 3,228; de-
stroyers and torpedo boats, 8,234; sup-
ply vessels, 5,304; naval transport and
hospital ships, 2,506; tugs, 1,000;
yards, stations, hospital, radio sta-
tions 6,000; submarine and tend’ers,
5,037.
With a force of 131,485 men he esti-
mated that there might he a surplus
over those actually on duty of 5,864 to
replace men wounded, on sick or Regu-
lar leave.
Knew the Answer.
“Say, pal" “Yes, my sour
“Are you too busy readlu’ to eiplaln
somethin' to me?”
"No, my son. Your father Is never
too busy to give his children the bene-
fit of his Information."
"Well, In this story It says 'the ship
weighed auchor.’ Why does a ship hove
to weigh Its auchor before It sturts
out?”
"Ah, yes. To be sure. You’ve al-
ways noticed, that In your reading
haven't you? Yes. Well, this la the
reason. You see, when a ship stays u
long time In a harbor It accumulates
a lot of—er—binnacles. And these
binnacles cling to the anchor In such
numbers that they Increase Its weight.
So they hove to weigh 1L Do you see?"
A CU DOESN’T .
uucu mid rnt
IF CONSTPATID
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CANT HARM TENDER STOM-
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MORE VICTIMS OF SUBS
Proposal For Dry Nation During War
Laid Aside.
Washington.—The senate agricul-
tural committee reconsidered its vote
of earlier In the day for a favorable
report on the proposal of Senator
Jones of Washington, for national pro-
hibition during the war and decided
to hold hearings on the amendment.
The commitee, howevor, sustained its
former action in eliminating from the
emergency agricultural bill the Ran-
dall prohibition amendment
Norwegian 8hlps Sunk by U-Boats Off
Coaqt of America.
New York.—Two Norwegian steam-
ships, the Vlndeggen and Henrik Lund,
were sunk by a German submarine
when about 200 miles east of Gape
Charles, Va. This brings the total of
vessels sunk by U-boats slnje they be-
Their crews, sixty-eight men, were
brought here by a Danish steamship
which picked them up at sea after they
had been Bet adrift in their small
boats. Eighty tons of copper lgnots,
part of the cargo of the Vlndeggen,
were taken aboard the U-boats before
the steamship was sunk by means of
bombs. *
The Henrik Lund was from Norfolk
for New York. Stopped by the subma-
rine, the crew of this ship was like-
wise ordered into small boats and the
Bhip sent to the bottom by bombs. The
two crews were taken In tow and when
the Danish vessel was sighted, accord-
ing to their story, the submarine cut
them adrift and submerged.
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A Discouraging Precedent ,
There Is nothing original about Mar-
shal Von HIndenburg’s boast that he
would drive the English into the sea.
In the Peninsular War Soult made the
same remark about the British under
Wellington that Von Hlndenburg has
now uttered about the British under
Haig. Wellington did retire perilously,
near to the sea, Just as Haig has. But
Soult looked at the position and chang-
ed his mind. Is Von Hlndenburg, In
apparently still planning to give battle,
going to show less sense than his re-
nowned French predecessor?—Chris*
tlan Science Monitor.
In Style.
Hobbs—What do you do with your
old clothes?
Dobbs—Wear them.
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Cain, George W. The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1918, newspaper, June 21, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc956409/m1/3/?q=%22new-sou%22: accessed June 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.