Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
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SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
War News.
A hostile raiding party was re-
pulsed by tlie Hrltlah east of Kpehy.
The enemy left several of their dead
on the wire entanglements and a few
wounded Germans were made prison-
ers. An attempt to capture one of
the British posts near the Guillemont
Farm, In the same neighborhood, ulso
failed.
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Heavy attacks by the Germans
north of the Alsne have been repulsed
by the French troops with severe cas-
ualties, an official communication
says. In the attack along a front of
one and one-fourth miles the tiermans
only at one point succeedcd in pene-
trating the French trenches.
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The big German offensive against
the French line east of Vauxalllon in
which trenches were stormed and cap-
tured, has gone almost for naught,
because the French forces in a violent
counter offensive have regained near-
ly all the ground lost.
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Little news of the situation on the
Trentlno front, in the Austro-ltallan
rone, has been received, but unofficial
reports say the battle, which is of
great proportions, extends along the
entire line from the Sugana valley to
the Aslago plateau. It Is In this re-
gion that the Italians are endeavoring
to break through the Austrian line to
one of their main objectives—Trent.
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After a heavy bombardment report-
ed between the Allette river and Mou-
lin de 1 jiffaux. the Germans attacked
French positions on a front of more
than one kilometer. The attack was
very violent and was carried out with
large effectives. It resulted in the
Germans gaining a foothold in a sec
tlon of trench of the first line east of
Vauzalllon.
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Canadian troops recently captured a
nest of German trenches at the foot
of Reservoir hill, and have made the
entente approach to l-ens less diffi
cult. The new positions have been
Incorporated In the British lines.
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A late French official report says
"Our troops have reached Fruka Pass
on Othrys mountain, the southern
limit of Thessaly, and hold Important
localities. A considerable quantity
of arms and munitions has been sur-
rendered to them by the population.
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British forces have made some gains
on the Arras front, according to an
official statement Issued in London
Four German field guns wero taken
east of Messines.
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Washington.
Sixteen companies of national guard
engineers have been ordered into ac-
tive service by the War Department.
The engineers will lay out and pre-
pare camp sites for the reception of
the national army and the national
guard
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President Wilson lias issued a pro-
clamation designating the week of
June 23 to SO as recruiting week for
the regular army and called upon un-
married men without dependents to
enroll for war service in order that
the ranks of the regulars might be fill-
ed promptly.
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The war, in
The act of registering under
the selective draft law does not
prevent men from enlisting In
any of the government's forces
that are now organized. Men
between the ages of eighteen and
forty can volunteer for the regu-
lar army, the navy, the marlno
corps, the national guard or the
naval militia. Men are needed
at once to fill the ranks of all
of these branches of the service.
OKLAHOMA RAINFALL FOB MAY, 191"
VENIZELOS BACK IN POWER
5|harpe
L
ScoJfr cfSAat/afujiocits) I 10/oZ
f STATE NEWS NOTEsli
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 4-8, Pontotoc county fair. Ada.
Sept. 13-15. District tair. Marlow.
•Sept. 18-21—Hogers Counay Fair, Uare-
more.
Sept. 19-22, Caddo county fair, Ana-
darko.
Oct. 2-6, Washington oounty fair,.
Dewey.
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Liberty loan subscriptions totaled
$3,035,226,850, an over subscription of
nearly 52 per cent. Final tabulation
has been officially announced showing
that more than 4,000,000 persons
bought bonds. Ninety-three per cenf
of subscriptions were for sums vary-
ing from $50 to $10,000, while twenty.
one subscribers applied for allotments |
of $5,000,000,000 each, or more.
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Provost Marshal General Crowder
announced recently that regulations
for seleeting the new national army
will be ready for publication July 1,
two months before the first call to by
the colors. Details of machinery gov- *'"8 *'®*and*r.
i <iia Jonnart, the hiah commissioner rep-
ernlng exemption boards were not dls- ^ ^
| Russia, that he will ask former Pre-
shots ! mler Venizelos to form a new cabinet.
Athens.—The Greek cabinet headed
Alexander Zaimis has resigned
nformed M.
The average precipitation for May, 1917, computed from the records of
86 station, was 2.32 inches, compared with a normal of 5.44 inches, and a
State average of 2.13 inches In May, 1916. The rainfall was very irregularly
distributed geographically and was deficient in all parts of the State.
+
nineteen
closed.
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One or more of —■— i
which the gun crew of an American !
rrrrc.tr a: sis!red cross fund $1,000,000
on her voyage to America, are be- I
llftved bv the crew to have reached; ops! rnni 10 C1IM PLEDGED
thwir mark. The captain said he be- btNEHUUb bUM rLLUULU
lieved the U-boat was sunk. FOR RELIEF WORK.
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A warning that German agents are
using a small, ingeniously constructed
bomb for destroying manufacturing
plants In enemv territory has been is-
sued at the office of Major General
Wood, commander of the Southeas-
tern Department.
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Southwest.
A pitched battle between Deputy
New York City Raises Over One-third
of Total Amount Secured in
Entire Country.
Washington—Tabulations at Red
Cross national headquarters showed
$100,313,000 in reported pledges, of
which $35,993,000 was from New York
city and $64,320,000 from the re-
United States marshals and John and j main(jer of the country. Reports later
Henry Porter, charged with introduc- j expecte(i t0 sweil the total at least
ing liquor, occurred near Grady. Ok ,
receutlv The Porters barricaded 1 * ,vv .,
themselves In a ravine and replied | Ignite Inures may not be available
pith Winchester bullets when asked \ for several days, when cities r p
to surrender. results of their last minute efforts
+ + + but Red Cross officials said totals will
Fearing that alien enemies may at- show that American generosity has
tempt to destroy by fire the new grain responded ju the same spirit as for
crop before it is threshed, farm agents j Liberty loan.
in northeastern Oklahoma are warning million dollars of apparent
farmers not to stack wheat and oats. over.9ub|sorlption mav be necessary to
but to thresh and market th. grain as , ^ coI)eetlong ^
soon as post1 + + $100,000,000, owing to the possibility
With tears streaming down his ! of duplicate recording of some corpo-
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, President Woodrow Wilson has designated the week
of June 23rd to 30th as "Recruiting Week" to secure 70,000 volunteers,
the number necessary to Increase the regular army to war strength, and
WHEREAS, it is equally as important in the plans of the War
Department that the National Guard be increased to the maximum
strength demanded by the present emergency, and
WHEREAS, Oklahoma must furnish her full quota in both branches
of the service, regardless of the army that is to be raised by selective
draft, fifteen hundred men being needed for Oklahoma's quota in the
regular army and 600 for the National Guard,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, R. L. WILLIAMS, by virtue of the au-
thority vested in me by law as Governor and Commander-in-Chief, do
hereby proclaim June 23rd to 30th as "Recruiting Week" in Okla-
homa, and I urgently request officials and patriotic cittaens in every
community of the state to assist recruiting officers in this movement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused
to be affixed thereto the Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma, this the
22nd day of June, A. D„ 1917. r ^ W,LUAMS
Attest. The Governor of the State of Oklahoma.
J. L. LYON,
Secretary of State.
STATEHOUSE BREVITIES
Convict Labor for Roads.
At this time when the nation is in
need of whatever service its people . KTr>rri.
can render, and a labor shortage, el-1 were made hy L. H.^Norris
Three Girls Pass Bar Examinations
Fifty-two of the seventy-one candi-
dates for admittance to the state bar
were successful in examinations held | gatlon there about July 2.
last week, the new members being
The county commissioners of Mur-
ray county have employed W. TV Con-
way of the New Mexico A. and M.
college as county demonstrator.
Farmers in the Panhandle district
are busy replanting crops which have
failed to obtain a good stand by reason
of a lack of moisture in the early
spring.
Raymond Stoker, the 12-year-old sod
of J. H. Stoker, a farmer, living north-
east of Chickasha, was drowned last
week while swimming in a lake near
his home.
W. M. Williams, 59 years old, one of
the most prominent farmers of Kiowa
county, was instantly killed In tbe
harvest field, when he fell from
header barge on his head.
In a special election thp peopla
of Holdenville voted a bond IsBue of
$10,000 with which to purchase fair
grounds and a city park. The bondsi
carried by a vote of 237 to 38.
The Enid free employment bureau
reported a shortage of 250 harvesters.
Superintendent Feger said the demand
for laborers is Increasing, while the
supply apparently is falling off.
Luther Manuel, 13 year old Creek
Indian boy of Muskogee, who has
amassed a fortune in oil, gave $2,500
to the Red Cross through his guardian.
Walter Starr, a full-blood Creek, also
gave $1,000.
On the heels of more than doubling
its apportionment of $2,500,000 for the
Liberty loan, Tulsa subscribed in a
nine-hour campaign $104,000 for the
Red Cross. The drive had been for
$100,000.
Governor Williams, after examining;
the transcript of the testimony takenj
at Muskogee by the attorney general
regarding vice conditions, directed!
him to conduct a grand Jury Invest!-
, J- D- Coleman of Colbert has sola
sworn In by Chief Justice sharP . 2g0 bale9 ot cotton which he has been
High honors in the holdlng 3lnce ,ast fall to Sam I. Hynds
of Durant. The price paid was $23.5(/
the
Wim tears streaming uuwu , . iu<iu uunur.o - ■ ■ «.ith 1 ^01
cheeks Dr. J. L. Perrme, 75 years old, rations Red Cross dividends at their er qUjte naturally first look to the eco- '
has been In years, the.subjecttotcon- •. Morrison, Blackwell, with ^ank- >ar«e of the pr0ceed3 iD Uberty
vict labor on the public roads of Ok- ^ ^ ^ ^ !oan bondg.
lahoma is most time j • • ii R p^ett, Norman, was third The board of town trustees of
road-builders and the general taxpa> | _ ^ ^ ^ ^ nQrth q{ Hobart haV6
told
Ark.,
\ coroner's Jury at Felsenthal, . source and also in the locality where
that he was obliged to shoot stockholders live.
and kill his only son to save his own
life. He said that his son, Otis, 38, a
printer, who recently returned from
Mexico, was intoxicated and attempt-
ed to kill him.
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Henry Slade Goff. author, pioneer
resident of the Northwest, Is dead at
his home in Minneapolis, after a brief
illness. Mr. Goff, who was a Civil war
veteran, had written several books on
American history. He was 75 years
old.
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With her 10-months-old child clasp-
ed to her breast. Mrs. Uert Duncan.
light plant.
The limit
distributed through the Red Cross
At the conclusion of a benefit vau-
deville performance at the Palace
theater, Kdgar Z. Wallower, chairman
wife of an oil field workman, commit- of the campaign committee, announced
ted suicide by plunging into a tank that a total ot $120.98
i . The three women who sought ad- called an election for June 28, to vote>
nomic phases of convict labor • m|MaBce were successful. They are $ir,.000 in bonds to install a water
would direct our attention , , Miss Ethel Nancy Adams, Bartles- Kvorks system and $5,000 to purchase
of the question, says . . ' i viIIe. joana Mild Hubler, Fairfax, and nnd operate a privately-owned electric
publicity manager for the state high I ^ Woodwar(j Guymon. I
way department. j )igt o{ successfUl candidates is
There are seven road camps with ^ follows:
twenty prisoners each at work in dif- w c Abrams. Oklahoma City: Ethel
ferent counties of the state at this , Mgr.
time. They are known as trusites, ^ E TUisa; John Q. Chambers,
Oklahoma City's Sha*e or prjc0ners who upon their honor are Tulsa': I. O. Correll. Idabel; C. C. Cohoon,
p , ,Kn _.011a Okahoma Citv; Harry Culver. Lawton.
Oklahoma City.—One hundred and permitted to go outside of tne \*ans Dver Ardmore. H. E. Dixon. Grove;
twentv-one thousand dollars is Okla- without a guard. ^J^these camp., a
homa City's gift to humanity to be
Red Cross officials will formulate
plans for the most efficient expendi-
ture of the millions, large portions
of which are sought in France, Russia
and Rumania.
for making returns on
state income taxes is July 1 A num-
ber of persons liable to payment of
the tax failed to report last year and
a penalty of $100 for each year's fail-
ure to report will be added to the tax
after July 1.
telegram that hl9
died suddenly at
had been
Watkins given. Then five dollar subscriptions
made it even figures.
_ Proctor dropped
men, the steward looks after the feed-1 w. il" Hicks. 50llfv;v'<H2tvener HEWe! dead in the street at Claremore. Proc-
Ing of the men and the teams and t*ie jenkVn*,' Sapulpa ' 1 ^olb. Duncan: tor was a resident of Welch, where he
■•uaril acts as a shepherd of the flock, pert Lawton. Arapaho: E Lee Tulsa; | towned a iarge live stock ranch. He
,, -nn tho J. . Morrison. WlacKwei . \> .nariHi,
The board of these three men, the - -
An American Ship Successfully Fights
One Off.
of water near her home
station. Ok., recently.
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Foreign.
Dispatches from Petrograd to the
the opinion of Lord 1 Exchange Telegraph Company say the
Northcllffe. Is Just beginning. In a congress of Soldiers' and Workmen's
communication from him read in Bos- j delegates from ail of Russia lias voted
ton In the interest of the Red Cross j confidence In the provisional govern- j
war fund, the British commissioner to mi nt and unanimously adopted a reso- An Atlantic Port.—Officers of a
the United States said he based his lutlon demanding an immediate re- Sntish steamer which arrived here
opinion on the result of "much expert sumption of the offensive and the re- reported having sunk an attacking
ence at the front." ! organization of the army. German submarine. The British ves-
+ + + j + + + pel sent a shell into the I"-boat's mag-
There were approximately 3 million I Fifty American aviators have ar- nine, causing an explosion which
subscribers to the Liberty Loan and riwd In France to undergo a course parted the underwater boat about
the average subscription was $1,000 of instruction at the seaplane depot, amidships. The British steamer was
according to figures available at loan They were given the heartiest of wel- uninjured. The submarine was
headquarters in Washington. come by their French comrades,
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Food speculators have been taking ; According to the Amsterdam corres-
pondent of the Exchange Telegraph,
Socialist workmen held a public
meeting in Munich, Bavaria, recently
Blair J L. Murphy, Bacone; E. O. North
feed of the ^ms and the difference cui^ ^ore^,,
the cost of the board ot prisoners rruet. Norman. U w Randolph,
in camp over and above the^ cost of
I board at the prison is met by tae coun frf0r<i- \y p. Snider. Konawa: O. W.
BRITISH STEAMER SINKS U. tie. employing the aam^ sj^Muako^:
To give some idea of the cost to rtlPV Cordell: J. E. WiPUms. Ardmore:
xniintie* now trying the experiment of A E. Walden. Ardmore: Alice Woodward.
COUntie> now I'M s I Guymon: C. R beaver. Commerce: H.
road building with convicts, we ap- '^-ippernlan, jr.. Muskogee. I.. B. Wlu
A ,v. Minwlne official figures fur- son. McAlester. L O. \V!
50 million dollars a month for the last
five months—a total of billion dol-
lars- from the American people, Her-
bert C. Hoover recently told senators and passed a resolution in favor of
in explaining the purposes of the Food
Control bill now before Congress.
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Incensed at suffrage pickets who
flaunted denunciatory banners before
the White House gates as the Russian
commission entered to greet Presi-
dent Wilson, three hundred men and
women, mostly government clerks out
on luach hour, charged the women
and tore the banners to shreds.
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Domestic.
Neutral countries are draining the
Vnlted States of Its wheat supply. and
uuless some food control Is Instituted
1 American wheat will be
d by spring, says President
by July
exhausU
Wilson
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With Germans on board taken from
a raider captured or sunk at sea. the
British steamer Edith Cavell, named
for the heroine Red Cross nurse who
was shot as a spv by Germans, has
arrive*! at an American port The ftip
was visited by American quarantine
officers, but the captain did not de-
sire to land.
+ + +
Warrants for the arrest of li - re"
«<-d with failure to register
Socialists of all belligerents starting
an agitation for an immediate peace
on the basis of no annexation.
+ + +
Alfredo Cocchi. wanted by the New
York authorities for trial on the
charge of murdering Ruth Cruger. 17-
year-old New York schoolgirl, was ar-
rested at Bologna by Italian authori-
ties recently.
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Sixteen children, only two of whom
were over 5 years of age. the victims
of the last German air raid on Lon-
don. were given a public funeral the
other afternoon and tfcelr bodies were
laid in a common grave in an East
End cemetery over *fcch a monu-
ment will be placed.
+ + +
After a record breaking dash at
night in response to wireless distress
calls, two American destroyers ar-
rived at their base in an Engli-h port
with eighty survivors of two torpedoed
mere' ant ships. The total -run" on
this errand of mercy was several hun-
five
miles dlftant and running away after
having attacked the Britisher nearly
400 miles off the coast of Ireland.
According to the story told by the
gunner of the British steamer, the
submarine was first seen when she
sent a shell at the steamer from a
distance of about 3,000 yards It fell
short and the steamer immediately
was swung around so that her stern
was toward the U-boat, getting the
naval gun at work Eleven shots were
fired in rapid succession
struck very close to the Gi
rah
can Vessel Escapes
:h Port —American naval
fo
Ame
An Engi
runners succ<
German submarine whicfi a.tat
American passenger liner off ti
of Ireland. A torpedo fired
submarine missed its target
than twenty feet. The encou
midnight after the li
the submarine ion*
ked
oast,
the
Uliams. Paw
- „ - _ t>.„ nusKa; j. r v>eo«ter. Clinton. Downe
nished by six of these camps lor tne j^^ume. Coweta.
month of May: * ~ ~
LeFlore Countv has a camp of twen Contracts For New Building,
tv men The cost per man for board Contracts lor public buildings and !
In camp during the month was 23c per improvements totalling $42,619 were
dav 2c per day in excess of the prison let by the state board of affairs. The
cost of board' for the same time, or principal contract involved is for the
t-o 00 (or the use of twenty men for Russell Industrial School for Girls. (
the month The cost for feed of The contract for this was awarded to
teams and board of the three men the Lisle-Dunning Company of Okla-
in charge is not given. homa City, which is 700 less than
Pottawatomie Countv has the same the authoriied expenditure.
number^>f convicts. The cost of board The Russell home will be built on
ner man was 2Sc per day. 7c in excess a tract of land which will be deeded
nf the nrison cost or $42 00 for the use by the city to the state. It is about
of twentv men for the month. Feed two miles northeast of Oklahoma City.
. . riven Final details, as to time for comple-
Tutsa County w fth the same number lion of the building have not been
of convicts paid Sic ^a}^o Cook and McDonald of Oklahoma
10c in excess of t. e p ~ ' he pjty, were given the contract for
for the use of twen building a heating plant at the South-
month. Feed of team, no eas?ern Stale Normal. Durant, for
Pittsburg and . . d $4,100. J. J. Rooney of Muskogee, was
each _have J^T o, ^cessful bidder on the
paid . -'c rer day for . .son house at the Durant normal.
prisoner, or lie in excess of prison
cost, making a total expense of $66.00
for the use of twenty-one men for the
month. Other items of expense not
giver
power
His bul
was $14,219.
curred
r had
many
Buenos
steamer.
Argentine Vessel Sunk
Aire«f. — The A
oro. has been torpc
The Toro was b<
Broom Corn Looks Good.
Recent rains have given the state
Greer Countv had twenty-two men board of agriculture assurance that
,nd "e ccwt of board per mar. during:the broom corn crop for this year will
the month was 16c per day. 15c in ex- (greatly exceed that of last, when, ow-
V of' pr'son cost or $90 00 for the ing to high prievs, farmers fortunate
" of t.entv-two men for the month enough to have a few acres of tho
W* of teams not given. realiled excglleDt pr°m''
1 600 Men Needed for Army. j Creek County Man Finally Seated.
Within the netx twelve days. Okla j J. H. N. Cobb, republican, and a
homa must furnish 1.600 men for the member
with a
irgo <5f Argentina
o reign
inquu
the
Ir.n
son*
lor
he
th i
M Ham-
States oimmisfioner.
+ + +
The provisional executive of the ;
Fein has decided to demand passports
for three of its members to proceed
to the I'nited States for the purpose
, f opposing the objects of the Iri.-i
partv mission there.
-ied As«:tta'
Gen
ducts. Thi
a message
at Madrid
Texan Na
Washington—Clarence Ousler, di-
rector of the department of extension
of the Texas agricultural and me-
chanical college, was appointed today
as an assistant to Secretary Houston
tor an Indefinite time
regu'ar army, if tha state s qu
be obtained Twenty-five men from
e*rh county will more than provide
trie state's share. This was
iiouncement sent to all parts
homa vesterday by the state
for defense, which is co-ope rat irvg
with the army recruiting service in
the effort to furnish the allotted num-
ber t
-re sugge
e state Mass meetings with
speeches and martial music
-d for each community.
f the constitutional conven-
a Is tC tion. was ordered seated as commit
sioner of the fit*t district of Creek
county by the state supremo court.
In the November election the county
election board of Creek county Issued
f certificate of election to Cobb John
Barry, democrat, contested and was
seated by the diitrlct coert. Judge
George W. Clark of Oklahoma county
sat as special Judge In the case,
Herry claimed Illegal votes were cast
i Judge Clark "as reversed.
tne au
of Okla-
councll
was 73 years old.
Ray G. Walton, formerly of Lawtoa
but now on the United States steam-
ship Rainbow, San Francisco, Cal., is
heralded as the tallest man in the.
United States navy. He is six feet and!
seven inches tall In his stocking feet.
Walton weighs 182 pounds.
Osage county is just starting to
harvest the best crop of small grain.
It has ever raised. Some fields ot
wheat are estimated at forty bushels
to the acre, while oats in some sec-
tions of the county may run as high
as seventy or seventy-five bushels.
Chalmers McFarland, 19 years old,
son of B. A. McFarland. president ot
•the Oklahoma State bank of Jennings,
and candidate for the United States
naval academy, was drowned in An-
napolis harbor when the canoe in
which he and two other candidates
were riding capsized.
Ail records for tho receipt of cattle
and calves on tho hoot in the Okla-
homa City cattle market were broken
last week when lt>,S47 head of cattle
and calves showed up. Of this num-
ber 14,606 head of cattle were received
and 2.1141 calves. The cattle market
j ruled generally steady to a few cents
j lower during the week The calf
market showed a slight dec'^'o
A sum of $2-15.25 has been ccvntrib-
| uted to the Hod Cross war fund oy
! Indian wards of Pittsburg, Latimer,
\ Hryan nnd Atoka counties. L.. A.
Founders, probate attorney for the
Indians, suggested that the guardians
[ might show the patriotism of the
1 tribes In flits manner. He expects
more than $1 000 to result frTim the
donations, contributions so far exceed-
j Ing expectation*.
Rudolph William Christ Petrusky.
resident of a small town in central
! Oklahoma, registered twice for selec-
tive draft service, and has two regis
tuition cards to show for it He ha?
appealed to the adjutant general's de
part meet to help him out of his dif-
ficulty, for lie Is not at all certain he
will not he drafted twice, stul wants
to know for which one of his person-
alities be should claim an alibi Num-
bers of persons inadvertently dupli-
cated their registration, Adjutant
General Rarp said.
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