The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 49, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 21, 1918 Page: 1 of 6
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NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. TUESDAY, MAY 121.
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NUMBER 49.
Germans Ready to Strike
in Their Supreme Offensive
fine Fighting Weather—Air Buzzing With
Allied and German Planes—Fields of
Green Right Up to the Trenches
—Germans Expected to
Hammer British.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 20.
(Night)—General Mackensen is widely reported to be on the west
front, ready to strike the moment Field Marshal Hindenburg fin s
an opening. , ,10nn
I calculate that a hundred divisions of shock troops (l.iOJ,-
000) men are awaiting Hindenburg's order of these are fresh, not
having been used in this season's fighting. The other sixty have
been out of the linelong enough to be rested and doped up morally
by Germany's professional spirits boosters.
Hindenburg's forces on the west front have reached tne ex-
act figure given to me in Switzerland in February as the maximum
ultimately at his disposal without a radical change being wrought
in the relations between the central empires. Therefore without
prophesying what will be the nature of his next blow or blows, thi
effort naturally ought to be his final or semi-final attempt.
From now on, all prisoners returning from Russia, together
with the 1919 class, returned wounded and the rest probably will
barely suffice to keep his active divisions up to anything like hei
intete Sfly undertake e,.borate feints here and there,
but the indications are his main thrust will be against the B.it-
ish or the French and British combned. ,
My information is that the Germans will hammer the British
with the bulk of this army, simultaneously spreading propaganda
to the effect that the British do not fight as well as the othe .
lies in order to create friction among the entente nations.
Meanwhile prisoners admit that German mouths are still
| watering for Amiens and the valley of the Somme s re c
' ^'m^Tonslderable shelling bv high explosives, and jockey-
intr for the high ground that furnishes the advantage of position.
The air along the Somme is buzzing with
the sr« rp- -
been only one shower since a week agoi and this man^len ^
S"- b,"e seems
wasted. These days favor an offens.ve far more than
battle.
American Soldiers
Flowing Into France
London, May 18—"A steady stream
of American reinforcements is flow-
ing into France, faster and faster,
swelling the allied reserves." The
Germans pretend to belittle Ameri-
can aid, but w don't think the Ger-
man general staff does—otherwise
they would not have hazarded their
entire future on this big attack."
American Brigade
With the British
With the American Armies in
France, May 20.—American troops
have arrived in a area in northern
France controlled by th e British it
is permitted to announce today.
The arrival of American troops in
the area in northern France con-
trolled by the British places Per-
shing's soldiers in at least three and
Hire imure uu mvvmv"' auiug o -
This statement, made to the United probably four sectors, in the western
Press by a representative of the ! offensive.
British general staff, authoratively j They -bave alAdy been officially
represents the views of that body. j announced as "rigaded with the
"The Americans must buy their ex- | French between Hailles and Han-
perience, like everyone els," contin- ! gard-en-SjJmterre and just west of
ued the offiffcer "but they are good Montdidier. Both of these sectors
business men and will buy at the | are southeast of Amiens.
cheapest market and sell it at the j The French and British lines are
highest price to German. The Amer- j supPosed to converge at Viliers Bre-
icans will make good, '^hey will torineux north of Hangard-En-San-
never let go until they do. j terre and just south of the Somme.
"DDuring the- past week in France j William Phillip Simms, in a dispatch
a series of minor operations have from the British front several days
been in our favor. Wherever the I ag.0> described the appearance of
Germans broke in we drove them out.1 American troops marching in battle
This is satisfactory bcause the Ger- i jineSi emphasizing their coolness and
mans are extraordinarily good at in- i determination. While Simms was not
filtrating, hold and improving posi- i permitted to mention the area occu-
sitions, due to the good training of j pjed by these troops it is assumed
their regimental officers, subordi- tbey were on the Somme front
nates and staff. | somewhere north of Villiers Breton-
"The air fighting also has resulted 1 neux
satisfactorily and to us. From May j troops mentioned in today's
9 tol5, seventy one German air- I ,jiSpatch from the American front
planes were brought down, while on- I probably are brigaded with the Brit-
ly ninenteen of ours were missing, j jsb s^jjj further north—posibly as far
Our air situation is infinitely better north ag Flanders. The policy pur-
than last year and was a consider- gue(1 by |oth Foch aru) Pershing in
able factor in halting the first phase j majntaining a major degree of
of the German offensive. ' strength in the Lorraine sectors held
"The Germans are now oiling up j by American troops, and J. W. T.
for a real effort. The longer they j ]yjasoni United Press war expert, pre-
wait, the more troops they can put > dieted that these men were sent di-
in. If they wait a little longer they rct]y from the training camps in Eng-
can renew the offensive on as big j ]all(]
scale as they began it— a fifty-mile jn support of this theory is King
front. However, the longer they wait (jeorg6's review of an American reg-
the more time it gives us to prepare, j iment jn London Saturday. This reg-
"Regardless of the changes in ter- j iment may weu be included in the
ritorial positions, the situation will force jU3j; announced having entered
be very anxious all this summer." J ^ British area.
Red Cross War Fund Going
Over The Top 50 Per Cent
County Manager Clement and City Manager
Cralle Greatly Pleased and Encouraged at
the Generous Response—Glowing
Reports from Country Dis-
tricts—Fifty-Six Loyal
Workers in City.
Another Red Cross Red Cross Fund
Falsehood Exploded Going Over the Top
_ j
Medicine Peddler Dyer Denies That ; Manager Clement and Captain Cralle
He Spoke Unkindly of the Organ-1
ization or Spread Reports 1 hat it j
Had Sold Sweaters to the Soldiers, j
Another Damnable Lie Against)
the Red t,>0!is l'ut at Rest-
Greatly Encouraged by the Gener-
ous Response.—Reports From the
Country Districts Are Glowing.—
Fifty-six Loyal Workers in the
City.
TWe County Council of Defense •
held a meeting on Monday night to .
investigate the report that a Mr. Dy- <s>
er, a peddler of medicine operating j •
in the vicinity of Moore, had been •
spreading reports antagonistic to the •
American Red Cross and speaking in ■ •
unkind terms of the organization. •
His chief offense, as the rumor came <$>
to the Council, was that he had said ^ <S>
that the mother of a soldier living
near Moore had received a letter from , •
her son stating that he had purchas-1 •
ed a sweater from the Red Cross but
as he was not allowed to take it, •
overseas he was sending it home to- |
gether with some other articles he
had bought from th^ same organiza- |
tion.
Mr. Dyer denied that in any way
had he spoken disparagingly of the j *
Red Cross or had mentioned the Red ; *
Cross in his remarks about the let- j
ter the mother had received. He said
At noon today there was
every reason to believe that
Norman's contribution to the
Red Cross War Fund would
be $15,000, making it fifty per
cent. "Over the Top" is its
quota. The workers are still
working, and it would not be
surprising if the contributions
of the city school district
reached $20,000. Most glow-
ing reports continue to come in
from the country districts, and
everywhere the utmost enthus-
iasm prevails. The managers
are not yet prepared to give
out figures but they'll be some-
thing good.
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Manager Tom E. Clement and Cap-
tain E. L. Cralle are greatly encour-
the comment in the community was I age(j by reports of the city district
caused by wonderment as to why af- i captajns which are coming in and
ter the boy had purchased the sweat-
er he was not allowed to wear it and
showing a most generous response.
c tfritisn area. i er ne wn uut a,,™*w ..— jt0 the cau of the American Red
On March 28, just one week before j take it overseas with him. He had qvoss Fifty-six loyal workers worked
Lufberry Buried ' the start of th e German drive that not said that the Red Cross had sold I hard all tiny yesterday and were out
With Hlirh Honors Pershing visited Foch at the front the boy the sweater, for the letter afrain this (Tuesday) morning bright
W llll ixlgl pjace(j th e entire American ex-j to the mother did not so state; that, |an(| eal.]v The managers haven't
pditionary force at the disposal of in fact, the letter did not state where
the generalissimo. Three days later, j the young man had purchased it, did
American troops were reported mov- not mention the Red Cross or any-
By FRANK J. TAYLOR
United Press Staff Corespondent
Wit hthe American Army in Lor-
raine, May 20—American and
French soldiers paused this after-
noon in the game of war wherever
possible, to pay homage to Major
Raoul Lufberry, the great American
ace who was killed in an air fight
Sunday morning. ^
The funeral services were held in a j ()ne jian's Way: In the Liberty
hospital within the sound of the big , j ()an drive a certain wealthy gentle-
man of Norman subscribed for $500
in bonds. The committee rather
Fighting Speeding Up On All Fronts
(IMTKrTpRESS)
t ONDON May 21.—Fighting is speeding up on all fronts,
according to the night official reports. Successful coups were made
by allied troops in Flanders, in Ficardy in southern France, on the
Italian front and in Hacedonia.
French troops attacking east and northeast of Locre, on the
northern portion of the Flanders front, gained all their objectives
last night on a front of nearly two miles. Field Marshal Haig re-
P°rt The British won a minor engagement east of Hebuterne, be-
penetrated the German and sec.n.1
iu -t nf fthcims the French war office announced. Viol-
- ,h ot ,he r™-
^The Italian war olic. reported the repulse of enemyplanes.
—Capt. Carl GilesTWrites: Jas. D.
I3ITT 1 V.TTTV Maguire is in receipt of a card from
mjLiLtCjl Car] Gjles from „over there,"
Tnndon Mav 21.—The greater por-;who states that the American soldier
,. n , , lhe German and torpedo js jn the pink of good condition—we 1
craft formerly operating from bases clothed, well fed and very cheer u.
in Flanders, has been mobilized in ;Capt. Giles asks to be remembered to
Rniffps the British admiralty an- | an old friends and says that he .
wlMv : having a most wonderful experience.
The 'anouncement is accepted as Norman is very proud of such soldiers
meaning that the blocking of Ostend |a9 Capt. Giles as great responsibility
and Ztbrugge harbors by the sink- | rests upon him and he is proving his
jruns. French and American /avi
ators were present in large numbers.
A French general and an American „went up in the ajr_ thinking he had
general also paid tribute to the fallen j ^ (ione his duty, and "labored" With
aviator. ^ j him quite considerably to get him to
The coffin, draped with an Ameri- iajse it> but wjthout getting a change
can flag, was carried by four French j jn his viewpoint- He has boys in the
aviators to a tiny, grassy cemetery army an(j has been active in other
behind the hospital. Infantry com- war activities, and said that was all
panies were lined up on one side of j ^ fe]t jjjte gjvjng at this time. Cut
the road while officers and aviatorj (hjg Re(j 0ross campaign came
were drawn up on the other. i on he was one of the first to subscribe
$500. In other words, he wasn't look
and early. The managers haven't
had time to figure totals as yet, but
with committees reporting all the
American iruups wnc icpmwu <**-<#• i uvu ...w.v.v,. v..~ — - | way from $500 to $1500 it was cer
ing from the Toul sctor fo the Picar- ! member of that organization as hav- | tajn that $10,000 asked Norman
dy front. ing sold it to him. A statement from sc^ool district will be subscribed and
On April 10, Simms sent his dis-1 the mother of the boy corroborated j
over-subscribed.
Mr. Dyer's statement, and he was j Reports from the country districts
completely exonerated. J are coming in and all are optimistic
Just another falsehood put out j anj enCouraging. One district report-
against the "Red Cross, made almost j e(| jls fu|j qUOta subscribed and $'200
from whole cloth—with just a glint j over at % o'clock p. m. and that "we
of truth to make it plausible. When i are stii] KOing."
you hear such reports run them down J There is every indication that
and invaribly you will find them | cleveland county will be one of the
false. Report all such reports to the I first ;n the state to legitimately sub-
Council of Defense and they wil be I scrjhe jts quota of $30,000 and go
quickly and thoroughly investigated, j "Qver the Top" with a big surplus.
patches announcing the first appear-
ance of Americans on the British
front, including infantry engineers
and aviators.
Council of Defense
Kansas Cyclone
The meeting of the County Coun- | Salina, Kans., May 21.—Five per-
cil of Defense held on Sunday, took j sons were reported killed in a tornado
up a number of matters pertaining i which swept through central Kan-
to the war activities of the county, j sas early today. Most of the loss of
; ~ . - . . , i mi "c — — | it being a rule of the department ]jfe was north of Hays where thous-
A group of American aviators, hov- $5Q0 Jn other wor()s> he waan't look- that no n who wag a candidate a„ds of .lollars in damage was done to
ering above the grave, ^ered the ^ ^ Mlnve#tment „ ,ut =f the for offjce g]wM be a member „f tht farmg
coffin with flowers as the chaplain i .ountry needs it and when it needs ,xecutive committee of the Council of
completed the rltes- j it, it is welcome to all he's got. Defense> County. Assessor W. W. ' sition as outlined in his notice in yes-
receWeTfrom '17 American observ- ! ! Barnard tendered his . "signation, teruay.s Transcript. The 10-pound per
ing of concerte filled ships has locked
the German craft in the basin at
Bruges—the interior base connected
with Ostend and Zebrugge by canals.
-University Women: The Univer-
sity women will meet Wednesday
with Mrs. J. L. Rader, 527 West
Eufaula street. Bring your own
Red Cross work.
ability.
—Red Cross Benefit: There will be
a box supper and fruit exchange at
Independence schol house on Thurs-
day night, May 23 for the benefit of
the Red Cross. Judge Eagleton and
Wm. R. Clark have been selected as
the speakers of the evening. Every-
body wlcome.—Red Cross Committee.
cf Lufberry's comrades.
"It is as Raoul would want it" said
an American air man. "He'd care
far more to have a Boche brought
down than to have elaborate ser-
j vices in his fyonor."
1 Later it was reported that the Ger-
man biplane, responsible for Luf-
! berry's death, was brought down by a
i French aviator. This has not been
officially established.
The Boche machine which caused
Lufberry's death, came directly for
the American aviation field yesterday
and acting in an unusual manner.
American aviators believe it was de-
signed for a special mission, it being
tlje only German plane in sight at
the time. It struck right to the
American planes behind the Amer-
ican lines, running only after Luf-
berry's comrades had emptied over
a thousand machine gun bullets into
it.
It was ten o'clock yesterday morn-
er in the^ront^ne^thar" German ing when Lufberry and two other which was accepted with regret, for capita wm be the rule all over the
„1 „ 1,„1 h™,i<rV,t down bv one American airmen responded to an I m every way has he been a valuable state, he believed.
f8" enmrailps ,"alerte" north of Toul and spotted i member of the committee. A lette.- Mrs. J. B. Cheadle appeared before
the lone Boche biplane. Lufberry at- from Chairman Adylotte spoke in!the committee and made statement
tacked at an altitude of four thous- highest terms of his efficiency. i0f what the Social Service commit-
and meters, his companions follow- Messrs. John Brock! aus and John tee 0f the Woman's Council of De-
ing closely. Deihm, two of Cleveland county's ,fense was doing to relieve distress
Lufberry and the enemy machine loyal Americans of German birth, and j and protect the babies and their
i c i.Tiio m- men who have shown their loyalty by ! nint.hers. Mrs. Cheadle ii
opened fire simultaneously. The ma
jors machine suddenly overturned
and fell like a plummt, its petrol
tank spouting flames. When about
half way to the ground Lufberry's
body shot out of its seat, falling
some distance from where the wreck
ed machine struck.
The famous American was dead
when a number of French peasants
reached him. His body was removed
from the little garden in which it had
fallen to a house nearby, where it
was covered with a flag and wreaths
of flowers.
During the funeral today the ser-
vices were filmed. The pictures, it
is understoon, will be exhibited in
America.
iut\ ai .TIUCI iv-ono ) dim jnuivvu tuv - —
men who have shown their loyalty by Mothers. Mrs. Cheadle is chairman of
their works, were added to the execu- ' that committee and is very active and
tive committee. It was believed by j earnest in the work. After her state-
the council that they would give ^ ment of conditions, some of which
earnest and active consideration to . were most pathetic, it was resolved
every matter concerning war activi- j by the Council that everything they
ties. j could do to assist in the work would
It was reported that a man named be done. It asked Mrs. Cheadle to re-
Dyer, a medicine peddler, was going j port to it any case that concerned
through the country around Moore j parties who had sons in the war, and
spreading reports antagonistic to the i they would be promptly investigated
Red Cross, that sweaters and other | and relieved. Cases not connected
articles were being sold by the or
ganization, and other like reports. He
will be brought before the Council
and asked to explain his remarks.
Food Commissioner Muldrow made
report concerning t.he activities of his
office, and explained the sugar propo-
with war activities would have to be
reported to the organized charities
associations and to the county. It,was
felt by the Council that a county
physician should be appointed to look
after the destitute who needed care
of a doctor.
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