The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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"MUST WORK OR FIGHT," SAYS GEN. CROWDER
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NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, MAY'23, 1918.
PRICE TWO CENTS
NUMBER 51
Loafers and Undesirable Citizens
Will Be Sent Into the Army
"All Men Must Do a Man's Work, or Fight," Says
Crowder—Drastic Regulations Will Send
Gamblers, Loafers and Sports to
Army Training Camps.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-s"All men hereafter must do a
man's work or fight."
This rule operative July 1, provides that all loafers and men
not in useful occupations listed in deferred draft classes must en-
gage in useful war work or be drafted in the war service.
Provost Marshal General Crowder announced today the plan
for this new system. It will seize at once upon gamblers, race
track men, waiters, bartenders, club, hotel ard apartment at-
tendants, persons engaged or occupied in games, sports &nd amuse-
ments (with some exceptions), domestic servants, sales and other
clerks of department stores and mercantile establishments.
Dependency exemptions will not protect men thus classified.
Local boards will conduct the weeding out process. They are em-
powered to summon before them the idlers and the non-essential
workers listed above, give them a chance to explain their pursu-
ance of no useful war occupation and if they fail, draft them into
the army.
Strictly enforced, the new regulation would practically break
up professional baseball, officials admitted, as sports is one of the
classes from which the players now granted dependency exemp-
tion are barred. The plan, however, is formed so that practically all
the men shifted or sent into the army can be-replaced by women.
Besides the idlers, the following
classes of livelihood were named by
General Crowder as being closed to
draft registrants after July 1.
(A) Gamblers of all types -employes
and attendants of bucket shops and
race tracks, fortune tellers, clairvoy-
ants, palmists and the like.
(B) Persons engaged in the serving
of food or drink in public places, in-
cluding hotels and social clubs.
(C) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants, door men, footmen
and other attendants of clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses, office build-
ings and bath houses.
(D) Persbns, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu-
pied in and in connection with games.
sports and amusements, exceptirg ac-
tual performers in legitimate concerts;
operas and theatrical performances.
(E) Persons employed in domestic
service.
(F) Sales clerks and other ckrks,
employed in stores and other mercan-
tile establishments.
As predicted some time ago l>y the
United Press the plan is one of the
most drastic and far reaching steps
ever undertaken by the war depart-
ment. The scope of the regulations will
soon be fully given.
"Men who are now engaged as
above, or who are idlers will not be
permitted to seek relief because of t'.ie
fact that they have drawn a lat order
Commending Work
of Judge F. B. Swank
Automobile Thieves
Red Cross Fund
Still Increasing
Reports to County Manager Clement
from over the county indicate that
nearly every district is exceeding its
quota and that Clevland county will
go well "over the top" in its total sub-
scriptions to,the Red Cross war fund.
No tijctfre* are available at this time,
and ihana'ger think it will be Saturday
before a full report can be given. It
is certain Cleveland county' subscrip-
tion will total $35,000.
Norman school district has done her
self proud. Manager Cralle estimates
To the Voters of the Fourteenth Ju-
dicial District:
It is always a pleasure to commend
and reward merit.
We, the undersigned practicing law- _
yers of Cleveland county, Oklahoma, | ^
do unhesitatingly and ungrudgingly,
give our indorsement to the candidacy
of Judge F. B. Swank for a second
term as District Judge in this dis-
trict.
During his four years as District
Judge, Judge Swank has been fair,
honest, painstaking and industrious.
No one has preferred complaint in his
Court but what has received courteous
and fair treatment. There has been no
partiality shown, no favoritism played,
all have been treated alike. No one has
been rewarded for past favors shown,
and no one punished because of past
differences. We therefore commend
him as a just, upright and able judge,
and we hope he will have no opposition
in his party for nominations and no
opposition from any party in the elec-
tion.
This the 11th day of May, 1818.
GEORGE ALLEN
J. D. GRIGSBY
THOS. W. MAYFIELD
BEN F. WILLIAMS
JOHN E. LUTTRELL
JAMES M. GRESHAM
W. M. NEWELL
C. M. KEIGER
W. L. EAGLETON
A. HUTCHIN
W. M. MOUTAW
JAMES A. COWAN
E. D. McLAUCHLIN
TOM CHEATWOOD
RALPH C. HARDIE.
Clyde Pickavd received word
at noon today that officers had
found his car in CapiUl Hill,
has gone to ^t jL^H?^ffered
$50 rewatn, Wmcn will go to
the officej| finding it.
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Automobile thieves were active last
night. They got Clyde Pickard's fine
Paige car in Oklahoma City and Dave
Ince's Ford from his garage in the
north part of town. They also took
Dave's fine $60 saddle, evidently
thinking that if the darn thing buck-
ed when they tried to ride it bareback
they could saddle the animal. Mr. Ince
did not miss his machine until this
(Thursday) morning and has no idea
which way the thieves went with it.
The Pickard marchina was ta
from the street in Oklahoma City
where it had been parked. Officers are
searching and it is believed will re-
rangement on his machine
couldn't run it. They tore
garage considerably.
Mr. Pickard had left his car in front
of the Westfall drug store, most
Germans Bomb Red Cross Hospitals
Killing Nurses and Wounded Men
Atrocities Continue Against Women and Children
and Wounded Men as Part of the German
Propaganda of Frightfulness—
Nurses Continue Work.
WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
I'nited Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 22.—More
than 100 women nurses, patients and attendants were killed or
wounded in a raid on a large number of hospitals by German air-
men. All the hospitals were within the same general area. A
score^of Gothas participated, dropping many bombs of enormous
size, and still more numerous small shrapnel ones, which burst om
the level ground.
I visited the scene of the bombing today. Huts about the hos-
pitals were in splinters. One half of the entire hospital, where the
greatest death roll was posted, had almost entirely disappeared.
Nearby was a crater, fifteen feet across and ten feet deep, where a
x . ,. ,. .. | large bomb fell on the nurses' quarters.
cover it, for it is a distinctive ma- , , , , , ,, , .. ,,
chine that would be hard to get away i Crippled with shrapnel bomb fragments, those who witnessed!
with. ! the attack, told me they never had seen anything so wonderful as
The thieves also visited Hi Down-1 the courage of the women during the raid which began at 10:20
ing's garage, but he had a patent ar- a mfj ancj ]asted for two hours. Dugouts were provided for them
SO they jn case 0f danger, but none deserted the patients.
Many of these latter were very bad cases of horrible com-
pound fractures, with open wounds, necessitating suspension in
. .t . . ,. harnesses. Other poor chaps were strapped in bed, in order that
prominent part of the business (lis- viuli t i
trict, and when he went back at io their bones would knit straight. I he slightest movement tor any
o'clock, faund it gone. He reported to q{ these men not on]v wag agonjzing but extremely dangerous.
the police station and then came, home ; Throughout two solid hours, while
to get his engine number. Returning J0hng0n
!an endless chain of German bombers
with Henry Meyer and Rae Lindsay
they drove all night through the sub-
urbs of the city but found no trace
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Johnson are in
except that it was seen about 9 o'clock receipt of a telegram from their son,
"hitting the ihgh places" on Fourth Lieut. Neil Johnson, Camp Travis.
GCDflBT TU AT 'street with four men in it. conveying the gratifying news that he
ntrUn I InAI The thieves also broke into John has been promoted to captain, and as-
Beard's garage and tried to steal his signed to special work.
UIKinCKIDtlDC* IQ nCAH but be bad removed the batter-
mPiULNDUnU 10 UlAU ies from the machine and when they
i found they could not run it they aban-!
doned the idea of stealing it. 1 Miss Lola Walker, of
Later: News comes that the thieves Pawil] speak on "Women and War
also jrot a Cheovolet car from the barn
Miss Lola Walker
swirled the hospital areas, dropping
high explosives on the helpless vic-
tims below, 'women went from otia
critical case to another, laying gentle
hands on fevered heads.
"By God! It was great," one youngs-
ter said.
In a plane which was downed was
the squadron commander. He was
wounded in the arm and his obse>' "t
|was wounded in the leg. A third oir t-
Pittsburg, j pan(; 0f the machine was unwounded.
The Prussian commander speaks.
By J. W. T. MASON
New York, May 22.—The persistent'
rumor of Von Hindenburg's death a'so Kot a (Jheovolet car from the barn at Recital Hall, University, at 4:30; En(flish perfectly. He is now in r.n«
that its subscriptions will amount to j which is being repeated by captured jot ')obn Avant> ea^ of lhe clty- U was Friday afternoon. She is field director I of the hospitals which he bombed, be-
at least $15,000, and Mr. Clement | German prisoners is the strongest evi-!^rac®d a sh°rt distance when the of the rtational woman's suffrage as- ing eare(1 for by the women whose
thinks these figures are quite conser- | dence that has yet appeared of a re- tracks were lost. It is pretty near cer- sociation, and is expected to make an j sisters he killed. He claims he did not
vative. Some of the city districts j alization by Germany of the failure j tal^.the thieves were Oklahoma City earnest, interesting address. All areisee tl,e Re(I Cr0SSj (ienotinc a hoH_
have gone 'way over the top,
and S of Von Hindenburg's west front of- Parties.
invited.
some in which the least was expected
have done doubled nobly.
WCrk is still going on, and if you
haven't subscribed now is a good
time to get in.
Irish Situation
Is Clarifying
By WEBB MILLER
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Dublin, May 22.—John Dillon, chair-
man of the United States Irish
fensive. j
There is no reason for believing that j ' Rt.Nl H
Von Hindenburg reallv is physicallv in raris' May 22.—The French war of-
the grave, but it is unquestionably I fice an(l the,r PatroIs made successful
true that the rumors to this effect rauls southwest of Lassigny in the
The Irish Situation
number or because they hav be>;n | League, issued a statement today de-
placd in classes 2, 3 or 4, on th
grounds of dependency." The regula-
tions state. "The fact he is not use-
fully employed will outweigh both of
the above conditions."
claring that the Nationalist member?
who have absented themselves from
the British parliament for some time
will return.
"It has never been our intention to
absent ourselves permanetly," Dillion
said. "I can't say however, just when
we will return. Ireland has been
— S. P. Vicars & Sons expect to get
into their new store (the H. W. Stub-
beman building) about the 1st of June. | thrown into confusion bv the futile
1 ... j- r ti rumor must be profound
and mischevious proceedings of the „ trnr
have originated in the Kaiser's army
to explain Von Hindenburg's enforced
halt in Flanders and Picardy with his
major objectives unattained. Report
of the death of high commanders nev-
er arise spontaneously in an army
while victories are being won. It is
the instinctive realization among the
private soldiers that matters are going
wrong, which starts such tales.
Von Hindenburg's long pause while
Ypres and Amiens remain uncaptured
and the allied lines continue unbrok-
en, must have created much pessimism
Verdun sector and in Lorraine. Both
artilleries were reported active south
cf the Avre.
GERMAN
London, May 22.—Regarding the
operations in Flanders, the German
war office said:
and strengthening its weak places.
"A strong enemy attack near Kem- ! Tlie organization headquarters
mel broke down yesterday with san- ! fcoasts that Sinn Fein companies ,are
guinary losses." In the past tiree , drilling in the more remote sections
days Berlin said the allies have lost the country
59 airplane an<l three balloons.
jpital. He said lie was following a-rail1-
:way train.
| These hospitals never were bombed
before. There were some Am-iric'i'is.
Dublin, May 22.—The Sinn Fein in in the group but none of these were-
Ireland is recovering from its first, toucned.
shock of surprise and consternation, i
It is determinedly pushing plans to j PfTI I FT'IIV
resist conscription, rebuilding its j
shattered organization, appointing j "Our raiders captured fourteen
new leaders in the country districts Prisoners and a machine gun south-
west of Arras," Field Marshal Haig
reported today.
"Other prisoners were taken in the
Several raids in an
effort to steal arms and amunition are
reported.
A Generous Donation: A day or' Ther are rumors that the Govern-
two ago the Transcript made mention ' ment intends to confiscate the million
neighborhood of Nieppe forest in the
Meteren sector and north of the Ypres
-Comines canal.
"Hostile raiders were repulsed north
of Albert last night."
—Young Rutherford Brett, son of | government. To desert parliament
Judtfe and Mrs. R. Brett is now in an
officers' training camp at Camp
Bowie, with indications he will soon
be granted a commission.
—They do things up brown in Lex-
ington when it comes ttt Red Cross
work. At a box supper held there on
Wednesday night of last week for the
benefit' of the Lexington local
chapter, $292.95 was realized. The
box of candy voted to the prettiest girl
was won by Miss Margie Hill, net-
ting $23.25, while Jay Sherman got
the box of cigars voted to the ugliest
man, bringing $5.70.
—Mr. and Mrs. Roland Hughes and
son Guy drove up from Hugo yester-
Fein's tactics.
"I am extremely skeptical that the
government will offer home rule. I
can't understand what game the gov-
ernment is playing. I am neither in
the councils of the government nor
the Sinn Feiners."
in the German ranks. It is the pes- j of the fact that & certajn wea)thy man dollars in the anti-conscription fund.
simism which now manifests itself of Norman ha(1 subscribed $500 to the As a result the Irish Independent ad-
in the report that \on Hindenburg Cross fun(, We havfi sincp )earn. vises local treasurers to take neces-
has sacrificed his own life to his ma- . gd that djd eyen better than tbat> ary measures to protect the money.
i subscribing $500 for his wife am: Temporarily, the Sinn Feiners have
each for two sons he has in the army, turned their attention from the fate j ca<!Uo]jtjes from bombg
making $1,200 in all. Mr. and Mrs. of their leaders to preparation for re- j „Th(i eMmy |ast njght dpjpped 4
the state
, ment said.
country, but giving most generously ation
chine of slaughter. The effect of the
upon the
BULLETIN
Paris, May 22.—One enemy airplane
was brought down during an air raid
on Paris last night, it was officially
announced today. There was some
morale of the German troops. Grow-
would be an adoption o/the Sinn J J®ck °f confidence ln th® eff!c,®ncy I Ed B.^ Johnson are not only giving sistance to conscription which, they | f ; suburbs"
of the h!gh command would produce.^ sons tQ the defpnse of their fear> looms behind the present situ.'few bon,bs m the sub"rbs
- more pronounced reaction among j t_„ k„, atinn ,
I here were some victims and some
the German than in any other army,
because the German system is based
on the infallibility of the war lords.
That the aiser himself realizes the
prevalence of a new spirit of
is amply demonstrated by his own re-
of money to war activities, especial- Meanwhile the alliance with the Na- (]amaf{e 0ur artilIery brought down
ly that most merciful mother work of tionalists is becom ng shaky. It 18 ! one p]ane
the Red Cross. on'y held together by common fear
of conscription. j , ■! in
Reports of depredations by dogs A large crack appea.ed at the man- L'dDOI I mteu 1" OT
Conclusion of War
{comes from the north part of the sion house conference when such a i
—Demolishment of the W'st Side c(:r' efforts to explain away the break | • o\vn, and citizens are threatening to violent manifesto was proposed by the
school building is nearing comple- j 'n the west front fighting. ^ take a shot gun to them of their own- radicals that John Dillon and others ; London, May 22. To the American
tion, the finishing touches being ap- — ~ ers do not keep them up. A spotted dog balked. T'.ie manifesto was toned I people I say:
plied today. L. E. Bailey has been in Letters Advertised killed eighteen purebred pigeons for down as a result. So long as con- "We are proud of the part we are
charge of the work and has done a I ^rs Maggie Taylor one night this scription is hanging over theif heads, playing in the war and I urge the
first closs job; all material posible The following letters are advertised weej{> and fhe drove another one away the alliance probably will be held to- speeding up of every war ncessity, so
was saved, the city school board at the postoffice at Norman, Okla., from her chickens. Others in that vi- gether after a fashion. the terrible conflict may be success-
thoroughly realizing the immense May 20, 1918: cinity (west of Peters avenue) have The Herald says it would be a fatal fully concluded as quickly as possible.'
cost of building material. The con- Mr. L. A. Burson, Miss Louise |]ogt many chjekens .Tom Dilbeck has mistake to jump at the conclusion that This message was delivered to the
tract for the construction of the Burns. Miss Florence Cloughley, Miss|been appointed stock and dog officer, because a month has elapsed, "the Uniteu Tress today by James Wilson,
building has not been let, but it is I Anna Clowers, Miss Julia J. Cox, A. wn,i will round up the animals. Owners government has abandoned its nefar- head of the American Labor Mission,
— ~ • ;0us designs upon the manhood of the : which has just concluded a tour of
day and are visiting Messrs. Brutus
and Cash Hughes. Mr. Hughes says hoped to have the building ready for | M. Cockrell, Thos. Glow, Sammie ' better'"k'ee^them^"up
they made the trip m one day, a dis. n(.fuMncv th becinnin,, of the Groves, F. W. Goldsby, Miss Nora
tance of something like 250 miles.
They will meet their other sons, Clay
and Rodney, here today. The young
men are coming home from Colorado
where they've been making their home
with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hughes and
going to school. All the boys have
become fine young men of whom any
parents might be proud, and Clay has
become quite an athlete in Colorado
school circles.
occupancy at the beginning of the
hext school year.
Tosy, Miss Minnie Hicks, Mrs smmr ; _WeWon Hedlev left this morning
Hill, Miss Edna Hull, Miss Ljjcille for Drumwri)fht; where he has ac-
country."
Great Britain and France
"The American Labor Mission is
Red Cross Meetings: Chairman now enroute home" Wilson said. "We
-—Mrs. C. T. Gorton and daughter Mays, Mrs. Susan Mallory, Dean Mel-j' t d a nositio'r, with his brother Kalph Hardie of the S':,e'ak<,rs' Com" have witnessed the war efforts oreat
Wilmuth left last evening to spend vin. Miss Carrie Noble, E. G. Randoll, wbo jg p'ietor of one 0f the large mittee. of War Act,vltles' sports Britain and France and I can say that
proprietor
a week or ten days with Mr. Gorton J. W. Sells, Miss Elizabeth Thomas, concerns jn that city.
at Inola, Okla.
—A postcard from Mrs. W H Crit-
tenden tells us she has safely arrived
at Wichita, and was "on her way" to
Omaha.
Mrs. Jim Wtilliams, C. D. Willson.
When calling for the above please I
state they wer advertised. One cent
due for each letter advertised.
FLOYD L. SWANK,
Postmaster.
very interesting
meetings being
and well
held
NANCY HALLS.
Nancy Hal) Sweet Potato
Only a few thousand left to sell at
50 cent* per hundred. Phone 192.—
FLEMING'S GROCERY talks
(school districts this week in the
jterest of the Red Cross campaign.
slipK. : Messrs. E. L. Cralle, Judge Eagleton
| and other speakers nrd making the
attended j every resource at their command is
different : being utilized in speeding up the war."
When the delegation left London it
was absolutely unchanged in its deter-
mination not to confer with the Ger-
man laborites until Prussian militar-
ism is crushed.
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