The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 64, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
All the Local News
B'£
Carrying the United Press Telegraphic Report
OKAHOMA WEATHER
Tonight and Saturday cloudy.
PRICE TWO CENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1918.
NORMAN.OKLAHOMA
PRICE TWO CENTS
ai.I'MF VI.
UNITED PRESS WAR SUMMARY
VOLUME 64.
1105th dav «f (he war; Tilth day of the big ""ensue
Af ATJVV FRONT—Fighting continued northwest of Chateau- Keg.strauon u, |tinujnf5 this (Friday) mormng wan ;
MARNE TRO. F h troops pushed the Germans females begms on June 7 1918 ,iprospects that it will last all day.
Thierry, where American and hien I Wednesday and tinuinjr every day except Sunday u ^ two and a ha)f inches at io(
back more than two miles on a five mile front Wednesday y ^ ^ ^ the , day of the ^
morning, and came in
Thursday morning. .• nf registration. The postmasters at Nor- ( ^ ^ manner as to do an jn
Thm sday aij„Mlv on the extreme northern portion of man, Noble, Lexington, and Moore will, ^ amount of g00d. The
Frenc gai '< ^ recaptured a town between the Marne hav<> charge of it in Cleveland county.! ^ is now thoroughly soaked,
the Marne front. British lecapt All natives, citizens, denizens, or I e thoroughly than it has been for
am' PICARDY FRONT—-French took pH,o„e„ to near
inflicted heavy castle* in a,™ SSfJUZ i. vA —J —' "•
1 ORRAINE FRONT—American a.V.l C~-I—1 • register as German alien females., any appreciable (leg .. _
Vienna5lt"l,Hungry i. on the verse of a revolufon .um- "•>- -j*
lar to that which overthrew a«c^ ^ «. ^ .'.-".ii, „ow
CHINA China J*.tJE " art «P - **
,~ mrntro-ip For Deutehland Was
German Alien OvwHolnihis - vi.sterv of the Air A Patfinder
Females Register • Of Splendid Rainj Mastery 01 me Air
Now Believed that the Big Cargo Sub-
Last night's rain, which is still con- Germany Making Last Desperal
i.ast niRni s r ui, « ■••• —
Registration of German alien enemy jt.mi.n^ tWg (Frjday) morning with
Ef-
forts by Submarine. Man-Power and |
Aeroplanes.-—Hospitals Are Vavor-J
ite Points of Attack by Hun Ma-1
chines.—Pitiful Scenes After One1
of These Raids.—Allies Getting Su- j
premacy of the Air.
marine Sought out Submarine Bases
On Virginia Coast When it Came
lo This Country Some Years Ago.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
(United Press Staff Correspondent
With the British Armies in^France, j
June 6.—Just as events on the ground j
are shaning themselves for the final
By CARL GROAT,
I United Press Staff Correspondent
j Washington, D. C., June 6.—Tho
' navy today was making a search for
in possible secret German subr- r,ne
base on this coast.
Sinking of the Norwegian steamer
U-boat inci-
^ „ , Eidsvold was the latest
dves for the ftnai ()(nt ^ officjal cableg up tQ parly to.
crash which must inevitably decide th, Thia sin](ini; occurred Tuesday
fate of the world, the aerial offensive ^ ^ Virginia capes and the crew
is daily waxing fiercer. was p.eked up.
„6„„ —- The mutual struggle for mastery of ^ ^ are sufl*ioient boats in the
late wheat and oats will be benefitted the ifir since 1914—a stupendous | to maintain ordinary
battle miles above 'the earth has viKil, hut to dog a submarine effectu-
scareely ceased day or night „„ J allv with the resources at hand is a
British airmen brought down Soo i .. v a
mans to Australia, according to a Tokio (hspaU,..
i States and subject to the jurisdiction
Iceed to get up and hump. Harvest German airmen in
less
it down - > problem. Officers, however, de-
than three I_ it. , ,
Fourteen Vessels
Strafed by Germans
This is the Toll Taken hy German
Submarines Off Virginia and New
lersey Coasts.—German Frightful-
ness Attends Sinking of Harpath-
ania.—Our Destroyers Cannot Get
in Touch With the Deep Sea Mons-
ters.
By CARL D. GROAT,
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, June 7.—The navy has
lost contact with at least one coastal
German U-boat raider.
This fact, apparent from the un-
hampered sinking of the British
steamer Harpathian. 100 miles off the
Virginia capes, Wednesday, was con-
firmed by navy officials today. The
Harpathian was torpedoed Wednes-
day morning and her crew, with one
wounded, was brought into Hampton j
Roads last night by the steamer Pal-
Rombing Women
And Children
Germans Carry Their Frightfulness
Into Villages of France—Treat,ea
Still Regarded by Them as Mere
Scraps of Paper."-Brittoh Kept
Promises, While Germans \iolated
Theirs.
By WILLIAH PHILIP SIMMS,
United Press Stac Correspondent
With the British Armies in France,
June 7.—The German Emperor and
the freebooters about him continue to
regard formal treaties as "mere
scraps of paper," according to a let-
te just found on a prisoner.
Furthermore, there is every indica-
tion that the Archbishop of Cologne
was used as a tool when he wrote to
— - . ... „0,.j |will be on in earnest the first of next
thereof are American citizens legald-
less of the citizenship of their par- wee ^ ^ ^ ^ ;j
°nAll German females who have mar- j o'clock today that the actual measure
All German temaies wno nave • . t ! j
ried American citizens thereby them- nent was 2 .,, im-hoa■ [he uuu.e ^
I clare it is possible to accompli^ .
weeks up to June 2, of which -.1- were ^ pnt material W;
i totally destroyed. In many cases
i enemy planes, spinning from the sky
toward the ground like rockets crash-;
1 i'd and burned until only black!
ters
around the Virginia capes aiv >e-
lieved to HTtve been well chartc 1 ' y
the Germans when the cargo sub-
« a~~*° sz.'S'fc""™ ta"1 •*- ««;—«• *"• ,st"' i "oZSStSZ i «-
selves become American citizens thejr agony) p.,otg am, observol.8 leap- ,g ^ (he u bo!lts stm ,lav„
they are not required to registc . — |ed from their burning planes to mid-1nfltMlchad a supply 0£ torpedoes to
~ I . mm • Uir, whirliiitr over and over and land- on craft. All their victim* o
Brilliant Work of American marines !ing far from the wreck of their «.«-|hw been sllllk b.. ,thel. mean,
C . i 7 _ y/. m„„c Rnrh TttiCi MlltiS. during the same period 526.tons of ndon ,iune ().—English news-
Sweep the Germans oacR i wo ivmu were lropped behind) the .ulim;ini„.
1' -or well over a mil- , „ \ su a
the German lines
lion pounds. The Zeebruffjre mole, the
an('
Gripping Story of the Fighting at Chouteau o
Thierry. Americans Hold Captured I ositions|Bl.u,,(^ docks and railway --t at ion
Despite Desperate Counter Assaults.—Tern
hie Execution by American Machine Guns.
| tions along the American coast :ue
intended to hue back American dc-
Eu-
I _ H,ni ' stroyers and patrol boats now in
, munition works in cities far inside rQpean waterSi but are confident this
object will not be accomplished.
Bombardment of American C"ast
Germany—like Mannheim, Landau,
Karlaruhe and Cologne—were attack-
ed repeatedly and set fire again and
again.
In one day, British airmen, aften
Amcri- mere boys, shot .14 Prussians from the
the capes
moved out to sea abjut
sixty miles since last previously heard
from when it sank the Norwegian
steamer Eidsvold. Navy men frankly
admitted that this movement had not
been traced, but they were still hope-
ful that contact would be established
with the U-boat whose plan appears
to be the hunting of bigger game than
unarmed coastal steamers with no!
military value.
This appeared the case from the
fact that a torpedo was used on the
Harpathian. Heretofore, with one ex-
ception, the boche has spared his tor-
pedoes.
By FRED S. FERGUSON,
United Press Staff Correspondent
was uacu «.= — -With the Americans on the Marne, June 6. (Night) i pky an(i"dropped 59 1-2 tons of bombs
the Pope requesting that the Allies . • after hurling the Germans back one and a quarter to on ene#ny mjutary centers, goto* as
be asked not to bomb German cities a ftve mjie front northwest of Chateau far M Bruges. Disdaining the antiair-
t Corpus Christi day. wo < i ? attack late today. Th" battle ii* craft shells which burst about them
A letter written by a Cologne resv Thierry this morning, r«S«Wed tte K .^ng low to the ground they
. .. . ... — in intensity as this dispatch is filed. started a ,lisastrous fire along the
There was violent fighting all last night, the. Americans oc
uui). o r . d„m:0mo Tniw Bouresches, Neuilly wood, pait oi .'ti
Sunday parades, either in the stree s , cupying^^ ^ staXion and railway at Boursches.
The fighting began at night and at ]
dent to a relative in the field sar
donieallv admitted there would be no
\ Corpus Chirsti processions or White
After describing a British air aid
1 on Cologne a few day before, the Col-
| ogne resident wrote:
I "The wretches wanted to pay
j another visit, but only came as far as
3:45 this morning, the Marines start-
ed to advance, singing and whistliag
"Yankee Doodle" as they trotte I
across no man's land. The infantry, on
POSTPONED
another visit, out oniy cww « — across no mans
Wess'elling, w'. re bo^'i se"tions were the right 0f the Marines, advanced m
i heavily machine gunned, but tomor- the faee 0f a heavy fire.
nw in Corpus Christi and we feel
sure another attempt will be made,
for the scoundrels must believe pro-
cessions will be held. No processions
will be allowed, however, and the
Whitsunday procession is forbidden."
Upon receiving the archbishops re-
in less than four hours, the marines
had completely cleared Neuilly wood
of the enemy, taking more than a hun-
dred prisoners and ten machine gu a-
i upon receiving hic «• i- -
New York, June 7.—Real Prussian j f[Ues^ British agreed not to bom- .
With the Americans on the Marne,
Tune 7 —The Americans who swent
— . . , . — ed not 10 'tlrvrmans back two miles on a five-
frightfulness is coming into play in j1ard (5ermar, c'.ics on Corpus C.hnsti ' northwest of Chateau
the submarine raids on Atlantic coast; dav They kept lhe;r wora. On the "|' e , , and last nigh'
shipping, according to details of the j ^ handi the Germans shelled and Thierry ^ monli
steamer Harpathian sinking received t,.jed to bornbard Paris. 1 holdine lnelr
here today. j Qut here, French villages and towns
This British ship of 2,800 tons was , wprp in the same ruthless
torpedoed, without warning between mannerj regardless of the implied
90 and 100 miles off the Virgima j aKreement that neither side would
capes. Captain Owen and his crew of j towns during the church festi
41 had barely time to get into tbe]va|
boats. Flying timbers from the ex
holding their gains this morning in
the face of determined German coun-
ter attacks.
With the aid of th; French infantry,
rould the American murines and machine
jrunners were consolidating their posi-
tions all alone the new front.
In the region of Lucy LeCocape
wmrcm/rm
. f $L
The rain that has fallen has
cheered the hearts of the farm-
ers and will brighten the Earth.
And when the sun shines again
the grass will grow green and
the fields of corn and cotton
will feed and clothe a hungry
world.
All is well that ends well.
Owing to the scarcity of um-
brellas and rubber boots, the
Community Concert was ruined
for tonight, but will bloom
again next Friday night.
THE CIVIC COMMITTEE.
i waterfront.
j The next day the same sky-riders
charged a number of German air
' fleets, demolishing twenty-six craft,
! th ewrecks falling in somersault * to ^
the ground.
i Elsewhere they dropped fifty-three
tons of high explosives going as far
as Karlsruhe where, during a feroci-
ous attack by boche
cities is considered entirely probable.
"As has been anticipated since the
Deutchland's voyage, a fighting sub-
marine has succeeded in crossing the
Atlantic," the Express said.
"The U-boat pirate will have plenty
of opportunity for mischief in the
western Atlantic. It is possible that
I some American seaboard town will
[ be bombarded.
i "The extension of the U-boat cam-
paign will mean some loss and dam-
age—with certain retribution and Hie
, hardening of American determination.
! "America realizes the threat of a
submarine blockade is intended to
lure hack American patrol boats and
destroyers now in European tfateis
r"e'~ i America can protect herself and nelp
planes, they , „
1 us too.
bombed trains, railways and wai j fjrst news of submarine opera-
tions on the other side of the Atlantic
were published here yesterday after-
noon.
Endeavoring to
Force a Decision
London, June 5—"The Germans, re-
—" , . , . | This bombing still continues. Tiny chate'au Thierry) —Mrs. C. S. Bobo and daughter,
plosion broke one man ^ leg and ^n^ vi]]ages which are in no way con- . WM t)cing badly. Mi.. Olga, left this mommg for gee^ tQ be the worst 8ufferers. the attacks
jured the head of another.Jhe « cted with military operations are Ger„an machine guns. Dallas Texas to v'Ht T"th M"* Bo Several hundred patients, doctors, sis- "Thanks to President Wilson, ar
rr ^ee^;^ An American patrol l.aped from <1, |bo's sister until some time ui July. ^ ^ attendallls have been killed rangemenU^ were «ade^twc, months
into the boats scantily clad.
; works. The bombing squadrons were 1
protected so perfectly by a fighting
patrol that only one British plane fail-
ed to return. It was seen landing near
i Karlsruhe, under control. Some vital I
part had been hit.
1 These two exploits occurred during
the last two days and nights of May. I
! On June 1 I saw an air battle con- ! — —
! tinue hotly after twenty-five planes ! Heved of the pressure on the eastern
| had been brought down in duels, high j front, as a result of the collapse of
up in the blue haze. The 3ame r.ight , Russia, are desperately endeavoring to
twenty-seven tons of bombs were ; force a decision on the west front be-
i dumped on the Zeebrugge moie and fore America's fullstrength is thrown
! other "tender" spots in that vicinity. ! into the struggle," says a statement
| Meanwhile German war planes have issued at the sixth session of the al-
been more daring than ever before.1 lied supreme war council.
1 Many towns and villages behind the "The enemy has gained some initial
allies' lines have been bombed. Hos- j advantages and will probably renew
, HLI'-M l.opcu lprs an(1 aiieriuttm-s nave uccu
lines, attacked the enemy position, i machine gun and rifle outright, some have been burned alive ago for the transportation and brigaa-
The"German"pirate"popped UP for 81 ®"°d nearT^Hag^'T asked "what j killed the entire crew and captured the , ^ rippjnK tl|rowh and many have been wounded Th, ing of American troops, wh^^ili
jand old people huddled beside the
i ruau neat « -
minute and was seen to be a big cratt, Thev replied they were £un-
bearing the number 102 or 112 on her spendinfr the starlight nights in the Part of the advance yesterday w
conning tower For 26 hours the "ar" npen as the Huns alwoys took advan
ana iiiaii^ n«vc uccu "uuu • ^ , .
'them "to the main body of Americans, most pitiful cases perhaps were the make it impossible for the enemy
'■ j p entire company of Germans wounded soldiers whose horrible com- gain a victory > NSci'1 • C , .
I made across a wheat fi?ld, the marines L dreseed in French uniforms, in pound fracture- were just beginning lied reserves before e as ex a
pathian's men" were to their open boats \ ^a^p t'JTes""nights "to" bomb""them. alternately dropping in the wheat ^ ^ deceive the marines. The to heal. Their wounds, w,= reopen- ed his own.
with insufficient food and water. As There was no soldiers in or near the . then raising up and half crawling, ha.f ]atter CQuld not fi„ure how the French ed and their limbs rehi k^ , - Ownpr fan Get Pell
they rowed for shore, they saw two | waiking into the face of the fierce cou]d bg jn front of them and fired in- great shock of the explosions. | ()« ncr V an Ud
1 From a conversation with an offi machine gun fire. to the masqueraders. The Germans I ^lt"' vnn" 0 ' terrible and Mr J C Minteer tells of an inter
• * The advance greatly proved ^|l««Ot their camouflage and quickly J-^Theex^ e ^ ^ ^ where! esung'occurence at his home a couple
marines positions, opening the .cried kamcrad. ^ ^ written, the unceasing drone! of weeks ago, in cherry-picking time,
through a wood on a hill whiu. . ■ , French 80ldiers holding a position „ , planes, £,0ing over the line-1 He says they had a cherry tree pretty
' overlooking the fight reported terrible _uance 0f their day's work I well filled with the fruit, and when it
execution by the marines machine ■ ■ • wa3 getting ripe had trouble in keep-
e ' guns as well as by artillery fire. Tr,e com ^ ^ nov; ab]e to in. ing the little folk away from it. They
"boche dead were thick on the field ^ advantage succeeded fairly well until one morn-
' | The latest count shows ten machine - ^ Eve„ now he se!dom j„g Mrs. Minteer went to the tree and
! guns captured, but there are undoubt- f] \earlv always found it wel stripped, and under it
u' edly more. Two of these were taken in \(ntulps 10 1 N "
more German submarines
Torpedoing of the Harpathian cgr o{ thp Qerman air forcM who had
brought the German sinking record to beeen taken prisoner. I learned that
fourteen—six steamers and eight the (-jermans are determined com-
schooners. The missing men total, pjoU]y to lay wa«te ce.-'nin towns far
twenty-five—ten passengers and fif- ^ebind the lines. Apparently they tions
teen of the crew of the Carolina. Word j are carrying out a scheme of fright-
came trday of the safe arrival at
iven the enemy the dominating n
Now the Germans are puv
completely off the hill. The ma
>n oi tne crew ui wic ..... are carrying oui. a stncnic w■ - eompieieiy uu
me trday of the safe arrival at a fu]ness just the same as they did in Up positions on the farther
West Indian port of a 10,000 ton liner | Belgium and JFranee at the beginning having full sweep with their ma
for which fear had been felt. «• «n n field.
of the war.
runs across an open field.
Most of the prisoners, who
New York's lighting restrictions are
being made more drastic. Street lights _ltJ|„ _
at some places are regulated. A false ^is duties in the large missionary they were to have attacked again '| j,undred rounds
air raid alarm, caused by blowing of - - ' d r*' '"--1 """
1 1 , euiy muxe. v
-Harold Gimeno left Friday to take ; Prussians, said they thought the t- deift,erate daylk
„ - f nS the German planes are found in great f.und a $4.50 fountain pen, with an
it raids, ruentw droves when one ,s ,.i0ne it is pretty inscription on it: "From t0TT"'
i up nis uuue "i ure i«s« iiicj — — - -- -- j nunureu iuwuuo of ammunition .• s actin as a decoy, hop.. Evidently -omeone not so small had
mi -- i school in Porto Rico. Harold is the son lay. They had not had any rations or ^ werg CBptured. i be attacked bv a single allied plane, visited the tree during the night. Mr.
locomotive whistles, caused great «*" Lf pjof, and Mr.. P. Gimeno instructor five days. Other German prisoners | char]es Ginsber(r; formerly a new.- . wi.ole sattadron will dive I Minteer says owner'can get the pen
citement in uptown Manhattan, many j the department of the uni-; said the Prussians got what little food ^ ^ the corner ; f 110th st. ar 1 . ..
fleeing to cellars, while the police j vergityi , there was. lexington Ave., New York, marched
were deluged with telephone inquiries j The general morale of the O. i:- head arter8 with his bayonet
to which way the supposed air raid- _ok]a B(|b() and Merie Smith, the in this region is the lowest. Prisoners ^ a boche prisoner, who was
said that three divisions (36,000 men) | wa)k. ahead of hjm Ginsberg said it
had been used up trying to rush back, ^ tough, hot fight" but that he
the marines. They included the Jaeg-| ^ anxjous to Ket rid 0f his prisoner
ers, who are crack riflemen. and ,,tt back into it.
One company of marines, which
une tuinpniijr * Vmunitnl corns man from v\ iim-
was flanked during the advance, was A hospital I
ers were heading.
H L. Pierson has sold Sarah B.
Wagner lot 22 and part lot 27 in
block 20, and part lot 1 in Lincoln
Addition to Norman for $2850.
—Mrs Ray Berry arrived Friday
from Pitcher, where she has been
managing the Berry picture show.
—Okla Bobo and Merle Smith, the
two young Norman high school boys
who joined the army and left for Ft.
Logan, Colo., shortly before the close
of school, have been transferred to
Camp Joseph E. Johnston. Jackson-
ville, Fla. Both are in the quarter-
master's department.
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from the clouds. 1 by calling "and proving proprty. In
When a German observer is ordered ■ the meantime he has the use of a nice
to reconnoiter behind the allied lines, j fountain pen.
he usually is accompanied by
entirely surrounded. After fighting
their way to an advanced position,
they had to fifrht their way out again.
ington, Del., who dressed several
wounded men under fire, said hey
were "the gamest blanch he ever st<w.'
seven battle piancs. Even the enemy
air men dislike the job.
Day by day the crossing of our lines
is becoming a stitfi'.- task. Among .he
clouds, as on the fields of France, Ger-
many is now making her final bid
—Miss Elizabeth Armstrong left]
Friday for Pauls Valley, where she]
will visit for several days.
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_M>. J;,. k Alley and suns left I'ri-
. .. for Camp Bo« ie. Texas, v, . re|
they will visit Major Jack Alley, who
is stationed there.
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