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OKLAHOMA ClI'Y
HISTORICAL 80CIE1Y \
THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL. VI. NO. 131.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. MONDAY, AUG. 26. 1918.
I'RICK FIVE CENTS.
REACH HINDENBURG LINE EAST OF ARRAS
43 21-YEAR-OLDS ARE
REGISTERED RY ROARD
FOR SERVICE IN ARMY
OUR BOYS IN FRANCE
DEPICTED ON SLIDES
j OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 26.
| —By means of steropticon slides war
i lectures and official photographs may
Number of N^T~Men Enrolled be broutfht to every home and sch°o1
Comes up to Expectations | district in Oklahoma. The divis'on
of Draft Officials. of pictures of the committee on pub-
INDUCTION INTO ARMY ' 'n^orma^^on ^as PrePared an illuE-
WILL FOLLOW QUICKLY trated lecture on "Our Boys in
■ ■ ■ | France" with 100 slides, the cost of
Men Just Listed Will Be Used in ! slides and lecture being $15.
"KS™?"' ! *-***
containing fifty slides at $7.50 per
Forty-three 21-year-old men regis-i set are also available, including such
tered Saturday with the local draft j subjects as "To Berlin via the Air
board Saturday. This was a larger j Route," "Making the American Ar-
UNIVERSITY TO DIRECT
CURRENTTOPIC WORK
Series of Bulletins by I)r.
Scroggs Now in Prepara-
tion for State Contests.
BRITISH PROGRESS TWO MILES
ON 4-MILE FRONT IN FEW HOURS
AFTER SCARPE ATTACK IS BEGUN
my," ect. These will prove a boon to
war workers and an education to the
public.
FRENCH AT TRAVIS
number than the officials were ex-
pecting from this county, since there
were 190 in June.
"Fully half of the men filled out
their questionnaires in the office Sat- KinQ|y|AK| MpK] TFAPH
urday, and the rest will bring them NUnmHIl IfsLll I LHUfl
back as soon as posible," said Ed P.
Ingle, clerk of the board. As soon as
the questionnaires are returned, the |
men will be physically examined and Professors Giard and Gimeno at
then classified, according to Mr. Ingle. | Work With Soldier Classes
"None of these registrants will be | in Texas Camp.
called until September, but that will j •
be railroading them into service," j Prof. Patricio Gimeno, head of the
said Mr. Ingle. The total number of i department of Spanish, is given men- ^
registrants in Cleveland county Sat- j tion in a recent issue of "Trench and ciasses.
ICglOliailli] 111 VlVf^lUllU UHV I LIU i I 111 U ~ —
urday is almost half as many as were j Camp," the army Y. M. C. A. paper
registered in Oklahoma county on the I published at Camp Travis, Tex.,
same day, since only 110 registered I where he has gone to assist in the in-
with the Oklahoma county draft j stru^tion of the soldiers in French,
boards. Mr. Gimeno left Norman at the close
List of Men Registered I of the summer session and joined
The following is the list of men Prof. C. F. Giard of the school of
registered Saturday:
James Adams, Lexington.
Orville C. Armtrsong, Foss.
Wade Edward Black, Noble
John Thomas Cheatwood, Trous-
dale.
George Harvey Coffey, Noble.
Ervie N. Cole, Norman.
Marshal Coleman, Lexington.
Sterling H. Curry, Wanette.
Charlie Davis, Lexington.
Lewis Allen Dermid, Lexington,
vviliiam Clinton Dodd, Norman.
Leon E. English, Norman.
Paul L. Fahrney, Vinita.
Rowland Wilson Files, Norman.
Robert Martin Fowler, Tribbey.
Ross Frazier, Lexington.
Marlin Luther Garrett, Lexington.
Archie F. Goode, Jr., Lexington.
Orville Monroe Henson, Newalla.
Shelvey Otto Hudgens, Lexington.
Benjamin G. Hume, Moore.
John Jameson, Lexington.
Huron C. Jones, Norman.
W. Earl McGinnis, Norman.
Ashton D. McLennan, Moore.
John D. Menasco, Wanette.
Will Own Ohls, Moore.
Ralph Benedict Roark, Norman.
Calvin C. Ragsdale, Norman.
Earl M. Siler, Moore.
Ernest Jerome Smith, Norman.
James Peyton Shofner, Caddo.
Charles E. Schneringer, Norman.
Edgar Robert Skaggs, Norman.
Ulon Roy Treat, Lexington.
Ed E. Thomas, Norman.
Jess Thompson, Lexington.
Jewel Umphres, Lexington.
William J. Vowell, Norman.
Arvel Litteral Wright, Norman.
Theodore S. Williams, Tulsa.
Walter W. Woodard, Moore.
Jesse J. Wheeler, Lexington.
fine arts of the university, who is al-
so at Camp Travis engaged in teach-
ing French classes.
The article in which Trench and
Camp refers to these two university
men is as follows:
"Prof. Patricio Gimeno, head of
the Spanish department of the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma, is a new arrival
at Camp Travis, coming here to as-
sist Prof. C. F. Giard m forming
French classes under the auspices of
the army "Y." Professor Gimeno, who
The first of a new series of bulletins
on "Study of Current Topics," writ-
ten by Dr. J. W. Scroggs, director of
the department of public information
of the extension division at the uni-
versity, to be used in classes over the
state, is now in the process of publi-
cation. Dr. Scroggs hopes to get the
bulletins ready to send out by the
first part of September before the
schools begin.
The four bulletins are entitled as
follows: "Studies on the Great War,"
"Studies on Social Problems," "Prob-
lem of Individual Development," and
"Oklahoma Citizenship." These bul-
letins are so far distinct that classes
may use one or more of them as their
interests may require.
Schools, agricultural clubs and
women's clubs, and other organiza-
tions are eligible to enrollment in
I the classes. These classes are dif-
i ferent from the extension classes in
that the department at the univer-
sity does not deal with the individuals
but only the heads or presidents of
The enrollment fee is
$1 for the class.
Several bulletins on war subjects,
prepared by the committee on public
information at Washington, will also
be used in the course as supplemen-
tary reading. A collection of books
will also be lent free to eaeh class,
one at a time. Bulletin No. 1, "Stud-
w c dodivs houses YVotfin Section of Old Lint Between Sc«irpe and
struck by lightning Cojeul Rivers in Allied Hands, Together
a o, „t ,5oo.' With Two Villages.
owned by W. c. Dodd, was struck and
killed by ligntning Friday evening BATTLE
during the electrical storm and rain |
Mr. Dodd lives on the old Tad Boyd
RAGES OVER THIRTY MILES
t, . , Tld?oy<i; On Remainder of Active Front, Except Between,
stone place on Route 3. He had just \\TU^a NW- Raftlo
returned from driving the team to
town, and had unharnessed the horses
and turned thejn loose in the lot.
Both were killed about twenty mir-
utes later when the lightning struck.
GERMANS REALIZING
PERILODS POSITION
Fact That Growing American
Army Means Invasion of
Empire Becoming Known.
Oise and Aisne, Where New Battle Rages,
Artillery Is Only Action.
BY JOHN DE GANDT,
United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Aug. 26.—(4 p. m.)—The baftle was resum-
ed on a large scale between the Oise and the Oisne today.
The French are pressing northward and eastward in the
Ailette salient to force the defenses east of Noyon and
west of Coucy Le Chateau, preparatory to opening the
way for a decisive drive toward the Somme in the Ham-
St. Simon region.
REACH HINDENBURG FINE
1 ONDON 'Auir. 26.—(2:15 p. m).—The British in their new
•ittack along the Scarpe have reached the old Hindenburg line, it.
was learned this afternoon. They arrived at the Wotan section oi
BY J. W. T. MASON
I'uited Press War Expert was and Guemappe (five miles southeast
NEW YORK Aug. 26,-The woe-, thehne atMonchy Le WeM ing^lh ()f th(. vil,aK,s
ful news ,S at last beginning to of J, southwest of Guemappe) and Carney (five
spread among the German people Wanco> ^ ^ ^ if) have been captured.
that an invasion of Germany s the , la attack this morning had progressed a depth
inevitable outcome of America s un- lhe 'HI ^ of s,j htly more than four miles Within a
precedented accomplishment of pour- 01 two mues on
ing soldiers by the million intoEu- few hours, J8? th™Searpe sector was made between Fampoux
— rope- th , north bank of the Scarpe (four miles east of Arras) ancf.
O. l, "Stud- The German army was passed to. on'the ™rth . f NeUville-Vita8se (three miles southeast,
i„ on th. Great W.r, * j V.'"<«" < <"> 4™'l 2°AS 'I thm miles. , , ,
eighty pages. I,ca••war, strencth Permitted Mar- oi Arras) a ^ ^ on a front nearly thirty miles, be-
These studies of current topics are shall Foch to.wrest the^mrturtive ;ween th(, Scarpe and the Somme. Additional progress has been,
arranged by the department of pub- l0m 011 ' flip tilde on both wings of this front.
ceedinft™atcurreanntd Tvin^ studTes", |defensive" Germany is realizing the ^Xerttrt" He!? fighUngex C^Sight
whM "on 5K TznieX the French north of Roy. and between the Ailette a,,„
^—
Y contest between the classes in among the German people for its p}re CllUSeS l>OSS
the schools will be arranged, to be I true significance.
was born in Peru, is an artist as well at the time of the interscholas-1
linguist, and he established
department of art in the University
of Oklahoma before taking over the
Spanish department.
'The growth of the classes in
French is presenting a big problem
to the instructors in French, one
class alone having swelled to over
250 members. The military author-
ities are giving the widest co-opera-
tion, both in the furnishing of teach-
ers, and in giving what time can be
spared to this important study."
tis meet at the university
as last year.
Kaiser Forced to Truth
the same I Th# German government has taken
I to the defensive too, before its own :
j people, by making known the fact
At Stephens Home
Hold a Meeting
For Writing to
Fire of mysterious origin, starting
— - in the roof of Mrs. Kate E. Stephens'
that over a million and a quarter hom^ 416 Eagt jjughbert street, on
nnur ir T?ranpp II
afternoon about 3 o'clock,
American soldiers are now in France. Sunday
The Hohatizollerns dare not longer burned the large part of the cast
keep up the deception that America ^b]e of the housP an,| eaused eon-
does not count. The danger of the
j Rhine falling to the American ar-
Sn/c/icr Friends mies is to° ^rave-
iDUlUltZI i The sudden frankness of the kaiser
Oklahoma Girls
Study Nursing
In Vassar Camp
Miss Malinda B. Gibson, who re-
| ceived her B. A. degree from the uni-
versity in 1917, and Miss Virginia
side'rabTe damage""toThe "ceiling and|Tolbert of Hobart who received hex-
interior of the parlor and dining B. A. degree in 1914, are attending
room underneath before it was extin- the training camp for nurses at Vas-
guished. The exact amount of lossjsar college, Poughkeepsie, N. ¥.,
Education of Youth
Is Plan of Council
Eleven soldier boys either in France , a f>olic>' of 'tespaifr'. The, hadnrt been^xed" MondaTby the in-1 which is known as, the
■ nnw hp nnt in a state ' surance representative but was esti- | Plattsburg. Both of them will com-
' a ted at several hundred dollars. plete the course September 13, having
Just how the fire started cannot entered the training camp June 14
Miss Malinda Gibson is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. T. S. Gibson of Norman
lhe visitors were • of modern warfare.
liam Frohman and Archie G Mont- Germans Know the Worst
gomery, of the university tralnl"K The terrible fact is now presente«
camp. They wanted to write letters
but they objected to writing to
I to the German people is now that
Lucie Snake, Indian,
Is Killed in Battle
Lucie Snake, son of "Old Man"
Snake, who died two or three years
ago and who was one of the well-
known Indian residents of the eastern
part of the county, was killed in ac-
tion in France recently, according to
word received by his relatives here
last week. He enlisted in the army
about a year ago and had been in
France for some time.
Lucie Snake is a younger half-
brother of Joe and Charlie Snake,
both of whom live with their mother
east of Norman. Charlie Snake is
among the men called to fill the
Camp Pike quota on August 28. He
learned only Saturday that he was ex-
pected to report on Wednesday. He
and John Spoon, an interpreter, were
in Norman Saturday to learn just
when the draft board wanted him.
or in training camps will receive jarea must "°7 put m a ~j . " surance representative uui was <
more or less extended epistles, and I ^nse and the German people wi - at seVeral hundred dollars
tAvo girls takingtheir vacation will b*told, what Just how the fire started ca,
be slightly shocked to receive letters! tlvlt'es™an- No lonKer 1Sf be ascertained, as there was no tire
from strange lieutenants ae a result Hindenburg planning conquest. The , ^ h(ms(, where the bla,e
of the letter-writing done by ths GermaJ' Kene^al staf^ ls now plan" , started and the electric wiring was
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 28. I member8 0f the Christian Endeavor , "ln.^nh°^ J°territory0 whiTh foun<l t0 ** .in.g°°.d con(iitio"' Mrs'
—"Educate the boys" is a slogan , society and two visitors at the Pres- , P « to taste like Belgium and Stephens and J W®7 .? .
which should be generally adopted, in i,yterian church Sunday evening. |p th h(',rrorS and desolation when a neighbor informed them that
the judgment of the Oklahoma state The visitors were Lieutenants Wil- j f „rarforo roof was a e' 3 63
council of defense, and all war work-
ers, when it can be done with pro-
priety, are asked to urge all young
men to continue their education in
the higher state instittuions of | sjrange soldiers, and tnereiore xney
learning. This may now be were furnished with nd I and that thev are now being used in
without prejudice to the boy s patrio- permltted to write to Miss Esther ent fitting To this de-
tic sentiment or aspirations as he i McRuer, president, of the society, who ^ ^ js but one anawer
may become a member of the United i? visitlng in Missouri and Miss Ruth ssible fQr thg Gern)an peopie. The
States army by enlisting in the stu- Moorej gecretary, who is in Purcell. P ^ arp assenlblin), t0 carry
dent army training corps instead of The so]dier boys who will receive , Cermanv
awaiting his turn in the draft. . It ktter8 are as follows, Corpl Glenn power has
gives them special military training CasUey, George L. Dolph, John O. confronted by so
and fits them for officers' training Donaidson, Guy Mitchell, John Jami- j even wiore
camps. This applies to boys between gon> p. G. Phelps, Earl Sheppard,: ^te a .tuat- a^th,,, fact
the ages of 18 and 21 years. 1 Thad A.Stevenson, Archie M. Wal- •
The Agricultural and Mechanical lace> E]vis b. Whitwell and Robert j know it.
college, at Stillwater, the University Ljvjn(rStone.
of Oklahoma and several other state I —
institutions have opened their doors „
to such a course and have made Lexington C lailTlS
She is a violinist and belonged to thsi
university orchestra while in school.
Since her graduation she taught in.
the high schools at Eufaula and
Checotah.
Miss Tolbeit majored in science
to
preparations to receive any number
of boys who would serve their coun- j
try in this way and prepare them-
selves for positions as army officers. |
First Bale Honors
neighbor
the roof was afire. He had already
turned in the alarm. The flames j -
were easily put out, as soon as the while in college. She was an A stu-
fire truck arrived. I Jent and became a member of the
A defective flue was said by the1 Owl and Triangle, the women a^ h°n-
. . 8 '1Uar" firemen to have been responsible, but j orary society She was a
ter of Americas vanguard in France ^ thg b)aze mugt haye gpread en. . the Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity^
tirely across the house before break- The Vassar training camp is for
ing through. When the blaze was dis-! college graduates who wish to stud,
covered, the furniture was removed nursing, lt consists of t^ee/"°
and no damage resulted except to the , of hard work and is intendecI to^ehmi,
rug in the parlor. Both this room | nate the drudge period of the nuis
and the dining room, however, will training so that the students may -
have to be remodeled. S gin hospital work as soon as they
Mrs. Stephens wishes to express leave camp.
her thanks to the firemen and neigh- | After completing the work at V
bors who helped in saving the furni- j sar, Miss Tolbertwd'continiaehe
tare and in putting out the flames. i course in the Brooklyn hospital wh l*
Miss Gibson will enter the Cincia-
- .T iirAiwrv ! nati Kenera^ hospital in October. In-
m0ratth1s UNIQUE MIXEK Council of Defense the training camps the ^udents wea
• Re-elects Officers lh|'1un,forms
The first bale
Cleveland county
of
"I attended a party where thore
1 were more boys than girls, said one
! co-ed who went to the mixer given
cotton sold in ! tbe soidjers 0n Boyd field south
1918 was not (){ the enR.ineering building Saturday
Dr. Roy Gittinger was re-elected
chairman and F. O. Miller and John
Hardie were re-elected secretary and
former debate coach
to be married soon
the weather
Cyieveiaiiu - i oi uie —
I marketed in Norman, but in Lexing-! evening by the various young people's treasurer, respectively, of the execu-
" - the Leader asserts in its last I ,',f <-v>c r-hurchps tive committee of the Cleveland coun-
ton,
I ,
. wee
ie Leader asserts in its last societies 0f the churches. uve wn.....wce v..-. , .... ----- f
issue W. B. Roberts, who lives AW Seventy-five girls were pres- tiy council of defense at the ergular marriage of Miss lJoiothy btont oi
i < . i ' . .. .i . / ii...i nt tVin ! Ai.1.1 'i i it v tit (.or .inn StiltCl. WHO
II easui CI > icajicvuitij, w* v..-
tjve committee of the Cleveland coun- j The engagement and approaching
mile east of Lexington
sold the
ent,
Frantz Pribbenow of Chandler,
who was a student in the university
last year, was in Norman Saturday
and Sunday visiting friends. He ex-
pects to be drafted Wednesday with
the contingent of 130 men from Lin
coin county.
J'l Co LI jr tl'Ulll. II V* "" n n
dozen lonesome-looking town weekly meeting of that body at the j Oklahoma City to Gordon Stater, who
Oklahoma Weather: Tonight and I first bale'"to" the Lexington Gin com-1 boy's,"about a carload of chaperons courthouse Sunday afternoon. The was graduated from t e un'v"J* * 'n
TuifcX it, on Thursday, A.C t IS.to ,6„ „„o,r, eWM.n «. *, . .1™ —> • p.r-1 m, J. h.n gj- ^
Forecast for the Week cents a pound. to the university training camp. Drop lod , • .. , nlliet home
The Lexington Leader corrects the ■ the handkerchief, cross questions and Messrs. Ciittinger, Miller and Har-; wedding, whicl q ■
Transcript in its statement that the ,rooke(1 answers and other new die have been officers of the council , aftair, will take place tht latter part
bale sold in Norman on August 19 | es heipca to make the evening j since its organizaton last year. They | 0f September.
was the first in the county. It notes ^g^ant. A boxing match was pulled have served so acceptably that the> ; Mr. Stater mt iv< i i
• ' the Lexington bale was! off between two of the
West Gulf States: The weather
will be fair with the temperature
above the seasonal average.
1Tpper Mississippi and Lower Mis-
Valleys : Probably showers j alSo that
i was puuea i nave serveu u . ■-, ••• ■ .
soldier, in | were unanimously re-elected Sunday. | gree from the law school in 1917 and
Ti esday or Wednesday in north por-
tion and fair weather in south por-
tion; normal temperature by first of
week and slightly above the normal
thereafter.
probablv the first to be sold in either I spite o{ the fact that they had been j "I suggest that we elect Mr. Git-1 was debate coach in the
Cleveland, Pottawatomie or McClain ; vaccinated the same day and their , linger chairman for a period of five 11918. He enliste e^^s co
counties. Mr. Roberts received, in ad- arms were The crisis of the ye .rs," said one of the members of U.r of this year and is now w th tho
dition to $156 for the cotton, a prem- i tvtning came when ice cream cones! the council when nomination* were personnel office at Camp Iravts, ban
ium of $27.50. | were served to all present. made. Antonio, Tex.
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