The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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THE HAMMON ADVOCATE
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HEREMTHERE
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS f
" The German drive In Flanders and
Picardy has greatly stimulated the re-
cruiting of British subjects In this
country Last week established a Veo-
ord in the number of men ‘ enlisting
according to 'a statement' by the Brit-
island Canadian recruiting mission
' ' ’ 4 4
Private Vaughn Beekman of Mar
ion’ Ind: was killed and a score or
more soldiers and civilian workers
War News
Out of the chaos of the tremendous
battle along the Lys river south and I' were injured some dangerously when
southwest of Ypree the thunder of a tornado struck Camp Shelby near
which may be heard forty or - fifty I Hattiesburg Miss The men Injured
miles away there have come in the I were struck by flying debris
last day reports which are more en- !
couraging to the Allied powers The Prof William J Thomas sociologist
British not only have held all the has been suspended from the Univer
ground which they were defending but sity of Chicago faculty pending an in-
have struck back bo powerfully that vestlgation of charges that he had vio-
Meteren and part of Wytschaete were lated the conventional moral code in
retaken and held for a time his relations with Mrs R M Granger
fr r
Patrols on the Asiago plateau and Three soldiers were killed ten dan-
Italian patrols in the Monte Tomba gerously injured and thirty-five slight-
area captured prisoners and material ly injured recently In a wreck on the
At Gonfo Loop) east of Fossalta Ital-1 Long Island Railroad near Central
Ians prevented the enemy from Islip N Y All of the dead and in-
launching boats One of the assault jured are said to be stationed at Camp
parties crossed the Piave and Inflict- Upton at Yaphank N V ‘
ed casualties on the enemy 4
4- I Increase in storage holdings of dairy
Germany’s mighty effort on the bat- products eggs and frozen and cured
tie field of Flanders has won new meats of all classes was shown In the
successes According to the latest re- department of agriculture’s summary
ports the Important strateglb towns I of its canvass on April 1 comparing
of Bailleul Wulverghem and Wyt- the stocks with those of that date a
schaete are in German hands and
more important still the Teutons
have carried a large part of Messines
Ridge by storm
4 4 4
year ago ' 1
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The 7-year-old son of Edgar Wilkin-
Bon Kankakee III was drowned
when the motor 'car driven by Mrs
Violent bombardments on both sides Wilkinson skidded over a 10-foot em-
took place recently in the region of bankment' into eighteen feet of water
Montdidier there was no inf ap try ac- at the city Quarry Mr and Mrs Wil-
tion About the BoIb Le Pretre sev-kinson were rescued
eral attempts made by the Germans
were repulsed after quite lively en-
gagements French patrols took pris-
oners near Negreville and BadonvllMr j
4 -h ‘
A bill to bring all persons charged
with violation of the Espionage Act
under the Jurisdiction of the military
court-martial has been introduced by
DOUBLE HUN ONSLAUGHT IN
SOMME AND ARMENTIERES
- TERRIFIC STRUGGLE
ALLIES RETAIN HIGH GROUND
I i ' ‘
foe Is Reported Hurling 72000 Men
V Against Defenders On 8evenMlle
British Front Near1
Ypdes
Seven dayB after the Germans I senator Chamberlain of Oregon chair-
launched their gigantic assault against man of the Senate military committee
Southwest:
the British lines between Lens and
Ypres the momentum' of their attack
has been broken and waves of the
' j
Teuton forces are recoiling before the I Four hundred convicts in the state
rock of the British defense While penitentiary at Santa Fe N M tarred
the Germans have made gains of and feathered and led around with! a
ground and have driven a wedge into rope about his neck Maj Jphn N
the Allied lines to a considerable Birkner of Camp Cody N M held in
depth they seem to have failed in the penitentiary as a federal prisoner
their attempt to break through or take I in default of f 5000 ball He is charged
Important railway junctions ' with violation of the Espionage Act
4 4 4 I 4 4 4
The hardest fighting of the pres-1 A heavy wind and rain storm at
ent battle south of the River Somme I Rock Ark did considerable
has been almost Incessant around J property damage in the city and the
Hangard-En-Santerre since March 21 1 surrounding country One woman was
British and French have been en-
gaged side by side in 'defending thiB
highly Important and strategic posi-
tion on the road between Noyon and
Amiens
Preceded by an intense bombard-
ment of high explosive and poison gas
shells picked troops from four Ger-
seriously hurt when a chimney crash-
ed through the roof of her home
Approximately one- hundred men be-
longing to various organizations in the
headquarters trains and military po-
lice companies escaped from Camp Lo-r
gan near Houston Tex recently in
rebellion against an order transferring
man companies hurled themselves I em °er organizations in the
against the American positions on the
right bank of the Meuse north ofSt
Mihiel! tgit were completely repulsed
after terrific hand-to-hand fighting
The Americans captured Borne prison-
ers 4 4 4
division All except two of them have
been captured
4 4 4
Private Thomas F Atchison head-
quarters company of the Thirty-seventh
United States infantry was kill-
ed recently by a sniper’s bullet from
the Mexican side of the river while on
The entire Allied line in Belgium patrol duty near Zapataf lt wa3 an
and France is holding firm Nowhere nounced at Laredo Tex
have the Germans been able notwlth-1 - 4- ' 4- 4- '
standing the great numbers of men As a war measure approximately
hurled against it especially that por- 1(500 saloons in Texas closed their
tion in Flanders where the British are I doors recently ' This action resulted
holding forth to gain an inch of from the ten-mile zone prohibition law
ground ’ - I which makes it unlawful to sell give
w£eiintnTi j away or have on the person Intoxicat-
wasnwKTon ing 1Iquor within tm mIles of 8
William Joel Stone senior senator I tary establishment
from Missouri - and chairman of the 4 4 4
State Foreign Relations committee is A tornado which struck North Texas
dead at his home in Washington The the other' night did damage to several
senator suffered a second cerebral towns according to reports At Boyd
hemorrhage and lapsed Into a state I thirty buildings including a church
of coma from which he did not rouse I and school house were demolished
His family was at the bedside when railroad cars were blown from tracks
the end came The body will be in-
terred at Nevada Mo his old home
4- 4 4-
One hundred and fifty thousand
and telegraph and telephone wires
broken - '
4 4- 4- I
A" tornado which struck several
drafted men nearly three times the North Texas counties recently demol-
month’s quota will be mobilized dur- Ishing homes outhouses barns and
ing May Provost Marshal General crippling wire communication carried
Crowder stated recently By June I
three hundred thousand men of the
second draft of eight hundred thou-
sand will be In training camps he
said
4 4- 4-
with it a death toll of at least four
Many persons were injured
4- 4- 4-
Foreign
The Germans have landed 40000
troops at Helsingfors according to
The house military affairs commit- an exchange teiegraph dispatch from
tee after a long debate reported to Copenhagen A German Bquadron an-
the house the senate resolution pro- chored in the harbor of Helsingfors
Tiding for the registration of all men consists of twelve ships including the
who have become 21 years of age battleship Posen and Westfalen each
since June 5 last General Crowder of 18600 tons
plans to sift -the men among those 4- 4- i 4- '
now classified I Five Russians of the Russian Fly-
4 4 4 I Ing Corps have arrived in Canada on
I a trans-Paclfic liner to offer their ser-
Domesuc vices to the British Royal Flying
The Savoy hotel one of the oldest Corps They have served on the Aus-
hostelrles of Omaha was damaged by trian and Rumanian fronts and all
fire to the extent of about 275000 re-1 have been decorated for bravqry
cently Five persons were overcome I 4-4-4-
by smoke and others suffered injuries Two German fighting ' planes were
in jumping from windows but none I shot down the other morning inside
was seriously hurt J W Stewart 503 1 the- American lines by Lleuts A S
Jackson avenue Kansas City was one Winslow of Chicago and Douglas Camp-
cf the persons overcome bell of California
4- 4- 4-4-4-
The bronze statue of Frederick the Several thousand prisoners and a
Great which has ornamented the west- large amount of booty were taken by
ern facade of the War College build-1 the German troops which captured
Ing on the banks of the Potomac at 1 Helsingfors j capital of -Finland ac-
Washington has been removed in sec-1 cording to communication issued
tiona and packed away for aafe keep-1 from the headquarters of the German
Ing I commander General von Der Colts
4- I
Order for greater efforts to find I "What is now most pressingly re-
the missing naval collier Cyclops I quired is that the fighting forces of
overdue from South American waters I the United States should be brought
for more than month went out re- into the field as speedily as possible”
cently to American ships In addition I A J Balfour the foreign secretary
Allied naval craft on patrol duty In I Mid speaking st a luncheon to the
the South are aiding In the search 1 American labor delegation In London
London — The great double German
drive in the Somme and Armentleres
sectors has developed into a terrifio
struggle
The tide of battle surges to and
fro with the decision still in the bal
ance The English and Australians
having been forced back out of Vlllers-
Bretonneux launched a counter-attack
and swept the Germans back almost to
the lines which were held before the
present fighting began -The
French have been driven back
out of Hangard-en-Santere but are
holding their positions close by while
on the line southwest of Ypres the
British have been compelled to with
draw slightly before furious attacks
along the Meteren-Bailleul-Wytschaete
U-t ' '
Hun Gains Small '
Notwithstanding the ' frantic preps
arations made by the Germans for a
continuance of their drive toward
Amiens and the extreme violence of
the fighting their gains thus far In that
region have been very small
Along the line from Albert to Castel
except at Hangard-en-Santerre' the
: German assaults have i been burled
back by the allied forces which are
strongly posted on the higher ground
to which they retired during the last
days of the German drive in Picardy
It Is unofficially reported that four
to six German divisions or from 48000
to 72000 men have been hurled on a
seven-mile front at the ' British and
French lines near Ypres The retire
ment of the British in this sector must
have been sipall for there are no great
gains reported by Berlin so far
It was rumored that Mont Kemmel
a dominating height north of Wulver-
ghem had been taken by the enemy
but this has not been confirmed
Prepared to Defond
That only slight gains have been
made anywhere along the two fronts
which have been subjected to attack is
proof that the allies are prepared to
defend their positions !V
X In the last three weeks the Ger-
mans have hurried up heavy cannon to
the Somme battleground - and have
marched many fresh divisions to the
points where they have been held for
the moment of attack
Their failure to do more than gain
almost insignificant bits of ground is
one of the most encouraging features
of the fighting that is now going on
and which may be looked upon as the
third phase of the great German of-
fensive Raiding operations are reported
along the French lines east of Mont
didier
EIGHT HUNS TO ONE YANKEE
AND HUNS WERE LICKED AT
SEICHEPREY
Marins Corps Has Had 278 Casualties
Since Troops Reached
' ' 1 France' ' K
With the American Army in France
—Further details received at head-
quarters of the engagement- around
Selcheprey show that the American
troops were outnumbered In some In
stances eight to one ' -
More of the American wounded have
been found one of whom was buried
alive for three days and had been
trampled over by the enemy when he
had crawled to the surface in the be
lief that he was dead The American
casualties are considerably less than
the first estimates
Casualty Lists Increasing
Paris — American soldiers wounded
in the great battle which now is being
waged are already arriving ’at the rear
American wounded and sick to the
number of 128 have reached Hospi-
tal 25
They are from ’ units engaged ' in
fighting side by side with French and
British in stemming the German ad-
vance --
Hospital 25 is one of the new Institu-
W bb eun eqi pcjqaq peqsuqvjsa euon
stood after the allies stopped the re-
cent German drive In Picardy
Few of the Americans remained at
the hospital very long being taken fur
ther to the rear ' '
Sixteen girl students of Smith col-
lege are working1 in day and night
shifts at this point and are operating
a well arranged canteen at the railroad
Btation for the soldiers coming through
on the hospital trains
ST PAUL WILL BE RAISED
3ig Vessel Accidentally Sunk In New
York Harbor
New York — Steps already have been
begun to salvage the American line
steamship St- Paul a famous passen
ger liner hwich overturned and sank
at her pier while being warped into
a pier Three men are believed to
have lost their lives In the accident
Officials of the company said they
expected to complete the work of rala
ing the steamer within a week
- The steamer now is lying on her
port side with about ten feet of her
hull amidships above the water and
Is completely submerged both fore and
aft
One of the causes advanced to ex-
plain the accident which was support
ed by -experienced marine men was
tbat the ship which was being warped
Into the pier by lines from the shore
and assisted by tugs pushing listed so
far that water entered open coal ports
this resulting in an overcoming of the
center of gravity Another explanation
offered was that the ship’s sea cocks
might have been open either by acci-
dent or design
Sixteen Indicted foe Prager Death
Edwardsville 111 — Indictments were
returned against sixteen persons by
the grand Jury which investigated the
lynching on April 5 of Robert Paul
Prager at Collinsville Twelve Indict-
ments were against civilians and
charged murder and four indictments
were against policemen charging mal-
feasance In office Prager who was an
enemy alien ws taken from the base
ment of the Jail In Collinsville on the
morning of April 5 led to the out
Skirts of the town and hanged
Donnelly to bo Courtmartialed
Wshington — A special court-martial
has been ordered for Brig Gen Arthur
B Donnelly formerly of the Missouri
national guard now under arrest at
Camp Mills N Y General Donnelly
has been in command of the 138th in
fartry formed from the old First and
Fifth Missouri regiments once its-
Cosed at Camp Doniphan Okl Gen
eral Donnelly It la understood will be
tried at Fort Sill on a charge of hav
Ing liquor in his possession within the
restricted military xonuc
Marine Casualties Small
Washington— The total losses of the
brigade of marines with the American
expeditionary force In France so far
reported was announced by Major Gen-
eral Barnett commandant of the corps
as 278 divided as follows: -
Killed in action' 22 died - from
wounds 10 died from accident 2
wounded in action 244
All the dead are enlisted men but
eight officers two captains and six
lieutenants were among the wounded
Five of the enlisted men were slightly
wounded but General Barnett’s state
ment did not show whether the officers
and other men were' severely or slight-
ly hurt
Most of the casualties were in one
company which General Barnett said
lost a total of twenty-one killed and
140 wounded out of a personnel of
250 The dates on which the marines
were killed and -wounded were not
made public nor was it indicated what
part of the line the "soldiers of the
sea” are holding or in what actions
they participated Such information
Is withheld for military reasons
OKLAHOMA STATE NEWS
1 Higher Gas Rates Asked 1
Increased gas rates In thirty-six
Oklahoma cities and towns are asked
by the Oklahoma Natural Gas Com-
pany In a petition filed with the state
corporation commission A minimum
rate of 20 cents a thousand cubic feet
will be established Immediately In all
of the cities served by the company
if the petition is granted This would
affect Industrial ’ consumers only' as
the domestic rate lb none of the cities
Is less than 20 cents
An advance In the price of domestic
gas also Is asked the extent of the
Increase to be determined after the
jninimum charge hearing and on evi
dence to be submitted at that hearing
Tbe Oklahoma Natural is planning
the construction of a pipe line to the
Healdton field according to David H
Richardson who filed the petition
This would cost about 12000000 ’ he
said He pointed out the increase in
the 'price of gas at the w'ells In the
mid-continent field and the failing of
the gas wells In tbat region as reasons
for an advance in gas prices
The cities served by the Oklahoma
Natural Gas Company in which in-
creases are asked follow: Oklahoma
City El Reno Enid Guthrie Shaw
ne'e Muskogee Wagoner Tulsa Chan-
dler Pond Creek Claremore Yukon
Red Fork Turley Dawson Stroud
Davenport Wellston Luther Edmond
Meeker Arcadia Kelleyvllle ipidloth
ian Depew Hunter Nardln Deer
Creek Lamont Peckham Inola Por-
ter Ramona Hastings Coweta and
Shamrock
J B 8iebenliat one of the men who
recently kissed the American flag
under pressure and swore new alle-
giance to America at the instance of
members of the council of defense at
Shattuck has been arrest'ed a second
time and is being held on a 'charge
of continued disloyalty
V John H Scott town marshal at
Quinton was shot through the heart
and Instantly killed by Mike Daniel
a young Choctaw Indian
Three times In three days Dr C
Stevens of New Wilson officiated at
th’e birth of twins and each time the
pair was a boy and a girl L s
Up to April 1 the people of Oklaj
homa had contributed to Uncle Sam’s
war chest through the war savings
campaign a total of $353016010 whiclj
averages approximately $152 for eacl
person in the! state 1
Outclassing a field of normal school
athletes the Chllocco Indian school
easily won the third annual invitation
track and field meet conducted by thd v
University of Oklahoma for normal
schools and colleges Chllocco woq
11 points Southwestern Weatherford!
39 and Northwestern Alva 28
After a running fight with Sheritl
Earl Wilson and a posse of deputies
blue jnoonshlners one a woman wer(
rounded up in Pushmataha f county
and the leader of the law-breakers a
man who gave his pame as Serrett
was wounded One hundred gallons of
whiskey and 600 gallons of beer were
seized ' at the headquarters of the
gang
r
STATEHOUSE BREVITIES
f!
41
Work has started on the construc-
tion of new geology and library build-
ings pt the University of Oklahoma
Latimer county has made Its first
real contribution to the war 'A mes
sage from the war office in Londod
announces the death of Will Ridley
while hi action on March 27 and the
wounding of his brother Thomas Rid-
ley on the same day Both were la
Canadian service
EARP SAFE IN FRANCE
Washington— Liberty day was cele-
brated by the nation with patriotic
demonstrations in practically every
city and town to speed the sale of Lib-
erty bonds' Subscriptions are now
well above two billion dollars or two
thirds of tbe minimum total '
Subscription reports are lagging
making the total to April 25 $1898
785050 Officials had looked for a
much larger figure
Their subscriptions and percentage
records are as follows:
District Subscription Percent
Minneapolis
St Louis
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Major Ancel Earp formerly adjutant general of the state has arrived
safely in France Major Earp was stationed at Camp Logan Houston Tex
for some time
The Kansas City distriot committee
believes that district has obtained its
quota but there are no official corro-
borative figures New York the low T
position of which has been a surprise frand KixU- £and
The twentythird annual conclave of
the grand commandery Knights Tem-
plar of Oklahoma held its session at
Enid last week McAlester was chosen
as next meeting place the 1919 con-
clave to be held In April The follow
ing officers were elected: Charles S
Dighsmith grand commander Fred
H Clark deputy grand commander
Milton Clark Hale grand general
Harold B Downing grand captain
general Orin Ashton grand senior
warden ’ Franklin Pierce Shaffer
of the campaign reported it had deter'
mined to climb out of tenth t place
which it has held several days
Having won the honor of being the
first district to attain its quota the
St Louis district now is engaged In
a final effort to put Tennessee over tbe
top All of the state Is over except
the city of Memphis and thirty teama
of ten men each started a house to
house canvass for subscriptions One
hundred thousand dollars an hour was
gathered during the first half day
Subscribers iu the SL Louis district
now are estimated at one million
Milwaukee Mayor Vetoes Bonds
Milwaukee— Mayor Hoan sent to tbe
common council a veto of the Koerner
resolution providing that tbe city buy
$500000 worth of Liberty bonds Tbe
mayor In bis statement reiterated his
contentions made originally at the first
meeting of the new common council
that the resolution should be so
amended as to provide for Its legaliz
Ing by the legislature and that the
city ought to be recompensed for the
outlay temporarily by levying a tax
on war profits
treasurer G W Spencer recorder
The twenty-seventh annual conven
tion of Royal Arch Masons met at
Enid McAlester was selected as the
next place of meeting The following
officers were elected: Grand high
priest Jabes Holmes Mann McAles-
ter deputy grand high priest John
A Gillls Frederick grand king Har-
old Bliss Downing Atoka grand
rcrlbe E P McMahon Lawton grand
treasurer Otto A Schutte £3 Reno
grand secretary James A Scott Mus-
kogee grand lecturer Cassius M Bur
nett Newkirk grand captain of tbe
host Harry McLaughlin Pawhuska
Fifty Garvin county drafted men
awaiting a call to army service ap-
plied a coat of tar and feathers to
Claude Watson a- farmer living five
miles southwest of Wynnewood
shortly after he had been released
cn bond on a charge of seditious ac-
tivities Watson was arrested some
time ago for distributing Pastor Rus
k-IVs "The Finished Mystery” Imme-
diate! after being released on bona
he began circulating "Kingdom News”
explaining why tbe "Finished Mys-
tery” was suppressed He was sound-
ly whipped before the tar was applied
A N Leecraft secretary of the stato
board of affairs resigned May 1 and)
announced his candidacy for stats
treasurer
“Patriotic ardor muBt not be allowed!
to become a license for lawlessness"-
said Governor Williams in discussing
the near-hanging at Collinsville andf
other recent acts of mob violence
aimed at alleged pro-GermanB "Ther
law must be respected and given aa
opportunity to deal with the nation’
enemies” the gov’ernor continued!
''With the passage of the amendments
to the espionage act these persona
will be brought to time surely and
swiftly"
The bed of Red river the boundary
line between Oklahoma and TeYas is
to be leased for oil and gas purposes
as a result of a vote of the school
land commission The right of thq
state to lease th’e land may be ueqs-
tioned however by the riparian own-
ers as was done in the case of th
Arkansas and Cimarron rivers Ths
boundary line of Oklahoma was pre-
scribed as th'e southern bank of th
Red river so that Texas has no claim
on the river beds
The state corporation commission
has granted th'e Missouri Pacific rail
way the right to increase its pas-
senger rate to 8 cents a mile The
new rate will be effective as soon an
tariffs are published When the new
rate goes Into effect It will be tbe first
time since 1907 tbat more than 2 cents
has been charged by the Missouri Pa-
cific This road was not a party to
the rate case in federal court and
when other roads Increased their fare
to 3 cents several yean ago on an
Injunction the Missouri Pacific re-
tained Us 2-cent rate
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Nichols, J. M. The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1918, newspaper, May 2, 1918; Hammon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1777486/m1/2/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.