Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-08
EXEMPTS BARBER;
BANKER MUST GO
Tonsorialist With Wife and
Child Will Not Be Sent
to Fight Germans.
IGNORES FINANCIER'S PLEA
Youth Who Had Never Done
a Days Work" Is Also
Refused Immunity.

back into its medieval Importance
yesterday when district appeal board
NO. 2 for eastern Oklahoma ordered
bankers, farmers, real estate men and
several brand-new husbands from
Garvin county to shoulder their guns
and so to the front while exempting
w. ii: Allen. Paul's Valley barber.
And there was reason-quite
aside from the desirability OF keeping
Paul Valleys masculine population
with properly trimmed hair and chin
shaven. The barber has a wife and
9-year-old daughter entirely depend
ent upon his tonsorial activities,
which net him, the papers in the case
said, about $3.50 per week. He has
no other source of income and no
property except his trusty razors and
other Instruments of torture and
household furniture and the appeal
board reversed the local board and ex-
empted him. Assistant County Attor-
ney L. II. Hampton recommended the
action, saying he believed that the
county board had made a mistake.
Banker Must Go.
William II. Cmmp, young bank
president OF Wynnewood, was refused
exemption, Notwithstanding his father.
William b. Crump, assured the appeal
board that the bank would have to
ci'Se III MS son was sent TO war. Inc
institution seems to be a family al
fair. william T.. being president, ana
another brother, Wilkerson w. who
has also been drafted being assistant
cashier, while the father is cashier.
The elder Crump filed a long type
written statement in his sons behalf,
but the board promptly overruled
the appeal.
William Granville Strickland. we'll
to-do young merchant of Strauoro,
was also denied exemption. He ap-
pealed on the ground that a wife and
child were dependent upon him for
support. but the family physician al.
intimate friends. who said they had
known him virtually all his life, said
they had never known him to do n
days work" They were trying to
help hin procure exemption. it ap-
peared, on the ground that he is not
strong enough to undergo the hard
ships of army life. The physician
said William Granville from his in
fancy was a 'sicklv. puny child" and
once had appendicitis.
Might Help Him.
The appeal board thot army life
would help William Granville instead
of injuring him and certified him up.
The record disclosed that he has 14O
acres of land. one-fourth interest in a
$4,000 stock of goods. drives a big
automobile. while his father owns a
number Of brick buildings, two hun
dred head Of cattle, good farm, two
automobiles. and all the other sons
own allotments.
The board decided that Lewellyn
Keel. son Of a wealthy rancher, A. W.
Hickman and S, NJ Barrette, all of
whom have recently married, were
not entitled to exemptions on the
ground of dependent wives.
Other Garvin county appeals were
W. e. French, f. H. Grimes. Roy O.
Peckham. r. c. Terrell Ernest Bra
Colbert, r. Uhles. George NJ Jones,
T. Digby. Henpepin, William l..
Payne. Charles W Law. C. Lipscomb.
r. Womack, B. Blankenship, l.. w.
Carver. r. Jackson. Joe Jackson. +.
w. Dawson, John Henry Turner, ].
T. Blue, A. Willis L. Johnson, C.
Sewell, r. l.. Shannon, L. 7. Alexan-
der. Robt. Lee Shannon. j. II. Pruett,
Homer Roberts, c. b. Nelson, NJ. Nc
Gee. ID. l.. Thompson, Ed Pruett, L.
B. Lewis, l.. Smith, L. Whiteficld, J.
N. Hewitt. j.. w. Tyra. John II.
Schultz. f.. f. Rice. Henry Reed,
Ezra Q. Sevedge, j. Johnson, w. Har.
Eis. N. N. Childs, w. L. Hart and
Fountain Buell. Adams. The latter,
2S. is living with his third wife. The
record disclosed that there is child
by each wife and that there has been
quite a family row over their posses
sion, which went into the courts u
think to send him would make all
parties happy, except perhaps his new
WIFE" commented Chairman Scivally.
"He'll make good fighter"
Send Papers Back.
Papers in the following cases were
sent back to the county attorney of
Garvin county for further recommen-
dations from him as to claims OF de-
pendency: d. Baker. T. D. Allen. c.
Hamilton. ]. w. Goodwin. T. f.. Whit
man. II. Wayland, #. Seymour, J. M.
W. Taylor. f. South. r. Coffman and
G.. L. Webber.
c Fl. Cretz, member of the appeal
board, received a letter yesterday
from II. ]. Rinehart. dean of the
Western Denial college of Kansas
City. Mo, asking the exemption of all
dental students who come before the
local hoard. Mr. Rinehart said that
"to deprive the dental schools Of stu
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