The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-05-17
l52 Men From Grady Leave For Train
ing Camps Between May Il
and June Second
MANY FARMERS BE
INCLUDED IN LIST
Urgent Need Of Men Makes 1t Impossible
to Hold SeIec!men on Agricultural
Grounds

The speeding up of the army pro
gram is evidenced at the office OF
the local exemption board, where S.
c. Durbin, chairman, has on file at
this time calls for 152 men from Gra-
dy county to go forward between
May 81 and June 2.
These schedules run in three calls,
The original of the three came sew
eral days ago and called for 67 men
from Che county to leave between
May 25 and 30. The information on
this call is still inoefinfte with re-
gard to the destination of the men.
The unofficial information is that
they will go to Ft. Riley, Kans., or
Camp Bowie, Tex. A special call Of
ficially received runs 48 men by the
original call These men are to
leave Chickasha on May 81 or 22 and
the unofficial orders state that they
will go to Jefferson barracks, Mo.
This morning another call was re-
ceived by the local board for 81 men
scheduled to leave Chickasha be-
tween May 20 and June 2. 1t is Off
cially announced that these men will
go to Jackson barracks, La.
In addition to these calls, three
men have been specially inducted in
to the service. They are L. B. Par
sons, brakeman, who leaves Satur
day for Washington. Hugh E. War
rem engineer and fireman leaves to-
day for Ft. Ben Harrison, Indianapo
lis. Chas Henry Wilmot, veterina
rian, will leave in few. days for Pc
tersburg, Va.
In speaking of the calls now on
docket, Mr.. Durbin stated that in a
way it seemed that the farmers would
be hard hit. That is, that it would
be necessary to take a number of
farmers at this time.
q have been going over farmers
cases for weeks and l find that owing
TO the large call and the urgent need
for men, it will be impossible to hold
the farmers any longer" said Mr..
Durbin. "The board has done it's
best We have secured deferred
dates for a number of farmers. II
did not expect these deferred cases
to hold later than in June. The
speeding up of the program has
brought the calls estimated for June
in May. Therefore it will be peces-
sary for the farmers to go at this
time. The cases that we have inves
tigated are practically alike and we
cannot make any distinction"
Occasionally as the board members
look through the morning mail, they
find a ray of light that is like a ton
ic. This morning a letter was re-
ceived from Edward Taylor Ridenour,
a farmer hoy registered in this coun-
ty, but who has since moved on
farm near Muskogee. He states that
he is ready to go, has passed his ex-
animation and hopes that he will be
called soon. He has been placed in
the special call of May 21-22.
Following are the lists of names
from which the quotas for the. vari-
GUS calls will be made. These lists
are for the calls of May 21-22 and
May 25-9O. Obviously, the list for
the call received this morning is not
complete:
Special call, May 21-22, Division
No. 1-Landon c. Mills, William w
Seward, Elmer w. Moorhead, Joseph
E. Dobbs, William Thomas Ford, Sam
c Loveless, Henry A. Britton, Virgil
C. BayIess, Joseph D. Lindsay, Jr.,
Fred F. Bass, Oscar c. McCorkle
Frank Wakefield, Benjamin A. Nc
Coy, Roy G. Burton, Elmer c. Crull
Wayne B. Sewers, George F. Ahreis
Robert S. Roark, Donald R. Wood
Percy S. Kern, George Pierson, Wal
ter B. Hardy, William A. Anderson
Jonas Jantz, Arthur wormington
Thomas A. Burba, c. Ira Green
Thomas D. Cranfill, William A. Alta
way. Lonnie Tucker, Isaac N. Dyche
Clarence c. Hewett, Jack Richardson
Elton Parrish, Walter Potter, Keitl