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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-10-17

It must be signed by the company
commander. So ease your mind on
that point. The letters are about all
you can get across to us and no one
gets any letters that he enjoys any
more than ! do yours. Don't know
what can do about little packages
OF junk home, but will find out. and
II l can get II across can send you
few OF these little cheap coins. The
paper money here is stamped on
very poor paper and is very easy to
tear and wear out. The large bills
are very pretty tho. Look more like
the frontispiece out OF a magazine
than real money. Don't claim to have
seen II all bat the largest note ]
have seen Is the hundred franc note
worth about $500 and the smallest
Is 25 centimes. worth about five cents
Of honest to God money.
Could have gathered up lots OF
souvenirs up at the front II I could
have gotten them to you but you
know we can't carry q load of Junk
around. We have too much stuff
that we have to carry. The first dead
Boche that was close to was an
aviator that was brought down Just
back of our line one forenoon and
when went out to him perehaps
thirty minutes later the boys had
even cut the buttons off his coat for
souvenirs. Can you beat that. Boy
that was thrilling sight to see the
machine coming down in flames He
had enough control Of II to keep It
right side up and kind of glade a lit
tie. Didn't come straight down.
The fight was way up above some
thin white clouds. One day on the
scissors front tho the Boche flew
over low enough so we shot at them
with our rifles and we could plainly
hear some bullets hit the wings. Also
they shot down at us with machine
guns. That beats shooting at crows
and hawks long ways don't you
think? have been shooting the au-
tomato rifle some lately Just for
practice and Il Is great stuff believe
me. Did you ever notice when shoot
ing a shot gun where Il Is aimed af-
ter the shot Is fired. Just imagine
having q couple of legs about Q foot
long on the front end OF the gun then
laying down and holding the trigger
back and putting In IS shots as fast
as the bolt will work. Imagine your
self keeping your eyes open and
keeping the sights lined up on a tar
get at Z or 5 hundred yards while
that Is going on. We also fire Il
from the shoulder sometimes but in
that case each shot goes little high
er I'LL ! guess II a fellow held her
back and shot the whole clip of IS
shells he would be shooting straight
up towards the last.
He could start clipping the top OF
the parapet and end up shooting air
planes II there were any low over
head.
Well. we will call It a day about
now. As ever.
Your brother.
Pvt. Ralph Pierce.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-10-17

ed and you will get to see that som'
time maybe.
or course several OF the old boy
that came all the way through with
from the time I hit Paris Island have
been bumped off and some wounded
and a fellow hates to see such things
when I came in.
sent US such things as candy. canned
fruit. milk. tobacco, etc. and they
were issued to us free while we were
up on the front, but while we are
back out OF the active zone we have
to buy all such stuff except envelopes
and this paper.
Wish I could hear how things are
out west but don't suppose the way
II Is going now l can get any very
late word.
Will close now as II Is near chow
time and that Is something we are
sure good at is eating.
As ever yours,
II. G. p.
SO Co. 9Th Marines
American r. +.
France Aug. IS. 1918
Dear Brother:
Well ] have several OF your letters
by now. Have one dated as late as
July 10th. That seems like long
while ago. but suppose that Is about
as quick time as we can expect them
to make.
Got 24-hour liberty about three
weeks ago and went to pretty fair
sized town near where we were
staying. We had lot OF fun on
that trip. This Is the wettest coun-
try l ever saw. The natives only
use water to wash clothes in and
for the stock. They always drink
wine with their meals and when they
20 out to work take a bottle OF wine
along. ! think they have at least 81
different varieties OF wine. Some OF
the boys say champagne is only two
to four dollars a bottle here and
sure Is good stuff. They have lots
OF real nice cafes with tables and the
natives will get a bottle OF wine and
two sit for half an hour drinking and
chattering on 40c worth o. red wine.
Also the bartenders are all girls. Us
ually In the small towns the best
'oohihS bHio III 'o"u aie uui-huaiuS
You remember in X. c. the good look
ers among the working girls always
had the candy counter and Judge
that here the cafe girls rate about
the same. One sees a great many
things here that he would never see
happen In the states in a thousand
years. You know we have often
laughed at some OF the things the
German women in the states say and
do. but I can only wonder they are
not lots worse II they are anything
like these people at home. Expect
VIII be able to shoot you quite a
line II ] ever make II back across. but
not having a mill as you have to write
II on one can hardly go into details
at this time.
Speaking OF sending things across.
there is nothing YOU could do In that
line as you are not allowed to send
packages to rs unless you get Q writ
ten request stating what we want and
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INTERESTING LETTERS FROM X.
q. PIERCE

y France July 1918
Mr.. John s. Pierce fr
eaiko, Okla.
Dear Brother:
Maybe lam foolinE away my time.
I did say I would not write any more
until ! heard whether the letters are
Geing throught or not. Then ] got TO
thinking about Il and I cut loose and
write . little more.
> ! suppose you get all the latest
dope through the papers. Believe
%. we have killed and captured a
lot Of Dutch. We have been up on
the front line over q month. Part of
the time In the front line and part
Of time In support. But always
within range Of the artillery. or
course you know q fellow can't be
actually fighting all the time. but
must be always ready and always
ready to duck for hole out OF the
way OF shells. We lived in holes
most all the time. Now we are back
Q, little farther from the front line
Spd are staying In a little town that
II, practically abandoned. The Dutch
bad the French on the run on this
front before We we're showed up here
and the people Just got up and hauled
all out. We are too near the front
to do much drilling but we do some
every day and usually take q swim
In one OF Frances famous rivers.
last night we had a little smoker
In one OF the old chateaus out at the
edge OF the town. Three or four
hundred men ! reckon were out.
There were q couple OF pianos there
and We had music and singing. read
tngs, dancing and boxing galore. The
old ball room was about 40 feet
square and has several OF the big
French windows you read so much
About. on two sides OF H. Swell place
believe me. We have both read de-
tailed descriptions OF just such places
IN stories OF France and find they
&fs sure here Just as described. No
use talking, boy. there are sure some
pretty places here. And talk about
crops. j have waded through wheat
that strikes . man right up 10 the
cain all over the field and one head
has - much grain In ss four heads OF
GOOD Kansas hard wheat.
They are not harvesting yet up
here. The grapes are loaded full of
ffuit but they are too young yet even
poys from each company were sent to
fer green grape sauce. Some OF the
Paris to parade on the Fourth. A
fsy were decorated by Gen. Pershing
With the distinguished Service Cross
the other day.
zone day while up on the line we
hsd the pleasure OF seeing q German
plane brought down. II was hit and
: set on fire at considerable height
,and sailed down all In a blaze. Some
sight believe me.
Well there 10 not much that can
write you worth while. You get lots
Of var dope In the papers and lots of
u v pretty well written up and pret.
tttrue to life think.
They made motion pictures of
Persshing and his staff and the cer-
emonies when the boys were decorat-
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NOTICE TO RED
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The first payment of your subscrip- tion to the second Red Cross War Fund will be due July 1st, and it is hoped that everyone will make pay ments promptly. No one in connec- tion with the local Red Cross work receives pay for making these collec- tions and no fund is provided to pay for any expense incurred in this work. Every bit of your subscription will be needed and more, so please do not fotget this matter, but attend to it at once.
 All subscription cards are in the possession of the treasurer, c. c. Cal houn, and in order that proper credits may be made at the time of payment, it is suggested that you make all pay ments to him.
 Yours for the success of the cause,
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 Chairman Nevada County.
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 USED TO FILL GAPS

Little Rock, June 25.--All the en- listed men of the old First, Second and Third Arkansas regiments are in France, where they have been taken to fill other units. The officers and non-commissioned officers are left at Camp Beauregard for the purpose of training a new division of troops.
 A total of 4,500 men was moved from Camp Beauregard in command of Maj. H. w. McAllister, former dean of Ouachita College at Arkadel- phia. The detachment was delivered in France with the record of not one man being absent without leave. The identity of the old Arkansas units, as separate organizations, is therefore entirely lost, and the men will be placed where needed to fill up gaps in other units. Most of them have had months of training at Camp Pike and later at Camp Beauregard, and many were on the border during the Mexi- can trouble.
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Little Rock, June 25-Ben D. Brick house, state labor commissioner, has had some important correspondence with the United States employment service, which indicates some radical changes in the management of labor in the United States.
 After Aug. 1, no employer with war business who has force of more than 100 workers will be permitted to re- cruit common labor mad all such em- ployers will be required to use the federal employment service.
 While the restriction against pri- vate recruiting for the present applies only to unskilled labor, as soon as possible it will be extended to include skilled labor, and eventually no em- ployer may be permitted to employ men unless the latter have United States employment service cards.
 These measures are necessary to stabilize labor and prevent stealing" of labor by one industry from an- other.
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GOVERNOR GRANTS PARDON
 TO WHITE COUNTY BOY

Gov. etaoi.standffecfyyyaIetaoinnn
 Little Rock, June 25.-Gov. Brough today granted a pardon to Willard Seaton, who was convicted at the February term of the White county circuit court on charge of burglary and grand larceny and sentenced to a term in the State reform school. Seaton was only IA years old and the petition requesting his pardon was signed by the circuit judge, prosecut- ing attorney and the foreman of the grand jury, besides a large number of the citizens of White county.
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to France.
 Enough Americans" he added "have arrived to satisfy the allies and to disappoint and ultimately de- feat our foes"
 MT. Lloyd George emphasized the difficulty and almost impossibility of dealing with Russia, with her many differing and changing governments. He agreed, however, that it would be to the interest of the British people, and also just and equitable, if Russia wanted it, that Great Britain stand by Russia.
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GERMAN U.BOATS GET TROOP SHIP;
 67 ARE MISSING
Returning Transport Sunk Sev- en Hundred Miles Off Dela- ware Capes-No Troops Were Aboard the Ship.

Washington, June 24-German sub- marines operating on this side of the Atlantic ocean have sunk their first troop ship. The navy department to- day announced a British transport, under charter by the American gov ernment and bound to this country, was destroyed June IS about 700 miles east of the Delaware Capes, and that 67 members of the crew are miss ing. There were no troops aboard. The troop ship apparently was not under convoy The submarine was not seen until a torpedo had struck the ship. Afterward the submersible rose to the surface and fired 19 shots into the sinking vessel. When the steamer settled, the crew took to the boats, the occupants of four of which, numbering eighty-one men, have been landed. Three boats are missing and search is being made for them.
 The fact that the British vessel was sunk far off the coast led officials to believethat she either had encountered a homebound submarine that had been operating in American waters, or one that was bound here for further raids on shipping.
 The vessel destroyed was said to have been the former Russian steam ship Dvinsk, but the navy department was not permitted to make the name public under an agreement with the British admiralty.
 Of the four boats from the steamer accounted for, two were found by steamer and their occupants taken to New York, third was picked up by another steamer and the men taken to Hampton Roads and the fourth by a sailing vessel which landed the crew at Bermuda.
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NEW BLOW ID COME
 SOON, SAYS PREMIER
May Be Struck Within Few Hours, Lloyd George Asserts Allies Were Never Better Pre- pared to Meet Attack.

London, June 24.-Premier Lloyd George announced today that the next couple of months would be anxious. There might be great blow coming in the next few hours, he said, and certainly in the next few days and on this blow the issue of the cam paign might depend.
 the entente allies, he added, never felt better prepared to meet it.
 Premier Lloyd George said the Aus tro-H -Hungarians were in full retreat. The question now was, s,~ he added, whether they would be able to effect an orderly retreat.
 According to earlier dispatches re- ceived in London this morning the Austrians had left 2,000 men to de- fend the Montello spur and these fell into the hands of the victors.
 It was expected there would be great captures of Austrian guns, as because of the flood in the river, the enemy had not been able to transfer many of the big pieces across the stream.
 These earlier advices also indicated that a rapid advance by the Italians must not be expected, as the Aus trians had some 20 divisions in re- serve, which was a formidable force to reckon with, and it was thought probable there would be strenuous Austrian resistance at the bridge heads on thel eft bank of the Piave, which were we'll fortified.
 However. it was pointed out, should the cavalry which General Diaz has thrown across the river succeed in outfanking these bridgeheads, the task of forging ahead would be con- siderably less difficult.
 The premier, who made his an nouncement in the House of Commons referred to the amazing organization which was bringing American troops
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9TH DIVISION MOVED
 FROM CAMP PIKE

Little Rock, June 25.-All the 87th Division has been moved from Camp Pike, including all the various organi- cations, and officers. They have been taken to Camp Dix, whence it is ex- pected they will be transferred to France in very short time. In fact, the next that is heard Of them will probably be that they have arrived on the scene of action, as it is not the policy of the Department, as matter of precaution, to announce in advance the time of departure of troops.
 Now Camp Pike is to be re-popu- lated with recruits for the National army, of whom several thousand have already arrived. During the month of July, four more regiments, or about 5000 men, have been ordered from Arkansas alone, and the rest of the division will be drawn from other states.
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DEFEAT
 IN ITALY NOW
 SEEMS COMPLETE
Even Vienna Admits the Evacu-
 ation of MOntellO Plateau 45,OO0 Men and Many Guns Captured by Victorious Italian

The defeat of the Austrian armies on the western bank of the Piave river is complete. Admission is made by the Austrian war office that the troops of Emperor Charles have been forced to evacuate the Montello pla- teau, over which they had hoped to press their way and gain the Vene- tian plains and "some sectors" of ti-e positions they attained last week on the bank of the river between the plateau and the point where the stream empties into the Adriatic.
 Bad weather and the rising of the Piave under the heavy rainfall are assigned as the reasons for the with drawal of the Austrians. But the Rome war office asserts that it was the impetuous attacks of the Italians that brought about the failure of an operation which was started with the intention of crushing the armies of General Diaz and forcing the Italians, like the Russians, to accept Teu- tonic allied peace.
 All along the river the Italians have pressed back the invaders of their country until small units remain on the west bank and across the stream King Victor Emmanueps men are keepingw ell on the heels of the retreating enemy, who is fleeing in disorder. Again the cavalry has been thrown into the fighting and is sorely harassing the enemy, while machine guns on the ground and from the air croft, some of the latter operated by American aviators, are working havoc among the fleeing Austrian columns.
 The losses to the enemy are des- cribed as enormous, both in men killed wounded or made prisoners. An off, cial statement from Rome to the Ita- lian embassy in Washington asserts that the Austrians have lost 45,000 men in prisoners alone. The Italian war office communication mentions snly 10000 Austrians as having been captured, but it is probable that this communication antedated that sent to the embassy and that the captives in the hands of the Italians greatly ex- ceed this figure.
 The probability that this is true is enhanced by the fact that the river was swollen out of bounds and most of the few bridges that had not been carried away by the freshet had been shot to pieces by the Italian guns, compelling the enemy either to sur render or take his chances of being able to swim the turbulent stream.
 So hurried was the retrograde move ment of the Austrians at some places that they did not take time even to attempt to save their guns and stores, great quantities of which are now in Italian hands.
 As yet there has been no sign that the enemy purposes again to renew at an early date another offensive in the mountain region, notwithstanding the fact that reports emanating from Switzerland have said that he was bringing up large endorsements and great quantities of supplies along the front behind the Swiss border to the upper reaches of the Piave.
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Buy W. s. s. RED CROSS NOTES

Tie following ladies worked at the Red Cross room yesterday:
 Mesdames J. C. Walloch, B. H. Logan, c. H. Litton, ]. M. Stripling, Gertrude Moncrief, Geo. Peachy, E. Mautz, J. M. Powell, Jno A. Davis, L. E. Roberts, E. Y. Blakely, J. A. White, A. A. Gordon, M. W. Greeson, Miss Eunice White, Mrs. Dunlap. of Blevins; visitors, Mrs. Tom Barlow. Sayre; Mrs. Melinda Barlow, Sayre; Miss Barlow, Sayyre. Mrs. Scott captain.
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Buy W. s. s. PONDER IS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF SENATE

Little Rock, June 25.-Harry L.. Fonder, of Walnut Ridge, state sena- tor-elect, is in the city, and has an- hounced his candidacy for president or the senate when it meets in Janu- ary' No other candidate hos definite " announced. There will be in the senate with Mir. Ponder two members Who served in the House of Repre- sentatives with him twenty years ago, martin B. Lefler of Van Buren coun- " and Sam Johnson of Carroll county.
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HOSPITAL FIRE, Is LIVES LOST.
Insane Patients Rush Back Into Fire
 After Being Rescued.

Columbia, s. C., May 29.-Sixteen white male patients at the South Car olina Hospital for the insane here per- ished in a fire which destroyed a one story frame structure on the hospital grounds early today. Fifteen were burned to death in the building, hav- ing run back into the burning struc- ture after they had been rescued. The other dead man was rescued from the building second time, but until after he had received injuries from which he died few hours later.
 Four other pStients were more or less seriously iIsuried There were 45 patients sleeping in the ward and the greatest difficulty was experienced in saving them.
 The origin of the fire was unknown today. The only explanation advanced thus far was that 1t probably origin ated from defective wiring.
 An investigation of the fire was begun immediately by Coroner J. Blakely Scott.