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swept through
,u. I:uiiana. Ken-
Tennessee and Ala-
Sunday have
more than 150 lives
,,,.ny damaee it ia bs-
/.. -.,;,',.:. :u least $5,000,000.
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I I Life at Mat toon.
. 27.—Mire than 150
it:'.'.- :. 1.000 or more
m'.i'.ions of dollars
-: •; destroyed by lor-
.. - v • :i- through Kansas
iiay. r.lir v? and Indiana on
.v. and parts of Tennessee.
-. fey am! southern Illinois Sun-
';■■>:••- ;:•":; s-- that a large
.;•:.• if tarsi implements, needed
. ..- | .. bumper prop desired
- .ir ivas ruined, although the
•■.-.. V whs I struck only here and
.-:<• in its frightful play through
:-.; :'..-. Crop damage is
I •, be r.o: heavy in grains.
T - .-.;•.•>-- ; ,-- of life was taken
Mr.-.o • . I!!., a city of 10.000 pop-i:
i ■.:•■■ m corn country of
Illinois, where 54 are known
lea.l ,• .! 500 Injured with a
■pert; loss of $2,000,000.
'i:aries:o:i. IV... 1" miles east of
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,t .':'•. a loss of 3S
ijured. The property
. iiion dollars.
•• seri IUS loss was at
-r- 26 were killed
•' ': on Friday. Dub-i
three dead and 17
I'irst. Trim., was re>
'-■ sis killed and 15
• ' •:•:::!! > that swept
I'.diana show at
?■■ - - killed at Hebron.
r places, and the
i • ' 20. More than
i ;ii t::e Indiana ter-
■>'■ ' •• storm.
- in Illinois lost a
■ Saturday, with two
■ ■'■<■ ■•-) the southern
windstorms today
'--:. and injured a
were injured and four were serious-ly
injured near Manila.
Property damage but no casual-ties
also was reported near Malvern,
Ark., and Troy and Newbern, Tenn.
At Grenada, Miss., a negro church is
reported to have been demolished.
All of the points from which re-ports
have been received, reported
severe damage to cotton and other
crops.
Several |>crsons Reported Killed at
Dyersburg, Tenn.
Dyersburg, Tenn., May 27.—Six
persona were killed and 32 injured,
Mo probably fatally, in Dyrsburg
and South Dyersburg, a suburb, by
a tornado, which struck the outskirts
of this city late today and swept
through the central part of Dyer
county. Twenty-two buildings, in-cluding
three churches, were demol-ished
and a number of others were
damaged.
Wire communication with the nu-merous
farming settlements in re-mote
sections of the county is badly
crippled and the full extent of the
storm damage probably will not be
known until tomorrow.
Reports From Sayre, Ala.. Tell of
Several Deaths.
Birmingham, Ala.. May 27.—
Meagre reports from Sayre, 15 miles
east of Birmingham, on the Southern
Railway, say several persons were
killed and many injured when a tor-nado
struck the town early tonight.
An urgent call for aid was sent, and,
doctors with ambulances hurried to
the sceue. All wires are down and
extant of damage and mortality is
not known.
Three Persons Killed and Several
Hurt in Kentucky.
Cairo. 111., May 27—Three persons
were killed and 17 hurt In a tornado
that struck Dublin, in Graves coun-ty.
Ky.. this evening, according to
meager reports received here to-night.
Doctors and nurses have
been ordered to Dublin. Wire ser-vice
is badly crippled and it is next
to impossible to get in communica-tion
with any point south of here.
Two Towns in Kentucky Are Vir-tually
Destroyed.
Nashville. Tenn.. May 28.—Short-ly
after midnight word came by long
distance telephone from llickman,
Ky.. that the storm struck that sec-tion
at 4.30 this afternoon killing
many people in Hickman, Dondurant,
I.edford. Clinton and Bardwell and
injuring scores of others. It is re-ported
that Clinton and Dardwel*
have been virtually destroyed.
CAPTURE MORE THAN 10,000 AMERICA'S 1ESPMSIBILITY
ITALIAN'S ARE DRIVING THE
AUSTRIAN'S RACK—COUNTER
ATTACK REPULSED.
Eight
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•1 nml Hun in Series of
Moms, Sunday.
•*:... May 27.—Twen-
• killed and more
injured in a series of
• iruls i:i a series of
: - <>t western Tennes-
Arkansas today, ac-
■ reports received
Several persons also
been killed and a
: Sayre, Ala., near
to midnight no def-nad
been received
'■■ Much damage to
- ■ ing crops was re-
!- to crippled wire
•' irate estimate of
■'■-.- could be made to-
■-'> feared that, while
"i airs communica-
"'Ol' ■ remote farming
'•■e patii of the storm,
'"•■'•laities will be increas-
Killetl in Tornado in Tims
Point. Arkansas.
Blytheville. Ark.. May 27.—Eight
persons are reported to have been
killed in a' tornado which swept
through the farming settlement of
Tims Point, near here, late today.
One man was reported killed and
four persons seriously injured at
Cieak Lake in the same vicinity.
Village of Willisville is Virtually
Wiped Out.
St. Louis, May 27.—The village of
Willisville. In Perry county, Illinois,
virtually was destroyed by a tornado
today, according to advices coming
ever the wire of the Moble and Ohio
Railroad Company. Xo loss of life
was reported. Willisville has* a pop-ulation
of about 700.
r r.,'" p"1'" •'■'-Tfe reported killed
^ "lnt. la the vicinity of
.„;.." ,:-' ;" Cleark Lake, in
.:. ai .';'"'• si" in Dyersburg,
. ...'!".•;• '••'- suburbs of that
" __"' Pate Landing, near
"""• Tiiose who lost
• T,", i'""' Landin8 were ne-
,..s '' others were white per-
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ct £?*»»* fat
32
Pate 17' 'aiall>"; in the vicinity
"•aoiag 25
injured,
»r 8.0 persons
Twenty or More Killed Around Hick-maN.
Memphis, Tenn.. May 27.—A tele-phone
message from Kickman, Ky.,
late tonight stated that reports from
farming settlements about Hickman
indicated that 20 or more persons
were killed in that vicinity by a tor-nado
late today.
From Plava, on the Isonzo, to the
Adriatic sea, the Italians and Aus-trians
are fighting bitterly and the
troops of General Cadoraa are mak-ing
steady progress, especially on
the southern end of the 21-mile
front.
North and south of Jamiano, eight
miles south of Gorizia. the Italians
have driven the Austrians back and
taken additional important positions.
The gains here are a direct menace
to the defense of Trieste. The fight-ing
is made harder because of the
barren, hilly country. Notwithstand-ing
the difficulties of Terrian and the
stubbornness of the enemy resist-ance.
Cod'orna's men have taken two
strongly fortified hills north of Ja-mianoo
and reached the outskirts of
Versio.
The Austrians have attempted to
check the Italian advance on the
southern Carso by making violent
counter-attacks south and east of
Gorizia and along the Vodice sector.
At all points of attack the Austrians
were driven back with heavy losses
and east of Hill 652 on the Vodice
the Italians captured the position
from which the Austrians emerged
to the attack. The number of pris-oners
taken by General Cadorna's
command since Wednesday morning
has increased to 10,2 45. including
more than 300 officers.
Local infantry attacks by the Brit-ish
and the Germans and intensive
artillery and aerial activity on the
Arras front may indicate a renewal
shortly of the intensive fighting
there. Around Loos and near Bulle-court
the northern and southern
ends of the Drocourt-Queant switch
line both armies have made attacks,
but with no great success yet report-ed.
Near Braye-Eu-Laonnois and east
of Craonne. on the Aisne front the
French and the Germans have again
been at grips.
In the region of Pantheon, north-west
of Braye, the Germans after an
artillery bombardment gained a foot-hold
in the French lines after several
attempts. Immediate counter-at-tacks
by the French, however, drove
the forces of the German crown
prince from most of the captured ele-ments.
Gen. Petain's forces have occupied
most of the Chevreux wood, east of
Craonne, after inflicting heavy loss-es
on the Germans and taking thirty
prisoners. Two German battalions
were almost annihilated by the
French.
The American destroyer contin-gent
now with the British fleet is do-ing
its part in taking some of the
sting from the submarine menace.
Premier Lloyd George in the house
of commons on Friday, gave high
praise to American aid and said that
more effective blows have 'been dealt
the submarines during the last three
weeks than in any corresponding pe-riod
of the war.
As a result, he declared, the food
situation in Great Britain shows im-provement
and the present month
should show a falling off in the num-ber
of submarine victims as com-pared
with April. The premier said
that if British civilians and soldiers
behave economically and militarily
like reasonable human beings who
want to save their country from dis-aster,
privation and distress, the
submarine menace need cause no
fear that the war will be lost for
that reason.
UPON THIS COUNTRY IS TO REST
THE RRUNT OF THE BUR-DENS
TO COME.
Tornado Devastates Wide Area Near
Murphysboro.
St. Louis, May 27.—A report was
received here from Duquoin, 111., to-night
that a tornado killed several
persons and devastated a wide area
near Murphysboro late today.
To Publish Statement as to Repudi-ated
Bonds.
Washington, May 25.—Senator
Calder, of New York, is going to
print in the Congressional Record a
statement from the New York hold-ers
of the North Carolina repudiated
bonds. He was asked to do so, and
spoke to Senator Overman about it.
The purpose is to state the case of
the people who put he bonds into
the hands of the Cuban republic
-riii'-i.-ffwritfltfi.-f'lr.i
RVK WHISKEY IS
SHIPPED AS HAY.
Durham, May 25.—The ill-reputed
Western hay of North Carolina mar-kets
because of the negative lesson it
should teach in home production has
again been defamed. This time the
Western product was the subterfuge
in the shipment of 250 gallons of
rye whiskey from Louisville, Ky., to
Henderson and the eighty cases, bot-tle
in bond, were billed as hay. The
farm-home of John Faulkner, locat-ed
four miles northeast of Hemder-son,
was the final destination of the
mixed consignment. Revenue Officer
Eugene A. Hughes, of Durham; E. E.
Boulding, T. M. Arresmith, J. W.
Mosley and R. R. King unearthed the
find yesterday in the basement of
the farmer's home. Under a dotfble
lock, the imported product had been
buried in the cellar under cold stor-
^^environ.
Washington. May 25.—With a sol-dier's
directness, Maj. Gen. John J.
Pershing, .who will lead the first
American troops to the French
trenches, today told America she
must awaken to a realization of what
the great war means to the country.
"Upon America,'" Pershing grimly
declared, "is to rest the brunt of the
terrible burdens to come."
Pershing was speaking at the Red
Cross meeting called to launch the
$100,000,000 campaign. Pershing
was so wildly cheered that former
President Taft, who presided1, was
compelled to pound for order with
his cane which he was using as a
gavel.
"France is under a terrific drain,"
Major General Pershing warned the
delegates, "aud in just so much as
this nation is drained is she weaken-ed
in her power to fight, and it is
the United States who must meet all
of the deficiencies caused through
this drain..
"The duty of meeting these defii-encies
in France is in the hands of
the United States. We of this coun-try
must help rehabilitate that coun-try.
We must help her orphans, her
widows, and we must put her in a
position to produce and to become
self-supporting.
"Yet, I am sad to say that the feel-ing
among our American people is
lax. They do not realize the depth
to the terrl^leness of this war.
"Amerlcats entering the war is the
deciding factor, and on the United
States is going to rest the brunt of
its burden."
GenereL^ershing was accompan-ied
by Capt. N. E. Margetts, his aide
de camp.
Herbert C. Hoover, who was intro-duced
by Mr. Taft as the "man of
the hour," spoke on the situation in
France.
"France faces an untold destruc-tion
of property, a total displacement
of population and enormous loss of
human life and of man power, ani-mals
and instruments," said Mr.
Hoover.
"Altogether there is a total of
3.000.000 people unable to get back
on their feet without help.
"To estimate the sums needed to
rehabilitate the devastated portions
of France io get her necessary im-plements
to put her on a basis where
she will be able top roduce and to
help herself would be to name even
larger amounts than we are now do-ing
but may I say that in France
who is sacrificing her manhood to
the cause of liberty there is abun-dant
outlet to all of the generosity
of the American nation."
C. S. Ward, international secretary
of the Y. M. C. A., was introduced
by Mr. Taft as " the man who has
taught people the glory of giving."
Pandemonium broke loose when
Mr. Taft prophesied Germany's
downfall.
"Germany has deliberately antag-onized
this country when we can fur-nish
more money, more resources,,
and more men than any other coun-try
on the globe," said Mr. Taft.
He deplored the fact that America
did not think enough about the war
before it came. He said the time
must come when an American will
consider anything but the war inci-dental
instead of now when they con
sider the war "incidental."
When the morning session ad-journed
the scores of delegates went
to Fort Myer, where they had lunch-eon.
Five cars of the sight-seers
were preceded by the motor corps of
the Red Cross., consisting of about
25 ambulances. The commandant of
the corps was Mrs. Borden Harri-man.
Mr. Taft rode with Miss Board-man.
CALLS WISEST MEN OF
NATION TO GUIDE HIM.
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Washington. May 25.—President
Wilson has called upon the wisest
men of the nation to guide him in
framing regulations for exemptions
from selective military service. At
his personal request a board com-posed
of nationally known lawyers,
jurists and military advisers are in
session here today. Upon this board
President Wilson is relying for aid
in shaping a policy of equitable ex-emptions.
The recommendations of
these advisers are to be the basis of
the president's proclamation of
classes of exemptions from selective
service.
In the selective service bill Presi-dent
Wilson is given authority to de-fine
certain classes of industrial
workers that will be granted exemp-tion
from actual field service. Such
classes will be in industries neces-sary
to the maintenance of the mili-tary
machine. The board called by
the president is for the purpose of
aiding him in defining these classes
of workers for exemption in the most
equitable way. Administration offi-cials
refused to make known the per-sonnel
of the "president's advisory
board." They declared that "some of
the biggest men in the country" an-swered
the president's call. The
question of exemption by classes is
one of the most perplexing facing
the administration in the enforce-ment
of the selective service law.
MONOPOLY IN ONIONS
CAUSES INDICTMENT.
GERMANY FOLLY ABVISID
KNEW FOUR DAVS BEFORE
AMERICA FLOTILLA ARRIVED
WAS OX THE WAV.
Boston, May 25.—Eighty-eight
corporations and individuals were in-dicted
by the federal grand jury
here today, for conspiring to monop-olize
interstate commerce in onions.
The Fn^icTments, which were re-turned
as ar esult of a nation-wide
inquiry into the cost of food con-ducted
last winter by United States
Attorney George W. Anderson, of
this city, allege that the defendants
divided territory of the country be-tween
them for the purpose of elim-inating
competition: that maximum
prices were fixed for the purchase of
onions, and that the supply was
hoarded in order to increase prices.
Mr. Anderson' estimated that the
annual crop of onions amounted to
200,000,000 pound3, three-fourths of
which, he said, was alleged to have
been controlled by the defendants.
In a statement outlining tiie case.
Mr. Anderson said:
"The gist of the charge is that the
defendants have maintained a na-tional
onion association, composed of
large onion dealers who buy up a
bulk of the onions of the Northern
states during the summer and early
fall, storing them in warehouses
owned or controlled by the various
members and putting them upon the
market from September to April.
"The government expects to* show-that
as early as September. 1916. at
least 75 per cent of the year's crop,
then' harvested, was in control of the
members of this association."
WANT 5.000 DOCTORS
FOR THE NEW ARMY.
Ban on Mexican Immigrants Lifted.
Washington, May 25.—With the
view to providing against a probable
shortage in farm labor, Secretary of
Labor Wilson today issued orders for
the admission to the United States of
aliens from Mexico otherwise barred
by the literacy test or the contract
labor clause of the immigration law.
Commissioner general of immigra-tion
announced the order late today,
explaining that it was to relieve
conditions In the Southwestern states
where farmers have been accustom-ed
to Import season labor from Mex-ico.
It will affect particularly New
Mexico, Arizona, Texas and, Califor-
Washington, May 25.—It was an-nounced
by the war department that
the army needs 5.000 doctors im-mediately
and that by the end of the
year twice that number will be re-quired.
Ten medical officers are
needed for every thousand men.
To train these officers for the mili-tary
medical service, training camps
will be established. Three of these
camps—Fort Riley, Kans..Fort Benj.
Harrison, Ind., and Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga.—have already been established
and the fourth camp will be desig-nated
shortly. Intensive training
will begin on June 1 at the first three
camps with 600 doctors located at
each camp and will continue for
three months.
Washington, May 25.—Four days
before the American destroyer flo-tilla
arrived abroad Berlin knew It
was on the way and to what port it
was going, and the day before ill's
little vessels steamed into Queens-town
German submarines had
strewn mines about the harbor en-trance.
The startling information, reveal-ing
that German spies rot only still
are at their work in this country but
that they have a swift and sure
means of communicating with the
fatherland, came to the navy de-partment
today in a cablegram from
Rear Admiral Sims at London.
The admiral said his information
was positive. His dispatch was not
made public, and for obvious rea-sons
nothing will be given out cor.i-ceruing
how the news came into his
possession nor about the precautions
which defeated the German plans
and enabled the flotilla to speed.safe-ly
through the mine fields.
Immediate publicity was given the
fsalient fact, however, the. depart-ment
making it clear that its pur-pose
was to let the people know of
the activity and success of teutonic
spies and to emphasize the necessity
for absolute secrecy in connection
with naval operations or shipping
movements.
The destroyers now aiding in the
hunt for submarines in European wa-ters
under the direction of Admiral
Sims, put ir.'to port at Queenstowu
on May 16. How long they were in
crossing the Atlantic or from what
port they sailed1 never has been an-nounced,
and Hhtil -word of their ar-rival
came by cable only a Tew peo-ple
in the United States even knew
of the government's decision to send
warships to Europe.
, No official would comment tonight
on the possible means by which the
news was conveyed to Germany. If
it did not go from a secret wireless
plant, it must have been carried in
some code dispatch that the allied
cable censors passed as innocent.
The result will be to redouble tha
vigilance both of the censors and of
every agency of the government en-gaged
in rooting out the spy system.
Every German known to have been
connected with the espionage work
of his government already is under
arrest or under surveillance. Other
arrests may follow at any time and
now that the country is at war ar.-.I
the revelation of its secrets may
mean deatli to its sailors and sol-diers,
swift punishment undoubted-ly
will be dealt out to any convicted
spy.
Men now in custody operated
when the United States was a neu-tral.
Spying now is a very differ-ent
thing and is likely to lead to
the gallows instead of the comfort-able
detention quarters.
In announcing Admiral Sims' dis-patch
the navy department, through
the committee on public information-,
said:
"The department calls attention
to this fact as proof that the Ger-man
spy system is still at work in
this country, making imperative the
need of secrecy in connection with
our naval operations. The prema-ture
publication of ship movements
is particularly a source of danger."
Woman Buried the Wrong Man.
New York, May 25.—Two months
after his "funeral" Charles H. Hunt
paid his wife a visit. She had identi-fied
a man who dropped dead as her
husband and had him buried. She
collected the insurance.
"Why I thought you were dead—
and buried," she stammered when
her husband appeared.
"That report," he replied, borrow-ing
the language of Mark Twain,
"was greatly exaggerated." -
The couple had been estranged,for
four yeans and this led the -wife to
Identify the man buried as her nus-
More Millions For Rockefeller En-dowment.
New York, May 25.—A new dona-tion
by John D. Rockefeller of $25.-
000,000 to the endowment of the
Rockefeller foundation was announc-ed
tonight by Dr. George E. Vincent,
formerly president of the University
of Minnesota, who assumed the pres-idency
of the foundation at a meet-ing
of the board of directors today.
The new gift Increases the resources
of the foundation to $125,765,000.
New Manager For Theater. j
The city commissioners have elect-ed
J. Clyde Cheek as manager of the
Municipal theater to succeed C. G.
Harrison. There were three appli-cants
for the place, the other two
being Messrs. Harrison and H. H.
Tate, who received one vote each on
the first ballot. Mr. Cheek will op-erate
the theater and receive 25 per
cent of the net receipts. The thea-ter
has been- making the city from
$1,500 to $1,800 annually, after pay-ment
of all expenses. It has been
operated by the city for four or five
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