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..-*'..waj'5r^™ v. ^^^s^p^ppps^psfp ES|| is! sand in |ONf Lrnountof |e of Hot being Go. 457-458 ON RY S CO., !5th Elm St, de, Etc, iment to ven the [ring tha 'ime. ? N '•9 OR :ulti- THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT M TA3USHE»S1»21 PUBUSHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY N. C, MONDAY. MAY 28, 1817. VOL.86—NJQU 52 ^SBOEITAKEHEAVY TOLL . ,-„, !,K.\l»i <«":) 1XJiREI)| t,v „JKKTI I.USS MOKF. THAN, ''•''... .,., ,.„» DOLLARS. 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. .,,.',., .,, the dead there are •han' I'"'' P«rsons ;njllre,,- s-.-parts have bjen ol> ,, t, ••:,.:;* and »l*.h '«■• ,.'".< ;Mred that tin death . .,, |.,.rea*ed. tornado d*wl *nd ■ r„adoes « •■ ins •;v Arkan*a< ,..', M-iirday i Kieas*r :-n'.l mi r.:.. i»'ie»:oa. II' - [llino:* ••>■ fcsrsas lUni ;-a:«A Dead Injured .. 54 500 .. 3S 150 60 65 12 200 17 15 26 IS . . ..■_■■■; ,!..i:'.?.ee. 151 1.109 $5,000,000. -leav) . ■. ■ ■■■ of pr.^p ■ ir 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 " «. *•»< .:'.- • partly wrecked U'.r. K [iv~ l;i:i ..t. ,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 • •■•:.■ •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- ••.,:<• 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. % 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 jean. << ^■m
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Title | The Greensboro patriot [May 28, 1917] |
Date | 1917-05-28 |
Editor(s) | Underwood, W.I. |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
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Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The May 28, 1917, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by W.I. Underwood. |
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Full text | ..-*'..waj'5r^™ v. ^^^s^p^ppps^psfp ES|| is! sand in |ONf Lrnountof |e of Hot being Go. 457-458 ON RY S CO., !5th Elm St, de, Etc, iment to ven the [ring tha 'ime. ? N '•9 OR :ulti- THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT M TA3USHE»S1»21 PUBUSHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY N. C, MONDAY. MAY 28, 1817. VOL.86—NJQU 52 ^SBOEITAKEHEAVY TOLL . ,-„, !,K.\l»i <«":) 1XJiREI)| t,v „JKKTI I.USS MOKF. THAN, ''•''... .,., ,.„» DOLLARS. 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. .,,.',., .,, the dead there are •han' I'"'' P«rsons ;njllre,,- s-.-parts have bjen ol> ,, t, ••:,.:;* and »l*.h '«■• ,.'".< ;Mred that tin death . .,, |.,.rea*ed. tornado d*wl *nd ■ r„adoes « •■ ins •;v Arkan*a< ,..', M-iirday i Kieas*r :-n'.l mi r.:.. i»'ie»:oa. II' - [llino:* ••>■ fcsrsas lUni ;-a:«A Dead Injured .. 54 500 .. 3S 150 60 65 12 200 17 15 26 IS . . ..■_■■■; ,!..i:'.?.ee. 151 1.109 $5,000,000. -leav) . ■. ■ ■■■ of pr.^p ■ ir 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 " «. *•»< .:'.- • partly wrecked U'.r. K [iv~ l;i:i ..t. ,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 • •■•:.■ •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- ••.,:<• 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. % 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 jean. << ^■m |