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Forty-seventh Tear. Dally Twelfth Year. Cyclones in Three Days Sweep Seven ' States Leaving Trail of. Devasta tionThird Tornado Last Night Starts In Illinois Sweeps Mississ ippi Valley, Wrecking Towns South to Arkansas and East to Alabama Many Towns Masses of Ruins. Toll of Tornadoes. State. Dead. Injured. Illinois 92 650 Indiana 12 220 Kansas 26 60 Kentucky 40 60 ' Missouri 1 12 Tennessee ko 53 'Alabama 31 53 Arkansas 23 100 I Totals 245 1,207 Tornadoes during the last three (Jays In seven states of the middle wjjt and the south have killed near ly 250 persons,, injured more than 1,200, wrecked thousands of houses and devastated many thousands of. acres of growing crops, acordlng to summaries today. The latest in the series of torna does started late Sunday, apparently in the vicinity of Willlsville, in south western Illinois, swept southward across the Ohio river into Kentucky down the Mississippi into Arkansas and Tennessee and finally veered eastward toward Alabama, where the storm apparently spent itself. The dead in the four states was roughly estimated at over one hundred and the Injured at several hundred. Started in Kansas. fTlie destruction began last Friday at Andide, Kansas, where twenty-six people were killed and sixty injured. Late Saturday another twister Btruck the rich corn belt of central 1 Illinois, killing flfty-our persons and injuring perhaps 500 In Mattoon. At Charles ton, ten miles east of Mattoon tlilrty. seven persons were killed and more vthan 150 Injured. The property dam-' age In the two cities Is estimated at $3,000,000. ' Another destructive storm late Sat urday crossed a territory approxi mately 100 miles north of the centor of Illinois, reached Into northern In diana and caused the loss of a dozen lives, the injury of more than 200 and a heavy property damage. 'Because of fallen wires, communi cation into the Btricken districts has lieen difficult. In Southern States. MEMPHIS, Tonn., May 28. Re ports today from the devastated ter ritory In the four southern states swept by tornadoes yesterday and last night placed the number of deaths at 103 and the Injured at more than 300 Around Hickman, Ky., forty persons were reported killed. Deardwell, Bon- durant, Clinton and Lcdford also re ported losses. In Mississippi county northeast Arkansas, ten dead and 29 Unjurcd were reported. Six were killed at Manila while Burdett and Clear Lake reported two each. Heavy losseB also were suffered In Jefferson and Blount counties, Ala bama, where 31 were killed. At Sayre eight were killed. Village Springs and Bradford, 20 miles north of Blr (Continued on pge six.) LAWS SUSPENDED FAR WASHINGTON', May 28. Mexican laborers admitted to the I'nited Stat under relaxed immigration regula tions to remedy the labor shortnge in border states, will he arrested and de ported if they engage in nnv other kind of work. Secretary Wilson an nounced today. New rule suspend ing operation of the illiteracy tost or the contract labor clause for the war emergency apply only to aliens seeking agricultural employment. 250 KILLED, i9nn tiiiPT . wm m , nuTfiniiinn t W DUINO MAIDEN SPEECH WEATHER Maximum Yesterday 80; Minimum Totlaj 43. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow Tartly Cloudy. ebforb Mail Tribune M Cadorno's Steady Advance Brings WE mm. Cadorno's Steady Advance Brings Italians to Strategic Point of Carso Plateau Germans Strive to Re gain Important Observation Points From French to Meet Repulse! HOME, Mliy 28. The Italians have crossed the Timavo river and occupied the village of Sun Giovanni, northwest of Duino, near the Gulf of Triest, the war office nnnounces. They have captured nine six-inch guns. Italian .Wining Duino. The Italians have fought their way .forward to within two miles of Duino, the most formidable natural barrier between them and Triest. The great bill tie now enters its eighteenth day without any sign of an abatement. Vienna refuses to concede the Ital ians victories but the map tells the story of General Cadorna's steady advance. Duino, at (he (rules of which the Ttnlian (runs are now hammering, marks a point at which the Carso plateau almost touches the sea. Pro tected by the ocean on the one side, it is powerfully defended to the north by Mount Qucreeto, a hciglit of con siderable magnitude, which dominates the country for many miles around. At the foot df Mount Qucreeto, facing west, lies the little town of Medonzza and the Italians have smashed their way to within a few hundred yards of this vallage. It is possible Hint a lull will occur before they attempt the formidable task of storming Mount Querceto. On Western Front. Persistent attempts nrc being con tinued by I he Germans to regnin con trol of the imxrtunt observation points recently wrested from them by the French in the Champagne. Paris reports the repulse of nil these at tacks. The German army headquarters statement announces n German suc cess in tho capture of a line of trenches south of Moronvilliers in the Champagne. The French report on this operation, issued last night, de clared nil the ground taken by the Germans was recovered in a counter attack. lYencli Official Heport, PAH1S, May 28 The Germans de livered three attacks last night and this morning in the Chumpagne in the region of the Casque, the Teton and Mont Blond. All were repulsed, the war office announces. The Germans are bombarding henv ilv French positions in the regions of Dead Man hill and Hill 304 on the Verdun front. A French detachment penet rated to the second German lines near IH'f- holt?, in Alsace and found many dead in the trenches. 1 he prisoners were brought back. German Keport. BERLIN', May 28. German troops yesterday raptured a line of French trenches in the Champagne region, to gether wilh more than 250 prisoners, army headquarters announced today, Austrian IteHrt. LONDON. Muv 28. The coninlrto repulse of all Italian attacks after most tiinous fighting is claimed in an oficiul statement issued by the Aus trinn war office on Slllldav. Til' statement nlso asserts that more than 13. 000 unwoiinded Ilaliiins have beei captured ill the 10 days of the Ital ian offensive. ON PATROL DUTY VANCOUVER, Wn., May 28 Frank P. Confins, of Portlund, Or., a national guardsman on patrol duty at an oil station near Portlund, is in the Vancouver barracks hospital suf fering from a bullet wound in the shoulder which he said he received from n prowler whom he ordered to halt in the darkness early today. Confins reported he fired into the air when the stranger refused to stop and reccivpd the bullet from n revolver in reply. MEDFORD Miss Rankin Wins Behalf of Rights I l W MM W W W PLACES WOMEN Congresswoman Succeeds In Secur ing Amendment to Food Bill Giving Women Employment Wherever Pos sible in Federal Survey of Food Problem No Need Food Shortage. WASHINGTON, May 28 Ileprc scntative liankin of Montniui made her maiden speech on the floor of the house today and incidentally won her initial fight. She succeeded in amending by a unnnimous vote in tho committee of the whole, the food bill so as to provide that in making the proposed food survey the services of women shall be used insofar us prac ticable. "Women must take an intelligent and responsible share in the world's work if we nre to see that all the people arc fed all the time," declar ed Miss Rankin. Tremendous Applause. Tremendous nppluuse greeted Miss Rankin when she arose to speak and when alio concluded. Members pour ed from the cloak rooms and lobbies to lieu rthe maiden speech of tho first ongress-womnn and she had the lar gest audience that has attended any session of tho food bill. 'The work, such as gathering in formation and preventing waste, in cludes activities that wo have been accustomed to seeing women engaged ' suid Miss Rankin. "And when these activities nre so closely related to the home as is the food question, women nrc especially well fitted by their training and experience to do this work. It is self evident that women are going to fill many posi tions that have been filled by men in the past and this is one of the places where they can be used effectively. Advantages of Women. "Women officials with their un derstanding and sympathy for home problems will inspire a confidence in the homo women and will encourage her to cooperate with the government in this emergency. Women as house keepers must leam to think of food in cnrlots. in transit, in storage, in the board of trade and in the national markets as well as in these small por tions of the family table. "Ilv using women officials to aid in this work we will concentrate the attention of all women on the larger bearings of the food problem. It will bring llin homo women into closer co operation with the government. Have Adepmto Training. "Our high educational institutions have been turning out a large body of women who arc trained to deal with fundamentals fro ma scientific stand point. We have in these women new source of service which we should not waste at this time. I feel sure flint these women will be capable and faithful in doing this constructive work. It would he to the advantage of the government to utilize the ser vices of trained women in the place where they will count the most for the country during the present crisis und also in the future. "Wo know that with our unparall eled resources and improved method;- of production, there is no need that any one should go hungry. Women must take an intelligent and respon sible share in the world's work if we nre to see that all the people are fed all the time." PRISONERS ESCAPE Ff IX)3 ANGELES, May 28. Four prisoners In the county Jail escaped early todsy by forcing the lock on their cell door, sawing three birs from a corridor window and lower ing themselves with rope twenty-five feet to the ground. A quantity of food and large knife were mlsslug from the supply department. OREOOyr, MONDAY, MAY L T L BY THE CONFEREES WASHINGTON,... May 28. Final and complete agreement on the ad ministration espionage bill, including the newspaper censorship provision redrafted Saturday, the export embargo, search warrant and mail censorship sections was reached to day by the senate and house confer ees. Their report will he submitted tomorrow with action first in the house, probably next Thursday. Involving further reduction of Ihe house wur tux hill by .$l.r),')00,00ll, the senate finance committee today decided to exempt motion picture films, jewelry and tdicwing gum from taxation. A new confectionery lax was considered. Instead of the house rates on man ufacturers' gross sales of athletic goods, perfumes, cosmetics and pro prietary medicines, the committee de cided to keep them ns sources of rev enue but by stamp taxes instead of the five percent gross sales tax. The committee also is considering a tax on tonnage of pleasure yachts instead of the house tax on their cost. The changes decided upon today followed the committee's decision to strike out the five percent lax on nil nianiifaclnrcrs' sales. I OTTAWA, May 28. A report that Kmperor William of Germany recent ly visited Uoual in France Is contain ed in an unofficial dispatch received today from Canadian army headquar ters In France. "Addressing a gathering of officers of troops holding the Hcarpe-Lens line," the sablegram asserts, "the em peror announced that tho British of fensive In the region of the S arpo Is at an end." The dispatch adds: "Had his officers taken him to points east or Vlmy, where tho Her man defenses are crumbling under the Canadian guns, ho might not have been so dogmatic." MILLION DOLLAR PURCHASES OF LIBERTY LOAN BONOS SKW YORK. May 28. The Colo rado Fuel and Iron company and the Iiggctt and Myers Tobacco company each today announced n $1,000,0110 subscription, together wilh 'oilers to nid employes to pun husc liberty loan bonds. 28, 1917 Fight of Women WASHINGTON, May 28. Con tending that increased freight rales would tend to thwart efforts at stim ulation of food production, represen tatives of western livestock producers today protested before tho interstate commerce commission against the fifteen percent increase asked by rail roads. T. W. Tomlinson, secretary of the American Nalionnl Livestock asso ciation, declared that any additional freight ralcH will immediately show the effects in decreased meat produc tion, v., Mr. Tomlinson presented a gloomy picture of cnuililioiis in livestock production in the inter-mountain ro gions. lie declared Ihe last winter has been disastrous with conditions the worst since 188(1. The shorlago of hay, he said, hud sent the price lo the "feeders'' lo nearly twice nor mal. "Kvorv clement,' he declared, 'which enters into meat production has gone up in price. Kvcii if the producer gets twenty-five percent more now than hi! did a year ago, he will he in hard straits." Attorneys for the railroads inler jcclcd that everything hail gone up except railroad rates. MADRID, May 28.- Resolutions ndoplcd at the great mass meeting of the entente allies held in .Madrid yesterday were presented lo Ihe Span ish minister of Ihe interior today. The resolutions wen1 to the effect that "Spain should break diplomatic rela tions wilh Geruiiinv and should accept all the consequences from the action which she is compelled lo adopt for Ihe defense of her dignity." LYING IN STATE PORTLAND, Ore. Muv 28. The remains nf the late C.'iiled States Senator llorrv Lime of Oregon luy in the I lower bftnked council chnin Imt of the Portland city hall today Oregon national guardsmen stood guard at the casket while hundred viewed the remains. The funeral will be held touiorrow at 3:30 p, m. RUSSIAN ARMY I ORDERED 10 El "Forward! Advance!" is Order Is sued by General Alexieff All Po litical Factions Applaud Order and Urge Army to Attack Whether Soldiers Will Obey Problematical PETUOOUAI), May 28. Virtually all tho divergent political factions, all class organizations, councils and oven the socialist leaders, with tho excep tion of tho Kxtreino letters, today re echo the appoal of Minister of Wnr Keruusky to Hie troops and applaud tho now order of the day, "advance, It romaius to be seen how the army it self will rccoivo this final exhortation to patriotism and the defense of Hus sla's nowly won freedom. To Wako Hp Army. Constant efforts haye been made during the past two months by rep resentatives, not only of the govern ment but of the soldiers, to bring home to the army that the abandon meut of active warfare would not only mean treachery to tho allies but tho Inevitable loss of all that has 'boon gained in the revolution. It Is confi dently bellovod that this last call, sup ported as It Is by almost evory elo- mout of socloty, will move the army to a realization of the situation. All tho commanders have added their appeals to tho order of Minister Keronsky, They all emphaslzo the necessity of not only defending the country against tho enemy but of an immedl ato advanco to relievo tho pressure upon tho allies, which Germany has been ablo to exert by transferring tho bulk of her troops from the eastorn to the westorn front. CiononilH Order Advanco. Gcnoral Alexieff Bays tersely: "Forward! Advanco to attack the enemy." Gonoral Brusslloff Bays: "It Is nec essary to conserve and consolidate freedom. The soldiers must over throw and defeat the onemy. Shame and dishonor, to thoso who havo a weak spirit." Goncral Dragomlroff Is less laconic. An advance upon tho onemy," he says, is an immediate necessity. The enemy Is taking advanlngo of our passivity to leave this front open and send forces westward. Tho French and British aro honestly doing their duty as our allies. They aro saving our now freedom, which othorwlso wo would Ioso. But soon tholr advanco must wear Itself out and then thoro will bo no ono to help us." The newspapers contain similar ap peals from tho heads of tho govern ment. Premier l,voff writes: "Honor domands our activity. v aro drown ed in spocchos and words. Tho mus cles of our organism are being atro phied. Further pasBlvlty will mean ruin." M. Skoboleff, tho new socialist min ister of labor, Joins tho chorus wilh tho declaration: "Our present task Is lo advance." Peace Advocah's Traitors. In the new order to the army Gen eral Alexieff explained yesterday why It is impossible for the soldiers to re celvo emissaries from tho Germaa lines Boeltlng pcaco conferences. "Kv en tho conimnnder-ln-chlef," bo says, "Is prohibited by law from receiving peace delegates and every man from the commander down who docs this Is a traitor. Such coaferencea novcr take place at the front except between authorized diplomats. Tho Germans know this and send representatives only to learn tho disposition of our troops and to provoke dissension among us, to crcato olll feeling be tween tho soldiers nn dtbclr com manders. "I appeal to your Intelligence and your heart. If tho enemy really want ed peace, he would know how to go about It. Wnke up! Penco will bo reached . thru victory. Trust your comniandors." LIBERTY LOAN WEEK n NEW YORK, May 2S. "Liberty loan week" In Wall street was In aiiguratcd with another advance In stocks. IT, 8. steel led tho rise at tho new high record of Lift. The most encouraging tendency was the de mand for Investment shares, notably rails which were better by 2 lo 3 points. ATTACK II Usfverslty 1 Oreaon JTT Library - NO. 57 T Though Manufactures Seized, Minis ter of War Has Built Up Estab lishments That Enable Belgians to Hold Their Own With Germans and Supply Allies as Well. (Correspondence of llio Associated PreBS.) IlKAIHilJAUTEKS OF THE BEL GIAN ARTILLERY ESTABLISH MENT BEHIND THE ALLIES' FRONT, May !). Here, where the Belgian army is making its own enn non, its own rifles, its own shells, its own transport wagons, its own saddles and harness, ono can ap preciate how othor outstanding fea tures of the war have unduly obscured Ihe Belgian military effort since the battles of 1014. The Belgian army had six divisions of infantry and two divisions of cav alry left to hold a line of approxi mately 18 miles, or just nbout four men to tho yard of front; a front where particular vigilance is required. No part of Ihe allies' lino is more closely watcdied and explored by the enemy's patrols. A weak spot any where would provoke an inuncdiato offensive Crippled When Wur Began. Belgium lost all her manufacturing establishments and all her resources in raw malerials in tho defeat of the allies at Charleroi and in tho retreat from Antwerp, yet Monsieur De Bro queville, minister of wnr, has built up artillery and munition establish ments that not ui)ly cipihle the Belgian army to reply shot for shot to the Hermans on the Yser front, but also eonlrihiito lo the supplies of the al lied armies. Fourteen thousand work men are employed in these establish ments which nre using American ma chines und tools. The invasion found the Belgian army in tho midst of nn entire reor ganization of its artillery. Siege annmi ordered from tlmlvrupp works in Oeiiuaiiy had not been furnished. Millions of cartridges ordered from the same source also had been held up. It was with a disorganized nrma- mctn und insufficient mntorinl that Ihe Belgians held tho Germans in the retreat the to Yser. Army Nearly New, Tho Belgian nrmy is new in nearly every feature. Of the 120,000 men in the field and b'0,000 men who gar risoned Ihe forts, .'10,()()0 fell into the hands of the Gorman nt Liege, Nn mur mid in the retreat; 30,000 more, took refuge in Holland nnd wero in- Icrncd; 1 1,000 were lost on the Yser in addition lo more than 20,000 killed anil wounded in the battles of Liege, llaelen nnd St. Trend. The reorganization was difficult. Pliable lo calf a sesion of parlia ment to revise recruiting laws to ac cord wilh the new situation, tho (,'ov ernmeiit could only appeal to the pa triotism of refugees in England nnd France. The response was such ns to rc-conslitute nn army of six di visions of infantry und two divis ions of cavalry, whilo 14,000 men were detached for tho inn nil facture of munitions in France nnd 000 sent to Russia for the sumo punose. About 30,000 more men were ruised by decree calling up all Belglons eli gible for service between 18 and 40 years of age. A regiment of auto cannon recruit ed among the Belgian refugees nnd trained in Paris were sent to the Russian front where it played nn im portant pari in Briissiloft's offensive in (ialiein ami Volhynin in tho spring of 101(1. WASHINGTON', May 28. Enlist, menls in the naval reserve forces since war have brought the personnel of all branches up to about 25,000, or almost half the size of tho regular niivv a year ago. This includes the fleet reserve, the naval aux iliary, volunteer naval defense, and flying corps reserves nnd women en listed for special duly. Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk, in the order named, have led in enlist nienU. ' BELGIAN ARMY MAKES CANNON AT WAR FRQN NAVAL RESERVE NUMBERS 25,000
