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
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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
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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.
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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