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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-20

And Frank Gotch found it out too.
Be champion Of champions if you will
but old dame nature must be served.
She is the one knocker out of all cham
pions. The strange thing is that the
more of champion man gets to be
the easier it is for him to get the
knockout.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-20

And another way to preserve the
electric current would be to shut off
the lights in saloons and pool rooms at
six o'clock in the evening. IF the
stores must sacrifice on account of the
shortage Of coal lets treat all Of them
alike.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-20

And when the women get through
pulling the electric railway out of the
hole let's have them take a whack at
the gas supply. It might be that the
tender hand of a woman. is the only
thing that can eliminate this "stench. "
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-20

The fact that you are contributing
to the "Patriotic Fund.- will not in
terfere in the least with the Red Cross
Service Flag being a splendid decora-
tion to the front window at home. Tt
beats holly wreath right off the board
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-20

Tom Lawson always did have tend
ency to call spade spade. When he
referred to "amateur war managers"
he was up to his old tricks.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-20

To get rid of serfdom and it mat
ters not what kind it is, just knock the
I'll" out of slave. 1t is a mighty good
time to start knocking right now.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-20

Word has been received from John
J. Mcnamara that he is quickly re-
covering from the first "shot in the
arm" He is now stationed at the
Columbus Barracks al Columbus, Ohio.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
FARM PROTEST
Agriculturists B e f 0 T e
the Commission
Against Railroad Request for
Increased Rates

washington, May 2S.-Asricultural and
livestock interests protesting 70 the In
terstate Commerce Commission today
against the railroads proposal for l5
per cent. increase in freight rates declar-
ed that such a revision not only would
uniustly burden food producers but would
handicap seriously the whole food produc>
ton campaign initiated BY the govern
ment as a war measure.
During the days hearing representa-
tiyes Of the American National Live Stock
Association and of the National Council
of the Farmers Cooperative Association
submitted a mass Of evidence calculated
to show that stock raisers and farmers
already are bearing unusually heavy eX-
penses and could not make supporting
profit if a freight increase were added.
Speaking for the livestock association
r. W. Tonlnson told the commission
that western cattle producers Will nave
to get % per cent more than last year
for their product. even under present con-
ditions, in order to make living. Even
then. he said many Cattlemen doubtless
would have to go out OF business ana
with an increased freight rate to market
the effect was sure TO be felt in de-
crease in meat production.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
FROM Chief sam
H O m e sick Negroes
Want to Return to y. S.
Persuader Gets Their Money
and Deserts Them

Washington, May 2S.-With dreams
of wealth unrealizcd and faith in pro-
motors destroyed. homesick American
negroes have petitioned the acting
governor of the Gold Coast colony in
Africa to send them back 70 Texas,
which they left in 1914 under the
SWAY of the arguments Of "Chiet sam,
who pictured lives Of case. The ne
groes turned over TO Sam varying
sums of money with the understand
ing that he would land them on the
Gold Coast, where they would receive
titles to their own land.
Ambassador Spring Rice has notified
the State Department that the indi-
cations are that Chief Sam grossly
misIed the immigrants and finally de-
serted them, leaving many in destltu-
ton. Whether any governmental as
sistance will he given to the negroes
so they may return to the cotton fields
Of Texas is unknown.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
S9,OOO,OOO TO
SHIPPING BOARD
McAdoo Announced Goethals
Will Not BE Held up-Differ-
ences Of Denman and Goethals
Are Settled

Washington, May 2s.-Secretary Nc
Adoo. announcing today that $4,000, 00C
had just been placed to the credit of
the shipping board, said the board and
Gen. Cocktails had not been held up
for want of money and would not be.
Referring to a statement attributed
70 Gen. Cocktails that no attempt should
be made to sell the $4,000, Oo9 of Pan
ANA canal bonds through which Con
gross authorized the raising of funds
for the beard, Mr.. McAdoo said it
was not necessary to sell the bonds
Immediately ana that the board had
been notified long ago that all the mon
ey required was available on request
Before todaY'S allotment the board had
asked for and received 81 900, 600.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29

ties have been very heavy. the ground
before the Austrian positions being
covered with Italian dead.
More than 1000 unwounded Italians
have been captured up to Sunday, says
The statement, 1000 of them having been
made prisoner on the Carso plateau.
British airmcn are continuing TO oper-
ate extensively against the Germans on
the front in France. Twelve German ma
chimes, were destroyed in fights in the
air Monday. and 10 others were sent to
, the ground by British fiiers out of con-
troll Another machine fell victim o
British ahti-aircraft guns. Three British
machines failed to return to their base.
Dealing with Sundays air fighting the
German war office says German armen
shot down l. airplanes and two captive
balloons.
Action by the Brazilian Congress which
would place Brazil on the side of the 9TH
er powers fighting against the Germans
is still awaited. Meantime the situation
in Spain with regard to Germanys illegal
acts toward that country continues to
grow in intensity.
Resolutions adopted by a great mass
meeting of partisans Of the Entente in
Madrid have been presented to the Span
ish minister of the interior. These assert
that Spain should not remain isolated
/ from the European conflict but that she
should break off diplomatic relations will.
Germany and accept all the conse-
quences from the action which she is
compelled to adopt for the defense of her
| dignity
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29

Memphis, Tenn. May 28-Revised re-
ports today from the Tennessee Ken
lucky, Alabama and Arkansas dis
tricts swept by a cyclone brings the
number who lost their lives in the
storm to 100 and, those injured to ap-
proximately $50 Reports from Ken
lucky received indicate she lost the
heaviest toll in life.
In Alabama the mining camps at
Sayre, Bradford and Carbon Hill re-
ported 65 fatalities and in Tennessee.
Upton, Dyer and Carroll counties re-
ported "a dead. The property damage
in Alabama is estimated at about ST.
coo, 900.
OF the known dead in Alabama.
where the storm struck widely separ-
ated towns, the area extending from
Huntsville to Tuscaloosa, the majority
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
MONKS DEMAND
VOTE IN RUSSIA
Revolutionary Spirit Supplants
AutOcratic and RcactiOnary
Activities

Petrocrad, May 2s.-(Via London).-
The inmates of the Russian monas-
teries. filled with revolutionary zeal.
are demanding political rights with the
lay population, including the vote
which until now has been forbidden
by precedent. In order to prove their
fitness for citizenship tho Monks have
set about Graduating all traces OF their
former autocratic. rcaCtionarv and. in
particular. anti-semitic activities. de-
stroying their stores of anti-liberal 1T
erature which was supplied to them ny
the police Security department" now
abolished.
The monks Of Russia's biggest, richest
and most famous monastery, the Troitsa-
Lavra. near Moscow. which Is historic
owing to having withstood two seges by
Polish armies in the 18th century. made
bonfires last week OF reactionary pamph-
let's in the monastery courtyard. one re-
port says the monks danced round the
flames. The father superior Of the Mos
COW monastery of The Passion has con-
denned all autocratist propaganda liter
allure and has forbidden its use even for
the wrapping of parcels.
Still greater revolutionary enthusi-
asm, real or feigned. has been dis
played in Kicv's celebrated Pestchera
monastery in the catacombs of which
repose the bones Of hundreds OF saints
of the Orthodox church. This mon
astery is particularly notorious for tho
pogromist agitation In which II took
an active part for the prosecution OF
the Jew Bells for murder. The mon
astery authorities have now strictly
forbidden reactionary agitations and n
committee of Monks has been formed
to obtain political equality.
At Kaisain in East Russia a commit
tee of workmen's soldiers deputies dis
covered that a large number OF imam
mable pamphlets were stored in con-
vent The committee threatened to raid
the place and the nuns, Mortified ny the
prospect OF intrusion on their invio-
late sanctuary, sent an undertaking toi
destroy the pamphlets themselves.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
Artillery
Regiment
for Maine

Governor MiIIiken Monday att
ernoon teIegraphed United States
Senator Frederick Hale at Wash
inston to secure permission from
the War department for the or
sanization of a heavy artillery reg
iment in Maine. There is a
healthy sentiment in the State. it
is said, for the formation Of such
a regiment, and that sentiment is
especially strong in Portland and
vicinity.
Capt. Arthur r. Balentyne Of
Portland is making plans for the
recruiting of the regiment as soon
as permission is granted by the
War department. Capt. Balentyne
is a retired officer Of the United
States Coast Artillery Corps and
has seen important service in all
parts Of the world. He married a
daughter of the late Thomas 3.
Reed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
Resume Activity in
Names Shipyards
Utilizing All Available Space in Cooperation
With Work Of State Committee M Support
Plan of Goethals to Build Steel Vessels

Portland, Me. May 2S--A revival Of
wooden shipbuilding in Maine has been
brought about by the war. Many Of
the old shipyards along the coast from
Kittery to Eastport have resumed a
semblance of old-time activity and
several of the large yards arc utiiiz-
ing every available foot Of space to in
crease their output.
However, the plan Of George ".
Cocktails to build steel vessels in which
to carry food to the Allies, is strangely
approved by many Of the od-time
builders who had been dubious of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
PEACE WITH DENMAN
All Is Harmony Again in Ship
Building Circles

Washington, May aH-Differences be-
tween Chairman Dcnman of the shipping
board and Major General Goethals man
agcr Of the boards emergency feet. CO.
operation over the boards wooden ship
building campaign. have been cleared
away, it was stated today, ana the cor
rorati"n' will proceed with construction
Of both steel and wooden ships
General Cocktails, back from New York
where Friday night III a speech he char
acterized the plan to build 1000 wooden
ships as hopeless. announced today that
the feet corporation had let contracts
for q moro wooden ships and for six
steel harges to Pacific coast builders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29

loriginal proposal for wooden bottoms.
They had expressed the belief that the
off-shore traffic should be handled by
a vast fleet of standardized iron
steamers, which. they claimed, could
be constructed more cheaply and more
quickly than wooden craft
a state committee consisting of for
mer Governor William +. Cobbs chair
man; S. r. Percy, James W. Sewall,
Maynard S. Bird. and Elcazar w.
Clark. will cooperate with the federal
board and will have charge of the
work in Maine.
The committee has been promised
the heartiest cooperation by present
and former builders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29

Washington, May 2S.-The admin
istration's food survey bill, first of the
food control measures. was passed by
the House today without a record vote
It appropriatcs s14,77o,oOO for an i'm
mediate investigation of the country's
food resources and for measures to
stimulate production. A similar bill
is under debate in the Senate and
may be passed before Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
W0RKMEN'S DEMANDS
IMPOSSIBLE TO meet
Socialist Ministers De-
clare Only Solution
Lies in Bringing War
to Close

Petrograd, May %. - (Via
London, May 29.-The indus
trial crisis in Russia is so acute
that, according to a recent ut
terance of the minister of fl
nance. M. Shingar0n. only a mir
acle can save the country from
economic ruin. The demands of
the workmen were so enormous,
he declared. that it seemed inn
possible to keep the industrial
wheels going for any great
length of time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
A Freer Rein

1T was said authoritatively that Gen.
Goe,hals will he given freer reign in
the shipbuldinG program and that there
Will he no interference from the board
Operation Of the fleet, however, will be
in the hands OF the board.
Chairman peuman has disclamed re-
sponsiblity for the statement that the
board could build 1000 wooden ships in IS
months. That assertion, it is said. was
made by one Of the engineers who pro-
posed the wooden ship building program
and never was denied by the board, be-
cause the board did not care to give any
comfort TO the Germans.
General Goethals has accepted proposals
by the United States Steel Corporation
and the Lackawanna Steel & Iron Co. to
turn out by fabrication processes 5000 go
tons of, steel shipping in IS months and
will let contracts for wooden vessels as
fast as wooden builders come forward
with facilities for building them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
ITALIANS CROSS THE TIMAVO AND
TAKE SAN GIOVANNI-RUSSIAN GUNS
HAMMER AUSTRIAN EAST FRONT
Awakening of Troops Of New Republic May In
dictate Force Soon to NJ enace Seriously the
Teuton Lines in East No Important Moves
on West Front

Aside from the AustoItaian theatre especially the south
eastern sector where the Italians making spirited
break through the Austrian line toward Tres little fighting
OF consequence taking place any the battle fronts.
tery due continue about the French and the Germans
the Champagne region of France while along the held
by the British the operations being carried out mainly by
small radng parties. On the Russian arti
ey fire against the Austrians increasing intensity prob
ably presagng the awakening Of the Russians from the eha
gy and the approach of hoslities a great SCALE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
Clemenceau Calls
for Col. Roosevelt
French Statesman Appeals to President Wilson
to Send T. R. and His Companions = France
Finds His the Name Representing Beauty of
Americas intervention.

"Whatever may be the reasons and
without attempting to analyZe the phe-
nomenon l yield to the imperious neec
to tell you that the name of Roosevelt
has in our country at this time leg
endary power 1t would be an enormous
error in my view to neglect force
which everything urges us to make use
of as soon as possible.
I'VE have learned that the first
American unit is arrived at the front
and with what zest generals and pri-
Yates saluted the noble Star Spangleo
Banner However. you should know
Mr.. President, that more than one
stout Kchevronned poilu said TO his
comrade in an astonished voice But
where is Roosevelt? don't see him. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29

p,,4. Ma, os Former Premier
'lemenceau. in an open letter 10 RES
dent Wilson printed in his paper
LHomme Enchaine. appeals 10 the
President 10 send over Colonel foose-
Welt and his companions Mr.. Cle"-
"nCcau saws:
In invaded France at the present
hour there In a name which represents
Ay, | know not what force of intuition
tho beauty Of Americas Intervention
Il Is that OF Roosevelt. You are 100
much Of philosopher not TO know ina.
great popular leaders have Influenced
men out OF all proportion to their own
real value. by the intangible atmos-
nhere Of legend which. with or witnou.
their assistance, has formed around
thcru
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
Call for Wars Close

SOcl0lSt MINISTER'S AT a recent MINI
istcrial council said that the only pos
siblity they saw of settling the dim
Guilty was to bring the war to a close.
Seeking Solution
Neither the coalition cabinet nor the
newly appointed commission to rcgu-
late the differences between capital
and labor has yet found way to set
tie the industrial crisis. The COM
mission is composed Of the ministers
of finance. trad. and industry and la
| Dor. but since there is n wide diverg
cnce of views between the minister of
finance and the new Soeialistic min
lister of labor, it seems probable that
this commission will he confronted
with the same difficulties that attend
cd previous efforts at reconciliation.
An investigation of the factory con-
ditions in Petrograd leads to the
alarming but inevitable conclusion
that unless the government soon finds
some means of adjusting the present
differences most of the industrial on
tcrpriseS working for national defense
will be compelled to close within a
few months. The outstanding fea-
lures of the labor situation are as fol-
lows:
An investigation shows that virtually
the same differences prevail In AL tho big
factories in PetroGrad and apparent au-
thenticatcd reports from Moscow. Domets
and Ural districts indicate general disor-
ganization. In many OF TIE factories the
Continued on Page 11-CoIumn p
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
Nearly 800 Dead in
the Great Cyclone
NATION and Charleston, Illinois, Report SO Dead
While Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama
Arkansas Suffer 100 Deaths and Injury to $50

lost their lives in small mining settle
ments about Birmingham.
Dyer county suffered the largest
loss of life in Tennessee. Near Ouers-
burg. seven were killed and 40 in
jured Other Tennessee towns report
ing casualties were Cataslake, Trese
want. Ore Springs, Sharon, Linden and
Bakerstown.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
NOT A MAJOR
LEAGUE CAME

Chicago, May oS--Not a major base
ball game was played today because
of rain. 1t was the first time in scv-
eraI years that the majors faced such
a situation.
Most of the clubs will flay double
headers tomorrow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
AT CHARLESTON
AND NATION

Mattoon. Ills, May 2s.-Rehabilita-
ton Of Nation and Charleston. the
cities hardest hit in the storm which
swept central Illinois on Saturday,
will be completed before the snow
flies. according to predictions Of relief
workers tonight.
Continued on Page 11-CoIumn 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
THE WEATHER
RAIN

Weather forecast: Tuesday rain;
Wednesday fair and somewhat warm
err; strong northeast winds diminish
Ing by Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
Cross Tin,avO River

On the Carso plateau just above the
head of the Gulf of Trieste the Ital-
ians have smashed their way across
the Timavo river and captured the
village of San Giovanni, a scant two
miles northwest Of Dunno, a fashion,
able watering resort on the railroad
skrting the Gulf Of Trieste ana lead
ing into Trieste Nine 6-inch guns
fell into the hands of the Italians when
they captured tile village. and they
soon will be used against the Aus
trians. as their condition is described
as excellent
Further Gains
To the north in the vicinity of ia
miano, the Italians have captured for
titled Austrian trenches and along the
Julian front have made further gains
and consolidated positions previously
taken. The Austrian war office as
serts that Sundays attacks by the
Italians near Jamiano were repulsed
and that near Castagnievizza attempts
at an advance by the Italians failed.
1t asserts also that the Italian casual
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
Material for Hoover

Material gathered will be turned
over to Herbert {. Hoover, who will be
named to head a food administration
as soon as the pending regulatory food
measure becomes law.
The survey bill was passed virtually as
1t came from the committee. Miss Ran
kin, the woman representative from Mon
tana, inserted an amendment which
would require the department of agricul-
ture to use women in the survey work
whenever practicable. An amendment by
Rep Mckenzie of Illinois would make all
persons employed under the bill liable to
military service, and another would per-
nit citizens to refuse to go more than
300 miles from their homes or places of
business to testify in a food inquiry.
AS originally drawn the bill carried
more than slSeoo,oOo but committee
changes reduced the total. These are the
principal amounts appropriated
For seeds s577S,00o. Education for in
creasing production by waste elimination
| and conservation $4.34S4oo.
General survey s2,522,o0o. Eradication Of
live stock diseases and live stock improve
ment work sSS5,00O.
Miscellaneous items s457, 400
Eradication of plant diseases and In
sects $4,000.
Many Republicans including Former
! Speaker Cannon. repeatedly attacked
! the measure as wasteful particularly
as to the survey feature.
| Chairman Lever of the agricultural
| committee, declared heatedly in clos
/ ing debate today that they were rails
| ing a false issue
! 1T is not cCnomy that these gen
tlemen desire to propagate that ac-
counts for the opposition to the bill.
he said 1T may be that the opposl-
ton can be accounted for because we
! are carrying power in the bill to go
/ into storage concerns and find out who
/ is boarding and who is specializing
In the Senate
The Senate devoted the day to de-
batting and adopting an amendment ny
| Senator Mcclellan. reducing the appro-
+ priation for the eradication of the cat
tie tick and other live stock disease
from s2.0S2 900 to 1927 900. the amount
carried for the purpose in the House
! bill. A motion to eliminate an appro-
priat ton Of s., 500, 900 for seeds to be sold
to the farmer at cost by the depart t
ment Of agriculture and for the Grad
! ication Of plant diseases was pending
| ,rbep Tho Senate adjourned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
HOUSE PASSES
FOOD CONTROL

Survey Bill Appropriating s14,77O,OOO Is Ac-
copied Without Record Vote-Agriculture
Department Expects to Make Estimate of Re-
sources Within Three Weeks After President
Affixes Signature
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-29
Report in Three Weeks

The agriculture department expects
to present a fairly accurate estimate
Of food resources within three weeks
after the bill is signed by the Pres
ident. Secretary Houston said today
AS soon as the measure becomes a law
the department will start its 1900
employees and 10000 voluntary crop
reporters to work on the investigation.
The preliminary report to be made
within three weeks will be supple
mented with monthly rcnOrtS.