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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1917
Page
1
Resolutions from a Madrid mass meeting urge Spain to align with the entente powers. They call for ending isolation, shifting policy toward France and Britain and their allies, and breaking diplomatic relations with Germany after its breach of Spanish neutrality.
The Senate finance committee moved to exempt motion picture films jewelry and chewing gum from the wartime tax bill. It kept taxes on athletic goods perfumes and cosmetics as stamps and proposed a new tax on yacht tonnage. No 5 percent gross sales tax remains.
Washington May 28 A bill by Senator Poindexter of Washington would punish the malicious hoarding or destruction of food, fuel or other necessities to limit public supply or raise prices. Penalities range from six months to three years in prison. The senate judiciary committee favorably reported the measure, noting gaps in existing law.
London May 28 an official statement says counting Americans serving in the British and French armies and additional units ordered to France there will shortly be 100000 Americans in France.
Associated Press reports Italians driving toward Duino on the Carso Plateau, within two miles of the key barrier to Trieste. The eighteen day battle shows no abatement, with Vienna denying Italian victories. Mount Querceto forms a northern wall as a possible storm is planned. Germany claims trench gains near Moronvilliers, though French counterattacks retake ground.
The senate naval affairs committee ordered a thorough inquiry into the Mongolia accident in which two American Red Cross nurses were killed. Senator Frelinghuysen's resolution for a special inquiry was adopted but the committee will conduct the investigation.
Premier Massey said two million carcasses of frozen sheep lay in cold storage in New Zealand awaiting shipment but no vessel was available. He projected the total would rise to 3,600,000 by the end of May and, if shipping were found, New Zealand could export dairy produce worth 40 million dollars this year.
Revised figures from Associated Press detail a storm series across Illinois Indiana Kansas Missouri Tennessee Alabama and Arkansas with 245 dead and 1 207 injured. Destruction stretched from Andale Kansas to Mattoon Charleston and Memphis with extensive property loss and communication outages across affected states.
A life saving apparatus devised by a Belgian engineer on King Albert's staff features a detachable chart-house that can be separated from a sinking ship in 20 seconds and made watertight in minutes. It includes 15 sleeping berths and ten fresh water tanks.
In an open letter, Clemenceau urges President Wilson to send Colonel Roosevelt and his companions to France. He praises American intervention and notes the first American unit has arrived at the front, while questioning Roosevelt's whereabouts.
Chicago livestock receipts show hogs weaker and cattle mixed with cattle weak, hogs steady to lower in multiple markets. East Buffalo and Pittsburgh report varying gains and losses across cattle hogs sheep and calves with grain futures for wheat corn oats pork lard and ribs listed. Toledo grain includes cash and futures for wheat, cloverseed, alsike, and timothy with prices and months noted.
Colonel Doyen aged fifty eight a Naval Academy graduate with service in the Philippines and the Orient Haiti and Santo Domingo is noted as a winner after giving his first speech.
Miss Rankin of Montana delivers maiden speech in Congress endorsing an amendment to the food bill. Unanimous committee vote directs that women’s services be used as far as practicable in the proposed food survey. Rankin says women must share the world’s work to ensure feeding all at all times and cites home-linked tasks. Washington reports note applause as she spoke and concluded. Also: Pershing to deploy a veteran U.S. Marine regiment to France, about 2000 men, commanded by Col. Charles A. Doyen, drawn mainly from regiments in Haiti and Cuba, with secrecy on departure and cross-Atlantic timing.
Associated Press dispatch from Rio de Janeiro May 28 cites German circles asserting Germany will declare war on Brazil within two or three days. The note reflects wartime rumor amid growing tensions between the nations.
Today markets report listings for American Beet Sugar at 96, American Sugar Refining 112, Baltimore and Ohio at 60, Chesapenka and Ohio 60, Munola Central 102, Kennecoott Copper 48, Louisville and Nashville and New York Central and Norfolk and Western and Pennsylvania present.
Connecticut inventor Fred Hemmings from Waterbury proposes an electric magnetic device mounted on ship sides to attract torpedoes and lift them onto deck. The system aims to revolutionize sea warfare and render vessels resistant to torpedo attacks. Naval board chairman Lawrence considers adoption. Theodore Roosevelt sent a private congratulatory letter.
Cayuga County Home Defense league starts intensive food production by deploying tractors that plow continuously. Searchlights are set up and three crews per machine operate in eight hour shifts. Rates charged are 2.90 dollars per acre for plowing and 3.50 dollars per acre for plowing and cultivation. Youth's Company supports the effort as volunteers.
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