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8 riTE 3TORXTXG OREGONIAI. SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 191G. -w ti A y 18,000 ACRES TO BE GIVEN OUT TODAY Patience of Applicants Who Have Waited Long in Line Will Be Rewarded. FRAUD IS GUARDED AGAINST Small Entries Are Expected and More Persons Satisfied, Since Tracts Are Scattered Over Many Townships. 16.000 V v V t i VlTlicle Sam will give away acres of land this morning. The land is a part of the former Si letz Indian reservation in Lincoln County, and any citizen who has not exhausted his or her homestead rights is privileged to step up to the Federal land office in the Worcester building and specify what parcel is wanted. No applicant can get more than 160 acres. All that will be necessary to gret final possession of the land is to live on it three years and demonstrate to the sat isfaction of the Government an inten tion of developing the property. All this would apply to the general public were it not for the fact that a long line of land-hungry people already is formed in the Worcester building waiting for the allotments to take place. Some of these have been wait ing there patiently for fully two weeks. Others have been there for varying periods, from 24 hours to 10 "days. Waitlms Line to Get First Chance. The people now in line will be recog nized first, and in the order In which they have waited. If any land remains after the present line has been satis fied, the general public will be accom modated. Approximately 80 persons were in place last night. Indications favored the presence of a large number of others when the office is opened this morning. As it is necessary that all the land covered by a single application be con tiguous, and inasmuch as the area is scattered over a score of townships, it is apparent that some applicants will take only 20 or 40 or 80 acres, or any other fractional unit of the full 160 acres allowed by law. Under these circumstances it is prob able that several hundred applicants "will be enabled to file today. Were each land seeker to take the full 160 acre allowance, but 100 persons could be accommodated. Precautions Taken Asainst Fraud. Officials of the local land ofrice have taken every precaution to prevent frauds or irregularities at the proceed ings this morning. N. Campbell, regis ter, has required that a number be given to every man or woman in line corresponding with the position occu pied. John D. Guiss, who has been in place for nearly two weeks, is No. 1. He has his land picked out. In fact, he has lived on it for a long period and has spent $1600 in litigating with other claimants to gain title to it. About five years ago, after he had won his case in the Supreme Court, the property was withdrawn from entry by executive order.- He proposes now to file formal application for the Iden tical quarter section. Mr. Campbell has given warning that none other than those now in line will be recognized when the drawings take place. Attaches of the. office and depu- es from the United States Marshal s office will be on hand this morning prevent interference with those in line or the possible intrusion of ons who have not been in line. considerable formality must be ,ied with in making applications. robable that not all those who itlng can be accommodated to ne off icers' plan to call three or pplicants into the office at a nd dispose of their entries as y as possible. In this manner the party will be accommodated, but y require seveYal days to do so. CAL MARINE GOOD SHOT Harry IT. Ijelirbass Is Buletincd as Marksman. In an official bulletin issued by headquarters. United States Marine Corps, Washington, appears the name of Harry H. Lehrbass, of this city, as having qualified as a marksman in that interesting branch of the Govern ment service. Harry, who is a son of Herman A. Lehrbass, 712 East Saratoga street, Portland, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at its local recruiting sta tion. Third and Alder streets, October 4. 1915, and is now serving at the marine barracks. Navy-yard, Mare Island, near San Francisco, Cal., await ing transfer to expeditionary duty. MINE TO BUILD SMELTER r.unker Hill & Snllivan Decides to Locate Plant at Kellogg. KELLOGG, Idaho. March 31. The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Com pany will erect a smelter here., accord ing to a telegram received here today from Stanley A. Easton, manager of the company, from San Francisco, where the company has its main ofhce. The smelter will employ- from 350 to 500 men, and will be completed, it is expected, within eight months. lA Crisp, Delicious; "SnacK" for luncheon jor after-the-theater, or any: (old time when the appetite; 'craves"some thing different," 'is TRISCUIT,the Shredded ! Whole Wheat toast Heat it in the oven to restore its crispness, then serve with butter, soft cheese or mar malades. As a toast for chafing dish cookery it is a rare delight. It is full of real nutriment. Yly r?r&y' f f n, Z0 y' ' I - - . I I U t ' i . " 1 SL- '',. , ; , ; , y - 1 s ' 1 i,.' ' " ' ; 4 ' in'"""" ' ' ' ; Kmm- " JJ y ' ' mmr-' - :J - 1 1 r t J, L - ' ' ' x - vJsm, - ' '" : t I Km 7 '' r i - zr?l f-yf ; J ' I lis && - - J V - f f - -y v 7 -L i TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Majestic "A Wife's Sacrifice." Peoples -"The Saleslady," "Picto- graphs." Pickford "Mice and Men." Columbia "The Moral Fabric," "Wife and Auto Trouble." laiadc sX Niagara, falls, N. Y, MACK SENNETT'S Keystone com pany is filmdom's leading com edy producer. The other day he announced tile organization of three more companies, making a total of 15, In order that the production of two comedies a week might be continued without sacrificing the standard of ex cellence. The Keystone studio at Edendale, the first at that Los An geles suburb, is a. model of its kind. complete In every detail, and the envy of its rivals. All of this is a far cry from the early days of the . Keystoners, when Eddie Nolan, an ex-director under Sen nett, and now director for the Con tinental Photo Players of Portland, broke into the picture game as a prop erty man for the Keystone back in the Fall of 1910. " "When I first went to work for Sen- nett they had a little old stage on which could be crowded three sets at a time," reminisces Mr. Nolan. "Well do I remember the old quarters, with a barbed wire fence separating them from the wide, wide world. In those days not many months after the Keystone Company had been organized, Sennett had three stars, Ma bel iMormand, a millinery model, who was lured from the Biograph; Roscoe Arbuckle, a stock actor, who had been passed up by the Universal people: and Ford. Sterling, who left the Eastern stage" to join the Keystoners. Sennett. Pathe Lehrman and "Daddy" Nichols were the only directors, and using the Keystone coppers as the chief laugh makers, they were turning out a film a week. On his own authority Sen nett started out in life as a boiler maker, went on the stage as a singer in a. quartet, and then Into the movies with Biograph." rolan asserts that the rivalry among the Keystone cops for the position of chief of police was intense in those days. Rube Miller, now directing Vogue comedies, was a one-time chief, as was Nolan, who rose from the posi tion of property man to assistant direc tor, and then director. The Continental director has the greatest admiration for the ability of Sennett, and characterizes him as the biggest director in the comedy field. Pictures At Ileitis. The-Heilig Theater will be a motion picture house during next week with 10 reels of feature film, consisting of "The Melting Pot." starring Walker Whiteside, and "The Gamblers." a Lu- bin masterpiece, with such players as Earlc Metcalfe and Ethel Clayton in leading roles. Both of t.iese plays have been pre sented to Portland . audiences on the speaking stage, and are listed among the pronounced theatrical successes. "The Melting Pot" is the Israel Zang- will play which has attracted so much attention because of its identification with the problems of immigration and the moulding of the alien races of Eu rope into American citizenship. "The Gamblers" is a stirring tale of finance, with love, jealousy, and con spiracy entering into five reels of tre mendous action. A Frank Aspirant. There isn't a day that passes that motion picture producing companies are not pestered with people calling at their offices who believe that they are better than Mary Pif kf ord. Marguerite Clark, Pauline Frederick. Marie Doro.4 Hazel Dawn. They don't only believe it in their own mint's, but they insist upon telling all about it. Those who are not in New York write lettersr and they come by the thousands. A unique example of the letters re ceived at the office of the Paramount Pictures Corporation is the following: Lakewood, N. J., 29 Fifth street. March 19. 1916. Dear Sir: I want to go into the movies, not as most women want to. but as a scrub-woman, factory girl, or any ugly old "hag" part that comes along. The parts that no one wants, that's the kind of work. I want to do. I am young (21) twenty-one years of agel medium height and as my people quite frankly say "pretty much of a fool even to want to go into movie work." I'm anything but handsome, and I can make myself extremely re pulsive; generally, however, I'll pass with a push. I've had quite a little experience In character work on the stage and I know I can do the work. When do you want to see me? I'm worth seeing. DOROTHY WEBER. That was all. but it was the frank est of its kind ever received. Screen Gossip. Mary Pickford. with James 3. Cor- bett and Donald Brian, appeared in a sketcX the other night in New York at the Hippodrome Theater on the Com poser's Night" programme. . Al St. John, the "bounding boy" of the Keystone comedies, is. a nephew of Koscoe l tatty ) Arbuckle. . Edith Reeves, who is appearing in "The Moral Fabric," is said to be lineal descendant of William Penn, the greatest "peace-at-any-price" man his time. of dered a full dress parade In honor of the screen artists. It was the first time that motion pictures were ever made at the fort, and the soldiers have enjoyed many interesting experiences since the players have been there. Anna Little and Rhea Mitchell, two of the most popular leading "ladies" at the Santa Barbara studios of the American Film Company, are insep arable companions when not working in scenes. Although they work in dif ferent companies, under two different directors, they always arrive on and leave the grounds together, and the wide back seat of Anna's touring car ia seldom occupied. When, last' week, the trade papers carried the announcement that William Garwood and "Violet Mersereau, who made some very popular pictures to gether last year, were to be reunited at Universal Heights for one picture, the notice wasn't received by Universal exhibitors with the elation that the film company had figured on. Instead came a storm of protest from the the ater men. who asked why, if Mr. Gar wood and Miss Mersereau were located again at the same studio, they couldn't be permanently reunited. So the Garwood-Mersereau joint pic ture won't be their last. "Some Leap" is its title and it will be immediately followed by "The Go-Between," in which Miss Mersereau plays e. small town girl md Mr. Garwood a small town boy. who goes to the citv to study bacteriology. A live-reel Garwood-Mersereau feature will likely follow "The Go-Between." SUNDAY LAW OPPOSED KilLAHER SAYS BAHOT TITLE IS DECEPTIVE. Motion pictures are being used to teach the war cripples of Europe how to -use their artificial hands and legs. Philip Hahn, who was a promising portrait and landscape painter in Am sterdam, Holland, until he became color blind and was obliged to give up his art, has developed - into an actor of considerable ability, and is now en gaged in a forthcoming Metro produc tion. Oddly enough, he is playing the role of an artist in "Playing With Fire," the new production in which Petrova is starred. "The Grip of Evil" is the name of Balboa's forthcoming photoplay series, in which Jackie Saunders will be seen as the starred attraction. The piece, consisting of 14 two-reel episodes, will be released by Pathe, which has han dled all of the Long Beach "house of serials" big productions such as "Who Pays," "Xeal of the Navy" and "The Red Circle." Clara Kimball Young, the motion pic ture' star who recently gave one of her motor cars to be used as an ambu lance in France, received this week a letter from her cousin. Bayard Kim ball, who is driving the car for- one of the volunteer ambulance corps of the French army. He writes that the car received its baptism of fire during the early days of the present German as sault on Verdun, and that it brought 136 wounded French soldiers back to a base hospital in one day's work. Carter De Haven is being featured in a five-reel comedy drama entitled "The King of Broadway," which is being filmed by "Director W. J. Bowman and with a large company in support of the Broadway star. Some very effec tive scenes are depicted in this story, which was written by Bowman for his young star. In the cast are Marvel L Spencer, playing opposite De Haven; Yona Landowska and Duke Worne. Walter Belasco plays the King. Leon - Gaumont, head of the great motion, picture company which bears his name, Societe des Establissements Gaumont, is paying his first visit to America since the outbreak of Euro pean hostilities. Since hislast trip to this country the Gaumont company has become a manufacturer of Mutual pic tures. It Is principally to meet Presi dent John R. . Freuler and other offi cials of the Mutual Film Corporation that Mr. Gaumont is making his pres ent trip. While here he will also In spect the Gaumont Winter studios at Jacksonville, Fla. Rennold Wolf and Channing Pollock, authors of many successful Broadway productions, are responsible for the scenario of "Who Killed Simon Baird?" in which Edna Wallace Hopper, Charles J. Ross and Muriel Ostriche are ap pearing for Equitable. James Durkin, who staged "The Clarion." is directing the three-star picture. When the Metro company of players, headed by Francis X, Bushman and Beverly Bayne, arrived at a fort near Savannah. Ga., by steamship, to photo graph the principal scenes for "The Wall Between." a five-part military production, the commanding officer or- Act Ia Really Intended (o Close All Bnnlnraa and Not to Grant Week ly Ret Day, He Aaaerta. "The "one day of rest in seven law." proposed by the Weekly Rest Day League, is deceptive, and is not what the ballot title purports the law to be," said Dan Kellaher, yesterday. He Is fighting all Sunday laws. "The title of the act shows exactly what the law is, a Sunday law, and reads: 'To provide for one day of rest in seven, to set apart Sunday as a day of public rest, subject to certain exceptions.' The ballot title will deceive the voter into thinking he is voting for a one-day rest in seven, when he will be voting for a Sunday law as set forth in the title of the act." Petitions for this act are now being circulated by the Weekly Rest Day League, of which W. A. Currie is the president, E. B., Barthrop, secretary; John M. A. Laue, treasurer, and Rev. G. L. Tufts, superintendent. The "pro hibitions" are in the second section, which reads: It will be unlawful for any person, firm or association or corporation in this state, or any officer, agent or employe of the State of Oregon, or any polUieal division thereof, to hire, employ or require any per son or persons to worfc or engago in any trade or business or profession or occupa tion for more than six consecutive days; or to keep open or operate on Sunday any store, office, shop, building: or ground , or other placa of business whatever where goods, wares, merchandise or any real or personal property is sold or offered for sale; or to sell or offer to sell any goods, wares, merchandise or any real or personal property upon said, day;' to keep open or operate for g&in or profit upon said day any bank or trust company, mill, mine, fac tory, workshop, studio, agricultural farm, logging camp, construction camp or any such similar place of occupation or labor; provided, however, that it shall be a suf ficient defensa in proceedings under the above provisions of this section for the ac cused to show that the act complained of was one of the following: Then follows a list of emergency exceptions. GRAND JURY QUITS TODAY Report on Job-Bartering Probe AVIII . " He Given. The final v report of -the" grand jury will be delivered to Circuit Judge Mor row this morning. A dozen or more indictments are expected to accompany the formal report, in which recommen dations of various natures will be made. Much interest has been expressed In the investigations of county affairs that the grand jury has made. Charges of Martin Reddy.that County Commis sioners bartered county jobs are said to have fallen through, and exoneration Is expected. CITIZENS' DAY ARRANGED Ad Club Will Distribute Flags on Wednesday, April 12. Wednesday, April 12, will be Ameri can Citizens' day undes the auspices of the Portland Ad Club, and on that occa sion thousands of American flags will be distributed on the streets of the city by representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Ladies' Re lief Corps and other patriotic organi zations. The programme at the Ad Club luncheon at the Imperial Hotel will be largely in the hands of students from the Americanization school which is be ing .conducted at the Shattuck School. QUARTER-BLOOD INDIAN, ON LONG HIKE FOR WAGER, SAYS WHITE COMPETITORS ARE FAR BEHIND. ir,- 1111 MP- g- in..ai..iN.ui.i, y? yp'T"' S II .-. . o'... -- .; ... i. . r fa) : -s y yy - if 77 i i irTySi yy j v -v U - ' - - Y I 4 ris r -ty v u 7 J The paleface is not in it with the Indian when it comes to long-dintance walking, if the story of While Eagle, a quarter-blood Indian who arrived in Portland yeBterday on a cross-country walk, is to be given credence. White Eagle declares he started fnom Chicago October 16, 1915, for a competitive walk against Jack Dalton and Jack Fitzgerald, two ivhite men. They are walking, he says, on a. wager of '$10,000, put up by Eastern people, among whom is Mayor Thompson, of Chicago. The walk is to be through Portland to San Francisco and back to Springfield, 111., a total of 12,600 miles, in all. The purpose of the trip is to test the comparative endurance of the Indian and the white man. White Eagle says he last saw his white companions a few days out of Chicago, when they stopped for treat ment of their feet. He sayB he has come right on through, making-an av erage of from 35 to 40 miles a day dur ing good weather and 23 miles a day on bad days. Eleven pairs of shoes have gone to the happy hunting ground under White Eagle's feet since he started, he says. -sir jf 7 17.77 " ' VV-7J t . - .: : -: I 77 ' , h yr . I ?y? White Eagle. STORM LIKELY AT. GROWERS' SESSlOfl Effort Expected to Be Made by Some Today to Unseat H. F. Davidson. CONTRACTS CALLED OFF Members Predict Big Shipper Will Return to Independent Market-, Ing Federal Agency Does Not Find General Favor. HOOD RIVER, Or.. March 31. (Spe cial.) Instead of the perfunctory ses sion promised a week ago, the annual stockholders' meeting of the Apple growers' Association tomorrow bids fair to be characterized by an effort on the part of a portion of the membership to unseat H. F. Davidson from the board of directors. Reports to. the effect that large orchard-holding companies in which Mr. Davidson is interested have cancelled their contracts with the organization for the ensuing year have been con firmed by the officials of the associa tion. It is said, however, that a re consideration of the cancellation is pending. In case of failure on the part of the orchard companies to reconsider, the crops or orchards from which were harvested 10,000 boxes of fruit laet year will be withdrawn. Responsibility Laid on Easterner. Controlling interests of the orchard companies involved are held by Bert Van Horn, a New York applegrower, who Is interested In New York storage properties, and it Is declared by Mr. Davidson that the cancellation t ton nage contracts with the Applegrowers' Association has been forced by Mr. Van Horn. Officials of the association de clare that apples over which Mr. David son has personal control will continue to be handled by the shipping organi zation. The withdrawal of the large company interests, however, has aroused a suspicion on the part of nu merous grower-members, who eay they fear the action to be the beginning of an absolute withdrawal on the part of Mr. Davidson and his return to inde pendent shipping. Mr. Davidson for merly headed the Davidson Fruit Com pany, one of the largest independent shipping interests in the Northwest, his concern having been amalgamated with the Applegrowers' Association in 1912. Federal Plan tint Favored. Local growers, judging by expres sions made today, will not be by any means unanimous in accepting the pro posed Government plan of establish ing the Fruitgrowers' Agency, Incor porated, with headquarters at Spokane. Those who will oppose, the central agency argue that Hood River should not enter such an organization, since the uniform contract plan provides for the expenditure of a fund to be de rived from entrance fees on a campaign of advertising that will be beneficial to the large orchard areas in other parts of the Northwest, but which will not be profitable to the local fruit in terests. Even thpugh the orchard interests of Mr. Davidson are withdrawn the as sociation will enter the selling cam paign of the 1016 season with no de crease of tonnage, for August Paasch, who has shipped independently, has al lied himeelf with the organization. His shipments have reached as high as 50 carloads in a single season. BOARD TO BRANCH OUT STATE ORGAXIZATIOV OK REALTY MES IS PROPOSED. Convention Called for July and Na tional Association Asked to Meet Here In 1018. Oregon is to have a state-wide realty association with branch organ izations in all important cities and towns if a comprehensive plan launched at yesterday's luncheon meeting of the Portland Realty Board in the fifth floor dining-room of the Oregon build ing matures. On the recommendation of the board president, F. E. Taylor, the members of the board voted unanimously to invite all realty men in the state to meet in Portland for a three-day convention next July, at which time ways and means are to be devised for the pro posed state association. Telegrams were read at yesterday's meeting announcing that F. N. Clark, of Portland, had Just been elected Pa cific Coast vice-president of the Na tional Association of Real Estate Ex changes, which is now in convention at New Orleans. A second telegram from Fred H. Strong and F. N. Clark, Port land's representatives at the conven tion, reported that they had invited the National association to meet in Port land in 1919. Three-minute addresses were deliv ered yesterday by Leo Friede, O. S. Hubbell, E. B. MacNaughton, Frank McCriUis. M. J. Clohessy, Herbert Gor don. J. F. Daly and L. W. Cronin. Charles L. Wheeler acted as chairman. MRS. MODJESKA IS SUING Separate Maintenance From Ralph Modjeski Is Asked. Suit for separate maintenance has been filed in Chicago by Fellcie Mod Jeska, wife, of Ralph Modjeski, builder of the Broadway bridge, attorneys for the wife having written Deputy County Clerk Bush for certified copies of parts of the divorce proceedings brought by Mr. Modjeski here. His suit was dis missed in June, 1915. Shortly after the divorce proceedings were begun here Mrs. Modjeska began proceedings for separate maintenance in Chicago, but they were dismissed. The Portland case involved much liti gation, but was dismissed, unexpect edly, and a settlement of all difficulties was inferred. Milwaukie Orders 350 Meters. MILWAUKEE, Or., March 31. (Spe- IBDIDS ta "HYPOCRITES" tarn OR "The Naked Truth" 1 Next Sunday and JJ Monday SUNSET THEATER To Cosies on the Coast." am IBIIIIiaiDBaaillBlllllllIlBIBBIIIBIBll PEG PLE West Park at Alder LAST DAY TO SEE HAZEL DAWN The Fascinating Screen' Star in SALESLAD A Unique Photoplay, Set in the Varied Environment of a New York Department Store and Musical Comedy Stage. Y Also COLONEL HEEZA LIAR, Comedy I n H n R B H n M n H B H n m B B B n n H n n B n R B and PARAMOUNT PICT0GRAPHS Which Makes an Unusually Strong Show COMING TOMORROW I PAULINE FREDERICK In an Adaptation of Mary Johnston's Novel AUDREY Positively Miss Fred erick's Best Role and One of Par amount's Best Productions 3 'A 1 S r V fy. - hi - - ' r - i .-i 'y-,y ry r R R R H n n R R H H B H B R B 9 H B B B ta B H H B R H m B H cial.) The Milwaukie Council last night instructed Recorder David P. Mathews to call for bids for 350 water meters to be used on all service connec tions of the Bull Run municipal sys tem. These meters will be put in at the general cost of the city, and the total cost will be between $4000 and D0OO. Auto Backfire Breaks Arm. YAMHILL. Or.. March 31. (Special.) -Sam Laugrhlin, cashier of the Yam hill State Bp-nk here, while cranking1 his automobile yesterday had the mis fortune to ireak one of the bones in his right 4"m- Mr- Laughlin has a car equipped with a self-starter, but as the machine had not been used for. some time nd the batteries had given out, he was cranking- it when it kicked back, breaking one of the bones in his right arm just above the wrist. New Me?:iro produced more than flS.OOO. OOo worth ol metals last year. This is th: frreatest annual output in Its history. The Bargain Show i N, of the Year HEILIG X One Week Beginning Tcnorrow fBy Special Arrangement WALKER WHITESIDE America's Premier Dramati (jf Artist in ZangwilFs Greatest xnjy The Melting. Pot Cort's Biggest Production -i 300 Scenes Thou sands of People Hunci'eds of Horses ETHEL CLAYTON ' GEORGE SOULE SPENCER SARLE METCALFE In Charles Kleine's Famou; Society Drama and Foremost Siccess Foe Gamblers One, of the Record-Making Productions A Love Romance of New York Society 5 Parts Eacl 10 Reels in All m r i L Two Big Plays For Price !f One Any Seht IS Cents