0 THE. 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 197. PORTLANDASKS FOR ROOSEVELT BRIGADE City Regarded as Natural Con centration Point for North west Volunteer Forces. CHAMBERLAIN MAY HELP Heavy Enlistments of Men Above Draft Age Limit Are - Expected If Congress Authorizes Dis patch of Colonel. Portland may become the headquar ters for one brigade of Colonel Roose velt's volunteer army. , . Tentative plans provide for the en listment of at least three regiments of infantry and several units of cavalry in the Northwest. If Congress finally passes and the President formally approves the bill permitting- the Colonel to take his vol unteers to France, it is probable that active recruiting will be started here. Meanwhile active efforts are in progress to have Portland designated as brigade headquarters. Portland's request is based on the presumption that this city naturally is the strategical military center for the Northwest and that the troops for this territory could but be assembled here. If it is proved that the best in terests of the country can be served by making some interior city the head quarters for the brigade Portland, of course, would withdraw. Request Made to Celonel. A. E. Clark, well-known attorney and personal friend of Colonel Roose velt, has taken the subject up with the Colonel himself, both by. mail and telegraph. Mr. Clark also has applied for enlistment in the volunteer forces. He is anxious to Join the expedition going to France. Similar requests have been made to Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the Senate's committee on military affairs. If organization of the volunteer force is left in the hands of the regular Army staff, it is probable that Sena tor Chamberlain's influence could be exerted in favor of Portland, other conditions being equal. It is quite apparent that & great many red-blooded men of the North west will be willing to volunteer for service with the Colonel. A group of Eastern Oregon cowboys. It is reported, have informally organized three or four companies of cavalry. They are ready to furnish their own horses and equipment. If plans for the Colonel's army do not provide for cavalry units, thano mnm will aAv " U - - - -' ...wu .. ... w . L J JU1I1 1111. infantry. t Colonel Gantenbein May Go, Colonel C. U. Gantenbein, now on duty at the Presidio in San Francisco, it is understood, has applied for a commission in the Roosevelt army pro viding he can obtain his release from the Officers' Reserve Corps. J. A. Currey already has enlisted a large number of men for the engineer ing units that will accompany the forces to France. He has received ap plications from all parts of the North west. It is bellved that the four Northwest ern states of Oregon. Washington. Idaho and Montana can recruit at least three regiments of infantry without trouble. Judging from the inquiries already received here, five or six regi ments can be raised here. To be eligible for the Roosevelt army men must be more than 30 years of age and physically ( qualified the 6a me as men entering the regular Army. First Service la Expected. If the Colonel's army finally la authorized, it is probable that it will be the first active fighting force ac tually sent to France. The engineer ing units now being recruited here and In other parts of the country doubtless will be the first American field forces to go, but they will be engaged in road construction and railroad-building and will not come in actual contact with the enemy. Major Dent, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, is receiving scores of applications for the engineering forces every day. His offices are on the eighth floor of the Couch build ing on Fourth street, near Stark. All kinds of men who have had ex perience in railroad construction work are wanted particularly blacksmiths, bridge carpenters, steamshovel oper ators, teamsters and other outdoor workers. I -CP- a. IllliBiaMllIlfflMili I r' : ' V 1 1 y j ' , - y,i .:: ::. . . . . r , - : v r A i . BREAD LAW DESIRED Ordinance Stopping Return of Stale Bread to Be Urged. PRICE RISE IS ALTERNATIVE sisterce of the heat saps the strength TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Star Charlotte "Walker and Shirley Mason, "Sloth.". Majestic Virginia Pearson, "A Royal Romance." Columbia Marguerite Clark, "The Valentine Girl." Sunset William Farnum, "The Man From Hitter Roots." Peoples Sarah Bernhardt. "Moth ers of France." Globe-t-Theda. Bara, "The Vixen." Circle "Our Fighting Forces." More Mutual Stars. President Freuler, of the Mutual Film Corporation, is busy on his policy, "Big stars only for Mutual." His latest an nouncement is a triangular affair, for he has signed Juliette Day, stage star, for a series of pictures for American. Julia Sanderson, noted legitimate star, has been under contract for picturizlng of Charles Frohman productions, and Mary- Miles M inter has affixed her sig nature, through her mother, for two more Mutual years. "In acquiring Miss Sanderson for the Empire we are adding importantly to the start with Miss Ann Murdock, who is now at. work on the first series of the Charles Frohman successes at the Em pire studios on Long Island," says Mr. Freuler. "Other additions to the staff of the Empire are to be announced shortly." S. S. Hutchinson discusses some of the plans of the American Film Com pany, Inc, in connection with the addi tion of a new company for Miss Juliette Day. Miss Day will be directed bj Rollin S. Sturgeon, formerly Vltagraph's star director. 'The line-up at the American Studios Is a decidedly satisfactory one now," observed Mr. Hutchinson, "covering at it does four complete lines of well defined dramatic products William Russel, whom I consider a leader among the male stars of the day: Mary Miles Minter, Just put under a new and high-priced contract, who has her own special field in the motion picture world: Miss Gail Kane, admittedly one of the greatest of the young actresses America, and latest. Miss Juliette Day, from whom we may expect a new and valued dramatic product. 'Miss Day, in the opinion of the critics, 'does not look a day over 15.' although she' is considerably older than that, and is a finished and accomplished actress. She has appeared in a line of interesting successes indicative of what may be expected of her in the pictures. Including 'Blue Bird,' 'Everywoman,' "Yellow Jacket,' 'Chin Chin.' 'Marrying Money and 'Twin Beds," every one well known and satisfactory to the public which spends its money for amusement." ESTATE NEARLY 2 MILLION Baroness de Bazas (Mrs. Frank Leslie) Gives Money to Sirs. Catt. NEW YORK, May 6. The Baroness de Bazus, who was Mrs. Frank Leslie. left a total estate of $1,843,822, having a net value of $1,573,602, according to a transfer tax report filed a few days ago. The Baroness died September 18, 1914, leaving her residuary estate to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt for the pro motion of woman's suffrage. This fund Is now estimated at $1,154,140. The report of the appraiser, George Brokaw Compton, shows that the Bar oness had no near relatives and that nearly all of the claims presented apalnst the estate had been disallowed. There were 30 beneficiaries in addition to Mrs. Catt, receiving legacies vary ing from $50,000 to $1000. The assets included cash In banks, $16,000; personalty in bonds, mortgages, "notes, claim and insurance. $1,067,821; corporate bonds and stocks, $669,805, ana jewels tn sare. $30,260. .35 OPERATIONS UNDERGONE Minnesota Man Dies Minna Six Inches of Spine. ST. CLOUD, Minn.. May 2. Henry Heeck, 42 years old, believed to -have submitted to the record number of op erations, died last week. Heeck was placed on the table 35 times in hospi tals In Minnesota, Chicago and Mon treal. His last operation was per- rormed two years ago by the late Dr, J. B. Murphy, of Chicago. His first operation was for anpendl oltis and later he submitted to various operations on his spine. Six inches of spine had been removed. Fifty Years of War Predicted. WASHINGTON. May 1. Persons who returned from France quoted Dr. Alex Is Carrel, the celebrated physician of the Rockefeller Foundation, as declar ing to them that in his belief the pres ent generation will not be alive to wit ness the end of the war. It was his opinion, they said, based upon an in timate knowledge of the military and social conditions of all the belligerents, that the war would last 50 years. Dr. Carrel has been engaged in hospital work in France since early in the war. and health of the heart. Some Soldier. JTew Fathe Serial. The Neglected Wife." the latest many chaptered story from that house of serials, Pathe, is soon to be pre sented to the Portland public The first four episodes of the story, written by Mabel Herbert. Urner, with Ruth Roland as star, were screened privately yesterday morning before a small but appreciative audience at the Hippo drome Theater. 'The Neglected Wife" is said to be the most logical of serials, and the early chapters, based on domestic com plications following the lines of the eternal triangle, seem to bear out this assertion. However, sensational stunts are not missing, and they are plenti fully injected In the first eight reels. Roland Bottomley is leading man for Miss Roland In this Balboa-made pro duction. Miss Roland is Introduced as Margaret Warner In "The Woman Alone." She is a struggling magazine writer who obtains a position as sec retary to Horace Kennedy (Roland Bottomley), a well-known lawyr who is slowly drifting away from his wife, Mary (Corene Grant). Kennedy dis covers that Margaret is the girl he loves. With this introduction the way paved for the series of. incidents comprising the serial. Bessie Barriscale Company. The latest star film concern bears th- name Bessie Barriscale Feature Cor poratlon. Bessie Barriscale, the winsome star of so many Triangle productions, has organized a company of her own, and. wiih Oscar Apfel, late of Fox. as her director, will soon start work on "Rose o' Paradise," to be released in Septem ber. Howard Hickman, Miss Bar riscale's husband, will be in the same company. Barriscale pictures, as well as those produced by J. Warren Kerrigan, will be distributed by Paralta under a new system wnicn calls tor the sale of pro ductions to an exhibitor in each terri tory, he to dispose of the subjects In his territory as he sees fit. Kerrigan will start work on his pic tures, from eight to ten of which are to be made each year, about June 1 Operators Can't Go to War, Weak hearts not faint heartedness will be one of the strangest reasons why motion picture operators cannot go to War.- According to George C. Ed wards, president of the New York loca oi tne uperators union, about 80 pet cent of all operators will be barred from military service on account of weakened hearts. The cause is traced to the unnatural heat of the usual oper. ator's booth. Most of the time the operator stands at his machine with his heart only a few inches from the heated arc crater. The hood does not Theodore Marston, McClure Pictures director, who produced five of the "Seven Deadly Sins," was Adjutant to Colonel Wlllard Glazier In the Spanish-American war. Mr. Marston's father was a Colonel in the Federal Army in the Civil War. He knows military tactic and Insists, upon accuracy. "Sloth," one of the Seven Deadly Sins, in which Charlotte Walker Is starred, is crowded with smashing battle scenes. Mr. Mars ton had one army lined up to dash to the front. The camera started. So did the army. Then Mr. Marston yelled loudly and stopped the battle. He leaped into the army and dragged out an extra man. Had words been daggers the extra man would have looked like a sieve. He was supposed to be a soldier in the regular Army, and he was wearing big, round horn rimmed glasses 1 Screen Gossip. "Doug" Fairbanks' favorite axiom runs something like this: "A man with a smile is sure to win, for the man who smiles has confidence in himself." If a man's success is as "large" as his smile, you're sure some winner, Doug. Now that flour has gone np 525 per cent, Tom Ince Isn't letting his "horse opry" troupe In on any more scenes that call for real flapjacks. P. S. He's ordered two bolts of cream-colored flannel and a circle saw. Eric Campbell, the world's champion heavyweight comedian, is six feet four Inches tall and weighs 296 pounds, mustache and all. He started growing in Dunctoon, Scotland and stopped in Victoria University, England. After a successful stage career abroad he went into pictures and there Chaplin found him. a An editorial on "Mothers of France" was published In the Grand Rapids Press recently, in which the virtues of the film were set forth as well as the awakening influence of America's responsibility to France, because France "Is the big brother Of our In fancy." To see 'Mothers of France dry-eyea Is to commit spiritual suicide," says the editorial. "It simply cannot be done. ... Art for art's sake is all very well, but art for the sake of hu manity and democracy Is better. Ana that is "Mothers of France." " Charlie Ray Is almost ready to give up. He made up to resemoie a tac- tory worker and a couple of old ladies took him for an abductor or ' auto bandit. Lee Arthur, author of "The Auc tloneer." which was the successful stairo vehicle of David Warfleld some seasons back, is to write scenarios tor Jackie Saunders, the Balboa star. Elliott Dexter, husband of Marie Doro, Is to support Mrs. Vernon Caslle in her first Pathe five-reeler, "car roll of the Secret Service." In one scene aleady taken Vernon Castle, re cently back from Europe, where he was with, the British aviation corps, is "snapped" with his wife. Henry King, the man wno airectea the "Little Mary Sunshine" pictures for Balboa, has gone to American, where he will preside over Kail Kane pictures. Catherine Calvert, wife of the late Paul Armstrong. Frank Mills and Kit tens Reichert, the child actre.s, are to appear in "The House of Cards, a production from the U. S. Amusement Corporation. ' Hal Roach, president of the Rolin Film Company, was once an "extra, then a director, and in two years has piloted his concern from the verge of Bankruptcy uina to m inmuuu.ui , successful venture Theodore Roberts and Wallace Reid have signed new two-year contracts with Lasky. Christine Mayo has been active aid ing Navy recruiting in the Central states. Master Bakers' Association and Pa triotic Service League Agree to Appeal to City Council to End. Wasteful Practice. Immediate efforts will be made by the Oregon Master Bakers' Association and the Oregon Patriotic Servioe League to have the City Commission enact an ordinance prohibiting grocers or other retailers of - bread from re turning stale bread to the bakeries, and In. the same way prohibiting bak ers from accepting the stale bread from the retailers. This action was agreed on yesterday afternoon at a conference between members of both organizations. A committee composed of Ben Selling and C. P. Howard, of the Patriotic League, and H. H. Haynes and E. F. ' Davidson, of the Master Bakers' Association, was named to carry on the work relative to the pro posed legislation. In behalf of the Portland bakeries. Mr, Haynes promised that the bread consumers of Portland would receive larger loaves of bread at the prevailing prices, should this proposed city ordi nance become effective. If such legis lation is not passed, the bakers inti mated that there might be still further advances in the price of bread. Price of Materials Riding. The bakers attending the meeting yesterday said that even with the re cent increase in the retail price of bread they are not making profits that they made a year ago. Every ingredi ent which enters into the making of a loaf of bread costs from 50 to 100 per cent more than before the war, they de clared. Notwithstanding the increase in the cost of production, the bakers say that they can help solve the bread question by the passage of the ordinance, which they proposed at the conference yes terday. They pointed out that under present conditions they are compelled to accept an excessive quantity of stale bread from the retailers, which they, in turn, must sell at a greatly reduced cost. Much of this bread, they said, is sold for human consumption at a elightly less cost than It Is sold for when fresh. The stale bread, which is sold for chicken and hog food, brings an average of about 1 cent a loaf. Stale Bread la Healthy. Dr. E. K. Scott, who took part in the conference yesterday, said that bread which is from 12 to 24 hours old is bet ter than fresh bread from a health standpoint. He said the public should be educated to eat bread which has become a day old. E. F. Davidson, of the Davidson Bread Company, said it was surprising how many of the residents of the Irv- lngton district came to his bakery for the so-called stale bread. Others attending the conference were H. H. Ward, president of the Oregon Patriotio Service League, and Burt Holcomb, secretary of the Oregon Master Bakers' Association. BRITAIN FACES STARVATION Hndson-Maxlm Says Torpedo-Proof Transports Must Be Rushed. BY HUDSON MAXIM. The World-Famous Inventor. NEW YORK. May 4. With the U boats Germany in rapidly getting i stranglehold on England. The. empire of the sea is fast passing from oversea to undersea from Britain to Germany. If England is starved Into submis sion we are lost. With Britain out of the way, Germany will smash us like a puffball with one swipe of the mailed fist. .According to the most reliable fig ures available Germany sank during the first two months after the renewal of unrestricted submarine warfare more than 1,600,000 tons of merchant shipping, 1,000,000 tons of which was British. This is estimated at about 10 per cent of the total merchant marine ton nage of Great Britain, and the news has just come that Germany has sunk 400,000 tons more in the last week. According to the best available In formation Germany is devoting her en' tire shipbuilding capacities and ener gies to the building of big ocean-going submarines and is turning them out at the rate of about one a day, while there is no evidence that England has succeeded In destroying or capturing in a month the number of submarines that Germany can turn out in a day. -This means that the. shipping of ths allies will be hereafter destroyed at a constantly increasing ratio and at a rate which will mean starvation for England and the loss of the war unless something is done in time to meet the U-boat menace. Efforts up to the present time have been directed mainly to the destruction or capture of submarines, but the sub- r i MARGUERITE is at the CLARK COLUMBIA The Valentine Girl 99 A super-photoplay that presents all of the elfish charm of this irresistible screen star. Also "SECRETS OF A BEAUTY PARLOR" A Keystone comedy featuring those bathing girls and "THE HUMAN FLY" showing a daredevil scaling skyscrapers. BEULAH MEYERS CURTICE Dramatic Soprano 6iii i 0 TAR Washington at Park Last times today. CHARLOTTE WALKER Shirley Mason, George le Guere in an inspiring, timely, patriotic drama. "SLOTH- Also 2-act Comedy "LITTLE BO-PEEP" Daily, 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. marine is as elusive as a viper in the grass. It Is practically impossible to locate a submarine in the open sea. It is like hunting a loon on a lake with a row-boat- The loon has every advantage in spotting the hunter first, instantly disappearing to emerge in some unex pected quarter half a mile away. An attempt to send troops In large numbers to France at the present time through the submarine Infested sea would be suicidal and after a few troop ships should be torpedoed and sunk and a few thousand troops lost, the American people would wake up to the fact that a safer means of transporta tion Is the chief desideratum and the problem of safeguarding troops, ships and food ships from destruction is the chief question for solution before the American people today. Is it possible to build a large tor pedo-proof ship for the carrying of freight and transportation of troops? Tes, it is not only possible, but It Is also a thing that has been proven pos sible of accomplishment in different way. It now remains only to choose the best way to do it. The Bureau of Construction of the United Btates Navy has plans which they have already worked out and tried which would be applicable to the con struction of Such a ship. But as I un derstand it the Navy Department would require new powers from Congress in order to construct and put afloat tor-pedo-prdof freight ships. TODAY ONR DAY OMY. "OIK FlUHTIJiU FORCES" Two reels of comprehensive and highly interesting insight into Uncle Sam's preparedness: also Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Drew In T h Lady Klller" Mutual Tours and Fatty Arbuckle In "Fatty and Mabel's Mar ried Life." CIRCLE THEATER The Bic Home Movie. FOURTH AT WASHINGTON. Continuous Performance. Wnhiiara A. M. to 11 J M. Bundays lt:l to 11 P. M. PROORA.MMK CHAXGKD DAILY, livery Nlht at S l..cW. (Except Saturday and Sunday) T. and T. Com and se. ADMISSION FIVE ttM6. r iiff.1." Theda Bara will arrive at Los An geles today to make a few Fox pic tures. William Farnum takes her place in the Ka stern studios. Sellg is going to plcturlze a number of Charles Hoyt comedies, with Amy Dennis, a newly-discovered star, as the leading player in the majority of the pictures. Trade critics are loud In their praise of the Vitagraph O. Henry stories. These two-reelers are said to be far superior to any of the 2000-foot pic tures on the market, and only equaled by a number of those old Biograph- Griffith classics. H. O. Davis, who resigned the posi tion of general manager of the Kan nieeo Exposition to accept the general managership of Universal City, has re signed. Davis is an efficiency expert nri thev uv he reduced production expense to the bone while he was at the helm. According to a letter writ ten to Davis by R. H. Cochrane, vice president of Universal, H. O. Not only turned In a perfect batting average In the financial league, but was instru mental in effecting a moral house- cleaning in Universal City. a Frank H. Hitchcock, former Post- master-General. is now the chairman of the board of directors and general provide enough protection, and the per- counsel for the Vitagraph Company, AMERICAN LOAN IS LIKED Japanese Paper Says Entente Pow ers Owe Mncli to TJnited Btates. TOKIO. May 1. The Toklo Asahl comments on American financial as sistance of the entente powers- and says: "America maintained her neutrality for nearly three years. During that time she has earned the lion's share of profits from war-time trade. She Is a narikln country of the very first rank. She has nothing to fear in the way of finance. "Not only that, she is to lend moneys to-entente powers. It Is reported that she will raise war loans to the amount of 1,400,000,000 yen in all at this time, of which 600,000,0QO yen is to be lent to the entente powers. What this means to them cannot be estimated. "These entente powers owe much to America for their purchases and they owe much in the -way of loans. The loan which America will make to the entente powers will relieve them groat deal. Moreover, the rate of in terest on the loan raised by these entente powers has been high and In raising those loans they had to give various forms of security. bhou.ld America expect such security every time the entente powers want to raise loans, they will not be able to raise any more loans because of lack of such security. England would have been obliged to stop Conversion of her treasury notes. The 3. P. Morgan Com pany has insisted before that if Amer ica wants to sell war materials to the entente powers, she must lend moneys without these securities. This sugges tion was not taken up at the time It was offered. Moreover, the Federal Reserve Bureau had restricted Invest ment of capital in Europe and Kngland would have experienced great financial difficulty. Now, England will feel greatly relieved by the announcement of assistance by America." MOTHER'S HEART IS HEAVY Sons In TJnited States Army Fight Against Her Brothers. ARKANSAS CITY. Kan.. May 4. The heart of Mrs. Bertha Corner Is heavy. Three of her sons are in the United States Army and her two brothers are fighting for Germany. Now she is go ing to give up a fourth son. who' will Join the Kansas National Guard. "There are millions of German peo ple In this country and they will be loyal to America." she declared. t"W are all Americans now, but naturally we Germans cannot kacp from loving the Fatherland. But we are for Amer ica first. My boys are going to fight for Uncle Sam. I have three more who will go If nMfjmry r - taanaw r: TRADE MARK ackage Foods The housewife who specializes on sets an economical table, and serves original, tasty, novel dishes. J&tf&P offers to you a $r- a multitude of America's choicest foods ready-to-serve meats, , 7 fish, soups.' vegetables and fruits. 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