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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,
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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