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6 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. JUNE 21, 1917. AMERICAN TRAINING IN EUROPE IS URGED British Officers Point to Rapid Changes in Methods of Warfare. PSYCHOLOGY IS IMPORTANT Machine Guns Now Used In Indi rect Firing, Especially to Pre vent Night Use of Roads Back of Enemy's Lines. Correspondence of the Associated Press.) BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN FRANCE, June 8. Use of the machine crun as a weapon for offensive opera tions and for Indirect fire by elevating ' the run so that the bullets will fall Into the trenches of the enemy Is one of the recent developments of warfare, which convinces the British army that the American expeditionary force should be trained within sound of the guns at the front. This change in the method of using the machine gun has been brought about within a year. It shows, says the British officers, the rapidity with which methods of fighting are being altered, and that if capable officers were to be sent to the front from America the systems they learned might be out of date before the troops they were to reach arrived in France. Less than a yar ago the machine gun was regarded primarily as a weapon of direct fire; ' that is, for mowing down an advanc ing enemy. It was thus chiefly a de fensive method, and its usefulness was limited to the rather rare periods when the enemy was actually attempting to attack. But today the machine gun, though retaining its importance in this respect, has become still more a weapon of indirect fire, and by far the greater proportion of machine gun casualties nowadays are caused through this use of the weapon. One highly valued use of so-called indirect fire, a machine gun is trained by day on a stretch of road or communications which the enemy is using at night for bringing up supplies and reinforcements. The machine gun tripod carefully is ad Justed to command this road, and stakes are placed so that the bullets can be sprayed over the road. Then at night, although the road3 are Invisible, the machine gun is turned on at in tervals of perhaps an hour, sweeping the road clear of any enemy supply columns that may be there, and In effect making the use of that road Im possible at night. As in the case of the machine gun, evolution is constantly in progress in the use of the bayonet, in bombing. In trenching, in sapping and in counter attacks. Nowhere, say Army officers, can the latest developments of each of these specialties be taught so well as in the training camps just behind the trenches, where specialists from yes terday's fighting are at hand to instruct the novice. Another valuable feature of the train ing camp at the front is that the sol dier is there brought rapidly, almost unwittingly. Into the atmosphere of modern warfare, so t"t when he is finally drafted into hU front line unit he finds nothing particularly new or strange to him. No matter how well American troops might be trained in the United States, they would find the melee of actual battle psychologically very trying. And war experts no long er laugh at psychology. "The training of the mind for surprises and novelties of the battlefield is as important as the physical side of training," say the Brit ish authorities. 1 TURNS STATE'S WITNESS Xlosensteln to Testify Against Four Others in Baff Murder Case. NEW YORK, Juno 20. A plea of Kuilty of first degree manslaughter was made by one of the five men brought to trial here today charged with the .murder of Barnet Baff, a poul try dealer. The plea, was made by Moses Rosen -stein, alias "Chicken Moe," of Chicago, vho will appear as a witness for the state. Stone Elects School Officers. STOKE. Or., June 20. (Special.) Three new School Directors and a clerk were elected Monday, two old directors having resigned. The new chairman Is Orant Mumpouex, who succeeds Fred Eckert. R. L. Peaks will serve out Mrs. Sarah Dallas' unexpired term of two years, and Arthur Schmale is the new three-year director. W. K. Mum pouex is clerk. A special school tax of 2M mills was voted. TODAY 2:15 TONIGHT 8:15 ALL THIS WEEK HE I LI G BROADWAY AX TATLOR. Mala 1 and A 1122. Every Afternoon 3il5. Every ETnte( 8:15. ci,tj-es MAGXIFICEXT FILM PRODUCTION. HAROLD BELL WRIGHT'S ROMANTIC STORY The Eyes of The World SPECIAL MUSIC Following prices include RESERVED SEATS Aft's 25-50; Eve's 25-50-75 BOX SEATS 75c. BOX SEATS Sl.OO. TICKETS NOW SELLING FOR ENTIRE WEEK 1 r" ' 71 1 l!"i I I I I Ill 1 I , Kti I ! II II,! II liliiMllliill hi iiii.ni TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Majestto Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey, "The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop." Columbia Louise Glaum, "Love or Justice." Sunset Frank Keenan, "The Sin Ye Do." Heilig- "The Eyes of the 'World." Peoples Ethel Clayton, "Man's Woman." Star Charlie Chaplin, "The Im migrant." Globe Joe Knowles, "Alone in the Wilderness." Circle Paddy McQuire, "Jolted Justice." Peoples. Ml AX'S WOMAN" Is another one t those film tales of domestic fe. with an injection of political plotting and counter-plotting in aid of the gambling element, and Just sufficient underworld season to make it exciting, that are proving so popular with the motion picture public. This photoplay, built along melo dramatic lines, with a plot presenting enough startling situations to keep its interest alive at all stages, is featured by the strong emotional acting of Ethel Clayton, the golden-haired favor ite, and Rockllffe Kellowes. "Man's Woman" deals with a wom an's revolt against her complete sub mergence into a minor role in her own home, by a husband and his two aunts, and depicts the series of incidents which lead to her assumption of a position as the real mate of a man pitted against criminals. After three years of married life Violet finds herself so utterly without authority in her own home, due to the influence of her husband's maiden aunts, that she complains to Roger (Mr. Fellowes), her husband. He is so taken up as Assistant District At torney in attempting to bring a group of gamblers to Justice that he neglects her needs. The District Attorney, in league with the gamblers, schemes to have a gun man (Johnny Hines), put Roger out of the way. Violet gets wind of the plot, and lures the attorney to her home so that he will receive the assassin's bul let. In so doing she compromises her self before her husband, but his eyes are opened at last through the services of an old family servant. News weekly of world events. In cluding glimpses of patriotic gather ings and military scenes, is another subject on the programme. Globe. Joe Knowles, famous "nature man," whose exploits have been featured throughout the United States, appears in a double attraction at the Globe Theater on the week-end bill. - Knowles appears in person on the Globe stage in a lecture on woodcraft, also giv ing a demonstration of fire-making without the aid of matches or flint. He also is presented in an interest ing photoplay, "Alone in the Wilder ness." Knowles Is the Robinson Crusoe type of woodsman, who has demon strated, under the strictest espionage, that he can enter the wilds without weapons or tools and clothe and feed himself during a long period in the forests. These stunts have made him a famous figure. Not only that, but he has achieved recognition as a painter and nature scientist. His early life as a trapper in th woods of Northern Maine and Canada suggested the photoplay, the scenes of which, laid in the Canadian woods, were filmed along the Feather River, in California. The story tells of a trapper who was hounded to death by the Northwestern mounted police for the killing of his former partner, who, however, was ac cidentally shot. The trapper's daugh ter, in tryins to aid her father to I - ' .1 I ' . ' ' 1 J ' J 1 ' J t l I I 1 L t: r ' - K - - It i-. - i " m It Z -T's, . ' "-? ,U xJans JVorafc as " jl''-L . - - ' r Tl ?.- ;: . . ''; - J- , ' , t: ri l "K- " " V? v 3 iltiit!lil!ii!iiij!iiil . I I 111 ! I 1 mm iiititiiniii! I! ! escape, is so weakened by the hard ships of the trail that the father braves capture in endeavoring to save her. The battle against the snowdrifts and raging torrents shows some action which no one but a seasoned woods man could survive. Heilig. "The Eyes of the World," the ten reel photoplay version of Harold Bell Wright's well-known book of the same name, not only presents a cinema pro duction of unusual scenic beauty and strong dramatic interest, but to mil lions introduces once more characters with whom they are well acquainted. There is the burned-out, bestialized roue, Mr. Taine, wrecked by his own excesses. There is the young and voluptoua wife of Taine, a siren as polished in manner as sinister in pur pose, who intrigues to entrap the young artist in her meshes. There is Conrad Lagrange, the cyni cal story-writer, who confesses that he "haunts the intellectual slaughter pens" for material for" his "successful" stories, but in whose heart still burns many of the kindly sentiments of his earlier days. There is the young artist, Aaron King, ambitious for fame, who is on the point of debasing his talents for an easy way to success and becomes the shining mark for a designing woman. James Rutlldge, the bull-necked art critic who covets the virgin charm of a sweet young girl of the mountains. This girl. Sybil Andres, whose in nocence threatens to make her easy prey for the libertine until a menacing crisis and her dormant protective In stinct arouse her to a strength un known to herself. John Willard. the convict, the hunted criminal, who for a rash deed commit ted in behalf of a distressed sister, is sent to prison. Brian Oakley, the for est ranger, a hardy, rugged and fearless specimen of manhood. Tee Kee, the Chinese man-servant, keen, devoted, merry, contributes much to the gaiety of the story an element all too rare in photoplays. Star. "The Immigrant," that ludicrously funny Charlie Chaplin comedy that has been attracting large crowds to the Star Theater all week, will be con tinued until Saturday night. The bill will be augmented by the 10th enisode of the Pathe serial thriller, "The Mys tery of the Double Cross," starring Mollie King. "Wrist Watches." the two-reel smuggling yarn featuring Grace Darling and Harry Fox. and Screen Magazine, complete the enter tainment. "The Immigrant" presents Chaplin and Edna Purviance, his pretty leading woman, as immigrants, and Eric Camp bell, the giant of the Chaplin studios, as a restaurant waiter. The merri ment Is divided between shipboard and a restaurant. On the former Charlie wins money and the eyes of a girl; in the latter he worsts the waiter, wins a couple of meals and a bride. In so do ing he furnishes fandom with more laughs than It has had for months. Sunset. "The Sin Te Do," an unusually strong photoplay starring Frank Keenan and featuring Margery Wilson and Howard Hickman; "Twenty Thousand Laughs Under the Sea." a cartoon burlesque on "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," and Sunset Travel Pictures Num ber Seven will comprise the Sunset Theater photoplay offering, commenc ing today. "The Sin Te Do" tells the story of a man who does not believe in the "un written law"; he thinks a woman should be able to protect herself or take the consequences. His best friend Is killed by his stenographer. The whole com plexion of things is changed when he discovers that the stenographer is his daughter. He goes into the case on behalf of the girl and wins. Then he makes atonement for the wrong he has done another man. Margaret Thomp son and Jack Gilbert, the latter a Fort- land boy, ara other members of the cast. , Majestlc "The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop." a stirring photoplay dealing with the redskins and presenting the West in romantic colors, will be screened at the Majestic Theater to day, with Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey as co-stara. This will be one of the last appearances of these play ers together, for both have severed their connection with Vltagraph. Thia picture Is said to be one of the best of the Indian "Westerns" made In years. Moreno plays the role of Cap tain George Curtis, who undertakes to see that fair play is given the Indians on the Government reservation. The Indiana welcome the coming of their friend, but the ranchers and their po litical pals resent his Interference and plan to "get him." An Indian kills a rancher and confesses to save his tribe. Curtis is determined to give him a fair trial, but the ranchers are bent on lynching. He saves the redskin by the use of the Gray Horse Troop, and Cur tis is a final winner, likewise victor in a game of love. Vltagraph comedy, conbitone scenic and Hearst-Patha News complete the bill. Columbia. Louise Glaum, Triangle's vampire de luxe, headlinea today's Columbia Thea ter programme in "Love or Justice." She is supported by Charles Gunn and Jack Richardson. "Wheels of Woe" and "A Marriage Failure," two Triangle comedies, also will be screened. "Love or Justice" presents Miss Glaum as a sort of uncrowned queen of the alums, a beauty gifted with brains and a sense of single-hearted devotion to the one who has aroused her love. She covets culture and refinement, things she does not possess, and when a newcomer. Jack Dunn, once a 'bril liant lawyer, but now a drug addict, comes within her realm she wins the derelict away from the drug and re awakens ambition. Through her ef forts he gradually regains his footing In the legal world. Screen Gossip. Metro has another ingenue. She is Alice MacChesney, formerly considered Chicago's most popular schoolgirl, who went to Essanay from the schoolroom. In her first Goldwyn photoplay Jane Cowl is supported by many of the players who were with her In stage productions. Mabel Taliaferro has been elected an honorary corporal of Company K, Home Defer-se League, of Flushing. L. I. She's the only woman so honored. Announcement is made at the Lasky Hollywood studio that the company will pay salaries to the dependents of married men If they are called to the colors. Arnold Nobello. the New Tork Hip podrome clown known as "Toto." is ready to make comedies for Rolin. Kath leen O'Connor, late of Keystone, will be his leading woman. The change means that Harold Lloyd will direct his own "Lonesome Luke" comedies. mm Harry Ham, formerly of Christie comedies and more recently with Fox, has gone back to his first love. Alice Joyce, whose next release will be "Richard the Brazen," was one of the active workers for the Asters' Fund Fair recently held at the Grand Cen tral Palace, New York. She sold tickets all one afternoon in the lobby of the Longacre Theater and her returns for the day were among the largest turned in by the many actresses who labored for the success of the fair. "Hearts of Flame." the great 15-epl-sode serial now 'being produced at the Hollywood studio of Greater Vlta graph under the direction of William Duncan, is In its 10th episode. The finished serial will comprise 31 reels. Oregon Food t Campaign (OFFICIAL) JN drying both fruits and vegetables hop dryers may be made to serve admirably. "There Is no reason why buildings so constructed as to maintain the desired temperature should not be utilized! for .the evaporation of fruits and vegetables," says Professor C. I. Lewis, chief of the division of horti culture at Oregon Agricultural College, who has Just written a very compre hensive bulletin on preservation of fruits and vegetables. The superior advantages of commu nity drying are emphasized in this new bulletin, which has been issued by the extension service. In many communities this plan would make a great saving of labor, fuel and other expenses. The plan would enable the different grow ers of the district to co-operate in grading, which is Just as essential with evaporated as with fresh products. Prune dryers are also adapted to dry ing fruits of various kinds. Both the tunnel and the stack types can be used for fruits and vegetables. A good many growers are using prune and hop dryers in Oregon with good results. and during the rush times of the Alaska gold discoveries much good grade fruit and vegetables were turned out In this manner. The main factor in good work is to keep the trays clean and the building so arranged and the work so managed that the products can be handled rapidly. Directions for construction of dry ers of the kind and size best suited to the needs of grower or community co-operating can be had by getting in touch with Professor Lewis at the Ag ricultural College. Much information about the various materials for evap oration, how to evaporate and special care for particular products will be found in the bulletin, which may be had on request. Ask for "Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables," Extension Bulletin 187. If it is necessary then to secure further help it may be had by writing direct to Professor C. L. Lewis. Oregon Agricultural College, Corval lis. Or. CANNERY TO START TODAY Oregon Spinnacb Is Taken to Van couver for Preserving. VANCOUVER, Wash, June 2(K (Spe cial.) The Oregon Packing Company will open the cannery here tomorrow and give employment to from 100 to 130 persons, who will be busy for several days canning spinach, which is being hauled here on automobile trucks from Oregon. Canning berries will not begin until the first of next week, though the price of berries has dropped 100 percent from Saturday until Tuesday. The cannery pays for berries: Wilsons, 3 cents per pound; Clarks, 4 cents; other va rieties. 3Vs cents. Yakima Valley Trackmen Strike. NORTH TAKIMA, "Wash.. June 20 (Special.);-Track men employed by the xalvma Valley Transporttion Com pany walked out Monday to' await action by the company on demands for increase in wages from $3.75 to S3 a day and a nine-hour instead of a ten- hour day. Additional construction work which had been contemplated may be abandoned. A WORLD PICTURE ETHEL CLAYTON imitates Woman" urilh nOCKCLlPFE FELLOW E$ Only Until Saturday A photodrama that is cer tain to surprise and delight you. Don't fail to see "Man's Woman" A wonderfully pleasing programme. 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. EOPLES Alder at West Park MB. REIDT GIVES 1100 FUND FOR MOTOR AMBl'LASC'B IS STRONGLY STARTED. Oreffoaian Correspondents Article Set tins; Forth Need of Third Ongoa Infantry Prodneen Good Results. Vllliam Reldt has started a fund to bu?.' a much-needed motor ambulance for the Third Oregon Iafantry with a subscription of $100. lie brought his check for the 1100 In person to The Oregonian yesterday. Sir. Reidt is much impressed by the great need of the boys of the Third Oregon for a motor ambulance, and he intends that they shall have one If It can be brought about. Mr. Reidt's opening subscription was made after he had read an article by Will G. MacRae, correspondent at the Third Infantry Camp for The Ore gonlan. emphasizing the great need of the regiment for a motor ambulance. In his article Mr. MacRae told how three members of the regiment recent ly had been taken ill one of them was shot by a spy and had to lie for hours because the regiment had no means of conveying them comfortably to a hos pital. Who will second Mr. Reidt's sub scription by contributing something for the regimental ambulance? The cause is Just as worthy a one as the Red Cross campaign now In progress, and It comes even closer home to Oregonlans just at tms time. DIE ATTEMPTING ARREST Sheriff and City Marshall Killed and Man Is Fatally Wounded. NASHVILLE, 111., June 20. Sheriff J. K- May and City Marshal August Leker were shot and killed at the Louisville & Nashville depot today by H. C. Rice, a coal miner. The Marshal sh,ot Rice in the stomach and the lat ter will die. Rice had gone to the depot with a double-barreled shotgun In quest of his daughter, Stella, 16 years of age, who, he said, had eloped. The officers' ef forts to disarm him resulted in the shooting. Cove's Cherry Crop Declared Safe. COVE, Or., June 20. (Special.) Cove's cherry crop is at last declared safe; more than 1000 tons at $80 a ton in bulk to growers are contracted for; 100 pickers from Baker County in addi tion to the home crews are engaged, and GLOBE THEATER TODAY, FRL, SAT. JOE IKN0WLES THE FAMOUS Nature Man" will appear in person in his latest film talk, ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS TORY CENARIO TAR By JOE KNOWLES Meet Him Face to Face GLOBE No w The Funniest 20,000 Under the Sea" An Ingenious Cartoon Burlesque on "20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA" As Unusual as Its Prototype SOME OF The Sword Fish Sawing The Weak Fish Getting Strong. The Octopussy and the Pup-fish at War. The Submarine Kicked by Sea Horse. Mackerel and the Pickled Herring, and 19,995 Other Big Laughs. BEGINS TODAY RANK KEE MARJORIE WILSON HOWARD HICICMAN 66 THE YE DO" A brilliant lawyer, after a lifetime fighting the "Unwritten Law," learns that his daugh ter is in jail for killing a man in defense of her honor. SUNSET TRAVEL PICTURES i i "-'t-if --' . i-.- - . -Xj "Cherry Fair day" brings a smile of satisfaction to the lips of its promoters for the first time in the past two sea sons. A few orchardists in sections where bees by the hive were killed out by an exceedingly late cold Spring complain of lack of sufficient polleniza tlon. AIRPLANES MUST HAVE OIL Commandeering of Snpply by Gov ernment Is Recommended. WASHINGTON, June 20. Edward L. Doheny, of Los Angeles, an oil pro ducer, reminded the Senate lands com mittee today that the great airplane fleet for which an appropriation of $800,000,000 Is to be asked would be powerless without gasoline and lubri cants, and recommended commandeer ing of oil by the Government in case of emergency. The hearing was in connection with Begins Today I t " y LATEST PATHE NEWS American Ambu lance Corps in France; King George Reviews Anzacs ; Aviatrice Flies for Liberty Loan. Vitagraph Comedy -jomDuone THE Scenic A story of e t v ;4 r f J v ' n n a 1 Thing in Years! Laughs TnE LAUGHS Wood. THREE DAYS ONLY NAN in SIN - - - ' Senator Walsh's bill to permit the Gov ernment to lease coal and oil lands. Girl's Father Accused of Attack. TOLEDO, Or.. June 20. (Special.) Warren Newman, 45, living near Elk City, Or., was arrested by Sheriff Geer Monday, charged with attack on his 13-year-old daughter. Newman ap peared yesterday before County Judge Miller, waived examination and was bound over to the Grand Jury. The girl was committed to the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Portland. Wallowa Holds School Election. WALLOWA. Or- June 20. (Special.) At the annual school meeting held here, the following officers were elected for the coining year: L. Couch, re elected for School Director, and Mrs. T. E. Mitchell succeeded Mrs. J. C. Baird as clerk of the district. Mrs. Maggie McDonald and IL W. Harris were the directors who held over from recent elections. Only 3 Days . J . EDITH STOREY and ANTONIO MORENO in THE CAPTAIN OF GREY HORSE TROOP 'y Yrom Hamlin Garland's famous noveL a fighting Captain in the Great West. ji ji . .i in. .j r i - - ----- -