Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1917)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1917. 6 111 CHICAGO DIE FROM INTENSE HEAT bert has appeared since Joining the BISBEE DEPORTS . W. W. ATTORNEY 7f East and Middle West Swel- ter, Death List on Atlantic Slope Being Large. WHEAT BELT HAS RELIEF Drawbridges Expand Until They Can't Be Opened Bridegroom of Day Numbered Among Victims I Torridity. ' CHICAGO. July SO. Hot weather, t'.ie genuine goods, supported by the forces of General Humidity, made a fierce and general onslaught upon tlje country today, making new records for the season over all the Middle . West and In the Bast. Meanwhile the Northwest, which has been baking and smothering , under unusual heat, experienced sudden relief over a wide area. This means that the present heat wave In the East, Central West. Central and Eastern states will be short lived, as breezes from the Northwest will probably bring rain and lower temperatures. Six Deaths In Chicago. In Chicago the temperature soared to 99 and there were six deaths and numerous prostrations. Among the vic tims was John Lukaszyk, who was married yesterday and expired early this morning. A woman aged 61. a man aged 60, a baby and a restaurant waitress were among the victims. Arthur Roney. aged 12, dived from a pier into shallow water and broke his neck. Dispatches from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit and other points east of Chicago say all records for the season were broken to day. New York reports five deaths and more than a score of serious pros trations. Many More Deaths Expected. It is feared the death list will be heavily augmented when the returns are in from the congested districts, where prosertations were very nu merous. Several New Jersey cities re port one to four deaths. Maximum temperature in New York was 94 and the humidity was 51. Boston reported a maximum of 98, the hottest in five years, but an evening breeze took the curse off the hot wave to some extent. Cleveland showed 105 at the street level and 94 ten stories up where the ' lake breezes had fair play. Chicago Waa Expectant. Chicago had ample warning Satur day and Sunday of what was coming and was fairly well fortified against today's terrific heat. For this reason the death list is much smaller than usual with the first fierce burst of Summer heat A stiff breeze also blew all day and, while It was hot. It kept down the humidity and afforded considerable relief. The three days' steady heat has caused the steel on many of the bascule bridges spanning the Chicago River to expand to such an extent that it was necessary today to direct streams of cold water upon them before the spans could be opened. At the Lake-street bridge It was found necessary to saw off six Inches of the steel on o'ne of the beams before the pressure was relieved. Northwest lias Cool Wave. The most remarkable feature of the heat wave is shown in the Northwest, which. has been scorching for weeks. Wheat and other crops and pastures have been withered and streams and wells went dry. so that the problem of feeding and watering livestock became eerious. Herds were transferred many miles to wooded districts where there was a semblance of pasturage. Moorhead, Minn., which on Friday reported maximum temperature of 110, showed 56 today, following light rains. Havre, Mont., which had been up to 100, dropped to 4 2 today. Corona, Colo., had 42, its normal temperature, and resi dents were wearing overcoats. North and South Dakota points, which Friday and Saturday were baking undr 100 and 102, report 48 tonight. Minneapolis, which had the unusual figure of 100 Friday, Is now back to 79. which Is about its normal Cyclonic Storm Breaks Siege. The long heat siege In the North west was broken by a storm of cyclonic proportions, which tore down buildings and trees, flattened and . battered ths wilted crops, and was accompanied bv much lightning, which did considerable damage. Despite this destruction, however, the Northwest hailed the storm as a Iifesaver, for a few days more of drouth would have meant utter ruin for crops and the death of large numbers of cattle and sheep. Chicago's bathing beaches were thronged from daylight until far Into the night. Three hundred thousand per sons went into the lake Sunday, ac cording to the official count at the mu nicipal beaches, and the number seeking relief in the lake today was not far short of that figure. MANY $2.50 COINS ARE HELD Rich Victoria Young Chinese Depos its $7 00 Worth at Seattle Hotel. SEATTLE, "Vi-sh., July 30. (Spe cial.) Chan Sing, a Chinese 20 years old, of Victoria, B. C, deposited with the clerk of the Hotel Seattle today for safe keeping $750 in United States gold coins, each of the denomination of $2.50. Chan, with his two Bisters, respectively 13 and 18 years old, are heirs to an estate worth $400,000, left them by their parents. All three were born in Victoria, where their father accumulated a fortune in business. "I Just have a fancy for collecting (2.60 gold coins," explained the young man, "and I put them into the hotel safe until I could arrange for safety deposit box at a uank. I am interested in a silk mill in China and a -i part owner In a business block in Canton. I plan to go there this Summer, as I have for the last th e years." Chan would like to assist in recruit ing a Chine-e regiment for service under Pershing, he says. PORTLAND LAWYER DEAD Elmer E. Mallory Dies Following Illness of Several Months. Elmer E. Mallory, an attorney, son of the late Rufus Mallory and Mrs Lucy A. Mallory, died last night at his residence, 1174 Hawthorne avenue, following an Illness of several months. Mr. Mallory was about 64 years old and had been a resident of Portland for SO years. He was bom at Salem. Or. Besides his widow and mother he is survived by two children, aged and 11. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The body la In charge of 3. P. Flnley & Son. Ill 'IWM Will fi iiiiiullin liilikiliitlnylluill 3 Mr' r v- " C " ' ,t it w -.; , . . ' . - y : : I i - - i -? ' I -1 - ,v, a - I .J v x k : " IS'.: -:) r i: v , :- - tettMt f TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Majestic Valeska Suratt, "Wife Number Two." Peoples "The Tanks 'at the Bat tle of the Ancre." Star Billle Burke, "Peggy." Sunset Clara Kimball Toung, "Camille." Columbia Bessie Love, "The Sawdust Ring." Liberty Charles Ray, "Sudden Jim." Globe Ethel Barrymore, "The White Raven." Circle "A Corner in Smiths." Draft Takes Film Folk. CHARLES RAT. Wallace Reid. Irv ing Cummlngs, Ralph Ince, Mar shall Nellan, Allen J. Holubar, William B. Davidson, E. H. Calvert, John Drew Bennett, Neil Burns. From early reports on those select ed by draft to shoulder rifle for the Nation, the foregoing list has been compiled. However, it's only a pre liminary "war cast" and will be in creased to many times Its initial size. Of these men two are directors, Mar shall Nellan and Ralph Ince, while Holubar, who is the husban! of Dor othy Phillips, is a director as well as featured player. Ray is the former Triangle star now with Thomas H. Ince and scheduled for Paramount pictures; Wallace Reid is the handsome Lasky star who has appeared so often with Geraldine Farrar; Irving Cummlngs has supported various stars, more re cently Virginia Pearson; Mr. Davidson has played leads with Ethel Barry more in several Metro pictures of late; Mr. Calvert is an Essanay star and Mr. Bennett Is with Edison. Many Stars at Convention. How would you like to have been present at the Chicago convention of the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America? Here's a list of the film stars who were present during the big affair: Alice Brady, Violet Mersereau, Norma Talmadge, Bryant Washburn, Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Fanny Ward, Anita King, Hazel Daly, Mae Marsh, "Dimples" Walker, Eddie Lyons, Lee Moran. Sheldon Lewis, Doris Ken yon, Pearl White, Mary McAlister, Alice McChesney, Mae Murray, Rosemary Theby. Robert Leonard, Nell Craig, Margaret Clayton, Josep.iine Huddle ston, June Elvidge, Carlyle a-.ackwell, Madge Evans, Edith Storey, Viola Dana and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew. Organist Wallace Drafted. Oliver G. Wallace, noted organist, who is presiding over the Liberty The ater Wurlltzer organ and its melodies, interposes a query as to the ethics of transporting a huge musical instrument to the war zone. Mr. Wallace regis tered for the selective draft at Seattle and his number is 420 in the drawing. So he is fearful that despite the pres ence of Friend Wife he may be asked to leave the ivory keys and shoulder a rifle. "Charlie Chaplin could take his feet, cane and hat with him into the trenches, but I'm afraid they wouldn't stand for an organ," laments Mr. Wal lace. "If they'd let me take a Wur Utzer along they could have my wages for the Ifted Cross." Torpedoplane in Pictures. Admiral Bradley Fiske, United States Navy, and Allan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club of America, were guests of honor at a special demonstra tion of a motion picture at the Para mount Pictures Corporation projection room recently, where animated draw ings, showing the theory and operation of the torpedoplane were shown on the screen for the first time. The torpedo plane is the invention of Admiral Fiske, and the United States Govern ment is1 seriously considering the adop tion of this remarkable combination of weapons for use in the present war. It consists of an aeroplane which. In 'Hoi lit 1M ,1 ia.i. . . stead of mounting a machine gun, car ries a torpedo equal in dealliness to those which are carried by battleships and submarines. It will in fact destroy any battleship afloat. This torpedo is carried under the body of the aero plane and in a position which permits the pilot to aim the torpedo by the simple process of steering his own plane. When he has brought the tor pedo to bear upon his target, the sim ple pulling of a single lever releases the torpedo and at the same time starts Its propeller in motion. Screen Gossip. The same man who Invented the method of catching birds by tnrowing fresh salt on their tails told Douglas Fairbanks the spotlight of an auto mobile would attract coyotes, and a night trip across deserts with a trusty rifle would be great sport. Doug. spent the entire night without a single shot. Dusty Farnum and Winifred King' ston were executed as American spies by Germans one morning last week, and that afternoon attended a banquet given by the Kaiser, or something like that, all of which makes this film, life worth while. The livery stable where Bill Hart keeps Frita during his vacation days, guarded the Westerner's saddle by having a vault built at their barn, where it could be securely locked up all the time the actor was not using it. Madge Evans, the child star of World-Pictures Brady-Made, has Just rinlsned a post-graduate course In horseback riding at Durland's. This educational training was begun to fit the little actress for the circus epi sodes of "The Little Duchess," soon to be published, and was continued until she became a thoroughly expert horse woman that is tr say, child. Metro's "The Blacker," starring Em lly Stevens, is said to be the best cho toplay in which this famous niece of the more famous Mrs. Fiske has ever appeared. "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." the next Mary Pickford production, has Deen completed. Fox is hiring special streetcars to convey his kiddies about for the film ing of "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp down Los Angeles way. Charlie Chaplin has an aristocratic earning capacity something like million a year yet he has been on the hospital list for a couple of weeks with a plebeian ailment carbuncles. Among the supporting players in the Norma Talmadge picture, "The Moth are Eugene O'Brien, Donald Hall, Maud Allen and Virginia Dare. Hassard Short, young English writer of short stories and composer of music, who played witn Laurette Taylor in "Pea O" My Heart." makes his debut in the production. Maud Allen understudied Mar one Hambeau- In Cheating Cheat ers. ' A news note from Los Angeles in forms the public that Crane Wilbur was thrown out of a barber shop (Just for scenes In a picture), but passers by thought the ejection was brought on by Crane's refusal to let 'em cut his hair. s In the new Fairbanks picture, "Down to Earth." "Dour'j" stunts are said to range from doing a handstand on a mountain precipice, 8000 feet above the sea level, to teaching a hippopotamus the famous Fairbanks smile. Bill Hart left a starring engagement on Broadway to work in films at $100 a week. Incidentally Hart's first pic ture, "The Bargain," was distributed by Paramount. "The Mother Instinct." a new Trian gle production starring Enid" Bennett. Is tba 10th, picture in which Jack Gil- Culver City forces two years ago. In each of the 10 plays the young Juvenile, a former Portland boy, has shown a constantly developing sense of dramatic effects. Robert Harron, Bessie Barriscale, Louise Glaum and "Fatty" Arbuckle once were listed among Mutual players. Fox's "Jack and the Beanstalk." a ten-reel feature, is said to have cost $500,000 in the making. Julian Eltinge,- who began active work before the camera at the Lasky studio on his first Paramount picture, is somewhat alarmed over his new sleeping- schedule. The feminine im personator found himself arriving at the Lasky studio at 7:30, Just three hours after his resular retiring time. Despite his best efforts to ward off this disgraceful proceeding, he finds himself so tired at night that he is per fectly willing to go to bedat 9 o'clock. . . When Carlyle Blackwell, the World Pictures star, first "turned out for him self' he earned his living playing a mandolin and singing ballads, mainly reminiscent of mother. At the College Inn, Chicago, he sang 45 times every nisht for the munificent compensation of $8, until his voice gave out,- where upon he formed a team with another young fellow and cut up the hardiwork. At present but, as Mr. Kipling says, that is another story. It was Margaret Loomls who helped the Hayakawas Tsuru Aokl and Ses sue choose their new Hollywood home, which Is situated at the mouth of -Laurel Canyon. Miss Loomls, who was a Ruth St. Denis dancer for two years, has undertaken, between Lasky pic tures, to Instruct Miss Aokl in the art of St. Denis dancing. So it was as much for the wide, secluded lawn in connec tion, with the house as the beauty of the house Itself that Influenced Miss Aokl and Miss Loomls In the choice of the new Hayakawa bungalow. - TrainingTHe ' CHILD BV WILLIAM BYRON PQRBUSH.PHJA LITTLE boys get their first spankings,- Ed Howe says, at 16 months, little girls at 12. The event is as surprising to the mother as to the child. That she should ever lay violent hands on her cherub was hitherto unthinkable. The gusto with which she performs the rite is shocking to herself. The occurrence is momentous, be cause it indicates the frank recognition mat me oaoy must have been trailing something else than clouds of glory when he came. He Is slightly Im perfect. More than this, he is annov- mg. ouaaeniy tne mother catches a glimpse of new and lifelonir resoonsl bilitles in regard to him that are more man physical. Hereafter she must be more than a nurse, she must learn to be a mother.- The thought is disturbing. Baby Gta Mentally Awako. Each Infant begins life in a state of hibernation. He spends his first three months in Buddha-like self-contempla tion, ins resi or me rirst year Is em ployed in a ceaseless endeavor -to annex the adjacent world, an endeavor cir cumscribed by the fact that locomotion craoilke and subject to earlv ex- haustion. But when the second year dawns the young child appears In his full char acter and destiny. He is an explorer. He climbs, creeps, walks, runs inces santly. He wriggles through Incredibly small exits and appears, crowing. In most unexpected and dangerous places. Getting Into the Game. Wherever he is, he is a disturber. Once he slept 22 hours a day, now he is unconscious but 12. These lulls he be grudges, lest some fun should be going on in the world that he shall miss. He interferes with the housekeeping, breaks up the home evening and wakes up from his nap Just when mother has something else in particular to do. He Is Johnny-on-the-Spot most of the time. Not only does he disturb, but he is himself disturbed. Passlveness of mind is over for him forever. For the first time he has moods, caused, we Infer, from "getting teeth." His anger Is sudden, explosive and apparently en joyable. He begins to have what is known as "a will of his own"; he does not always see eye to eye with his parents. Xhe Ftrst Rift In the Lute. Now comes a certain shock In the social relations. The infant feels it. Hitherto he has seen his mother mostly on her knees before him. To be placed suddenly and violently across her knees Is, at least, astonishing. The change requires rapid Intellectual adjustments. But it is really harder for the mother. It hurts her complacency to realize that her child nJw does not need her all the time, because he is finding that his world contains so much more than her self. Yet she sees that when he does need her it is in so much harder and higher ways than ever before. About this time she decides to give up her piano practice and buys her first book on child study. Stop I Look I Listen! It is a mementous Juncture. Ton cannot go on as before. If you do you simply board a baby. Tou do not bring him up. Two lessons the young parent has to learn: Over every way by which the mother approaches the child, she must now hang the sign. "Stop! Look! Listen!" so she will not collide with him. For to listen Is the chief part of parent hood. Learlng thus to understand her child, the other thing is to nourish him. The child's unconscious daily prayer Is that beautiful one in the Old Testa ment: "Feed me with food convenient for me." About all that Is needed to make a child good Is to give him good conditions. The most frequent cause of "naughtiness" Is lack of suitable play material. The irritable child is usually so because he has been needlessly thwarted. The child who smolders is the one whose full name ought to be Charlie Don't. Off Tonr Perch. Hard as it is to cease to be God to a confiding baby, to come down from the perch of a throne and become a play fellow, yet this is the wholesome and sensible descent that has to be made InH behalf of every 1-year-old. It Is even harder to grant that another self, a separate will, has come Into being In In the house, and that what one has to d is not to crush It, but to keep off let sunlight upon it and give it room to grow. It Is much easier, for in stance, to spank a baby than to give him time to make up his own mind to obey. Korsetf nl Freddie. Te the Editor: Day after day I warn Freddie before he soei out to play of the dangers and troubles that 1 know from experience he will set - Into, and day after day he falls prey to the urns difficulties. Has he no memory? GRACE D. L. Tes, but. as Abraham Lincoln used to say, it is short and sweet like the old woman's dance. Have you never re alized that the- only trouble we ever fear is immediate trouble? The fear of helL of leaving one's wife without in surance, of meeting a six months' note, these disturb few people, because they are so remote. What may happen to your son before 11 o'clock soon passes out of his mind. Perhaps that he "should die before he wakes," men tioned in the old beside prayer, seems to him nearer and more real. It is experience from which he will gladly learn at length, not from un supported warn Ins a. . Los Angeles Lawyer Taken to Douglas by Auto and Put Aboard El Paso Express. GOVERNOR'S AID SOUGHT Committee Takes Drastlo Steps When Counsel, After Appearing; Before Body, Falls to Sat isfy as to His Mission. BISBEE. Arts., July 80. Fred H. Moore, a Los Angeles attorney, was de ported from the Warren district late today by Deputy Sheriffs. Moore admitted that he was attorney for the L W. W. Moore arrived In Bisbee this morning from Phoenix and was said to carry let ters from Governor Campbell to Mayor Erickson and Sheriff Wheeler, neither of which he presented. Moore was allowed to remain in Bis bee throughout the day. He called on several local people, among them being the city police Judge. He asked for the reasons for the deportations and made general inquiries. . This afternoon he was asked to come before the investigating committee of the loyalty league. When ha appeared he stated that he had coma here as at torney for three Slavonians, who owned a restaurant In Lowell and who were deported July 12. These three men. however, have returned to Bisbee and were allowed to remain. Upon being questioned, Moore admitted he was an attorney for the L W. W but would not state his exact mission in the War ren district. At the end of the con ference ha was told that he would oblige the committee by returning at 4 o'clock. Moore failed to return at 4 o'clock and within a few minutes he was found by deputies. He was invited Into a waiting automobile, his effects, which were at a hotel, were loaded into the car with him and. accompanied by sev eral local men, he was driven to Doug las. At Douglas Moore was put on board the night train for El Paso and was accompanied as far as Rodeo, N. M., by a deputy. Domestic Science By Lilian Tingle. PORTLAND, July 28. Please g-lve a recipe for drying; cherries. Would also like to know how to serve eggplant some other way besides frying. Thanking you In ad vance. AIRS. .J. F. H. CHERRIES may be dried either with or without their stones. If they are stoned they are more useful (in baking, for instance) and pack in a smaller space, but there is always some loss of Juice. ' Wash, dry and be sure to pit them, if large. If small, pit them or not, as may best suit your convenience. Spread on drying trays and dry in the sun or in a drier from two to four hours. If a drier is used raise the temperature gradually and do not let it exceed 150 degrees Fahrenheit. When leathery the cherries should be removed from the drier and kept for three or four days in boxes, pour the material from one box to another daily to secure equal dryness and thorough mixing, before finally packing them. This is called "conditioning" the prod uct. All dried fruits and vegetables should be treated In this way before packing. If the product is too moist a little more time in the drier can easily be given to prevent molding and "sweating." Store in tin cans If possible, as the product needs to be protected from moisture and from insects. Directions for drying cherries with sugar (to make something resembling the commercial candied cherries) were recently given In this column. I hope you saw them. " You might try the following as change from fried egg plant. Scalloped egg plant Pare and slice the ess Plant and. soak in brina under weight for half an hour. Wipe dry and place in a buttered baking dish with alternate layers of tomato sauce or sliced tomatoes and crumbs and grated cheese. Cover the top with a mixture of cheese -and crumbs. Bake about 35 minutes or . until tender and lightly browned on top. Serve In the baking dish as a "main dish" for luncheon or supper. A little finely chopped pars ley, or onion, or green pepper (all or any of these) may be added with the tomato for variety. I. W. W. BESIEGE BUREAU Men Angry When Sign Is Posted Stating Mills Are Operating SEATTLE, July 80. (Special.) The first case of picketing the Inside of a business property ever reported in Washington occurred today when a gang of 200 to 300 members of the I. W. W. rushed an employment office at 206 Occidental avenue, and. filling the place so full that regular patrons were unable to apply for work, held siege all day. Moore Sc. St. Marie maintain in lieu of the open-saloon days a headquar ters for men out of work, with a lunch counter and " card tables. Today the firm posted a notice to the effect that 22 lumber mills were in operation. As soon as the doors were open the I. W. W. swarmed Inside and demanded that the sign be removed. The proprietors refused and the picketing began. The stools at the lunchcounter and the chairs about the card tables were kept full of L W. W. all day. s 1 K. AGEE KILLS HIMSELF Pioneer of Tamhill County Unable to Bear Suffering. MMINNVILLE, Or.. July 80. (Spe cial.) 111 health caused the suicide yesterday of J. K. Agee, a pioneer of Yamhill County. Mr. Agee shot himself through the head and died almost im mediately after. He left a note to his son, William Agee, whom he was vis iting, saying that his suffering was greater than he could bear. Mr. Agee lived In Portland. He was a pioneer of the early '50s. He is sur vived by 13 children. The funeral will ur- rill y S -3e held Friday. . I 1' 1 ., .. , 4 nwa n T ..... ORENCO, Or., July 30. (Special.) A meeting of the Western Walnift Asso ciation will be held at 10:80 A. M. next Saturday at Dundee, Or. The subject for discussion will be "Cultivation and Fillers." An invitation has been ex tended to all those Interested In walnut culture to attend the meeting. Wallace! S urlitzer f J Melodies ! nctra I 1 . .. ,iv ,-. r ..), .. - . . v- - ' 'VV .. . - r.'-"--".i ' ' - . ;t '.wi;-;.... -. - - ... ' l.v4i.tiv . : ;- '. '- .'... ' 'iK-'CT:"'' ' ".. Li rr - ..- r -:.y . . " ":a"Vi 'tut ii imi i fci ml --'v "- "" " r J !i H b h H i i HIV i r s it a n u n h iti ' i .. t a n lATJLJlrUU CJU. A The super-feature from the famous Saturday Evening Post serial the story of an "amateur altruist" r a young "hell on wheels' a square-jawed, deter mined fighter, son of "Clothespin Jimmie"- they called him "Sud den Jim." : Sudden Jim "Tell the boys to rebuild the bridge tell Moran to go to Hell I've been there! I've been through it!" Broadway at Stark Continuous 11 to 11 MEXICO SPY REFUGE America to Call Activities to Carranza's Notice. EARLY ACTION IS EXPECTED Promotion by German Agents of Oil Field Strike Through I. W. W. Is Suspected and Propaganda Work Is Continuous. WASHINGTON, July 80. So numer ous have become the reports of Ger man spy activities and propaganda in Mexico that Ambassador Fletcher is prepared upon his arrival in Mexico City to call the attention of the Mexi can government to the links . in that country between Berlin and German agents in the United States. Officials of the State Department do not call into question the Integrity of the Mexican government, but the re ports have left no room to doubt the existence of a German organization in Mexico, whose machinations may be defined as a violation of Mexico's neu trality. The Carranza government Is believed in fact to be disturbed by the abuse of its hospitality, and there is a feeling here that the time is not far distant when certain representatives in Mexico of the German Foreign Office may be officially Questioned aa to their activi ties. Evidence Is Produced. How extensive the work of the Ger- 1 man a rVorma I" I means aerents has been in forwarding in formation to Germany by mail or other has not been ascertained by American agents, but evidence of their tireless activity in propaganda nas been produced. . One man, whom agents of the United States are watching. Is Richard Evers busch. the German Consul at Tampico. While almost every other .govern ment has decreased the number of its onsular representatives in Mexico, iermany has kept there a full list and Minister von Eckhardt has been at the . apltal since the overthrow of Huerta. It will be pointed out to the Mexican government that in the event of rea sonable proof of undue activities by any iprn or ( r'oun Pane ierman consular diplomat precedent expulsion from the country can be d in the cases of JJumba, v on Papen and Boy-Ed. The American Government is not con cerned so greatly, at the suggestion hat Mexico is used as a relay point ; or military Information, as it is over he constant and apparently uninter rupted German propaganda emanating "rom Mexico and over the possibility jf curtailment of the Mexico oil sup ply. The recent strikes in the Tampico oil region have caused sons anxiety , TODAY and TOMORROW ONLY 1 J Admission 15c Children 5c and it has been freely charged that they were caused by German agents working in some cases through tha L W. W. 72,914 SEEK COMMISSIONS Applicants for 16,000 Places Camp Being Examined. in WASHINGTON, July 80 For tho 1, 000 places In the second officers' train ing camps, to open August 27. 72.914 men have applied, and the War Depart ment is considering accepting several thousands more than was originally in tended. Preliminary examinations given the applicants by civilian physicians In dicate that 61,838 are physically satis factory. In most states the number of appli cants is from three to five times the state's quota. Montana, with a quota of 72, had 745 applicants, the highest pi ct'ortion TA BILLIE BURKE in PEGGY !. ... - ,,, ' feu.; PR R f - r