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v s TOE 3IORXING OKEGOXIAN, TTTKSTIAV. AUGUST 14. 1917. FILLING OF OREGON QUOTA IS ASSURED OREGON GRAIN CROP PUT AT 65 PER CENT msmm in mm Adjutant-General White Re ceives More Satisfactory Reports From Boards. ' Governor Says State Products Are Nearer Failure Than During Past 46 Years. The first and unanimous choice of the. First National Exhibitors' Circuit composed of the leading photoplay theaters of America. MOBILIZATION IS DELAYED CONSERVE FEED, IS PLEA As a stage production "On Trial" was the most successful as 7 well as the most dramatic of all Cohan & Harris plays as a jy photodrama it makes a super-feature extraordinary power IvGClS fully dramatic gripping of intense suspense and startling climax one drama that will live in your. mind. First Increment Will Be Called Attention Called to Danger or Dis posing of Dairy Herds and Elim ination of Unprofitable 'In dividuals Is Proposed. Four Days Later Than Date Set Originally District Atorneys Appeal Exemption Cases. mmmm, y,v ': VTv -?- . v. -t-vY; , ;.,s ill f : V. ( LUI Reports received yesterday by Adjutant-General George A White from lo cal exemption boards throughout the etate indicated more satisfactory prog ' ress in filling Quotas for the first draft. After receiving these reports, Gen eral White telegraphed definite assur ance to the Provost Marshal-General at Washington that Oregon's quota will be ready for mobilization by the time Bet by the War Department. The Provost Marshal-General tele , graphed General White the announce ment that the date for the mobilization of the first increment of the draft quota has been postponed four days. Instead of being mobilized September 1, as originally intended, the first 30 per cent of the drafted men will be called to the colors September 5 throughout the United States. The movement to mobilization camps, to be designated by the War Depart ment, is to be completed within five days. No Difficulty Expected. General White said that the progress being made is so satisfactory that the state will have no difficulty in having 30 per cent of its quota ready to en train September 5. Tentative dates for mobilization of the remainder of the troops to be raised on the first draft also were an nounced in the Provost Marshal-General's telegram to the Adjutant-General. A second contingent of 30 per cent of each state's quota Is to be called to the colors September 15, according to present plans of the War Depart ment, and a third 30 per cent, Septem ber 30. The remaining 10 per cent is . to be called as soon thereafter as prac ticable. The War Department believes that by this plan of calling up the drafted troops In four installments, every state will be able to have its men ready on time, and the men can be equipped as they are brought to the mobilization camps. Exemption Claims Slump. Reports from the Oregon exemption boards show that there has been quite a falling off in the number of claims for exemption. The different local boards are being strict in their rulings on claims for exemption, and are grant ing only those claims believed to be ab solutely meritorious. All claims for exemption on the ground of dependency are being ap pealed by the District Attorneys of the various counties, as representatives of the Government, to the district boards. These boards have adopted the policy of granting such claims only when It appears that the persons for whom de pendency Is claimed would have to be supported by the public if the bread winner were drafted. General White is much pleased at the vigorous interest being taken in the work by the District Attorneys, the local boards and the district boards. EXPRESS WORKER HELD TOtTH STEALS BI35G AND MONEY THAT 1 1 13 MAY GET MARRIED. Joseph Ray, Night Transfer Mnn at Huntington, Confesses When Arrested in Portland. Joseph M. Ray, a youthful employe of the American Express Company, made abundant trouble for himself when he pilfered express packages in ' interstate commerce, thereby bringing the sleuths of the United States Department of Justice on his trail. Ray was night transfer man for the express company at Huntington, Or. - He told Assistant United States Attor ney Beckman yesterday, when he con fessed to the charges against him, that he was engaged to be married and so when a package of diamond rings came under his eye he couldn't resist the temptation to steal them. The rings were being shipped by ex press from Denver to Seattle. There were four of them, valued at $400 apiece. After he had torn open the package and taken the rings, Ray said, remorse and apprehension smote him, and he would gladly have .'eplced -he rings and sent them on their wa. , but did not know how to do it. So he decided to come to Portland, give a ring to his sweetheart and get married. He didn't have money enough, but this difficulty he met by appropriating two packages of money from Robinett, Or., to the fiscal agent of the express company at Salt Lake, containing a total of $357. Ray was arrested In Portland and the rings and most of the money were , recovered. CRANBERRY MEN, TO MEET Oregon and Washington Growers Invited to Long Beach Aug. 2 5. ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 13. (Special.) TV. M. Round, president of the Wash ington Cranberry Growers' Association, with headquarters at Long Beach, Wash., has issued an Invitation to all cranberry growers of Oregon and Washington to attend a meeting to be held at Long Beach, Saturday. August 25. An Invitation has been extended Governor Lister, of Washington, to at tend the meeting. The affair will be In the nature of a picnic. Visits will be made to bogs In the section. OREGON BOYS TO GO SOUTH Request of Rev. Edward II. Pence Cannot Be Considered. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington Aug. 13. The War Department today informed Senator Chamberlain that it cannot consider the request of Rev. Edward H. Pence, of Portland. -that the Third Oregon Regiment be retained on duty within the state until soldiers under 19 become seasoned. It is not the purpose immediately io send this regiment abroad, and at Palo Alto the men will get the same seasoning they would get in Oregon. " " "X j t.- '- .s Si-" - - "" 1 e 1 : ix' rV.k- . y A ..v-i l , ; iil I AZr rs maize Sc&n? 9?? b 7 ' Sl On Trial" a jft1 "' V"" lib' v;'h v IrA'v ; it i v . ? - & vc; - -x V: ' ''S- ' -f:- " :i "5& Manor- &nct ' O&ezs," TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Sunset Theda Bara, "The Dar- ling of Paris." Columbia Marguerite Clark, "The Amazons." J Majestic Gladys BrockwelL "To I Honor and Obey." I Liberty "On Trial." Peoples Gail Kane, "Souls In J Pawn." f Star Mary Pickford, "A Ro- I mance of the Redwoods." Circle "Our Boys." ALL is not waste in the "movies. Recently one of the big com panies employed a director to pro duce a photoplay froma popular West ern novel. A high-salaried cast was employed, and considerable time ex pended in making the picture, a 10-reel affair. When it was finally completed and submitted to the home 'office In the East, It nearly caused wholesale heart failure among the officials. It was that bad. A release of the photoplay was Im possible. It would have "queered" the theater with every theater owner who exhibited it. Salvage was de cided upon, and the company's film doctor was ordered to the rescue. The result was one five-reel feature. with a highly euphonious title and lota of Western thrills, one two-reel "West ern," and one single-reel comedy. The remaining two reels were saved for the re-take of the original story. After Many Stars. Inaugurating Its photoplay campaign with the purchase of the picturization of the Cohan & Harris stage success. un Trial, and following it with the signing of Charlie Chaplin, world's most famous slapstick comedian, at the record price of $1,000,000 for eight pic tures, the First National Exhibitor's Circuit is negotiating with a number of the prominent stars of the silent drama. New York reports have It that Clara Kimball Young pictures may be seen in the houses of the circuit, but this is denied by one of Miss Young's associ ates. The presence of Adolph Zukor, one or the big men of Artcraf t-Para-mount, as one of the men financially interested in the Clara Kimball Young Company, lends color to the rumor that these pictures are to be distributed through Artcraft, as are the produc tions of Mary Pickford, Douglas Fair banks and William S. Hart. Chaplin has nearly finished his last Mutual two-reel comedy, the 12th on a contract calling for $670,000, and the first picture of his new series is ex pected to reach the public early this Fall. "Doug" Helps Soldiers. Douglas Fairbanks is in communica tion with the Depot Quartermaster at New York City as to the transportation of cigars, cigarettes and chewing gum for the America soldiers now In France. It Is his intention to keep the boys well supplied with these necessi ties, and he hopes to ship a large box of smoking supplies every months. Fairbanks is doing a great deal for the Red Cross, and recently auto graphed 10.000 photographs, to be sold and funds used to buy bandages for our boys on the battlefields. Screen Gossip. Bessie Love and Mary 'Pickford had their first meeting one day last week. Said Mary to Bessie: "At last I think I have found someone who is shorter than I." Said Bessie to Mary: "Oh, surely I am taller than you." So they measured, and with Marshall Neilan as referee the decision was that Bessie is one-quarter of an inch, taller than Mary. a Following the leasing by Fred. J. Balshofer of several acres of space adjoining the studios of the Yorke Film Corporation In Hollywood, Har old Lockwood, the Yorke-Metro star, acquired the property when it went on sale last week through the office of the Sheriff. Lockwood's purchase of the new studio property was sur prise to his producer and director, until the star presented a bill to Mr. Bals hofer for rent for the current month. When Hariette Underhill, newspaper Interviewer, asked Alice Brady, World Pictures star, what she regarded as the principal requisite for success upon the screen she was greatly surprised at the reply "Pretty feet and ankles." "Yet, when I came to think it over," said Miss Underhill afterward, "I re called that my own initial survey of the first entrance of an actress always took count of her feet, noting whether they were wll shod and stockinged or otherwise. So Alice Brady's sum ming up isn't nearly as far fetched as it seemed at' first." Alfred Whitman is a new name to adorn the payroll of the Vltagraph Western studio. You will be Interested in watching for Mr. Whitman's Vita graph release, as it will show to you a person you know well, but not under the unfamiliar name of Whitman. For a variety of reasons, which are left for you to guess, the leading man now bearing the name Whitman was asked by the company to assume this new cognomen. Ethel Clayton, star of World-Pictures Brady-Made, has bought a new $8000 automobile to replace the one that was reduced to scrambled steel in a colli sion at dusk on a New Jersey boule vard three months ago. An auto is a very important part of the equipment of a motion picture star, enabling her to reach the studio promptly in the earl; morning and assisting irr the process of cooling out on the way home from a long day under the broiling sun. Miss Clayton's car is a big, roomy af fair, rigged for comfort first. Report has It that Helen Holmes drove an automobile at top speed off the dock at San Pedro, Cal.. four times in an attempt to make a 30-foot leap onto a barge, and the fourth time s -e made it. Of such stuff are heroines made. A doll with an earning power of $1200 a year a hundred a month! This money-making doll is one which was presented a year and a half ago to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles by Fred Church, Universal photoplay star, and auctioned at a charity bazaar. Originally the doll, dressed as the "Atlantic city sport," was sold for $70. Since then it has been sold and resold until the aggre gate for the 18 months of the "sport's" existence has reached $1800, the pur chasers in each case donating it back to the charity fund. Carol Halloway's signing of a two year contract with the Western Vita graph Company Insures her remaining in Southern California for at least that length of time. She has decided to take advantage of the musical oppor tunities Los Angeles offers in the way of expert instruction, and under a com petent instructor has resu;ned her musical education. Previous to com ing Into pictures Miss Halloway was a light opera prima donna. Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran, co-stars in Universal Nestor comedies, were mistaken for spies somewhere In the wilds of Wyoming while on their way back to Universal City from Chicago, where they had represented the Uni versal players at the recent interna tional motion picture convention. They had considerable difficulty convincing the Federal authorities that they meant no harm when they staged a photoplay scene with a railroad bridge as a background. There was considerable telerraphing between the comedians and the general passenger agent of the road before the Universal players were permitted to go on their way. SALEM, Or., Aug. 13. (Special.) After visiting practically every section of the state of any consequence agri culturally, Governor Withycombe made the statement today that Oregon Is facing the nearest approach to a crop failure of anything he has seen in his 46 years' experience in watching crop conditions. He predicts that on a general aver age the state will have only about 65 per cent of a crop this year, but de clares that conditions are such that crops next year should be above the average. "The situation as it stands today should teach the farmers of the state an excellent lesson," said the executive in discussing crop conditions as he has found them. Drained Area Thrives. "I have noticed that in Western Ore gon all the land that has been drained and that was sowed in good season Is producing a fair crop, while land which was subjected to late Spring seeding and lacked drainage is show ing practically a failure. This condi tion emphasizes the need of drainage. "I am of the belief, however, that a poor crop this season gives an oppor tunity for a greater yield next year. All well-drained land that is support ing a poor crop this year should pro duce the maximum crop in 1918, par ticularly the oat land. This is prac tically fallowed where It is thin, and with proper cultivation this Fall and seeding at the proper time .in the Spring, excellent results should be ob tained. "1 have also discovered a lamentable shortage of livestock - practically all over the state. It is necessary, how ever, to conserve every pound of stock feed, especially straw. As a good ex ample, even wheat straw, with a little highly concentrated nitrogenous feed such as soja bean meal, oil cake or cot ton seed meal as a supplementary feed, i will carry cattle through- the Winter In fine form. Need of Livestock Urged.' "There is going to be an unfortunate tendency to dispose of dairy herds and if this is done it will be a very serious mistake. The better plan will be to eliminate carefully all unprofitable haws a r A S rata in Airarw or rtnH -tr because there Is going to be a tremen- dous aemana ior uairy products. . "With an ordinary season the crop next year in Eastern Oregon will be ex cellent, because the Summer fallow Is the best I have ever seen in any year In this state, and if the usual Fall rains come so the Fall grains can germinate properly, a good crop should be assured. "I am satisfied that the Fall seeding area will be increased 40 per cent over last year, and generally conditions point to a fine crop year in 1918, when, unquestionably, heavy crops will be needed." MYSTERY CLOAKS DEATH SHOOTING OF" NORTH COOS YOUTH BAFFLES. Coroner's Jury Unable to Unearth Evidence Indicating; Who Mur dered Edward Johnston. MARSHFIELD, Or., Aug. 13. (Spe cial.) The mysterious shooting of Edward Johnston, a youth of 18, is sur rounded with peculiar circumstances. The killing occurred in an isolated dis trict on the west fork of North Coos River Sunday afternoon, and few de tails have been received, although Cor oner Fred Wilson held an inquest and the jury decided the victim was killed by a gunshot wound at the.hands of unknown persons. When shot, Johnston was nearly a mile from his home, which he was visiting. He was employed in a log ging camp at Allegany. August Carl Bon, his brother-in-law, heard the shot and Johnston's outcry, it was said, and when he came upon the unfortunate man he exclaimed: "I'm done for, I guess," and expired almost instantly. The bullet struck in the abdomen and came from above the spot where John ston was standing at the time. None of the evidence introduced at the in quest had a tendency to identify the person who fired the shot. GIRL IN NIGHTIE SUICIDE 3Iiss Sadie Pbaris Plunges Off of Bluff Into Tualatin. SHERWOOD, Or.. Aug. 13. (Special.) The body of Miss Sadie Pharis, who, clad in her nightdress, ran from the home of her uncle and aunt. Mr.1 and Mrs. J. H. Duncan, Sunday about mid night and plunged into the Tualatin, was recovered early this morning near Tigardville. Miss Pharis' home was in Colorado, and Bhe was here on a visit to her relatives. The uncle and aunt followed Miss Pharis, but were unable to overtake her and she plunged over an embank ment about 100 feet high. It is thought the fall killed her almost instantly. It is said she had a brother who is one of the conductors on the Southern Pacific electric line from Portland to Corvallis. WOMAN CATCHES THIEF Daughter's Watch Recovered When Robber Is Cornered on Cliff. OREGON CITx, Or.. Aug. 13. (Spe cial.) When Mrs. Viola Tait, who lives at Canemah, saw a njan reach through the window of her daughter's home next door to her own today at noon and take a watch she lost no timo in looking for help? but start sd after him herself. A block ' away, at the edge of a cliff, Mrs. Tait overtook the stranger and accused him of . having taken the watch from the homj of her daughter, Mrs. Gustave Crieble. When Mrs. Tait lnbisted that the man had stolen a watch from the house, he threw the stolen timepiece at tLe wom an and fled. I I ' I J 1 1 X f v - . sl : h" - ' b-t '," J ARMY SPLITS ROME Mother Defies Father, Who Tries to Get Boy Back. fLAD DESIRES TO SERVE Woman Tells Federal Attorney She Did Not Raise Her Boy to Be a Slacker and Says Hus band Is "Butting In." "I didn't raise my boy to be a cow ard," wrote an Oregon mother yester day to Clarence L. Reames, United States Attorney for Oregon. She was protesting against the efforts of the boy's father to have him discharged from the Army. The father had asked Mr. Reames to intercede with the Army authorities to obtain the boy's discharge. He de clared that the parents we. a depend ent on the eon for support. Apparently, the mother .wasn't con sulted in the framing of the father's letter. In any event, she did not agree with the sentiments it expressed, for this is the letter she wrote on her own account to Mr. Reames: " am writing you in reference to what my husband wrote you about in trying to get his son out of the Army. The boy has written to me and he is in a very bad humor to think that his father would try to get him discharged out of the Army. "He went into the Army with his eyes wide open and with my consent. I do not want him to be pnted out as a slacker or a coward, or that he had a yellow streak, or that he could not get away from his mother's apron strings. "I did not raise my boy to be a coward when duty calls him and he is no slacker, so if you do what his father wants you to do and intercede to get him discharged, it will be greatly against the boy'ti wis es am gr tly against mine. "His father is always poking his nose in where he has no business. This boy is Just as much my boy as he is his father's. I don't want you to be of-fend-J, but I wanted you to know my position in the matter." PERS0NALMENTI0N. Mrs. F. Luper, of Heppner, Is at the Imperial. P. C. Anderson, of Albany, Is at the Cornelius. L. A. Miller, of Lone Rock, Or., Is at the Perkins. D. L. Peterson, of Toledo, Or., Is at the Cornelius. Mrs. J. M. Spencer, of Spokane, is at the Washington. " Robert M. Dodson, of Corbett, Or., is at the Oregon. R. T. Phares, of Fossil, Or., is reg istered at the Perkins. J. W. Mackintosh, of Cottage Grove, is registered at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. S. Shepherd, of Dallas, are arrivals at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Long, of Roseburg, are stopping at the Cornelius. Mrs. Charles W. Davis, of Grand Junction, Colo., is registered at; the Washington. O. B. Anderson, of Livermore, Cal., is among the arrivals at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Ludeman, of Eu gene, are visiting the city and staying at the Washington. Miss C. Blissard. of White Salmon, Wash., is registered at the Nortonia. Miss N. L. Harper, of Salem, Is among the arrivals at the Nortonia. Miss Sadie Davidson, of Eugene, is registered at the Nortonia. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Handley, of Pendle ton, are at the Nortonia for a few days. "Frank Crawford, a prominent stock man of the Condon district, is in the city on business. He is registered at the Perkins. Otis Monroe, well known business man of Albany. Is at the Perkins. L. C. Livermore, ex-postmaster of Pendleton, is . registered at the Mult nomah. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Baker, of Los Broadway at Stark Liberty Corner Angeles, are stopping at the Multno mah. Mr. Baker is a buyer of logan berries and recently purchased a large consignment at Salem. Harry Buck, of Burns, is among the arrivals at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. LePate and sons, and Mr. and Mrs. James H. Kelly, of Seattle, are a motoring party now vis iting at Portland. They are at the Multnomah. Dr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Zimmerman, of Syracuse, N. Y., are at the Mult nomah, while on a tour that includes the attractions of the scenic North west. Dr. Zimmerman is a member of the faculty of Syracuse University. F. F. McCarthy and mother, of Lin coln, Neb., are registered at the Oregon. Dr. A. G. Prill and Mrs. Prill, of Scio, Or., are recent arrivals at the Oregon. Mrs. W. F. Benbrooks. of Sheridan, Wyo., is registered at the Oregon. Miss Laura Farmer and Miss Delia Acklin, of Ashland, are at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Gunderson and O. B. Gunderson, of Wallace, Idaho, motored to this city and are now at the Imperial. A. B. Cordey, director of the experi mental station at Corvallis, is at the Imperial. J. R. Linn, who grows hops on the bonanza scale near Salem, is registered at the Imperial while on a business trip to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Niles, of Marsh field, are registered at the Cornelius. Eleanor I. Jones and Ada M. Chad wick, of Attleboro Falls, Mass., are at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Fulmer, Mrs. E. W. Fifield and W. W. Fifield. all of Minneapolis are tourists registered at the Cornelius. George Kuhn, president of the Bank ers' Life Company, of Des Moines, la., is registered at the Portland. Miss Hulda Jerensiason, of Van vcr, B. C, is at the Portland. Ezra H. Baker and daughter. Miss Gertrude Baker, are at the Portland. They are touring the Pacific Northwest on a pleasure trip. Mrs. N. L. Gane and daughter, of Santa Barbara, Cal., are at the Port land. N. L. Gane is widely known as the grower of extensive tracts of cran berries at Long Beach. James T. Shaw, of the Bell Tele phone system, San Francisco, is at the Portland. W. E. Cooper, secretary of the Caddo River Lumber Company, of Kansas City, Mo., is stopping in Portland a day or so, en route to San Francisco. CHICAGO, Aug. 13. (Special.) W. J. Patterson, of Portland, war rt-i.cirrt at the Sherman Hotel today. Newly-weds' Rations Doubled. BERLIN. Via London. Aug. 13. The municipal food bureau of Strassburg Gladys Admission 15c Children 5c announces that newly married couples will be entitled to draw double the amount of food indicated on their food cards. This privilege is accorded them for a period of six weeks. South Park Blocks Get Band. Campbell's American band will give a concert tonight in the South Park blocks at 8 o'clock. The programme includes many Interesting compositions and is as follows: March, "The Ambassador," Bagley; over ture, "Precioaa," Weber; (a) fox trot, "Sweetest Little Girl In Tennessee," RemlcK & Co., b) "Traumerei." Schumann, (c) one step. "SaiHn' Away on the Henry Clay," Remlck & Co.; fantasia, "A Spanish Festi val" (request), Demeraseman : intermission. Operetta, "Her Soldier Boy" (request). Crawford-Rumberp; waltz, "Destiny," Syd ney Baynes; tone picture, "Just a Little Gossip," Kollln9on; medley, "Days of Old" (with the minstrels), Carl Carlton; finale, "Star-Spang-led Banner." Burlington Cuts Another Melo. CHICAGO, Aug. 13. Directors of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, meeting in New York today, declared an extra dividend of 10 per cent pay able September 25. It Is in addition to the regular dividend declared recently. n rM-nsirmiimrTiriiwirniiiii m imim aani i T A Washington at Park America's Sweetheart MARY in the stirring drama of the days of '49, UA ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS" Today and Tomorrow PICKFORD Only Today and Tomorrow Brockwell II TO HONOR AND OBEY? Pictures of Portland's First Annual Bathing Parade at Columbia Beach. Pathe News Comedy 11