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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. ... SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918.
THEATRE
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K,WK'"Alle LAND
100 Pledged Are Yon?
"I have 500,000 reservists in
America." THE KAISER.
100 Pledged Are You? ,
THE. WATEOJS ,
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Lire with Gerard the four trying
years, in the Hohenzollern hell of
empire grabbing intrigues. See with
your own eyes how America was
forced into the great war. '
There's 501,000 lamp posts to hang
your German reservists to'
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PEES 10 BE FIXED
Wilson Announces His. Inten
tion Regarding Cotton.
AWAITS COMMITTEE REPORT
President Informs Southern Sena
tors He Will Order GoTernment
Control and Distribution
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of Staple.
'" WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. President
Wilson will fix the price of cotton.
placing the last of the principal com
modules necessary in the prosecution
of the war under Governmental regula
tlon. despite strong pressure from the
In addition to determining the price,
the -Government will take over control
of the distribution of this year's crop.
The decision of the President, an
nounced at a conference this week with
Senators and Representatives from the
cotton states, became known today.
Plans to carry out the decision are
aid to be under way.
The principal factor in the action of
the President is understood- to have
been the shortage in the present crop
estimated at between 4,000,000 and
,000.000 bales.
The price to be named by the Presl
dent or the means of controlling: dis
tribution have not been decided upon.
Before fixing prices was first men
. tioned. cotton sold at 3S cents a pound.
Secretary Huston, it is said, has recom
mended that 25 cents would be fair.
Southern producers deny this would be
a fair price and declare that because of
the increased cost of production a fig-
tire above 30 cents should be named.
In determining; a plan for controlling;
cotton distribution it is understood the
President is endeavoring; to work out a
method of co-operation with the British
and French governments.
B0TSF0RD JOINS COLORS
Advertising Agency Head Leaves for
Fort McDowell, Cal.
W. K. Botsford, of the Botsford-Tyler-Constantine
Advertising Agency,
of this city, has received orders to re
port at Fort McDowell. Angel Island.
CaU for military service, and left for
that camp yesterday.
Mr. Botsford came to Portland from
Kansas City 10 years ago. and has been
identified with advertising work In this
city ever since his arrival. With his
brother. David Botsford, be founded the
original Botsford agency.
BANK LOOTED AT CHICAGO
Employes locked in Room; Robbers
Get Cash and Bonds.
CHICAGO. Sept. 20. Locking cashier,
assistant and stenographer In a room,
robbers today looted the Argo State
Bank. Sixty-third street and Archer
avenue, of 120.000 in cash and between
30,000 and 140.000 in Liberty bonds.
Portland Woman Chosen.
SALEM. Or.. Sept. 20. (Special.)
Mrs. Susie Page, of Portland, has been
selected to have charge of the domes
tie science work at the Girls' Indus
trial School and has arrived here to
take up her duties. It is expected that
the Fall work of the school will be
started during the week: lollowlng the
fctate Fair,
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Virginia Harbrooke, a Belgian girl of
gentle birth caught In the horrible vor
tex of the war and a victim of soma
of its most terrible atrocities.
The production is replete with stir
ring incidents and things which ap
peal mightily to patriotism.
Columbia. " ,
"The Source," a picturizatfon of the
popular Clarence Budington Kelland
serial, with Wallace Reid as its . star,
opens this morning at the Columbia
Theater. With it will be shown "Brit
ain's Bulwarks" and Paramount Picto-
graphs.
"The Source" is a tale of the woods
and the regeneration of a man of posi
tion .and education who 'sinks to tne
level of a tramp. How. a girl of the
woods furnishes the Incentive for his
rise in the world, and the manner in
which the ex-tramp assumes control of
the destinies of a district in the power
of Germans of Industry-destroying mis
sions. Is shown in this Paramount of
fering.
, Globe.
"Joan the Woman," the splendid Cecil
B. DeMille photoplay spectacle starring
Geraldine Farrar, famous operatic
prima donna, opens an engagement
this morning at the Globe Theater.
This super-production is a striking
picturization of the life of the famous
Maid of Orleans, the peasant girl who
saved France, and because of its asso
ciations it becomes of timely interest
to the people of America, The spec
tacular and the romantic, as well as
the-historical, are blended together in
a production which boasts of such player-figures
as Wallace R,eid, Tully Mar
shall. Hobart Bosworth and Raymond
Hatton.
the late John F. Carroll, for many years
publisher of the Evening Telegram, has
been awarded the croix de guerre.
Confirmation of the awarding of this
medal for bravery to Major Mitchell
has come from indirect sources to Mrs.
Mitchell, at present living with her
mother, Mrs. John F. Carroll, at 576
East Fifteenth street North. The Major
was wounded, presumably while on his
dangerous mission, and has since been
a patient in a Paris Red Cross hospital.
TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. .
Majestic Constance Talmadge,
"Up the Road With Sallie."
Liberty Norma Talmadge, "Her
Only Way": Fatty Arbuckle,
"The Cook."
Columbia Wallace : Held, "The
Source."
Sunset "My Four Tears in Ger
many." .
Star "The Unbeliever."
Peoples Margarita Fisher. "Im
possible Susan"; "The Sinking
of the Lusitania."
Globe Geraldine Farrar, "Joan
the Woman."
Circle Charles Ray, "The Son of
His Father."
Majestic- '
CONSTANCE TALMADGE week will
I . be celebrated at - the Majestic
v ' Theater, commencing today. Miss
Talmadge, vivacious star of so many
ttractive comedy-dramas, will be seen
in two pictures, "Up th-j Road With
Sallie," opening today, and "The Shut
tle." following It on Wednesday.
Uo the Road With Sallie" is said
to be the most delightful picture Miss
Talmadge has ever made. A kidnaped
aunt, two supposed burglars and a
big. surprise with a romantic touch
are some of the features of the Select
production.
The latest installment of the Allied
Nations Official Wan Review. Pathe
News of world ' events, " and a clever
cosnedy are other features to be shown.
Peoples.
.- Margarita Fisher, Oregon girl, who
has achieved fame in motion pictures.
will be seen today at the Peoples
Theater in her latest photoplay hit.
Impossible Susan." Another feature
and one of unusual interest is Windsor
McCay's "The Sinking of -the Lusi
tania." a remarkable pen picture .of
the great sea horror of the war. It is
said to be the first animated serious
cartoon ever shown, and was drawn
from the word-picture of Augustus F.
Beach, war correspondent, who was
one of the first to interview survivors
of the Lusitania.
Miss Fisher is never more at home
than when portraying the wild young
girl of the woods, unfettered by con
ventional ideas or conventional clothes,
and It's Just such a role she has in
Impossible Susan," - She davelopa into
the ultra-modern maid, but proves Just
as fascinating to the men who are
using her for psychological experiment
Sunset.
"My' Foun . Years in Germany," the
highly 'patriotic production based on
ey-Ambassador Gerard's story, which
created a .sensation in hundreds of
newspapers In the United States, will
be' shown, commencing today, at the
Sunset Theater. .......
Gerard's expose of German trickery
forms one of the most illuminating
chapters in the political history of the
world war. Throughout his story of
the events which led up to the open
ing -of the war, and those following,
leading up to the entrance of the
United States into the great conflict,
are interspersed patriotic bits which
arouse tremendous enthusiasm.
' Star,
"The Unbeliever," the magnificent
U. 'S. Marine photoplay, comes to the
Star Theater today.
With the maneuvers of the Marines
as a background, "The Unbeliever."
based qni the novel, "The Throe
Things." has to do, among other things,
with the love story of Philip Landicutt,
late of Long Island's exclusive colony,
and now a private in the Marines, and
SPOKANE APPLES ARE SOLD
Growers Receive Approximately
$1.50 Per Box for Year's Product.
SPOKANE. Wash!, Sept. 20. (Spe
cial.) One of the largest apple sales
ever made in the Spokane Valley was
announced today by Edward - Pierce,)
president of the Spokane Valley Grow
ers' Union. Under a contract Just closed,
the entire crop to be handled by the
union this year, approximately 150 cars,
is sold to a company of Eastern fruit
dealers for tl0,000.
This is an average of nearly $1.50 for
each box of apples that the orchardists
of the valley districts will bring to
their co-operative packing and selling
organizations.
MITCHELL WINS WAR CROSS
Portland Officer Is Decorated for
Bravery In France. . ,
For bravery exhibited in swimming
a river and cutting barbed wire entan
glements so American and French
forces might advance upon the enemy.
Major Manton C. Mitchell. on-in-law of
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'Based Upon
"The Three Things"
by
Mary Raymond
Shipman Andrews
100 American, "The Unbeliever," throughout its
seven action-packed, thrill-filled parts, tells a story
that; for sheer breath-taking, interest-carrying
suspense, can only be compared with the big drama
now being staged "Over There."' You'll live, hate
and fight with the story as it unfolds. It'll make you
proud of our boys and confident in the principles
Old Glory stands- for.