THE 3IORNIXC OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1918. "
SOCIALIST PARTY IS
BRANDED PHD
GERMAN
Ex-National Committeeman Is
Quoted at Trial.
ACTS HELD ANTI-AMERICAN
Adolph Germer and Others in Chi
cago Court Charged With Vio
lation of Espionage Act.
CHICAGO. Dec. 19. Letters from
John Spargo in which he declared that
the attitude of the Socialist party since
the beginning of the war had been "un
neutral, anti-American and pro-German."
were read to the jury today by
counsel for the Government during the
cross-examination of Adolph Germer,
general secretary of the National So
cialist party, at the trial of five So
cialist leaders for alleged violation of
the espionage act.
Spargo in one letter said that the
call for the St. Louis convention of the
party held in April, 1917, at which the
proclamation and war programme plat
form were adopted, read as if it might
liave been written in the German For
eign Office. He protested against the
convention's being held in St. Louis,
one of the largest German cities of the
Vnited States." Spargo was a member
of the executive committee of the Na
tional Socialist party, but resigned in
.May, 1917, and later was sent abroad
as a member of a labor commission by
1'resident AVilson.
Germer on Witness Stand.
Adolph Germer, a defendant, was on
the witness stand all day, and was still
under cross-examination when court
adjourned. He admitted that millions
of copies of pamphlets, declared by the
Government as seditious, had been dis
tributed by thu Socialist party.
Germer testified that no copies of
the leaflet. "Horrors of War." were
sent out after April, 1917, but admitted
that other pamphlets suppressed by
the Government had been distributed
for several months after the Federal
officials had condemned them.
Germer, in his direct examination,
denied ever having received any money
from German sources to oppose war.
He said every dollar expended was
contributed by the membership of the
Socialist party.
He denied responsibility for alleged
anti-war articles published in the
American Socialist, although admitting
he was business manager of the paper.
He said the conduct of the editorial
policy of the paper was directed by the
executive committee of the party and
J. Louis Engdahl, the editor.
Conspiracy Charges Denied.
Germer said he never advised anyone
not to register under the selective draft
and denied ever having conspired with
any of the other defendants to violate
the espionage law.
Questioned in regard to the 6peech he
delivered in Chicago, August 10, 1917,
which resulted in his arrest, Germer
denied every statement attributed to
him by witnesses for the Government.
"I read from a signed article by
Theodore Roosevelt in which he denied
that the Kaiser was responsible for the
war and said it would be a calamity if
the German nation was crushed as a
result of the conflict," said Germer.
"Roosevelt said the German "people
were responsible for the war. I com
mented on this statement and said that
if a Socialist had made such a state
ment he would be arrested. I charged
the Government officials with perse
cuting the Socialists and discriminating
against them and pointed out that our
paper had been suppressed for reprint
ing an article from a Washington
paper. I also read extracts from Presi
dent Wilson's addresses defining peace
without victory and said that I ap
proved the statement.
GREEK STARTS $50,000 SUIT
Shipyard Superintendent Alleged to
Have Called Thomas Gekas Spy.
Trial of the $50,000 damage suit of
Thomas Gekas, a Greek, against the
Willamette Iron & Steel Works and
Stephen E. Westover, superintendent
of the plant, was started yesterday be
fore a jury in Circuit Judge Ganten
bein's court. Gekas demands heavy
damages for Injury done his reputation
when, it is said, he was called a German
spy by Mr. Westover.
The plaintiff says he was called a
Gorman spy in the presence of many
other employes of the plant and further
charges that Mr. Westover told him he
believed the union had sent him'down
to the shipbuilding plant to blow it up.
The jury was selected late yesterday
afternoon and the taking of testimony
will begin this morning. The case
probably will not reach the jury until
tomorrow noon.
HUSBAND SEEN0N SCREEN
Sirs. Earl AVuvzweiler Makes Iden
tification in Official War Review.
To meet her husband face to face
and have him look laughingly into her
eyes, when in reality' he is in far
away France, was the happy experience
of Mrs. Earl C. Wuvzweiler, of 349
Multnomah street. when the latest
allied nations official war review was
flashed before her on the Majestic
Theater screen Wednesday night.
Mrs. Wuvzweiler thought she saw
her husband in the midst of a squad of
Yanks. She sat through a second show
and then hurried home to inform rela
tives of her discovery.
Manager Frank Lacey ordered the
reels run through the projection ma
chine very slowly until the identifica
tion was complete.
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had been taken over by the British.
, A seagoing tug was chartered and
rushed out of New York to pick up the
messenger as the Adriatic neared port,
and the negative was taken without a
atop out to the laboratories. The first
prints were off a few hours after the
arrival of the negative and the spec
tacle of the great surrender was being
watched in New York before any of
the dispatches excepting, of course,
the cable accounts bad reached this
side.
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TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. .
Columbia Enid Bennett. "Fuss
and Feathers."
Peoples Vivian Martin, "Jane
Goes a-Wooing."
Majestic Rex Beach's "Laughing
Bill Hyde."
Star Bryant Washburn, "His
Nineteenth Proposal."
Sunset Douglas Fairbanks, "The
Good Bad Man."
Liberty "The Squaw Man."
Globe P auline Frederick,
"Zaza."
Charles Ray, "The Hired Man."
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General Pernhlng. One of the Dominant Fismren tn the Official Government
Picture, ''America's Ann-tver," Which Opens an Kngagement Tomorrow at
the Sunset Theater.
from Elliott Dexter, who brilliantly
plays the hero role, to such big-time
minor-role folks as Tully Marshall, Ed
win Stevens and Jack Holt. Ann Lit
tle. Theodore Roberts, Thurston Hall.
Herbert Standing and Katherine Mac-
Donald are other well-known players
In the cast.
Burton Holmes Travelogue and funny
Mutt and Jeff cartoon comedy are in
cluded on the programme.
Liberty.
TTTHEN Cecil B. DeMille became a
W motion picture director his first
production was "The Squaw
Man," with Dustin Farnum as the star
of the filmation of the highly success
ful play. Now, five years later, the
same director, who ranks as one of the
leaders in this great field of industry
offers the screen world another produc
tion of The Squaw Man.
In all respects, even down to the
happy ending which has been tacked
on as a diversion from the original
the new DeMille picture surpasses the
old. A comparison of the two enables
one to appreciate the progress made
by the cinema during the half decade.
"The Squaw Man" ever made excellent
entertainment. Its atmosphere is West
ern. its characters :-re enmeshed in a
plot involving the baring of primitive
passions, the bark of guns, the clash
of men in mortal conflict, romance, and
much pathos.
The cast is surely an all-star one
Screen Gossip.
"They say" Douglas Fairbanks was
offered a commission to represent a
well-known newspaper syndicate at the
peace conference. No mention was
made of his qualifications for euch a
job.
William Faversham has Just complet
ed a screen version of "The Silver
King." the stage melodrama famous in
the old world and the new.
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Charlie Ray's next picture is called
"String Beans." Better title for Slim
Suramerville, Victor Potel or some of
the elongated chaps.
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Marc McDermott is now with Fox.
He's an old favorite of the Edison and
Biograph days.
Frank Keenan, as an Independent
actor and producer is going to make
eight pictures for Pathe. "The Wild
Cat," which appeared in story form in
the Saturday Evening Post, from the
pen of Albert Payson Terhune, will be
the first production.
Charlie Chaplin wanted to be exceed
ingly nice to his bride, Mildred Harris,
so he eaid of her that in many respects
she is a better actress than he is an
actor. Then follows a story that ehe
has suggested in amy little fine points of
acting for the use of Charlie in forth
coming productions.
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Frank Mclntyre is the star of the pic
turization of Rex Beach's Too Fat to
Fight." Frank made "The Traveling
Salesman" for Paramount some time
ago.
Thomas H. Ince is going to move his
stars into the new 250,000 Ince studios
on Christmas.
Stevenson Calls for Xurses.
STEVENSOX. Wash., Dec. 19. (Spe
cial.) There have been two deaths dur
ing the past week here from the "flu,"
Andy Allinger, son of J. Allinger. of
this city, and the other a young man
who has been working in the Wind
River Lumber Company's camp. ' back
of Carson, were the victims. Steven
son has been calling on Portland for
nurses and the Red Cross of that city
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Aberdeen Naval Men Return.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. Dec. 19. (Spe
cial.) Four Grays Harbor boys who
served on the warship South Dakota
during the entire period of the war,
being of the local Naval Militia, called
the day after the declaration of war,
have been mustered out and have re
turned home. The boys are Guy Mor
gan, university student: Ralph. AVest,
Cecil Turk and J. B. rhillips, Aber
deen high school students. These are
the first of the Aberdeen naval con
tinent to arrive.
Star.
Do you recall Bryant Washburn, of
'Skinner" fame? Well, vou may see
this same clian at the rstar Theater to
day, where he is making his debut as
a paramount star in "His Nineteentn
Proposal." or "The Gypsy Trail."
Washburn plays one of those appeal
ing love roles. He's a tried and true
lover, a bit backward, but winning in
the end against a formidable rival in
the person of a rover with the Instincts
of a vagabond, but who appeals might
ily for a time to the girl in the story.
Wanda Hawley, beautiful blonde,
who was one of Bill Hart's latest lead
ing women, is with Washburn in his
rollicking comedy. i
Getting a New Scoop.
A dash to put over a "scoop" in mo
tion pictures, ,which rivals the romance
of . some of the old newspaper scoop
stories, was the handling of the sur
render of the German grand fleet to
the British.
Taking no chances for a moment's
delay, the Universal Film Company,
which got off with a "flying start" on
the filming of the event, started a spe
cial messenger across the Atlantic with
the negative almost before the last ship
Peru Names Minister to Belgium.
PARIS. Dec. 19. (Havas.) Francisco
Garcia Calderon. who has been First
Secretary of the Peruvian legation
here, has been named Minister for his
government in Belgium. He was the
guest of diplomatic representatives of
Latin-America at a banquet last night.
Calderon assumed the Peru consulate
here three months ago, coming from
Hongkong, where he had served in
consular positions for his country. He
had been a sufferer from influenza.
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