TIIE MORNING OREG ONIAX, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1018.
PRESIDENT TO FACE
RUSSIAN
PROBLEMS
British Government to Lay
Situation Before Wilson.
SEASONED TROOPS NEEDED
Allied Intervention in Russia De
clared Necessary ly Ex-Premier
V. X. KokoTSoff.
LONDON'. Dec. 24. The British gov
ernment will lay before President Wil
son all information it has gathered re
specting the Russian situation.
Dispatches from Archangel point out
that Bolshevik forces there are -well
Fupplied. Any serious reverse to the
allies in Northern Russia, who have an
rnormous front to guard, would result,
it is said, in the territory being over
run by the Bolshevik and probably the
massacre of those Russians who have
been friendly to the allies.
It lias been suggested that more
seasoned troops should be sent to Rus
sia. Sections of public opinion here and
in France, however, are opposed to en
tering into a further large venture into
Russia which might mean the starting
vi a new war.
PARTS. D!c. 24. Allied intervention
In Russia is essential, declares V. N.
Kokovsoff, formerly Russian Premier,
in a statement to the morning news
papers. "A military dictatorship," he said,
must be established. Should the allies
not intervene, it would permit the Ger
mans to strengthen and extend their
pi-ip on Russia and finally bring about
lose political relations between the
two countries.
"Will the allies intervene? Frankly,
1 hardly think so. I bring from London
a rather pessimistic impression. In that
capital they aspire above all to com
plete tho settlement of the cataclysm
which upset the world and seem afraid
of the mere idea of fresh complica
tions" PARIS, Monday, Dec 23. (By the
Associated Press.) King Nicholas, of
Montenegro, intends to visit President
"U ilson as soon as possible. Speaking
to the Associated Press today, he said:
"The- aspirations of Montenegro are
in common accord with those of the
other peoples of the same race to be
come a part of the Jugo-Slav confed
eration, but preserve its autonomy, in
dependence and customs.
"Montenegro never has ceased to
shed its blood and in the beginning of
the great war showed its solidarity
with Serbia's cause. In 1914 the whole
Montenegrin population took up arms.
It provided 45,000 soldiers, which, con
sidering the number of its inhabitants.
Is the largest proportion of men given
by any nation.
'Every Montenegrin citizen from 18
to 63 years of age is a soldier. Our
lead on the battlefield number about
10,000, the number of prisoners is as yet
unknown and many succumbed to
starvation and exposure."
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 24. Tho Bolshe
vik! are making considerable progress
with their penetration of Esthonian
territory, the official statement of the
lOsthonian Republic for Monday shows.
They have taken Dorpat and have
forced the Esthonians back on the "Wes
enberg front northwest of Lake Peipus.
The German forces are continuing to
fall back upon Riga.
PARIS. Dec. 24. Important confer
ences in an effort to find a ground for
co-operation between the allies and the
United States on the one hand and the
patriotic elements in Russia on the
other were held yesterday at tho Rus
sian Embassy.
The entente governments, the press
accounts declare, are completely in ac
cord in a decision to refuse to under
take a vast military expedition into
Russia. It is considered the part of
Russia herself to get together her or
derly elements, which, when united, it
is declared, will find support and practi
cal help forthcoming from the allied
nations and America.
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TODAY'S KIL.M FEATURES,
Peoples "All Baba and the Forty
Thieves."
Majestic J. Warren Kerrigan. "A
Burglar for a Night."
Star Bryant Washburn, "His
Nineteenth Proposal."
Sunset "America's Answer."
Liberty "The Midnight Patrol."
Columbia M arguerite Clark,
"Little Miss Hoover."
Globe John Barrymore, The
Man From Mexico."
Circle Douglas Fairbanks, "Say,
Young Fellow."
Liberty Show Huge Success.
MORE than 3000 kiddies, from
orphanages, homes of wealth
and homes of poverty; wee tots
aardly up to the job of calling Santa
Claus by name, and others so worldly
wise and blase- as to question the au
thenticity of Saint Nick, partook of the
Liberty Theater Christmas festival
yesterday morning.
A noisily happy throng, excepting
those whose late arrival forced as
sembly with a crowd of wistful ones
at the door who were not so wistful
when candy distribution came the
children vociferously applauded every
thing, from Bill Hart and Fatty Ar
buckle screen deeds to Rev. Mr. Shorfs
very engaging talk. Miss Harriet
Leach's songs, be-whiskered Santa
Claus, and particularly the pretty girls
who distributed big boxes of chocolates
to them. Such appreciation and such
exhuberant happiness was sufficient
compensation for the many weary
hours spent by Manager Myrick and
his associates in preparing the affair.
The Liberty Theater Christmas show,
which promises to become a holiday
highlight for the juvenile population, i
was inaugurated last year by Manager
Myrick. and his ambition this season
was to make it more successful than
that or last year. Police restrictions
as to seating capacity minimized the
attendance, for nearly 2000 more
youngsters might have crammed their
way into the theater under ordinary
conditions, but in decorations, pro
gramme, and. what meant more to the
kiddies, a great, bigr box of candy, the
entertainment sets a mark that will
require herculean efforts to surpass
another season.
Globe Also Celebrates.
The Globe Theater was another
photoplay house to minister to the
children of Portland yesterday. Man
ager Marquard staging . a special
Christmas matinee for more than 1000
youngsters from 11 to 1 o'clock.
Christmas tree, Santa Claus, more
than 600 pounds of candy, and a spe
cial film programme greeted the young
folks. They sang. whistled and
cheered, and entered fully into the spir
it of the photoplay bill, which was a
"shootin' " combination, with Douglas
Fairbanks in "Headin' South" and Fat
ty Arbuckle in "Out West."
"Midnight Patrol" at liberty.
"The Midnight Patrol," tho Thomas
H. Ince special that is a picturization
of the famous old melodrama of that
everyday hero, the police detective,
opens an engagement today at the Lib
erty Theater. With it will be shown
"Perfectly Fiendish Flanigan," a. two
reel Montgomery Flagg satire.
Thurston Hall. Rosemary Theby.
Marjorie Bennett and William Mus
grave are among the players used by
Ince in making "The Midnight Pa
trol." Most of the action takes place
in and around San Francisco's China
town, with plotting and counterplot
ting of a corrupt ring of politicians
figuring prominently in tho swift
moving story.
Screen Gossip.
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Lionel Atwill. well-known stage
player who is supporting Frances Starr
on Broadway, is to be in an early Elsie
Ferguson picture.
They say Harry Carey used to bo a
lawyer, prizefighter, swimmer, miner
and engineer. Now he's a wild and
woolly screen cowboy.
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Als"o they say that Crane Wilbur was
once a butcher and Eddie Polo a Bar
num and Bailey trooper.
After four more pictures for Select,
Norma Talmadge is to go to First Na
tional for two years. She's to make
from 12 to 20 pictures in that period.
It is understood that she turned down
$7500 a week for this contract, which
places her with Charlie Chaplin. Mary
Pickford and Anita Stewart as a First
National attraction.
After having Charlie Ray an auto
mobile racer, baseball player and foot
racer. Tom Ince has billed him for a
prizefighter role. So Charlie has now
turned his quarters into a training
camp.
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Sol Lesser, prominent California ex
hibitor and distributor, has revived tho
talk of San Francisco as a center of
film distribution. He and associates
assert that they have bought much
land and will offer it to the biggest
men in the industry.
Los Angeles people ask: "Why tho
change?" They declare that there's
one rock near their much-boosted city
that has been photographed but twice,
hence the talk of need of new scenery
is the bunk.
A Motion Picture News correspond
ent, in commenting on the speed with
which Charlie Chaplin is turning out
pictures, writes from Hollywood:
"Charley Chaplin is said to have con
sidered' making another scene Jhls
week for a fillum. Sid Chaplin being a
very efficient general- manager, ees
to it that a new scene is made each
week, or at least some weeks.
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To meet tho demand of the people
to know more about tho war activi
ties of the Nation tho Government has
prepared and will begin tho release of
a series of two-reel pictures, announced
as the United States Army series, each
of which takes up a phase of tho war
and pictorializes it with detail. The
new pictures are presented by the
division of film of the committee on
public information.
KAIL-WAY SEEDLD FOR RELIEF
Charles It. Crane Says Russia Faces
Serious Condition.
SEATTLE, Dec. 24. Charles R. Crane,
former member of the Root commis
sion to Russia, just back from Siberia
suid the Orient, said today: "No one
knows anything about Russia; it is a
tragedy. There are two things which
stand out distinctly, which are des
perately needed maintenance of the
trans-Siberia Railway and tho abso
lute need of Russia for relief."
Men who possessed great knowledge
of Russia prior to the war and even
luring her share in the war, Mr. Crane
believes, cannot give reliable views on
the country now. To supply food and
relief and save the country from a
langerous position, he said, the trans
Siberian Railway must be improved
and kept in steady operation.
regiments of National Guard until
after the divisions into which they had
been merged return from France. It
would seem desirable, ho thought, that
men to be discharged from those divi
sions be given a chance to re-enlist in
the Guard. This would enable the
reconstituted regiments to be in fact
as well as in name a continuation of
the old organizations with every right
to carry the names of tho historic bat
tles in France of Chateau Thierry, tho
second Marne, the Ourcq, the Vesle. St.
Mihiel, Argonne Forest, Sedan. Cote
Chatillion and other places the divi
sions made famous, on their banners.
Astoria Celebrates in Song.
ASTORIA. Or., Dec. 24. (Special.)
Astoria's celebration of Christmas be
gan at 6:30 this evening when a party
of 200 carolers visited the various sec
tions of the city singing Yuletlde an
thems. Later In the evening a com
munity sing and Christmas tree with
appropriate exercises was held at the
Liberty Temple.
Oswego Man in German Prison.
OSWEGO, Or., Dec. 24. (Speclal.)-
Mrs. Quiggley has received word,
through the Portland Red Cross, that
her son, Thomas Quiggley, had been
located in a German prison, but re
cently was released. Mrs. Quiggley
had not heard from her son for three
months, and is most grateful for the
information furnished.
IY IS SOUGHT
BY ALLIED NATIONS
Uniform Principles to Guide
Organization of League.
LASTING PEACE IS URGED
International Body Vrgcs America
and British Societies to Meet
In Common Agreement.
PARIS, Dec. 24. (By the Associated
Presa.) An international organization
has been formed to secure uniformity
of principles respecting a league of
nations, for presentation to the peace
congress.
This action follows Premier rMmn-
ceau's recent suggestion to Leon Bour
geois ana Baron d Estournelles do Con
stant that the advocates of a league of
nations should reconcile their differ
ences and present a. common front be
fore the peace congress.
An international bureau accordingly
has been established wjth offices in
the Boulevard St. Germain, for the nor.
pose of reaching an accord between
tne British. French. American. Italian
and all other national organs support
ing the league.
It Is expected that three separate
English societies will be consolidated
under the presidency of Sir Edward
Grey.
Three Italian societies, at Rome. Mi
lan and Turin, will be similarly con
solidated.
The Initial meeting, held last night.
To Our Friends, Patrons
and Employes
A Merry Christmas and a
Happy Christmas replete
with all the sentiments of
a Yuletide made doubly
joyous by the blessing's
of peace and plenty.
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was for the purpose of arranging plans
for the harmonizing of viewpoints into
one Joint declaration of principles. A
telegram has been forwarded to the
American and British societies with
the purpose of establishing a common
agreement.
M. Bourgeois raid the differences at
the meeting largely were detailed and
that they would be reconciled little
by little, until the Influence of the ses
sions became world-wide as regards a
joint declaration before the peace con
ference. It is understood the representatives
of all nations have virtually agreed on
the principles of compulsory arbitra
tion and the limitation of armaments
and that tho chief differences requiring
reconciliation are the economic penal
tics to bo enforced against nations
makinc war and whether the mainte
nance of peace shall be enforced by
military measures.
Headache Tablets Near-Fatal.
Captain Stanley H. Black, of Camp
Lewis, is In a critical condition In the
Good Samaritan Hospital as result of
swallowing an overdose of headache
tablets. Inspectors Goltz and Howell
investigated the case and pronounced
it an accident.
GUARD MAY BE WIPED OUT
ARMY OFFICERS SAY FXIVER
SAL SF.RVICK MAY COME.
Secretary of War Says States Should
Wait ITntil Men Return Before
Trying to Reorganize.
WASHINGTON". Dec. 24. If Congress
determines to continue the National
Guard as the Army reserve of the Na
tion, Secretary Baker said today, the
Guard service will have to be recon
stituted from the ground up. Federali
zation of the Guard for war service.
, the AVar Department has held on the
opinion of Brigadier-General Samuel T.
Ancell. Acting Judge Advocate-General,
will wipe out of existence the Federal
ized regiments. When the men are dis
charged they will return to civilian
life without any obligation either -to
the Federal or state governments to
continue In National Guard service.
ilr. Baker expressed a belief that
the problem of the National Guard
movement is bound up closely with
what Congress may do later in fram
ing legislation to establish a perma
nent military policy. Should some
system of universal military, training
be worked out. Army officers said, it
is probable that the National Guard
would cease to exist. The War Depart
ment has not as yet made any recom
mendations on the subject.
There are many National Guard
units organized since the war by tho
various states which are not affected
by the War Department's ruling. In
some cases Federal recognition has
been obtained, bringing the units under
the federalization sections of the act
of 1916.
Mr. Baker said he anticipated that
state authorities generally would not
attempt to reconstitute any of the old
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