Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 185, 22 June 1916 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1916

NAVY TO BLOCKADE MEXICAN COAST

WASHINGTON. June 22. While the higher officials waited for the official reports, the various subordinate , branches of the war and navy department were getting everything In readiness for a speedy general offensive. The naval preparations for a complete blockade of the Mexican coast already are complete. All that is needed to make them effective is the eigning of the orders in readiness on the desk of Secretary' Daniels.

STATE WILL REST ORPET CASE TODAY

WAUKEGAN, III, June 22. The state expected to conclude its evidence today in the case of Will Orpet, University of Wisconsin student, on trial for the murder of Marian Lambert, by driving home the blow that would ,make such an impression on the jury that nothing that might follow from the defense would have any effect on the minds of the twelve men. This blow was concealed in the batch of love letters that Orpet wrote his school girl sweetheart, and which have been In the possession of the court ever since they were turned over by the girl's father. There were sixty more of these missives and their 'reading will probably take up most of the day's session.

RECRUIT REGIMENT

QUINCY, 111., June 22 A concerted movement to recruit the Fifth infantry up to war strength was begun today under the supervision of commercial bodies, in every city in the territory covered by that military organization. The Fifth was not ordered out last Monday because its membership was too small and the Aurora regiment substituted.

FRENCH FALL BACKNEAR VAUX FORTS

RUSSIANS DEFEAT GERMAN ATTACKS

; PETROGRAD. June 22 Fighting between the Russians and Austroi German armies is now In progress ovi er a front of 550 miles. The troops of jboth General Kuropatkln and General iHrusiloss are now engaged. Despite ! the tremendous efforts of the Germans ! to save the Austro-Hungarian army the Russians continue to make some progress.

MELPOLDER CALLED TO ARKANSAS POST

An offer was received today by John Melpolder, general secretary of the

Social service bureau, to assume the! 'uperlntendency of the Children's! ftlonje Society at Little Rock, Ark.; TThe headquarters are at Morilton, ! Urk. Mr. Melpolder said today that! Tie is taking the offer under advise-' rnenf. The position affords an in-' t rense over the salary lie is being paid ty the local rorial service board.

OFFICIALS TO MEET ON LIGHT SYSTEM

Street Commissioner Knollenberg was today ordered to cut weeds in various parts of the city: A resolution for the paving of the first alley south . of Main street between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets was rescinded by the board today when a remonstrance signed by seven of the .nine resident property owners was filed. The board was also petitioned to withdraw six names signed to a remonstrance against curbs and gutters and a permanent paving for Southwest Third street, National avenue to Southwest E street. Next Tuesday afternoon was fixed as the date of the joint meeting of the board and the property owners committee to consider the kind of lamps and standards for the central business district ornamental lighting system. A resolution for the paving of the alley between North Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, B to C streets, was confirmed.

PARIS, June 22. Furious Infantry assaults were delivered by the Germans last night on both sides of the Meuse river on the Verdun front The war office in its communique today admitted that the Germans after' two determined attacks south and west of Vaux, succeeded in penetrating the advanced trenches of the French between Fumin and Chenois woods. Another strong assault was made by the Germans against the new French position on the southern slope of Le Mort Homme, but it was repulsed.

MENZE IS INJURED

Boys and firecrackers caused a near runaway and a more or less serious accident to Edward Menze, South Eleventh street, driver of a dairy wagon, this morning. Firecrackers exploding in front of the horse Menze was driving caused the animal to bolt. Menze who was carrying several milk bottles in his hand fell and glass of a broken bottle cut a deep gash in his arm. The artery was severed and Menze lost considerable blood before a physician stopped the flow.

BAILEY ARRANGES

STATE PHONE MEET

EQUIPMENT

EATON, O., June 22. Militiamen from Dayton came this morning and loaded the equipment from the local armoiy on a car. which will take it to Dayton, to be distributed among men who enlist for Mexican service.

RAILROAD OFFICIALS CAN HANDLE TROOPS

CHICAGO, June 22. "The railroads of the country are prepared for anything they may be required to do in the movement of troops," said E. P. Ripley, president of the Sante Fe railroad. "We could dump soldiers on the border at the rate of 50,000 a day," he continued. "We could pick them up in Chicago and set them down in Texas, 1,500 miles away, in fifty hours, if necessary. Of course, if Uncle Sam insists on sleeping cars for everybody things would not move so rapidly."

GEN. SCOTT ORDERS MILITIA TO HURRY

W. M. Bailey, of the Richmond

Home Telephone company has return

ed from Indianapolis where he attended the meeting of the executive

committee in charge of the annual

convention of the State telephone as

bociation. The state convention is to

bo held at the Claypool Hotel, Indi

anapolis, September 14 and 15.

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WASHINGTON. June 22 Orders to report immediately the completion of

mobilization were sent to all commanding officers of the National Guard divisions by General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff, at 9 o'clock this morning. General Scott said this was preliminary to ordering all units that were ready to take the field immediately to proceed to the border and report to General Funston. General Scott said, on arriving at his office from Ft. Meyer that he expected a large proportion of the National Guard would be enroute to San Antonio or any threatened point before nightfall.

PROMISE TO PUNISH MEXICAN OFFICERS

WASHINGTON, June 22 The entire armed strength of the United States army and navy will be used to punish those responsible for the Carrizal battle if it shall develop that the American troops were ambushed as the early advices indicate. "If Gomez attacked the Americans in response to orders from his superiors, then General Carranza will be held responsible and the de facto government will be crushed." That was the position taken in official circles today. No orders have been issued by the war department.

ARRANGE ASSESSMENT FOR COUNTY BANKS

Miss Georgiana M. Bishop of Brooklawn Country Club, has done some wonderful things in her career as a golfer, winning among other events the national and metropolitan championships and setting any number of records. The victory which she scored over Mrs. W. A. Gavin, of England, in the semi-final round of the nctropolitan tourney always will rank with the best accomplishments of her career.

Banks and trust companies of

Wayne county will 'be assessed at 75 per cent of their capital stock, surplus and undivided profits. County Auditor Bowman rvas instructed by the board of review to examine the return sheets of the banking institutions and make a report to the board at a future meeting. Last year the same per cent of valuation was used by the beard of review in making the final assessment. Total assessment of all banks and trust' companies last year was $1,406,3S0 o which over $1,000,000 represented banks in Richmond.

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FUNSTON CALLS FOR: ADDITIONAL MEN

SAX AXTONIO. Tex., June 22. Major General Funston today telegraphy ed to the war department an earnest request to send troops to the border as rapidly as possible. He is parUc-, ularlv desirous that all available cavalry be furnished immediately in order, that the regular cavalry regiments, may be sent to reinforce General Pershing. j J. A. BERST TALKS OF PROPOSED AUTHOR'S UNION

CONVENTION ADJOURNS MUNCIE. June 22 A closer organization of Sunday school workers will grow out, of the Indiana Sunday school association convention, which closed here this afternoon. The meeting attracted over 1.500 persons, the largest number that has attended a state Sunday school convention.

A BEAUTY SHOW? Aunt Your bride, my dear boy, i wealthy and all that, but I don't think she'll make much of a beauty show at the altar. Nephew You don't, eh? Just wait till you see her with the bridesmaids he hu selected. - .

Anna Nilsson's Magnificent Wardrobe. Even those who have acquired "war brides'.' and raised "war babies" that return all sorts of munificent dividends seldom have the chance to see $50,000 worth of women's clothes hanging on comparatively few hooks in a casual sort of way. In some of the modish Fifth Avenue shops in New York one can. of course, see a half million dollars' worth of clothes waiting for wearers. But not often does $50,000 worth get itself into one room for the use of just one woman. Yet in the dressing room of Miss Anna Nilsson, one of the stars of "Who's Guilty?", the new Pathe series, there are gowns whose cost rivals the salary of the President of the United ' States. All of these gowns were designed exclusively for Miss Nilsson's use in the "Who's Guilty?" series by Hicltson, modiste of New York's Four Hundred. They range from the flimsiest silver-trimmed chiffons to fur-topped silks. To a mere man their cost seems to run in inverse ratio to their weight the less there is of them the more they cost. But Miss Nilsson is thoroughly at heme in all this luxury. A deft little maid as blonde and nearly as pretty as Miss Nilsson herself does nothing but take care of them before Miss Nilsson wears them, and after she returns them at night. There they hang under a cheap muslin cloth, the sharpest contrast in the world; a

j king's ransom protected by a few yards of shoddy. i-jjecs In the adjoining room to this wardrobe is Miss Nilsson's real dressing-room. It is anything but what one would expect of an actress unless one knows that actresses are not all they're painted. A neater, simpler, "homier," and more comfortable rocm could not be imagined. Everything has its place and is in its place. Even the chairs take 6n the primness with which the whole room seems endowed. And on the walls are no smokestained portraits of prize-ring heroes or scented reminders of the dance. Just above Miss Nilsson's dressing-table is a splendid photographic reproduction of one of Sorolla's charming Burf pictures, every figure seemingly as alive as if humans actually were posing for a second in tho frame. Bordering this are copies in sepia of two fjord pictures of Nordstrom, the great Swedish painter, who comes from Helsingfors, where Miss Nilsson was born. Flanking these and all about are photographs of the world's greatest marble statues. On the dressing-table, in a beautiful gold frame, is a marble effigy of Dante. Seeming out of place in such delicate surroundings, on another wall, hangs a huge, two-handed sword such as the Crusaders carried almost a thousand years ago. And, sure enough, this is a family heirloom of Miss Nilsson on her mother's side, whose hard-fighting English ancestors went forth against the Saracens in the days when war meant individual combat. And right here enters Miss Nilsson's one superstition: She will not permit her dressing-room at the Arrow studios to be photographed. Every effort and every trick kDOwn to the persuasive camera man has been used to get her permission for a series of pictures of her in this charming work-room. So far Miss Nilsson has defied every attempt. Some day well, some day she may change her very charming feminine mind.

NAVAL RESERVES OUT CARNIVAL ATTRACTS

NY TO GROUND

CHICAGO, June 22 Orders have been issued by Commander McMunn, of the Illinois naval reserve, to the commanding officers of the different, units in the state to hold their commands in readiness for mobilization. Orders calling for the reserve are expected by Commander McMunn. ,

BODY OF MRS. EHLER TAKEN TO WEST ALEX.

The Printers have already cleared ; their exnenses incidental to hrincinc '.

the carnival here and Ray Howells, j

cnairman of tne committee, says the Union will clear $200 as its commission by the end of the week. This money will be used in sending a delerate to the National convention in

Baltimore in the early fall. An aerial I free act was added to the amusement !

company last, night and the grounds am all brilliantly illuminated with electric lights.

JACKSON IS NAMED

MUNCIE. Ind., June 22. E. A. Hasemeier of Richmond was elected president of the state Sunday School convention today. Ed. Jackson, of New Castle, was chosen vice-president Over 2200 persons attended the convention, the largest ever held.

WEST ALEXANDRIA. O., June 23. The body of Mrs. Kate l- ' r Henessey, Okla., formerly of this city, will arrive here Friday morning una be taken to the home of John E. Rosellus. Funeral arrangements have not. been completed. She was the mother of Mrs. Mary Emerick of Payton, and Joe. Fred anri !-- of Gerry. Okla Harry Copp of the firm of Frank Copp & faon, .ue . er of a new seven-passenger automobile. Baby Girl Born to Ungers. Bruce Mcnosmith was at Richmond Wednesday. . . .Mr. and Mrs. Fdward Unger are the parents of a baby girl, and a boy has been born to .Mr, auu Mrs. Roy Heddinger The union revival services, conducted in the' tabernacle by " Rev. Long are " well attended. . .

GETS $350,258 INSURANCE

INDIANAPOLIS. June 22.The largest amount paid on ths life of an insured man last year in Indiana was paid to the heirs of Churles Sidwaj', of Elkhart. His heirs received $350,j 258, according to the Insurance Press.

3,000 IRISHMEN ARRESTED. LONDON, June 22. Three thousand persons were arrested in Ireland in connection with the Sein Fein uprising, it was announced in Parliament today. Of these 1,200 had been released.

SLOGAN FOR ENDEAVORERS

CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. June 22. 1 The elogan of the delegates of the! Christian Endeavor society of the U. I B. churchs of the White River branch, i

in session here, is "Mobilize, Vitalize and Evangelize." Many speakers addressed today's session.

The United States " last year produced 221,537 tons of briquettes from waste coal.

For the benefit of designers London has established a furniture museum.

MRS. BARR IS OFFICER.

Mrs. Martha Barr. Richmond is

treasurer of the Indiana Missionary Association of the Universalist church j and will attend the annual rally which

opens m Anaerson tomorrow.

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The latest attempt to pilfer from the motion picture industry a Portion

! of some of the vast profits wmcn t i popularly supposed to be getting was ! indicated In the New York papers of

recent date. According to the storyj the "Author's League of America." ofj which Winston Churchill is the presi-1 dent, and Theodore Roosevelt tha ice-president, is considering the advisability of Joining the American Federation of Labor with the express purpose of "bringing the moving picture men to time" by holding them up for ten per cent, of the profits of a picture, this ten per cent, to be paii the author of the story, idea or scenario from which the picture is made. Thompson Buchanan, secretary of the Executive Committee, is reported to have said that any picture which nets

I the producer or distributor $35.00.

should pay me aumui at ist One of the arguments advanced is that "an author gets from $500 to( $1,500 for an idea or scenario which' costs the producer not more than $15.000 to prepare for use and from which he reaps not less than $35,000." A3 a lever for their arguments the disgruntled scribes plan to make use of the cameramen and mechanicians who are now affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. 7. Thus if the picture manufacturer does not accede to their terms they expect to

call out their fellow union men the camera men et al and tie up the plant as tight as a drum.

Mr. J. A. Berst, vice-president and j general manager of Pathe, when tho: above statements were ca'.led to his attention, refused to be alarmed. "In the first piece," he said, "the; author's argument rests upon a false ; premise. . They take no account of the picture which does not pay its way and which represents a less and not a proUt. We would bs only too j glad to buy at a high price any and I eveYy idea for a picture to cost not '., more than $15. COO that would positively give to us net profits of $35.-! 000, but it can't be? done. The value'

of a story for picture purposes i3 a gxmble. and the picture itself is a gamble. Who takes the risk, the author or the producer? The author

spends the time of one man, himself.

for a week or so. The producer : spends six or seven weeks or more upon a feature ' p;c',urc, with high! priced players and with extras, cam- j eramen, property men, all drawing j salaries and fattening the overhead upon that picture. It costs about '

thirty per cent, to market a feature in addition to the producing cost which is never as low as $13,000, for a good production with first class players. In view of thi6 cost the author receiving ten per cent, of tho profits would earn less money than he does on the basis of the present plan, and as many features actually lose money, on such pictures he

would get nothing for his wo;k. It strikes me that $3,500 is an exces-l sive price for the idea for one fea-' ture picture. We have frequently paid high prices for the picture rights to some well-known book or play, but in those Instances we were also buying the publicity which naturally is a part of 6uch a work through its popularity with many persons. "It is stated that the Author's League now numbers 1209 members, and that it is expected by the end of the year there will be 3,000, which number is supposed to include practl-' cally all the scenario writers. The :

motion picture business has reared . up its own school of dramatists, and I fall to see where the business would !

have to be dependent upon any author's association. There neither is nor can be any monopoly of writing talent that is a field of human endeavor that is open to any one. The famous writer frequently fall down when he writes for the screen, for the requirements of the art differ

from those of the stage, the short j story or the novel. '

"Finally, let me reassure the Au- j thor's League as to the fabulous pro-1 fits in the motion picture business. They don't exist, press reports to tht contrary."

The thistle and the caterpillar have been eliminated from New Zealand by the English sparrow.

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