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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1919
Page
8
Motion picture notes review Rex Deacie's film at the Alta theatre with Frank McIntyre and Alex French in key roles. The plot follows Norman Dalrymple known as Dimples, a former football star who faces scorn before proving himself, amid romantic and military service pressures, with Helen Brewster and Peach officers shaping his arc.
The Arcades Theatre hosts a show of Sporting Life a melodrama featuring John Earl of Woodstock and Noraly Cavanagh. Woodstock wagers big sums on a horse and faces a villain who dupes him. Lady Love wins the Derby and Woodstock’s schemes collapse as a rescue ends the plot with a large cash payoff.
In Princeton New Jersey on June 16 Professor Audie Trawbridge presented the sound ranging service used to locate enemy artillery. The demonstration, backed by the Army and private departments, highlighted photographic charts and acoustic devices credited to the Second American Army.
The article describes devices that record artillery sounds and automatically develop photographic charts. In about two minutes these instruments determine the exact position, target, and caliber of enemy guns and could transmit the information by telephone to American batteries waiting to respond.
The fragment mentions Indiana travel and a planned flight to Valparaiso and South Bend, Indiana, hinting at a transportation or schedule detail. It references two Indiana cities and a Friday event related to machine-operated travel.
June 14 dispatch reports letters among League of Protection officials regarding a 20 000 mark remittance to Motland for cultivating the Dutch area. The note urges faster action on propaganda amid Entente plans to have the ex-emperor surrendered.
June 14 Edward F Dunne former Governor of Illinois and Frank P Walsh of Kansas City visited Paris as delegates sent by PrIs societies in the United States. They were moved by the sight of the rubble and admired residents for repairing homes and rehiring shopkeepers and manufacturers to resume work. Dunne said he would report to the Chicago committee to aid the revival of Ethelma.
June 16 report from Chicago notes the threat of rail worker strikes subsiding with little service interruption. Officials claim many have quit and the railroad can replace them with U.S. workers. A Chicago clothing firm began air deliveries to nearby cities including Kankakee and Champaign with two planes and former aviators operating. Further flights planned to Danville and Lafayette if needed to ensure emergency shipments.
A Paris vision correspondent reports Marshal Parkis sent an ultimatum to Germany demanding immediate disclosure of a line from Fietiin as Path troops move across Germany, halting the movement.
Washington June 14 reports reductions in summer and holiday excursion rates have been ordered by Rahmad Director Hines to facilitate the largest troop movement in U S history. He denies special trains for New York fight fans heading to Trebek to witness a Florid-Demmeeny bout as similar discounts are withdrawn in other cities.
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