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'-. I X THE MORNIXG OREGONIAJf, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1919. S12.000.000 FIGHT OVER WILL SETTLED Compromise Reached in Con test Over Fair Estate. TERMS ARE KEPT SECRET cerning the murder of American avia tors, Lieutenants Cecil Connolly and Frederick Waterhouse. whose bodies were found burled In the sand on the Baya de Los Angeles. Lower Califor nia, according to testimony at a hear ing here today. The testimony was given by Joe Allen Richards of Chicago, the Amer ican who discovered the bodies Sep tember 21 last. The hearing was con ducted by Major Dan M. Jackson of EI Paso, secretary of the senate sub committee Investigating Mexican af fairs. Richards testified to finding the bodies when he landed -from a Mex ican steamer to get water. He said the captain of the steamer warned him not to make public his discovery and that later he was arrested at Santa Rosalie on September 25, be cause he had not kept his discovery to himself. BAKER FREES ONLY TRAITOR IN ARMY Lawrence Perlmutter Es capes 20-Year Sentence. Daughters of ex-Senator and One Grandson Are Principal Heir9 to Vast Fortune. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 26. A com promise agreement in the contest over the will of the late James G. Fair ex-United States Senator from Neva da, was filed here today in the su perior court, ending years of lltiga tion over the great estate. The terms of the settlement were not made pub lice, all the persons connected with the contest refusing to divulge the amount involved. In the agreement reached today. the principal heirs of Senator Fair, who are his dauehters. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Herman Oel richs, and her son, Herman Oelrichs Jr., concede that the plaintiffs, seven in number, are entitled to be re stored to their rights under the Fair will. Lieutenant Wesley E. Crothers, chief of the plaintiffs in the contest, started an action about a year ago claiming that the portion of the es tate which should have gone to his mother, Margaret Fair Crothers of San Jose, was lost to her through the supreme court decision which broke the Fair will. Kx-Justlce Denied Bribe. During the contest, depositions were taken alleging that Fred W. Hen thaw, ex-supreme court justice, had taken a bribe of $400,000 for influ encing the supreme court's decision. These charges were denied categori cally and in toto by Henshaw. Besides Lieutenant Wesley Crothers. who formerly was in the Canadian army, the plaintiffs were Mrs. Vir ginia M. Trimble, Mrs. Emma J. Young. William J. Fair. Miss Eva Lena Fair, John A. Fair and Miss Florence Fair. Lieutenant Crothers' mother was a sister f Senator Fair. The other plaintiffs are sons and (laughters of William Fair, brother of the senator. The defendants in the suit, who compromised today, besides Mrs. Van derbilt, Mrs. Oelrichs and Herman Oelrichs Jr., grandson of Fair, are Muriel and Consuelo Vanderbilt, the daughters of Mrs. Vanderbilt and granddaughters of Fair; Mrs. Will iam K. Vanderbilt, son of Virginia Vanderbilt; James S. Angus and Thomas G. Crothers, executors of Fair's will and trustees of the estate, and Frederick W. Henshaw, former justice of the California supreme court. Estate Is fl,00O,O00. When Senator Fair died in the early 90's, his estate was variously esti mated at between $12,000,000 and $20. 000.000. The will established a trust com prising the entire estate and pro vided that his three children, Charles Fair, Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Oel richs, should receive the entire in come from this trust during their lives. Upon the death of the last of his three children one-half the entire property, it was provided, should be given outright to his grandchildren, and the other half divided equally between all his brothers and sisters and such children of theirs as might be alive when the trust terminated. Charles Fair and his wife were killed in an automobile accident near Paris several years ago. Of the brothers and sisters of Sen ator Fair, only one, Edward Fair, is alive now. LIBEL CASE ENDS TODAY $50,000 SUIT WILL GO TO JURY ABOCT 10:30. Closing Arguments Are Made and Instructions Will Be Delivered by Court This Morning. After arguments consuming two and a half days, the $50,000 libel suit of Alzamon Ira Lucas against the Even ing Telegram will get to the jury about 10:30 this morning. All the evi- ence was In last Tuesday morning. ut the resume of attorneys for both ides and interference of the Christ mas holiday caused the delay in put ting the case in the hands of the urors. Harrison Allen, attorney for the elegram. argued for two hours yes- erday morning, and Nelson R. Jacob- sen, lawyer for Lucas, spent close to hree hours in the afternoon In clos- ng. When he imishea at o:zu, Ulr- cuit Judge Tucker asked the jurors they preferred getting their in ductions from the court then or his morning. The majority favored his morning. It will take about an our to deliver the instructions, so that the jury will not retire for de liberations before 10:30. The jurors are: Isaac Turple. An- rew Gordon, John D. Bodley, John E. Kennedy. Patrick Haley, Edwin Waldrip, Alexander E. Muir, Edwin Rayworth, Thomas Ward, Alfred Wanless, John W. Lankin and Earl W. English. INFORMATION GIVEN HUNS Amenican Officer Overhears An saver to Captors- Fellow Prison ers Hostile to Man. advised by some of their representa tives In foreign countries to put the soft pedal on Old Glory In films for foreign consumption. One of these representatives In London today said he had cautioned his company man agers about the necesBlty of cutting out the flag waving episodes, which have been so conspicuous. Here and in some of the continental countries there is a growing agitation against American films on the ground that they are propaganda. What has accentuated the feeling is that many American war dramas are now being dumped on the European market. As Great Britain's film diet is 90 per cent American, and as the Stars and Stripes wave in a large number of war and other varieties of films, It Is causing a growing resentment. Murmurs of disapproval have be come more audible in the British cinema theaters and there have been strong protests in the press. Since America's failure to ratify the peace treaty these flag bedecked films have been less popular than ever. LOTTERY CASE DISMISSED COURT HOLDS LAW VIOLATION IS TECHNICAL. Gresham Fair Automobile Drawing Indictments Against Eastman and Rosenthal Disposed Of. Convinced that violation of the lot- ery statute by the Gresham fair au omobile raffle had been technical and unintentional. Presiding Judge Gatens of the circuit court yesterday dismissed indictments against O. A. Eastman and M. Rosenthal. As promoters of the raffle, the two men were indicted by the grand jury ast month, following complaints that the drawing of prizes had been illegal and without reference to guesses on attendance at the fair, which pur- hasers of tickets were supposed to make. A guessing contest would have come within the law, but the drawing of the winning ticket from a barrel later, irrespective of the guesses, put the affair in the lottery class. During the war numerous raffles which came easily under the classifi cation of a lottery were held in Port- and for charitable purposes and the practice continued up to the last Rose Festival. Judge Gatens was not dis posed to make an example of the men ndicted for . the reason, he asserted, that they were acting in apparent good faith. F1UME WEARY OF POET PEOPLE WANT SETTLED CON DITIONS IN TOWN. Italian newspaper comment on Situation Is Censored, but Question Still Is Vital. ROME, Dec. 26. Fiume continues to monopolize most of the Italian newspapers which are rather imper fectly informed concerning the devel opments there, but which declare that the residents of the Adriatic town have become tired of Gabriele d'An- nunzio and want its future definitely decided. The Messaggero says: 'Amid so many proposals, the peo pie of Fiume are tired and are in voking a speedy solution of the sit uation which will give them freedom and at the same time an immediate return to work and tranquillity." The Giornale d'ltalia appears today with 228 lines censored. This Is un der the heading, "Communication From Command at Fiume." Com menting on the situation the Giornale d'ltalia says: "Premier Nitti Is leaving the begin ningr of January for Paris. If the big question is settled from the internal viewpoint will this help him with the allies? WELL CLOSED BY MEXICO Large American Property in Tarn pico Suppressed by Order. WASHINGTON. Dec. 26. Another American oil well, one of the larges in the Tampico region, has been closed by order of the Mexican gov ernment, the state department was advised today. The well, it was reported, had been producing for more than a year, and was drilled In strict compliance with all the regulations in force at tha time. J AVIATOR CROSSES RANGE Captain Smith Makes Queensland on Cross-Ocean Flight. LONDON, Dec. 26. Captain Ross Smith, Australian aviator who re cently completed a flight from Eng land to Australia, has landed at Charleville, Queensland, after safe ly negotiating the formidable Moun Owen range, according to advice from Sydney. His machine was in a damaged con dltion, the advices added. MEXICAN CENSORS LOSE American Refuses to Keep Officers Mnrder Secret. EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 26. Mexican officials sought te repress facts con NEW YORK. Dec. 26. Secretary of War Baker today remitted the 20-year sentence imposed upon Private Law rence Perlmutter of New York, the only member of the American expedi tionary force to be convicted of trea son, according to wopd received from Washington by Representative Isaac Siegel of New York, who Interested himself in the lad's case. Perlmutter, who served in the med ical department, ninth infantry, sec ond division, was convicted of having supplied military information of value to the Germans while a prisoner of war. He was court-martialed In Coblenz after having rejoined ?he American army after the armistice, and his sentence was approved by general headquarters. According 'to Mr. Siegel. who went over the record in the case with I'ro-vost-Marshal General Crowder, it vas not shown that the answers which Perlmutter gave the Germans were true, and only one witness. Captain William H. Gordon, captured with him. testified against him, whereas two witnesses are needed before an American can be legally convicted of treason. In taking up the case with the war department Mr. Siegel referred to the fact that the youth bore on one wrist three scars of wounds which had been inflicted at his own request by a Canadian officer, a fellow prisoner, to prevent the Germans from sending him to the mines. Mr. Siegel argued that had Perlmutter supplied his cap tors with valuable information they probably would not have wished te give him such treatment. Mr. Siegel said that when captured with Captain Gordon on April 14, 1918. Perlmutter had been in the sec tor only ten days, and at his court martial he contended he did not know the locations of the various units of his regiment. Captain Gordon, a na tive of Findlay, O., a resident of New York, and once a student at the Uni versity of Michigan, testified that while lying on a cot he had overheard through a wall German officers ques tion Perlmutter and the latter give the locations. Mr. Siegel took up the case when Perlmutter returned to this country last September en route to Fort Leav enworth to begin his sentence. He said Perlmutter at his trial had denied the report current at the time of his court-martial that he was in love with a German girl. The record in the case could not be found for four months, according to Mr. Siegel, who said that after having taken the matter up with General Crowder. the latter had recommended to Mr. Baker the sentence be cut to five years. Mr. Baker, in wiping out the entire sentence, wrote a long opinion on the case, according to Mr. Siegel. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. Evidences of hostility toward the defendant by his fellow prisoners, noted by Judge Advocate General Crowder, in review ing the case of Private Lawrence Perlmutter, were taken into consid eration in ordering that the 20-year sentence Imposed on the soldier be remitted. Secretary Baker said in ap proving General Crowder's report. GREEK CANDY MEN HELD ATTACK ON FORMER SOLDIERS IS ALLEGED. Defendants Placed Under $750 Bail Each. Pending Trial; Auto matic Pistol Is Used. Sam Mekas and Gus Mekas, Greek proprietors of the Busy Bee candy store, 283 Morrison street, were ar rested late yesterday by Detectives Phillips and Tackaberry on warrants charging attack with a dangerous weapon, following an escapade in which the two men are said to have held four ex-service men at the point of an automatic pistol while the police were summoned. The four who make the charges are Charles Hall and John Ramage. 2604 Broadway, and M. A. Willis and P. V. Kerrick. 336 San Rafael street. The Greeks were held on $750 bail each. According to the story of the affair as told by the ex-service men, they were standing on the walk in front of the Busy Bee store when the pro prietors of the place became engaged in a controversy with two other men in the place. Shortly afterwards the two men left and went down the street, one of them later coming back and throwing a missile through the window. Apparently in the belief that the ex-service men had something to do with the controversy or with the throwing of the missile, the Greeks" are said to have forced them into the shop and held them at the point of an automatic pistol while the police were summoned. HIGHER GAS RATES ASKED SEATTLE COMPANY FILES AP PLICATION FOR INCREASE. STEEL STRIKERS FIRM Cleveland Union Decides to Stay Out Until Issue Is Won. CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 26. Fifteen hundred steel men voted unanimously tonight to continue on strike and to remain away from their employment until the strike is won, or officially declared off by the national officers. The decision was reached after they had heard the report of two of their number who had been sent to Pitts burgh to confer with W. Z. Foster, national secretary of the steel strik ers. Mr. Foster said that it was his opinion that the men were making winning fight and that the com plaint of shortage of steel was evi dence of it. The strikers also ousted from of fice John Kawiatkowski, vice-presi dent, and Joseph Mroczek, correspond ing secretary, who had recommended to the local that It call off the strike. FALL OFF BRIDGE KILLS Bootblack, Who Says He AVas Thrown Off Span, Dies. A. Cridellone, bootblack, who was arrested In Marquam gulch last Tuesday morning ana who told a story of having been robbed of $40, beaten and thrown off the Front- street bridge over the gulch, died yes terday at St. Vincent's hospital. Police were inclined to doubt Cridel- lone's story following an Investiga tion made by Detectives Pat Maloney and Bob La Salle, Cridellone had been staying at the home of A. Capri, 231 Sheridan street. Capri told the police that Cridellone had been making threats to throw himself off the bridge. Deputy Coroner Calkins announced last night that Cridellone died as the result of a fractured skull. SLEEPERS TO BE ADDED O.-W. R. & N. SERVICE TO AID GRAYS HARBOR LUMBERMEN. Steamer Harvest Queen to Be Re stored to Portland - AMoria Run Beginning Sunday. Effective Sunday night, a standard sleeping car service will be re-estab lished by the O.-W. R. & N. company on the Grays Harbor line, in response to a need that is closely allied with the growth of Portland as a lumber ing center. "The sleeper service," said William McMurray, general passenger agent, "will be a great convenience and time-saver to lumbermen of the Grays Harbor district, who are constantly visiting Portland. By its use they will be enabled to spend the day in this city and return home that night, arriving in the morning." The sleepers will be of 12-section, single drawing room capacity and will be handled: Portland to Hoqulam, train No. 564, leaving Portland 11 P. M., thence to Centralia and Centralla to Hoqulam; train No. 43, arriving Aberdeen 6 A. M. and Hoquiam 7:15 A. M. ; and, returning, leave Hoquiam, train No. 44, at 10:30 P. M., leaving Aberdeen 10:45 P. M., thence to Cen tralia and Centralia to Portland, train No. 563, due Portland 6:45 A. M. Also effective Sunday, the O.-W. R. & N. company will restore the steam er Harvest Queen to the Portland Astoria run, operating on a tri-week-ly schedule, as follows: Leave Port land 8 P. M. Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; arrive Astoria 5 A.M. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Leave Astoria 7 P. M. Mondays, W ednesdays and Fridavs: arrive Port land 7 A. M. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The steamer will lay over in Portland from Saturdav mornine until Sunday evening and will not stop at St. Helens in either direction. 2 0 Per Cent Rise Is Wanted Be cause of Increased Costs of Op eration, Says Company. OLYMPIA. Wash., Dec. 26. (Spe cial.) Increases in gas rates in the city of Seattle ranging from 20 to 23 per cent are asked by the Seattle Lighting company in a new tariff filed by the company with the public service commission today. The rates are graduated according to amount of consumption. The new rates asked by the com pany put the cost of the first thou sand feet at $1.50 instead of $1.20; 2000 feet will cost $3 Instead of $2-45: the additional thousand feet up to 5000 will be cost $1.30 instead of the grad uated rate of $1.15. $1.10 and $1.05 as now charged. Total cost for 5000 feet under the new tariff will be $6.90. Under the present rate the cost is $6.75. The cost of 10.000 feet is raised from $10 to $12.15; an additional 10, 000 feet will cost $10.60 instead of $8.50. An explanatory letter filed with the proposed tariff sets forth the com pany's grounds for asking an increase and says that during the late months of the war with Germany the com pany realized that It was impossible to operate, make necessary extensions and long render satisfactory service under existing rates, and therefore, on October 3, 1918, filed a new tariff. TURKS SEEK EARLY PLACE Defense of Nation's Interests Be fore Conference Ordered Speeded. PARIS. Dec 26. (Havas.) The Turkish grand vizier has requested Tewfik Pasha, head of the commis sion appointed to prepare defense of Turkey's interests before the peace conference, to hasterf' the work of the commission because the Turkish delegates may be summoned to Paris next week, according to advices from Constantinople. The high commissioners in Con stantinople of the allies are reported to have hinted that peace with Turkey may be concluded in the near future. Youths at CheHalls Sentenced. CHEHALIS, Wash.. Dec. 27. (Spe cial.) In the superior court. Judge W. A. Reynolds today sentenced Roy Darrah and Claude Wright each to serve three to five years In the re formatory at Monroe, Wash. The pair recently were committed to the state training school at Chehalis, but es caped. Darrah and a companion were arrested some weeks ago for theft of an auto. Salem Sailor Returns Home. SALEM, Or., Dec. 26. (Special.) Christmas at the hame of Mr. and SAM POUFF BOUND OVER Police Say Prisoner Admits Career as Bomb Plotter in Russia. Sam Pouff, declared by the police to be a self-confessed bolshevik and former bomb plotter, who was ar rested on a charge of having attempt ed to hold up Paul and Mike Aleac. Austrians, who live at 564 Lake street. was held to answer to the grand jury yesterday by Municipal Judge Ross man. His ball was placed at $1500. Pouff told Detectives Tichenor and Mallett. they say. that he spent 13 years In a prison camp in Siberia as the result of having been implicated in bomb plotting in Russia previous to coming to this country. During the past 11 years in the United States he is said to have spent nine in prison. New York-Montevideo Cable Open. NEW YORK, Dec. 26. Uruguay was linked to the United States to day through the ail-American cable by the opening of a new line from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, putting New York and Montevideo in direct telegraphic communication with each other for the first time. FARE RISE IS GRANTED Temporay Rate Allowed by Ne braska Commission. LINCOLN. Neb.. Dec. 26. The Ne braska railway commission today an nounced it would grant the Lincoln Traction company permission to in crease single carfare from 6 to 7 cents or four tickets for 25 cents, ef fective January 1. The order will be a temporary one in force pending" final settlement of the company's application for higher rates. Several months ago the com- pdujf uuicl.jicu pi iiiiaoiuu ,iuui lilts i federal district court to increase fares j irom o to o cents. Enroll Now H. Liebes & Co.'s Third Annual Clearance Of Winter Apparel The great number of garments selected by the throngs of eager shoppers yesterday affirms the truly won derful, out-of-the-ordinary values offered in this sale. Today's Crowds Will Find Unusually Large Selections Even with the vast number of sales recorded, the gar ments sold yesterday cannot be missed, as the selec tions are still very large. In fact, the stocks at the beginning of this sale, in every department, were unusually large. Therefore, the woman who makes her selection today will have practically every advan tage of the woman who bought yesterday. Clearance of H. Liebes & Co. SUITS Reduced to $34.85, $44.85, $54.85, $64.85 GOATS Clearance of H. Liebes & Co. Reduced to $34.85, $44.85, $54.85, $64.85 Clearance of H. Liebes & Co. FROCKS Reduced to $14.85, $24.85, $34.85, $44.85 Clearance of H. Liebes & Co. SKIRTS Reduced to $10.85 $14.85 Blouses $25 and Over 25 Off No Exchanges, No Approvals, No C. O. D's. No Phone Orders, No Returns PURS STABU3HEO SS YCAffS Mrs. F. L. Waters here was made doubly happy by the return yesterday of their eldest son. Roderick Waters, who has been in the United States navy since 1917. He Joined the navy at the beginning of the war and after three month's training at Mare Island was assigned overseas. I I"' Jk I As Infmenz Is an exaggerated form of Grip, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets should be taken in larger doses than is prescribed for ordi nary Grip. A good plan is not to wait until you are sick, but PREVENT IT by taking LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets In time. Adv. Try Our 35c Lunch Daily sssm. ss hmu Broadway Bldg., 153 Broadway s Up-to-Date Chinese-American Restaurant Dancing and Music Special Sunday Dinner, 75c E flltlllllinillllllllNlllllllllllllllllllllllllfr U. S. FLAG FILMS ANGER TBritlsh and Other Continentals- Re sent Some War Pictures. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) LONDON, Dec. 26. (Special cable.) 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