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TnE MORNING OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1923 HISTiS RECESS FIRST OF SEVEN BRONZE TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWERS IN NEW YORK DEDICATED. LOAN IS OBTAINED ON FAKE ESTATE iffifJ IW SEATTLE Fueds Are Forgotten by All Until After Holidays, Paris Banker Victimized by . Clever Woman. EMPLOYES TO LOSE JOBS WHOLE TRICK REVEALED Slany on King County Payroll Are ", Notified Tliat Tuey Are to Be Dropped at New Year Police Fall to Find Trace of Miss ing Fortune, Missing Corpse, Missing Yacht. f ' if i. 4 ....j.w.l.m.t,i,,wwlr,,r,, . ,.t. JV -.Vi..-y,.W.... ,,,,,.. ., ....,,.. X a kt : J i b X ' 1 f I fl4;-"J V Ji 4 j 11 id'&frl35&& ?vCnVI1 i II If hJAijfl? II PUGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle, Wash., .Dec. 21. la Seattle, as elsewhere, it's Merry Christmas, and community thought is turned temporarily from consideration of grievances and quarrels The county grand Jury, in session since November 13, is tatting a lay off for the holidays. The federal grand Jury, recently impaneled has paused in its inauiry of numerous chses in which the llllelt whisky uid narcotic drug traffic are. chief ly featured. Anyone anticipating trouble at the hands of either of these inquisitorial bodies is left free to enjoy the spirit of the season if ihey can keep their minds off the unpleasant consequences that are JoBsiblQ when the juries get busy again. Truca for the time being is ene forced on a number of local feuds, among them the following Mayor Brown versus Thomas P Rovelle, United States district at torney. .Mayor Brown versus the federal prohibition directors. Presiding Judge Griffiths versus Prosecuting Attorney Douglas-. 'The Columbia Basin Reclamation association versus the Columbia Bat Bin Irrigation league. The preachera versus Mayor Brown, The reform committee versus the dance halls, Quarrels Are Heated, , These have been heated quarrels all of them; and none has yet fceen compromised or settled, 'The few days of comparative peacefulneea .re bound to be followed by a re newal of hostilities unless the com batants become more imbued with the spirit of the season than seems til all probable. Mayor Brown hit the high spot In his last weekly public utterance in a. speech before the Young Men's Re publican club. In the course of which Jie said many things uncomplimen tary of District Attorney Revelle. This quarrel dates baok to the re publican state convention In Ciena lis last June, which the mayor, him self a democrat, denounced as domi Jited by whisky through connivance of the federal authorities, ' Presecuter Stre. Mayor Brown shows no signs of retracting his statement that "crooks and Incompetents" are em ployed in the federal prohibition of iices here. Prosecuting Attorney Douglas continues to file affida vits of predjudice in very case that his office has before Judge Grif fiths; and the judge Is outspoken, on all occasions, in his criticism of the .prosecutor, . The Columbia Basin Reclamation association, organized in Seattle, is waging a hard fight against the plans of the Columbia Basin Irri gation league, and. incidentally, against the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, which is committed to support of the older organization. Seattle preachers, who have been devoting their sermons of late to criticise- and condemnation of Mayor Brown and his administration, are, for the moment, elaborating on texts more appropriate to the immediate season, presumably in the knowledge that a crusade against the city gov ernment is always in season and may readily be resumed. Reform Slakes Headway. .The reform committee seems to be the only one of the controversial forces that has made definite head way. Apparently as the direct or in direct result of Its efforts one, of the alleged offensive dance halls of the city has been peacefully closed, at the request of the chief of police The committee will keep up the effort to close the others. Twenty-five or thirty King county employes have been apprised, by no tice through local newspapers that this is their last Christinas on tho county payroll. As many more coun ty jobs are to change hands imme diately after the first of the year, but the employes to be dismissed Have not yet been named. Most of these changes are on the programme or the two newly-elected county commissioners, who will constitute a: majority of the board. The new commissioners say that the change imply no dlreliction of duty on the part of present employes, but that if is -customary" for the commis sioners to fill the offices with their own friends. Ali in all. however, Seattle has welcomed the holidays as giving brief respite from the controversy and the lately continuous contem plation of the mor9 disagreeable things In community Ufa. Holiday trade has been brisk, and giving, both useful and useless, is af least as extensive as usual, The Com. ZTlty, Ch!!t fund fel1 b 20, 009 below th, objective point of the fall campaign, but all the charitable organizations of the city have doe as well as they could to se that no one was neglected in the spread of avood cheer. .FULL TO JTRICTIOar AMOJfG ADVISEItS OP PRESIDENT SfOTED, Secretary's Intent to Quit ileauU .: of Fight Over Control of f; Forests of Alaska, ! (By Chicago Tribune laseTff jrs, : WASHINGTON, D; G Dea. 4- Albert B. Fall, secretary of "the in, terior, it became definitely fcnowj today, will leave President Hard ing's cabinet before spring, and Senator New ot Indiana, Garrai Thompson of Ohio and Senate? Ulr logs of Minnesota, all recently da? feated for office, are Reading possi kilities to succeed; hira. . The determination gf peerefary alj to resign, making tJ seeand break in the Harding eabiaet, fa the result of a, spirited sefesjon of the president's enmraittee on organiza tion of the government, held at th "Wjjite 'House last week. It signalizes a complete victory tor Secretary of Agriculture Wal lace in the fight he has been waging to regain administration of Alaskan forests and is interpreted by lead ins ea&ateca, gsbIUus f : --;,if f ia -"ftps- M 'v fc: . '-i v . XI ct - i 4 4 - , iM4 I V j S J ft 1 15 Mto Copyright by Underwooi MASTER TOWER AT FORTY-SECOND STREET AND FIFTH AVENUH. Thl clctura show Juet after it wa unveiled' th ntr twr at Forty-awcond street, controlling all trafflo in the business section of Fifth avenue first of the seven new brotiKe atructurea whioh will replace all of the present unsightly towers of woo it and Iron on Fifth avenue before the first of the year. Th new towers, of bronae and plat glacs, aoh equipped with a big clock, hav been, presented" to th city by the Fifth Avenue association an4 wer designed by Joseph H. Frledl&nder. the president's ambitious reorgani sation scheme. An effort will yet be made to rt the plan before congress. There Is some doubt whether this will be ac complished, and even if it is, it is not expected that congress will ap prove what has been done. Secretary Wallace's victory n keeping control of the forestry serv ice in his department instead of hav ing it placed in the department of the interior, as the president orig inally wanted, establishes a prece dent for the rest of the bureaucrats. They are now insisting upon retain ing their perquisites. The army will not surrender to the .navy nor will the sea forces give place to those of the land. m Heads of bureaus and other departments whose llnes"have crossed in the slow and complex de velopment of the machinery of gov ernment" are equally determined in their opposition to the tentative plans of reorganization. While the decision reached by Mr. Fall to retire from the cabinet hinges about the administration's policy relative to Alaska, the secre tary of the interior has not been in complete harmony with his chief and other members of the cabinet on important issues. Among the dif ferences has been that concerning the Mexican policy, while there have been criticisms within the cabinet of Mr. Fall's recent oil leases. II SHU CHEEP BANKERS SAID TO HAVE MADE 91,000,000 PROFIT. Obituary. Mary Wood Henkle. MOEO, Or., Bee. 24. (Special.) The funeral of Mrs. Mary Wood Henkle, 87, was held here Friday, with interment in the Wasco cemetery. Mrs. Henkle was -the widow or Andrew Jackson Henkle, who died here last February at the age of 94. The aged couple had celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary last January. Mr. and Mrs. Henkle came to Oregon by ox teams In 1853, Mr. Henkle being the patriarch of the family clan which celebrated its 15th reunion this year in Corvallis. Mrs. Mary Kemps. DALLAS, Or., Dec. 24. (Special.) Mrs. Mary Kemp, a widow, 63, died at her home in Monmouth Friday. New York Takes Caution. NEW TORK, Dec. M-Actine on tips from western cities that scores t known criminals were headed to ward New York for a holiday "clean-up," Police Commissioner Enrlght tonight ordered in the Man hattan shopping district every avail able man in the metropolitan de partment. Including the headquar ters clerical staff and 800 reserve detectives. Linn Valuation 931,010,055,64, ALBANT, Or,, Dee, 4-(Bpeeiai,) Linn county property is assessed at slightly ever half its actual value, according to an announcement made here by the county assesses. Fig ures are based upon the valuation set by the etata tax commission. Linn county real and personal prop erty is valued at 51,019,956,64, some what Jaee than in The tetaj assessment is 3J.,6?, Marion County Agent Wanted, SALEM, 0f Pes, g-(SfeeiaU The Marian eeuittf farm bureau, a a meeting hei4' bars Saturday night, Went on reaerd favaring tile era gjsymeflfc e a unty agent here, fha Joeal farm, pupeau has mere (has f&9 members.. Members ef the Marian puunty faraj bureau wiU piaaa their demftfl4 feefera the eeiintF peurt he?e feafere the first ef fhe year. ffcane your want ads ta The re? gsnian. Ail ils readars are inter? ested in ths classified ealumas. Tens at peed cheer for ail. Biilefsen Fuel Co. Adv. No Soap Better For Your Skin Than Cirticura SttOlplVflatcb American and German Financiers Accused of Starting False Ru mors to Raise Prices. : BT LARRY RUE. (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Servioe. Copyright, 122, by the Chicago Tribune.) BE-RLIN, Dec. 24. With the charge that a group of American and German . bankers cleaned up $1,000,000 in the last mark manipu lation at the expense of the Gorman public and industry, the industrial leaders here are unofficially .at tempting to precipitate a govern mental investigation, which they in tend to divulge as one of the great est financial scandals since the flight of German capital from Ger many. The industrials point out that the stabilization of the mark without the necessary preparation here to adjust the high cost of living and wages on Borne common basis wilt mean nothing short of catastrophe for the country. The claim is made that although bankers realize this, an attempt is being made to stabilize the mark through false rumors launched by ths press, such as rumor that a big American loan was contemplated. The rumors, it is charged, can be traced directly to a group of bank ers. The immediate result was a rush to purchase marks whereupon the bankers immediately raised the price. It is significant that on the New York exchange at certain times the mark was quoted at nearly 1000 lower to the dollar than in Berlin. For some time the Reichsbank has been quietly buying up marks. Bankers who wanted to buy dollars sold off their marks at their own price. "Everyone connected with finan cial circles know American bankers Restaurant a4 Coffee Shop wd serve CHRISTMAS DIOTER From 13 to 8 P,l, Tho priee will reaiala unchanged $135 The fjfsality will fee paejelle4 The service is well kaowa The location is central BROADWAY at STARK ST, "Where Everybody Goes" cannot dlsouss loans until repara tions are regulated," one of Ger many's leading industrials said to day. "Bankers sell bonds to the people. An unreliable banker could recommend a loan on securities against which others had got a first mortgage with the right of fore closure which France has now got The public of course, Is deceived as always. The manipulation has re acted heavily on the German market causing the cancellation of orders in marks and a high overhead expense for products sold on a gold basis. Certain of our products when the dollar brought 6000 marks cost 10 per cent more in Germany than in New York. The latest maneuver, however, clearly was engineered by a group who had bought up marks cheaply and re-sold them to buyers at half the cost, making a profit of 100 per cent. "Fortunes made this way," he said, "obviously at the cost of some one, in this case the German peo ple, must pay. I have always fa vored free trade, but this kind of speculation is a tremendous drain, not only on the country, but causes serious disturbance on industry." France Honors Pasteur. PARIS, Dec 24. France's homage to Louis Pasteur, chemist and biolo gist, on the occasion of the centen ary of his birth, began today with a ceremony in the Pasteur institute. Delegations from scientific bodies marched in procession before the tomb of Pasteur which is a crypt in the institute. BY JOHN CLAYTON. (Chicaao Tribune ForU:n Ntwi Service. Copyright, loaii, by the Chicago Tribune.) PARIS, Dec. 24. A fourfold mys tery a missing menagerie, a mlBS ing fortune of about $100,000,000, a missing corpse and a missing yacht -is causing the collars of Paris po ce officials to wilt as they con inue investigating the story of Mrs. Leon Marcel Tardy, 17 Boule vard Hausemann. The police '.were pushed into the mystery through the complaint of a Paris banker, later withdrawn, that he had lent Mrs. Tardy 50,000 francs (roughly J3570) for expenses in ob taining the estate of Miss Fay Hel ler, said to have been a resident of Boston. Miss Heller was saitt to have willed her entire fortune of 1100,000,000 to Mrs. Tardy on condi tion that she care for the former's menagerie of animals, some wild and some tame, which the American woman had gathered during a life of travel and deposited in private parks from Japan to the Bahamas, Several Other Links BUasln-. The missing Miss Heller was sup posed to have died aboard the miss ing yacht Old Ohap in the Mediter ranean. There are several other missing links in the story. Here are the facts which the police gath ered: Mrs. Tardy has photographs of a will, whloh she purports to be that of Miss Heller, leaving all her jewels and fortune to Mrs. Tardy. Wilbur Heller Ryerson of Boston la namd as executor of the will and he was to get the yacht. The will was signed Lillian Fair Heller. Carrying the photograph of the will to the banker and telling him that the original was in a safe at Marseilles, Mrs. Tardy obtained 50,000 francs. She told the banker, and later the police, that Miss Heller was a rich and eccentrlo American and her best friend. The American cruised around the world gathering animals. Whole Thing Big Fraud. Mrs. Tardy passed much of her time aboard her yacht in the Medi terranean. Eight days after she made her will she was alleged to have died In the Mediterranean. Some time later Mrs. Tardy received the will from the executor and wanted to borrow money to institute legal proceedings in order to obtain pos session of the estate. When time passed and the banker heard noth ing from her he complained to the police, but later he withdrew the complaint, saying that he liad been paid. The police investigations, however, were continued and it was found the whole affair was a glgantio fraud, Mrs. Tardy having written the lists with nearly all the known animals to amuse her husband. Among Mrs. Tardy"s papers which were seized were found letters from the duke of Somerset, Henry Ford, J. Plerpont Morgan, the eari of Kent and others, all written on cheap linen paper. The Paris police, with their usual thoroughness, reported that they were not able to trace the yacht Old Chap or Mr. Ryerson, or to find any record of Miss Heller's death. But they are atlll working and may un cover further mysteries. Legislative Seats Assigned. SALEM. Or., Dec 24. (Special.) Assigning of seats in the house of representatives and state senate during the next session of the legis lature has been, completed by Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state. Charts of the seating arrangement of the two houses are being prepared, by the secretary of state and will be 0 1 . ' W Merry Christmas, Everybody "'Atta Boy!" "Come on, Duke!!" Cheers and shouts and wild applause greet this glorious horse race in Today and All Week "The KENTUCKY DERBY" ' at every showing. It is without question the ideal holiday picture. You get romance, pathos and hu jnar and yoq thrill with the cheering crowds with real thrills that just tingle upand down your spine, Peeafatiens, eestamlag, pud musls in peeping with the seasea and the playt ' fci im-iiMHi i 'mill, .tn -m----- i---:4 ADMISSION Matinees Till 5, 25c; Evenings, 85c JCvenlng Prices Prevail on Saturdays, Sundays and Holiday forwarded to the legislators within the next few days. Pendleton Makes Plans. PENDLETON. Or., Dec. 24. (Spe cial.) AU churches of this city are planning special Christmas pro- grammes and most of them will have trees for the children. Active work is under way by all churches and charitable organizations to see that every needy family is cared for .and those homes were there' would not otherwise be Christmas cheer and Christmas dinner and presents will bo gladdened by baskets of food and candy, with small presents for the children. The Oregonian is the medium through which many people supply their wants by using its classified column's. Telephone Main 7010. 11 1 ksskfcjfisb&SBI ortfanb'tf Ctoo pest eaters of jHerrp Cfjrfetmases Week j Pi t n,y Lsl A1 1 i Cilice 1 Brady Novr Playing Mi Brady in the inspiring role in which she scored her biggest stage success. Nita Naldi and David Powell in the supporting cast. University Quartet Kinogram Comedy" Knowles Pictures Players E i Commended for adventure, ro mance and appeal to the millions who have read the book and the millions more who will sit en thralled by its screen splendor. Star cast with MADGE BEL LAMY. JOHN BOWERS, FRANK KEENAN. No Wonder They All Say "A Masterpiece" Whitney Boys Chorus 50 Voices Manhattan Trio Screen Snap Shots Liberty News Tickets Now Selling at the Checkroom LIBERTY MIDNIGHT MATINEE Sat. & Sun., Dec. 30-31