The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1921, Page 20

| with the capital ship ratio of 1. “more $4,000 limit proposed Hughes. IN PARLEY DUE SOON! Complete Program on Nava! Reduction Is Expected Before the New Year BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTON, Deo, 23.—A com plete agreement by the arms limita tion conference on all phases of the | limitation of naval armament pro Gram is vow confidently expected by | ae ‘s | AGREEMENT (victim anp mystery GiRL | Ferdinand Hochbrunn (left), aged and wealthy Seattle the American delegation before the recluse, whose body was found Wednesday in his apartment, ‘New Year. |2520 Fifth ave. From a leading member of the fwo months ago. Miss Clara Skarin, known also as Clara Winborn (right), @elegution ts was learned that inter, Rational developments of the last two days, not yet revealed, are re Bponsible for this view. the battleship ratio, the drafting of & treaty for the world-wide limitation @f naval armament—the first of its Kind in the world’s history—awalts ‘@greements on submarine ond auxili ary craft. The United Press was retiabdly tn formed that settlement of these two — fa probable along these/ _, & Approval of international rules warfare which would declare use of the submarine in the ted manner employed by during the world war. 7) & Forma! rejection of Britain's for the abolition of the subma- & A lower tmit of eubmarine ton- than that proposed by Secre of State Hughes, which calls 90,000 tons for Great Britain am United States, 54,000 tons for and @ proportionate amount France. _ 4 France wit! be brought Into line the whole program by granting her a slightly larger quota of auxili ary craft than that commensurate The belief prevails in American | @treles that France either will not| ‘Preas any large demands for auxiti- palit! down when she is assured of a com. | ‘promise. or present them for certain purposes and then back ‘The Italian delegation bas surgest: @d to the of the conferees be held in future should any small nations now represented attempt to build menacing navies by adding heavy fleets. There ts also a sus not yet acted on that smaller Bations must in some way come Into | on November 24, and had agreement as to rules of warfare to private construction of bat- ips for other powers. British position on subma- ft ts generally admitted in quarters, makes it neces- for this country to accept lower tonnage. While the Hughes program calls the scrapping of about half of ‘the battleship Meets, it provides for fjunking of only about 5 per cent this country’s submarine fleet and According to figures made public ‘By Hughes, the United States reduc ) tion would be 5,000 tons to the 90,900. ton limit; Great Britain would have to build 7,500 tons more to come up to construct 23,000 tons to reach the for her by eee PARIS, Dec. 23.—The French dele- gates at Washington will not be In- Structed to hold out any specific Fatio of submarines or lighter naval raft, but will be permitted to ac cept any figure they believe neces- gary for French security. ‘This statement was made by an of- ficial here today. ‘The decision to allow the French Gelegation to use their own discretion ‘tm the matter was reached at a con ference of Premier Briand and M. Gabriel Guisthau, minister of marine PACT SUCCESS SEEMS CERTAIN Victory Seen in Adjournment of Dail DUBLIN, Dec. 23—The success of the Angiolrish treaty seemed as sured today. Adherents of the program of Mi- ehael Collins and Arthur Griffith claimed an unexpected victory in the adjournment of the daii eireann until January 3. They saw « substantial Majority in favor of the treaty in the | Vote for adjournment. Many of the supposed “die hards” ‘Yoted in accord with the alms of the pro-treaty men, enabling gncceed in adjourning the dail by a 17 to 44 division. clared this represented the majority in favor of the treaty, They said only a few of their side voted againet adjournment, and that the vote gath- ered many from the opposing faction Public opinion in Dublin seemed to be that the treaty is “as good aa rati- fied.” To Remind You DAYS TILL } them to! The Colinsites de- | || HERE . STARTS jones” SEATTLE MURDER °° || ABOUT PAGE 1 “You've turned every newspaperyabout the case, I want you to keep the Pacific coast loose he said, “to scatter }reperter on on this thin, * |tective department has had a ch the |to guther a single clue, to tip off murderer and make a fool of me. “Ot course,” Tennant added, “you're the coroner--know your business better than L* Tennant went to the home of Clara's aunt, Mrs. W. C. Datesman, 528 Wth ave. N. W., yesterday and | questioned her. Mra. Datesman was seemingly as tounded to learn that her niece was under suspicion of having committed the murder of Hochbrunn. She ts said to have given the detective chief an inhospitable reception, MARRIED WINBORN ON HIS DEATHBED He learned from her, however, [that, after the double tragedy in which Clara figured in this city In 1918, when Mra. Robert L. Winborn, fealous of her husband's alleged af tentions to Clara, wounded Clara, shot and killed Clara's mother and conference that another ‘then ended her own life, Clara fol-| lowed Winborn, the widower, to Kal-| amazoo, Mich.. two years ago and married him on ‘his deathbed. | He gleaned from Mra. Datesman’s l conversation, too, that she bh ac }companied Clara to a train here seen Clara off, bound for San Bernardino Mrs. Datesman insisted that her niece could not possibly have killed the aged Hochbrunn. | “Why. she said, "Clara ate dinner at our house Thanksgiving. She wasn't excited, This is terrible.” Clara went to California because she was tn ill-health, according to her aunt | It might have been a man who, about three years ago, murderously Ited Hochbrunn, stealing up be | | anew Britain and Japan to build) ning him while he was on a ladder! {painting a house, and singging him, | Mra. Dateaman said. jtwo months ago and | deed. Mra. Plerre Chedotal has recalled that it was In the very room where who returned Oaished the | f Utils limit and Japan would have) ner husband and a plumber, Chris Christopher, found Hochbrunn's bedy, two months dead, that she heard Clara walking about one day about a month ago, while she, Mra Chedotal, was at work in her apart ment underneath the death chamber. | This and every other known fact |potnt with certainty to the probabil ity that Clara knew about the mur der and that {ts knowledge and the conclusion that she would be accused of the deed were the reason she left Seattle and vanished. Tennant maid he is unable as yet to discern a man in the case. “Clara,” he said, “was capable of writing letters such as were received |here by Edward Von Tobel, the old man’s lawyer, instructing that rental money from his property bere he sent to ‘Hochbrunn’ in California. “When we find her the mys- tery will be cleared up. No, I'm | not showing anybody but de | teetives the photograph I've got of the girl The newspapers know too much already.” AGED MAN HAD RELATIVES Mrs. Frank R. Gladwin, wife of a motorcycle policeman living near the Hochbrunn house, recalled today |that the aged man had told her of ja brother, Henry Hochbrunn, a |nephew and a niece living Francinco, The brother, she said she believed, is a marine engineer, | Efforts to interview Mrs. Dates man today failed. The aunt of the young mystery woman came to the door and announced emphatically [that she had nothing whatever to | say. Staunchly defending Clara ts Von |Tobel, te lawyer, “I know,” said the German, “that ghe is not a woman who would shoot anybody. If he really is involved, I feel sure she had an accomplice.” | FOUND NEARLY $2,000 IN. CURRENCY In spite of the pee nearly $2 et that detectives 09 in tronk in one Ten that he his money robbed by currency locked in Hochbrun | of the rooms of hir |nant clingy to the was shot to death and that the body the assassin. “You know there apartment theory for was mid Tennant, “that a superstition among crooks taking money out of a de pocket. Well, of H po was slit open. of y in have dropped own accord, about h If that out, man's brunn’s he'd had pocket it one ets a roll would of its mo probe the floor, “No thief is so superstitious that he won't pick money up off a floor. My hunch is that Hochbrunn had a iderable unt of et when he he onto m money killed, in his poc wa. and up for erer didn't know about certificates in the old the whole apartment been prowled and turned down to find it.” Date that was what The mu gold man’s tru would h upside Law, < found at Operator's loft at a ture wi the man, Clara's unele ng in the al moving pic work this morn theatre, said | 1 don't know a g—~ d—~ thing |the news broadcast before the de | in San | jaWay from here. I want you to keep jaway from my house, If I « of you out there, I'—I'll throw you out.” He waved bis arms and slammed the door, . Douglas Works on Prosecuting Dougias, accom tote | the scene of the murder of Ferdinand Attorney ed Captain of De- Police believe the murder was committed ward of Hochbrunn, who shared the apartment with him and | who is now the object of vigorous police search. Sketches by! With the five powers agreed on |S. B. Groff of The Star editorial staff. teh any | Hochbrunn Murder Matootm os Charles Tennant, Friday, to Hochbrunn. Prosecutor Douglas ts | gathering evidence for the county, to be used in the prosecution of any | perwon who may be arrested charged with the murder. . ‘Double Tragedy Is Recalled by ‘Murder Mystery Clara Skarin Figured in Sensational Case Three Years Ago }took piace in | Skarin, then the bome of Clara 15 Harrison at, | Auguat 3, 1918, were recalled today |. Mrs. Cleo Winborn, Jealous, went to the Skarin home where Clara lived with her mother, Mra, Emma |Skarin, and quarreied with | youn ac | of Winborn, “There's | Cara is enid to have told the wife, turning ber back. “Wo can't ever deeea.” As she turned Clara taced a pane 128 siass. She caught the reflection of Mra, Winborn behind ber raising her arm, | thru ber mind, she mid afterwarda, jtered her hip. She grappled with | Mrs. Winborn and the two reeled and ¢ led abopt the room until | Clara felt herself sinking into a faint. At that moment her mother rush- ed into the room | Skarin. was gone. She fell across the sofa | There was another pistol shot and |her mother fell across her, mortally | wounded. The pletol cracked again. When Clara recovered her senses, she saw jthe other woman huddled on | floor, dead. ee Portland Checks Hotel Registers PORTLAND, Dec. 23.—"We have just received a request from the Se Jattle police to check hotel registers here,” Captain of Detectives John | Moore declared today when asked re garding the Portland section of the trail of Mins Clara rin “Naturally that will take quite a while. We probably won't know |™uch until tomorrow some time. It's |® cane of going back to November 28 |in every register In the city.” U.S, MARINES EXONERATED Senate Committee Opposes | Withdrawal of Forces BY FRASER EDWARDS ASHINGTON 23.—United ' should not be with ja » Haiti and Santo Dorin |go at. this time, members of the wen ate committes just returned from ut investigation of American oecupation of the island republics, declared to | ‘This wil be one of the recom |mendations made by the committee Jin its preliminary report, it wax mid |Other recommendations, it was indi Jeated, the committes would make w | 1 Pxoneration of marines |charges of atrocities upon natives Announcement of a definite American policy toward the Island republics, making it clear that an nexation Ix not contemplated 3. Centralization of American con trol during oqeupation to cut over. head expense | 4. Extension of road building, edu Jeational, sanitation and hospitali tion work lot stat Hughes today to discuss cer Itain pho 5 of its findings, Details of the double tragedy that / SSS" i" woout the world on! °f | body reposes ix in the midst of graves the)" « woman whom Mra, Winborn| ed of accepting the attentions | no use discusing ne| Instantly the thought faxes! jthat Mra, Winborn had a gun. She| wheeled and struck at the other man's arm. The pletol was discharged. She “Are you bit?” exclaimed Mrs.| .a0d¢ Thomaa’ |_ Clara did not answer. Her voice!) SENATOR FLAYS JAP GUARANTY Poindexter Opposed to | Promising Aid to Nippon BPOKAND Dee 33. “Tt am unal terably opposed to any pact which rve the territor integrity of Japan against th scroachmenta of “s Poindexter f Washington, Pacific treaty an acceded to by ” ent Harding yesterday Senator I vdeater had hitherto at tributed no hidden Import to th imply @ written declaration of « jumt relationship between the countries concern Viewing the paragraph in thin light, he recently expressed the hope that the treaty would be verity in the near future, Whether it be interpreted to affect merely the insular possessions of |Jepan in the Pacific or those ponsea sions and the mainland of Japan as well, he has held to be immaterial, he declared today My views on the treaty have not changed,” the senator asserted, “T | have held paragraph 2 to be simply a declaration of a just relationship be. tween the nations concerned, and I cannot now see where it binds the United States to any policy which I hitherto opposed. If, however, agraph 2 be interpreted to bind he United States to preserve the tor exrity of Japan against en. of « third nation, I am opposed to the Pacific hav | | ritortal tr unalterably treaty.” WATTERSON IS LAID TO REST Will Be Removed to Ken- tucky in Spring JACKSONVILLE, Fia., Dec, 28.— ‘Marne Henry” Watterson, the “grand old man of Journatiam,” sleeps in a marble vault in Evergreen cemetery here, while the mourns his passing Mra. Watterson was #0 overcome with grief that she was unable to attend the funeral services. She re mained in her room with « nures In the spring time his bedy will be conveyed to the heart of the “biue- grams nection” of Kentucky—there to rest forever among his homefolks. Hundreds of telegrams from his many friends In this country apd scores of cablegrams from all over the world have been received by Mra. Watterson, clearly revealing th enteem In which the veteran editor world The vault tn which Watterson’s of many confederate soldiers who died in “the lost qause” for which “Marae Henry” fought with pen and word. Hundreds of persons filed sorrow. fully by the body early today, to pay final wibute BANDIT CAUGHT AFTER BATTLE His Cousin Killed in Duel With Policeman CHICAGO, Dec, 23.—Clyde Tim | felt the sting of the bullet aa it en.|M0n% Denver, captured after a ducl with police, wag held today for al- leged participation in a train robbery near Salt Lake City recently, Timmons was taken following a battle with @ policeman, in which Earl Timmons, a cousin, was killed, Timmons first gave the name of and that of bis ri Githert.” ‘The bandit, when quized by potion, amed the train holdup on his dead cousin, @ Detectives charged that part of the loot from the holdup was given to a Chicago woman whowe husband lives in Balt Lake City, Clyde, police sald, confeaned dead cousin as “C the the | pair had robbed the home of Jacob Loob, president of the Chicago board of education. The Timmonses potnted revolvers at Jas. J. Callahan, former manager of the Chicago White Sox, and hie | wife and daughter as the party were jleaving their apartment in a taxi last night. They shot the chauffeur, Emil |Kruthen, and kidnaped Callahan's | wife and daughter after Callahan had run into his apartment for a gun. One of the cousins drove the taxi | madly, while the other, on the back | seat, seized the jewels of the mother and daughter, Callahan pursued in another car and picked up William F. McNaugh ton, a policeman, en route. The of. leer shot and killed Carl Clyde sur. rendered. WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS Mrs. Carrie Murphy, 65, 820 Chi- cago wt, died late Thursday evening from burns received when her cloth. ing caught fire at her home earlier in the day. Mra Murphy was read. | ing to her small granddaughter, Mar. jorie Bendle, when she brushed against an overheated stove and be- came suddenly enveloped in flames. is survived by her husband, Murphy, two daughters, Mrs. ‘Tremelling and Mrs. Gertrude Howp, and two sons, Claude F. and Bird Bendle | ‘The body was taken to the George. | town undertaking parlors, where | funeral arrangements were to be Fria: made KILLS FIANCE, THEN HIMSELF BOSTON, Dec, 23,—Nick Saunders, 30, feared tuberculosia infections would prevent him from marrying his sweetheart, Mies Pearl Payne, so he abot her thru the head and then iHled himself, police announced to. The two were sitting in a Chinese The committee called on Secretary |restaurant when Saunders suddenly | drew his revolver and killed the girl vefore shooting himself cording to authorities, ,| A personal touch is added Yuletide. She leaves a kiss wu the card, _ WITNESS WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-—-Another war veternn today declared himerlf ready to back up Senator Tom Wat son's charges that soldiers were shot down by their officers without provocation In France, In « letter to the Georgia senator, Grayson 1. throw, Baltimore, de clared he saw Maj, Hierome L. Op |ef Staunton, Va, “deliberately shoot & man while in action.” Withrow was summoned to appear before the senate investigating com- mittee when hearings are resumed jon January 4. | Hie letter was ment after seeing | Prean reports of the sweeping denial of Maj. Opie of charges that he killed |two soldiers, made by Henry I. Scott, of Kenmore, Ohio, before the committee. “I was a member of Company F, 116th infantry.” Withrow wrot “and I would like to go on record jan naying: ‘In the month of October, | 1918, I saw Maj. Ople borrow a gun from an enlisted American and de. jliberately shoot a man while in action on the Argonne front. | z z m : & E: bs G Dorothy Southoff, of Brooklyn, to her intimate friends this | ciai too by rouging the lips heavily ‘NEW ARMY MURDER OFFICIAL to the postcards sent by Miss ing, and others, w on the card. You may do that) of Seattle, in the 8 o'clock, The board of directors and the| speakers will meet prior to the gen- | ~-——— Hicks’ exteteria, at] eral meeting 6:20 o'clock organization that enjoyment IS FOUND Jent character in June, 1919." | Other witnesses, whO declare they | can testify to brutalitées, killings and illegal hangings, were summoned by the committee today. SAYS ACCUSER at tthe meeting. Payton Bean, | choot student, is MORE CHINESE | DISARMERS DUE |To Be Entertained Today at 7703077." RADIO | Plan to Increase Use of . Wireless Telephones erting of the Radio asnoci Chamber of Com- | China Club Ten more Chinene delegates are tr arrive in Beattie Friday mor 4 |be entertained by the China ¢ 4 the Chamber of Comme ” cheon held Friday noon « umith building rest t | Four delegates arrived Thursday land were honored at @ luncheon t the China club, Thursday's part ‘was headed by Lo Wen Kan, lege ladviser to the Chinese delegation | They would not exprers them jon the disarmament jing that 21 demands, tr g the control of Shantung, remained to be |aettied. Lo Wen Kan, spokesman for ir o par maid, however, that China | was plean four power pact for control Paciti The 14 members will sail Saturday on the Wenatchee for China. SAT MEETING Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell, RO. Marriott, expert radio ald at the naval station, Puget Sound; 0. R | Redfern, district radio inspector; J D. Kous, superintendent of city light Hil speak at a spe ton and then pressing them upon ™*rce assembly room this evening Sea It Is announced by officers of the |%—— an elaborate plan for greatly increasing the use and derived from radio tele Phones will be discussed by speakers | COASTING BOY IS BADLY HURT 1¢-yearold high in @ critical con dition Friday in the Children's cident in which BAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 23-—The Seventh field artillery bad exception Holbrook, U. 8. A., today in « state ment iasued in connection with the| field hil & Investigution at Washington of the | Prove fatal. Watson charges of cruelty in the} at, France. jlantern and the “The few slackers we had were seg. | Companions, and regated and worggd in a no-called | throwing Bean 36 part under proper supervision with-|Wa# hurt, the dri out incumbrance to the batteriés from which they came. “Ex-Private Robert A. Herrison was a member of thin squad.” Harrison had told thé senate inves sought by the pol “This in one of the instances re-| ferred to by Henry L. Scott in his statement and my corroboration is at Jeontinuation of your probe. I was| honorably discharged with an excel-) Chicago Opera | Co. May Close CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Harcld P.! McCormick and other millionaires today discuaned whether or not they are to continue giving thelr for |tunes for a song. The “angels” of the Chicage Grand Opera company met with the directors of the organization to decide what disposition te to be made of the most expensive musi cal organization tn the world, | Mary Garden, under whose man agement this years grand opera in Chicago cost $2,500,000 for 23 weeks, was il at her apartment | while the tempest, which may re sult In abandoning the opera com- pany, raged. | It was stated authoritativety that Mus Garden will be asked to con tinue as director of the company next year, if the board can make both ends meet. | To Represent U.S. | at Supreme Council WASHINGTO! Harvey, American to Great Britain, wil) sit as an unoffi celal representative at the allied «eu. preme council when It convenes at Cannes, early in January, it was indi cated at the state department today. Mother Informed of Son’s Drowning BELLINGHAM, Dee, 23.—Reports of the drowning of Herman Schwan, | 18, off Waldron island have just been received by Mrs. O. H. Schwan, his | mother. According to reporta, the boy lost bis life when the small boat in which he was riding overturned His mother ts in charge of the Fair. | haven cafeteria, in this city, | | | EASON CAUSES BABY SHORTAGE PHILADELPHIA.—'There a Christ mas baby shortage here, Adoptable bables sought as Christmas gifte by many wealthy families are very 8c There are hundreds of appli cations on the waiting list for babies, more than ever before, | THE NATIVITY PLAY, with a cast of 18 performers and players, was prowented Thursday night by the | community service players at the Beacon Hill Congregational church, POSTOFFICE BANDIT GIVEN 67 YEARS IN LEAVENWORTH PEN TOLEDO, Ohio, Dee. a George Rogers, 32, postoffice ban dit, was sentenced to 67 years in Leavenworth penitentiary by Fed. eral Judge Killite here today tigating committee a story of alleged cruelty on the part of Holbrook. Holbrook declared that he “com- Destroy: that he commanded a “slacker out- fit,” special Beach speed and escaped. be was struck by pend the balance of unpledged gold & speeding automobile when his sled ae ally few slackers,“deciared Col. L, R. | *fted out into the street at Queen | treasury for foodstuffs for the stare Anne ave. after descending the Gar- fis injuries may The automobile suddenty dashed | made between th |American expeditionary forces in| found the corner, ignoring the red|and the American relief administras shouts of Bean's struck the feet. Instead of acker squad, where they did their | stopping to see whether the boy | pie cannot be expected to con ver increased his He is being toe. Christmas Mail Is ed by Fire IOS ANGELES, Dec. 223.—Thou-| will be assured of a just distributi manded as fine a regiment as ever | mands of dollars’ worth of Christmas| of orders for the purchase of f your dispom! any time it is deemed | went across,” in expressing regret | mail was destroyed here today when! under the act congress recently p needful or necessary by you for the | that he had been quoted as saying | fire of mywterious origin burned al ed appropriating $20,000,000 for mail car bound for Long! purchase of foodstuffs and seed gr sled, | |Home Brew Starts on Page One) for Willie, Nant you + much pleasure out of ita kid himself? LAL) GEE GEN, TH OFFICE VAMP, SEZ | There's never « closed seasop ' we boobs _* «© as * | A. Hohe 4, n, man haw thig J, Walter Peeler Rarber and Undertake } HAIR Cl CEN? | Am Or Kar MIGHT TRY A CITY Jon A very lazy man—nbsolute horree a wor ives fo ve huturiownly wig rn tox 19, Ow. ford at ertinement koe) | Beattie woman accuses police stealing her silk underwear, tut, men, that's no way to get |Christmas pres . Talking aboot toyw: last Christ mas little Homer Brew, Jr, gob a mechanical spinning top thas kept three people busy for seven weeks and we with somebody would invent « one-man top, wae niown 1$-cent kings —by ankle gl et ready Sweetie — when t (ells you they ate at ask yi promenade of the Bavoy hotel—with only. king? Se | # per stocking any self-respecting « This is Kiss - Your-Bankrolly Goodby Week. J = i RUSS AGREE TO. USE SPARE GOLD) Promise to Buy Food | Famine Sufferers WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The] soviet government has agreed to em j taken from the old Russian imperial ing population of the Volga basing | Secretary of Commerce Hoover ane |nounced today. The agreement was © soviet government tion. The relief administration told th soviet leaders that the American pa to charity on @ large scale the existing government does somes thing on its own account It is believed the soviet authorities have $10,000,000 in gold available for this purpose. Hoover announced today that eyery section of the United Stati for the famine-stricken Russians, —I We Must Make Room FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF THESE | Two Great Stores REDUCTIONS | — I N—— MEN’S SUITS AND OVERCOATS — I N— _ MEN’S HATS AND CAPS | MEN’S EXTRA PANTS IN THE BOYS’ STORE, DOWNSTAIRS _ Big Reductions in Boys’ Suits ‘Overcoats and Furnishings FOURTH AND PIKE *