The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 7, 1922, Page 1

PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST HAVE ELECTED THE STAR THEIR FAVORITE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER — BY 15,000 PLURALITY Se semen atts aon, banana et me OMMISSIONERS FREE PROSECUTOR’S CASE AGAINST HEADS OF COUNTY FIZZLES | AOR Re =x || fair; warmer ; Maximum, 62. Today moderate north. westerly winds Temperature Last 34 Hours Friday, fair and Minimum, 51. noon, 59. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise BE JAILED ON Ss EATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 192% The Seattle Star Botered as Heoond Clase Matter May 4, 1499, at the Postoffice at Geatiia, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1679, Yer Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 |HOM EDITION TWO CENTS IN STATE ATTORNEYS UNABLE TO PUSH INDICTMENTS IN COURT FIRST ARREST Drastic Action to Be Taken Unless Autoists: Obey Law in Future all terms for all apesders on action to reduce this hoped that the drivers preentually come to their raid Gordon, “but ft looks as tho the only way to curb them fs to send them all to jail, re- gardiess of how small their infrac- tion of the law may be. “Previously I have given out jail sentences only to second offenders, in addition to canceling licenses, All first offenders being fined a mini- | mum of $25, under 30 miles an hour, and $5 for every additional mile. WOULD DEPORT MAN FROM B.C. PORTLAND, Sept. 7.—Canadian officials are endeavoring to com- plete arrangements for the deporta- tion of Philip Gevurtz, former Port- land furniture merchant. Gevurtz, who was engaged in the hotel business in Vancouver, B. C.. in 1921, was sentenced to five years {mn the British Columbia penitentiary to defraud. The Canadian officials requested R. P. Bonham, of the United States immigration service here to entab- lish Gevurtz’ American citizenship so that he may be deported. They do not indicate whether he will serve his sentence or be deported immedi ately. MINISTER IS A CANDIDATE PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 7-——Dr. W. T. McElveen, pastor of the First Congregational church, was last night nominated independent candi- date for representative in congress from this district. When Dr, McElveen’s name was placed tin nomination, but one man of the 129 present voted against him. At the opening of the meeting only 85 were present, but Fred Ross, leader of the striking shopmen, put out @ few telephone calls and within 15 minutes gathered together a suf- ficient number to make the conven- tion legal. Dumb-Bells Jacob Dobrin in Contest He Pulls a Nasty One Maybe You Know Some Dollar Apiece for Best Jacob Dobrin fs the first entrant in the Dumb-Bell Dud contest. “Speaking of Dumb-Bells,” writes Jacob, “there is » fellow in our offices who ts so dumb that he thinks the Canadian border pays rent. I told him it was probably only # rumor Jacob's brumb-Bell ts ao dumb that he's probably wondering why Potn-| dexter hasn't been invited into the Progressive senatorial candidates’ elimination conferences, And he probably thinks that— Bismarck is a German coin. Oratorio is a speech, Rhubarb is a fence wire, Optimism is an eye disease, Epistle is « small gun, Alfalfs is « college fraternity, The Y. M. ©. A. ts o miners’ union. Marine corps is a dead sailor, eee Remember, the Dumb-Bell Editor of The Star wants to bear about the Dumb-Bell in your office or block. tend him a note about what your Du Bell thinks» —aod he'll pry a dolfir apiece for the three beat submitted this week, Commisstoners Lou Smith (left), Claude C. Ramsay, ci hureday. “It'll all flivver out in half an hour” was order to interrogate witnesses. SCENARIO Fulton was right. FLIVVERS '| Famous Reconciliation Scene Not Enacted in eee Hart Case / BY LANSING WARREN LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7.—Something was wrong in movie land today, for one of its choicest traditions had collapsed. It had failed to work out in real life, and with no less a pillar of film sentiment than William S. Hart, two-gun man and hero of the West. Hart and his beautiful scene. front torn away, “Two-Gun single word, “Winifred!” “Ain’t he a he-man, tho?” Westover, had quarreled and were estranged. Then yesterday the stork flew down upon the scene, and friends of Hart brought the glad news that should have brought about a reconciliation—"It’s a boy All Los Angeles was ready to direct the closing Almost anyone ‘recalls it. a mile and a half of thick underbrush and, with shirt little room and kneels by the bedside, placing upon the spread a single flower caught up by the way. The Then for the final fadeout a touch of comic relief. Big Bill with the baby, who squalls lustily. But this did not happen—any of it. Instead, Hart received the news from his attorneys. | He didn’t move his features, | “I'm glad it’s a boy,” he said, and later muttered something about property settlements. As far as can be learned he has not communicated with the mother. wife, formerly Winifred || A mad dash thru Bill” bursts into the quiet Bill: (WOMAN JUMPS | FROM TRAIN | PORTLAND, Sept. 1—O-W. R. & N. officials here today received a re’ port stating that Mrs, J. W. Craig. | head, of Pendleton, Ore., who jumped | from a train window, had been dis- covered unhurt. Mrs, Craighead, who had been dh inmate of the state Insane asylum at Pendleton, last Saturday was re-| moved from the institution by her | relatives, and started with them for| 'Missourl. Left alone for a few mo-| ments, the woman leaped from a} window of the speeding train east) of Baker. / She was found at a ranch house. Mob Takes Negro From Jail to Rope} ORANGE, Tex, Sept. 7—0. J. Johnson, negro, under death sen- tence, was taken from the county jail at Newton by & mob of 100 men early today and hanged, His body | was riddied with bullets. Appropriation for Irrigation Is Urged, WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—fSenator \Porah, Idaho, today offered an lamendment to the Liberian loan bill, providing for appropriation of $20,- | 900,000 for irrigation work in tho Weut, | from JAPAN VESSEL IN COLLISION SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.-—The Japanese steamer Rhauyo Maru was forced to return to her dock here todi as a result of colliding in pgs ahs during the night with the steamer South Coast. a lumber schooner. The Rhauyo. was proceeding to sea when the collision took place. She was struck amidships #nd was damaged, but just how seriously cahnot be determined until a part) of her cargo is discharged and an investigation made, Darnage to the South Coast was| slight. woveinlatiae rt When Auto Turns Turtle WENATCHEE, Sept. 7.—Mre. Clifford Grease, of Cashmere, is near death, and Elsie Banko ts still uncon- scious, a @ result.of an auto | dent which occurred Monday night on the Beaver hill grade. Eleven other persons were more or leas #e verely hurt when a car driven by G. D, Banko, of Cashmere, turned over. SIX MEMBERS of the Y. W. C. A national board, vigiting in Seattle Southern and Hastern cities, were guests at the local ¥, W. C. A, raonthly board meeting Tuesday, * * hairman, and Tom Reber the s 8° * ho went on trial in superior court charged with grand Walter S. Fulton, when the state was granted a recess in| tie, according to Kent. It was made —Photes by Price & Carter, Siar Staff Photographera| Verbally and was expanded and reit- Accused County Heads Absolved by RAILWAY PEACE Action of Court Before Trial; Witnesses Are Blamed Grand larceny charges on which the county commissioners, Claude C. Ramsay, Lou ©. Smith and Thomas Dobson, were to have been tried were dismissed by Superior Court Judge Calvin S. Hall Thursday noon at the re quest of the prosecuting attor- ney’s office, Lack of evidence to convict was lthe reason given by Deputy Prose cuting Attorney John D. Carmody in! asking the dismissal, It was the third suced&atve set- back that Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas bas received in three days, and friends of his were commiserating him on the misfortune of losing so many cases just at election time. On Tuesday the United States clr- cult court of appeals denicd his plea in the county’s suit for taxes on the emergency fleet corporation's property. On Wednesday his complaint charg: ing « “conspiracy” against milk shippers was thrown out of court. And on Thursday his of- fice was forced to admit it could not make a caso against the commissioners, “The testimony the state's wit nesses were prepared to give on the stand, today,” Carmody sald, “was so utterly different from that which they were supposed to have given in the grand jury reom, and on which the Indictment against the commis. |sioners were based, that It would [have been absurd to go to trial. We could not even have made an open- ing statement on tie basin of the testimony these witnesses would have given today.” | Carmody said that the Indictments returned upon testimony to the jeffect that repairs to the county ferry Leachi, involving expenditures of $34,520.90 of the county's money, were made upon a labor plus and) cont plus basis. Witnesses this morning, he said, | did not recall such testimony. Others dented that they had so testified and | some stated that they did not intend to give any such impression to the grand jury, After Carmody had made his mo-| tion for dismissal, Walter 8, Fulton, | counsel for the commissioners, de clared to the court that he would| MOVE STARTED Shopmen Endeavoring to Settle Dispute CHICAGO, Sept. 7. — Striking shopmen were toGay reported to be working for peace with 5@ or more railroads on the following basis: 1, That strikers, men who re mained at work and new em- ployes be placed on the seniority lists us they stood June 39. 2. Pension rights to be re stored. 3. Tho settlement proposal is not to be classed as a precedent. 4. All matters not settled thru the agreement to be re- ferred to a board composed of five union representatives and five railroad representatives. eee WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Willlam H, Johnston, one of the leaders of the 400,000 striking railroad shop- men, today admitted that there was “substance” to the reports of re. newed negotiations between strikers and railroad executives for peace. Discussions were understood to be scheduled today between strike lead- ers or their representatives and a The climax to the expected senaa-| have liked to see the case tried On| group of conciliatory railroad execu- tional trial came out of a clear sky. Soon after court convened, Carmody and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Hert C. Rone requested time to exam- Ine the state's witnespes. Fifteen of these witnesses were quizzed before four mambers of the grand jury that returned tho indict- ment against the county commisston- ors, The grand jurors were: 1. G. Hoor, foreman; Bernhard Swanson, William J. Brown and Nellie W. Sar- gent. it# merits, so that any stigma at tached to hin clients by reason of | |having been indicted, would be | cleared once and for all. Two additional indictments against | the commissioners are scheduled to | be tried at a later date, Both charge | grand larceny, one in connection with | repairs to a ferry and the other in. volving disposition of county fuel oil, sald to have been turned over to Capt. John L. Anderson, lessee of the county ferries. | tives, Johnston's statement closely fol- lowed announcement in Chicago that the policy committee of the shop crafts’ union had been called to meet there Monday. It was indicated here that negotia- tions now going on or in prospect were expetced to develop something for submission to the policy commit- tee. One of President Harding's chief (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) Fierce Heat Wave Grips Middle West CHICAGO, Sept. 7-——The heat wave continues to hold the coun- try in its grip today as far West ag the Rocky mountains, The year’s heat records were broken in practically every state of the Middle West yesterday, and threatened to fall again today. Cooler weather late Friday or Saturday way the cheering word from the weather bureau here, The hot wave was caused by a “low” over the Dakotas and a corresponding “high” over the Appalachians, Scores of prostrations were re- ported, and at least six deaths re sulted from the heat, Schools were closed in many cities at noon, Crops, especially corn, were re- ported burning up from the in- tense heat in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. The New York Times, recog- nized as the spokesman for great business and financial in- terests centering in New York, publishes an editorial under the caption, “Loose Conversation,” as follows: “Yesterday's statement at the White House about the Chicago injunction is proof enough that the popular reaction has been unfavorable to tho high and mighty attitude of the attorney general. On Sunday he tele- graphed to the New York Her- ald that the government would pay no attention to ‘loose and irresponsible conversation on the part of people who may themselves yet be brought into court. It is now plain, how- ever, that so great a multitude of loose and irresponsible con- versation rose up in protest that [Alleged to Have | Hochbrunn; Says fession of the crime. She turned away proffered | ployed here before her arrest. “I will clear myself—there about,” she told them. Miss Skarin, when asked regarding plans for her de- fense, indicated she had none. “All the money I have is} what I earned as a stenog- rapher and that wouldn’t pay for much of a lawyer,” she said. She declared she would not fight extradition. ‘The alleged confession was made first on Tuesday night to Police Lieutenant William Kent, of Seat- erated yesterday afternoon when Kent police to take Miss Skarin out for junch and jater strolled with her thru the park. Crowds in t park saw the two talking earnestly, but no one sus- ‘was permitted by Oakland) SKARIN | WOMAN — IS CALM Confessed Killing Her Money Was Earned by Stenographic Work OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 7.—Clara Skarin, still in the Oak- land jail awaiting return to Seattle for trial for the alleged murder of Ferdinand Hochbrunn, aged millionaire, was as cheerfully confident today as ever, despite her purported con-_ condolences of many friends she seemed to have made during the two months she was em= is nothing for me té worry MURDER STORY PUT UNDER FIRE First Degree Charge to Pushed by Police Lieut. W. EB. Justus, of detectives, was at work clearing up the few loose ends | mystery which were left after Clara Skarin’s confession Wednesday that she killed her aged uncle, Ferdinand Hochbrunn. i He is on the trafl of which, he believes, will support # charge of murder in the first 3 pected a girl was telling the alleged story of a murder she is claimed to \have committed, to an officer who is sworn to prosecute her. The two returned to the jail late | in the afternoon, aftér which, Kent | | said, Mise Skarin approved a written | | statement which he made, covering | | the case, to his superior officers in | Seattle, | Previous to that the alleged con: | | fession had not been put into any | |form of writing by Miss Skarin, al- tho @ resume of the story had been | | telegraphed to Seattle by Kent. Extradition® papers were en route | to Sacramento today from Gov. Hart jot Washington, and officers thought \extradition might be completed by | Saturday night. Acording to Miss Skarin's story, | an retold by Detective Kent, the girl | Admitted she killed Hochbrunn after he had made an alleged attack upon | her at his home in Seattle, where she | was living as his ward. LIVING WAGE | FOR PASTORS) |the annual Oregon conference of |the Methodist Eptseopal church, Dr. | William Wallace Youngson, sup intendent of the Portland district, mado a plea for living salaries for | ministers. | Some ministers, Dr. Youngson said, are forced to take up side lines of work in order to support themselves and families, “If the church does not awaken jspeedily to the necessity of provid. ing its ministers with a living sup- port it will find {tself without a ministry capable of the leadership which the times require,” declared Dr. Youngson, | “Loose and Irresponsible Conversation” the administration felt it desir- able, after a cabinet meeting, to issue a word of reassurance, “No one’s constitutional liber- ties are to be taken away from him by the injunction, It will be used only against those who are violating the laws of the Jand. If this explanation is correct, the wonder deepens why the attorney general saw fit to do so much thundering in the index, And it cannot be denied that some of the language used in the injunction gave color to the «fears which the White House seeks to quiet. When a person is enjoined from ‘in any manner, by letters, primed or other circulars, telegrams, tele- phones, word of mouth, oral persuasion or suggestion, or thru interviews to be published in the newspapers, or otherwise in any manner whatsoever,’ doing certain things, it certainly looks as if he were condemned thereafter to a life of silent meditation and prayer. But this was never the intent of the government, we are now in formed. “This placatory deliverance by the White House is doubtless preliminary to a great change in the terms of the injunction when it comes up for a final hearing next Monday. The thing has palpably gone ill with congress and the country, The expected enthusiastic rallying of citizens in support of a majes- tic department of Justice did not come off. We may now expect to hear fewer grandiloquent words from Attorney General Daugherty, while loose and irre- sponsible conversation | about him will go on freely,” |Lieut. William B. Kent, who was -\ for that has been filed against MM Skarin. t While admitting the crime te oe tle immediately after her arrest last Saturday, Miss Skarin contends at present that she slew her relative in defense of her honor—which story, — if borne out, would, of course, pre clude any verdict of murder in the first degree. ‘ Further investigation of the leged confession will prevent Miss Skarin’s return before the middle part of next week, Lieutenant Jus tus said Thursday, Detective J. Ma- Jewski, of Seattle, ts working on the — case. Lieutenant Kent has been ordered to do further work of checking up on the details of the crime before — the woman Is brought back. Mrs. Robert R. Herbert, wife of Seattle detective, is due in Oaki Friday afternoon and will take charge of Clara Skarin. The pai will return, leaving Oakland al : Monday, and arriving in Seattle Wednesday or Thursday, making the trip by steamship, ‘The work of obtaining the sion fell to the lot of Lieute: Kent, who has received high excellent police work. Kent made himself the confidant of Miss Skarin and won her complete com fession. By her own admission, it was the kindness of Kent that im- pelled her to make the state ment. She announced that what- ever she had told Kent would be used strictly in her own inter. ests, “I have absolute confidence,” she sald, “in Detective Kent.” Her arrest was accomplished by the untiring efforts of Chief of Detectives Charles Tennant, ~ who has conducted the search for the woman for over nine months, and by so doing, added another laurel to his string of achievements, The Skarin girl's story, as told to Lieut. Kent, was as follows, accord- ing to dispatches from Oakland: “1 killed Ferdinand Hockbrunn (Turn to Pi 7, Column 2) A Home Close to Grammar and High School This is just the kind of a home that some will want and have been looking for, ne SOUTH OF WOODLAND PARK ood 5-room and bath on one floor; corner lot, 60x100, facing east and south; one block to car; close to grammar and high school, Cut to. $3,000, with $800 cash, balance $35 per month, t= cluding inter No mortgage to assume. Why pay rent when you can buy @ home on so easy terms? sent to Oakland to bring her to A eee Turn to the WANT AD asec. ttion and see who ts offering this comfy little home, |