The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1923, Page 7

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING Warm Winds and Much, Rain Prevail, However Flood conditions thruout the North: | West were improving Wednesday altho warm winds continued to blow | and rain fell in the same proportions | that have caused Seattle lowlands te! ome inundated Water tn the White river fell idly Tuesday afternoon, th | crest of the flood, the highest on ree-| ord here, passed into the Duwamish | waterway R, Beeman was optimistic that dan when County Engineer Thomas ker of flood damage has passed. Traffic over the Tacoma Eastern branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee « St. Paul railway above Elbe was! halted, due to a Weakened bridge span over the Nisqually river, An/ earth slide also blocked the right-of way. The Eastern branch is the Rainier National park line. | | ‘The Snohomish river at Everett was receding Wednesday morning. | Farms in the Stillaguamish valley Were slightly damaged when water | flowed over the lower valley lands. | The water ty nearly lear of Kent atreets, but valley highways still are covered Dynamite was used in Portland! ‘Tuesday to dislodge jams of logs and wreckage which gathered about city bridge piers. One bridge is wrecked Flood waters tn the Chehalis river are receding, after holding up traffic over roads fn Central Grays Harbor county. Nine inches of water has fallen there since uary 1 . . $4,000,000 Damage Oregon Flood Toll PORTLAND, Jan, 10.—The creat of the worst flood tn the Willamette River valley here was reported to be slightly lower than yesterday, when at least one of Portland's important intercity bridges was seriously threatened. Reports of damage in the Upper Willamette valley continued to pour into railroad and engineering offices | here, The Southern Pacific main line to the south ts still unfit for use, but thru trains are operating over | electric lines on the west side of the Willamette. The total damage to all kinds of progerty has not yet been carefully estimated, but it was telieved the figure would exceed $4,000,000. Hun- dreds of people are homeless in small towns, farming commanities and houseboat colonies along the Willa- | mette. aaa HERE’S MORE ABOUT FRANCE =| STARTS ON PAGE ONE |} Whether the above dispatch indi- cated a halt or change in the French plans for invasion of the Ruhr, or merely that the troops were held up awaiting the “zero hour,” tentatively fixed for daybreak tomorrow, ig not clear, Hemmed in on the west by French cavalry, artillery, infantry, tanks and airplanes, all ready to move at the word of command from Paris Essen, first object of France's punt- tive occupation pians, was a city of trained nerves today. The population is tense, but re- served. The uncertainty as to when thé French troops will enter the city 1s causing the most worry. Hotel guests were notified they might have to give up their rooms at any time. The poilus are at Kettwig, a few miles from here. They are reported to be nearly all white troops. Many are quartered with the inhabitants. ‘The first act of the local populace to frustrate the contemplated tnvasion occurred overnight. Knowing the French were about to come in and start their customs barriers between the Rubr valley coal fields and Ger- many proper, the coal syndicate in semi-private, semi-governmental coal distributing agency) dissolved its headquarters here and took all its papers and files to Hamburg. It ts claimed the French will have great difficulty in operating mines here without the syndicate’s ap- Daratus. Unions having local headquarters here published a strong protest against occupation by the French, deciaring the latter are planning an act of foree, which is a breach of the treaty. Dry Agents Make Big Liquor Hauls John V. Tovari, 1938 Tenth ave. N., | was arrested by federal prohibition | agents and deputy sheriffs Tuesday | afternoon, when 260 bottles of beer | and bottling apparatus suited for a small brewery were seized at his res- | idence. | Orell Moss and Tony Mala were a: rested when a considerable quantity of moonshine and bonded whisky were discovered hidden behind a pan- el in the wall of thelr place of bust | neas, the Happy Hour drink parlor, | Second ave. 8, and Main at. json hospital after an auto driven by | trial Prominent Woman | of Seattle Dead) Mrs. Emily W. Chapman, 45, a/ resident of Seattle 34 years, died at here home, 6724 11th ave. N. W., Tuesday. She was the wife of Hor- ace P. Chapman, vice-president of the Charles H. Lilly company. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Edith and Carol, and one #on, Horace. Hughes ts very gratifying, 10, 1923. ee HERE’S MORE ABOUT U. S$. TROOPS STARTS ON PAGE ONE eS Weeks said as he left the White 1" It will sail for Antwerp, Weeks said the troops would be back in this country In about two or three weeks. A small force, posmibly 50 officers and men, will be left at Cobleng to dispose of the property which be longed to the American forces of cupation This property, which Weeks sald ssiderable, cannot be transport ed and wilt be sold there Tn announcing the decision of this government, Hughes stated that “the time hv come” for the withdrawal of the American forces from the Rhine The Amertean action followed the refusal of France to halt its Ruhr invasion and submit the reparations question to an Inter national commission of business experts, as suggested by the United States. A few days ago the United States again made known to France that it regard ed the the march inte the Rubr with distinct disfavor. The coat of maintaining the army of occupation on the Rhine since the armistioe is now In excess of $300. 000,000. Thin te to be paid by Ger. many, but so far only comparatively small amounts have been received. ‘The force originally was about 15,000 men, but har been reduced from time to time at the insistence ot Germany. Plans were under way to cut off further appropriations for the troops if the administration had not issued orders for their with drawal The step taken by Secretary declared Senator Reed of Missouri, author of the resolution passed by the senate last Saturday urging withdrawal “That step is the first to take us out of Europe. Now if we will go after the unofficial American repre sentatives on the various European missions I believe the United States will be safe from any entanglement in the present critical European nity, ation.” ‘The army transport bringing the troops back will be routed to touch first at Savannah, Ga., then Charles ton and New York, leaving quotas of troops at Fort Scriven, Ga. and Fort Moultrie, 8. C., and other cen- ters in the surrounding areas. About one-half of the Rhine forces are estimated to be world war veterans. Some of these reeniisted after their discharge following the ar mistice Receiving huge bundles of marke as their pay, many of these men are said to be reluctant to leave Germany. Germany recently strongly urged the United States to continue its force on the Rhine because of its moral influence. LONDON HEARS FRENCH PLANS LONDON, Jan. 10.—Great Britain has been informed of France's plans for occupation and understands the United States has been similarly ad- vised. The cabinet today considered the situation in the light of information conveyed to the foreign office by the French ambassador to the court of St. James. Details were withheld by | Parts. Three questions were before Premier Bonar Law and his min isters. it was learned: 1, What form a mild British pro- test to France should take 2. Whether British troops should maintained on the Rhine. 3. If this country should continue its representation on the reparations commission and the council of am. bassadors. 3 WOMEN HURT, ONE SERIOUSLY, ‘Three women were injured in traf. fic accidents Tuesday night. One of the victims was near death Wednes- day tn the city hospital. Mra. Mabe! Beach, 22, of 1021 Sixth ave, N., was struck by an Everett interurban train at Westlake a and Aloha st. She was thrown sev- eral feet, receiving a broken leg, a broken arm, internal injuries and wounds on the head to an extent stilt undetermined. Mrs. Beach was with her mother, Mra. Violet Campbell, 618 Aloha ot, and the two women had crossed the car track to catch a Wallingford car. Mrs. Campbell stepped tn a mud pud. die and she called to her daughter, While Mrs. Beach's attention was drawn to her mother’s accident the interurban strupk her. She was tak en to the city hospital in a laundry truck, unconscious. Miss Ann Hall, 43, Mbrarian, of 835 15th ave., was struck down by an auto at EB. 40th st. and 10th ave N. E., Tuesday night, receiving~in- Juries about the heaa which later caused her removal to the Swedish hospital. Her condition ts not dan gerous, Mrs, William Serrick, 2609 Sixth ave., was taken to the Virginian Ma R. C, Torrey, 2224 Queen Anne ave., had knocked her down at Fifth ave. and Cedar «t scalp wound when her head struck the pavement. TEETH IN NEW NARCOTIC BIL OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan, 10.—A HERE’S MORE ABOUT CLARA SKARIN STARTS ON PAGE ONE _ Mich, She paid fo My God! Woman! Where did get all that gold?” the man at the tolograph office asked her An old uncle died and left it me,” Clara is said to have replied. “Well, ot him. waan't it?” ted and Clara replied y “When Clara, who had not had enough money for her cartare, even, showed up at the Clark Ino. this m gold that the wan an comn nice Here is the Clara Skarin jury, as finally constituted 1—Charles 4. Doolittle, 2300 KE, Olive st, —Hoy Tuson, truck driver, 705 cook, Shaw, garage me tnd ave, 8. V Rubinson, Pike st. . Grace B. Quigley, 6522 19th ave, N. E. 6—Mrs. Cornelia Kay, 3210 Dose terrace. T—Alfred B, Huclat, shoo sales. man, 6715 California ave. SeJoseph J. Prevost, man, 314 Nob Hill ave. 9—Andrew Murtlock, ship bulld- er, 3317 18th ave, 10—Mrs. Cather: 811 29th ave, 1—Wallace L. Wright, lawyer, 8256 Holly at. 2—Mre. Anna ©. Young, Phinney ave. chante, 4—tieorge switch home wih a lot of gold, she ex- plained to Mrs. Clark that it was from » Mr, Wimborn, whom she sald she had married, “In the meanwhile Edward Von Tobe!, Hochbrunn’s attorney, had be come worried by his client's failure to communicate with him and he looked up Clara at the Clark home. She told him that her great-uncle had gone to Portland and had left her some id with which to pay ex penses. Von Tobel was surprised that_he should have given her gold becabse he knew the old man had been saving ft for ume on a contem- plated ‘trip to Bouth America. “Later, Clara went to Von Tobel's office and gave him a letter purport: | ed to have been written by Hoch. brunn tn Portland on October 28, tell. ing him to write to him at the Im | perial hotel.” Carmody told of letter after letter which Clara is alleged to have writ ten to Von Tobel, signing her great- uncle's name to all of them. Then he worked on down to the day when Hochbrunn's body was found in the apartment because « plumber had gone in to investigate @ leak Von Tobel immediately turned all of the forged letters over to the po lee, Carmody said After touching briefly upen her confeasion, Carmody conclud- ed with the statement that he would ask a conviction of murder in the first degree. He did not intimate, however, that he would ask the death penalty The story as unfolded by Attorney Dore was at ones strikingly similar jand dissimilar to Carmody's Next to his play to show that Heochbrunn wan a degenerate, Dore is evidently placing his reliance upon entangling Von Tobel in the case. “We will prove,” he said, that in the middie of February, 1922, months after the killing. and while the police along the Coast were looking for her, Clara Skarin, then living in Berkeley, Cal., met Von Tobie in the park in front of the St. Francis ho- tel, in San Francisco, and this is the conversation, which took place: “"E need monty to keep going,’ she told him. “fll give you no more,’ he replied. When she in- sisted, Von Tobel threatened: ‘It you don't look out, I'll turn those letters over to the police,’ “AN of them? she asked, “"No,’ he replied. ‘De think Tam # fool, I'll keep personal ones. ‘Then Clara told him that he was you the ed to all along. ‘I'll go on,’ she said, ‘put I'll probably be caught, and if I am I'll tell everything. “And that, ladies and gentlemen,” Dore declared, “is just exactly what she told Lieutenant Kent in Oak land and what she will tell you on the witness stand here.” Dore related Clara's experiences from the time when her mother first went to live with Hochbrunn, when she was a little girl, Mont of the story im too revolting to re peat. Dore said that Hochbrunn [had made a criminal assault upon Clara when she was a child and (i Deputy Prosecutor Carmody, in | examining talesmen, asked each one if he or she would be incined to give the defendant more sympathy be | cause she is a woman. John F. Rore, chief defense counsel, varied this a little by several prospective jurors: “Will the fact that the defendant is {a woman unduly prejudice you j against her?” eee Professions ang occupations seemed to run in pairs among the talesmen examined for the Skarin Two wives of musicians were in the box at one time, and there were two Bon Marche employes and other. A lawyer's widow and a law- | yer also were on the tentajve jury, but the widow was excused by the defense on peremptor challenge, The lawyer, Wallace L. Wright, remained |on the final jury—he was chosen to | fi] neat No. 11, after the defense had exhausted ith 12th and last peremp- tory challenge. eee double-crossing her, and had intend. | ee* —_—<$<$<$<—$< $s | Skarin Trial Sidelights | RAID PORT OF MISSING GIRLS | Claim Tamale Parlor Owner Trapped Girls | Believed to be a “port wirls,” sheriff's deputies lat wdny |raided « “Mexican tamale” parlor conducted by Markus Joffray at 1429 Bixth ave rented Joffray © of contributing to the ney of a minor minsing revelations followed confession of a 16-year-old Joffray Nad lured her to and had then furnished her jwith Hauor and “dates,"’ Authorities believe the place in a ‘ap, where girls from 14 yearn up are fntreduced to patrons of Joffray | While three alleged victima of Jof fray's alleged nefarious traffic are held at the Juvenile detention home & search ts in progrena to find pretty Bima Neim!, daughter of an Aber en bathhouse keeper, sald to have na victim and inmate of Joffray’s home at 1324 Old Fifth ave, an alley joff Union at , and three companions es. from the Washington Girls’ home at Everett December 28, These girls have according to Deputy Prosecutor Ralph Hammer, and are being held as material wit neanen Joffray admitted having had rela tions with the girls, but claimed he sent Elma to visit her land. A wire from the Oregon rela tive denied that the giri had reached there | By uncovering the mystertes which enshroud the “dump,” police believe they can tell what happened to mary jof the “missing girl” cases wo fre: | quent here lately GIVES LIFEIN VAIN HEROISM Atlee Hollingsworth and tts S-yearold son, John, were dead Wednesday, and » second son, Clarence Hollingsworth, aged 3, was suffering from burns which may prove fatel, as the result of a fire which desiroyed the Hol lingsworth home near Bothell | Tuesday night, | | Hollingsworth died tn « vallant but | futile effort to nave his boys, He} | died within a few feet of the bed | where his elder eon's charred body | lay. The other child was rescued | from the house by Joseph Smith, who endangered his own life by dash: | ing into the blaring house after he | had been driven back by the flames | | three times. | i Elma caped confensed. Hollingsworth and his wife were | visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Joho. | |son when the fire #tarted, from some |f! | unknown cause. Hollingsworth, driv. |}) ing home, saw the flames when about « mile away. Hoe tried to | speed up his motor, but it failed him, and he was forced to make the entire distance on foot. Had the motor stood, the test he could un doubtedly have saved the two chil dren. that he contmuafly after that mad perverted advances toward her. He gavé a graphic description of the death scene which he said fol-| lowed upon a final attempt on Hoch brunn’s part to outrage the girl | The concluding portion of Dore's| address was confined to a denuncia |ton of Von Tobel, who, he declared, had been responsible for dinsuading Clara from giving herself up. “Don't do h, little girt. You've got a lot of years to live ahead of you,” Von Tobel told her, ac cording to Dore, when she told him that she had killed Hoch brunn in self-defense and that she intended to surrender to the police. |. Testimony began immediately af: | ter Dore had ended his address. The | first witness was Ralph M. English, | city detective, who testified to tnu ing a permit to Miss Skarin author. | [izing her to purchase a revolver | | Max Hyman, pawnbroker, testified | to having fold her a weapon with | which Hochbrunn was killed | Walter Blood, the carpenter who! was working with Hochbrunn the day of the killing, was the last wit | | nens before the noon recess. He told |f} j | | of Clara's visite:to him in which she | paid him with gold for the work that }he and his helper had been doing for Hochbrunn, This took place imme- | |dintely after the killing, when Hoch- | brunn was supposed to be “in Port. |f) land.” | RO oe } | ‘There is one question that fe usu ally asked prospective jurors which is very rarely answered with exact It's the time-honored one that runs: “If you and the defendant | were to exchange places, would you | be willing to be tried by a jury made | up of men and women whose state of | mind was the same as yours now is?” Most talesmen say “Yes,” which is manifestly untrue, as they would much prefer to be tried by a Jury prejudiced in their favor. Clem | Re Le Master, 1610 Fourth ave, N., however, was more honest, When the question was put to him Tuesday truth. She received a severe | one of Frederick & Nelson's at an-| by pefense Counsel John J. Sullivan, he replied, in spite of the fact that he was absolutely unprejudiced: “No; |} don’t think T would be—and I hope [11 never be in that situation.” He was later excused by peremptory | challenge by the defense | eee | ©. R, Corey ington a University of Wash or in the school of tentative jury |staggering blow to peddlers of nar: mines, was on the coticn will be dealt to Washington | t has a Seattle courtroom /put he didn't stay. College pro traffickers !f house bill No. 1, 1N-| heen crowded more densely than WAS gory don't as a rule—for some [troduced by Adam Beeler, of King! judge Mitchell Gilliam’s, when Claral yon or other lawyers don't seem | county, this morning, i# enacted into | sarin went on trial Tuesday and in-! want ‘em Leap < dications were that the crowd would) aii of which leads up to a recent || New teeth make the bill far more increas as the sexsion continues.|inoident at a bar association dinner || drastic than the one vetoed by Gov.) Judge Gilliam ts giving everybody @/jn the Eust, An eminent criminal }| Hart in 1921. A minimum penalty /fair chance to get in. During th¢|jawyer was deorying the existing || jof one year in the pen i# provided,| noon recess he haa the courtroom] procedure under which juries | |and the maximum set at ten years. | locked, so that everyone has an even | ohosen. The 1921 measure wet no minimum! preak after lunch | “why,” he exclaimed, “I wouldn't and placed the maximum sentence eee be surprised to find an educated ape saben mrt in the Jury box some day.” protest judge before ap tried many canes, “He'd 1 on any case you were trying, If the ape were educated you'd be quite sure to remove him by peremptory challenge.” , Clara. Skarin isn't Clara Skarin oth of the deputy prose wing attorneys handling the case John PD. Carmody and T. H, Patter ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. 10 Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry K. 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