The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 11, 1923, Page 1

and one bbutt. FRANCE RULES ESSEN! Germans in Ugly Mood as Invaders Take City WEATHER Tonight and Friday, erate southweaterty winds Temperature Maximum, 47 rain; mod. Last M Hours Minimum, 36. The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Bntered ae Second Class Mattor May 3, 1499, ar che Postoffioe at Seattle, ms Marob 8, The seattle Star 1879, Per Year, by Mall, #6 to 99 SE. A’ TTL “ALLEGED ROBBERY RELATED Detective Repeats Him Accusing Part in BY BOB BERMANN How Edward Von Tobel is dead body of his old friend, ‘Story Clara Told Von Tobel of Crime alleged to have robbed the and client, Ferdinand Hoch- brunn as charged by Clara Skarin, was related in graphic} form by Lieutenant of Detectives William B. Kent at Thurs-| day morning’s session of Miss Skarin's trial before Judge Mitchell ) Gilliam on the charge of murdering Hochbrunn. t : Then we wouldn't shiver every time @ wild woman looked at us, We'd call @ cop. 3 Famous sayings: “Here, officer, arrest that woman. She's trying to fiirt with me!” eee Think, girls, how thrilling it would be if you were sent to Walla Walla you big strong boy! You're 80 different! I just love intellectual men! Let me put my finger in your dimple! Pet me! Go on and pet me! eee When the 1,000 United States sol- diers in Germany return to this coun try our standing army will be dou- bled. eee ‘The slogan of the Army of Ocgupa- tion is: “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken by the Opening Day of the Baseball | Season!” eee *® Kent | Judge Gilliam ruling that testimony | |regarding Miss Skarin’s | could not be offered. This came up }to what Miss Skarin had told him | regarding the related that Mise Skarin made the following statement to him in the course of the confession which she dictated shortly after her arrest, in Oakland, Cal: “After I had killed Hochbrunn, I went to Von Tobel’s office, intending | to tell him my story and then give | myself up. He pereuaded | me not to Go this, however, sayin, was wn. wise, for the present, 4 ghend be cause he wanted to get a look at some papers in Hochbrunn’s trunk before anyone else did. : f sakee Ab F nt ii : j uf 222 F2 i rij E i 25 and open the pr ‘and got the keys. “He opened the trunk then and| ! i F z & poke of gold. Von Tobel got aw- fully sick after this, and I thought he wna going to faint.” | This part of Kent's testimony was| offered after a bitter wrangle be-| twoen the opposing attorneys as to/ just how much of the detective's| widence was admissible. In this argument Defense Attorney John F.| Dore scored an important point, | relations with other men than Hochbruna| when Lieut. Kent tried to testify aa| h of her mother, who was murdered by the wife of & man with whom the girl is said) to have been intimate. During the} argument the jury w excluded | from the room, the triai being held up for more than an hour and} making it unlikely that Miss Skarin | would take the stand before after-| noon Lieut. Kent was the first witness introduced by the state when court} reconvened Thursday morning. | Graham [filed suit for divoree, {wife with cruelty to their children, aan ts Liearefeteble.to to here shown with Billy and Graham Rock, a; ma betas brought by the boys’ father, G. Graham Rock, Seat real estate Anne * HOME i TOWN IS HELD BY TROOPS Cavalry, Occupy Center o City; Crowds on f Seized German Street Angered ~ BY CARL D. GROAT ESSEN, afternoon. Jan. 11.—Martial law was declared in Essen French troops entered the city at 9 o’clock this mornii encountering no resistance. French cavalry, tanks and chine gun detachments occupied the center of the city 2 o'clock this afternoon. Trains and trams were halted and communications porarily closed. Crowds of Germans in the streets near the railroad tion and postoffice were in an ugly mood. Blue clad cavalry appeared at the outskirts of E Bredeny, suburb of this city, a few minutes before hour of entrance. Three tanks, sent on ahead which had squatted like huge toads at the crossro her husband's relatives wrecked their home, 4449 44th ave. S. W., the mother testified on the witness stand. eee —Phote by MOTHER FIGHTS |Probe Alleged Shortage FOR CHILDREN) iz Dead Man’s Accounts took out’ big package of papers end| Makes Pathetic Appeal in|Auditors Investigate Books Following J. S. Goldsmith Suicide Divorce Wrangle BY JOHN W. NELSON Little arms, encircling mother’s neck—tiny fingers clutching with lingering grasp at a mother’s heari—these are links of a chain that shall never be broken, unless that inde. finable exsence which keeps the heart pulsing, called life, is destroyed. So declared Mrs. Ida Rock, pretty young matron, who Thursday ¢ ed the second day of a legal battle to retain what she said. under the awesome oath of the court, in dearer, far dearer than life itself her two boys, Billy, age 7, and Graham, age 6. The legal battle, defensive and of. fensive in one, was opened by G. Rock last June when he charging his| with a desire for “pretty clothes” desperate | Auditors were investigating the books of the Puget Sound & Seattle Packing Co., Thursday, to determine alleged shortages in + the accounts of J. 8. Goldsmith, receiver, whose dead body wi found Inte Wednesday in a watchman’s shanty at the end of ‘the Stacy st. dock, Creditors of the concern holding accounts totaling more than $100,000 were iso vitally interested in its con- dition, Alleged shortages of between $3,000 and $3,500 in Goldemith’s accounts were uncovered at aring last Sat | urday before Judge Gilliam, on a suit for collection of debts totaling $1,200 | brought by the Seattle Merchants’ | assoc iation, ‘The shortages, ‘AWAIT REPORT At ta be-| jeved were In the form of personal 8 drawn in favor of himaelf by Goldamith against the funds of the |firm for which he was receiver. | Goldsmith, one of Seattle's most Prominent men in civic affairs a few years ago, was baled into court last Saturday on a bench warrant, charg ing him with contempt of court. His arrest followed his failure to obey a court order, iswued by Superior Judge Mitchell Gilliam on De recting Goldamith to turn the books and accounts of his receivership over to the firm of B. G, Shorrock & Ci public accountants. Judge gave Goldemith until this week to comply with the order. For more than 26 years Goldamith was an active civic undertakings, giving freely of | |his time and energy in developing community projects. His financial rses came since the close of the mber 22, di | Gilliam | ker and leader in | Price & Carter, Star Btaff Photographers DEMANDS STAT HEADS ACCOUNT| Representative _ Heighton Asks for Probe BY FIELDING LEMMON OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 11.— Stringent demands that the heads of levery department in the state gov- jernment, either elective or appointive, give to the house of representatives a strict account of all money spent |during the past year, were contained in & resolution which Representative Charles H. Heighton of King county |was prepared to introduce to the |house Thursday morning. ‘The resolution demands the follow- jing information: | 1, Number of employes in their re. spective departments, month by | month for the year ending December } 91, 1922; nature of work and salaries paid. | 2, Itemized statement of all ttems under “Supplies, Material included night, came suddenly to life ai proper. nd led the march into the Other cavalry converged on Essen by several roads. came infantry, spreading out gradually to north and to form the jaws of the trap of steel that is to rich industrial center while France collects. There was no trouble this morning as the horizon t era een are preparing a protest to the T Strict prohibition is to be enforced, otherwise separation from her two sons, Mra. Ida Rock told Judge A. W. Frater in superior court Wednes- ithe first poilus showed in the outskirts, and fee 7 and 6, is tomer who are the objective of a bitter | anticipated. sman, Waning love and interference of ya go on as normally as the Germans can make it. Phe army that had marched before daybreak came fi jon Poy Essep. the sae of march as ay at had lain in wait the first cavalry passe rumbled into the proc Broleay were numbers of them on the road from ws ‘i French troops swung eastward thru the tine fog the columns passed German stolid teamsters, puffing on their pipes, driving out ‘o farms or markets, displaying only mild curiosity at the sight of the advancing French hosts. The French cavalrymen were gay as they pranced thru Kett- wig, thelr picked chargers minc- ing over the heavy cobblestones. They chanted little snatches of French songs and their pennants fluttered gaily in the morning sun, The long blue line on its eastward march wound around the steel hair. pin curves of sharp hills above the Ruhr river, then dropped down to the flats along the banks and into Kett- wig. The path ran straight before them into Bredeny. The first of the cav- alry that reached the outskirts of Essen was in three sections, with outposts ahead to stir the tanks to action and pass the word to the countryside that the French were GERMANY’ ASK U.S. H Envoy to Present Against French $ WASHINGTON, Jan, Germany has decided to her case in connection with French occupation of the directly to the United government, it was learned day. Dr. Otta Wiedfeldt, German j bassador, tomorrow will Secretary of State Hughes a which is understood to have received from the Berlin | ment setting forth the full [of Germany in the face of | French march into the Ruhr, ‘The note is believed to that France has violated the of Versailles by going into the coming. ARMY OF 35,000 jand with threatening to poison him. | At the same time he spirited the two children away from the Rock home, But it’s tough on the boys to pull ‘em out of the trenches just ap the rich dark Culmbacher from the Mu-| karin back as soon as she had fn Ro pme. | nich vats is being brewed. been arrested. In his first con. [4449 44th ave. 8. W., and kept them | ‘ cee veeration with her he told hee |for a week until ordered to return loam Has It That Indict- that anything she might say [them to the mother, when Attorney He explained that he had been sent to Oakland to bring Miss mee autopsy was performed Thurs | laay morning by Coroger W. H. Cor rs | non and Dr, W. J. Jones and car. "4d Service |bolle acid was found in the dead man’s stomach. He held a phial of the poison in his hand when the body was found. in the department's ex- penser. 3. St ment of number of autos, make, date of purchase, price of ot ral The doughboys will get an awf same, number of miles traveled and jolt when they first try some of this Americanized beer. ee SONG OF A RETURNED SOLDIER Oh, the old U. 8., she ain't what she used to be, Ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be, Many lo-0-0-0-ng ye-e-e-ars agot eee Why don't the American troops in Germany bring the Rhine home with | them? We could stick the doggone | thing up in the Cascades and no- body would ever hear of it again. "Then France ana Germany could| quit fighting over It o- } Members of the Army of Occupa- tion should bring plenty of German marks back with them, as they can{ be traded at par for confederate money. see HOW TO END ALL WARS | Make all privates stay back | with the generals Say what you want, Doc Brown will not compete with cheap labor. | When the of! companies reduced gas to 22 cents he quit talking. She ved if I kiased her, she'd scream | for her mother And I got alt confused and red; | But just the same I kianed her as 1) wouldn't a brother, she shoutet “sweet daddy” | instead, Ana eee “Some day when the butcher, with his hand on the sca weighs out) my meat,” says Brick Stilwell, “I | am going to yell ‘Hands up! eee Newspapers won't be able to print to Page 8, Column 1) | } ) would be used against her, but that if she knew of any facts which would tend to show that she was not responsible for the murder, he would gladly investt- gate them for her. She declined at first, but he finally prevailed upon her to confess, and that same night, “I have decided to tell you the truth about the whole affalr.” “Vil have to begin way back a| | good number of years ago,” she said, aceording to Kent. “In 1902, I was living in a house owned by Hochbrunn with my mother when Hochbrunn brought a grand niece, (Turn to Page 8, Column 4) Are You Ready for a Bargain? || Today the Want Ad Columns || carry opportunities in homes, farmg and many other useful bar gains. Here is a little farm all ready for someone to take care of. 40 acres good i] has been in f | orchard; berries all kinds barn for 6 cows: || ry house for about 606 pirds; well and spring; water can be piped. Did you ever @ buy like this for $1,700; $700 cash? By quiek action you sure get @ snap. | Turn to the Want Ad and see little Columns who will show you this place, |brought habeas corpus | Kelly in a | Rock, | eviden | admissions that Mrs. Rock proceedings before Judge Calvin §, Hall Mrs, Rock then entered her cross. complaint, charging cruelty, and was awarded temporary alimony and suit money by Judge Hall. Aligned with Rock {fn the battle for the two boys are all the mem. bers of his family in Seattle. His relatives who testified against Mra. Rock Wednesday were Mrs. Mary Rock, 1619 E. Republican s#t., mother of Rock; J. G Rock, a ner brother, who resides with Edward “cabin” on the rear of the Went Seattle, and four ex-school teachers of Robert #. Fulton for Rock lot in sisters, all are Mary B 24 years’ experience; Ann , & teacher with 20 years’ Jean L, Rock, a teache with 13% y experience, and Mrs. Mattie Rock Strain, who taught school for 18 years prior to her mar Mock, teacher | rhay All told same story when placed on ‘the stand, that the mother was unnaturally cruel to the children, neglected them, failed to feed and caré for t properly, and spent much of time away from home, Attorney Fulton called urt to the similarity of the and sought and the stand Depressed, with a face that even the pain of shattered love and the eruel a nations of the witnesses could not deprive of its gentle beau ty, Mrs. Rock sat motionless thru the trying ordeal Late Wednesday when she took the stand, she (Turn to Page 6, Column 7) attention | obtained | they had carefully} | prepared the case prior to going on ments Will Be Returned Judge Austin EB. Griffiths Thursday morning was awaiting the report of the special grand Jury charged on November 13 to investigate the handling of in dictments by the prosecuting at torney's office, returned by the former grand Jury. | The jury completed its work on | Wednesday night, after sitting for |nearly nine weeks, Stenographers were copying the Thu morning and, according to current dictments were | early return report day reports being prepared for In addition to investigating ferry | indictments, the jurors made an ex tensive’ probe of alleged vice condi. tions in Seattle and King county — FREE To Boys and Girls A Real Phonograph For a Little Spare Time Service Read Announce- ment on Page 11 i at the court house, secret in- | Goldsmith was last seen (Turn to Page 8, Column 1) Flashes alive TREMOR ROCKS KLAMATH | KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Jan, 11 A slight earth tremor rocked the Klamath Lak country last night ortly bef 9 o'clock, awakening early-to-bed citizens and nending them to wonder. The usual seismic demon- stration of swaying pletures and |furniture and falling plaster marked ha gaiee Earth's restlessness. | SLIGHT “OREGON QUAKE OW, Ore, Jan, 11—A hanawe shock jarred Lake: | last night. The entire was sent scurrying into arly | population the streets during | the lasted, Pictures were {shaken, furniture jostled and plaster fell in several buildings. There was no serious damage * tremor . | | APPROVE SEED BILL WASHINGTON, Jan, 11.—The bill to appropriate $600,000 for supplying feeds to farmers of Eastern Wash- ington was favorably rep by the jsenate agriculture committee today . | SARAH Is EXHAUSTED | PARIS, Sarah ¥ ope ar rides and visits with friends and | rudely | 0f licenses and director of their windows in| the halt minute | jeost during year of gas, oll and ac cessories, ‘The officers which would have to comply with the demands of the resolution are governor, secretary of stat treasurer, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, committee public lands, insurance commissioner, director of agrjoulture, director business control, director efficiency, director taxation and ex- amination, director of health, director | of conservation and development, di- |rector labor and industries, director public works, |POWER FIGHT IS STARTED! OLYMPIA, Jan, 11, — Offictally } Opening. the battle over the sale of | electric power by municipalities, Representative Homer T. Bone intro- | 1 his opposition power bill into | lower house of the legislature Thursday morning measure provides that cities | and towns owning or operating pow- er plants can sell surplus power with {no restriction or extra tax and that} pur sellers of such power | jshall have the right to purchase transmission lines and other equip- ment necessary to deliver power to consumers. Tho initial bill, troduced Wednes- day by Representative J. H. Davies, | specifies that a 5 per cent tax be |levied upon the gross revenue of power sales by cities by the county in which the city is located, The fight between supporters of the two proposed acts is expected to wax HOLDING ESSEN French Start Work on Coal Payments PARIS, Jan, 11.—France occupied the heart of the Ruhr today, Essen was surrounded by an army of 85,- 000 men, Engineers started work outlining penalties in coal which Ger- many must pay for reparations de- faults, The German government re- called its ambassador to Paris and in @ note to the powers warned that widespread troubles may be provoked thruout Europe by France's act. Premier Poincare declared France invaded the Ruhr “only to exact our rights, to make them respected and to defend our common interests.” Referring to withdrawal of Ameri- can troops, Poincare said it would be inexact to ihterpret this as a slur, It was only a coincidence that it hap- pened now, he suggested, The line of the newly occupied region, seized at dawn today, runs from Birchausen to Essen to Werden to Hattingen Two divisio and five of cay: of Freneh infantry ry make up the ad- vance army of occupation, The dis: trict held is the richest region. of Burope, second only to Pennsylvania (Turn to Page 8, Column 1) eee British Cabinet Is Now in Session DON, Jan, 11,—The British cabinet met at noon to consider the bitter, It will be fought in the main is confined to her home once more, jin the public utilities committee, Y situation created by France’s ad: vance into the Ruhr, and to protest against this action. € GERMAN ENVOY. LEAVES PAR Ambassadors Quit Fi and Belgium BERLIN, Jan. 11.—Germany _ has recalled her ambassador from _ Parts and her minister Brussels, but does not intend move as a diplomatic rupture, was stated officially. ae The German cnarge d'affaires Will) remain at Paris to act as ambassas, dor and similar arrangements will made for relations with Belgium, The act of the Cuno gor in withdrawing its representa from France and Belgium, came. mediately after receipts of tion of France's intention to ¢ the Ruhr, starting today, Ger made this move as a protest. eee Belgium’s Troops Join Ruhr M. DUSSELDORF, Jan, lly troops went forward into the a few hours after the French to A contingent comprised of t battalions of infantry, two rons of cavalry, a field batt armored cars and 10. escorting) aj planes advanced from Mi 2 the north of Bssen, te oa