The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 1

REDS IMPERIL FRANCE? BOLSHEVIKI MAY HELP GERMANY! ~—eeeenenm WEATHER Rain tonight and Saturday; mod- erate sow Temperature Last MH Maximum, 44 Today therly winds Min) hoon, 40, sl A) Howdy, folks! Don't you feel relieved —now that the grand Jury has adjourned? eee The grand jury reported that vice | conditions in Seattle were exagger Aéed. Sure, you still have to pay $8 & quart for it, ee There was a young fellow named Stauss, Who got on a terrible sauss, He had the right key In the keyhole, you see, But the keyhole was in the wrong Rauss . Seattle astrologer predicts a lot of trouble for 1923. He probably refers to the fact that the state legislature & in session. eee Governor Hart, in his biennial Message to the legislature, recom. mends a tax of two cents per gallon If he wants to raise a lot of dough, why doesn't he ask for a tax of two cents per gallon on bootleg ? cee HAVE A HART! greeted with a for the defense, asked him. the other night. . Bi Warner, the demon auto deal- er, tawls us out at the rate of three cents a word, in the advertising col- umns. Gosh, how that guy must hate us! the daddy of triplets har eee ‘ When we die we hope the short obituary will conclude with the line, “No carriages followed the hearse.” eee CHARGE ‘IM WITH MURDER! ly with one’s personality. What a mean disposition President Wojciechowski of Po land must have! see ri Addied axioms: Five per cent in the bank is worth 10 in the bottle. ee Folks who rave about this Mister Coue, Who says all you have to doue When you hit the hay In to say “Day by day”; Don’t you think he's just Coue-coue? os Great Britain's sea power may be great, but how about Marcel, who has ruled the waves for 50 years? cee An alarm clock {s full of good sug gestions, but it makes poor company just the same. eee BRING ALONG YOUR OWN GARAGE Pleasant furnished sleeping room, gentleman, with or without gurage. Garfield $237-K.—Want Ad. eee Pa—Here, Willie, everybody will | be calling you a little glutton. Do} you know what that is? | Willle—I suppose it's a big glut-| ton’s little boy. | The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor atered ae Seco id Class Matter Maj 1 Postottion at Be * ann. Under (he Act of Congress March a, The Seattle Sta 180), ANT, Per Year, by Mati, #6 to 9° PRARARAR AR AR AAA ee Ew HOME SEATTLE, WASIL., tIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1923. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, | sytsaateaseaseereaeeseneseateetetaaeetseteaeese et aae TTT eT eee T TATE TTT LETTS aaa eee eae aT t! Pending Case May Go to Jury Tonight;| Both State and) Defense Close | By Bob Bermann Clara Skarin, alleged murder. ess of Ferdinand Hochbrunn, may know her tate before an- other sun rises. With startling suddenness, the taking of testimony in her trial before Superior Judge Mitchell Gilliam was concluded at noon Friday. When court convened at 3 p. m. Judge Gilliam was to read his instruc. tions, and argument by state and | defense was to begin immediately |afterward. It was thought possible | that the argument might be com | pleted during the afternoon, and that the case would go to the pury before adjournment. It seemed more like ly, however, that the argument] | would inst over for an hour or s0/ |into Saturday morning’s session. | | ‘The state confined its evidence in} rebuttal to a defense of Edward Von | Tobel, who Miss Skarin accuses as| ‘an accessory after the fact, and to/| an attempt to impeach the defend-| on February 9%, 1922, when she was a fugitive from justice, but admitted that he had been tn the southern city on that day. “What name did you register un- der? John F. Dore, chief counsel “Why-—why—" the witness hest- tated, “my own name, I think.” “You are sure you did not register replied. Von Tobel injected a bit of comedy In the proceedings when he attempt [ed to establish an alibl for himscit for the night of the killing, October 1%, 1921. He said he had been at the | Elke’ lodge at the time when Miss! |Skarin alleged that he wan in the | death house, and declared that John J. Sullivan, associate defense counsel, had been present at the same time. Sullivan, smiling broadly, war called to the stand as a state’s wit- ness and admitted that he had been at the lodge on the night in ques- tion, but stipulated that Von Tobel | had arrived after 9 o'clock, which ‘was after the hour set by Miss Ska- rin for his alleged visit to the Hoch- brunn home. There was a draamtic inefdent | shortly before his testimony, when | Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John D. Carmody clashed sharply with | Defense Attorney Dore. Dore had | objected to the introduction of evi ence to show that Von Tobel had actually made investigations with a view to finding Hochbrunn before | his body was discovered. “Von Tobel isn’t on trial,” protested “He isn't?” was Carmody's tronto | comment. “Thin testimony goes, to |rebut the whole story in which the | defendant seeks to implicate him.” The investigations mentioned was testified to by Miss Eva L. Arrey, Von Tobel’s stenographer, and by Mrs, Mabel Harris, of Portland, who |made the inquiry, Other witnesses | called in rebuttal were Deputy Coro- ner H. W. Johnson, who testified as |to the condition of Hochbrunn clothes when his body was found; |W. B. Kent, lieutenant of detectives, who was asked some further ques- tions as to his investigations at the time that he went South to bring Miss Skarin; Charles Murphy, the court reporter, who took down Miss Dore Bank Officer, Indicted by Grand Jury, Arrested HOW CAN THEY SLEEP? Men Who Lie Where Poppies Blow Have Been Betrayed “If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, tho poppies grow In Flanders’ fields.” P from your graves, ye millions of lost heroes! Bare your bleeding wounds! your ghastly faces! the Brotherhood of Man, for which ye died! For, the faith is broken. France raids Germany. The Hun begins to stir Greece mobilizes to set ablaze the Balkans. Turkey smells human blood and draws her sword anew. against a Come f¢ ground” j Show civilization Speak to the children of God of mothers a Ypres, a farce. ll] Christendom. orth! s that of brutal waste. Great Britain and great America retire to “splendid isolation.” The fame of your “eternal camping Verdun, a comedy. Ye of the Argonne and Chateau Thierry but negligent items of a mockery, and civ- ilization no longer heeds the weeping of your widows, ind orphans. Up! Fall in! Forward, ye mighty armies of the spirit! Again greed, selfishness, oppression, racial hatred triumph over mankind, and men of flesh fail to beat them down. In God’s name, sleep not longer! Seattle National Head Issues Statement; Student Accused «y” WHAT GRAND JURY DID Indicted Perry B. Truax as agent and vice-president of the Sational bank, alleging grand larceny of securities held ‘8 collateral for a loan of $18,474 to Frank Waterhouse & Co, Indicted Eugene and Samuel Kunz, Unt 4738 University bivd., charging second degree assault upon Edmund |} 1 Beattle M. Lawhead, March 6, 1931. 3. Found vice conditions tn Seattle “greatly exaggerated,” but enforcement slackening. 4. Found many trregulartties tn con@uct of defunct Scandinavian | EB. Chilberg and former bank officials. Offenses exempted by state law of limitations, having | occurred American bank by J. more than three years ago. 6. inmate. 7. gated dozens of minor matters. Two indictments, one naming Perry B. Truax, v jt of the Seattle National bank, and the bank itself; the other, Bu- gene Kunz, university studert:, and Samuel Kunz, of 4738 Uni versity bivd., were returned by the county grand jury with its report, late Thufsday. Baill in the sum of $5,000 for Truax, who was charged with grand larceny, jointly with the bank, and $2,000 cash bail for the Kunz brothers, charged with seo ond degree assault, was posted in superior court Friday morn ing. The jury briefly covered the wide range of subjects investigated by It during its eight weeks’ work, finding among other things that vice condl- | jtions, alleged gambling and bootleg: ging in Seattle have been exagger- | ated by critics of the present city ad- ministration. ‘The bank indictment was returned over a business transaction which | the debtor and| should have been, Frank Waterhouse & Co., in August,| demand that these securities be im, 1921. The bank's officials are charged | mediately restored. from the} paid the bank its note of $18,474.01 curred between the bank with accepting $18,474.01 Waterhouse company on a note and failing to return collateral securities, consisting of automobile contracts, * * * Brown Clamps Lid Down Tight on Seattle Vice Tho lid is on. Seattle will be a closed town from today on, Mayor Edwin J. Brown promised Friday in an- nouncing another drive to rid Seattle of law violations. A con- Urged amendment of law which now protects crimes com- mitted by banks and bankers ff “they can successfully cover It up.” 6. Found county hompttal officials negligent tn connection with siaying of aged Chinese, Jung Fong Jim, by Robert Monan, insane Heard 171 witnesses during eight weeks’ session and invest! | | * RAILS MOUNT Are Doubled Since Strike Began in July Last Year WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Rall- | road accidents have increased more |than 100 per cent since last July, | due to defective equipment and roll- ing stock, mys an official report of the interstate commerce commis ston. | _ Of the 400,000 workers who mtruck, 200,000 are atill out; executives on their lines refuse to accept the “Bal- timore” plan of settlement, The places of these 200,000 strik- ing union men are now held largely | by trike breakers, A. G. Pack, chief tnaptctor of the | locomotive inspection bureau of the [interstate commission, has compiled t-/the figures on rafirond accidents, be irmgge 9 Rao ape to the bank's) deaths and injuries for the five. The indictment against the |™0nth period prior to the strike Kuna boys is based on an al | 8nd for the fivemonth period from leged assault made upon Edmund | July 1. M. Lawhead, March. 5, 19%1, For the five months prior to when, necording to the indica | duly 1, there were 253 railroad Lawhead with iron knuckles and | S¢cidents, in which nine persons an ofl enn, inflicting grievous were killed and 294 were in- wounds upon him. ‘The case had jured, according to Pack’s statis- been reporied to the prosecut- ea. or's office, but action against the Kunz boys was refused. Rgenrding the charges, J. W. Spangler, prosident of the Seattle Na- tional bank, said Friday: “Thia is an old controversy which took place In the summer of 1921. It rnity students, of as they had promined to do. The money wan accepted and the necurt- ties were taken from the table where they had been placed during the set From July 1 to December 1, Inclusive, the number of acel- dents increased to 519, the num. ber of deaths to 26, and the number of those injured to 583. The national organizations of railroad engineers and firemen, tak- }ing cognizance of Pack's report, began when the bank discovered that | have advised “every man operating the proceeds of some of the securt'!a locomotive to report defects of tles that had been pledged to it for|work necessary on his locomotive indebtedness had not been applied by | at the completion of each and every the bank claimed they | trip, Do not get discouraged be The bank made | cause work you have reported in the past has not been done, but con tinue to make your reports at every | terminal reached as long as the de “The securities mentioned above! fects exist.” “gir to ree i come’) | OPETCERS RAID LAKEVIEW INN + + * * Prohibition officers under the di- rection of F. A. Hazeltine, divisional chief of prohibition, and Prohibition | Director Roy Lyle, succeeded in raid- |n@ and closing the Lakeview inn, formerly the old Black Cat, 10 miles ‘The debtor then jand or Spokane, The grand jury told the truth, It has said that thiv is a humane administration, In the past there have been a few bull- dozers on the police force who used to invade homes and business houses, wreck furniture and throw people |north of Seattle on the Everett high- |way, early Friday morning. Reports jof alleged drinking parties at | Lakeview have been frequent of late, according to Hazeltine, but the bril- |Hantly lighted roadway and grounds the | ACCIDENTS ON German-French War Is “Only Question of Time’’ Dangers of Crash Is Feared Before Attempt Can Be Made to Settle by Peace Parley By William Philip Simms WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.— War “between Germany and ful allies, nlone face to face enemy. Should Germany strike back now, or later, as the result of France's occupation of the Ruhr, both Pro- mier Bonar Law of Britain and | President Harding have as much as |told France she need expect no help | from them. | Russia, France's ally in 1914. is Germany's friend today, full of potentialities as this friend ship Is. ALLEGED AUTO BANDITS HELD ‘Men Who Robbed Cashier | Believed Taken BY 8. B. GROFF Betrayed by a woman, two men accused of the robbery of Walter F. Cooper, cashier of the Union Oil Co, last December, when he was robbed | of $5,400, were arrested tn a thrilling | coup by police Thursday night in two apartment house raids, The men under arrest gave their |names as A. C. McCabe, 42, attor- ney, and C. J. Hart, 38, electrictan McCabe has been positively identified by Cooper as the man who held a gun at his head, but he could not | recognize Hart, as he did not see the | second bandit clearly. Late Thursday night, an unnamed woman told police that McCabe was | in a room at the St. Lawrance apart. ments, Eighth ave, and Olive st. Po lice Lieut. J. W. Smith, Sergt. J. H Thomas and Patrolmen G, W, Norris and A. A. Gray rushed to the place, McCabe submitted quietly to ar. rest. A nearch of his effects revealed @ map of the district where the hold. up took place, The name and ad France now stands with her old ~ Rumania, Poland, Italy and Bel- sium are sympathetic to France, but in a war would count for little. The Russian menace would hold off the Polish-Rumanian entente, and Belgium is too weak, and Italy too much occupied with her own wou Dies to dare venture into another war, France, then, ts isolated with her Population of 40,000,000—as against 65,000,000, During the world war by calling under the colors virtually every male in the country, of age or physical condition, France mustered 8,400,000. Of these, 1,364,000 men were killed 740,000 permanently disabled and 3,000, wounded. $ Germany actually quit the war in 1918 with 8,000,000 sol- diers in uniform, including 190 infantry and 140,000 officers, trained and tried in the art of fighting. Hindenburg is still their idol. Tho in civilian clothes now, these men can quickly muster, it is admitted even in a Could England stay out of such a war? Yes, if given guarantees | the conflict would stay within cer- tain bounds, including leaving Bel- gium intact and the channel ports as they are. And Germany would readily give these guarantees andj keep them. England could make her keep them. Georges Clemenceau, war premier | of France, claims Germany has vast stores of war materials hidden away. | Further materials could be had from | Russia and Turkey without either country joining In, Altogether the situation fs re- garded as extremely dangerous and many, including Senator Borah, republican, former league of nations “irreconcilable,” in- sists the moment an opening Presents itself, America must hasten in an effort to frustrate war, STORMY SCENES AT ESSEN MEET German Coal Barons ignore French Commands BY CARL E. GROAT ESSEN, Jan. 12, — Hugo Stinnes, Dr. Krupp Von Bohiem and other coal barons of the Ruhr today ignored the Franco- Belgian “invitation"—in reality an order—to attend a meeting on coal distribution, Russian Attack Goes Careful in Seized Town world was adjusting : today ‘o the new condk tions in Europe, wherein France has taken physical possession — thru her armies of the rich Ger man Ruhr district. One of greatest coal producing manufacturing areas of EB ii i 1a ) Ai | i E i a il i 5 : H ? if i | | : - i i f | E 32 MEM 5F alist communist plot, which bring the bolshevik army Germany to the banks of the and thence into France, was cl today against Deputy Cachin communist leaders arrested in Tl day’s roundup. The minister of jus tice filed.a request that the ber of deputies rajse Cachin's Mamentary, immunity, so and Cachin, Monmousseau, 8 Treint are to be accused of & revolution in Germany, in the Russian army was to int It ts charged that Treint stated if the red army reached! the French communists would open gates of their towns to the evil ‘The police claim to hay vere @ plot of international comm including those of Russia, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Poll Holland and Sweden, to stir up lutionary troubles in Germany dress of Hart, at 1421 Boren av also was found, and Detectives Charles Phillips, W. Humphreys and Harry Weedin were assigned to ference between the mayor and Chief of Police William B. Sev- eryns was held Thursday night when orders were framed that will hold Seattle police responsl- ble for law violations on their in- Skarin’s confession, and Owen Gay- lor, vault manager for the W. D. eee P French dressing is expensive stuff As costly as a pearl— | Perkins company, Whether it te put on salad, or | Gaylor was called to testify that Upon a pretty girl | Von Tobel had not opened his safety - ee | deposit box in the Perkins vault be- bin dias sided. ohn tween October 10 and November 12,| dividual s. | evete die in hiding: ter int | io01. ‘The state brought this out in| While Mayor Brown was planning | ought t& be in trim to write the ;/@1 attempt to show that the gold/a new drive on the police department / story of her life for some newspaper, | Which Von Tobel bad in his safety |to rid the city of vice, Rev, Chaun-| ter Be | deposit box was not part of the for |cey J. Hawkins and Rev. H. I. Chat-} District President Gruetzner, who is not a member of the coal syndi-' cate, which hastily moved {ts head- quarters from Essen when the! march thru Poland into Germ French invasion began, was the only |intervene, aiding the proletarial prominent industrialist present. | revolution, es The allies notified the Ruhr mine| At daybreak today police administrators and workers they houses of a number of commi must obey orders of the army of| They seized the papers of occupation, not those of Berlin. Gen. | Her, municipal councillor, Poland, basing their action on Ruhr occupations, This would Russia's red army an excuse € into jail, then throw the key away. That will not happen while I am mayor. lof the establishment, he declares, | made the place a difficult one for pro- {hibition agents to approach without | being detected, According to Hageltine a party of more than a dozen persons were drinking at the ablishment when the agents entered the place at 1 a. m. Friday. ‘ge M, Strandell, head waiter; Tom Makagawa, cook, ery law will be obeyed. I give people a chance to make a# living, a chance to be decent. If they aren't law. abiding we will grab them. I don’t know how long it will be will Judging Little Dandy ‘This Simon Clara wrote that she wag in China when in reality she was in Oakland. Oh, well, it isn’t hard to get those foreign cities confused. mes WAR! WAR! WAR! Doc Brown has mobilized! He has placed a cannon at the en- trance of his dental office! Let loose the Dogs of War!—Bill Haines, { Bill may be right, but we always | thought that Doc used that cannon to shoot out teeth with, ee BOLSHEVIKI menace France POILUS take Essen— BUT here ali ig peaco— MAYOR Brown and Dr, Hawkins— HAVE signed an armistice, at the time of the killing, October 13, Ferdinand Hochbrunn was a | menace to the women and chil- | dren of the entire community, | according to expert testimony introduced Friday morning in the trial of Clara Skarin before Su- perior Judge Mitchell Gilliam on the charge of murdering Hoch- brunn. The expert was Dr. Alexander R. Robinson, a former college profensor at Harvard, and an eminent author- ity on pathology. Using stories of attacks made upon them, aa related by numerous women witnesses called by the defense, John J. Sulll- van, associate defense attorney, pro- pounded « long hypothetical ques (Turn to Page 16, Column 4) |tune stolen from Hochbrunn’s trunk |terton, leaders in the recent vice | |erusade, were commending the grand jury’s report on vice conditions and declaring they will keep a sharp eye on Mayor Brown's future actions. Rev. Chatterton said ‘ rs will adopt a policy of wateh waiting, We will see what Mayor Brown is going to do toward keeping this town free from vice and corrup- then we will decide ‘Rev, Hawkins ts Iie an ostrich,” Mayor Edwin J, Brown caustically commented, in indorsing the report of the grand jury. “He says, ‘Drive them out of town,’ and when you ask im where they are to go, he says, ‘I should worry.” legis late morals.” Mayor Brown revealed a report from the police departinent which shows that since June 5, 1922, to December 31, 1922, compared to the same period in 1921, there was a de crease of 70 per cent in murders, 43 per cent in safe cracking, 86 per cent in holdups and 6 per cent in automobile thefts. The report stated that there has been an increase of 48 per cent in arrests for gambling, narcotic peddling and immorality. French Torpedo Boats Move Up DUISBERG, Jan. 12.--Ten French torpedo boats anchored in the Kaiger “So they go to Tacoma or Port-|harbor here today. and Angelo Mustillo, another em |ploye, were arrested, and a consid erable quantity of bottled beer and whisky was seized, Others concern: ed in the case are yet to be arrest ed, according to Hazeltine. Cigaret Fight to Be Waged by Women OLYMPIA, Jan, 12.—Cigaret smok- ers will have to “roll their own” after the present session of the legislature is over, if the legislative program of successtul. ing, among many others, a bill whi will prohibit sale of cigarets in the state, The bili is to be introduced later in the session, council lobbyists say. the Women's Legislative councll ts) The women are foster. | * the manufacture and| Uttle home is not quite complete and ‘it's up to you to finish {it to your liking, But perhaps it's just the one you have been leoking for. = = ~~ 5-ROOM BUNGALOW AT A BARGAIN rooms, consisting of living room, dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms. and bath, hallway ‘The house ts beaver boarded in three of the rooms, balance v finished; lot 60x178 feet, front- ing on ‘graded street; only 2 blocks to car line, Price only $1,250; $300 down, balance $16 month, This property ts worth considerably more, but owner must bell, 5 ‘Turn to the Want Ad Columns NOW and see who will show you this little home. | attended the meeting and read orders concerning the distribu: | tion of coal. Nothing was said! about the flight of the coal syndt-| | cate’s directors with the books, The | Germans demanded that everything be put in writing, Italian representatives also attend: | Jed the meeting. President Gruetzner | {said the great danger in the situs tion would come in the next couple of weeks, especially if the French seize the mines without paying the miners, In that case, he said, the }German government would not pay | the miners and there might be trouble. A second meeting was held later and there were stormy scenes, During the night the French withdrew from the center of the (Turn to Page 16, Column 1) returned from Russia, and of in Kerr, a writer on the L'Humanite, communist daily, Flying squadrons of still sought other “reds” marie down for arrest. Deputy Cachin he expected the chamber wou raise his immunity and that: would be “honored with arrest,” his comrades had been. There Wen stormy scenes in the chamber as Deputy Daudet called Cachin “traitor.” A riot Married an Hour; Arrested for Bigam CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—Alfred Cl married Mrs. Mary Ayres at 10. m. At 11 o'clock the was arrested on a charge of 5