The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1923, Page 1

TRIAL CLIMAX NEAR Skarin Trial Ending; Attorneys Flay Both Principals; Case Up to Jury Today ast Th Hours Minimum, az. Maximum, 42. Today noon, IN SCHOOLS P.-T.A. Asks Board to Permit Dance Combating th e Unregulated Shall, Seattle school buildings be used for dances’ This question agitated the board at Friday's meeting, follow! pre the Parent ciations of the city against unregu: lated city dance hall A mitt nvestigating the question was directed to obtain in formation as to the sucess of school conducted da in other ¢ and ort back to the bourd The commit Croson, president of board; Thomas R. Cole, cit intendent schools, 1 rock, school board member pointed at a meeting some time at which time the question of ing to the request of the Teacher association of Lincoln high school that Seattle schoo! buildings be used for community dances was considered. “We are not ready what we will recommend, Superintendent Cole to The St urday, “There are a number of an- glee from which we must approach & question of this character and until we have obtained the information we seek we do not wish to express an \ux Armes, Mes Infants! fH Russia marches against France, the poilus can have a lot of fun playing “Beaver.” It takes 34,000,000 rubles to make an American dollar, The Russian soklier can well sing the old buck private’s song: You'll never get rich, You'll never get rich, You're in the Army now! eee German and Russian armies expected to join forces. Please imagine a Heinle, with three tons of marks in front of him. shooting craps with a Russian dough: bey who only bas draytul of Tubles to bet on acho v7 sts of eacher anno are one e thes. “Wateh t two cents.” MILITARY NOTE A finance officer in Germany has to be well up on army paper- work. of Cart school supe She was ap « the Famous this ruble up ed: . Perhaps the most unenviable job tn the world ts that of mess sergeant im the Russian army . . to say just said City r Sat United Rhine tates doughbuys along the eive 30,000,000 marks a year. But a lot of the boys, no doubt, will arrive home without a! mark to thelr name. . feeling that the French are march-| ing into Germany because it will soon be the Bock beer season. cee “With proper regulation—and that dances in Seattle schools ought to solve the unregulated dance prob tem,” anid Mra. Greenstreet. “Give the young folks an opportunity to a .-- © t Spokane man named Carbon | becomes father of triplets. He | | might call them Carbon Copies. | —— ie mosphere and won't have other kind to contend with.” Mra. Greenstreet said she realized there would be objection to a move of this sort, fut she insisted It seem- [ed to be the right step to take. ‘The school board now is working | we No matter how the Skarin trial comes out, there will always be ginks who will say, “I told you so.” see It is merely a matter of conject- ure, but we wonder if Ferdinand) mitted at all in the schools, both Hochbrunn were still alive there| parents and children—in fact the would be s0 many people blackening | public—would be invited to attend his name? fany of the affairs. Admission would not be limited to the students, SHOOTS SELF ; BY ACCIDENT On the eve of his departure for Jaska, George Tarry, 21, medical student at the University of Chi- jcago, shot himself while cleaning his pistol at his home at 621 ave. N., Friday night, sending a bullet thru his left leg. Tarry was taken to the city hos- where he remained Saturday The pistol, a .A5-caliber Colt’s auto. matic, had become rusty, according to Tarry, and he was cleaning It to take it along with him to Alaska. He had removed the clip of | ridges but had forgotten that | shell still remained in the chamber After he had oiled the gun, he snapped the trigger twice, the ¢ | ridge exploding on the second » | ‘Tarry was to have left S« Saturday morning. eee IT AIN'T LASTING Silver threads among the gold Shine upon her brow toda: Altho the lady, I've been tol Dyed her hair just yesterday. We hope the state legiwiature, if {t | Pe does nothing else, passes the follow. | ing child labor law: “W; neck before you go to bed.” eee News ttem: Plans for the piers for the Spokane st. bridge are rapidly | taking concrete form. oe Cops made 20 booze arrests in Everett in one night. It's getting s0 that @ fellow can’t even make some- thing without somebody interfering. | “ee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB jaberdasher who says, “Now, ‘this is real modish. They're al wearing ‘em in New York.” ee A picture of Martha Washington Is to be placed on a new four-cent| stamp. Why not go a step farther in| honoring the falr sex? Why not a| pleture of Carrie Nation on the reve. nue stamp of a bottle of near-beer? “ee h your pi cart- one \DIES IN JAIL n ce for nADP «| VANCOUVER, B.C, Jan Pgpe og anbona fry Serna a Allan Haynes, one of the pel pic later, member of the contract |turesque figures in finance in would Want to cash in on the policy. | Northwest, died in a hospital ee today from cerebral Is he very rich? which he suffered a few minutes He has « cool tnillion. lafter arrest on charges’ of fraud Thasso—how did he make !t? | Haynes was reputed to have spent He owns an fee plant. \a million dollars founding and oper + Rae ating the Inland Herald, newspaper, at Spokane, Wash., which finally suspended publication From Spokane he went to Al |berta, where he became well known, \but suffered further financial r lvereee and had been working here as a business efficiency expert | a here Cackling 1s the hen'’s way of laugh- ing at the egg trust. eee BLAME IT OY THE LINO MAN Alexander Broves and Misa Hoeien Alexander, formerly of lows Univer- sity, wer tly married at Des ity Brews. If the legislature can pase a law to make people stop drinking, they can then go ahead and abolish the office of coroner. . Women Condemn WASHINGTON, | National Federation | Clubs, said to women, voted approval in a | seanton here of the recent action of Will Hays in lifting the ban on Roscoe Arbuckle filma, 0 MOUNT PARK COPS ON SKATES| CHICAGO.—Evanston Park TES| who patrol the north whore lake dis trict, are to be mounted on skates. MIAMI.—Edgar ©. with the murder of his wife, and whone trial had been postponed be. Thin 4s all there is, there ain't no! cause of the man’s iliness, died here more, Friday. Jan of represent its dis yester 13.—The Women’s 3,000,000 The cause 07 aus our woe She's fair and sweet, But her tongue and feet Are always on the go. cee Few motorists will deny that the principal ingredients of a coroner’ cocktafl are gasoline and alcohol. ee ‘The most feted individual in Eyv- erett last night was the one boot legger who had not been arrested in the wholesale raids the night be- fore. He could have been elected | mayor on the prohibition ticket ary | Frady ged Parent | Baterea as Beco ut Oh ago, | should be easy to bring about—| C. E. West, former Auburn serve six months at Walla Walla for false prosecution of Sheriff Matt Starwich, prior to recent elections. The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation Jead over its nearest competitor The seattle Star Mali, 46 __ Two CENTS IN SEATTLE, |PRISON TERM =Defense Plea Is GERMANY IS FOR FORMER CIVIC CHIEF ‘Auburn Ex-Mayor Is Sentenced for Prosecution of Sheriff c maye E. West, , was given the former Auburn minimum © of six months and one day at Walla Walla penitentiary by Superior Judge Calvin 8. Hall Saturday, West was found guilty of maliciously ing Sher ff Matt Starwich by a Jury in Judge Hall's court three weeks ago, He will appeal the case to the state sup court Wet sald & prosecution | n into the has never “If I had been | commented bitt was pronounced would have t would have b jury and if I had, I would have been given « pended senter Residents of the West liver | the court for ‘The idence at the a y showed that the charge of false reg istration brought by West against | Sheriff Matt Starwich was an at ltempt to obtain the defeat of Star | wich at the polls,” Judge Hall com. | mented tn pronouncing sentence. “It is particularly serioun in view of the high repute with which West is held | by so many people in the county who would believe his word.” West swore to a complaint charg: ing Sheriff Starwich with falsely mayor, who was sentenced to| resintering, claiming that the sheriff | id not possess cilizenship papers, ‘The charge was brought before two West has] justices on two occanions and both pros ntire that bh deal Went nentence oa I nev by the tak it where ‘appealed his case and was released Saturday under $1,500 dinmiased the actions enjoy themselves in a wholesome ou | SARS on the idea that if dances were per- | 4th | | dows find special ALLAN HAYNES) { hemorrhage | Hays’ Decision) Jed with pretty things, | cash bond, ‘APPLE WEEK IS | DECLARED HERE | Washington “Fruit Featured in Seattle Beginning Monday all Seattle witl| It will ontg For Mayor} eat apples for one week them in great numbers. Brown, complying with the effort of | the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to help the growers of Eastern Wash ington dispose of their supply, the coming week “Apple has named Week.” De atis: the tor to car shortage and factory market conditions East, it has been imponsible growers to ship thelr fruit in gr quantities as they have done In other years. So the fruit must be con sumed in this state. Seattie is go. ing to do the big brother help 01 The un. in act fruit will be featured in every possible wa eattle during the week. Apples by the carload will be sent to the city for the oc n from art of the state. Special made in shop win-| alen held. n, is to program. ty in| every in some the eastern p displays will be n welll by contest,” An ev “apple pi he a part of the Derails will be mad the week. In the n i res to take or other, in the wntime body way ton pa upple celebra: | Are You Ready for That Car Now? help you that you find one watch Here will you If #0, by suggesting Star Want Ad Columns. many bargains appear that surprise you and help save many trips around town let us REAL BARGAINS rd, $100: Maxwell, $125; Che rolet, $100; Overland roadate 5 Baby Gre Chevrolot, $175. Many more real bargains. * Come in, see for yourself BSSHX TOURING; EXCELLE! mechanical condition; rubber and paint. W4ll sell terms to the Want Ad Columns where you can demonstrated Turn NOW hav and see them Loads of Tiny N ighties for Duff Baby, BY WANDA VON KETTLER Few Seattle babies ever had @ layette more interesting, more heap: | than has the| “Duff baby.” Bonnets, socks, nighties, all things for a baby to wear come to The Star office shirts have during _—Photo by Price g Carter, Star Staff Photographers | and) * | Ame land Building Superintendent “soon bt West haa tived in than 20 years and friends in the county daughter In the another in the Auburn high school ja son in grammar school and the | Life Insurance company at Auburn |\CONGRESSMAN | Talk grees I DEATH VICTIM | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Repre- sentative Nestor Montoya, repub- . Of- #OFECY | ican, New Mexico, died today at his has entered into the fight within the] residence here, following a stroke of membership of the board of public|apoplexy. The stroke came upon him while he was shaving. Montoya, a# congressman.at-large, was the only member of the house |trom New Mexico, His home was at After failing to agree on any of| Albuquerque, where for many years the three bids submitted by the Amer-|he had been editor of a newspaper | published {n the Spanish language |He was 61 years old and leaves a ting Friday after-| widow and five children. He had board convened in @ secret | served two years in congress. ume deliberations Sat ay ave these |KELS O VICTIMS track for final pasnage are several thousand dollars ion of Coroner W, D. Van was begun this morn- the bid of the American-La people. The Friday deadlock arose the |ing for the bodies of persons lost in the Kelso bridge dis ir, the over the question of which of |litz river having dr A suffic Aw b ‘or more host of one He nabure normal, mysterious element works over the awarding of a con: tract for 17 new pleces of fire appar-| atus the city ts trying to buy iean-La France, Seagrave and Stutz companies at a n thi nexsion to urday morn o'clock The offers of th ve firms appa er aide under | France k ureh ow two lower bids is really the lowest iy In @ opinion Corporation Counsel Thomas J Kennedy ruled | that only the lowest bid on any single | contract could b i; other wise all bids must be rejected this opinion, George ties department superin has deelo in favor of the La bid, ground that their equipment ter and easily worth the additional price city om eful seareh or Lake Railway & Lum. | ver Co.'s dredge is being moved down | the Cowlitz from Ostrander and will | y,|be used to lift automobiles from the river Divers Chris Hansen of Kal ama and Fritz Deroe of ‘tand will be employed tn ting the bodies. Al fleet of veewels will patrol river below the bridge bodies. Wires will be stretch } across the river below the work to] prevent more bodies lc i in the wreckage to float into the Columbia. | IRISH CHIEF'S HOME tela lage DUBLIN, he home of William T ident of the Irish at thfarnham, | was bur by armed rebels early to. day The stroyed. ent pnwider Despit Pow tendent, loc 4c nce on is bet} | the the} Blackwell Robert L. Proctor voted to award the con- tract to the Stutz firm Friday, while Water Superintendent L. B. You and Streets Superintendent W Borkhuff leaned toward the Seagr proposition, Light Superintende J. D. Toss withheld his decision, Engineer James D. - AY BY DAY LEGS eri ARE STRAIGHTER CHICAGO, Jan, 13.—Day b: very way, lege are @ er and stra Max Thorek residence was totally de. | day, ntting | in « traigh Dr today bow and ighter SER ti State Forces eons ~ ile irkc Execute Insurgents | legs, knock knees, pigeon toe her deformities of the legs will| DUBLIN, Jan, 13 Irish fit dixplays for a museum, | republic insurgents executed | Modern hygiene straightening | by free state for Dundalk, | Louth, early legs of our child he said. ‘County 1 in nte Three were at today th seeking | 5 That Slain Man Deserved to Die Hochbrunn a Beast and His Killing a Worthy Deed, Clara’s Counsel Tells Jury; Prosecutor Carmody to Sum Up the Case for State BY BOB BERMANN “Clara Skarin was just an instrumentality in the hands of Providence when she pulled that trigger and sent Ferdi- nand Hochbrunn to perdition. There was rejoicing in} heaven that night—the angels were singing—because ez arth | was a cleaner, better place without Hochbrunn. } Reading the closing chapter in the sensational trial of | Skarin, John F. Dore, chief counsel for the defense, red the foregoing remarks with a suggestion that the of the jury take a collection among themselves | ward his client for killing Hochbrunn. | “I will start the fund myself, with $100,” he offered. | “That was a great day for Seattle when she killed th beast. The entire morning pr members to ssion up to the 11 o'clock recess was taken up by Dore’s closing argument. He was to be followed by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John D, Car-| mody, and then the case was to go to the jury. It was| expected a verdict would be reached some time during the; Flashes} VICTIM OF GAS opening, that jury room you will find Clara Skarin was more sinned against than sinning, and that you will bring in a verdict of ‘not guilty,’ That's the only verdict we want. | Don’t trifle with the case and bring | in @ verdict of second-degree mur-| Ger. Either she killed Mint in cola | blood and was guilty of murder in| While cooking breakfast on a gas |the first degree, or else she shot! stove in his apartment at 2208 Sixth ave, Saturday, F. H. Wilson, longshoreman, was overcome by gas. | He was rescued by police and taken | to the city hospital, He has an even recovery. Wilson said | that the gas burner under @ coffee pot blew out, and before he became / aware of the gas escaping he was overcome him in self-defense and is therefore BURGLARS OPEN SAFE not guilty. Under a verdict of sec Burglars who d-degree murder, the least that the Judge could do would be to 10 years in prison, and that the same thing as life for of the A. and P. Products Co., 824 Central building, Friday night, and manipulated the combination of the safe and escaped with $70 and $20 In stamps, Other papers were not dis- turbed, The loss was discovered Sat- urday, convinced,” said Dore, tn that when you get into her would be her In referring to Deputy Prosecut- ing Attorney T. H. Patterson's de- fense of Edward Von Tobel, the Se- tle lawyer who is accused by Clara as an accessory after the fact, Dore commented Patterson said that Clara cru- cified Von Tobel. She did not, je crucified himself right there pon the witness stand. And he fied himself upon a cross of The fact that he had .750 in gold in his possession mediately after the killing and iter Hochbrunn’s trunk had been robbed, was told to Prose cuting Attorney Douglas, and was suppressed by him, It was only a chance remark that iglag made—that the poswes- sion of the gold made it look bad for Von Tobel—that enabled me to discover the secre You all heard him on th admit that he knew thi pid was | out of circulation in 1917 and 1918, | when he said me into his pos. session, and admitted that he | knew that the government was ask- ing for gold for war purposes that time. ording to his own story Tobel was a criminal then, he was hoarding gold when it meant FROST IN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 13— | With fruit trees, especially peaches, starting to bud from the warm tem- perature of the past fiye days, the | weather bureau today cast gloom over Southern California by forecast: | jing “heavy to killing frost in the} interior in the morning.” Smudge pots are being prepared for use. eee VENUS IS FLIRTING Ww YORK, Jan. 18.—Venus, at| queen of stars, forgot her lofty rank y today. Without a blush she! sidied up to the man in the moon, who seemed paler than usual, Venus | r along at 6:45 this morning the lives of boys who were fighting and moved slowly behind the moon's for you and me Track. Both almost at their But this story was a le, Just aa n¢ peiek: tu: tha. cae was his story about saving gold for) OLD MURDERER HELD Ferdinand Hochbrunn—a lie con- cocted in the mind of Edward Von| Tobel.” | CHICAGO, Jan, 13,.—A search of Excoriating evry ly ended today with identifi. Wen, Dove entiré) cation of Michael Lynch the pr ost SA pes ind de) slayer of Policeman Billy Halloran Garis that ay here in 1887. Lyneh was found: in| tion.” WP €* lene Cook county Jail, under | Mabie! tins ‘betel’ td the|the name of John Thomas, he was he declared, | Waiting to be sent to Joliet to serve for assault with intent stand von | 8 because t wt pbel thru to 5 “any sane at his Von went years as a trumpe bar of public opinion,” nd he has already demned. “He isn’t the big lawyer that the |state Is painting him. 1 never saw | ‘him in court in my life, He has| always been a qu and curious figure, For some reason, however, the state decided that it was neces sary to sacrifice a friendless, penni less girl to vindicate this Ithy, fat lawyer.’ Dore alibi as to bi a sentence to kill, been con- BANKER TO APPEAR Perry B, Truax, indicted jointly with the Seattle National bank, will | appear in superior court Monday to enter a plea to the grand jury charg jot lar y Bail for Truax and the j bank, totaling $10,000, was posted Friday we Von Tobel's ence at the Elks’ | lodge on the when he was sup-| 2 DIE IN GAS BLAST posed to ha en robbing the dead) VincGRNNES, Ind. Jan, 13.—Two man as ridiculous |men lost their lives in a gas explo- | “Why,” he MH in American No, 1 coal mine pol lj t to could do that, If you wanted te Btith ate ale ie prove to your wife that you bad been at lodge on a certain even- Daugherty, shot firer, was recov ing when you hadn't been, all |¢ted by rescue squads, but they you'd have to do would be to go | | been unable to penetrate th depths of the pit, where the body to the seeretary of the lodge and \ ¢ (Turn to Last Page, Column 4) of his partner, Tom Kinney, is be- to lie terized p nig said, “anybody |e! j last the past week shower Friday began Saturd until late Monday Already dozens need thin in Clothes for the Duft|tion of clothes to these has been) accepted until late} sanctioned by Mr. and Mrs, 'Tom| ‘Their distribution | Duff, of Allman'’s comic atrip tp | and will continue |The Star. Mr. and Mrs. Duff are} jexpecting the stork to arrive at} their home shortly But they Idn't use | the things that have come to the office. More than 200 were night of babies who to wear have been lo cat Seattle, and the presenta: I< hE ae Si DENIES RUM FLEET WASHINGTON, in, 18,—Federal hibition Commissioner Haynes pe , after long distance telephone arsations with prohibition chie New York and New Jersey, aw thorized a denial of recent press dis. with automobiles} natohes that a rum fleet of 22 ves: | distribute them to was hovering off New York and ‘hat have been] aiready had landed huge quantities pleces of wearing apparel have been | ' delivered to th shower department during the past few days. Kindly » are helping thy many found by ple to babies Cynthia GIVEN T0 PAY CA |Delay Is G by Commis in Paris Sessie Essen Is Quiet! - By Webb Miller With the occupation of sen today settling routine, France plans of increasing the ized territory. Troops cupy Bochum today or as a further punitive Bri to an: tio du ne’ all tri to po! un Bel Bay tor ther an |ma sal ot the | pation of Essen were satis x du t Ge BOY Grey tft liquor, The reports were declared them, te he “wet propaganda” by Haynes, Belgian control mission in American Observer Boyden permission to publish the text of remarks before the last the subject of America’s wards the Ruhr invasion, § ing there had been eranted. Out of the meeting may the Postponement is designed to possible German maneuver of the installment at the last the proposition of coercion, ina b FRENCH MAY The allied Paris granted rl until per 31 to the cash payme gold marks. sentative meeting. The Britian withdrew from — A clash was a Essen when French ers agreed ‘to pay qa coal deliveries, Jugoslavia was preparing for war Turkish-Grecian conflict. PARIS, Jan. 1 to have a temporary jum, with postponement arations payments until ary 31, the reparations sion determined today. Premier Poincare's plan acting guarantees and adbury, British member, from the discussion, Bradbury, understi adopt a of not ything concerning n of the Ruhr. Today's postponement of reparations payment was enable France to gain © cord of Italy and Belgium: entered the offices | Care's new plan for @ moratorium to Germany ctive securities, ft |Altho the new scheme fm g after the previous one, it w features designed to ies to insure that the ‘als will pay their full The reparations del co-operate with the F rts concerning it. ‘ited “European entente”- Igium and Italy—with a Policy towards collecting from Germany. Britain, altho she has an the commission, agree ‘guarantee! | po: Two rei vices, is not ex] to anything in the such as Poin sex to make, sons are given for circulated semi-offici thou will ask postponement n if Germany defaults Monds One ts that France wishes ne to reach agreement d persuade Mussolini to French plan; another ts @ reby putting France, TAKE BOC PARIS, Jan. 13,— French may occupy Bochum today or row as a punitive measure any's refusal to make requ 1 deliveries, it was learned bron (General the army of occupation in the De Goutte, con id yesterday the French @ | would not advance further than sen if Germany did not take cative steps.) Premier Poincare, General and Le Te Troequer repor » cabinet that results of the the conversations with sirial representatives of the was understood, however, tl | a result of the latter, and of man government's notes rman inability to deliver coal, the zone of ocoupation extended to include Bochum, JUGO-SLAVS IN” WARLIKE MOO! ROME, Jan, 13.—The M owing to prospects of The plans reconvening " ronment |Belgrade correspondent declares that pee rep is feverishly preparing fo | Turco-Greek conflict. 3 (Turn to Last Page, Column 1)” i On} N Wit aA