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“THEYKILLED INNOCENT MAN,” SAY KAHAHAWAI’S PALS
‘SWELL FELLOW
NEVER HURT
ANYONE’
4 of Slain Boy
Kept In Jail ifi Fear of
Rade Disorders
.HONOLULU, T. H.. Jan. 11
“They have mur
dered °n innocent man.”
Four Brown skinned men
df miied Mood today, united
ifi this assertion to Interna
tional News Service as they
piiced .their „ jail cells.
The four were the co-dbfendknts
with Joseph.Kahahawai, Charged
with attacking the wife of tlfeut.
Thomas H. Massie, and had been
at liberty under ball following the
failure of a jury to reach a de
cision in their case.
Jail Safest Place
Following the killing of Kaha
hawai and the arrest of four
Americans, including a promi
nent Washington society Woman,
charged with his murder, his co
defendants sought the jail as the
safest place in the emotion
charged city.
The remaining four defendants
in the Massie mistrial are Horace
Ida, Ben Ahakuelo, Henry Crang,
and David Takai. Ida said:
“Gee, Joe was a swell fellow.
He never hurt anyone.”
H,a was reminded that Kahar
hakwai had struck Mrs- Homer
Peeples after he was arrested
charged with the attack on Mrs.
Massie. Police, however, admitted
that Mrs. Peeples had caught Ka
h.ahawai bj the throat and he had
slapped himself free.
Insist ’they Are innocent
. The four defendants reiterated
their inildcence and repeated fre
quently during the conservation:
“The slaying Os Joe is an
outrage.”
Ida said:
“I feel sorry for Mrs. Massie.
I do not blame her. She was
apparently sincere in her IHfeh
tification of iis. But 1 feel her
statements in court when she
picked us out were due to the
fact that she has not beeh on
the island long and is riot fa
milial* with natives’ appear
ances.”
„,The four , youths, together with
Edward Ulii, held in j£il, as a
Witness in a, kidnaping case,, were
taken to the undertaker’s to view
the.body of Kahahawai.
Ahakuelo, Ida and Ulii wept,
p.hapg and Takai looked on with
get faces. r
Mother Laments
The lariients of Kahahawai’s
mother heightened the emotion of
the situatibh. She cried:
“My sori, my loving son, ybtir
friends are herb, but you will
never be with them again.
Those nepple killed you. Every,
body loved you. I can’t bear
tnfit yoti bro gtirib, never to rb
. Ulii threw himself on the cas
ket and joined with a Hawaiian
inftn Jn the tragic cries of a na
tive lament.
The .foijt* youths were returned
tb thblr cells before the funeral,
Since pbllce feared the possibility
Cf disturbances.
Chur th Aid Asked
As Economic Cure
... jjje .economic system, would be
mended and war among nations
WPUId. be. an impossibility if, the
church of today wpuld provide a
broader, interest fox .its young
people, according £o the Rev. Sam
uel W. Moore, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, of Bluefield,
W, Va„,in A serthon yesterday at
the Church of.the Pilgrims.
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ALBERT O. JONES
THIS U. S. sailor is being held
In Honolulu with Mrs. Gran
yille Fortescue, society matron,
her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas
H. Masste. and e. j. Lord, a
aailbr. ih, connection with the
flaying, qf Joseph Kahahawai,
a Hawaiian.
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of attack cases on the island and
the apparent failure of the police
to cope with the dangerous sit
uation.
Hearing This Week
Mrs. Fortescue, Lieutenant Mas
sie, Jones and Lord will receive
a hearing late this webk on the
first degree murder charges. The
original hearing scheduled for
Saturday was postponed.
The Navy continued to guard
Mrs. Fortescue, Lord and Lieu
tenant M assie aboard a warship
anchored in the harbor. The
three were surrendered into the
custody of Capt. Ward K. Work
man, commander of the naval
base, shortly after they were ar
rested while driving rapidly to
ward Koko Head geyser in an
aptomobile containing the body
of Kahahawai, wrapped in sheets
arid ,sh°t through the heart.
Jofibs was still in the custody
of the police. He was arrested
in front of the Massie home,
standing guard with a Pistol in
his hand. First degree murder
charged were finally lodgbd against
him Saturday.
The four defendants in the
Massie attack case,, whq had been
at liberty with. Kahahawai under
bail pending a new trial, were
content to remain in the cells
Which they sought of their own
accord when feeling flarfed anew
in Honolulu over the affair.
Although territorial officials
have persisted in saying that the
situation is well in hand, the fact
that Navy officials in Washing
ton have decided that no men
will be allowed shore leave when
the winter maneuvers are held
near the. islands emphasized the
gravity of the situation.
Jones’ Home Believed
To Be in New Bedford
The Albert S. Jones held in
Honolulu on charges of killing a
hative, is believed by the Navy
Department to be Albert O.
Jones, machinist’s mate, second
class, who enlisted from North
Adamis, Mass., and whose mother
lives in New Bedford, MaSs.
. Albert O. Jones is assigned td
tne submarine base at pfcarl
Harbor, Hawaii.
Representative McClintic (D.)
of Oklahoma said the Naval Af
fairs Committee is responsible to
some extent fbr the JTavy, and
asked for documents bearing on
the situation. Pratt said:
t “Everything wfe have, all
radios and messages passing be
tween us and the commandant
at Hawaii will be given you
and can be made public.
“Ih radios serit to the gov
ernor we warned what Plight
happen when the governor was
advising us to land our. men.
We pointed to the great danger
unless the situation was cleared
up.”
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Mrs. Fortescue’s Arrest
Stuns D. C. Society
The picture of a delicately-bred
and highly-cultured woman such
as Grace Bell Fortescue taking
part in a murder for revenge, is
one that leaves the Capital, where
ifrs. Fortescue grew up a,nd where
she was married, stunned and si
lent.
Capital society, in which the
accused woriian took sb active a
part, refuses tb discuss thb
tragedy. The Bells, thb Fortes-
the Gfbsvehors, all closely
cprinectfed, have beeh riot , only
dmong the Ifeddlng families, finan
cially speaking, in Washington,
but also in circles Where money
couhts fbr little and ability And
culture for much.
Kiri of Iriveiitbr
Mrs. Fortescue is a daughter of
Mrs. Charles J. Bell, of Twin
Oaks, ope of the most bbautiful
suburban residences in the Capi
tal. Her father was a cousin of
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
of the telephone, and her mother,
Mrs. Charles J: Bell, a sister of
Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell. The
cousins married daughters of the
late Gardner Hubbard, scientist
and philanthropist.
Mrs. Gilbert Prosvendr. the
former Elsie Bell, Wife of the
president of the National Geo
graphic Society, is a daughter of
Alexander Graham Bell.
Robert Bell, a brother of Mrs.
Fortescue, now in New York, was
at one time married td Josephine
Hutchinson, rioted actress. As a
young man Bell was extremely
popular in Washington sbeiety,
taking a leading part in artistic
Admits Mail Theft
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VICTOR L. MAGOON
CONFESSING that he took
SIOOOOO in cash from a regis
tered mail sack, Victor ~L.
Magbon, Lowejl postal clerk, led
inspectors to the spot in North
Tewksbury where thd money
was hidderi.
.The National Dailv
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circles. His marriage to Miss
Hutchinson ended in divorce.
The marriage of Grace Hub
bard Bell, beautiful heiress to a
vast fortune, to Granville ROlahd
Fortescue, explorer and writer,
took place in 1910. Fortescue,
equally weli born and well to do,
was a brilliant young chap and
the future of the two seemed as
sured. Nor was the promise un
fulfilled. as thfe married life of
the cduple has been all that
their prdSpects Indicated.
Major. Fortescue, a cousin of the
late, Theodore Roosevelt, t ias
gained distinction ih many fields.
Both his military and literary ca
reer have been brilliant. Honors
have showered upon him on
every side, and His lovely wife, a
slender, gehtlfe wbmdn of the
greatest charm and distinction,
has been universally bbldved and
admired.
Have Four Daughters
Four .daughters were born t,o
them-—Thalia (Mrs. Thomas ,H.
Massie), the hapless victim of the
assault which led to the Hawaiian
murder; ftion, Kenyon and Hel
ene, The second daughter, Rion,
made her debut in Washington
Hist June under the wing of her
distinguished grandmother, Mrs.
Charles J. Bell, at “Twin Oaks.”
It Was pnfc .of the first spring
debqts in the Capital and tpe
“bud” greeted her gu?sts In the
spaciotis gardens of the estate.
H6r sister, Mrs. Massie, and
brother-in-law, tlrisign Massie,
were then in Washington and at
tended.
Thalia Bell’s wedding to young
Massie four months after his
graduation from Annapolis' vas
solemnized in the Bethlehem
Chapel of the Washington Cathe
dral in November. 1927. The
bride v.as a mere girl at the time
of her bridal and is not yet 21.
Mrs. Fortescue left Washington
last fri.ll for Honolulu immediately
upon news of the assault upon
her daughter. Major Firtescue
remained in New Yovk, where he
collapsed after receiving nbws of
his wife’s and sori-ln-law’s arrest.
FLOWERS SENT
3 IN MURDER
HONOLULU, T. H., Jan 11
(1.N.5.). —The Navy today Was
forced to ban the sending of
flowers aboard the warship S. S.
Alton, the boat on which Lieut.
Thomas H. Massie; his mother-in
law, Mrs. Granville Fortescue,
and E. J. Lord, thtee of the four
persons held by Navy officials.
Flowers have been sent in loads.
The Marine officers guarding the
prisoners have announced it is
impossible to handle any more
floral tributes.
Mrs. Fortescue has collapsed
and is under the care of a Navy
physician.
Navy officials continued to re
fuse Comment, bn the case. The
I impression is they are acting un-
Ider orders from Washington.
HOOVER TD DET
CREDIT DILL
THISra
“Prosperity” Measure Sure tb
Pass House Wednesday;
Senate Acts Today
President Hoover s major
prbpdsal for stabilizing Ameri
can business —the creation of a
$2,000,000,000 Federal .credit
corporation for releasing frozen
credits — was debated at both
ends bf the Capitol tbday.
The Senate proceeded under
an agreement requiring a vote
bn its paSSUge before adjourn
ment tonight.
Enactment of the bill is cer
tain. The House will pass it
Wednesday and it will bb serit to
the White House by the week
end for the President’s signature.
Prosperity Aid Seen
Administration leaders declare
jts enactment will halt bank
failures, stimulate business, re
lease frozen credits and tend to
revive propsperity.
While the bill was debated in
both House and Senate, commit
tees labored In drafting other
legislation. The new tariff bill,
passed by the House, was before
the Senate Finance Committee.
A host of subjects occupied other
committees.
The credit bill had the right
of way in both bran hes. In its
present form, it would authorize
Federal loans to banks, trust
companies, railroads, insurance’
companies, agricultural and live
stttbk Cfedit corporations, arid (in
the Senate only) to State gov
ernments.
One provision would eVen per
mit loans tb closed banks, if con
ditions indicate the banks can
regain solvency.
HAWAIIANFEUD
IS DENIED
HONOLULU. T. H„ Jan. 11.
(I.N.S.).—“There is no feud be
tween the Army and the Navy
on one hand and the native
citizenry on the other.”
So said Walter F. Dillingham,
capitalist, prominent business
mhn, and naval reserve officer,
today ih commenting on the
Massie case. He continued:
“I do not believe that Mrs.
Thomas H. Massie w»S attacked
in any premeditated plot as
vengeance against the Navy
element.
“As for the killing of Joseph
Kahahawai, naturally any red
bloodbd mah is mrived to defi
nitely severe action when his
womenfolk have been mal
treated.
“This trill of the fivte
natives including Kahahawai,
accused of attacking Mrs. Mas
sie, when the ,jury wgs unable
to reach a verdict, thoroughly
brings to light a situation of
local iriefficiericy.”
OFFICERS TO MEET •
The Clarendon Trust Company
and the People’s State Bank of
Cherrydale, Va., will hold their
annpril stockholders’ riieetitigs and
elections of officbrS in their re
spective bahk buildings tomorrow
night.
Ends Life
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MRS. KIYOICHI INOUE
RATHER than bb a cause of
worry to her departing soldier
husband, Mrs. Kiyoichi Inoue,
21, wife of Lieutenant Inoue.
Japanese infantry, ended her life
on the eve of her husband's de
parture with his troops to Man
churia.
MONDAY—JANUARY 11—1932
His Wife Held
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MAJOR FORTESCUE
WHILE the wife of Major
Grenville Fortescue is being held
in Honolulu in connection with
the slaying of a ybuhg Hawaiian
he is dangerously ill of pneu
monia in a New York hospital.
TICKET RACKET
LfiIDTDTRIO
Three persons accused of con
ducting a railroad ticket “racket”
today pleaded not guilty to a
charge of violating the District
license laws and were released
on bonds totaling SI,OOO each,
after they had demanded jury
trials when arraigned, before Po
lice Court Judge John P. Mc-
Mahon.
The threb are Samuel Rosen
berg, 603 Kenyon St. N. W.;
Joseph Schwartz, 473 F St. S. W.,
and Ethel Klawans, Newark, N. J.
Police say they bought excursion
tickets between Washington and
New York at a reduced rate and
resold them at riiuch higher
prices.
They are charged with operat
ing as railroad ticket brokers
without licenses.
EIRE WINS RACE
WITH GEE BEE
MIAMA, Flit, Jan. 11 (1.N.5.).
Miss Helen Fitzgerrild, of Bing
hampton, N. Y„ today held the
prize for the 15-mile race for
women pilots, won at Miami’s all-
American air raebs yesterday.
Flying a Gee Bee, she covered
tLe 16 mile etturse at dn average
speed of 138.932 miles an hour.
Second place went to Mrs. Betty
Lund, of Chicago, flying a mono
plane at 128.626 miles an hour,
and the third to Rhoda Davis, of
Lansing, Mich., flying a Davis
racer at 126.564.
REPORT GARDS
‘NECESSARY’
If human nature were drily dif
ferent no child would ever be
subjected to the ordeal of bring
ing home the bad news on a Re
port card, according to Stephen
E. Kramer, first aSsiStdht super
intendent of schools.
Under ideal conditions, Mr.
Kramer said, the teacher would
be empowered to return a repqrt
at the end of the semester desig
nating the caliber of the student’s
work. But with parents as they
are, he said, they are anxious to
know at regular stated times just
how their children are progres
sing.
Cupt. Melhotn Goes
To Geneva Parley
Capt. Kent C. Melhorh, Navy
Medical Corps, attached to the
Bureau of Medicine and Survey
was today assigned by the Secre
tary of the Navy to serve as
physician to the American dele
gation at. the Geneva Disarma
ment Conference
captain Melhorn lives at 4100
Cathedral Ave. N. W. He will
sail with the delegation for Eu
rope on January 20.
Babcock To Address
Civil Service Local
F. Claude Babcock, national
commander of the Disabled
American Veteraiis and assistant
secretary of the Civil Service Com
mission. will address Federal
Chapter, No. 6, tomorrow at 7:30
p, m. in the board room of the
District Building,
MOVIE’ENGINEERS COMING
The Society of Moton Picture
Engineers is to hbld its 1932
convention in Washington May
9 to 11.
HOOVER BUDGET
FACES SLASH
THIS INEEK
Agriculture Department Bill
Next to Be Pared By
Democrats
Democratic leaders of the
House, placing the balancing of
the budget as their major task
of the present session, today
prepared to embark upon a
program of improving upon
Hoover frugality. .
The Democratic plan now in
preparation includes nol only a
slashing of the budget estimates ,
of President Hoover, but a reor-|
ganization of Governmental bu- i
reaus that may go further than
the President’s suggestion.
The second phase of the pro
gram—a tax increase—will begin
to take final shape as the House
Ways and Means Committee be
gins hearings Wednesday.
Having cut the first deficiency
bill estimates of the Budget Bu
reau 10 per cent the House Ap
propriations Committee will com
plete the Agriculture Department
bill, first of the regular supply
pills, this week. An even greater
cut is expected in this measure.
Determined to push reorganiza
tion of Government bureaus, with
approval of party leaders. Repre
sentative Cochrdn (D.) of Mis
souri, will call the expenditures
committee together to lay out a
program.
The tentative consolidation plan
includes union of the Army and
Navy, creation of a Federal pub
lic works bureau, transfer of the
Shipping Board to the Depart
ment of Commerce, and a reor
ganization of the Governmental
disbursing system.
SLAIN HAWAIIAN
BURIED IN POMP
HONOLULU, Jan. 11 (1.N.5.).
A flower-heaped coffin in the old
Puea Cemetery today symbolized
the tribute native Hawaii paid to
Joseph Kahahawai.
Ip a ceremony of both Christian
and native ritual, the youth who
had paid with his life for an
alleged attack on the wife of an
American naval officer was
buried.
Three thousand natives moaned
and chanted during the ceremony
which began at an undertaking
parlor, then was transferred to
the cathedral. Heaps of flowers
and native “leis” filled the un
dertaking parlors.
The mourners included David
Kama, brother of Patrolman Wil
liam Kama, slain by a drunken
soldier in a speakeasy brawl sev
eral years ago.
Kama, at the side of the coffin,
said:
“My poor Kahahawai. You
were Killed in cold blood. Poor
boy. They did the sanie to my
brother.”
White girls mingled with the
natives.
The Rev. Robert Ahuna paid a
brief tribute to Kahahawai. Mem
bers of the Hui Eleu football team
bore the body to the Cathedral
of Our Lady of the Peace, where
a requiem mass was chanted.
The funeral feast consisted of
roast pig and native foods and
drinks.
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Tod Many Woifibh in N. Y.,
Says British Author
NEW YORK. Jan. 11—Alec
Waugh, the English author, an
international authority on
women, in
New York on
a visit, today
c haracterized
New York as
a womans
town.
“London is
a man’s
town. In Lon
don men have
clubs of their
owii and
shops of their
own. A man
•an go to his
crab In Lon
don when he’s
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feeling depressed, and there'll
be servants there to bring him
a whiskey and sbda, and to '
make him feel generally better.
A man whose girl has just
jilted him hasn’t anywhere to
go here.
“Every shop window here Is
filled with suggestions to
wothen that they make them
selves more and more attrac
tive.” „ „ . „
Prince of Wales Fond
Os Americah Films
LONDON, Jan. 11.—Despite
his urging the purchase of
only British products, .the
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FRtNCE OF WALES
Prince 6f
Wales con
fesses afond
n es s for
Americ art
films.
Alth o u g h
he seldom
goes to the
leg i t i m a t e
theater, the
Prince rarely
’misses a new
show at the
Empire, a
Metro-G b 1 d
wyn- M a y i? r
theater. He
saw "The Champ” there
recently. Os that theater’s
last six pictures, he has seen
five, all American.
Lady Edith Blames Mate
For London Snubs
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Recit
ing that butlers and footmen
shut the dpprs of her London
; a
Lord Queenborough
m a h s ion in
I hdr face, and
| that she was
i Compelled to
I return to an
“enforced
exile” in her
native Ameri
ica after be
ing made an
"outcast in
Lo n d o n so-
I Ciety,” Lady
I Edith Queen
| borough ha s
I begun . a sep
• aration suit
agai.ist her
titled husband.
The latter, Almeric Hugh
Paget, Lord Queenborough, is a
member of Parliament, one of
the wealthiest and rost influ
ential bankers of the British
Empire, and of a family long
identified with the histc., of
England’s ruling class.
Lady Queenborough is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Starr Miller, of Fifth Ave
nue; with whom she is now liv
ing, and a niece of Mrs. Robert
Gdelet. Her marriage to Lord
Queenborough July 19, 1921,
was of international import so
cially-