Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1932, Page 5

SENATE HOLDS OFf ONHAWAIIAN PROBE Committee Decides to Wait on Richardson Before.Or- dering Own Inquiry. BY NOTORIETY | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 16.—Mrs Edward T. Stotesbury, wife of the Philadelphia banker, tonight issued a statement concerning her recent cable to Mrs. Granville Fortescue in Homo- lulu, saying she was satisfied “to en- ¢ the personal notoriety” aroused her message if it would help her friend Her statement said in part When I sent my old friend, Mrs By the Associated Press. Before it does any investigating on #ts own account, the Senate will wait to see what Seth Richardson and his Justice Department assistants find out dur sbout crime in Hawaii oy The Senate ordered the department headed by Attorney General Mitchell . and | alling tragedy which has overwhelmed Mitchell passed the task to Richardson, | her and her family, I had no idea her an. Assistant Attorney General. | attorneys would make my message pub- There was still pending, however, |1 the McKeliar resolution for a Se e inquiry into the situation In the islands, but after hearing four cabinet officers yesterday, the Territories Committee decided there was no hurry dbout it Secretaries Adams, Hurley, Wilbur and Attorney General Mitchell said, in effect, that they felt the Justice De- partment could find out what Was ‘WTong. Oppose Separate Probe. An informal poll of the committee after 7 the four had testified every eflort was tne four, bad testified cvery cfiort Wit | Dinner Follows Veteran Star changes to improve conditions showed | . Reporter’s Announcement | & majority against a .separate inquiry, at least until the Attorney General has | reported on his department’s study. 2 Chairman Bingham said the resolu- of Retirement. tion proposing & separate inquiry would remain before the committee until the | - Justice Department investigation was | completed, and then it would be deter- mined if further study were needed. The general opinion expressed by the | cabinet officers, Admiral Willilam V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, and Victor Houston, Hawailan delegate. was that changes in island law were | required, and that the four Americans | held for the slaying of a Hawailan, | honor of Mr. Clarke, whose absence owing out of the attack on MIS. | from the meeting he had noted. omas Massie, would obtain & fair| The gathering was attended by 37 trial in the island courts newspaper men of Washington, who arc Senators complained vigorously | engaged in reporting news emanating against the island law holding rape is, from the State Department, and 3% not a capital offense and allowing vio- | Ambassadors and Ministers from for- Jators bail, and also the law requiring | eign countries - PAID“AL" CLARKE Secretary of State Stimson, speaking | Jast night at a dinner meeting of the State Department Correspondents’ As- sociation, paid a tribute to the service of a veteran reporter of The Star, Al- fred J. Clarke, who has just applied for retirement. Secretary Stimson, the only speaker the gathering, proposed a toast in at corroborative testimony to convict Veteran in Service. Secretary Stimson, arising to make an | informal talk, said he had learned of | the intention” of Mr. Clarke to retire | from active newspaper work and tha he looked back upon a pleasant and long personal association with The Stai reporter, a vetaran in service at the Law to Be Corrected. Houston said the Legislature, at the coming speciad session, would be asked to correct the law in those respects Secretary Wilbur said he had full | confidence in Gov. Lawrence M. Judd, | who had informed him there had been only one acquittal in & rape case in |State Department the last three years. Mr. Stimson recalled that of all the As Secretary of the Interior, he is|correspondents now in service at the yesponsible for the supervision of | State Department, “Al” Clarke wis the Hawalian affairs. only one he had known 20 years ¢go ‘Admiral Pratt said the department|when he was Secretary of War. twd under advisement a request from | Mr. Clarke became associated with commanders in Hawaii that participa- | The Star in 1893 following service on tion in coming fleet maneuvers by naval | the old Washington Critic. and has men stationed in Hawdlli be shortened | spent most of the ensuing 39 years at 20 that they may “protect” their |the War and State Departments, where familfes he established many close friendships He said the Hawallan attitude to- with Government officials ward women was “different from ours” | Forcien Diplemats Thare: and the “Hawailan boys” were not entirely to blame in assault cases. The meeting of the State Department Correspondents' Association was presid- JUDD SPEEDS ACTION. ed over by Harold J. T. Horan of the 4 Washington Post, newly elected presi- dent of the body Forelgn _diplomats _attending the dinner include representatives of the governments of France, Japan, Poland. | Ghile, Turkey, the Irish Pree Staie L 5 | Haiti' and Cinade. Qther guests o ey | honor were Seretary of War Hurles e e o Smad " | Assistant Secretary of State Castie R b G A mer Washington | Assistant Secretary of State Cair end e aica e considesation by, the |Micheel_ J. MEDermott, ehlet ol the RO o su short the forth, | Bress divisiop of the State Department coming maneuvers of the Pacific fleet | in order to meet the request of naval men for an opportunity to protect their ; Legislative Plans Laid to Forestall Action By Congress. 16 January P)—A after one of two convicts, who had es- caped from the prison, attacked Mrs. ville Fortescue. a private and per- | They evidently believed this pub- | | licity would be of some benefit to her | STIMSON TRIBUTE families—the territorial administration | made ready for the special session of | the legislature Monday Bills providing death or life impris- onment for criminal attackers of women and for reorganization of Hono- Tulu's severely criticized police depart- ment were being drawn with all pos- | sible epeed. Hearing Is Continued. The preliminary hearing Granville Fortescue, her Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, U. S. N. | and two Navy enlisted men charged with the murder of Joseph Kahahawal suspected attacker of Mrs. Massie, was continued today in police court un- il January 23 on motion of the pros- ecuticn, Defense atiorneys have an- nounced the quartet will waive pre- liminary hearing City and County Attorney James F. Gilliland, who has esked for a special attorney to prosecute the murder case and also the retrial of the four r maining men accused of attacking Mrs. | Massie, said he was not ready to pr ceed, but that the grand jury would | hear the case of Mrs. Fortescue and the | three navy men next week | With one Federal inv:stigation of the crime situation already under way | and another one threstened, many per- sons here expressed the belief that it would be necessary to bring about a | quick betterment of law enforcement conditions in order to forestall congres- | glonal action which might change the | status of the territorial government The assignment of Seth W. Richard- son, Assistant United States Attorney General, to condut the investigation ordered by the United States Sencte met expressions of satisfaction among most officials except Gilililand, who as- serted it was a move to get him out of office Richardson, noted for the vigor with which he conducts investigations. ad- | vised Sanford B. D. Wood, Unites States | attorney for Haweii, he would arrive | Pebruary 4 with several essistants | Police Changes Planned. Tentative plans before the ture were to provide Hon s police department with an appointive instead | of an elected head. The chief of po- lice would work under a commission This commission would be named by Gov. Judd and vacancies thereafter would be filled by appointments of the eity and county supervisors Anotber bill under consideration wouid create the office of ecutor to handle the duties now per- formed by Gilliland's office Th> Go! 1 much tion to the the t within 1 of Mrs. | son-in-law, | Legisla- nizing trick Gleason, who heads the police department. probabl will be placed in charge of the count jail uncer the new arrangement. Unde Gleason, an elected official, the depart ment was widely criticized as being honeycombed with politics. Talk of bringing & man from the mainland to head the police depart- ment was stopped when it was pointed out that only a legal resident of Hawaii could hold office Naval authorities, holding custody 61 Mrs Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and the two enlisted men, Albert O. Jones and E. J. Lord, kept a heavy guard at the Pearl Harbor Naial Station. The ac- cused four are being held aboard the recelving ship Alton there Mrs. Fortescue Improves. Mrs. Fortescue, who suffered from ¢ nervous attack after her arrest, was re- rted recovering and was pieased to arn of the improvement in the condi- tion of her husband, Granville R. For- tescue, soldier and author, ill in New York Jobn C. Lane, high sheriff of the territory and warden of Oahu prison who retired voluntarily last week dur- ing the climax over the crime situation, yesigned today. Col. W. E. Anderson of the National Guard was named to 1:.ed the prison temporarily Lane withdrew from the job shortly | of Kahahawai. | convene earlier if the cf James O'Dowda, & school teacher, Jan- uary 2. This attack precipitated the first out- burst of public feeling, which came to a climax in the abduction and slaying The attacker, Lui Kai- kapu, a native, who had been serving a sentence for burglary, was soon caught. He admitted the attack and was re- turned to prison for life The other escaped convict, Lyman, murderer, still is at large. Under territorial law, Lane, who is an Hawaiian, could have bcen removed from office, but his salary would have continued until the legislature acted against him. With a special session of -he law-making body near, Lane decided to_resign Lane’s administration Daniel 2t the prison [ was featured by the mild treatment of | prisoners. The prison board found t he had allowed murderers to becon trusties and drive trucks about the is- land and do other outside work In five years 7% convicts escaped from he prison _All but two of these were captured Oahu being an island, from which escape is possible only by steamer, prisoners making their getaway from the institution generally have sur- rendered after a few days of frecdom Montgomery Winn, defense attorney conferred with Mrs. Fortescue and hi three other clients today and later an- nounced he would insist upon a trial as soon as Maj. Fortescue could recover from his illness in New York and come to_Honoluu. The next scheduled meeting of the grand jury is next Thursday, but it may and county attorney completes his investigation and is ready to present his case before then JUDGE HARVARD GRADUATE EW HAVEN, Conn. January 16 (#)—Judge Albert Moses Christy, who will preside ‘at the Massie-Fortescue trial in Honolulu, is a native of Hudson Ohio, and <on of Rev. Albert Cristy, a former superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League of Rhode Island He wes graduated from Brown Uni- versity in 1909 and taught school at Williston Academy, Massachusetts, for two vears. He was graduated from Harvard Law School in 1914 Judge Cristy was formerly secretary of the Hawaii Bar Association He was | appointed to the Circuit Court in 1926 THE SUNDAY MRS. STOTESBURY IS UNMOVED IN AID OF FRIEND Content to Endure Publicity if Her Message Will Help Mrs. Fortescue, Banker's Wife Declares. | in favorably” influencing public opinion | in America toward her case, and if this be the fact, I am content to endure the personal notoriety aroused by my message of consolation. “I said in my cable, ‘I would have done the same in your place and so would any other good mother,’ but, un- fortunately, the press has assumed from {his, without any authority from me. that I believe Mrs. Fortescue hersell killed the Hawailan, Kahahawai, to avenge her daughter. * * * “I bave authorized no other state- ment than the present one to any newspaper, at any time Dispatches from Honolulu Thursday night carried messages of sympathy sent by Mrs. Stotesbury and other American friends to Mrs. Fortescue. CAPITAL IS COMBED FOR BANK BANDITS, 12 Detectives Are Assigned to Find Four—Car Is Recovered. With virtually no clues to guide them other than a description of the bandits, headquarters _ detectives were going through the Capital in fine tooth-comb fashion yesterday and early today as they continued efforts to find the four perpetrators of the $14.000 hold-up of the Washington Mechanics' Saving Bank branch at Ninth and East Capi- | tol streets Friday afternoon Inspector F. S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, had assigned 12 picked men | to the case yesterday, and in addition had called upon the commanding offi- cers of all precincts in the city to keep | a sharp lookout for the four white men Who staged the daring daylight rob- bery. Bandit Car Recovered. The bandits' car, which it developed | yesterday was the same one stolen from a salesman for the Blanton Motor Co. Tuesday, was Tecovered some hours after the robbery at Second and D streets northeast, but microscopic: ex- amination of the machine fafled to yleld any fingerprints which might aid the investigators. Sergt. Fred Sandberg, fingerprint ex- pert for the Metropolitan Police De- | partment, said he believed the men either wore gloves or carefully removed | all such incriminating markings. The man-hunt yesterday took investi- gating officers to dozens of hotels of the cheaper class and to rooming houses | in all sections of the city in search| of suspects. Patrolmen aiso were in- structed to visit lodging and rooming houses in their precincts to make in- quiries as to whether men of the de- | scriptions given had stayed or were staying in those places. All hotels were | under surveillance. H The theorythe bandits fled Wash- | ington by train after deserting their stolen machine near the Union Station was considered by authorities, and word | flashed, to cities and towns all over this sedtion of the country to be on the watch for the men. In the meantime. Washington police were instructed to be on the algrt for automobiles containing three, four or | five men, especially if the machines | bear out-of-town license plates. | Special attention was given by police | yesterday to the guarding of banking | establishments of the Capital, partic- ularly those in the outlying setcions. Had Unusual Cash Amount. The branch bank had had a more than usual amount of ready cash on hand at the time of Friday's hold-up, principally because it was the 15th of the month and a pay day for many business houses and for the Govern- ment. The bank was open until 6 o'clock that day. The bandits made off with $14,135 in currency after forcing five employes of the bank and three customers to recline face down on the floor of an ante- T00m in the rear of the establishment and admonishing them “not to move for 10 minutes and you'll be all righ The gunmen were armed with a ma- chine gun and three other weapons. 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Y., where snow and ice is needed for the | Winter Olympics. The weather man | hinted at & chance for snow Sunday in New York City. Planes Aid Indians. Army airplanes were called into serv- ice to carry food to hundreds of Indians snowbound in isolated settlements of th: Navajo reservations in Northern Arizona and Northwest New Mexico. The Red Cross reported 1,500 families had been driven from their homes in nine Mississippi counties flooded by the Tallahatchie River. Others were in peril as relief workers risked their lives to effect the rescue of the thousands marooned. There were minor flood troubles or threats in Tennessee, Okla- homa and Texas. Los Angeles Milder. Milder weather came to Los Angeles and other Southern California points, which had the first snowfall on record Friday. It was warmer in the Rocky Moun- tain region, but temperatures as low as 23 below zero were “reported in North Dakota and 18 below in Minnesota. A heavy snowstorm caused postpone- | ment at Watertown S. Dak., of the in- augural flight of southbound airmail service to Omaha, Nebr. The storm ¢x- tended into Nebraska end Iowa. | "Rain or snow was predicted at Chi- cago and other Midwest cities. In a wide area around Knasas City high- ways and streets were ice-coated and dangerous. Capital to Stay Warm. Increasingly high temperatures are in store for Washington today and to- morrow, despite an expected blanket of clouds, and the Weather Bureau ex- pects no “normal” January weather for | at least three days. | This was the announcement made by the forecasters last night, who said they ru}]c}d offer no hope for crisp Winter col With a maximum temperature yes- terday of 50 degrees in midafternoon, the day was marked by thermometer readings of 15 degrees above normal | for January 16 at 8 o'clock last night, and 13 degrees above normal for 8 a.m. Today the mercury will climb slightly higher than yesterday, and tomorrow | the peak will be even higher than to- ay’s expected maximum. While the forecasters expect the sky to be over- cast today and tomorrow, they do not look for rain on either day. | Lima, Peru, has ruled that there is & sufficient number of omnibusses on its streets, and no additional ones may operate. this moisture, | paper men | v Y VWV VYV, Vv, ¥V, SNRIBTER T Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., January 16—R. T. Corbell, News-Leader correspondent. declares that he was an eye-witness of the incident which caused Washington | newspapers to ask Gov. Pollard to in- vestigate the complaint that a State patrolman ipterfered with and attacked news photographers covering _the fu- neral of Mrs. Agnes Boeing llsley, at Middleburg, and his declaration, which ndicated, the paper says, that it was & ase of unprovoked and brutal offi- clousness on the part of & patrolman acting without authority, warrant or | command,” has caused the Richmond News-Leader to join in the request for a thorough investigation. In a letter of complaint to Gov. Pol- | lard today, the News-Leader says: “The Richmond News-Leader desires to concur in the requests of the Wash- ington_Herald, The Washington Eve- ning Star and the Washington News, that the alleged assault upon Joe Rob- erts, Herald news photographer by a State patrolman, be thoroughly inve: tigated, the inquiry to be followed by per official actjon. “Information from R. T. Corbell, who was an eye-witne: of the incident, indicates that was, first, a case of unwarranted in- terference by a State officer with news- engaged properly in the performance of their duties; and sec- ondly, a case of unprovoked and brutal officiousness on the part of a patrolman ur correspondent. this | 1932—PART ONE. acting without suthority, warrant or command—behavior disgraceful to the commonwealth which he represents and to his comrades and officers of the motor vehicle traffic patrol force. “The hysterical action of a State cfficer in this case precipitated an in- cident for which the State owes an apology to its visitors.” Gov. Pollard immediately ordered an investigation by the motor vehicle divi- sion upon receiying the complaint from the Washington newspapers, and the inquiry is now being made. PLANE RATES REDUCED Ludington Cuts Round Trip to New York From $20 to $18.50. Winter passenger fare rates, Tepre- senting reductions in price of from 5 to 25 per cent, were put into effect yesterday on all branches of the Lud- | ington Lines, flying between Washing- ton and New York and Washington and Norfolk. ‘The round-trip rate between Wash- ington &and New York was reduced from $20 to $18.50, the one-way rate from $13 to $10. New fares between Wash- ington end Philadelphia are $7 one | wilmington, Del., are the same as to Philadelphia. The Baltimore rate remains un- changed at $4, with no round-trip pro- vision. Between Washington and Norfolk the one-way rate is $10 and the round trip $18. Sol Metzger Critically IlL. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., January 16 (#).—No change was reported today in the condition of Sol Metzger, former foot ball coach and sports writer, who is dangerously ill at his Ventnor bome. | Wales Sees Rugby Game. SWANSEA, England, January 16 (®). | —The Prince of Wales turned foot ball ihn today to watch Wales defeat Eng- land at rugby, 12 to 5. 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