Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1932 — Page 2

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DEMAND CONGRESS PROBE OF HAWAIIAN SEX CRIMES

ISLAND TIGHT IN GRIP OF BITTER RACIAL HATRED Huge Crowds See Alleged Attacker of Officer’s Wife Buried. PASTORS FLAY KILLERS Social Leader, Lieutenant, Two Sailors Facing Murder Charge. BY DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, Jan. 11. —Probability of congressional investigation into conditions in Hawaii added to excitement here today as the territorial government prepared for the trial of a socially prominent American woman, an American naval lieutenant and two enlisted men, accused of the revenge murder of Joe Kahahawai, young Hawaiian. News from the mainland that the house naval affairs committee has called on the navy department to supply records of attacks on women, one of which assertedly led to the abduction and slaying of Kahahawai was received with mixed emotions by a community already at fever pitch of hysteria. The largest crowd that ever attended a civilian funeral on the islands heard Catholic and Protestant rites for Kahahawai, the slain man. Strains of the native songs, “Ponoi” and “Aloha,” stirred their emotions anew at the cemetery. The Rev. Robert Ahuna, who conducted the native Protestant rites, spoke the native tongue and charged the murder to “revenge,” an “appalling crime” perpetrated in front of the Federal building, where the laws are “supposed to be administered and the people judged impartially.” Rights Are Waived His comment was typical of that heard from citizens of mixed blood, although action of the accused slayers in waiving their rights to naval court-martial was expected to quiet much of the resentment. Lieutenant Thomas Hedges Massie, United States navy, and .' 1. J. Lord, an enlisted man, waived their rights, and another enlisted man, Albert Jones, was expected to waive his right. Mrs. Grace Hubbard Fortescue, socially prominent New Yorker, would have been tried by civil courts in any event. Mrs. Fortescue is the mother of Mrs. Massie, accuser of five men tried on charges of attacking her. The trio, charged with first degree murder, continued to be held aboard the receiving ship Alion, at Pearl harbor. Hundreds of telegrams of sympathy and support were received by Mrs. Fortescue. so many floral offerings were sent to the ship that officers ordered no more brought aboard, as they had no more room for them. Throng at Funeral The crowd at Kahahawai’s funeral, mostly Hawaiians and numbering more than 2,000 persons, was quiet and orderly. Solemn requiem mass was said by Father Patrick Hogan at the Catholic cathedral. Mr. Ahuna, pastor of the old Hawaiian Protestant church, conducted the burial service. Mr. Ahuna said that Kahahawai went to the courthouse in connection with bail formality on the charge of attacking Mr. Massie, and ignorant that the visit would cost him his life. Mr. Ahuna asked his audience what caused the killing, and then replied: • “It was revenge.” “Better Element” Assailed He expressed surprise that the persons under arrest for the killing should be persons “sworn to uphold the law.” He closed by saying he w ? as glad to see such a demonstration in sympathy at the grave. In other churches congregations were called upon by pastors to observe peace and order. Untoward disturbances in the once peaceful ‘ paradise of the Pacific” were scored by Dr. H. H. Leavitt, pastor of Central Union church, attended by the most prominent and wealthy residents of the island. Dr. Leavitt criticised the “socalled better clement,” referring to evidence of a breakdown of law and morality which culminated in Kahahawai’s death. Admiral Paid Tribute Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Movement for a congressional investigation of conditions in Hawaii gained momentum rapidly today after records of assaults on white women in the islands were submitted to the house naval affairs committee by the navy department. A resolution was introduced in the house by Representative McKellar iDem., Tenn.) and a similar resolution by Senator Bingham (Rep., Conn.), calling on AttorneyGeneral Mitchell to report on criminal law enforcement conditions there was adopted by the senate. The resolution asked Mitchell to state whether a change in administration of justice in Hawaii is desirable. As the house naval affairs committee received the reports it demanded, Chairman Vinson paid high tribute to Rear Admiral William V. Pratt, ranking naval officer, “for his attitude toward the whole situation.” “I indorse what you have said.” Vinson said, “especially about such cases where juries absolutely failed to do their duty.” Meanwhile, Victor S. K. Houston, delegate to congress from Hawaii, said he will report to administration officials what he considers “inflammatory statements” made oy executive officers regarding conditions at Honolulu. “We have the case of a naval officer who held up a garage proprietor at the point of a gun and forced him to repair a tire during the night, and another naval man who killed his wife,” he said. "They were tried by naval court-martial, and we do not know what happened.”

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—Photo Coovright. Harris and Ewinsr. Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, New York and Washington society woman (shown above), is one of three persons accused of the murder of Joe Kahahawai, native Hawaiian who was tried for an attack on Mrs Fortescue’s daughter. Others arrested are Naval Lieutenant Thomas N. Massie, husband of the woman attacked, and R. J. Lord, a sailor. They are charged with having kidnaped the Hawaiian, using a fake warrant as a ruse, and shooting him. Kahahawai’s trial on the attack ended in a mistrial when the jury failed to agree.

HIGH COURT TO ACT IN OIL PRORATION

Votes to Consider Validity of Governor Murray’s Curtailment. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The supreme court today decided to consider validity of the Oklahoma oil curtailment act and proration orders under which Governor Wil- j liam H. Murray stemmed over- ! production of crude oil within his state. The court’s ruling was made in a test case brought by the Champlin Refining Company against the Oklahoma corporation commission, the state enforcement body. The right of states to bar women from jury duty was upheld by the court in a test case brought from Massachusetts. The court denied Genevieve Wclosky of Boston a review of her conviction on charges of keeping and exposing intoxicating liquor for sale, a state offense. A jury may find a dry law defendant guilty of maintaining a nuisance and not guilty of sale or possession of liquor, the court held today. The decision waS handed down in the case of James Dunn. Eureka, Cal., who was sentenced to a year in jail on a nuisance conviction. The imposition of an annual tax on life memberships in clubs acquired before the passage of the 1918 law was approved by the court. MRS. ANNA JONES DIES Former Indianapolis Resident Succumbs in California. Word has been received by Mrs. Mary Pickard, 1824 Southeastern avenue, of the death of Mrs. Anna B. Jones of Daly City, Cal., formerly of Indianapolis. Burial will be in San Francisco. Mrs. Jones moved to California in 1922. While in this city she lived at the home of Mrs. Pickard. She was a member of the Eastern Star, No. 393, and Ben-Hur lodge. She was instructor in the San Francisco branch. 14 FLEE BURNING BUS Short Circuit Causes Blast; All Passengers Escape Safely. Fourteen passengers of a Greyhound bus. en route to Pittsburgh, fled to safety Sunday night when the vehicle caught fire at Rural and Washington streets. Firemen and Leo Cole, driver, said a short circuit caused the blaze. Damage was estimated at SSOO. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the residence of John Z. Waterman, near Five Points, Saturday night. Damage was estimated at $4,000. ALLEGED FORGER HELD Police Charge Man Stole $lO Check From Mail Box, Cashed It. Alleged to have stolen a $lO check from a mail box and cashed it, Radford Branham, 19, of 554% Fletcher avenue, was charged with petit larceny and forgery today by police. The check, officers said, had beer, left for Mrs. Bessie Jones of the same address. B. H. King, 30, of St. Louis, is held by local detectives for alleged issuance of a $25 fraudulent check. He is said to have attempted to pass the check in two downtown stores Saturday. WOODCUTTERS INJURED Two Hurt While Employed on “Made Work” Project. Two men who were sawing wood under the “made work” project were t injured today at East and Lord streets. Police first were called to send John Ross, 60, of 539 Jones street, ■to the city hospital. His right leg had been broken by a section of log that fell while he was sawing. After placing Ross in the ambulance, police were recalled to the ! place. Albert Edwards, 61, of 936 . Bellefontaine street, had cut a fin- | ger on his, left hand severely. He 1 was sent the hospital.

Pipe This One! By United Press SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Jan. 11. —Bennett Ousley, 23, returned from hunting, settled down for a quiet smoke. Suddenly his pipe exploded. A bullet which had become mixed with the tobacco tore past his head, hit the wall and glanced into another room.

DROWNING OF AMERICAN IS MYSTERY AT CANNES W’oman Is Sought After Body Is Recovered From Harbor. By United Press CANNES, France, Jan. 11.—A woman companion of Thomas Clark, 67, here buying a yacht for a wealthy New Yorker, was sought for questioning today after recovery of his body from Cannes harbor. Although Clark was dressed expensively, and had a reputation as a spender in the local cases, only 24 cents was found in his pockets. There were, however, no signs of violence. Clark came here from Nice without any luggage and registered at a small and inconspicuous hotel. He paid for his room in advance. Police found a blood-stained handkerchief and a woman’s ear ring in the room. A gold ring which Clark wore was missing when his body was recovered. ARMY FOUR VICTORS Win Charity Polo Match From Freebooters in Coliseum. The Ft. Benjamin Harrison polo team defeated the Freebooters, 9 to 7, Saturday night at the fair ground coliseum. Proceeds of the match, and the horse show which followed, went to the Governor’s made work committee. William Fortune Jr., of the Freebooters, was thrown his horse in the third chukker, and carried to the sidelines. He returned to the game, however, in the fourth chukker. DRY TRAP PLEA FAILS Negro Gets 30 Days on Charge of Blind Tiger. Protests that he was “entrapped” by a federal prohibition department informer, today failed to save William Cook, Negro, 1018 Pierson street, from a thirty-day sentence on a blind tiger conviction. The informer told Municipal Judge William H. SheafTer he had purchased liquor twice from Cook. SheafTer overruled a motion to dismiss, declaring Cook was not an entrapment victim. In addition to the jail sentence, Cook was assessed a suspended fine of SIOO and costs. DIRECTOR RE-ELECTED Edgar Hart Retained in Pest by Mystic Shrine Order. Edgar Hart was re-elected director of Indianapolis court, No. 15, Royal Order of Jesters, social organization of Mystic Shrine, at the annual meeting of the court in Murat temple Sunday. Others officers chosen are: Leslie D. Clancey, Robert Zehlicke Charles C. Brautigam and Nelson Hodgin. Hart and Clancy will attend the meeting of the national council in San Francisco, as representatives of the Indianapolis court. S. D. CAMPBELL IS DEAD Services to Be Held Tuesday for Pioneer Resident. Samuel D. Campbell, 77, resident of Indianapolis for thirty years, died at his home, 403 East Morris street, Sunday afternoon. Services will be held at the Johnson & Montgomery funeral home, 1622 North Meridian street, at 2 Tuesday. Burial will be in Chicago. Survivors are three sons. Will and Ernest Campbell of Chicago and Harry Campbell Indianapolis, i and the widow. *

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FARM BUREAU'S TAX PLEA HELD UP BLACKER John R. Kinghan Reported 'Too Busy’ to Keep Date With Settle. The blushing bride left waiting at the church bore a distinct resemblance today to William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, who at the last report, was in his office waiting and waiting for the arrival of John R. Kinghan, Indianapolis meat packer. And while Settle was waiting, the staff of the farm bureau was attempting to locate the belated industrialist. Meanwhile, the farm bureau’s campaign for a special session of the legislature to effect tax reform marked time. Settle was to have met with Kinghan today to select a committee to draft the tax program, for presentation to Governor Harry G. Leslie. Until such a committee meets and agrees to a program of tax equalization, Leslie will be adamant in his refusal to issue the call. Finally, Settle’s secretary located Kinghan, only to learn that the packer was busy in a business conference and could not be disturbed. Kinghan led the fight in the 1931 general assembly against any measure smacking of reform or relief, and especially was opposed to a tax on corporation incomes. Settle continued waiting in his office this afternoon in the hope that Kinghan would be able to appear and discuss the committee personnel. CONFISCATE ‘BOMBS’ Packages Mailed to King and II Duce Held Up. By United Press NAPLES, Jan. 11. —Three packages addressed to King Victor Emmanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini and believed to contain bombs were found in the mail bags of the liner Excalibur when it docked from New York today. Two of the packages were addressed to the king, and one to the premier. The ship left New York soon after bombing outrages killing three in Easton, Pa., and endangering others elsewhere. American authorities received information that bombs mailed to Italian officials were aboard the Excalibur. The ship’s hold was sealed when she docked at Marseilles. Police took off the three packages and took them to experts at the laboratory of the local artillery barracks for careful examination.

RUN BROKER’S OFFICE TO CATCH FORGERS N. Y. Cops Hold Eight Charged With Sale of Fake Stocks. By United Press < NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Eight men were in the police lineup today charged with the forgery and sale of stock certificates with a face value of $5,000,000, as the result of ingenious work by detectives, who opened a brokerage office to track the men. The men are charged specifically with negotiating a loan of $50,000 on spurious General Motors Corporation common stock, with a face value of SBO,OOO, from the brokerage firm of Cusick, Kent &; Cos. of 39 Broadway. Police, however, estimate the eight disposed of stock certificates with an indicative value of $5,000,000, at about 25 per cent of their face value of $1,250,000. PAPAL RULE ASSAILED Protestants Can Not Accept Roman Church, Says Episcopal Bishop. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—The Roman Catholic church never can be accepted by Protestants as the basis of Christian unity, the Rt. Rev. James Dewolf Perry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in the United States, stated in his sermon yesterday. Bishop Perry, speaking at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, answered the latest encyclical of Pope Pius XI, which appealed for Christian unity under papal sovereignty. MRS. SUSAN CRAIG DIES Services to Be Held at Home of Niece for City Woman. Mrs. Susan Jane Craig, 83, died Sunday at the home of her niece, Mrs. Hannah Boyer, 1033 North Rural street. Mrs. Craig, who was born in Jefferson county near Madison, had lived in Indianapolis ten years. Services will be held at the Boyer home Tuesday at 10, with burial in the afternoon at Craig cemetery near Madison. HERRLICH RITES SLATED Funeral Services to Be Held at Residence and Church. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Herrlich, who died Sunday at her home on the Brookville road near New Palestine, will be held at 1:30 Tuesday at the residence, and at 2 in the Zion’s Evangelical church. Burial will be in the New Palestine cemetery. Mrs. Herrlich was, bom and lived all her life in this vicinity. Her father, John D. Deckert, was a pioner dairyman. Foreign Legion Veteran to Talk Frank Hamilton, who served with the French Foreign Legion in the World war, will recount some of his experiences at the Lions Club luncheon Wednesday at the Washington. Housekeeper Is Bankrupt Allie Tellas, Greensburg housekeeper, today filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in federal court here. She claims $5,134 in liabilities, and $2,900 in assets.

BUILDING TRADE GROUPS ACCEPT WAGESLASHES Cuts of 20 Per Cent From 1929 Scale Announced by Council. Voluntary wage slashes of approximately 20 per cent have been accepted by city building crafts, it was announced by the Marion County Building Trades Council, composed of the building unions. The cujt from the 1929 wage scale will go into effect Friday morning, and will prevail until July 1, when a 5 per cent advance is agreed upon, according to a statement signed by C. E. Hammond, president of the council, and Clyde Pierce, secretary. “The cut was made to help in the unemployment situation,” the statement says. “The men realize that an adjustment in the scale will help stimulate i-uilding, thus relieving to some extent the unemployment condition,” it continues. Invitation to Builders “If the building public realizes the opportunities that now exist for low building costs and efficient skilled craftsmen are greater than for many years past and probably for many years to come, they will lose no time in getting into the market now and building. “There is plenty of money available and waiting to go into sound building projects where there is sufficient equity for protection and sufficient need for the building. “The speculative and fly-by-night promoter is a thing of the past. Efficient planning and design, sound construction and close supervision is the future demand of financiers before furnishing funds for building. “The building industry acts as a barometer more or less for general business. Since 1927, the building industry has been declining in volume. From 1925 to 1927 it ran at the rate of more than $6,000,000,000 annually in the United States. “It now has dropped to about $3,500,000,000, a decline of about 40 per cent. “A drop of 30 per cent in the past thirteen industrial depressions always has brought on a panic, and only by renewed activity in the construction industry has the recovery been accomplished in the past. This has been accomplished by the readjustment of costs of labor and material in this industry. Every Form Suffered “When shrinkage occurs in the volume of capital flowing into construction, every form of industrial, commercial and financial and transportation activity participating in the vast and complex industrial stream, which has its outlet in construction, suffers from this shrinkage. “The obstruction of the flow of capital into construction because of high costs causes materials and labor in “all contributory processes to pile up like water behind a mill dam, thus closing the whole stream of industry flowing toward construction.” Hope for early starting of approximately $2,000,000 worth of construction in Indianapolis is held by heads of unions and builders who negotiated the wage scale slashes. CRASH SCENE SCHOOL TO REOPEN TUESDAY Township Building, Where Ceiling Collapsed, Is Repaired. William Evans township schoolNo. 2, at 2700 South Pennsylvania street, will be reopened Tuesday morning to pupils, many of whom narrowly escaped serious injury or death shortly before Christmas when a ceiling collapsed during a holiday entertainment. The wrecked room and others, where plaster appeared weak, have been repaired on order of accident prevention and township authority. The accident occurred as 200 persons, mostly women and children, trruped from the second floor auditorium. Four women were hurt and seven children incurred minor injuries when the plaster crashed to the floor. DR. REAVIS TO SPEAK Brookside Civic League to Hear Butler Sociology Professor. Dr. Tolbert Reavis, Butler university sociology professor, will speak on “Curbing Crime,” at the meeting of the Brookside Civic League at 8 tonight in the Brookside Community house. This will be the first meeting under direction of the new officers, headed by President R. E. Mitchell. Music will be provided by Butler students.

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CHEVROLET SALES DRIVE IS OUTLINED

600 Executives, Salesmen Attend Conference of Indianapolis Zone. Sales and management problems were discussed today by 600 executives and salesmen of the Chevrolet Motor Company, who opened the first session of a two-day sales conference of the Indianapolis zone at the Murat temple. During the morning representatives of the motor company and associated bankers from forty-four central Indiana counties and central offices, considered “Better Management for Sales and Profits.” Following a luncheon at the Claypool, salesmen joined the conclave at which sales methods were outlined. The meeting is being held under direction of W. G. Lewellen, of Detroit, general sales promotion manager of the Chevrolet company, assisted by H. B. Hatch, of Norwood, 0., manager of the middle eastern region, and G. R. Browder, Indianapolis zone manager. During the luncheon, R. C. Williams of Indianapolis was installed as president of the 110-Car Club. Other officers are M. E. Shaw, Muncie, vice-president; C. A. Webster, North Vernon, secretary, and Everett Hannon, Kokomo, treasurer. The Indianapolis meeting is one of a series of fifty to be conducted throughout the country during this month and February. Other executives attending the sessions include H. L. Beecroft of Buffalo, N. Y., eastern region truck and body manager; Paul D. Loranger of Detroit, parts and service manager; J. E. Johnson, head of the business management division; C. M. Donovan, assistant manager in the Flint, Mich., region; Gary E. Holm, Flint region sales promotion manager; Joseph M. Glass, Atlanta, Ga., sales promotion manager; H. R. Riley, Detroit, and D. C. Corbin, Cincinnati, assistant zone manager. Grocers Robbed of $37 Bandits who held up Max Rootstein and Max Sadinies, grocery operators at 2216 Bloyd avenue, Sunday morning, robbing them of $37, were sought today by police.

MAIN OFFICE Northwest Comer Pennsylvania and Market Streets NORTH SIDE BRANCHES WEST SIDE BRANCHES EAST SIDE BRANCHES IS4I North Illinois Street 474 West Washington Street 2122 East Tenth Street 3001 North Illinois Street 1233 Oliver Avenue 458 East Washington Street 1533 Roosevelt Avenue 2600 West Michigan Street 2506 East Washington Street 6235 Beliefontaine Street SOUTH SIDE BRANCH 5501 EaSt W “^ ngton Street 1125 South Meridian Street

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HEIRESS' STORY OF KILLING TOLD Used Both Hands to Fire *Gun, Policewoman Quotes. By United Press FLINT, Mich. Jan. 11.—Helen Joy Morgan, young heiress, had difficulty pulling the trigger of her sweetheart’s revolver when she shot him to death last April at a cemetery tryst near Flint, according to testimony offered by the state at her trial on a murder charge today. Mrs. Carrie Roger, policewoman, testified Miss Morgan told her she was unable to fire the gun with her right hand after, as she contends, she wrenched it from Leslie Casteel, the garage mechanic with whim she lived from time to'time, and whom she expected to marry. “Finally I shifted it to my left hand, pulled the hammer back with my right, and it fired,” Mrs. Roger quoted the defendant as telling her. Miss Morgan, attired in anew ensemble of gray, appeared rested after the week-end adjournment.

GROWTH In Resources DECEMBER 51, ipzi $9,389,996 DECEMBER 31," *9*7 $14,129,454 DECEMBER 31, 1922 $19,119,802 DECEMBER 31, 192 7 $28,080,984 DECEMBER 31 , 1331 $30,790,399

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QUEER PHRASES PRAISE DEAUTY OF ‘HEffOPTICS Pea-Green Stationery Best, Say Optometrists at Convention. If your sweetheart murmurs, “Dear, you’re my orthophoric emmetrope,” don’t twist the furniture around his neck. For he may be in ecstasy over your perfect eyes. At least, that’s the slang phrase used by members of the Indiana Association of Optometrists meeting in the Ssverin to describe the girl whose eyes are faultless. And it applies to beauty and charm as well. Another tip: Use pea-soup shade of paper and write with purple ink. Colors Are Explained Dr. H. Riley Spitler of Eaton, 0.. explained that this afternoon, discussing “Modern Research and Optometry.” “Light yellow-green colors are easy on the eyes,” he said. The same colors would be more effective for selling purposes, Dr. Spitler believes. Hope for persons blinded by accident is given by Dr. Spitler. who, speaking of research work, said: “Experiments by Professor K. S. Lashley of the University of Chicago tend to show that secondary centers of sight may be developed in the brain. Lashley’s theories may explode the old idea of one central sight center.” He’ll Get You If one smokes or drinks too much, the optometrist will find it out, according to Dr. O. I. Crawford, speaker at the Sunday afternoon meeting. A campimeter or machine used in testing the field of vision will show whether the patient needs glasses or can not see because of poisons in the body. Use of the campimeter in eye examinations was urged. Three-day sessions of the association will close Tuesday night. Dr. John Glazier will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet tonight.