Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1932 — Page 2

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RACIAL HATE ISSUE RISES IN HONOR TRIAL Darrow Works for Jury of Whites to Hold Fate of Four Americans. BY BAN CAMPBELL tlnltrri Prm Staff Crrrpontfnt (Cfltjvrirht. 1933 hr United Pr*M> HONOLULU, T. H , April 6 Sharp-drawn racial lines embittered the honor slaying trial of four Americana today. The defertse used peremptory challenges to obtain a Jury of whites, while prosecutors favored orientals and half-castes. Clarence Darrow, aged and shrewd chief defense counsel, who had denied such animosities existed among the mixtures of Hawaii's "melting pot,” found himself temporarily bested as the third days hearing began with only five whites in thfe list of twelve prospective Jurors As the jury drawing approached an end, Dartow's relentless contest with "foreigners” who wanted to stay on the panel goaded him to outbursts. "I didn’t realize it before, but it’s quite possible that the scarcity of Jobs has something to do with this,” he declared vehemently. "It’s possible some of these people want to be on the Jury because they are out of a Job and want $4 a day.” Fear Smoldering Hates Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, gray-haired New York and Washington socialite, nervously watched Harrow’s struggle to free her and three men co-defendants on charges they killed JoeKahahawal Jr., husky young Hawaiian. Apprehensive that smoldering hates were masked by bland faces, Darrow' excused one half-caste after another, and occasionally a Japanese or Chinese with them. In a genial Irish brogue, Prosecutor John Kelley matched Darrow’s maneuvers by excusing the whites, and trying to retain the racial brothers of the slaying victim. In the jury box, awaiting arrival of Circuit Judge Charles 8. Davis, w’ere Kam Tal Lee and Kenneth Sun Chunn, Chinese; Charles Hao and Edward Goeas, Chinese-Hawaiians: Hisaka Imada, Japanese; Charles Akana, Hawaiian: Bam J. Lyle, part Hawaiian: Kenneth B. Bankston, R. H. Eveleth, Shafford Waterhouse. William R. Chellgard and Charles H. Strohlin, whites. Long Jury Fight Seen Many peremptory challenges remained to both prosecution and defense before approval of a jury, and the territory starts evidence to support charges that Mrs. Massie, her son-in-law, Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, and E. J. Lord and Albert O. Jones, navy enlisted men, killed Kahahawat to avenge an attack on Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie. Mrs. Massie, daughter of Mrs. Fortescue and bride of the lieutenant, was attacked last September by a gang of island hoodlums. Five natives and half-castes, Kahahawai among them, were tried on the charges but the jury disagreed. Darrow, fighting to keep the attack case uppermost in the minds of veniremen, had difficulty understanding the broken English of many prospects. William Huihui, Hawaiian, was excused when he blurted out he - thought the defendants "ought to be shot." Jones and Lord, the enlisted men, laughed shortly as the native left the box. The courtroom Joined them. But Mrs. Fortesque and Lieutenant Massie never took their eyes off the floor. Fights to Show Motive Every time the prosecutors asked veniremen if they could reach a verdict without regard to Kahahawai’s guilt nr innocence in the attack case. Darrow objected. "We might as well settle this now," he said. "The attack ease has everything to do with this trial. It’s a motive, and motive in a murder case is tangible when it comes to seating the jury.” But Judge Davis, who dodged the issue at, the first day’s hearing, still reserved a formal decision, and prosecutors reframed their questions.

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BY ARCH STEINEL 'T"'HERE are jobs and positions -*• and some Jobs are odder than others. There are jobs that earn the proverbial “daily bread'’ in manners unknown to the average citizen of Indianapolis. The “what’s he do?” of neighbors might reveal romance, adventure, monotony, in the occupations of the city's pay check wooers—and it does more than its bit of oddness in the job of Major David McCormick of 109 North Arsenal avenue. The major is the custodian of Indiana's battle-flags. He sits in his first floor office at the statehouse and guards and supervises the 314 flags and bat-

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tery tnarkers in the basement and on the fourth floor of the building for $1,500 a year. n u n THE major knows the "whyfor” of every star in those Civil war battle banners. He can trace a regiment's march by those flags. And the major has been doing this bit of caretaking job for twenty-three years. His job is the nearest thing to stability in Indiana's government. Governors may come and go, but Major McCormick still is holding his office fort,, watching the battle flags, checking the cases which hold them for cracks, and relating to visiting school children the history of those flags.

Lang Jr. and Philip A. Sullivan, pledged to Smith. Complete returns from 120 election districts gave Zimmerman 5.941 and Lang, his leading opponent, 2.501: Woitkowaik, 5,411; Sullivan, 1.996. TALK BUS ZONE CHANGE Safety Board Proposes Shift From English Hotel. The bus zone now in front of the English hotel will be shifted to the southwest segment of Monument Circle, if the city council adopts the recommendation of the safety board. A similar step, started over a year ago, failed when placed before the council. Representatives of the hotel claim the present zone is a detriment to business. It creates a disturbance which annoys guests, they claim. CHILD IS GIVEN FRIGHT A- '-ts Fall Into Catch Basin by Grasping Mother’s Dress. Wanda Hynes, 10. saved herself from a fall into eight feet of water Tuesday afternoon by gripping her mother’s dress when the lid of a catch basin tilted under her weight The mother, Mrs. Stuart D. Hynes. 2118 Barth avenue, was walking with the child at Lockwood and Lawton streets, and pulled her to safety after thd child wa v s suspended for a few seconds above the water. The girl’s legs were bruised by the tilting lid.

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McCormick was the first secretary of the Indiana battlfe flag commission and superintendent and custodian of the ensigns and he promises to be the only one during his life. He was appointed to the job Jan. 9. 1909. Members of the commission have changed over the years and with the Governors, but the major goes on, day in and day out. nun THE flags encased in the statehouse were pa Iced there by the major. He and his wife, who died six years ago, backed up each tattered emblem with wool bunting to prevent wear and tear. Because of the major's knowledge and work among the state's battle flags, he holds the Cross of Honor, given by the United States Flag Association. The cross, although a private decoration, is a prized possession. Colonel Charles Lindbergh was the first possessor of one of the crosses and Major McCormick was the second to be decorated. He is a veteran of the SpanishAmerican war. Second of this series on odd jobs of the city will tell of the “Master Clocker.”

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PEARY PLANTED FLAG AT POLE 23 YEARS AGO Explorer's Negro Compan-| ion Vividly Recalls Deed : on Its Anniversary. By United Pre* NEW YORK. April 6.—Twenty- ; three years ago today, at 10 a. m„ ; Admiral Robert E. Peary and his Negro servant and companion. Matt ! Henson, planted the American flag at the north pole. Todav. at the New York custom house where he is employed. Henson recalled the event vividly. But now, he said, all the romance has gone out of polar exploration, j what with airplanes and dirigibles flying over the place. ‘‘They’ll be running excursions up there before long,” he suggested. “I have a very vivid recollection of that day in 1909—the day Admiral Peary had looked for since j 1896,” Henson said. “But we were i so tired that perhaps the full importance of the victory didn't strike home until afterward.” Party of Six Men The Peary party consisted, in the last stages of the gruleling battle over snow and ice, of the six men, ; with five sledges, and forty dogs, the pick of the Smith sound tribe.! The pole was reached at 10 a. m. on the morning of April 6. It was located in the center of a vast sea of floating ice. Peary’s soundings showed the Polar sea had a depth of 9,000 feet. Psychologists, interested in the | reactions of an explorer at the moment of his triumph, asked him how he felt that day. Couldn't Realize It “The accumulated weariness of those days and nights of forced marches,” he said, “insufficient sleep, constant peril and anxiety, seemed to roll across me all at once. I actually was too exhausted to realize at the moment that my i life's purpose had been achieved.” He wrote in his diary, after a few hours’ sleep: “The pole at last! The prize of three centuries. My dream and goal for twenty years. Mine at last! I can not bring myself to realize it. It seems all so simple and so commonplace!” Although the discovery was made in April, it was not until September that Peary and. his expedition emerged from the Arctic to proclaim their success—and to meet the disappointment and rage occasioned by Dr. Frederick Cook's hoax. And it was not until the falsity I of Cook’s claims had been estab- j lished, and even the European na- j tions grudgingly had admitted Peary's claims, that the United States hesitantly paid Peary the i 1 honor due him’.

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