| Show CHANGES ARE DEMANDED IN HAW HAWAII All RULE Island Governor Summons Legislative Session to Carry Out Reforms POLICE OPEN NEW PROBE Find Evidence Favorable Favorable- to Accused Slayers By DAN CAMPBELL CA United Press Staff Stal Correspondent HONOLULU T T. H. H Jan 13 13 Hawaii's territorial government shaken shak shako en by the honor murder of a a. young native that climaxed a wave of tee ter was on the brink of revolutionary revolutionary changes demanded by an An aroused populace today A whole new structure of civil l government gov gov- emment may result from a special session session ses sese ses- ses sion of the island legislature ordered by Governor Lawrence M M. Judd Sweeping reforms were called for by leading citizens of the the- Pacific Paradise Para Para- disc dise to prevent further outrages outrage against women Governor Judd acted on the recommendation recommendation of a legislature committee committe after Walter Valter Dillingham one of or Hawaii's Hawaii's Ha Ha- big five had attacked present presen conditions as more serious than a at any time in all the years I have lived here D Dillingham's arraignment o of island administration followed a day of sensational sensational sen sen- sen developments in the kidnap kidnap- ing and slaying laying of Kahahawai young Hawaiian Already in a turmoil tur turmoil tur- tur moil over the k killing Jling city officials angrily denounced an order from Secretary Sec See I of the Navy Adams in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington for navy officers here to refuse refuse re re- rc- rc fuse to surrender four persons held in their care charged with the murder City prosecutors grew calmer when Secretary Adams retracted the order but the resentment of business and civic leaders over the whole situation increased START START NEW NEW INQUIRY Meanwhile police started on a new inquiry into the he slaying which ma may maj radically affect the prosecution of or the four prisoners now among friends friends' aboard the nav navy receiving ship Alton Altonin I in Pearl Harbor The They are Mrs Grace Hubbard Fortesque 49 widely known New York and Washington society matron Lieutenant JG Thomas H. H Massie 26 her son law and E. E J. J Lord 22 and Albert O OJones O. O Jones 57 enlisted men City and County Attorney James Jame Gilliland charged that Kahahawai was killed because he was one o of ti five e men l' l recently i tried on charges charge of Lieutenant Massies Massie's wife Thalia d daughter of Mrs Fortesque The prisoners were taken aboard the Continued on PUB Page Two I I CHANGES ARE DEMANDED IN HAWAII RULE RUL Continued From Fron Pare Page One On Alton for safekeeping and Captain Ward was made a temporary tempo court officer to have them in ut custody It was generally believed that the Dillingham statement was responsible in a large measure for tor calling the legislative session since he is one of the most important business and political political political po po- po- po figures on the islands He spoke to directors of the chamber of commerce before being named chairman chairman chair chair- chairman man of a committee to urge the session session session ses ses- sion on Governor Judd One thing the people of the United States always alwa's have prided themselves themselves them them- themselves selves on and that is the protection of women he declared There is nothing that will inflame red blooded Americans more than the thought that representatives of at their people in any part of ot the world are derelict in that duty and whether or not there have been exaggerated reports sent from here I challenge any man in this room to stand up and say he considers conditions in Honolulu today arc are safe and proper conditions for any ny American American Ameri can community CHARGES DERELICTION I 1 am not in sympathy with Mayor or Fred Wrights Wright's suggestion that we allowed allowed al ill al- al lowed conditions to run as they were to build up opposition to statehood I think we have been derelict in our dut duty from the very start We Ve have been asleep on the situation For 20 years at intervals of ot two years I have been one of a number of at men called into someone's office and told that unless we came through with money that the election would go the the result has been that those organizations contributing 80 to 90 per cent of ot the tax money have absolutely nothing to say about who shall spend it jt pr how it shall be spent Unless there is something like the present situation we go peacefully on allowing ine inefficiency in government Foremost among the reforms demanded demanded de de- de by citizens many of ot whom favored martial law to meet the existing ex cx fisting crisis was a general reorganization tion of the police department Officers Officers om cers have been under continual fire ire for their handling of ot numerous attack attack at at- tack cases involving white women notably the Thalia Massie case Siding with a mass meeting of good government organizations sponsored by the League of ot Women Voters here the chamber of ot commerce directorate voted for enactment of legislative laws lawsto aws to relieve in tolerable intolerable police con con- They also asked that all criminal law Jaw enforcement b be sepa sepa- separated separated rated from political and elective of of- ices SERVE NOTICE Governor Judd was told lold that unless the he laws are speedily enacted they would go before th the congress of ot the United States and demand restoration of a properly functioning W government government govern govern- ment Coupled with the call for a n special legislature session a meeting was organized or or- by Lorrin P. P P Thurston pub pub- publisher lIsher isher of ot the Honolulu Advertiser for the purpose of ot cleaning up up adverse conditions Thursday planned the conference to offset unfavorable opinion on the mainland especially in Washington because of the belief belie that authorities were not taking proper steps to protect protect pro pro- residents Preparing for the scheduled arraignment arraignment ar art of ot the prisoners in court Saturday and a gr grand jury meeting the day before police created a sensation sensation sensa sensa- tion by starting an entirely new angle angleat of at their investigation Investigation one one favorable to the defendants Th The new police theory was as that tha the slaying of ot Kahahawai was no not premeditated Instead officers admitted admitted ad ad- the possibility that th the young Hawaiian may have been only with the intention of frightening frighten ing him into an admission of ot an alleged part in the attack on Mrs Massie It was pointed out that i if premeditation was lacking the thi prosecution could not demand the death penalty I If this were true detectives said could have been shot sho during the excitement of an argue ment In a demonstration intended to lo show impartiality in the case investigators investigators in in- made elaborate plans to follow up the theory It was claimed that the disheveled rooms in Lieutenant lassies Massie's home horn ta- ta taken indicated a violent quarrel had taken ta tat ken place Bloody towels and a n bathtub partly filled with stained water were added evidences Officers however howe continued to gather evidence against the accused in anticipation of asking the new grand jury to vote indictments John JohnN N N. McIntosh chief of detectives claimed that n a service station proprietor proprio etor elor had identified Lieutenant Massie Massic as 15 the one who accompanied D D. E. E Gilkey enlisted man when the thc latter hired an automobile last Friday the day of the slaying I IThe The oil man according to McIntosh McIntosh tosh recalled that Massie Massio produced 5 when Gilkey did not have enough money to rent the car Police claim the machine was used to kidnap Kahahawai Kahahawai Kahahawai Ka Ka- Ka- Ka from the courthouse for the ride that ended in his death It was this machine in which Mrs Fortescue Massie and Lord were riding rid rid- ing when arrested and in which the battered wrapped sheet body of or Ka Ka- was found according to Mc Mc- Intosh Dillingham's speech given privately private private- ly Iy added fuel to the fire tire of oC public anger when word of it was circulated The rail and transportation magnates magnate's charges were re regarded as significant in view of or repe repeated ted statements from Governor Judd and other officials that true truc island conditions have been greatly exaggerated Dillingham did not mince words In rebuking the administration declaring declaring ing in that the legislative reforms should be asked in the form of a doma de do- ma mand nd Much l of our difficulty has bees been between the chief of police and the county city-county attorney w wren en they could not get Jet together he said The a year we spend to bring tourists to Hawaii is well spent only when we have our house in or or- der I dont don't care what woman signs a statement st. that Honolulu Is a n safe place for women We cannot accept it as sound It is no exa exaggeration to say that women have been attacked QUacked In their own homes and servants assaulted assaulted as liS- on their way to and from street cars How many perpetrators have been brought to justice What responsibility responsibility have we taken I ask how many of you would be satisfied to tom tomake tomake m make kc public the fact that such a il tragedy had occurred in your own home and how many of oC you would then be satisfied to turn over the case caseto caseto caseto to authorities for tor prosecution Referring to the two men who escaped escaped es es- taped from irom Oahu prison one of oC whom attacked an nn American woman in her house Dillingham asserted that in lIin the light of the police departments department's de de- departments departments department's not apprehending them what protection is there to the community community com com- in falling to put its hands on ona ona ona a department obviously divided against itself itself CHARGES TRADING He charged that political influence influence ence was being brought to bear on Governor Judd relative to the cial session Dillingham ham indicated house trading was in progress on ona a proposed police reform bill with which he expressed dissatisfaction One arm of enforcement elective and the other appointive as at present present pres pros ent would be a n failure he said Instead Instead In In- stead Dillingham ur urged ed that the only method for effective law 1 enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment would be to have a police executive executive executive ex ex- appointed b by the tho city commission com commission mission and a n city county attorney appointed b by the chief Justice of oC the supreme court both with the power to remove We ought to lo clean up tip this situation situation situa situa- tion and I believe that this group 1 with determination can tell ten our officials officials off i that they are arc our servants and not our dictators I Admiral to Confer With Hawaii Governor WASHINGTON Jan 13 CUP UP-Ad- UP Admiral Ad- Ad miral William V V. Pratt chief of naval naval naval na- na val operations today instructed Ad Ad- miral Frank II H. Schofield comman- comman der chief of oC the United States fleet to confer with Governor Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence M. M Judd of oC Hawaii and md express express express ex ex- press the willingness of the navy to reestablish good will between civil and na al authorities An impartial investigation of conditions conditions conditions con con- in Hawaii is necessary to re remove remove re- re move the injustice to the territory arising from the Massic case care Governor Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Judd s said in a cablegram today to Victor S. S 1 K Houston territorial delegate te in congress Conditions have been so grossly ly exaggerated by the mainland press that the good name of Hawaii demands demands de de- mands an impartial Investigation so that the injustice oc to the territory willbe willbe will willbe be rectified Judd udd d said FAIL TO SA SAVE YE LIFE TUCSON Ariz Jan 13 UP UP- UP Blood transfusion and oxygen tanks failed tailed today to save the life of P Patton Pat Pat- Patton t- t ton Leavings year old son of or William William William Wil Wil- liam II It Le Leavings city editor of ot the Los ts An An An- Vs ers Herald Herald Express E eS' eS folly jag ing ng an emergency operation for The child died y fore rore noon shortly lS 1 1 I Bank deposits in Brazil arc lne ling ing h |
