Show I Police Reserves Mobilize as Tension Increases in Island Capital CITY OUTWARDLY CALM Darrow Works on Plans for Appeal By DA DAN CAl CAMPBELL ELL United Press Tress Staff Correspondent HONOLULU T T. H. H May 2 An 2 An Undercurrent undercurrent undercurrent un un- of tension spread through the city today bringing out emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency police reserves while four Americans ans convicted o of manslaughter for th the honor slaying of a half-caste half native fought ought to escape sentence to Oahu prison I Growing feeling against a racially mixed jur jury who voted the conviction 1 led ed to fears for their safety Police guards were furnished four islanders awaiting second trial on charges of attacking Thalia Fortescue Massie wife of an American navy lieutenant Deserted streets that usually swarm wIth sailors on week-end week leave gave gave Honolulu an outward appearance of calm aim Authorities however took every very precaution to avert a new outbreak outbreak out- out break of racial animosity that swept the he city S I last Januar January and W was 1 climaxed cli climaxed cli- cli with Joe Joe- Kaha Kahahawai's dc death th He le was one of Mrs Massies Massie's asserted attackers CONFERS ON APPEAL Clarence Darrow famed amed criminal counsel who emerged d from retirement for or the case was at Pearl harbor navy base conferring on appeal plans with Mrs MIS Granville Granille Fortescue her son-in- son law aw Lieutenant Thomas H. H Massie and nd the two enlisted men Edward Edwarc Lord rd and Albert Jones As he promised after alter the verdict verdic 1 was vas returned Friday evening Darow Darrow Darrow Dar- Dar row ow was prepared lo to exhaust every resource to keep keen the four from ing ng time in Oahu prison The 75 year old warrior was still shaken by bythe the he 10 unexpected verdict We have just be begun n to fight George S. S Leisure of New York associate asso- asso elate counsel said These people were ere victims of a crime they didn't didn the commit the attack on Mrs Massic Massie Well We'll fight light to the last ast d ditch But unless Circuit Judge Charles CharlesS S S. Davis grants them a new trial they icy before him next Friday I and this is regarded as ae highly unlikely he ho will vilI have no alternative but to sentence them to ten years each alard at al hard ard labor COMPEL CO MAXIMUM IU I The jury recommended leniency but ut territorial laws compel the court courto to o exact the maximum sentence The prison rison board with the jud judges judge's es e's approval ap- ap pro mn may shorten the sentence to toas toas tos as s little as three months Persistent reports spread through navy ivy circles that Governor Lawrence Judd udd Intended to pardon the pris- pris ners The city's apparent calm was credited to this rumor although there thereas was as littie tn in substantiate it il Governor Gover- Gover nor or Judd l like ke other territorial oW- oW dais refu refused ed to discuss th the case on the he grounds rounds that it was still in the courts A move for tor pardon petitions also ws vs made From authoritative c sources the surprising report W was S confirmed th that t seven C In on the he readily Continued OP oz Page Pue Two Change in Territorial Statutes Without Dissenting Dissenting Dissenting Dis Dis- Vote I Continued From Pate One case would be continued in nava naval custod custody He had no comment on the case but said he had heard informal and unofficial suggestions that in view of allegedly unsatisfactory condItions conditions con con- in Hawaiian prisons especially especial especial- l ly for women the defendants should continue in naval until their appeal could be acted on Pratt said the navy had no legal lega rights under which it could ask for continued custody Any Anything thin the navy might say now would be merel merely a matter of sympathy sympathy thy he said replying to a question whether the navy would support an appeal 4 I |