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a a 000.000 000.000 000.000 000.000 000.000 000.0 000.000 000.000 0.000 00.000 00 PRESS NEWS SERVICE VOL. XXXIV. No. 183. THE VERDICT IN "HONOR SLAYING" WILL BE FOUGHT BY DARROW; CASE MAY COME TO THE U.S.

DEFENDANTS FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER IN TRIAL ATTRACTING WORLD WIDE AT. TENTION. HONOLULU, April 30--An society matron, her nayal lieutenant son-in-law and two sailors stood convicted today in the "honor slaying" of Joe Kahahawai, but were ready with their counsel, Clarence Darrow, to appeal the jury's findings to the "last resource." An island jury of mixed nationalities found Mrs. Grace Fortescue, society woman, Lieut. Thomas H.

Massie, U. S. A. O. Jones and E.

J. Lord guilty of manslaughter in the killing of the Hawaiian, allegedly a member of a group of five who brutally outraged Massie's young wife Thalia. The verdict was returned at 5:32 P. M. Friday (1:02 A.

M. Saturday, EST). The jury recommended leniency, but one to ten years' imprisonment at hard labor is the specified penalty under the law. Darrow, fighting counsel for the defense, choked back his disappointment at the surprise, verdict and announced: "I will not give up the fight until it is won or the last resource exhausted. I cannot say how: disappointed I am.

I thought would' be an end to the of fortune that has been piled on these poor people." Darrow and his clients had confidently looked for either acquittal or a "hung jury" and were stunned when the jurors came in, after 49 hours, with a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. The island authorities had sought a second degree murder conviction charging Kahahawai was seized by the quartet who tried to wring from him a confession that he was one of a group of five who brutally assaulted Mrs. Massie. Mrs. Massie, victim of an attack almost unparalleled for brutality, sobbed as the verdict was read, and clung desperately to the husband who had sworn as a witness that all went blank before him when he heard from Kahahawai the words: "Yes we done it." Sentence is due to be pronounced next Friday.

At that time, Darrow will move for a new trial. If that is denied his clients, he will appeal first to the Hawaiian supreme court and then, if necessary, to the ninth circuit court of appeals in San Francisco. There was no demonstration from the crowd outside when the jury verdict became known. The four defendants were remanded to the custody of the navy--in whose charge they have been since they were indicted-and a lieutenant, directed by Captain Ward Worthman escorted them from the courtroom. Massie, the young Kentucky naval officer and Annapolis graduate, had his arms about his sobbing wife.

Meanwhile Police Chief Charles Weber had ordered the 'four remaining defendants in the Ala Moana assault case- the term plied to the brutal attack on Mrs. Massie- -locked up in the city jail. They have been out on bail since a jury was unable to reach a verdict in their case. Weber feared the verdict might bring reprisals against Kahahawai's alleged companions. These men, Ben Ahakuelo, ace Ida, Henry Chang and David Takai must be tried a second time by Kelley.

The case presents the unusual spectacle of Mrs. Massie appearing as Kelley's chief witness after she had been his bitter opponent as a defense witness in the trial of her husband and, mother. It started on September 12, 1931, when Massie and his blonde young wife- both popular in social circles in Honolulu--attended a dance at Aia Wat Inn. She left for a walk and while strolling down a lane was seized and attacked. Her jaw was broken.

Five men- three Japanese, two Hawaiians and a Chinese- -were indicted. Kahahawai was among them. They were tried but the jury could not reach a verdict. Meanwhile in Hawaii resentment arose. One of the men accused was beaten by unidentified assailants.

Then on January 8. Kahahawai was lured from the courthouse on a take warrant, taken to Mrs. Fortescue's home and police finally found his body in a motor car in which Mrs. Fortescue, Massie and Lord were facing toward Koko Head Geyser. The three and Jones were arrested and indicted.

The trial started April 3. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shirk and daughter, of Peoria, spent Saturday EVENING TRIBUNE MARYSVILLE, OHIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1932 Just An Old English Custom A. R.

Garner he observes an Miss Marjorie Yorkshire, after also observed may be truly said to carry his responsibilities lightly as old English custom and carries his bride, the former Pretwell, through the door of St. Cuthbert's Church, ceremony. However, American custom was as the friend of bride and groom bombarded the couple with confetti. RADIO STATION CHARGES 'THEFT' TWO CLEVELAND STATIONS IN ARGUMENT OVER BROADCASTING OF GAME. CLEVELAND, April station WJAY today was accused of "stealing" the baseball game, program broadcast from League Park by station WHK.

The charge was made by Dean S. Kintner of WHK who said he would file an immedjate protest with the federal radio commission. WJAY yesterday gave a detailed and vivid, play-by-play account of the contest between the White Sox and Indians. How the program was obtained could not be determined. Officials of WJAY denied that they rebroadcast WHK'S description of the game.

WHK claims exclusive broad. casting rights to all ball games at the park. M. A. Howlett of WHK said ho would.

present stenographic evidence to the federal radio commission to prove that WJAY "stole" yesterday's baseball game broad cast. "In the Indians" half of the seventh inning," said Howlett, "he' had Graney call three straight balls on a batter, although the second pitch' was a strike and the third And the WJAY announcer cabled three balls too?" CAT INVASION. SOUTH WHEELOCK, April of this town are going about their duties armed against an' invasion of wild cats which has all but terrorized this community in! the last few days. A cat weighing 35 pounds was shot on the main street yesterday. The cats have been driven out of their usual habitats by the lingering snows in the hills.

SUSPECTS ARE BEING GRILLED STATE OFFICE BUILDING BLAST QUIZ IS CONTINUED IN COLUMBUS. COLUMBUS, April tioning of two men concerning their possible knowledge of the ori. gin of the State Office Building explosion was continued by police today, while detectives checked the! alibi of one of them as to his whereabouts' on the day or the explosion. The suspects were Edward B. Wallace, 31, and Frank Wilson, 22, of Columbus.

They were brought back from Chicago with Paul Keltner, 26.1 Dawson, who is wanted here on an automobile theft charge. Wallace and Wilson were sus. pected of the Office Building tragedy following their arrest in Chicago a week ago, when they were found driving a stolen car containing explosives thought to be owned by. a contracting firm engaged in the construction of the State Build ing. Both men denied implication in the explosion and during a brief examination by police and state officials.

They denied that they had been employed on the State Building project." Questioned as to his whereabouts on the day of the explosion, Wallace told police he was at a baseball park. They also branded untrue the declaration they were said to have made that they the dynamite, in their possession when arrested, from the Healy Construction Company of Detroit. This; concern had a contract in the Office Buiiding. Instead, they said, they stole the explosive from the Marble Cliff quarries here. Both men were said to have admitted the theft of an automobile, owned by George Snider, of Colum-; bus.

Wilson also confessen, police said, he robbed the safe of the S. 'Steinhoff store, here, April 7, ing $300 in government funds from the Branch post office there. Wallace was said to have admitted the burglary of the Grove City post office on Dec. 28, when $156 was stolen. Warren Wisecup, 28, assertly! implicated by Wallace and Wilson, in the safe jobs, was arrested early today at his home.

In his garage was found 28 sticks of dynamite: and 26 dynamite caps. He is to be questioned. CHURCH MERGER GAINS GROUND COMMISSION DRAFTS PLAN TO BRING TOGETHER THREE WINGS OF M. E. CHURCH: ATLANTIC, CITY.

N. April, reunited Methodist Episcopal church appeared likely today as, the commission on tional relations was scheduled to submit to the board of bishops a tentative plan for bringing together three wings of the church with a combined membership of The three divisions of the church now are the Methodist Episcopal church, north, the Methodist Epis. copal church, south, and Methodist Protestant church. the board of bishops of the i Methodist Episcopal church, north, approves the plan, it will be submitted to the 31st Quadrennial General Conference of the church, opening Monday. Alice Who First Heard "Alice In Is Now Seeing The Wonders of New York City NEW YORK, April wandered today through the wonderland of New York's skyscrapers and found them madder than the maddest antics of the red hatter, and so amusing that a constant smile, almost equalling that of the Cheshire on her face.

"My goodness!" she claimed again and, again. "My goodness!" True, she saw no white rabbit scurrying through Broadway's canyons; no duchess or dodo or mouse, telling his. long tale of a tail. But she saw hotels with radio in every room and the giant buildings towering up into the sky and millions of people hustling every which way on the streets. Seventy years have passed since the hot July afterrpon when the scholarly and shy Cambridge Don, Lewis Carroll, sat in a punt and fashioned for 10-year-old Alice's amusement the beautiful nonsense which has entertained generations of THE WEATHER CLOUDY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY By Carrier, 15c a Week AWAIT NEWS FROM CURTIS NORFOLK CONFIDENT OF GOOD NEWS REGARDING LIND.

BERGH BABY KIDNAPING. NORFOLK, April ridden, Norfolk awaited today the return, of the yacht Marcon from a cruise at sea, confident that It would bring good news in connection with negotiations with men believed to be kidnappers of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Excitement here was greater today thay it has been at time since on March 9, Curtis first was approached by men who said they represented the Lindbergh kidnappers. The activity of the last week by Curtis and his associates was, mainly responsible.

Curtis returned from one day cruise Wednesday. He expected to leave almost at once after telephoning Lindbergh. But the Marcon, hastily refuelled and provisioned, lay at the submarine base until 3:15 P. M. yesterday when it made out into Hampton roads.

It was assumed that Curtis, Edwin B. Bruce, of Elmira, N. and Lieut. George Richard. U.

S. N. were along. Bruce, a former banker of Portsmouth, was brought into the case, by Curtis weeks ago. There were no official announcements today.

HOPEWELL, N. April State police continued today to place little credence in the latest private negotiator seeking to return the kidnapped son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. In a bulletin referring to the activity of H.

H. Entz, of Washington, D. Col. H. Norman SchwartzI kopf, police head, said: "Mr.

Entz has not produced any identification to substantiate his story that contact has been established, When such identification is produced, he will receive further consideration." State police also revealed that the mysterious letter which was broadcast to Harry Fleischer, fugitive Detroit gangster, has not reported 1 to them by New York city police. This message, couched in world Jargon, was linked with the kidnapping case because the gangster has been sought for weeks for questioning. Fleischer and his aide, Abie Wagner, are wanted due to their suspicious actions immediately following the kidnapping March 1. A number of visitors were seen entering the Lindbergh estate during the last 24 hours. One motor car, with curtains drawn, aroused interests of observers, but only a man and woman were visible in the front seat.

GAS OVERCOMES CHURCH GOERS TWENTY PERSONS, INCLUDING TWO MINISTERS, HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE. ST. LOUIS, April members of Carondelet Baptist church, including two ministers conducting a revival meeting were overcome by escaping gas which permeated the church during a prayer which closed the services. The presence of mind of a third clergyman, who exhorted the rest of the congregation to rush outside saved many others from being overcome by the fumes, said to have been caused by a leak in a hot water heater. Elder James Bone was ending the old fashioned revival meeting with a prayer last night when the Rev.

E. C. Abernathy, Hannibal, conductor of the revival, fell over. Then Rev. William A.

Wigger, pastor, collapsed. Members of the congregation began to fall. Others, ill, edged quietly toward the doorway. The Rev. Owen H.

Fisher standing in the rear, sensed the trouble and began to pray, asking the Lord to guide his parishoners outside. "The congregation seemed to understand when I prayer," Fisher said. "They filed out in as orderly a manner as was possible, help. ing me carry out their friends and relatives who were sick." Inhalator squads revived the sufferers quickly. WRECK RADIO CRUISER.

CINCINNATI, April stole a new police radio cruiser from in front of a police station here yesterday and wrecked it against a pole only a little distance Jaway, Slew Foster Because she criticized the way performed his farm chores, Clarence Woolery, 14, of Baker, shot and killed his foster mother, Mrs. Frank Garlock, who had brought him up from a baby. The boy, an avid reader of Wild West stories, shot Mrs. Garlock through the back as she was eating supper. taBORS on a before long he hunt was through captured.

LONG STARTS PARTY REVOLT DEMANDS THAT ROBINSON SURRENDER DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP IN THE SENATE. WASHINGTON, April rebellion was beating around the tax bill in the Senate today as a portent of bitter, prolonged dispute to come. Senator Huey P. Long. self-styled "kingfish" and unques-' tioned boss of his state -is captain C.land crew of the mutiny so far.

But Long hopes for recruits. He startled the Senate yesterday with a demand that Senator Joe T. Robinson surrender leadership of the party. Long promised he would carry his fight against. Robinson to Arkansas.

Minority leader rejected Long's' project for redistribution of wealth by taxation to limit incomes. to $1.000.000 and inheritances to 000.000 "sweat the swollen fortunes of the rich." Long shouted. And when Robinson would not join him, Long fired his party leader in so far as one may do it. Together a fortnight ago they dunked bread in potlikker. Long was the host.

They will not soon dunk together again. "I told them and I don't give a damn." Long exclaimed sometime! after his set to with Robinson on the Senate floor. "My people are starving." Elements of less spectacular rebellion are stirring elsewhere. Political lives of several senators ap: pear to depend on tariff items in the tax bill especially on oil and copper. There are unadorned threats of filibuster if tariffs are not included in the bill.

Plans of senate leaders to recess in mid June are jeopardized. The finance committee with the tax bill before it rested today to permit tempers to cool. Pessimists predict everybody in the Senate is annoyed by something in or out of the bill. Long's sortie against Robinson hushed the galleries and stilled the floor. Red faced and Long told Robinson to get out.

He threw back in Robinson's face his assignments to Senate -resigned them all. Robinson promptly termed that "a comic opera performance." Denouncing the income and heritance tax plans of the cratic leadership, Long said they represented the "program of the Baruchs, the Rockefellers, the Mel- lons and Hoover." He estimated his project would have realized $750,000,000 of revenue in 1929. But none of the Democratic side joined his attack on Robinson. The and Democratic challenged leader him ridiculed) Long power. 'If Long's policy to "soak the rich" were to prevail, Robinson said, he would not care to lead the party.

"The senator from Louisiana has thought it necessary to make an extraordinary display of himself to get the portion of publicity 'and notriety that is due," Robinson continued in a rebuke not often paralleled on the Senate floor. GIFT FOR POPE. VATICAN CITY, April John L. Stoddard, of Barnesville, 0., widow of the American lecturer who died at Merano last June, has given Pope Pius some jewels, an inkwell and a seal which once were the property of Napoleon. They were left her by her husband.

HOUSE AGAIN FACES SCRAP CONSOLIDATION OF WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS AROUSING NEW CONTROVERSY. The Buoy Friend It looks as if this young lady doesn't believe in taking chances. She's sticking fast to her lifebuoy, even when ship had safely docked in New York. The beauteous damsel is Miss Marjorie Ezequelle, of Greenwich, shown as she; arrived from a Bermuda cruise on' the S.S. Aquitania.

RAINEY FLAYS SALARY RACKET; DENOUNCES PRACTICE OF USING PUBLIC MONEY TO BUILD POLITICAL POWER. WASHINGTON, April growing practice of senators and congressmen in maintaining "contact" men back home who are listed on the congressional payroll here as clerks was denounced today by Rep. Henry T. Rainey, Democratic leader of the House, in an interview with the United Press. He said it was merely? a.

way of looking after political fences at government expense. Though Rainey mentioned no names, a number of cases have been brought to light in the last few days. Foremost among these is Speaker Garner whose son, Tully, is on the House payroll as a clerk but actually lives at Uvalde, Texas, where he manages his father's private affairs and looks after his congressional business. The Senate 1 Democratic leader, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, has on the Senate payroll as a clerk his brother-in-law who lives at Little Rock and serves as president of a bank while looking after the senator's sional business.

Rep. Bryan Owen, is one of the most recent to adopt the practice. Rep. Ranklin, had a Jackson, newspaper man on the roll as clerk of the World War veteran committee. The young man recently turned to Washington, however.

Rainey, who has served in the House for 30 years, was asked about the custom of employing relatives and absentees on the payroll the two most prevalent forms of the family payroll racket as revealed here during recent inquiry. "I don't see anything particularly wrong with the situation generally," Rainey said. "If an employe is not rendering service commensurate with the pay he is getting, he ought to be fired. I know that a lot of these employes don't do any work and that sort of thing ought to be stopped. But I don't see that it is a matter for legislation.

It is up to the conscience of the members and the ultimate test is whether the electorate approves." WOMAN DRIVER KILLED. TOLEDO, April 30-Mrs. Rose Weller was killed yesterday when a truck she was driving was struck by a New York Central passenger train near here. CATHOLIC CENSUS. NEW YORK, April The official Catholic director for 1932 lists the Catholic population in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, at 20,236,391, an increase of 21,293 over 1931.

END LINCOLN LEGEND. SPRINGFIELD, April 30. -A legend which has persisted since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln- -that his widow. Mary Todd Lincoln was left in virtual poverty- was open to public classification today, The probate records of Mrs. estate have been re-! moved from the Sangamon county court to the state historical library.

They reveal Mrs. Lincoln's estate was valued at $77,555 at the time of her death 17 years after that of her husband. This included $72,000 in U. S. gold bonds, personal effects of 000 and $555 cash.

FATHER DIGS THIRD GRAVE UNABLE TO PAY GRAVE-DIGGER, FATHER PERFORMS THE TASK HIMSELF. BELLAIRE, April of work and unable to employ a grave digger, Grover C. Burch of Martins Ferry, today had buried his third -daughter. The grave contains the body of his seven-month-old girl, Betty Louise, who died Wednesday as the family was returning from the funeral of Betty Ann, 3, who had died Sunday. Burch is the father of Marie Burch Doyle, whose body was! found along a lonely road near Wheeling, W.

five months ago: The mystery of her murder never has been solved. All three' of Burch's daughters are now buried in a cemetery near Martins Ferry. OAK HARBOR, April George Carpenter, 86, hanged himself here in a barn. children and grown-ups. The grown-up Alice, now Mrs.

Reginald Hargraves, came all the, way from England to join in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth, at Columbia University Wednesday. Mrs. Hargraves, was rather awed. by the fuss which reporters made over her. Her sister, Mrs.

Rhoda Liddell, sat beside her, knitting a sweater for a crippled soldier in England. Her youngest son, Captain Caryl Hargraves of the Scots guards, sat nearby. "Did you have curls as Alice." the reporters wanted to know. "That was a long time ago," and her eyes twinkled, "But I'm afraid those stories about long curls were not quite true. I wore long hair down over my shoulders--but it wasn't curly." She couldn't remember the exact day when Lewis Carroll to spin the amazing Alice stories which eventually found.

WASHINGTON, April rebellious House- which has punetured section after section of the bill returned to the ateconomy, with consolidation of the war and navy departments as a new target. This section of the one-time 000,000 program of government savings is one of the most controver. sial in the measure. The tration and the army and navy blocs are bitterly opposed to it. The economy committee mates from $50,000.000 to 000 could be saved by consolidation.

Others place the savings as low as $10.000,000. Already the House has reduced the savings in the bill to 000. Assuming a saving. of 000 from the army-navy consolidation, rejection of this section would cut the economies to $83,000,000. Then there still remains the controverted reduction of $48,000.000 in veterans' benefits.

Chairman Vinson of the House naval committee, a Democrat high in party councils, will lead the floor against the army-navy merger. The bill proposes to create a single depa -ment of nationa' defense combiming control of the army, navy and air forces under one cabinet secretary with an assistant secretary for each branch. Nine entire sections of the economy bill so far have followed the original pay cut plan into defeat. The House has eliminated sections providing abolition of the ar. my and navy transport services and the Panama Canal railroad steamship line.

It refused to approve a radual withdrawal of federal appropriations for vocational education. It voted down a provision for partial transfer of appropriations within departments and added to government printing funds. The only article which has completely escaped the wrath of the Democratic controlled House is the one granting President Hoover broad power to reorganize government departments. A string is attached to this, however, as congress reserves the right to veto the. President's actions.

Leaders today reiterated their intention of seeking a second vote on the mangled pay cut provisions of the bill. The House reduced the payroll savings from $67.000.000 to 000,000 by raising from $1.000 to $2.500 the exemption from the 11 per cent cut. The exemption applies to all government salaries. It means there would be no reduction in the pay of federal workers making $2,500 or less and this class comprises majority. On larger salaries, the 11 per cent cut would apply only to that part of the salary in excess of $2,500.

Thus a official would be cut per cent of reduction of $165. RAIL BRIDGE UNDER GUARD LETTERS THREATENING NAMITING OF BRIDGE RECEIVED BY RAILROAD. their way into print as a masterpiece of child literature. "I do remember, though, that, our first excursion up the river to Godstow where we-My sisters and I-listened to the tales for many fleeting hours, was on July 14, 1862." What was her favorite character 'in "Alice In Wonder: land?" "The Cheshire cat." she answered promptly. "I'm not certain why.

Maybe it's because don't like mice." She still mourns for the man who spun those delectable tales. "He was one of the kindliest persons to little girls I Have ever known," said. As an afterthought, she added, "he never had much use for little boys." Captain Hargreaves said he didn't like the book "Alice in Wonderland" as a child. "It was like a dose of medicine," he "but later I liked it a lot." IRONTON, 0., April receipt of threatening letter. Norfolk and Western Railroad officials today doubled the guard over 3 railway bridge over the Ohio river between Kenova, and Kenova, W.

Va. The letters announced contemplated dynamiting of the bridge and were received shortly after the Norfolk and Western passenger train, No. 4, struck an open switch from which bolts had been removed near Haverhill, April 21. The Haverhill resulted in the loss of two lives. Although admitting the increased guard and the installation of search lights, officials have refused to discuss the matter further.

ABANDON BELT LINE. WASHINGTON, April to abandon its entire railroad in county, 0., was granted the Findlay Belt Railway Co. by the Interstate Commerce Commission. PAYROLL HOLDUP. PAYROLL HOLDUP.

TOLEDO, April 30-Two men obtained $2,183 in a daring holdup of the R. A. Bartley, Wholesale Grocery Co. at 9:30 A. M.

today. It was la payroll..