The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-14
U. 5. SAILORS
Menace LIFE
OF JAPANESE
Hundreds of Seamen Riot in
Honolulu; Kidnap, Beat
Attack Suspect.
MARINES CALLED OUT
Battle RACES Throughout
Night; Police Unable to
Curb Throng.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press staff Correspondent

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. a.
Il l. Military officials today main
tanned peace in this city, torn by
rioting which started Saturday,
when United States sailors kidnapped
a japanese accused in an assault
on a white woman and threatened
to hurl him off a 1,000-foot cliff.
Eight riot calls had been turned
in before order finally was restored
by combined efforts of naval, marine
and local police officers.
All leave was Cancelled at the
navy station, one of the largest
owned by the United States. Naval
patrols were doubled in the city. A
company of marines was brought
from Pearl Harbor for police duty.
Captain j. D. Wilson, commanding
the navy yard, and Rear Admiral
Yates Stirling Jr. took personal
charge of the situation.
Punishment Is Demanded
The trouble started late Saturday.
American sailors demanded pun
iShment for five men charged with
criminal assault on the wife Of
naval officer. They kidnapped one
of the defendants, Horace Ida, a
Japanese. They threatened to hurl
him over the historic Pail, a preci-
pice 1000 feet high. According to
the police, Ida was stripped, beaten,
and left unconscious by the road
side.
The police we're unable to handle
the situation when rioting devel-
oped and called for aid from the
naval station. Marines arrived
from Pearl Harbor and aided the
regular details of military police in
rounding up several hundred sailors
Fighting continued throughout Sat-
urday night and early Sunday.
Three of the codefendantS with
Ida, all freed when their trial ended
with hung jury, were taken into
custody for protection after the
japanese was kidnapped.
Sailors Kidnap Suspect
According to the police version,
the events of the weekend devel-
oped as follows:
Police we're told that several au-
tomobiles loaded with sailors, said
to have been armed, had left the
navy yard and were looking for Ida
and the other defendants.
One group of sailors kidnapped Ida
from downtown street, took him
several miles up in the mountains
to the Pail, one of the most famous
scenic spots in Hawaii, and forced
him to the edge of the precipice.
According to legend, King Kama
hameha ordered his army to drive
hostile natives over the precipice to
their death on the rocks below.
when he was struggling to unite Ha-
wall in the eighteenth century.
y Life Is Threatened
The sailors were alleged to have
threatened Ida with hanging, but to
have relented after producing a
rope. According to the police, the
japanese then was forced to strip.
He was beaten with belt buckles and
pistol butts.
He was thrown by the side of the
road and found by a motorist, who
took him to hospital. Ida's condi-
ton was not critical, it was said at
the hospital, although he was
beaten badly.
Meanwhile, police received a tip
from a taxicab driver that sailors
were planning to wreck the Waikiki
park dance hall, where the alleged
assault was reported. Riot squads
were rushed to the park. They dis
persed groups of sailors, but fight
ing started in several other districts
One sailor and one civilian we're
taken to hospital as the result of
street FLASHES