The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-07
HONOR PARDON
PLEAS ARE UP
TO GOVERNOR
Full Restoration Of Lost
Civil Rights Demanded
by barrow.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press stan Correspondent

HONOLULU, May Pardon ap-
plicatiOns for the convicted Amer
lean honor slayers we're before
Governor Lawrence ". Judd today
with favorable action expected
hourly.
Confidence that Judd would grant
the pardons and restore their civil
rights was expressed by the four
defendants. whose ten-year prison
terms previously we're commuted
to one hour Of technical custody.
Increasing pressure for the par
dons was brought 20 bear on Judd
after Mrs. Granville Roland For
tescue: her son-in-law, Lieutenant
Thomas H. Massie, and two en-
listed men, Albert Jones and Ed
ward Lord. were convicted Of man
slaughter in the fatal shooting Oh
Joe Kahahawai.
The slain islander was one OF
five tried in December on charges
of attacking Mrs. Thaha Fortescue
Massie. the naval officers 2l-year-
old wife. The jury disagreed, and
Prosecutor Kelley has been attempt
ing to persuade Mrs. Massie TO re-
main here and testify at a second
trial Of the four remaining de-
PENDANTS.
May Delay Sailing
Despite previous announcements
that the four death case defendants
and Mrs. Massie intended to SAL
at once for the mainland, later as
surances that she will appear at the
attack case retrial are expected TO
keep both Mrs. Fortescue and Lieu
tenant MaSsie here with her.
Clarence barrow, famous chief
defense counsel, who Friday pre-
sented formal pardon applications
to Governor Judd. consistently has
opposed Mrs. Massie's appearance
against the islanders. He claimed
there was little chance for a con-
viction.
However, Prosecutor John G. KEEL
lev. who conducted the case against
Mrs. Fortescue and three navy men,
was informed today that Mrs. Mas
sic will accept service Of a subpoena.
With the defendants she has re-
NAMED at Pearl Harbor navy base,
where process servers could not
enter
Consents to Summons
Lieutenant L. II. c. Johnson,
naval officer and associate defense
counsel. wrote Kelley that Rear
Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., COM
mandant Of the base, had consent
ed to the summons. This consent
apparently was because Mrs. MaSsle
had changed her mind and agreed
to remain.
Lieutenant Massie, who has been
ordered to report at San Francisco
for a new assignment, was to sail
with his wife and mother-in-laW
Sunday aboard the Malolo, but 1t
was believed now he will remain for
the time being. Kelley promised
to have the attack retrial set at the
earliest possible date.
Regardless of Judd's decision on
the pardons, Jones and Lord were
due to sail today for san Francisco
on the destroyer Tracey, which
stopped here from Manila with a
mosquito fleet squadron.
Naval Boycott Started
barrow in his pardon plea argued
that an offenSe for which the pun
ishment was an hours custody was
insufficient TO deprive the defend
ants Of their civil rights.
The applications were backed by
scores Of congressman in Washing
ton and an unofficial navy boycott
IN Honolulu, where service men an
nually spend 27,OO0,000
The elderly attorney limited that
unless the pardons were granted,
he would seek congressional action
to restore the civil rights, but eX-
pressed confidence this would be
unnecessary.