Evening star., 1932-01-12
Secretary Adams Places De.
tails of Mrs. Fortescue's Ar
rest Before President.
TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR
CHARGES ExAGGERATI0N
Judd's Report Denying Widespread
Vice Reaches Capital-Sailors
ct Honolulu Shore Leave.

President Hoover today discussed
with his cabinet the serious criminal
disorder in Honolulu, an investigation
Of which is to be made by the De-
partment of Justice by direction Of the
Senate.
Secretary Of the Navy Adams was
able to give the White House confer
ence details of the sensational arrest
of four Americans, including three
Navy men, on charge of numbering
an Hawaiian suspected of criminal as
sault on the wife Of a naval officer.
Adams had with him copies of late
messages from Rear Admiral Yates
Stirling, jr, commandant of the naval
operating base near Honolulu, who has
charged Honolulu authorities with lax
ity In law enforcement.
Secretary Wilbur said after the cabi-
net meeting that any decision on action
in the Honolulu affair would await a
report from Attorney General Mitchell
after the investigation he has been di-
rected by the Senate to make.
Until the Attorney General makes
full inquiry" Wilbur said, II will have
nothing to say and will take no action.
"I have the utmost confidence in Gov.
Judd and the civil authorities Of Ha-
wall, and I believe the distressing situ-
alton there viii be adjusted"
Judd Denies Reports.
While the Nays side of the picture
was being presented at the White House
the Capitol was receiving a different
view of the situation from Lawrence
M Judd, territorial governor OF Hawaii.
Judd denied reports Of widespread vice
and violence in cablegram to Victor
S. K. Houston, congressional delegate
from the islands.
While Hawaiian officials prepared TO
seek the death penalty In territorial
courts for Mrs. Granville Furtescue,
mother Of the attacked woman; Lieut..
Thomas Massie, husband OF the victim,
and two enlisted men, there were dis
cussions here as to the possibility OF
extradition to the States. The view
was expressed IN legal circles that this
would not be feasible.
Attorney General Mitchell may desig-
nate one of his assistants or appoint
special assistant ID take charge OF the
law-enforcement investigation ordered
yesterday by the Senate.
The Navy Department late yesterday
furnished the Attorney General with q
complete file of dispatches and reports
on the Honolulu situation, as contained
In the files here.
Admiral william v. Pratt, chief of
naval operations, has received several
messages from patriotic organizations
and civilians In this country, congratu-
lating him on his vigorous stand. He
has been criticized from Hawaiian
sources.
Secretary Adams cautioned Admiral
Stirling not to release the accused
Americans to Honolulu authorities until
he has communicated with the Navy
Department.
Navy Department officials said Secre-
tary Adams had given instructions that
he was to be communicated with and
must give his consent before Massie and
the two enlisted men are turned over
to civil authorities for trial.
At the Navy Department 1t was said
Secretary Adams gave Rear Admiral
Sterling these instructions two days
ago.
No objection was anticipated to a
civil trial for the three men, but the
department is closely following events.
Shore Liberty Granted.
Naval officials said that the quartet
would continue to remain In the Gus
tody of naval authorities, aboard the
floating submarine barracks, the U. S.
S. Alton, formerly the U. S. s. Chicago,
at Pearl Harbor.
Lieut.. Massie and Albert o. Jones
and e. j. Lord, the enlisted men, are
serving aboard submarines,
Navy Department officials confirmed
news dispatches that naval personnel
at Honolulu are being granted shore
liberty, under strict supervision of blue
jacket patrols. While expressing grati-
hcation over this improvement In the
situation, the general opinion is that
unless President Hoover should order
the fleet to visit Honolulu next month,
the revised schedule will be carried out,
with the visiting ships boycotting that
city.
The message from Gov. Judd came In
response to request for full informa-
tion concerning conditions which led to
the murder of the Hawaiian defendant.
Answering charges that 40 similar
criminal assaults have been committed
during the past year, Gov. Judd said:
This is absolutely and unqualifedly
false. the Ala Mona case Is unprece-
depted IN the history of Hawaii. Rec
ords from which such rumor grew dis
close for the entire year 1881, and over
the signatures of the officers In charge
OF records, total of seven such cases
Other cases involve no violence"
Of the total of 40 cases which might
be claSSed as sex crimes, Gov Judd said,
only two were against white women.
This fact, according to the cable, was
cited merely because of malicious and
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