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Conviction of second degree murder in Hawaii calls for a maximum penalty of life imprisonment at hard labor. Under a gentleman's agreement all noncapital offenses involving Naval personnel in Hawaii are tried by court martial. Rear Admiral Stirling advised the Navy Department that "undoubtedly" the grand jury's action was taken under the belief that the defendants, including Mrs. Fortescue, would ultimately come to the Navy, not to the civil courts, for justice. Meantime, the prisoners were released from the U. S. S. Alton at Pearl Harbor, put on probation under bail which...
...were coming, the budget was unbalanced, the yen was falling, Government bonds were off. But about such things few subjects of the Emperor cared when Japanese arms were carving out world headlines in Shanghai, Nanking, Harbin. Flags fluttered from every Tokyo home. Troops drilled in every barracks. Full of martial memories, reservists tramped back and forth to business, pretending their umbrellas were guns. Proud Japanese fathers lectured their sons on the honor of dying for Nippon...
Within two days General Martinez was in control of the situation. With martial law enforced in eight provinces, the revolutionists had dwindled to a few scattered bands, hotly pursued. In San Salvador 300 young blades roamed the streets with carte blanche from the government to shoot every Communist at sight...
...Presidents so frequently require. His hands were white and soft upon his lap. On Mrs. Hoover's kind face matronly warmth was mingled with, but did not in fringe upon, a hauteur fitting for her station. Other faces on the walls ? solemn Andrew William Mellon, wise Elihu Root, martial John Joseph Pershing, temperate Frank Billings Kellogg?made it apparent that the distinction of appearing on a de Laszlo canvas could only be surpassed by that of appearing on a postage stamp. King Fuad of Egypt was painted from the side, against a tan background which suggested deserts, with...
With special police patrolling the streets and the city on the verge of martial law, oldtime white residents of Honolulu well knew out of what black and bitter soil this latest crime had grown, but for political or commercial reasons they kept their mouths shut. The childlike, romantic Hawaiian of pure blood, they privately explained, has almost disappeared in a polyglot breed of Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese. Most U. S. whites on the islands look down socially upon this hybrid population. While socially inferior, the brown-skinned "Hawaiian" is a full-fledged U. S. citizen with political rights...