Beating & Bill

Hospitalized in Honolulu last week were two Army aviators who had been badly beaten in what military authorities feared might be a fresh outbreak of rowdyism by Hawaiian natives. Lieutenants LeRoy Hudson and Walter S. Lee were out motoring with two women one evening when another car was slewed across the road in front of them. Getting out to investigate, the officers were set upon by four Hawaiians. The women raced to a nearby house for aid, returned to find the lieutenants lying unconscious on the banks of the Mawai Canal, not far from where Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie was raped in 1931. Arrested as suspects were natives named Paoa, Karratii and Kamana.

To put the strongest civilian available in charge, the House last week passed (237-to-119) President Roosevelt's bill authorizing him to appoint, if necessary, a nonresident of the islands to be their Governor.

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