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1/355 S 4 o P7c6 \{ .:: f!<.!cords Depository I :!o ~PUKA PUKA PARADE UN1Vf-H5ITY OF HAWAII /' Published by the Club 100 P. O . 5 0). I H, Ho. 'OLULU 10 An Incorporated Association of Member s of the 100th Infantry Battalion TERRITORY Of H.H""AII </ VOL. 1 JULY 1, 1946 NO.4 ROBERT TAIRA ELECTED OAHU CHAPTER PRESIDENT To the members of Club lOa, Oahu Chapter: As your new president, I belleve that much can be accomplished in the commg year. It is now a choice of getting things done or watching this club die of inactlVlty. I have, therefore, appomted SlX Standing Commlttee chair men who are willing to sacrIfice much of their time and effort to work With your officers and dlrectors m making thiS Oahu Chap ter the kmd of orgaruzatlOn we all dream of haVlng. T o do thlS, your E xe c uti ve Board needs your kokua. We urge you to attend to the following matter s at once: 1. If you have not r ecelved no tices of general meetings or lssues of the Puka Puka Parade, the r eason The Executive Committee presenting check to Governor Stainback In lolanl Palace. From left to right; Masayoshi Kawamoto, Mltsuyoshl Fukuda, ToshIo Kunimura ~ Tadashi Ohta, is that we have no record of your Edward Yoshimasu and Governor Stalnback. present address. So, send in your permanent address and telephone number to-- CONVENTION TO BE HELD TIDAL WAVE RELIEF CHECK JUL Y 20- 21 T URNED OVER TO GOVERNOR Chairman, Membership & STAINBACK Dues Committee A Territorial convention of the P. O. Box 1636 Club 100 is scheduled to be held at A check for $ 2395, represent Honolulu, T. H. 1444 Nuuanu Ave., Honolulu on Sat ing the contribution from the men in 2. Bring your dues up-to-date. urday and Sunday, July 20-21 at which the 100th Battalion who are s till Statements have been mailed to all time delegates from Hawaii, Oahu overseas for the relief of Hawaiian members. Make your payments by and Kauai will gather and formulate res idents who were victims of the mail to the Chapter Treasurer, or p I a n s and poliCies for the coming tidal wave disaster, was turned over at the Clubhouse to any of the of year. to Governor Ingram M. Stainback by ficer s on Saturday or Sunday. This information was recently the executive committee of the Club 3. Attend your general meet released by Mitsuyoshi Fukuda, Pre 100 . ings and make known your desires s ident of the Territorial corpcration The check was sent to the Club regar ding club functions. Partici of the Club 100. 100 for distribution but due to the pate in all Club 100 functions. We Fourteen delegates from MaUl, lack of adequate facilities to handle promise to notify you well in ad two from Hawaii and two from Kauai such a task, the Club executive vance of such functions . will me e t with approximately 35 committee decided to turn the money me m be r s from Oahu on SatlLrday over to the Governor who c 0 u I d My officers join me in thanking afternoon starting at 1 P.M. to elect channel the money to the pro per you for your support in putting us directors of the corporation for the agencies. into office. We shall look forward coming year. On Sunday morning a The concern shown by the boys to that same backing in the months session of the Board of Director s is who are still overseas is apprecia ahead. scheduled for 9 A.M., and an election ted by all the members of the Club Sincerely yours, of officers and the appcintment of an 100 and by the people in the com Rober t Taira (Signed) executive committee will be taken munity. President, Oahu Chapte r up. Social activities planned for this two day meeting includes a gala chop Bowling and golf will be featured be MAUl CLUB 100 ATHLETES TO suey dinner at the Waikiki Lau Yee tween meetings either on Saturday INVADE OAHU Chai on Saturday evening at 5 P .M. afternoon or Sunday afternoon. Ken On Sunday the newly installed mem neth Kaneko, an outstanding athlete Gor o Kuwada, secr etary of the bers of the Board of Director s will of the lOOth Infantry Battalion, is in Valley Isle Chapter, has notified the be enter tained at a luncheon after the charge of the Sunday morning's soft Oahu Chapter that an aggregation of r egular meeting. The Maui delegates ball game which is scheduled to be 10 athletes will invade Oahu during have asked the Oahu Chapter whether played at Ala Moana Park. The Maul the T erritorial Club Convention July bowling, golf and a softball gam e aggr egation have assured the H,~no 20th and 21st to challenge the city could be arr anged, and the city boys lulu chapter that their athletes are boys in boWling. golf and softball. have accepted the challenge and will no harns" so Oahu is going out full (Continued on,Page 4) be ready to take on the M a u i t e s . for ce to turn them back. E L FINCH: HONORARY MEMBER BIG ISLAND NEWS R1chard Miyash1ro's CAFE THIS IS THE FOURTH OF A SERIES OF AR',' ICLES ON THE 100th in Hilo, which was r eported HONORARY MEMBERS OF T HE CLUB 100 damaged by TW (tidal wave) during the month of April is once more op erating again. Lots of luck R1 chard. When the wounded began coming This issue of the Puka Puka You Honolulu lads should come over back for hospitalization to the States, Par!'.de is r espectfully dedicated to and try our deliclOus porter house Ea r 1 Finch, at his own expense, Mr. Earl M. Finch, Honorary Mem and T-bone steaks. ber of the Club 100 from Miss!ssip- toured the different h 0 s pit a 1 s to pi. visit and cheer the bed-ridden. He This writer is wondenng where On March 5, 1946, a tall, arranged for orchestras to accom the gals of Hilo were when the Ter stringy, slightly bald gentleman of pany him, and entertained at dif ritorial Council on Veterans Affairs thirty or thereabouts, came walking ferent hospitals with Hawaiian pro held an orientation r ecently for Vet off the Pan American clipper which grams. For those patients who were erans on the s ubject of available had just gotten in to Honolulu. Hun strong enough to go out on passes, territonal house lots for sale and dreds of AJA's were there to greet Mr. Finch entertalOed them wit h FHA material priority and loans. him in traditional Hawaiian sty 1 e nightclubs and theaters. Oh yes, several of the veterans from with leis and music. Earl M. Finch, He is not an extremely wealthy the Club 100th were bashful to at Hattiesburg businessman, who had man, as many people make him to tend the orientation together with the befriended A J A's in Camp Shelby be, however, money and time seem other prospectlve husbands-to-be, had just come to Hawaii to v is it immater1al to him. He has travelled therefore they came into the coun with the boys he had come to love. thousands of miles to see AJA's who cil's office inctividually. Earl Finch needs no introduc were scatter ed all over the United tion. Word of his genuine interest States. Our pr exy Mitsuyosh1 Fukuda in the welfare of the AJA 's had He impresses an observer as and Mr. Leslie Deacon, both from reached far and wide throughout the one who came from Hawaii. Watch the Castle and Cooke of the Capital U. S. and Hawaii, and to them this ing him conversing with men of the City, while on a business trip r e man had become a symbol of toler 100th and 442nd, he uses all the col cently in Hilo, fruled to observe a ance. His month's visit in Hawaii loquials and pidglO that are so preva big sign "BUS STOP ONLY", within gave not only the AJA's, but the lent among the Hawaiian soldiers. their first hour 10 the ralOY city. people of Hawaii as a whole, an op The men themselves take to h1m as Thanks for your donation to our poor portunity to meet the man who had a fnend and are not hes1tant about county. The Hilo gals were sor e been dubbed "One Man USO" be cracking jokes athim or teasing him. with the wnter for haVlng that s tag cause of his sincere in t ere s t in He feels nght at home with the boys, get-together for our Honolulu guests. entertaining men of Hawaii who wer e and admits that he does not enjoy Who were they concerned about?? training in the States. the cramped soph1sticated style of Upon his arrival, Yoshinao the South. Thomas T. Kadota and Shigeru "Turtle" Omiya wi th Audrey, his Theforegoing is just asurfaclOg Ush1jima both Club 100th members seeing eye dqg, greeted Earl, whose of the true Earl Finch, and does not are on the territorial s tat e h 00 d enthusiasm of the r eunion with the do him justice. However, it is the committee from this island. Do you man he had taken es~cial interest belief of the writer that Ear 1 M. know your 48 s tates first, boys? in, was a touching scene to even the Finch is a pleasant picture in every coldes t of hearts.