Witch Hunter Says Loyalty Victim Is Scapegoat HOW0rLU*R€CORD The Newspaper Hawaii Needi Vol. 4, No. 32 SINGLE COPY, 10 CENTS Thursday, March 6, 1952 C-C Cesspool Dumping Hit T. H. Engineer To ... _ MY THOUGHTS Hunt Clues After K™" Motor Promises Sour; For Which I Stand Indicted Stink Bridge Story Co. Demands Men Buy Goods With Japanese POWs On the Burma Front By EDWARD ROHRBOUGH KOLOA, Kauai — Employment Kauai Motor service station. The Reports of wanton dumping of after working hours and the place employe, informed Mr. Sheehan XXVI. cesspool contents at three places where employes buy gasoline and that the vehicle was a family au­ The first prisoner of war I met on the Burma border on the windward side of Oahu by tires are matters for the boss ta tomobile and his brother bought in the spring of 1944 had two deep bayonet gashes bn C-C refuse disposal men led this decide at the Kauai Motor Co., gasoline from the place he want­ week to an assurance from Terri­ Ltd., Koloa. ed to patronize. his throat and his tongue, half bitten off, was swollen torial Board, of Health officials Such restrictions of freedom have “You better buy gas from our and bleeding. He had inflicted these wounds upon that they will Investigate not only resulted in wholesale quitting, de­ service station," Mr. Sheehan is re­ himself in two suicide attempts. these reports, but also the manner motions and discharges at the ported to have told this employe, in which the C-C department han­ company where the ILWU lost a who quit his job because of ag­ “Do you still want to die?” I ashed him. dles the contents of its “honey consent election last year. With­ gravated grievances. “No, I Want to live if the Americans will let me.” wagons.” ! out a union backbone, the em­ According to. employes of Kauai “Why did you attempt suicide?” I asked him, al­ Checking the three reports, the ployes have found out that the Motor Co., Ltd., this employe is though we assumed from the reports RECORD discovered that, al­ sweet and attractive promises of not the first to be called in for we read that practically all Japanese though the C-C department does the employer mean nothing. patronizing competitors. .Others not authorize such dumping, its Want Union Conditions have been told to be loyal to the prisoners of war tried to take their own authorized manner of han­ Already employes are talking of company, to the extent of buying lives. dling cesspool contents is con­ organizing a union to improve its tires, gasoline and accessories. “Because,” the BOW answered, “to sidered hazardous to the hygenic .conditions. House rules at Kauai Motors be a prisoner is the supreme disgrace conditions of the area by the Recently an employe left his restrict employes from working board of health. job when President Jack Shee­ for other garages after working of an imperial soldier.” “Stink Bridge,” a name used by han called him on the carpet for hours. Some other provisions of Sgt. Kenji Yasui and I talked to (more on page 7) not purchasing gasoline at the' (more on page 7) him, paying clo. e observation to his views and sentiments. The prisoner was a Japanese peasant who had been physically and psychologically drilled 26 or 30 Cents Is Waikiki Piece Work to become a fearless and ruthless automaton, with “Ya­ mato spirit” and the “Code of Bushido.” He had no deep social philosophy. His thinking Pay For Making Tourists’ Aloha Shirts had been restricted and simplified by the Japanese By STAFF WRITER quit recently quote the price they later, because he's competing militarists and their big financial backers. He was a Tourists dawdle in the front of are paid at 2G cents a shirt. with assembly line production product of a society where thought control prevailed, the bright Surfrider Sportswear Their boss, T. H. Ho, proprietor from the Mainland. Like many and where the people had been silenced and whipped shop at 2142 Kalakaua Ave. and of the business, says they get other manufacturers faced with finger the low-priced aloha shirts 30 cents per shirt, and he says the necessity of keeping expenses into conformity by Japanese militarists and their big on the counter speculatively. But he can’t afford to pay them any down, he tries to balance his financial backers. And such shackling of -the people’s in the back room, 12 power sewing more. But he does pay cutters business losses by adjustments rights to speak and listen, to read and write and to machine operators labor steadily, and ironers more—on an hourly on' the wages of the workers— hold and advocate non-conforming political views was scarcely looking up from their basis of 75 cents and one dollar. who have it tougher trying to jobs, and perhaps they are the Of four girls who quit, one said live on what he pays them than necessary for the warring elements to eliminate op­ he can have it managing Surf- position to the invasion of Manchuria, to the war of busiest workers in Honolulu. she did so because she knew she There is good reason for them couldn’t make enough money. An­ rider Sportswear. aggression in China proper, southeast Asia and the not to look up. They work on a other quit after she got a check for Ho explains that he can't afford Pacific. piecework basis, and some who less than $10 for working a 40,-hour to train girl$ to operate the ma­ week. chines, and he complains that it’s I saw then how different this soldier was from us. very hard to keep good operators Back in the states, General DeWitt had said, after Must Be Fast Some Nurses Too Rough “That kind we don't want,” says at the wages he pays. He main­ we had been evacuated from the West Coast defense Mr. Ho. “If they can't make at tains most of the twelve make far area he commanded, that “a Jap’s a Jap!” and citizen- least $30 a week, they don’t belong more than $40 a week and opens Maluhia Patients Say; his books to prove it. (more on page 4) here. They aren’t fast enough." Nobody could work fast enough The highest pay for one opera'- Hope Mossman Hears to do Ho much good, it developed (more on page 7) “They’re clean. They work hard and do their jobs, but they’re Dr. Leslie Breaks Rules, Tangles With rough. They’re rougher than they need to be. Dr. Mossman doesn’t Won't Punch Clock On Own Time; Sugar know about it. If he knew he’d Kealoha But May Get $1,100 Monthly get after them." Those are words of a woman Mill Workers Locked Out At Waialua By SPECIAL WRITER If the $1,100 salary is approved, patient at Maluhia Home, one of Because workers refused to pany for two hours call-in time HILO, Hawaii—Dr. William F. Dr. Leslie will be making more a number who feel Dr. Mossman punch time 10 minutes before for all those who were locked out. Leslie, head of Puumaile and Hilo than the chairman of the county “just doesn’t know” the manner starting time, as demanded by Memorial Hospitals, is one man of Hawaii, James Kealoha. and attitude of some of the prac­ the Waialua Agricultural Co., the When the boiling house work­ whose rise in government employ­ The proposed salary is higher tical nurses toward the patients plantation locked out its mill and ers arrived to report for work ment is proportionate to the in­ than any grade provided in the they care for. shop employes Wednesday morn­ at six in the morning, A. F. Wal­ crease in his unpopularity. classification 'law, so the com­ Their complaint is not against ing and said, they were being sus­ lace, mill superintendent, de­ Against the opposition of a ma­ mission would have to authorize the registered nurses, they em­ pended for the day. jority of the doctors in Hilo, he was a special contract to permit Dr. phasize. With one exception, they manded that they punch in at recently appointed superintendent Leslie to get the raise. have little but praise for the un­ While the company has been ten minutes before six. The work­ of the two .hospitals. derstanding with which the regis­ pressuring the workers to punch ers refused to punch in on their At the present time he receives in on their own time, it wants Special Contract for Pay a $100 monthly car allowance, in tered nurses treat them. The ex­ own time, since they were not ception is a nurse they consider its employes to punch out after ■ going to work until six, they ex­ In spite of several bitter fights addition to his salary. Since he quitting time. with the Hawaii County Civil Serv­ does not use his car for official unnecessarily brusque. plained. Wallace sent them ice Commission, the chances are business now, legal authorities in Pinching Charged Boiling House Workers First home. that the commission will approve Hilo have questioned the legality But when the practical nurses Between 150 add 200 workers When the mill and shop workers a special contract to pay him of the extra payment. get rushed and irritated, they are from the mill and shops were sent arrived prior to 7 a. m., Wallace $1,100 a month, plus many other The $1,100 rate is believed to be likely to forget they are dealing home Wednesday, and their union, made similar demands. They also: benefits. (more on page 7) (more on page 7) ILWU Local 142, is asking the com- (more on page 6) Page Two THE HONOLULU RECORD March 6, 1952 McLaughlin Refuses To Step Down; Hall Appeals To Have Him Removed When Federal Judge. J. Frank The challenged jury was McLaughlin refused to disqualify thrown out on Feb. 11 by Judge himself from the Smith Act case Delbert E. Metzger, senior judge •this week on defense motions of of the Federal district court bias and prejudice, attorneys for here, as not being representative the defendants asked the Ninth of a cross section of the popu­ Circuit Court of Appeals for an lace. Judge Metzger ordered the order removing him from the pro­ jury commissioners to draw up a’ ceedings. new jury list and on Feb. 29, ac­ This action, initiated by de­ cording to the writ of prohibition fense counsel on Tuesday morn- filed with the Appeals Court in ring, followed the judge’s instruc­ California, had a new grand jury tions to the grand jury the day drawn for use on March 3 by the before, saying to its members Federal court. that they were the only valid, The appeal to the higher court duly sworn grand jury. asking for the removal of Judge The grand jury is the one which McLaughlin says that since Judge is being challenged at the moment Metzger had a new grand jury con­ by Defense Attorneys Harriet Bous- stituted, “the use of the chal­ log and Myer C. Symonds in Judge lenged jury to carry on the busi­ McLaughlin’s court. It is the ness of the court” was unnecessary. grand jury which indicted the Ignored Metzger’s Order Smith Act defendants last year. The affidavits say that Judge Claim Prejudice Shown McLaughlin told the challenged NEAR ACCORD WITH WEST GERMANY—Plans to give West Germany a big role in building western The affidavits filed with the Ap­ jury on March 3 to go about its European army are shaped at conference of 14 North Atlantic Treaty Allies in Lisbon, Portugal. Shown peals Court by Jack W. Hall, ILWU work without any worry as to its addressing parley is Secretary of State Dean Acheson while (left to right) Lester Pearson, Canada; Rob­ regional director and one of the validity and as to Judge Metzger’s ert Schuman, France, and Anthony Eden, Great Britain listen. (Federated Pictures) defendants, say that without wait­ order of Feb. 11 which purported ing for the completion of the to dissolve it. Judge McLaughlin hearing now going on, Judge Mc­ had countermanded Judge Metz­ Laughlin has “prejudged and pre­ ger’s order immediately the senior determined the issues” raised by judge had given the instructions T.H. Methodists Score Thought Control him and other defendants in their to the jury commissioners to draw motion to dismiss indictment be­ up a new list. “The Christian has a vital stake the early Methodists came from Commission for the Public Schools cause the grand jury was not valid­ No hearing was held on Tuesday in the issues” when fundamental the “laboring classes,” the re­ for its vigorous work in the defense ly selected. And by his prejudge­ and Wednesday as the result of civil liberties are endangered, a port said. It pointed out that of our public schools and teachers. ment and predetermination, the the appeal. But Judge McLaugh­ meeting of the Hawaii Mission of “one of the heaviest responsibili­ On the other hand, the report affidavits say, the judge has shown lin said he would go on with the the Methodist Church said re­ ties, often unfulfilled, Is that our said, “we deplore” those “reac­ bias and prejudice. hearing this morning. cently. contemporary churches shall make tionary individuals and groups The technique and philosophy a determined effort to win to who have sought to intimidate of the Smith and McCarran Acts Christ, both Skilled, and unskilled administrators, (smear teachers and the Territorial loyalty bills labor.”’ and discredit textbooks, using pose such dangers in the U. S. and The President’s action in try­ as their excuse for these acts Letter From a Fellow Traveler a pretended patriotism.” “are not in the interest of free> ing to send an ambassador to DEAR FELLOW TRAVELER: men,” the report continued. the Vatican was opposed as con­ The report urged Methodists to Urges Action for Repeal “support our schools and their I have the distinguished honor of being a member of a Com­ trary to the American principle teachers against the straitjacket mittee to raise fifty billion dollars to be used for a Statue of “We believe our people should of according all religous bodies at all times bear in mind the practices which some with a spe­ Truman to be placed in the Hall of Fame in Washington. the same status in the eyes of cial axe to grind would try to car­ fundamental principles of free­ our government. We have decided to not tease it by placing it next to George dom and should work for the re­ ry out." Washington (who never told a lie), nor to place it next to Lincoln peal of these measures,” the re­ The report hit the “debilitating (who is known as Honest Abe), nor Thomas Jefferson (who port urged. corruption rampant in our na­ spurned a 3rd term). The Committee was in quite a quandary, but While the report went on to tional government" and said that after careful deliberation, it has been decided to place the statue say that Christianity cannot ba reports of such behavior point to More On Waialua next to that of Columbus who, after all, did not know where he was reconciled with Communism, which the necessity for integrity and (from page 1) going, did not know where he was when he got there, nor where is rooted in the materialistic dia­ impartiality beginning on the city refused to punch in for time they he had been when he returned home. But he did the whole trip lectic which makes no place for and county level. Awarding of would not' be paid. on borrowed money. God in human experience and contracts according to political At first the company told em­ The inscription on the- Truman statue will read: “I pledge, human society, it expressed real contributions must be opposed by ployes that they were suspended allegiance to Harry Truman and to the indebtedness for whiofh concern over present-day legisla­ Christians, it said. foi' two days, but when the em­ he stands — one man indispensable, with corruption for all.” tive and executive measures which Opposes UMT ployers saw the solidarity of the Five thousand years ago Moses said: “Pick up thy shovels, curtail freedom of speech, thought There is no evidence that Uni­ union members, they reduced the mount thine ass and camel and I will lead you to the Promised! and assembly in the interest of versal Military Training has kept period to one day. Land.” Five thousand years later Truman said: “Lay down your security. a nation out of war, the report Ask Overtime shovels, sit on your a - -, light up a Camel —■ This IS the Promised The Methodist report' pointed V'ent on, and added that history The question of punching time Land!” out that the indication of fear does not support the thinking that 10 ■ minutes before work starts and hysteria in the country do nations with UMT win their wars. has been an issue for some time If you are one of those who dares to have money left after, not represent a healthy state of Because there is growing dan­ and it has been in the grievance your taxes are paid, we will expect d liberal contribution. mind, however critical ,and ur­ ger of civilian government being machinery. The company has been Sincerely yours, gent the situation. over-shadowed by the demands claiming that punching in 10 YOUR FELLOW TRAVELER The report supported state­ of the total military machine, minutes before starting time is hood for Hawaii, naturalization of the Methodists said they oppose not covered by the agreement. This Ed. Note: A RECORD reader received the above from a Mainland aliens who are now denied this plans for UMT. was when the question of over­ friend who says this letter is quite popular. process of citizenship, opposed “Eager and unthinking national­ time for the 10 minutes was raised parimutuel gambling, illicit trade ism” .may prove to be a positive by the union. in narcotics and pledged “our danger to the peace of the world On Wednesday morning, the utmost to curtail the power of and hurtful to the fellowship be­ company switched position and the liquor traffic.”’ tween Christians of the various argued that punching time was a The overwhelming majority of lands of the earth, the report part of the job requirement, and further said. said the workers must comply Remember With Flowers! Hits “Pretended Patriotism” with this practice. The matter of The Methodists commended the overtime, however, has not been National Education and the Amer­ settled, according to Waialua em­ KODANI FLORIST ican Association of University Pro­ ployes. fessors as professional organiza­ 307 Keawe Street tions of teachers, one of whose pur­ In one month, from December Phone 5353 HILO, HAWAII poses is to give legitimate protec­ 1951 to January 1952, one and a tion to its members. It also paid quarter million workers lost their respects to the National Citizens’ jobs. Power Sewing' Machine For Sole "LET'S STOP PLAYING COPS AND ROBBERS" Excellent Condition The Baltimore Afro-American, discussing the gov­ Best Offer over $200 ernment’s actions against Negro Communists Benja­ Call 748224 Evenings min Davis, Jr., James Jackson, Claudia Jones, Pettjs Perry and Henry Winston, July 7, 1951, said: (The defendants are moved by) a common revulsion Corner to race prejudice and a militant drive to do something Liquor Store about it. . . the Communists have mastered a technique which America is loath to accept—complete integration Complete Lines of Popular ... To howl that everything about Communism is evil Beer—Wines—Liquors and should be suppressed for its own sake is nonsense. WILFRED M. OKA, Mgr. Let’s stop playing cops and robbers and get out and 1042 Bethel St. — Tel. 54815 scrape the barnacles off the old ship of state. for breakfast.” March 6, 1952 THE HONOLULU RECORD Page Three R. J. Baker Gives - Maui Notes — Encyclopedia T o

By EDDIE UJIMORI sideration. Thoughtful observers say that Tam’s decision to spend New ILWU Library POLITICS on Maui is not the $3,900 of the taxpayers' money for R. J. Baker, kamaaina business­ concern of politicians only. Per­ a Cadillac and more money for man and author of books on Ha­ haps the people's interest In lo­ his office, should have been equal­ waii, this week presented his 24- cal politics is maintained because ly as tough or tougher to make; volume set of Encyclopedia Britan­ a radio station broadcasts record­ nica to the ILWU research library ings of the board of supervisors that is if he has the people’s in­ meeting every week. One tiring terest at heart. The schools and at the new Memorial Foundation is apparent to the radio au­ other public services are in need Building at 451 Atkinson Drive. dience—the supervisors play their of money. Personal comfort of a Mr. Baker is the author of 10 role with their eyes on the com­ public official should be one of his books, including pictorial records, of ing election. last considerations. old Honolulu. He also has repro­ Thus, when Chairman Eddie ★ ★ duced old Hawaiian prints and Tam said last week that fire ANOTHER comment of the made them available in bound vol­ lieutenants are on 24-hour duty Chronicle in the same editorial, umes. during the discussion on raising which was intended as a plug for His book, "Honolulu In 1853,” OPPOSES REARMING GERMANY—Famed German pastor, the Rev. their automobile allowances, the Chairman Tam says: published by him in 1950, has been - Martin Niemoeller, tells newsmen he opposes rearmament of Germany matter of 24-hour duty became a “It appears that Willie’s (Croz­ very favorably received. Presently, as he arrives with his wife Else, at New York’s Idlewild airport. The) subject of controversy. Supervisor ier’s) greatest fault is that he just Mr. Baker is publishing “Honolulu minister said he fears rearming Germany will block peaceful unification John Bulgo thought the raise was can’t seem able to get along with In 1870." "Hawaiian Yesterday," of the country. (Federated Pictures) "too much,” and said he also is his fellow Democrats, and his blunt which he produced in 1940, has text on 24-hour duty. Tam slammed way of speaking has not made him and photographs of old Hawaiian back with the remark that Bulgo many friends. The county chair­ life. is a “part-time employe." Bulgo man, on the other hand, is one Why Did Godhold Waive Jury In Haiku agreed that Tam is on 24-hour who has always been careful where duty, but blasted him for going he puts his foot down, to carry as to play golf “on county gas and much political favor as he can." Sugar Export To Japan Case? More Questions On Responsibility oil.” And the editorial goes on to say Following the three-way con­ of the case and enough ability to that Tam’s action would result in Causes Quirino Gov't troversy between the Star-Bulletin, carry it through capably? WITH THE VOTERS getting “severe political repercussion in the Mayor Wilson and Acting C-C At­ 9. Did the sum total of Cable interested in politics, a> man like coming- election.” Official To Resign Post torney Frank McKinley over the Wirtz’s efforts on the case, while Chairman Tam, who occupies the Those who take exception to the reasons for delaying the Haiku he was C-C attorney, achieve more top county position, becomes a newspaper’s view say that Willie When Salvador Araneta resigned condemnation suit, the RECORD toward bringing the case to focus of attention. A voter two Crozier is not a back-slapping poli­ as economic coordinator for the discussed the circumstances with trial, or more toward delaying it weeks ago saw the chairman park tician and being outspoken, he does Philippines government. several a number of attorneys and came while claims for interest grew? the Democratic party, valuable weeks ago, Rep. Jose Laurel, Jr., to the conclusion that, before any his county-owned Cadillac across service. Many years ago, when commented: “It was the most de­ 10. Is there truth to the allega­ from the Wailuku post office in a blame can be placed for the delay, tion of a former C-C attorney that "no parking zone.” He went to organized laborers had. not taken cent thing for a patriotic Filipino a number of questions must be a strong interest in politics, Crozier to do." Mayor Wilson did not push the look for a policeman to tag the Answered. Here are a few and Haiku case until recently? chairman’s car, but at that mo­ criticized the Democrats and even Mr. .Araneta had. opposed the there may be many others: left io party to run successfully on shipment of about 30,000 tons of 11. Has the C-C department of ment, he wasn’t able to locate the non-partisan ticket. At that 1. Since the importance of the public works got money enough to any. sugar to Japan when the Philip­ case has been stressed again and Another voter who is a county time the non-partisan party pro­ pines sugar industry had not met again, why did neither Wilford pay for the Haiku claims if it employe, has been observing jected many planks in its platform the American and domestic quotas Godbold, when attorney, nor Frank should lose to the Bishop Estate? Chairman Tam’s visits to F. F. to improve the position- of laborers, by 140,000 tons. McKinley see fit to handle the case Some of the answers can be had Baldwin at the latter’s office in such as a labor department for President Elpidio Quirino told themselves? Why has it always for the asking. Mr. Godbold says Puunene. Baldwin is president of the Territorial government. • Mr. Araneta: “Do not monkey been assigned to deputies? he did not take over the case per­ Mr. Crozier’s virtue is his sin­ with the sugar question.” sonally, because the administration A & B. The voter has learned cerity and strong principles, and 2. Why did . Godbold agree in that if F. F. Baldwin is not in, Tam The former economic coordi-" court with the lawyers of the was pushing other important cases this brings him the “large political 'nator has since said that he has more vigorously. He says he did sees Asa Baldwin, manager of following" which the Chronicle re­ Bishop Estate, Robertson, Castle <8z HC&S Co. At times, after Tam faith in the president's integrity, Anthony, to waive trial of the con­ •not appear in court to waive .trial fers to in the editorial. This sup­ according to the Philippines Free by jury, and he can't remember leaves one of the Baldwins, Rep. port comes, some readers of the demnation suit by jury? Manuel G. Paschoal • (R) is called Press, Jan. 26, 1952. now specifically, why he should Chronicle say, because Crozier But the Free Press article goes 3. To what degree is Sheriff Duke have approved that act by a depu­ in by Maui’s Big One bosses. Tam doesn’t make it his business to Kahanamoku’s office responsible is a Democrat. on to say that the eager exporter ty. But he says in such cases, tjef get along with "surplus Republi­ of the 30,000 tons of sugar to for delay in service of the suits on would generally waive trial by ★ ★ cans” or Republicans in Demo­ the Haiku defendants? JOHN LEONG (D), who ran un­ Japan is none other that Filadelfo jury because the participation of cratic attire. Rojas, close friend of the presi­ 4. Why did the C-C department a jury often drags cases out to un­ successfully for the House dur­ As for Chairman Tam, Supervisor of public works wait an entire year ing the last election, is mentioned dent. Rojas’ profit on the deal necessary lengths. John Bulgo recently said pub­ would be $1,680,000. before declaring it had “lost con­ as a potential candidate for the licly, he appoints nine out of ten “Except with the Bishop Es­ office of county treasurer. Talk The president’s behavior has fidence” in Deputy Attorney Moon tate,” lie said, “a jury wouldn’t board and commission members brought an optimistic outlook to Chan? in political circles indicates'that from the Republican party. He is, be of any particular advantage.” the race between incumbent K. K. Puerto Rican and Cuban spgar 5. Has the C-C department of To skip to the end of the list, as the Chronicle says, “careful producers who feel that the Kam, (D) and Leong would be where he puts his foot down to public wtrks consistently stressed reliable sources say the Haiku de­ Philippines may be knocked off the Haiku case as requiring action fendants have stated their goal a toss-up. carry as much political favor as he the U. S. quota system, thereby- * * can.” Whom does such pussy­ as quickly as possible? as $300,000 if they should win. giving the two sugar-producing 6. Why should Moon Chan have And that’s not counting similar THE LULL before the storm footing serve? areas higher quotas. been made to appear a scapegoat was the attitude of politicos here condemnation cases instituted by who anticipated but did not see before • the supervisors, and what the city and county at Kalialu and fireworks at the supervisors’ meet­ did Thomas Ogata, Leland Black, Luluki! ing this week. Willie Crozier was Dancehall Prop. Milk Production, Price David Y. Yar, Mar, Wilford God­ discharged by Eddie Tam from Iris bold, Cable Wirtz and Frank Mc­ post as project inspector at tha Increase of Last 5 Years Kinley achieve that Moon Chan Central Maui Memorial Hospital. Will Aid Probe of didn’t? GREGORY H. IKEDA Crozier has slapped an injunction 7. Why has the attorney's de­ on Chairman Tam. The board Given In U. of H. Report partment, with surplus funds at its ALL LINES OF INSURANCE Cheating Checkers An eight and a half million quart disposal, refuse to aid deputies did not go into this hot issue. with clerical and other help that Room 14, (Upstairs) ★ ★ One Honolulu dancehall propri- increase in the production of milk in the Territory during the past would have moved the case more 1507 Kapiolani Blvd. UNIT 30-A, Paia, and Unit 30-B ewr has become so angered by quickly toward trial? Puunene, of ILWU Local 142 (pine­ reports' of swindling of male cus­ five years has been accompanied by a four-cent hike per quart in 8. Why does Frank McKinley Res. Phone 913692 apple and sugar) unanimously tomers by “chopping” as reported single out Thomas Ogata, former' ratified the Territorial ILWU in the RECORD last week, that the, price of milk, according to the Bus. Ph. 992806 or 992886 Agricultural Outlook for March, deputy, as “the only man in the Conference Local 142 report at he says he is prepared to finince Territory” with enough knowledge Baldwin Park on Feb. 27. Guest an, investigation of such practices. 1952. speakers were Newton Miyagi sec­ “Chopping” was disclosed1 Local dairies produced 30.3 mil­ retary-treasurer of the Local, and through the RECORD by a dancer lion quarts of milk per year in Mamoru Yamasaki, president and who discovered dancehall checkers 1946 and this was upped to 38.7 business agent of Kahului Long­ were charging him for more million in 1951. The wholesale shore Unit, Local 136, ILWU. The dances than he had taken. In­ price went up from 15 cents to meeting lasted four hours. vestigating, the man discovered 19 cents during these years. that customers of Filipino extrac­ The monetary value of island- Dance TO LOWS Armstrong . WHILE THE Valley Isle Chron­ tion were the principal victims of produced milk increased from $4.4 icle gave strong editorial support unscrupulous checkers. million in 1946 to $7.4 million in to Chairman Eddie Tam in the Feb. The angry dancer is collecting 1951. A large part of this in­ 25 editorial “Tam versus Crozier,” evidence with which he hopes to crease is accounted for by the Sunday Afternoon — March 9 it didn't give Tam much credit bring offenders into court, and the rise in price. as a public official. Here is a. sam­ dancehall owner mentioned above Prior to the Korean war, Hono­ 1 to 5 O’clock ple of the newspaper's comment- says he is willing to join forces lulu dairy producers supplying “We believe that Chairman Tam with the angry dancer to put an milk to Dairymen's Association, end to "chopping” once and for all. Ltd., were selling part of their was certainly put on the spot and milk to the company for half ARMSTRONG WILL AUTOGRAPH YOUR RECORDS the decision to fire Mr. (Willie> the prevailing price as “surplus.” Crozier was one of the hardest de­ HONOLULU RECORD cisions that he has had to make Published Every Thursday This was reportedly converted since talcing office, for most cer­ by into ice cream and other prod­ CIVIC AUDITORIUM tainly there will be great’ political Honolulu Record Publishing ucts. repercussions.” , Company, Ltd. While the Outlook does not give If tills was the "hardest decision” 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu, T. H. information on the rate of milk ADMISSION: $1:00 (Tax Included) fam had to make, it skeins that Entered as second-class matter consumption by the local -civilian the county problems that face May 10, 1949, at the Post Office at populace, it says that one of the the chairman from week to week Honolulu, Hawaii, under the Act ot largest consumers is the armed may not have been given due con­ March 3. 1879. forces. .1 Page Four IHt HONOLULU RECORD March 0, 19bZ Mooney Judge Dies MY THOUGHTS Portrait of Long-Time Fighter for Labor SAN FRANCISCO (FP) —Judge Franklin A. Griffin, who presided at the first trial of Tom Mooney h L H, Is New ILWU Booklet On Hall and who later asked for a recon­ For Which I Stand Jndicted “The real issues are the hun­ (from page 1) sideration of the case “in the inter­ est of right and justice," died here dreds of open legitimate acts which ship for us is a scrap of paper. And the governor of Idaho had at the age of 77. Mooney was Jack did commit on the record as said a few days before we arrived in the southern part of the! Regional Director of the ILWU, state to work as volunteer sugar beet workers: All of us “Japs” framed up in the ruling class' po­ litical offensive against workers. . authorized by and in the name of were like rats, bred like rats and ought to be dumped badk on Judge Griffin retired last May the ILWU membership.” the Japanese islands to be drowned like rats. We were then after 38 years on the bench. That is a sentence from the afraid of vigilante action resulting from such official agitation. foreword of a 30-page booklet This prisoner had talked to other Nisei GIs who were with ’published by the union entitled Merrill’s Marauders at the time of his capture in Northern Burma. “Jack Hall—ILWU,” which out­ The 14-man Nisei team with the Marauders, led by Sgt. Edward Stalin Peace Award lines strongly and simply a pe­ Mitsukado of Honolulu, was doing invaluable work as infan­ riod of island labor history to trymen and intelligence operators. To Ikuo Oyama Has^ the present point where Hall Emperor Worship Took Minds and six other islanders militant­ Away From People’s Problems Strong Impact In Japan ly active in the support of la­ The Japanese prisoner told us that he was shocked when the bor, face trial under the Smith Nisei GIs first came to interrogate him. He was of the opinion, The award of the 1951 Interna­ Act. after reading about the evacuation and treatment of the Nisei tional Stalin Prizes for the Pro­ The issues in the case of Hall, and their parents, that we were all still being ill-treated. motion of Peace Among nations, to the booklet says, have little to do This soldier still clung to emperor worship. The “Imperial Ikuo Oyama of Japan, one of the with “conspiring since 1945 to over­ Way” to him was the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere,” recipients, .has made a strong im­ throw the government of the and “Asia for the Asiatics.” The “Imperial Way” was actually pact upon broad sections of peo­ United States by force and vio­ camouflaged international profiteering and banditry. Not ple in Japan, according to Japa­ lence.” aware of this, the spldier had made his supreme and heroic nese press reports. Real Issues Are Open sacrifices for the emperor. Mr. Oyama is a professor and The real issue is that Jack Hall The inculcation of emperor worship in him and other sol­ a member of the Japanese par­ played a highly important part JACK W. HALL diers by the Japanese imperialists to the point of blind fanati­ liament. During the ’30s and un­ in- the organization of a labor cism stopped their minds from questioning the conditions of til after the defeat of militarist union including workers of all na­ poverty, landlordism, tenancy, low wages and unemployment. Japan, he took refuge in the tional backgrounds which is strong Crozier tried to set up a third, They had been told to sacrifice everything for the "Imperial Way” United S|ates and taught in enough to win wage gains and party to combat the rottenness. and the "Co-Prosperity Sphere.” American universities. He is better living conditions against) Jack let the people know why.” The “Imperial Way” Was Like Today’s popular among the Japanese in any pressure the Big Five bosses Steady Fight for Labor the United States and among are able to throw against it. In the maritime, longshore and ■ Wall Street’s “Freedom Crusade” his people in Japan, and is known The booklet does not pretend sugar plantation strikes that- All this propaganda was like the present-day mouthing of internationally as a staunch foe to tell either the story of Jack marked the surging struggle of "freedom” and “freedom-loving nations”, by the imperialist pow­ of militarism. He initiated the Hall or the ILWU. Either would Hawaiian labor toward decent ers, who include among the “freedom-lovers’' the fascist Franco. first National Peace Congress consume far more than 30 pages. wages in the late ’30s, Hall was “Freedom” is today’s substitute for the "Co-Prosperity Sphere” in Japan- which sparkplugged But it is a clear-cut portrait of a an. ever-present figure, and the and the “Imperial Way,” and the Asian people see this quite) the mass peace movement in that man who has given his whole adult "Voice" a constant force for or­ clearly. country. life to the cause of organizing la­ ganization into one big union, for In the bamboo hut in the prisoner of war compound on Lida Kuo Mo-jo, Chinese cultural bor in Hawaii and who has come laws that would give labor some­ Road I saw how the nature of war itself molds soldiers. There!, leader and president of the Chi- to be recognized as leader locally thing like a square shake, for the was a Corporal Suehiro, a POW, who appreciated the good' -nese Academy of Sciences, was to such an extent that he is the local application of New Deal prin­ treatment by Americans. To show his gratitude he sang for also recognized for distinguished focal point for many of the union’s ciples. His paper and his activity the MPs who guarded the prisoners. He sang loudly of how his service in the cause for world enemies’ bitterest attacks. won the support and respect of the invincible 18th Division routed the British from Mayala, marched peace. struggling workers, but the pay through Indonesia and chalked up victories in Burma, too. - He “Place To Pitch In” An earlier recipient of the, The portrait is of a youthful was small and spasmodic, and Hall sang of the innocent people he had killed and of Ithe women he “had slept on newspapers spread raped. I interpreted Suehiro’s songs for the Americans. They Stalin peace prize was Mme. seaman who got off a ship in Sun Yat-sen, widow of the foun­ Honolulu in 1935, after having on tables in the offices of the laughed at the irony of this situation where a POW sang of Japa­ Voice and the Herald more nights nese victories to his captors to show his gratitude. der of the first Chinese Repub­ sailed to many Pacific ports, be­ lic. cause an SUP business agent than he could count.” The Nature of War Determines Behavior of Soldiers Other recipients of the 1951 Sta­ asked him to help a current drive In 1938 he got something extra We were then a liberating army. The Japanese troops were lin awards were: Pietro Nenni, to organize longshoremen. from the bosses, via the police the aggressors, forced to fight the natives and to deal with member of the Italian parliament; Here’s the picture as Hall re­ force, when he was beaten up I them ruthlessly. There is no getting away from it that the Monica- Felton, whose first-hand members it: “Everybody was and arrested during a strike of behavior of imperialist soldiers is brutal, for they are in unfriend­ reports of war-torn Korea have scared; unemployment was ter­ Inland Boatmen because he ly territory. And their tasks make them so. They must search strengthened peace movements in rific. The system of economic "might have made a speech that civilians, shoot everyone that moves and hold people as hostages. England; Anna Seghers, German control was complete. There might have started a' riot and The allied soldiers have been forced into a like situation in Korea author, and Jorge Amado, Bra­ were blacklists and a system of some one might have gotten today, because of the nature of the war they are fighting. zilian author. espionage. They really were hurt.” One day in the early summer of 1944, a Japanese second lieu­ Tire awards include $25,000 to kicking people around. The sail­ Tire cop who arrested and worked tenant walked into an American command post to give himself each recipient, besides the recog­ ors and firemen had just opened Hall over Was Allen Taylor, now up with one of the tens of thousands of surrender leaflets we had nition and prestige they bring to hiring halls and were trying to doing time for his participation in prepared and dropped over enemy troop concentrations. And when Representative Willie mented from Washington as the ments. It was like this everywhere. We were told that in Wash­ Hawaii Civil Aeronautics Commis­ sweep of reaction under the Tru­ ington, British 'and Dutch officials requested OWI to tone down or sion, held by Rear Admiral Pey­ man administration, which made not use at all stories of native Philippine resistance in our over­ ton Harrison (retired). A vacancy lulu had no telephone system until red-baiting a national pattern. And seas propaganda. To the imperialists, the idea of people’s re­ is expected in that position, it 1880, it is that pattern into which the sistance once planted in the minds of Asian masses, foreboded the is true, since four commissioners In the beginning, there were Smith Act case falls. beginning, of the end of their empires. have been reported as favoring two telephone companies, the Bell The booklet’s 30 pages do not In June 1944, the director of OWI in China came to observe Harrison’s ouster. Telephone and the Mutual Tele­ attempt to tell the whole story of our Burma front psychological operation. He said that the Kuo­ Toner's active interest in both phone companies. Honolplans had either Hall or the union, but what mintang government had finally lifted the ban on Nisei from jobs comes as no surprise to those to have two telephones because of they tell is important information China. He recruited me and three members of my team for his who have heard of his campaign­ the dual system. Later, these and education for, all readers who China operations. ing for practically every job of systems were combined. care to cut through the wave of ( —KOJI ARIYOSHI any importance that’s been va­ As for electricity, it was'intro­ hysteria which distorts labor stories , M (To Be Continued) cant for any period, for the past duced here in 1888, according to in the daily press, and find some three years. Mr. Baker. solid facts. March 6, 1952 THE HONOLULU RECORD Page Five FBI Info Not “Confidential” To Thomas’ Witch-Hunters

Carl Marzani, a victim of tha Supplied Smear Data loyalty witch hunt, made an ob­ Two things which the former servation of his opposite, J. Par­ congressional witch hunter said nell Thomas, when both of them Mr. Marzani says he never forgot. were committed to prison. O “He said he used to meet Mr. Marzani had been cleared regularly with J. Edgar Hoover, by the FBI and the Civil Service who would supply him with in­ Commission and after he had left formation for the Un-American the State Department he was Activities Committee.” charged with giving false informa­ This, Mr. Marzani points out, tion on Communist membership. makes the FBI a liar when it On alleged Communist member­ says that its files are confiden­ NEW PRICE CHIEF ON JOB-—Price Stabilizer Ellis G. Arnall, former ship he was sent to jail while the tial, that they do not use vague Georgia governor, talks to press at Office of Price Stabilization head­ former congressman who won hip material, smears and so on. The quarters as he takes over duties in Washington. (Federated Pictures) notoriety as chairman of the witch mere conduct of the unAmeriean hunting House unAmerican Activi­ Committee, using smears and lies ties Committee had been convict­ to frameup people, exposes what ed for embezzling. the FBI does with its informa­ LOOKING BACKWARD tion. Witch-Hunter Admits Tactics • “The second thing Thomas (from page 8) In the National Guardian, Feb. told me was that he would get a guese and Chinese, and many families fled to the top of Punchbowl. 21, Mr. Marzani writes of his en­ parole as soon as he was eligible At eight o’clock the Honolulu Rifles were ordered to report to their counter with the former congress­ and without paying his fine.” armories, but at first only about a hundred men were under arms. By man. Here is ah excerpt: The former congressman said the end of the day, there were around 400. "You know,” J said, "I could MB. THOMAS this months before he was dust At ten o’clock, S. M. Damon was sent out to talk with Wilcox bub never figure out your case. Some­ for parole and everything turned failed and had to withdraw amid a crossfire of bullets. Meanwhile the body must have had it in for you.” out as he said. Some 30 per cent insurgents had got field pieces trained on the Rifles’ chief stronghold, “That’s right,” he said eagerly. “People like you,” I interposed get parole, Mr. Marzani says, but the Opera House, that stood where is now the waikiki end of the Federal “After all, you weren’t doing without visible rancor. it is unheard of in the prison sys­ Building. much wrong, nothing some other* “. . . that’s right.” tem for a man to have parole congressmen don’t do.” without paying his fine. Wilcox’s Force Weakens; Deserters Flee To Parker “That’s right,” he repeated Thomas Fearful “For Thomas to know before­ The Rev. Sereno Bishop described the battle in brief and vivid terms: promptly. hand that (a) parole would be ‘You were just a scapegoat,” At first the former congressman “We were on Fort Street, anxiously awaiting the result of Mr. Da­ saw Mr. Marzani assigned to a granted and (b) that he wouldn’t mon’s attempted parley with the insurgents, when the sharp rattle of was my conclusion—and he replied: cell in the same building with him pay the fine, meant not only handsomely in kind: advance connivance with the rifle shots announced a work of death begun. The waiting crowds surged “Well, the same thing happened and he was afraid he might be into commotion. Then came the heavy report of the field guns again and beaten up. So he sent an emissary Parole Board but with the high­ again, telling of the enemy’s immense superiority in arms. Swift closed to you. You were just a scape­ to find out and Mr. Marzani told) er Justice Dept, echelons.” goat.” Three victims of the congress­ the shutters and doors on all the stores, and men ran in every direction. “I don’t quite get it,” I said the inquirer he wouldn’t do any­ man’s witch hunt were in prison A slight lull, and again the crack of rifles and the banging guns, and so innocently, “what to you mean?” thing of the kind to the embezz­ with him and none of them re­ on for a time, after which only rifles were heard, quite intermittent. “Well, it’s pretty clear. The ler. ceived parole. Mr. Marzani didn’t "Other rifle parties held Kawaiahao steeple, the Hopper House, Administration was looking for “This of course was the furthest either. The three were Dr. Jacob Hotel Stables, Coney house and Wunderberg house (along. Richards a scapegoat. They were accused thing in my mind, but people like Auslander of the Joint Anti-Fas­ Street), all overlooking the Palace yard, and peppered everything in of being soft to communism. You Thomas attribute to others their cist Committee; Lester Cole and sight. The Wundenberg party had a close and commanding position■. know, people were putting on own ideas and attitudes,” M)r. Ring Lardner Jr. of the Hollywood and soon quite divided the work with the Opera House. The enemy the pressure. . .” Marzani writes. Ten. got a gun trained on them, but every man who tried to fire it they shot down. By noon, all the enemy were driven into permanent hid­ ing.” Four deserters leaped over the wall. Others fled to Lieut. Parker in U. 5. Rubber Profits the Palace. By 11 a. m. the Government Building was abandoned. The American POW Tells Wife How Force remainder of Wilcox’s force were pinned inside the Queen’s bungalow, At Sixty-Year Peak; which stood in the mauka-ewa corner of the Palace yard. Killed, Mistreated Korean Civilians The U. S. Navy Was Ready To Step In War Program Pays Off Compared with the drilled Rifles, Wilcox.’s force was only a "rabble.” The detailed account, by an tween two villages north of Mer- His lieutenant, Boyd, lay seriously wounded. Yet Wilcox held out, ap­ American prisoner of war in Ko­ ryang on the 15th of October, AKRON (FP)—N et profits of the parently expecting a general uprising after nightfall, with the connivance rea, of the callous brutality of 1950, our men were ordered to U. S. Rubber Co. hit a 60-year peak of the royal family. He could not know that the police force had been his own outfit before he was cap­ search all civilians that were in 1951, the company’s annual re­ stiffened with white men and preparations made for patrolling the city. tured on December 1, 1950, has passing through. The orders port to stockholders disclosed. He could not know that a detachment of U. S. Marines was on duty given rise to speculation as to the were to strip all clothing from Reaching their highest point in before the American legation, and that, the final source of power in reasons behind the army’s an­ men, women and children and the firm’s history, profits after Hawaii, the U. S. Navy, was prepared to lend its cannon to the gov­ nounced intention of “screening” search them for weapons. The taxes showed a 23 per cent in­ ernment if necessary. / POWs when they should be re­ women were embarrassed when crease over 1950. They totaled turned, .and of clamping a cen­ they were told to undress in $30,366,449. “. ... Through the afternoon the public waited for the end, with now sorship over what they may have front of onlooking GIs. After Board Chairman H. E. Hum­ and then a shot or two to tell that an enemy’s head had- been seen. to say. they were searched, they would Near sunset a fusillade of rifles set in quick and strong, and then t|he phreys, Jr., said sales rose 20 per sharp report of dynamite cartridges flung on the bungalow roof by a ball­ The prisoner, Otho G. Bell, put on their clothes and be cent in the year to a new high of kicked on down the road . . . pitcher’s arm. This went on for half an hour, and we heard the welcome R. A. 18276618, Comes from Olym­ $837 million, while Federal and cry of ‘white flag.’ The Rifles poured through the open gate and soon pia, Washington, and served with “Our men were also ordered not foreign taxes rose 128 per cent to marched out with their prisoners for the Station House.” the H and S Companies, Second to take one or two prisoners alive, $71 million. Engineers Combat Battalion, but to shoot them because we Government armament con­ The Wilcox Insurrection was over. Second Division. His message, didn’t have time to transfer them tracts accounted for 13 per cent . Only 50 insurgents were arrested; the rest had scattered and run. broadcast over Radio Peking back to the rear. of the company’s 1951 sales, com­ Seven men lay dead, one Negro-Hawaiian before the Government pared with less than 3 per cent in Building, the others in the Palace grounds, one in the act of pulling the Nov. 25, is addressed to his wife, 200 Prisoners Shot Jewell G. Bell, and it is pub­ 1950, Humphreys said, and will lanyard of a field gun. They were poor Hawaiian workingmen, a harness lished in the Dec. 1 issue of “On the 30th of November, 1950, increase still further in 1952. The maker, a drayman, two teamsters, three others; Even their names are “People’s China,” a magazine I saw 200 Chinese and Korean company had a backlog of $112 uncertain, being variously spelled in the newspaper accounts. “Rabble,” published in English at 26 Kuo prisoners shot in cold blood by million in defense orders at the as the Rev. Bishop called them, they had died manfully in the gamblft Hui Chieh, Peking, China. South Korean troops between end of 1951, compared with $44 to restore the political power of their people. Sunchon and Kunorl.” Reassuring his wife that he is million at the beginning of the (To Be Continued) well cared for by the Chinese and By contrast, Bell descibes his year. Korean people, Bell makes a plea own capture in this fashion: “I was told before I was cap­ that she strive toward the achieve­ For Popuar Reading and Indispensable Reference ment of world peace, and his ar­ tured that the Chinese and Ko­ Chinese Businessmen guments against war include vivid reans would shoot me if I was Material On New China, Read the dated accounts of “inhuman things taken prisoner. On December Celebrate In Peking done by our men.” 1, 1950 at 03:30 p. m., when I was taken prisoner, I was com­ The part of the private 'busi­ China Monthly Review Innocents Killed pletely surprised when five Chi­ nessman in China today was “For example,” Bell said, “there nese volunteers came towards pointed up by a note in an is­ American-Owned, Enlarged Edition of Its Famous was a town that was destroyed men and shook hands with me. sue of “People’s China,” re­ Predecessor, the China Weekly Review by our men using such weapons I was cold and hungry and the cently received here. Fourteen as machine guns, twin forties and Chinese took me to a warm - thousand businessmen, it report­ SOME ARTICLES IN RECENT ISSUES: other automatic weapons. There house and gave me my supper ed, paraded in Peking on the last • Christianity In China, by Liu Liang-mo were over 200 innocent people which consisted of beef and National Day to announce the • The State, of the Nation, by Chou En-lal killed by these weapons or burned potatoes. The Chinese assured over-fulfillment of their pledge • Prisoners of War In Korea to death. After It was over there me that I would never be harmed in the donation campaign to aid were children left among the ruins in any way whatsoever. Chinese volunteers fighting in • Turning Point In China’s Co-Operatives, crying for their fathers and moth­ “The reason the Chinese came Korea. They collected 31,200,- z by Rewi Alley ers who were dead. This hap­ to Korea was to protect their 000,000 yuan. • Chinese Films Today, by Tso-lin pened on the 29th of September, homeland from invasion. If the 1950; the place I can’t recall be­ people at home iri America, would their sons, husbands and loved 30c per copy; Yearly Subscriptions, $3 cause I wasn’t too familiar with just stop to think for a moment ones to come 5,000 miles away On Sale at CORNER LIQUOR STORE, 1042 Bethel St. the names of the Korean villages, just what are U. S. troops doing from home to kill and slaughter towns and cities. in Korea and find all the right innocent people—men. women and Sample Copies Available at the RECORD “While occupying an area be­ answers, they would never allow children.” Page Six T HE HONOLULU RECORD March 6, 1952 Need "Watchdog" Over GC Ratings, Sports World LOCAL VETERANS would do. advancement for Tarbell are (1) Observers Believe well to ponder deeply the evidence that he’s a malahini and (2) that By Wilfred Oka By STAFF WRITER brought forth by the army as it will lower morale for a spy is on Who is responsible in govern­ “proof" that the people of Hono­ the job watching the police. The ment when employes under one. lulu formerly didn’t object to flat actual reason is said to be that title are working at an entirely markers at Punchbowl’s National Tarbell is known as a. solid Dan different job? Memorial Cemetery. Especially Liu man in all departmental con­ SPORTS TID-BITS FROM HERE AND THERE It is a question rising out of the they should note the quote from troversies. new classifications in the C-C a letter by Frank Midkiff, writing ★ ★ The agreement by local pro boxers for a scale of pay for four-round fire and police departments re­ for the Chamber of Cdmmerce, SINCE THE LAST change of fights and the arrangement by the TBC for a cassification of fighters cently completed by the civil serv­ when he said “veterans’ groups personnel in the vice squad, com­ much like the amateurs, were the preliminary steps to start the pro game ice commission’s classification and civic organizations” will as­ plaints of high-handedness and ■ sist in a campaign for the flat going again. We understand the next step is to get a rental agreement board, following a technical report rough stuff have been at a mini­ from Research Associates, Ltd. markers if it became necessary. mum. But Monday afternoon at that would give the promoter a better break. This is a matter between The question rises from the Right from the horse’s mouth you the Smith-Beretania corner, a the promoters and the Civic Auditorium. If the Civic management disclosure in the report, reported have it—C of C big shots figure couple of the new men seemed up should accept a scale in keeping with the times, then the next step is by the RECORD some months they can get the vets to do any­ to the tricks of the old-timers ago, that a number of firemen thing they want and promise when they demanded that a man the percentage received by the managers as their “cut.” We refer to the their support Wn'HOUT EVEN 33 1/3 per cent that a manager customarily receives for his services. If with fire-fighting- titles, were ac­ of Filipino extraction let them tually employed as chauffeurs for CONSULTNG THEM! If they see some papers he was holding. the reduction is going to work right down the line, then the managers the chief and the assistant chiefs, think Midkiff wasn’t speaking from When he refused, they forced his should “cooperate” with their fighters and take a smaller percentage. and that police patrolmen were experience, the vets might do well hand open and looked anyway. What's good for the goose is good for the gander! doing the work of clerk-typists. to recount the number of * times Some one down the street, shouted their public stands have been in­ One view of such discrepancies is to advise their victim that they THE AMATEURS presented their regular Monday fights at the fluenced by the chamber’s big needed a search warrant to do that department heads are respon­ shots before now. Civic March 3. Most of the fans were disappointed with the sible for such mis-titling. Another, things like that and they took off, last-minute cancellation of the Ernest DeJesus-Stanley Paea bantam­ held by some government officials, ★ ★ after handing the papers back. is that it is the job of the con­ EDWIN SALEMA, copy boy at Maybe there’s something about weight scrap won by Paea on a forfeiture because of DeJesus’ inability to that vice squad job that just en­ make the 119-pound limit. Another bout that was also cancelled was troller to act as watchdog. the Star-Bulletin for more than 23 years, known to newspapermen, genders a contempt for individual the Al Palpallatoc-Roy Kuboyama flyweight match because Palpallatoc “If the controller does not keep rights. lost his first fight, the battle of the bulge. a check on such positions,” said sports fans and Boy Scouts young and old, for these many years, An observer of the incident, hav­ The classy workmanship of Larry Cantiberos of the Veterans, in his one who voiced this opinion, “the creation of new jobs may occur will be missed on his job from now ing just finished reading of how first-round kayo of Larry Souza of the Nuuanu Y did not make up for on. After an illness, his doctors Senator Tom Connally rates Ha­ the cancellation of the two aforementioned bouts. The fans are begin­ merely because men are not doing tire jobs they’re supposed to be advised him he' should no longer waii, commented, “Maybe that’s ning to attend the fights, as shown by the figures last Monday, with doing.” be subjected to the strain of wet- what Senator Connally meant when over a thousand paying their way in to see the advertised program. nursing newspapermen, and he he said Hawaii isn’t part of Amer­ Another cancellation (and we are not blaming the program director) like New. Jobs In Offing must find other- employment. Mr. ica.” last Monday and we can see the loss of interest of the fans. Incidentally, Thus, new chauffeurs may be Salema went to work at the Star- ★ ★ DeJesus and Palpallatoc are both from the Hawaii Youth Club. The talk hired to replace the six fire-fight­ Bulletin December 1, 1927, and WHAT DOES a lawyer do when is that these two boys are necessary for the championship fights to be ers whom the classification will worked without a miss until No­ a witness turns and cross-exam­ held later on and the coach withheld them for “insurance" purposes. put back to work fighting fires, vember 25 of last year when illness ines him? John Peters, defending . and new clerks will be hired at the forced him to be hospitalized for Ray Wright on a charge of assault THE CHAIRMAN of the AAU Wrestling Committee this year, we police department to replace the a series of operations. Now re­ understand, is Pat Reile, former wrestler and now coach of a local patrolmen who will be put to following the shooting of Tinei team. Pat is secretary of the American Federation of Labor’s Central cuperated, he will receive a pen­ Su’a last year, found out Tuesday pounding beats. sion from the newspaper until he while questioning Mo Mo Tu’a, an Labor Council. He takes over from the former chairman, Reed Det- “It means new jobs are being |ton, long connected with amateur wrestling in the Territory. Last has determined the kind of work extremely large friend of Su’a, created at the expense of the he will be able to do. Salema is who is pretty big himself. year the amateurs were thrown for a loop when there were no tour­ taxpayers and the proportion is naments and the year ended with no championships. This is Olympic a member of the Star-Bulletin’s in­ “Where do you work?” asked very high,” says an official. “You dependent newspaper guild. Peters. year and it is a crying shame that the sport is not kept alive. We may say that increased service hope the present chairman will call a special meeting to start the “Why?" Tu’a countered suspi- , to the public accounts for this. ciously. wrestling program. There was no excuse for the AAU defaulting' on To a degree that is true. But CITY MOTORISTS gripe and the wrestlers when they were willing and ready. The responsibility of the proportion of new jobs swear about the nuisance of the “Well, I want to know. Where the AAU is to encourage the annual tourneys and championships. new parking meters which make do you work?” Peters repeated. created as Compared with those them pay for the use of streets “Where do YOU work?” asked BOWLING IS taking the play away from a number of sporting abolished is very high. It is which their taxes have already Tu’a. events, what with the bugs forsaking a number of "look-see” for “do-see.” about five to one.” built. But they continue to do­ “Why—why I work right here,” The game is a natural for beginners because the alleys and the pins Since the fire and police depart­ nate on Saturday afternoons when the surprised lawyer answered. don’t break a guy's heart like golf and other “skill” sports. Tire handicap ment positions have not been they don’t have to. Gadabout Judge Carrick Buck was ap­ system gives a beginner an even chance over the boards and an oc­ classified previously, the official counted 15 “paid up” meters last parently a little stunned, too, for casional strike keeps him in the game. pointed out, there is little respon­ Saturday afternoon on only four it was several moments before she sibility for mis-titling to date, on blocks of two different streets in interrupted more verbal sparring THE MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology Swimming Relay the controller, Paul Keppeler. But the mid-town area. between the pair to warn Tu’a to Championships to be held at Punahou tank this Saturday at 8 p. m., will his responsibility in the future answer questions “respectfully.” show the comparative strength of the various school teams in the inter­ would be greater, it was indicated. Tu’a got down a few answers scholastic events. Captains Appeal A QUESTION the traffic safety later, but not many. One was an commission and the police depart­ RAY ROBINSON, the middleweight champ, was quoted as not taking Most important appeal from the explanation of why he didn’t know his bout with Bobo Olson too lightly. He meets the Hawaiian champ in classifications at the moment is ment will have to settle about the1 what time it was when he visited a title fight at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on March 13. Robinson that of a number of fire captains, parking meters is this: What will the airport the night of the shoot­ commanding rural fire stations, they do about the several 12-mm- kayoed Bobo several years back and while Sugar Ray considers Olson ute limit meters established in ing. hard to hit because of his style, he must certainly be aware that Olsbn who are classified at CAF-10, pay “I never watch what time it is,” beginning at $398 per month, who, front of banks and marked as can't hit either. spaces for those who have bank­ he said, “only if I’m working. Then appeal that they should receive I watch to see what time to quit.” “DRIFTWOOD,” a column written by UH student Benny Wood, the same rating and pay as cap­ ing business only? At present the makes a rather bold statement that “The high school stars would tains commanding the larger sta­ banks close at 2 p. m. four days * * rather play for a local coach than for some stranger from the Main­ tions in Honolulu, who have been a week and at 12 o’clock noon on frank McKinley, acting c-c land. Also, the fans will stick to a local man.” rated CAF-11 with pay beginning two other days. Yet the 12-min- attorney, said lasv week that the That’s stretching the local boy angle a little too far. It “ain't at $432 per month. ute meters are in operation, under reasons he fired Moon Chan necessarily so.” Using his “logic,” then it should follow that if all The commission holds that du­ guidance of patrolling officers, un­ (and rehired him the next day) the profs at the UH were local boys, then local students would study til 6 p. m. are too long to go into, but that ties and responsibilities at the ru­ they had to do with the Haiku harder and better for the “local boy profs.” What do the long-hairs ral stations are considerably less Another question is that of the call that? Oh yes, provincialism! than at the^larger stations in the manual meters which, according to water- case. Here's what happened: early experiments, are a greater McKinley asked around for Moon ’ SENATOR TOM CONNALLY’S blast against our local citizenry re­ city, and that the difference in rat­ Chan one diiy and was told he had ing and pay merely follows the nuisance than those which re­ minds us that a few years back we had a Senator Cleghorn over the radio job. quire nothing but coin, insertion, gone to the law library. McKin­ networks. While Cleghorn was Intended as a satire on a type of and which seem inclined oftener ley called the library and was told Southern politician, Cleghorn as such, as shown by the Connally blast The captains maintain that to cheat the motorist. Why, a Chan wasn’t there. When Chan and the reactionary Dixiecrat rantings is, sad to say, an active and their CAF-10 rating is the same number of motorists ask, were finally reappeared, McKinley asked living character. . The take-off that one-time radio comic Ray Knight as that of lieutenants, and no they installed in the first place? him where he had been and when used to do on the 4th of July type of politician was also regretfully distinction follows the titular The answer, according to Col. Chan said he. had been at the! true to type. Ray Knight was taken off the air after a number of difference in rank. The lieuten­ Charles Welsh of the traffic safe­ library, McKinley believed that was complaints by politicians who somehow felt a similarity existed between ants, on the other hand, are em­ ty commission, is merely one of not the truth and fired him. But their rantings and Ray Knight's satirical splurges. Sometimes the powered to command the stations money. The manual meters cost Ohan produced three affidavits to shoe fits a bit too tight! in the absence of captains, and only about two-thirds the price prove he HAD been at the library, a number of lieutenants do as­ of the others. Some motorists feel and McKinley’s informant had “SATURDAY’S HERO,” a movie wb caught up with at the Palama sume such responsibility as the city is now collecting quite- erred. The connection of the Hai­ Theater last Sunday night, is a football story showing the power of the “swing men” during the off-hours enough to pay the difference. ku case probably was that Chan alumni in "building football character.” The alumni character, played of the captains. had been working on it and had well by Sidney Blackmer, oldtimer in the movies, may not sit too well Admittedly, there are some ru­ . * * been asked for a report at about with the rah-rah crowd. The movie shows several scenes between our ral stations, such as that at Aiea, WHILE SOME police officers that time. hero and the English Lit prof which are scorchers. The snobbery of the where the duties and responsi­ are quietly putting in their two •'frat” houses and the “tapping” system for the perpetuation of the snob bilities of the captain are nearly cents worth in opposition to any system is very lightly touched on by the movie. This is about as far as the same as those of city cap­ proposal to appoint Captain Arthur the moyie moguls will go on any controversial subject. The hero’s re­ tains. But since all appeais were Tarbell to the newly created posi­ Francis Appliance turn to Milltown after he loses his usefulness by a permanent injury and filed together, it is predicted that tion of police inspector, at a con­ his decision to "work” somehow got by the censors. the commission will not see fit to siderable jump in pay and rating, & Repair Shop single out any such cases for ac­ others see the complaints as mere­ Repair All Makes of LAST WEEK we caught the Eddie Sartain presentation of the Louis tion at present. ly another facet of the old "get REFRIGERATORS and Armstrong “session" over at the Civic. Too bad the accoustics were Dan Liu” move that has existed WASHING MACHINES pretty bad at the Civic and the general admission crowd missed some Class I railroads made profits spasmodically ever since Liu' was Ph.: Bus. 56873, Res. 522055 of the fine work of the other members of his combo. Eddie Sartain has of $85 million during October, plus appointed chief of police. Specifi­ 550 SOUTH ST., Honolulu the Armstrong fans all ears at the Brown Derby. $13 million in special tax refunds. cally, the complaints against such March 6, 1952 THE HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven T. H. Engineer To Low Pay On Waikiki Piecework Jobs Mont Clues After Makes 4 Quit; Boss Cites Heavy Losses (from page 1) age up to the 76 cents per hour Stink Bridge Story tor for the week he shows is $53, minimum required by the Federal but the book also shows she government. You see, he exports (from page 1) worked 49 hours. some aloha shirts, holomuus, etc., residents of the Kaneohe area for “We pay time and a half for to ihe Mainland, where the price Heia Bridge, is believed to be in overtime,” he explains, “when it's is right, and he comes under Fed­ part the result of dumping cesspool over 40 hours.” eral as well as Territorial wage­ contents some distance above the hour minimum laws. bridge, reported this week to the Overtime for the operators, he RECORD from authoritative says, is on an hourly basis rather sources. Complaints of similar than by piecework. He points to dumping by C-C refuse disposal another entry showing that an More On Maluhia men have come to the department operator had been given a two- (from page 1) of health from Waimanalo and week vacation with pay at $45 a with invalids, the patients say, from the Windward Oahu Com­ week. The vacation pay figure, and they add that there have been munity Association, he says, is based on her average for the past year. cases of pinching and slapping Hart Will Fire Dumpers patients who do not cooperate as Llewyllen “Sonny” Hart, head “If I had to pay the girls more, readily as the nurses would like cf the division of refuse disposal, I don’t know what I'd do,” the them to. said he had heard no such com­ manufacturer says, voicing the The patients are not excited plaints and said if dumping near complaint of manufacturers across the nation. about these things. They tell streams is going on, it is being in calm tones of a nurse whom done by personnel without any Competition Hot Dr. Mossman fired for taping the authority from his office. But he backs his words with the mouth of a patient who had “If I find anyone dumping figures of a certified public ac­ screamed, and the only reason that stuff in a- stream, I will countant that show he lost $13,- they talk at all is because they suspend him,” said Hart, “and 000 last year. The reason, he says, think Dr. Mossman and others I hope any person who sees any is cutthroat competition from both ought to know and they don’t case of that sort will let us here and on the Mainland. get a very good chance to talk know. I think it is the duty “Look at that,” he says, hand­ to him. of any civic-minded citizen to ing out a gay sport shirt with "He’s never up here,” says one. tell us. Our men know better what looks like a vague Indian “How can he know? He’s down be­ because they have been told, design. “They send that in here low.” but we can’t control them when from California at $16.50 a dozen. Food Unpalatable they get into the field.” Even here they put shirts on the There are other complaints. Ona But the method Hart described market at $22 a dozen. If I go is about the food, which the pa­ as being authorized for the dump­ SCARES OFF MASKED RAIDERS—Howard Prevatte, 30-year-old North under $28, I lose money. The tients agree is unpalatable—but ing of cesspool “honey wagons” Carolina farmer, stands with wife and children in door of his Cumber­ shirt sells for $3.50 retail.” then, says one, that may be be­ is not so very different, except land County cabin holding the rifle with which he fought off attempt Even though he loses money, cause the diets are things they for the location. Hart says his by masked raiders to kidnap him. Recently, FBI arrested 10 men suspect­ Ho says, he has to take the stock don't like to eat. men are instructed to take such ed of' kidnap-flogging of a white man and woman in North Carolina. off the shelves and sell it to pay refuse to a field in Haiku Valley Thus far, the FBI has not arrested a single lyncher or attacker of Ne­ the bills. He has been in the One finds the manner of serv­ and dump it there. groes. (Federated Pictures) manufacturing business here since ing more irritating. “There’s nothing -around and it 1935, but only recently did he open “They spoon it out to you in can dry out,” he said. the retail shop among the tourist; a way you can’t eat it aU at haunts of Waikiki. once,” she says. “You can’t eat “Does that method have the Dr. Leslie Breaks Rules, Tangles With it the way you’d like to, so you approval of the department of “The retail shop is what keeps don’t eat at all.” health?” Hart was asked. me going now,” he says. She tells of another who has Hart Says “Approval” Kealoha But May Get $1,100 Monthly Competes With Mass Output food brought in from the outside “It has the tacit approval,” the Then why, he is asked, can Main­ as often as possible because she division head said, and picked up (from page 1) ice commission had already given land firms undersell him though doesn’t like what [the hospital a telephone to call Robert Lam, a way of paying him the $100 with­ them. they pay admittedly higher wages? serves. Territorial sanitation ■ engineer, to out violating the law. When he tangled with chairman His answer is that of the small "But the diets have a lot to do arrange a joint tour of the area James Kealoha about hospital pur­ businessman fighting against the for the purpose of investigating In addition to his salary, Dr. with it,” she says. Leslie gets the free services of chasing policies, angry voices could big producers. Whatever the complaints, the complaints and determining meth­ be heard throughout the county "They run on a production line patients have faith that Dr. Moss­ ods of disposing of the cesspool hospital yardmen and janitors building. matter. and free supplies from the insti­ basis,” he says. “One girl does man would do something about it Dr. Leslie’s most recent pub­ only one small operation and the if he knew the truth and they Calling Mr. Lam later, the tution. licity came when he recommend­ Workers at the hospital used to output is much larger.” hope he’ll do a little checking RECORD learned that Hart's call ed the discharge of Honorio on the probationary nurses when was the first news he had heard have to wash and polish his pri­ Dinong, a hospital employe with And why does he pay cutters vate cars, but this was stopped and ironers a fixed wage? Why he sees this story. Maybe the of the dumping in the Haiku field more than five years of service. hospital needs a B-bag for com­ at all. He was asked if he ap­ after the practice was exposed at He admitted that he did not doesn’t he pay them by piece­ proved dumping there. a Board of Supervisors meeting work? plaints, the way they used to have personally investigate the case in Stars and Stripes, Lam Says “No” last yfear. before he presented it to the Th.e answer is simple. He “Certainly not,” he said, ex­ Blames Housekeeper managing committee. couldn’t get them to stay for plaining that if contents of cess­ At a hearing on December 27 The only explanation for his anything less than he pays. pools, .mostly, human refuse, are about Dr. Leslie’s anti-union atti­ success, in spite of. his unpopu­ So if the girls who operatet to be dumped in the open, trench­ tudes, he was asked by Supervisor- larity with the medical profession, power machines were to stick to­ ing and the use of lime and oth­ Ka-zuhisa Abe whether any em­ the workers, and the public, is gether and demand a fixed wage CLASSIFIED er disinfectants are essential as ploye ever washed his car or his his close personal ties with some —as they would in a union, for in­ proper safeguards for the health dishes. He laughed and denied it. members of the hospital managing stance—he'd have to pay more, wouldn’t he? ADVERTISING of those living in the area. Later, when one of the em­ committee. “We have to make certain,” These members seem to support Takes Fright At Union Talk ployes testified to having washed “If they tried to have a union aasssss Mr. Lam said, “that rodents and his car and his dishes, he ad­ him, regardless of his actions. other animals which are disease here, I’d close the shop," he says, T" TAXI SERVICE mitted that it had been done, but pricking up his ears at the men­ carriers cannot get at the stuff.” claimed that the housekeeper B. J. McMorrow of the depart­ tion of such a thing. ordered it done without his FRANK-LY SPEAKING But if all the girls at all the HARBOR Taxi. Union cabs. 235 N. ment of health said there has been knowledge. Queen, Opp. Market Pl. Ph. 65170. a certain amount of difficulty (from page 8) shops had a union, and they all Called a “dictator" by many of got more money, the cutthroating in getting C-C refuse disposal gro people that far overshadows JAY’S TAXI. Union Oab. Nuuanu men to cooperate with requests the employes, Dr. Leslie fought wouldn’t be any worse than it is with both the civil service com­ the accomplishments of many & Vineyard. Phone 55517. that cesspool contents in the city who have an immeasureably now, would it? be dumped at suitable places. mission and the county chairman No, Mr. Ho guesses not, and he last year. greater grasp of the struggle for OASIS TAXI serving Kaimuki, Requests Get Nothing full equality. Actually, he has is reminded that the sugar plan­ "All the sewers can take care Slapped By Ruling tations didn’t close up shop just Moililli, St. Louis Hghts, Kapahu- given us a stronger basis in our lu. Union cabs. PHONE 75991. of the stuff,” Morrow said, “but His argument with the commis­ fight for human rights. because a union was organized. it’s better to put if in those sion came when he attempted to And so I have been and remain He agrees that it’s strange to FIL-AMERICAN METERED CAB. where there are fewer homes. hire a new worker who placed very an Armstrong fan. While I dp think that many of the girls who 1397 S. Beretania St., near Dairy­ We ask them to do that and we low on the civil service lists. He wish he would eliminate soma work in the back shop have bet­ men’s. Phone 994075. designate particular manholes, disregarded the civil service tests things that are a part of his pat­ ter educations than their fathers on plantations—yet they make but they seem to dump in the and claimed that, he had the right tern, he has so many virtues that -A- DRY CLEANING closest one to them. If there; to give his own tests. the positive far outweighs the less than plantation workers who enjoy the benefits of the union happen to be many homes around, The attorney general ruled that negative. The point is that Louis SUPER CLEANERS—Expert dry we get plenty of complaints.” he did not have the right to give Armstrong shows in his music it­ their fathers built. From another department of his own tests after the civil serv- self that he is an artist who speaks But Mr. Ho doesn’t feel much cleaning; pickup, deliv. Ph. 968305 health source, the RECORD out lustily and determinedly for like thinking about that angle. He learned that some proposal was the plain people. has too many worries of his own, ★ FLOOR FINISHERS made for a large cesspool in be relieved of some of their for in addition to the cutthroat the Kaneohe area, and that pungency. Mr. Lam lias prom­ competition of the big boys in the M. TAKAYAMA Specialize in floor some years ago a department ised that investigation of reported garment industry, he has to be sanding, refinishing. Phone 745554, man pointed out a proper loca­ dumping there will be carried out' More On Kauai Motor sure he keeps the piecework aver- tion and gave directions as to shortly, and Mi-. Hart has vowed (from page 1) ★ FUNERAL PARLORS how the cesspool should be pre­ he will fire anyone caught dump­ the house rules are looked upon pared. But nothing was done ing “honey wagons” near the Heia as undemocratic, unusual and Police Testing Station No. 37 BORTHWICK Funeral Parlors. toward actual digging of the or any other stream. ridiculous. General Auto Repairing Phone 59158. cesspool. But some of the smell will re­ Employes were promised a wage Still "Stink Bridge” main, and so will the name prob­ increase when the consent election POI As for “Stink Bridge,” there is ably, for it is said that a large was held to determine whether or J. K. Wong Garage some hope that some of the odors part of the odor comes from rot­ not they wanted a union to repre­ 55 N. KUKUI STREET POI—For the family and parties. in the air, which have long as­ ting vegetation in the swamp un­ sent them. To date they have re­ Phone 57168 HIGA POI FACTORY. Phone sailed motorists who cross it, may der the bridge. ceived a slight raise in pay. Kai 4-7033.. Kahaluu, T. -H. HONOLULU RECORD Frankly Speaking

Koji Ariyoshi . . . Editor By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Published Every Thursday by HONOLULU REOORD PUBLISHING CO, LTD, ABOUT LOUIS ARMSTRONG 811 Sheridan, Street, Honolulu, T. H. I first heard Louis Armstrong in person some 25 years ago at the old Sunset Cafe in Chicago. Phone 96445 11 Last week I heard him here in Honolulu at the Civic Auditorium. I have listened to him many times since 1927 and I have yet to tire of his music. CONNALLY AND THE TISER As some of you may know, jazz music is one of my specialties. In the quarter-century since I first On and off for the past 50 years, poli­ heard Satchmo in the ticians of this Territory ha.ve taken the flesh, I have become as interested in the causa fight for statehood to the floors and cor­ as in the effect. This ridors of Congress. But never in all this curiosity led me into re­ time has it been an all-out fight with them. search in the field of hot In this session of Congress the chances music, into finding those reasons why jazz came for statehood are finished. The half-cen­ into existence in Ameri­ tury aspiration of people here has been ca and nowhere else. In again put in the deep freeze along with the process, I collected demands for statehood by Alaska. some 6,000 hot recordings and considerable informa- What are the leaders of the statehood (taon which I was able movement going to do now? What leader­ to share back in Chica­ ship will they provide? Will they engage go in lectures oh the His- MR. DAVI8 tory of Jazz, over the radio and in articles for var­ in an all-out fight? ious publications. Such an endeavor would include an It may be hard for the casual listener to think appeal to the United Nations, for taxation of jazz in terms of sociology and as a means of without representation, which the found­ mass protest arising from the needs of an entire people, but such is the case. What’s more, it has ers of the United States protested by taking Looking Backward been a militant and effective means of protest. up arms, is contrary to the principles of The horns and drums of black jazzicians have the UN to which this country subscribes. caused the Walls of Jericho of racism to crumble There is another matter of saddling the and fall in many places. people here with Washington-appointed FORCE AND VIOLENCE IN HAWAII From a Fighting Weapon Into Mass Art officials. We have only recently had Gov­ VII. BLOOD ON THE PALACE GRASS From its beginnings as a fighting weapon orig­ ernor Ingram M. Staitiba.ck and now we Honolulu’s white people awoke on the morning of July 30, 1889— inated by the Negro people in the closing years of exactly 25 months after they had imposed their Bayonet Constitution up­ the 19th century, it has developed into a kind of have Oren E. Long. There is the matter mass art and method of expression for all people of service in the armed services, when we on the native king—to find field guns commanding the gates of the Palace grounds and armed Hawaiians standing! guard there and in the living in a highly complex, industrialized civiliza­ actually have no say in the affairs of the Government (now the Judiciary) Building. Careless of rumors and con- tion. national government. tempuous of the "kanakas’ " will to fight, the haoles had been taken the Honolulu Advertiser for Mainland credit to his Italian army training or to his own judgment. getting into the act around 1918 and has done its distribution? The Advertiser booklet said He had come to seize the symbol of government authority, the best to water down the vigorous protest inherent Palace. It is also a tall and substantial building. From its second in jazz. This is what is so fascinating about thd that Hawaii is no melting pot, that “the floor and roof, field pieces and riflemen could command the build­ Armstrong approach to Tin Pan Alley tunes. In­ people of Hawaii in the majority, do not ings and grounds outside the eight-foot Palace wall. Without the stead of letting the popular junk squeeze the guts live or think in the same way that main- Palace in their hands, the rebels were like fish in a shallow pool; they out of jazz, Satchmo has the ability to take a landers do.” It also said that the “marked could be picked off by riflemen in the two-story buildings outside spineless June-moon type of song and give it the* the grounds without being able to shoot back from cover. enlivening transfusion of the plasma of jazz. This physical differences of the Orientals from A guard of 12 men held the Palace and their commander was outside. was an attribute also of the late great Fats Waller. Occidentals tend to keep Orientals from Yet Wilcox—perhaps he expected the King to telephone orders to sur­ Positive Outweighs Negative becoming rapidly Americanized.” render, or perhaps he hesitated to shoot down a fellow Hawaiian—allowed I do not say that when Satchmo or any of the Certainly, local people do not think Parker to go back inside the Palace. He had thrown away his one re­ other jazzicians play and sing, they do it with a like Senator Connally nor the Advertiser. mote chance of success. conscious determination, with the formed idea that They feel as FDR did, that Americanism is Many Families Fled To Top of Punchbowl each note is a bullet fired against prejudice or a not a matter of race or ancestry but a About a hundred of the insurgents promptly sensed this and ran defiant protest against conditions they want to cor­ away. rect. Actually, I have met very few who had any matter of “the mind and heart.” awareness of the sociological and psychological Pres. Roosevelt said this when the Ni­ ' Parker and his dozen Guardsmen held the Palace all that day, as factors at the root of their music. The great jazzi­ neutrals. cians merely play the way they personally feel and sei 442nd Infantry Regiment was initiated, In Honolulu .there was great excitement, especially among the Portu- don’t worry about why. the mqch decorated unit which rescued (more on page 5) As a matter of fact, if Satchmo considered his at great individual sacrifices the “lost bat­ music from a sociological standpoint, undoubtedly talion” of Texans in France in 1944. he Would eliminate some mannerisms and phrases with just the kind of stuff Connally mouths. which hint strongly of Uncle Tom. But the im­ The Advertiser which speaks for many An interesting observation! is that Connally laid it thick portant thing is that, despite this obvious weak­ dominant boss-haoles here quickly con­ on the matter of race and ancestry but did not ra.ise the, ness, as the greatest artist in jazz, he is in the demned Sen. Connally for his anti-state­ issue of communism which has been used here to keep polit­ position of having made a contribution to inter­ hood blast. What has the Advertiser got ical power in the hands of the dominant few. And the Ad­ racial understanding and acceptance of the Ne- to kick about? It feeds Mainland people vertiser is one of their chief mouthpieces. (more on page 7 J