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11 einecke IIearing Wanted War Entry Before Filipinos Here Deprived Hitler Invasion Of USSR . ' As the Reinecke hearing dragged into its 30th day Deputy Attorney General William Blatt was apparently attempting Of Dependency Aids Due to show', among other /.things, that Dr. John Reinecke had, first, changed his mind abruptly Qn June 22, 1941, about whe­ ther the U. S, should enter the war- against Hitler, and second, that Dr. Reinecke had been a writer for Communist publica- Discriminatory Law Voids : - . tions. In neither effort was he. es- pecially successful. . t. : Dr., llchiccke said that during the “Bitter Joke” Says Benefits Promised Eafiier /'’ period of the “phony war,” he had Do the children of an alien get as hungry as those of an ’ _ ^opposed IT. S. aid to. Britain, but Bishop Of T-H Act ./ that he had “changed his mind /. American citizen? Under the; present - Workmen’s Compen- i gradually” until , he had come to “The balance of power was al- / sation Law, Territorial courts are forced to rule that, hungry I ' favor U. S. action against Germany ways with. management and the / Dr not, the children of an alien may not receive the dekith i : some. months before the. Nazi inva- Taft-Hartley Act has only in­ j® benefits that otherwise might be awarded because of the ' sioh of the USSR. " sured the maintenance of the . . / ■' / / . . . : ■ ' . / - ■ ~ death of their father, unless they power.” : That’s no labor leader behind livt in the United States. Answering Blatt’s queries as to those lines. That’s the Most Rev- .. workers in Hawaii, the provision, his ever having written for the ma­ erand Bernard J. Sheil, auxiliary , ■/..ISUIIv./--vVIII gazines; Political Affairs and. New : A/-----':-;: ; J ■: stated in Sec. 442 of the law, works bishop of Chicago. Na UaHAW FurhlBv much greater ■‘discriminatory . Masses, Dr. Reinecke said, ‘‘You Speaking before the convention illV: :H : hardship than appears at f ir st flatter me. I have not.” of United Packinghouse Workers, Earlier in the ; hearing, a proce­ he said of the Taft-Hartley Act: “Wc w-ere deceived,” says Solo- Thousands "of Filipino men left dure being; carried out - by the De­ “It is claimed that the act is good mon Aki, business manager of the their families behind to come to partment of. Public/Instruction with because.it equalizes the power of ; Electrical Workers, Local 1357.-“We Hawaii after 1944 when the war- the avowed purpose; of determining unions and management. This is were deceived bvy the ‘Biga Happy time manpower shortage had made whether or not Mr. and Mrs. Rei­ a bitter joke.” Family’ attitude of the company for < plantationciwners Iran tie in their necke are “possessed of democratic Bishop Sheil has been very pro­ As THE RECORD grows, it’s minent in the Catholic Youth search for labor to. cultivate and • ideals,’’ Dr. Reinecke refused to staff must grow, too. The latest affirm' of deny that he was a Com­ Organization. . It was that deception by the Mu­ hai-vest their crops. munist because, he said, the ques­ addition is EdWard Rohrbough, tual Telephone Co., Aki says, which Nationals Now Aliens tion invaded his right. as -implied who arrived from the Mainland confused some rank-and-filers into/ These Filipinos were promised by the secret ballot./' last week and whose interview accepting . a contract that/ did not verbally, if not by written contract, Food Supply guarantee the traditional work Week. that their dependents at h o me . with Mrs. Lorenzo appears in this Now with both take-home-pay and issue. would receive full benefits of the He refused to name , any Com- working conditions threatened ' b y/ Workmen’s : Compensation Law. nrunists, with.the exception of Ichi­ the company’s new schedules. Aki : Reported, Fair Mr. Rohrbough is an exper­ says the union has voted.strike ac- : At that: time these workers and .t ro Izuka, for. the same reason. He. ienced newspaperman. In the /..their dependents :were held by the ■ ■ made the exception because Izuka Since 6,000 tons or cargo space tion,. 3 to 1,: to preserve its position. past 10 years he has been on the U. S. Governnient to be “Nationals,” has alleged that he was once : a have been- available for food ship­ : and; thus legally entitled to such Communist. • . ments to Honolulu from Vancouver, staffs of the Toronto Star, News- The dispute, which has . been pre-, benefits, but on July 4, 1.946, when In answering questions a bo ut the gulf ports and east 'coast .ports, week and the China Weekly Re­ sented as' ah .unfair labor - charge :; the Phi'.lippines Republic was de­ whether or not he is a Communist, most of the anxiety over possible to the NLRB by the union, /arises clared, both, workers and their de- . ■ food shortages: in the territory has view, and his writings have ap­ Dr. Reinecke said he felt the ques­ peared in the New York Herald- from two situations upon which, the . pendents became aliens and outside a tion of Communist. Party member­ disappeared. The quantity of ' food -union, and the company have been the benefits of the law. Now, these. ship is not relevant to the■: ques­ scheduled should be enough for a Tribune, the New York Daily News unable to agree. . : . men work in Hawaiian sugar and tion of whether or not he is loyal month’s supply for the islands. and PM, and in national, maga­ ? First, the union charges contract ' pineapple plantations at the risk of to the U.S. and. possessed of the Although no. further offers of zines such as Collier’s and Sa­ violation by the company in that leaving their families at home’ in vessels for Hawaii -bound cargoes switchmen in the outer islands have conditions of extreme privation.. ideals of democracy. . , were: reported, shipping circles did lute. \ “The; .board has no right to iri- been cut to 40-hour weeks, thus: The only beneficiaries of this a not view the situation with concern.; Prior to this he taught Eng­ allowing less opportunity for- over- situation are, of course, the plan­ quire into my political beliefs,” he The business of supplying the is- ’ /said.j/j/jjj^ lish at the University of Texas, time, instead : of being kept ■ at a ta ti on owners - who weiuld normally .■ lands from strike-free ports had’ 43-hour week the union sa-ys the be liable under the law, which reads . taken on almost the appearance of and still earlier, he attended Glen­ ville State College (W. Va.),. the company agreed upon. in part: “An alien shall, not. be normal, commercial, activity. . Second/ the- union charges that. • considered J a dependent -within the Prizes For Students ' University of Virginia, the Na­ t• raditional working, conditions are meaning.of this chapter unless ac­ Clark Sued; Listed tional University of Mexico and violated by th e ■ company’s re­ tually residing witliiii the United On Sanitation Week the University of Texas. arrangements of working schedules. States, and any alien dependent School “Subversive” Mr. Rohrbough’s war record is leaving the United States shall Some high school student will , Hawaiians who have attended the unique in that he was a soldier (more on page 7) thereupon lose all right to any be-: / win $30 for his 'theme about “What California Labor School of San in one army and was, at various nefits under this chapter.” . Impressed Me Most About the San- Francisco will be interested to learn times, attached to three others. Japanese Too itation Exhibits.”; That .. is the that Director Dave; Jenkins has filed In 1940, before the U. S. went to Copy Cat A pertinent notation in smaller . amount of the top prize offered suit against Attorney General Tom war, Mr. Rohrbough enlisted in . type follows: “Alien Japanese de- through the Sanitation Week plan- Clark for the latter’s listing of the the Canadian army and was dis­ An Un-Filipino Committee, ac- pendent upon leaving the United ? ning committee, headed by Finlay school-as “subversive.” . charged in 1941 after suffering ' c--o-r-d. ing: to a story from Manila,. . states loses all rights-to benefits; Ross, in'a contest setup in three Jenkins said the action speaks an eye injury. In 1944, he went will be set up shortly with an au- :: ‘leaving the United States’ con- > = . .groups. Other prizes range, down- /Tor all those in the academic to China for the OWI and in that thorized expenses amount of 50,000 strued; an alien widow leaving the ■ ward to $6. ■■ ■ ■ ■ world . who refuse to be thought- capacity was attached to the . pesos. Speaker of the Filipino House united States ceases to be- a ‘de- The observance /. of “Sanitation controlled and silenced by this. cam­ U. S. army and the army of the \ of Representatives, Eugenio Perez pentjenf; '>> J Week,” which will end Sunday, paign of intimidation.”. Chinese National Government. has announced that Rep. Ramon still another provision of the law Sept. 19, began last Monday. Hono- After V-J Day, he resigned from Magsaysay, now in Washington,, is which is felt to be inequitable by lularts /were invited, to inspect var- the OWI and, covered the Chi- • gathering information on the work- js timt stipulating: ■ jous. public works, such as the Ber- nese civil war for six months as , ings of . the Un-American Commit- ‘ <

Mystery Death? While the Democrats began moving' with ^ Hawaiian Summary J an early start, the Republicans on Oahu Hawaii’s “mystery deaths” got an ex­ tentatively agreed upon a near-40-ral”< planation but it seemed unscientific and schedule for the primary. They were work! Fear was a contributing factor,,it was ex­ tails when they, run over an infected spot . Ing at a disadvantage because of a laf^ not good enough to local physicians who plained. have been closest to the . scene and. work­ of. a fruit with fly larva under the ■ skin. start. They would have to check dates anil All told, 84 Filipino deaths in Hawaii ■ places so that they would not accidentally ing hard to solve the unexplained deaths. since 1937 have been classified as “mystery There the parasite jab’s its tail and lays show up at the same time with the Deni- deaths.” Victims, most of them, husky its egg. The parasite eggs'feed on the fly ocrats. After .doing this, they were to .an­ Dr. C. Manalang of the Philippine de­ young males. No women, children or old laYva. ' ' nounce their final schedule, ■. X partment of health, who studied the “mys­ people were among them. tery deaths” here, gave full meals. before Campaign Speeches bedtime and nightmare as causes of death. Malayan Parasites Babies “Psychological or functional lung hemor­ The Democratic candidates started their ■ A record birth of. 14,552 babies during rhage due to. a nightmare, sets off a chain During the war sappers detected land pre-primary campaigning on Sunday at mines. Now we. discover that Malayan par­ the last fiscal year topped the previous pf internal reactions which kill the sleeper," asites have been sappers, probably even two places—Kailuaand Waimanalo. Twen­ year by 502 and 1941 by 4,949. Honolulu he said, .. before human beings found this task neces­ ty-four candidates participated with .one, and rural .Oahu accounted for the biggest sary. ' : Mrs. Victoria K. Holt, candidate 'for dele-, increases, according to the 'territorial birth Honolulu doctors who recently met with gate 'to Congress, blasting. her party with ' statistics. While|;births have’ been on the Dr. Manalahg, voiced. disagreement. Some The imported insect sappers , are taking charges of its being run. by. the Commu­ upgrade, infant deaths have remained con­ said much more study is necessary before part in the territorial board of' forestry nists. She did not shake up the candidates stant around .400 ■ a year. With increase in the actual cause of death is discovered,. and agriculture’s campaign against; the with her Red-baiting. Men like Mayor John births expected, to continue, the kinder­ Another said: ‘‘My understanding at the. Oriental fruit fly. With long, . sword-like H. Wilson stood, firm'; and spoke on issues, garten L situation already \ over-crowded,’ close of. the meeting was that we had hot egg-depositories trailing behind them, the ignoring the red herring which could nib­ as. a problem that must, be tackled soon yet determined the cause of death.” parasites are warned by their sounding ble away at party solidarity. and expeditiously. •

U. S. Leo CAKA 60) instead of using union Wallace Welcomed longshoremen; who had been standing by ' . At the Yankee Stadium, 48,000 roared National Summary ready to unload the cargo. In a letter to a welcome to Henry; Wallace, back from . Defense Secretary Forrestal, Dorsey pointed his tour of the south. Before a crowd but that such use of Navy personnel is -■ : ’ which .the. Independent Progressive Party pledged to support. the . States’ Rights can- time; strike on the West 'Coast,' the Army strike-breaking and as ’ distasteful to the called the . largest’ paid admission political , didate, Gov. Strom Thurmond’ of South would hire its own, longshoremen to load sailors employed as to the idle longshore­ Carolina. The action, taken, by unanimous men. meeting in the history of the U. S., Wal- vote of the Louisiana Democratic state cen- . some 50,000 tons of cargo ■ vitally needed lace said he condoned “neither the Ger- for Army; operations in the Far East. The man stoning, -nor the Russian .shooting” era! committee, is one that will keep Presi­ No one has yet suggested: replacing: the: ; that occurred in the rioting at Berlin-, arid dent Truman’s name off the ballot. The' Army decision came, not as a result of any balking employers-with either Army or Na­ ■ he said it would be better for all Ameri- Dixiecrats,_ according To' their ' spokesman refusal of the ILWU to load cargo, but be­ vy personnel. A— cans if the U. S. became a “peaceirionger, in Washington, W. Austin Seay, have also, cause the Waterfront Employers’ Associa­ not warmonger.” qualified for the ballot, in Kentucky, Vir­ tion refused to negotiate any proposal that ginia, North Carolina and Texas. As the would allow ILWU to load Army, cargo. Hood River Learns Speaking of his tour, Wallace called the Dixiecrat movement grew. President Tru­ Harry Bridges had previously made it clear hoodlunjism .he .suffered less, important man decided; to abandon his plans for a • that union longshoremen, would load ; the At Hood River, Ore., they once struck than the “two dozen completely unsegre-. long tour through the South and it was : vital .cargo at pre-strike wages, under .pre- the names of Nisei from an honor roll by gated peaceful meetings we were able to indicated that he would confine himself strike conditions, but it was the WEA that action of the American Legion. ■ Last, week,: hold.” - ■. to a few speeches in strategic Southern ibalkM.BmWA/-B under’ the sponsorship of the Veterans Cities. : f Council, the town ■ turned out to honor Nevertheless, it was the- ILWU that got : Frank; Hachiya, killed on. Leyte, in sol­ Truman Snubbed file punishment, ' The Navy was in no emn funeral services. Among the hon­ Army Strikebreakers? mood. to respect picket lines,, either. At' orary pall-bearers was the Rev. W. Sher­ ■ Louisiana’s 10 .electoral votes were added Port Hueneme, Calif., President Clyde Dor­ man Burgoyne, whose defense of Hood Riv­ last week to those' of Alabama, Mississippi Army Secretary Kenneth Royall an­ sey of the ILWU. Local: 461protested the use-: er Nisei won him a Thomas Jefferson and South Carolina .in the bloo which is nounced that in spite of the ILWU mari­ of Navy enlisted personnel to ; unload the' award for the- advancement of democracy.

described as- an agent “for two foreign Nehru’s War World Summary intelligence services.”: .j The eyes of India’s millions are on Hy­ derabad where four columns of the Indian Asked To Leave a government that sounded, almost ether­ Risky Business army have invaded the independent, state eal in that it would be “above and out­ . A demand that both Soviet and Amer- : ’ up to 30 miles and were reported nearing ican troops be withdrawn from all Korea side” politics, religion, busmess and trade While , the western powers prepared to: came in a letter from the North Korean the approaches to Hyderabad city. The in­ unions. deliver some kind of tough-sounding ulti­ People’s Council over the; Pyongyang radio, vasion came after Premier Nehru an­ matum to the Soviet .Union .on the- sub­ to the: U. S. radio broadcast. The Rus­ nounced that he would send , troops, into Using the Cross of Lorraine as a sym­ sians, who proposed in autumn of 1947 that Hyderabad to quell “a mounting wave of bol, in much the same manner he once ject of the Berlin situation, U. S; Army pilots accuse Russian military pilots of both forces withdraw, : notified -the North disorders.” The real ■ dispute is between used the “Cross of Fire,” De Gaulle in­ Korean government last May that they ■ Nehru -and the Moslem ruler of Hydera- endangering: the . air-lift supply-line by cited his followers to- roars of “De Gaulle holding;anti-aircraft practice top near the were ready to leave whenever the Ameri­ bad, Prince Nazim. whO'has refused to rec- cans were. , ognize Indian ’ sovereignty over his state, to power!” air-lanes being used for the ferry job, The Nazim’s troops were reported, opposing the “To power!” the string-bean general Russians .had, advised the .western powers, ■ The- U. ,S. arid the Southern- Republic of invasion vigorously, but they were forced replied. “We are going there!” y earlier that.' such exercises’ would; be a part . Korea, the government established and . to fall back before superior numbers of the of large-scale air maneuvers ' which would sponsored by the U. S, Army, have agreed ’u-invaders, But French voters, so few years after begin Sept. 6 and end Sept. 15, that the withdrawal of: American troops : ' brutal occupation, are almost certain to . Lt. ■ Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, U. S. air. com-, will be made gradually as the Republic see the parallel between De Gaulle’s “above mander- in Europe, said?: “The Russians al­ increases the strength of its army. This is A New Pitch and outside” talk and that of another lead­ ways told us in advance what they were che army which U. S. Army officers began p er who governed by ‘'inspiration.’’, Nor. going to do. ■ And we always tell them ’ to organize,: train and arm > shortly: ’ after: . General Charles De Gaulle, who once will the De. Gaulle ; use- of symbolism be we’re going to fly anyway.” V. J. Day, when there was still no Korean headed the Croix de Feu, a pre-war party lost on former inmates of concentration At the same time, the Soviet-licensed government. Critics of U. S. policy have with an openly fasoist platform, opened camps, who used to see another sort of news agency said the Russians .have ’ pointed out that many of the officer? and ’ his campaign to return to power. Speaking cross, a squirmy one with dog-eared ex­ smashed a spy-ring in eastern Germany, men of that army were also puppet-sol- ■ to supporters at Nice, De Gaulle promised tensions, on the arms of their guards. arresting 15 persons, one of whom was diers of the Japanese.

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Thursday, Sept. 16, 1948 HONOLULU RECORD ilABOR ^dUWDOP j iacftrthiir’s Men Censor Hms On Public asks arbitration Growing jmblic pressure for arbitration of the two-week-old strike Strike Breaking of the Transit Workers Onion (Ind.) against the Honolulu Rapid Tran­ TOKYO—Gen, Douglas Mac Ar­ sit Co., was reported this week by union headquarters with the an­ thur’s censors have ordered Japan­ nouncement that over 10,000 persons have signed the petitions calling ese newsreels to delete all scenes for arbitration. showing the recent; mobilization of This pressure has risen following the rejection by the .company of American troops and Sherman the union’s proposal for the conversion of the governor’s last board tanks against 900 strikers at the of mediation into a fact finding board to conduct formal public hearings Toho film studio. : g and to .make recommendations previously agreed to by both parties' As exhibited the newsreels show ■?.s binding. t g. 1': '' k only the 1,200 Japanese police ; arid Meanwhile, the union has thrown out another proposal—in answer the disarmed army tank used to to the company’s request for continuous negotiations on its June. 2 evict ; the strikers from the studio proposals—that tine company 'consider the union’s proposals of August hi; Which they had been living since: 13 which call for a five cents wage increase retroactive to June 1, 1947, ;Aprii;;F:FFN arid another 15 cents increase retroactive to June 1, 1948. . Press Freedom Curbed The governor has' also entered the. picture—having conferred with Only one Tokyo newspaper, Sekai Arthur Rutledge, business representative of the union -for about an Nippo, dared to publish an Asso­ hour on September 13. ciated Press dispatch which report­ However, after the conference the. union’s representative indicated ed the presence of the U. S. army. that the chief executive could not do more than hope for an immediate All other papers, including the pro- settlement through the exploration of all means of settlement. . labor press) suppressed the news for fear of antagonizing the sensitive COCA-COLA STALEMATE censors, who scan newspapers after >. The situation at the Coca-Cola plant remains the same, with a set- : publication, .: dement nowhere in sight. When the strikers mimeographed j ■ Attempts of, the union and the company to settle the dispute through the Sekai Nippo story for publicity further meetings were unsuccessful. purposes, ' they received a bill for ; t In the meantime, coke machines throughout the city were practically 3,000. yen from AP. empty, back stock having been used up by this time. . U, Meanwhile, with police permis­ sion, the strikers have occupied LOVE’S STAND PAT their union headquarters in the To­ “On the CIO front, ILWU Local 150 reports still no settlement of ho studio, where the strike shows the dispute-between it arid Love’s Bakery. gg This scene and others showing American troops and Sherman no signs of weakening. All but The report comes in light of the threatening flour- shortage- because tanks helping Japanese police break a strike of movie workers at 200 of the 1,100 employes continue of the west coast tie-up. . . ■ the Toho film studio were ordered deleted from Japanese newsreels to defy the management, which pre­ Ernest Arena* union president, reported that the company has made by Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s censors. Last month the general’s cipitated the strike in April by fir­ no serious move to consider the union’s proposals for a wage increase censors barred publication of a column by Harold Ickes, former ing 270 workers, including virtually or a revised job classification system. ' U. S. secretary of the interior, calling for the general’s removal. all union leaders. The company At the same time, he said, the company has mechanized, its opera- The column ' described MacArthur as “iconducting himself like, an has since refused to accept a com­ tions to such an extent (installation of new ovens) thiat only 16 of emperor” and ridiculed the “endeavors of our number one military­ promise settlement proposed by the 48 workers now remain in the Kapahulu. plant. missionary to lead the benighted Japanese into the green pastures Central Labor Relations Commis­ of democracy.” Mr. Ickes strongly criticized the general’s edict sion. ' : SUGAR NEGOTIATIONS banning strikes in Japan. Strikers Are Solid Negotiations between the ILWU Local 142 and the Olaa Sugrir Co., Union members are using their only plantation not a party to the recently negotiated agreement, have Influx of US Products talents, to raise money and to bring been postponed until September 24, it was reported today by union head- the issues to the public. Actors and ' quarters. Napuunoa Writes Cause Austria Lay Offs actresses are putting on shows, cam­ Negotiations, when resumed, will take place on the Big Island. VIENNA, Austria—Heavy influx eramen have started a repair shop At the time of. the last meeting, the union had1 turned down the com­ of U. S.-manufactured products and and song writers have turned out pany demand for a 17.5% cut in wages with, the company doing like­ From Russia; Says lack of raw materials are reasons a special tune which is on sale. wise to the union offer of a five cents cut in wages. However, extension given for 287 per cent increase in All proceeds are turned over to the of the agreement to September 30 was agreed upon by both parties. unemployment here in the past union and divided equally among People Want Peace three months. The official figures strikers.' : from which this information is ta­ The long walkout, which affects. The people and governments of ken do not reflect the full extent the independence and quality of Eastern Europe and Russia are busi­ of unemployment since jobless work- Japanese film production as well MARSHAL FENG ly engaged in reconstruction and are .. ers are not required to register at as union rights, has received ac­ not interested in war, according to labor exchanges. tive suppprt from other unions and Julian Napuunoa, one of the four . many cultural g groups. When the WANTED PEACE, ILWU rank and file delegates (one country many a time for aid. . So strikers occupied the studio, 50 from. Hawaii and three ’ from the far nothing has been done.’ ” unions sent token delegations to mainland) who are touring European Mr. Napuunoa said the delegation stay with them periodically;; as; a . CHINESE UNITY countries on a union-sponsored trip. did not have difficulty getting visas gesture of solidarity. In a letter from Leningrad, Russia, to .visit the various countries and Since Aug. 19, when the U. S. By WALTER WARNER to Jack Kawano, president, of the, that the officials and members of army-Japanese police assault force Feng Yu-hsiang, China's “Chris­ longshore union, Mr. Napuunoa said: trade unions and the people in gen­ drove the strikers froni the studio, tian General,” -reported dead: re­ Reconstruction and Peace eral in Europe, have been friend­ theatrical workers in many parts of: ly and hospitable. Japan have struck in sympathy, g. cently as the result of a fire on a “Please inform our workers in ship: outside Odessa; was a: man born Hawaii . and also the people, that into a pattern of rigid traditions, the Russian government and its yet he broke the pattern many times people ■ are not preparing tew and usually to the benefit of the .and they don’t want any part of it. Chinese people. They want peace. They’ are busy re­ A New Type General constructing the ruins of the last For Senator... Democrat A soldier in the ranks, of peasant background, he rose, to command Prior to visiting Russia, the ■and then brought others from the ILWU delegates saw fence, Italy ranks in the first system of demo­ and other Western European coun- ; cratic promotion China’s armies ever tries, which are receiving Marshall PETROWSKI, JOSEPH, Sr. ® • - Plan aid. They also travelled through A campaigning general, he.taught Eastern European countries where his troops to help peasants and he the Marshall Plan is not in opera-, LIBERAL — INDEPENDENT \Uon.::FFStt.:F(; strove for cooperation between sol-: At House labor sub-committee diers and peasants in a country In Poland Mr. Napuunoa visited FOR : Labor, Veterans, small business ami 'professional workers; where people still flee at the ap­ hearing, President Albert J. Fitz­ Warsaw and the seaport of Gydi- proach of government, troops, ' gerald of the United Electrical, nia which were being rebuilt from FOR:. Decent conditions for pur territorial government? em- A war lord, he fought against the Radio & Machine Workers (CIO) devastation of the last war. His . ; pldyees, and school teachers; to be treated as human efforts of other war lords to en­ holds up a copy of his unions WF/lFlg (andgnot as cattle. constitution to emphasize his letter continued: FOR: Immediate statehood. slave the Chinese people and he mis­ point that, like the U. S. Con­ “Words cannot, express what the takenly: . gave away his power to stitution, it is “against discrim­ horror of war has done to this beau­ FOR: Adjustment of. taxes—reduction; or"non-payment of taxes Chiang Kai-shek when he believed ination for reasons . of race, ■ sex, tiful city, also its seaports. ■ Men. ' ; by poor people and increased taxes ior the rich. Chiang stood for progress. or political belief. Fitzgerald women and children are, working: . AGAINST; The ( reactionary Republican majority in the Senate Broke With Chiang said he -would refuse to act as practically by manpower to build of .the United Stateswho denied the: people; ofHawaii A Kuomintang official of highest “counter-espionage agent” for the city again. Much of the con­ statehood. We reject the 'thinking or “thought control” rank, a man revered in his country the committee in its probe of al­ struction work is done by organized of the fascist mobsters who;; consider that the“gooks” as the “eldest statesman,” he threw leged “Communist domination” youth brigades from all over the in Hawaii are second-class citizens when all of us hi his position and. his future to the of the UE. country.” Hawaii . are first-rate Americans. ■; ; g winds to denounce Chiang’s govern­ On Marshall Plan - . AGAi.g1H’J.’, I repeat, AGAINST: The continued domination of ment, when he found that govern­ to enter personally into the struggle - ■ Describing the reaction of Polish . ubr Terri!ory by tiie “P.1 G 5” and the reactionary ment beyond possibility of reform. of his people at home, though his people he had met to the Marshall ; Dillingham dynasty who; control the simpering (Rfepub- . While Wellington Koo, resplen­ only ambition was to see his coun­ plan, Mr. Napuunoa wrote: ggggg;g(gg.glican(gstppgesAgggO^ dent in evening dress, flattered a try at peace. After that, he often “Many have asked questions why ; paid audience at Columbia Univer­ said, he would “retire to run a res- is U.S.A, rebuilding Germany in­ sity with . talk of how Chinese are lauranl.” ' He died at a time when stead of helping his allies, during adopting western culture. General his reputation for courage and hon­ gthegwaxkggggggig'te^^ VOTE FOR PETROWSKI Edhg told mass meetings of seamen esty was highest with the Chinese “They- claim, -‘Although.;we need, and garment workers of the terror­ (people,:;!;;;;;; heavy machinery, raw materials and ism in China's schools and of the: . other necessities to build our econo­ SENATOR...DEMOCRAT brutal Kuomintang suppression .of my,we do. not want any strings at­ labor unions. For the TRUTH —' Read the tached: to it that will interfere with Finally, he decided it was time . Honolulu Record! our freedom. We have asked your HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, Sept. 16, 1948 “Can’t Pay” Says Mother; Chikhw i Fed By Public By EDWARD ROHRBOUGH feeding my children now. How ‘That’s what happens when folks do you expect me to pay you anything?” are poor.” ... Couldn’t Pay a Nickel Such was the note of resignation The Richardson . man had a plan. with which Mrs. Lydia Lorenzo It -might work some hardship on ended her story of her experiences children in swaddling clothes and as target for the W.' K. Richard­ on a harried mother, but if she ac­ son collection agency. Seven dollars cepted it, he might, get his money and a half was the amount, or the —the debt of the dead Tony So­ lack of it, that. finally brought a, mero. . . policeman to her door to drag hqi Mrs. Lorenzo says he suggest­ away from her ten children, eight ed: “Why don’t you pay a dollar of- them less than 10 years old. And a month?” the debt was not even hers, but “ I couldn’t even pay you a nickel that of her husband who died two a month,” she told him. in a state­ years, ago. ment of plain truth. .: Conscientious Mother The Richardson man tried to live Mi's. Lorenzo is a small brunette up to his word about dragging her woman who was probably rathei into court. . - . ■ pretty before the problems of sup­ , Next month, though Mrs. Loren­ porting- her family began to get the zo was expecting another baby, she .. best of her. She has lines in hei received a summons. That time she face now she shouldn’t normally excused herself by telephone, but have for another 10 years and she after her ohild was born excuses weighs less than she. should, but didn’t , save her in the eyes of the her children are fat and sassy and law. Her . baby was two months old full of laughs. when a policeman came to take You can hardly be around the her into custody on a contempt war­ Detroit's unionists pitch in to repair the damage done by a mob of white hoodlums to the home Lorenzo household at 1340 Linapu- rant. He. was a good policeman of a Negro member of the United Auto Workers (CIO). The Negro worker and his family, who re­ ni St. for long without coming to who knew that; his -duty in the case cently bought the house in a white neighborhood, h ave received no police protection against the hood­ the conclusion that Mrs. Loren­ of' the 87.50 was far- more 'sacred, lums. zo has been a pretty conscien­ than' motherhood; Perhaps his tious mother. manners left something to be de­ After her former husband, Tony sired. Somero, died back in 1946, the widow Didn’t See Warrant received public welfare help to the “He talked mean,”, says Mrs. Lo­ SHOWS FOOD SOLUTION extent of $93 a month, but after renzo, “and he didn’t lot me see " she’d paid rent of $43 a month, the the warrant at all.- He just waved Single-crop and two-crop farming toward more, 'not less inechaniza- could be pulled out immediately and. remainder was far too little to feed it around and told me . I’d have to made the South the poorhouse of tion; so that eventually such farms the cane burned over in order to the children (eight at that time) go.”- the United States. It can do the will be impoverished, able to pro­ permit early planting.... A gradual and keep her solvent. Even after For awhile, Mrs. Lorenzo threat­ same thing to Hawaii. duce, ; neither diversified ■ crops, nor planting policy might be more de­ she re-married, this time to Vic- ened to take all 10 children to jail That is the. inevitable conclusion big-profit crops, ; sirable... But eventual transition toriano Lorenzo, a longshoreman, with her, somewhat to the. con­ one draws from Grace. McDonald’s By reclamation and by a reform there must be.” there still wasn’t much money arid sternation of the cop, but final­ : article, ; “Hawaii Needs' Reclama­ of the Territory’s land policy, Miss Lieut. Denig also suggests that, Lorenzo didn’t work regularly. There ly she did take only the young­ tion,” in the. current issue of Cali­ McDonald writes, Hawaii’s depend­ by. a quota system, sugar and;; pine­ certainly wasn’t enough for her to est, the newly-born Anna Louise fornia Farm Report. ency on the mainland for food apple planting might be removed pay debts that weren’t legally hers. of two months. Fortunately, she Impoverish -Soil might, be reduced and possibly even to make room for the growing of , - Didn’t See Judge found a friend who loaned her While : emphasizing especially the .eliminated. Before' any such reforms food orops. Pineapple doesn’t require /.t That didn’t stop, the Richardson $10 for bail so she didn’t have to urgent necessity for immediate re­ oan be effected, the land monopoly, irrigation and it could be relocated collection man. He filed suit, and keep her baby overnight in jail. clamation of uncultivated land in which holds 282,467 of soil suitable on. high; dry land/Sugar production, I had her brought before the court By the time her case was called, the Territory, Miss McDonald points. for cultivation, must be broken. and In Hawaii adds to a world tonnage where judgment was. found against her husband had procured the serv­ out that mechanical methods of : diversified truck and field crop must already considered too great. her. Mrs. Lorenzo doesn’t know ices ■ of his - union lawyer, Mrs.; Har­ harvesting bn sugar plantations are be substituted for sugar and pine­ riet Bouslog, before whom the court destroying .soil. As all Hawaiians. apple on' tens of thousands of acres Honolulu’s “Kitchen Garden” much about legal proceedings, but ■ Molokai, might easily 'offer she wonders- why she never saw quickly dismissed as phony a case know, the trend on. sugar farms' is of irrigable land. as was ever used to torment a help­ It might take statehood; the wri­ a solution to Honolulu’s food prob- , • a judge. less individual. It all sounds.like ter thinks, to break the plantation lem, Miss McDonald says, and she i “I only wished I could talk to a EXPOSE PHONY offers findings of the U.S. Bureau judge,” she says. “I think if I could a bad melodrama; out of . the ’90s, exploitation system—‘the system but. it’s true and it happened right that was ruining the South- before of Reclamation to back her state- ■ have told a judge how it was, there LABOR PAPER ment. Reporting on; the; feasibility wouldn’t have been any trouble.” here in Honolulu, . the Civil War. As Mrs. Lorenzo says: “That’s INDIANAPOLIS (FP) — Phony For Diversified Farming' of a' water conservation project on She saw only'the Richardson man and. racketeer labor newspapers Molokai in 1938, the Bureau found who told her in an anteroom, ‘‘You what happens when folks are poor.” Shipping monopolies are among which damage the good name of the strongest opponents to diversi­ that for an outlay of only $5,000,000 have to pay. I’m going to keep the legitimate labor press are as­ fied farming, of course, because if enough of Molokai might be irriga­ dragging you into court till you The consumer price index in the sailed in a current series of expose Hawaii were able to feed herself ted to make, productive.10,000 acres pay.” month ending July 15 reached a new articles in The Indianapolis Star. of Homes Commission ,Lands now ■ “I can’t pay you anything;” they . would lose their tremendous high of 173.7 per cent of the 1935- : First target was the Labor Digest, revenue derived from the transpor­ growing pineapple and another 4,600 . she answered. “The public is 39 average. pseudo labor paper which has lined tation of food from the mainland acres privately owned, .while still the . pockets of its ex-convict owner, with return-trips equally profitable another; 1,800 acres of gulch land Norman Zolezzi, since 1927. '.The through cargoes of sugar and pine­ might be made available for citrus Indianapolis Better; Business Bu­ apple. “b fruits, avocados, figs, papayas, ba- : reau, .charged the . Digest is pub­ ' Miss McDonald is not alone in nanas, and macadamia nuts. ; lished, “of, by,; and exclusively for, -feeling, that -territorial-owned. irri­ Hugh Howell, who; wrote, the re­ the private purposes of Zolezzi.” gated land,, leased now to sugar and port, concluded: with,; ‘ ‘ Thus even- ■ Zolezzi, who once received a pineapple companies, must be open­ tually, Molokai could become the series of enormous checks, from ed up to diversified farming.; Lieut., kitcheri garden; for: Honolulu, only Henry Ford for trying to break James ‘Denig, USMC Reserve, wrote 52 miles away iri distance and three ■ up organization of the Ford of the sugar and pineapple; holdings to four hours in time.” , plants, served a federal rap for in the Oct. 1940 issue of U.S.-Naval .Congress still' withholds the au­ impersonation of a U. S. revenue institute Proceedings: ‘ ‘Here is am­ thority for the Molokai project and agent during prohibition. ple land,; well irrigated, close to the Hawaii food prices continue at lev- . ; The Star called him “an organizer place of greatest need, which; exmld els well above those on the main­ of .independent unions, a smoke raise enough food to support the land; Many Hawaiians realize with stack contractor 1 and .business op­ civil- population and the swollen; Miss McDonald that the causes of. portunist. The racket sheet has defense forces in time of; national more fundamental. than the cur- its editorial and business offices in emergency; : J .- both prices and shortages are much a converted hamburger stand next “If haste were imperative,” Denig rent wage, disputes which receive ’ to a wrestling, arena. ■■ wrote further on, “the pineapple the blame publicly. . ' ' ■ " . The Leader, official.'publication of the Indiana Federation of La-; bor, in a recent editorial,- called the Digest “a; notorious rag, a sounding board for employers, gullible enough to contribute to his (Zolezzi's) dirty : racket.” bwi;; , Recently Zolezzi distributed at the GOP national convention. in Phila­ delphia two. truckloads of a special edition of his . paper, called the Stop Stassen Number, published in • be­ half of Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio. To finance the publication, • Zolezzi admitted to the Star, let­ ters were sent to wealthy Repub­ licans in Ohio - urging them to contribute $500 each to Security Loan Drive bond advertising in the Digest. : Zolezzi’s “labor” paper has -fig­ ured prominently in hundreds of This float, which won first prize in the Kauai Labor Day. parade, Mrs. Lydia Lorenzo, who was arrested in a dispute involving S7.50, union-busting attempts during the represents Olokcle Unit No. 25, Kauai Division, ILWU sugar workers. together with seven of her 10 children and her present husband, Victori- past 20 years, of which Ford, Nash- Before tiie float are, left to right: Charles Furukawa, T. Kanda, Slim ano Lorenzo. When the policeman came for her, she threatened to take Kelvinatbr. and U. S. Cartridge Shimizu, Albert Banna; Robert Kuriimura, Basalio Fuertes and Frank all these and three more to jail with her. Co. were among the largest. Silva. Thursday, Sept. 16, 1948 HONOLULU RECORD page We Hitch Hiking Requires Skill Cattle Lifting How To feet ■ Day JPakes Up The Challenge drivers Are ^Touchy On Certain Subjects Quiet Kailua \ By TINY TODD "Confounded nuisance,” mumbled the door swung open. Then I saw Of Atomic Bomb it was a taxi. So I was standing at the side of Herbie, frowning. “Town oar up By BETTY ESIIELMAN WASHINGTON (FP)—If the na- the road thumbing a-ride into town for repairs. Wife off with the sta­ “No dice,, bud," I told the driver. . Shipping cattle—or lifting cattle— tion’s top planners for. an;/atomic- ’ when up came this portly charac­ “I’m flat like the sole 'of your shoe. in Kailua is unigue and fascinating. war future have their way, Joe tion wagon. ' Terrible thing, this I bought a couple of hamburgers ter alongside of me, the jowls and strike.” . It is probably the only place iri Ha­ Worker in the big city may have to body contours of him somewhat like yesterday.” : ? waii where cattle are driven into the move out into the countryside to Herbie Hoover, and begins waving “It is that,” I agreed heartily. The driver : grinned and said: water. get. a. job. That’s the picture as his arm vaguely at the traffic. I “When you think how a company “Jump in. Free ride; I’m going 'back', The ranchers outlined in an article on Public saw he was strictly a novice, so 1 can be so stubborn it will lose mon­ to the. stand.”. J t ey rather than pay a decent wage.” truck their cat- Works and Relocation of Industrj', gave trim a tip. . As I stepped ' in, the driver add­ tie t o Kailua in the August issue of Public Uon- Free Ride On Taxi “It’s not a distress signal,” I ed,. “You top, uncle. Come on in.” where they are MM struotion, bulletin of the Federal says. “It’s more of a silent sa­ Herbie’s eyes bugged out: a little '■.Works. .Agency,; '/;.■ : So I climbed in with Herbie puff­ put iii pens. Be- MM ute, and it's executed with dig­ and he began to puff in the fashion ing along behind me, but we ' no Written by IWA Assistant Ad- nity.” of a despondent porpoise, but I sooner get started than he begins fore , the; / island, MH minisi raloor J. w. Follin, the ar­ Arid I give him a demonstration of judged that to be the result of his again with “I don’t think you un­ roads were im- ticle discusses a recent report to the a slow, thumbs-up highball on a. exertions and his excess weight and derstand- about that strike, thing, proved and be- President by the Na.tiona 1 - Security Packard but the Packard whizzed one .thing and another, and ; any­ my man. The company can’t • pay. fore the majority Resources Board, to Which Follin right on by. how a car stopped in front of us and more because it’s losing money al- of the ranchers acts as FWA liaison man. i/.ready.”;;;;/;/!///*^ owned their own Follin says the board thinks “Then why don’t they get out trucks, the cattle' dispersal of industry and popu­ and let the people take the buses were driven to Mrs. ESIIELMAN lation is the only answer to the over?? says I. ..“They’d be sav­ the beach the day before shipping. atomic bomb. ing money.” Trucking saves time, of course, and The NSRB pooh-poohs under­ “Why— Why! The-buses are pri- today all the' cattle reach the /beach ground industrial plants and sur- . ate. property,” says Herbie, turning peris with no losses due to fatigue face installations of special mater­ an unbecoming shade of pink, or running away. ials as impractical, It holds, Follin “Surely you/don’t suggest national­ The Humuula, the Inter-Island WI’ites, that separate communities of izing, or socializing- that is, oom- cattle boat, /anchors in the harbor npt more than 50,000 persons each. munizingprivate property?” and a temporary corral on the wa­ With; plenty of space in between,: Pity thte Owner • ter’s edge with fences leading from are the best deal in the atomic / I came back quick with, “Oh, no! the. pens to the beach corral are set ■age. I’m just trying to think of a way up. He adds that we would still be to relieve the under-privileged .com- » ■* »■■ ■ confronted with a familiar prob­ -pany owners.” When the lighters come near the lem of providing industrial work­ “Well, ah, now,” , says Herbie, shore 10 head of cattle are driven ers with .the means, / of living a clearing his throat until his fourth through the fences to the beach normal life in a normal community chin rattled, “it’s the responsibility corral. Cowboys on specially trained on an acceptable standard of living. of owners.” horses go into the pen! arid one; cow- He warns that there must be “What is? To lose money? And . boy / ropes / a. steer and / drag s / it workers near a countryside plant then to lose more money because - (f r i g ht e n e d and struggling, of which in turn, -means immense it won’t pay a living wage?” I course) into the water. public construction of hospitals, . asked. ■The steer is lashed, by its head schools, streets, etc., to make “Well, to stop nationalization or firmly to the gunwales of the lighter. / them want to live there. socialization or . communization or ;■ While the first is being lashed, a tcrritorialization—or whatever those / second steer, is being dragged into confounded strikers want. I tell the water. The 10 steers are lashed Net income after taxes of all you, young-man, I stand four-square to the lighter—five to a side—and U. S. manufacturing corporations behind--” the,, lighter is then towed . to the in the first quarter of this year was The car. had stopped and the 'driver Humuula where the cattle are lifted 7.9 per cent more than that for the swung the door open. in ■ slings onto the temporary boat first quarter of 1947. Herbie sputtered, “But this isn’t . pens. Usually 100 to 200 heads are ■ Where I want out. This is only Moi- lifted each trip. streets with cowboys ohasing in true liili. This isn’t where I get out, ♦ ♦. ■* Wild' West style. my man.” ; Occasionally a frightened steer Lifting cattle means excitement in “Yes it is, unole,” says the driver. slips from the lasso and swims onto quiet Kailua and draws a large “T been, carrying too many of you . the/ rocks ; sometimes; an especially crowd. It proves facinating to tour­ guys too long,”. - wild one breaks away through the ists and Kona residents alike arid, Herbie’s voice went into a squeak fences and races through the. Kailua camera fans have a field day’. arid he shrilled: “I’ll pay. I'll pay good money!” “But it in a box, uncle,” says the ■ driver, shifting gears. “Tie a rib­ bon on it and throw it in your deep “Let’s shut off the air-conditioning. His cooling-off period is over.” . blue .deficit,” Prolonging Of Human Life Experiments JEith Animals Show Possibilities ; Simply by changing the diet, Dr. can be done about it. They claim One good example of this is C. M. McCay and his associates at ; that, diseases or no diseases, the hardening of the arteries. For a Cornell. University have been able body must inevitably wear out . long time this was believed to be 'to .prolong the lives of / rais a great after a certain time. an inevitable result of old age. ;dealT|>;l/i;/O /Everybody would admit that we Now we know it is a disease. In These experiments raise the all .have to die some time, but oth­ fact, very old people may have ' question, whether anything similar erwise these pessimists are ! prob­ no hardening of the arteries at is possible with human beings, ably wrong. For one thing, we know . all. not necessarily only by changing next, to /nothing about the effect In one group of more than 8C0 diet but perhaps also by changes on the length of human life of some people; between the ages'of 84 arid in some of the other common everyday things, for ; example—food,. 100 years, less than. 30 per cent had features of our daily life. jobs, .fear and insecurity. ■ serious hardening of the arteries. In this column We consider the Change Natural. To Life Span There is also a record of an au­ possibility of prolonging the span ; There are good reasons to believe topsy of a man 106; years/ old who of human life even beyond What : that a thorough: study of these and had no hardening of the arteries. would be accomplished by conquer­ . .other factors would reveal ways of Diet Lessens Disease ing diseases. prolonging! human life—just as Dr. More Urgent Problems McCay / found among rats. .. .Rats it is a very important discovery and other animals as well as hit- of Dr. McCay arid his co-workers It must be admitted at the out- .; that the rats who lived longer also set that for most people in the . mar. beings are supposed by some to have a fixed “natural” span of had fewer, .tumors and kidney di­ /world this is not an immediate prob­ seases : fha-n the : rats c n a ,regular/ lem. For them it would be a tre­ life, -But Dr, McCay and his co­ workers/ changed. the life span of diet. The possible, application to. mendous advance to conquer the humari. disease is obvious. - poverty and discrimination and rats. They not only prolonged the backwardness that now stand in the average length. of life, but many of. It must be admitted that Dr, Mc­ way ..of-using ' the knowledge we al-, the treated rats lived much longer Cay’s : longtiived; rats were /punier /redcl^iihay eja/tte^ than any of the untreatted rats, ! and less active than the others'. But . could Immediately prevent. certain Another reason vzhy //the pessi­ the. experiments at -least -show/ pos­ important diseases and prolong peo- mists are probably wrong is that . sibilities and prove that there is no pepple’s lives by /many years; ■ we do not know enough about' the. such ./thing as a fixed, natural span But the question is still an inter-, . difference between disease and old / : pf/lif'e.®^^^ esting one and worth discussing. age. / It is almost certain that many ,. The span of life depends not only Dixiecrats inspired by the Ku Klux Klan, greeted Progressive Some scientists are quite pessi­ of the changes which we now con­ on a number of diseases and acci­ partv presidential candidate Henry Wallace with, a barrage of eggs, mistic about prolonging human sider due to old age are really un- dents, but also probably on a large tomatoes and epithets of “nigger-lover” as. he attempted to ad­ life. They say-that there is a ■ , known diseases which in time may number of environmental , factors, dress unsegregated audiences in North and South Carolina dui ing “natural” duration of the life prove to be curable and prevent­ the effect of which still remains in his recent southern .tour. Splattered eggs lie at Wallace’s feet in span and that nothing much, able. be discovered. Burlington, N. C., as police captain watches the exchange. - page six HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, Sept. 16, 1948

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SABURO FUJISAKI While Mainland fan interest is still focused, on the tight major Rookie of the Year 2, with Wayne a High playing Kapaa? league baseball pennant race and the . eventual World Series, King Richie Ashburn of the Philadel­ High at Kapaa,. Two Honolulu prep Football has already taken over locally, and will continue to rule the phia Phillies, has been selected ma­ outfits,. St, Louis and McKinley, local sports roost for the rest of 1948. Upwards ,pf 80 games will have jor league Rookie of the Year for are scheduled to show on Kauai been played on the Honolulu Stadium - greensward.'" when the season is 1948, by the Sporting • News. The in November. The Kauai 135-pound finally capped on January 1 with the annual Pineapple Bowl classic, 21-year-old Philly outfielder has barefoot league will start on Sun­ A few post-season games are on the slate for early January. \ been bestowed the special honor, day. With the first half of the season—featuring exhibition, tilts—al­ with the season still in session, be­ The Kekaha Sheiks , copped the most pau, the stage is now set for the opening of the regular league cause of his outstanding play before • 1948 title of the Hawaii Senior Base­ games,- including the popular interscholastic loop. The prep school being sidelined—for the rest of the- ball circuit, with a 4-1 victory over games are the local counterparts of. Mainland college contests, mainly sea-son—on Aug. 28, with a broken the Lihue Wanderers. because of the crowd-pleasing old-college-try spirit brand of ball put hand. He had 32 stolen bases and but by the: youngsters, interspersed by the. cheering sections, band was hitting at a high. .330 clip: at music and the. downright school spirit, that only school students can the time of his injury. All-American Choice show./‘'h . mm ' Probably the season’s first pre­ Jackie Robinson of the Brook­ season crystal ball All-American lyn Dodgers, won the top rookie team is the selection made by Bill Prep School Gaines honors in 1947. Stern, noted NBC sports director, in The prep circuit, which has 30 games on the sked, ,will pry the lid the September issue of Sports mag­ off the' ’48 season on Friday, Sept. 24, with Punahou and Kaimuki Olympic Athletes Honored azine. . High clashing in an afternoon game. ..The McKinley: Tigers are the Six Hawaii athletes, who repre­ The team follows: C—Charles defending champions. . sented. the U. S. at the London. Bednarik (Penn), G—Bill Fischer The ’‘exhibition games” season has seen the local prep teams being Olympic Games during the past (Notre Dame) and Leo Nomellini stacked up against, high school , teams from Maui, Kauai and Rural summer, were honored at a testi- (Minnesota), T—Phil O’Reilly (Pur­ Oahu.. The 'fine, showings made by the. outer island teams have been : monial luncheon at the Queen’s due) and Dick Harris (Texas), E— . a highlight of these, early season games. . . Surf on Sunday. They were: Leon Hart (Notre Dame) and Bar­ Kauai - High rolled : over the' Roosevelt Bough Riders by a 32-14 Swimmers Bill Smith and Thelma ney Poole (Mississippi), QB—John count last: Thursday night at the Stadium. On Saturday afternoon, Kalama, and -Weightlifters Ha-1 Sa­ Rauch (Georgia), HB—Charley Jus­ another Kauai team, Kapaa High, put up a gallant battle, before going kata, Richard Tom, Richard To­ tice (North Carolina) and Jack Jen­ down to a 12-6 defeat at the hands of a big Punahou eleven. That night, mita and Emerick Ishikawa. sen(Calif ornia), and FB—Doak Baldwin High of Maui gave McKinley a bad time before being beat­ Walker:: (Southern Methodist). E en 20-14. Lahainaluna, always the nemesis of Honolulu prep outfits, Batting Champions bowled over Farrington 13-6, on Sunday afternoon. The Lunas have Beautiful Dorothy Wojno struts ' Stan Musial of the St. Louis. Car­ Favor Notre Dame produced top-rate teams year in and year out. her stuff as “Miss Massachusetts” dinals and Ted Williams of the Bos­ These performances by the outside island teams: have shown that Also-on things football, national­ in the “Miss America” beauty pa- ton Red Sox, led the major leagues ly. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish, they should be reckoned with by the local prepsters and not be con­ in batting, each sporting identical sidered as mere warm-up or breather teams. . ... — — - geantin Atlantic City, N. J. 1946-47 national champions are .367 averages. Manager Lou Bou­ again made the favorites to repeat. dreau of the Cleveland Indians was The Irish went undefeated the past Pro Football Opener a close second with a .366 mark. two seasons and expect to make it The two-game showing of the Los Angeles Rams of the National three straight, the first time since pro circuit, against" the Hawaiian Warriors, was probably the high WITCH-HUNTER, Kauai Sports the Rockne era. point of the exhibition season, although the fans stayed away in droves The grid season on Kauai seems They will have another great team for the second game last Friday night, following the stinkeroo per­ to be in high gear, with several despite the loss of stars like Johnny formance put on by the L. A. eleven on Labor Day. LABOR BAITER games already played; and more Lujack. Their- backfield will be The much-heralded Bob Waterfield; Kenny Washington & Co., coming up this week-end. The Uni­ paced by Frank Trlpucka, 21-year- failed to live up to advance notices. Instead, it was USC’s Jim Hardy, versity of Hawaii Rainbows beat old senior and understudy to Lu- Notre Dame’s Jim Mello, Utah’s Fred Gehrke and Iowa’s Dick Hoerner DODGES TAXES the Kauai Broncos on. Labor Day jaok last year;: Terry Brennan, who sparkled and caught the fancy of local fans. by a 20-0 count. The Brones are Johnny Paneili, Emil Sitko and The pro Warriors, paced by Joe Com and Wally Yonamine, will MILWAUKEE (FP)—Rep. Charles slated to stack up against the Ho­ Ernie Zalejski. The front wall will open their defense of the Pacific Coast loop crown against the Los J. Kersten (R., Wis.) is a “100 per nolulu Olympics in the Garden be anchored by such stalwarts as Angeles Bulldogs on Oct. 1. cent American” when leading witch­ Isle’s first night game, at Isenberg guards Fischer, team captain, and hunts, but his Americanism doesn’t Field on Friday. The Kauai In­ Marty Wendell, and ends Jim Mar­ Rainbows To Mainland look—so good to state department terscholastic loop will start on Oct. tin and Leon Hart. The University of Hawaii’s annual jaunt to the Mainland Is expected inoome tax collectors. to be one of the roughest in years. And the stateside lads who aim Kersten, whose House labor sub­ • to make things rough on the Deans are the Michigan State Spartans, committee is currently smearing the Los Angeles Women reputed to have one of the best teams In the school’s history in recent United Electrical Radio & Machine Meat Balls For years. The game will be played In East Lansing on Oct. 2. The Workers (CIO), was involved in Take Action Against Spartans beat the Rainbows 58-19 last year at the Stadium. The charges of state income evasion here a year ago. The Milwaukee High Prices of Meat Hawaii gridders will also play the University of Redlands, on Oct. 9, LOS ANGELES (FP)—Evidence Festive Company while on the coast. Hawaii edged out Redlands 33-32 in the 1948 Journal said in an editorial on Kersten Jan. 25, 1947: that the meat buyers’ strike is no Pineapple Bowl contest. flash in the pan came here when Ground meat appears several ■ The Rainbows will play- Texas Mines on : Dec. 4, and Montana Un-American Congressman delegates representing 5,090 south­ times a week on most island ta­ State College on Dec. 18, in Honolulu. No opponent has as yet been “Tax, evasion is one of the' most ern California housewives met with bles in these days of high meat selected for the New Year’s Day encounter. _ - _ un-American things a man can do. Mayor Fletcher Bowron ^and asked prices. It’s a good buy because Even worse is' the ;inan, aspiring to him to call a community conference there’s no waste. How many ways Senior League Underway ‘ public life, who dodges his just on rising meat prices. do you know to prepare ground . ’ The Honolulu Senior League, which has‘lost much of the pres- taxes.’’:;; nE; J The housewives asked Bowron meat? Barbecued meat balls are so Kersten failed to file returns good you’ll be glad to serve them tige and crowd appeal so prevalent in years past when: the games to call a meeting of unions, meat even for a festive company dinner. between the University, Town Team: and: Kamalums used to create on. his state taxes for 1943; 1944 packers, meat dealers, other in­ and 1945. After this was brought The ; best part of this dish; is that: quite a furor, got the jump on the other leagues by opening their terested groups and the pub­ one pound of ground beef will serve season on Sept. 1. Leiahuns, minus many of their 1947 stalwarts,,-are: to public attention, he paid up lic as soon as possible to map six persons. Here’s the recipe: the defending champs. in January, 1947. In a. number action against stratospheric prices. '■The senior loop games, : especially those Christmas • and New Year’s. : of earlier years, he had either Predict Costly Thanksgiving BARBECUED MEAT BALLS Day scttos against major .coast, college outfits, against the leading failed to make returns or. under­ :: Represented in the delegation (Serves Six) ...... - senior club team, and the UH respectively, were always eagerly awaited : estimated his taxes, paying up at were the Consumers’ Committee to 1 pound ground beef by fans. The 1934 holiday series is best , remembered. The.. University a later date. Lower Prices,- : the Congress of ; 1 teaspoon salt Of California .Golden Bears, led by All-American Arleigh Williams, : Drafted Taft-Hartley • - American Women, the National As­ 14 teaspoon pepper were rudely" set back, twice, by both the Rainbows and the Town Team. The congressman’s brother-in- sociation of Colored Women, and •% cup oatmeal ( uncooked) law and law partner, Ardo A. .Mc­ the Consumers’ Group of the Echo 2 tablespoons fat . Kinnon, also displayed strange Park district here. / 2-3 cup milk lapses of memory when iridome tax “Our concern is increased by a Combine all ingredients except Profits Taxed For Workers’ Benefits day. rolled around. McKinnon, it .recent Agriculture Department an­ fat and mix well. Shape into 12 was . revealed, as of January .1947, nouncement .that , poultry will prob­ meat balls. Brown meat balls in . Industrial workers, of Czechoslo­ ing to strict controls and heavy de- had failed to file any state tax re­ ablygo above $1 a pound by Thanks­ hot : fat .in skillet. While meat. vakia, says a story' from Prague, mimds for investment, 'while luxury turns for? a period of .12 years, since giving,” said’ one delegate. ■ browns, prepare barbecue saue.e. will henceforth be the beneficiaries .industries - showed huge profits. At 1935... Meat packers with whom we Barbecue Sauce of a new levy of 10 per cent of the the same time,; the need for social, Que of the most active members have talked tell us there is 14 cup catsup profits of all industrial, enterprises, .and, health protection was much of the House labor committee, Ker­ only a 10 per cent shortage of 2 tablespoons brown sugar . both. nationalized and privately- more acute in the former than in sten has, since his. election in ; 1946, meat, not enough to raise prices 2 tablespoons vinegar owen. The money will be paid in­ .-. the- latter, ;. spent the major part of his ener­ to their present unreachable lev­ 1 tablespoon Worcestershire to a central fund governed by the gies in attacking labor. Not only els,” another housewife said. ■ . ..sauce, '■•■ Centra! Council of '. Czechoslovak did he vote for the . Taft-Hartley “So it isn’t just a question of sup­ .1 tablespoon shoyu Trade Unions, ■■ US Firms Capturing act.' He, together with corporation: ply and demand, as the cattle­ 2 teaspoons prepared mustard attorneys, helped draft it. . men keep telling us.” 'Combine, all ingredients for sauce The money cannot be used for or-: Japanese Industries . Bowron promised the women he and pour over, meat balls. Cover gahizational purposes but' will be TOKYO — American .firms are would consider their request and. pah until meat balls are done (about devoted exclusively to the establish- making "considerable advances”, in­ tihued,: “a ; proof of the fact that send them an answer in a week-. At JlAEhourUMSM - ment and . maintenance of social, to control. of : Japanese . ‘industries, most major U. S. firms had: connec­ that - time, said' Mrs. Dorothy Krau§, . This recipe is from a new circu­ health and cultural institutions for the newspaper Asahi reported; here. tions with Japanese industry in the chairman of the delegation, a: mass lar, “Low-Cost Meals: With High the. benefit of the workers. : ■ Many U. S. companies, particular­ ;paSt.”,E: EbEerErm meeting of city housewives would Appeal,’.’ by Miss Ruth Nelson, mt _ .’ These decisions; says Prague, are ly in the electrical and shipbuild­ The chief attraction for U. S. be called to - inform the women of triiicnist with the University of contained .in a new interpretation , ing industries, are. offering to sup­ industrial investment in Japan is the mayor’s answer. Hawaii agricultural extension serv­ of the July 21 amendment to the ply technological aid in exchange" low wages. Workers of average Meanwhile; the consumers’' com- ice. Miss Nelson suggests that with works council law, transferring- the - for a share: in ownership;; The In- skill average $15 a week. ; . mittee, which has ended its offi­ the barbecued meat balls.you serve 10 per cent profit from- the individ­ terhaltiona!. General Electric ■ Cpi, cial boycott against meat - buying,'. rice, carrot-raisin salad, bread and ual : works'councils to : the- central ■ which already owns 28 per cent of sent letters, to scores of women’s blitter, Hawaiian kisses and holiday labor federation fund. the Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., is FOR THE' TRUTH ABOUT THE groups asking them to buy only the ;punch::::‘:SO^^ The chief reason for the' change seeking to extend its control of the cheaper cuts: of meat: and a few . - You can get a free: copy, of ‘ ‘Low-: . is that raw material industries, con-,, firm, the paper declared. - THINGS THAT HAPPEN. IN THE stituting the most concentrated and of them as - possible;, Committee : Cost Meals With High Appeal” from . Negotiations, now .going- on so far TOWN YOU ■ LIVE IN—READ volunteers ., are : distributing;.; meat. any county home agent or from the .physically: strenuous, sectors of em- • "mostly concern the revival of pre­ substitute menus outside retail meat extension service office in Gilmore ■ ployment, Showed poor profits ow­ war investments,” the. paper con-' THE HONOLULU RECORD! markets in,many partts of the city. ': Hall at the University. .' ' Thursday, Sept. 16, 1948 HONOLULU RECORD page seven

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s’ ■ i Story of the Legion” By JUSTIN GRAY and up; "We are all interested in the who does not agree with its own Legion, the results it -will obtain, NAM policies. Gray heard vet- $3; Boni & Gaer, New York and the ultimate- effect in helping housing plans called “Marxist plots/’ When World War IT broke out, to. offset radicalism.” Norman Thomas Socialists, Dubin­ Justin Gray was working on his 2. That policies and personnel sky, and Joseph Ryan of the ILA Ph. D. at Harvard. He served in of the Legion brass and the leaders called Communists in spite of their, the famous 3rd Banger Battalion of the arch-reactionary National violent outcries against Communists. and later as a correspondent on Association of Manufacturers are in­ Workirig with high officers, of the: YANK. In the Army he heard terlocking arid sometimes -identical. Legion, he found." that they, .gave .many opinions about the American: Gray-names pages of officials and serious attention to such discredited . Legion from G Is, and few of those he could find only’ two -occasions crackpots as Elizabeth Dilling,’ and opinions were favorable. After he when Legion policy differed from to race-hate peddlers Merwin K. got his discharge. Gray decided'to NAM'policy, and in both cases the Hart and Gerald L. K. Smith. join the Legion because he felt a Legion changed its view to fit the 6. . That the Legion's heirachy is heed to “belong” to something and NAM. Young-Legion officials at Na­ firmly. entrenched and has no in-, because he. felt there was “nothing tional . headquarters at Indianapolis tention of allowing. World War; II. wrong with the Legion; which more told Gray often, “Tf we make good vets an important voice in. policy., Legionnaires couldn’t cure.” here, maybe well- be moved up to Harry Moses, prominent Legionnaire His early criticism of Legion., poli- the first team—the NAM.” and. U. S.’Steel executive,, said in. . cies resulted, surprisingly, in his giv­ 3. That the. Legion often? takes 1946: “After all, this Legion is a bil- . en. ah organizer's job and in. the credit for veterans’, legislation which lion-dollar corporation. You don’t next nine months of trying, to recon­ it has actually opposed. Gray in­ just throw something that big ’over cile his ideals with, policy and prac­ cludes in this treatment the Bonus to a bunch of inexperienced boys.” tice of the Legion, he became assist­ Issue of the '20s and '30s. Richard Concluding that “the Legion prop-. ant director of the National Ameri­ Cadwallader, chairman of the Le­ Uganda machine has succeeded in canism Commission of. the Legion, gion Housing Committee, said of . the hoodwinking the Legionnaires for , arid was fired' for criticizing Legion recent housing bill. “We. don’t want three decades,”. Gray nevertheless ’policy. .. ■ any of that communal housing that determined to stay in the Legion INSIDE STORY is Gray’s criti­ the .Wagner-EUehder-Taft bill will and fight; for changes, but he warns cism, documented down to the last give us.” - - that “Legionnaires .who break up a comma. Because the Legion, with 4. . That the Legion’s heira-chy is picket line, who ban a hall to a Ne- . its glib talk of help for vets, its almost- fanatically anti-labor union. gro artist ’ or to a political speaker ■ ..“Americanism programs,” and ? its Gray quotes the sworn affidavit of. with whom, they happen to disagree, hundred other. activities, has. pene­ a New York fur; worker . who was. are stooging for - the Legion brass trated every phase of American life, asked the .following questions, upbn whose interests are not. their in­ this book seems one of the. most im- application for membership: “If the terests,? whose goals are not their. 'YOU WORKED FOR THAT NEW DEAL OUTFIT/ I’M 'portant before -the public today.;. union told you: to go on strike, would goals.’’;?;;?®’?®’’/o?®® NOT HIRING ANY FOREIGN AGENTS/” Gray, presents strong; evidence— you go? If the Legion told you to Gray has drawn a portrait of 1. That the Legion was originally break tip the . strike,- would you do storm-trooper, brown-shirted Naz-, financed by ’. Big .Business arid not; it? If the Legion, by authority of ism, with , ’.a ’ ■ red-white-and-blue, through ’any particular good-will its executive officers, ; told .you to cockade in its cap.£One hopes . toward the vets of World . War I. break up a strike in some other line,; enough Americans see his picture ’ Nathan Higbe, purchasing agent of not the fur line, would you do so?” in time. - . ' Swift Co., wrote in 1921, in a let­ 5. ’ That ■ the; Legion considers ter soliciting, contributions of $10,000 “Communist” and radical anyone E. R. PHONE COMPANY By WILLIAM STONE (from page 1) Television Is Coming ■ Along; Under;-old schedules, t h e union ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND BUCKS maintains, week-ends were allowed, WALTER DILLINGHAM avows that $100,900 will be spent in his as overtime, but the new schedules behalf during the primary and general election campaigns ... so it was ■ Meantime Tortures Audience would reduce overtime ’opportunity i; ■ ■ stated at a party in DOC IHLL’S Hilo mansion a few days ago. Doc by making week-ends, or parts of and young Walter were really buddy buddies at the drinkfest. Speak­ There are times, as in the . case. a turkey of a bight up with the them, regularly scheduled working ing of big money, THE HAT (Montie Richards) will spend about as much geewhattascrap technique. days. «. of television, when Hawaiia-ns ; can ; - '♦ * . . money: this year for the mayor’s job as he did in 1946 .:.. However, this time it: won’t be so obvious. - . ’ L thank their stars they are more According- to the findings of the | than two thousand miles . from the Baseball’s not so good because the camera can’t follow the ball through mediation board, Aug. 3, the com­ I : Mairilarid. Mainlanders who live the air and the runner on the bases pany insisted that the changing of GHOST WRITERS S close enough to soirie metropolitan at the same time. Football’s a lit-, schedules was the .“prerogative of centers land who are foolish enough tie better 'because the ball doesn’t ’management.” The union contended ; That speech by ’VICTORIA K.: HOLT (who will be low candidate a to lay. out upwards of $500 for the move so far so often. that NLRB rulings have done. away on the totem pole, comes the primary returns) at the Waimanalo Demo | privilege, are tortured daily by corny, But .except for sports, television with any such prerogative oy er rally, was not written by her. Authorship of the Bourbon-baiting- tirade j television ’ shows in a manner that still has a long way. to come, and working conditions. Tire company •has been credited to several.., Best quip; yet on speech is: “The voice makes soap opera-sadism almost hu- ’Hawaiians may,, be -glad it won’t also pleaded financial hardship be- ■ is the voice of Holt, but the words are those of Berman.” . | ' mane; Of course, they 'asked for come here' till it’s worn, out ; a lot fore the mediation board, and the? I it and what they got is good’enough of sad shows on Mainlanders—and -union- answered;; with charges ; that h for them, but the: ’ threat' doesn’t until it’s a lot cheaper. - the company spent excessive funds “Hamilton Ware" and Hugh W. Lytell, managing editor of the mom- . | end there. . ®®® on its executive machine. ing ’tiser, are one and the: same. The’ “open secrete” is a standing joke; . “Why. -riot? cut the guy that gets ■among the ’tiser, staff. ’ ? . ’?.’ . { A Mainlander who wanders into the most?” asks Aki. “Why destroy 3 , his favorite, bar for a glass of beer: the little guy?” I’ is apt to find ’the. restful atmos- Movie Shorts W. C. Avery, .Mutual’s $25,000-a- : tips . phere of fatherly bartenders, dis- . year president, said that manage- ’ ’ | cussions of sex,; sports, and /politics, Duke Kahanamoku, ’one ’- time / ment and' management personnel. If a certain past commander’ of the American Legion doesn’t stop a and ; loud-mouthed, ? ’p Olympic swimming champ and sher­ will operate Oahu telephone ex­ popping off' about beuig a veteran of the two last bloodbaths, someone J , drunks entirely gone. Instead, the iff of Honolulu for the past ten- changes in the event of the strike; is going to reveal his war record. Actually, he was a CIVILIAN ambu- 9 ’lads are all sitting quietly at the years, returned to Hollywood for a ’ for which no definite' date has been ' lanoe driver in World War ‘ I and a CIVILIAN ordnance technician in ■; bar. nursing, their drinks in sinister big.’role in “The Wake of the Red ’ ■named. ■ the last holocaust. He is not even; eligible to be a member of the ’Airieri- 1 . fashion and training their eyes on Witch,’.’ his first movie appearance ’/:cari?Leg-iori./:?/’5;/;:.;:k?//’;?;/:;;ri;B:/?/’/’:’/:/y5;W^^^^ y a -little screen in a little black ’box since 1929. !■' at an end of the room. » - » » FILIPINO AID Robert A. Davis, former first lieu- . (from page 1) ’ GEORGE (The. Crib) LYCURGUS, who recently won the Terri­ The atrocities committed by that tenant tin the army, has been signed then appeal for compensation tin- ■ torial cribbage championship, will retire from active competition next ' box are almost too awful to relate, : to ’play ’Sunshine, .the Negro pal of ; der the WCL. Or if they fail to year. : Intimates say the genial Greek will, donate a perpetual trophy j They’re excellent examples of what ■ Nick Romano in the movie adapta- ’ secure; compensation under t he //fpr/future/cohfests.?-;??;?/’/:’///;®:’/®’??’®?;^^^^ ; killed vaudeville, Men ’ with, funny tion of the best-selling ’hovel, ’ WCL,? they bannof? them to faces leer and mug Out of the little “Knock On Any Door.” ■ Nick is, bring a successful civil suit., ’ box in a manner that might send played by John Derek, former para­ . .. .This? limitation, local attorneys.. The Advertiser’s editorial of September 13 practically begging for ’.anyone to a psychiatrist, at the trooper. . say, is unparalleled in most of the financial support in the: form of advertising from, business firms, will H , same time cracking ’jokes that had states on the mainland, and be­ be a flop-a-roo. Advertisers are interested in CIRCULATION, not ; ' I better died stillborn. Women; with Walter Winchell will narrate the . cause of it plantation owners ’ fre- . editorial policy. So says ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation). -ri- skinny Iggs and bulgy, derrieres- kick, prologue of “Sorrowful Jones,” the quently encourage ’ appealing de­ out of the box in routines your kid Bob Hope version of, the Damon pendents to seek compensation: un­ . if’: sister could improve. The Main- Runyon story foriherly called “Lit­ der the WCL instead df taking FBI agents are as thick as flies at Civil Liberties. Committee meet­ ■ ® ’ lander can turn his back and sit tle Miss Marker.” their cases into court where' they ings. Many a federal sleuth is taken for a “liberal, pink or red” because - ?® facing the other way, but he still, » » • » might win much - higher judgriients.. of attending Civil Liberties rallies; ' han’t dodge the’ voices and the Charles Laughton one day last sound effects which; have only the week finished “The Bribe” at MGM . OVERHEARD .’effect, of proving television, still and within an hour was headed for ■ | very young, Europe on a plane out of Hollywood, “TOM O’BRIEN will give a week’s pay (?) to find out where the .< ;:. If the’Mainlander’s lucky, he gets to do “’Pile Man: On the ' Eiffel facts came from that were used by the RECORD in reporting publica­ S’ , sports and if he’s a fan, he has a Tower” in - Paris. His partners In tion of “The Plot to Sovietize Hawaii.” :’’?.?:??';;?; i real advantage. Joe Inuis may look this one will be Franchot - Tone arid ? .; too . chunky in the ’little box, but Jean Wallace ’ who, last week? also, ’ Know What You’re Talking ® ? when he knocks a man: down: with became the ex-Mrs. Tone. IMPARTIAL ri a' left hook, the observer can see it About — Read the RECORD was a left hook’and not the. upper- The .1948 return bn . investments tchtro IZUKA testified during the Reinecke hearing- that he had '-;'■’ cut the radio announcer called it. for 528 corporations ' was 18.8 per ' discussed' his pamphlet, ’“The ’Truth About Communism in Hawaii,” / Also,. television' has ended the time cent contrasted to 16.3 per cent for with School Commissioner John Owens many months- ago. Owens says when radio,aimouncers could build .the same period in 1947. .. ■ he can give the Reineckes a fair trial-—and then hang them, huh! THE HONOLULU RECORD a point of view Koji Ariyoshi . . Editor Published every Thursday at By W. K. BASSETT ------— 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu She Went Feminine to Phone 96445 I see by the papers that the Republican Party SUBSCRIPTION RATES: naively still'considers the State of Maine- a baro­ meter. With Congresswoman Margaret Smith 1 year (Oahu) ...... $5.00 polling a top-heavy vote for United States Sen­ 1 year (Other Islands) ...... ,...... S6.00 ator back comes that old slogan: “As. Maine —Includes Airmailing— goes, so goes the nation.” 1 year (Mainland) ...... ?5.00 The truth is that, in the past. 16 years, as Maine goes,so go . a couple of other states in the gen-? era! election. In 1936, if you remember,-as Maine went so went Vermont. TWO AGAINST DEMOCRACY And beyond those two Of the field of campaigning candidates, states so went no others. two last week indicated a singleness of pur­ If the Maine vote this last Monday is as ac­ pose, though they represent opposing par­ curate a barometer as ties. They are Mrs. Alice Kamokila Camp? the Maine vote in Sep­ bell, who opposes statehood for a number tember has been for 16 of incoherent reasons, and Mrs. Victoria years, the Democrats K. Holt, who opposes immediate statehood will sweep the nation. because, apparently, she needs all her en­ Mrs,' Smith’s top-heavy vote can best be explained, ergy for fighting' the “Reds.” another way. She is a ' Mrs. Campbell would seem to have been personally popular wom­ in cold storage during the war, for she an, I understand, and 'by -that I mean popular with < views the “Sunabe Affair” with alarm and other women—than whicl fears Hawaiians of. Oriental descent be­ tog whicher in feminine popularity. .The resul cause they might be “pressured” into sup- 'was that last,: Monday she got all the Republics - porting—Russia in the event of a war be­ votes in the state--and all the.female Democratic- .. votes. . tween the U.S.A, and the U.S.S.R. -. : As Maine goes — so what? She ignores the findings of intellingence agencies—that there was no sabotage or ► looking backward spying in Hawaii by island-born Japanese- Such Talk, Joe, Such Talk! — Americans. She objects to our sending a .Our .Delegate to Congress, Mr. .Farrington, in “colored” representative to a Congress that ■ his campaign for re-election, seems to be hang- discriminates racially, ignoring the lesson Women’s Fig ht For Jury Duty . ing his speeches ’ on, the line: “Vote Republican in. eliminating--racial discriminations Ha­ in Hawaii to be assured of Statehood.” Women of Hawaii have conducted . but such a deflated pressure on- Joe, of course, - bases this line on his pretend­ waii should teach her that the mixing (a qUarter-century. of planned cam- . Congress : can hardly be ■ expected ing to be sure that the next Congress, will, be thor­ of the races ends racism. . paigns and struggles ■ to ■ achieve to bring the desired result. . oughly Republican that is, a Republican major-, Mrs. Holt initiated some of the most equal fights to. serve on. juries, but The campaign by the League of ity in both ' Houses, .particularly . in the Seriate, unusual campaign tactics we’ve ever seen thus far . they have been-: over-. ■ Wompn Voters has been .effective at Actually, Joe knows there is nothing certain about whelmed by opposition and' they times. In the late ’20s the lower ' this at all. Joe knows, if he reads his own news­ by (1) spreading dissension in the Demo­ still are discriminated against. ■ f house of Congress passed .the meas­ paper and takes a peek at Newsweek and Time cratic Party; (2) inviting union members The Territorial status of these is­ ure that provided for the service of occasionally, that the outlook is growing clearer to vote en bloc against any candidate rec­ lands makes this equal-rights fight women on juries in Hawaii.' ;: day by ■ day for a Democratic Senate. He knows all the more difficult, for only by the In 1930, again the issue reached also that it is not. any' certainty that the Repub­ ommended by their leaders; (3) doing her consent of Congress can women in licans :-Will control even the. House. utmost, apparently, to make sure she Congress. -Before Senator Hiram Hawaii sit on juries. : -- i Bingham, chairman of the Senate Arid Joe also knows that the Republican can­ couldn’t possibly be elected to any office A.. stipulation in the Hawaiian' Committee on Territorial Affairs, didates for Congress are running on a platform :in Hawaii. Organic Act states that: ‘to.;.; no would take action, he wanted the that promises . statehood for Hawaii some time in person who is not a male citizen views of the Bar Association of Ha- the dim; distant future. . . of the United. States and 21 years wall. ; of age1 and who cannot understand- The word “eventually” doesn’t mean next CHINA INTERVENTION ingly speak, read and write the Eng­ The Honolulu Advertiser of Dec. week, or next month, or next year; it means lish language shall be a qualified 23, 1930, reported: after the last card is played. It really means, General MacArthur, according t o juror or grand juror in the Terri­ “By a vote of 45-6, the Bar As­ in the minds of most Republicans in the Sen-r­ “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” is cur­ tory, of Hawaii.” . sociation of Hawaii at its .meeting ate of the United States, never, never at all. rently meeting an important emissary of To Remove One Word yesterday, placed the stamp of its On the other hand, the Word; “immediate”in disapproval on the bill now before the Democratic, platform means ; just that or, if Chiang Kai-shek in Tokyo in secret con­ . To delete the word “male”, from Congress which would grant wom­ Section 83 of the Organic Act, the you want to be conservative about it, it means versations that ‘‘may have far-reaching en the right to sit on trial juries in in the very near future. ; :? reverberations in Far Eastern affairs.” women in Hawaii carried on. mag­ this Territory.” nificent fights,, from < the ; mid-’20s. Tn the issue of the previous day And Joe knows, too, that he had a Republican . This latest development requires ap­ Understandingly, this struggle grad­ the Advertiser stated: ;' Congress the last time and what did he make of praisal in the light of a recapitulation of ually became a .major political is­ “The pros claim generally that it? He couldn’t get his statehood bill out of ths U. S. pronouncements and U. S. activities sue after the women won: their right riot only do women make good Senate;: Committee and this despite -the fact that :.'tb‘Vbte.<:; jurors elsewhere but that they will he was able to show that the citizens of Hawaii in China. ' The campaign to allow women to- be equally efficient here, ■ and that had voted overwhelmingly in 'favor of statehood., 1945. That was the year of V-J Day ■ do jury duty has been spearheaded ’ furthermore, jury service is a right ; '; Mr. Farrington, a Republican, has tried, his hand and the year of President Truman’s ve­ by the . League of. Women. Voters \ that woman, through . acknowledg- ; with a Republican Congress and he failed. There hement protestations that the U. S. would who have from time to time, ■ sub­ merit of her. equality with man in is ,a better chance that he would succeed with . not interfere in Chinese internal conflicts. mitted resolutions' to the Territorial other matters such as the franchise,, a. Democratic Congress. There is a still better legislature. asking. ■ that; women , be should be. given, by statute, vi chance lor success by a Democratic delegate before; . 1946. That was the year General Mar­ permitted to serve on juries. -. “The cons, on' the .other . hand,; a Democratic Congress. shall spent “mediating” the Chinese civil Tn 1931 when the Women’s Legis­ are firm in their statement that war. It was also the year the U. S. sent lative Council of Hawaii was pre-: jury duty is just that and not a ' Another Problem for Joe ’ more military aid to Chiang than during paring to adopt a resolution to this Dghri”;;ll;‘:;::;toi:to^ the entire war against Japan. effect, in a benevolent manner. Sen­ Answers Questions . When Delegate T’arrington asks the people tc ■ 1947. The U. S. Army set up training ator George T. Cooke spoke to the: A few, days, later the League .of , vote Republican in Hawaii to show, as he says, group On legislative procedure. He Women Voters took half of the edi­ that we here are. upholding true Americanism schools for Chiang’s troops. It was also the : advised them to use “tact and pa- . torial page in the Advertiser to es­ - as against some fancied 'wave of a Communist year Chiang slaughtered thousands of For­ : tience” with the legislators. . . tablish their position on the issue . epidemic, he poses a particularly amusing prob­ mosans. “Lawmaking involves: two differ­ through its questions and answers.. lem for himself. ent, arid often conflicting phases,” Question 18 was: “Are women too 1948. This is the year the Republican he counseled . the women. “.They emotional?” Delegate Farrington knows that the bul­ tom-tom beating has forced Truman to are principle and policy. Measures Answer: “The weight of opinion ' wark of the Republican- Party in Hawaii—the are often submitted based, on a very • moneyed interests of Merchant and Bishop contradict former statements and admit expressed by judges experienced in and Fort Streets — are unalterably opposed he “never intended the Chinese Commu­ high principle, but. the author, does the mixed, jury is to the contrary.” not always- take into consideration : Question 13: “Would the home to statehood. ' He knows that the lip service nists to-have a part in the government.” the question of policy which affects be neglected.?” ■ of the Chamber of Commerce for statehood Though the Republicans have not put the legislator.” Answer: “No.” . is talk—and nothing else. He knows that - The policy was obviously : keeping the Big Interests of Hawaii, which control it literally into their platform, they make The League posed questions and the Republican Party and fill its campaign no secret of their desire to intervene with women from the jury. box. Even answered all of them. as late .as 1943; the Territorial legis-. It is tragic and .ridiculous that in chest, are represented in Washington by men American combat troops. In 1947, Sen. lature did: riot act strong enough this modern, civilized world our and money doing their utmost, and quite suc­ Brewster said that if MacArthur were put to bear pressure . on Congress to women must go to this extent to. cessfully, it seems, to defeat statehood. in command in China, he would “leave ' change: the wording in the Organic. serve- on juries. Mothers and wives ; b y Mr. Farrington’s star Washington reporter, nothing but dead ■ Communists south of who enjoy the confidence of their quoting- Marquis ChildsonavisittoSenator Weak Stand children and husbands, who play a Butler’s state of Nebraska, said, on the front page the Great Wall.” On April 19, 1943, the Territorial principal role in shaping the lives of Mr. Farrington’s Star-Bulletin, that the mon­ The American people have had almost House of Representatives passed on of men, are still not permitted to eyed interests of Hawaii are fighting statehood. no chance to express their opinion of the third reading HJR4 which memor­ sit in jury boxes. Prejudice and It’s a peculiar and, I should say, rather un­ China policy. Is it possible that the Re­ ialized Congress to amend the Or­ not sound judgment keeps husbands comfortable position Delegate Farrington finds ganic Act to allow women in Ha­ and fathers from changing this himself in today. Nationally,, his party says -to publicans are competing with the Demo­ waii to serve on .juries. - But. this:; provision of the Organic Act. hell with statehood for Hawaii. Locally, those who crats to see' which will push us into a full- measure drew more “ka-nalua” Arid this restriction seems out of control the Republican Party say to hell 'with state­ scale war against a people who threaten (doubtful) during : the voting : than place in these islands where worn- . hood. And Mr. Farrington tells the people to vote us about as much as did Orson Welles’ any measure submitted, to the House eri are - serving as judges and at­ Republican tor statehood! during- the session. The House fl- ' torneys and doing a bang-up job of ■; It’s a good Trish mulligan and .Joe Farrington Martians? ... . nally passed the measure by 22-6) :>;it.;-;:.w':S:O5;;v is in it up to his neck! . .