Democratic Trend Continues; Turn Sharpest on Hawaii HONOLULU CORD I (Etie Democratic trend in Hawaii­ The Newspaper. Hawaii an politics became fixed this week; two years after the landslide which- VOLUME IX ^O. 15 SINGLE COPY 10 CEW*»* X, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1956 was viewed particularly by Re­ ---- ;---- Mb’ A 7 ? - -ri_ _ publicans as a “one-shot deal." feaf ' Oil Sv. V& 8 In one race only, the territorial Democrats took a major loss, that for the House, and their legis­ lative program apparently will suf­ fer. With an 16s to 12 lead in the House; they cannot over-ride a Pacheco rampaign GOP governor’s veto. They need 20 votes to do so. Last year they lacked enough votes i n the Senate to override a veto. In this election'the Democrats picked up three. additional mem­ bers in the Senate, making the count 12 for the Democrats and 3 for the Republicans. Ten Demo­ Workers Unpaid crats could override a veto and (more on page 2) Tell T.H. About Waikiki Tenants Like Landlord, But Sabihon-Who Don't Believe He Deserves $7.50 Hike Yasugi Yamaguchi, landlord of Likewise, they thought Director Admits Knee Paid a number of rental units at 176 Soares was somewhat abrupt and Paoakalani St., is a pretty con­ unsympathetic to their arguments Bill (The Knee) Pacheco is be­ siderate landlord, tenants say, but against the increase. ginning to find out how much of they don’t believe he was entitled “Tough-Job” a headache politics can be. to the $7.50 raise in monthly rent "I have a bough job,” said Soares - After conducting an elaborate, he was awarded last week by C-O commenting on this complaint, “I hardhitting campaign in the pri­ Rent "Control Director Oliver C. have to tell these tenants and land­ mary election against Mayor Neal Soares. lords the facts and I might as well Blaisdell—which garnered him only. Some of them came away trom tell .them plainly, 4,252 votes—he is now dragged in­ the hearing without having fully Some of the tenants,-neverthe­ to a hassle about campaign work­ understood what Soares had told less, didn’t quite comprehend all ers who say they weren’t volun­ them—that if the appliances and the facts Soares told them, even teers, but expected to be paid at furnishings aren’t up to standard, though his words in the minutes least '75 cents an hour. they should complain to the rent indicate he spared no effort to ? ■ They don’t claim Pacheco prom­ control office. (more on page 7) ised them anything, but they say Stanley M. Sabihon, an assistant in the campaign, did. They say they never got the money. One con­ Atmosphere Varies from Glee To sequence is . that they have filed a' complaint with the wage-hours claim division of the territorial Gloom at Different Democrat Hq. department of labor. Pacheco told the RECORD this By Staff Writer for the Burns campaign' and the week, “I gave Sabihon the money. Taro years ago wax plenty broad downstairs ’store-front that •* I don’t know what he did with It.” of parking space 1M- front of Jack supplemented on election day as a Sabihon, contacted at his home Bums’ campaign -headquarters on place for storing large signs and in- Wahiawa, admits Pacheco gave S. King St. the night he lost to lunches for campaign ..workers were him the money, but it was not Betty Farrington by a margin that all crowded. Among the faces were enough. amounted to the decisions of 440 many of those who had sat through “Pacheco had a budget for voters. the tenseness of the close defeat $3,Q00 for a campaign,” says Sabi­ But Tuesday night down on Nu- two years ago.- Tonight the tense­ hon, “but he gave me $1,885. I am uanu Ave.- where ^ere^is agood ness on those faces was replaced consulting my attorney." deal of off-street parking beforts with smiles of victory and every­ Volunteers or Hired-, Hands? the building whereBurns has his one had a wave and a handshake Another confusing circumstance headquarters this year, the auto­ for everyone else. is Sabihon’s claim that, while mobiles were sandwiched in : all : \ Relaxation Came Easy spaces and lined up along the There was nd occasion for tense­ (more on page 2) street for a block on both sides. ness now, for as the returns began LWl Everybody loves a winner. coming in, Burns jumped to an The. three upstairs office rooms early lead which grew and grew Will Star-Bull that have served as headquarters (more on ’page- 3) Factors That Made Continue Pearson IS THIS THE KIND OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS YOU WANT? "Malarky"? Jack Buras’ Victory Will the Star-Bulletin drop Drew Pearson’s column, "Washington By Special Writer vailing. in the organisation during Merry-Go-Round,” now that it has John A. Bums reaped the har­ this election season contributed played such an important part in vest from thei seeds he sowed in Immensely to Burns’ victory. the election defeat of; one of the . winning resoundingly the dele­ In political campaigns of recent paper’s most important stockhold­ gateship race from incumbent Del­ years on populous Oahu, the Demo­ ers, Del. Elizabeth Farrington? egate Betty Farrington. crats were divided over the mayor­ Jack Burns, who defeated Mrs. The Democratic Party—with alty race and the inner party Farrington while. receiving the . n_e_w__er_ e_l_em,__e_n_t_s _a_n_d_ _f_re_s_h ap__p_ro__ac_h_ fight In the primary continued in highest vote of any candidate for —which Burns played a major part' the general, election, thus hurting delegate in Hawaii’s history, made i_n_ _b_u_i_ld_i_n_g_ _I_n_ _th e past ' d' ecad- e—- the overall campaign of the party. wide use in his -campaign of a swung the votes to its. top candi­ And to go back further’, the split column in which Pearson reported' date, that of delegate to Congress. in the mayoralty race resulted her as being “jubilant” at the de­ Party Unity Helped from a deep-going factionalism in feat of Hawaiian statehood in a In 1954 Burns almost made the the party caused by personalities. Congressional committee and delegateship when the tide turned Those who were responsible for quoted her as saying it was one Democratic in a territorial land- factional fights were not as active of her happiest moments and would Slide. He lost by about 880 votes on the political scene or were not insure her reelection. after. carrying five districts—all around his year. ■ They include The column was not used by the except one, the populous Sixth. Harold Rice, Ingram Stainback, Star-Bulletin and in defending wl THE PUBLIC BE VMEN^!!- Ernest Keen and Frank Fasl. herself’ against Bums' use of it, This week Burns set a record for Mrs. Farrington said she was mis­ THIS IS A SAMPLE of the barbed leaflets circulated, apparently by votes polled in the Territory by a Close Race in Fourth quoted and also called the column desperate Republicans, in an effort to oust the Democratic majority on candidate for delegate to Con­ Thus, on Oahu where Burns “malarky." the Honolulu board of supervisors. Another showed caricatures of .the gress. His vote was over 4,000 high­ needed additional votes, his cam­ Now the Star-Bulletin faces a supervisors like pirates carrying away swag in large sacks. Still another; er than the record set by the late paign \iras less hampered by dif­ peculiar ohpice. Either it continues was a facsimile nf a Derpocjatic. slate .with “Ex-Communist” labeled Joseph R. Farrington in 1948 when ferences within the Democratic to print "malarky” for its readers, across'the names of Richard Kageyama and Noble • Kauhane. ByWed- he beat Burns by 3 to 1. Party. In the past he was involved! or else it drops a feature that has nesday noon, however, the counting of the ballots showed the political The growth of the Democratic deeply in such matters as terri-: strong reader appeal. Which will count on the board was the same as before—five Democrats and a Party and the degree of unity pre­ (more on page 6) the Farrington paper choose? single Republican. 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EDITORIAL COMMENT CHURCH7-WELKER

REMEMBER "BIG JIM McLAIN" Herman Welker, ''four-square . different treatinent. jOne was McCarthyite” senator from Idaho asked |f he “would be .willing to Mike Fern, editor of the Garden Island, is to be com­ who may be part of the Eastland submit to a lie-detector test on committee’s expedition to Hawaii, any of the questions that I have plimented on the campaign he started on Kauai against a is remarkable among the Red- asked you or any of the other movie which would otherwise have perpetuated an old hunting fraternity for his ques­ committee members ‘ have asked libel on Americans of Japanese, ancestry on Hawaii—that tions about the religious beliefs you here this afternoon?” they aided the forces of the Japanese Empire in World War of his .victims. To the same witness, he blurted II. AU residents of Kauai and of the whole Territory, be they Welker, questioning the owner out: “You do not need to sit and of a North Carolina- book store, AJA or not, owe him a debt of thanks for his stand. asked him if he -had “ever been identified with a. church.” He Judge Robert Morris of New also asked the man if he had be­ YoA city, chief counsel for the The producers of “Jungle Heat,” the movie Fern at­ -subcommittee, wrote almost two tacked, owe him thanks also, if they are farsighted enough longed to the Progressive Party. Of another witness at the same years after Sen. Welker’s ques­ to realize it, even though they had referred their script to hearing, Welker bluntly demand­ tioning quoted here: the Defense Department which did not “disapprove.” ed, “Aire you an atheist?” “I cannot estimate the number ■ With a third witness, the fol­ of times I’ve challenged a skeptic Honolulans can hardly fail to be reminded, by contrast, lowing exchange took place: to show us. in the record when we “Sen. wether. Any church?’ ever asked a'witness for his polit­ of the weak-kneed attitude of most editors on Oahu in ical views or his ideas or his re- 1951 when another movie, equally libellous and more damag­ “Mrs. ZELITAN. No. I’m Jew- Ugiojis beliefs.” ing because of the Korean war, got nothing but huzzahs and ish. Don’t you read your own com­ the red carpet treatment when made in this city in 1951. “Senator WELKER. Did you mittee’s hearings, Judge Morris! That movie was’“Big Jim McLain,” which starred John go to your synagog? “Mrs. ZELITAN. I go "to the dodge all day. I don’t mind your Wayne in a wholly imaginary story of “Reds” who plotted WANT DUES CUT—Members. of synagog on . occasions. dodging most of the day, but-all to overthrow the government, who sabotaged war work United Steelworkers. Locals 3432 “Senator vVELKER. You don’t day----- ” through labor unions, arid even raised cultures of germs by and 1276 are shown in Pittsburgh go regularly?” To another7 witness: "Irving, which to spread the bubonic plague. tinning thumbs down-on a pro­ None of the witnesses gave of the many witnesses I have ex­ posed $2 a month dues increase. Welker the obvious answer; It’s amined here I see in you some A protest committee is seeking a honesty and some decency.” Instead of being blasted for proposing a movie that- special union' convention to re­ none of your . business/ purported to show' the vilest treachery in. the shadow of peal the hike voted at the last Welker, an Intellectual bantam­ And for still another witness convention. (Federated Pictures)' weight among the senators, felt Welker had this retort: Diamond Head arid behind Waikiki Beach, John Wayne’ and so 'intimate with one of the “Mrs. ZELITAN. Well, I be- his team received-the praise and participation of such" citi­ “friendly” ■ witnesses, the notor­ lieve in peace. I would like to zens as Dr. Joel Trapido, University of- Hawaii, Red Mc­ ious professional Matthew Ovetic, see peace at airtimes. that - he often addressed him -as “Senator WELKER. That is the Queen, Advertiser sports columnist; P.: Y. - Chong, the res­ Tell T H. About “Matt.” . Communist line, is- it -not, that taurateur, Lucky Luck, the radioman, Ralph Honda, the very they believe in peace.”' businessman, and Akira, (Sunshine) Fukunaga; once an Im­ Sabihon-Who “Hostile” witnesses got portant figure in the 442rid Club., date for delegate to Congress,- re­ Admits Knee Paid Democratic Trend gistered the biggest gain among John Wayne even got-’the fullest, cooperation -from: Chief outside islands. There too,--.the Dan Liu who put the police department and its facilities at (fromjjage .1) 4 Continues; Turn formerly Republican board,, of su­ the^ disposal of the iftovie-rtiakeri without even shoeing some of the wofkers’ were sup­ pervisors will become Democratic- the script to. the police coriiinission. t>an'Liti-:sAvedl! the posed "to be drawing ; Wages, ’ five Sharpest on Hawaii controlled next year. -.vjy2 who’liave’-filed the. complaint with movie-ma'kers thousands'i£.\dbllars‘.in; to 6f - - (from page 1) . AU the board of supervisors, .in ' the departmentlof ildbor were sup­ the Territory will be, Democ^iic- a vicious -libel on toe'^eo^le . df Il^wSif,. and Iferit.-. flMher the Democrats- in this campaign credence to their libel ^^^ph.e&ihgiri'the'Show himself. posed--to be-’ volunteers;? -• ’- • " controlled come January/ ' Th nod But there was tibuble 'getting just concluded concentrated on the chairmanships of the boards .'will -'money -for those -supposed-to get Senate race to get the necessary not .change...... ' ;„A . .. There were those -whqriaaw: the. maft'ef Iri- its- trije,. light wages,- Sabihon' says. The .workers, number. ... . and spoke out against it, but the dailies were too fascinated -most bf them- o^ ^ilpjri^ The Republicans' registered a Democrat Anthony Baptiste :wbn by the idea of having movies made in Hawaii,, or too petri- tten7, wg-(iid,,^e^p telling gain in-the Fourth-. District the Kauai chairmanship and De­ m i. t. 4. < « 4.1. -Xi . x -u x-u n «4 wages, and I JbadKto'whistle for Houte n race-iwliere they • increased mocrat Eddie- Tam was., reelected fled fby hysteria of the tim$, to, hear- them.^ ^Evfg the^Star- the money.” > their number from one to three. ■ chairman of- Maui -county; On. Ha- ; bulletin, which has the . .. One day (during the three,week It .was- the fourth .District, .House ' wail James Kealoha (R);:won-frpm statehood issue, couldn.’t see editorially thg picture . period. of. -'the?; campaign, Sabihon race which' ^bunded ■ the- R'epubli- his. Democratic opponent/-Thomas would., hurt :Hawaif’sH(^p^ said .he got tired, of . whistHng'and cans’'deeply -in- the - last ..election, -■"M. Cunningham, by. /about- -750 wrote a- note to..th;e campaign mah- when.-, .five -out of six . seats .-were votes.- ager,: Toshi -.Kameda, saying jf .the wom by.Democratic newcomers.- In - In one of the hardest fought The late John H-.. Wilson,.'toeri ?mayor\of;.H^ /mongyAfor." expenses couldn’t be pr r- e.v io■ us e. le. cti„o ns,' , th_e ■ mR e*p ublicans campaigns, incumbent -Mayor Neal S. 'deafly. He said, “If-T^Wdfe a Congressman and ;saw-a movie raised; the project■ might hs-well be - had. carried-all six .seats.,..:. S. Blaisdell (R)- defeated ’ ‘his- op­ 711ke that, I would vote'.'gainst statehood.” • ■ • " ■ _ ■ abandpn.ed - - On’-solidly Democratic'Kauaij-the ponent WiUiam C. Gannatta-in a Kameda gave -the-note to Pa-' ^Wleahs made'headway in this close race. ■ checo-and. the -proprietor of the election; They . won . two-"House The biggest upset in an-- indi­ Even Oren E. Long/.-then. Governor.of? Ha wan, never Oasis Cafe smiled, .and.toldhim it seats out of four which formerly vidual race was the defeat of Leon quick to take a strong view of a hot issue,-answered a com- " -wereall Democrats. On Maui, the Sterling Sr., -city-county clerk; by would b^ taken care of .. Democrats lost one seat arid on' Ha- a political newcomer,- 25-year-old plaint by saying he was “disturbed” by What he heard of Sure enough, aJjtt]e_later at the waii they -gained’ one." ; / S- . Paul , H. O. Chung, a civil' service cafe, says Sabihdn, Pacheco gave -- . r. ■ the movie, and Sam King/, then, serving' on various commis­ The ILWU votes i appeared-;-to .. woiker. Sterling, a veteran of 40 sion^ ^‘unfortunately, a community can’t $ue'fo.r libel.” him $1,100; "Later .after more, whist­ have, had a strong bearing ori'the . y- ears o. f government service who ling, "Pacheco 'gave him- $400 more. election. On Maui incumbent ".'icd-all'candidates in votes polled in - And once he- got ■ $385' from the House member David K. Tras"k Jr. the 1954 city.-county election, ap­ But the dailies. couldn’t hear these dissents and they campaign . treasurer. ■ So' that failed-to. get the 'union’s endorse­ parently lost support when- he re- were reported only in- the' RECORD. There were voices brings the -totab to $1;885;‘ ment.-He lost. On-the bther' hand , fused to; accept Chung’s ? nomina­ Tire complaint' to the labor, de­ tion- papers on alleged " technical . from those in less powerful positions, too, hut of course the partment- doesn’t worry ■ him;- Sa- the ; union’ endorsed Marques . dailies couldn’t hear,, them either. Calmes. 'a Republican, and he won. grounds. Sterling’s vote also suf­ bihon says, because '’"it involves The ■ union played indepehdefit pol­ fered from- constant- attacks di­ only a email amount—a little over itics.-. ... ■ ■ ... : rected at him by the Star-Bulletin. Dr^H. I. Kurisaki, blasted the'police commission for U hundred- dollars'.” • The Democratic trend took -the On Oahu where such 'a' Demo­ okayingji, movie like that'-withoUt? knowing anything about ? •! But he’s a -little disillusioned strongest turn on Hawaii this elec­ cratic veterdn suffered defeat-'ffbm Sabout poll | cs arid politicians and tion. There’John A. Burris, candi- a youthful Republican', the De­ it, and he blasted dver his Japanese-language radio program; especially2 Pacheco,' arid he' says mocrats shewed ' strength " in the Two. units-of the 442nd Club passed resolutions against Jhe S8dly.^iSregret very much that I "Biirout, and we gave meals to the Senate race where' they. won‘ all movie and sent copies-to county and territorial officials con­ beqOfifei-'Associated with ' his . -com- workers here ’ at the Oasis. Would three seats in the contest. pany? we have done- that if we thought cerned. So did the,Kalihi-Palama Community Council, and ’filing Accurate? they were -working lor wages?” so did the Hawaiian Homesteaders Improvement -Club of [fcates there ;may be trouble -On election day, when the work- During the first nine months of Kala^hine. . . . - rtjiole thing for -The; Knee erS ’ were- supposed to be at' the this year, 199 Arabs were killed in for,-. according txo- his-- -m--e-m---o-r-y>.., Pa- booths, the'Oaeis' prepared -600 border - incidents as against only • fcheeo 'filed an account of his ex- lunches to s6nd out air over the 58 Israelis. Israelis were murdered Biit their protests were reported, .only in the RECORD. penses dftting only $1,600-And Sa- island. mostly in small-scale assassina­ The dailies of Honolulu had nd editors .with the courage and bihon says, after- all, " even though ‘‘The trouble with Bill,” she says, tions, etc., Arabs in large-scale ye- vision shown by Mike Fern on Kauai last week. As might it wasn’t enough to pay the bills, ‘is that he’s too good-natured. He prisals. be dxp&fed, “Big Jim McLain” turned out to be a very poor Pacheco paid him mote than that. gave-Sabihon.too" much money and Pacheco wasn’t available when he shouldn’t -have done it.”' ' movie by anyone’s standard. It was slapped by Mainland the RECORD called to ask more If Sabihon is disenchanted with critics and theatergoers stayed away in droves. questions,, but; Mrs, Pacheco had Pacheco, the same thing goes right HONOLULU RECORD some’ Ideals . on the subject. . She back at him and double in spades Published Every.Thursday Maybe Mike Fern has taught Honolulu editors some­ says her husband not only gave from Mrs. Pacheco. by Sabihon 'money, but also gasoline “We’ve learned a lot about him Honolulu. Record Publishing thing, as .he has moviemakers. The dailies, at least, have Was charged against the Pacheco since then,” she says darkly. “We__ Company; Ltd. come to their senses enough, to report the facts of his cam­ acount' and the workers ate free Shouldn't have had anything to 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu 14. IE. paign, and the makeri' of “Jungle Heat’- have agreed to at the Oasis..' do with him.” Entered as second-class matter May leave out the libel andikeep their movie closer to believable 1 “We 'thought' they were volun­ Politics makes strange friends, 10, 1949, at the Post Office at Ho- teers," shfe says. "I thought Sabl- perhaps, but it also makes bitter holulu; Hawaii, under ttie Act of situations. "Hon was just' volunteering to help enemies. March 3, 1679. Free Diabetes Test NOVEMBER 8, 1956 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 3 To Be Out Nov. 11-17 Headquarters ...... ;"'t~T Diabetes as a leading. cause of (from, page 1) . quarters were, like Sen. Heen, resident civilian death in the Ter­ chiefly preoccupied with mathe­ ritory jumped from eighth to;sixth to .a proportion that made ir-ap- matical margins. The Democrats place in one year during 1954 to parent that, no matter what kind were winning generally over the 1955. of a vote the GOP stronghold in Territory, but ho one knew by the Fourth District would give Mrs. exactly how much. Because half of the people With Farrington, it would not be enough diabetes do not know ‘they , are to defeat Burns. Gloom at Clerk’s Office afflicted ■ jvith - the disease until they are seriously ill, the Diabetic Among the familiar faces were At City Hall, where ballots are Detection .Drive of the Honolulu many as unfamiliar to the Burns brought in and results officially County Medical Society is’'Con­ workers as they apparently were reported out, there Was something ducted yearly.' . : ta one another. But the newcomers of tragedy in the air. Leon Ster­ ■ ?’■T ' -vJJv' were welcomed with the same easy ling, veteran clerk was, himself, The free detection tests will^be f?ieridliness as everyone !>else, and running behind and the lead of conducted from Nov. 11 to 17 < this they beamed ' at the blackboards his- young opponent, Paul Chung, year. MatenalTor\the test, wlll>‘be arid' chatted about the results and continued to increase. distributed free , at drug stores-and enjoyed refreshments 'with°2?as other -locations.as m previous-ybari much gusto as any. \ ■ The clerk, himself, usually much The maenal ■ for the test is ostlled in evidence election night; -wa&'not Dreypack; - Those taking the; test ' With the Burns' margin having to be seen, arid his two stout sops, take it ■home-with .them- tojpro- climbed'at one point to nearly 15,- Leon Jr; and- Wayne, answered vide a - sample for the medical 000, a tall woman thoughtfully re­ queries about him. There was. much . test: ! moved one of Mrs. Farrington’s sitting and waiting and little work campaign ribbons from somewhere, to be done for hours as the ballots The number of patients with about her person and laid it aside ta Hawaii’s biggest election in his­ diabetes admitted to Honolulu hos­ on. a shelf to ignore it for the tory slowed down work of counting pitals during 1955 according- to — rest of the evening. at the pdlfs, arid employes of the ethnic gortips include: ■ office sat and stared iridodily ahead. . Burns 5 Same In Defeat Hawaiian ...... 139 At one. desk, a girl in a bright Caucasian ...... 138 As for Burns, himself, there was blue dress slumped over with her Japanese ...... 136 little to distinguish betwen his at- h--e--a-d-: -i-n-- -h--e-r— arm—:s —in; —an -a-t-t-i-t-u--d-e-- -o-f Chinese ...... 68 titude ta his first victory at. the either weartaes or despondency. It Filipino ...... 61 polls and his attitude in defeat. was easy 'for an observer to inter­ Korean ...... ; 1 17 As in defeat two years ago, the pret it as. a symbol of the latter— Puerto Rican .. 17 man who now becomes Hawaii’s and of the whole office. Negro ...... first Democrat to be elected to Con­ gress since 1930 was Tuesday night There was many a harsh word moving here and there among his for, the Star-Bulletin, which has Is the FBI a political police? workers, shaking hands, thanking carfied'bn a long campaign against Here’s an exchange between the each and in general bearing him­ Sterling and which, it appears, has legal adviser for the 'State Dept, an excellent chance of getting and the late Sen. Homer Fergu­ self as he had two years ago. son of Michigan during a hearing back ino the city’s advertising re­ RUSSIANS SEE BOTH PARTEES—Three Russians in the There were, of course, import­ venue- with the election of young four years ago.. ant differences in the things he Chung. “Mr. FISHER. ■ Senator, as I United States, to observe bur. elections .are shown as they said. Then he told workers they'd . understand it, the FBI investigates visited, headquarters, of both parties in Washington. At done all they could and they should The Democrats won generally, Senators arM? Congressmen only tpp> they are greeted in the Citizens for Eisenhower feel proud of their effort. but not all the Democrats. when they -have evidence of a vio­ lation oflaw. offices. At bottom, twp of the Russians (1) are met at Tuesday night he was saying. “Seri. FERGUSON. 0h, no.. You Democratic headquarters by Sen. John Sparkman (D., 'You won it. I didn’t.” Portland Papers are entirely wrong, for they do it Alai) (r). Man second-from-right-is interpreter. for pollcal reasons on direct re­ ' 'r. ci.O i;:d ,:i {Federated Pictures) Otherwise the ehlef difference Blackout News of quest of the Attorney General and was in the-number of reporters and the White' Route.” photographers around him seek­ ing . statements and pictures. The Morse Endorsement Nearly 200 medical Students at Another Hot Time for C-C Heads Moy Star-Bulletin led the field with PORTLAND, Ore. (FP) Support­ Cape Town •'•University,South ; three reporters and at least one ers of-Sen. Wayne Morse :(D.Ore.) Africa, passed a' resolution on Oct., Bein Offing;Mayor-Board TiltSeen cameraman. More people were call- had to take paid advertiSeflientu 17 condemning the, recommerida- . Inr constantly on the telephone, in-The Oregonian and The Journal tidib by- the .South- African'Medical and that-made the reporters’ job Assn, that blood for .'transfusion be '' Now that' the! election is over, . office were all Wilson appointees. to bring readers a news story that, C-O department heads, at least This time, all have been appointed harder.' had been suppressed by both pa­ labeled' "white” or. “black” accord­ pers, . The Oregon ' Labor Press ing to the race ofthedonor;•' •1 those appointed by the mayor and by Blaisdell. They Include EEngta- •Down in the store-front, the man : charged. confirmed by the board, have tehdent of Buildings Frank Lewis, at the blackboard grew so ex­ Lil Abner is now the subject of started on the uncomfortable peri­ eer Yoshito ; -Kunimoto,. . Superin- hausted with writing up favorable This was the news that Mrs. new musical comedy. od of sweating out the. months un­ Attorney Norman Chung, Prose­ results and aloha, and one thing Jjifford Pinchot, widow of the man til they know whether they’ll be cutor George St. Bure, Dr. David and another that he slumped over who founded the U.S. Forest, Serv­ reappointed and confirmed or not. Katsuki, heading the department in his chair and slept. No one ice, is supporting the reelection of With, a board composed of six of health, Oliver: C. - Soares, rent minded. There were plenty of vol­ Sen. Morse. ‘ -Democrats and , a single Repub- control' director. Fire Chief Harold unteers to do the writing as^the Ilcan, and with ac Republican may- C. Pate, Controller Ij'ftul Kgppeler results kept coming in over the ’ ; Mrsj Pinchot's endorsement of / || ■ ; or, nothin is ; certain. Recalling the and Administrative Assistant Har-_r. radio. ’ Morse. was considered newsworthy • g hassle,'that. -'developed between ry Stroup. s‘. eyerywliere: but .in Portland; the; - Mayor Blaisdell and-the board o- ver. ,. . What would liAppeif'^the bbdrd' • . Reserve- at Headquarters ' labor'journal said. It wasifeatured 'ii exactly,thtMiaipC‘problem two years jet t^e mayor -tohnw it prominently in. The New York :| ago, department- heads wonder fnwr to confirm ony ot thrte? CWm At Democratic Party headquart- Times and The Washingion Fort. « what the attitude of the board will attorney says he thinks Mhey < would , erson King and Smith Sts., the In Oregon, the story was printed ® be this time. ' . continue to operate without ap­ .. atmosphere was somewhat more ta The Salem . Statesman, The Two years ago a compromise was pointments and .without, confirm­ reserved. There were losers among Fendleton East Oregonian, The li ation on a de facto basis. Another the winners there, ■ and listeners reached after some months of dead­ Medford Mall Tribune, The Coos .fl lock, during which the board re­ thinks the positions ■mjght be de­ concerned themselves over the Bay Times" and other papers.' fl clared vacant.. ■: . ■;.rJ . growth of Republican strength, in fused to confirm certain appoint­ This is the statement from Mrs. I ees of the mayor and the mayor the legislature, In the Fourth Dis­ Pinchot which the two Portland fl In that case, the ihayor' might trict end on Kauai. papers blacked out: fl refused to appoint department continue to' operate the- depart­ “The 85th Congress and America 9 heads the board sought. ments: through first deputies, as Sen. Heen sat seriously pon­ as a whole would be poorer with- fl Strong Trio Still There Mayor Wilson once did. jWith the dering figures arid interminably out Morse. Morse’s opponent, ex- 1 Three members of the mtjority C-C attorney's post when he, did­ writing new ones. Candidates Secretary of the Interior McKay, -I that caried out that action are n’t want to make Frank McKin­ minglqd here and there, checktag is a man whose actions in office 1 still on the board, these being ley, then first deputy head of the their own results and commenting prove not only that he failed to 1 Sups. Noble Kauhane, Matsuo Ta- department ;and the . OOP-domi­ on others, doing their best to show understand what conservation fl kabuki and Herman Lemke. Rich­ nated board wouldn’t r confirm no emotion other than the spirit means, but that he fundamentally 1 ard Kageyama, though a Demo- anyone. else. of aloha they have been exuding rejects and opposes its basic phi-. 1 crat did not go along with, the . In any event, .there could be toward their fellowmen for weeks. losophy—that the natural resources. I majority on the appointmenta, al­ another, hot time In City Hall over of the country belong to the nation 1 ways favoring confirmation for the issue come Jan. 2. Campaign workers were not so as a whole, and. are to be. pro- fl Blaisdell's appointees. stoic. You could tell by looking at tected for the greatest good of the. fl a campaign worker whether his greatest numbef for the longest , - - . . .. So far as the RECORD could as­ candidate was. behind or. ahead. time.” POSTING .BOND—Angelo -lhciso, certain, members of the, - next WHAT’S HAPPENED TO . the (Sen, Morse was reelected in under Federal indictment.-for, mis- board, do not at present have, any plan that the DPI talked about Asked why he had chosen Frank spite of opposition by Oregon’s handling $42Q,267 of an “empioyes clearly, formed- intent at the mo­ .sQjmudh a few years ago, to draw Fast to make a radio statement big business press.) » Welfare- fund” of the. Allied In- ment. It was indicated,' though, up it^ .own course of study on the ■ for th‘e Democratic Party, instead dustrial Workers Upion Local 286, that the old-and .new-Democrats siibject of communism? Why did ,, of one of the party officials, Joyce ------:---- —------is shown.-porting,.bond-,ta"a\Ghi-- on the board .will meet in some sort, ’ It ueclUe to use, instead, the East­ Roberts, pineapple public relations Washington has set up -a-, bill- . ,.cago conrt.aftpr Ms.•uraenden’In­ of caucus before they take office, land committee’s handbook on • the man assisting with KGMB's broad­ board display depicting the pur- ciso is charged with collecting the and perhaps before too many, Communist Party of the U.S.A.? cast of the results said simply, poses and methods of Eisenhower's sum from various firms for the weeks elapse,, to consider this and —which, to put it mildly, is dry “Everyone else seemed too busy.” "open skies” proposal for check- “welfare fund,” under ■ threat of other matters. ■ going for teen-agers. Is there a Ing armaments, and is shipping it a strike. His union was expelled The .situation is considerably shortage of ability in the DPI, r And it was true. Even at a late overseas to some 200 cities in 57 recently from the AFL-CIO. different this time from two years Is the department just playing it hour, Watchers at Democratic head- countries. (Federated Pictures) ago. At that time, those holding safe, politically speaking? VAGE 4 HONOLULU RECORD NOVEMBER 8, 1956 OOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOQOOOOOOOOQOOO Eastland, the Racist Sports World By JOHN E. REINECKE of the Negro race.” amalgamation results. (Note: Yet half an hour before he had said: On June 29, 1945, Sen. Jataes O. “Cleanliness? Self-improve- “Everyone knows that the races Eastland, present chairman of the ment? Plenty of water? No. Why? will of themselves live separately’.’!) By Wilfred Oka Internal Security subcommittee, Inferiority. The people simply do Step by step, yard by'yard, at­ rose on the Senate floor to take not have the creative genius and tempts are being made concertedly 00000000OOO0O0000000000OO00OO0OO0O0000000000O0O0 a leading part in the fight against ability of the white race.” by the Hillman group, by the CIO I setting up a permanent Fair Political Action Committee, by the Employment Practices Commit­ Then came the senator’s big Negro Walter White’s organization tee. And he put his racist views oratorical flight: The Shrine football benefit game which helps to raise some, of (NAACP), by the Communists, and the riioney needed by the Shriners to maintain some portion of hospital, frankly and squarely on record. by various other groups, to tear us "Mr. President, a man bereft of work has been used as a classic example of what might happen if down, and to bring political pres­ the Hawaii High School Athletic Assn, goes through with the re­ First he attacked the record and racial pride is weak. There is sure to bear, through appropria­ morality of the Negro soldier. something wrong, with him. I say solution passed at its organizational meeting. The resolution in itself tions for agencies such as this, to is not intended to end cooperation on the part of the HHSAA with “The Negro soldier,” said East­ frankly that I am proud of the destroy the white race in America. land “was an utter and dismal many of the good charity benefits that athletics has helped along white race. I am proud that the in the past years. The resolution, as we see it, was intended for a failure in combat in Europe. When purest form of white blood floWs “Thank God, Mr. President, I I make this statement, it is not critical evaluation of the place' of athletics in the high schools and a in my veins. I know that the do not subscribe to such a doctrine. statement of the basic belief that athletics should be returned to the from prejudice. I am not preju­ white race is a superior race. It You can take your FEPC; you can diced against the Negro.” has given us civilization. It is res­ enact your permanent legislation; campus. ponsible for all the progress on you can strike down by law every Here the record reports: earth. When we lose racial pride, safeguard, but all the fires of hell There is no doubt that a -number of the charity benefits will “(Laughter in the galleries.)” when we tear it down and destroy cannot force the people of the suffer and the charity committees may have to look for other methods 'it, as the Commnnhb, the CIO, South to permit the crossing of the to raise money for their favorite charities. Perhaps the work may The “unprejudiced” senator and other radical organizations color line. As a southerner I am be harder to raise the money than through sponsorship of athletic and minority groups are attempt­ proud of racial consciousness . . . events, but the over-all outlook is not as bad as it is blown up to be. ■went on: ing to do in this country, America As a Senator from a Southern The justification that - an athletic event is for sweet’' charity does will be destroyed, and the end of State, I am proud to uphold those not make the means and all of the attendant activities the right thing. “Negro soldiers (in Normandy) our civilization will be at hand. doctrines upon the floor of the We believe that the sincere members who make up the HHSAA have would go to farm houses and hol­ United States Senate, against the looked into these and Qther matters pertaining to games which may ler ‘Boche! Boche!’ as if they were “History has always shown that radicalism of all the negroid groups affect sweet charity and after looking them over as they affect the looking for Germans, call the men when races are brought in close from New Pork, Philadelphia, and schools and students they have taken this firm stand. of the families out into the yards, contact one with another, unless other metropolitan areas of the and hold guns on them • while they are absolutely segregated, East.” they went in and assaulted the This is only one of the methods of cutting down the emphasis women members of the family.” placed on athletics until, as in many areas, athletics have been “wagging the the dog.” The sane, sensible approach of inany educators “There happened recently an­ in athletics has caused a hue and cry in iriany circles including many other thing about which I think alumni, but the best thinking of teachers as well as parents is that the American people should know. athletics must be returned to he campus. It was not American Negroes who were involved.... However, all races As for charity including the Shriners Hospital, we believe that have certain racial characteris­ even if the Shrine benefit game is no longer available to raise a portion tics, wherever their members are of the money, the ability and ingenuity of the Shriners will enable found. I relate this incident to them • to find other ways of raising money for their charities. Pro­ show that the Negro race is most moting and sponsoring a football game is not the only way. assuredly an inferior race. —PRO BOXING is enjoying a lengthy sleep with hardly any activity "I was informed by generals or any article on soriie of the personalities of the game. Included in and high ' ranking Government this apathetic period is the lack of activity on the part of the pro­ officials . . . that in the city of motional team of Sad Sam Ichinose and Ralph Yempuku. With Stan of Stuttgart, when the French Harrington turning into a so-so attraction' in his last three fights, Army moved in , several thousand Boxing Enterprises, Ltd., has decided to sit this period out. The belief Christian German girls from good of the promoters is that right now as long as they don’t promote, families were rounded up and they don’t lose money. That is simple logic but with a monicker like placed in the subway, and for 4 “Enterprises," it seems that thig promotional firm hasn’t lived up to or 5 days' they were kept there and its reputation for derring-do. criminally assaulted by Senegal­ ese soldiers from Africa. It was one of the most horrible occur­ This time it isn’t the demands of the fighters that are holding up rences of modem times. White the smokers, but the policy of waiting it out at this period on the soldiers would not have been part of the promoters. There are rumors that here may toe others guilty of such-a thing.” who are looking into this phase of the game, but it looks like mostly talk with no definite promoter on the horizon. Augie Curtis 'who (To which anyone who has manages somehow to get others to bankroll him, hasn’t come up with read military history can only any new sugar daddy. Others‘mentioned as interested in also pro­ say, “Oh, yeah?”) moting seem merely to be looking on to see the lay of the land. In the meantime the promotional team of Sam and Ralph will most Then Eastland got down to the likely sit the season out. The activities of the holidays and King question in hand, namely EEPC: GIRLS SET CROSS-COUNTRY RECORD—Tpny Colde- Football in our midst will keep the firm in hibernation. The rule, of “We are dealing with an inferior way, an official, congratulates co-drivers Beity Skelton the comrirission about promoting at least once a month may haunt people, and yet we are discrimin­ (at wheel), of Detroit, and Caroline Russ, of New York, the boxing scene but anything at this time of the year is forgivable. ating against the white soldier, after they set a new record for a transcontinental auto After'all, let’s blame it on Santa Claus! in favor of the inferior person, and under this measure we are trip from New York to Los Angeles. Tiieir time was 56 IT IS INTERESTING to note from reports coming from Kauai giving the inferior person a pre­ hours, 58 minutes and 32.9 seconds, driving a new 1957 that the movie script which purports to show the fifth column activity ference in securing employment.” model. (Federated" Pictures) of Japanese here in the Territory will be deleted or re-written after protests of veteran groups and others. The name of the movie in "Colored Man and Jap” shooting now is “Jungle Heat.” Because of the “heat” put on The senator from Mississippi more showing evidence of drink­ by Kauaians, the original casting of the top villain will be changed from blackguarded the forces back of Traffic Accidents ing at the time they were involved a movie type Japanese to have a Caucasian play the top villain and the FEPC measure, calling Sid­ in accidents. fifth columnist. We understand however that there will be Jap­ ney Hillman, labor statesman of anese in the movie who will play secondary roles as villains. Ac­ the Roosevelt administration, Show Downward Fewer Servicemen cording to the Hollywood format there must be some fall guy and in' “Comrade” Hillman, “one of the Five fewer servicemen were in­ a movie of this kind, a group or a group of persons inust take the leading Communists in America volved in the week’s acidents, and rap. Hollywood has done a good, job in building up a “type” for the 12 today.” He cried out, "We are Trend on Oahu this figure reflects something of year old mentality most of the movies are beamed at. The type is the placing Communists over every With the week’s total of traffic a trend, since 26 fewer servicemen hissing, bucktooth, tricky, cunning, myopic, scraping and bowing,' chrac- business and every labor organi­ accidents on Oahu at 96 by last have been involved in local acci­ ter which was developed out of the nightmares of some script writer zation in the United States.” He Sunday, the C-C traffic safety dents than at this time last year. who was weaned on some of the Hearstian spiel that was ground out ran through the personnel in the commission, could report a de­ Officials would like to believe day after day about the "yellow peril.” FEPC offices, emphasizing the crease in number of accidents of the trend is in part the result of Negroes and the Jewish names. 12 as compared with the same eforts of the service to inspire more JIM GRAHAM who qualified as a member of the US track team At Detroit, he commented, “So week last year. Yet the whole to­ careful driving and more responsi­ as a pole vaulter voluntarily withdrew after an injury he suffered in they have a colored man and a tal for. this year was still two bility ,on the highways among their the Olympic trials didn’t quite heal sufficiently to allow him to give Jap there.” above the total for last year at the personnel. his best as a member of the squad. Graham vaulted 14 ft; 8% In. to same time—4,546, The proportion of servicemen In­ qualify but in recent weeks he felt that he could not do justice to the "The white Anglo-Saxon is the. volved in local traffic accidents team if the Injury held up his best performance. Therefore he con­ forgotten man in America today,” In last week’s accidents, 14 more persons were injured, however, than is startlingly high—1,316 having sulted with Coach Jaimes Kelly and voluntarily withdrew in favor of said Eastland. "He is discrimin­ been involved In Oahu’s 4,548 total Bob Gutowski who was the alternate. Coach Kelly was quoted as ated against, he’ is mistreated, In the same number of wrecks last for the year. saying that Graham’s action was one of the finest sportsmanlike and we have a couritry which, In year, the number reported Mon­ day being 52. gestures that he had ever seen and that “he voluntarily dropped out my judgment, Is owned—lock, Italy’s Communist Party has because he felt that our team’s performance would better with Gutow- stock, and barrel—and run, by Deaths are still nine less than pledged itself to seek “an Italian skl competing at Melbourne.” minority groups and for the bene­ last year at this time, though one road to socialism”—without vio­ fit of minority groups . . .” person was killed last week, and lent or illegal methods. At the A sidelight of the practice sessions held by the American team one the same week in 1955. same time, it has promised ‘that was-the fact that Bud Held, the javelin ace, who was hot a qualifier A great part of his time, East­ Property darnage was $5,198 over its 2,000,000 members will have a on the team, has been beating all those who qualified on the American land devoted to a tirade against the figure for the same week last far .greater say in running party team., However, Coach Kelly is of the opinion that while this may be the Negro republic of Liberia, “a year, and two more persons were affairs with much less direction so the team members have been up to their qualifying marks In prac­ typical monument to the capacity charged with drunk driving, seven from above. tice and that he could not remove them under the circumstances.

Through A Woman's Eyes HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 5 What Do Our Children Read? JOKES WERE NOT AS co gives every evidence of having as in the recent campaign ' as \they intelligent views and being as well By AMY CLARKE riots; and a boy’s fattier is never perse­ have been in the past campaigns, informed as any other commenta­ cuted for his political beliefs. Leon Sterling tried a little, what There are, to be-fair, some exceptions,' with simply campaigning on the tor. In fact, maybe he has an If you are a parent, you are probably proposition that, “If I don’t work, edge on most^of the professionals. concerned about the amount of comic-book and I would like to list these for you in a I don’t eat, eh?” . And a little later, But students in local schools get reading your youngster consumes. future column. Among the junk on the he offered himself on the marriage a little irked after they’ve spent Sometimes I wonder, though, if the stuff library shelves you can find some very block to any lady with a million years being told their pronuncia­ fine collections of fairy tales and folk lore bucks. Sterling might have talked tions are inferior to Mainland the children bring home from the library about his long record of service, standards, to run into ’.teachers is much better. of many countries; thrillingly written sci­ and he did an outline of this in­ wh®se speech varies so far from Children’s minds are keen, alert, in­ ence books, histories, and honest biogra­ formation on his literature. But the standards they’ve been taught. quiring. They are ready to challenge any­ phies. he’s too light-hearted a fellow to Sooner or later, if they travel about be grim about a race, even when the Mainland enough, they discover thing. THEN WHY BE SO CONCERNED about he knows it's a serious ^one. that every section has its own dia­ Because they are so eager for more and the shallowness of young people’s fiction, lect, or “pidgin,” but- they never more information about the world, they as long as good “documentary” books are PERELAPS THE BEST GAG that get reconciled to-.teachers who re­ will read practically anything, if it is only available? . went around concerned Betty Far­ tain much of their native “pidgin” rington’s claim that she’s one Of while condemning Hawaiian style. Interesting. Because all of us, whether we realize it or not, art sybtly affected by the FICTION the 10 biggest women in the na­ ALSO, CHILDREN today are farther tion.' The comment ran, “Heavens! A LADY who didn't really ever we read. And young people are most im­ what does her weight have to do get all the credit that’s coining along in general knowledge than we were pressionable of all, because their attitudes with it?” to her is Mrs. Dolores Martin, De­ at their age, I think. They read and dis­ mocratic National Committee­ cuss newspapers specially written for their and reactions are not yet permanently cast. BILL VANNATTA, if you really woman, who worked very hard to What if your budding teen-ager con­ consider the matter, missed plenty get the $1,500 that the national grade level at school, and at home they sistently chooses these harmless but in­ of good bets to help him until it comittee sent to Hawaii to aid in read the newspaper, the cartoons first, sipid books? Some sort of guidance is nec­ was too late for them to do him Jack Burns’ campaign. Mrs. Mar­ then gradually the features and news much good. For instance, he’s in tin, working for twice as much, stories too. essary then: not a censorship, but per­ favor of a drag strip for young was more or less ignored in reports haps suggesting a good book, not more hot-rod enthusiasts. Knows a good published in the dailies, but sh,e But the literature that is put out for than one or two at a time. deal about the game because he brought home the bacon for the them spring and fall by the book publishers THIS IS WHERE as parents we feel our has a son who’s a hot-rodder. But first time in history of local Demo­ takes no account of this intellectual vi­ that never came out until his talk­ crats. Although most of them are tality. own inadequacy, for unless we are in the athon, and it’s hard to tell how cognizant of the necessity of aid­ educational field, we ourselves have been many people heard that. Yet the ing in the national campaign, they From the dull little “easy-to-read” books long out of touch with what is being campaigners for, a drag strip are have often felt in the past they for the first graders to the historical novels printed for juveniles. so earnest about their - objective were ignored and hat all the giv­ and mysteries so loved by the intermediate that they’ve had bumper stickers ing went one way. Mrs. Martin’s crowd, it’s a discouraging collection. We can read some of the books our printed, not unlike political bump­ achievement should contribute children bring home, or at the very least er stickers, which announce, “Ho­ toward tempering that kind of Too many of these books have enter­ nolulu Needs a Drag Strip." feeling. Likewise, the . Burns com- tainment value only, and make no real skim through them, so we, know the kind of thing they are reading. . paign, running as it has in two contribution to a young person’s under- SUP. HERMAN G. P. LEMKE elections on comparatively little, standing of the world as it is. Book lists for various ages can be, had by is earning for himself something of welcomed the $1,500. writing to the Children’s Bureau, U.S. Dept, a reputation for speaking his mind THE HISTORICAL novels are courageously, after several attacks A RECORD SUBSCRIBER has Often of Labor, in Washington, D.C. The libra­ at rallies on the Star-Bull May­ a unique complaint from the men nothing but glamorized adventure stories, rians are helpful, and your child’s teacher, be they should be termed counter­ of the C-C refuse division who take with a few actual characters thrown.in also, may want to recommend something attacks, of course, since the Far­ away her old papers. They used and many references to the clothes and for your child particularly to read. rington paper started the ball roll­ to pick out the RECORD and save ing by pillorying as many Demo­ it to read later, they told her, manners of the period to give the book Youth wants to do so many things, and crats as possible. Somehow, they and they haven’t seen it lately. So “color and authenticity.” all at once. Their days are crowded with never got around to writing the they wanted to know-how come? A student reading only juvenile histori­ many other activities besides reading, same kind of stories about Sup. The answer, she told them, Is that cal fiction would be bound to conclude that Sam K. Apollona against whom she’s been giving it to her neigh-, ALL THE MORE important, then, that Frank Fob! once thought he hud bors to rend lately, and siho ad­ all early Americans were heroes; that our when our young folks do sit down with a a strong case—maybe stronger vised them to subscribe. country has never done anything wrong; book, they find in reacllngniore than Simply than the REOORD ever had about and that war is glorious because God is a way of passing time. Piikoiloa. The RECORD, regular NOW THAT THE ELECTION readers will recall, never accused is over, one may without fear of always on the side of hero (heroine). Making their reading experiences mean­ anyone in the 'Piikoiloa business. unduly influencing races, wonder Stories set in the present time are full ingful may take a few hours of your time It printed the stories that were in print why public officials don't of pastel characters who live in a never- now, but in the end it will be worth far rife and printed fully in the same have the good sense to be frank never land where everybody dresses well more to your child than a new outfit, a issue what each of the C-C offi­ about affairs. Mayor Blaisdell, for cials involved had to say about instance, might have told the whole and lives in a nice house; where there are raise in allowance, or almost anything that them. • ■, story in the beginning of how he’d no such words -as unemployment or race you can give him now. asked an undated resignation of DEMOCRATIC ADVERTISING Norman Chung, then thought bet­ in the Star-Bull fell off to next ter of it and torn , the thing up had either slipped his inind, or else VANNATTA BEING A NOVICE afraid of it. F^^lso started the to’ nothing in the issues prior to a day or so later. If he had, the his confidence was beyond all com- At. politics, it’s natural he should practice of thgaMhg really big the campaign, readers noted. In incident certainly would have done prehension. It’s a great way. to have, made mistakes.' But it's a money into cojxfflpigns, for ad­ the all-important issue the day be­ him no harm and probably. such little hard to figure" out why he vertising, TV arid-yfedio time, print­ campaign, so long as it works. didn’t express his stand against ing, etc. Now a prudent man hardly fore election, only five out of 27 honesty might have won him sup­ There are those who say the Duke Democrats on Oahu bothered to porters. a refinery on Sand Island earlier considers running unless he knows run ads in the Farrington paper, might have taken Joe Iseke more —instead of only a few days prior where he’s going to get $10,000 and these being Clesson Chikasuye and BILL VANNATTA, likewise, seriously than he did Lau Air Chew. to the election. True, the Demo­ up for expenses. Whether or not Mitsuo Fujishige, running for the would have left very little ammuni­ cratic majority on the board was these changes are for the better Anyhow, he probably will enjoy on record in favor of letting Stand­ may be debatable—but they were board of supervisors, and Edwin tion for opposition about Piikoiloa the Olympics and certainly his Honda, Philip Minn and Howard and the building firm there if he ard of California build a refinery Inevitable. Miyake all running for the house— had told the RECORD a year ago presence at the games will enrich there. But if Vannatta had such or you might count one more, Bill and the Star- Bulletin more re­ the tradition of sport, and spread convictions, as one recalls were ONE OF THE BENEFITS the Vannatta’s announcement of his cently that he had advised some the name and reputation of Ha­ expressed in a resolution by the people derive from campaigns is talkathon over KHON. distant relatives to invest in the waii. Hawaiian Civic Club, it’s a shame that Issues get kicked around so Hawaiian Land Development Co. he didn’t put them out earlier thoroughly things are brought to DR. EDWARD SHUCK, expert- Maybe he didn’t think it important SUP. MITSUO FUJISHIGE got when they’d have done him more light that the public might never ing these days over the air waves enough, but after all, the questiopp- himself out of a bad hole by simply good. hear about otherwise. For Instance, for the Hawaiian Telephone Co., - from both papers were heading admitting to the voters he’d-made , a little publicized shortcoming of gives off with informed interpre­ that way on two different occasions, a mistake. At one time, hot long IDEAS CANDIDATES have *of; the HVB came out in Bill Vannat­ tations of world events that are ahd made both believe that, in­ after he’d come on the board, he what will get them elected some- ta’s talkathon, that being that the worth listening to—but he does stead of laying the record open as pushed a proposal to knock off times carry to strange lengths. One. HVB can’t really do much about even better than that when he gets he later claimed, he was very re­ part of Aala Park to make a muni­ candidate for the house a veterant encouraging new t-o--u--r-i-s-t -a-t-t-r-a--c- into the Middle East, as he often luctant to tell the facts. It may cipal parking lot. A lot of people of World War II, got to thinking tions. If it did it might incur the must. To him, the "A-rabs” are an have been merely poor judgment who know, love and use Aala Park so much in m.i.l.i.t..a..r.y.. ..t erms in one displeasure of the hotels and oth­ important factor. You can find a since, after all, Vannatta bad never got right up in arms and the REC­ speech that he finally got to refer­ er private establishments that literary counterpart of Dr. Shuck’s run for office before. But he’ll do ORD, alone of the city’s news­ ring to "members of the leglsla- nowadays contribute half of the pronounciation in Mark Twain, or well to profit by the error next papers, reported their sentiments ture” on one hand, and “civil­ money that supports the HVB. down on Hotel St. among service­ time—if and when that comes. and added some comment of its ians" on the other. ■ They would very likely complain men who hail from the more re­ own. Ftijishige took another look about the money being used to mote sections of the southern and DUKE KAHANAMOKU un­ and changed his mind. He decided FRANK FASI, erstwhile candi­ encourage competition. mid-western states and keep the doubtedly put on the most effec­ the people needed Aala Park and date for this and that, has never juke boxes howling with hillbilly tive campaign of any candidate— when campaign time came around been successful In winning an of­ The West German Federal Re­ music. You’ll also hear these lads for his own particular position and and the voters asked him what fice, and at the moment looks public, which promised 500,000 men speak of the "Eye-talians” and personality. Well before the elec­ he’d had in mind, he answered farther away from one than ever. under arms as its contribution to once in a while, the "Rooshians." tion he took off for Australia, giv­ simply, ‘T made a mistake.” And But he has certainly added some­ NATO, finds that it cannot sup­ ing everyone Christmas and New he told how and why he had thing to Howailan politics. The ply even 06,000 by the end of this IT’S REALLY A MATTER of Year's greetings to indicate he was­ changed his mind. Whatever other talkathon, for Instance, began with year. Most political parties are little moment what Dr. Shuck n’t coming back till after the first Issues may have cost him votes, Fasi and,now the Democrats have opposed to conscription, and few wants to call these men of Mos­ of the year. The election, you’d you can bet his frankness on that picked it up and made it a regular except ex-Nazis are keen on volun- lem faith because as we said, he have thought, was something that Issue didn't hurt him. institution. The GOP' still seems teerlno' PAGE 6 HONOLULU RECORD NOVEMBER 8, 1956 Burns’ Victory (from page 1) '—। candidates of either the Democratic- torial chairman of the party. (This or Republican Party in the cam­ year he did not run for the post paign of 1954. and he was relatively free from involvement in differences • within An element that helped Burns the party. He was able to concen­ in winning support of the major trate on his campaign. union of the Territory was Judge Delbert E. Metzger’s candidacy of Burns this week ran neck and 1952. In that, year’s campaign, IL­ neck with Betty Farrington in the WU members who had not been Fourth, her stronghold, which pro­ very active in politics .after ex­ duced the lopsided votes' that beat periencing the red-baiting and Burns two years agoJ The sup­ witchhunting treatment by Demo- port Burns received this time in mocrats, both nationally and local­ the Fourth caused Betty'Farring­ ly, pitched in wholeheartedly be­ ton to remark as returns- were hind Metzger’s campaign. Thus, coming in, according to the Adver­ this ILWU support for Metzger tiser: carried over to the Burns cam­ paign of 1954 to a considerable .ex­ ‘ “The Fourth District has lei the tent and Burns won the outer' is­ Republicans down badly. If I have lands and'the Fifth District. The to concede I Will congratulate Jack Metzger campaign played. an im­ Burns but I will not congratulate portant part in encouraging union the people of Hawaii.” members to participate actively in politics. SOUTHERN MILL WORKERS PICKET NLRB—Southern Burns’ victory was a repudia­ textile workers picket NLRB headquarters in Washington Jarrett in 1924 tion of Republican control of the Ydtmg veterans who' had become delegateship and of the Star-Bul­ interested in politics also came protesting unchecked dismissals for union activity.- The Polled Strongest Vote letin which was a campaign sheet out strongly for Metzger, whose Textile Workers Union’charges some 200 men and women for its owner Betty Farrington. vote was tremendous, although he ran for delegate on the eve of have been fired from jobs in southern plants which the For Demo Delegate Other Factors the Smitht Act trial ana had been union has been attempting, to organize. Red-baited by the local dailies and (Federated Pictures) John A Burns polled the highest Here are other major factors by members of Congress. vote for delegate in the Territory’s that contributed to Burns' victory: history but percentagewise, Demo­ Credits ILWU Overall, the Democrats have Burns, for the candidate was out crat William P. Jarett polled 9 The development of the man been gaining ground in the dele­ hustling for votes; He had no big stronger than Bums -in 1924. himself in politics. In 1948. when Meantime, Eurns himself had gateship race in recent years, from money behind him, nor a well- Joseph Farrington beat him:hands changed. In 1954, prior to' the po­ 1952 when Metzger ran against organized machine with fulltime In 1922, Jarrett, running against down. Burns was a soft of fill-in litical campaign, he credited the Joseph Farrington for delegate. workers. The committee had great­ Republican John Wise, received candidate. He lacked confidence ILWU for bringing major changes er difficulty in meeting with their 14,305 votes to his opponent’s 11- and at one rally he said if anyone to the Territory, economically, so­ Campaign Boiled nominal chairman, who contri­ 667. Thein in 1924, Jarrett polled thought he would win against such cially and politically. Burns spoke More people sensed the Demo­ buted immensely toward her hus­ 17,028 Votes to Philip Rice's 12,- a formidable opponent as Joe Far­ the truth when he reiterated, des- cratic trend, and after the pri­ band’s election—because she is an 689. This was a 3 to 2 lead. mington, he was off the beam. 1 plte criticism from the dailies and mary election, this year, the Burns invalid, a victim of polio. politicians, that unionization of campaign began'rolling. Men like The race between Victor K. The campaign helped hlm,to _ plantation workers released them Gregg Sinclair came out publicly But there seemed to be a unity Houston (R) and Lincoln Mc­ and develop. Meantime he: attract­ ■'Tjronil- tight control of ■ Big Five for Burns, as well as housewives of purpose, observers said, at the Candless (D) In 1932 was close. ed younger elements to t^S'Demo-’ -bosses to participate in the politi­ and independent businessmen of Bums’ headquarters and the ama­ McCandless won by 29;431 “to 27,017 ^cratlc Party and some of :thein, six' cal party of their choice. various racial backgrounds. teurs produced in yeoman manner Tor Houston. From 1934 the>Re- years later, ran on the Demo­ because they worked hard to make publlcans - -have occupied the post cratic landslide hi the legislative • These utterances .were made dur­ 0 The Burps campaign had as up for the lack of experience and of delegate to Congress. The Demo­ race. ing the years of witdh-hunt and its backbone the resurgent Demo­ savvy. crats have held the position-six when the daMes reminded their years out of the Territory’s S6 readers constantly that support cratic Party. 'But a key element After his 1948 failure, he again was. needed. His campaign had to Before the general election, years. ran in 1954. He stepped''into' the by the ILW U was a “kiss of. death.” Burns hod one of the best work­ Then this year, the. Republicans be started and the momentum built race at the eleventh hour.' Oreh E. for his election. ing campaign organizations with Dong declared his intentloha to run tried to put Burns on the spot. dozens of people turning out to a well-rounded program but What for delegate. Many political ob­ They, especially the Star-Bulletin, he come out with in literature and Here, he reaped again a harvest canvass for votes. from the .stump were generali­ servers felt that he would not con­ asked if Bums would accept ,ILWU from the seeds he sowed.' Burns duct a vigorous campaign because support. He said he was proud, to ties, a brief outline of a few has encouraged young Democrats, • Burns campaigned on issues. points. Some expected, more, from of his intimacy with Joseph Far­ get such support from a union of those running for-office and those Here he was in a favorable posi­ rington. Long withdrew and Dem­ plantation, waterfront, trucking, tion similar to that occupied by him, a clearer statement of his ocratic leaders tried to draft cannery and general trades work­ Fourth District Democratic candi­ stand. Ernest Been, who decided not tn ers. His opponent, who; apparently OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dates in 1954 when they hit at run at the last moment. Burns as felt she would not rate the union's Perhaps he lacked campaign support, said such support would On the crest of his victory, Burns issues and put on the spot incum­ facilities. One of them seemed; to territorial chairman of the party made a promise he had hinted at bent Republicans who had not stepped lnto the race without pre­ be detrimental to her work as 'de­ produced. be lack of research. An example paration to wage a well-rounded legate to Congress. during the campaign, but never will illustrate the point. During campaign. made in $Hch-—strong terms. He the. talkathon a questioner asked said he will brine - Hawaii state­ . Burns had a weak opponent.' RUznors Spread A break came when he . received how many of tHtolqgiSlative joint The Burns of^BSi j^raa far dif­ hood, or an elected - governor in 'Resolutions Del. Farrington had his first two years. good press. coverage by ’ ihe v,Ad- ’ ferent and fad»’i£drS politically Burhs.^saitoOrdlng to observers, rertiker; rival ,-paper; of'BSttj^Far-'' succeeded in getting-through Con­ mature than ihSjM»nt1Mate of 1948. has groWh' ih’ many ways. He 'has OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO rington’s . Star-Bulletin, .aftor-’the gress. Burns frankly;/.stated that Tn the six yearane had acquired been' accused "Of being a Japanese- primary. At a Klwanls meeting he did not have the'"information. experience through situations he lover by his opponents. At the interested in Democratic politics. Burns brought out a Drew Pearson Observers now say that some of ^encountered or he helped create. same time Republicans have spread It was this latter group, a group of article which said Betty Farrington - his workers wonder in which - di­ rumors that he arrested innocent amateurs, who carried on his cam­ was "jubilant" when statehood was rection will he move. He won with Some of the situations were Japanese during wartime as a paign until It caught fire and at­ defeated in Congress, because it grass roots support and the hard these: In 1948 the members of the police captain working with the tracted men like Gregg Sinclair would be a good campaign issue for work of amateurs who ran his industrial union of the Territory, FBI and G-2. and others.. her. At - the same meeting, Mrs. •headquarters, organized his cam­ the ILWU, played an active and Farrington conceded that Burns paign, turning out results that Strong role in the resurgent Demo­ In the 1954 campaign he could Burns faced problems. An old- had wide contacts in Washington, professionals now envy. Now, all cratic Party. Subsequently the cold have answered these rumors by time Democrat complained that probably more than she had. sorts of people are gravitating war witchhunt affected numerous anticipating the opposition moves, Burns' headquarters was out of the toward him, many seeking politi­ Democratic leaders here. The House but he failed to do so. This cost way, way up Nuuanu Avenue, not Subsequently, others besides cal favors. - utiAmerlcan committee hearing him votes on Kauai. in the center of the town where Drew Pearson . exposed Mrs. , Farr Will he continue to be the man had its impact. The party split the headquarters of the candi­ rington's record in Washing­ who helped build the Democratic and some Democratic leaders be­ In this year’s campaign, with date .for delegate should be. Burns ton. A congressman wrote a Demo­ Party on a broad basis, who helped came ambitious of wanting to con­ his campaign better-organized than had no choice. He had no funds. cratic official here that Mrs. Far­ young people in politics and in trol the ILWU votes by winning id 1954, such charges were an­ His supporters experienced diffi­ rington, who takes credit for bring­ turn was helped by them? , over Jack H. Kawano, the union’s swered effectively, particularly culty in raising campaign funds. ing the Small Business. Administra­ Burns has said that he will work longshore leader. In a series of when AJA vets came out openly tion office here, didn’t even appear for the best interest of the people actions by so-called “moderates" in support of his candidacy. His headquarters was opened before the SB A committee. of Hawaii. Many swear by him. of the Democratic Party, ILWU in a real estate office on the sec­ Not many doubt him. What will representation in the Democratic ond floor of a building on Nuuanu The Republicans were not count is his performance during Party in most places was eli­ Ave. It was the office of Robert solidly behind Betty Farrington the next two years. minated. Bums was a key figure in Y. Oda, attorney and real estate and this contributed to strength­ this “moderate” group. WASHINGON — .FP) The SEN BEEN, speaking in behalf dealer, a young disabled veteran ening Burns’ campaign. U. S. Supreme Court Oct. 15 re­ of the. Democratic candidate for of the 100th Infantry Battalion. Bole of Metzger Campaign fused to review . he General Elec­ delegate to Congress last week, A half dozen or so other vets This year . President Eisenhower tric Co. policy of firing employes made a slip that still has listeners comprised Burns’ campaign com­ did not make a special pitch for Time and the change of political .who use their constitutional right wondering^ Climaxing his speech, mittee- arid most'of them had a Betty Farrington as he did in to Invoke the fifth amendment. atmosphere found politicians he said, “I askyou to vote for Jack fulltime - -job. They made Mrs. 1954. On the other hand, members knocking at thcddOr of the: union Hall I " . Realizing S.h1s error,’he Sor- Beatrice Bums the nominal chair­ of Congress sent testimonial let­ BOSTON — (FP) Two New for support, just as in the past. This rected hlmseilif quickly, but on man. ters in support of Bums. England railroads, the New; Haven time the ILWU with sugar, pine­ second thought, some of the lis­ and the Boston & Maine, face leg­ apple, longshore and general trades tener's wondered if the senator has Unity of Purpose The Future islative probes of their alarming workers were playing independent had an overdose of Joe Rose and The campaign committee had Now, what about the future? layoffs, which are said to endanger politics, working for and against his broadcasts lately. difficulty in meeting regularly with Bums’ campaign did not project safe operation. Waikiki Tenants Like Landlord, But NOVEMBER 8, 1956 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 7 Don't Believe He Deserves $7.50 Hike Egypt's Right To Nationalize Suez (from, page 1) and was with him all the time." The woman ‘indicated that, al­ Canal Is Clear, Reaffirmed by U.N. When a reporter questioned ten­ though she thinks the landlord ants Tuesday, they said they had generally tries to be fair, and she - BY HARRY BRIDGES * ' failed to mention a number of de­ thinks he is a kind man, still the (This column, Bridges’ “On the Beam,’’ is reprinted from the last ficiencies about their hoiking ac­ tenants hesitated to speak criti­ ILWU Dispatcher. Since it was written, military phases'of the dispute commodations they felt should be cally of the accomodations with have gone farther.) considered. A woman pointed to Him in hearing. termite-riddled baseboards and in­ WHEN THE Egyptian government, acting like any other sovereign dicated her icebox, iceboxes having Director Soares said the increase power, nationalized some property on its territory early last month, been a subject of discussion at was granted on a basis of what everything broke loose. the hearing. other landlords charge for rental units in the area, and on the In nationalizing the Suez Canal, which the Egyptian government The cockroaches get in, she ex­ amount Yamaguchi’s taxes have had every right to do, President Nasser guaranteed full compensation plained, because the rubber lining' risen since 1953 when his last rent to the stockholders of the old Suez Canal Company and freedom of is worn to such an extent they get increase went into effect. navigation through the Canal to all ships of all nations. But the political leaders in France and England—,and some in the in underneath. She also pointed No claim was made for any in­ out that such leaks must of neces­ U.S.—weren’t satisfied. Troops have been concentrated in Cyprus, crease on a basis of new improve­ threats to use force have been broadcast, and a major international sity also'run up the gas bill, since ments, nor was any such claim con-, more freezing is required. crisis has been whipped up. sidered. There are two angles in all this. And the situation is better under­ What, she was asked, about the After the hearing, the landlord stood if they're kept separate. On the one hand, is the question of rent control inspector Who looked told tenants he would raise the nationalization, on the other is the question of free navigation. over the accomodations? rent only $5 a month instead of "• As far as nationalization is concerned, the Egyptian government the $7.50 authorized, and that it LADY LIBERTY, 70—Celebrating . has as much right to nationalize the canal as the British had to Inspector Stayed with Landlord would not go into effect until' De­ the 70th birthday of the- Statue nationalize the steel and coal industries in their own country. There "He never asked us any ques­ cember. But a couple of days later, of Liberty, refugee- children ap­ isn’t a country in the world which hasn’t exercised these sovereign tions," she answered. "We were he told them the' hike would go proach the island to participate in powers at one time or another—including the United States. •waiting for him to ask questions into effect immediately.. ceremonies for the symbol of free­ Just a few years ago the General Assembly of the United Nations about the place, but he never did. The landlord's attorney at the dom that stands in New York reaffirmed the sovereign right of any nation to nationalize any prop­ He came around with the landlord hearing was James Kamo. harbor. As part . of the tribute, erty or natural resources on its territory. . And although this was Bedloes Island was formally re- named Liberty Island. passed overwhelmingly, the United States, Britain and France were his figures. He points out that among the handful of na,tiobs to vote against or abstain. while merely high correlation does (Federated Pictures) Actually no government has publicly questioned the right of Egypt HRA Specialist not give proof of causes, the study to take over control of a corporation and of property on its own terri­ “is nevertheless , an extremely tory. Although privately there are plenty of politicians and business helpful clue toward understand­ Navy ROTC to Select. men all over the world who believe that nationalizing private property Has Article In ing of urban relationships.” is one of the worst crimes on the books—and who can blame them. 2,000 from High It’s their own property and their own profits which they’re worried Unemployment Focal about. ■ • ‘ Am. Soc. Review The other question is that of free navigation of the Suez Canal - Robert C. Schmitt, sociological Schmitt’s statistics show that School Seniors, Grads As far as free ..navigation is concerned there is no doubt that Eng­ statistician with the Honolulu Re­ land, France and other powers - must' h .ve assurances'of free use of development Agency, has published there is an extremely high rela­ High school • seniors and grad­ the canal. But the Egyptian government has. given that—and has an article in the American Socio­ tionship • between unemployment even proposed negotiating the establishment of some conference of- logical Review for October which and-nearly all the other social, ills. uates have only until Nov. 17 to apply for the Navy's Reserve Of­ user nations to act as a consultant to the- Egyptian government in shows the correlation in Honolulu Low incomes, of less than $2,000 supervising'the operation-and" maintenance-.of the canal. The Egyp­ between poor housing and such per year, were not correlated with ficer; Training.Corps,Vice-Admiral James A. Holloway,. Jr., Chief of tians are"pfepared to make।any guarantees mn freedom of navigation; social problems as unemployment, some social ills as much as might but they Refuse to negotiate, pnl their, right to own and control...... prison "admissions; juvenile delin­ have bean expected. Naval Personnel, said Nov. 1. Ap­ quency; -venereal disease, mental plicants will- nationwide . .... IN.yiEWof all this, t^e erisis.seems't&!feerless concerned about navi- hospital admissions and suicides. Venereal disease, overcrowding competitive examination on, De­ g^tiem ■ than, apput nationalization. ■ ■ Antti1 although the “British-French of housing and admissions to pri- cember 8 as the fhst step toward propopal?-—supported by the U£J-r—call; fpr,, internationalization of? the . Likewise, Schmitt’s study shows ' sonp Schmitt found.-were .highly an appointmen^j^s canaj int'mejer to, guarantee -that " nayi^itr6h''righfe will be open to all, the' correlation among ■ these social iiitercorrelnted. ■ Designed;, to. supp,l^.ent;.ither -of­ •the proposals,-smells of oldrfashioned colorllal conrol of a. part of ills, themselves. Though the re­ ficer output of the Naval-Academy, Egyptian territory.- sults of Schmitt’s study Will, sur­ Yet suicides were not correlated the NROTC-program makes it pos­ /-■And, the pointJs tha'oEgypi^^f^^ To them prise few'»todentaof these- prob- with social ills nor with' mental sible for a yOUng man to earn: a "internationalizing” the canal vis ap.mutrig^ .infringement-, on , their lehis.-'lt defines the degree of such hospital admissions. • ' commission while'' studying rati the sovereignty .’They -are sensitive. people, pie,w)y; freed from colonialism, relationship ' and-' confirms । by ■ fig­ civilian college of his choice which and they aren't ready to make deals.,which treat them as Inferiors oy ured'the'general ideas held on tne It is by studies of this sort that has 'an 'NROTC unit'.' Alltultioh, unequhfa-among theinations of the wprlcj., ' subject by those who have given the HRA and such agencies may fees and-books; are. furnished .by ' ' r It’s ‘ A queer beef-On the one hand the British and French insist it attention. Inrrease their effectiveness In the Navy, and .j&e -student' Re­ that all they* are interested in is continued operatldn of he canal, open dealing with one : of Honolulu's ceives am annual retainer of $600 to allt’’ Yet1 at the ‘same timeAthe.old^ez^analCompany, .pitting in Schmitt does not attempt to foremost .problems1—slum. housing for four years. . , ... ., • Parts and doiitrolled by the,’"Britfah.8ji^^e^G|i,.i8 doing everything draw broad conclusions., beyond possible to abut the canal dowH. The la^tompye Ryas their, directive and'its clearance and elimination. High school seniors"' and -;gradl to all the non-Egyptian .pilots'and techni^ai^s. to jqult. . uates between the ages of 17 and ■ • Meanwhile, we are -being toldThat if, the papal’s operation Is affected 21' may apply- for theNROTC ap­ by the walkout this'-will'be "proof to the British and French that the titude test.' Those' who make a Egyptians -are Incapable of keeping, the. canal open, and that any qualifying score . will''-tie given ' a 'guarantees are"useless," rigid physicalv exam • early ■ in (1957. . On the'other hand if- the Egyptian government uses its legal powers, From the pool of qualified young like" injunctions or a Taft-Hartley Act,, to prevent the. pilots and tech­ men remaining in competition, ap­ nicians from going on strike against the government and insists that they proximately 2,000 will be selected stay on the’job,' the British and French .have threatened to take “apT to begin theto-Ngyal careers next p'ropriate steps’’to protect their , nationals. k, i. j September; ■ y . During the month: of negotiations the'talk from Washiggtgjr^^s Application forms pre available soft; while nothing- but threats.came from-London and..Paxis;,' wft at all high schools, colleges, Navy all three seem joined in an. agreement to impose an “international Users'’ Recruiting Stations or from the setup on the canal and over the Objections of Egypt, " •-•t'O- 1 Chief of Naval Personnel, Wash­ If a “solution” is imposed on Egypt by threat of-’arms or sanctions, ington, D. O. it will be proof that the objective is not to secure guarantees' of'free­ dom of navigation but the-continuance of some colonial contopl. of Egyptian territory by maintaining the operation of the canal Iri Aon? Metropolitan Life Egyptian hands. Certainly force shouldn’t, be necessary, -to keep ^he canal open when the Egyptian government has, already agreed. just that. Agents Win New Pact THERE’S NO question that Nasser can get. skilled pilots and. ijfdini- WASHINGTON. (FP) A new 2%- cians to operate the ships passing, through-Suez. And some; gunranteje, year contract covering 5,000 agents backed up by the UN, could be worked out. on freedom of navigation. of the Metropolitan Life Insurance The basis for agreement through negotiations exists providing there is Co. was tentatively , agreed upon an.initial recognition of Egyptian sovereignty over the ownership apd by the Insurance Workers of Ameri­ management-of the canal property. • ca. Terms' are being ratified at In the face of this, to claim that the whole crisis is simply to. keep ' local unioii meetings in New Jer­ the canal open is a fraud, ' Any solution which starts by first reedfenfsing sey, metropolitan New York and the full sovereignty of the Egyptian, government can be tied, In 'WHh Pennsylvania. The new contract guarantees bn freedom of navigation;. Such a two-point soluionjias includes an improved retirement already been proposed by India and Indonesia. . - ' plan, an increase in the guaranteed At this, stage no bnecan predict how the dispute will. eventually weekly minimum from $60 to $70, be resolved. The British-French position which is backed up by (th/eat and other gains. of force is a position that fa just asking for trouble.- So far the US, PLEADS GUILTY IN RIESEL ATTACK—U.S. marshals although on record .against any use of force,, fa supporting the British lead handcuffed Gondolfo Miranti and Peter Carlino (r) and French objectives. , t Madrid, Spain, has Imposed a Meanwhile we can’t forget what happened to pld Mossadegh in from Federal, court in New York after Carlino pleaded fine of $1.25 per toot on drivers Iran when he tried to nationalize the British oil holdings in his country. guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice in the acid at­ who sound their horns from .8 An "internal revolt” removed him from office. -A similar ending to am. to midnight, $2.50 per toot Nasser may be in the works right now; but it’ll be much harder to tack on labor columnist Victor Riesel. The government for the night hours. Ditto for loud put across. ' * charges Carlino was the contact man between Abraham playing of radios, phonographs, Either way, there isn’t a .single newly-freed former colony which and musical Instruments or . set­ isn’t supporting Egypt- In this dispute and opposing any program Telvi, who threw the acid, and Johnny Dioguardi (alias ting off firecrackers. Yet they say which would re-lmpose colonialism on Egypt or any other country. Dio), alleged mastermind behind the assault. Latins are noisy people! What The United States could Well make friends and win more influence would Madrilenos say about Ho­ in the world today by coming out four-square against any return to (Federated Pictures) nolulu? colonialism and for full freedom to all nations to navigate the Suez Conal HONOLULU RECORD Honolulu Record Publishing Co., Ltd. Frank-ly Speaking PHONE 96445 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu, T. H. BY FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Oahu $5.00; other- islands $6.00 airmail; Rebuke at the Polls Mainland $5.00; Philippines $7.00 The overwhelming victory of Jack Burns in KOJI ARIYOSHI— EDITOR the delegate race and the retention by the Demo­ crats of control over both houses of the Terri- torial legislature gives, it seems to me, a sound rebuke to those reactionary anti-labor forces who had hoped to use the coming^ senate internal secu­ rity committee hearings as a weapon for a GOP Victory. illegal Congressional Probes It seems obvious that the hearings were in­ tended to influence the local elections for the legislature and delegate to Congress. They were The three-year effort to jail Dr. Corliss announced at a time cal­ Lamont and two others on a contempt of culated to sway voters. It was expected that pre­ Congress charge was dropped by the . Jus­ vious supporters of De­ tice Department on Oct. 16. The three were mocratic candidates would ' throw up their hands in £ charged for refusing to answer questions horror and flee to the h before Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Per­ Republican fold. manent Subcommittee on Investigations in A GOP legislature had 1953. granted the territorial subversive activities com­ mittee all the cash it The Justice Department gave up the wanted. But when the De­ mocrats got in*two years . fight when it failed to appeal from a unan­ ago, they cut the appropriation from the requested imous decision of a U.S. Appeals Court $47,000 down to $20,000. Fearing that it might fare even worse if the Democrats were again vic­ that the McCarthy committee had no au­ torious. ' the local committee wanted the GOP thority for its “excursions . . . into the back in. So the chairman asked for and got the eager aid of the hatchet man for the senate field of alleged subversive acivities of non­ IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE internal security committee, Senator Eastland of governmental persons . . .” Mississippi. Mrs. Farrington Won out in 1954 over Jack Columns of Red McQueen and a statement of Roger To­ Burns by a narrow margin. She wanted to go back Because the Eastland Internal Security guchi of the Hawaiian AAU weightlifting committee to Washington. If the backbone of her opponent’s Subcommittee is scheduled to come here support could be “exposed” as "communistic," It have clarified a point that has confused local fans since was reasoned that the voters would give her another late this month, the Lamont decision and four years ago. It is that neither Richard Tom, Richard term. ' what, he has to say is of interest locally. Tomita-, nor Ralph Yoshida expected to compete in the DENNIS SAYS NO CP HERE I know of no instance in which internal . Olympics, even though they scored highest in their weight Dr. Lamont, author and lecturer at Col­ security committee hearings have been set for a divisions at Olympics, and that none of them resents the state without first getting the okay of Washington umbia University, did not invoke the Fifth representatives of that state. Is it not reasonable decision of Olympic Coach Bob Hoffman to use substitute Amendment. He held that the committee to assume, therefore, that our delegate knew about men in the heavier classes in the hope of scoring more points the proposed probe before it was announced by had no right to question him about his Eastland? against the Russians. ' The ILWU and UPW. membership Is the bed political views or personal affairs. rock of the Democratic Party in Hawaii. The law As McQueen says, the situation still doesn’t make sense, firm of Bonslog and Symonds is the ILWU legal In handing down the decision Aug. 14, even though the weightlifters may agree to it. Stress on representative. The Honolulu RECORD draws. its the Appeals Court criticized the Justice Olympic competition is supposed to be set on Individual per- readership primarily from labor and is also a - formance, and on participation. The shuffling of com­ staunch supporter. of the Democratic Party, thus Department: putting it on the other side of the fenee from the petitors for the purpose of beating team opponents smacks dally press which is solidly Republican. “We have . . . the anomalous situation of the type of professionalism Avery Brundage, AAU presi­ According to 'the recent report of Eugene Den­ dent, deplores. nis, national secretary, “there to no longer a Com­ that the government is flow attempting to munist Party In Hawaii.” He stated that today Tom and Tomita at least made the trip to Helsinki. the total membership to "between 20,000 and 30,000 hang onto and retain for trial indictments with most of these concentrated in the - Eastern for offenses which it - cannot support in Yoshida, highest scorer in the lightweight class in the United States.” If there are any Communist Party law.” Olympic tryouts, won’t go along. Yet Hoffman is taking members in either Alaska or Hawaii, “they are one of his Your Barbell Club men along in the featherweight there on vacation,” he declared in his report. class, even though it’s admitted he doesn’t have a chance PEOPLE DON’T RUN AS BEFORE Dr. Lamont declared that the decision against the Russians either. Despite Roger Toguchi and But these facts did not deter our reactionary was a valuable precedent. And he con- the weightlifters, themselves, this practice seems entirely antlrlabor forces from following through with tinued: ’ t their scheme. By branding leaders in the UPW,. outside the theory of the Olympic games. ILWU, Bouslog and Symonds legal firm and REC­ ORD writers as members of an organization which “I congratulate the Dept, of Justice on POLITICIANS for a long time to w p no longer exists, they. intended to ■ smear and dis­ having the good sense to drop this pro­ come will be studying various