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Vol' ll, No 7 SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS Thursday, Sept. 15, 1949 AN ANSWER FOR MR. DAN RIDLEY Fight Exposes Theft McGregor Makes $1 Poster Has No Grand Jury Gets K.C, WarfordCase Point Of Grammar Sanction From CC Evidence upon which an indict­ The Chamber of Commerce is ment for . perjury will eventually By Jail Sentence NOT selling posters proclaiming be, asked against K. C. Warford was - heard by the City-County By EDWARD ROHRBOUGH HERE LIE many AJA dead, who made the supreme sacrifice in World “Aloha to the Armed Forces," for grand jury Thursday. Prosecutor War IL. Their effort evidently failed to convince Dan Ridley that the $1 each, the RECORD learneu This story .begins with a fist­ Charles M. Hite said, however, that fight between two teen-age girls -Oriental ancestry of many citizens here should not be a bar to Hawaii’s from O. of C. secretary, John A. he did not intend to ask an indict­ .statehood. Hamilton. Nor has the Chamber of Kailua. It ends with the FBI authorized the use of its name in ment until Warford has had an pricking up its ears to the possi­ connection with juch_posters at opportunity to appear before the bility that tools stolen from the any other "price. " -gr and-j ury- personally .-At-present, — U. S. Navy -may be hidden in the Questions followed complaints the former employe of the C-C .vicinity of that fight. Between City County Application by shopkeepers in Honolulu that planning board is in Tripier Gen­ those- events come other incidents ' they were being “shaken down” eral Hospital because of a heart varying from a display of- cooking by the Chamber of Commerce.. condition. ware to a jail sentence handed A spokesman at the Better Busi- • “it’s the same chance I would out because of a definition, of the Form Eats Own Words nessBureau.saidthatasalesman give anybody,” said Mr. Hite. word "demonstration.” - --,1 By STAFF WRITER lleved to have caused rejection of for. such cards had registered, but 1rHe offered to. waive--immunity/ '"For Henry" HtrfKul? -fireman at While directing applicants to some applicants BECAUSE of traf­ that the man who. originated the to appear and I’ll keep my word the Central Fire Station, who has avoid reference to race, color, re­ fic violations. Only last week, it is posters, a Fred' Short, had ■ not. to him.” 1 been a' central figure in these ligion or political opinions in its said, an applicant, for a parks The BBB ’ said it had received Mr. Hite indicated, however, events, the story began on Aug. 28. •instructions, the City-County civil board labor-job lost his chance be­ several inquiries during the past that he would present much of That day there was . a ■ girls’ ball, service application form violates cause he had a number of traffic few weeks, one alleging that the the evidence in the O-O’s case ■ game at .the Kailua ball: park and its own directions on an inside court convictions on his record. name, of the Chamber of Com­ against Warford. Huihui’s daughter .Hazel,led cheers page by requiring a photograph of Other proposed changes would merce was used. Sought' Charge Before for one of the teams—the winning the applicant. This practice has do away with much of what some Salesman Blames Short The evidence, of perjury rises team in fact. But afterward, a been condemned by various Fair officials feel is unnecessary red The salesman, contacted by the from alleged falsifications by War­ neighbor’s girl by the name of Employment Practices Committees tape. It is believed that the civil RECORD, said he had never used ford in his application for a li­ Medeiros took exception to her on the Mainland as .- being part of service commission has not the C. of C. name, nor any other. cense as a civil engineer before enthusiasm and a fight followed. the machinery of racial dlscrimin- dropped the matter, but merely set Short had told him, the salesman the Territorial. Board of Engineers. Next day, near Huihui’s home at ation. it aside until a more propitious said, that the C. of C. had “neither Earlier, Hite ■ investigated the pos­ 425 Maluniu Ave., the two girls . This contradiction is one of sev­ time. approved or disapproved," the sibility of bringing charges against started fighting again . and their eral features of the application posters, probably because they Warford on a basis of the same families came out to watch, but form the City-County civil service might: seem to conflict with falsifications as made before the Hulhui said, “everyone seemed to commission considered changing Aloha Week, sponsored by the civil service commission. That plan (more on page 4) some time ago,when Robert Miller, Amfac Dumps Junior Chamber of Commerce. was dropped, the prosecutor said, local architect, was serving in a Mr. Short could not be contacted when he discovered that civil ser­ temporary capacity in the place Tourist Trade and the salesman said, “I don’t vice regulations make no provision of Mendel W. Borthwick, .at that know. where he lives and I don’t for such Information to be sub­ UPWMaySuelf time on the Mainland. American Factors, Ltd., has can­ know his phone. Whenever I asked stantiated by an oath. “Loyalty Oath” Contradiction celled its 100 anniversary celebra­ him, he didn't answer. He just Aubrey Price, recruiting exam- Still another contradiction is that tion which was scheduled for. the squirmed.” (more bn page 7) Pay Hike Refused •of the so-called "loyalty oath,” week of Oct. 10, according to an which requires much more than a official of the< company. The United Public Workers of mere reference to "political opin­ "The company has let down pri­ America will sue the County of ions” by requiring an affidavit that vate enterprise,” said’ a university Blacklisted, Kuruyuki Is Proud Kauai for the 10 cents hourly in­ the applicant is not a member of student who recalled that Ameri­ crease due per diem workers, If the Communist Party/ can Factors sponsored an oratori­ the county’s Personnel Classifica­ Still a third section.off the form cal contest at the University of Of Part In Early Kauai Unions tion Board continuously refuses to is so badly wooded as , |o. hav^ Hawaii last May as part of its cen­ grant- the. pay hike already ap­ -caused, misinterpretations which tennial, on the subject “What Pri­ By STEPHEN MUBIN proved by the Board of Supervisors. ■ caused applicants' to-be-wrongfully vate Enterprise Means to the .On Kauai, in the town of Lawal, In informing the Kauai Board rejected. That' is item 22, 'Which Youth of Hawaii.” of' Supervisors of: the -impending asks: “Have you ever , been con­ James Kuruyuki is pointed out by ■ This hits right at the tourist friends and spoken of admiringly: legal action,- Henry: Epstein, re­ victed for violation of any other industry for which big business is "There’s the man who organized gional director of the union, cited ’law other than minor traffic, vio­ giving a "strong pitch,” said a a similar case-on Hawaii where lations?” McBryde Sugar Plantation” or the county paid per' diem work­ This question, as worded, is be- businessman who did not want to "There’s the daddy of the trade be named. He added that this an­ union movement in Kauai.” ers $24,000 in- back pay", after nouncement is undermining, com­ This man, and some other pio­ the UPW presented the em­ ing at a time when the legislature neers in the labor history of Ha­ ployes’ case. FREEDOM OF SPEECH is considering to correct an error waii, are today victims of the The per diem workers on'Kauai When the bracket tax was de­ made during the regular session, “blacklist.” Economic untouch­ are entitled to back pay from July bated over the Republican Forum so that, the Hawaii Visitors Bu­ ables, they live frugally on small 1, 1949, the day the new wage of the Air, somebody connected reau would match government ap­ homesteads, doing jobs which in schedule went into effect, Epstein wijth the Big Five told the Re­ propriation dollar for dollar in­ many cases are a waste of time wrote in his letter. The schedule publican Club to lay off the sub­ stead of two dollars to one dollar. and labor. which the Kauai Board of Super­ ject. Big business here did not A spokesman for American Fac­ Kuruyuki is the father of three visors approved on-Aug. 17, 1949, want to have the question given tors said that the company had children, and a very modest man. incorporating a 10 cent hourly in­ a thorough going over because intended to bring 350 people - to He spoke quietly of his own back­ crease, is the minimum to which the consumers would get wise. its celebration. Of this number ground and work experience. Bom per diem workers are entitled un­ But, our informant sJayg, .the and raised on Kauai, he started der the law, according to UPW 75 per cent had planned to come MR. KURUYUKI GOP club had the program all by ship, he said, and he added, to work for McBryde plantation in attorneys. scheduled and went ahead with "they would not fly.” With ships 1925, and except for two years, plenty of discrimination on the job Epstein said he was writing.the it anyway, and some big shots tied up by the strike there was worked there until 1940. and we started to talk about unions board at the' reqtiesb of the of­ really got burned up. nothing to do but cancel the event, "There were no unions on Kauai in 1936. A Filipino worker and ficers and members of the Kauni he said. / . at- that time,” he said. “There was (more on page 6) Division, UPW. Page Two HONOLULU RECORD September 15, 1949 Hanson said that Forrestal;-former Wall Profound Regret National Summary . St. financial figure and .defense secretary OIO President Philip Murray, had no who committed suicide after suffering de­ fighting words when the government’s fact- lusions of attack by Russia, told him that finding board recommended no wage In­ corporation, in some, cases as much as 50 offense and got tough, although he is a he personally intervened to. keep Syming­ crease. The evidence presented by Murray’s years, receive no pension at all. friend of free enterprise in the power busi­ ton on the job. United Steelworkers for a 12% cents ah But Board Chairman Irving Olds will ness' and an advocate of the oil monopo­ The family quarrel—old story but in­ hour Increase was “amply supported,” the get for the rest of his life on retirement, - lies. He threatened Investigation of all teresting—became known as Hanson ap­ union’s resolution said, and expressed "pro­ $63,815 a year; and Benjamin Fairless, cor­ missions-flown for President Truman and peared before a navy court Investigating found regret” that no increase was rec­ poration president, will retire for life, at all executive department biggies. charges against Cedric R. Worth for writ­ ommended. $70,323 a year. Thomas pointed an accusing finger at ing an anonymous document opposing the the trip Vice President Barkley took to , purchase of B-36s by the Defense Depart- THE STEELWORKERS which spark- WITH THIS SCANDALOUS situation . ment. The document in recent weeks caused ------plugged-the fourth round wage inerease- ■ Paducah, Ky., in a,military plane for.-a- prevailing in Big steel, tne ouu.uuu rank ejate with Mrs. .Carlton S. Hadley,\ comely turmoil, excitement and headache in Wash- more than deserved the . 30 cent package and filers can be a solid and militant-bloc,- St. Louis widow, with whom he hipes to ington, but failed to blow the Ud off a deal, but the top leadership under Murray, but Murray had lost sight’of his member­ "make the grade.” As Thomas shook his scandal involving higher-ups, as it was with 500,000 jank and filers, put up a meek, ship’s needs and their strength although finger at Johnson, Barkley' was making intended to do. battle and no more. The fact-finding com­ he talked about them. mittee was not; blind to this weakness and , another air trip to see Mrs. -Hadley, this He and his wage policy committee agreed . time in a private plane. to the employers’ ostensible show of to limit the area of bargaining to the in­ A Promise strength. surance and pension Issues only. THE BATTLE of words subsided and To the laborers who gathered at Boston Yet the mass of evidence against the temperatures cooled over the Labor Day Common, the speech by Secretary of Labor steel industries was enough to get the “Operation Congress” weekend. Johnson said that congressmen Maurice J. Tobin on Labor Day was another government committee' to recommend in­ are welcome passengers on military planes, promise of a politician. Some were sur­ creases for jhe union. During the first quar­ For a while, as fierce words flew be­ and Thomas said that sometimes the de­ prised to learn that the. labor secretary ter of this year, 67 companies in the iron tween Defense Secretary Louis Johnson mands of congressmen were a little ex­ doubted reports of shocking working con­ and steel industries reported profit Increase and Senator Elmer Thomas, chances seemed cessive. ditions in 'some Industries. pretty good for the public to get a look Said Thomas: "I don’t like to mention of 65.9 per cent over the same period, last SAID TOBIN: “I AM going to observe year. Steel came next to the automotive see at figures citing the cost to taxpayers names'but there is one congressional com­ of all the private junkets flown by ad­ mittee which wants to fly around the world first-hand what,' If I have been correctly industry which had jumped its profit 152.4 informed, are nothing less than cesspools ministration bigshots as well as congress­ looking for radioactive sands which could over last year. of human, misery and Industrial wrong.” men. be used in making atom bombs. That IN MONEY VALUE, the steel industry seems kind of foolish to me.” Yet the President’s cabinet member ex­ rake-in rose from $105,000,000 of last year the ROW STARTED when Thomas pressed grave concern for the “men. and to $175,000,000 this year. This represented wrote Johnson to arrange military air women who are not protected by law and the highest profit in the industry in 20 transport for members of the armed forces Family Quarrel union membership, who are therefore years. appropriation sub-committee, of which he Back in 1948, .the near-firing of Air forced to accept a sub-marginal living But the steel barons reported that the is chairman: The committee is making a Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington was wage, who eke out an existence almost . Industry and the country could not stand round-the-world junket. a white-hot controversy within the adminis­ as economic slaves.” an increase in wages. The' wage earners Johnson answered okay, but suggested tration, but the story somehow never got ' EXPRESSION OF grave concern was who comprise the large majority in the that the congressmen ride on commercial the headlines. not enough, but it was too much to expect country look to a boost in wages, while in­ planes between Cairo, Egypt, and Tokyo. LAST WEEK, A NAVY engineer, Hough that he would lash out at employers who dustry’s brass hats pocket big slices of The defense secretary said this would save L. Hanson, testified before a navy court fight viciously and relentlessly to keep profit. the taxpayers’ money and would avoid the the President last year flew off his handle conditions approximating "economic slaves.” ------AVERAGE PENSIONS received by U. S. armed services the embarrassment of com- ■ and -was-all set to fire Symington-because - Tobin -had—committed—himself—to—visiting- petlng with the “free enterprise” of regu­ Steel Corporation employes at 65 years is he had gone to a Republican Congress with sweatshops and factories that are half larly scheduled private lines. less than $5 a month. And many employes a plea for a larger air force than • that a century behind the times in Industrial who have given a lifetime of service to the THE SENATOR'from Oklahoma took- Truman had recommended. relations and working conditions.

nean when it gave way to the Truman Plan A-Bomb, “Child’s Play” in'Greece and Turkey, strategic points for Just seven ounces of a biologic agent World Summary controlling Middle East oil. This was an spread widely enough can wipe out man­ admission-that Britain, was no longer in a kind, and the atom bomb now is like "child’s play” in view of great strides made in bio­ the investigators last week reported that . the communists, if they crossed her bor­ position to keep vast' numbers- of troops on logical warfare. three times as many people had died as had ders, but he would welcome Anglo-Ameri­ foreign soil to subjugate colonial and semir been reported previously. can assistance in troops and arms. colonial peoples. SO SAID, BROCK Chisholm, director- New figures gave 73,884 killed as com­ SONGGRAM’S REGIME has the "spirit general of the world health organization, pared to 23,753, which was the former of- and manpower,” he said, to resist any in- JOHN BULL’S hands were full with to the International conference of the world ficial estimate. At Hiroshima. a single bomb ourslbn, but Thailand lacks ships, planes, restless Asians who had learned to fight union of peace organizations held at ■ St. had killed 80,000. ■ guns and also a transportation system to for independence during Japanese occupa­ Cergue, Switzerland. carry the fight alone. Left unsaid was tion. But even in Asia, Britain was losing The Canadian psychiatrist did not name Another Rat-Hole? Songgracn’s need of a modern, military ground. This week Foreign Secretary-Emest the specific biological weapon, but he was Bevin called on .General George Marshall, Shortly after the Truman Plan came machine to keep down any internal dissen­ definite that large military forces and a- sion and opposition, and if he could get a reportedly to get his aid in-shifting British bombs were obsolete. into effect, a couple of years ago, it became military "obligations” in the Far East, a fashion in Western Europe for govern­ transportation system in the deal, so much WARNED CHISHOLM: "A small coun­ mental authorities seeking U. S. aid to the better. BOTH BEVIN and Sir Stafford Cripps, try with a couple of bacteriologists and a exaggerate the number of communists in British chancellor of the exchequer, are in few fanatics to act as distributors are as their countries. The thinking behind this Grave of Colonialism the U. S. to get economic assistance. Signifi­ cantly, news stories coming out of Wash­ powerful as the largest in a military sense.’’ was obvious—more communists, more U. S. Every time Britain borrows dollars or ington said that Britain and the U. S. now dollars and supplies. gets assistance from the U. S. to patch up regard India as the line to halt the spread New Estimate THIS SAME LINE most likely will not her . bankrupt economlc condition, she is of communism. be repeated In the Far East, for Chiang forced to make concessions. ’ While the peace conference in Switzer­ The emphasis on India was not un­ Kai-shek'with all the communists in China AFTER WORLD WAR II U. S. business land heard of biological weapons, on the expected by East observers who had : seen received more than five billion dollars and thus invaded the sterling bloc, the trade other side of the globe a committee on -India scheduled to be. a. prime, .beneficiary his government is as good as overthrown.;.— areaofthe British Empire-from where' "Preservation of Data of Atomic Bombing” of Truman’s Four Point program for ex­ was _stlll at work, collecting -information While Chiang had begged for dollars and other nations had been blockaded by John supplies as a- condition for “containing Bull. Britain had to allow this, in order porting U. S. capital and "know-how,” to on a radioactive weapon that flattened "under-developed countries.”'' Hiroshima a few years ago but is now communism” for the West, other Aslan to borrow the dollars for reconstruction and called “child’s play.” regimes tactfully , say they would “welcome” rehabilitation, but the loan principally went WASHINGTON dispatches did not say assistance. ' for tobacco, luxury goods and the like, and how much Britain got for the deal, but AT NAGASAKI, where the second Thus Premier Phlbun Songgram of Thai­ very. little ■ for capital goods. India was rapidly slipping from Britain’s atomic bombing took place on Aug. 9, 1945, land said his country was ready to fight - British prestige sunk in the Mediterra­ imperialistic grip.

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Ph. 55121. statehood who declared; on the AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING Town Hall Forum of the Air; that Aid in the legal struggle-of By KAZUO MIZUTA CHAIRS, tents, tables; for rent. LOS ANGELES — Edward H. Americans of Oriental background 20,000 government workers, of Los SPECIALIST in radiator repairs/ ’ Paper dishes. Lum’s Luau Supply. Gibbons . of this city ' whom the are -not sufficiently imbued with Angeles/County was asked at the 'J--im---m--y —Ho--r-i-o-. 9--3-5-4-7 -7. 7098 eves. Ph. 57175/ Res. 849105. / Citizen’s Committee in Honolulu American ideals? Monday , night meeting of the Ha- Next to Varsity Theater. plans to use in a red-bafting, LAWRENCE COLEMAN, airline waii Civil Liberties Committee .by WHEEL Alignment; steering shim­ CALL CHU’S PARTY SUPPLY smear campaign is the same man manager, 743 Hausten St., Apt. B.: Henry. Epstein, business agent of my our specialty. Ph. 93383, Ed­ for tents, chairs, tables. Ph. 92656 the United Public Worker?, who who published the now celebrated He’s wrong because regardless of win Kihara or Pawaa Auto Serv. massage -c “befuddled dupes or dopes” list nationality of ancestry, if they be­ was chief speaker. -The govern­ in his “anti-Communist, anti- ment workers had refused to sign' KEN’S Auto Fender Shop. Special­ LIMU Steam Bath-Treatments for lieve in the doctrine of Ameri- ize in-hariy.'anri fpnrlprwnrk 1303 muscular nain. colds, rheiimAtUTn ----- subversive11-newsletter—-Alert.” . . carilsm they are trustworthy -Amer­ -a—loyalty- oath—an- constitutional grounds and their case, the first N. School. St. Ph. 84098. & massage. Mabel - Kakumu. 1460 His list contained district at- icans, That’s the—pfinciple of de­ Konia St. Ph. 89686. 1 torneys, Democrats, two known mocracy—regardless of one’s ' an­ ‘of its kind to reach the U. S. Su­ GEORGE’S Auto Top Shop.-®pecial preme Court, will be. heard at members of the Communist . cestral homeland. Every American , rates on seat covers; many fabrics. MASSAGE will bring relief to Party, and it boomeranged on should realize that persons of Ja-_ Washington in the week beginning 613 S. Hotel St. Ph, 53316. Oct. 17. nervous tension, aches or pains. E. Gibbons, > causing the California panese ancestry who served in MUTT’S Body and Fender Shop. ■ P. Cabfal. 8238 Mokihana. 75232 state' senate to investigate how World War II have proven to the As a result of Epstein’s outlining 946 Waimanu St. Ph. 577315. the state un-American com­ world that they are good Ameri­ of the case and his appeal for, MISCELLANEOUS mittee funds were used to sub­ cans. And I believe they are en­ funds to aid the government work­ AWNINGS sidize “Alert.” titled to the same rights as any ers in their fight, a donation was CASH FOR YOUR Until then Gibbons appeared be­ American born in any one of the raised on the spot and the mem­ ISLAND Awning Shop, 633 S. Ber- fore the un-American committee, states.' bership voted to send $25 as a con. etania. Ph. 65532. Awnings, cano­ SEWING MACHINE headed by its ex-chairman Sen. trlbution to'the United Defense pies. Free est. Tents for rent. Moiliili Second Hand Store RINGER R. KEMBLE, attorney, Committee which has been formed Ph. 968295 2730 S. King Jack B. Tenney, as editor of Bishop Bank Bldg.: As I remem­ BABY SITTING “Alert.” The investigation brought in Los Angeles to organize the de­ ber it, the argument was that fense in this and similar cases. WEE Willie Winkle. Phys. Certi­ PART time .bookkeeping service. put that Gibbons had received another generation or two would Low rates. Ph. 511785. Stephen Murln, former chair­ fied. Bonded, mature women. Day $2,211.93 from the, Tenney com­ be needed td clear up the conflict or night. Call 75540/or 847125 mittee within four months early in the minds of those of Oriental man, read a summary of an eye­ BORTHWICK Funeral Parlors. this year for “research” work and ancestry here as to bas.ic ideals of witness account of the mob attack BICYCLE REPAIR Ph. 59158. this was quite a scandal at Sac­ , on spectators at the Robeson con­ citizenship as learned at home “MOST everything on wheels." ■ BULLDOZER, crane, loader, grad­ ramento. and at school. It is unfortunate cert at Peekskill, N. Y.,, recently. Sales, service, and repair. Eki (A fuller account • from, the same er & roller service. Free estimate. Boss Resigns that anything should now widen Cyclery, 681 So. King 57277 Phone 863723 or 89193. Gibbons testified as an “expert” the gap between any two groups— writer Is published elsewhere in witness on numerous occasions to this issue of the RECORD.) CABINET MAKING both born under the American PAINTERS support the deluge of Tenney’s flag. Further affiant sayeth not. The next social function of the FURN. & cabinet making; repairs. loyalty path bills. The Tenney bills' HCLC, a , beach party, was an­ T. Sakamoto. 842 Mission. 56787 J. KAYA of which got all the propaganda plug JAMES MORINAKA, real estate nounced. The party, at Manners K. & W. PAINTERS by men like Gibbons failed to pass salesman, 1010 Alakea St.: These Beach, will start at 3 p. m. Satur­ CARPENTERS Tel. 65088; —'1530 Pele St. and Tenney himself almost came ideas are outmoded:1 They are day, Sept. 17, and a contribution NEW buildings, repairs, remodeling. under investigation by a senate horse and buggy ideas. This last of $1 is expected; 35 cents from FOR GENERAL painting call body. Discredited for his- smear war has proven the fact of their unemployed. • Cabinet making, painting. Kapa­ 900282-947282. Ask for Jim. tactics, Tenney resigned as head parents coming from the Orient hulu Mercantile Center. 727275 has no bearing on the young gen­ Monday’s HCIZJ meeting was PLUMBING of California’s notorious un-Amer­ . held at Ala Moana Park. GOOD carpenter work reasonable. ican committee and now Gibbons eration. . Ph; George, 97340; Free estimate. PLUMBING contracting, repairs ■ & is out of a good-paying job. He heater installations. Fast serv. W. P. WHEELER, retired, 1110 waiian Trust Bldg.: There is ab- edited the final Tenney committee Punahou St.: I believe that any CONTRACTORS Free est. 92370/- Eddie Kitamura. report. solutely no merit at all. It is a ...... -m American citizen has the right to misstatement. Americans• of -Orlen- GEORGE Shlma Gtm Cont.,’De- "ALPliimbingandRepalrs. ------Tenney; close associate of vote on any subject before the citi­ , . ... , , , , ,----- . Tom Matsumura. Ph. 93552. Gibbons, is the same man who tai ancestry have not only shown sign, New Bldgs. & Repair. Hollow zenry. , . they are imbued with American lashed out at Japanese Amer­ DR. ANDREW W. LIND, sociolo­ Tile. Ph. 688877 or 847611 for free RADIO REPAIRS icans before and during the War, ideals; they have gone further and estimate.' gist, author of several books deal­ given their lives for their country. THE success story of our business to get them' out “of California, ing with’ Americans of Oriental T. YAMAMOTO, Gen. Contractor. -“Good- Service.” , Akizaki Rad. & .and^yyJio played hand in. .glove -ancestry,. 2609 Doris PI./ Well/my..... BRAHAM .HOUSTON, .attorney,.... "New Homes;' repairs; remodeling;- Sales--*.Serv: :2124:;S;: King; 94947 with the vigilantes and big pro­ answer, to that might be indicated McCandless Bldg.: I don’t think Reasonable price. Ph. 541534. • duce interests to keep the people in part k(y the fact that I tried to there' is any basis for such an RADIONIG Service1 Co, Pickup de­ of Japanese/ descent from re­ ask him a question on it but was argument. ' • ' ; GENERAL Contracting, new bldg., livery. 851 Kapahulu. Ph. 75466. turning to the West Coast. After not. recognized by the chair.', I repairs, alter., roofing, cab.1 work; the war Tenney tried to pass a wanted to ask whether he had- Free est. Jas. M. Osedo. Ph. 845671. CENTER RADIO; Phone 57363. HONOLULU RECORD Ask for George Perdew. . law that would strip Japanese any evidence to support tils con­ CAT J. me anytime for re-screening, Americans of all land they owned tention. I’m pretty sure he didn’t Published .Every Thursday alterations, etc., reas. Ph. 95543. ABC Radio Repair Service. Phone in California. have any evidence to indicate that j by _ 75401. Benjamin Chow. — children of Oriental parentage are Honolulu Record Publishing DRESSMAKING more likely to become Commu- Company, Ltd. WORK guaranteed. Pickup & de­ nists'than, say, children of Italian EXPERT alterations. Mildred’s livery. Phone C. Lum 725822. Crozier Uses Telegram parentage. In other words, I think 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu, T. H. Dressmak’g. 25 S. King. Ph. 56008. his argument is wholly spurious, Entered as second-class matter REFRIGERATION To Reach Legislators and that’s putting it mildly. May 10,1949, at the Post Office at AGNES’- personal dressmaking. 24 HOUR refrig, service. Commer- Honolulu, Hawaii, under the Act of 2469 S. King St. Ph. 58679. ! cial, domestic. Ph. 960954/ G, H “The legislature is so. far away CHUCK MAU, supervisor, Ha- March 3, 1879. ELECTRICAL . Refrig. ? Serv. & General Repair. from the people of Hawaii and their interests that you must reach BUSINESS DIRECTORY KATAOKA Electric Appliances. EDDIE’S REFRIG. SERVICE them with a cablegram,.’’ said 362 N. Vineyard. Electrical wiring, Domestic and Commercial Willie Crozier of Honolulu, former , Real Estate Places To Dine contract fixtures, < Westinghouse 1049 Olli Rd. Phone 73054. legislator, who this week sent a appliances. Ph. 55673-95303. SAND & SOIL telegram to both houses. NANAKULI — MAILE TASTY DISHES. ’ VETERANS’ Electric Co. House SAND for, sale, white sand, crushed The message delivered by a mes­ 1) . 5,000 sq. ft. 2 bedroom home— SAIMIN - COLD DRINKS wiring, repairing. Ph. 52779 or rock, white coral.. Mokapu Sand senger of a wire service said: reasonable. 2) A nice home on 52683. Evenings 57525. Co. Ph. 95313. 2226 So. King St. “House of Representative^ and Farrington H’way on % acre lot. Senate, 25th Legislature. 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Page Four HONOLULU RECORD September 15j 1949 Fight Exposes Theft Of U. S. Navy Tools (from page 1) AN OPINION-TAKER from the the whim of the governor. But ’Tiser, stopping at mid-town busi­ an officeholder who’s active in the agree it was best to let them fight ness places, was asking proprie­ it out.” Democratic County Committee may Charged for Push tors how they thought the Voice catch plenty of pressure from the Watchihg got the best of Hazel’s of the Dillinghams might be im­ same Democratic governor, it is. brother Henry Huihui, Jr., aged 11, proved. said. ■ and before too long he was in a “Change the editor,” suggested /'/:::::.:/ ^ ■ fight with a Medeiros boy. Hazel one interviewee. THAT NEW liberal look in the was winning and little Henry los­ “Gee, I can’t write an answer ’Tiser probably doesn’t indicate ing, says their father, when the like that,” said the ’Tiser man in much change in editorial policy. boy went down and Huihui stepped affrighted alarm. Rather, it may indicate a certain, in to stop.it. In doing so he says After all, the ’Tiser just made nervousness on the part. of the he pushed the Medeiros boy, "may- Jan Jabulka editor a week or so publishers. “Maybe,” says WKB, be harder than I meant.” As a re- -ago;------«---- —they put—Columns__like .- Mrs sult, charges of assault and battery Roosevelt’s in there so their edi-, were brought against the father. W. TIP DAVIS told members of torial writers can see exactly the Huihui retained Arthur Trask as the Filipino Action Committee: things they’re not supposed to do. attorney and. immediately asked . “We’ve got $10,000 coming in every Mrs. Roosevelt’s a pretty good Trask to arrange a postponement, .the whole message of this elaborate float by the Hanamaulu ILWU day. We don’t know what to do American, you know.” because he .had already arranged unit in the Labor Jay parade at Kilauea, Kauai. This float won first with all the money.” * # # * to help his wife who sells kitchen­ prize. One thing Tip, or the Citizens ware. Committee, or IMUA didn’t do was JOE GOUVEIA, the raucous an- “The day the trial was set,” he to pay the bill for the FAC broad- ti-union voice on the waterfront, says, “I was supposed to help casts. Nor has anyone else, ac­ called-the-cops—Monday-fo—inves- " my wife give a demonstration of cording to F. P. Gamboa, who tigate the mystery of the bystander cooking ware for the firemen. quit the FAC when he found it who punctuated one of Joe’s ha­ We were going to serve a lunch.” was strictly an employer instru­ rangues with a kick in the pants. Trask got the postponement, but ment: The cops listened, ■ laughed and Huihui thinks Sergeant Wilfred * * * * went on about their business. Takabayashi investigated, found HENRY EPSTEIN listened on * * * * there was no demonstration sched­ Kauai while a UPW organizer DAVID NOA is the envy of uled by. the Fire Department and failed to sign up an especially Kalawahine because',the contrac­ jumped to the conclusion that he ; hard case into the union. After tor who is grading for homestead was lying. Anyhow, he was noti­ he’d exhausted all his arguments, houses there made one of his side­ fied to appear personally, and no the organizer said to the holdout: fills free for him. His. future one at Kaneohe Police Station “Okay, if you don’t want to join, neighbors, under identical con-' would accept the $50 bail he of­ you don’t. But tell us why not so tracts, were told they would have fered. we’ll know for future reference.” to do extra filling themselves. But Judge Was Tough The holdout pointed to Epstein then Noa drives Tor a man named So, while Mrs. Huihui demon­ parade’at Lihue, Kauai. and, said:' “See that guy? Two Stainback. strated her kitchen-ware alone, years ago he passed me driving a Huihui faced Judge Calvin Mc­ car and didn’t stop to give me a Gregor, who consented to postpone ride.” TORKEL WESTLY, assistant tax: the case, but asked: “Why did you collector, was helping Stainback’s Father Diume Is God Himself; At that, Epstein felt,. the guy’s special prosecutors in an effort to­ lie to the court?” reason was about as logical as any Huihui learned, to his surprise, other for not joining a union. prove the longshore strike has cost that the judge'thought he asked Moncado Is God’s “Third Rep.” the Territory big money. Myer- the postponement because of some Symonds . objected to the largest THEY SAY there’s no such firemen’s demonstration. By ALLAN BEEKMAN “whilst" at the Peace Center & item on: Westly's list—pineapples Huihui explained about the thing as racial discrimination by that haven’t been shipped. West- The- other day I was given the Nazareth Mission at New York. the_big_companies,_ but _the _ last_ kitchen-ware and Judge McGreg­ Aug. 6, issue of The New Day, a “I AM CHANGING THE ly_admitted_that jthis money should or said: “That's not a demonstra­ Gadabout heard, the swimming be realized eventually, since-the 48 page tabloid-size- weekly news­ TIDES OF GOVERNMENTAL pool owned by the Kohala Sugar pineapples are being canned. tion.” . paper published at Philadelphia, AFFAIRS!” lie cried. Co. was still open only to haoles. "It is,” Huihui protested. “featuring the WORKS OF FA­ “‘So true, GOD ALMIGHTY!’ “Well, then^you lied about that, Non-haole kids who wanted to go didn’t you?TAccused Symonds. Whereupon McGregor sen­ THER DIVINE.” ■ ■ - - ’ ' declared the entire, congregation swimming had to walk a- matter tenced him to five days in jail It can be assumed that a man joyously.” 1 of miles to Mahukona and the Garner. Jinhony, special prosecu­ for contempt of court. Huihui who •requires a weekly -paper to He is personally responsible for ocean. ' tor, and his cohorts were on their started to talk again and the coyer his activities of the preced­ every good, in government. or else­ : * * ' * * feet immediately protesting—not judge threatened to make it 10. ing week is a remarkable person. where. One supporter solemnly THE HAWI THEATER, only two that WestTy _ had been telling the Trask, it developed later; ha'd The testimony of thanked him for causing the gov­ years ago, carried out a Big Island-, truth, but that as a. Territorial offi­ never clearly understood what the Father Divine’s ernor of Texas to sign the anti- brand of jim crow by having the cial,7 lie deserved more respect. demonstration was himself, and disciples, as re­ lynching bill. * * * » - finally the jail sentence ‘ was al­ ■ best seats painted white — for corded in The V-Mail To Hirohitq haoles only. ; . REP. NOBURO MIYAKE lis­ tered to a $10 fine. New Day, bears The paper has a full page re­ * * * tened to a RECORD subscription In the case, when it was finally . out such an as­ production of a -V-letter he sent PAUL ROBESON, according to salesman-and finally stated: “I’m tried, many witnesses—presented-- sumption. May 7, 1945 to “Premier” Hirohito, much varying testimony and al­ letters received here,- has beeii at­ -afraid if I keep reading this pa­ At the conclu­ in which Father Divine, the name tempting to correct the garbled per, it will influence me.” though the Medeiros boy testified by which he is “known throughout that he had been pushed, not sion of one of version of what he said in Paris Father Divine’s •the universe,” called for Japan’s before the world’s artists and in­ $80(>;00D WORTH of “hot” pine­ struck, Huihui was found guilty “unconditional surrender immedi­ of assault and fined $25. “dynamic” ser­ tellectuals ' gathered to plead for apples were in Seattle last week: Trouble Begins ‘Again mons, one Wal­ ately.” Like all his letters it ends peace. U. S. news services had aboard the scab-manned barge, Three days later, the neighbors ter Miles arose with the following words: reported him as saying American Ono, and the skipper said he need­ were talking about the Huihui to reply: Mr. BEEKMAN “With the ’hope that others Negroes would not fight against ed repairs for his compass, and ra­ Children again, this time because “I know it was YOU, FATHER, might be even as I AM, this the Soviet Union. What he really dio direction-finder. He’ll need two of them had been playing that saved me,” Mr. Miles ecstat­ leaves Me Well, Healthy, Joyful, said was considerably different, extra good ones to find a port with old badminton rackets a ically addressed Father Divine, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Suc­ but what he finds now is that where he can get his cargo unload­ neighbor had laid outside. in concluding an explanation of cessful, Prosperous, and Happy many Negroes don’t like the cor­ ed. “The man was moving away,” a miraculous escape from death, in Spirit, Body and Mind and in rection. They liked the garbled Huihui says, “and he left a lot of “and I know that I owe my every muscle, organ, sinew, joint, version better! stuff around--mostly junk.” whole life to YOU, because I limb, vein and bone, and even in ♦ ♦ ♦ . ♦ But the complaint brought a know YOU are the TRUE and every atom, fibre and cell of My THE COP on duty Monday,, di­ Hualalai’s Crew policeman at 10 p. m. Monday, the LIVING GOD!” Bodily Form.” recting traffic at the King-Bish­ night to take Henry Jr., to the Feeling, perhaps, that .this tes­ Evidently there is no doubt op intersection at 2:15 p. m., set To Sleep Better station and question him, his timonial was not sufficiently among his followers that this let­ a good example for his colleagues father says, “on suspicion of lyrical to give full expression to ter achieved its object. to shoot .at. ■ When a toddler’s When the: Hualalai, veteran oF grand larceny.” his adoration, Mr. Miles then, Is God Himself balloon escaped, the cop halted 20 years, service in inter-island Mrs. Huihui went to the police manifested himself, further by He asserts that those who defy traffic until he’d recaptured , it shipping, reaches New Zealand, it station with her son and in the singing the familiar composition, him destroy . themselves. To one and restored it to its owner. will undergo repair and renovation,/ . tWo-hour questioning that followed “I know YOU are GOD!” disciple who wrote -of her daugh­ “There’s a man,” said a passerby, and- her new crew will get Con­ the trail, took an unexpectedly new Omnipotent Power ter’s suicide he wrote that “evi­ “who knows he’s a servant of the sideration. turn. . Another , man, however hungry dences reflect as though she had people—not their walking boss.” George Cunningham, director In defense of the Huihui boy, for praise, might . consider a opposed ME. . and superintending engineer of someone said: . “That- man who tribute as . extravagant as Mr. Another disciple, Deborah Faith­ MAURICE SAPIENZA of the the Anchor Shipping & Foundry blames him hag thousands of dol­ Miles’a little too much. Not Father ful, ‘wrote to : hiin about “some attorney general’s office; seems to Co. which bought the ship,_ said lars worth of navy tools he’s stolen. Divine. Though appreciative he ■retribution” occuring to the Rev. indulge in as much political ac­ the crew’s quarters will Be fixed, to Why don’t you do something about evidently considers it no more than E. ,W. Perry of Memphis, Tenn., tivity as he likes in behalf of the conform to standard in the locali­ that?” . | his -due. & who had “talked so badly” about “Young” Democrats. The latest ty. That means, instead of 10 to . “That’s hot our business/’; said At 3:10 a. m., the New Day Father Divine, not only to her talk has it that he’s around -col­ 14 crowded in a quarter, a fewer- the questioning cop. “We’re not reveals, Father Divine was but also in the presence of Miss lecting donations from people like number will occupy it, : : concerned with that.” . “electrifying the air” whilst at Patricia Willingness. As a result the Palace Mission Church and he has been stricken so/he is no Bill Brown, who owe their, jobs to The Hualalai will make a 100 ■ But the FBI is concerned. When mile trip in New Zealand, a shorter- a local FBI agent heard something Horde,- Inc., of New Jersey. And longer able to preach, she testified. he declared: “All of the inhabit­ ■ Father Divine implied the Rev. "of -the paper are such advertise­ route than the Hilo-Honolulu, of the report,-he said the man in ments as this: Miss F. M. Humili­ schedule. question had been under suspicion ants ..of the earth shall flow Perry had received his just re-' into it for it is written of ME: ward. “If anyone should- know ty, 2138 .Wabash Ave., Chicago, for a long time. Now, the FBI HI.—Found: 1 cent, Washington plans a new move against • that “ •He shall lift up the. Mount WHO I AM, it is the preachers,” Kanda-Silva Wed ■ of the House of the LORD and he replied. He explained “the very- St. near State St., April 28th or neighbor and possibly another 29th. 62549. Miss Tokiko Kanda of Olokele, neighbor as well. all nations shall flow into it.’ things the critics and accusers de­ "Aren’t you glad?” he ex-’ sire to come to ME stop by them Miss Glory Hallelujah found 10 Kauai, married Frank Silva, ILWU' And lit all started over two little cents.: David Right found a towel, Local 142 business agent on the girls and a hair-pulling contest! claimed. "So glad!” cried his fol­ and they get the undesirable ef­ Garden Island, on Sept. 10. Miss lowers who had; come there to fect of their evil intentions.” ■ a nickel and twd cents. Perhaps Interestingly, Hllario Moncado feeling that Father Divine’s bene­ Kanda is a graduate of the Kauai SEE THE feast on succulent dishes at pop­ ular prices in addition to rendering says he is the “third representa­ ficent influence might not7 have High Schoo! and is active in the CLASSIFIED him homage. tive of God,” while Father Di­ been extended to every possible union women’s auxiliary. Silva is DIRECTORY At 10:05 p.m, the same day the- vine says he is God himself. claimant, Mr. Right asked that a veteran of the Philippines cam-- ON PAGE 3 urge to express himself c a m e In the lost and found section the owner identify the articles. paign. September 15, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five CROSS BURNS, BLOOD FLOWS AT PEEKSKILL AS STORM TROOPERS" HELP HOODLUMS IN ATTACK By SPECIAL WRITER mob had to lean over the arms of but back to the picnic area; As we safe?” The first-thing I did was those’ who already practice fas-’ The writer of this article ■ is the cops. I realized then the kind went up the hill we saw the next to go into a drugstore for a cold of “protection” wc were being bus being sent down for the same cism—and at the same time fills a Honolulu student now study­ glass of water. It was long past ing in New. York. • .given. . ■ treatment. On the concert grounds you with love arid faith .in peo­ These cops-were really storm all our guys were lined up guarded dinner time. I could not eat. ple who were willing to risk their new York city, sept. 7—i troopers on the side of the mob, by cops.; Another exposure to the There was a hustle and1 hustle lives to go back to rescue those caw fascism-and-it is ugly.l-Fascism. ----many—of—them—relatives—and— which turns men into beasts, and friends of the mob and members driver was finally allowed to’ board patched to Peekskill to bring back dangered. fills the air with, “We’ll get you .of the Legion and other riot­ our bus. •our stranded men. The next day Tell everybody. People m u s t Jew bastards”; “You damn n—s”; sponsoring groups; I felt like crying as I looked we sent back more reinforcements ' know what happened at Peekskill. “You can get in butt you won’t There was’ a Negro'nian walking back at our men standing in line. to guard the homes of our friends ■Tell them to send protests to come out alive”; “We’ll finish- the in front of me and he got kicked What was going;to happen to in Peekskill and adjacent areas President Truman and Attorney job for Hitler.” several .times. Another, a veteran them?. Throughout that 1 o n g and to bring back the. last group General.McGrath. Let. them. know Peekskill is a small town-similar of, both . world wars,' who - couldrdt hour when we had been' at the of men. ■ .• ■■ ■ • ■ their “Wake up America., will to many small towns upstate. To stand ’it and spit back got beaten mercy of the; troopers and the Such an experience fills you boomerang. We will wake up and get-to-it-you-dr-ive 50 miies-froin__^dawn_byjthe sto troopers with mob there had been a feeling with hate for our enemies---- stop fascism from spreading here. New York through beautiful hills their night sticks. They picked on that we might not get back alive. and vales along the Hudson. The Negroes particularly. Then the barrage of rocks began. Harlem Civil Rights Congress was Cars Drove Into the Ambush We all crouched low on the floor to have a concert there late one At last we stood with our own of the bus. They told me that the Saturday a week ago, with Robeson people, the concert-goers, more windows were shatter-proof but I as principal artist. than 25,000 strong. I looked around felt a shower of splintered glass Cross and Book Burning - and felt as though I were on a all over me. To , have to crouch The American Legion, Catholic battlefield. The grounds, an aban­ before, such a planned, cowardly war veterans, and other such doned golf course, extend, for about attack and not be able to fight groups, incited to riot action by 12 acres. Two hills empty into the back J was almost more than . I local newspapers and emboldened valley where the concert was held. could'take. by spending all day in the bars, All along one hill two lines of our There was a seven-year old organized a riot, Fourteen cars men separated the mob from our boy on our , bus who kept asking were overturned, many with oc­ pSople. More lines stood firm along his mother,“Why do they throw ■ cupants in them. Children were the other hill. Several other lines stones at us?” His mother: re­ taken from mothers’ arms and were in the valley and along the plied, “Because they read the dumped in a swimming pool. road where our buses and cars lies in the newspapers .and listen Roads were barricaded; a well- were ready to leave.. to lies told by. , all kinds of evil piled cross burned .on a hilltop. We outnumbered...the ..mob people.” Then he asked,. “Why And there was a bonfire of the about 25 to 1, and if it hadn’t . do. they , believe those lies?” What chairs which had been arranged been for the storm troopers we can you tellachildabout the - for listeners and the music sheets could easily, have managed to mad insanity , of fascism? (like Hitler’s book burning). - protect • ourselves. If the. storm As we neared Yonkers I got a ~ KOREAN CAMP float, first prize winner tri the Labor’Day parade, at There-was no concert. Butquick- troopers had. really been inter­ sip of Coca Cola, the first drink : Pahala; Sugar workers from ILWU Local 142, longshoremen and others ly came the determination that ested in public welfare they could I had had since leaving the house. paraded, and national groups reaffirmed their solidarity. Robeson would sing in Peekskill. ■ * have dispersed the mob.' I saw -people bleeding, and buses Protest meetings on the streets These storm ..troopers knew of and cars with shattered windows - and elsewhere- started -that:. Satur­ the 'ambush_waiting_for_.the._de- . andLho!es through, the windshields. day night. The biggest one was parting conc’crt-gocrs. They held Not till we. came into Harlem about Floats Tell Story Of Plantation held in Harlem with over 15,000 back our cars about an hour before 10 p.m. did I feel safe. attending. I was among those who allowing them to leave the field. "Tell Everybody” had to stand, outside. The cars drove right into the, am­ Cheering crowds were waiting Lifej “Korean Camp” Wins Prize -Then"at-midnight- we had a bush lying ready- for them.—The for us, and" already there ~ were’ torchlight parade from 142nd to barrage of boulders and rocks in­ street meetings going . on giving By WENCESLAO Q. SEE riders and .workers and their fami- 125th street. Harlem was seeth­ jured over 150 people,’ many very eye-witness accounts of what had PAHALA, Kau—Labor Day, 1949, lies paraded through the streets ing with anger and the police seriously. . ' ' taken place. How good Harlem marked labor’s progress and unity of Pahala. ■ knew it. The cops dared not of­ At about 5 p.m. there were still looked! in this plantation district with The floats carried banners and fend the people. We were too many people left in the area—our But through the joy and relief people of various ancestries. signs such as “Korean Camp,”’ strong even though the whole guards still maintaining their lines. Old-timers recalled conditions of police force seemed to be out We had no drivers. They had been came the feeling, “How soon be­ . “Filipino Mill Camp,” “Japanese there. I never took part in such taken somewhere by a deputy and fore even our homes will not be decades ago as seven floats, pa-u Mill Camp” and so on. They a demonstration before. couldn’t return to man their buses. showed that immigrant laborers Sunday- was .a beautiful day. We waited ■ over an hour and a brought here were housed in There was a gay, defiant, festive half • until finally a committee separate camps, according to mood in Harlem where the buses sought men among pur group who their nationalities. With time the .waited for people carrying their had truck driver licenses. HE MARRIED A COOKE, TOO barriers were hr o k e n down lunches. As early as 6 a.m. the We “Had to” Watch Quietly among the people but as workers people gathered. First the men, During that wajt I witnessed PHILIP EDMUNDS SPALDING became organized, the union sped, mostly veterans, led by the Fur­ something horrible. I still see it Residence: 2411 Makiki Heights Drive the progress to unity. rier’s Union, Local 65 and other vividly. On. some pretext the storm This year- ILWU Local. 142, Unit progressive unions. From Manhat­ troopers descended on our men President-Director: C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. 2, Pahala; sponsored a lantern pa­ tan alone over a hundred full buses who were coming down in single Director: Welch & Co. < rade on Sept. 4, arid the Labor Day left. I was in one of the last. file to board -their cars and buses. Director: Matson Navigation Co. parade'the following day. Cops Were Storm Troopers I saw three of them attack one President-Director: Hawaiian Agricultural Col (Brewer) The Lantern Parade, com­ The ride shouldn’t have taken of our boys. They beat him over President-Director: Hilo Plantation Co. (Brewer) prised a train of eight rocket cars more than two hours to the con­ the head with their sticks, then President-Director:‘Olqkele Sugar Co., Ltd. (Brewer) pulled by a Jeep full of children ■ cert area. We got there .about 3:45, kicked him in the stomach. President-Director: Pepeekeo Sugar Co. (Brewer),. holding. Japanese paper lanterns after the concert was over. We had What was so horrible was the President-Director: Onomea Sugar Co. (Brewer) (cho-chin). -Higashi; Camp put up been directed into all sorts of by­ fact that we had to stand quietly President-Director: Wailuku Sugar Co: (Brewer) four home made lanterns; . Cane roads by the cops; the excuse: too and watch all this. Unless wc Vice President-Director: Hakalau Plantation Co. (Brewer) Loader, Cane Truck, Cane Cutter much traffic. All the way up we maintained such discipline, more Vice President-Director: Kilauea Sugar Plantation Co. (Brewer) V Tractor and a Scale House and saw buses and cars being turned would have become victims of Vice President-Director: Hutchinson Sugar Co. (Brewer) won first prize. back. I have never seen so many the storm troopers, all of whom Vice President»-Director: Paauhau Sugar Plantation Co. (Brewer) On Labor Day the grand parade cops, deputies, state troopers and had guns. These cowards waited Chairman .of Board: Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd. — started at about 9:30 a. m. The -vehicles. until most of our people had Director: Bank of Hawaii. Unit 2 float led' off but did not . Iptcrspersed with our cars and left and the lines had finally Director:' Cooke Trust Co., Ltd. take part’.in. the prize contest. The buses being turned' back came cars dispersed. Director: Lewers. & Cooke, Ltd. Korean . Camp float took first with large sticker's announcing, Slowly our new driver, someone Director: Mutual Telephone Co. prize. The ■ Filipino Mill Camp "Wake up America; Peekskill did.” from Local 65, drove us out until Director: Hilo Transportation & Terminal Co., Ltd. float which took second prize rep­ Ironically, mockingly, American we came to a road block set up Director: Pacific Pineapple Co., Ltd. resented a_ One Horse .-: Power flags were all over Peekskill. by the cops on a hill. They let Formerly: Director: Pacific. Chemical & Fertilizer Co., Honomu Sugar Mill. : So many buses were being forced one bus at a time -down into the Sugar Co., Charles M Cooke, Ltd. Third place was won by the to go back that our friendly driver village where the mob was waiting Japanese Mill Camp float which told us to join the walking concert­ for us. Our driver was accused of Born 1889, Minneapolis, Minn., son of an architect and. builder. represented, the 64th anniversary goers but to remember his face stealing the bus and arrested. . Came to Hawaii in 1912 as building contractor. Served in World of the Japanese immigration- to an.d bus number because he would Stones were hurled at- us, and ’ War I. Joined Lewers & Cooke in 1919 and became vice president.. the Islands. drive in and wait for us. So we more jeers and epithets, while we Joined C. Brewer & Co. in 1924. Attended Stanford University. The Kapapala Camp float rep- treseuted mechanization:. ;It was walked, children and all. were trapped there. Married 1920, Alice Cooke, daughter of Charles Montague Cooke, Closer and louder came the jeer.- Our leader urged strict silence aboat shape loading'bulk sugar Sr., of Lewers & Cooke, C. Brewer & Co. and Bank of Hawaii, on one side and an airplane for ing of the mob.. Suddenly we were for there were many of us who thus becoming b’rt>ther-to-law of Charles Montague Cooke,; Jr., • walking two abreast (there was wanted to shout Insults back at spraying poison on the other. no room for more) in the middle the mob. But we knew that on Clarence Hyde Cooke, William Harrison Cooke, George Paul The American Legion float rep­ Cooke, Richard Alexander Cooke and Theodore Atherton Cooke, " resented the raising of the Ameri­ •i' of the road with the mob on both any pretext the mob would have and uncle by marriage to most of the younger Cookes, Mrs. Alva ? sides yelling fascist epithets. been given a free rein.. Our only can Flag in Iwo Jima. The Span­ I got spit at like everybody weapons were a refusal to be pro­ E. Steadman, Mrs. Heaton Wrenn, etc., etc.-. ish Camp float represented- Ha­ else and I turned back to see voked and a stony silence. We Children: Philip Edmunds Spalding, Jr., 4663 Kahala Ave., vice waiian Hula. the face. I have seen those faces kept quiet, and observed the cops president Pacific Pineapple: Co., Ltd.; director Cooke Trust Co., Speakers-for the. day were: Col. before in photographs of the Hit­ mingled with the rioters coming Ltd. Charles Cooke Spalding, 2411 Makiki Heights Road, with A. P.~ Cook, Commanding .Officer ler mob, faces convulsed in mad In and out of two bars—laughing, C. Brewer & Co.; director of Hawaiian Automobile Transport Co., ■ 3rd .-Battalion; David Thompson, . I streaks and wild-eyed. I got my joking, patting one another on the Ltd., Auto Rental Co., Ltd, and Molokai Ranch,. Ltd. ILWU International Represent­ hair pulled. _ back. ative;. J. F. Ramsay, plantation * And the cops wouldn’t do any­ Finally one of the troopers Clubs: Oahu Country, Pacific, Hawaii Polo and Racing. ■ - manager; Antonio Ranla, Terri­ thing. In order to reach us the drovei our bus not toward the city torial Sugar Union President. Page Six- HONOLULU RECORD September 15,-1949 Blacklisted For Cho May Be Chief Witness Union Activity (from page 1) our sports world When Cruz Seeks Old Purse I—don’t use his name-because he By STAFF WRITER to represent him in his effort to has a job outside now—we went to “They say you can’t get hurt get the money back, and Taker see Jack Hall and Ed Berman. By Wilfred Oka with one of those cups,” Rudy shita is understood to have done I think they represented a union Cruz explains, “but if you get hit the same thiqg. The “Palama here that is now called Food and with a left hook, the way Take­ Golden Boy” was'fined his purse, Tobacco Workers,- but then it was shita throws it, it pinches you also, the same amount as that of the UCAPAWA.” like this.” . Cruz’s. Mrs. Kuruyuki \ interrupted: The David Young-Mike Bernal Fight The California lightweight dem­ Normal procedure would be for “That JackiHaU! He was skin- The comment heard after the Young-Bernal fight by quite a number' onstrates with a motion of his Cruz and Takeshita to request a ny one bean pole that time. of fans was rather appropriate and timely The nnmmunf wg°: Awl hands how you can'get-hurl by hearing1by the~boxhig commission ■ Never enough kau kau. Many it was another of Leo Leavitt’s promotions! In one word it was lousy! a low blow in the ring, .even wear­ on the subject and failing that, to' times he came to our house to Mike Bernal came here with a reputation as a top notch ama­ ing a foul-proof protection cup. bring civil action against the com- ■ eat rice—hungry, skinny.” teur. As an amateur he may have been good. His bout with Young The boxer, who-looks more like - mission to get their money. Mr. Kuruyuki nodded agreement. showed that he just hasn’t got -it. Dave on the. other hand just a college freshman than a veteran Some points of the Cruz case “Those were the days,” he contin­ didn’t get started. He displayed evidence that he has lost his KO of the Battle of the Bulge and will be: ued, “when there was no glory for punch because even when his best Sunday punches connected, Mike some 40 ring fights, is resurrect­ 1. Referee Cho saw and recog­ us. My own job was treasurer of Bernal just shook them off and was still on his feet. We will1 give ing the only fight he was ever nized Takeshita’s low blow in the machine shop unit and secre­ this fight a ‘C’ rating. The fans with their booing gave this fight thrown, out of by the referee— the second round, for he deducted tary of the union as a whole. And an ‘F’ rating, the fight with Robert Takeshita the correct number of points from remember, dues collections had to Lou Langley surprisingly fought a pretty good fight, against Dada last February. Takeshita’s score on his card. be made the hard way.’ There was Marino. We were rather prejudiced against this bdut and so we went Cruz After Money Here 2. Although Cho said the no ‘check-off’ because the union in with preconceived notions as to the eventual winner. Outside the Cruz, just back from a cam­ fighters appeared to be "toying” was not recognized yet. We had • Civic some boys were giving odds of 1'0 to 4 on this one: There weren’t paign in Australia (in which he with each other, and though he almost 100 per cent membership— any takers. Regardless of what some of the papers said,-Dado didn’t •wii three fights and drew one) testified at the hearing that about 730 men—and they had to have too easy a time. has stopped over in Honolulu for Cruz went down from “light be visited by’ the treasurer to get Dado, at 120 lbs. looked a little too fat and at his age there two purposes. One is to rest and taps,” he scored the knockdowns the dues.” is the beginning trace of lard spreading around his middle. We will as bona-fide on his bard. the second, probably more im­ Refused Employment have to disagree with the press agents of both Young and Marino portant, is to try to collect the 3. The commission never pro­ that they still have a chance at the title. The hopes of these two purse of approximately $2,600 he duced a motive or reason for a Kuruyuki was proud of the part local boys who have had the chance for a World’s title are now gone! was fined as a result of what the “fix” in the fight and stated, in he played in organizing the. first This is no prediction, just plain fact. ? . Territorial Boxing Commission its decision reinstating the fighters sugar plantation in Hawaii, even Placedo Torres beat Chico Rosa in a four-rounder. This boy Torres called an "unsatisfactory fight.” two months later, that it was sat­ though he no longer worked there has the makings of a pretty good fighter but has a hard time training. Cruz, his manager, Gus Wilson, isfied no money had changed when management was forced to We understand that he issued a statement that if his manager, Lau Ah. and Takeshita were suspended at hands "under the table,” that start bargaining with the unit. Chew, is willing to do road work with him he might change a bit. We the time, though Takeshita’s man­ there was no gambling angle, Cedric Baldwin, plantation man­ weren’t able to get a statement from Lau Ah Chew to confirm! this. ager, Rep. Sam Ichinose; was not since the odds remained the same ager, successfully delayed recogni­ Ray Carvalho got the nod| of the judges over Bobby Sanders. We penalized. until fight time, and that there tion of the union until 1941, by can’t figure this Sanders out. We just-can’t get interested in his bouts, “I don’t know how the fight was no collusion - between the which time Kuruyuki had been, because of his style. Well, he’s got to make a living for his manager, looked from the outside,” Cruz fighters, forced to leave Kauai because of In the other preliminary Masa Goda decisioned fast fading Jimmy says. “All I know is I was trying Arrange For “Good Show” an over-all pay slash on the plan­ Nagao, This is the first pro fight for Goda and although inexperienced, and it was tough inside .that The language of the commission tation. He worked at Pearl Har­ he fought Nagao into a bad-way. Nagao is now a trial horse for; any ring.” is that the fight was “simply an bor and for the Engineers until the new fighter. His reflexes are pretty slow ad he took many a slow left “How many times were you attempt to give the public a good end; of the war, and in 1946 re­ hook thrown by Goda flush on his face. down in the seventh?” he was show. The commission wishes to turned to Lawai because of his asked. make clear its position toward mother’s illness. “Three, I think,” says Cruz. e--v-e--n- -t-h--is- ty,.p e- ,o f a--r-r-a-n--g-i ng-.” Contrary to information rc- Labor Day Picnic “That’s,.what. the... paper said. Those'?handllnR..the._Cruz_.case layedtohimwhileonOahu,---- I remember more about it from feel that the suspension was really McBryde refused to, employ him. We were one of the thousands who assembled at the Ala Moana. the paper than from the fight .the result of a statement Promoter “That’s when the runaround Park after the parade and ceremonies at the lolani Palace to enjoy i"ts el—f.” Leo Leavitt is alleged to have started. I saw Sanderson, the an afternoon of picnicking under the banner of the C. I. O. Thousands It was after the seventh round made to Adrian DeMello, com­ new manager. He told me very of families of longshoremen, plantation workers, pineapple cannery that Referee Walter Cho warned mission (member, to the effect politely that his plan was to and field workers, as well as those from warehouses, bakeries and both fighters to put put more, and that the fighters were to take it ‘push up the boys who are in our other miscellaneous industries ..were represented,’... The,,Marjng,,Cooks it ,wks after less than a minute- easy for - seven rounds and then employ at . present.’ I wrote to and Stewards, office workers from the .United Office and Professional of the eighth that he stopped the go out for blood. Arashiro (now ’ representative Workers Union, members from the newest of the. local C. I. O„ the fight. Next day, at a hearing'' of ■ Leavitt denies ever having made from Kauai) who was an official United, Public Workers were also participating in a ’grand display of the boxing commission, he testi­ the statement in question. at McBryde and asked for help. unity. • ; . fied , that Cruz had gone down Cruz and his advisors deny any He wrote that the manager had Informally, families gathered to partake of the fruits of or­ from' what looked like “light taps” knowledge of the statement or its informed him that he ‘would not ganization. You could see by the types of picnic lunches that workers to him. motives, and they say it is Leavitt’s re-hire anyone who quit Mc­ here in the Territory have come a long-way'from their former “soyu . “At that .point,” says Cruz, “I responsibility and not theirs. ■ Bryde and went to work in town.’ and rice” standard of living. This was no company sponsored picnic. .could have .been knocked over “Why should I have to pay for “I am classified as a first-class or Every activity was spontaneous. Here was no effort to create an very easily.” whatever Leavitt said or didn’t journeyman electrician. Everyone unnatural racial harmony picture. The people were bound by a Cruz has retained legal counsel say?’.’ Cruz asked. here knows that there was a short­ natural tie—they were workers. age of skilled workers in the mills, Local 136 Longshoremen took on the MC&S in an, informal softball but everywhere I went t got the game. The MC&S players weren’t too sure afoot. The batted balls same answer: ‘No help needed? At usually went through their feet. Ralph Vossbrink made the mistake of* T.H.’s Plantom Pickets Gwe Lihue, I went to see Personnel di­ playing in his Sunday shoes. The dry grass at the park and his rector Smith. He called .McBryde shoes had a-rigid day. Ralph’ spent the greater part* of-the day trying to for references, I guess, and that stay on, his feet The Longshoremen won by a huge score. The score­ Frisco Deputy Run-Around ended that.” keeper lost track after the third inning. ■Bustworthington Higa, assistant coach of the MC&S team, had no­ Electricians Needed But ... By TINY TODD Mac: (Cupping his hands to -his . explanation for the defeat-of his charges except to give a hint that SCENE: The Embarcadero, San mouth) “Hey, Fred, there's a guy Today, James Kuruyuki, jour- the bats the stevedores used in the game were loaded bats. over here wants to see you.” neyman electrician, is a displaced - Francisco. Mac and Joe, two steve­ worker. He runs a pool hall in dores are standing on the street Deputy: “What does he say?” . Hanapepe for a relative. Daily, the Sports Tid-Bits From Here and There across from the Ratson Co. pier. Mac: “He says come on over.” skills and techniques he mastered The sound of plodding footsteps Deputy: “Hell, I aint going over and used to help the war effort at Speaking of the Ala Moana Park and the exclusiveness of the comes from the distant' fog. As the there and make a monkey .of my­ Pearl Harbor are growing rusty shower rooms which' have been'reserved for tennis patrons—we'are- steps draw? nearer, it is 'Certain self trying to serve a guy I can’t from disuse. He sees himself as reminded of when a very large area surrounded by a high wall was re­ to any listener that they are made even see. You tell him to come over the product of the peculiar Ha­ served' exclusively for a Lawn Bowling Club made up only of haoles. by feet both flat and w:eary. A here. You tell him he’s breaking waiian economy, a “blacklisted Yes, right in Ala Moana Park! man in a seedy looking, - black worker.” business suit appears out. of then the law,” ' fog.: He carries an official-looking . Joe: “What law?” “I am not sorry for .myself be- white paper in his hand. He is Deputy: Taft-Hartley . cause I know I did what was need­ obviously a deputy with a subpoena Law.” ed at 'McBryde, -There was plenty to -serve! ' ------• ■* - Mac: “Boy, if you want to tell of -f avoritisni on "the ’ job and : a ■ Deputy: “Hey, you guys. Where him that;, go ahead, rm not going union was -the only way to stop it. are those pickets -Those Hawaiian to. Freddy’s pretty hot tempered Today; even with the. union, some guys?” ;? and he don’t like, to hear about of that still goes on but things Mac: (pointing toward the pier) the Taft-Hartley Law?’ . -. are much better than they used to “Over there.” . Deputy:."Aw, I don’t know. He’s be. I am not the only man in Ha­ Deputy: “.Where? I don’t see just one. man.” waii to be blacklisted. I did what anybody.” Joe: “That’s what you think. I could, and today, other men are : Joe: “They're over at the pier. He’s fifty thousand men at least. doing more?’ t ■ Been there all morning.” Maybe more.” . Deputy: “Look, you guys. I’ve Deputy: “You guys are nuts., in a union. A union guy can see a been past that pier six times this You’re always talking stuff like lot of things a flatfoot can’t.” morning and there wasn’t a soul. that. I say he’s only one man.” Deputy: “Like that picket, I If there had been, rd have served Mac: "Well you’re learning, flat­ guess?” them ■ with these summonses. I foot. Awhile ago you wouldn’t even Mac: "Yeah, like that picket. know those Hawaiian guys, and admit he’s over there.” Like fifty thousand men behind I’d have served them if I’d seen Deputy: “I don't admit it now. him.” them,” He isn’t there. I don’t see him Mac: “Well, there’S'Kamahoahoa and what I don’t see isn’t there.”. 'Deputy: “Well, I only got three walking with his sign. I guess Joe: “Then why don’t we go to subpoenas and I’m only looking Aukai went for coffee.” work and unload the ships? We for three pickets.” TAKING AIM with a forefinger upon Joe Anzivino, Star-Bulletin' Joe: “Yeah. Hey, Fred, how's it ain’t rich. We could use some Joe: “You’d better get yourself sports editor, right in Anzivino’s office, Leon Sterling, Jr., member going?” (He waves) money.” some more, guy. Before you lick of the boxing . commission, puts in his beef about a column. He is Deputy: (Staring) “Are you guys Deputy: "I don’t know. I can’t this union, you’ll be serving sum­ unaware of the photographer who took several shots of him while nuts? There ain’t nobody there see why.” monses until your legs are walked he griped. Sterling once , visited the RECORD to kick about one. at all?’ Mac: "That’s because you’re not off up to your knees.” of K. O. Warren’s stories, but K. O. wasn’t in. September 15, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven LOOKING BACKWARD Consumers Potluck ■ (from page 8) TOOTHPASTES of the Yokohama Specie Bank, always an intimate friend LABOR ROUNDUP . Many of us buy a toothpaste ! or toothpowder the way we do of mine. He had taken good care of my family in many cigarettes—we get started with a ways; and I remember it, even, today, as if it were before brand and. stick to It, not know- my eyes. Under-Cbvcr Work For Matson ' ing exactly why. It is even pos­ . At the time we entered jail, a movement from outside ' Latest developments' in the four and a half month dock strike sible to get In an argument about to secure , a special pardon for us was. gaining momentum. were these: one’s favorite -brand, and to be Among the Japanese there were Seishi Tokieda, Takie Oku­ O Another Stainback attempt to settle the strike by offering a very wrong. 14 cent per hour increase to all strikers, provided they immediately Consumer’s Union has been test­ mura, Emyo Imamura, Katsugoro Haida, as well as a num­ return to work. ing some 93 brands’ of popular ber of others who requested' that their names be withheld. _ pastes__ and__ powders__ plus__29__Among the Ampricans therpi www the Rev Doremas Scud­ ----- This proposal from the governors uiflce iollowed on the heels “ammoniated” ‘■ dentifrices. It of a Marine Flremen-Marlne Cooks proposal on Tuesday for a solution found that most dentifrices do der, the Rev. John Gulick, Director Roth of Palama Settle­ of the strike. not db any of the things the ads ment; County Attorney Cathcart; former Territorial Deputy Thomas Gonsalves and Rudolph Eskovitz presented the proposal, . say they do. No one should be Attorney General Lorrin Andrews and several others who, I but nd specific detai..l.s h. ave yet.i. .b een r..e.l.e--a-s-e-dj. T™h_e -p--r-o--p-o--s-a,l is c_ih—arac­ surprised. learned later, zealously exerted themselves.. ■ terized’ as “complicated,” and provides for government negotiations The amount of abrasiveness is However, a shorter route to success with this special for a settlement, something not provided for in Act 2. almost the only important quality to “think about in dentriflces. If pardon plan would be to get the endorsement of the Ha­ It is said that the striking longshoremen and the employers will your teeth do not stain easily, waiian Sugar Planters’ Association. So the'Rev. Okumura shortly consider the proposals from the governor’s office. you- should use the least abra­ went to J. B. Cooke, president of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ These latest attempts at settlement followed the blow-up of the sive dentifrice available. CU divided Association, and persuaded him. New York negotiations, characterized by Cyrus Ching as being “a the dentrifices into “acceptable- Mr. Cooke asserted that he did not desire to further hopeless stalemate.” low” abrasiveness, “average” abra­ siveness, and “high” abrasiveness. oppress the four leaders of the wage increase issue, who The federal mediation chief indicated willingness to try' again Three pastes' were found not ac­ had simply fought for their principles, and he readily signed when both parties are willing. ceptable: Kolynos, which con­ the petition for special pardon addressed to the governor. Following conclusion of the talks in New York, it was revealed tained “particles hard enough to Needless to say, this action greatly assisted the movement. that the employers had turned down nine proposals - by the ILWU scratch glass”; Pebcco, containing At that moment, Governor Frear was on;the Mainland, to settle the strike on the basis that “whichever way you cut it, it potassium chlorate; and Spear­ still spells arbitration.” mint, with “particles hard enough on official duty. The opinion prevailed that a decision would to scratch glass.” be expedited if the petition were now presented to Secretary © The relative quiet of the federal court hearings on the ILWU’s case against Act 2 was disturbed yesterday when union attorneys pre­ “Low Abrasiveness” . of the Territory Mott-Smith, the acting governor, rather sented as evidence a document written 4o the vice president of Lewers The safest to use are those than to Governor Frear, who. was purely a lawyer. & Cooke/ Ltd., by Its San Francisco representative, indicating that pastes with a “low” abrasiveness. Secretary Mott-Smith speedily put through the formal­ “under-cover work” had been done by the latter for the Matson Navi­ Among those in this group are: (prices are cost per ounce) Rexall ities, and it was finally decided to pardon us four persons gation Co. on shipping facilities asked for by “a Japanese hui.” of (8 8 cents) -t-0 on July Fourth, the day of American Independence. Union attorneys alleged that the document constitutes a con- h...i.g..h.. ..i..n.. ..a..l.k..a..l.i.n...i.t y; P--h-i-ll-ip’s Milk (To Be Continued) spiracy between the two companies and that the action - ref erred, to of-Magnesia (11.1 cents), con­ therein constitutes a restraint of trade. _ tains starch, too much alkaline; At the time of presentation, Mr. Frederick Lowrey, president of lodent No. 2 (11.9 cents), too al­ JleiteJiA tyuMft. Qua, R.eac&e^i the island firm, was on the witness stand as a government witness kaline; Worcester Salt (12.3 cents); seeking to show that the strike is responsible for the drop in the Listerine (12.4 cents); Dr. West’s Editor, HONOLULU RECORD: according to my partner, Kenneth construction business and the inability of his company to obtain Miracle (13 cents), contained Until June, 1949; I was a sub­ W. Laurent, who also advised that much needed building materials. starch; Colgate Ribbon, (13.2 scriber to the HONOLULU REC- I pay her off and tell her not to cents) Pepsodent (14.3 cents); ORD, but failed to renew my sub­ . come back to. work. The next day Before the presentation of the. document, Mr. Lowrey denied thin consistency; Lyons (15 cents); engaging..m._the.activitlesenumerated in it,„. scription; consequently, I’ve just . she came in and asked me for —Peb-AmmoAmmoniated—Tooth today' learned- about;-CKe article —-special-pay," and’T_paid“hei,all-her 0 Hearings before the Maritime commission (on its own motion) Paste (20.8 cents); Ammident which appeared in the September wages and told her: “You needn’t are continuing in San Francisco on the status of the splinter fleet. (20.4 cents). ’ 1st, 1949, issue: ( - come back to' work anymore.” The maritime commission is attempting to , show whether or not “Average Abrasiveness!’ “Local Girl Loses Job, Apt., Incidentally, I am a member in the barges are operating as common carriers. Among those found to be of Reason—Negro Boy Friend” good standing of the NAAOPand average abrasiveness were: Sears am desirous, of taking an active. Vessels operating , as common carriers must-file schedules of rates.' Approved .Milk of* .Magnesia, Cat. .Were I of sufficient means I - part in furthering the ideals of No. 7310, (6.2 cents), contained would unhesitatingly, sue : the HO­ that organization insofar as bet­ If found to be common carriers, the splinter fleet will have to starch; Craig-Martin (8.3 cents), NOLULU RECORD, its editor, and .stop its operations, unless the operators file the rate schedules. its Staff Writer, individually and tering the lot of minority groups starch, alkaline; ADS Dental is concerned. Although I am aware The owners have indicated that they have never operated as such, Twins (8.7 cents), alkaline; Klenzo collectively, for so many millions’ of the suspicion that the organiza­ have never solicited business publicly and have no regular:ports of call. (12.9 cents), Rexall Drug Co., al­ of dollars • that such distorted, tion has been accused of wearing kaline; Oriis (16.5 cents), alka­ ' slanderous and libelous remarks a “pink” or “red” fringe, I do not 0 Longshoremen in Honolulu will hear a report of the New York line. would not likely soon appear in negotiations tomorrow at the Central Intermediate School auditorium print. But since these disparaging agree that this suspicion is well at 4:30 p.m. “High Abrasiveness” founded. In. fact; I deny that any Sears Approved Dent-A-Mint, . remarks by an irresponsible writer such ideas' are held: by responsible A union announcement Indicates that either Fred Low, Jr., or Cat. No. 7300 (8.3 cents), thin; ’ are not likely to lose me many of members of the NAACP. Harry Bridges would make the report. ’ my good friends, I take solace in Bfiten (10.9 cents), alkaline; the adage: "Sticks and stones can : Me, prejudiced? Sure. I AM Up to press time, the arrival in Honolulu of either one of the lodent No. 1 (11.9 cents), liquid break my. bones,. but words can ■ PREJUDICED—agalhst all forms two men could not be confirmed. separated; Bost (15.'8 cents), con­ never hurt me:” It is of little con­ of prejudice; * against all forms ;of tained starch; Ipana (18.1 cents), Intolerance; and .against all forms alkaline. cern to me what the sore-heads, HRT Workers Will Cast Votes the envious, the hypocritical apos­ of' milicious, gossipy slander. Varying Abrasiveness tates choose to believe about me ■ Sincerely yours, ■ While HRT workers, decide today in another election as to who Some brands tested In various or any other person. Vernon F. Carpenter .should represent' them; the governor’s fact-finding committee is taking purchases of identical pastes any­ Sgt.1 Honolulu Police Dept. a three-day recess from its closed hearings. where from low to high abrasive­ To Air ; Force Sergeant - James (Disability. Retired.) ■' Some 500 workers will be voting in an NLRB directed election ness: Forhan’s (13.8 cents), vary­ Summers I should like to say that ■either, for the Independent Transit Workers or the Amalgamated you have been deceived. You have ing from low to.high abrasiveness; not been correctly appraised of - (The RECORD .pleads, guilty Street Car and Railway ' Workers Unioh. The latter had six men Squibb (14.3 cents), varied from to not checking Mr.Carpenter’s .marching in the Labor Day parade.' the facts, especially have you been low to high abrasiveness, alkaline. misinformed: regarding my own name sufficiently;":SharonsWle­ plication was already signed by lodent No. 1 and lodent No. 2 personal views regarding preju- chel says his . letter' contains . More Oh Warford D. Ransom Sherretz when he lodent No. 1 is advertised as . dice against race, creed, color; re­ many misrepresentations,' , and (from page 1) first saw >lt, though civil service for easy to clean teeth; No; .2 for ligion and political affiliation. Miss she told the RECORD,': Tm tod rules specify that Price’s approv­ hard to clean teeth, as a result Sharon Wlechel could at least dis­ mad to say anything right now.” iner of the civil service commis­ al should have been secured first. one presumes that No. 2 Is more seminate the truth to you about She added, however, that she sion, brought out additional evi­ abrasive than No. 1. Consumers her part in the episode—If she would answer-Mr.'Carpenter in Also, Price said,’ Warford origi­ Union bought , many samples of a' letter in time for next week’s dence in the Warford case when nally applied for a job as inspec­ . were half as: honest with. me as I each and found- that No. 1 is was with her. issue. The length of Mr. Carpen­ he testified before the commis- tor—a fating 'considerably lower “high” abrasive and No. 2."low.” ter’s letter prevents' us from pub­ sion. Aug. 9. Among other things, than that for which he was ac- In other words, each does exactly Firstly, my name is. Vernon F. lishing 'it in its. entirety.) he testified' that* Warford’s ap- ' cepted. the opposite of what the label Carpenter, not “Tom Carpentier,’’ says. Can you beat that? and I hired Sharon Wlechel on Frank-ly Speaking 81.000.000 Advertising Fund the recommendation of my part­ (from page 8) Colgate, frightened by Ammi- ner, Kenneth W. Laurent, because H. C. L C. PICNIC Dent’s rise In the $80,000,000 den- she was a young mother with a concert “fought against some of still we fight for justice. ■ There trifice industry, is now spending child to support. She was not apt the {very -things which.' Robe­ have been beatings, terrorizing a million dollars ($1,000,000) on at the business: of conducting the FUN — GAMES'—DANCING son,. as a fervent admirer ' of .and frameups by police, but still advertising. . " Snack-Bar, but was told by my­ we battle for our rights. It will self that if she did her best it was -the Soviet Union, is espousing BBSS MANNER'S BEACH take more than storm troop at­ Pot Luck is a digest of articles felt that the business would be­ today.” In Paul’s own words, tacks, aided by local authorities, appearing in Consumer Reports, come -self-sufficient. Her “best” Sat., Sept. 17 3 p.m.—Midnight what he admires most about the : to make the Negro' people and the monthly magazine published was wholly inadequate, but I didn’t Soviet: Union is. the abolition, other minorities succumb meekly by Consumers Union, 38 E. First. know; nor would it have made any by strict law,; of racism and to fascism. ^t., New York 3, N. Y., available ’ difference, whether she had a Ne-' jhn crow, the - doctrine of As a matter of fact, the Peeks­ by individual subscription ~ at SS gro boy friend. She asked me for Bring Your Kau Kau ' equality1 regardless of color or kill incident has had the opposite a year. Product ratings'are based the night off—on a Saturday race, and.human, dignity for all. . effect; Not only in New York on samples purchased by CU in ' night, the only, night in the week If that is what the New York but, throughout the Mainland, the open market.' , when she might realize sufficient veterans fought against, they many whites and Negroes who ' income to insurp that the business Donation—$1.00 For transport n were , on the wrong side. earn enough to pay her wages, Be at Palace have 'been sleeping through it CIO MEETS OCT. 31 Unemployed—35ft GrQurids, ■ 2 p.m. So long as discrimination exists, all, have been aroused into an­ WASHINGTON — (FP) — The so that she might attend her sick ■we \of minority groups will have gry wakefulness by this mob official call of the 11th CIO con­ child. My immediate response •“topics for stage speeches.” As assault on Paul Robeson. May it vention, to be held in Cleveland was, “by all means go, to your for violence to silence militant light the torch that will destroy beginning Oct. 31, was issued Sept. child at once.” Sharon Wiechel did Negroes, it hasn’t worked yet. forever the mushrooming threat 4 by CIO President Philip Murray not go. home to care for her sick H. C. L C. PICNIC There have been over 5,000 lynch- of fascism to your and my Amer­ and Secretary-Treasurer James child that night, but went instead : ings of Negroes in America, but ica! B. Carey. on an evening bathing party— HONOLULU RECORD Koji Ariyoshi . . . Editor Published every Thursday by By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS HONOLULU RECORD PUBLISHING CO., LTD. FASCISM IN NEW YORK 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu, T. H. Several weeks ago I pointed out that it was con­ sidered subversive in some quarters to fight against Phone 96445 white, supremacy, and that, campaigning for peace SUBSCRIPTION RATES: was labelled. “un-American ”. ■ The advocates of peace and equality are termed "Communists” and 1 year (Oahu) ...... ,...... $5.00 every attempt is made to. silence them. This is 1 year (Other Islands) ...... $6.00 fascism, American style. ------Includes-Airmailing—---- ;------■ In. Peeksklll. N. Y„ we recently nad fascism in action at the mob level. On Aug; 27, Paul Robeson I year (Mainland) —■____ -___ — ------.---- $5.00 was scheduled to sing for the benefit of the Harlem chapter of the Civil BOOED AT TOWN MEETING Rights Congress. A group of young white storm Attorney Daniel G. Ridley who spoke troopers, calling them­ against statehood on the “Town Meeting selves the “Joint Veterans of the Air” and got booed twice, and re- Council of Westchester soundingly, feels that he was misunder­ County,” and operating ■ under-Ku Klux Klan di­ stood. rection, announced they Now, let us take some of his views which were going to stop Robe­ caused his voice to be drowned by the son from singing and boos. One of his principal arguments was cause trouble. that Hawaii's papulation is in large part Although a lynching spirit was aroused against made up of people of Oriental descent. the great leader, not a MR. DAVIS The children: of immigrants “automatical­ single’ policeman or state trooper was on hand to ly became indoctrinated with viewpoints maintain law and order. Scores who came to hear acquired by those parents who came to Robeson were-brutally beaten and their cars over­ lookinq backward turned. ■ Klan crosses were burned. Not one ar­ Hawaii. Although future generations of rest has as yet been made. The mob of white these children may be in a different cate­ veterans who planned the terror say they did so, gory, who can say, how, that the majority according to the New York Times, “mindful- of the of our Hawaiian citizens are thoroughly fact that former Attorney General Tom Clark had steeped in the American tradition?” STRIKE LEADERS IN JAIL-1909 labelled the Civil Rights Congress as - a subversive Mr. Ridley also remarked that the sole organization.” This was interpreted as govern­ Ed. Note: This article is taken from a long series. Looking ment sanction for violence. purpose for the immigrants’ coming to Backward 50 Years In Hawaii, by Yasutaro Soga, former editor Commenting afterward - on the riot, Robeson Hawaii was “in pursuit of the almighty of the Nippu Jiji (now called The Hawaii Times). The series ap­ said: dollar.” peared in the Japanese language section of the Hawaii Times. “It’s_ clear now who uses force and violence. It is. a fact that more than our parents ~ Translation is by Take and Allan Beekman. Let it be equally clear who advocates its use. who', came to improve their lives, the im­ “The money crowd, pulls the strings, right up " Previous installments have described the devious methods used to the White House. President Truman talks a porters of contract laborers were the ones by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, and the Territorial who hungered for the almighty dollar. The good game^of civil rights, but that’s just talk. He authorities to break the sugar - strike of 1909. This was. accomplished, gives the7 lynchers the “greennight; More thanlOtT planters, descendents of missionary fami­ particularly because the strikers were inexperienced in trade union , Negroes have .been lynched since he fell into FDR’s lies to a large extent, paid and kept these struggles, unorganized, “impotent” politically, while the employers shoes. For doing nothing about that, his attor­ controlled the government and were able to divide and rule the ney general • was promoted to the supreme court. laborers in coolie status as long as they immigrant laborers of various nationalities. The leaders of the could. 1909 strike were professional and businessmen who were prominent Target Is Broad We want to point out to Mr. Ridley that in the Japanese community. They were arrested, tried and jailed on charges; of conspiring to boycott plantation business. Today’s “This was more than an attack on me. More powerful economic interests that control than an attack on those who came to the picnic our government today view “Americanism” installment shows how the president of the HSPA swung his in­ fluence for pardon of the four imprisoned leaders since “he did grounds. ’ This was an attack on the whole Negro ;as synonymous with the “dollar symbol.” not. desire to further oppress them.” . Next jnKtallment hringg people. This was an attack on the workers who Any individual or group that challenges the “motive” behind this leniency. ■ haven’t stopped fighting Taft-Hartley and for this power in order to improve the general higher wages, nils was supposed to scare the livelihood is called subversive. OUR FRIENDS’ MOVEMENT FOR A SPECIAL PARDON progressives who want peace. “But we’re going to give that concert, really Mr. Ridley told the RECORD that he When a person’s fortunes sink various evils come in its give it. I’m going to sing in Peekskill.” was hit below the belt by those who wake. Outside, we four had endured the merciless persecu­ And Paul went back to Peekskill, went back charged him . with racial prejudice. Now, tion and oppression of the capitalists, the authorities and Sunday, Sept. 4. And some 30,000 heard him, de­ what more does a man expect for making the other opposing factions. But even after coming to jail spite the efforts of some 1,100 young storm troop­ such anti-Oriental statements. He even each of us was harassed by many secret anxieties. . . ers to break up the meeting'. But after the con­ I was concerned about the newspaper. There were some cert was over, and the people were on their Way says that citizens of Oriental parentage home, these Klan-directed. veterans attacked in­ ‘‘have not had time to understand Amerl- among the Nippu Jiji executives who schemed to take over. dividual cars, with'the cooperation of the police, can principles.” the company, availing themselves of the opportunity afford­ injuring some 200 persons. The only arrests were- When the AJA war record was mention­ ed by my absence. At the same time the paper company came of the victims.' y ed, he replied they are “loyal,” but. . . and vehemently dunned me—a man bound hand and foot in This was fascism, American style. It had In other words, NOT STABLE AND jail—for a long overdue newsprint hill, and they declared the .sclent backing. of Gov. Dewey, Republican presidential candidate a year ago, who promised SOLID STUFF. that if it were not paid they would attach the company. protection but didn’t deliver and who has made He then explains, that “not race but en­ I have no way of knowing whether these two things had no effort to punish or remove from office the vironmental background” is basis for his any relation to each other. And, of course there was nothing anti-Negro officials in Peekskill/ It has the argument. He talks of the immigrant off­ I could do. Manager Kawamoto, who was in charge during silent backing of President Truman, Democrat, spring accepting dictatorial leadership in my absence, as well as some other officers and sympathizers, whose loyalty order, witch-hunts and promotion of Tom-Clark to the supreme court indicate his the unions, and in. the Democratic Party, put forth all their efforts and rescued the company from real attitude on civil rights.' and throws in charges of foreign “isms” this critical situation. On Friday, Sept. 9, the Star-Bulletin com­ to boot. But the thing that saddened me most was my sick wife mented: “The best thing to do about. Robeson is Certainly, Asian immigrants did not and two children who, at that time, were living near Wai­ to -let him sing, let him talk, let him lecture. Don't come from a background of aristocracy, kiki Park. After I had been jailed, through the kindness of Interfere with his rights. Then he’ll run out of merchants and tradesmen. They had been many friends, she had continued to recuperate; but she de­ topics for his stage speeches.” ■ pressed down for centuries by landlords cided it was advisable; by all means;; to; return to. Japan.. Not Mere "Propaganda” ■ ■ and local rulers, andi for this reason many ..... The doctor also recommended this. So taking the two yet Now, just what ’are the topics that the Peeks­ of. them submitted themselves to sub-hu­ helpless children, she prepared to (.eave. kill storm troopers didn’t want discussed and which man treatment on the Hawaiian planta­ Through the kindness of Head Jailer Asch, I was es­ the Star-Bulletin evidently considers “propagan­ tions. But their children, understanding pecially permitted to see her off at the ship. Accompanied da?” their rights, would not bow under the black by Deputy Head Jailer Punahou, we went to the ship, the The topics- are these:; Equality for Negroes and all other oppressed' minorities, and an-end snake whips and dictatorial rule of the Siberia Maru, which was about to sail. And in the upper to. segregation, discrimination and jlm ermr. plantation bosses. salon, I bade my family farewell. Since Negroes are identified almost exclusively They are freer people. They bargain I knew the extreme' seriousness of my wife’s illness. She with the working. class, Robeson is naturally for with their bosses across the table, and also realized it. I was resigned to never again meeting her the rights of labor.. : thus improving their livelihood, they con­ alive, a premonition that was later confirmed. This is the platform on which Paul Robeson tribute to general community prosperity. stands. This is the battle Negroes have fought We part, alas, I know not when,, throughout their long history in America; it will Of course, such action is labelled “foreign O ailing wife, we’ll meet again; continue to be the main fight of Negro Republi­ inspired”, and “communist controlled” by Three thousand miles across the sea, cans, Democrats and Progressives until we win vested interests here. May heaven’s blessing be with thee. first class citizenship. -Some 15,000,000 Negroes The argument presented by Mr. Ridley can tell the Star-Bulletin that lynching, terroriz­ . I do not know if this may be said to be a poem. But ing and jim crow are not mere “propaganda.”;Al­ means that Hawaii must remain a Terri­ it was.an actual feeling that, at that moment, I murmured though Hawaii is far superior to the Mainland, tory as long as its people struggle, even to myself. nevertheless there is discrimination here, not only challenge the Big Five, to realize their After a long time I again breathed the air of the out­ against Negroes but other non-hables. constitutional Tights and live a decent, । side world. And on shipboard I met many friends. The afternoon daily also commented that the prosperous life. ' Among them was Seishi Tokieda, then branch manager white veterans who tried to break up Robeson’s Statehood would benefit the people. (more on page 7) (more on page 7)