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Vql^l, No. 23 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY January 6, 1949 Symonds Jells Rutledge Jury Long Wait For Insurance loRead‘Ford’ By Staff Writer Works Ills On Unemployed If the case of A. A. Rutledge is an Indication, juries may be ex­ pected to do homework before long, and perhaps some outside “They Starve,” Says Clerk reading. Demos Hope The homework and outside reading recommended to the jury As Jobless Await Checks that heard the case last week Decision Will against Rutledge, union leader, By STAFF WRITER was Keith Sward’s book, “The By reading a study of the unemployed in a local daily, Legend of Henry Ford,” and it Block Cristy you get one picture of the general unemployment situation. was Attorney Myer C. Symonds, representing Rutledge, who made Local Democrats are hopeful You get rather another picture by talking to those who stand the assignment. that the decision of the three- in Une and wait for jobs, or for unemployment insurance Lesson From Ford’s Tactics judge federal -court, reversing checks. Judge Albert M. Cristy’s ruling in Six weeks must expire after the application, for insur- To understand the altercation ■the Maui Grand Jury Case, may ance, the jobless say, before the which resulted in. Rutledge being “General” Moncado help block his appointment to the applicant gets his first check. But charged with assault against Capt. Territorial Supreme Court. there are many who wait longer— Alfred Harper of the police force Over considerable opposition, one man said he had to. wait nine andj John F. Prior, sales manager Governor Stainback last year rec­ Another Law Is Ruled weeks forTiis first. . of the Coca-Cola Co., Symonds Moncado Bids For ommended Judge Cristy to fill the said, jurors should read how Henry Supreme Court vacancy which Staff Not Adequate Ford had used police cooperation was caused by the retirement of Unconstitutional One woman said a clerk told her to hold his employes under an iron U.S. Citizenship Judge Peters. The .Republican the delay was unavoidable because ■ control that prevented them from Congress, expecting. the election of Following closely The recent the paper work at the employment striking or organizing. "Five-Star General” Hilario Dewey and subsequent new ap­ three-judge court decision that office has become so heavy the The Rutledge case, Symonds Camino Moncado, one-time Third pointments, was holding up all ruled the Territorial unlawful as­ staff can’t keep it up to date] That held, was an outgrowth of com­ Representative of. God (according confirmations, and it failed to sembly and riot act and the con­ would be one indication of the pro­ pany maneuvers to break the strike to his publicity), and author of a confirm Cristy’s appointment. spiracy act illegal, a section of a portions to which unemployment book called “Equifilibrium,” is now at the Coca-Cola plant. Mr. Sy­ Cristy Excluded Evidence Territorial law pertaining to gamb­ has grown, of course,' monds pointed out that the “at­ putting his strongest efforts into ling games was ruled unconsti­ But the explanations are pooi* tack” which Prior and the police a move to become a U. S. citizen, . In the Maui Grand Jury Case, tutional by Circuit Judge Carrick substitutes for money or food, alleged Rutledge made, came when according to Filipinos in Honolulu. the ILWU charged, that Judge H. Buck. and the delay sometimes works six armed police were standing by. Though he formerly sought in­ Cristy was biased and prejudiced, Judge Buck ruled that Section hardships on those who have no Symonds also pointed to the dis­ dependence for the Philippines, •that herhad prejudged the case, 11343, Revised Laws of Hawaii, other means of existence. One crepancies in the eye-witnesses’ he has done a turnabout, as evi­ and that he did not give a fair and 1945, which states “. . . every per­ woman said she complained of stories to show there was reason­ denced in his recent statements. -complete hearing when the union son present where such game or the delay and the clerk told her: able doubt as to the validity of the Now that the independence has challenged the legality of the 1947 games are being played or carried “You don’t need to worry. You’re charges. been achieved, he advises his Maui County grand jury. The on is guilty of a misdemeanor,” married.” ■ three-judge court upheld the Some of the discrepancies were: listeners that the Philippines does not meet with constitutional “Yes,” the woman answered, should remain a dependency of union’s charge that the grand jury requirements. “and it’s a good thing I am. What 1. Prior said he was kicked by was illegally constituted. the U. S. under something like Must Show Participation do. these unmarried girls do?” Rutledge while he (Prior) walked . “dominion” status. Said the decision of the three- “They starve,”, the woman says past the picket line. But Capt. “This is all part of the effort," judge court: The Judge’s opinion brought dis­ the clerk told her. “We had two Harper said the kick came after says one' politically-wise Filipino “The court (Judge Cristy) al­ missal of charges against 34 long­ girls who fainted here in the of­ Rutledge had walked 20 feet from source, “of Moncado to become a lowed but a limited review of the shoremen of McCabe Hamilton & fice. They’d refused jobs.” his place in the picket line to ad­ citizen.” methods employed in selecting Renny Stevedores who were ar­ minister it. Other witnesses gave the grand jury ... Judge Cristy rested June 5 for being present Hope For Solution varied testimony on the point. Anti-Union Attitude at a gambling game. They were If applicants refuse jobs the em­ (more on page 4) 2. Prior was the only one who The Filipino source points out released from bail. ployment service has found and testified he had been knocked that in Moncado’s recent speech ... Judge Buck said that under a offered them, their employment down. No one else saw that. to the Filipino Federation of Am­ criminal law one cannot judge a insurance checks are discontinued. erica, Inc„ he spoke again and person guilty of an offense by 3. Harper said he saw Rut­ again of “our" country, in referring (more on, page 4) ledge’s lips moving as he said' . Waltham Watch Co. mere presence without overt act. to the United States, though neith­ The complainant must show par­ something to Prior. OfficeriRobel- er he. nor the majority of Iris au­ lo said Rutledge told Prior, “You ticipation by defendants. dience, are American citizens. This ruling does- not apply to pushed me!” But Prior testified “That is wishful thinking,” says Folds After 99 Yrs. Homes Are Vacant Rutledge said .nothing at all!' those present at gambling in bar­ the source. ricaded places. Says Charge Is After-Thought Some interests in' Hawaii would By CHARLES ADAMS WALTHAM, Mass. (FP)—The In her ruling, Judge Buck cited As for the charge by Capt. Har­ like to see Moncado a citizen, the recent three-judge court deci­ Prices Too High says the Filipino source, because abrupt closing down of the 99-year- per, a 215-pound husky, that Rut- old Waltham Watch Co., with loss sion in the case ILWU vs. Acker­ of his anti-union attitude. Mem­ man, in which the court con­ NEW YORK (FP)—The Wall (more on page ' 4) bers of the Federation may not of jobs for 2,300 workers, climaxes Street Journal reported Dec. 30 a long story of financial milking demned guilt by mere presence join a union, according to the under the unlawful assembly act. that new houses are. standing va­ source, unless Moncado, called and company unionism. cant in many cities even' though New «Burma Road” The sudden announcement on . Attorney Harriet Bouslog who “there aren’t enough new dwellings (more on page 4) three days notice that the film presented the ILWU’s case before ' to house all the families who would । which gave Waltham its nickname the three-Judge federal court rep­ Tel AVIV (ALN)—A contract­ resented the. defendants. buy if they could raise the mon­ ing company called Solel-Boneh, as “the Watch City” was shutting ey.” owned and operated by the Hista- MUM’S THE WORD down Dec. 31 threw some 20 per Although ■ it reported that in a cent of th? town’s 44,000 population majority of 17 cities surveyed, high- drut (General Federation of Jew­ From the editor’s preface to a into consternation. ish Labor), worked under fire to series of articles in the Star- Against Statehood priced houses were still finding build the fabulous “Burma Road” President Walter W. Cenei-'azzo eager buyers, the Journal found Bulletin giving parts of the three- of the American Watch Workers Bill Taylor, caretaker and numerous examples of houses stay­ between Tel^iviv and Jerusalem. judge decision • condemning the Union—a small company union guide at the Royal Mausoleum, The union-owned contractors assembly and riot act and the ing on the market for months. that has been the darling" of the who devotes some of his ener­ Houses Await Buyers also built the pipeline that runs conspiracy act: “The decision is National Association of Manufac­ gies to spreading his anti-Japa- through disputed territory to sup­ so far-reaching that the court’s “The Los Angeles area was one turers—issued a hopeful.statement nese, anti-statehood views among of few that had quite a few un­ ply water to the new city of Jeru­ decision of the principles in­ saying the plan to reorganize the tourists and Congressmen (REC­ salem, which could not survive volved is of special interest.” sold houses a year ago,” it said. bankrupt firm would preserve the ORD, Dec. 30), is also a member “Now there are more in that city without it. But not far-reaching enough workers’ jobs. . of the Central Committee of the Transport along the war-built to merit an opinion, apparently. Democratic Party. He was elect­ —an estimated 6,000. In St. Louis The Star-Bulletin hasn’t run an Repeat Old Pattern a leading real estate man says: road, as well as a newer Tel Aviv- ed at the Democratic Convention ‘Twelve months ago, 90 per cent Jerusalem highway called Hage- editorial on the decision yet. Nor What he did not know was that last May 3 when. the Democrats has the Advertiser, for that mat­ shortly before the decision of the of the new hemes in this area were vurah (the Road of Courage) is also pledged themselves to a ' sold within 45 days of completion. carried on by Histadrut coopera­ ter. management to file its petition in platform advocating immediate tives. (more on page 6) statehood! (more on page 3) Page Twq^ HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, Jan. 6, 1949

Tire other half of the story was the 1 1,000 Seeking Jobs booming business enjoyed by Inter-Island's As. the year 1949 opened, employment Hawaiian Summary' subsidiary, the Hawaiian Airlines, which is trends in the Territory did not show signs the only scheduled commercial airline in of immediate improvement. The shipping to improvement of the situation. The ad­ the abnormal increases of October and the Territory. The airlines carried 314,000 strike which had been blamed for increase visory council of his agency had consid- November. However, a general increase passengers to and from Honolulu in 21,000. in unemployment, was over and ships were ered a plan of making loans or grants to in applications for assistance may be ex­ flights during 1948. On August 28, in one arriving with cargoes, but the number of help skilled workers return to the Main­ pected in coming months.” day. only, the airlines transported 2,122 jobless still remained at 11,000. land, where job opportunities are reported passengers. And for 1948, HAL’S cargo lift A year ago, at the beginning of 1948, better. By Sea and Air totalled 10,000,000 pounds which cut down the number of jobless in the islands was As unemployment grew, so did the num­ The story was only half told when last cargo transportation via vessels. 2,900. Hie total labor force was then 135,- ber of persons on relief. During 1948 more week the Inter-Island Steam Navigation In the meantime, toward the end of the 000. When the pineapple season opened, than 12,000 persons received aid from the Co. announced that it will end passenger year, the Federal government brought a the number of employed rose to 143,000. welfare department, which was an increase service by water come January 15, because suit against Inter-Island, charging monop­ At the year’s end the number had dropped of 30 per cent over the 1947 figure. it was losing money. The Hualalai and oly of surface and air transportation in the to 139,000. Newton R. Holcomb, director .of the Waialeale will be offered for immediate Territory. Speculation goes on as to wheth­ E. Leigh Stevens, Territorial employ­ public welfare department; said that with sale. With the Inter-Island having dom­ er the discontinuance of Inter-Island’s pas­ ment service director, would not forecast the end of the maritime strike "the num­ inated surface transportation between the senger service by water would . clear the trends in employment but he said for the ber of individuals and families seeking aid islands, there was little doubt that the two company of government charges of monop­ immediate future the signs did not point is expected to decrease in comparison with vessels had more than paid for themselves. oly. Use Koch Re-Trial tion’s .key industries led the way. The November 1948 newsletter of the National The clemency granted Ilse Koch, the * National Summary City Bank of New York gave the following sadistic widow of the commander of the profit increases for the first nine months of Buchenwald concentration camp, was ut- significant for not slapping Clay’s wrist. billion in 1945, an increase of 74.1 per cent. 1948 computed to the similar 1947 period: iterly unjustified, reported a senate in­ His subordinate, one Lt. Col. Cito E. The picture after taxes is even more strik­ 16 petroleum companies, a 74.9 per cent vestigating committee which urged the Straight, was subjected to a stinging criti­ ing. Estimated profits for all 1948 are profit increase; 12 auto and truck firms, army to try her again by seeking new evi­ cism in the 12,000-word report. $21.7 billion, compared to $17.4 billion in 49.6 per cent; 30 iron and steel companies, dence. The committee sharply criticized 1947, and $8.5 billion in 1945, the year the 19.8 per cent; 14 electrical equipment and the army for freeing a person "of such Concealed News excess profits tax was repealed. The jump machine companies, 18.8 per cent, 27 textile from 1945 to 1948 post-tax' profits was ■firms, 17.9 per cent and 38 chemical and widespread infamy.” It also accused the What should have-been the biggest news army of what seemingly was an “effort 155.3 per cent. drug companies, 15.6~fier cent. story of 1948 was played down by highly- Despite industry’s tear-jerking adver­ As industry swam in gravy, more and to suppress the facts” of a case which had paid public relations specialists for big worldwide significance. tising campaign in 1948, peddling the line more workers were getting tossed dry crusts. business—and this concealed item was cor­ that it makes penny profits per sales dol­ Despite three rounds ‘ of wage increases- If Frau Koch, who marked for death poration profits. After payment of taxes lar, the truth is that out of every dollar since V-J Day, price increases of 35- per tattooed prisoners in the Nazi torture 1948 ’ corporation profits stand at the all- of goods sold by the corporations, about cent brought an actual cut of 15 per cent camp in order to make lamp shades and time peak of $21.7 billion. 30 cents go into profits, bonuses and salaries in real wages of workers. ornaments-from their skin is re-tried, Gen­ Ever since the war corporate profits for- the upper-crust company officials. For In an attempt to head off .rising- de­ eral Lucius Clay will be most unhappy. have shown a spectacular increase, with every dollar the corporations paid out in mands for restoration of price control, busi­ It was he who ordered the freeing of the millions of consumers footing the bill. Here wages in 1945, they made.33.7 cents in prof­ ness papers at the year’s end jubilantly re­ notorious “Bitch of Buchenwald.” It was in brief are figures which give the true its. By 1948 the take had increased to 42.2 ported that prices were levelling off. What hardly likely that Ilse Koch would stand story: Estimated profits for 1948 before cents. was left unsaid was' that the level was re-trial, but the investigators’ report was taxes are $35 billion, compared to $20.1 In the parade of big profiteers, the na­ far too high. Strikebreaker United States stated its views that it is still interested in the old Byrnes plan for The man who used our military force World Summary keeping Germany disarmed. against veterans marching on Washington The newly created Ruhr Authority, con­ during the bonus parade of the early sisting of the U. S„ Britain, France, Ger­ 1930s has become internationally notorious Keyes Beech, Chicago Daily News corre­ fices, and bright into being. The Jew­ spondent, wrote from Tokyo: "Translated, ish fighters captured war booty, used it many,1 Belgium, the Netherlands and Lux­ for strikebreaking activities also. General embourg will nominally control the re­ Douglas MacArthur’s occupation headquar­ this means the tightening of Japan’s de­ against the demoralized Egyptians along fenses and the abandonment of Korea as the "coastal corridor and kept driving back sources of the Ruhr. The first four, in­ ters for Japan has now reached a new high cluding Germany, will have three votes in strikebreaking activities when it decreed 'militarily indefensible.” their enemy. But almost on the same day, U. S. army each in the council while the remaining recently that strikes involving 812,000 coal, three will each have one vote. Western textile, maritime and electric workers stop authorities said, in answer to reports that Ruhr, An Old Shadow Russian troops had completely withdrawn In one generation the people of France occupation officials . will cast Germany’s immediately because they “interfered with vote “until a peaceful and democratic Ger­ production.” . from North Korea, that U. S. troops will have twice suffered from German aggres­ many is formed.” By stopping walkouts on this basis, the remain in South Korea to buttress the sion and they would not approve any­ U. S.-trained and equipped Southern army. thing that smacks of rebuilding a Ger­ This Ruhr Authority to a compromise occupation can now outlaw strikes in Japa­ between the U. S. and France. At first nese private industry, in the same manner Army officials were not talking and think­ many that could some day carry out an­ ing in terms of defense, as Correspondent other attack against their country. So last the U. S. wanted special righto of control it banned strikes of Japanese government .for the American military governor and employes some months ago. MacArthur’s Beech was, but in terms of offense. week when the major Western European powers announced the revival of the Ruhr for American European Recovery program interference with union rights directly vio­ authorities. France wanted strong securi­ lates the United Nations and U. S. State Negev Campaign industries to make Germany the industrial ty guarantees, with international owner­ Department policies on Japan announced Christmas passed by and New Year’s might of Europe, a communique was is­ ship of the Ruhr. soon after V-J Day. came to the Holy Land; and almost each sued, admittedly designed to make it easier With Germany slated -to have three day was marked by cracking of rifles and for the French government to sell to votes France is worried, particularly in Occupation policy of strikebreaking has view of big pre-war German industrial taken the place of trustbusting and encour­ booming of heavy artillery. It rained in the French people the plan of reviving the trusts already operating under cartel agree­ agement of Japanese trusts has ruled' out South Palestine and the ground was deep Ruhr. ments to control the world market with encouragement of labor. with mud and the fighting went on. The With the announcement oi reviving the the approval of U. S. occupation authori­ Egyptians were not fighting so well. Some Ruhr, the long-ignored Morgenthau plan ties. German cartel activities were bared While' the policy of suppression pre­ of their garrisons in the Negev area had for. converting Germany into a nation with by witnesses before a U. S. army commis­ vailed on the labor front, MacArthur’s fled, in face of Jewish attacks. The Jews reduced industry, unable to wage war, was sion. This body is also inquiring into command began consolidating military reported the capture of border towns of killed. French fear of possible German meetings between Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Auja and Bir Aslug and hundreds of pris­ aggression in the future through indus­ some of his staff where decisions were strength in Japan. Some U. S. troops had made not to break up the German VKF been withdrawn from -South Korea and oners in this . campaign which they trialization, was not alleviated. And launched two days before Christmas. France’s demands for eventual internation­ ball-bearing trust and Henschel locomotive the occupation’s army authorities an­ For the Israel forces, Christmas 1948 al ownership of the Ruhr, so that future and tank trust. These German companies nounced that this move will ‘.‘facilitate a was hot a season for peace but for com­ Kaisers and Hitlers cannot find ready tools involved were lip to their necks in the redistribution of troop strength in Japan bat to establish firmly the Jewish state of war to arm the Germans, were not Nazi regime, helped Hitler to power and proper and' a regrouping of the present for which Jews all over the world have answered. These demands were by­ produced essential war materials for his tactical units in the Far East.” hoped for all these centuries, made sacri­ passed, but to quiet French fears, the armies at high profit.

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First, 1,080 dele­ ted because, during the war, he What happened to the report of a special investigator assigned to by Anna Louise Strong, the first gates were elected by popular vote, pulled down a German flag and investigate alleged irregularities in the operation of the Hilo Electric American correspondent to report then these delegates held a spe­ daringly raised a. Greek flag in its Co. The report of the investigator was given to Governor Stainback from North Korea, where she has cial congress in Kaishu to select place. who in turn, referred it to the attorney general’s office. Prosecution travelled extensively. During her 360 deputies to represent South He is Manolis Glezos, formerly was recommended by the attorney general and the matter was turned last trip to the Far East, through Korea in a joint assembly of the editor of the Communist news­ over to the Hawaii county attorney. Involved is the misuse of almost Korea, Manchuria and China, she entire country. Of the 1,080 dele­ paper “Rizospastis.” A year ago, 350,000 worth of company property and labor. Perhaps this has some­ wrote a series of articles which gates, 78 were unable to reach under government censorship, he thing to do with the recent change in management of the Big Island appeared in the Honolulu Star- Kaishu; 42 were jailed and quite published an article (written by public utility . . . Doc Hili is a big “volt” in the 'outfit today. Bulletin. a number were killed. Despite all someone else and signed) which is * * * * In an article in the December repression, Koreans estimate that -now branded as seditious. Yet .no issue of Soviet Russia Today, a more than 77 per cent of the elec­ charges were made When the ar­ I WONDER .... magazine published in New York, torate took part in choosing these ticle was published. Who the Big Five will get to introduce its SALES TAX BILL in the Miss Strong states .that few facts deputies. At the time of his trial his war­ coming' session of the Territorial Legislature. The Honolulu Chamber about Korea are allowed to reach Majority From South Korea time exploit with the German flag of Commerce has set up a front organization which will lobby for its American readers, since informa­ The Supreme National Assem­ was used by the prosecution as passage . . . Big Five proponents of the restrictive tax will argue that tion for South Korea is heavily bly met Sept. 2 in Pyongyang, con­ evidence of his criminal character. the people.are already paying the amount of the sales tax ... It will censored by MacArthur’s Tokyo sisting of 572 deputies, of which On October 16 the Grecian Pub­ no longer be a “hidden tax,” they will say . .. . “People like to see the headquarters, while facts from 360 were from South Korea and lic Prosecutor said at his trial: taxes they pay,” their pressure group will claim . . . Actually, people North Korea never appear at all. 212 from North Korea. This as­ “To form, a proper idea of the do not like to pay taxes that others should pay . . . And that is what’s Reports On Two Elections sembly, representing the voters foul soul of this accused scoun­ going on today — and will be more so, comes the SALES TAX. Miss Strong says that Americans of the entire country, contained a drel, you must go back to May, * * * * normal cross-section of the popu­ had much publicity about the gov­ 1941, when this criminal carried I WONDER...... ernment of -Syngman Rhee, the lation: 194 peasants, 120 workers, out the base and despicable act aged Korean who has spent his 152 white collar workers, 29 em­ of tearing down the German If the telephone company will ever remove the “RAT BOXES” entire life outside of Korea, main­ ployers, etc. This is in sharp con­ flag from the Acropolis. This he illegally installed in private homes . . . “RAT BOX” is a trade name ly in the United States, and was trast to the. Assembly of Syngman did out of hatred towards the for a wire-tapping device, and at one time there were at least 40 oper­ taken back in an American mili­ Rhee which, according to Miss Greek people, and thus gave the ating in the Territory—some with the knowledge of local and Federal tary plane. The Rhee government Strong, contains a handpicked Germans the first pretext to at­ authorities. was confirmed last May by an group of landlords, capitalists and tack our innocent people, who . * * * * • election which was boycotted by former Japanese puppets. condemned his act. This was the I WONDER .... most Korean political parties, The Assembly adopted a consti­ first count in the diabolical rec­ while voters were dragooned by the tution for the entire country, elect­ ord of this vile criminal. His When the Pacific American Shipowners Association and the Water­ police and forced to attend the ed an administrative committee head must fall.” front Employers Association will announce the sacking of union busters polls under threat of losing their and, requested both America and The Greek government press Greggory Harrison and Frank Folse . . . They would have been fired land and ration cards. the Soviet Union to withdraw could not swallow this example of several days ago had not San Francisco newsmen got wind of the story The election was held only in their troops...... the supremacy in Greece of those . . . Bpt you can bet your last dime that both the gentlemen will be out the American zone of South Ko­ Withdrawal of Troops who collaborated with the Ger­ of jobs in the near future . . . In case you don’t-know, they are respon­ rea because its forms and meth­ The Soviet government an­ sible for the pilikias suffered by the Pacific shipowners in the recent mans. It recalled Glezos’ national strike. ods were refused in the North. nounced a few days ago that the popularity and asked for a re­ Observers, according to Mass withdrawal of troops had now prieve. Strong, have, stated that police been completed. It has also ex­ In England the press and mem-, terror was widely used. changed ambassadors with the bers of parliament have asked why Homes Are Vacant; Prices Too High Another election, which we in northern Korean government. tha Greek government must be al­ (from page 1) at this time last year. W. J. Guin­ the U. S. heard little about, was The U. S. government announced lowed to condemn those whose Now it takes an average of 414 an, head of the Builders’ Associa­ held last August 25, in . all parts on January 1, 1949, that it ex­ tion of Metropolitan Detroit, states crime was fighting Germans, when months to move them.’ of Korea. Many political parties tended full recognition to the Ko­ British and American troops sup­ there are—between 2,500 and 3,000 from both zones of the country rean "republic” — the Syngman port the government’s existence. “Atlanta’s building inspector, O. unsold new homes in his area. A were represented, with all dedi­ Rhee government —■ and would The Grecian brand of “democ­ M. Harper, estimates at least ’five real estate expert in Portland, Ore. cated to the unity of the Korean raise the American mission there racy” remains a puzzle to most of times’ the number of new unsold says about 1,300 are awaiting buy­ nation. to embassy rank, emphasizing, the western world. The'American houses are on his local market as ers there.” ■ First Voting In 40 Years however, that American troops will State Department has so far made In the Northern zone great en­ not be completely withdrawn from no protest to the Greek govern­ thusiasm was shown by the peo­ Southern Korea until they have ment. ple who were able to vote for the trained a Korean armed force 'first time in 40 years. More than strong enough to deal with any Let us give your used furniture 99 per cent of the electorate turned Communist threat from the North. dependence by the allies of World out. Pattern of Cold War War II. The continued presence A NEW LOOK! In Southern Korea, where they Thus we see a Republic of Ko­ of alien troops within her- borders were declared illegal, these elec­ rea recognized by. the U.S.A., and can only be classed as foreign in­ tions were held in underground a government elected by a ma­ tervention and aggression and it Neat, excellent, general upholstery work meetings of trade unions and jority of the people which is rec­ seems likely that the Korean peo­ We make couch and cushion covers other organizations, small villages ognized by the USSR. Each calls ple will resist such actions. Sub­ and even by house to house can­ the other a puppet government. jugated by Japan for about 40 vass. Syngman Rhee himself Another cold war on another side years, they are keenly sensitive IDEAL UPHOLSTERY SHOP stated to correspondents on Sept. of the world. to foreign inteiwention. 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Kurata, Prop. c/o Nakatani Store Nanakuli Open TUI Midnight Dealers in Hamilton, EXCELLENT FOOD Elgin & Bulova Watches Cosmetic, Drugs, Photo Finishing And Good Service Fountain Service Cafe Pagoda PATRONIZE Cor. Nuuanu & Queen Sts. Morimoto Store KUHIO CAFE OMIYA SUNDRIES Telephone 55053 216 Kamehameha Avenue 1424 Kamehameha Avenue OUR 1205 S. King St.' . Hilo, Hawaii Hilo, Hawaii ADVERTIZERS 87178—Phone—56383 Harold K, W. Fong, Prop. FVWWVWWWWWWWW< •**+*m+f*+**+**+*+rmm+*m Page Four HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, Jan. 6, 1949 Taruc Gives Huk Bildersee Buce Bats Brow, Views In Letters Sees Solution, Saves Slime •“If we have chosen to defend By TINY TODD ourselves it is only because there Is no other alternative left to de­ Baffled was balding, big business ing he can get the people here - cent people who are not prepared behemoth, Bildersee Buce, old Yale and in England to forget how boy, opinion-molder, Slime-Strife cozy he was with Hitler. And to give up their principles.” publisher, etc. High in his ornate DeGaulle’s getting so he re­ Such is the expression of Luis office (Slime-Strife Bldg.) over­ minds the French people too Taruc, leader of the Hukbalahaps, looking New York’s heart, Pub­ much of Hitler.” regarding the continued resistance lisher Buce tapped his bald brow "Ah,” breathed Clara. “Hitler!’ of the peasants of central Luzon contemplatively with one of Slime- There was a man!” to efforts of the Quirino govern­ Strife’s huge red copy-pencils, Buce frowned unhappily and ment to disarm them. frowning over his problem'. Also asked: “Was he, dear? I was never- Agree on Cause of War object of Buce’s frown was his quite sure.” Excerpts from his letters to Pres­ wife, Clara Tooth Buce, ex-play­ Into another moment of morbid ident Quirino and to Manila news­ wright, ex-Congresswoman, ex­ meditation fell the pair, and then papers, published in the most re­ beauty. Across from Buce, Clara Clara suggested timidly: “What cent issue of Far. East Spotlight, frowned back, tapping in tempo about Whittaker Chambers, Bil­ organ of the Committee for a Dem­ with . another red pencil. (At dersee? He made the headlines.” ocratic Far Eastern Policy, give Slime-Strife, all copy pencils are Year of Witch-Hunt . Hukbalahap views that few Ameri­ red, all bear legend: “Slime March­ Ecstatic looked , the Slimemag can newspaper readers ever had es Back.”) • publisher for a moment, and he a chance to know. Question which bewildered the said: “Clara, I believe you’-ve got In a letter to President Quirino, Buces: Who would be Man of the ■. it. tt was the year of the witch­ Taruc wrote: Year? . hunt, and Chambers was the juic­ “We have agreed that the basic - Littered was the floor (Buce vis­ iest hunter of them all.” cause of the lack of peace and itors sink ankle-deep in Buce car­ Then his enthusiasm disappeared' order is the foreign control of pets) with portraits of discarded and he §aid: “But dammit, he’s our economic* and political life candidates for the annual Buce- an employe of that competitor of . which not only perpetuates the ours, Time. Can’t use him.” present very lbw purchasing pow­ honor. Farthest away, crumpled peevishly into a ball, lay the pic­ Solution er of the peasant, but also acts ture of Thomas E: Dewey, ex­ as a fetter on the healthy de- candidate for the Presidency. "I’ve got it! I’ve got it, Clara!” velopment of a democratic in­ Nearer, crossed out with a thought­ he shouted. “Remember how the dustrialisation program which ful “X”was a picture of Chiang Pulitzer Prize people kept from alone can guarantee prosperity Kai-shek. giving the drama award to All My- to the people. Sons?. They said that since there- “It is hard to understand that It was Buce, himself, who broke were no * golid plays, thdy just. a government yielding to pressures the silence. wouldh’t give any prize at all.” from within and without should “What about Gen. Clay?” he “Wonderful, Bildersee!” his wife' expect the peasants to register asked. “There’s a man for you.” Slimoted. “Anyone can see why- their firearms under conditions Clarashook her head Irritably you’ve become great.” which will eventually lead to their and replied: “He’s getting too un- The pair then began quickly to* surrender.” popular. Besides, he’s already said outline Slime’s first January cover- Tn, another letter, Taruc iden­ he’s quitting.” —a blank white page which would', tifies the above-mentioned foreign What About Koch? bear the caption: "Since no man influence, .writing: “. . . Ameri­ - But the’ ex-beauty -cocked her produced by 1948 rose 'to Slime­ can control of our economic and waspish head to one side and stature, Slime withholds its usual political life, driving out from bus­ “I been working like a dog.’ Man of the Year designation. From’ iness our Filipino industrialists added: “Of course there’s his girl­ Slime-history, 1948 will be ex­ and reducing our workers to peon­ friend, Ilse Koch. SHE made punged, to J?e mentioned in the- Demos Hope Decision Will Block Cristy quite a bit of news.” future only as the Manless Year.. age.” (from page 1) the union lawyers offered, the Buce batted his brow feverishly Rallying Symbol of Oppressed Federal Court said: “The testi­ Slime Marches Back!” also excluded evidfence which, for a moment and then decided, ———;—:— ■—:—-—- In the same letter, the Huk mony received by Judge Cristy, “No, my dear. It’s been several ' I O N WATT leader outlines the thinking that from the nature of the offers, however, makes it clear,, statis- made, would have tended to years since the fair Ilse achieved' v . - • ’ ■ * * •impelled him to withdraw to the -tics aside, that the exclusion of her greatness. Now if we knew FOR INSURANCE hills, after he had once been seat­ show more clearly that certain certain groups of the commu­ the names of some of the men ed as an elected member of the Re­ important elements of the com­ nity was deliberate and inten­ (from page 1) i munity were precluded from whose skins she used to make , her public’s legislative body. tional.” , lamp-shades.from. But then, she’s To one unfamiliai- with the situa­ “I would have wished to come serving on the grand juries of The court found “a deliberate/ Maui County.” a woman, anyhow. She couldn't tion, that arrangement might seem out openly,” he wrote, “and de­ substantial exclusion of wage' be Man of the Year.” reasonable enough, but applicants, fend my own case, but prudence Despite Judge Cristy’s exclu­ .earners and a deliberate substan­ sion of important evidence which Clara bit her lip and glared for don’t always find it so.- and common sense tell me it tia;! weighting of the grand jury a moment, but her husband seemed A married woman with chil­ would be pure adventurism and list in favor of ‘businessnien, ” dren, classified as a stenograph­ personal heroism not becoming we are under imperialist domina­ which the court said "includes the to be paying no attention. Mourns Chiang er, explains: “They would ex­ who (though undeserved) has tion ... I shall continue to lead ha'ole group of Maui County.” pect me to accept $150 a month. come to be the rallying symbol of the peasants in the struggle for The Federal court pointed-out “It’s too bad about old Chiang,” But by the time I pay for day­ the oppressed masses.” V agrarian reforms and national that, under the established and pondered Buce. "From what our care for my- children, plus bus And in a speech to the Congress emancipation. I shall . . never well-defined rules of the- U. S. Su­ correspondent, Brad Bruin, was fare, Td be working almost for of Labor, Taruc said: “There can . _su_b_m__it to any„ .peace imposed by preme Court, the evidence sub­ sending in from .Nanking, I. was exercise. We don’t 'starve’ as be no democratic peace as long as imperialist guns and bayonets.” mitted was enough to condemn the almost certain Chiang would hold they put it, because we want to. grand jury as unconstitutional. All out till the next Congress could We hope for a solution of our of this evidence had been cited send him more guns. I’m afraid problems.” and argued before Judge Cristy. Bruin’s dispatches haven’t been One man said: “They tell us JOHN L. NELSON exactly accurate. Remind me to there are jobs on the Mainland, Moncado Bids For sen. d him a rep- rimand, my dear.” so we ought to go back there. Even CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT “Well, you can’t blame Bruin,” if i COuld do that, I wouldn’t want AND U. S. Citizenship Clara answered testily. “When to. My home is here.. Why should TAX CONSULTANT (from page 1) he did sendstories about the I* h' ave to go somew•h ere e.l se t.o. .live the “Master” by his followers, way the Kungs and the Soongs and work?” Announces the opening of his office, gives his sanction. And the were stealing all the UNRR A "Master” has never been' known goods, you sent him a reprimand. 201 Jackson Building. to give his approval to any If you reprimand him now, I’m Symonds Tells Jury union. sure .the poor fellow won’t know to Read “Henry Ford” 315 ROYAL HAWAIIAN AVENUE The Filipino source 'discounts what to write.” talk that ex-Consul Modesto Faro- “Hmmm,” reflected Buce, tap- . (from page 1) Business Phone 992405 Res. Phone 960472 Ian was recalled to Manila because ping in tempo with his wife again. ledge had assaulted him, Mi-. Sy­ he had been denounced by the "I guess you’re-right. Remind me monds held that this charge was “Master” for alleged hostility to not to send him a reprimand. merely something: Harper thought the Filipino Federation - and too I wonder if there’s anyone in Eu- up after he found he had Injured friendly to organized labor. Faro- rope? Anyone who might make the labor leader. Symonds said Ian is looked upon with favor by the grade, that is?” Harper’s charge .might have been ELECTRO TECHNICAL SCHOOL the Quirino administration and in­ "There's Franco—and of course, a .counter-action: against, antici­ 1184 Ala Moana Blvd. dications are that he could have there’s DeGaulle,” Clara said. a pated charges of assault and bat­ stayed had he chosen to do so. The Slimemag publisher shook tery. ' ANNOUNCES. “Moncado will never go back to his head, replied: “I don’t think The attorney pointed out that Manila if he can help it,” says Franco would like it. He’s ly­ very few people know that a police its 6th YEAR Program of \ the source. ing doggo for the moment, hop- officer is liable to a charge of as- ■ NEW CLASSES beginning JAN. 10, 1949 . sault and battery if he uses ex­ cessive force in making an arrest. ENROLL NOW There is no way of knowing, DR.GEORGE I. UOHARA, Dentist Symonds said, whether : the case New Day and Night-Glasses in . . . will be reopened or not as a result Announces the opening of his office at < ELECTRICITY RADIO REFRIGERATION . of last week’s hung jury. 720 Kapahulu Ave. REGISTRATION JAN. 3rd THRU 10th, 1949 Hiring At New Low (Residence .Phone: 865551) WASHINGTON (FP) — Ameri­ can manufacturing industries ex­ 8. a.m. to 1 p.m. Daily HOURS: perienced a sharp drop in hiring - or by Appointment Monday to Saturday Evenings: § in October, the Bureau of Labor 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ' Monday, Wednesday, Statistics said, summarizing labor Sunday & Holidays Friday turnover records for that month. Phone 65733 or 757863 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon 7 to 9 pan. Hiring at the rate of 45 per 1,000 workers on the payroll, was lower than for any October since 1939. Thursday, Jan. 6, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five Independence A Mockery, Backing Wrang Side In China, Says Filipino Labor Leader By FRED ZE SERS ON boost to the Huk movement. Federated Press “Our government might learn a Says Vet Hying For CNAC NEW YORK—To the people of lesson and become more liber-^ the Philippine Islands the grant al because of what is happen­ of independence on July 4, 1946, ing there,” he remarked. Through the letters of her them any more. They- have done to me that we are backing the has become a "mockery,” Presi­ brother, Esther Bristow, Honolulu, very poorly with what they have, wrong side here and the best thing To divert the- attention of the has a picture of the civil war in they have lost the confidence of dent Amando Hernandez of the people from the real problems, to do is to sit by and let the gov- Philippine Congress of Labor China. the people, especially-since the is­ ernment get mad at us -and wait an un-Philippine activities com­ At 22, Ralph Mitchell, her broth­ suance of the new currency on (CLO) charged here recently. mittee has been organized, pat­ and see how the other boys do.” Passing through the U. S. on his er, was a veteran, unemployed and which most small people lost all terned after the House un-Ameri­ -m--a-r-r-i-e--d,, _so w--h--e-n- t—he C- -h--in--a- --N--a- - their savings of gold or stable for- Flies Over War Fronts way back to the Philippines after can activities group, he said. Ralph g_ oes o--n- -t-o- w--o--n-d--e-r -if per­ a European trip, Hernandez told tional Aviation Corp, offered him eign currency. Their soldiers, ex- haps the Chinese -Comuhists might a press conference that “the pres­ Pointing out that the Filipinos a job flying commercial transports, cept for the last week or so, have not continue with the civil air- ent administration, subservient to are great friends of the American he jumped at it. shown no interest in the fight. As lines in the new China he feels the dictates of the economic czars people, Harnandez said: “It is up For some months it was fun for our aid, I have only one time is coming, and he writes: “They in Wall Street and the U. S. army’s to the U. S. to prove in some and Ralph’s wife, Winn, enjoyed in China heard a Chinese mention may. try to run them with what top brass in . Washington, has tangible way that it still deserves it with him. Though Esther had anything in the way of apprecia­ Chinese pilots they have at present strengthened the chains over- our our friendship . . . We do not doubts as to the propriety of flying tion for it . . or they may still hire Americans. country.” feel free while more than 20 U. S. for Chiang Kai-shek, Ralph did “I am very glad we still have ■ That’s something that will be in­ Criticizes Bell Act war bases with extra-territorial not share them. Chiang was the Marshall in the State Department teresting to see.” The Bell act, which prevents rights dot pur land.” - “government” and the U. S. was so that we have someone ‘ with In a postscript written later, he \ the industrial development of the doing business with him, so he experience in the ways of the.Na­ tells how he has been transferred < islands and ties the .Philippine must be all right. tionalist government instead of to flying wounded Kuomintang economy ,to that of the U. S. Malihini Agitator Tone of Letters .Changed someone who just eats up all the from the front and fresh soldiers is aggravating the already very “Further evidence of police in­ Then the war got rough and as stuff that’s coming out at the pres­ CLOSER to the front. He also difficult situation of the people, terference was given by Harry Ralph began to see more and more ent time. I may be wrong on this, thanks his sister for a copy of the Hernandez said. Kealoh'a, agent for the longshore­ of the character of the Kuomin­ but I really believe that other than “Stilwell Papers,”, which several of A leader in the peasant Huk- men’s union who testified that in tang, the 'tone of his letters the original turning over of Japa­ his fellow-pilots have read. balahap (guerrilla) movement January, 1936, bn the evening of changed. His letter of Nov, 26 nese arms to'the Reds, the USSR On Dec. 13, he wrote that Winn against the Japanese during the a special.meeting of the union, sev­ from Hankow reflected a number has played a very small part in had flown down to British Hong war, Hernandez was especially eral anonymous calls had come of new opinions. Excerpts follow: their side of the war. I do not Kong because: “There might be critical of present U. S. policy to the union hall notifying him “. . . . The situation in Shang- believe that this war is any act some- dangerous panics if everybody in Japan. Instead of receiv­ to come to Pier 19—that there was hai is nowhere near as bad as the of- f-o rei• gn i• nt■ ervent■i■ on. _I.t i. s .be- tried to leave at once.” ’ ing promised reparations from trouble on the freighter Golden papers at home have portrayed. ing fought mainly by Chinese on In that letter, he also wrote: Japan, he said, the Philippines Coast. At the request of the mem­ There have been a few riots, etc., both sides. Tire Reds seem to have “Have b^en flying ‘drop missions* have ■ been told by the MacAr­ bers, Kealoha went to Pier. 19. As but only a few. The American . much less in the way of equip­ NW of- Nanking. Don’t like it thur regime that they must ex­ soon as he appeared on the dock Consulate is the only one to have ment, funds, etc., and absolutely much. Too much like combat fly­ port iron and iron ore to feed several holiae officers appeared advised evacuation. Most people no air force, but they are beating ing.” Hirohito’s industrial plants. from behind cargo piled on the think they are taking a Very pes­ the Nationalists at every turn. Closing, "Ralph tells his sister he “Maybe in the not distant fu­ dock.. One said: , ‘This- is the simistic view of the situation . . . They must have enthusiasm be­ may see her before long, here in ture, Japan might yet return our agitator we’ want.’ The government is howling for hind it . . . Although I’m not an ■Honolulu. His job is nearly fin­ iron to us from the air in the "Kealoha was hauled to the po- . U. S. aid but it is my personal advocate of Communism, it looks ished. form of bullets, bombs and shells, lice department and ‘held for i—n ­ opinion that we should not give instead of just utensils and toys vestigation’ for 16 hours. He wa/ as today,” he warned. third-degreed, pushed and mauled Jail Overcrowded While the. privileged few in the about by the cops, who tried to islands own palatial mansions and get him to talk. . No explanation “I would recommend that Dr. Lyle G. Phillips automobiles.and work in air-condi­ four new cells be added to was given for the ' arrest, no announces tioned offices, the average work­ charges were made—Kealoha, a the Prison at Lihue. Here, er with five or six dependents native Hawaiian, was just a mali­ there is ordinarily room enough that after January 5, 1949. earns about four pesos, less than hini agitator., Kealoha, by his tes­ but when labor strikes occur on $2 a day, Hernandez said. timony, intimated that the anony­ the plantations large numbers Dr. Robert P. Jay The government cooperates with mous phone calls and his subse­ of men are sometimes sent in anti-union employers by means of quent arrest had been a ‘frame - at one time, and then the prison will be associated with him in the practice of a labor registration statute. When ftp' entered into by the police is greatly overcrowded.” (Sher­ Medicine and Surgery the CLO wants to register a local, and Castle & Cooke, Ltd.” iff S. W. Wilcox of Kauai, Dec. the government refuses to certify 27, 1895). it, but when an employer spon­ —From THE VOICE OF LABOR, Under the penal contract JAw OFFICES: 350 SOUTH HOTEL STREET sors a company union, it is quick­ April 15, 1937, reporting NLRB then in force, a contract labor­ (corner, Hotel and Miller Streets) ly registered. hearings in April 1937, on Castle er was liable to arrest if he left Philippines Actually Not “Free” & Cooke Terminals, Ltd., case. - his job, on strike or otherwise. Theoretically, there is an 8- hour workday law in the Philip­ pines. .Where the CLO represents the workers it is enforced, Her­ nandez said, but in thousands of other places women put in 10 and SCHEDULE OF NON-CREDIT COURSES 12 hours daily and the government takes no steps to see that the ex­ isting regulations are obeyed. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII — EXTENSION DIVISION Along with the government’s suppressive action against labor, JANUARY 10 TO MARCH 8, 194,9 the campaign against the Huk- balahaps is in full swing, Her­ nandez said, adding that recent ART • . ENGLISH • Advanced Design and Water Color—Thursdays—6:30 to 9:00 P.M. Business English and Correspondence II—Mondays and events in Chana have given a The Art of Interior Decoration—Tuesdays and Fridays— Wednesdays—7:00 to 8:30 PM 7:00 to 8:30 PM. English Grammar—Tuesdays and Fridays—7:00 to 8:30 PM Japan Unionists Join Theory of,Home Planning—Mondays and Thursdays— Creative Writing—Wednesdays and Fridays—7:00 to 8:30 PM 7:00 to 8:30 P.M. Writing for Publication—Tuesdays and Fridays—7:00 to 8:30 PM CP Under US Policy Oil Painting—Mondays only—7:00 to 10:00 P.M. HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION’ • TOKYO (ALNI—Every day’s BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS • The Hula.II—Tuesdays and Thursdays—7:00 to 8:30 P.M. news from different parts of Japan Elementary Accounting H—Mondays and Thursdays— HISTORY • ' . - . Indicates that more labor leaders 7:00 to 8:30 PM. Russian History through Russian Films—Wednesdays only— and unionists are reacting to anti­ - Business Law—Federal Taxation—Wednesdays and Fridays— 7:30 to 9:30 P.M. labor measures introduced by the ( 7:00 to 8:30 PM. History of Koren—Tuesdays and Fridays—7:00 to .8:30 PM U. 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Music Appreciation H—Thursdays only—7:00 to 9:00 PM. director Shigeru Hakamada and Advanced Retail Merchandizing—Mondays and Wednesdays— municipal councilor Koso Sakaki. 7:00 to 8:30 PM. PSYCHOLOGY • Labor leaders who announced Psychology of Thinking—Tuesdays and Fridays—7:00 to 8:30 P.M. ■ I they had passed over to the Com­ ENGINEERING • SOCIOLOGY • munists at a public meeting held . Principles pf Diesel Engines—Mondays and. Thursdays— City Planning—Tuesdays and Fridays—7:00 to 8:30 PM that day included President Zenzo 7:00 to 8:30 P.M. SPEECH • Suzuki of the Miyagi. Public Serv­ Basic Electronics—Monday^ and Thursdays—7:00 to 8:30 P.M. Elements of Public Speaking—Mondays and Thursdays— ice Workers Union, Executive Sec-- Engineering Mechanics II—Stresses in Machine Parts—Mondays 7:00 to .8:30 P.M. retary Yoshio Okawa of the county and Thursdays—7:00 to 8:-30 P.M. Advanced Public Speaking—Tuesdays and Fridays— chapter of the right-wing National ’ Mechanical Drafting and Blueprint Reading—Mondays only— 7:00 to 8:30 P.M. ’ FederatioHrdf Labor and Vice Pres­ 6:30 to 9:30 P.M. _ . Radio Announcing and Acting—Mondays and Thursdays— ident Masao Sato of the Miyagi Plane Surveying—Mondays and Thursdays—7:30 to 9:00 P.M. 7:00 to 8:30 P.M. Government Employes Union. GEOGRAPHY • MISCELLANEOUS • Individual unionists ivho fol­ Geography of the Pacific Islands—Mondays and Thursdays— Practical Navigation I—Tuesdays and Fridays—7:00 to 8:30 PM. lowed their lead included mem­ 7:00 to JrSa- P.M. Elementary Orchid Culture—Tuesdays only—7:001 to 9:00 PM • bers of .the Government Railway Workers Union and the AU-Japan G o v e r n m e n t Communications REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Workers Union, whose national president previously became a YBA BIG., 1710 FORT ST. OR HAWAII HALL, U. OF H. CAMPUS,. TEL. 90551 - EX. 38 Comm,‘unist party member with the' approval of his executive board. Page Six THE HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, Jan. 6, 1949

Cramobs-BiiWiig Grappkr ouisporfs world Rugged In Ring, Mild Outside By ED HUGHES By ALLAN BEEKMAN (Federated Press) Though some, perhaps unjustly, His wife sat beside him, promt- may disparage the use he makes ing him in a gentle and feminine- Memories of “Rapier of the North” . of his cranium in private life there manner. He is a good family man. Jack Delaney, former light-heavy champ who died recently, was can be no question that Jack Clay­ He provides for his mother, who almost a great fighter. He was, a handsome, splendidly muscled and bourne, Hawaii’s Junior heavy­ is on the mainland. . He and his thewed French-Canadian. Right name, Ovila Chapdelaine. He was weight professional wrestling wife seem almost inseparable. For a graceful guy with a personality smile, boxing deftness, and a killing champion and Negro wrestling 10 years they have travelled over right-hook uppercut. Winning or losing, he was big box office. champion of the world, uses his the world together. head in the pursuit of his profes­ He does not smoke or drink. Why wasn’t Delaney a great, not merely a near-great warrior? sional career. Sunday night in his Every morning, at Diamond Head, He led a sort of double life, pugllistically. His gay outward composure match with Dick Raines, the Texas he does his road work conscien­ concealed some hampering ' doubts underneath. Bad Man, Claybourne showed con­ tiously. Delaney never realized how good he really was. ..Mechanically, crete and incontrovertible evidence He likes swimming, fishing, mov­ Jack was such a formidable fighter that he could triumph with of this. ies and football, Louis Armstrong, fear in his heart. He was brave enough; he never quit a fight. At the end of 24:22 minutes of Ethel Waters, Marion Anderson Only once did I see him scared—and he won that one. action Raines’ face, from repeated and Paul Robeson. It was the first Paul Berlenbach fight. Berlenbach, then, was butts of Claybourne’s close-crop­ The seven months prior to his a new-found ring terror. A stout-hearted, plodding, ox-like type who ped cranium, appeared a- bloody arrival in Honolulu were spent in methodically drove paralyzing punches. He had won 11 straight pulp. Referee Charley Carr de­ Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. knockouts when the more experienced Delaney faced him. Berly was clared Raines unable to continue The cloak he wears into the ring made to order for Delaney, who could punch as hard as Paul, plus and awarded the match to the adorned with the figure of a kan­ skill and seasoning. ' agile Claybourne. garoo, was awarded him as a. What happened? For three rounds Delaney acted as if panic- Therefore, though it may be trophy in Australia. , stricken. He ran away after sampling a few of Paul’s heavy body asserted that Mr. Claybourne’s Clayboume started his wrest­ raps. The Ox,' Berlenbach, followed stiffly, determinedly. Sud­ method of using his head is some­ ling career as a light-heavy­ denly, out of pure desperation, Delaney fired a right-hander to what unconventional it is indis­ weight amateur. Later he turned Berly’s unsuspecting chin. Berly crashed to the boards. Saved putably true that he employs it professional. He specializes in the by the bell, he was finished off in the next round. in a way that is simple, direct flying drop-kick, the flying head­ and singularly effective. scissors, and -what he refers to as In their four fights Delaney won three, two by knockouts. Jack Different Mah Outside Ring the “ambulance hold.” lost the second display on points. Berly was then light-heavy king, I interviewed Mr. Claybourne, Friend of Ben Johnson and it was a winter fight indoors. The cynics whispered that Jack the morning following his match “I get my speed from boxing,” had saved Paulie for a juicy outdoor gate. Anyhow, next summer with Raines, in the office of he said. He boxed both as an they did have at it again in a ball park before; a most profitable. at­ “Gentleman Al” Kar'asick, the amateur and professional. “I still tendance. Delaney mauled Paulie mightily and snatched .the title. wrestling ifiipressario. skip rope. I learned about head Berly was one of the pots df gold in Delaney’s cauliflower rainbow. Out of the ring Mr. Clayboume butts as a boxer. I was boxing and ♦ * * * •> ♦ seems as inoffensive, kindly, mild- by accident I butted the man I mannered and unassuming as he was fighting. It cut his face and A Fish Market Was the Place for It appears ferocious and aggressive he starred to bleed; That’s how I Miami model displays the mini­ As a heavyweight, Delaney didn’t have it. Among others he lost in it. His face radiates friendli­ learned about using a head butt.” mum in bathing suits, maximum in to Jack Sharkey as an aroma of fish scented the air. Sharkey had ness.. He listens interestedly to the One of his close friends in Ha­ pleaded for the title shot against Gene Tunney in the then cham­ conversation going on around him. waii is Ben Johnson who' has birthday suits, while the rest of pion’s farewell ring performance. Tex Rickard, the great promoter, When something particularly im- gained fame for his fight against the country shivers. was hot for the match. . So was the fight public. Tunney, though, presses him he will turn to the racial discrimination. But Mr. wanted no part of Sharkey. Gene demanded his foe be Tom Heeney, speaker. Claybourne said he has not yet an Australian whose style was ready-made for him. “Yeah,” he will say. experienced prejudice here. Sharkey continued .caterwauling for the Tunney bout. He al­ Wife Accompanies Wrestler “I like Hawaii,” he said, with SPREAD THE WORD ways had a hunch he could lick Tunney—and the fans wanted to This terse remark, when' uttered gentle ■ emphasis, “because we have . AROUND find out. In a last moment staging to impress the public, Delaney not run into any prejudice. We in his deep, musical voice, par­ THE RECORD IS SOLD was hustled into the ring with Sharkey. The result was an odoriferous takes both of the nature of an haven’t run into any yet, anyway," shock. In the first round Delaney absorbed a cuff on the ear and exclamation and of an interroga­ he added, glancing at his wife for at the plunged canvas-ward. encouragement, “We’ve been able tion. It seems the articulate ex­ FOLLOWING PLACES: It smelt of haddock, all right. A New York paper sent a city­ pression of his avid interest. to go anywhere we wanted to go.” side reporter to Bridgeport, Conn., to get the facts. Bridgeport KALIHI CENTER was Delaney’s home town, where he trained for the fight. Bridge­ The “ENTICEMENT .Waltham Watch Co. ' 1708 N. King St. porters interviewed couldn’t remember Delaney doing any “train­ OF LABOR ACT” Folds After 99 Years NEW YEE TICK MARKET ing” for the "fight.” 1 (from page 8) (from page 1) 1002 N. King St. This was one build-up that, backfired. Tunney got his hand- picked foil, Heeney, whom he thumped with the expected eclat. Few than I saw on the faces of these bankruptcy, the financier who re­ OKADA DRUG STORE went to see it. Promoter Rickard, for the first and' only time, lost men. portedly had milked the company (Next to Palama Theater) money on a heavyweight production. To be exact-—$200,000. “. . . . Of course, it was a mere until he sold out at the end of -711 N. King St. Shortly after that Delaney quit the ring for keeps. However, he barefaced device to prevent the World War n, had offered to put PARADISE PRODUCTS did live to see Sharkey win the title and lose it to—of all people!-—■ Filipinos from getting away from more money into the firm provid­ '& FLORIST Primo Camera! It was another one not all people believed was. ac­ Hawaii.” ing it ditched its company union. 1630 Liftha St. cording to Hoyle or smacking of fighting 'men swapping honest clouts. Meanwhile, in Judge Whitney’s Jhe offer was refused. The fi­ court, Kinney and his partner nancier was Frederic C. Dumaine, AALA PARK INN Prosser were arguing against Mr. who in the ’30s won similar laurels 270 N. King St. Craig’s attorneys on the legality when the famed Amoskeag Mills MABEL’S BARBER SHOP "of what the Advertiser called “the closed in Manchester, N. H., and 69 N. Beretania St. ■second campaign being waged in some 15,000 workers were thrown protection of the plantation labor' out of their jobs. -THE BOXERS INN interests of the islands.” Dumaine recently became board . 60 N. Pauahi St. Attorney General Lindsay him­ chairman, of the New York,. New MID-TOWN DRUG CO. self was doubtful whether the ac­ Haven & Hartford railroad, which 1150 Bethel St. tion was legal or not, but decided has just emerged from reorganiza­ • to sign the order and leave it up tion in bankruptcy. RAINBOW CAFE to the judge to decide. Judge Smith & Queen Sts. - Whitney sent the 16 Filipinos to HALE AIKANE jail. Jim Crow Shattered 1413 S. King St. There they were held and no­ Because the fact won’t be wide- HENRY WONG MARKET body was allowed to see them . ly publicized, we shall record here Punahou & King Sts. except the prosecuting firm of that on Jan. 1, 1949, a Negro played Kinney, Ballou, Prosser &'An - in the.' Shrine East-West game at KING-McCULLY STORE • derson, legal spokesmen for the Kezar Stadium, without any “in­ King & McCully Sts. HSPA. cidents" resulting/ BOWMAN GROCERY Four days later the Territorial It was the first time in the 24- 3636 Waialae Ave. Supreme Court issued a writ of year-old history of the Shrine habeas corpus for the 16, and they game that the jimcrow code was BLUE & WHITE CAFE were released on $1 bail apiece. shattered. The Negro played for 811 Sheridan . St. De Guzman was never • indicted, the East and his name is Gene OMIYA SUNDRIES . and the “witnesses” were dis­ Derrlcotte, star Michigan back from 1205 S. King St. charged. Defiance, Ohio. He played an im­ Give No Quarter portant, role in the East’s 14-12 RUSSELL'S SUNDRIES On the same day that the wit­ victory. 2550 Kalakaua Ave. nesses were jbrked off the Korea, The swank 50-eent game pro­ SHERIDAN GRILL the anti-recruiting bill was, intro­ gram neglected to mention in its 907 Sheridan St. ' duced in the Legislature—which thumbnail biographies of the play­ happily for the sugar interests, ers the'fact that Derrlcotte was the ARTESIAN STORE had just gone into session. first Negro to play in the Shrine 1880 S. King St. The Advertiser summed up busi­ ■ game in its 24 years of. existence. RAINBOW SWEET SHOP ness sentiment/in an editorial en­ 1298 Nuuanu Ave. titled “PASS^THE LABOR ’RE­ several hundred idle men loafing CRUITING BILLS.” around the city waiting for grand “It is certain that nothing jury summons. IN WAHIAWA: will be left undone that ingen­ “The planters will have to de­ BELL’S FOUNTAIN & SERVICE ious brains can suggest to make pend upon a technical battle until 533 California Ave. any attempt at recruiting here the' legislature enacts some pro­ a costly and profitless occupa­ tecting law ... The next week CONSUMERS’ MARKET tion. The jailing of intending or two,- especially those few days emigrants and the holding up of following the arrival of the steam­ TN WAIPAHU: Railroad engineer Henry Lee (right) presents check for ?2825 to 4-year- all labor recruits can not go on er Senator, may be looked forward KATO SAIMIN SHOP old Grace Purcell of Lovejoy, Ga., armless since birth. Railroad men, indefinitely, of course, even if to with interest.” who noticed the little girl waving to them as their trains passed her Honolulu could afford to have (To bo Concluded in Next Issue) home, took up a collection to buy her artificial arms. Thursday, Jan. 6, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven Goods UH Players Excel LABOR ROUNDUP In “Lysistrata” ^llAYOFFS HIT gH By GEORGE FULLER Pine Agreement Reached; Waits Ratification Y. AREA rlaffa Joel Trapido’s acting version of Top items on the labor front this week: NEWARK N. JM Dec. 1* y ** Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, currently Speedy ratification of the newly negotiated agreement between . —M £ being presented at Farrington Hall ILWU Local 152 and the seven pineapple companies was predicted on the University of Hawaii cam­ today by Takeo Furuike, president of the local. ig city” ; pus is undoubtedly one of the finest LAYOFFS productions the Territory has had The agreement, which was reached on Tuesday, January 4, provides IT “ u the privilege of seeing within' the for a wage increase of four to nine cents for all workers represented past three years; indeed, a perfect by the local and runs for two years. ’ £ . PJo/nUot fa New Year’s gift to the Honolulu Base pay for men workers will now be $1.01 and 91 cents for women theater-going public. employes. Aristophanes’ brilliant satire on A wage and hour reopening is scheduled for February 1, 1951. Athenian foibles can be labeled a Another feature of the agreement is an employes’ insurance plan B„ta. Broker* Do _ Job Huntin __ aw or tt play of many types—a peace play, financed jointly by the employes arid the various companies and car­ Lay-offs Spu a feminist play or an argument for ried by the Prudential Insurance Co. of America. Hastu POmt Closing woman suffrage. The setting is high * * * * Across on the ■ Acropolis in the city of Athens, Greece, during the year Laupahoehoe Workers Reject AFL 411 B. C., with the action taking A six to one rejection of the AFL in an NLRB-ordered representa­ place during the twentieth year of tion election on Tuesday, January 4 among 211 eligible industrial em­ ble TrouNe war with Sparta. . A buoin . ployes of the Laupahoehoe Sugar Co. on Hawaii, has been announced. concern « Novel Stop-War Tactics Final balloting results indicated that the workers voted as follows: The women of Athens and Spar­ 164 "no-union" arid 28 AFL (Union of Hawaiian Workers). 1 Program ta, tired of wars and their conse­ This vote assures continued representation. of the workers by the quences. ' under the leadership of ILWU which was not permitted on the ballot since it is a non-comply­ Lysistrata, decide to put a stop to ing union, them by refusing to live with their The workers are already covered in an agreement which was re­ husbands. The women take refuge cently negotiated. between the ILWU and the sugar industry. in the Treasury on the Acropolis. * * * * Their plan and its outcome provide a most humorous evening in the Asks Removal or Transfer of Owens theater. A move on the part of the building trades unions for the removal From the play’s novel beginning or transfer of John A. Owens, territorial AFL representative, was re­ to the final curtain it is delectation ported recently by a high-ranking official of the AFL. Good Books About Hawaii Are itself. With' its large cast of ap­ Disclosure of the move came in a letter written to the national proximately 75 people, all giving president, William Green, complaining about Mr. Owens’ alleged failure adequate performances, it is indeed to do his work and being “more interested in personal prestige.” Few; Four Published In 1948 difficult to single out individual * * * * merit. 1 Hawaii, it is said, has had more in other parts of the area, though, Local 150-American Can Negotiations written about it per square foot in some ways, Hawaii is not too Parts Well Played Mary Akimoto as the dancer in Negotiations between ILWU Local 150 and the American Can Co. than any other place, on earth. More good a sample.” Its. history “is a junk per square foot, too, it might sort of elementary survey-course the surprising prologue,, gives the for Monday, January 10, was reported by Ernest Arena, president of play a delightful send-off, with tha union; ' be added. Good, mea'ty, depend­ in the whole subject.”- able books about Hawaii for the Katherine Clement as Lysistrata The union is asking for an upward revision in the wage scale and Words Distasteful to Some picking it up proportionately. Lin­ general reader are mostly yet to Furnas’ “survey-course” is easily minor alterations in the check-off clause. be written. da Mangelsdorf as Calonice and It is expected that the company will make a wage offer similar to the most interesting sketch of Ha­ Irene Billingsley as Myrrhine, two that recently negotiated between the pineapple union and the pineapple Four of them published within waiian history ever written—its of the Athenian wives, are excel­ a single year is almost too good emphasis, of course, being all up­ lent. industry since this: has been the pattern in the past. to be true. on the native people. The author About 175 regular employes are now covered by the agreement One of them, Bradford Smith’s The leaders of the first and sec­ concludes with the words: ond choruses of old women, Joho- which has been in existence since 1944 and revised with each expiration. highly sympathetic and also high­ “Many residents of the Islands ly understanding and careful net Carpenter and Zella Argen- will not like it. But then, few ’bright respectively, give fine char­ High Doctor Fee “Americans From Japan,” has al­ of them have ever liked anything acterizations. A special nod goes Detroit ready been noticed in these col­ objective -written about them­ to Miss Argenbright. War. Dept. Film Charged in umns. selves, as' responsible writers DETROIT—Add to the high cost No Imaginative Insight / Wesley Strombeck as president of living and the high cost of . have found to their sorrow ever of the senate, performs his role Shows Hunger As dying, the high cost of getting The second is “Hawaii: A His­ since the mid-century. Hawaii with great caprice as da the three sick in Detroit. Tire city’s doctors tory,” by Ralph S. Kuykendall and is too small, too self-conscious, Athenian husbands, Robert Dickie, rake in the biggest average net A. Grove. Day. Believe it or not, and too vulnerable to afford ob­ until the appearance of this book jectivity about itself. There is Julian Smith and John Magistad. income of any large American city The setting designed by Earle Fascism’s Tool except Los Angeles. there was .not a single history of a tale, which I hope is true and Editor William A. Richardson Hawaii written by anyone who is certainly true in spirit, of a Ernst Is one of the most beautifully “Starvation works more effec­ knew his trade, that covered every and simply executed sets-the writer tively than warfare, for it is a of Medical Economics, a friendly Honolulu haole encountering a publication, gives the average net period of the Island story. newspaperman on the day of has had the pleasure of viewing program against a whole popula­ We could read in detail about and the costumes by Albion Aspin­ tion,” said Field Marshal Karl von annual income of all doctors in Pearl Harbor and barking at him Detroit as $12,261. The top fig­ life under the first three Ka- indignantly: T suppose the wall are elegant and graceful. Pa­ Rundstedt. He, also said that the mehamehas, but apparently no tricia Powers, the choreographer, Germans can "double” their popu­ ure is Los Angeles with an aver­ Mainland papers will exaggerate age annual net of $13,534 per doc­ one cared to tread-on living or this!’ ” has done full justice. to Earle lation by reducing the population recently dead toes by writing Ernst’s original music and Joel of adjacent countries by one-third tor. It isn’t likely, for example, that The New York average net is about the life and times of Ka- the upper classes will enjoy such Trapido’s able direction. through malnutrition. lakaua, Sanford B. Dole and If theater such as the Guild’s How the Nazis, in their pro­ $8,133, Chicago $9,232, Philadel­ thumbnail sketches as: phia $9,452 and Cleveland $11,477. Wallace Rider Farrington. Pro­ production of Lysistrata is here to gram of mass genocide, reduced fessor Kuykendall slides a bit “The upper levels of estab­ human living to animal level is The Wayne County (Detroit) lished haole society send their stay, Honolulu is truly blessed. A Medical Society is a hard-boiled gingerly over some of the con­ large bouquet to Dr. Joel Trapido , graphically and dramatically pre- troversial topics, but his work is sons to conservative Mainland and the University of Hawaii ’sented in a War Department film, opponent of socialized medicine colleges, have been long accus­ “Seeds of Destiny.” and has tried to defeat Rep. John competent, honest, reasonably tomed to ample incomes suavely Theater Guild for giving us a real D. Dingell of the 15th district be­ complete. He even has a good theatrical evening. Makers of Tomorrow spent, and are still marked with cause he allied himself with Sen­ chapter, “Towards Industrial De­ missionary respectability and The 16mm film, which is being ator Wagner of New York in in­ mocracy,” on the rise of the la­ Anglophile snobbishness.” shown by Marshall McEuen, edu­ troducing a mild measure for im­ bor unions — though he gives cational director of ILWU, to mem­ proving national health. them 15,000 more members than “Gradually the employers had bers of his union and any individ­ they have ever had; come round to feeling that the University of Hawaii uals or groups interested in the What a pity, though, that even whole tangled business (“per­ Theatre Guild documentary movies, is the story Terror In Greece with a junior author to help him, quisites”) was-more trouble than of the children df Europe. the good professor never rises to it was worth. A Mainlander could Presents ATHENS (ALN) — Unable to have told them that 20 years “Seeds of Destiny’”—the flesh cope militarily with the guerrillas a single flash of imaginative in­ and blood of the future—are the sight! The book is dull, period. ago. But ip the Islands lessons Aristophanes’ In the mountains, who have in­ sink in with semi-Bourbon slow­ children of Europe who are creased from 15,000 to 25,000 in For the time being it will probably shown roaming like wolf - packs, the past year, the royalist Greek be indispensable. ness.” stealing, living in filth, and oth­ government is once more -striking Good Sense Written Well Nor will Hawaiians who prettify “Lysistrata” ers lying on their backs although at civilians dissatisfied with its Dullness is decidedly not a fault - and over-idealize their past enjoy they should be playing on then- policies. of the next book on the list, J. C. Furnas’ unprettified picture of it, feet, because they are victims of Three thousand persons, includ­ Furnas’ "Anatomy of Paradise;. or his remarks about present-day Wed. - Thurs. - Fri; - Sat. malnutrition. . ing hundreds of unionists, were Hawaii and the Islands of. the “professional Hawaiians.” Jan. 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 and These are the makers of to­ arrested' in the main Pelopones- South Seas.” Judging by the num­ Least Popular, Most Enduring 12 - 13 - 14 and 15 morrow, and the War Department sus area of Greece Dec. 28, on ber of copies on the shelves of The last book is the least popu­ 8:15 Nightly film which points out the necessity charges’ of being "underground Honolulu bookshops, it is to be a lar and also the .most enduring of giving the now discontinued inembers of Communist organiza­ local best seller—and it deserves of the four: Theodore Morgan’s at UNRRA aid to needy abroad asks tions.” to be. Furnas has written good “Hawaii, a Century of Economic whether these children • scavenging sense, he has written almost 500 Change, 1778-1876.” Professor Farrington Hall food from garbage pails, their edu­ Sign of the times is the report pages of it and he has written it Morgan, before he turned to eco­ Box office opens 9 to 4:15 cation totally neglected, will be from the Pittsburgh postoffice well. ~ nomics, was an English instructor from Dec. 16 - 18 and from the Sun Yat-sens, Einsteins and that 80 per cent of the Christmas The book is about the adaptation at the University of Hawaii, and Dec. 27 - Jan. 15. Curies of tomorrow, or Hitlers, cards were sent with lit-cent of the South Seas peoples, and he knows how to handle the lan­ Mussolinis and Tojos. stamps. As times get tougher, particularly the Polynesians, to the guage. But his subject just doesn’t Phone 91480 Anti-War Message more lit-cent stamps will be used. puzzling and—for a long while—. lend itself to writing like Furnas’s. The film, made soon after World destructive western men and their At the same time, he has done All Seats Reserved at $1.80 War n, carries an anti-war mes­ like Ilse Koch is freed by Gen. ways. One-fifth of the space his job so well that it will never Reservations must be called sage, and in contrast to War De­ however, is given to the "Land of need to be done over. What is Lucius Clay, films like “Seeds for at least Vj hour before partment releases of today, shows of Destiny” bring back to mind Makebelieve Come True”—Hawaii. now heeded is to write an equally the horrors of war in terms of hu­ the crimes the Nazis committed . “To cover Hawaii in some de­ good and detailed history of Ha­ curtain. man and material destruction. in crippling whole nations for at tail,” says the author, “will make waii’s economic life from 1876 to At this time, when a murderess least two generations.—T. A American readers more at home our day. J. K. THE, HONOLULU RECORD Koji Ariyoshi . . , Editor Editor: make a quick survey of job appli­ Published every Thursday at The HONOLULU RECORD: cants to find out how many would 'a PQ I read with considerable inter­ be interested in a Mainland job 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu est Vera Hall's reaction to my un­ so there would be some facts on employment article published in which to operate. I think the fed- By W. K. BASSETT - eral government should and could Phone 96445 the S-B. Good, Eh? It was somewhat^ of a shock to transport people to job areas just SUBSCRIPTION RATES: me to learn that conditions on the as they brought people here to do Among the wisecracks made articulate by - defense work. It’s part of the Mr. Truman’s unprecedented dramatic act of year (Oahu) ...... -...... $5.00 grounds of the capital have ap­ i year (Other Islands) ...... parently changed so little since process of winning the peace. November 2, the one my wife likes the best .. $6.00 is the suggestion that Tom Dewey climb back —Includes Airmailing— a month ago when I was a job­ I have talked with personnel seeker at Building H. I gathered workers in the federal civil serv­ on top of a wedding cake. year (Mainland) ...... -...... $5.00 they may have become even worse. ice here and they agreed with A Letter To I’m sorry my article had a de­ me that such a move would be pressing effect on people in the a boon to many private individuals Aluminum Company of America line-up at the employment of­ and at the same time, improve Dear Alcoa: I note in. a recent issue of The TREMENDOUS GAINS? fice, for it was not written ■ in a the economy of the Islands. They felt there was not much they per­ New Yorker a full-page colored advertisement of Housing is still one of our biggest prob­ supercilious vein. -My intent was yours, headed: “How to to analyze the unemployment sit­ sonally could do about the sit­ Divide Up a Dollar the lems, particularly for the lower and med­ uation here in order to help peo­ uation, isolated as they are in American Way.” Above their particular bureaus and ium income brackets. And this situation ple appreciate the present crisis. the heading and type I didn’t think I would make the hemmed in by rules and regula­ that follows it, is a disk exists three years after the end of the war jobless feel the crime of their-pov- tions stemming from Washington, representing a silver dol­ —three years during which time we have erty is .entirely upon their/own although they would be glad to lar, divided so as to show heads. lend their support if it were niade what part of it went for seen the real estate and building trade op­ As I now look upon the local possible for them to do so. wages, salaries and em- - erators enjoy booming business. Today, unemployment situation I believe I don’t see why Vera Hall wastes ployee benefits, deprecia­ the federal government is our her time over an insignificant per­ tion, taxes; materials and people are still crying for houses. greatest hope of salvation. I’m son like me, resenting it because. services bought, reinvest­ convinced that very little help may I refer to some of the jobless as ed in business and divi- . In view of this the statement of Archi­ be expected from private indus­ vags when they are people without dends to stockholders., visible means of support. bald S. Guild, executive director of the Ha­ try here in the Territory. Per­ On reading the haps things will get a little bet­ Why not take up the matter waii Housing Authority, as reported in, the with Governor Stainback? Per­ type underneath the ter when shipping returns to nor­ heading I learned mal, but this will not be sufficient haps he doesn’t see the daily crowd Advertiser of January 3, saying that his milling about Building H as he that the dollar repre- MR. BASSETT to entirely relieve the bad state sents-gross income or total gross sales and then agency had made tremendous gains in of affairs. goes to his office, up the back stairs of the Palace, ~He might it says, “out of each dollar received last year meeting Hawaii’s acute housing situation, Hawaii, at present, - as I see it, really by Alcoa and its subsidiaries the net profit is definitely a bad employment be able to do something amounted to less than eight cents.” sounds ridiculous. area. According to what I have about the situation. Sincerely yours, That eight cents is the total of 4.64 cents “re­ Closer to the truth is his statement quot­ been told by reliable sources, invested in business,” and- 3.19 cents “dividends there are excellent job opportuni­ TOM FRAZIER to stockholders.”' ed in the same news story: “The Authority ties in certain sections.. of the 1189 Alakea Street - Mainland. 'I believe that the Ter­ The beginning of the type matter says: “It believes the over-all housing situation has Honolulu, T. H. may interest you to know the mistaken notion ritorial Employment Service should Dec. 25, 1948 improved slightly over the year 1947.” most folks have about the profits of American companies.” Then it goes on to say that some people think When approximately 20,000 individuals manufacturers “actually do” make about 25 cents applied for housing and a mere 1,649 were looking backward on every dollar of income. placed by the Authority in 1948, the record You go on to explain, as illustrated by your picture of the divided dollar, that this is all is hardly impressive. Most of the housing The “Enticement Of Labor” Act wrong and that in normal years American units went to the veterans, with no new companies average about^nine cents profit per construction completed for civilians during Are you aware that you may Craig—and the Advertiser carried income dollar. Yours, you point out, for 1947, be sent to jail for six months and this story: was 7.83 cents on the income dollar. the past year. fined $500 if you persuade a friend This sentence interests me, also: to leave his job by promising him WILL BE ON HAND FOR EX­ “The dollars-and-cents story of Aluminum Com­ Hundreds and thousands of new housing a better one on Guam or the pany of America represents the kind of facts you’ll- Mainland? AMINATION IN DE GUZMAN units must be built before we can say that CASE. get from any typical American enterprise. F1 acts ' It’s the law: Section 11523, Re- “Sheriff Jarrett has a pile of that show a fair return for a good price.” the housing situation looks brighter. In vised Laws of Hawaii 1945. subpoenas he /cannot "see over to That’s the next to the last paragraph. I addition to the new housing projects to be True enough, the law is a dead serve upon Filipino witnesses want­ stopped and re-read it and the first thought letter today — though there is ed to testify in the charge brought that came to me was that this story of yours, built, there are slums to be cleared, and no telling when a’dead law may by the 'Territory against de Guz­ in this colored page advertisement in The emergency, temporary structures to be re­ be brought to life, as the at­ man, being investigated by the New Yorker, represents really the “kind of torney general revived the se­ grand jury on allegations that he facts” you get from the advertising agency of placed. cret societies act to use against is soliciting labor here without the National Association .of Manufacturers the Reineckes. But “enticement a license. Tire sheriff tried to which it sends ouf to its various members for Not long ago the Record received a letter of labor” was a burning issue serve the papers yesterday but was publication in the hope that it will be accepted from a veteran who said in part: “as you in March and April of 1911. prevented by the laws of quaran­ as “facts” by-the American people. And it oc­ It is one of the clearest illus­ tine ... curred to me also, that it seems strange that know this small Manoa Housing is a racket trations of how the Legislature “The delay in serving the sum­ you would insert such advertising in a magazine if I know one. For 10x30 one must pay $42 of those days was openly regarded, which ranks very high in its percentage of in­ as a rubber stamp for the sugar mons to appear and testify will and they call it a 2 bedroom unit—for the not be of any particular bene­ telligent readers. _ interests. Along with the serious fit to the expectant labor re­ Then I read the final paragraph:' mere floor space of 300 square feet.” side, however, there was a good cruits for California, however, “Within the heart of America are those who deal of unintended comedy. as they will be attended to as would like to confuse and mislead you. ’ It pays to This veteran sincerely calls Manoa Hous­ Planters Use U. S. Marshal soon as they are turned over to ask straight questions, where you can get straight About March, 1911, Alaskan fish the Pacific Mail officials today ing a “racket.” We believe he has grounds canning, interests sent a labor .re­ answers.” for shipment. Honolulu will ■be That paragraph really excited me and, too, for doing so. Evidently this high rental will cruiter named Frank B. Craig to blessed' by their presence for Hawaii. Mr. Craig made contacts; amused me. Here you are, talking about “those not displease the landlords for it will help he hired Filipino interpreters and some -little time to come.” (Pa­ who would like to confuse and mislead you” cific Commercial Advertiser, in the very, advertising which was drafted, cir­ to keep high the rentals on their houses. got on friendly terms with Depu­ March 31). ty Sheriff Rose. He also took out culated and published 'to serve the purpose of And what of the pressures brought about a Territorial license as a labor re­ When Sheriff Jarrett went “those who would like to confuse and mislead” cruiter. aboard the SS Korea, however, he the public. ' by real estate dealers and landlords .to keep found that none of the emigrating low-income housing from being construct­ The press announced on March Filipinos was in a hurry to identi­ On the basis of the very final sentence' in the ’ 27 that .400 Filipinos and other fy himself. He served only IQ of advertising I am writing this letter. That final ed? This indeed is a dirty racket, depriving immigrants who had come to Ha­ the 57 subpoenas he carried, and sentence says: “It pays to ask straight questions, people of shelter they rightly deserve. waii . at the sugar industry’s ex­ 254 other laborers got away to the where you can get straight answers.” pense would leave for the coast Coast. Here are my questions to which I .have faint When the legislature meets in a .few within a week. Then the planters hope of getting straight answers—from you: got busy. “Mere Barefaced Device” Isn’t it the very core of industrial accounting weeks the voters through every means pos­ Their first move was to have Ray Stannard Baker, in his day that the profits be based on invested capital? sible must convince the elected officials the TJ. S. marshal descend up­ probably the most famous Ameri­ Ijhat being the case, and in your desire to on the quarantine station, where can journalist, was an eyewitness present “facts,” shouldn’t your advertisement that a substantial sum must be appropri­ intended emigrants were await­ of the scene, and let several hun­ have shown what your 7.83 cents profit oh the ated for government housing. ing departure, and arregt 11 dred thousand people know about it dollar income represents in relation to the Puerto Ricans for violation of in the (pages of the American money invested by stockholders in the Alumin- Today material shortages offer no ex- . the white slave act. Magazine. um Company of America? I cuse. Reports from the West Coast say the These luckless men were not “Of the methods pursued under In other words, should not your advertisement pimps; they were merely plying the leadership of one of the fore­ have shown the total amount that 7.83 cents rep­ demand for lumber is dropping and cite in common law wedlock after the most lawyers of the islands, Mr. W. A. Kinney, I had a vivid illus­ resents of the total gross sales? the fact that inventories on lumber are 81 " custom of their native land. Now, - Then, and this is the crux of the matter, what < for the f—ir.wsvt and last tUiLmLUeC , tmhe tration just as I was leaving Ho­ pHeer crent ahbnovvAe a yvneaor agimo. Omtih,,e..r. building auth-o--r-ist^ie..s. b,_e_c_am e i. nt. eresltce'd mine nolulu. Quite a number of Fili­ percentage is this total net profit of the total invested in ‘the Aluminum Company of America? materials are also available and witji un­ their lack of conventional Ameri­ pinos had purchased tickets and can morals. Of course there was were about to depart for Califor­ Also, under what category do you list the employment increasing daily, we have no intention of pressing the nia. Just'before sailing, officers amount of money you contribute to the Nation­ ample labor supply. charges. came'1 aboard and arrested. several al Association of Manufacturers and the amount Subpoenas . To Freeze Laborers of these men and took them ashore you pay for such advertisements to try “to Housing is a problem that can be solved. The next trick of the planters with their bags and belongings. confuse and mislead” the people? The “tremendous gains” in meeting the was on a much grander scale. The same methods were pursued in And I still think you are wasting a lot'of 'that Never, until 675 orders were served the case of another ship Which money by putting your advertising in such maga­ acute housing situation which we read on the Rapid Transit strikers last departed the same day. Blacker zines as The New Yorker when it could more about a few days ago remain to be achiev­ July, have the process servers had' looks of anger and disappointment profitably be spent in such publications as, for such a windfall. A Filipino named I have rarely seen on. men’s faces instance, the Readers’' Digest. ed. de Guzman had been assisting (more on page 6) W. K. BASSETT