More Burglaries In WaikikPthan Other CCORD Parts of Honolulu Univ, of Hawaii Library Needs Though police figures are not Att. Miss Janet Bill' yet complete, it is expected by Honolulu 14 ,8-29-57' reliable police sources that the year’s annual report will show VOLUME IX NO. 2jZL Y 10 CENTS— THURSDAY JANUARY 10, 1957 that, as usual, burglaries in the Waikiki area are higher than any­ where else in the city. Police figures show that, over a five-year period an area that in­ cludes the heart of Waikiki has averaged 153 burglaries per year. Another area'toward Kapahulu, still considered part of Waikiki Worker’s Death Bares and including the Moana, the Biltmore, and several smaller tour­ ist hotels, has a much lower av­ erage of 68 burglaries per year. But police sources say there is no doubt that Waikiki as a part of Honolulu has the highest burglary rate of any part of the city. Long Unsafe Practice Another area where burglaries (mere mi page 73 Safety Belts Not TYPICAL SUGAR PAY $2.64 IN CUBA Used for Years 332,000 Workers Produce 4.7 Co. Man Admits Million Tons; Get Perquisites Cuba’s 4,650,000 tons of sugar are declared in 1953 that the increase “We haven’t used safety belts for produced by 332,000 workers, of 30 years.” of Cuba's economic, power over whom 72,000 are mill workers and the last 12 years had been pri- That, according to two official 260,000 are field workers, accord­ mainly due to the activities of the witnesses, is the comment made by ing to the AFL-CIO News. Cuban Confederation of Workers- an official of the Hawaiian Dredg­ In Cuba, field workers are large­ (CTC) and its . affiliated union ing and Construction Co. follow­ ly seasonal. This compares with of sugar workers. ing the 45 ft. death-fall of a 1,099,542 tons produced by 15,000 worker from the shaft of a pile year-round employes in this Ter­ SUGAR BACKBONE driver Tuesday afternoon. ritory. The 181 sugar mills in Cuba are Following the death of the work­ (This means that each Hawai. the source of between 70 io 80 er, Harold Kyung Chan Han, 35, ian worker produces about seven per cent of the island’s national Territorial Safety Engineer Robert and a third tons, each Cuban Ebert ordered the job stopped un­ income. til conditions were made safe. Im­ worker only 1.4 tons; or, if we Cuban sugar Industry suffered mediately the company sent safety count each Cuban as half an em­ the past few years from the' change • belts to the job for such workers ploye on the assumption that he in the sugar buying policies of the as. would have use for them. Work works half the year, 2.8 tons.) UJS. government. The world su­ was resumed after the belts had LIKE TH IN *30’s gar surplus folowing World War' H been brought. caused the U.S. to curtail buying, Two official witnesses, while Cuba's sugar industry is not and Cuba cut sugar production. shocked at the statement of the mechanized as the local industry A recent agreement concluded be company official, ascertained that is. It reminds one of the con­ tween the sugar employers and the belts had not been used for some ditions existing here in the 1930’s union means an increase of $40 time, though they were not sure when 55,000 sugar workers’ pro­ million next year in the pay of the company man could speak with duced about a million tons of sugar workers. This comes from authority for so long a period as sugar. the 18 per cent boost in the wage 30 years. Despite the present backward­ “differential” to be paid in 1957. When he fell to His death, Han ness of the Cuban sugar industry, But the pay increase merely re­ (more on page 7) it has made great strides in re­ stores wage cuts sustained by the cent years, primarily through ■ uni­ workers in recent years and brings onization of workers, just as in back the pay level to that pre­ Did Russians Think Hawaii the whole economy of Cu­ vailing before 1953. ba benefited from the union move­ According to the AFL-CIO News, ment. Dec. 29, “A typical sugar field Airline Employes Were Dr. Gustavo Guturez, head of - worker in Cuba this year (1956) Elvis Presley To Come Here; Expect 'Bulldog Detectives'? Consejo National de Economia, (more on page 7) Russians who were brief visitors "Shake Your Head, Buddy, and Hear It Rattle" in Honolulu on their way from the Most Excitement Since AX Allen Olympic. Games to the Mainland Elvis Presley who inspires words preciatively. After listening to their U.S. may have had some reason of vitriol in music critics and who chatter and watching their danc­ to feel there was hostility in the send shivers up the spines of little ing a few minutes, the reporter air, sources among the company’s girls in Honolulu just as he does came to the conclusion most of employes say. 5. To maintain di scirline. on the Mainland, is coming to the kids would manage to dig up a William Bachran, Pan-Am pub­ town. Or at least, he is if the dick­ buck to make at least one of El­ lic relations man, doesn’t think nee ering on the dates and money be­ vis’ concerts, if not more. so, and says treatment accorded This item is out of line. bnde.r the tween the singer’s management Then, of course, there’s 12-year- the Russians, coaches and, techni­ March 18, 1955, emnloyeeB are <'nbitled to th* . and that of the Lau Yee Chai old Phyllis Fukumoto who wrote cians who had accompanied the too much like the Hosp, if a cison "amp. J- restaurant turns out satisfactorily. to the Navy at Memphis to give USSR Olympic team, was no differ­ Confirming an item of a local a lot of reasons why Elvis should­ ent from that accorded any other 6. To visit mt lent- seriously iii night club columnist to that ef­ n’t drafted into the Army. And large party, fect, a girl answering the tele­ there are the indignant teen-agers But a source, among the employes phone at the restaurant said, who’ve been writing letters-to- says the company hired many of This iteii T«'werded.-smahg^-—may /isi "We’ve been getting ever so many the-editor about those awful peo­ them for overtime at something calls about it ever since that ple whq disrupt Elvis' movie, "Love like $2 an hour, to come down and HERE IS THE THING JOE ROSE has been talking about for four item appeared.” Me Tender” by laughing at the stand watch around the Russians weeks on his TV and radio shows . This is the picture of the job But the restaurant doesn’t know scene in which the lad with long while they stayed for about two description the KGU announcer said had been somehow smuggled yet just when Elvis the Pelvis will hair dies. hours in a short stopover. to a RECORD reporter by a Star-Bulletin reporter and somebody bring his own type of teen-age bliss There seems to be no question Back in Moscow, a Soviet writer from civil service. It became hews when introduced into the reebrd to Honolulu, the girl added. that, long before his Importation to was reported by UP to have writ­ of the appeal hearing of Mrs. Esther K. Flores and bears the notation Plans are to pay Elvis $9,000 a these parts was being considered, ten that Los Angeles and Hono­ "nonsense,” made by Mayor Blaisdell to a comment written into the week and book him into the Civic Elvis had a substantial following lulu were full of “bulldog de­ description by the Maluhia Hospital administration. Mrs. Flores Auditorium as well as Lau Yee in Honolulu, if not an actual local tectives and sensation hunting was subsequently restored by the civil service commission to the job Chai, and if a quick spot-check of chapter of the Elvis Presley Fan newsmen,” and the RECORD’S of superintendent of nurses'from which -she had been fired. Despite teen-age reaction is any indication. Club. source says it’s possible the Pan- a warning in the RECORD’S gadabout column that he had his dope Elvis' fee is modest. FAN’S CONFESSION Am employes might have looked all wrong, Rose persisted for the next three weeks on TV and radio “YEAH MAN!” Just in case anybody, wants to like “bulldog detectives” to the with the same story and nobody bothered to tell him the truth. Entering a restaurant where start one, maybe she’d better pick visitors. Tuesday, though, Chairman Albert Moniz of the commission charged teen-agers were jitterbugging to up on the story, "Why I Like El­ As reported by the Russian writ­ E. P. Toner, hospital administrator, with giving "a radio announcer “Don'r Be Cruel,” the reporter vis Presley,” by Sue Bridges, hon­ er, says the source, the atmosphere with *half truths and untruths’” about the case and cited tjils example. announced, "He's coming—in per­ orary president of the National at Honolulu airport was quite Moniz explained that the document was released to the press—all son!” Elvis Presley Fan Club, as pub­ strained until Tommy Kono, Ho­ the press. So the only advice we can give Joe Rose, how is what he "Yeah man!" shouted back one lished in an album by the name nolulu’s star weightlifter and an often' gives people he feels deserves it—’‘Shake your head, buddy, girl and the others giggled ap­ (more on page 7) (mors oh page 8) and hear it rattle!” PAGE 2 HONOLULU RECORP JANUARY 10, 1957 Lundeberg Attacks Hawaii Tourism Booms,but Miami OCCX3QOOOOOO Curran's Charges Beach Does Whopping Business Tourism brought in $65,000,000 to sports |so hotels and more, than With Red-Baiting the Territory in 1956,. as compared 30;000 rooms. New hotel buildings In The Dailies to $56,000,000 for 1955. The num­ in the . past five years cost $120 ber of tourists in 1955 was 109,000 million, including the $17 inilliQri Harry Lundeberg, big boss of and in 1956, 130,000. Americana with 475 rooms which the SUP, the SIU and the MCS- Horse racing and gambling are opened for business Dec. 1, 1956. Editorially, most newspapers de­ the same land, thus antagonizing AFL, printed a full page in the the Big Five. again being -mentioned as devices Without meals a "Lanai (a bed­ plore as teenage decadence the latest issue of the Stewards News, to draw more tourists. Some Ho­ room, kitchen, livingroom and two pelvic pantomines of Elvis Presley That’s just what Chinn Ho did. organ of the stewards union paper, nolulans said last week that horse baths) costs $68 a day at the which in the culture of today, re­ He offered the estate $450,000 and attempting to answer charges by racing will take money away from Americana. An ordinary picture­ lieve the boredom of millions of took the land away from Amfac. Joseph Curran, NMU. president, local people who can least afford minds (juvenile and adult) in their The Big Five firm was stunned. thau his union is attempting to window bedroom costs $32 a day. to gamble but who would want to Miami has many big hotels—the retreats from reality. On the other It desperately needed access to the raid the NMU and has cut wage get rich quickly. hand, the same papers give scads mill for trucks hauling cane from demands for sailing in the war $8 million Eden Roc with 350 of space to detailed lurid stdries -the Aiea direction. It. went to zone of the Middle East. MIAMI BOOMS rooms; the $14 million.Fontaine- and pictures and so pander-’to City Hall for kokua. . asking the bleu with 565 rooms and $200'a dav Others observed that nothing suites. Presley and his daily doings as board and the mayor for right to But he made no mention of Cur­ rankled Editor Riley Allen of the he flits from girl to girl. cross the public highway at .two ran’s charges. Star-Bulletin more than publicity SIMILAR PROBLEM points to circumvent the land deal Instead, he charged in an open for horse racing as a potential, en­ New and old hotels are corral- WHAT’S POISON to one paper Chinn Ho had. made. letter to George Meany, president . terprise for Hawaii. _ bato-iou is news to another. Thei Advertiser uig"the tourists at $25 to $42 a ■' Chinn Ho quickly publicized of the CIO-AFL. that his union Still others looked to distant Mi­ day per room. and KGU—mouthpieces .of the that he'wasAgoing to subdivide'the is under a "vicious attack” by ami Beach where the tourist in­ Dillingham horsey set—gave a big 135 acres. This put the-Blg Five Curran and spent, the rest-of the dustry is-booming. The winter re­ As the year ended Miami faced boost to the ideas of Wilbur Clark, boys under terrific- pressure. In space Red-baltlng Curran. sort was packed with visitors from the same situation Honolulu has experienced at Waikiki—-opposi­ the Las Vegas gambling entre­ the end City Hall didn’t help therri. Ignoring the fight of 1947-48 by the north during the holidays and preneur,. that Hawaii should (as Amfac- went to Chinn Ho'.' Ohly after, with all transportation fa- * tion by some established hotel in7 which Curran and a faction faith­ terests to rezoning the Kuhio side do many Mainland staves) per­ 42 days after fib‘bought the land, ful to him bounced many old- cilities taxed to maximum. mit horse racing to bolster the Amfac paid Capital Investment Eastern Air Lines boosted daily of Matson’s Surfrider Hotel for timers out of the NMU on a Red­ hotel construction. Just as Matson Territory’s sources of income. $690,000. ' • - baiting campaign of their own, flights to 200 and operated ; with If the Svar-BuU story were true a capacity for moving 13,800 tour­ is concerned at Waikiki, some Mi­ However, details of Clark’s gam­ Lundeberg goes back to the period ami hotels fear competition. /. —which it is not—land. Capital In­ of World War II to say the Com­ ists in and out of Miami daily. bling plans were kept from Star- vestment got $1 million, Ho’s com­ The stalling at Miami didn’t Bull readers in the paper’s "news” munists used Curran as a “tool” frustrate Hotelman Sam Cohen pany would have made $550,000. to aid the Soviet Union. 7 MILE STRIP coverage of the Clark visit. -But But $150,000 profit in 42 days hurt With the high figure of winter who decided to tear down an old in an editorial the Star-Bull op­ But he says • nothing . about hotel built in 1925. (Matson’s more than mere pride tof Amfac. whether or not his union has - vacationers, this year’s total tour­ posed Clark. Once again the Svar- That’s why the daily - lias been ists is expected to hit 1,750,000 or Moana Hotel was .built in 1901 Bull made a public record of the brought charges against the NMU 250,000 more than last year. and the Royal Hawaiian in 1926., silent about this phase'Of the-1954 under the "unfair practices” clause fact that it believes in one point Waipahu land transaction. Miami Beach’s seven mile strip Cohen will replace the hotel built of view—its own! of the Taft-Hartley Act. of sand—compares with Cobey at a cost of $500,000 with a modern instead, he suggests collabora­ Black’s "Miracle Mile" (Waikiki)— $25 million structure: IN AN EDITORIAL Jan. 6. the THE ZEAL of Riley j Allen and tion against him by factions of Advertiser editorialized darkly that his~siable of editorial 'Writers on the ILA with the ILWU and the “powerful and wealthy Mainland the Star-Bull." to flnd"‘stlcks to NMU. advertising interests . . . who want beat the ILWU often drives them $60,000-80,000 an Hour for Live to exploit Hawaii . .are behind to pick up awfully rotten sticks. ■ Curran, having already written the drive for outdoor billboard One "of the rottenest was used his-open letter to Meany about the advertising. Like fair knights Saturday in an editorial entitled strange activities of the Lundeberg TV Drama; Censorship Big Problem in armor, both Honolulu dallies are "No Comfort to ‘Reluctant’ Wit­ outfits, now addresses his colupin strictly opposed to billboards be­ nesses." as usual to his members in the Talent charges alone for a geod was the highest paid for such kb cause, after all, the less spent on The gist of it was?! that a U.S. latest issue, of The Pilot, and points one hour live dramatic TV show assignment. them means that much more dough court of appeals in- two recent out that a very strange alliance ran up to $40,000 not long ago. for newspaper, radio and other cases upheld the right of Congress has sprung up betwen the SIU For the 1957-58 season the bud­ IDEA CENSORED forms of advertising. to cite - "reluctant”' witnesses fbr and .the MEBA—one which he feels get for en hour's live dramatic contempt. -ILWU.-members, Editor will be of little benefit' to the show runs between, $60,000-$80,- Wasserman commented: CHINN HO was the man of the Riley Allen . , predicts, may find engineers. ooo. four or five fine, ideas. .for JFQ year in the business field hfere themselves assessed tp pay fines for This high cost of producing TV scripts that I have no intention in 1(154. for the Smith St. capl- their officers who .told Eastland is blamed for the increasing med­ of - doing • because I know they .t^llst matched his business know­ GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOOOOOOOC^^ any group.” courage people to retire.” per cent in order to do so. JAPANESE SPY RETURNS Employment Agency JANUARY 10, 19,57 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 3 > Directed by Terasaki; Consulate For Skilled, Unskilled Why Shouldn't Elvis Be Latest Hero? Promoted Program To Get Donations Workers Started An employment placement serv­ Remember Wrong-Way Corrigan? (Below is the fourth and final DONATIONS MADE ice' foi- bbth skilled and unskilled- part of the factual report''of the In this way, the “overwhelm­ workers has been organized by BY EDWARD ROHRBOUGH .native habitat, an area run by, cfpeifation of the Japanese wy ing, majority" of Japanese here Carl Miyabara-and Harold Yoko­ network in Hawaii before ' Pearl We do not quite understand the ' the likes of Sen. James Eastland, Harbor which was headed by Con­ had to suffer for the organized yama and -will operate under the attitude ofc those who wish- Elvis you . may get an excellent concep- pre-war activities of others who name of' Associated Service Agen­ ■tion of them by reading various sul-general Kita.) had worked* for Japan’s interests. Presley, the sharecropper singer, cies. -'/■ '' ID. After ail, there’s always some works of Erskine Caldwell, es­ By Junius B. Allen In Hawaii, for example, , there The firm^yy^^biph^i2? employ­ unlikely figure catching the Ameri­ pecially a short story entitled, were at least 1,100 Japanese organ­ ment placemeht 'which . the two can fancy, or a pdrt oL the Ameri­ "Kpeel To the Rising Sim.’’ or Co-ordinator of the Japanese izations. Leaders among them were owners Say is' a service many in can fancy, and . cashing in,- on; it ..tbflse.of William, and John Faulk- spy network in the Western. Hem­ known as consular agents. Via this community need. heavily.,- . -... , : -npr, , especially John. John may isphere and in the Pacific, in- their network of local. organiza­ Miyahara and .Yokoyama .are not., be the. better writer of the 'cluding. Hawaii, was Second Sec­ ' Why riot Elvis’ the' Pelvis?: ; . tions, Japanese donated .cargoes both law school graduates and are Consider Rudolph" Valentino, the ■tj»9. brothers, and he may . not aj- retary Terasaki of the Embassy of scrap metal to TokyO; f pur­ in business locally. They will serve ,-yays write with-warm sympathy In Washington, D.C. This master chased Patriotic War (China in­ sori of- an Italian immigrant, who as employment-.COIlsultant's for . had-'. the womeni trying to -tear ,^pr . his characters, but at least spy worked with exceptional skill. cident) bonds; donated "to military new organization. he is perceptive. trucks (each was named for the shirts' off AiU' back . three decades LIFE IN THE SOUTH A. ranking American intelligence district which gave it) and even They- are ■ associated in -the . in­ ago. ’Or1'Rudy. Vallee .who -had the .:Egople like those, Elvis, came officer has reported that Vjy/ykym: surance business now , doing husi- college girls kwoonihg; What about donated a warplane called the ness: as .Associated - Underwriters, .from hkve 'been tilling the soil ef under Terasaki'was a vast network Spirit of Japanese in Hawaii "to Bingi-Crpsby,'. tor uFraijk Sipa|ra? south' for generations and getting Ltd.' What tabout' WrongsJVay, Corrigan of spies based on the various Jap­ the Japanese navy (the ceremony who became ,riatjpjial..hero.;pn ,o^t of it the smallest fraction then- anese consulates situated at stra­ was broadcast from Tokyo to Ha­ Their 'insurance business-7- and landlords could cheat, beat,, gouge tegic'points. Hawaii, of course, was waii listeners); and so on; tax services' may in the' future. be the humorous-? supposition. that he had; headed.,/for j Los-, -Angeles in arid scrounge them down to. Gen­ one-Of the-subsidiary headquarters, As early as Oct. 31, 1938, the brought under Associated Service erations of them have lived and and it was in Honolulu that Jap­ Agencies; j^icording to' the ,;pan-- -.his little plane; and wound np. in aied without ever learning to read Nippu Jiji reported that 450 Jap­ Ireland by.mistake? h.. .i •> anese espionage was expanded to anese organizations and 11,826 in­ ners. . ..i -- ; .because the men who run the such extent-that it became an in­ . Miyabara. a’tax specialist, gradu­ -'Somevof these?; are ,;tjpie artists, dividuals in Hawaii had-thus far of course, and some are uov.>OTie south' Wouldn’t let them have de­ vading force, both in the number donated cash and materials. ated from’ Pennsylvania Uniyer^ty cent schools and the opportunity of spies employed and in the en­ with a law. degree.. He is alsq, a ■point- is, that:, artistry - ana;jmerit of.; attending school. ergy with which they worked . . .” An ' officer of a Japanese ; navy graduate of the Wharton .School were-only Incidental,to the..craze tanker told a Honolulu audience When'the wars come, they are USED PRESSURE of Commerce. they .inspired^; The;. vast ’majority drafted to fight the nation's bat­ that "our morale is raised and of- those-,who "Oh’d” - went along tles, and they at least have an en­ stimulated when we mingle with Yokoyama received his law de­ because somebody? else ■ oh’di-very This American expert's report gree from the University. forced opportunity of enjoying a described in detail hcfw Japanese you. We wish to express our deep - much asdthey went for butch hair­ satisfaction with your ‘behind cuts, corduroy pants, name-painted higher standard of ■ living, better consulates, as in Honolulu, brought the front' sincerity shown by do­ -clothes, lodging and food, more pay continuous presure to bear on the flivvers, ibip. flasks . arid eponskin ■and; better educational and recre­ Japahese communities for assis­ nations of gifts and national de­ coats. ,Everybody else was doing ational opportunities than they tance in the spy network. He was fense money . . Japan Expands It. ever had before. They make ex­ of the opinion, however, that: MOVIES SHOWN America is always making, some­ cellent soldiers, maybe partly be­ Official movies of the Japanese one a,hero for some sort of screw­ cause they really never had it so "While an overwhelming major­ war machine in action against Into Brazil; To ball reason .and paying-him a lot good before, So it is not surpris­ ity of the Japanese resisted the China were screened in local Jap­ of .money for it. SO' again, .why ing ihat many ■ choose to become pressure, which at times became anese language school. The movies not Elvis.? i-uq ■ professional • soldiers rather than almost unbearable, especially for. were graded to suit the classes. Build Steel Mill Many of these heroes began, life returning’to the farms where they the:alien Japanese resident, a mi­ Senior boys were shown-the bloody with obstacles and little - hope of worked "on shares." nority succumbed to the pres­ war scenes. Some Japanese migrating., to monetary sucess, but well bet none Even when they get convicted sure; . . Step' by step some of these pro- Brazil in recent years have passed of them began with as many as of some crime like moonshining, or Elvis Presley.’ Coming from a After the Japanese armada at­ Japan activities were halted by through' here,' thus arousing in­ maybe sticking up the local post U1. 8. Federal action before Pearl terest locally in the Japanese in sharecropping: farm in. Mississippi, office, they go off to'some Federal tacked Pearl Harbor, consul-gen­ .be chad obstacles he couldn't even eral Kita was held In protective Harbor. . Brazil. prison and come back marvelling have known- about. There are, of at the lush life prison'-affords, in custody and, according to Robert FOr. .security .reasons,.; once war Brazil i$ a big country arid op­ ■ course Negro -musicians who .came L^hiy ers,; head' of the. Honolulu came, Washington was compelled portunities are more plentiful than comparison with what they have to take the action it did, especially from ■ the same background with known. ■ ; I^I 'office, 234 Japanese were "fii- In Japan. Some Nisei and Sarisei 'wen the added obstacle of the terhed immediately.” Bald Shivers: after the Roberts : Board investi­ hold government positions, other We, have heard a man .with a south’s vicioUs bacisml'But we are background 'like Elvis’ sit anil rt- . ' ’ •Tyhere was no espionage or sub- gated ' the 'local 'picture. Japanese .farm—raising coffee and not. 6peaklng:!now of iriuslciaris, but yerijrtve activity other than coses Ill April 1943/ FBI hge'nt Bob growing ; pepjrqr in .the. Amazon of the strhrittls heroes our cohntry gale his. friends for hours on the Involving' the paid agents of the Shivers was transferred to take country—fish arid prpeess . their marvels of the prison at Atlanta. sometimes' ■ manufactures- Thei-efore, although we- don’t Japanese government.” charge of the FBI office at Miami, catch, engage in business ancLnow ‘ ’.'Anyhow^ '■ come' to thihg of it, With the Hawaii bastion iso­ Florida. lie had carried a heavy are■ starting factories, . thlrik Elvis is really anythlng ex- maybe from"dne point 'of vic^, ceptlonal > as a musician , ■ i(his lated near mid-Pacific and threat­ load here. I Japan’s cotton- spinning ' Indus­ White sharecroppers -'are dilbdCd trialists' are already on the-.-spot "Hound Dog'.' lsn’t half what StQlIf ened with .renewed attacks by the By then Japan’s might had been and misled In - their own' particular Ing Smokey Linn,used to give.it), thorites could-not afford to take given a mortal blow in the Battle in Brazil, starting factories or. are way and thus giveh speclAl t^pe planning .-to establish.-them. The we. don’t mind at all if the tefcp.-' Japanese forces, the American au- of Midway and Jimmy Doolittle's PfbbstAcler Theylwseldbiii ?enjoy agers' wish to. gasp ancj scream undue risks.* Hence the evacua­ Shangri-La airmen had bombed Nissan and Toyota: automobile anybetto/: 'material 'llfe thin ' the firms plan to build cars, jeeps-and about his wrlthings before a mike, tion of thousands, of alien and Japanese cities. The war’s ’ out­ Nerto “BhareWopper8J btlf thby are and pay him enough w buy homps U.S. born Japanese from Hawaii come was ■ a matter of time. - buses. - ^constantly’hfold " they are 'snprti- for his relatives and a creamy Cadr- to Mainland relocation centers. Let’s hope it made us all. Wiser. With the country rich in na­ bt'by Virttrt^'of being Caucasian and illhc convertible for himself. tural resources, Japan’s Industrie- used as gWhs against' the Negroes. If they weren't paying it to him, lists' are surveying 'the South Tbere>'hhye been' sdme;whites in ;it?would be to someone else;for UNDERSTANDING JAPAN American country with a view 'of thisipOSitiori-' smart -enough riot1 to equally absurd reasons. So -why So long as the Americans .are lotions between the Japanese and- building a steel-mill, costing $100;- allow’-therrisfelves'to be hustled 'in­ shouldn’t a sharecropper's son 000,000, of Which Japan will put to lynch mbbS-but-few' courageous make a score for/a. change? living in Japan, how mar^b’Fthein Americans should not be ignored. ■ enough' to 'Oppose the- mobs’6penly. are really trying to mingle with fhe It requires a great deal of-pa­ up. about- $4i;000,000; ' Title giant ... ■ . ■ y-- rr

BY SKINNY Lasted To Dec. 30 Pros Win; Servicemen Star on Line Christmas week, the traffic One of these fine days, and it may be sooner than some informed safety commission's figures show, By STAFF WRITER They lived up to advance billing. sources say, the Honolulu Stadium will be only a memory in Hono­ had two more fatalities than dur­ t Jim Parker in the eyes of this lulu’s sports history and Xamilies will dwell peacefully where the cries ing Christmas week of 1955, but It was Elroy (Crazylegs) Hirsch reporter, did not. The giant Ohio of battered matadors, outraged customers, anguished fight promoters in most other respects, the toll 'of first' and last at the Hula Bowl State guard might have got arm- and the roar of stock cars now shatter the silence. accidents was smaller. There were Sunday, scoring the first touch­ weary from waving at John OI- fewer accidents, fewer persons in­ down of the game on a spot pass szweskl of the Chicago Cardinals Eventually the place is scheduled to be subdivided the word is, jured, the cost of accidents was- that looked incredible and scor­ as “Johnny O” plunged past him and! when that happens what will Honolulu do for a place to hold less; and there were fewer night ing the last on a long pass he took all afternoon. Johnny was "there” Hula Bowl games, senior league playoffs and other such events? Bar­ accidents and fewer service per­ at top speed over his shoulder all the time. ring some plan by Henry Kaiser, it would seen a good idea for the sonnel, and fewer drunk drivers. from Norm Van Brocklin. government lo be looking around—the government on both city-county But seven more persons who were Or you might say it was Van “Hopalong” Cassady of the De­ and territorial levels, that is. Where can it locate a stadium? involved in accidents this past Brocklin first and last, since he troit Lions, former All-America with Ohio State, also looked some­ What about Kaplolani Park? There is land already belonging Christmas had been drinking than threw both these passes and plenty Christmas week of 1955. of others' that helped pile up the thing less than that here. He to the government which is of little use to most of the. people as it fumbled the first punt of the af­ stands. Why shouldn’t enough of this land be taken for a stadium? With all but one day of 1956 52-21 score by which the Hawaii accounted for in the weekly totals, All-Stars, with a full complement ternoon, possibly having trouble Would the parks board objeci, and if so on what grounds? A stadium judging die stiff wind that came certainly provides a site for many of the activities the' parks board, the traffic safety commission's of pros for offense, beat the Col­ figures show that 11 fewer people lege All-Stars, which included as from Diamond Head, and never and would probably still leave enough land for archery, softball games managed to get loose for any' im­ and picnics, if not polo ponies. lost their lives on Oahu’s high­ brilliant a lineup of prominent ways than in 1955 and there were Mainland collegians - as ever pressive run despite several hard Mightn’t-, it be a project for the board to consider now, and then 100 fewer accidents. On the other showed here. efforts. Joe Arenas of the 49’rs. on make some sort of recommendation to the legislature at its coming hand, 203 more persons were in­ As always, the game, was a fine the other hand, turned out to be session? jured and the cost of accidents in exhibition of the individual skills one of the toughest men the col­ car damage alone rose by $155,605, of many of the best football play­ legians had to stop all afternoon. the total being slightly over a ers in the country, and everyone ‘He runs with a long leg-spnaddleA THE SOPHISTICATION of Honolulu sports fans, mentioned a gait that appears to lend itself couple of weeks ago in this column, was amply proved by the Hula million and a half dollars. must have felt he got his money’s The commission is presently pre­ worth and by paying the dough, to deception and makes him hard Bowl game Sunday. As the ‘‘Scoreboard,” self-styled 1956 yearbook to bring down. of Hawaiian sport put it, interest in and attendance at so-called paring a study to indicate acci­ won his own right to pass a couple major sports such as football, boxing, baseball and basketball all dent trends of the past year and of opinions (with reservations) on expects to have it ready for re­ the comparative merits ‘of the GAME OF “HOT POTATO” declined. But Honolulans went for the Hula Bowl as usual. Because The Collegians, with an offense of “the manly “name” players and because the event has built a re­ lease shortly. stars he saw, especially thecol- legians. that sputtered and died out often, putation of putting on a real exhibition of top-level football, more and came up with a brilliant bit of more fans are making sure they go to that game each year, whether For instance, whereas Stanford's - John Brodie must have shone impromptu lateral passing in the or not they see any other. As a one-game-a-year man told us, “There Teachers' Union To third quarter lo score. But it often is no place on the Mainland where you can see this much talent all brightly in the East-West game, he appeared ineffectual here, part­ looked more like getting rid of a at once.” But even the Dodgers didn’t draw the way they were ex­ hot potato than executing an of- pected to, and that’s still something of a mystery. Organize Integrated ly because the hard-charging line of servicemen from local bases fensive play. Once a forward pass Local in Atlanta gave him little time to pass. Larry went to a lineman by mistake. PARTICIPATION SPORTS, says “Scoreboard,” are growing lo­ Price, fast tackle from the Army It isn’t always a mistake, though, cally as spectator-sports are declining. That means more players are The American Federation of here, upset himi once as he started when a lineman gets a pass. Van on the .golf courses, in the bowling alleys, at the beach skin-diving Teachers will move into Atlanta, to raise his arm to pass after a Brocklin shifted his tackle out to and pushing out in fishing boats. So there's nothing unhealthy at Ga., in taking immediate steps to roll-out. Paul Hornung, Notre an end position and threw him all about the drop in crowds au the professional games and fights. To organize a new and integrated Dame .quarter, looked far better a pass for a short gain once in the the contrary, it would appear Hawaii is becoming more deeply sports local. here, far more like a field general second half. minded than ever and more basically. Which is the sportsman, the The federation’s plan was re­ and far more like a ready-made Another lineman, Charles Kala­ man who stuffs himself with soda pop and peanuts, exerting him- vealed in Chicago after the At­ pro—with the exception of a couple ni, Army tackle, was saved from a jself how and then to holler, "Kill the umpire I"; or the man who lanta Public School Teachers Assn., of bad passes. Hornung, too, showed “Wrong-Way Reigels" act only by spends his Sundays at Ala Moana teaching his kids to swim, spear- Local 89, surrendered its charter ability to adapt quickly to a situa­ an official who called a down just fish, or hit a softball? rather than, to eliminate “for tion where ' the servicemen were after Kalani had intercepted a whites only" from its constitution breathing down his neck—perhaps pass. Kalani was headed for his JACKIE ROBINSON, it now develops, isn’t going to play ball for and take steps to Integrate. because he’s had opposing lines •wn goal. the Giants after all, and will do something or other for a string of Chartered in 1919, the Atlanta breathe down his neck all season. Proving that no matter how restaurants and remain a Dodger fan, but not player.. It's all to local is comprised erf about 1,855 much football changes, linemen come out In a "Look” magazine article and Jackie says he couldn’t members. It surrendered its chart­ HORNUNG OUTSTANDING still don’t know what to do with tell sooner because of an agreement to keep the story exclusively er to the national body a year One of his most beautiful playa the ball, big Bob Toneff caught a "Look’s." Okay, but what about those gag pictures Jackie, his wife ahead of a deadline for integra­ was a scoring pass to Joe Walton, kickoff and ambled along grotes­ and his small son posed for Just after the news that he'd been traded tion. outstanding end from Pitt, anoth­ quely until downed by the oppo­ to the Giants by Brooklyn for Dick Littlefield, a pitcher, and $50,000? The time limit for integration er scoring pass -o teammate Jim sition. But in his own position, No wonder he fears some of his friends may feel he hasn’t been quite was set for the Atlanta local and Morse, also from Notre Dame, and Toneff was a steam roller. honest with them on this one. seven other southern locals by a third was an impromptu 60- All-in-all, the Hula Bowl again delegates to the AFT convention yard rim when • passing seemed proved itself the outstanding foot­ REMEMBER THAT WATERBOY Joe Rose used to talk about— last August. impossible, and which almost car­ ball spectacle of the year, if not the one he claims they brought in from the Mainland to fight Stan In 1956 the ATF, as it has done ried him to a score. Hornung was the most stirring contest, and will Harrington in a main evem, here? We hear he's out at Schofield earlier, extended the deadline for as magnificent in defeat here as probably grow in popularity next Barracks in the army now. Who knows, maybe he’s improved by now integration until Dec. 1957. he has been in defeat all season, year as it has in the first 10. ■- and is ready for a rematch. Four white and four Negro lo­ for Notre Dame. cals were in violation of the ATF WfTH A STADIUM showing no THE BULLDOG TENACITY with which the C-C parks board holds constitution at the 1955 conven­ No harder playing trio showed bare spaces, the Hula Bowl seemed onto its land paid off this week as the dream of a 5th District tion in being segregated. Sunday than the three seniors to be closer a complete sellout park at Keehi Lagoon tentatively titled "Kallhi Playground,” came from Oklahoma, which win do than last year or the year before. a step nearer realization. Bids of contractors for the basic dredging Between 1948 and 1955 the total for a national college champ until Other sighs indicated that, too, and digging of the park were opened Tuesday and will be considered of retail establishments in the US someone beats it. These three, Tom­ superficial as they may be. By ah at the next parks board meeting Monday. But the real point Is that rose from 1,763,000 to 1,865.000, but my McDonald, halfback, Jerry hour before game time, iu was hard if the parks board had not stuck to its guns In the face of early in the same period 991,200 closed Tubbs, center, and Ed Gray, tackle, to find a King St. bus-that wasn’t adverse reports by the Hawaii Aeronautics Commission, the land would up. proved workhorses all afternoon. already so full it wouldn’t stop for have been taken for something else. Sen. Herbert K. H. Lee, with extra passengers. And cars were whom this paper has often differed in the past, is likewise to be parked solid from the stadium to congratulated for mustering the people of Kallhi and forcing wavering the top wall with large butterfly nets to try to catch the balls as the Pawaa Theater. elements on the parks board not to give in to the HAQ, Gov. Samuel they sail over. Efing, or any of the other forces out to take the land. ROCK CASTELLANI, the middleweight who figured he got robbed WHEN BASEBALLS are batted of a decision in San Francisco in a fight against Joey Glambra, says into the crowd, the crowd is gen­ In the end, the HAO brought in a much different report, stating he’s going to work for the Marine Cooks and Stewards (AFL) there erally allowed to keep them, but that it will probably never need the land. The CAA also reported “either as a public relations man or in some other capacity." Remember not footballs. The collegians kicked that with technical advances in jet aviation, and with the new Rusty Payne and some of the other “public relations men” who have a point after touchdown at the design for Honolulu’s airport, there need be neither hazard nor ex­ worked for Harry Lundeberg in that outfit? A background in the boxing Ewa end of the stadium and the cessive noise around Keehi Lagoon. So the Kallhi people, asked if ring seems a better recommendation in that union than a background management had to send, first a they would send their children to the park, said emphatically they in the union movement, patrolman, then a police sergeant only want the chance. So now, after a couple of nlillion dollars that, is. , to convince a fan the football was­ worth of dredging and ground work have been done, Kallhi Playground PHOTOGRAPHERS from the dallies snapped excellent pictures of n’t a suitable souvenir. will be a reality. Much credit must go to Ed Lyons, parks board action at the Hula Bowl, and it’s too bad they didn’t get one in the administrator, who never lost sight of the goal, and never let the board second half of Paige Cothern, Mississippi back, leaning on the shoulder THE LOST Art of drop­ a lot of people would like to have done at Sunday’s Hula Bowl game of big Jim Parker, Negro guard and All-America from Ohio State, kicking was revived by Norm lose sight of it. as the two exchanged thoughts • about something or other. It might Van Brockliji after three tries- at have been the picture of the week for Mr. Luce’s 20 cent Life, which kicking extra points were blocked A SPECTATOR at the ewa end of the stadium did something seems to be doing a pretty fair job of reporting the struggle of the by the collegians. He scored three when the ball sailed his way from the toe of Paige Cothern, Missis­ Negro people in the South. The spontaneity of the act showed how times without aid at the Waikiki sippi back kicking a point after touchdown. The fan kept the ball quickly some of these phony old Ideas can fall by the wayside in an end, kicking imo the wind, and Just the way people keep foul balls hit Into the stands in baseball atmosphere like that Of Hawaii. It was a small thing—this easy fra­ missed twice at the ewa end with games. A cop had a tough five minutes or so trying to recover the ternization of the two players, but it is forbidden by law to happen hi the wind behind him. The strong ball until someone fingered the fan. The cop was friendly enough, Cothern’s home state, the state of Sen. James O. Eastland who feels wind, incidentally, played tricks but a tough-talking seregant came along later to threaten to arrest qualified to question local people on their Americanism. Maybe he with the kicking and passing all the fan, though just what he was going to pinch him for wasn't clear could learn from his football players. afternoon, especially in the first Of course, it’s obvious why tire management doesn’t want keeping More important is the thing that happens here every January, half. For nearly three full quart­ footballs at $25 or so per copy. But a Chicago fan tells us the fans when plenty of players from Dixie come to Honolulu and compete with ers, every kickoff toward the ewa are allowed to keep footballs kicked into the street by pros there. and against Negro football players and in the history of the Hula end went over the goal line while Also, at a short side, the pros often kick balls into the street for the Bowl, there has never been an incident involving racism yet. If the in was seldom a kickoff in the kids playing outside, our friends says, and the management has taken rest of our world were as democratic as sports, there’d certainly be other direction penetrated beyond steps there. It can't stop the generous pros, but it puts men on far less trouble. the 10-yard line. OOOOQOOQOQ0OOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOQQ@OOO©OQ Through A Woman's Eyes HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 5 - Qadawut. "---- ■

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXDOOOOOOOOOOOO MOVIfS ARINT "Una THAN PfBt” REMEMBER THE HOTEL ST. torial governments without such By Amy Clarke explosives indicates a determination by man who complained that he got expense to the taxpayer. some very powerful forces in our land to clipped by an army servant in I have read a number of articles lately keep us always aware that peace is a a poker game on an armV“base? EXERCISED MIGHTILY about speculating whether TV will eventually kill jittery thing and war preparations must Tt was reported in the RECORD billboards, the 'Tiser broke out two weeks ago, and the Hotel St. Sunday in an editorial rash titled* Hollywood and the whole movie empire. be a part of our life. man said he had been given a “Acid Scars on the Fair Face of It seems to me such panic is uncalled for. So I would say to the newsreel producers, phony $1,000 check which the ser­ Oahu.” If you didn’t read it you The tiny, imperfect TV screen can never f’m sick to death of war planes and bomb geant had later refused to honor. should have. If you have it around tests and chemical weapons. There are So he was stuck. But he was also read it again—then see if you can takethe place of the vaguely exciting very angry about the whole thing find any statement in there that darkened theater and the huge pictures so plenty of other interesting events that and was ready to release the wouldn’t flu the placing of an oil lifelike in dimensions, color and sound. you could get the newsreel cameras to— check to the press. Well, he won't. refinery on Sand Island. Yet that Yet with all Hollywood’s technical per­ and I don’t mean speeches at planeside by After the RECORD story ap­ project of Standard- Oil .of Cali­ visiting politicians! peared, the sergeant changed his fornia and Gov. Sam King, you’ll fection, the magnificent spectacles are like mind and paid up. remember was highly praised by gaudy flowers without perfume. Second, the everlasting cartoons. For the Tiser. It still depends on whose 36 years now, since the animation of Mick­ BUT THE HOTEL ST. operators, ox is gored. Or is the 'Tiser afraid Hardly a one has any significance, any if they think they’ve had it bad ey Mouse, American audiences have had billboard advertising might cut message of value; hardly a one bears any to watch likable, clever little mice play in­ so far from the fire-eatmg HASP in on the advertising revenue de­ relationship to life as we know it. colonel, really haven’t seen any­ rived from its columns. credible tricks on clumsy, stupid cats. thing yet. He’s president of the Yes, there have beeiTsome unforgettable Leaving aside the fact that I like cats armed forces disciplinary board motion pictures—but few since 1947. That now, as of the first of the year, JOE ROSE is a real funny guy— and detest njice, I am heartily sick of the and there's every indication he’s funny-peculiar, that is, and once was the year, if you remember, when the “cute” little creatures that chase each going after Hotel St. in earnest in awhile just funny-funny. But House Un-American Activities Committee other all over the cartoon screen. now. Last week, according to get a load of what he had on TV came to Hollywood to use the moves in sources who kept a close eye on last Sunday. In one breath he Leave the cartoons to special children’s him, he made another one of charged the UPW and the ILWU the prosecution of the cold war. shows and maybe one or two movie houses those visits to the street in mufti, with using to stir up trouble— Ten of the best writers and producers in town for the adults who like them, but hitting as many places as pos­ without being specific of course— in our country went to jail for refusing to don’t bore everybody with them.------sible, and it’s expected some more and in the next he said Sup. Mat- places may get either off-limits sy Takabuki “put on his obi and be informers for the Committee. Third, the picture itself, the “feature.” warnings, or notices before long. went into a dance” when the name At least 214 writers, actors, dancers, Throw off the blight of the witcli-hunting of Floyd Uchima was mentioned directors, producers, musicians, cartoon­ Un-American Committee. Call the real BAB OWNERS on Hotel St., in­ as a possible bandmaster to suc­ ists, and other craftsmen and profession­ writers and directors back to Hollywood cidentally, have been very happy ceed William Baptiste with the thus far to see the amusement Royal Hawaiian Band. The facts, als have been black-listed in Hollywood so we can again have beautiful pictures places get put off-limits. But their as usual, are somewhat different, these last 9 years. with integrity and meaning. hilarity may be short-lived. The of course. Hundreds more are “gray-listed—that is, Let Hollywood experiment some more way we get it, the colonel is the kind of'man who goes whole-hog THOSE WHO INVOKED the employed only in very limited capacities with groups of short films, three or four with anything he starts, and he’s Fifth Amendment at the recent —for such “crimes” as union activity and in one “package.”. There is a treasury of not forgetting all the unsanitary hearings of the Eastland Commit­ subscribing to certain newspapers. thousands of fine short stories in world conditions and fire hazards, etc., tee received a stem warning from Since Hollywood has knuckled down to literature that would bring new life to the he may find in other places. The the Star-Bull that they ought tc bar owners had Better remember be worried belause they might get the Un-American Committee, scrapping all screen. the colonel swept one hot dog convicted of contempt of Coni themes which may offend some Congress­ Showing groups of short pictures might sand right along with the amuse- ’ gress. Which reminds, did the man, movies have steadily, deteriorated. also help to cut down the long tedious lines, ment places close to where it was Star-Bull ever report that the You could count the best pictures since that coil around the theater because every­ established. It must have beep American Civil Liberties Union is something he ate. backing the 23 former employes of 1947 on the fingers of your two hands und body wants to go in at the start of the the movie Industry who Invoked still have a finger or two left over. feature. IF YOU think only Englishmen the Fifth Amendment and who I have never been approached by an And finally, let us have more documen­ are capable of writing "whodunits” are now suing the industry to get with the flavor of international their Jobs back? The ACLU ap­ opinion polltaker. (Have you?) taries, and longer ones. Walt Disney’s Intrigue, pick up "The Angry Hills" parently feels that Invoking the But I kind of wish that a movie repre­ nature studies have been excellent, and nt your neighborhood newsstand, Constitution should carry no stig­ sentative would knock on my door. I’ve the under-water pictures, scarcely begun, where the pocket size books are ma, no matter what Congressmen been thinking about this for some time, still have much to offer. sold. It’s the latest of Leon M. —or Riley Allen—happen to think Uris, the ex-Marine who wrote about it. and I’m ready for him. Let me have these changes—or only one . "Battle Cry," and for our money First—the newsreels. I’ve been going to or two of them—and I’ll keep going to the it’s a much better book. It’s a war THE AMERICAN LEGION’S the movies pretty regularly for more years movies, even with popcorn bags crackling novel, spy novel, adventure novel, demand for the deportation of or what you like, and gives a Harry Bridges, and Bob McElrath's than I care to say—averaging about 25 to the left of me and candy wrappings very clear picture of Greece in Monday night broadcast exposing a year. rustling to the right of me. war and the Greek people; Wheth­ the racist and often anti-union Yet I cannot recall a single newsreel in But a few more years of the present er it’s accurate in that respect, background of the Legion, call to all that time that did not contain at least junk and even oldtime optimists like me we couldn't say because we’ve mind the case of a young AJA vet never been there. But it's certainly the late Joseph R. Farrington was one shot of some new military weapon or will give up and stay home. a clear picture, right or wrong, trying to recruit into the outfit actual war scenes from some part of the That’s wat I’d tell your interviewer, Mr. and as convincing as Graham after World War H. After Far­ world. Movie Magnate. But you’d better send him Greene. rington asked him to join the Le­ Fighting is news, yes. But the constant around soon. My patience w^’t last for­ gion, . the young' vet replied that CHILI DUARTE,, head of IL­ he’d be happy to join—the same inclusion of films about new bombers and ever. WU Local 6, is no six feet, two branch Farrington was in. The inches, according to those who conversation dwindled and died. Stew, Finny, Happy, and Soapy. know him best here, despite the Maybe the Legion has changed In ILWU circles, without stopping report quoted from a recent column policies since then, locally* any­ to scratch our head, we can recall of Dave Hulburd’s in the San how. T-Bo,ne Joe Blurr, Chick, Major, Francisco Chronicle. The story, as Castner, Slim. How many of our told by Hulburd, was about how THAT GADABOUT item last ILWU readers who know the gen­ Chili took umbrage at a Texan week on Mr. Mister Smith calls to tlemen can give the first names of in a bar who opined any Texan mind that Hawaii nei has its share Messrs. Queja, Baptiste, Okada. . could lick any Mexican, but of men whose first names are Ogawa and Shimizu offhand, and thought better of it when Duarte built-in titles. Of course the whole pronounce Joe Blurr’s proper sur­ drew up to his 6’ 2” and issued a world knows of duke Kahanamoku, name? challenge. Dave had better look who was christened so. Then again, say Duarte's friends on At­ there’s Hawaii's efficient ambas­ kinson Drive. Chili Duarte may sador of good will in the Orient, have issued the challenge, but he’s Y. Baron Goto, whose college nick­ Poultry Forms Down not six; feet tall. Which is what name stuck and reduced his ori­ the RECORD editor said when ginal first name to a mere initial. he read the item. Most exalted of all is Emperor A. The number of island commer­ Hanapl. We don’t know if he was cial poultry farms with flocks of IT’S BEEN WELL over a year born an Emperor or was pro­ 100 or more layers or meat birds now, but there was a move by moted like the Baron. But—seeing dropped from 750 in 1946 to 334 the liquor commission to seek an what a precarious hold emperors in 1955. .Many farmers have in­ appropriation for a study of the have on their thrones these days creased the size of their operations best manner of gauging reports —maybe the highest rank should and smaller operators have quit of licensees as to their gross, un­ go to a chap with a Japanese sur­ poultry raising altogether. der the then new law, for pur­ name, Takamoto or some such, poses of determining the proper whose first name is Haole. fee a licensee should pay. An amount like $10,000 was mentioned NICKNAMES have a way of A New York Times reviewer cays and one commissioner is reported crowding out first names in Ha­ not to miss the new book, "A Pic­ by a reliable source to have triefl waii that almost deserves an ar- torial History of the Negro in to get the job for a close relative. ricle in American Speech or some America” (Crown, $5.95) because TilB L AUST Till NG lN AutoMATlC STENOGRAPHERS- COMES .You’ll have to guess which one. magazine of that sort. Thumbing, "the story behind the pictures— As It turned out, the job was done through the telephone directory often stark ana shockine—makes by auditors of the C-C and terri­ for a few minutes we ran across an unforgettable record.” im three finishes...BLonpe, BRunehb or rep mm" PAGE 6 HONOLULU RECORD JANUARY 10, 1957 Blaisdell Solid Biggest Peacetime Shipping Bocns See^ Behind Baptiste Mayor Neal S. Blaisdell has In S.F.; Many More Maritime Jobs given friends of William Baptiste assurance he will present no other A boom in Pacific shipping so B” pool of '500 men would be es- name to the board of supervisors big that iu’s estimated from—1,500 ' tablished to handle extra' work in to lead-the Royal Hawaiian Band, to 2,000 new jobs will open up fop San Francisco... These men will re­ the RECORD was. reliably in­ seamen in San Francisco alone port for work regularly and draw formed this jgeek. ■- has already begun with volume 80 per cent of the Class A long­ enough to cause a shortage of shoremen’s pay so long.^ the ship­ Di the mearitiflie, no action was' longshoremen, paper? from .the ping boom continues, taken on Baptiste's name at Tues­ Bay City report. day's board meeting,” giving sub­ Last week, after everyone, agreed “DEADWOOD” TO BE stance to a report that the board is split 3-3 on the question' With a number of ship ■ sailings ..liad ELIMINATED " been delayed by a sho^tagg ;of one as yet undecided. That' one stevedores, Paul St. Sure^jp^esl- - Rohatch also announced the-lo­ reportedly is Sup. Matsuo Taka- dent of the Pacific MaritiDj^A,'ssiL cal; will create''a union” program buki who is presently on a trip said the. tieups are of to weed-' out- the -“deadwood," men to the Mainland. Sup. Kageyama a combination of natural' causes. wh.o jremain . on-, the-..rolls.s of -the 1$ said to be the moving spirit be- He refuted charges .agains^-.^ie union .for, insurance ..benefits, and hind the move to dump Baptiste. ILWU in the situation, saying tJiB no longer really.workeat.1,the piers.. . Bandmaster Baptiste's position union is not to blameAp.gr i^i .it '"Also^lhe IhqaTli.^esiS^^ said, was strengthened somewhat this “hogging" jobs f or, its .'inenj'bers week by his ■ many, friends in the and refusing to allow non-inembers an- effort /will'" be' “ made', £o .dis­ courage a practice prevalent’ among musical ' and' pedagogical -worlds seeking employment to work. ' who wrote Mayqr^. Blaisdell, sup­ Instead, St. Sure said, the vol­ soipe companies, of ordering larg­ er'-and-iilore gangs' they have porting him. r ume of cargo has increased, and At the" same --’time, Baptiste’s MISS NOBLENE KAUHANE, wheir she left, recently for -Washington, a considerable backlog from the work for, then paying off the men was seen off at the airport by her father and mother, Supervisor Noble with a half-day’s pay. critics - are also said to include ILA strike on the East Coast was local musicians' -arid music-lovers Kauhane and Mrs. Kauhane. Miss .Kauhane will serve as a secretary involved. . ... ? ‘ - Rohatch added $hat 'efficiency who feel -the bandmaster falls to U.S. Delegate John A. Burns along with Miss Nakako Isa? of Hilo But Ray Christiansen', water­ might Be increased if one Security short of what they expect? and Dan Aoki of Maui and Honolulu. . - . front reporter for the San Fran­ pass is issued to a longshoreman to Although not’mentioned in print cisco Examiner, pointed ,oUt ih-?a ’ admit ‘him;to'anji .cbmmerclal or or in public statements, the ques­ lengthy piece last Friday that military pier. 'At pFesenK differ­ tion of race and nCtipnar’back- die biggest peacetime boom ever ent outfits require their own sep­ ground has been injected into the Sen. Javits Says Why He Is to hit the port is in the making. arate passes ariddJdo'not honor behind-the-doors contest by both Some 30 or more ships, will be others. ■ “ defenders and supporters of the sailing out of San Francisco this bandmaster. Opposed to a National Sales Tax year he says, including four large Men in the B1 Class pool who passenger ships, the Matsonia, the fail to report to-work when called, "I am opposed to a national “One large trade union estimates Monterey, the Leilani and the Rohatch said,..- will toe dropped sales tax. Such a tax would place that a 10 per cent federal sales Panama, which will be renamed for from the rolls and get no further Did Russians Think an undue burden upon people in tax would be the equivalent of a some American President. chance , to Join the Class A regis­ the lower and midle-income brack­ wage cut of about fourteen cents an Millions more tons of cargo will tration, list. Airline Employes Were ets and depart from the major hopur. Such a reduction .in pur­ enter through the port, he adds,,, dependence for federal revenue chasing power would necessarily be and each ton puts another $10 . AU these plans, the Local 10 'Bulldog Detectives'? upon the graduated income tax. felt by those' business enterprises in circulation in the Bay area. president emphasized, , are sub­ "An excise tax, in reality, is but where the workers’ wages are spent. ject to approval of the member­ (from page 1) a sales tax on a particular com-, The result would be a lowering of FREIGHTERS FOR GRAIN ship of the local. Olympic champion, arrived' with modity. A 1948 survey estimated living standards already burdened leis for the Russian weightlifting that the individual earning be­ with inflation and: continuing ris-' About 18 of the 30 ships are coach and others. . , । tween $2,000 and $3,000 annually ing prices. ■ ■ \ being pulled out of the “moth-. TV in Jajpan Poplar Bachran said, howeyer, that the paid 4.3 per cent' of his income "I believe that we must face ball fleet” to- haul grain to the in federal excise taxes, while those up; to our responsibilities and Far East, Christiansen. writes;-and ...... -t—j;—- company always .calls .out extra merj,.whenever' A large . pjarty is earning over $5;000 a year paid raise (by • taxation' primarily more may be brought into trade Japan is becoming television- only between '2.3 per - pent , and 3,4 pendent upon the graduated '■'Indi-: later. conscious. Although only about stopping over, none equipped with visas,, because Federal law While TV. sets cost, $250, por-, who also stopped here,- arid who table radios ' cdn.be' bought as have decided not to return to their "A national sales tax is unjus­ Senator from New Yotk in Nov.' for the coming year, the. valor- tifiable and must be opposed ... .1953 American Federatlonist.: front writer says, and there, seems; cheaply as $9 in Japan? i ' country ■ because of their disagree­ little likelihood of work stoppages ment with the present Hungarian ''More't ,‘than * . electric government. " since the recent history of, labor washing' maehjn^ ajeC m, use in there “shows that there.- has been. japan.’ Mth'priced Averaging $50. Federal Income Tdx A Direct a growing union rpspOnsibiUty.”, t. Harbor authorities have Just Castle MovesMqney completed a $2,000,000 shortrfange Application of CP Mqnifesto-NAM program to improve the.^prb ' of Bases and CjbTomalism SanFrancisco to keep pace -with To Wells Fargo Bank LABOR IN POLITICS HIT the boom, says Christianseg/ and; “The agreement' fftf. ,the.;, estab-: Why did Harold CaStle/ one of The income tax and labor's po-. more ,of such improvements are in , liniment of, A,merican bases in Hawaii’s wealthiest men, puli' out litical power are the two chief ■Kenneth R. Miller, managing tlie making. ‘ bidnoccp was concluded .between of . Hawaiian Trust ■ Co.? . targets for 195.7 of the National director of NAM, aimed his heavi­ Even shipbuilders on the Watt ' the ■ tiriited . States and France. It is reported ‘ that he has trans­ Assn, of. Manufacturers, propa­ est guns at labor’s participation in Coast, are hoping to get contracts Neither.’ the Sultan nor- the Mo- ferred his assets to the Wells Far­ ganda machine 6f American big ..politics. (Big business participa­ for some of tBp’ 65 tankers the rocean- government was • consulted. go Bank. ■ " • business, it appears from speeches tion in. politics is of course ac­ Maritime AdmftftBtration has ■ au­ Under the treaty of 1912 France It is known - publicly that his at the 61st Congress of American cepted as part of the natural or­ thorized, though it is believed the Industry held in New York in De- der of things.)' ' While: ■ giving Up majority of this building will be was responsible for the security right hand man,. H.W.B.; White, and territorial, integrity of Moroc­ aspired for the presidency of Ha­ cemberr service to the right of employes done in the East. But if quicker co. Did she have .the right to dis­ waiian but EK Black and some Ernest G. Swigert, president­ to join unions and bargain ooL delivery is desired, the San Fran­ pose of a part of the land under elect of the NAM for 1957, de­ lectively “if they choose to..do‘bo/.’ cisco builders believe, they may other interests formed a bloc and her protection to a third party? successfully opposed Whitfe. nounced the nation’s income-tax Miller said: get a share of the contracts,-even Did she have the;right eyen to laws as "a direct ■ application of “But harmonious cooperation Is though it be a comparatively small sublet it or to hand over , ttie use that clause of the Communist going to be difficult, if riot impos­ one. of it to someone; else without con­ manifesto which aims at the con­ sible, as long as union leaders in­ sulting and obtaining, the consent fiscation of all property through SAN FRANCISCO: (Special to Speaking of spies, the Japanese sist on using the milUons whoae of thpse primarily concerned—who government has just alloted $330,- the use of just such a tax.” interests they are supposed to re­ the RECORD) Although voicing Hie tax is devised, he said, “to the fear that shipping1 , might happen to be the Moroccans ” 000 for "strengthening surveil­ present as pawns in a reach for —Ahmed Bajafrej, secretary gen­ lance” against spies for Re4 Chjna, reform society, to remold our lives, political power.” “tighten up” after the'- holidays, eral- ot the IstTqlil Party of Mo­ and to distribute our wealth _a'c- the NMU agent in New York, North Korea, the US, South Korea, Hawaiian readers will recognlxe rocco. cording to the ideas of economic the similarity of this line to that John Kadash, reported, in the lat­ Nationalist China, Britain and antisocial planners.” est isue of The Pilot, union organ, France who "abound in Japan,” ac­ used by the Honolulu press against that some ships have sailed out -, cording to Nippon police. LIKE LOCAL CHAMBER the ILWU in politics. Miller called for Increased propa­ of-New York shorthanded because - "It is commonplace^ find stir­ Referring to the Eisenhower 1954 there were not enough seamen ■ itax-reform bill, but not mention­ ganda by NAM among .. schools, ring, forthright editorials about churches, clubs, and newspapers. available w take the jobs. conditions overseas but less popu­ ing it by name, Swigert declared Stories in the same issue of the that “if we had deliberately tried The NAM program calls for en­ lar, more local issues are too often listing.the support of writers, com­ paper, coming from different ports neglected.” Classified, Advertising to devise a tax sys'tem which wotild on the east coast, indicated a be harmful to economic growth and mentators and professors who will —Herbert Block (Herblock), Pu­ tell industry’s story. pickup in shipping everywhere ex­ litzer prize-winning cartoonist. HOUSE PAINTING development and disruptive to in­ cept Charleston, S.C., where -the PAINTING SERVICE the informal free-' stop crying.” sneaks her folks. and-easy manlier .of operation of Sue finally did stop crying and Anri shrieks like a loon at bawdy many tourist hotels,,might seem went home to Bald’Knob, Ark, to jokes. to the rapacious’ almost like an organize a fan club. Now, she says, Anri regards as corny advice that’s invitation to’ burglary. . In some, Prosecutor Peters Has No Plans To she spends her time calling up cases, burglars have had no diffi­ sage— culty in walking into unlocked, riisn jockeys and writing them Vour gal's at the Elvis Presley Push St. Sure's Hotel St. Campaign asking them; to play Elvis Presley obviously open apartments, to car­ age!” ry off. what they liked. - records, and what time she has “All I know, about Hotel is what not been contacted by anyone from left, she sits and .admires the But the poet says, “When she There is one case where a burg­ 110 pictures of Elvis she has. Then I read in the papers.” - HASP, " the army, the police or turns to Como and Patti Page, it lar entered such an apartment and Thus with Will Rogers' favorite otherwise'regarding Hotel St.,' and she explains it. means she’s leaving the Presley walked out with a turkey which device, >the .net® (D.-C prosecutor, until some’ such thing happens, he “Everyone asks me why I like age." has been Roasting in the. oven. John.. Peters, avsilver haired old­ has no plans regarding the amuse­ Elvis Presjey. I don’t really. I love Well, take your pick—for or There are.many cases where jewel­ ster with wit not' unlike the cow­ ment centers at all. him. It’s not really easy to des­ against. It does seem hard for any­ ry, cameras and other' such easily boy comedian,ti indicated that he ! Though Peters had no opfnon on cribe the reason I love him so. one to be in the middle on Elvis movable, valuables have been tak­ has no plans" for pursuihg thO" the subject, the RECORD dis- I like toe way he sings (although Presley. In the meantime, im­ en from apartments left unpro­ vigorous policy toward Hotel <18;1' covered two very definite schools that's hot enough to make you patient teen-agers and uneasy tected. , amusement centers that was, ac­ of thought among attorneys and cording to news reports, initiated faint), and I like the way he shakes parents -will^undoubtedly be keep­ Carelessness ofthe tourists is law enforcement people' regarding and all when he. sings (although ing an ear open for announce­ by George St. Sure. the campaign to cleanup Hotel another factor. Many visitors to Prosecutor Peters; said he has that’s not at all yulgar the way ments from Lau Yee Chai. Elvis is Waikiki become so imbued'with St, which began, according to first some people think.) He’s toe best coming to town and it promises to Hawaiian hospitality after a little published reports, when St. Sure looking boy I've ever seen, and be the most excitement since while, police say, that they don’t, requested a HASP colonel to put all in all, he's Just perfect ... I "Brother" Amos Alonzo Allen left. believe it’s necessary to lock dixors ILW^pahu several Hotel St. places off-limits. hope that people everywhere keep and Windows When they go’but. Softball There are; those who.; fed: Hotef on; crying over. him and being St^.bas long - needed *4 clean-up- happy jugt -to know-he's around. , Often, they-may return to dis- ■ cover they, have been victimized. League Starts Sun.; and any means, taken to do. it; I know I .will.T Smog Damages to “Tourists must remember,"said is proper, ' This number includes.; a police official this .week, “that Nine Teams lntered Police; Chief Dan Liu, apparently, Well, there's the way a red-hot since Liu was quoted once during Presley fan is supposed to feel. Flowers High in they should take all the’‘precau­ tions they normally ' would at The. Oahu ILWUUthletlc Assn, the campaign as. saying he thinks The teen-age boys, it seems ore the military with its power to put less enthusiastic, though It’s been San Francisco Area home."' softball league will pry the lid off a little hard to call Elvis a stay its fifth, annual season this Sunday places off-limits is the “solution" Sometimes, it develops, tourists morning with four games at toe. . to the Hdtel St. problem. since that story a few weeks ago report losses which may not ne­ about how he put the slug on a Ala Moaha Bark. Bilt operationally, the police have Higher in Los Angeles cessarily be attributed to that taken the attitude that they patrol couple of gUys who jumped him area. That occurs with those who at a filling station. Nine. teajn$ .arq. entered in the the street like any other amuse­ California's flower Industry have ranged over the entire Island, pennant chase’'lnl$.year with two-, ment area and will make arrests CAUSTIC COMMENTS TOO which brings in $28 milion from then discover a camera or a valu­ time champiorf Hawaiian Pine as where they detect offenses. Dur­ out-of-state business is hard hit able ring missing. They may have defe nding titl&tS.3'' ing the manipulation of a num­ Some writers, in fact-quite a few, by smog, not only in the Los been victims of burglars, or they ber of “flat-game” operators, po­ have been': quite caustic about the Angeles area but in the San Fran- may hate merely left the object League-opening games are: Hawaiian, .Piifq vs^ . Waipahu, lice were unable to get anything teen-agers’ idol. Back in-Decern- cisco ~Bay area. somewhere along ■ the course of but ‘ hearsay evidence either, ber, Ed Creagh, AP writer, sugr Loss to flower growers in the their' rambles; Love's Bakery tai. Ewa, Automo­ tive Units vs. Regional Jets, and though it’ was generally admitted gested this might be called the Bay area alone was estimated at that the'“flatties” were raking in . “Elvis- Presley Century" because $1 million for last year. Vegetable TOURIST-BJDRGLARS, TOO Castle the. games; stoning at 9 ■ orjng the cleanup, there are otherd- While smog has not been legally Used for Years burglar^,. “working” the, Waikiki a.m. -> . whoisay he exceeded his authority." determined to exist in the Bay area, police say. The closest thing Area, flower growers testified at’ Adrian DA;*Mello, preSid^ftt ^f >~T hese; of* course, i' nc•l ud• e■ Hd“te l•l" to organized burglary was com­ the; Hawaiian’ AAU; will toss' ’the’ St. operators who.claim they have-, Co. Man Admits a public hearing that they are mitted by a serviceman, recently dumping smog-damaged flowers. first ball oUtW get ■ festivitldsr Un- been penalized and the penalty has (from page 1) arrested and. now in custody, they der.^y: Royal HkwAlah Band cost them, thousands of dollars^- Sickly yellowish carnations that say, who may be “good for" quite is ■ being ehgrtgbd1 .bo participate in had climbed up the shaft to loosen should, have been pink and roses andrihat several dozen of t hear: J a chain, and was in a precarious a number ’ of unsolved burglaries. . the ceremonies.. ■ j employes have been thrown but of ; that never bloomed were exhibited But most of the burglaries, turn spot described by witnesses as at the hearing. The gathas ,will st^rt immedlqte- work-HalU without due process. greasy and oily.. Examination of his —oust ." to .ire crivmes in whic-h some-.„ ly fbllowirig tlie derdtrionles. League law.->V -fr-' ’ A San Leandro orchid grower, t_h_i_ng__ _o_r_ _s_o_m_e_o_n_e_ ._.l_o_o_k_ed_ j_ust too ., Manager Arata Chinen requests When they approached the HA­ body revealed yellow paint on the Albert D. Reeves, declared that easy for^tlie'burglar: to resist . ^ ,- shoes. , which police took as-, evi­ all players to be( .present forthe. SP colonel on the matter, heiekr'^ dence that he had slipped. , during the worst days of last The Jhte' of apprehension-, ofl opefiinjj'rites.' ’ ’ T'" - - gued that<:HE. hadn’t put anyohe month's smog attack he lost from 1 burglars, as ' local' police proudly There was. some bewilderment Coaches,of ,the teams are: Pun­ off-Jjmits,;indicating that St. Sure > 40 to 70 per cent of his flowers. point out, is higher In Honolulu jab Kikuclii,'Hki>co?"Charley Yoda, had. The operators were not sati»- among authorities as to why Han Dan Shinoda, who has nurseries than in most cities^of^oomparable should have been up the shaft, Castle & Jitnmy . Mizota, ied with that answer, feeling that In San Leandro and in Torrence, size on the Mainland. As for Wai- Automotive; ‘"George . Maeyama, ■ the- - colonel has token as much since it is supposed to^be possible near Los Angeles, said Reeves got kiki, \ they feel; one cannot make to adjust the chain from below. Jets'; To'fu Iwanaga, Oahu .^rahs-.., or. ;piqre of, the. initiative in the off easy. / adequate?! comparison *'with ' such port; Sei Saiki, Waijpahu; Haka- action, himself. At the end of his fall, Han struck “We dump as much in one month figures here except with those ru Tamura, 'Ewa; Benny Viernes, There; are attorneys who agree the sharp end of a metal pile in Los Angeles as you dump in from resort cities on'the Mainland Libby aiid James felmura, Love’s. the operators may have a civil case casing already installed and the a year," Shinoda declared. and no such figures are immediate-’ against.St. Sure and possibly the impact was strong enough to dent The prospect for • the Bay area ly available. • colonel, if they care to test it in the casing deeply. farmers is glbopiy. Smog, damage A survey’ of 15,000 'high schooi. court. But there has been no in- Han's right arm was almost cut to flowers is; increasing. An East Hawaiian Pineapple Co.’s Ho­ students; seeking their opinions on dicatijn that any such actiofi is off where it struck the casing top Bay grower reported His losses nolulu cannery had 100,414 visitors natural ; scientists, found that 14 forthcoming. \ and he received a long gash In the jumped from 618 per cent of his In 1956—an all-tone high. At­ per cent of the teeti agers think Mpst frustrated of all are mem­ back as well as a head injury. orchids in 1954 to 18.6 per cent in tendance in 1955 was 90_,0_0_0 a_n_d there ’is something “evil" about bers of a group of Hotel St. op­ Death was reportedly instantane­ 1956. the year before that, 64,091. In scientists." erators who say they offered to ous. Grape vines, lettuce and other 1918, the first yeai- Hapco opened Comic strip books you’ll remem- abide by any code, or suggestions, It was Hawaii's first fatal in­ vegetables have been damaged by its cannery for tours, 837 persons ber, often star the “scientist” as HASP wanted to make them and dustrial" acident of 1957. smog. registered. a demented or power-mad villain. got no reaction at all. HONOLULU RECORD Honolulu Record Publishing Co., Ltd. Frank ly Speaking PHONE 96445 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu, T. H. BY FRANK MARSHALL SATIS Oahu $5.00; other, islands $6.00 airmail; Mainland $5.00\-Philippines $7.00 Blackmail in the Legislature KOJI ARIYOSHI— EDITOR The local two-bit edition of the Eastland Com­ mittee, apparently drunk on the printers’ ink brewed when the senators put on their recent circus, has asked the new Territorial legislature for $60,000 to carry on for the next two years. Star-Bull and Statehood I submit that this is about as astounding a display of utter gall as I have seen "in many a moon. It even has the smell of plain old-fashioned Are the Star-Bulletin’s pro-statehood blackmail. sentiments only as deep as its winning and holding the delegateship to Congress? The last legislature was also asked for the same amount. This request was cut to $20,000. In That’s exactly how it already appears view of the real worth of this committee’s ac­ to many islanders these days—only a few tivities, the grant was still $20,000 too much. short months aft^r Mrs. Betty Farrington The last legislature, like its present counter­ part, was Democratic. The local subversive com­ got dumped by John A. Burns in a Ter­ mission was a creature of the Republicans. When ritory-wide election for delegate to Con­ it did not get the cash it wanted to throw around, gress.. the commission got a big mad on with the Demo­ In conceding the election, one of the crats. first remarks of the then incumbent, with When the money gave out, the Territorial witch- big money and the most powerful local hunters ran crying to their big brothers in the Senate. Eastland was only propaganda medium behind her, was that too. glad to bring his she did not know there were so many troupe to Hawaii to help Communists in Hawaii nei and that she out somebody else in the congratulated Burns but not the people of same racket. Hawaii. The local group tried In the past when the Farringtons oc­ to make it appear that cupied the delegate’s post, they minimized ILWU control of the Communist influence here in pushing BREADWINNERS KILLED Democratic party caused the cut in funds. This statehood, which was their principal poli­ Last year about 20 died from industrial accidents. propaganda was aired be­ tical program. Already this year there has been one death from an accident fore the fall elections But they failed to win statehood time with the expectation of on the job. In this case there was negligence. A safety scaring the public into and again, year after year. The people belt was not used. dropping Democratic candidates and returning voted in Burns as delegate. Those who die on the job are breadwinners. legislative control to the GOP, which could be ■ Now, people are asking if Betty Far­ If as many adults or children died from firecrackers, depended on to fork over $60,000. rington, her Star-Bulletin and the big shot the dailies would play up the cases and hammer away week Republicans do not want a Democrat, dur­ after week. They would create a louder outcry against PLOT BACKFIRED ing his first assignment to Congress, to fireworks and perform a public service. Thanks to the political maturity of the Ha­ win statehood r But when breadwinners die on the job from accidents, waiian electorate, this plot backfired. The Demo­ crats not only retained control of the legislature They say it looks that way. Some even they don’t get equally concerned or hysterical. Why? Wed­ but were handed a two thirds majority in the go to the extent of saying that Betty Far­ nesday the Star-Bulletin ran a big picture on the front senate and by an overwhelming plurality sent rington played not a small part in bring­ page over a headline, “Only One Supervisor Listens To a Democrat, Jack Burns, to Congress as delegate. ing the Eastland committee here, osten­ Fireworks Victim’s Father.” Industrial accidents don’t get In every practical way, the local un-Americans sibly to investigate communism but actual­ such treatment. took a beating. Their plot to bust the Democratic ly to attack statehood and the ILWU. Is It because big business is involved? There are party backfired. Their plot to elect a Republican legislature fell flat on its face. Their plan to And they see a change of tone toward many big businessmen who neglect workmen’s safety in both Isolate the ILWU from the rest of the people statehood in the Star-Bulletin, which their drive for profits. The dailies treat them courteously. of Hawaii, and then divorce the leadership from, played up the issue for all its worth and But firecrackers and stores that sell them are in a the rank and file, was a complete dud. more especially when the late Joe Far­ different category in the dailies’ books. The stores that And now, after having done all in their power rington ran against Judge Delbert E. Metz­ sell big firecrackers are made to look like criminals or to embarrass and throw out the Democratic con­ ger for delegate to Congress. The Star- murderers. trol of the legislature, the members of this com­ mission have the audacity to demand that .the Bulletin propaganda made many feel that There are far more deaths of adult breadwinners from people they tried to hurt give them all the money statehood—which Joe was going to win industrial accidents than of persons from fireworks. The they want. for Hawaii—would cure economic and dailies can perform a community service by crusading other ills of Hawaii. against death, often through criminal negligence on the job. BROUGHT STATEHOOD FOE Now—after Betty’s defeat—the same daily, which in the past consistently I think the territorial commission and its friends have gotten drunk on the printers’ ink sounded an optimistic note concerning brewed in the press and radio publicity surround­ statehood, even when statehood seemed To The Editor• ing the recent hearings, even though the rest of a dead duck, plays a pessimistic note. in hospitals by distressed parents. the community stayed sober. In their inebriated Editor, Honolulu Record: state, they apparently think they can blackmail This is obviously by contrast. Delegate As a mother of six school child­ It is all very well to print photos the new legislature into granting their request Burns in the past month made militant ren I want to know why the Ho­ of a dead person (decently hidden nolulu daily newspapers go to under a blanket) lying at the under the threat of more tent shows out on the and encouraging statements re statehood. such obvious lengths to publish scene of a traffic accident. Such road from Washington. That's the kind of pitch the Farringtons "news" photographs of the tragic a picture may impress some driv­ Frankly, if the new Territorial legislature, after and the Star-Bull used to make when Joe misery of local people? ers and cause them to be more fully weighing all arguments for and against, :and Betty, successively, were •delegates. If Betty Farrington or Mrs. Wal­ cautious. comes to the conclusion that It would be strategic­ ter H. Dillingham were broken But the raw exploitation of the ally advisable to continue a. subversive activities Now, the Star-Bulletin says Alaska wants and bloodied in accidents, would injured living, especially children commission as part of the fight for statehood. I to go it alone because the Eastland com­ the papers trail them to their hos­ and their parents, is callous and for one, would have no objection. But I do think mittee hearings hurt Hawaii’s statehood pital beds and print front-page in shocking taste. a change in personnel, from chairman down, is gory photographs? Of course they Why can’t the local so-called demanded. chances through it’s findings on com­ wouldn’t. The papers have thblr family dailies develop moral and munism here. own private censorship of what cultural standards or simple good In fact, the legislature and the people of The Star-Bulletin works both sides of its readers will be permitted to see— taste in their pictorial displays— Hawaii should insist that the present chairman editorial mouth. It worked one side when especially of the privileged rich. and treat the rich and poor alike? be replaced. An individual, who invites such a To often lately, both dailies have Let them follow the lead of rep­ bigot, white supremacist and foe of statehood, as it declared a few weeks ago that the East­ exploited the unprivileged. They’ve utable Mainland newspapers like Eastland of Mississippi to come to Hawaii on the land committee wasn’t here to attack the shown bloodied, bewildered child the New York Times, Christian pretext of investigating communism is nbt only ILWU or statehood. It talks from the other victims of accidents being visited Science Monitor, etc. cynical of democracy but definitely anti-Hawaiian. side of the editorial mouth when it says KALIHI MOTHER I contend that no person who genuinely be­ the hearings affected statehood, when it pitch they made for statehood in the past—Betty Far­ lieves in democracy would touch Eastland with a 20 foot pole. You don’t invite known phonies and says that the hearings will be resumed in rington and her paper would be solid behind Burns’ efforts race-baiters into your parlor unless you are in­ Washington at the moment the statehood to win statehood. Whatever experience Betty gained in clined that way yourself. I have never yet heard measure comes up, and when its managing Washington, largely at the taxpayers’ expense, should be of a rodent being used successfully as a night editor sounds off that Burns did not help watchman at a cheese factory. A person wanting at Burns’ disposal. statehood does not ask an enemy to get material himself as far as hs work in Washington But the people of Hawaii now witness their changed to be used In opposition. was concerned, when he accepted ILWU attitude. - And some are asking, is their statehood senti­ support. The present chairman of the commission ment only as deep as winning and holding the post of should be retired even if the commission is kept. One would expect that—because of the delegate to Congress? ( He has earned his release.