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fa Not HQNOLULU RJ^O RD W in Death The Newspaper Hawaii By Hanging The wrists of 12-year old William VOLUME VII NO 6/7 —SINGLE COPY 10 CENr THURSDAY MAY 31, 1956 Kakalia, found hanging in his father’s storeroom last week, were not “tied’’ behind his back, as re ported by a daily newspaper. In stead, the coroner’s office reported, an end of the same lariat which encircled the boy’s neck, had been passed over a rafter and back down behind him, where it was wound PUC Puts 7jxi Co. several times around his wrists, without being knotted. Police investigators were of the opinion it was entirely possible he might have arranged the rope himself, in an effort to simulate a mock hanging, and then actually hanged himself when a stool on which he appeared, to have been Out of Business standing slipped from under him. (more on page 3) editorial Comment Leeward Bus Co. Job Comparison Shows Some Aiea Will You Carry Big Hotels' Load? To Profit By End Workers Get $1 Less Than at Crockett A proposed improvement project for Saratoga Road, the street adjacent Fort De Russy, will cost Of 4-Driver Firm As the strike of about 125 work times even more than $1 an hour, ers of the Aiea refinery of the. McElrath went further to show a total of $92,217.40, according to figures of the city An economic war between a com California & Hawaiian Sugar went, that even workers in the Dixie- and county, and the government will shoulder $71,- paratively big company and a very into its third week, an ILWU crat South, where wages for labor 215.48, assuming the Federal part of the cost, leaving small one wound up last month as spokesman noted that nothing but are notoriously low along with liv 20 residents whose property fronts on the street to pay K such fights usually do—with the a “roar of silence” has echoed from ing standards, receive more for big one winning and four 'small the propaganda mills of the em working in sugar refineries than $21,001.92. businessmen going out of business. ployers and offered a guess that the striking workers at Aiea. But who will benefit most from the improvement of As a result the four small busi the present demand of the Aiea With the base rate at Aiea $1.21% Saratoga Road? True, property owners directly on the nessmen are today Unemployed, workers for increased wages is so per hour, McElrath named eight the Aiea Taxi Co. is defunct and valid that .the company spokesmen' companies operating sugar refin street receive direct benefits—for which they will pay. the Leeward Bus Co. can look for just can’t find anything to say. eries in Louisiana and Texas-which But the street will be almost a direct entry to the Reef ward to increasing its profits.. As Citing figures to prove the case, pay a higher base rate. That list Hotel, and it will be of much use to the Halekulani and "another result, a number of resi Robert McElrath, ILWU public along with the base rate of pay at the Edgewater Hotels. Yet these thriving commercial dents of Aiea and vicinity are un relations officer, quoted wages each refinery, was as follows: happy because they don’t get the paid on 28 different jobs, which enterprises will not be assessed a red cent for the im exists both at Aiea and at the Imperial, refinery at Sugar Land, provement. kind of transportation service they Texas, near cane fields worked by once could. Crockett, Cailf. refinery of C&H convicts on Texas prison, farm, The Halekulani is owned largely by Richard K. The field of battle in this econ to show the wide disparity be $1.49 per hour; Colonial, Louisiana, (Klngie) Kimball, who adventures at times in politics omic war was finally the Terri tween wages the same compahy $1.44; Godchaux, Louisiana, $1.44; pays workers here and those on and at times in all-male “exploring” flights to the torial Supreme Court, but the bus Henderson, Louisiana, $1.49; Su company did not have to fight its the Mainland. Pacific Islands. The Edgewater ai d the Reef are owned preme, ’ Louisiana, $1.33; South own battip. It had instead power Although the economic discri Coast, several parishes of Louist- largely by John B. Kelley who, along with Kimball, has ful champions in the Territorial mination against local labor was appeared at City Hall in" the past to protest the ex Public Utilities Commission and obvious from the figures, some (more on page 6) penditure of tax mon^y to enforce «the rent control Attorney Richard Sharpless of the law. That law, of course, benefits people who have to attorney general’s . office who re presented the PUC. MIDST STARS AND BARS fight to pay the rent on housing that is a far cry from Following a complaint by the (more on page 8) bus company to the PUC that the four-man taxi company was break- Comm. Warns Applicants of Poor (more on page 6) Landlords Scream, But Rent Control Trade; Sam-Morse in New Waikiki Bar A recent slump in the bar busi one chance in a hundred of get Which Cop Beat ness, reported for some weeks from ting my vote. Now I’m for you.” Report Shows Housing Scarcer In ‘Sb sources in downtown Honolulu, was But Kronick, too, said he has underlined at Tuesday’s meeting visited Wahiawa bars and he found the absence of customers “depress Even the Star-Bulletin had re March of this year was 1.3 per Up Cuffed Seaman of the G-C liquor commission when versed its long opposition to rent cent, and to show the trend, it the commissioners warned appli ing.”. Still, if Swaydis could. in control this week and come around states further that in Feb. 1955 cants for new licenses they stand fluence a lot of people to write in an editorial last Friday to the it was 1,1 per cent; in June 1954 On Hotel St.? an excellent chance of going broke letters and lend, him - their sup stand the RECORD has held for 4 per cent; in the summer of 1952 —especially those moving into port for the project, Kronick said years—that rent control is neces 2.4 per cent; and in. April 1950 it A police officer who allegedly areas heavily saturated already he might give his vote for ap sary until private enterprise builds was 3.5 per cent. beat’ up an inebriated merchant with dispensers. proval. far more housing in the low priced seaman on Hotel St.- last weekend Fernandez, however, reminded - The report also reminds,-as many missed being identified when a Albert Swaydis, a man applying rental area. reports in the past, that landlord the applicant that other applicants But not the Honolulu Property shocked eyewitness failed to get to take over the “Suzy-Q” in Wa sources on the Mainland have the correct badge number. from Wahiawa have been turned Owners Assn. generally held 5 per cent to be hiawa; who mid, “It has been the down. Violent Opposition a "normal” vacancy ratio. Other The number he got was that of ambition of my life to own a bar SAMMY MORSE, heading a That. diehard landlords’ outfit, a motor patrolman stationed at and nightclub,’’ got the most warn sources have claimed that a 10 ings. Chairman M.B. Carson told project that has been kept in con through its spokesman J. Kaneohe, whose duties made it im siderable secrecy, appeared as an per cent vacancy ratio should exist possible for him to be the officer him he’d visited Wahiawa twice Donovan Flint, condemned rent before rent control is abandoned, in the past week and visited every other applicant for ■ a new license, control as being “no more needed though this last statement does in question. and he also got warnings from than is the blackout today.” An not come from the current report. But according to the eyewitness, bar there, finding only a few cust the commissioners of impending the officer came in answer to a omers in each. Commissioner John extension of rent control is also The point the report seeks to Fernandez added his observation disaster, though the warnings were “unfair, "unconstitutional and an make is that the. trend is not call from a Hotel St. bar, arrested not as strong. Morse heads a firm abuse of the legislative powers of the young seaman and put the to Carson’s, and asked Swaydis if toward more vacancies, but toward he knew why his predecessor left. called Waikiki Enterprises, Ltd., the City and an absolute waste of fewer, and it states: "Vacancy ra handcuffs- on him without diffi which proposes to install a bar in culty. In the meantime three other Fernandez strongly suggested that $100,000 per annum df our tax tio Is not static but changes with the predecessor had Jost too much a new building on Kalakaua Ave.,- money,” Flint went on to say in additions, eliminations and con officers had arrived, apparently approximately' opposite Waikiki a letter to the mayor and the versions of housing population in answer to the call, but stood and money to continue. Sands. board. movements, birth, death, income watched when they saw they were Swaydis continued in his optim It is an area which abounds with All the hubbub came, of course, changes and the like.” not needed. ism, however, saying he has lived bars, as Chairman Carson pointed from the latest report of the C-C The officer allegedly became' en in Wahiiiwa for 25 years, that he out, and asked.

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