4 - HniVo of Hawaii library IcQl University Ave» # HonolUxU 14 8/18 zb5_ HO NO LUIH ■u v The Hawaii Neeji * VOL. 7, NO. L IIN®ECOPY 10 CENTS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1954 -' UjjjjjUtoih Cia3 tSil& V'M Fruit Fly Blocks New Export Sweet Pine Ideal Smog In Honolulu? Slight Increase Republican Stronghold Crushed F(fr States, Nixed In Democratic Sweep; Fasi Licked In Air Solids Here Shows No Hazard The Democratic landslide in the majority party, controlling in the By Quarantine What is the danger of smog in smog like what they have in Los Territory to a large extent swept next session of the legislature 9 Plans to ship sweet fresh pine­ Honolulu? Angelas,” says Schramm. “It’s out big interest representation out of 15 seats in the senate and apple to the Mainland in stepping Frankly, not very much, but the smoke.” from the legislature and brought 22 out of 30 seats in the house. up fresh fruit export have run in­ bureau of industrial hygiene, a Home Incinerators Contribute in young, vigorous campaigners to a roadblock and the Oriental part of the territorial department Smog is made up of oil smoke, Kauai went completely Demo­ fruit fly is behind it alL incinerator smoke, exhaust from who won votes by hammering cratic, excepting for one contest, of labor, which keeps a check on automobiles and even rubber wear­ away at issues which are close to that for county treasurer. The De­ The sweet or Queen pineapple, such matters, says the local at-’ ing from tires on pavement? the people. mocratic landslide on Maui re­ smaller in size and more adapt­ mosphere is polluted three per Schramm says the system of home Biggest upset for the Republi­ sulted in the party winning the able for the family 'table, is sus­ cent more than it was five years incinerators contributes heavily to cans came in their own stronghold, lone senate seat up for contest and ceptible to the fruit fly and quar­ ago. Los Angeles’ smog. ■ the fourth district, where four vet­ four house seats, a gain of two. antine officials will not let them There are periods at which In Los Angeles, he says, a law erans and a former school teach­ The Republicans took two. get by without fumigation. Queen clouds of “smog” hang over Ho­ requires every house to have an er—all running for political of­ In the board race, the Democrats pineapple is not being shipped to nolulu, says Fred Schramm, head incinerator and to dispose of all fice for the first time—removed took 7 out of 8 posts. As on Kauai the Mainland from Hawaii. of the bureau, but those periods waste matter that may be burned. four incumbents representing Ha­ the board chairmanship went to are infrequent, and to a large de­ "It’s a system we’ve always op­ waii’s big interests and won a fifth the Democratic incumbent. For the Mainland family. table1 gree. predictable. The clouds are posed here,” Schramm says. seat. this 2% to 3 pound sweet pine­ there at two seasons, during the Burns Buns Strong Local clouds of “smog,” when Race Eclipsed apple is- considered ideal rather fall and the spring, and never they appear, are usually before While- the Neal Blaisdell (R)- John A. Burns, Democratic can­ than the standard canning fruit, when trade winds blow. Frank Fasi (D) mayoralty race didate for delegate to Congress, larger in size, now being shipped. “Only what we have isn’t really (more on page 4) was regarded as the key contest nearly upset the almost traditional If the Queen pineapple (any of in the general election Tuesday, control of this position by the Re­ its- varieties) is to be exported in the spectacular showing of Demo­ publicans. Incumbent Betty Far­ (more on page 4) cratic candidates in the Territory’s rington whose campaign was Does West Point Clique Block 3-Star Republican stronghold drew the helped by Pres. Eisenhower him­ focus of attention as soon as re­ self and by the Republican-con­ 'User Boycott Rumor turns began coming in. Elected in trolled newspapers and radio won Promotion For Ruffner, VMI-Alumnus the fourth were Dan K. Inouye by less than-900 votes out of about 139,000^otes~castTTlTe-fourth dis? Unfounded/SomeVets Is the Society for tire Protection to a command in Europe. In Wash­ (D),~Masato Doi , Spark M. ington,. Ruffner would not explain Matsunaga (D), Russell Kono (D), trict saved her by giving her a of West .Pointers in the saddle 6,900 margin. Burns won in all Hot Over Lovell Story again? the change of his decision, though Anna F. Kahanamoku (D), and. he did comment that there are Hebden Porteus (R). other districts, including the Big A spokesman of the Honolulu There are those who say one Island where GOP delegate candi­ Advertiser said this week he has no lieutenant generals as young The tremendous support re­ of the reasons Major General Clark as he is—51. - . ceived Territory-wide by the Dem­ dates polled stronger in the past. heard riothing of any campaign L. Ruffner failed to get his ex­ ocratic candidates was reflected in Burns is already said to be the of reprisal against the .'newspaper pected promotion to lieutenant Marshall Was Exception returns from every district. For logical choice for the same candi­ by a Republican group, or indiv­ general may be that Ruffner is But for a long time it was talked the first time in Hawaii’s history, dacy in 1956 and some GOP sour- idual Republicans, because of dis­ not a product of West Point, but that a struggle has gone on in the Democratic Party became the (more on page 4) satisfaction with its editorial poli­ of Virginia Military Institute, also the higher ranks of army brass' to cy in handling news of the cam­ the alma mater of General George maintain West Pointers in all posi­ paign. Marshall. ’ ’ ” tions of top command. Tha^stfug- gle was lost temporarily when Sumida Dies Penniless In Japan The rumor had been that some Ruffner was brought to the Pa­ George Marshall succeeded to top Republicans were calling friends cific command some time ago— military posts diffing World War and asking that they stop sub­ normally a post occupied' by a II, and it was believed that soma scriptions in an effort to bring three star man—and it was ex­ West Pointers said that should Jail; Story Delayed Five Months pressure on the newspaper to get pected his promotion would be never happen again. more favorable treatment of cer­ forthcoming. But the promotion If that is true, it might explain Speculation was rife in Honolulu tain GOP candidates. ' didn’t come. Instead, Ruffner is­ this week -oyer, reasons for a five the tardiness of Clark Ruffner’s . Earlier, at a meeting of GOP sued an announcement that he promotion. - month delay in publication of the candidates, Gov. Samuel W. King was retiring. Succeeding him to command the news of the death of Alex Sumida, is reported to have blasted the Last Friday, the Pentagon an­ 61, in a Yokohama prison where Pacific Army is Lieutenant Gen­ Advertiser as a "Democratic pa- nounced that Ruffner had changed eral Bruce C. Clarke, a product of the onetime “Kling of Fleecers” (more on page 4) had been jailed on his first con­ his mind and would be reassigned West Point. fidence charge in Japan—the last of, his life. ELECTION SIDELIGHTS MAUI NOTES According to an Associated Press story from Yokohama,a spokes­ Fong Good Loser; man at the prison said Sumida DEMO NEWCOMERS SET BACK died quietly of a cerebral hemor- rhage in a bed-in the prison hos­ Asing Hits King; pital last May 16, two months VETERAN BIG 5 POLITICIANS after he had been jailed. Fasi Hits "Deal" By EDDIE UJIMORI 1953 session but in the fight for (Before his arrest, the RECfORD LEONARD FONG, whose re­ The encouraging picture oh the post; lost out to Hiram Fong brought to the English-readlng sounding defeat by James K. Mu­ Maui is the election results of the of Oahu. His trailing four New­ public here the first story of Su­ rakami surprised many, showed house and board races. Maui No comers marks a new day in Maul mida’s fleecing. The Hawaii. Ho- his stature by the manner in which Ka Oi will send to the next legis­ politics. _ chi, one of whose reporters as­ he. took it. When the C-C auditor lature four freshmen representa­ Time marches on. It was only sisted in establishing Sumida’s appeared in City Hall Wednesday, tives who are new to the political about 15 years ago when a Demo­ identity, published the first story he was all smiles and had the field. cratic candidate could not cam- ' in Japanese earlier.) same answer for all who ap- The kind of campaign they con- paign_in_the ..plantatibn-ar-eas-and---- Sumida’s - last -swindle waeper- - proached him.-------------------------- ducted is a good indication that the plantations, are big property Man of Guile Passes Maui’s house members will make holders. petrated against a Tokyo - mer­ “It’s all in the game,” he said: chant, a formei’ resident of Hono­ valuable contributions in the leg­ That messenger boy.—he is now Admitted Charges "That’s politics.” islature — particularly -in view of lulu, whom Sumida induced ‘ to But he would make no predic­ an old man, after serving the Big cash $550 worth of worthless The AP story reports that Su­ the Democratic majority won in tion as to whether or not he will this week’s election.