STORY BEHIND >E WAIANAE PUMP No. 17 _______ _____________________________ ________ ------ —■____________ - ...._________ page five 'wspaper Hawaii Needs HONOLULU .RICO RD ______________________________■ _ . _ __________.....................•■.1 ' • - - —————;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vol. II, No. 18 ' u SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS Thursday, Dec. 1,1949 Charge Public Works Has ‘Pets’ 37th Of The 4th . Maui Civil Service Private Group Has $15^000 Worth Of Sutures Is Hits Beach Monopoly Confab Influenced Hand In Giving Resolutions to open the Terri­ tory’s beaches to the public and New Hospital Buying Story By Recent Report to request a local hearing oi the Jobs To Architects The liveliest ruckus of the Ter­ visiting Congressional sub-com­ An attempt by the Queen’s Hos- George Dennis, who had worked By KOJI ARIYOSHI mittee on lands were passed pital administration to cancel a at Queen’s for 10 years, left after ritory-wide conference of civil Wednesday night by the Demo­ service commissioners at Wailuku, “We don’t want bids here!” em­ cratic Club in the 37th of the 4th $15,000 order for sutures from a •serving under Mr. Flath for about Maui, Nov. 28-29, came when some phasized B. B. Montgomery, assist­ after some discussion. It was de­ local firm when the drug was al­ two years. The RECORD learned commissioners questioned the pres­ ant superintendent of the Ter­ ence of an observer, Daiyel Ainoa, ritorial' Department of Public cided that both resolutions should ready on its way, because the ad­ from a reliable source that Mr. Works, in a huffy manner that be rewritten before they are pre­ ministration “wanted instead to Dennis was one of the local people engineer of the Honolulu Board sented to the County Committee. order from another firm on the of Water Supply. clearly suggested, that “We run Ma-inland” was cited by a busi­ who left under pressure or was It was argued that observers our department as we very well Some debate occurred when Dep­ weeded put, to be .replaced by a. please!”-. ■ uty Attorney General Thomas J. nessman as an example of how should-not be allowed at the con­ Mainlander. The RECORD interviewed Mr. Flynn disqualified himself from business is managed at the hos­ ference, but the commissioners fi­ Montgomery after it heard- re­ the task of rewriting the resolu­ pital. nally voted to allow Ainoa to re­ Among those who left Queen’s main. ports that the Department of Pub­ tion to the Congressional sub­ “Queen’s Hospital has changed are Miss Marian Davis, personnel lic Works “dished out” architec­ committee because it dealt with ever since Mr. Carl I. Flath took Asked why he had sent -an ob­ tural contracts to a “chosen few” over the administration. Now director, who is how assistant server, Fred Ohrt, supervising en­ the Hawaiian Homes Commission, administrator at St. Francis Hos­ on its list of. favorites. The REC­ and therefore had a direct bearing the assistant administrator, gineer, said: “It’s my duty to pro­ ORD. was also informed that even on his official position. Another Maurice Jackson, tells the phar­ pital. tect the Board of Water Supply ataong the favorites, a few get member of the club then chal­ macist what brand of drug to The RECORD learned that the and its employes. That’s why I the big money jobs, without any lenged everything Flynn had said buy and that’s not a happy situa­ former administrator, Gustav attend the meetings of the civil sort of competition. previously during the meeting on tion,” a reliable source informed Olson, drew a monthly salary of service commission here.” “We can’t give out bids. We the ground that he should dis­ the RECORD. “If he were a about $10,000 a year. Flath’s sal­ Although it was agreed that can’t get the best for our money,” qualify himself from discussing pharmacist, he could do that and ary is $18,000. He has an assist­ the recent report to the mayor emphasized Mr. Montgomery. other topics, on similar grounds. the doctors would not mind.” ant administrator and an ad­ of Honolulu on civil service per­ A. I. A. Gentlemen’s Agreeinent The resolution pertaining to the Snack Bar Alumnus ministrative assistant. sonnel practices by Research But the department receives bids beaches named especially the The present purchasing agent “With three administrative ex­ Associates would riot be a topic from contractors for public works Bishop Estate as having effected at Queen’s is Mike Georgette, perts, is Queen’s better today than of discussion at the conference, and highway projects running a monopoly of beaches, along with brother of Charles Georgette, ad­ it was under Mr. Olson? That’s a number of the recommenda- . into millions of dollars. Wasn’t other land-owners, b y collusion ministrative assistant. Mike Geor­ a $64 question,” a person close to Hons of the report were reflect­ there a contradiction? he was with Government officials. It de­ gette is one of the Mainlanders Queen’s Hospital said-. He com­ ed in actions of the conference, asked. Why not bids for architec­ mands that beaches at Kalama, hired by Mr. Flath’s administra­ mented that with the economy especially in the report of the tural assignments also? Kailua, Lanikai, Kahala, and Port­ tion. After running the snack bar move at the hospital cutting down steering committee. “What right have you to ask luck be made available to the pub­ at Queen’s, Mike Georgette was staff workers who are overloaded All references, heretofore re­ such questions?” boomed white- lic, because, it says, they have been made the purchasing agent. with work, morale is low. quested of applicants, will be de- haired, tall Mr. Montgomery, who (more on page 4) The former purchasing agent, (more on page 5) (more on page 4) . Demo Harmony Group Bouslog Speaks On CIO Faces Basic Issues Old American Gpme, Says The comiriittee appointed to Confab At HCLC Gathering bring harmony to the Democratic Hite; Liquor Case Falls Party in the Territory will have There were 8,000 empty seats in Abram Flaxer, UPW, Joseph Stulle, the problem of tackling funda­ By STAFF WRITER lawyers who “know where the., the convention hall every day of Amerian Communications Asso­ mental issues, among them the What’s behind the rumors of body is buried." the recent National CIO Conven­ ciation, and James Durkin, questipn of statehood. pay-offs to the Liquor Commis­ In July, ,a source near the at­ tion in Cleveland, Harriet Bouslog The selection of Harold Rice sion? Well, for the RECORD, these torney-general’s office told the’ told an HCLC audience Saturday UOPWA, defended their policies by the Territorial Democratic Cen­ are the things that led up to the RECORD that a report had been night, but' every effort was made as representing sound trade un­ tral Committee to head the har­ meeting on Monday in which the made and filed with the City- by the Murray leadership to pre­ ionism. mony committee was almost in­ Commission issued citations County prosecutor for action. vent rank-and-file union members The character of the conven­ evitable, political observers say. against Chono Oshiro of the Story Utatold from attending their convention, tion was evident from the pro­ Chairman Lau Ah Chew made Chicken Griddle and. Robert M. "Your paper would be doing a in spite of the fact that'hundreds gram, alone, Mrs. Bouslog said; the other selections, informed Kaya, of Kaya’s General Mer­ useful thing to bring the whole of steel workers in Cleveland were pointing out that speakers, Omar sources say. It is believed that he chandise, Punaluu, to show cause story to light,” said that Official. then on strike. Bradley, Dean Acheson, and made the appointments on this why they should not have their But it wasn’t that easy, and “In those eight thousand vacant others were invited to “sell” the -. premise: Mr. Rice is pro-governor, licenses revoked. maybe it isn’t that easy yet, though seats,” said Mrs. Bouslog, “was evi­ delegates on U. S. foreign policy, and the governor is against state­ In May investigators were re­ Charles M. Hite, the prosecutor, dence of the bankruptcy of Na­ while the problems relating to hood. Thus he appointed Super­ ported around many bars, most says nothing much came of the tional CIO policy." trade unionism were largely ig­ of them owned by AJAs and li­ report after all. nored. visor Chuck Mau and Takaichi It was obvious from the begin­ Miyamoto, who have opposed the censed within the past few years, “The witnesses told one story ning, Mrs. Bouslog said, that Phil­ The battle-cry of the right, re­ governor principally on the issue asking whether1 or not they had to the attorney-general's office,” ip Murray and his right-wing na­ iterated by each, was “There’s a of statehood. To balance up the paid fees to anyone to help them says Hite, “and another one to tional leaders had come to the conspiracy between Wall Street forces, Foreman Thompson was get licenses. me. When I asked them, they convention with the express pur­ and the Communist Party," Mrs. chosen to team with Rice, and In May, too, there was talk said they hadn’t told the inves­ pose of “beating the so-called left Bouslog said. The right-wingers Supervisor Ernest Heen was made of destroyed police files, of an tigators anything like that.” wingers over the head.” Left-wing depicted themselves and the Tru- the fifth member, since he has unsavory story told about a com­ The statements alleged to have leaders, including Harry Bridges, (more on page 5) been politically flexible.