QUEEN'S SPENDS A FORTUNE TO HOUSE FLATH “The Queen’s Hospital has spent into the Annex, the girls had to crew of maintenance men from nance meh of Queen’s had an­ stantial improvem'ents' had been a sizeable fortune to house its be moved,” a source said. “Mrs. Queen's, before Mr. Flath took a other seige. made.. $18,000 a year administrator, Carl Laura Nott Dowsett had offered Hieing to 'the Davies House Annex. ; ‘‘Why, the board of directors got It is reported that for about three The structural modification in­ I. Flath,” a source close to the the Sherman home to be used by side the Sherman House cost about talked Into making all these trans­ hospital informed the RECORD. months there were practically no actions is incomprehensible?’ ’ the the community, for a number of $22,000, with $16,000 going to the This statement was made when years. Queen’s took the offer in carpenters and painters at Queen’s RECORD was told by a person in­ the hospital’s house organ, Queen’s July 1947, and immediately began to keep up maintenance while the South Pacific Construction Co. The terested in Queen’s Hospital; ‘Tm Messenger, ’ this month reported converting it into a nurses’ dormi­ Manoa Valley house got repainted, Queen’s Hospital which has been informed the ’ Sherman house is tory.” its bathroom altered and plumb­ going through a difficult time, costing about $500 a month , and that the Sherman House, 2766 ing fixtures replaced. All this, it Nuuanu Ave., will close as nurses’ Mr. Flath at that time was operating at far short of capacity, that’s one reason why Queen’s is is reported, cost a sizeable amount sold the Thompson House on giving it up.” quarters on Dec. 5. ‘ living in Manoa Valley, in a of money. Nurses Move3 Out house the board of directors of Thurston Ave., it had bought ab “The Sherman house, where After Mr. Flath saw the Davies bargain price years ago, reportedly The Queen's Hospital acquired the hospital bought for his resi­ nurses lived for two years, is not dence for a sum in the neigh- House Annex as a suitable home to pay for the expenditure on the Queen’s property and quite a the use of the large Sherman for himself, it did not take long Sherman House. House, a gathering place for rich torhood of $38,000. bit of money went into it. The before the nurses were moved to The Thompson House, a nurses' Thompson house, ~ owned by haole social sets of tire past, just “We heard he somehow did not a house Queen’s rented on Prospect like that house,” an employe of residence, was considered a good Queen’s, is gone," another source about the time Mr. Flath was St. to house them temporarily, un­ said. planning on moving into the Da­ Queen’s said. investment at that time. In the til the Sherman house, ,was made meantime, the Man pa house vies House Annex, a nurses’ quar­ $38,000 Home Renovated ready for their residence. “And all that time Mr. Flath ters located on Keapmoku St. bought for Mr. Flath’s residence must have realized that Queen’s The Manoa Valley house was,. In order to renovaftethe Annex in the’neighborhood of $38;W0?waa is far ip.-the..red,'’ . a. .govermn®t "In order for Mr. Flath ta move however, renovated, mainly by the to suitMr.Flath, the sold: for about: $32,000 after sub­ official-said. > . ' . = the Newspaper Hawaii Needs I Vol. II, No. 17 SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS Thursday, Nov. 24, 1949 Radio Blackout Demos Ask Probe Blown Fuse Throws Luna Gets $149 Resolutions Hit Queen’s Maintenance Pay Cut In a Day Many Officials "On November 15, I was making Dept Into Hubbub $310 a month salary. The next day I was getting $1.01 an hour or On Powder Case A blown-out fuse put a depart­ about $161.60 a month.” ment at Queen’s Hospital in dark­ Desiderio Arzaga shook his head, Governor Ingram Stairiback qnd ness for a whole night, cutting said he had worked for the Hawai­ the Democratic County Committee off even sterilizers, while the ian Pineapple Co. at Wahiawa are to be -the recipients of resolu- . superintendent o f maintenance, since 1934 and added, “They need • tions asking a full investigation the as.-istant administrator of the you they keep you. They will kick of the Kaimukl dynamite disaster hospital and a boiler room atten­ you vut any Lime, even if you as exposed exclusively in the'REC­ dant tried in vain to determine, werx all your life for them.” 4 ORD. The resolutions were passed what was wrong with the electric unanimously at the regular meet­ system. Arzaga is one of the gang lunes whose positions were elim­ ing of the Democratic club in the While Assistant Administrator inated recently. He has been 37th of the 4th. Maurice Jackson and head of luna smoe 1937 and has worked The resolution to the governor, maintenance, Harold Homer, for the company steadily. When submitted by Willie Crozier, traces sweated over the defunct system, the gang luna classification was the history of; the Kaimukl tunnel the nurse in charge of the ward combined with another super­ case and names the laws it alleges used kerosene lamps and flash­ visory position, Arzaga and about were violated. It accuses both the lights. An electrician put in a G5 others were demoted at Wa­ Attorney General ahd the City- new fuse the following morning. hiawa and on Lanai, and most County Prosecutor of having done Recent cutbacks in the main­ of the lunas were given Grade 1 nothing either toward investigat­ tenance staff at Queen's have classification which is the lowest. ing the case, or toward instituting seriously hampered function of proceedings. the hospital, the RECORD was re­ "Some became sub-luna but I mite, Dollars and Death,” was probably written there by Ralph FiMdn, liably informed. The most recent believe only for a short time” said RECORD Credited president and general manager of radio station KHON. The story be­ economy move came when Queen’s Arzaga. The resolution continues, low tells of KHON’s second blackout of a story the RECORD hoped to Arzaga said some supervisors had "Whereas, all the facts and cir­ give radio listeners. (more on page 4) been with the company for many cumstances. before and after Last week for the second time kin did not answer the question (more on page 5) (more on page 4) KHON refused to broadcast a pro­ directly, Greene says. Way Open for TPA gram *of the RECORD. Earlier it Instead, he replied, “Yes, the was the story of Willie Crozier’s lawyers don’t like it either.” fight against the Bank of Hawaii. When Greene consulted a law­ To Sue for $2 Million This time, the story was that of yer later with the script, they Hawaiian Airlines and Inter- Report bombasts Civil the Kaimukl dynamite disaster found only one unimportant, easily Island Steamship Co. constitute a and the recently revealed facts removable paragraph which might monopoly, Judge Delbert E. Metz­ in connection with it. be libelous. ger ruled Monday, and as a con­ Service In All Departments “Dynamite, Dollars, and Death” sequence, the legal road now lies NEEDLESS DEATHS open for Trans-Pacific Airlines to By EDWARD ROHRBOTJGH the bottom are recommendations was the title. that civil service ads be made After Ralph Fitkin, president Tuberculosis is lulling 1,000 carry out its suit against Hawaiian Expressing itself somewhat in Americans a week. This is a ‘for $2,000,000. The suit is the re­ the manner of a tough-talking, more imaginative, and that bulle­ and general manager of KHON sult of an injunction by which soft-hearted, occasionally mushy- tins be made more attractive—“in had read the script, he called Rob­ needless waste of life, because tu- the light of modern recruitment herculods can be prevented. You Hawaiian kept TPA's planes from mouthed but generally practical ert Greene, who wrote it, and said operating prior to the permit TPA top sergeant, Research Associates methods.” he "couldn’t” allow it to be broad­ ran help prevent tuberculosis by Kum’s Ideas. Seen cast at the scheduled time. buying Christmas Seals, sold by secured enabling it to schedule has told Mayor Wilson that Ho­ the National Tuberculosis Associa­ regular inter-island flights. nolulu’s civil service system had It is ’ Impossible to escape the “Why not?” Greene asked. tion and its i-’and affiliates, to The damage suit is not expected better be overhauled from, top to fact-that a number of the report’s “I don’t like it,” was Fitkin’s support the year-round TB control to reach the trial stage before bottom. recommendations coincide closely reply. program. February, 1950. At the top of the 162 recom­ with reforms energetically sought Greene says he then asked if Anti-Trust Laws Broken mendations of its report to the in recent months by Herbert Kum, the script were libelous and if In. July, American travelers in The creation of Hawaiian Alr- mayor is one that all three civil chairmpn of the commission, whose KHON’s lawyers had seen it. Fit­ England spent $12 million. (more on page 5) service commissioners resign. At (more on page 4) Page Two HONOLULU RECORD November 24, 1949 Curran Rocked trying to avoid heavy state taxes elsewhere. In a six-story building on the waterfront National Summary HAVING A READY answer for all the of New York's west side, hundreds of sea­ mild queries, Greenewalt explained about men last week kept Vice President H.