Majority Are Haole On New Draft Board

Community Leaders Aroused At Stainback Appointments

The veterans were indignant, labor unions were strongly in opposition and the average citizen raised his eyebrows as they read the list of the local draft board nominees in the newspapers this week.

Among the names of nominees sent to Washington by Governor Stainback the average citizen, though he looked high and low, discovered almost no "friends and neighbors" who were to constitute the draft board, in accordance with the suggestion of the new draft law.

Haole businessman dominate almost entirety the 13 draft boards of the territory.

Strong objections to the haole and employer weight of the draft board nominees were voiced this week by both AFL and CIO leaders.

Employer's Whos' [sic] Who

"These boards," said one AFL leader, "read like an employers' who's who, especially on the outside islands. Many of these men are not exactly friends or neighbors to the draftees they will select. They all live on the high hills."

"Where are the AJA vets on the boards?" asked one Iolani Palace politico who was not willing to have his name used. He thought the list might have been drawn up in entirety by officials of the Hawaii National Guard. Tentative findings of racial origin of the draft board appointees indicate approximately 88 per cent haole (including some Caucasian-Hawaiians), 6 per cent of Chinese and 5 per cent of Japanese ancestry. Of the 61 men, 54 are haoles, 4 Chinese and 3 Japanese. [full story]

A circular letter condemning communism written by School Superintendent W. Harold Loper and distributed among school principals early this year contains more than meets the layman's eye. This was the general consensus of opinion at the "Reinecke hearing" this noon (Tuesday) when after several hours of questioning, Defense Attorney Richard Gladstein had covered only eight to ten lines of the 70 page letter. During the cross examination Dr. Loper reiterated what Louis Budenz repeated on the witness stand last week—that the Communist Party of the USA is a fifth column of Russia."

Voorhees Act

Mr. Gladstein, San Francisco attorney, who is defending Dr. and Mrs. John Reinecke who were suspended from their teaching positions on charges of Communist Party affiliation and not possessing the ideals of democracy—questioned Dr. Loper if he know of the Voorhees Act. This Act requires all foreign agents to register with the government. Dr. Loper answered he did not. [full story]

Kamaaina Japanese residents of the Territory of Hawaii who have been prohibited for approximately 40 years from migrating to the continental United States to establish permanent residence will shortly see this "limited passport" restriction revoked.

The alien Japanese concerned will include all Japanese who have been admitted to the Territory under labor contract visas. They include parents of veterans of both wars and even government officials—in short, parents of AJAs who came to Hawaii during the latter part of the last century or early 1900s.

This restriction on residence in the United States was established by Executive Order 589, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on March 14, 1907. The period when this occurred was marked by a wave of strong anti-Oriental sentiment which was instigated by the press and "racist" groups on the West Coast.

The Department of Interior on July 22 informed the Japanese-American Citizens League that a draft has been prepared revoking the Executive Order of 1907. The JACL is an AJA organization on the mainland with local chapters in various cities and states.

The JACL's Anti-Discrimination Committee last fall initiated action to correct this discriminatory restriction against Japanese aliens residing in Hawaii.

Honolulu's electricity rates is substantially higher than the national average taken from 206 other cities throughout the United States with population ranging from 50,000 upwards.

In a report made by the Burns & O'Donnell Engineering Co., Kansas City, Mo., and which is on file in the municipal library, the following figures are given:

For 25 kilowatt hours
Honolulu ........................ $1.47
National average............. $1.24

For 100 kilowatt hours
Honolulu ........................ $4.10
National average ............ $3.64

For 250 kilowatt hours
Honolulu ........................ $7.15
National average ............ $6.78

In the 25 kilowatt hour group, the report listed 57 different rates with Honolulu ranking 46th on the chart. In the 100 kilowatt hour list, Honolulu ranked 71st among 95 on rates charged. Honolulu placed 73rd among 110 listings in the 220 kilowatt hour bracket.

Approximately 1,500 out of 50,000 men between the ages of 18 and 25 who will register in Hawaii for the first peacetime draft will be taken into the armed service during the next twelve months, according to army headquarters at Ft. Shafter.

All Hawaii recruits will receive their training here and will not be sent to the mainland. On August 10 and 11 the first group of 18-year-olds were enlisted for one year service in the army. Hawaii's quota of 18-year-olds is 450 a year.

Hawaii's population today is approximately 544,000, or a 29 per cent increase over 423,330 reported by the census bureau in 1940.

The census bureau report which gave the figures of July 1, 1947, stated that the population of the Territory increased 121,000 between April 1, 1940 and July 1, 1947. April 1, 1940 is the date of the last national census.

During the war the total population here reached a peak of more than 800,000. Demobilization of the service personnel soon brought a substantial fall in total population in the islands, the report said.

The census bureau also estimated that the national population now totals about 143,414,000. This is about nine per cent increase between 1940 and 1947. During this time the population on the Pacific Coast jumped 41 per cent.

The proper place for A. T. Longley to tender his resignation as precinct chairman was his own 30th precinct, 5th district.

This criticism was voiced by leading Democrats here who were informed of the resignation either through a letter sent to Wilfred Oka, secretary of the Democratic Oahu County Committee, or through the columns of the Honolulu Advertiser which first broke the news publicly.

"Mr. Longley charged in his letter that "subversive and radical groups are in control of the party."

A six-man investigating committee—three from the county committee and three from the territorial central committee—— was directed by the central committee to meet with Mr. Longley. This committee will then recommend how the charges should be answered.

As the Honolulu Advertiser gave prominent play to Mr. Longley's resignation, Chairman 0. P. Soares, Republican territorial chairman, complimented the Wahiawa Democrat for the position he took.

In his lengthy letter Mr. Longley criticized candidates during the 1946 election who had received support from PAC. This attack included Delegate to Congress Joseph Farrington.

While this was taking place, the Star-Bulletin mentioned a rumor that Lorrin P. Thurston, publisher of The Honolulu Advertiser, might be a Republican candidate for dele­gate against Joseph R. Farrington, who is publisher of the Star-Bulletin.

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The Speed-Up

Like the huge gantry cranes which will soon tower over Hilo's Kuhio Wharf, the specter of mechanization, and the subsequent labor force reduction, was rising in the minds of Hilo longshoremen.

The cranes will be part of the bulk storing and loading plant now approaching completion on the wharf. When it is finished the Hilo Chamber of Commerce will be able to boast that they have the most modern bulk shipping port in the world.

The plant will include four silos of 40,000 ton capacity which are now ready except for painting. The loading and unloading equipment above them is also nearly completed. Still to be installed are the truck loading ramps to the silos, the scale house, and the conveyor belt system. The conveyor system is designed to haul the raw sugar from the loading ramp to the silos and from the silos to the pier edge.

The gantry cranes will be mounted on tracks on the pier apron to lift the sugar into the ships' holds. When they are completed the entire system will be capable of loading the sugar at a guaranteed rate of 500 tons per hour. Its top speed is estimated at 750 tons per hour. [full story]

The "rebellion" had caught on. In New Orleans an organization representing 150,000 housewives urged its members to stay away from the butcher shop. In Pittsburgh a Housewives Protective League asked a one week ban on meat buying. Seventy-five thousand women in Los Angeles signed a petition demanding lower prices. And here in Hawaii an organization called the Sensible Shoppers, headed by Mrs. Jayne Ellis of Honolulu, asked other civic organizations to join in a meat store boycott beginning Monday. By mid-week the campaign began to show results. Wholesale meat prices began to fall off, although retail prices were still up at the end of the week.

Strike!

An energetic, 71 year old grandmother in Dallas, Texas lit the fuze [sic] to a powder keg last week. As meat prices began to soar to an all-time high, Mrs. R. D. Vaughn reached for her telephone. She began to dial every listing in the Dallas directory to urge a buyer's strike. Explaining that "she hated to be robbed," she suggested that other housewives join her in the boycott and to phone their friends asking them to do the same. Soon the wires were humming — not only in Dallas, but across the country. However, such huge chainstores as Safe­way in San Francisco began to report an "unexplainable" drop in meat purchasing. [full story]

MacArthur Disobeyed

In Japan, General MacArthur's "suggestion" of last week was not being taken in good part by Japanese workers. His "suggestion" was a strike ban for government workers, which Premier Hitoshi Ashida and the Japanese Cabinet promptly adopted. The trouble began when the government attempted to discipline a union leader whom it accused of delaying freight train schedules. Promptly 1,800 rail workers turned in their resignations and stayed off the job at Matsumoto in central Honshu. Elsewhere in Japan eleven local railway strikes were reported, as the cabinet appealed to all workers to "desist from disregarding the law." Meantime the attorney general threatened to arrest the strikers and even those who are suspected of preparing to strike.

Israel Asks Again

Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok requested Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator, to again try for a Palestine peace conference of Arabs and Jews. Shertok said the government of Israel wished to sit down at a round table with the Arabs and try to reach a settlement of their differences. This was a request which Israel had repeated several times in the past — each time without success.

"No Comment "

Last Tuesday the world crossed its fingers and hoped for the best. British, French, and American envoys had requested — and gotten— an interview in Moscow with Joseph Stalin. U. S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau and Frank Roberts, British Foreign Sec­retary Ernest Bevin's private secretary, drove through the gates of the Kremlin on the evening of that day. Two hours later they drove out. To reporters they said "No comment."

Well . . . this is it, the second issue of the HONOLULU RECORD. We hope you'll like it. We hope you'll read it from cover to cover. We hope you'll urge your friends to read the HONOLULU RECORD too. We need your support. Printing costs money. Paper costs money. The editor has to eat a meal now and then. And we plan to publish an issue each week. None of us on the HONOLULU RECORD hope to become a millioniare [sic] from this venture. We don't expect to; we don't want to. All we want to do is publish a paper that speaks for the common man. We want to give him the voice that he doesn't have today. We want to take the independent, thoughtful stand which will best speak for the ma­jority of the people. But in order to do that we need your koukua [sic]. (That's a Hawaiian word meaning "subscription".)

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By Federated Press

Buyers' strikes, sparked by rebellious housewives, were spreading like brushfire across the nation.

In Chicago, home of the slaughterhouses, consumers declared Aug. 5 "meatless Thursday" in answer to a food bill now up 221.5 per cent over the prewar level. Housewives picked up the national crusade against high food prices with a series of demonstrations and radio broadcasts.

With hogs at the record price of $31.10 a hundredweight in the Chicago stockyards, Women for Wallace led the 1-day boycott, choosing key sections of the city for a concentrated campaign.

Spreading the Word

Mrs. Mildred Treffman, one of the leaders of the organization, reported that the drive was organized by chain telephone calls among housewives and by the distribution of leaflets. [full story]

By Special Correspondence

Kai Malino, Aug. 3—Eight buildings in Kainaliu, North Kona burned to the ground Tuesday morning. No injuries were reported Preliminary estimates of the total damages are approximately $125,000. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.

The buildings destroyed were:

1. Rep. Earl Nielsen's Photography studio and home.
2. M. Fujino bakery and home.
3. K. Oshima store, repair shop and service station.
4. K. Oshima taxi stand.
5. University of Hawaii Agricultural Extension office.
6. Hawaii Telephone office.
7. Nozaki repair shop.
8. Kainaliu Watch Shop.

Only a few personal belongings and a small amount of merchandise were saved because the fire spread rapidly in face of complete lack of fire fighting equipment in Kona. The fire was discovered by William Paris, Jr. at 11:30 P.M. Monday in the Oshima store. He awakened residents of the neighborhood, who immediately organized a bucket brigade. Volunteers came from all parts of Kona and kept the fire from spreading to the Oshima home in the rear of the burning buildings, as well as from other buildings in the area.

Washington (FP)— Appearing in an almost empty hearing room before the Senate banking committee, former OPA chief Paul Porter made another attempt before Congress adjourned to gain congressional support for President Truman's anti-inflation program.

Porter referred to administration efforts to get Congress to act against high prices and then went on to say:

"I think it is appropriate to report to this committee that in my judgment much precious time has been wasted. At least during my own experience on the other side of the Capitol, committee consideration was confined principally to abstract economic seminars, attempts to fix blame and sheer politics."

Only two Republicans, Senators Homer E. Capehart (Ind.) and Harry P. Cain (Wash.) were present when Porter appeared. However, Capehart observed tartly that no Democratic Senators had come.

Capehart pointed out that Congress had been called back by Pres. Truman and said, "I would think members of his own party would be interested."

First sign of any action on inflation control came from the House side of Congress where Chairman Jesse P. Wolcott (R. Mich.) of the House banking committee indicated approval of some kind of measure to control bank credit.

Banking credit control was one of the minor points listed in Truman's message to Congress.

Chairman Thomas B. McCabe of the Federal Reserve Board endorsed the measure but admitted that purely monetary measures cannot cure inflation. 

Apparently depressed by the negative reaction of Congress before whom he has appeared, Porter said to the Senate committee:

"Perhaps it is Utopian to assume that there is any prospect of eliminating partisanship from the economic issues now before Congress."

In its fourth day of the meat boycott, officials of the Sensible Shoppers, sponsors of the week-long boycott, indicate some success of the drive as witnessed by the slow buying of meats in Honolulu's major stores.

Starting on Monday, August 9, handbills issued by the organization at big stores asked consumers to "Please do not buy meats. Support us in our fight against high meat prices."

The organization of 70 housewives and working women gained the support of the Honolulu Consumers Council, Americans for Democratic Action, We, the Women and the Transit Workers Union (Ind.) in its fight against the high cost of meats.

This campaign falls in line with the national drive now being waged across the country against meat prices.

Sensibles shoppers was organized about one year ago and its members have been conducting weekly surveys of food prices. Officers of the group are Mrs. Jayne Ellis, president; Mrs. Mary Bidder, vice president and Mrs. Ruth Clark, secretary-treasurer.

Lihue—Two Kauai vets will take part in "A Sound of Hunting," a war play which will be brought here from Honolulu where it ran for nearly two weeks. The play which some critics mentioned as one of the best amateur production in recent years will be presented by the Kauai Veterans Club at Lihue and Hanapepe on August 21 and 22. Tadashi Takeguchi is general chairman of the project. The two veterans from Kauai who are in the cast are Henry Oyasato and Herbert Isonaga. Proceeds from the play will help families of Kauai war dead in defraying burial expenses when the remains are brought here.

Washington— President Truman's proposal for a $4.3 billion tax on excess profits was left begging as Congress adjourned its special session. Rep. John D. Dingell (D. Mich.) who was selected to sponsor the bill said, "With corporate profits after taxes nearly 100 per cent above the level of 1943, the consuming public is entitled to protection from peacetime profiteers." The tax was supposed to help fight inflation by removing surplus purchasing power from the corporations. It was also expected to act as a bar to further price increases since a great part of the increases "would be paid over to the government."

San Francisco —One of the world's unique laboratories for the study of cancer has begun full operations in San Francisco with the opening of a ward for human research patients.

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A special Senate Committee investigating the national defense program issued a 57-page report containing grave charges of fraud and corruption against four Amer­ican oil companies.

The companies—Standard Oil of California, Standard of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum, and the Texas Oil Company, together known as Aramco—control vast oil fields of the Middle East and have concessions in "Saudi Arabia comprising 162,000,000 acres. In return for this concession, King Ibn Saud receives 21 cents per barrel from the companies.

The charges made on April 28 this year were described by Senator Owen Brewster as "an amazing picture of corporate greed when our country was in its most bitter need." [full story]

American officials have failed to carry out their promise to supply the Greek government with poison gas for use against the guerrillas.

This charge was made by Greek War Minister George Stratos, according to NBC Correspondent John Donovan who broadcast from Rome on Aug. 1.

Correspondent Donovan who arrived from Athens stated that American officers have denied making such offers.

The difference between American military authorities and the Greek government on the strategy and tactics of conducting the civil war still remains a fact, Donovan said.

The American military authorities headed by Gen. Van Fleet contend that present equipment supplied by England and the United States are sufficient for fighting 10,000 guerillas in the Grammos Area.

"Stratos claims Americans representatives, including General Wedemeyer, promised bombers and poison gas," Donovan said.

By Stetson Kennedy
Federated Press Correspondent

New York, Aug. 2 — I've just come from a preview held on Atlanta's Stone Mountain July 23.

I packed the Klan robe I used while investigating the outfit, put my pistol toter's permit in my wallet, and went.

The Kluxers have come a long way since I attended their post­war debut on the same spot two years ago. Then, they did everything single-file; this time, they marched six abreast.

"The Klan is determined to maintain white supremacy, by peaceful means if possible, but by force if necessary," Doc Sam Green, leader of the Georgia Klan, roared.

"If civil rights bills are passed, blood will flow in the streets!" he shouted. [full story]

The Reinecke case is just another effort of Governor Ingram Stainback to control the political situation in the islands. If any person or organization does not do his bidding, the Governor will attempt to destroy him.

This charge was directed at the Governor by Meyer C. Symonds at a mass Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee rally held at Aala Park Sunday night. About 400 people attended to hear four speakers explain the development and significance of the Reinecke hearing now being conducted by the Territorial Commissioners of Public Instruction.

Dr. and Mrs. John Reinecke are public school teachers who were suspended last November on charges of being members of the Communist Party and therefore not possessing "the ideals of democracy." [full story]

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By James Lee
Honolulu Record 
China Correspondent

Shanghai, July 28th—Soochow Creek is a garbage-laden, brackish finger of water branching off from the Whangpoo River, on which Shanghai is located. On this creek, in craft ranging from 40-foot lighters to 10-foot sampans, live thousands upon thousands of China's "chwan-fu"—boatmen.

Some of the "chwan-fu," who are members of tightly organized guilds, earn a fair living, by Chinese standards. Their travels up and down the waterways reveal a world which most inland Chinese do not suspect exists. A world with food, education, and some modicum of dignity for the laboring man. But, added to the already over­crowded creek population, are the streams of peasant-refugees who find their way here in search of peace and, they hope, livelihood. Generally, they find neither. A ragged woman, whose family for generations had owned 3 mou (6.6 mou equal one acre) of land in Kiangsu, about 200 miles north of Shanghai, fled from the civil war battle which was being fought near her farm. In the sampan which had here­to-fore served only as a bridge connecting the two parts of the family's land, she and her 44-year-old husband and two daughters made their way to Shanghai. On the trip down, the 20-year-old daughter died. Of what disease the mother was not certain. The poor in China come into the world unattended; they leave the world unattended. Medical attention is a luxury few can afford. [full story]

Julian Napuunoa, Hawaiian longshoreman who is one of the four ILWU members now touring Europe, wrote in a joint letter to ILWU President Harry Bridges the conditions as he saw them in Italy. Napuunoa stopped over in Rome where he said, "the reception was just as splendid and friendly" as other places he had visited. He visited a small port of Civitavacchia not far from Rome where the American delegation was greeted by posters on the walls saying, "Welcome American Longshoremen," Long Live the ILWU-CIO.

The letter said that the town itself "is a mass of ruble. First the Allied forces bombed the hell out of the place and then the master race dynamited the port before they left." 

On the day the Americans arrived in Rome they were "guests of the longshoremen, were dined, shown the principle sights and taken to the opera that night." Then from Rome they travelled to Naples by bus. "... We came by bus, driving through some of the most beautiful and fertile country that we will ever witness. [full story]

The year 1948 promises to be Kauai's worst year for accidents. This observation was made by Police Chief Edwin K. Crowell who warned Kauai motorists to heed speed limits and exercise caution in every way. Kauai had its highest toll of traffic accidents last year but this record is being surpassed by this year's mishaps, according to Chief Crowell. In the first six months of 1947, there were 99 automobile accidents, one person killed and 49 injured. In the first six months of 1948, there were 108 accidents, two persons killed and 44 injured.

In the program of mechanization, the Hawaiian sugar plantations are giving important place to the mechanical cane cutters. At the executive committee meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association held here late last month, sugar company officials were informed of the Duncan cane cutter which is now being experimented with at the Koloa section of Grove Farm Plantation. While this experiment is going on laborers here on this island are expressing concern over the cutting down of man hours through introduction of machines. If am when the cane cutter is put into widespread use, thousands of laborers who now cut cane with knives will become unemployed or must be placed in some other work. With mechanization being pushed in almost every department, employment opportunities in the sugar plantations are getting increasingly scarce. Two other cutters are now under experiment. One of these is known as the Snowplow cutter which like the Duncan type is usable only on dry land. The other is the Gomez cutter which proved successful at Ewa.

AFL and independent utility unions moved in and out of emergency fact finding this week, with CIO unions serving a strike notice and gaining wage increases for its members.

Hawaiian Electric Dispute

The appointment of an emergency fact finding board headed by Newton R. Holcomb as chairman with C. C. Cadagan and Solomon Aki as members was recently announced by the governor in the Hawaiian Electric-International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1260 dispute following failure of a mediation board to settle the trouble. The company contends that the main issue in dispute is the union shop, while the union insists that wage increases also figure in the pilikia. [full story]

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K. O. Warren

This is second in a series of four articles on boxing in Hawaii. Subsequent articles will cover the Boxing Commission, officiating and some inside information on what is termed as the boxing "racket." Many of our sports writers have been guilty of some phony reporting. The write-ups given to some of the "stinkeroos" were nothing short of an apology for the promoter. The close relationship of promoter Leo Leavitt, some of our sportswriters, and our commission officials have also cast a shadow of suspicion. And yet this suspicion cannot be completely overlooked when our press agent boys have helped to unload some "lemons" on the public.

Bouquets To Red McQueen

Refreshing throughout this maze of phony reporting is the job done by Red McQueen of the Advertiser. The research he does in order to do some accurate reporting has meant a tremendous following for his column. His criticism of boxers, managers, the commission, and anybody connected with the game in his "Aftermath of a Fight Night" have resulted in a semblance of a watch dog column. Red hasn't been afraid to call a fighter a "bum," or a lousy fight a "stinkeroo," or a "love match" when fighters were trying to fool the public. But Joe Anzivino nor Ken Misumi has been too critical with the boxing set-up. Are the two boys hypnotized by Loquacious Leo? [full story]

Stockton—The San Joaquin county sheriff's office tried to find out who planted $10,000 worth of marijuana between rows of corn on a farm west of Stockton.

Hilo—A contest to select Mr. Big Island is scheduled to be held in Hilo tomorrow night. Louis Mendonca, well known in Honolulu weight lifting circles, will show his troupe as an added attraction.

Wailuku—Richard Miyagawa of Spreckelsville returned to Maui last month, accompanied by his wife Marian, after an absence of seven year's on the mainland. Miyagawa is well known in territorial amateur fight circles. He was the Maui bantamweight king in 1938-39, territorial runner-up in 1939, and won the National collegiate AA featherweight title in 1942. Miyagawa, attended San Jose State College. He received his B. P. E. degree in recreation and sociology last January from the University of Wisconsin. He was one of the first three men to complete a new community recreation and leadership course. He was also captain of the Badger's boxing team. The young Maui athlete graduated from Maui high in 1939.

Hilo—Henry Davis meets Freddie Sylvano in the main feature of Promoter Leo Leavitt's second professional fight card in the Hilo armory tomorrow night, starting at 7:45. The featherweight tiff is listed for ten rounds. Pro fights in the Crescent city were revived last month after several years of inactivity. Danny May, currently manager of Boy Brooks, the Philippines' welter, middle, and light-heavy champ, tried but failed in his promotional effort in Hilo about three or four years ago. The fight-for-pay game in Hilo was at its best in the old Volcano arena days, with George Bennett as promoter. Leavitt's first monthly card was held on July 16, before a packed gallery. Dado Marino edged out Gus Rosa in the headliner. Tomorrow night's semi-windup scrap will feature two well-known Honolulu lads. Jaimie Basquez, ex-Kakaako AAU title holder just turned pro, goes up against tough William Candido, who recently lost a close verdict to James Botelho. Basquez is a stablemate of Botelho.

Lihue—Seven teams will definitely be entered in the Kauai Athletic union 135-pound barefoot grid loop which kicks the lid off its 1948 season on Sept. 19. Teams entered are: Koloa, Kekaha, Kalawai, Waimea, McBryde, Lihue PAA and Pono. The first three mentioned teams shared the league title last year. Hanapepe and Olo­kele might also enter the league. One round will be played.

Also on the Garden Island grid scene, the Kauai Broncos, asso­ciate members of the Honolulu senior loop, have started work-outs, under Coach "Ticky" Vasconcellos.

Hilo—Lightweight Joe Ri­chardson of Hilo, who will turn pro shortly, chilled George Sugi of Kona in 1:38 of the third canto; and Kikuo (Plateau) Sumimoto of Hilo pulverized George Guzman of Kohala in 1:15 of the second round, in the featured scraps of an 11-bout program sponsored by the H. T. & T. Co. a. c. at Hilo's NAS gym on July 31. The smoker featured Kona CYO simon pures.

It will be remembered that Sumimoto lost to Carl Cabral of the Kalihi Pirates in a middle­weight Hawaii regional Olympic finals bout held in Honolulu in June.

The FBI has the largest single collection of fingerprints in the world.

On file in the identification Division of the FBI in Washington are more than 108,000,000 finger­print cards. These represent fingerprints of approximately 72,500,000 persons.

The file is divided into two groupings—criminal and non-criminal. The former represents 7,500,000 persons and the latter, 65,000,000.

The Democratic party's benefit game, featuring the Moiliili Cardinals and the Islanders, ushers King Football officially into Honolulu's sports picture, on September 1, under the stadium kleigs. Both teams are members of the Honolulu senior loop. Tickets for the game are on sale and can be bought by any member of the Democratic party.

The eyes of local grid fanatics are, however, focused on the appearance of the power-laden Los Angeles Rams, featuring Bob Waterfield, of the National pro circuit, against the Hawaiian Warriors. The Rams will show against the localites on September 6 and 10.

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Mr. A. T. Longley has now joined the "Loose-Talk Hui". He has aligned himself with those who throw the words "subver­sive and radical elements" around without any conception as to what they mean, but hope these words will take root and serve their purpose.

In his letter to Mr. Wilfred Oka, secret­ary of the Oahu Democratic County Committee, Mr. Longley spills many words in announcing his withdrawal as president of the Democratic Precinct Club of the 30th Precinct, 5th District.

That he chose the Honolulu Advertiser in which to plant this letter to Mr. Oka is both revealing and amusing. He knew of Mr. Lorrin Thurston's personal animus to­ward Delegate Joseph R. Farrington and in his letter Mr. Longley more than implies that Mr. Farrington is a tool of these so-called "subversive and radical elements."

When one tries to analyze this jumbled mass of words in Mr. Longley's letter, he picks out a sentence like this:

"Investigate the integrity and ability as well as the character of the associates and supporters of each candidate for office from the lowest to that of delegate to congress ..."

That hits directly at Mr. Farrington, particularly at his PAC support in the 1946 campaign. It hits also at Mayor John H. Wilson and his PAC support in that campaign. Is Mr. Longley charging that Mr. Farrington and Mr. Wilson are tools of the "subversive and radical elements" and therefore are in any manner subversive?

To say that Mr. Farrington and Mr. Wilson are members of a "subversive element" is just one of the ridiculous points in Mr. Longley's letter.

We can see that Mr. Longley is placing himself in the camp of the descendants and supporters of that very definitely subversive element, led by Sanford B. Dole, which overthrow a government by force of arms.

In supporting this big business element that today controls the economic and political situation in Hawaii, Mr. Longley is throwing his loose "subversive activities" words at the forces which, not by force of arms, but by power of the democratic ballot, are attempting to give the government back to the people.

Mr. Longley is also throwing his support to the interests which are definitely opposing statehood for Hawaii. It is very dearly understood that those who are today in control of the economic life of these islands are working tooth and nail against a change in our territorial form of government. While, for obvious reasons, they are obstensjbly [sic] supporting Statehood, they are secretly knifing it in every way possible.

Is this not clear to Mr. Longley?

Contract Laborers Emancipated

Fifty years ago today, when the Republic of Hawaii was annexed to the United States as a territory, the Hawaiian sugar planters never imagined that the "docile" and “obedient” Japanese laborers would revolt against them to secure their freedom.

In 1899, one year after annexation, the sugar planters imported 26,103 Japanese contract laborers — the largest number of Japanese brought to the islands in any single year.

This was the planters' last minute effort to beat the United States contract labor law of 1885 which prohibited importation of contract laborers into the states and territories.

Organic Act Ends Servitude

Then came the Organic Act which put an end to penal contract labor in June 1900, two years before the contracts of of the 26,103 Japanese expired.

The Organic Act stated in part: "That all contracts made since August twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by which persons are held for service for a definite time, are hereby declared null and void and terminated, and no law shall be passed to enforce said contract any way; and it shall be the duty of the United States marshal to at once notify such persons so held of the termination of their contracts."

Black Snake Rule

To the surprise of plantation owners, the Japanese laborers everywhere demanded that their contracts be cancelled and returned to them. 

They wanted freedom, and dignity which came with it. As contract laborers their bodies were practically the property of the sugar planters, to be abused and even whipped with black snake whips. In several places the Japanese went on strike to enforce their demand on the planters who were daily violating a US law in keeping them under servitude.

One of these places was Spreckelsville.

The Hawaiian Star reported the Spreckelsville strike of June 20, 1900, in the following manner: " . . . On Tuesday evening, a United States census agent, Moses Kauhimahu, with a Japanese interpreter entered a camp of strikers, who had not worked for several days, for the purpose of enumerating them immediately upon asking the first Japanese his name, the Special Agent and his interpreter were accused of being agents of Manager Lowrie sent into the Camp to secure the names of the ringleaders of the strike, and were set upon by a number of Japanese.

Strikers Revolt

"The Special Agent took to his heels . . . but the interpreter was beaten and very roughly handled for a time, finally getting away with many bruises and injuries.

On Wednesday morning Sheriff Baldwin with a small posse of police went to this Spreckelsville camp to arrest the assaulters [sic].... Upon their arrival there, the Jap­anese at a signal gathered together, about two hundred of them and attacked the police."

Sheriff Baldwin then called upon Mr. Lowrie and his lunas, as citizens to assist the Government, which they did, making all together a force of about sixty men armed with black snakes. The assaulting force of Japanese armed with clubs and stones, which they freely used and threw, were met and most thoroughly black snaked back to their camp and to a show of submission.

"On a road not far from this camp along which the white men and police were expected to pass, several hundred Japanese from other camps had gathered, armed with clubs and stones, with the apparent intention of attacking them as they came along. 

The Government force however decided as they had no quarrel with this gang to leave them unmolested, and so did not pass near them; consequently the Japanese have the idea that the white force were afraid of them.

It perhaps would have been better had the Government force gone in and dispersed this gang, with a good thrashing thrown in, as the sixty men well mounted, were able to have done, merely for the moral effect of the same."

The Maui Planters' Association subsequently cancelled all contracts, thus ending the strikes at most places.

W.K. Bassett an Independent Voice

In efforts to impress their readers with a sort of independent thinking on matters of political and economic interest, and at the same time stick to the capitalist party line for the sake of advertising income, both the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin are always amusing and ridiculous.

For  instance, take the  Star-Bulletin's prize columnist, Drew Pearson. Notice that every once in a  while the Editor  calls attention,  in  a black-face box on Page One, to what Pearson has to say  that day on the editorial page. This  page-one   blurb only comes when Pearson hits out at somebody or something coincidental with the Star-Bulletin's     party-line editorial-and-advertising-department policy.  When his barbs find   their mark in the soft flesh of the  Star-Bulletin's sacred cows, you can read him if you want to, but there will be no front-page suggestion that you  do  so—and the editorial-advertising hope is that you won't.

How Propaganda is Made

An example: While on his quite sensational tour of the West recently, President Truman lambasted the Republican 80th Congress and declared it to be the worst Congress in American history. The Star-Bulletin printed his charges in its news columns and gave due prominence to the articulated wrath of the Republican representatives and senators. A few days later, in his column oh the editorial page, Drew Pearson gave facts and figures to prove that the Republican 80th Con­gress was without doubt the worst Congress in American history.

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At well-timed intervals you find in the Advertiser editorials that paint Harry Truman as about the lowest of the low in the list of President of the United States; weak, incompetent and generally a wash-out. On the same page you read Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard columnist, commending the sincerity of purpose, nobility, efficiency and general ability of this same Harry S. Truman.

And thinking readers of the Advertiser will quite sensibly conclude that Mr. Stokes, being what he is and where he is, forgets more every night about the political situation in America than the editorial writer of the Honolulu Advertiser will ever know.

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Business Always Cashes In

And here is something that is interesting in view of the harrowing conditions of the sugar plantations of Hawaii which, according to their own gasping breaths, are on their last legs.

A Washington dispatch, sent by the Associated Press to the Star-Bulletin this past week, says that the Department of Commerce, on July 26, reported cash dividends by U. S. Corporation "were a record high of $1,350,500,000 for the second quarter of this year."

Then this significant line: "Publicly reported dividends, the Department said, account for about two-thirds of all cash dividends paid."

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And, according to Drew Pearson in the Star-Bulletin of Thursday, August 5, Philip Murray of the CIO told President Truman that the steel corporations gave labor a wage increase amounting to $160,000,000 a year and then raised prices to the consumers by more than $630,000,000; the coal mine operators gave labor a wage increase amounting to $150,000,000 - and then raised the price of coal to consumers $500,000,000 a year.

American industry is starving to death is it?

Phooey!