Kaiser Sets Off Hunt for Hawaiian Musicians

Henry J. Kaiser appears to have made as big a splash in the field of local entertainment as he has in real estate and finance. And there are a number of operators in that field who think he pointed the way to the future.

That future includes Hawaiian musicians and dancers in greater demand than ever before and drawing down better pay than ever before. Kaiser has indicated it by putting Alfred Apaka and a number of other well qualified Hawaiian musicians under con-tract on salaries higher than they have generally been able to get locally.

Musicians signed by Kaiser already, and on the Mainland with Apaka, include Benny Kalama, Jule Ah See and David Kupele. Iolani Luahine, famous hula dancer, is also reliably reported signed by Kaiser.

He has made a start, too, to-ward insuring feminine allure for his entertainment by signing Miss Barbara Mamo Vierra, the current "Miss Hawaii," to work for him when her chores at Atlantic City and the national beauty contest are finished.

So when Kaiser's new Honolulu hotel opens its doors to the first flock of Mainland tourists, it is pretty sure an Hawaiian show of the highest caliber will be there to extend the Kaiser aloha.

Whether or not other competing hotels will be able to do as well is questionable. Of late, even the Royal Hawaiian, long the hotel which presented the best in authentic Hawaiian music, has begun to vary the motif with Mainland touches under the guidance of Dan Wallace, a dance director. Hawaiian musicians of the traditional type have begun to feel they may be on the way out at the Royal and other Matson hotels, to be replaced eventually with imported Mainland acts.

Under these circumstances, the musicians are only too ready to sign up with Kaiser, especially since he's paying in the neighbor-hood of $200 a week and keeping his musicians working on the Mainland until he's ready for them here.

Some old heads in the business fear the Hawaiians may be a little too ready to sign for their own good. At the rate the demand is growing, they say, the Hawaiians may be able to ask much higher prices later if they aren't already tied up in long term con-tracts.

The stimulus Kaiser has already added to traffic in Hawaiian musicians and dancers are consider-able. Already operators in the local entertainment world figure are beating the bushes for new talent, for the truth is, no one thinks there are enough seasoned Hawaiian entertainers of high caliber to go around among the tourist hotels, let alone various restaurants, bars and night spots that may want them come next season.

Scout's Report Not Encouraging One scout, after spending some time on Kauai and Maui, reported back that the best act he found was a young Hawaiian who could imitate Nat King Cole's vocals with startling effect. But imitations of Mainland artists aren't what the scouts are looking for.

As one old showman put it "It's not going to be long before Hawaiians are getting prices just as good or better than the special Mainland acts that are brought in. That goes for anything that looks local. Samoan, Japanese, Chinese shows and the like, they will go. But the tourists are not going to want to see the same thing they had at home."

A veteran Hawaiian musician, temporarily, retired, told the RECORD about the same thing. "In five years," he said, "there won't be many good musicians and hula dancers around. There's a good future for the young people who have talent and want to work at it."

Imitation may the sincerest form of flattery, but it's also what's keeping local bars and restaurants, that depend on their floor shows, from making much money. At least that's the opinion of one top-notcher in the trade these several years.

No sooner does one impresario bring in a popular act, says the showman, than everyone tries to bring one like it.

"One guy gets a Japanese show and pretty soon everyone has Japanese shows. Or one brings
 in hot jazz and before you know it, there are bands all over the : place. So the attraction is divided up and nobody makes anything.":

This situation could be rectified, in the opinion of this showman, if the bar owners would agree to take more or less set patterns and stick to them.

Thus bars which feature hillbilly music, Japanese entertainers, or Mainland combos would stick to those and quit encroaching on one another's fields. The result would be better for everyone, says the showman, if for no other reason than that tourist agencies would be better able to steer the tourists to the kind of entertainment they want to see. The way it is now, not even the tourist agencies can keep up with the many switches in shows by the various bar owners.

"If they were a little more consistent," says the showman, "the customers would learn to have confidence in them."

* * Show business is going big right now on both Kauai and Maui, according to on-the-spot report from both islands. The big news on the Garden Island is the opening of the Club No No at Kapaa, named for the near-by sleepy giant mountain. The sleeping mountain motif is carried out in a mural said to be quite spectacular. Opening night the house was filled. The Club Lani Wai on Maui was reported turning customers away last week-end, too.

* * "Mister B," Billy Eckstine, who packed 'em in here two or three years ago, may be billed here again, as Bob Krauss re-ported in his "Night Side," in last Sunday's Advertiser. But local promoters think the price wouldn't be anything like the $10,000 a week mentioned by Krauss. Eckstine is reported "falling off" on the coast, and the locals guess he might be had for $2,500 a week.

* * What with the China Doll, Barbara Yung, still drawing heavily at the Hubba Hubba, and the China Darlings doing well enough at the South Seas, there's talk that maybe other Chinese dancers will be brought from the West Coast. One mentioned is Lana Wong, described as something of an acrobatic dancer, who has always been popular at Mainland clubs. Maybe the talk illustrates what the show-man above says — that whenever an act goes over well here, every-one immediately tries to get some-like it.

* * Three places listed for sale this long time, with apparently no takers at prices that please the owners are Tony Gora's on Bethel St., and the Brown Derby and the Blue Note on Nuuanu. Eddie Sartain, owner of the last two named, says he wants to go to Manila. Looked around Waikiki for a bit, but didn't see any location that suited him and his pocketbook. Don't know what Tony Gora's reasons are.

* * The China Doll, whatever the liquor commission may think of her, made a big hit with the Lions' Club at their Tuesday luncheon. Pinch-hitting for the traditional Hawaiian beauty, Miss Yung bestowed paper leis on visiting Lions in the traditional Hawaiian manner, planting a kiss on each.

"She showed a lot of personality," said one who had not seen her before, "and seemed to be very nice, indeed."

Probably the Hubba Hubba will be getting considerable business from the Lions in the next week or so after as successful a bit of promotion as you'll see in weeks.

* *Renny Brooks, returning to Honolulu from a quick trip to the Mainland Monday, was able to give United Air Lines a few suggestions for increasing the density of airborne Hawaiian atmosphere for tourists to and from Hawaii. The big liners might very well, Brooks told the UAL people, carry two or three musicians who could serenade the travellers via a specially toned microphone and take their minds off the over-cast. And what would be more appropriate for visitors to hear than Renny's famous rendition of "No Huhu," though of course the amiable 'musician didn't suggest that.

When C-C Attorney Norman S. Chung gave an oral opinion that Mayor Neal S. Blaisdell could legally appoint Mrs. Elsie Burke to the civil service commission without confirmation by the board of supervisors, he may have put his foot into a trap. Such is the opinion of some City Hall veterans who think perhaps the mayor may have put his foot in, too, by making the appointment with-out taking it to the board.

Chung feels he is on solid ground in attributing to the may-or the power of making a temporary appointment, to fill in for a member on leave of absence. He cited the contradiction between Sections 6532 and 6533 as the principle upon which his oral opinion was based.

The first says commission members must be confirmed. The second says temporary appointments may be made, but mentions nothing about confirmation by the board.

Some attorneys, conspicuously
 Sup. Matsuo Takabuki, have ex-pressed dissatisfaction with the oral opinion.

Case of Bobby Miller

City Hall veterans say there may be solid precedent to the contrary. On two occasions, once in 1948 and again something more than a year later, the late Robert Miller, a kamaaina architect, was appointed to the civil service com-mission by Mayor John Wilson to fill the seat of Mendel Borthwick, a regular member of the commission, who was absent for long periods on the Mainland.

Both times Miller's appointment was confirmed by the board of supervisors which, nevertheless, would never confirm the same man for a permanent appointment.

Wilford Godbold, at that time C-C attorney, is believed to have submitted a written opinion, contrary to the recent oral opinion of Chung, stating that confirmation by the board would be necessary.

City Hall veterans doubt that Wilson, who well knew the op-position of the board to Miller, would have submitted his name, even for a temporary appointment, unless he thought he had to. If Chung and Blaisdell are wrong, of course, they run the risk of having someone challenge acts of the commission on the grounds that, while Mrs. Burke sits as a commissioner, the body is not legally constituted and its acts are without authority. Is Ross Resident? Wesley Ross, the chairman of the commission, who is currently on leave in the Trust Territories, offers the immediate problem to the mayor and the attorney. They don't know whether he intends
 to stay or not, and the only way they can find out is by asking him.

A letter has gone forth from Attorney Chung's office, there-fore, asking Ross: 1. If he intends to stay there, 2. if Mrs. Ross will join him there and 3. if he has sold, or intends selling his home. All three questions, if answered fully, would tend to establish Ross' status as a resident, either of Hawaii or the Trust Territories, Chung believes, and would help him give, an opinion based more thoroughly than his oral opinion of last week.

But of course, no one knows how many meetings the commission in the meantime, may hold with Mrs. Burke as a member, because no one knows when Ross will answer. If it were clearly established that he is no longer a resident, then indications are the mayor would submit. Mrs. Burke's name to the board for confirmation or rejection.

No one knows how the board would react to that move.

Honolulu's big hotels have been for years running restaurants without having to pay restaurant li-censes, but those days may be approaching an end.

Restaurant owners have for years complained that hotels which run eating establishment catering to other than their own guests should have to buy restaurant licenses. The fee for such a license, only $10, was in itself a matter of small moment.

But the restaurant owners have felt that hotels like the Moana, SurfRider, Biltmore, Edgewater and others in Waikiki and the Young and Blaisdell in downtown Honolulu are getting away with something.

A couple of months ago, C-C Treasurer Lawrence M. Goto delved into the possibility of requiring the hotels to buy restaurant licenses. But an opinion from C-C Attorney Norman Chung held they can't legally be required to have licenses. New Law Expands License Field

Act 235, passed by the recent session of the legislature and signed into law by Gov. King, may have ended all that, though. The new law provides that licenses may be required of many businesses for which they were not necessary before.

The law further provides that the county boards, besides determining who shall be licensed also determines the cost of the licenses. And the boards have much latitude in setting up price schedules.

At present, supervisors have taken no conclusive action in this direction, but City Hall sources say the hotels are almost certain to be put in the licensed category. There is also the view that volume of business may be a consideration in making new price schedules on license.

Licenses For Revenue?

"The theory of licenses as purely regulatory devices," says an ob-server experienced in such matters, may be at an end. The board seems likely to regard licenses as revenue-producing taxes now."

Whether or not that is true remains to be seen. The law, arising from a bill signed by all senate Democrats, came as a part of an economic program in which the Democrats were hunting new sources of revenue.

"Used unwisely," says the experienced observer, "Act 235 might be oppressive to small businesses. Used wisely, it can correct inequities that have existed since the days when the plantations ran the Territory."

Exempted from licensing under Act 235 are businesses involving: motor sales, tobacco sales, liquor sales, liquid fuel, banking, boxing and fishing.

But that still leaves many, many businesses which today are not required to buy county licenses.

The first tests of Gaspro and Wilsonite brick by a Federal agency are reliably reported to have been completed, but the re-ports have not yet been received by C-C Building Superintendent Yoshio Kunimoto.

The tests were made by navy laboratory technicians at Pearl Harbor, but few people know that.

Tests were ordered, the RECORD has learned reliably, after M. Justin Herman of the Federal housing and home finance agency visited Honolulu in late June.

Is “Liminite” Clay?

Faced with charges that the Gaspro brick, sometimes advertised as “Liminite,” might not be a clay product at all, as specified by the contract for the Pearl City school and other “Federal participation” schools where they are being used, Herman at that time stated that he was an administrator and no expert on brick.

It is the policy of his agency, Herman said, to go along with what the local government approves—but he indicated that approval might be withdrawn later if the bricks failed to meet specified tests.

Spokesmen of Wilsonite Brick, which has successfully tried to sell its product to contractors, charged at the time that their brick is the only one locally that does meet the contract specifications, and that the Gaspro product contains lime, held by some authorities to be a dangerous flaw.

It was revealed further that the only tests made of the Gaspro brick at that time had been made by the University of Hawaii, at the request of the C-C building department, and the laboratory data forwarded to the Federal agency.

Test Samples From Walls

So after Herman left, samples were ordered taken out of the walls of the schools under construction and given Pearl Harbor for tests by navy technicians.

“What they found out, we don’t know,” said an informed source. “The navy is keeping very quiet about the matter.”

Results of the navy tests must be forwarded to the Federal bureau of weights and standards in Washington, the RECORD was informed, because there is at present no standard by which to judge clay bricks, and one must be established.

Results of tests of Wilsonite will also be sent to the bureau, the RECORD is informed.

Both contractors and C-C officials have agreed that they find the Wilsonite product superior to the Gaspro brick, but both have expressed dissatisfaction with the speed of Wilsonite’s production.

Former mayor, John H. Wilson, who first made clay bricks here and who founded the Wilsonite Co. argues that such accusations are merely subterfuges with the purpose of giving him and his company a runaround.

Whenever one of three Democrats gets around to offering him a Democratic Party membership card, Edward J. Burns, manager of the Honolulu Redevelopment Agency and a prominent Republican in past years, will become a Democrat.

But he won't be a very active Democrat because his position, which entails the handling of Federal funds, doesn't allow it.

For some weeks rumors had circulated in political circles that Burns, a brother of John A.
 Burns, chairman of the Democratic central committee and candidate for delegate to Congress last fall, had joined the Democratic party.

Three Tardy With Card

It isn't true Burns said this week, but the only reason it isn't is the failure of three Democrats to "sign him up." The three are Rep. Daniel Inouye, Dan Aoki and Taro Suyenaga.

When the three were talking politics with him before the re cent session of the legislature, Burns says, he promised he would become a Democrat if, at the end of the session, he felt the Democrats had kept their campaign promises.

After the session, Rep. Inouye asked him how well he thought the promises had been kept.

"I told him I thought they had done pretty well, "says Burns, "and it wasn't their fault that the bills they passed didn't be-come law."

At the time Burns told Inouye he was ready to sign a Democratic card, but somehow the matter was pushed no further.

So now perhaps Aoki and Suyenaga can get the jump on Inouye.

Prominent In GOP

Burns has taken an extremely active part in politics in the past, having served from 1947 to 1951 as vice chairman of the Republican central committee, and as chairman of the Oahu Republican campaign committees of 1946 and 1950.

Although a number of his Republican friends, learning of his latest decision, have attempted to get him to change his mind, Burns says, "The decision is based upon principle and I see no reason for changing it."

Because of the political sensitivity of his present position, Burns declined to name the particular parts of the Democratic program upon which he had based his original promise.

He did, however, strongly deny one version of the rumor—that he was becoming a Democrat to work in a campaign for his brother, Jack, for mayor in the next election.

In his present job, Burns point-ed out, such activity would not be possible and besides, "I've not heard Jack express any inclination to run for mayor."

The story of the achievements of Hawaiian Nisei is a story "that should be told to offset the effects of good-for-nothing Nisei here from Hawaii causing a bad name for the Nisei, in general," writes. Tamotsu Murayama, Tokyo correspondent of the Pacific Citizen official publication of the Japanese American Citizens League. The newsman writes in the July 15 Pacific Citizen that Hawaiian Nisei have established a proud history of achievement in Japan in the newspaper, educational, athletic and entertainment fields. Murayama writes primarily about the prewar Nisei and deals harshly and somewhat bitterly with the postwar Nisei. Of both groups he writes thus: "Because of the various hard-ships suffered by prewar Nisei stranded in Japan during the war years, they stand separately from the postwar Nisei who came in with the occupation forces and practically lived like kings by dealing in blackmarket goods. Thank the Lord, those days are gone. A pinch of salt, spoonful of sugar or the cigarette no longer commands the attention It once favored. In a way, they provided precious items, which the Japanese could not obtain whatsoever."

At the end of the article he passes over the achievements of postwar Nisei in a paragraph. He writes:

"There are many ball players from Hawaii today. Unfortunately I do not know them. There are other Nisei from Hawaii meeting success in other fields."

Murayama, a Mainland prewar Nisei, is on more familiar ground when writing of the older Nisei from Hawaii. He reports that Tamie Ouchi led a first group of Nisei to Japan in 1918. This group went for education.

• Shoichi Hirase, now pushing 60, is the most successful Nisei businessman from Hawaii. He is a top executive with the Fuji Iron Works.

• Chiye Edith Kubota heads the list of Nisei businesswomen. She is president of the Nippon Diamond Pit Co.

• Jiro Motokawa is assistant manager of the Tokyo branch of the National City Bank of New York.

• Among oldtime newspapermen are Kisashi Koshimoto of the Mainichi Shimbun sports department and Fukuichi Fukumoto of the foreign news department of the same paper. (Fukumoto's parents live in Pahala, Kau.)

• Other newsmen prominent in Japan are Toyoyuki Imamura, now Mainichi bureau chief in • New York, and Roy Saiki, Yomiuri sports writer. . Tetsuo Shinjo of Tokyo Shimbun translated a national best-seller. All of them write in Japanese and Murayama reports that "Nisei from Hawaii are very good in Japanese."

• Kimpei Sheba is the pioneer journalist among Hawaii Nisei. He founded the English section of the San Francisco Nichibei many years ago, then left for Japan to manage the Nippon Times. He now heads the Asahi Evening News.

• Newspapering runs in the Sheba family. Kimpei's father founded various Japanese vernacular papers in Hawaii, then re-turned to Japan to serve the Japan Tories. (The elder Sheba was subsidized by the Hawaiian. Sugar Planters to publish an anti-strike paper during the 1909 Japanese sugar strike.)

Kimpei's younger brother Togo issues English language periodicals from time to time and publishes the monthly magazine Maru.

Oshima Top Educator

Other Murayaya names are: Leslie Nakashima and Mrs. Shizue Miyauchi of United Press in Tokyo, Radio Press Manager Tom Nakata, Asahi Shimbun camera-man Ryoichiro Kurokawa, Dempo Tsushin's Giichi Muronaka and Kyodo's Kinishi Asami.

Hiroshi Nii is at Japan Broad-casting Corp. and Mike Noboru Niike, at Nippon Times.

Dr. Kakuichi Oshimo of Doshisha University, according to Murayama, is probably the top educator from Hawaii. Tom Takagi, an English professor, has lectured at Waseda and other colleges.

Hawaiian Nisei are not prominent in politics. Murayama names Kenbo Kai as "one of the few government officials from the Islands. He is with the ministry of postal service." On the stage and screen the

Haida brothers, Katsuhiko and Haruhiko, are outstanding for their singing and acting.

Shimabukuro, Shigeta Named

"Other names are Fumiko Kawabata and Mrs. Shizu Saito, among the feminine artists," Mu-rayama writes. "Postwar, George Shimabukuro and James Shigeta have made their imprint here."

In sports, a field in which the Hawaii Nisei also did well, Murayara names only two. They are Chiky Honda who played baseball at Keio University before turning to sports writing for Domei before the war. Today he is a public relations consultant in Osaka. Shi-geo Kameta is the other. He play-ed ball for Meiji, served with the Japanese navy and today is with Japan Air Lines.

Kaiser Tanaka and others are among the prewar group who transplanted their talent to Japan.

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Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., and S & W Fine Foods, Inc., of San Francisco terminated discussions on a possible merger.

The joint statement issued at San Francisco said that Hapco which has embarked "on a pro-gram of expansion and diversification, decided to confine acquisition at this time to companies engaged solely in processing fresh products.

"S. & W.'s operations cover a divergent range of products and methods of distribution.

"Subsequent developments may pave the way on resumption of negotiations."

Hapco management has announced that it is convinced the economics of food processing and marketing today make it imperative that product lines be consolidated to compete with well-established national brands.

Territorial employes have received their increment beginning with their July pay, when the increments were first due, Auditor Howard Hiroki confirmed this week.

Although Act 276, intended to increase the pay of all government workers, has been signed by Gov. King, Hiroki said there is no in-consistency in payment of the increment.

"If Act 276 is upheld by the supreme court," Hiroki said, "there will be no trouble, for the increment is less than the pay raises. It will only remain to pay the difference. But if it is held invalid, then the increments are due any-way."

That thinking is the same expressed by the United Public Workers which spurred action out of the C-C government with a letter suggesting such a plan of action.

Bill's Validity In Doubt

Strong doubts about the validity of Act 276 have been expressed especially by the attorney general, since the title of the bill does not mention an amendment which includes pay raises for employes. The original bill was one to raise teachers' salaries.

Thus territorial employes are the first to have received their increments. Next should be the Honolulu C-C workers, since the supervisors have already approved expenditure of a sufficient amount to cover payment.

Auditor Edwin De Silva has indicated Hawaii County will pay the increments when the efficiency ratings have been received.

Maui County, which has indicated it hasn't enough to pay its regular expenses, has also not received efficiency ratings from department heads.

Kauai employes should be next after Honolulu to get their increments, if indeed, they don't get them as soon as Honolulu. In any event, authorities at Kauai indicate increments will be paid by August 31.

Raleigh, N.C.-(FP)-More than 169,000 North Carolinians are in for pay raises if Pres. Elsenhower signs the new $1 an hour mini-mum wage law passed by Congress. Most of the low-paid workers affected by the bill are in construction, manufacturing and seasonal, work in tobacco processing plants.

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Ewa Boxing Club members will fight amateur pugilists from Honolulu in their first bout next Friday night, Aug. 19, at the Ewa gym.

The Honolulu boxers will visit Ewa to give Coach Richard Choi's fighters a boost in their home town on the occasion of their first night in a match sponsored by the Oahu Amateur Boxing Assn. The Ewa fighters, whose average age is 16 1/2, will face more experienced opponents.

Third Try for Ewa

Choi, a welterweight professional fighter who has fought in 130 bouts both as an amateur and a professional, says two of his 14 fighters have fought once before, but without any training to speak of. He has trained the Ewa boxers for nearly four months.

This is the third time Ewa has started a boxing club. Because two previous organizations folded up without proper guidance and follow-through, Choi says that he was determined from the beginning to make the organization continue and grow.

"We elected a team captain, a co-captain and a treasurer," he explained.

They are Greg Lontaya, William Bolos and Richard Anguay, respectively.

Train Daily

Choi and the Ewa boys got together earlier this year when Choi moved to the plantation from Aiea to live with his wife's family, Mr. and Mrs. Manosuke Gyotoku of Mill Village. He stayed at Ewa for four months while his wife looked after her mother. By the time the Chois returned to their Aiea home, the boxing club was on its way. Now Choi commutes from Aiea to Ewa every day, Monday to Fri-day, and trains the boys from 4 p.m. to about 6 p.m. Saturdays he takes the fighters to town to the Veterans' AA gym to train them there. Choi himself fought for the Veterans' AA and trained there as a professional. "At the Veterans' gym the boys nave the use of better facilities. They have everything there. And I want the boys to get more ex-perience, get to see more and get in there themselves to learn how to fight," Choi explains. "I want them to have the experience the Honolulu boys have."

Recalls Amateur Days

Choi means business and he takes good care of the young fighters who make him recall his days as an amateur.

"We sparred from the beginning and the fighter who could take it and stayed remained with the club. I train them one month and a half before I let them spar. The training methods weren't like our methods today. In our days we had many turning out. Today there are all kinds of interests and we have to help create interest and not kill the fight in the boys," Choi explains. "In the old days, if a fella couldn't take it, that was all."

Choi, who handles the club with the assistance of Manager Benny Apostadiro and Mamoru Oki, trainer and secretary, says that the club would have folded up after one and a half months without the backing of Robert "Sheik" Takamoto, the club's advisor.

'"I very seldom come around," Takamoto explained and com-mended Choi and his assistants for following through with the boxing program.

Gave Real Push

"But it was 'Sheik' who gave the real push. I was considered an 'outsider' and had no voice. I was just visiting with my in-laws and staying here for the time being. And 'Sheik' held the club together," Choi said. Takamoto, chairman of the ILWU unit at Ewa plantation, says he saw a splendid opportunity to get a boxing program underway with a man like Choi to head it. Benny Apostadiro fought with the CYO and in 1940 took the National AAU featherweight crown. The Ewa boxing club is pushing for better facilities for training. Now they train on judo mats in a back room of the gym, Takemoto says the club is trying to build greater interest in the community in the boxing program and it is the hope of the club members that the Ewa management will provide a permanent area for boxing, with facilities for put-ting up a ring.

Boys Change

"We are giving the boys recreation and helping to keep them in line. This helps the parents and the community and the boys. The boys learn to respect each other, at the same time they develop confidence in themselves," Takamoto said. "We're not trying to make champions." Choi says that big changes take place among the boys. First they
 

Want to spar right away. After a month and a half he matches them for sparring. One round gets them winded pretty badly. They learn what sparring is like. But they are doing two and three rounds and don't tire out so easily.

"Come on. Keep moving. Keep jabbing. Keep your hands up. Keep your mouth closed." Choi coaches from the side and every time a boxer trips between the cracks of the Judo mats or gets his foot stuck in a rip in the cover of the mat, he shakes his head.

"But we started from scratch. 'Sheik' hustled us gloves and equipment," Choi said. "The Ewa Recreation Assn. helped us with equipment. We had 33 boys when we first started. Even 20 is hard to handle in a small place like this. Some boys are working during summer vacation. Some, their parents objected. Some will re-turn to us when school starts. This club needs better facilities."

"We want the parents to get behind and push the program. We want them interested. We need the community's support and a recreation program like this will help everybody," Takamoto said.

On next Friday night's card the Ewa fighters will be matched with boxers from the Veterans' AA, Hawaii Youth, Kaimuki Eagles, Hawaii Athletic Club and Aiea Eagles.

Dr. Lyle G. Phillips of IMUA complained in one of his radio programs that Robert McElrath, ILWU public relations director, received an "unexpected assist" from one of the local dailies.

The IMUA announcer declared that the assist, "which we suspect was inadvertent," came in the form of a three-column head-line, "Bridges 'Good Citizen Since 1954.'"

The headline ran over a UP story from San Francisco. Phillips said, "The first paragraph read, Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman made it crystal clear today there was no evidence to prove labor chief Harry Bridges was anything but a good American citizen since 1945.'" Phillips added, "Truly a surprising statement, but there it was in the newspaper. . ." Phillips hasn't complained over the radio since Bridges' acquittal that the dailies carried the story of the acquittal, with Judge Goodman's denunciation of in-former testimony.

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Princeton, N. J.-(FP) - For the first tune in its 209-year history Princeton University has appointed a. Negro professor to its faculty. He is Dr. Charles T. Davis, 37-year-old .graduate of Dart-mouth, who is an authority on Walt Whitman.

After obtaining his doctorate at New York University, Dr. Davis served as assistant professor of English on the faculty there.

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Japanese and European producers are gradually winning the battle with the United States for the $6.5 billion Latin American market, the Journal of Commerce reported in a recent issue, as a result of three situations:

1. Japanese and European companies, in many cases, offer lower prices.

2. They also give more liberal payment terms.

3. European companies, especially, have made wider use of bilateral trade agreements to build up their export trade.

The Journal, a newspaper de-voted to finance, cites an annual United Nations survey as saying Latin America's reduction of trade with the U. S. as compared with increased trade with Japan and Europe has become "more pronounced," indicating that the trend is not new.

Still the U. S. share of Latin American trade is large. Of the total imports from the U. S., Canada, Europe and Japan, the U. S. share is 56.7 per cent. But two years ago it was 59.6 per cent and 62 percent in 1950

Percentage Rise

Europe's share, on the other hand, has risen gradually from 33.8 per cent in 1950 to 36.8 per cent in 1954.

Japan broadened its proportion from only one per cent in 1950 to 3.6 per cent in 1954.

Especially have European ex-ports of machinery and heavy equipment to Latin America been on the increase. In some types of machinery, European sales doubled from 1951 to the present, the Journal says.

In the face of this increased competition, the UN survey finds, U. S. manufacturers expect to be-gin "more determined" sales campaigns. The Export-Import Bank is giving American exporters more assistance than in the past, the Journal says, and quotes the UN report as saying, "Trade, industrial and financial circles in the United States are now paying more attention to foreign credit problems."

"Blood Alley" is the name chosen by A. S. Fleischman for a novel that really has nothing to do with that famous old name. And the novel has been chosen by John Wayne as a conveyance for himself and Lauren Bacall.

The novel is a phonied up story of an escape from "Red China," and the "Blood Alley," in this book is the Strait of Formosa. It might as well be the Strait of Mars or Venus for all the resemblance to reality it carries.

But when you remember John Wayne's "Big Jim McLain," made locally and considered farfetched by everyone except IMUA, this later choice is not surprising. It's more surprising that, since Big Jim was a financial flop, Big John should be out throwing good money after bad. Big John has the reputation of a man who likes a buck.

It's rather a shame the novelist and the actor-producer didn't choose to do a job on the real Blood Alley—the street known to thousands of seamen who hit Shanghai when it was a treaty port. It is a piece of the past that will never return, which is undoubtedly just as well, but it was just as lively as the name implies.

Short Street in Shanghai

Blood Alley was the name for a short street that ran off the larger avenue in the International Settlement then called Avenue Edward VII — given a Chinese name since World War II.

The street was filled with saloons and honky-tonks all patronized almost entirely by foreign merchant seamen, soldiers and sailors. What's more, the lads who went there were the roughest and the wildest. They kept the police constantly busy stopping fights and generally keeping the vice from becoming riotous.

The bar best remembered by the oldtimers was, paradoxically, around the corner from Blood Alley on the avenue, itself. It was Monk's Brass Rail and it was a slow night, the oldtimers say, when some French legionnaire or British stoker or American marine didn't mount the bar and offer to lick any man in the house.

Blood Alley's bars closed their doors after the Japanese took Shanghai in World War II. The Japanese didn't close them. There just wasn't much business and one after another, they folded up and were converted to warehouses.

Uniforms Taboo Before

Some tried to revive with the influx of foreigners after the war, and a few succeeded for a time, but it wasn't the same. For one thing many of the ritzy restaurants and bars, like "D-D's," for instance, were not happy to have customers who wore uniforms. In the old days, a man in uniform was

stopped at the door in most of those places.

The one establishment that managed to survive pretty well was

Monk's Brass Rail—which had changed ownership and called it-self Monte's Brass Rail, or some such. But the famous old bar resorted to an unusual device to make ends meet.

The place opened its doors about 10 o'clock in the morning, but not as a bar. There were neat tablecloths and petite, neat waitresses that looked like high school girls, and there were luncheons with toast and parsley and salads. The whole thing looked like the production of a class of home economics, and that's almost what it was. That midday session was in charge of a home economics teacher from St. Johns College. The customers were mostly businessmen and office girls from the big commercial houses across the avenue.

But, at three o'clock, the table-cloths disappeared, the waitresses disappeared, big bouncers eased into place, and the place became something closer to the reputation of the old Monk's Brass Bail

As the hour grew later and sea-men came in from the ships on the Whangpoo River a couple of blocks away, the noise grew and the action increased. The last night we were there, a British marine climbed on top of the bar and offered to "whip any Yank in the house." Naturally, he had takers.

E. R.

The two-year special milk pro-gram started by the Federal government last school year, from which territorial schools are excluded, is reported to be a boon to milk producers on the Mainland.

Schools in the islands do not benefit from this expanding pro-program because while local milk producers sell some of their milk at low price to Dairymen's and Foremost as "surplus" milk, there is no surplus milk program here as on the Mainland.

More schools on the Mainland are expected to join the special milk program and the program is expected to expand to include non-profit summer camps for boys and girls, boys' clubs and similar groups.

Of the 34 million children in the U. S., seven million did not get milk at school prior to the special milk program. They are now getting milk.

There is a move in Congress to raise the $50 million program to $75 million or $100 million a biennium.

Ford proposed that under a new union contract he'd let his employes buy company stock at bargain prices to make them feel like bosses, and lend them money when they're laid off just to show them who's boss.

The Waipahu ILWU softball league championship will be played Saturday morning at Waipahu Park.

The athletic committee said that the finish of the first softball season of the union sponsored league will be marked by the awarding of prizes to players and teams.

The Garage is now leading with one loss. If Tractor wins and the strong Garage team drops its game, the two teams must play off for the championship.

Formerly the plantation sponsored the softball league. This year the union's athletic committee organized the league and the season was successful with enthusiastic participation by union members.

Who voted for Eisenhower in 1954? Executive and professional people, white collar workers, up-per income, college educated, German-American, Irish-American, farmer, and feminine groups, according to Louis Harris, research executive with the Elmo Roper survey outfit. Who voted for Stevenson? Labor, low income and lower middle income, Italian-American, Polish-American, Negro, Jewish, Catholic and less educated groups.

The tourist industry slumped to 10,000 during the depression year 1933. An estimated 106,000 visitors will come to Hawaii in 1955.

Know what the best hotels in Honolulu are, according to the hotel greeters' "Southern California Guide."

Three are listed—the Maile, the Park Surf and the Pua-Lei-Lani. The only other hotel listed in the Territory is the Volcano House on the Big Island. There may be a suspicion in the mind of the reader that, excellent as these hotels may be, their listing is inspired by membership in the hotel greeters organization, or by some other material interest.

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The 442ND Club lays its motives about the forthcoming circus on the line in an editorial in the August issue of its paper, the Go For Broke Bulletin. Maybe that wasn't exactly what the writer in-tended, but that was the result with some readers, and probably it's just as well. The project, says the editorial writer, is one "which will benefit the mother club as well as each individual chapter in the organization."

No claim is made that the project is for any particular community cause other than to give good entertainment.

Some vets say that in the past tickets for such projects have been sold with the somewhat hazy understanding that it was all for the civic betterment somehow. It is much more straightforward, such vets believe, to say the project is one to make money for the club and the promoters, and those who buy will see a good show.

That doesn't mean, of course, the reminder of Dan Inouye to the club a paper or so back is forgotten by the members. Inouye warned that the club should not lose sight of the importance of community service in its whirl social activities.

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"The China Doll," Barbara Yung, has got an apology coming. Edward Rohrbough, who has been of aid to this column from time . to time, and who wrote a story about her and her act at the Hubba Hubba last week, asks us to help him with the apology. It seems the word "lurid," got into the story in connection with her dance in a place where "intricate" was originally written. The writer says he hasn't heard anything from Miss Yung, but he does want to say he didn't intend "lurid," or anything that sounds like it. If there is a word he wouldn't use to describe Miss Yung's act, he says, it is "lurid." In fact, he wouldn't use it to describe any-thing. Doesn't like the word.

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Speaking of Miss Yung, we see where Bob Krauss marvels at the fuss made over her, considering her act, and all. The answer, we would guess, is skillful showmanship and promotion. In fact, if we remember, Bob helped the buildup along considerably himself. And we still haven't heard of any dissatisfied customers.

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Garage mechanics may have to have licenses sometime in in the future. Several states are considering requiring licenses to eliminate unqualified mechanics and shops, reduce the number of accidents caused by sloppy work, and give greater protection to the public," according to Purolator Cashbox, an automobile trade journal. The same source says the U. S. had 2,010 fatal accidents and 69,200 non-fatal accidents during 1954 in which equipment was to
blame. Not all these could be blamed on the service, of course, but the trade journal feels gar-ages share heavily in the responsibility.

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Here’s a tip on how to start a flooded car, too, from the Purolator publication: "Hold a steady open throttle, not pumping the acclerator, until the starter turns up enough rpm to clean raw gas from the manifolds."

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Rocky Marciano and Rep. Joe Martin, GOP leader in the house of representatives in Congress, we see, were among those who successfully sought a parole from Oahu Prison for Edward Mayo, Mainlander convicted of embezzlement here. They addressed their messages to Gov. Sam King, naturally. Next thing you know Blinky Palermo and Frankie Carbo will be writing down here to get some Mainlander out of trouble. Of course, it looks as though Mayo isn't out of trouble yet, if ever he gets out. Whatever Gov. King thinks, some of those who "in-vested" money with Mayo still want to know what became of it.

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Saturday’s Star Bull had a front page picture that might leave readers with plenty of room for thought. It was that of two show girls from an ice show play-ing in Huron, South Dakota, where the farm delegation from the USSR was visiting. The pair, Kay Sevalius and Sonya Kaye, were shown kissing the cheeks of one of the smiling Russians in what the Star-Bull called a "Midwest Aloha."

Now that's all very well as a stunt to show how hospitable Americans are, in this time when President Eisenhower seems to be setting policy along a friendlier line. But supposing policy changes back to the old saber-rattling approach again. Supposing one of these girls tries to get a government job, or maybe work with a USO show. Will that picture make her a "security risk"? If you think that's silly, recall the guy called a security risk because he fraternized with President Gregg Sinclair of the U. of H.

Or supposing that ice show should come to Honolulu. Will IMUA protest the participation of the two girls? If you think that's silly, recall IMUA's attack on Dr. Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize winner. The conference "at the summit" undoubtedly has done much to abate hysteria, but there's still plenty left. All you have to do to find it is turn to the third page of the same paper to read the story to read how a midshipman was refused his commission at Kings Point, despite the fact he stood second in his class, because his mother had been a "kaffee-klatch Communist," whatever that is.

The girls may be giving more for the cause of international friendship than they know.

By Frank Marshall Davis

Bridges and Riesel

Harry Bridges has been freed again, this" time by the trial judge who stated flatly that he doubted the credibility of government witnesses. This would, of course, suggest that somebody is guilty of perjury. But since perjurers in this case would be on the side of government, it is folly to believe that action will be taken against them.

It is interesting to note that while a federal judge was deciding that Bridges was not a Communist, one of his longtime foes was using his widely syndicated column to blast Harry and the ILWU. I refer to Victor Riesel, a hatchet man for management who poses as a pro-labor expert.

Riesel Is A Phony

For a good many years I have been aware of the fact that Riesel is a phony. Even if there were no facts to support this statement, it could be substantiated by the elemental logic that the nation's daily press which speaks, with only a few notable exceptions, for Big Business, would not pay for the daily comments of a writer who was genuinely interested in the welfare of the labor movement.

The working people of Hawaii who may have been fooled into believing that Riesel knew what he was talking about have only to refer to his column entitled "Bridges and Hawaii" appearing on the editorial page of the Advertiser last Saturday, July 30.

After describing Waikiki and Pearl Harbor, Riesel has this to say:

"And a sickening feeling hits you because you know that an arrogant man by the name of Harry Bridges really controls the economy of this island outpost and knows virtually every detail of what transpires here . . . Harry and his aide, Jack Hall, and a couple of lawyers growing wealthy out of their handling of cases of the native workers, are the bullying, terrorizing, cocky, behind-the-scene powers here."

Utterly Fantastic

This is so utterly fantastic that no comment should be necessary. Most of us who live here and that includes working people and small business men—have the belief that the economy is controlled mainly by the Big Five. Somehow or other this idea has taken hold in Mainland financial circles, for recently a survey conducted by Stanford University gave the major reason why investors are not anxious to risk capital in Hawaii. The reason, this survey sets forth, is that Territorial economy is so thoroughly dominated by the Big Five that any sizeable business venture that did not have their approval would have a hard time succeeding. Since organized labor has long been the whipping boy of Big Business, isn't it pretty obvious that the ILWU would have been singled out in the Stanford survey if this labor union really did control local economy?

Riesel is both patronizing and objectionable in his description of the ILWU membership. When he speaks of "a couple of lawyers growing wealthy out of their handling of cases of the native workers," he implies that ILWU members are a bunch of ignorant, inferior non-white working stiffs who are being exploited almost to their last penny by a couple of slick attorneys. The phrase, "native workers," always has patronizing connotations for me.

I do not know the financial status of the "couple of lawyers" but I have seen nothing to indicate they are "growing wealthy." I have it on good authority that they eat regularly, pay

their bills, and own their own homes but in the past this has not been sufficient criterion for winning the description, of wealthy. Undoubtedly it came as a surprise to them to know that they, along with Jack and Harry, are "bullying, terrorizing, cocky behind-the-scenes powers." Undoubtedly it is equally surprising to the courts and all others with whom they deal.

A Real Service

When you get right down to it, I think Victor Riesel did the working people of Hawaii a real service. He has produced in black and white proof of the fact that he is not only anti-labor but an inventor of untruths and a twister of facts to serve his own purpose. Islanders may reason-ably conclude that if he is unwilling or unable to tell the truth about Hawaii, he cannot be trusted to tell the truth about events and people elsewhere. He stands revealed, by his own, hands, as a phony posing as a pro-labor expert.

Riesel has been one of those working feverishly for years to get Bridges put away as Communist. And if the government can find some new way to continue the l6 year persecution of the ILWU chief, you can rest assured it will have the full backing of one Victor Riesel.