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SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 18, 1938 EDITORIAL PAGE ffiU Hawaii's Territorial Newspaper 1 History From Our Files Letters From the People The European Whirligig By FREDERIC SONDERN (Special Correspondent The Advertiser) gives notice of a libel on boU tomry bond against S. S. City of Columbia. The Honolulu Advertiser 83 Tears Your Morning Newspaper Established July 2, 1856 Printed and published by Advertiser Publishing Company. Honolulu, T.

Advertiser Square. Kapiolani Blvd. South St LORKIN P. THURSTON President and General Manager RAYMOND COLL "or JAN JABULKA News Editor HARRY F. ANDERSON Business Manager (The views and opinions expressed in letters tn this column are not The editor reserves the right to reject letters or to make deletions in his judgment advisable.

To guard against errors letters shout, be typewritten. Name and address of writer should accompany each letter, not for publication unless desired, but as an evidence of good faith. M. M. Dow has a jolly out in his yacht Abbie M.

The BERLIN Behind the screen of the recent pogroms, the Gestapo "bloodhounds" have uncovered the most sensational assassination plot yet brewed against Hitler. Details of the plan have not yet leaked party includes a tourist, two newspaper men and a doctor. Thirty Years Ago 1908 In this issue picture of The Advertiser will not be responsible for letters, manuscripts, or photographs voluntarily submitted to this office, unless accompanied by self-addressed envelope and stamps to cover postage for return mailing. Member of the United Press and AJi.O. National Representative: The Kati Agency, New Xork Chicago Kansas City.

6an Francisco. Seventy Years Ago 1868 We are under obligations to Capt. Tengstrom, of the Missionary packet Morning Star, for information concerning his cruise. He arrived at Apaiang on the twenty-sixth of July, after a passage of fifty-one days. Captain and Mrs.

Bingham were landed and the brig left the next day for Butaritari, where she arrived on the thirty-first and took on board the Hawaiian Missionaries, leaving the next day on return to Aoaing, for the general meeting. A. S. Cleghorn advertises: Pi-na Dresses. Just received from Manila, Assorted Patterns, and very choice.

The whaleship Julian, not the Hae Hawaii, is receiving a new suit of metal at Robinson ing and agile members of Kaiu. lani Basketball team, who have forced crowned heads to bow thrice to defeat. Team consists of Sarah Nakookoo, Julia Aki out, and strictest secrecy is maintained Berlin. But the repercussions behind the scenes have been violent. For the conspiracy was strictly Nazi and "Aryan' with prominent members of the party involved.

The first inklings, according to insiders, leaked to the "Security Service" the special branch of Himmler's secret police entrusted with Der Fuehrer's personal safety. About 200 Gestapo agents were immediately sent all over Ger- many to round up the plotters. They discovered several depots of anns and explosives and arrested 70 persons. Most of these have been Rosie Rowan (captain), Lizzie Ianua, Mokihana Daniel, Mary ager). MAINLAND AND LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS HON'OIXIX 73 Dp- 17 Rainfall for the past 24 hours endin? at p.m.t Trace.

Tem-r-erame: Minimum 73; maximum. 78. Weather at Partly cloudy, a levll pressure at p.m.: 30.11 inches. Forecast the Hawaiian Islands ad cinity: Sunday, clear to partly cloudy; scattered showers in uplands. August Kalbe wishes a stato.

ment corrected. He says that SONDERN hustled to Berlin's Moabit Prison where they strictly secluded awaiting trial by the People's was born 1848 and not in 1849, are being kept Court. This body, whose sessions and decisions are secret, and High low Moaerate to irtsn mnuicasi Hfh Low Hisrh ow wharf. JttI. 8at Jfcri.

hat. Twenty Years Ago 1918 Bolsheviki leave Petrograd in 20 44 66 Fri. fcat. San Antonio 70 .70 San Diejro 6fi 3 San Francisco 64 .74 ScHttln 46 00 Kansas City Los An steles Memphis Miami Minneapolis New Orleans Sixty Years "Ago 1878 It is stated by our European expectation of war. They are moving into Movgorod.

Positions near Gulf of Finland are shelled Tampa 66 52 74 38 40 44 .74 42 56 44 36 24 26 Vancouver correspondent, who is usually Honolulu 0 70 Wheeler Field 72 Hilo 80 1 Atlanta 48 3 Boston 36 3- Buffalo 3S 12 Chicasro 42 20 Cleveland 44 Benver 2S 14 Pes Moines Mi 16 El Paso 62 44 Dy isntisn. New York 23 34 34 50 44 3S 60 ictoria Washington Yuma Plans lor local Red Crose drive Portland 46 well informed on political matters, that Germany desires to are perfected and all is readv Reno 52 Sf T.onis 42 seize Upolo. one of tne for tne start on Saturday. The Salt Lake City 3S 28 tnr fho iinst 51 hours ending at 7 a.m.: Islands, for "the purpose of mak city nas Deen divided into two Hilo Weather. Dec.

17- ing it a penal settlement tor ner districts with Mrs. Gerrit 04 inch. Teinierature: Minimum. 61; maximum, SO. Weather.

Clouay. Barometer, 30.11 inches. "Wind, west, 3 miles. communists. Mr John McKeague, the pro Wilder in charge of division no 1 and Mrs.

Richard Cooke in command of Division no. 2. Their prietor of the Heeia Sugar Plan tation at Koolaupoko, Oahu, has lieutenants, are as follows: To completed the erection of an en tire new and buildings, and on Wednesday last entertained large party of his friends, on the occasion of firing up and setting in motion the machinery of his new plant. Mr. Young of the Honolulu Iron Works (by whom the machinery was built) was present.

SAYS GROSS INCOME TAX IS UNFAIR Editor The Advertiser: Your recent editorial entitled: 'Proposed New Tax Sources' hits on a comparatively old but nevertheless ill-smelling evil: tax evasion. Every public spirited citizen will most heartily endorse your stand. An equally ill-smelling' but comparatively new evil has been created through our Territorial Gross Income Tax Law: tax unfairness. If you are a doctor or lawyer with a nice juicy income of a thousand or two a month, 90 to 95 per cent of which represents Net Profit, you pay only Vz per cent of your gross But if you happen to be my corner grocer or butcher with a cash" register whose $-key gets stuck all the time for lack of exercise, and where your net profit swings around 15 per cent, you pay 1XA per cent on every dollar you take in. And if you happen to be my tax accountant watching out that I pay my taxes regularly you call yourself a Public Accountant you likewise pay Wi per cent on every dollar I pay you.

But if you call yourself a Certified Public Accountant doing this same work for me, Bill Borthwick will then charge you only per cent on every dollar I pay you. (Not that I give a darn about who charges whom how much). It looks as if this Gross Income Tax Law was not exactly made by and for the people of Hawaii, but by and for the lawyers, doctors and CPA's. -You can't blame 10,000 small stores entirely for not wanting to hand over that $5.00 more a month, for every time they open that green G. I.

tax book they begin to see red when looking at that "Professional rate of Vz per cent." Dac. 15. AN ONLOOKER. THANKS FOR HELP Editor The Advertiser: of the Recreation Commission, City and County of Honolulu, staff take this opportunity to express our gratitude to you for your splendid co-operation with us in our recent production, "Salome." We feel that the artistic success of this venture in the serious field of drama was due in no small to the excellent cast and to the able production staff to whom we are sincerely grateful. This is new ground we are breaking.

Our first effort, with your help, earned favorable editorial comment for the perfection achieved in staging this difficult poetic tragedy. It is hoped our next production will be a financial success as well as an artistic one, and this will be possible with, your good-will and needed co-operation. Dec. 15. ARTHUR K.

POWLISON, Superintendent Recreation Commission PHILLIP STEFFEN PIZZA Dramatic Director INCLUDE OUTBOARD MOTORS Editor The Advertiser: A new ordinance that all Motorcycles MUST have MUFFLERS to my attention in this morning ADVERTISER. I understand that this also applies to OUTBOARD MOTORS if so why is ordinance not enforced The Police say they cannot stop this annoyance. One of the outstanding SUNDAY annoyances is the blasting noise of OUTBOARD MOTORS on the Ala Wai, every Sunday with few exceptions these boys fill the air with the fumes of burnt Castor Oil and make a noise that one hundred MACHINE guns could not equal, up and down the canal they go back and forth wide open speeding thirty or forty miles an hour. These fellows take over this public water way so that small boats cannot pass and disregarding the right of CHRISTIANS to have a day of rest and quite as it should be on SUNDAY. Dec.

16. SUNDAY. Modern streamlining of the Enoch Arden saga has reduced it to this: When Thomas Garcia, Decoto, absent for 13 years and believed to be dead, returned to his home here, instead of finding another man occupying his place in his home and his wife's affections, he found awaiting him a justice court complaint for non-support over the 13 years. Fifty Years Ago 1888 Hilo note. The American brig assist Mrs.

Wilder: Mesdames Ernest Mott-Smith, E. Giesecke W. A. Welbourne, Charles Hens enway, Charles Wilder, John Erdman, W. L.

Moore, A. Gig. noux, Percy Pond, Clarence Cooke, Walter Frear, Alexander Lindsay, A. E. Murphy, James Bicknell, Charles Chillingworth, F.

G. Hummel, W. G. Clark, G. M.

Robertson, J. Ashmen Beaven, Ismay Stubbs, Ray Allen and Miss Dorothy Guild. Those who will help Mrs. Richard Cooke are Miss Helen Wfl. der, Mesdames Eric Knudsen, J.

M. Dowsett, George Water-house, M. E. Grossman, Miss Ermine Cross, Miss Lucy Max. well, Mrs.

J. M. McConnel, Miss Helen Jones, Mrs. E. D.

Kil-bourne, Mrs. E. C. Peters, Mrs, Ted Cooke, Miss Bernice Hart-well, Mrs. C.

C. James, Mrs. W. W. Thayer, Mrs.

A. S. Dreier, Mrs. James Rath and Mrs. K.

Mokumaia. final, passes sentence "not according to the Law but according to the Spirit of National Socialism." Those found guilty will simply disappear in the notorious Gestapo cellars. Hitler's closest satraps notably Goering and Himmler have the wind up plenty, according to confirming word from authoritative diplomatic circles. They feel that so drastic and extensive a plot unparalleled in the Third Reich must be the result of a strong and widespread anti-government wave of feeling. Party headquarters in Berlin carefully gauges the popular temper through an elaborate system of agents scattered among local Nazi organizations all over the country.

Their dispatches have recently revealed a marked resentment among the people over being continuously misled about events and reactions outside the borders. It is also reported in the Wilhelmstrasse that the Gestapo and S. S. have had trouble carrying out the pogrom decrees, especially in the provinces. Crowds on the streets have suffered open resistance to the arrest and eviction of Jews.

Berlin tacticians blame much of this on the British Broadcast-ing Company. The B. B. C. transmits on low wave lengths a newscast in Germany with such power that it reaches even the feeble "people's receivers," which almost every German household is compelled to have.

The British transmission has become tremendously popular all over the Reich. From good Nazis to Reds they turn down the volume to a barest whisper but they listen. I have seen plenty of them. The British technique is simple. The announcer xeads in a casual, even bored, tone.

The news is well and concisely written without polemics or catchwords. It has an authentic ring. It was through this medium that the first news of the world's horror and disgust over the pogroms reached the German people; also the startling flash of the Anglo-Americans trade pact and Roosevelt's great rearmament plan. Hitler and advisers are on a spot. A decree against listening to British broadcasts would stir even more anti-German feeling in England and put the finishing touch to the breakdown between London and Berlin.

Since the United States has become German Enemy No. 1, a group of experts on American affairs has hurriedly been drafted from the Foreign, War, and Economics Ministries to prepare an exhaustive study on American armaments. Hitler wants to know exactly how long it will take the U. S. to be ready for war.

How long a "margin of safety" he has before our nation could be of effective use to Great Britain and France. There is a strong element among Berlin's military and political leaders which feels that Germany must achieve all her territorial aims and consolidate them, whether by bluff or by actual war, within the next two years. So time is short. Hitler, according to best sources, concurs with this view. After the slight breathing space of Munich, the Berlin Embassies are jittery again and expect Hitler's next major move by March, 1939.

Lurline, Capt. Wm. Matson, arrives, 13 days from San Fran cisco. She brmgs 2 horses, 6 mules, 6 cows, 53 hogs, and as much general cargo as she can carry. Also the following passen gers: N.

F. Swartwont, E. Richards, H. B. Richards, Miss Lillie Low, Misi Hattie Hitch- COCK.

Life size figures of President Harrison and Vice-President Morton, both excellent like nesses, according to published portraits, adorn the Fort street window of Mr. Goldberg's store Messrs. Hoffschlaeger Co announce a variety of liquid goods zor sale. Forty Years Ago 1898 At a meeting of the Board of Ten Years Ago 1928 Mel Peterson, "Red" Hawk and his playing partner, "Ernie" furnish the entertainment for Mynah Bird frolic of KGU. M.

B. Bairos, territorial food commissioner and analyst, in his report for November gives eight instances where merchants, wholesale and retail, were found selling unlabeled cold storage eggs Board of health regulations provide that all cold-storage eggs must be labeled as such, and merchants failing to Education Minister Cooper re ports on his visit to Hawaii. All of his recommendations are ap proved. Those who are present are: Minister Cooper, Secretary Rodgers, Mrs. Jordan, Mr.

von Holt, Professor Alexander and Mr. Hopkins. Per order of First Circuit observe the law are subject Court Deputy Marshal Hitchcock punishment. ROME For three years now, Mussolini has believed and often said to his intimates that the complete internal disruption of France was imminent. In fact, it became such a fixed idea that he would brusquely dismiss anyone who didn't agree with him.

The French general strike last week strengthened his conviction, according to Roman diplomats. Despite Daladier's victory, II Duce apparently feels that the Republic is on the last rung of the ladder and that the time has come for pickings. He is also encouraged, say diplomats, by Chamberlain's imminent visit to Rome despite the popular feeling in Britain against the Prime Minister's journey. He hopes to convince Chamberlain, by Hitlerian methods, that Britain must bring pressure on France to surrender at least a part of Tunisia as the price of peace. If that doesn't work, the Italians in Tunisia will be agitated into a revolt and there will be another "oppressed minority" to be "liberated" by the Dictators.

So begins the first phase of the plan formulated by Mussolini and Ribbentrop during the tetter's recent visit to 'Rome the "great reassignment of interests," the Roman diplomats call it. There are three Italian "spheres." The Western Mediter-xanean to be controlled at the western end by Spain and Spanish Morocco under Italian domination and by the Balearic Islands in Italy's possession; at the eastern end by the impenetrable bloc The Police And The Public Focus of public attention has been on the Honolulu police department during the past week. Accusations of brutality and discrimination have been received, weighed and dismissed. In each case there have been two sides to the story and the department has emerged with honors about even, but the public is looking at the police through a different kind of glasses. Chief W.

A. Gabrielson senses this and is quick to interpret the attitude as prejudice. In this he is wrong and the reaction in itself is responsible to a degree for that attitude. Public and press are not picking on the police. Both have given Chief Gabrielson and his boys extremely fair judgment and sometimes even forbeaiance.

Criticism could have been much worse on various occasions. After all, the police are expected to be satisfactory and not antagonistic to the public. With three complaints in one week the police commission could not well remain silent and it was gratifying to see this group break its customary silence and take a hand in the investigations. There Jias perhaps been too much tendency to allow the chief to settle disputed matters. The public will be glad to see that the commission is speaking for itself.

Something Lacking Proving or disproving the charges and counter-charges being spattered around in the messy boys industrial school case is about as successful as fighting a feather bed. There is nothing specific that can be hit very hard and there are mitigating explanations that cannot be ignored. But when all is said and done, it is perfectly apparent conditions of administration at the school are not what they ought to be. The attorney general is satisfied there has been no criminality, but probing of every charge has revealed laxity of method, carelessness and insubordination. It is not criminal to fail to file a claim for a damaged express shipment, but it is plainly neglect of duty.

It is not criminal to have personal purchases mixed up with school purchases so that the former are charged with the latter, but it is not a satisfactory state of affairs. Neither is it satisfactory to have a subordinate suspicious of a superior to the extent where he accumulates evidence against a day of reckoning. In other words, there is evidence that the qualities desired in the administration of an institution of correction have been lacking. The boys industrial school must have orderly management that is above reproach. Otherwise, inmates will take the slipshod methods as examples and will not benefit from their incarceration.

More forcefully than in any previous investigation, the hearing of the senate holdover committee has brought i into the open the irregularities that have prevailed. Conditions exposed point "convincingly to the need of complete change for the good of the institution. A Vital Topic Of the various errands Delegate Samuel W. King has been running in behalf of the Territory since his return to Washington, not the least significant is his discussion of labor with Admiral William Leahy, chief of naval operations. Employment at Pearl Harbor and Hickam field during the period of defense armament expansion that Congress will undoubtedly approve will be an important item in the economic welfare of this community.

Aside from actual army and navy personnel, these two posts are equal to 'an industrial center of 10,000 workers. Subsistence for them and their families keeps grocery stores busy, houses rented and draws on all other requirements of routine civilian life. The increased defense program will serve to expand this auxiliary community that is a part of Honolulu. When Delegate King confers with Admiral Leahy on civilian navy employment he is dealing with a vital topic. Sunny Rain in Waikiki Before a week had passed I was sold on Waikiki.

It wasn't the surfboards or the outriggers, the grass shack where you could buy a fresh green coconut and drink its milk through straws and scoop its soft meat with a spoon, writes Faith Baldwin in Pictorial Review. It wasn't the dark, lithe beach boys or the sea wall or the tourists, liberally bestarred with ladies and gentlemen from Hollywood. It was Diamond Head, there to the left as you stood looking out to sea. No other beach has Diamond Head, watchfully 'waiting, with something about its line and its endurance which takes you by the And every time I looked at it I thought of my grandfather, who sailed to China three times, twice in clipper ships the Empress of China, I think in the late '50s and the Hotspur in '62. Why China? I asked myself resentfully.

Why didn't he stop off here? Why didn't the islands claim him and hold him? Then I would have been born here, in all probability, and grown up here, a kamaaina, or old-timer, instead of the malihini, or stranger, which I was. There are seasons in the islands. We had come at the end of winter, at the start of spring. There was straight-falling rain, a lot of it and the women shopping in the city blossomed out under oiled-paper Japanese unbrellas. My companion remarked that evidently.

I believed all the legends that rain in Hawaii is liquid sunshine and couldn't possibly dampen you, because I would dash through it convinced that it wasn't like mainland rain at all. Well, it is. Give it a good head start and.it can drown you. But somehow that didn't matter. Not even when we had the south wind, which is called a Kona wind because it blows from the Kona coast off the island of Hawaii and brings a storm with it.

of Tunisia and the heavily fortified islands of Pantelleria, Sicily and Sardinia. With Tunisia in Italy's hands, the. British "lifeline" is completely severed. From this bloc eastward to the Suez Canal extends Italy's second "sphere," where British bases are already seriously threatened and almost neutralized by the Italian forces in Libya, and the immense fortresses of the Dodacanese Islands. The third "sphere" is the Red Sea from the Suez Canal to Aden and the territories of North Eastern Africa around Ethiopia.

The German areas of concentration are two. Those Balkan and Near Eastern countries through which a Berlin-to-Baghdad railroad would pass, and the west coast of Africa, including the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the Cape Verde Islands. The islands in Germany's possession would effectively cut Britain's "reserve life-line." As reported here recently, Hitler under cover of trade concessions has already begun formidable bases in that region. That is the general pattern of the scheme now being worked out carefully by experts commuting between Rome and Berlin. The outstanding brains are Marshal Italo Balbo, General von Epp, and Goering whose father was a prominent German colonial governor.

relations between nations of the western hemisphere, pretty much what Japan is doing in the Orient and what Germany is doing in middle Europe. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, but how much better off the world would be if all nations had a cooperative attitude instead of being divided into groups inspired by jealousy and animosity. i CHRISTMAS In the Right Direction Honolulu as a community of families should be gratified at the agenda followed in the general meeting of public school teachers on last Friday. The broad scope of the conferences and discussions indicates that the schools are aimed in the right direction. The inner problems of teaching methods and classroom routine received attention, but the real gist of the meeting was the examination of the community so that education of its youth may be coordinated with the future needs and the opportunities the future will afford.

The schools are demonstrating a wise desire to do the job that is needed here and now. PARIS Jittering Daladier and Bonnet now see clearly what is coming. Despite Chamberlain's fervid assurance, that Britain would stand by France if French territory were menaced the Paris Ministers feel doubtful. "We know now. what incredible things Monsieur 'J'aime Berlin' is capable of at the last moment," 'said a veteran French statesman despondently to our informant.

"How foolish we were to follow the British advice and stop lending help to Madrid! For now we are in a most dangerous position." The French military experts frankly admit how precarious that position is. With Mussolini's powerful submarine fleet based on the Balearic Islands, the transport of black troops from Africa to Marseilles is seriously menaced, leaving France with only 70 divisions to face the 140 divisions which Hitler and Mussolini have ready for the field. In addition, there is the heavy preponderance of the combined Italian and German air forces over the French, and the threat of the Dictators' troops entering France over the unfortified Spanish-French frontier. Without Britain, as Marshal Gamelin recently told a group of Deputies, France can be annihilated in a few months. Chamberlain's word is therefore law in Paris.

If he should insist on the surrender of part or all of Tunisia to Italy, Daladier would have to agree. And the danger is great as the British Prime Minister, disappointed by Hitler, clings to the appeasement" theory and plans by hook or crook to break Mussolini from the Axis with an Italian substituted for a German "appeasement." Rome in January may well be another Munich. 1 Iff 4 FUNDS 4. WIRE SAVE MONEY ON FREIGHT i Spare One Hour Mothers, fathers and children face a busy, exciting week. Shopping trips are planned, packages are accumulating in hidden places, decsrations are appearing windows and the last pre-Christmas rush is on full force.

In the careful allotment of limited time there still can be spared an hour or even less to take stock of old toys and other things soon to be replaced and forgotten. A few of these discarded playthings delivered to The Advertiser's Santa Claus on the way to town will provide Christmas for children who may not otherwise have any. The last -minute gift that is assured PROMPT DELIVERY! A happy solution of the long-deferred problem of "what to give." SEE OUR EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT Mainland to Honolulu, Tri-Weekly Honolulu to Mainland, Weekly Our Own Chicago Office and Connections in 200 Principal Mainland Cities LOW, Consolidated Rates Use Us for SPEED, SAFETY, SAVINGS HAWAIIAN FREIGHT ASSOCIATION 238 Dillingham Phone 6301 People Used to Ask ME for EYEGLASSES 1 What's Good for the Goose Headline in the morning paper "Japan Sees Lima Talks as Grave Trade Threat." That is good, and it is pretty much what Secretary of State Cordell Hull has been aiming at in his policy of trade pacts as a preventive of war. Fundamentally, the three aggressive nations Japan, Germany and Italy are fighting for trade. By expansion of boundaries and control of territory they seek to corner supplie.s of raw material and create markets for manufactured goods so their people may work and live.

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