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1 1 -WWjmigMlMB SUNDAY 49ers vs. GREEN BAY KGU 8:40 a. DIAL 760 HONOLULU, DECEMBER 4, 1966 C1966 ty Advertiser Publishing Advertiser yard MIS Vote OKs Dissolution Of Bank They'll Bury Kui Lee In the Sea He Loved A sunny December in 1941 changed the course of history for" the nation and Hawaii. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, The Advertiser has compiled an outstanding array of photos and stories. The special Advertiser coverage begins in today's newspaper and will continue through Dec.

8. It is highlighted by two superbly written features one by The Advertiser's Ed Sheehan and the second by Pulitzer prizewinner Bob Considine, which will be published within the next few days. H'J miu Sheehan in today paper are these Advertiser specials: Ed Sheehan's brilliant essay on his memories of a Hawaii 25 years ago, and that seventh day in December when shipyard worker Sheehan arrived for work at 10-10 dock in battered Pearl Harbor. Page A-10 5 Veteran UPI war correspondent Bob Miller's report on the almost forgotten sea involving Japanese submarines and the American destroyer Ward, before December 7th dawned Page Al-E. Dale Brix recaps the story of the attack, and what it taught us Page Al-B.

-I Kui Lee will be buried in the sea that he knew so well as a beachboy before he became one of Hawaii's biggest entertainers. The 34-year-old singer-composer, whose popularity rocketed in the past 20 months, died yesterday in Tijuana, Mexico. He had known for months that he had only a short time to live. He died of cancer which started in his lymph glands and spread to his lungs, forcing him to end abruptly a brilliant singing career. "If will power could have done it, this man, Kui Lee, would have made it," said his friend and attorney, Hyman Greenstein, who received word of the death at 9 a.m.

Hawaii time. Kui was hopeful of receiving special treatment from a doctor in Stockholm, Sweden, but the doctor was away on a tour, Greenstein said. "He thought he could build up strength," Greenstein said. "He was in a wheel chair. For a while, he would call me every three days.

The last time I heard his voice was (last) Sunday. "He had a tremendous desire to live, but been a losing battle. He had been slipping the last two weeks." Kui's wife, Frances Rose (Nani) Naone Lee, was at his side when he died at Guadalajara Hospital. The body was taken to Del Carmen Funeral Home in Tijuana and will be flown to Hawaii tomorrow or Tuesday. Friends will be able to call Tuesday at Ordenstein's Mortuary.

The time for the services is pending. "His last request was to be buried at sea, with a band or orchestra playing all of his songs," said Greenstein. Arrangements for this were being made.1 Kui's father, William K. (Billy) Lee, was to leave Honolulu last night for San Diego, where his sister, Mrs. Helen Deal, lives.

He will assist in arrangements to bring home the body. Kui, one of modern-day Hawaii's most prolific songwriters, was in Tijuana for Laetrile treatment of his cancer, a special treatment not authorized or available in the United States. He was in and out of the hospital since he left for the Mainland in October. Besides his wife and his father. Kui is survived by three daughters, Wailana, Mahealani, and Maile, a son, Kimo, his stepmother, Agnes Asao Lee; two sisters, Elo-ise (Ellie) June Lee Carter and Leilani Lee Frodsham; a stepbrother, Samuel K.

Lee, and a stepsister, Sherrie Lee. Kui's best-known composition is "I'll Remember You," a ballad recorded by nearly 30 vocalists and musicians here and on the Mainland. He reportedly wrote about 80 tunes. Many believe that "Lahainaluna," his second most popular tune, about Maui, will become a Hawaiian classic in the tradition of "Ke Kali Nei Au," the Hawaiian wedding song. Still another favorite is the rock 'n' roll "Ain't No Big Thing," developed from a pidgin English phrase meaning that nothing is serious enough to worry about.

That became Kui's trademark and his way of life. Despite financial success from his hit compositions, he remained a beachboy at heart. He was fiercely proud of his Hawaiian blood, and one of his ambitions was to make the word "kanaka" which originally meant "Island man" but later became a term of derision respectable again. The last musical combo he had before his illness forced him to quit work was named The Kanakas. One of his lesser-known songs is "Kanaka Pete, the Bull of Bethel St," See KUI LEE on A-1A, Col.

7 U.S. Sen. Dan In- ouye recalls his first five days after the attack, as a 17-year-old first aid specialist at the Lunalilo School's temporary aid station Page Al-C. Martin Vitousek, then 17, was aloft with his father in a light plane on the morning of Dec. 7: now a University Stockholders of United American Bank voted yesterday to dissolve the bank.

The decision was taken at a lively and at times emotional meeting at Ala Moana Banquet Hall. Under State law, a bank cannot be dissolved without a 75 per cent majority vote of the stockholders. A total of 127,291 votes were received for dissolution. There were many proxy votes, in addition to those cast in person. The proposal to dissolve the bank came from the two largest stockholders, Philippines National Bank and Hawaiian International Finances.

Together, the two firms own about 65 per cent of the stock. United America which was to be oriented toward the Filipino communitynever has operated as a bank, despite more than three years of efforts. Organizers United American Bank were granted a charter by Sidney I. Hashimoto, State director of regulatory agencies, but were turned down by the Federal De-posit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) on their application for insurance on savings deposit.

No stock in the bank has been issued because the $2 million of capital has been held in escrow. Hashimoto has refused to release the funds from escrow until the bank gets FDIC insurance. Yesterday's balloting followed a discussion over how many votes should be considered as a basis to compute the 75 per cent. There are a total of subscribed shares. This represents $2,105,925.

However, the authorized capitalization under the articles of incorporation is $2 million or shares. Management contended that all 168,474 shares should be represented in the voting. The stockholders 1 a i me that when the law says "75 per cent of all issued shares" it means "75 per cent of all the shares you are authorized to issue." After the baEoting, attorney Bernaldo D. Bicoy announced that the certificate of dissolution will See BANK on A-1A, Col. 3 Inouye of Hawaii geophysicist, he vividly relives that flight and its aftermath Page Al-C.

A S. i. Camera Hawaii Photo will remember him. Tom Coffman's report on Pearl Harbor Lee, who was born at 7 a.m. on Dec.

7, 1941 Page Al-C. Admiral U.S.G. Sharp started plunking for command of a destroyer after he heard about Pearl Har Resistance Reported Spreading MOSCOW (UPI) Fanatical Red Guards are encoun-t i bloody resistance from workers and party members in Communist China, the Soviet news agency Tass said yesterday. It reported hundreds hurt and several killed in rioting against the militant youths. In two dispatches from Peking, Tass said a mass protest against the torture of a Communist Party official by the Red Guards exploded into bloody riots.

At least 200 Red Guards were beaten and 30 hospital-i in Shanghai during fighting between workers and guards, according to Tass. Throughout the summer and fall. Red Guard followers of Chairman Mao Tse-t have been reported riding roughshod over regular Communist Party organizations. In some areas, the Guards broke up party organizations. The violence reported by Tass indicated party offi-c i a 1 now were inciting workers to fight back and, in some areas, had regained the offensive.

I correct, the reports meant that lower party officials were taking action despite the approval of the Red Guard movement voiced by Mao and other Peking leaders. Party organizations have been "collecting extensive information about Red Guard outrages," Tass said. The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug also reported tire incidents. It said Red Guard posters in Shanghai were proclaiming that President Liu Shao-chi had lost "several of his posts." Red Guards in Shanghai recently attacked party headquarters a colleges and universities in the city and staged a 14-day siege at one polytechnic institute, Tass said. On Nov.

9, the agency See GUARD on A-1A, Col. 3 Macao Hit With Wild Red Riot MACAO (UPI) More than 2,000 Red Guard-type Communist demonstrators, charging police brutality, rioted yesterday in this Por- tuguese enclave. They beat a policeman to death and ransacked government buildings before being turned back by rifle fire. Scores were injured in the rioting by the Chinese youths and a curfew was imposed. The government called for vigilantes to join police in keeping the situation under control.

Macao is situated on a peninsula at the mouth of the Canton River, about 35 miles from the British colony of Hong Kong. It is the oldest European settlement in China. Leftist demonstrators have been charging police with "fascist brutality" in quelling a Nov. 15 protest against government orders banning the construction of a school for Chinese youngsters. The rioters, mostly students, sacked city hurling furniture into the street, and tried to storm other government buildings.

Police using tear gas kept the rioters out of the post office. Authorities said at least three demonstrators were injured seriously by rifle fire. They said a traffic po-1 i a was beaten to death by the rioters. Passing cars were overturned and one witness reported he saw a "blond-haired foreigner" pulled from a bus, beaten and left "in a sea of blood." bor on the radio in his Washington home and today commands all military forces in the Pacific Page Al-C. Advertiser staffer Maile Kearns learned of the attack when a 50- i i i pound anti-aircraft shell hit her roofPage Al-D.

Sharp Howard Case, Star-Bulletin city editor on that fateful day, discloses four things that saved the people of Hawaii in December, 1941 Page Al-D. Author Ethelyn Myhre for the first time publishes the notes she made in Manoa on Dec. 7 Page Al-D. Minoru Genda, the only Japanese alive who helped plan and execute the Pearl Harbor attack, reminisces in Tokyo about the "mistake" Page Al-E. for LB in Mexico i 1 11 3: feiW Kui Lee: Hawaii 'Vivas9 CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico (UPI) President Johnson, greeted by thousands of cheering Mexicans, embraced Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz on an international bridge yesterday and then toured the $78 million U.S.-Mexico Amis-tad Dam site.

Johnson, making his first major public appearance since his November operation, flew to Del Rio, from his Austin, work-and-rest base, and returned to the LBJ Ranch after about four hours in Mexico. He met Diaz Ordaz on the bridge over the Rio Grande and rode with the Mexican president through blizzards of confetti and the "vivas" of an estimated 20,000 to ex-i' a in Ciudad He and Diaz Ordaz toured the construction site upstream on the Rio Grande by car and helicopter, lunched on barbecued goat and tortillas and pledged continued U.S.-Mexican cooperation. Johnson called the Amis-tad Dam hose name means "friendship" in Spanish a monument the future of U.S. cooperation with Latin America and the world. He said he hoped for an early end to the war in Viet Nam so similar international cooperation could be used to rebuild that shattered country.

Riding variously in heli- See LBJ on A-1A, Col. 1 IVs the Time for 5 PIONEER ANNOUNCES ITS NEW rhnsfmas Qub 'f i I JJ wo- 9 .3 wm v-, 5, SAVINGS want to give. you'll get a DIVIDENDS. SAVINGS Giving Each year at this time until Dec. 25 The Advertiser collects cash donations to be used for Christmas gifts for the community's needy and forgotten.

The collection is now going on, and in the first few days readers already have contributed more than $200. Last year The Advertiser Christmas Fund collected more than $8,000 in dona-t i and contributions. Naturally, The Advertiser hopes to collect even more this year. The Fund is administered by the Volunteer Service Bureau, and the donations are turned over to the Bureau by The Advertiser. The Bureau an Aloha United Fund agency serves as coordinator of the expenditure of the money collected.

It consults with all the public and most of the private welfare or wel-f a e-related agencies and with community organizations which carry on social work. The agencies, in turn, advise the Bureau of the number and the needs of the orphaned or the friendless or See HELP on A-1A, Col. 4 Choose the amount you want to save each week. It's easy to save for i I. i 3 1 UPI Radiopbot the things you Next November check PLUS 5 PIONEER ft and Loan Association Main Office: 926 Fort St.

Civic Center Office: 534 South Hotel St. Kapiolani Office: 1539 Kapiolani Blvd. All Offices Phone 566-134 Hawaii's Oldest 4 llul ja hi It's an open-arms welcome as President and Mrs. Johnson, right, greet Mexican President and Mrs. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz on Friendship Bridge in Del Rio, Tex.

Johnson crosses line bridge into Mexican territory..

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