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...newly elected grand chief engineer is Alvanley ("Al") Johnston, 52, Canadian-born, quiet-mannered, efficient. For 32 years he was an engineer on the Great Northern, now carries a free pass on that road as a "Veteran Engineer...
Thus about 40% of the population is isolated in a compact, race-conscious, difficult-to-assimilate group which is almost totally disenfranchised. For only those Japanese who were born in the Islands are eligible to citizenship. Since the Islands were annexed in 1898 to the U. S. and since the Japanese were the last large immigration group to arrive in the Islands, very few Japanese of those born in Hawaii have as yet reached voting age. In 1925, for example, there were less than 2,000 registered Japanese voters. On the other hand, however, there are some 60,000 Hawaiian...
Governor Farrington was born in Orono, Me., in 1871. After having been a reporter on various Maine newspapers, he became one of the founders and managing editor of the Rockland (Me.) Daily Star. In 1894 he went to Hawaii as managing editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater...
...Born. To William Randolph Hearst, 64, publisher, twin grandchildren, a boy and a girl; in San Francisco. Their father, George Hearst, is publisher of the San Francisco Examiner...
UNKIND STAR-Nancy Hoyt- Knopf ($2.50). Two girls were born on the same night, under the same star, to life on erratic earth. Lilias Rabenstein was the daughter of an ambassador whose wife, the most charming lady of Europe, was intimate with the American mother of Cintra Amory. The two girls, growing up together in the flowery atmosphere of pre-War Europe, grew up differently. Lilias, a remote and nervous comet, began her life by being engaged to Franz Czarany who later veered through an Italian milky way to exert an astral influence on Cintra. She, a steadier...