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...facts, said the Senator, which conclusively showed a "strong and personal alliance between the Russian Soviet cause and the present Secretary of the Interior, who is now urging Alaskan statehood . . ." Schoeppel wanted it clearly understood that he was not arguing against Hawaiian and Alaskan statehood (which President Truman urged Congress last week to approve before it quits for the year). But if he was for it, why was he raising the cry of Communism? Before
...C.I.O., having set adrift eight Communist-line unions (totaling 700,000 members), last week put the last of its Red-led outfits over the side. Expulsion notices were served on the 5,000-member Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and the 75,000 West Coast longshoremen, fishermen and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers who are tied in with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
Among the new recruits in the U.S. Army last week was a Hawaiian of Japanese descent who, as he enlisted, was as awed and quiet as any other rookie of 19. But Wesley T. Shirai was already a veteran of one of the century's major horrors. On Aug. 6, 1945, a boy of 14, he was walking along a street in Hiroshima when the atom bomb went off; the right side of his body, which faced the atom flash, still bears its scars...
Some 15,000 swim-happy fans fell tensely silent as the starter for the crucial 400-meter free-style event barked "Yoi [get set]!" Crouched alongside Marshall and Furuhashi were two other champion-caliber swimmers: the Hawaiian-born Nisei, Ford Konno, who had broken the world's 1,500-meter record the day before, and the U.S. Olympic ace, Jim McLane. They hit the water in unison...
Flowers were everywhere, even around the delegates' necks. The Royal Hawaiian Band played; a hula girl slithered. At week's end, 61 delegates-haoles (Caucasians), Hawaiians, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans-stepped up to sign Hawaii's new state constitution in Honolulu's Iolani Palace...