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...twelve hours the ocean was not sighted once beneath the moonlight-flooded clouds. At dawn the Clipper broke through the grey mists overhanging Oahu Island, sped onward in the bright sunlight of a Hawaiian morning, to make a 150-mi. survey of landing areas. Then, within one minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper...
...Hawaiian team, mentioning the cry of our Revolutionary fathers, "No taxation without representation," lamented the fact that Hawaii is treated like a state by the national government yet cannot vote for the President or be represented by voting members in Congress. Its economic importance and value as a military outpost were other factors brought forth as favorable to a closer union with the United States...
...other side the Harvard debaters maintained that it was chiefly the sugar interests, desiring the removal of the high protective tariff which America has placed on Hawaiian sugar, that are back of the cry for statehood. Showing that the population was only one-ninth Caucasian and that the high birth-rate of the Japanese pointed towards further Japanese preponderance, the Debating Council brought the discussion to a close in claiming that the granting of statehood to Hawaii would exclude American influence and the island soon would be in the hands of the Japanese...
Through the courtesy of the National Broadcasting Company, the Crimson team, consisting of Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35 and Thomas H. Quinn '36, will go on the air tonight from Radio City, whereas their Hawaiian rivals John Casstevens and Robert North, will uphold the affirmative side of the question from station KGU in Honolulu Oscar Shepard, president of the Harvard Club of Honolulu, will introduce the four orators, each of whom will speak for six minutes...
...Harvard debaters will endeavor to prove that the campaign for Hawaiian statehood is being sponsored by the sugar interests of the island and that possibly the debate itself is a factor in that campaign. The main points of the argument whereby Hawaii will attempt to improve this contention have not been uncertained...