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...patrician middle-aged woman pointed a sharp straight finger at a young Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai as he sauntered down the front steps of the Court House in Honolulu one sunny morning last week. "That's the man!" she said...
With special police patrolling the streets and the city on the verge of martial law, oldtime white residents of Honolulu well knew out of what black and bitter soil this latest crime had grown, but for political or commercial reasons they kept their mouths shut. The childlike, romantic Hawaiian of pure blood, they privately explained, has almost disappeared in a polyglot breed of Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese. Most U. S. whites on the islands look down socially upon this hybrid population. While socially inferior, the brown-skinned "Hawaiian" is a full-fledged U. S. citizen with political rights...
...Navy Department, acting on its own reports from Pearl Harbor, refused to accept Governor Judd's contention that conditions had been exaggerated in the Press. The U. S. fleet maneuvers will be held, as scheduled, next month in Hawaiian waters but neither officers nor men will be given any shore leave in Honolulu or on the island of Oahu because "the situation" there is "too tense...
Next February the U. S. fleet will hold its battle practice in Hawaiian waters. Rear Admirals Yates Stirling Jr., district commandant, and George T. Pettengill, minecraft commander, publicly declared that Honolulu was unsafe for the wives of Naval officers and men and they were not to be brought to the islands for the maneuvers. They could not comment on the hazards for civilians wives, but Admiral Stirling warned: "Honolulu may expect cases of assault upon women unless the better element gets to work to stamp it out." Much to the relief of the city's business and resort leaders...
Ships flying the U. S. flag with which this biggest U. S. combination will still compete include the fleets of Standard Shipping, American-Hawaiian, Munson, Matson, Oceanic & Oriental, United Fruit, Grace...