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...native population of 58,000. The territory's value to the U.S. is purely military: some islands serve as bases, others (Bikini, Eniwetok) have served as sites for testing atomic bombs. The new High Commissioner sees his task as "giving the islanders a chance to develop." His headquarters: Honolulu, at least until completion of proposed new headquarters at Truk, southwest Pacific base of the wartime Japanese fleet...
...When a Honolulu jury was unable to settle a narcotics case during its first day of deliberation, Federal Judge J. Frank McLaughlin was forced to declare a mistrial-hotels were so jammed with tourists that court attaches could find no place to house the jurors overnight...
Died. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 69, scholarly New Deal Senator from Utah (1932-50) a sponsor of the G.I. Bill of Rights, and Truman-appointed High Commissioner of the U.S. trust territories in the Pacific; of pulmonary infarction; in Honolulu. A benign Ph. D., Thomas served five years as a Mormon missionary in Japan, taught Latin, Greek, political science and Oriental history at the University of Utah, wrote six books (Sukui No Michi. Chinese Political Thought, The Four Fears, etc.), doodled in Japanese...
...airliners. The planes-two British-built Mark I Comets-will be operated by Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Canada's No. 1 private air service. (The larger Trans-Canada Air Lines is government-owned and subsidized.) Last week the company inaugurated its first direct service between Vancouver and Honolulu. A new fleet of 50-passenger, four-engine DC-6Bs now makes the trip in 12| hours, cutting almost six hours from the flight time of C.P.A.'s DC-45. In Honolulu, once C.P.A.'s jet liners are in service, the DC-6B passengers can transfer to the Comets...
Besides the 44 found guilty thus far, 39 U.S. Reds are now under indictment. Of these, 30 are on trial or awaiting trial in Honolulu, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Detroit, St. Louis; five have been temporarily excused from trial because of illness; four are fugitives...