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...held at her pier for ten hours by a strike of 40 seamen and stewards demanding overtime pay. . . . On the Great Lakes, the American Radio Telegraphists Association struck for better labor conditions on four freight lines. ... In San Francisco, crew troubles tied up the President Hoover, San Anselmo, Maui and Willhilo. ... In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a crew strike held the freighter West Mahwah in port...
Sportswriters were hard put to explain Varoff's performance, which boosted the accepted world's record up 2 1/8 in. Born 23 years ago of Russian parents on the Island of Maui in Hawaii, he won no great notice as a San Francisco schoolboy-vaulter, none at all as a University of Oregon freshman. Flunked from college, he became a janitor in San Francisco, entered the semi-final Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles last fortnight, for the first time in his life cleared 14 ft. Fearful of losing his janitor's job, George Varoff had needed much...
While their parents were yachting near Maui Island, Margaret Ellen ("Peggy") and Nackey Elizabeth, young daughters of Editorial Director Robert Paine Scripps (Scripps-Howard Newspapers) went with their governess to pick flowers at the Oahu Country Club outside Honolulu. Driving back, their native chauffeur leaned out to arrange the flowers, let the car plunge over a 25-foot embankment. Director Scripps and wife sped back by airplane, found Daughter Peggy with broken skull and ankles, Daughter Nackey with internal injuries, but the whole party out of danger...
...Hawaii's turbulent month had been grossly, sensationally exaggerated. In defense of conditions in their Pacific paradise they pointed out that: 1) crime was no rarity on the mainland; 2) the island of Oahu, on which Honolulu is situated, is not the largest in the archipelago while on Maui and Hawaii, all was serenely peaceful; 3) it was absurd to say that Hawaii had a "race problem," when only a tiny fraction of the mixed population was making trouble. The Hawaii Tourist Bureau cabled that the Kahahawai incident had been played up in a manner "terribly cruel to this...
...after election. Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was in San Francisco about to embark with two friends on the S. S. Maui for a fortnight's business-&-pleasure trip to Hawaii. Three hours before sailing time a messenger handed Mr. Woodcock a government telegram from Washington. His face puckered as he read it. Cancelling his bookings, letting his friends sail without him, he explained to newsmen: "President Hoover has called me East for a conference...