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ECSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1939. PLATTSKOUTH SEMI - 'WEEKLY JOURNAL i Trade Setback with Japanese Worries Hawaii Uncertainty Widespread as Result of Pact Abrogation Dual Citi- -zenship Involved. By WENDEL BURCH HONOLULU (UP) Hawaii Jap anese anxiously await evidence to show whether a huge, volume of busi ness is to be restricted or subjected to actual penalties as the result of the abrogation of the American-Japanese commerce treaty. Speculation centers on whether the States' war trade with Japan Is to be choked off by embargo and an actual trade war substituted. Hawaiian trade with Japan, in contrast to that of the mainland, in volves mainly domestic articles and commodities imports of rice, soy bean products, canned fish, meat products, beer, rubber goods, cotton cloth, rattan furniture, fertilizer, and shellfish. In 1937 this trade totaled 53,890,275, and in 1938 $2,991,940. It approached one-half Hawaii's total foreign imports. Dual Citizenship Involved Far more than trade or dollar volume is involved in the situation, however. The status of dual citizens, loyalty of second and third gener ation Japanese, and position of alien Japanese in the territory are sub ject to the re-examination. ' Announcement of the treaty abro gation' July 27, to become effective six months later, seriously disturbed many Japanese in the islands. Many of the largest Japanese firms in Hawaii are owned or controlled out right by aliens. This is due lo the fact that Japanese who came to the islands years ago and emerged as business leaders did not become citi zens of the United States. The Immigration Oct of 1924, rush ed through the house and senate, ex cluded Orientals from citizenship. Japanese who had not become citi zens by that time thus were barred finally from citizenship. j Yet their children, born in Ha waii, automatically were American citizens. The result has been" a con siderable conflict between older gen eration desires, grounded in some cases on bitter memories, and young er generation necessity, based on American citizenship. Japanese Remain Japanese The Japanese government main tains a peculiarly effective control over its citizens through tradition, imperial teaching, religious back ground, and racial ties. Many older generation Japanese in Hawaii re tain the warmest feeling for Nippon, despite years of residence in the is lands. It has been reported without direct confirmation that thousands of dollars have been sent by loyal Japanese to Tokyo for the war chest. Recently a party of nearly 500 Japanese business men in Hawaii re portedly visited Japan at the govern ment's invitation to inspect at first hand investment opportunities there and in Japanese companies planning to exploit occupied parts of China and Manchukuo. Local Japanese in some instances are said to have been urged to convert American dol lars into yen to aid Japanese foreign exchange. The Securities and Ex change Commission halted the sale of unregistered Japanese "war bonds" in the territory. In contrast to this picture is the position of young Americans of Jap anese parentage in Hawaii. Heirs to large businesses are reluctant to see their potential estates changed into uncertain Japanese investments uncertain in the light of economic difficulties attending the Sino-Jap-anese war and Angfo-American op position to Japanese foreign policy. Proclaim U. S. Loyalty The young Japanese in Hawaii are as American as education and life in a thoroughly American terri tory can make them. When a lead ing Japanese newspaper commented that trade embargoes would cost the United States the loyalty of Japanese in Hawaii, strong denials were issued by Japanese leaders. The Japanese consul general in Honolulu issued a statement saying that Americans of Japanese parentage in Hawaii would be expected to be loyal to the United States. Yet the fact remains that worsen ing of Japanese-American relations, with potential imposition of embar goes halting American war supplies to Japan, inevitaMy will produce profound and serious results in Hawaii. Racially the Japanese in Hawaii are a unit. They have not inter married extensively with other races. Socially and culturally they remain largely to themselves. If penalty duties similar to those imposed on Germas imports should be placed on the food and domestic items they bring in from Japan the economic erect would be heavier than any where else in the United States. There inevitably would be a consid erable dislocation of local invest ments by alien Japanese. VETERAN COURT CLERK DIES OMAHA, Oct. 13 (UP) Richard C. Hoyt, 84. since 1897 clerk of the United States district court here, died early today from a heart at tack Wednesday night. It was Hoyt's only serious illness in more than forty years, friends said. Hoyt was a nephew of President Cleve land. He was said to have one of the best collections of stamps in this section. It is valued at more than ?30.000. VIOLATE LAW OR GO ON RELIEF LINCOLN, Oct. 14 (UP) The state railway commission had on file today a letter from Arthur Hum- pel, Atkins trucker, threatening to violate state truck rates or "go on relief and let the Nazis run the country" unless rates are enforced against his competitors. The letter said "I would like to be informed if gravel rates on haul ing in trucks can be enforced or not. Two of my competitors are paying two dollars per yard for a 74-mile haul. I also hire trucks, abide by the rates, and intend to do so if the law is constitutional, but if others can get by I will have to do the same or be out of work and go on relief. The commission sent an in spector to investigate. NEBRASKA 7TH IN CORN You can get Rubber Stamps at lowest prices at Journal office. & W IE S3 A & T I - - 1 " COLOR-STYLED j. V, A - . H V A ' P x- AWILH-: ) - OCEAN VOYAGF IfeSSJlf F S A? fWi StJX : l I , San Juan, Puerto f&C&rf y M ' M i : tt , . 1: ''' i 1 r , cio rivers, the ferry- jra "- ilB J mzS&P t Aniu Colby displays the small boose wbtti the color- r - J boat Cubango, shown f fjf 4 'ff''vS ' V Afajfi ,n port he;e. now 14 O I A- Outside Color, at Pedactnthc International Btalding ia . v somewhere i n -t h e fvdt J Z Rockefeller Center, N. Y. Tb color ensembU chosen by ,v A JZ3 Canbbean en route b?f NlIU 1 Miss Colby was rcd-orngt aspbah shinies fee tbe raof. fWif Jane.ro, 3 M ) cream colored walls and ekalk white trim. J " ' J? Jr f- ' is attemptmg a jour- 'm V SlS4,x kT?l riP.Ywf.Aiid5iiAi PRAISES ADVERTISING Charles C. Tcaijue, president of California Fruit Growers Exchange, who tells Consumers Information that "it is largely due to advertising that con sumers today have a plentiful year-round supply of ood citrus fruits at less than half the price of a few years ago." - BUSINESS GOING UP? Latest executives to report in- lereases are Thomas H. Beck, president, and A. E. Winger, executive vice president of Crow ell-Collier PaUtsbrag Company, (wbo announce that Collier's advertising revenue has exceeded 1929 future for past four years and that first half of 1939 sets all-time high. They point out this represents expendUnres by anany different types of b impress. . TOT K Si V 'jp"--jr 4 W XEV-.'.-.v.'A'jTT' "'w-- HAT FASHIONS For fh nirrr week-end Ann Rutherford chooses a grey felt to match her pebble crepe aress ot tne same shade, holds of pink and brown velvet ribbon cluster at the hack and hold the hat on. Z. WEST POINTERS ENTER FLYING COLLEGE E. St. Lou.s, Mo. Graduate. of the 1939 class at West Point shown at Parks Arr College here as thev began primary instruction in flying. After three onths training they will be transferred to Randolph Field for continued training. Li 1 gfltl ENGLAND'S PILOTS OF TOMORROW Just before the take-off! The young student in the cockpit is ready to go np into the air after she has received adequate instruction. GLAMOUR IN GINGHAM -Even though Pa tricia Moris on, lat est addition to the film colony, wears gingham dresses in recent picture, she -still manages to exude glamour, as this posy shows. LEADS NEW CRU- J$ tSpP X SADE AGAINST W.' ' T r WHISKERS Ralph i , t v 3, I T1 """" 'V : - ' ' - - . header of the new dec- oXf 4fe agfc?V'iV I I trie shaver industry, has embarked upon a cam- V-xJ'C-?- r SSSSl 1 I 3 j 1 paign to change the old fashioned shaving habits l 5 C 3rJL , 8 j 1 n I,. r f JJI of the nation. As president of the world's larg- V f& Vw , SjL f ' Hss-a"' producer of electric dry shavers, he says 13 ll'J JSSW CmmmMAiiW 40,000,000 American men are still in the "horse V, Jy&J V I y and buggy" era of whisker control. j W - .If- jCitJvS rl1fn f V- r SVt ur : " ! v7? tS vrm- -Kf X:.. 7 tm M?1r9-:f-' VIVACIOUS -6lympe Bradna, cur.li " , ' ' . 1:.& -r" - stttMaMsl,,,, , u j MNiilMBl e Itftlf 1 iai in Ai 1 nTtuuus uiynpe oraana, cur rent star, is considered one of Hollv- woodns most beautiful girls. She attrib utes her radiant health, camelKa-Iike jeootelexion, and perfect form to rego Dtr exercise. DOUBLE BATH Baby may not like it. bot this maternal bulldog believes in a thorough clean-up FALL FASHION AT FAIR New York City Displayed at the N. Y. World's Fair were (left) a leaf green coat with beaver scart, cocoa dress and moss-green hat, and (right) a blue fox dyed guamico jacket, French cognac and fairway green checked wool dress, and a French suede cognac hat. 107 LINCOLN, Oct. 11 (UP) Septem ber drouth left the U. S. department of agriculture's forecast of Nebras ka corn production unchanged at 7C388.000 bushels. Figures released at Washington listed Nebraska seventh among the corn-producing states and placed the October 1 estimate at the same point as that for September 1. Production last year was 107,735,000 bushels. LOOT NEARLY COMES HOME COLUMBIA, S. C. (UP) The wo man bought a potted plant from a boy peddling a variety of flowers. She was so pleased with her bargain she called her sister-in-law three miles away to come by and see it. The sister-in-law admired the plant, then after a closer inspection ex claimed: "Why that's my plant." It had been stolen from her front porch a week before. RESCUE W0ULD-RE SUICIDE NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (UP)- Blonde, 16-year-old Helen Kawalek, determined to have a Broadway car eer or die, stood on a hotel window ledpe for 20 minutes today threatening- to jump if her father and brother did not go back home to Bayonne, N. J., and let her alone. She was saved by Fireman Richard Oliver who tied a rope around his waist, jumped from the window ledge directly above her, and seized her in his arms. One end of the rope had been se cured inside the room from which Oliver jumped. He swayed on the ether end, smothering the pirl apainst him as she screamed, clawed and kick ed him. Below, firemen held a safety net and policemen shouted instruc tions and encouragement to Oliver. Above, Alex Kawalek, the prirl's father and Henry her brother, poked their heads through a window and tried to calm her. The girl and her rescuer finally were let down by the rope to the safety net and she was forced into an ambulance and taken to a hospital for observation, still shrieking. The ledge on which Miss Kawalek stood was on the second floor, only 25 feet above the ground and half a block off the great white way that had dazzled her, but below there was a concrete court and a jump probably would have crippled her if not killed her. She had run away from home yes terday morning. Her father said she had taken part in some amateur theat ricals and had set her heart on a theatrical career. She is shapely and attractive. RIVER WORKER DROWNS HAMBURG, la., Oct. 14 (UP) Foreman Arthur Boatwright was Irowned when an explosion ot a pile driver boiler threw three river workers into the Missouri Friday afternoon. The other two men were rescued but were slightly injured. The pile driver was pulling snags from the river. "MUSSED SHIRTS" PRESENT PASADENA, Cal. (UP) During one of the hottest days of the season here Superior Court Judge Frank C. Collier invited attorneys and every one else in court to take off their roats if they so desired. Not a single man divested himself. District At-' torney David J. O'Leary, sweltering, remarked: "There seems to be a lot of mussed shirts present." APPROVE GYM FUNDS We can rurnTsl you wrzft lful ber Stamps made to order at a price considerably below that you have been paying. Prompt servloe. If you need stamps, see us. WASHINGTON. Oct. 14 (UP) The WPA has made available $19, 386 for construction of a school gymnasium at Rulo. Nebraska, it was announced here today. PROGRAM CASS of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention of the COUNTY COUNCIL OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (Sunday School Convention) Friday, October 20, 1939 Methodist Church, Louisville, Nebraska 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 11:15 11:25 12:00 1:30 1:45 2:00 2:45 3:15 3:25 4:00 7:30 7:45 8:00 THEME: "IN THE LIGHT OP THE CROSS" Registration Prelude of Music and Invocation Group Singing Rev. Paul Dick, Leader Group Discussions Take Your Choice 1 Loyalty What Has the Church a Right to Expect? Rev. Dickerson, Leader 2 Pea?e Peace of Mind and World Peace Rev. Lowaon, Leader 3 Faith Have We Faith? Rev. Hawkins, Leader 4 Service How May We Serve? i Rev. Schick, Leader Special Music Address, "The Sunday School in the Light of the Cross" by Miss Elsie Wik, State Secretary Benediction. Dinner will be served in the Church basement. Special Committees will meet during the noon hour and prepare their reports. Group Singing Rev. Paul Dick, Leader Devotions Rev. E. M. Hawkins, Leader Resume of Group Discussions by Group Leaders. Five minutes each. General group discussion. Business. Committee Reports. Election. Offering. Group Singing Address, "Cooperative Christianity in County and State" by Miss Elsie Wik, State Secretary Benediction and Adjournment Supper will be served in the Church basement. Group Singing. Invocation. Special Music Address and Special Consecration Service. An hour of Devotion and Inspiration. CONVENTION SONQ I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift!