Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-07
GRANDJURY WILL
BEGIN inquiry
TUESDAY MORNING
InquiSitoriaI Body viii Make an
Immediate Start InyeStigat-
ina the Vice District

Developments in the campaign
against commercialized vice and espe-
cially for the closing up Of the so
called restricted vice district at Iwilei
appeared 10 mark time today and to
await the resumption Of courts and
governmental offices Wednesday.
The grand jury will begin its inves-
LEGATIONS Wednesday morning and the
city attorney is ready to produce suca
Witnesses a. may be required by II
! Ahin is slated 10 answer rW0
charges in the police court.
: Petitions asking that Iwilei be ncT
closed are understood 10 number
abont six and they are said 10 bear
over 29e names Charles Huber. an
i"llel businessman, who has seen the
petitions. gave this information to tie.
Star-Bulletin today.
Il don't remember 10 whom The net: !.
TONS We're addressed said Huber
nut ! understood they were 10 be
handed TO the grand jury | under.
stood they We're circulated by Y. Ahin,
who is now under arrest on a charge
OF conducting disorderly house, or
by his attorneys"
Huber says the general text. as he.
remembers il, of the petitions was,
mat undersigned respectfully petition
that inasmuch as Honolulu is a sea
port town and because there is sucn
q great number of unmarried service
men here lwilei be left undisturbed.
turbed.
Sheriff Rose says he has heard OF
the petitions, but denies a report that
one bearing several names had al
ready been handed to him. He says
he has not even seen the papers.
IF such petitions are being circlr-
lated they should properly go to the
legislature" says Rose, for have
already taken the stand which the
petitioners are said to be taking"
II is understood that large mum
Der of signers were obtained in wi
lei.
Y. Ahin. proprietor of several
houses in Iwilei, is to be arraigned in
the police court Wednesday morning
on two charges of running disorderly
houses in that district
Investigation Starts Wednesday
Initial steps toward an exhaustive
investigation OF conditions at Iwilei,
Honolulu's so-called restricted dis
trIct," will be taken at 8 o'clock We'd
resday afternoon when the members
of the territorial grand jury will meet
in the judiciary building to act on rec
Concentrations made by Circuit Judge
Clarence w. Ashford at the request of
City Attorney Arthur NJ. Brown.
Judge Ashford's recommendations
published in part in Mondays Star
Bulletin, are comprehensive, asserting
that the power of the grand jury in an
investigation of this kind is practically
unlimited. The recommendations were
read at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon,
following which the members of the
jury held brief meeting, probably to
decide on the date for the initial in
yestigation meeting. No witnesses
were called.
Will Serve Needed Witnesses
City Attorney Brown said today
that his Office will attend to the sum-
mCning of such witnesses that the in
quisitors may request. He has not
been notified. LoWever, of what form
the investigation will take-whether
the jurymen will investigate as a whole
or appoint a special committee of its
members. 1t is probable fthat the re-
suits of the investigationeWill be out |
lined in full in the annual report of !
The jury. due 1t the end of the year. |
Among those who heard Judge Ash |
fcrd's recommendations, ether than |