The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-01
ENTHUSIASTICALLY
BuF IEAvESPtAGE
stsnduraphbf Of Trust Company
Declines To Assert Amer
icanlshl Before Iudqe

Miss Grace Carroll, q sisterin law
Of Carl Du Roi. who has been employ.
ed as a stenographer at the Hawaiian
Trust company's offices on King
Street, resigned her position yester.
day morning, following which Circuit
Judge G. w Ashford, appointed the
Hhwaiiah Trust Company as admins,
TRAITOR Of the estate Of the late William
@. ParkeS The jurist had previously
refused TO name the company for this
Office while an employe with pro- Ger.
kpan sympathies was connected with
the company. a :
The judge had announced the day
before. that if the employee would ap.
pear before him and assert loyalty TO
the United States, he would even then
sign the order for the administrator.
ship to the firm. IT.
Loyalty Previously Questioned
The loyalty Of Miss Carroll has been
under Investigation for some time and
It is reported that at one time she
was engaged to be married to Captain
Minnsen Of the interned German
steamer Pommern, and to have visited
him while he was interned here after
the breaking OF OF diplomatic rela.
tiops between the United States and
Germany. * -. I, Y,
The refusal Of the Judge to confirm
the notwithstanding to the trust com.
pany caused a eonference yesterday
morning at which +, ID. Tenney, pres.
ident Of the company, was present. Mr..
Tenney said that Miss Carroll explicit.
Nv asserted her loyalty to the United
States, but refused to affirm this be.
fore the court. On reaching this i'm
nasse the situation was clear to Miss
Carroll and her resignation was ten.
dered immediately and was accepted.
Tenney Gives Details y II
In q statement concerning the mat
ter, Mr. Tenney said: II
q Judge Ashford yesterday stated in
court that the Hawaiian Trust Com.
Pany,, Limited, was employing a per-
in the war and disloyal to the United
States of America. 3.a. =
The Trust Company has had no
alien enemies in its employ, and, in
fact, no person Of German blood. On
Investigation it was found that the
charge Of disloyalty was confined to a
single employe, stenographer Of Amer
lean birth and citizenship who on the
entry Of the United States into the
war had announced her loyalty to her
Gin the presence OF several other
representatives Of the, Trust Company,
4 had an interview this morning with
this stenoerapher and she explicitly
ana emphaticailly asserted her loyalty
to America in the war, but declined
to comply with Judge Ashford 3 re.
quest to appear before him and make
q similar statement. y K. p
We feel that during the war any
American citizen should be willing
and glad to make public statement OF
his or her loyalty whenever called upon
to do 90 BY any governmental author
Iity. N 4. 81, ....
1--WE feel that trust company is,
in a way, semi.public institution, with
governmental connections, and that the
loyalty Of all its. employees should be
beyond suspicion. The stenographer
in question, having declined to com
ply, with our request to appear before
Judge Ashford, rendered her resigna.
ton, which was accepted.o
Appointment 70 Made S.
The Parke estate, which was the
center Of the loyalty storm, is valued
at about 100000. The petition for
probate was fled by the sisters of the
deceased, Misses James Parke, Annie
Parke and Mrs. Bernice Parke Wal.
bridge. The trust company becomes
administrator under bond of 5000, 900
Miss Carroll is American born, but
~ Triah dasaank Har aiefar m arria d
Carl Du Roi, manager Of B. +. Ehlers
q Co, whose tendencies are said to be
pro-GermaE he being German.