The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-03
BREVTTIES

and costs in the police court yesterday
morning for q violation of the traffic
| ordinance. r %
Plans have been prepared and bids
win soon be advertised for the erection
of comfort station at Aala Park which
is to cost in the neighborhood of 10000.
Officers and soldiers OF the army or
carnations stationed on Oahu have
taken out 100000, 900 worth Of war in
suranee. Nearly q million dollars was
subscribed last week. ~. w.. ,
With the rank Of first lieutenant,
Rev. J. Knox Bodel, rector of the Epis-
copal Church at Hilo, bag been appoint
ed chaplain of the Second Regiment,
Hawaiian National Guard.
Mrs. Richard Ivers has been named
executrix Of the will Of her late hus-
band in probate proceedings held this
week. The estate has value of $780,
900, 100000 Of which is real property.
Magistrate Harry Irwin, who has
been appointed deputy attorney gen
eral, will continue to conduct police
| court until q successor is named. J.
B. Lightfoot Is being mentioned rs
one of those who may receive the ap-
pointment ..5..
NJ. F. Prosser, Allen Robinson and
! Olaf SorensOn, the three volunteers
from Hawaii for field service for the
Red Cross in France, have all arrived
in Washington, according to cable des-
patches received yesterday at Hawai-
ian chapter headquarters.
Suit for 10000 damages will be
/ brought against Edgar Henriques, man
ager of the Peabody Estate lands in
employe of the South Kona Tobacco
Company, says the Post Herald of Hilo,
April 90, the action being based on a
claim of malicious arrest.
Andrew H. Hamrick, meteorOlogist
and weather man for the Territory of
Hawaii will leave shortly to take up
similar duties in Wyoming, with head
quarters at Cheyenne. Mr.. Hamrick
has been in Honolulu for three years
and has established several new fea
lures to improve the local service.
Felix Turro, who was arrested last
week and charged with nonsupport
was ordered by Judge Irwin yesterday
to pay his wife five dollars a week
Tranquilino Saylor, a convicted Filipino
wife beaten, was given a suspended sen
tence of thirteen months in the police
court yesterday morning by judge
Irwin.
| Road Supervisor Cantin declares thai
there are at least 1000 laborers out OF
work in Honolulu. There is practically
! little or no road work going on outside
Of few patching gangs that are max
ing none but absolutely needed repair
to the roads. Stevedores also are feel
ing the pinch of hard times owing t,
the shortage of shipping at this port.
Col Howard Hathaway, collector O.
| internal revenue. said yesterday tina
the government is disposed to deal len
ientIv with delinquents who have faileC
to file income tax returns-prOvidinI
that they act at once and bring in re
turns. Those who do fail to come for
4 ward at this time with overdue returns
however, would feel the full weight o.
the law; he, added. |trNn4mf r,oG.pt
Three children Of a" Portuguese wO
man, who is believed to be Dement'S
and who fed with the children from tn
Palolo home last Tuesday, were brough
into the juvenile court yesterday afte
they had been rounded up by prObatio
officers and were ordered taken bacI
TO the home by Judge William H. Heer
What will be done with the woman ha
not yet been determined.
G. Flood, an American information
ally known as a shipping magnate, b.
lieves that Uncle Sam s "hands off
policy in Russia is a winning one. II
, is returning from Russia to the Unite
States on the Tenyo Maru after spenC
ing several years in Siberia. He ha
closed up his shipping business in Ru
STA until the present conditions becom
more settled, he says.
Mr.. Hornsby, stage manager for tn
Goldin troupe, now appearing at I'll
Bijou, who is twenty six years of ag
has been ordered to report to the Bri
ish consul at San Francisco, on arrivi
there. He had a conference yesterda
with Captain Field, of the draft SER
ice, but being Britisher, he was r
. ferred to Consul E. L. 8. Gordon. Al
other member of the troupe was fOuI
physically unfit for army service.
May 81 has been selected as Pledl
t Day in. Hawaii by the War Savinl
: Stamp campaign. A house to hou
canvass will be made to sell Thri
l and War Savings Stamps. A meetlr
= of the general committee will be he
4 at half-pa four O'Clock Friday a
ternon when captains and teams +
e the campaign will be selected. A &c
eral meeting of all committees will
held this afternoon at the chamber
commerce rooms to revitalize the cal
# paign.
An effort will be made by the de-
q gates of the Honolulu AID Club to brll
the 1920 convention of the Assoeiat
y Ad Clubs of America to Honolulu. sc
!. to Hawaii in l92O' will be the slOg
a of the local admen. The delegat
from Honolulu will take along 80
small bags of Kona coffee and 80
small bags of sugar which will be us
as SOUVENIRS at the big convention
San Francisco. Another souVe9iT W
u be in the form Of tanned pmeapt
r to be put up in small glass jars for Il
occasion.
O Secretary A. l.. Castle Of the Haw
Ian Chapter, American Red Cross, b
&c received appointment as general III
s director of the Red Cross in the j
- ritory of Hawaii, and will be cons