The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-02-19


Add New Angles To Committee
Work
ItDo you not know yop are working
for German corporation which would
pay you any amopnt Of mohey asked
l-or that the kaiser, or the German
government would do soft yeur I'M
fention is as stipulated in TIE publish.
"a report Of the. apti.subhafipe device
which you sent to washingtoni
ssWhy did you not come % me frsti
Don't you know where You are getting
your bread and butteri"
These we're two queatichs .xhieh
moro than one Mani resident asserts
warn asked Of Hamilton MeCubbin,
min engineer Of the Pioneer Min Com
pany, BY i. weinzheimcrs manager OF
ne company. who IL under lnyesfieation
Nv spacfnl committee Of the stock
holders, due 70 charges Of disloyalty
and pro-ltniseriam lodged against him
AZ the annual meeting OF. the company.
The two questions are said to have
been asked Engineer MeCubbin. the
day after q Honolulu newspaper reach
"a Iahaina, In which Il was reported
that the Washington administration
Ind acknowledged the receipt from the
Mori engineer Of two suggested anti
submarine devices. ona Of which was
declared by the officials TO have merit.
This occurred when Manager w'einz-
hsimer called MeCubbin COP the car
pet either In Jest or seriousness, for
moi hitting him know about the In
reniions before they were sent TO
Washington. close friends Of the
Pioneer Min man believe and say.
COMMITTEES TO Maui fks
Due 70 the investigation Of the
ktockholders' committee and the state
ment Of =. w. Sutton. the chairman,
that q trip win probably be made to
Maui hy the committeeman where the
probe Of the disloyalty charges can be
carried on where the Valley Island wit
nesscs can be easily summoned, the in.
tesii&ation Of the alleged eensuring
1T Mccabbin by Weinxheimef may re-
qnire equal probing with the sensation.
Al AFFIDAVIT OF Basil Eustaee Fem,
former wireless operator al Lahaina. /
For nearly six months there have
been constant reports in Honolulu that
McCubbin had been "called down" by |
Meinxheimer for sending his anti-sub-
marine devices to Washington, the re-
ports often being coupled with the
Statement that the engineer had been |
discharged for doing so,
AZ the latter part Of the report was
distinetly known TO be untrue, as Nc !
Cubbin has remained in the employ. |
ment Of the Pioneer Mill Company IN. |
iii the present time, the report was not |
credited. bat yesterday The Advertiser |
was able 70 secure what II declared to !
ho nearly an authentic verbatim re-
fIhtoment Of the purported converse.
ton between weinzheimer and Nc
\ Cnhhin. .A#t Il
Nay Hs Embeliished 5t. &.I
Certain parts Of the report Of this
pufported conversation seem confirm.
atorf Of the general charge that Me.
0nbbin went on the carpet for his pa |
trioiIe efforts to aid the government,
while other parts bear evidence Of emi 1
Enlistment ihrough much retailing on
4 According to intimate friends Of the |
etgipeef he eonfded to them that on
The receipt Of the Honolulu newspaper |
telling Of his sending Of the anti,sub- |
marine inrentions to Washington he |
was approached the following morning |
BY Manager Weinzheimer, who said, |
~ want to see you" Y LII
IAN right I know what You
want, ~ Mecubbin is quoted Is reply
mo II 80 st,a ~ 4
Shortly after the mill engineer went |
10 5fbe plantation managers Office and |
said, SOMEWHAT belligereBtly;
ttWhat n. IL yon WANT Shoot your !
Veds II you want my resignation say
These declarations Of the mill en-
oineer were said TO have been uttered |
before Manager WeinzheimeR had ask |
"a q question, or made any statement. |
EffNo, It. N not your resignation !
want, I want to talk TO yon as man
u mnn,D Manager Weinzheimer is
said 70 have replied in conciliatory |
fbne 70 the candid utteranoes Of the !
engineer. Then he continued, II Is
Z. DO you not know you are working
Tor D German corporation, f. who-or
the Kaiser OF the German government
would pay you any priee asked IL your !
dlii,suhmarine devices ara as stipu.
lated In the published Tsportit' ]
n The reference 10 the payment of
money for the Inventions MAS, how
ever, qualified with further remarks
10 the effect that II the devices q were
~ good Or better than reported.
Then came the question from Weinz-
I|timer; q Don 4 you know where you
are getting your bread and ibutter'f"
10 No, not my bread and butter. hut
ny bread and salt !, = McCubbin Is
t1id 10 have replied cynieally .
Following this MeCubbin IL report
ID 70 have been accused ot'dupKcity
mud not 70 have Hplayed the game in
The 0penH with men who had long
I|6fo has employers and Friends
The tone and frieudliness Of his NAV
tftf Il said 20 have somewhat weak.
fhed the engineef's determination TO
Keep up bold front, whatever the nj.
tack, and be began to justify his ne
tons ip submitting the inventions by
urging that be was good Amerie@p,
di1 20 long as America was neutral Re
had tried 10 be 80. &''&.l
~ Different Now gs'1 E.. n II
X But u Is different ,now,t the en-
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