The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-09
ONE PUBLIC RECORD
INDICATES ALIEN
ENEMIES OWN PUCK
How New Motor Ship Secured
American Registration Causes
Much Speculation
D0ELv ERS-KNAACK WERE
OWNERS At INCORPORATION
Hilo Tribune Reports Vessel Dis
appeared For Three Days A.
ter Sighted OFF Kona Coast

Because it is generally assumed that
Diedrich Doelvcrs and II. Knaack,
alien enemies, are the principal owners
of the South KOna Firewood and Ship,
ping Company which operates the new
motor ship Puck, there is much specu-
lation among Honolulu shipping men
us to how she was placed under Amer,
lean registry, as the federal regulations
REQUIRE that the controlling interest of
on American vessel shall be owned by
citizens Of ;hr United states.
The ussumptio3 that the two alien
eneIbies arc the controlling owners of
the motor ship is based on the only
public record available, the petition
for the incorporation of the company
fled with the territorial treasurer.
According to Eben Low, who made
an investigation of the ownership and
operation Of the motor ship Puck for
a report which he submitted to the Ha-
wRii Vigilance Corps, the incorporation
papers show the officers and the distri'
button of shares rs follows:
MarstOn Campbell, president, two
shares Henry Knaack, secretary and
treasurer, 342 shares; c. X. All, direct
or, two shares; Diedrich Doelvers, di.
rector, 342 shares, and E. c. Pohlman,
director, sixty-six shares.
Hare 6S4 Shares
The incorporation record only &C
counts for 754 shares, and the com
pany was incorporated for $4,000,
with 1000 shares at fifty dollars a
share, par value.
However, the balance of the 1000
shares may have been sold later, as
J. y. Locker, a former employee of
Haekfeld & Company, is now repre-
sented as the secretary and treasurer
of the company. There may also have
been other transfers Of stock, Of which
there is now no public record and which
viii not be known until an annual re
port is fled.
But if Knaack and Doelvers still
retain their original holdings in the
company, their 6S4 shares put the con
trolling interest in alien enemy hands.
Citizens Must Own Control
If this is true, it is in violation of
the, federal regulation for the registra
ton and enrolment of American YES
sells, which reads in part as follows:
Act, no corporation, partnership, or as
ISOLATION. shall be deemed a citizen of
the United States, unless the CONTROL
ing interest therein is owned by eiti-
zens of the United States, and, in the
ease of a corporation, unless its presi-
dent and managing directors are citi-
zens of the United States, and the cor
poration itself is organized under the
laws of the United States, or of
state or territory, district or posses
sion thereof"
When the Puck was registered at the
Honolulu customs house Marston Camp
bell, took the ownership oath
Did Puck Disappear
From HilO comes an intimation that
the Puck on her maiden voyage to
Kona disappeared from week ago
Saturday until the following Tuesday,
after she was sighted off the KOna
eoast by the steamer Kilauea, appar-
entity beaded for Honolulu. This re-
port, which was printed in the Hilo
Tribune last Wednesday, was as fol
lows:
First sight Of the power schooner
Puck, vessel of more nOtoriety'
than beauty, was reported yesterday
almost simultaneously in HlO and
Honolulu. The Puck anchored yester
day morning at Alika, an isolated
point on the Kona Coast, not far from
HOOpuloa, and was still there last
night.
"But that isu t where the Puck was
first sighted. When the Inter Island
steamship Kilauea was making for Ho
okema last Saturday, the Puck was
seen apparently proceeding in the di-
rection of Honolulu.
HWOrd to that effect was carried to
Honolulu by the Kilauea, which ar
rived there today. Inquiries by wire
less Immediately followed. In the
meantime the Kilauea's mate had
dropped the news at Hookena and yes
terdaV it reached Hilo. Investigation
brought Word on the long distance tel.
pphOne that the Puck had anchored
yesterday morning at Alika, and was
still there, presumably taking on fire,
wood.
Giles red for No Mans Land
n "Where she was bound when seen
by the Kilauea Saturday, headed in
the. direction of Honolulu, and what
she did with her time between then
rnd Tuesday morning are questions
that remain TO be answered.
.as"By kindness of United States Attor-