Poindexter in Paradise

During the Hundred Day Session last spring few pieces of legislation requested by President Roosevelt were denied him by a docile Congress. One was a bill authorizing him to name a nonresident as Governor of Hawaii. The measure squeaked through the House but the Senate let it die as the result of cries of outrage from the insular Democracy.

Having left Republican Governor Lawrence McCully Judd on the job ten months longer than he had a right to expect, President Roosevelt last week named Democrat Joseph Boyd Poindexter of Honolulu as his successor.

No "kamaaina'' (oldtimer), like Hawaii's famed missionary-founded families of Alexanders, Baldwins, Castles, Cookes and Thurstons, the new Governor of the "Paradise of the Pacific'' is nevertheless no political carpetbagger or "malihini" (stranger). He went to Hawaii in 1917 as U. S. District Judge, has since been a practicing attorney. A full-sized, out-door-loving man, he was raised in Dillon, Mont. where his family had one of the State's largest cattle ranches and where he began practicing law in 1892 after leaving Washington University (St. Louis). He still goes back to Dillon to visit his brothers, still maintains his local reputation as a teller of prime fish stories. His branch of the family claim no kin with Republican Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, onetime (1923-28) U. S. Ambassador to Peru.

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