Tiny Kingdom A
By AL DOPKING
AP News Features
AOMON ISLAND. Eniwetok
Atoll — This Tom Thumb isle of
the Pacific, home of 117 dark
skinned natives, in* all probability
is the smallest kingdom in the
"world.
Reigned over by two cousins,
Johannes and Abraham, the do
main of these fast vanishing Mi
cronesians of Eniwetok atoll is
little more than a mile long and
a half mile wide. At one end of
it sets a palm thatched village.
Since American forces captur
ed Eniwetok these natives have
been handled by the Army,
which recently turned them over
to the charge of the Navy. All
this called for some ceremony.
So. Lt. Cmdr. Frank P. White
hair, chief civil affairs adviser
for the Advanced Central Paci
fic area, took a party of news
papermen and officers for the in
stallation of Lt. William Jenkins
%of Chapel Hill, N. C., as. deputy
governor of the island.
The two kings came running
down to the beach barefoot to
meet the* party. Handshaking and
grins were exchanged as other
men of the tribe gathered about.
The women remained in theirj
undersized shacks nut couldn’t !
resist peeking around the comer
of the doors. The children eyed
the procedure from behind coco- '
nut trees.
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Solomon In All His Glory
No regal splendor surrounded
Johannes and Abraham. Both
wore GI khakis and Johannes a
plain overseas cap, while Abra- 1
ham’s “crown” was a Navy offi- I
cer s cap with an Army officer’s '
insignia.
It was a big day for the na
tives. Newspapermen interview
ed and took their pictures_
something they enjoyed so much
that every time they saw a cam
era they would cluster about in
groups, smiling their best.
The mustachioed monarchs
did most of the talking, their
mumbled dialect translated by an
interpreter, himself a Microne
sian who had learned by associa
tion with seamen to speak some
English.
The pair were emphatic about
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YEN FOR DOLLARS — Na
tives in the Marshall islands
exchange Japanese currency
their dislike for the Japs, who
until the Americans came in Feb
ruary had ruled them for a quar
ter century.
“The Jap no good,” said Abra
ham, gesticulating with his
hands and at the same time
drawing his face into a pamed,
dispairing expression. “He starve
my people and force them to
work hard.”
Abraham was prepared to elab
orate but there was bartering,
medical tests for children and
much else to be done.
The natives produced sea
shells, baskets and mats woven
from palm fronds to trade these
for a week’s supply of food.
It all was very serious. Maj.
Sidney Ronald traded for every
thing the natives offered, some
of which was of doubtful value.
“If I don’t take it all,” he ex
plained, “they won’t trade any
of it.”
No Grass Skirts
Now the women, dressed in
Mother Hubbards, whose skirts
touched the ground, came out to
watch the bartering.
Finally when the natives had
traded off all their handiwork
for the week they raced down
to the water’s edge and bought
their week’s supply of commod
ities and started it up the beach,
for American money at the
desk of an Army Civil Affairs
officer in ihe hut of an island
chief.
! laughing with childish glee.
A baseball game was stopped
long enough for medical exami
nation^ of the children in the lit
tle thatched chapel. Navy doc
tors and dentists reported the
youngsters in fair physical con
dition considering the limited
diet on which they had been
living under Japanese rule.
| After the Americans took over
j all the natives were moved off
! of Engebi, which had been ruled
over by Johannes, and Eniwetok
which had been Abraham’s do
main.
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