| THE BARRETT FAMILY SWAM NEARLY EVERY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY MORNININGS at Waikiki beach, eight blocks from home, walking down Liliuokalani St, named for the last queen, who wrote the song "Aloha Oe."They would wash sand off theirfeet at the water spigot visible at left of photo and enter by the shower door to wash salt off in showers. At right are stairs to the small upstairs apartment where landlord Walter Glockner lived July to December 8, l941. He was taken into custody by the FBI the morning after the Pearl Harbor attack becausae of his birth in Germany, though he told us he was proud of his American citizenship. A publicized habeas corpus case developed, and military Governor Richardson was fined five thousand dollars by a civilian Hawaii Territory court l942 but pardoned by President Franklin Roosevelt. After some months in detention at Sand Island, Honolulu Harbor,Mr. Glockner agreed to spend the remainder ofthe war in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where he worked as a brewer.He returned to the Islands in l945. We helped with his mail and various matters relating to the property, and he offered to give blood when Sophie had surgery May l947.Other tenants upstains were Seabee Mike Ryan from Missouri or Oklahoma and Mrs. Clark of Samoan background, with a son Tommy and a young baby mentioned in Soiphie Barrett memoir. Many Barrett friends including Lt. Commander Martin Williams from Clinton Kentucky (recently in Lexington Ky) used these back shower stairs and entrance with us. One bathroom window had a specialially designed blackout arrangement to let air in through a screen and box arrangement |
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