Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 27

Wednesday, September 8. 1976 Honolulu Star-Bulletin C-5 DOROTHY LAMOUR? Jeff Glenn, who works at the Coast Guard's Sand Island boathouse, admires the work of Italian artisans. The cutter Mellon is in the background. Star-Bulletin Photos by Warren R. Roll.

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-HONOLULU, KAILUA, PIAl CITY 1 A iTTTi 1 By Lyle Nelson Star-Bulletin Writer Two sculptured hula girls, one bra-less, sit at the Coast Guard Sand Island base staring off into space. They look like young Dorothy La-mours. At Ft. Shafter there is a fountain outside Richardson Hall, the Army's headquarters that features winged lions. The girls and the fountain are the works of Italian artisans.

SO ARE THE fine retaining walls of lava rock on Carter Drive and elsewhere at Shafter. And so is the Cabrini Chapel whose ruins, covered by brush and neglect, were unearthed by bulldozers building the H-2 freeway near Wheeler Air Force Base. The artisans were prisoners of war. The Italians arrived in Honolulu in 1944 and left in 1945. They lived in a fenced-in compound at Sand Island.

THE LESS ARTISTIC among them did manual labor, cleaning up Fts. Ruger and DeRussy and removing the wartime scars inflicted upon the Iolani Palace grounds. King Kalakaua's lovely lawn had been dug up for bomb shelters after Dec. 7, 1941. There were 4,841 Italians, according to "Hawaii, the War Years," a book by Gwenefred Allen.

Retired CWO Raymond Cox of Kailua, then in the Coast Guard, remembers the night the Italians arrived on Sand Island. "Army engineers built the barracks across the street from the Sand Island base and put up the fence, and next we knew there were haoles wearing 'PW' shirts. We had expected Japanese," he said. "THERE WOULD be parties and sometimes fights and the riot squad would be sent for," he recalled. Retired Army Brig.

Gen. Kendall J. "Wooch" Fielder remembers the Italians as well behaved and often anxious to please. Author Allen reports that some were difficult. There were escape attempts.

One old hand at Shafter remembers talking to them. "They would say, 'You like Roosevelt. We like And then they'd laugh," he said. Four Italians are buried at Scha-field Barracks. A cracked plaque on the fountain at Shafter reads: PW Giusti Aleredn, Via Capezzano 19, Pietrasanta, Italia.

TWO QUESTIONS remain: Where were they captured? And why were they brought to Hawaii? The Star-Bulletin couldn't find the answers. They may have been captured in North Africa by the British during the great desert battles before Rom mel and Montgomery slugged it eut. And the British then turned them over to the United States. More likely they were taken later in Sicily by advancing American armies. But why bring them to the Pacific? One old-timer recalls there ence were six hula girl sculptures.

"I think our guys got drunk and smashed them up," Cox said. SHAFTER FOUNTAIN Italian prisoners also built this fountain at Ft. Shafter. Linda Kroeger, Linda Kroeger HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) We join Linda Kroeger at 1 a.m.

in the basement of her home. She is folding clothes and wearing an 80-year-old one-carat diamond ring, a family heirloom. The ring slips off, so Kroeger, 31, removes it and places it in her shirt pocket. Shortly thereafter, the ring into the toilet and is flushed down the drain. Understandably disturbed at the loss of a ring in the family for three generations, she rushes upstairs and awakens her husband.

John Kroeger, an electrician with little desire to be a plumber, rips the toilet from the floor and checks the trap. He then cuts a three-foot hole in a garage wall and inspects a sec ond trap. No ring. Kroeger catches some sleep, arises again at 7 a.m. and starts digging his way to the main sewer line.

Before the afternoon is over, he has created a six-foot-long, fwo-foot-wide, five-foot-deep trench. No ring. First thing next morning, the family calls the Street and Sewer Department. A three-man work crew is dispatched. "Finally, at around 5 p.m., just when I was giving up hope, I heard one of the workers inside the manhole ask, 'Where is that gal who lost the she recalled.

"I was 90 excited and crying so much I forgot to get his name.".