ABSTRACT
It must have been about this time (1924), when Mike was getting ready to leave me for a plump, good-natured kanaka school teacher, that Rayna Simons Raphaelson Prohme stopped off in Honolulu on her way to China with Bill Prohme, her second husband. I had known the redheaded Rayna some years before when she came west in 1919 with Samson Raphaelson, her first husband, and settled in a cottage on the Blythedale side of Mill Valley. Samson began to write stories for the big magazines which he hoped would make him famous although at the time they weren't selling. Rayna plunged into volunteer work for one of the organizations in San Francisco that was fighting to free from the prisons the conscientious objectors to the world war. Carl Hessler, a former teacher and friend of Rayna's and Samson's at the University of Illinois, was then sitting in a cell in the U.S. Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island for refusing to go to war. One of the reasons Rayna and Samson had come west was to be near him.
