Maybe someone should just send an e-mail to Erickson’s brother Jack and ask him if he knows, whether they knew each other or not.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jadrma&id=I00006
It sure is interesting that both Stanley and Carolly are the same age, went to the University of Washington together at the same time, both lived in Hawaii and both were interested in jazz.
...and when O Sr received his instructions to register the birth, the details were read to him by telephone, he wrote down the names and address phonetically, and that's how you get Ericson for Erickson, Madlyn for Madelyn, and Kalanlanaole for the street...