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...Navy men last week adopted a new fashion. To Commander Calvin H. Cobb of the destroyer Billingsley, bound out of St. Petersburg, Fla., for Philadelphia, came a radio from the police that a St. Petersburg girl was believed to have been smuggled aboard the Billingsley; please to make a search. Indignant, Commander Cobb searched-and found 15-year-old Cynthia Alberta Pool. She said she had been persuaded to go by a seaman named Kramer; that a married woman of St. Petersburg had planned to go too but was prevented by her husband, who appeared on the dock...
...search of Commander Clark's own flagship, the Concord, and of the destroyer Sands and the repair ship Dobbin, discovered four more baggages. They said they were Billy Lacer, Rose McQuire, Flossie Rice, Ramilda Avery, "waitresses from Philadelphia." They had been sneaked aboard at New Orleans. Commander Clark led his ships into Key West. The waitresses were disembarked. Courts martial began...
...well known that Secretary Wilbur likes to think of his bluejackets as a fine, clean-cut lot of Christian sailors who would never think of smuggling girls or women aboard ship, even as a "prank," especially after ten days of shore leave in the Gulf ports. Five years ago, when a seagoing girl was found on the battleship Arizona between New York and Panama, Secretary Wilbur was shocked, embarrassed, furious, and a dozen sailors were court-martialed. Though no announcement was made it was safe to say that last week, as in 1923, every U. S. Navy ship afloat...
Traveling by special train, yet with studied informality, Lord and Lady Willingdon arranged to receive, when they reached Vancouver last week, merely a simple greeting from Mayor Louis Taylor instead of an expensive formal welcome. Further to spare Vancouver all expense, they slept each night aboard their train...
Provisions were packed aboard: six unsalted beef sandwiches for each, six bananas, and six peeled oranges wrapped in buttered paper and placed in a biscuit tin with some chocolate. Half a dozen other oranges, prepared at the Baron's special request, had to be left behind to make room for nine vacuum flasks, five filled with beef tea, three with strong tea, and one with black coffee...