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Action Pending On Midshipman Who Jumped ShipA midshipman who coludxi't j-wait to get ashore jumped over- j board and swam in Tuesday j: night .from the destroyer Eowe! which had just returned him : from a summer cruise to Europe. :The Naval .Academy has'con- finned the Incident and said the : first classman, Edward K. Stone ■ of Honolulu, lias been, sent to Bethesda Navel Hospital for ofo- j serration. Disciplinary action is ; pending.Stone leaped ovesfooard from J the destroyer 'ftowe and swam a ■ mile and a half to Tolly Point, ] where he clambered ashore. lie : had tucked some clothing into ■ five-inch gurt casing and pushed it : along in front rtf him as he swain. ; He later turned, himself in jkt Bancroft Hall, the midshipman I dormitory at the Academy.Thor© were two conflicting re- . ports^—one that Stone couldn’t wait to see his girl ‘friend and •' another that he swam ashore on a dare. However, Academy, officials discounted reports about the girl friend, who they said wasn’t even in the- area. 4Stone,’ whose parents were killed in a plane crash in Hawaii’ last year, was found _miSGtog at(Continued
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Capital Gazette
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1956
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