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A midshipman who coludn’t r wait to get ashore jumped over- j board and swam in Tuesday j night -from the destroyer Rowe! 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, has been sent to Bethesda Nvoil Hospital for observation. Disciplinary action is pending'.Stone leaped overboard from the destroyer itowe and swam a mile and a half to Tolly Point, where he clambered ashore. He had tucked some clothing into a five-inch gun casing and pushed it along in front of him as he swam. He later turned himself in jt Bancroft Hall, the midshipman dormitory at the Academy.There were two conflicting ne~ ports-;—one that Stone couldn't wait to see his girl ‘friend and ■ another that he swam ashore tn a dare. However, Academy, officials discounted reports about tlhfi girl friend, who they said wasn’t even in the- srKi. 'Stone,' whose parents were killed in a plane crash in Hawaii’ last year, was found missing ait(ContinuedWoman Injured Beatihgi OffMan In Allow
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Capital Gazette
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1956
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