Show SWIMS BAY TO WIFE DESPITE U S. S QUARANTINE Story Leaks Out but Officers Officers Of Of- I Decline to In In- One of or the lie most moot welcome additions a to the local tire tiro Industry recently was the I return of or Harry B. B Johnston Jr star tar I K b k i Y 4 f c i. i S r rs F t f rif t S rs r's y mw HARRY B. B JOHNSTON I I I salesman of ot the Guarantee Tire Tiro and Rubber Rubber Rubber Rub Rub- ber com company pan after fter doln doing his bit In the service r of Uncle Sam as a coppersmith instructor at North 1 Island land California and the Great Lakes naval training sta sta- tion Johnston camo came back Just an as the tho peace production of or the famous Norwalk tires began to roll In In and ho Is now rap rap- Idl Idly forcing that popular brand of oC tire back Into popular ser Ben service Ico throughout hout Utah Ulah But with the young salesman's return rom from his naval service came a story that has spread from coast to coast and Is still tile the talk of oC hundreds of oC officers and men nen In the w Johnston was wae the central figure In the story but Is modestly mode modestly mod mod- e estly ob obscure cure when It comes to relating tho the details LONGS FOR LEAVE During the Influenza epidemic every service man on North Island was quarantined quarantined quarantined for Cor three forty-three day days Johnstons Johnston's Ife lf was at Coronado across croes tho the bay from rom North Island Every man on tho the Island long longed d for a leave but nono none dared to o risk the tho chance of oC or of oC being picked nicked off oft b by the strong strone marIno marine guard b by y trying to e escape cape During hi his leisure time however Johnston planned a visit to his home at Coronado and constructed a small watertight watertight water water- tight Ight cask to carry his hie uniform In this he 16 placed hl his clothes scaled sealed the cai cask k kand and tied It t about his wal waist t. t Dressed In 0 overalls he slipped past tho the marine marino guard one dark night slid Into the Icy my bay and began a two-hour two battle with the he choppy chopp waves wa In an effort to swim to o the Coronado shore chore NEVER INVESTIGATED Johnston says the tide carried him Carout far Car out of the tho course but hut ho he continued to toly topi pi ly his way slowly through tho the cold black water toward the Coronado Shore whore Ir In p exactly two hours and fifteen minutes he c felt the san sandy bottom of the tho Coronado beach cach Under cover of or darkness he made his ils way to his home hone donned uniform and ind L became came tho the only sailor In southern California on leave heave of oC absence Being an Instructor Johnston was as no not subject to o muster anI and he remained with his wife for two to days clays lye The following da day the was lifted and he managed man man- aged to get fet hack back to his barracks without being missed Johnston says say's the star story soon I leaked out but the officers never felt frit Inclined to make an Investigation so 80 the matter r was dropped l From rom North orth Island Johnston wap sent sento to o the Gr Great at Lakes training station near Chicago where he Installed a 3 big naval na copper plant Later he ho was WiS sent jack back to North Island from which point he 10 was discharged Now he Is back In hl his hia civics busily engaged In preaching and spreading Norwalk service from one I lend end of ot the state to the other I I |