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Show Shirley Didn't Like Cold Weather in Michigan, So She Boarded Hawaii -Bound Warship SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 29 (INS) -Shirley Dale, 24 and pretty, had some pretty definite defi-nite Ideas about how to get from Flint. Mich., to Honolulu, and the best of them was to stow away on a United States destroyer, de-stroyer, she told San Diego police po-lice Wednesday. She almost made It, too. She was found hiding behind the big Diesel engines of the U. S. S. Long shortly before the ship was to put to sea, and naval officers turned her over to police. The navy men were willing to forget about the matter, dismissing dismiss-ing her bold attempt to stow away as a prank, but they decided de-cided they should turn her over to police anyway. "It was easy," she explained. "I Just put on some old navy dungarees, a dark blue sweater, and tucked my hair up under a white seaman's cap. Then I Just took a shore boat with a bunch of sailors, ambled up the gangplank gang-plank past the guards and . slipped into the engine room. "It's downright cold where I come from," she added, "so I decided to go to Hawaii and get warm. I got to San Diego all right, but I couldn't afford a ticket to Hawaii. I thought if I stowed away on a warship and it got far enough out to sea. It wouldn't turn back when I was found." What upset naval intelligence men is that the girl was able to get aboard the destroyer at a time when the navy is under virtually wartime restrictions without showing a "liberty card." And the section of the waterfront which docks shore boats is always closely guarded. , 1. |