GIRLS ON AMERICAN FREIGHTER
POSED AS DRUNKEN SAILORS SYDNEY, April 27. Three Sydney girls dressed as men and posed as drunken sailors to get aboard the United States freighter Ephraim Bevard in Sydney on April 12. Radio messages from the ship’s captain state that the girls will be put ashore at Balboa and kept there under custody until the United States authorities can return them to Australia by the first ship leaving the canal zone for Sydney. , Details of the escapade were given by another girl who works in a Sydney boardinghouse. She said that two girls, both under 21, became engaged to members of the ship’s company. They wanted a double wedding, hut their parents did not reply to urgent telegrams requesting their consent. With the help of their American fiances the girls, with'another, aged 22, dressed in men’s clothes and United’ States Army raincoats, staggered aboard just before sailing time, as if they were drunken members of the crew returning to duty.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 166, 28 April 1947, Page 3
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