The Chief Radio Operator of the USS Arizona discovered 19 year old prostitute Madeline Blair on board the ship when she lingered too long on deck at a water cooler, called a scuttlebutt, while the ship was off of Balboa, Panama, getting ready to pass through the canal.
She had been allowed to stow away and hide on board by sympathetic sialors who bought her sad tale of poverty and the need to go to California. On board she was hidden in an unused genetaror compartment and charged $10.00/day for lodging and meals, a huge sum at the time, by ship's cooks and she plied her trade at $3.00 per trick.
Going on deck only at night, and dressing in dungarees and blue sailor's work shirt, she'd been earlier discovered by a sailor while watching a movie from a searchlight platform when he'd reached into the breast pocket of the shirt she was wearing and detected her correct anatomy. While shocked, that sailor had kept his discovery to himself. The Chief Radio Operator did not. She was put ashore and then returned to New York on hte Panama Railway Company SS Cristobal, which charged the Navy for her fare.
Twenty-three sailors would be court-martialed and Blair would write her story for The San Francisco Examiner in 1928.
Dawes met with Mussolini, who expressed support for the Dawes Plan.
The House passed the Japanese Exclusion Act.
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