1920
Two Modern "Crusoes" and Brides Rescued by Jap Ship.
YOKOHAMA, Japan. — Two American sailors named W. V. Dawson and E. Clifton have reached here after exciting experiences in the South seas. Their term of naval service expiring on the American island of Guam, they wedded native daughters of Uncle Sam's island and decided to take a honeymoon trip to Australia.
They embarked in a 40-foot launch. Underestimating the distance, they soon discovered that their food and fuel were exhausted. Then came a typhoon. The fragile craft was wrecked and the four newly married young people were thrown upon a desert isle, which they found entirely uninhabited.
There doubtless they would have continued a Robinson Crusoe type of existence had not a small Japanese trading vessel put in for water. They were rescued and taken to the former German island of Yap, where later they embarked on a Japanese naval supply steamer for Yokohama.
—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 4.
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