Word: malolo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Without her as its chief witness, the prosecution's case would collapse. Mrs. Massie, having told the story of her ravishment twice in court, did not want to do so again. Prosecutor Kelley heard she was sailing for the mainland with her husband and mother aboard S. S. Malolo. He got a subpena to detain her. Policeman Dewey Mookini went to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base to serve it. She was nowhere to be found. The Press was told she had had a "nervous breakdown...
Next day Mookini was aboard the Malolo before sailing time. Suddenly a little naval tender darted up offside the liner. Through a cargo port jumped Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and his wife. Mrs. Massie scampered around a potato bin, through a pantry-and there in a hot corridor stood Mookini with his summons. Before the Hawaiian could read it, he was shouldered put of the way by Capt. Ward Wortman, naval guardian for the defendants during the Kahahawai trial. Mrs. Massie slipped past, fled to her stateroom, slammed the door. Capt. Wortman and process server wrangled bitterly outside. On deck...
With whistle tooting and the band playing "Aloha Oe," the Malolo glided from her pier, set her nose for Diamond Head. Into the harbor gay passengers tossed their leis (flower garlands), symbol of speedy return to Hawaii. But no leis were cast back by Lieut. Massie, his wife or mother...
...plot is the usual comedy of an inefficient shoe salesman who accidentally rises in social standing for an evening, finds himself a gentleman stow-away on the "Malolo" going from Honolulu to San Francisco in company with the head of his firm and his boss's pretty secretary of whom our hero is enamoured. He makes his escape two jumps ahead of the Captain in a mail sack on board an airplane in a ship-to-shore service, only to be landed in Los Angeles on a painter's platform on the side of a skyscraper. At that point...
...Inauguration of a non-transfer boat train service from New York to San Francisco to connect with the Hawaii-bound Matson liner Malolo...