Herbert Alzo Stone attempted to save Alberta A. Brown from drowning, Hollywood Place, California, September 5, 1926. While Miss Brown, 32, was swimming in the Santa Barbara Channel, she was carried by a current into deep water and was unable to make progress toward shore. Stone, 33, salesman, swam about 65 feet through very rough water and breakers four feet high to her. She grabbed him around the neck, submerging him. He freed himself and then pushed her ahead of him as he swam shoreward. He finally became exhausted and drifted in a current parallel with shore for several hundred feet and then to wadable water, where he collapsed. He was helped to shore, and he recovered. Miss Brown was rescued by a woman, who went to her from shore and then swam with her to wadable water. 27688-2179
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