Mechanized Fishing
The fishing industry, oldest of American industries, and one of
the largest, has finally accepted a place in the machine column.
Where snotcy-sailed schooners put out from IS etc England fishing
ports almost since the coming of the Pilgrims, trim Diesel-engined
trawlers now go forth. Operating from Massachusetts ports is the
Forty Fathom Fleet. Come aboard one of the trawlers and let's go.
Here is a big trout—a net shaped like a big bag. As much as
5,000 pounds of fish ran be hauled in at one lick in this bag.
Above: After sword- % >'
play. Sharks are not the \
worst offenders. The re- \
pair crew had to mend r*
a big hole in the net
after a swordfish had
been rough with it.
Occasionally a trawler
brings in something the
fishermen hadn't bar
gained for. The shark at the
right, for instance. This is a
7 ft. blue shark. The liver is
nluable.
In the fishing grounds they still heave the lead, as shown at the
left above, to bring up a sample of the sea bottom. Right: One of
the “ships that pass."
A cleaning crew in action.
They sort the fish, slit and
clean them, and stow them
below in layers of ice.
PERFECT
RACKET
By R. WILKINSON
■ Associated Newspapers.)
WNU Service.
H tT Y TANTED: Young man
t A with $500 to invest to
y W manage motion pic
ture business.’ ”
The young man with the glasses,
who said his name was Melvin Byers
looked up questioningly into Mr.
Ranee Ackert's eyes.
Mr. Ackert nodded impatiently.
"Yes, yes That’s the advertise
ment I inserted in the newspaper.
But. as I’ve already told you, I've
decided upon one of the fifty odd
men who applied earlier in the week.
You can’t expect to answer an ad
in a week-old newspaper and find
the job still vacant, young man.”
"But I didn’t have the money a
week ago, Mr. Ackert. I’ve just
succeeded in raising it. Moreover,
I’m sure I’m the man you want.
All I ask is a trial. I’ll prove my
worth to you.”
Melvin Byers let his eyes wander
about the room, his gaze resting
fondly upon the battery of cameras
that lined the wall, the sections of
scenery stacked neatly in a corner,
the large gaudily colored portraits
of famous stars that hung from the
ceiling.
Mr. Ackert drummed on his desk
and thought rapidly. After all, he
told himself, $500 was $500. And this
youth acted like a push-over, a much
easier push-over than any of the
other twenty motion picture manag
ers he had hired during the past six
days.
Mr. Ackert reflected momentarily
on his week’s receipts. There had
been twenty-flve applicants as the
result of his advertisement. Ten of
them had been completely taken in
had planked down their $500 and
promised to come to work on the fol
Bald-headed, short, fat Mr. Ackert
chortled happily as he fingered the
five $100 bills.
lowing Monday. Five more were
hooked for $300 each, with promises
of raising the remaining $200 within
another week’s time. Five more
had come through with amounts
varying from $250 to as low as $75.
The remaining five had merely
promised to raise the necessary
funds if given a little time.
These latter—the non-paying five—
were worthless as far as Mr. Ackert
was concerned. For on Sunday pre
ceding the Monday when all twenty
“managers” were scheduled to re
port for duty. Mr. Ackert expect
ed to be winging his way to Mexico,
carrying with him the $7,500 which
the racket had netted. His total
overhead had amounted to less than
$500. Which wasn't bad, but was
downright poor compared to the old
days.
Melvin Byers was watching Mr.
Ackert earnestly. “I’m the man
you want, Mr. Ackert. Just let me
prove it.” f
Mr. Ackert sat suddenly forward,
as if he had reached an abrupt
though perhaps too hasty decision.
“Very well, young man, you shall
have your chance. I’ll briefly out
line the plan and you can make your
own decision. As you may know, I
am the eastern representative of the
Acme Films of Hollywood. Recent
ly we decided to establish studios
in New England, with Boston as our
headquarters, and I was invested
with the job of attending to details. I
immediately made a survey of con
ditions, found them to be entirely
satisfactory to our requirements and
went ahead with plans.
“A month ago the Acme Film peo
ple met with reverses and wired me
to postpone the opening of the Bos
ton office until further orders were
received. However, my plans here
had developed to such an extent and
conditions were so indicative of the
success of the venture, that I decid
ed to go ahead on my own initia
i tive. I needed $500 in cash, and a
general manager. Whoever cared
to invest that amount of money, pro
viding he qualified as a general man
ager, would, of course, be assured
of a most remunerative income and
I lifetime position. Besides this, his
' initial investment would be returned
within six months time by the Acme
Film people, who, I happen to know,
are rapidly overcoming their difficul
ties."
Mr. Ackert paused and watched
the eager face across his desk. Mel
vin Byers’ eyes were shining. "Why,
that’s a splendid opportunity. Mr.
Ackert! Just the sort of opening
1 ve always wanted. I’d appreciate
it immensely if you’d give me a
: chance."
Inwardly Mr. Ackert smiled. It
would take a shrewd man to put
over a fast one on one of these Bos
ton Yankees, he'd heard. Mr. Ack
ert almost chuckled. Why, it wasn’t
three years since he’d worked an
entirely different racket right here
in this city of Boston. Hooked a
youth quite like this Melvin Byers
chap for five grand. Some sort of a
mining racket, as he remembered it
And they said you couldn't hook a
Yankee!
Mr. Ackert smiled inwardly.
“Very well. Mr. Byers. You may
pay in your $500 now and report for
duty Monday morning Your salary
to start will be $75 per week, and
expenses.’ Is that satisfactory?”
"You bet it is!" Melvin Byers
reached into an inside pocket and
produced an envelope which con
tained five $100 bills. Mr. Ackert
glanced at the money with a phleg
matism born of long practice, drew
a large book from his desk and
scratched off a receipt. Next he
produced a contract, filled in the
blank spaces, signed it and handed
it over to the youth to read. Melvin
Byers glanced over the agreement,
signed it with his own lountain pen
and returned the sheet to Mr. Ack
ert. Mr. Ackert had meanwhile filled
out and signed a second contract
which he gave the young man to
keep.
The two then shook hands. Mr.
Ackert explained that they could go
over the details of the work on Mon
day, and Mr. Byers departed.
Bald-headed, short, fat Mr. Ack
ert chortled happily as he fingered
the five $100 bills. Well, there was
the overhead money. Everything
that was in the bank could now be
considered net profit.
Perhaps it would be better to leave
tonight rather than to wait until Sun
day. There was a plane scheduled
to take off for Chicago at six. Mr.
Ackert picked up h»s telephone, but
hesitated as a knock sounded at the
door. The expression on his face
changed to one of surprise, and
askance as Mr. Melvin Byers
stepped into the room, followed by a
uniformed police officer.
“There he is, officer,” said Mr.
Byers. “If you don’t believe me,
search him!”
The officer advanced across the
floor and Mr. Ackert stood up.
“Did you," said the officer, “just
purchase a fountain pen from this
young man?”
Mr. Ackert’s mouth sagged open.
Before he could reply, Mr. Melvin
Byers picked up a pen that was ly
ing on Mr. Ackert’s desk. It was
the pen with which the youth had
signed the contract.
“Here it is, officer, the very pen.
Look, it’s brand new!”
The officer looked, and scowled at
Mr. Ackert. Mr. Byers was speaking
again. “There’s some money on the
desk now! Take a look at it, officer.”
The officer forthwith stretched
forth a hand and plucked from un
der Mr. Ackert’s nose the five $100
bills. He examined them, holding
each up to the light. Presently he
turned.
“Counterfeit. Get your hat, mis
ter. We’re going to the station. Now
I understand the money isn’t yours.
Of course not. But you can explain
that to the sergeant. Maybe you can
talk yourself out of it in a day or
two. According to this young chap,
you'll have plenty of talking to do.”
Mr. Melvin Byers nodded agree
ably and grinned. “A day or two
will be plenty. Just keep him until
Monday morning. I have an idea
there’ll be quite a gathering up here
Monday morning, and everyone who
gathers will want to have a word
with Mr. Ackert.” He grinned, re
moving his glasses. “Remember
three years ago, Mr. Ackert, and
the mining stock racket? You got
the jump on us that time, but we
knew you’d be back.”
Huge Spider in Brazil
Catches Birds in Web
In some tropical forests, spiders
spin webs of such size that it is
hard, or at least unpleasant, for a
traveler to pass. No spider webs,
however, are strong enough to en
trap a human being, whether young
or old.
Flies, mosquitoes, and other in
sects are the victims usually caught
by spiders. Their webs are spun
with the special purpose of obtain
ing a food supply.
In the abdomen of a spider are
openings known as "spinnerets.”
Usually there are four or six of
them, close together. A liquid is
pressed from each opening, and it at
once hardens into a silken strand.
The strands combine into a single
thread.
Dozens of kinds of webs are made
by spiders. Among these the web
of the common garden spider is not
ed for its fine pattern.
A framework is made first, the
lines being fastened to objects such
as branches of a plant. Later the
garden spider spins thread to make
a spiral figure. The framework
may make a person think of the
spokes of a wheel.
Although insects are the usual vic
tims, some spiders go after larger
game. I am thinking chiefly of
"bird-catching spiders."
Bird-catching spiders are found in
Brazil and certain other lands in
the torrid zone. They grow to great
size, the body being about two
Cached long and the legs spreading
out two or three inches on each side
of the body.
Bird-catching spiders have large,
strong fangs. Some natives of the
tropics are said to use the fangs as
toothpicks. Of course that does not
take place until the fangs and the
spider have been separated!
Bird-catching spiders spin heavy
vebs, and there are times when
small birds, su^h as humming birds,
are trapped in them.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
I I
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
'^JEW YORK.—Maj. Gen. Henry H.
Arnold, chief of the army air
corps who has just arrived in Eng
land to serve as an official observer
Arnold, Pupil of * J*™
Wrighta, Pioneer only officer
In Army Aviation re"?alning in
active serv
ice who learned to fly under the per
sonal supervision of Wilbur and Or
ville Wright at their school in Day
ton, Ohio. Just two years previ
ously the war department had ac
cepted delivery of its first batch of
airplanes and so his experience as a
flier pretty nearly spans the com
plete period of army aviation.
Anyone who can recall the
status of flying in 1911 will ap
preciate “Hap” Arnold’s exploits
In his first year of training as a
young lieutenant, assigned to
flight duty from the infantry,
with a record of 140 flights, 29
hours in the air. In his second
year of training he achieved
honor as the first winner of the
Mackay trophy awarded for ex
cellence as a military pilot. In
a day so blustery and cold as to
keep all but 2 of 12 entrants out
of the race he completed a 40
mile flight, originating at College
Park, Md., at an average speed
of 52 miles an hour.
Twenty-two years later he again
won the trophy as leader of a flight
of 10 twin-engined bombers from
Washington, D. C., to Alaska and re
turn. As early as 1911 he prac
ticed at aerial bombardment and
war department records credit him
with being the pioneer in the suc
cessful use of the radio for military
purposes in an airplane.
Quite at variance with the out
ward semblance of this slightly
built, silver-haired soldier with his
diffident smile, is his forthright ut
terances and writings concerning the
airplane as a war machine.
“The only way to prevent air
invasion is to attack the invader
with superior numbers and
knock him out of the air.” He
has been preaching this for
years, his concern having ever
been for the constant procure
ment of thousands of new, im
proved combat craft, training of
thousands of new pilots, enlist
ment of tens of thousands of
ground crew men, swelling of
aircraft plants and acquisition
of vital raw material for future
aircraft production.
Still an active pilot, mounting ad
ministrative duties have cut down
his time in the air and restricted his
activity in two hobbies—cooking
and writing Action. Boys who re
member his “Bill Bruce” books, in
cluding “Bill Bruce at West Point,”
“Bill Bruce at Flying School,” and
other breath-taking juvenile works,
will regret the recent idleness of
his pen.
PRONOUNCED feeling of good-will
toward a nation where she has
been most hospitably received, sen
timent bom of local pride and a high
„ ... - . sense of hon
Brazilian Senhora orabie pre
Christens Ship in ferment,
Spirit of Good-Will strength 6 tH
the gesture which Senhora Peixoto
employed in breaking the bottle con
taining champagne over the bow of
the new Moore-McCormack passen
ger liner, Rio de Janeiro, as it slid
down the ways in the shipyard at
Chester, Pa., the other day. So act
ing, she represented her husband,
Commander Ernani Do Amaral
Peixoto, governor of the state of
Rio de Janeiro—for which the vessel
i was named—as well as her father,
| Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil.
A petite, vivid woman, who
has made a delightful impres
sion upon those concerned In
making the current visit of the
distinguished Brazilian pair an
important hands - across - the -
sphere event, the senhora holds
a degree in law, the result of
study at the University of Bra
zil, a profession, however, in
which she has never practiced.
Marrying soon after graduation
she eventually became secretary
to her father, a position she
now holds. Her hosts in New
York have found her a fluent
speaker of English.
This acquirement has made her of
value to her husband as an inter
preter when our idiom and more in
volved diction carry him beyond his
depth. No one, it seems, has yet
found her at a loss on economic, so
I cial, or political questions—in fine
she is a brilliantly accomplished
woman. Practical, too. When it be
came clear that certain handwork
arts in Europe no longer would be
available to American buyers she
! founded the Fundacao Anchieta in
Rio de Janeiro which gives free
training in fine needlework to Brazil
ian women.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Revitwed by
CARTER FIELD
Increased U. S. aid to
Britain likely in near
future . . . Washington
considers moving Inter
state Commerce Commis
sion to Chicago.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON. — How soon will
we be "in the war”? That is the
big question now in Washington. No
longer “if,” but “when.” All this,
of course, is unofficial. Officially
the administration still keeps up the
old pretense that it can keep out of it.
A certainty for the near future is
the shipment of supplies across the
Pacific and beyond, either via the
Red sea and Suez or to Euphrates
ports. This will take a lot of ships.
It’s a long round trip, and so takes
a lot of bottoms to handle any quan
tity of cargo as compared with
transatlantic service.
Very soon now we will be releas
ing more small naval craft to Brit
ain. As one looks back at the hue
and cry raised on Capitol Hill about
those small torpedo craft, which re
sulted in an order that they should
not be turned over to the British,
there is a serio-comic touch. It
will be remembered that these little
vessels were built on British blue
prints. There never was any inten
tion to use them for the U. S. navy
until congress raised a fog about it.
Incidentally the boats were
equipped with 18-inch torpedo tubes.
Our naval experts don’t like 18-inch
torpedoes. We use 21-inch projec
tiles. We didn’t have any torpedoes
to fit these boats, and did not in
tend to have any.
SMALL CRAFT VALUABLE
So now that the smoke has
cleared away these boats will prob
ably be turned over to the British,
and this time there may be some
speeches by such senators as David
I. Walsh of Massachusetts and Bur
ton K. Wheeler of Montana, but it
won’t mean very much.
Britain obviously needs these
small craft, ideal for chasing sub
marines, very badly. So she will
get them and others besides this
batch, which was actually intend
ed for her all the time.
Obviously little boats which can
destroy submarines are ideal for
convoys, a few of them being much
better than a battleship. This is es
pecially true because a battleship is
such an important item in war that
too much pains has to be taken to
protect it. What Britain lacks are
destroyers and other small craft to
protect convoys.
The greatest need of all is bottoms
to get the supplies through. Every
time a little submarine chaser suc
ceeds in eliminating one of these
Nazi menaces it saves freighters
from that moment on until the end
of the war. Not only that, but every
time a submarine fails to return to
its base it has a certain effect on
the morale of other U-boat crews
• * *
Consider Moving
I. C. C. to Chicago
There is serious talk of moving the
Interstate Commerce commission,
lock, stock and barrel, from Wash
ington to Chicago. The argument
for the change is the real railroad
center of the country—that individu
als would find Chicago much more
convenient, as far as time and ex
pense are concerned. And finally,
that there is no particular reason
why the I.C.C. should be in Wash
ington anyhow.
This is rather interesting at the
moment for a larger reason. Presi
dent Roosevelt is about to ask con
gress for another reorganization bill.
It will be recalled that the President
resents the notion that there are so
many administrative boards and
bodies in the government over which
he has no direct control. Of course,
in virtually all instances, he appoints
the members in the first place, but
that is not enough, in his opinion,
for an integrated administration. He
would prefer to have all these
boards and commissions made a
part of existing departments, so that
their work would head up to him
for final approval in important
cases.
When the President lost his first
reorganization bill fight the hand
writing was very clear so far as con
gressional intentions were con
cerned. There never was a time
when there was any chance that
congress would pass the bill without
listing some exceptions. One of
these was always the Interstate
Commerce commission. Another
was the army engineers.
This time, under the guise of war
emergency, there will be much less
opposition to the President’s wish for
more power over these independent
agencies, but it is thought that the
ICC will be left free, as at present,
even in the original request.
So far as moving the commission’s
headquarters to Chicago is con
cerned there will be plenty of wails
from the personnel. Most of the ICC
clerks have been on the job for
years. They have their roots deep
in Washington and will not like the
idea of pulling them up.
But there is much to be said for
the proposal, and if the transfer
could be made gradually, it prob
ably could be done with little hard
ship.
„ TIPS „
hardeners
BULB SUBSTITUTES
\X7ITH the supply of many popu
* * lar spring-flowering bulbs cut
off because of the war in Europe,
gardeners are seeking certain sub
stitutes.
The color and form of many an
nual flowers makes them excellent
choices for replacing the bulb fa
vorites. As in the case of bulbs,
the seed of these annuals may be
planted in the early fall, for blos
soming early the following sum
mer.
The fresh yellow color of Daf
fodils, for instance, may be cap
tured nearly as well in the petals
of Sunshine Calendula, or in the
rich hues of California Poppy (Ex
tra Golden). The shape of the
California Poppy and the Shirley
Poppy closely approaches the typ
ical Tulip shape.
The soft colors associated with
the Tulip may be replaced best by
Larkspur, with its tints of white,
blue, pink, rose, lilac, and carmine.
The newer, tall-growing Super
Majestic Larkspurs are most de
sirable:
The blossom-crowded spikes of
Snapdragons are likened by many
to th§ Hyacinth. It is best to grow
the dwarf rust-resistant strains of
Snapdragon, with attractive vari
eties such as Compact Bedding
Bronze, and Salmon Pink adapt
able also because of their suitabil
ity for massed bedding, as Tulips
are so often used.
Jlsk Me JUiolher
0 A General Quiz
The Questions
1. What are obiter dicta?
2. In Roman numerals, what is
the meaning of “M” with a line
over it?
3. Where are the sunniest spots
in the United States?
4. Is the ghost shrimp trans
parent?
5. Are all roses fragrant?
6. Could Mount Everest be sub
merged in the Pacific ocean?
7. What is the highest church in
the world?
The Answers
1. Incidental remarks.
2. One million.
3. The sunniest spots in the
United States are in southwestern
Arizona and southeastern Califor
nia.
4. The ghost shrimp is so trans
parent that the beating of its heart
may be seen through its shell.
5. Of the thousands of varieties
of wild and cultivated roses grow
ing throughout the world, not more
than 50 are fragrant.
6. If Mount Everest (29,002 feet)
were located on the Pacific ocean
floor in the Philippines, its sum
mit would be covered by 6,000 feet
of water.
7. The highest church in the
world is the Protestant cathedral
in Ulm, Germany. The spire ex
tends 528 feet above the street, or
a height equivalent to that of a 44
story building.
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