THURSDAY, SEPT. 21. 1944
Shark Fishing
Is the Business
Of Florida Town
Step Farther
Joan—That piece I just played
was very difficult.
Jasper—I wish it wus impossi
ble!
HUSBAND IN CHURCH
If you want to learn about shark
fishing, Salerno, Fla., is the place
to go. Sharking is a growing in
dustry there. They don't go after
sharks in Salerno for the fun of it.
In recent y e a r s 'it has been dis
covered that shark liver is phenome
nally rich in vitamin A, and there
fore valuable medicinally, so the pri
mary urge of the shark hunters was
for the liver. However, uses have
been found for other parts of the so-
called “ tiger of the deep.’’ Hides
are made into luxury leather; the
flesh gives good steaks—if you like
shark m eat—and the “ innards are
dried and ground for fodder and fer
tilizer. Shark fins are a delicacy in
China.
The sharks caught off Salerno and
in Hobe sound average 20 feet or
more in length. They weigh a ton or
more and include such branches of
the shark family tree as the mack
erel. black leopard, sandshark, ham
merhead, black tip, tiger, lemon and
white shark.
Shark fishing does not involve the
rod-and-reel angling technique. In
some parts of the world, the huge
fish are harpooned. In Salerno they
catch ’em on the assembly line
method. A steel chain from 3,000
to 3,500 feet long is strung between
buoys at a depth of about 60 feet.
Great hooks are attached to the
chain at intervals and these hooks
are baited with scrap fish. After a
sufficient interval the chain is raised
A big shark is hauled over the gunwales. A winch lifts the sea beast
by a winch on the fishing boat and
the monsters hauled in. Fifty sharks onto the deck as the average weight is more than a ton. It is necessary
is an average catch. There is a to use chain for all the tackle, since the shark's double row of keen teeth
would snip through any sort of line or rope.
record of 130.
At last she got him out to church . . .
This man of cheerful sin.
She dragged him off from Satan's
perch—
Maneuvered him within.
She guided him into a pew,
In back of church remote . . .
Where he at once omitted to
Take off his overcoat.
While all were singing of a hymn . . .
She made him take it off.
Although for reasons dark and dim
ller own she did not doff.
When time arrived to pass around
The regulation plate.
His pocketbook could not be found,
And soon 'twould be loo late.
He fished it from his overcoat—
Two pennies fell therefrom.
The pew seat they resounding smote,
Disturbed the tranquil calm.
They sounded, so she later said,
Like manhole covers Hat . . .
Dropped on a concrete pavement
dead—
They sounded just like that.
At last 'twas o'er—she got him out.
He to their home was yanked.
Had he been small, without a doubt
He would have been well spanked.
A iin u ia
By QABK1ELLK
A one-way street Is one on which
a motorist Is bumprd from the
rear only.
By Dne Day
‘'You're ulways late, boy. How
old are you?"
“I—er—er—"
“ When were you born?"
“ Second of April, sir."
“ There you arc—»late again!"
( .liincs«* ( ’(»nfi'niilt'tl by Big
Task in Learning M pliabet
Chinese is generally accepted as
the most difficult languuge to
m aster. When children begin
learning the alphabet, they are
confronted not with 26 but 1,100
characters. There are only 400
different sounds which huvo to be
used in 550,000 different ways,
which give the language a sing
song effect, in which each intona
tion has a different meaning.
In ,1929 a Russian professor
named Dragunov decided to sim
plify the language. This new
Chinese had to undergo many
mod ifleations, but the professor
perfected a Chinese - Latin type
writer with two keyboards of 5,000
: characters, on which an expert
typist can write 1,000 words an
1 hour.
Willys
builds the
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A day’s haul for one boat. The heap includes lemon shark, tiger
shark, hamm erhead, and leopard shark. These last are considered the
most vicious of the "sea tigers.”
"GAY GADGETS"
A ssociated N e w s p a p e rs — W N U F e a tu re s .
Your makeup should be composed
of Lights and Shadows. By careful
blending of your foundation cream
you can highlight your most attrac
tive features and shadow the plainer
ones. For instance, blend eyeshad
ow on the eyelids to dram atize your
eyes if they are your best feature.
If not, then soften the eyes with
foundation cream but no eye-shadow
on the lids. If your chin is too
Fillets of shark are said to be pointed, “ shadow" it with darker
tasty morsels. The meat has little cream and careful powdering.
L e d g e r S y n d ic a te .— W N U F e a tu r e » .
“ fish taste" and there are no small
bones to choke on. The most attrac
tive way to cook it, according to Army Buying Pack Mule»
the experts, is to dip it in egg and
For M ountain Transport
cracker meal, and fry it in deep fat.
The army quarterm aster corps is
purchasing
approximat« ly 2,000
I mules for the use of the armed
I forces.
I
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The mules, of the type most suit
! able for use as pack animals, are of
By P H Y L L IS B E L M O N T
« somewhat smaller stature than those
. j required for draft purposes. They
usually weigh from 1,000 to 1,150
pounds, and are capable of carrying
loads weighing from 200 to 250
pounds.
Far from being outmoded by mo
bile warfare, the mule is proving
more valuable than ever to the army
for supply transportation over rough
terrain such as has been encoun
tered in Sicily, Italy and Burma.
In addition to his sure-footedness
I on mountain trails, the mule is sel
dom disturbed by the noises of bat-
i tie when working under combat con-
; ditions. Once his reluctance to
boarding an air transport or landing
■ craft is overcome, he usually stands
Q.—When attending the theater I quietly and gives little trouble while
with a man, who goes down the aisle I being transported.
first and how are we seated?
A.—If the usher is to show you to
your seats, the woman follows the
usher and enters the aisle first. When
aisle seats are obtained, the man
occupies the aisle seat.
When there are no ushers, the man
goes down the aisle first and finds
the seats. He then stands aside and
allows the woman to enter the aisle
first.
The woman precedes the man up
the aisle after the performance.
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By NANCY PEPPER
the mirror, paste the other in the
MAKE-UP M AKE-OVERS
That’s a puzzler, isn’t it? But, we compartment for powder.
mean just what we say, ‘coz this
READY, SET—GO!
trick is all about the things you can
do with your empty lipstick cases Oh, polish your nails
and compacts. After you’ve used up And brush your hair,
your “ pucker paint” and "dazzle Powder your nose,
FALL’S IN THE AIR.
dust” try these:
Bobby Pin Hideaway—Losing a No time to wilt
bobby pin is a m ajor calamity for Like summ er’s last rose
a teen these days, Let’s rise and shine
so use an empty AND BLY NEW CLOTHES!
(and cleaned out) Oh, who wants to be
lipstick case as a A Drip and a Drool,
bobby pin contain Get in the groove,
er. If you want to WE RE GOING BACK TO SCHOOL!
make it more dec-
____ orative, paint it
TRIXIE TEEN SAYS
with nail polish. As if we had to
Don’t experiment with new make-up
tell you!
when you’re going out on a big date. That
Stitches in Time—Are you always powder base may give you a peaches-and-
popping buttons and running rips in cream look when you first put it on, but do
your stockings? For safety’s sake, you know what it will do after you’ve cut
take along a lipstick case filled with a rug or two? And the new purplish lip
stick looks lush under your bedroom light,
needle and thread. Very handy.
FBI Stuff—When you want to but it may give you a Frankenstein pallor
pass notes in school, just drop your under the Juke Joint’s glare. That new
lipstick case conveniently. The per hair goo certainly slicks your hair into a
shine, but who wants to look like a well-
son who picks it up will find it con oiled
Ledger S y n d ica te.—WNU F eature».
patent leather bag as the evening
tains a message (providing you put wears on? No—make your beauty experi
one in it). Very good way to pass ments on your nights in—and you'll prob
beyond use, burn a hole through the
the good word along. Whatever it is. ably have more nights out.
top with a hot ice pick.
Lipstick Melange—Have you lots
Pick up the Pieces—When one of
of old lipsticks with only the dregs
ON THE RECORD
your pals breaks your favorite rec
left in them? Dig out the remaining
Show me the teen who doesn’t like
rouge with a toothpick and melt it to play the platters on the phono ord, pick up the pieces and string
all together in a double boiler. When graph and we’ll show you a black i them into a necklace. Use the hot
liquefied, pour mixture into a lip horse that’s white. Or Verse-Visa. ice pick method to burn holes in
stick case and allow to harden. You Here are some tricks that will sway each piece.
Case History—Got an old book
have a new lipstick—and in an ex canned swing addicts.
case around? Use it as a record cab
clusive, custom made color!
Wall Flowers—Not the kind you inet. Paste pictures of your favorite
Lovelorn Lockets—Old compacts
make wonderful lockets for your mean. Paste pictures of your fa band leaders all over the outside.
Tuneful Tray — A scratched,
O.A.O.’s pictures. Wear them on a vorite band leaders and singers on
ribbon around your neck; pin them old records and hang them around cracked record makes a grand pin
to your lapel or open them and stand your bedroom walls. You can slip or candy tray for your bedroom.
them up on your bureau as a double a cord through the center hole, or, Heat it until soft, then bend it into
picture frame. Paste one photo over if the record is scratch2d and nicked a tray.
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tire »witch»». In that w ay the
wear 1» diifribuled over five
tire» Inttead of four.
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