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*' BERMUDA, Oct. 3.—Yes, sir, the big ones always - get away. : Ba It makes no difference whether it's fresh water or deep sea fishing. Since I've never had any luck with bamboo pole and angle worm the ship's deep sea fishing party was & must on my list of things. to do in Bermuda. The ‘méh who went out yesterday returned with a fair catch. The stories that bounced over coffee cups were better than fair. And to one who had

_ aever dipped a hook into the deep the anticipation

was terrific. As I stepped into the 50-foot motor launch and took my place with 40 enlisted men I had visions of a blue marlin on my apartment wall. In fact I was worried how I would get it to Indianapolis. Some of the men had rods and reels. Those of us who were less fortunate were told that many a man did all right with a handline hook and sinker, On the launch ahead was a guide from the island who knew the waters and treacherous reefs. He served as pilot and fishing guide. . We all felt lucky to be in on a party such as this since it was all on the U, 8. 8. Rochester. A private affair would have run in the bucks.

Everybody Happy

IT TOOK A GOOD two hours of pitching and rolling to get to the fishing grounds. Three men laid their gear aside long before we dropped anchor. I felt sorry for them because we were in such high spirits when we started out. Before the coxswain gave the order to cut the motor and drop anchor fishing lines went over the side. That's when the fun began. Lines tangled, men pulled on hooks caught in coral rock and grumbling, such as only can be heard in the navy, broke out. Several of the older hands heaved to and gave us novices some dope on how to bait the hook and how far to drop the line and when to begin pulling in the fish. Baiting the hook was the most distasteful part.

By Ed Sovola

I cut.off my grumbling when I found out how much professional baitérs cpst. The fish were going to take my bait just as it was and like it. As the min-| utes went by my grip relaxed on the line. Waiting

had the distinction of pulling up the first fish. He. said it was & bonita and I had to take his word for, it. I knew it wasn't a perch, bluegill or sunfish. The bonita did a lot for our morale. Soon there were | boasts of who was going to catch what—shark, bar-| racuda, marlin, swordfish, octopus and many other species new to me. I put in my bid: for a 300-pound blue marlin. I was told that's a nice size. 8/2 Gene Bouse of San Antonio, Tex., got a yellow tail weighing maybe four pounds. Gunners Mate 1/C James Wilkinson of Lima, O., tussled for a few minutes with a rock bass the size of a large watermelon,

Not Fun Just to Watch

IT'S NOT FUN to watch other people pulling In fish. I looked at my hook several timesi: The bait had not been touched. I waited with the patience of Job. CPO Daniel Thuma of Harrisburg, Pa, who was standing next to me let out a yell. He had a big one. I helped him pull the critter in. We were disappointed when it turned out to be a four-foot shark. They, are not good for anything but bait. Yellow tails, parrot fish, groupers, bonitas and red hinds littered the front end of the boat. 1 ate my lunch with a great deal of disgust The salt air, sun and wind were nice if nothing else. Just when I was ready to give up, something struck. The line burned my fingers for a second and went slack. I don’t think the men would spoof me. They said nothing but a 300-pound blue marlin could bite off my line and sinker with such speed. So somewhere in the blue waters of Bermuda is a blue marlin that belongs to me personally. That's no malarky. I have 40 men of the U. 8. 8. | Rochester who'll back me up.

By Robert C. Ruark

UN Solution Simple

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—The solution is so simple 1 keep wondering why nobody ever thought of it. All we have to do to make the United Nations work is to play it under baseball rules. We need a real rough umpire, like old Bill Klem, out there at Flushing Meadows, A guy with enough authority to heave the steady squawkers out of the game, and, if necessary, to toss in a suspension . and make it stick. This power could be invoked at any time the real point of the contest is lost through a lot of superfluous arm-waving and hollering. ; . As a paying customer, I feel about the United Nations as I would feel about walking into Yankee Stadium supposedly to see the ball game and winding up by being forced to view six rasslers striving in the mud, Or, as if the teams had suddenly been composed of 18 Leo Durochers, who neglected the game to stand on the sidelines and jaw for a couple of hours. The pitcher cools off while the extraneous‘conversation romps on, and when . they finally get

Ngoing again the first bum to walk up to the plate

belts the guy out of there. -

Molotov Couldn’t Say ‘No’

THE POWER OF VETO would be completely impossible under baseball rules. As it works now, the umpire says to Molotov: “Yer out!” And Molotov says “Nuts, I just hit for two sacks,” and insists on trotting down to second base. If the other athletes dissent, then Molotov resigns. It is no way to run a ball club, or an international peace parliament, either. You never get anything settled. I would like to see large Jarge Magerkurth, the darling of Brooklyn, standing by in Flushing, complete with mask. He would be flanked by Bill McGowan snd Cal Hubbard. The parliamentary procedure would be their own dear baby. I figure Mr. Vishinsky would last maybe 20 minutes under this plan, - . There is a delicate point concerning free speech {n baseball which those rhubarb-raisers out in Flushing might study. A disgruntled player is allowed to insinuate that the umpire is a blind thief, a starstriped bum, and a beater of old women—up to a point. That point is reached when the right of free speech interferes with the customers’ enjoy-

‘competitive, argumentative, truculent sport and busi-|

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ment of the game. It is then that the unruly orator | is given a choice. He shuts up or gits out. ! Baseball is played according to rules. four bases. A rugged individualist cannot call aj three-base hit a home run. He cannot, in a moment of exuberant individuality, declare a home run invalid because the runner failed to touch a fifth base, which the heckler just happened to plant |

in the runner's path. {

One of the nicest things about baseball is ts | precision. There is no way to argue over the McCoy | content of a homer, when the batter digs in and smites the ball over the fence. If there are three men ahead of him, the score is suddenly, indisputably, | 4-0. The pitcher can argue his good intentions until nightfall. He can say that he meant to throw a hook | but his hand slipped and he grooved it. He can] plead his aching back, his trouble in the nest with the old lady, and the fact that he was out too late with the boys. But the score is suddenly 4-0, and’ the harassed manager hauls him out of there.

| | Come Up Hard Way . ANOTHER THING about major league ball, 1 ordinary times, is the fact it is played by major leaguers. They come up the hard way, through the leaky roof circuits and the spavined bus transporta tion and the ulcer-building blueplates, and when they finally make the big time they are reasonably | competent at their job. The club president's nephew is not hired to play third base unless he can hit his| weight, or better, and the fact that he once wrote | a book on bee-culture is not weighed in his favor if he persistently allows ground balls to trickle through his feet. : { No minor leaguers are permitted to wander onto the World Series set and take over Mr. DiMaggio's| job by merely announcing their willingness to play.| No one yet has successfully argued that three strikes | are not out. Four balls constitute a free trip to] first base, and the interposition of a fifth infielder | is unallowed. | Baseball has been working successfully as a highly |

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ness since Ab Doubleday invented it. It is a shame that the same can not.truthfully be said about that cat-fight they are running out in the Meadows. I . | § I

The Indianapolis Times

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1947

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Make It Raspberry By Frederick C. Othman

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——— WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—If you're addicted to chocolate iee ¢ream sodas, you better cultivate a taste for raspberry. If you own a genuine 5-cent chocolate bar, put it quickly with the family jewels in your safe deposit vault. Boy! Aq If I weren't trying to reduce, I'd be sore. There's monkey ‘business in the cocoa trade, from whence comes by devious crushings the chocolate bon-bon of fond memory. One of the wildest-eyed inflations in history— and there have been some dillies in the past—has raised the price of cocoa a cool 900 per cent. A pound of cocoa beans cost less than a nickel before the war; today, with luck, you may be .able to buy ‘em for half a dollar.’ Wholesale, I mean, before the first squeezing. My cocoa expert at the Agriculture Department, who prefers his chocolate bars with almonds, has a good idea who's holding a pistol at the heads of American chocolate lovers. If he weren't afraid of getting in a jam with the State, Department, the United Nations, and no telling who else, he'd say s0, out loud. As it is he's hoarding his last remaining box of chocolate creams and keeping mum for the record. ”

“ Can't Scare Othman

can't scare me on account of those inches around the middle I'm trying to lose. Let it threaten to cut off my chocolate supply and listen to me laugh. Here are the unsugared facts: Cocoa comes from pods. These follow the pink flowers on. the cocoa tree, which grows only where it's hot and humid, like British West Africa, which produces half the world’s supply, and Brazil, which grinds about 15 per cent more. When there was free trade in cocoa before the war, an ordinary pound box of chocolates at any

cornet drug store cost 40 cents, When the fighting began, the British and Brazilian governments took | over control of their cocoa sales. That was fair enough. The 40-cent box of candy went to $1. Came the end of the war, but not the end of government controls in Africa and South America. The pound of candy went to $1.25. That was months ago. Asking prices of cocoa under the British and Brazilian bureaucrats have been soaring ever since.

made with cocoa bought today, probably would retail

at $2.50.

‘Just a Waitin’ on Each Other

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. Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer TYPIFIES AMERICAN NEWSPAPERBOYS—Times carrier Roland Graves (right) is but one of the thousands of paper boys over the nation who will be honored tomorrow, with the celebration of National News- | paperboy day. His life follows much the same pattern as others who wark after-sehoo) hours and through the summer. in his Technical high school machine shop class from Verl Whatstine, - tor. When the bell rings, Roland dashes for home and his route.

Here he gets help

7 “2 i o id § 5A p START OF THE JOB—With other Times carriers, Roland. picks up his paper

And our original 40-cent box of chocolate creams, if. |... Joc at Roosevelt and Oxford aves. Here the boys hurriedly fold their papers so

they can get on their routes. They are (left to right) Roland, who lives at 1954 N.

| Olney st.: Robert Combs, 2429 N. Dearborn st.; Bruce Brown, 2614 N. Olney st., and

THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET, because most Richard Tracy, 1818 N. Rural st. Boys and dogs go together and the picture would

candy factories have on hand a few weeks’ supply of chocolate bought on the up-grade. At the moment they aren't buying. They're hoping the price will collapse. The British and the Brazilians aren't saying anything. They're just sitting on a mountain! of cocoa beans

cocoa to force sales at their price. They seem to think (this is my man talking again)

that chocolate to an American is as cocaine to a dope | fiend. A cocoa bean contains 1 per cent caffeine and |

1 per cent of another stimulating drug with a long

THE INTERNATIONAL COCOA CARTEL, if any, name; but it's not that habit-forming. Not at to-

day's price, it isn't, 80 it is that most candy stores are feature pink bon-bong and green, chocolate overcoat,

fountains. with a shell of chopped-up peanuts.

The new cocoa crop in the jungles is ready for) harvest and something in the chocolate crisis is about] to crack: I only hope it won't be my resolution re-

garding the old bay-window.

J Thankful I — HOLLYWOOD, Oct. '3—Exclusively Yours: Ty Power cabled Lana Turner that hell be sharing a turkey with her in Hollywood on Thanksgiving. He returns fram darkest Africa Nov,—23.— Lana plays the role of a gal nicknamed “Snapshot” with Clark Gable in “Homecoming.” Before leaving Ty ‘gave her a bracelet engraved “To the Best Developed Snapshot I Know.” The Danny, Kayes are headed for a reconciliation, + . . After much shooting and re-shooting, the Greer Garson picture, “Desire Me,” will be released soon. After its first sneak preview the picture went

on the shelf until Director Mervyn LeRoy could re-film a good portion of it. Greer will make a Dick N

herself and the picture. by the way, is

§ still carrying that torch™or Miss .

Beverly Tyler Is Back

JUDY GARLAND will do four intricale dance routines with Peter Lawford in “Easter Parade” providing that she's fully recovered from the iliness which sent her to an eastern sanitarium this summes, , , + “Tenth Avenue Angel,” filmed a year

By Erskine Johnson

Margaret O'Brien as the Angel, will ‘hit the screens this fall, Beverly Tyler is back from an eastern tour and has resumed her romance with Tom Drake. Despite objections of her parents, Beverly and Tom are a good bet for the altar, Peter Lawford and Keenan Wynn are rehearsing a brother act for a personal appearance tour this winter, . Two new Hollywood books coming up will take the pro-Hollywood approach for a change. Adolphe Menjou is writing “It Took Nine Tailors” story of his career in movietown, and Charlotte Greenwood is writing her biography, “Never Too Tall.”

Actors Called ‘Option Happy’

ago with

ZACHARY SCOTT and Sydney Greenstreet kept) flock of radio appearances to revive .interest. in plowing a line with the word “option” in it for a scene “It's no use,” the director

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in “Prelude to Night.” finally said, “you movie actors are option happy.’ They changed the line,

Romo Vincent, the comedian, will record an album . Ellen Drew's trip to the hos-| a baby in a few months) was admitted, She had poultry flocks would save the 100 “By baby million bushels of grain

of kid stories. . pital (she's expecting far more serious than at first 13 blood transfusions, thanks to which the will arrive as scheduled. ;

Apparently, according to my choco-| late lover, they're waiting for the American urge for

beginning to without any The chocolate soda posters are coming down ,from the mirrors behind the drug store | Many a nickel candy bar is appearing

finally

REWARD FOR WORK—Roland is just as prompt for collecting as he is for delivering. This is the big day when he can see that effort pays off. A careful youngster, Roland sees to it that \ he banks the greatest share of his weekly earnings. Mrs, John C. Berlier, 1934 N. LaSalle st., pays for a week's

getting around his route

delivery.

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(zine, said today. Urged to Save Grain | a ery

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3 (U. P.). ers of this

avert a food erisis, Robert H. | get quicker results and

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a growing stamp album and

faithfully so that

him are his brothers, James,

Purge of Poultry, Herds citer of Country Gentleman maga- | measurably to any savings from a Death of 3 Infants In Hospital Probed

[consumer ‘conservation campaign.

“I am confident that the farm-|. Mr. Reed urged a culling 'procountry hold the key gram to weed out millions of scrub —A purge of the nation’s herds and to this problem,” Mr. Reed said. animals and fowls which add lit- P.).—~Autopsies were performed to- tendant instead of sodium attacking the problem at the tle to the total torsource of supply, the program would sume as much grain as high pro-

add im-{ ducers,

BEFORE WORK SNACK—A growing boy needs plenty of food especially when he is going to burn up a lot of energy delivering more

than 130-papers on a route. Refrigerator raiding almost is a religion with Roland who is ¥5. He has had seldom gets a complaint from a customer. He pridese himself on » prompt and friendly delivery. Packing away the food with Roland (right) is his |3-

TIME FOR RELAXATION—In his spare time Roland has several hobbies with which to keep himself amused. On rainy days and nights he spends hours laboring over

supply, but con- day on three infants at St. Hospital aftef Deputy | jerett C. Kelley sald at least one|“It was & mistake.”

SEINESTS Times Carrier, Many Like Him, | Honored In National Celebration

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year-old brother, Robert,

BULLSEYE—Lots of people kid newsboys about taking careful aim and firing the paper to the most inaccessible spot of the porch roof. Roland makes good time on his route and seldom has to scamper up to a house and retrieve a poor toss. Normally he makes his rounds on his bicycle, pulling his papers in a specially. constructed cart. A flat tire sent him on ‘foot. WY *y 4 i

a coin collection. But he likes best to be outside. Hunt-

ing takes his eye more and more as the air takes on the nip of fall. He cleans his gun it always will be ready when he takes to the fields after rabbit. With

who is 8 ef] and Robert

|died from ethyl alcohol administered {by mistake. Coroner Kelley said the alcohol WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. 3 .(U. was given to the babies by an ft«

Francis prescribed for dehydration, “There. Coroner Rv- was no criminal intent We seid.