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Show Leaves From Great Britain's Scrap Book Fishing Industry of New England, Comer Whatnot v. Made of Spools founded by Basques in 1500, Is Oldest And One of Most Colorful in U. S. Today ftaiaiBiiN i' ' i it awu I. "wL, ' . . ' , -ii-'-nj-'i , - . ,-a. V 1 hers 'It. a 9 J a. W you fib CPUW "Wren jj I w parol endthth, " mm istentlv mm) ' m the reiuii orru poinh uses his nan denhtskd inite pride They cat s and pleas: e their lap: lother can s: oism in tie t afraid to )f conduct, ; imeof M, can knot, itiestellyti should be ' utes. We I t the !, or work f: n the mac: ;gusting t lg a good t you haw then and the next fe ave to rep i three fa J Of 111 f ! re yean a ers, with ;i raise, d: on our in:: , anyone i ig of pudd k of the: the nine:: than then per and c lestoonM eness, iich we t; rod ther. "I haved te. torn his ; noisier i didn't n but to ge: from :h. His i from did evq AB no i ee or I feel fc: e eoof !er bo-, bo-, that; e with-. with-. the corar' . profc SS thi' tnyt'i way. ; t Bit time. 'A 3 f SCOTT WATSON l51" ..-, Newspaper Union.) say that in this Sfe romance and ad in modern busmess La manv of the na 8 ... ,-nrlnstries which L' areaii f56 t, nf thpir "COI bst rnuw - -through mechanization ri that is still large. r-nd-operated and in which individuality u .-that trade remains in- hnd fishing industry. Vio nldest contin- tnmisirv m uic L-v opeilc" " .. K gtM today for it goes "nearly 45 years to SUm' Ill group of Basque fisher-S fisher-S out from a little coastal jCl u. .moll in France in uku. boat. They had little luck ..lit usuai uauuis - edays went oy vemuicu i-and i-and farther away from wa- they knew. However, even , waters lines and nets were drawn up empty. This was livelihood ana it was netco-i,9t netco-i,9t thev find a fishing Li which would yield them 'fj boatload Deiiwe uicjr c-pd c-pd home. 1 f ey continued their search for -e lucrative fishing waters and i j.1 4 m many weens mey tame i :ange coast wnere irees weie fcoti ana nuwcio I They set their nets and cast r lines anu ui an annuo i, m-.evably m-.evably short time the boat s filled. They set sail for home Id upon tneir arrival regaiea ir fellow fishermen wiin sio-3 sio-3 of their astounding luck in ers "on the other side of the 1 62 est, ' it? 1 1 iThus was born an industry ih was to play its important in the colonization and devel- fcnent of the New World and to vide the archives or iew .tng- :d with many historic sea ;as. - !& an indication of the poten- kl wealth of the early New Eng. d fishing industry, Gosnold, navigator on the coast, pleat so many coa mai one voy. of six months yielded him pounds in money. Where. in he remarked, "What sport Lth yield a more pleasing con- it and less hurt or charge than ;ling with a hook crossing the jeet air from isle to isle, over te silent sterse of a calm sea." Doughty Capt. John Smith of .iginia paid tribute to the indus- b with these words, "Let not the leanness of the word 'fish dis- ste you, for it will afford as od gold as the wines of Guiana td Potassie with less hazard and rarge and more certainty and v . By 1504 the Basques were fish-ig fish-ig regularly alone the New Ene- N coast. As word SDread pong other fishermen of the Old Nrld of this fabulous fishinff round, the adventurous Basques pere joined by men of other na- ons. When the exulorer Verra- lano landed south of the Pisca-Rua Pisca-Rua river near Boston he found fineries carried n K, rrv. Pasqus and Portuguese. I Historic records nf Mac)m. 8tts show that hv SlrevCh 811(1 Portuguese and Enghsh sails along the coast ew England. In 1623 a fish- ;-S vessel attemntintr tn settlement on the Maine coast unaue to complete the land-S land-S ana the mnstor ; M o pass into Massachusetts jaT. He lpft ii j whome port In Spain. ,m same vessel resell re-sell and left as t established the village of sear X '. 01 me Massachu-SeJ Massachu-SeJ S mdU3try was t0 be Ai?"1" W become Change and ;iw:':-,-.t,v... a www."- -nt-i-;. -v?." , 1 : w:. . x- -v. . jh .i . . v " v fHiii I - . - .. ;,,,i..,;,i.,.y.;. .viWM.-iiiiiiiwiiiia.- -a v: tw t ..,,imiitfaMfcia.)it.Mw... -m, . -"J 4 y. n.' M . . - ,wMv ,. ...... ........ .. ...... ....wv '. V . ...... v. .1 . . ....j . .. ... ... .. . or. .a -v, . x rf . . . . ,.iim""Wi. Indies. Clipper ships took cargoes car-goes of fish to the Indies and there exchanged them for sugar. molasses or rum. These products prod-ucts in turn were taken to Africa and exchanged for slaves which were sold to the Southern colonies or exchanged for tobacco. Fish for Appeasement. Meanwhile, Massachusetts was branching out in other directions. The first state in the colonies to du7?T.?.as It was also a were aSLr Court emtributiona it, fie 6 ea me toth.? fi?hermen were Cd5Aedev,elPmentofthe tttary duty' Vmg rem f h1643 th'p5. ... .. - us ui me then or Boston held lira T viuage 'coratu fte launching I.. pay tlonor to 'sSuokf "Trial" fast to be bunt in , . viia i, wily. carry on trade be- Desi gned to Je the ? "Trial line , '-oae coln,j i.-. wnicn '"ten thA ru wauc ue- the "TrS- id New worlds, ta2 line rf!?S forerunner of a nlH1 ships which "Triloked fish, Malaga rl for Balboa d word fruit. oiL iron. the . ntury No S tte Eiht- "itu me west ill- k' A typical scene on the piers at Gloucester, Mass., at the turn of me vcumry auuwing macKerei ready lor shipment. Boston fishing world and are ac corded the same admiration and popular homage as a big league baseball star or a college football hero. They live well, these men who take the ever-present dangers of uie sea in their daily stride, and they live with the carefree gaiety oi xnose to whom physical haz ards are all in the day's work. Oddly enough, they eat little fish bteaK is a favorite meat, with plenty of vegetables and fruits, and woe to the cook whose pies emerge from the oven with other than a crisp flaky crust. When auction of the catches has been concluded the work of un loading the boats begins. Each boat on its trip out takes on a load of shaved ice in which to pack the fish as soon as caught. This method brings the catch into port as fresh as it came from the nets. Unloaded in huge bas kets and transferred to carts, the fish are rushed into big pack ing and distribution plants. Here they are made ready for millions who, until modern methods of mass merchandising took fresh fish 1,500 miles inland, had little opportunity to enjoy seafood except ex-cept in a smoked, salted or canned state. This method of distribution dis-tribution has also removed fish from the status of a "Friday only" food item and now many families far away from the sea-coast sea-coast enjoy fresh fish several times a week. Meet Blue-Eyed Reba. Exploring the activities on the fish pier you may be surprised to find a slender, blue-eyed woman in the thick of the auction or inspecting in-specting a basket load of fish swinging onto the pier from a boat, for in such an atmosphere one does not ordinarily expect to find a woman. She is Reba Onig-man, Onig-man, who is in her eighth year as the only woman fish commission merchant in the world. Miss Onigman will tell you that she is "in a business that stinks." However, How-ever, she will add in the next breath that "there's romance in the fish business," and she would not "give it up for the world." Miss Onigman's daily schedule might dismay a good many less hardy women. She is up at five- thirty o'clock and down on the pier by six. From then on she is "just one of the men." She sells her fish at the auction, inspects the catches that come in on consignment con-signment for her and operates in a quietly business-like fashion that has won her the respect of the . weather-beaten men with whom she deals. Winter finds her clad in high rubber boots and a Sou'wester. In summer she looks as dainty and fresh as though she were just starting off for some purely social feminine activity. Her blouse is crisply fresh and more likely than not a blue bow is tucked away in curly black hair lightly frosted with premature gray. Another colorful personality whom you may meet in a morning's morn-ing's round of the fish pier is the commission merchant who started start-ed off merely peddling a few packages of fish from door to door. Then he persuaded a captain cap-tain or two to let him handle a day's catch. Today, he is ono of the wealthy men of the industry. indus-try. Thus, the fish industry goes. Fortunes are frequently made within the space of a few short months. The men who are its keystones the sturdy simple fishermen fish-ermen who still speak the language lan-guage of their Portuguese, French and Spanish forefathers still lead lives filled with the color and adventure which are the heritage of those who "farm the sea." The boats set forth with the early tide and slip back into port at sunset or dawn. The great industry which served as a foundation for this country's earliest ear-liest trading continues to flourish and to provide the nation with one of its most important sources of food. j Lower: A convoy steaming; op the English channel, currrntlv ih mht itnnrnni tiroi h f i. i,.' world, under the guns of an escorting British warship. Upper Left: Winston Churchill urveyt treat crater left by a German bomb In a London street after a night raid. Upper Bight: An anti-aircraft gun crew in action during a practice session with a 3.7 " Archie" somewhere In Canada. 'Guardian of a Hemisphere' World's Largest Miss Reba Onigman has the distinction of being the only woman wom-an fish commission merchant in the world. She operates at the Boston Fish pier. have a mint, it, coined what became be-came known as the "pine tree" shilling pieces in 1652. Whereupon Where-upon Charles II of England became be-came displeased because he was not given a share of the profits. Massachusetts promptly sent appeasement ap-peasement in the form of "ten barrels of cranberries, two hogsheads hogs-heads of samp and 3,000 codfish." At the beginning of the Eighteenth Eight-eenth century cod fishing was in a prosperous condition. The annual an-nual production was about 330,000 quintals and the value of the fish exported was about $700,000, there being 400 fishing vessels of about 50 tons each in Massachusetts Massachu-setts alone. By 1731 more than 7,000 men were employed in the New England fisheries. A report re-port of the Massachusetts fisheries fish-eries made in 1837 shows what strides the industry was making. The' total vSlue of the cod and mackerel caught that year amounted to $3,208,866 and the number of vessels engaged in fish ing was 12,290, while the number of men employed had risen to 16,722. Today, the New England fishing industry has reached such propor tions that the annual catches amount to 670,000,000 pounds in round figures with a value of $20,000,000. Products manufactured manufac-tured from the catch amount to an additional $24,000,000. Center Cen-ter of this great activity is Boston Bos-ton where the "Stock Exchange" of the New England industry has headquarters and where the great fish plants pack, ice and ship millions mil-lions of fresh fish annually. Activity at the Boston fish pier gets under way officially at seven o'clock in the morning when the auction opens. In a huge unadorned un-adorned room with its ceiling run ning up the four stories or tne building, the auctioneers stand on a railed platform in the center. Around the platform cluster the buyers and it is they who decide the fortunes of the "farmers of the sea." For, the prices they bid for the catch determine the earnings of the men manning the fishing boats, who operate on shares. Heroes of the Pier. Many of these men are direct descendants of the Basque, Portuguese Por-tuguese and Spanish sailors who first made their way to tne oiner side of the sea" in the Sixteenth century. Many still live in the same sturdy houses of wood and stone built by their earlier ancestors. ances-tors. There is keen rivalry among them for fishing honors of the vear. The crew of the boat that chalks up the biggest catch become the glamour boys of the The world's largest military airplane, "Guardian of a Hemisphere," will be flown late this autumn from the Douglas Aircraft company's airport. It is shown here at Santa Monica, Calif. Fully loaded for emergency mission it can take oft with a gross weight of 164,000 pounds. It will be powered with four 2,000-horsepower engines. Its armament is a closely guarded secret. Members of One FamilyCount 'Em! Ml wxnl ids, v Mr fiK$-$iK.. X The Ascoli family arrive in New York on the Greek steamer, Nea Hellas, en route to their new home in the West Indies. Head of the family Is Joseph Bene Ascoli, retired British industrialist, here shown with his wife and 13 of their It children. They Fight for the ood Earth' Jimmy'sDimeMovies V 1 fv -.v. i 1 'A 1- f ' I f " ) !'(! Preview of Jimmy Roosevelt's coln-ln-the-slot dime sound movies. For a dime a person can bear and see a three-minute musical "short." Royal Sympathy These young Chinese girls, uniformed, armed with rifles and wearing bats that camouflage them against air observation, belong to a women's fighting organization with the Chinese forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at Chungking. Young as they are, they are well versed in guerrilla warfare. i - I i.vi y - i . I . , Y V ' 7 r , . ' On the right, harried and nervous, is a newly made air raid widow, Mrs. O'Connor of London. The boml killed her husband, sister and nephew. neph-ew. Queen Elizabeth comforts ber 77,4,,0Re holis ! .i rrrr x-k INCOHNERS Lt -ri O"! 9rf8Htl:VtS 4V ! k JM. , . VS. . "(if ' H ' r VbtldAbfUotri ' fTV ielutl 6 CURTAIM 1 - A j 111 RODS RUN Sv iyL I THROUGH I : $.n 'y SPOOLS AND A HOME Demonstration Agent wrote me the other day to say that many of the women In her group had made the spool shelves described in SEWING BOOK 3 and the end tables of spools in Book 5. "One member has an interesting collection of pitchers and would like to make a corner whatnot for them," the letter continued. Well, here it is ladies! With the collection of pitchers all in place. The sketch gives all of the dimensions dimen-sions and instructions. The second shelf from the bottom needs six holes. All the others have three holes each. The design may be varied by using larger Bpools at the bottom for the first spool above and below each shelf. Use extension exten-sion curtain rods to fit the holes in the spools. A little glue between be-tween spools makes the whatnot rigid. Stain or paint. NOTE: Theso bomemaklng booklets aro a tervlca to our readers and No. 5 con tains description ot the other numbers; (i well 31 pages of clever Ideas with all directions fully Illustrated. They are lOo each to cover coat and mailing. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford null New Tork Enclose 10 cents for each book 'ordered. Name ............................... 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