Show SI Y I NOT MAN EATER I Tentacles Sliced Are Re- Re Regarded Re Regarded As Great I Delicacy SAN CISCO July 31 By The Associated boCI led Press Pres De belt known ll as octopus are being bem- caught at Santa Enuta Cruz like fl s sIn In a trap and the tentacles are aro be- be beIng be being ing shipped to fish markets In markets In San ew cw York and ani and other cities where whetu they are sliced and sold soM it from fifty to I a pound to C 13 B Flor- Flor Flor nee sec sec-elary ot at the California state e change here Mr Ir Florence e SAys MYS the sliced octopus tentAcle mattes mal a succulent table delicacy properly frIed tried fishermen emulate Victor Hugo and anti other writers of of fiction by telling of terrific battles Ith ts itS giant devilfish usually ending by bv how the fish Ish reached reache one of It lt eight arms about the th water and anti wrapped rapped it around the boat b b the craft in two Mr Florence und and Professor ProCessor Harold Heath department of ot zoology Stan Stan- St Stanford Stanford n ford university California state that thi this is physically ImpossIble ProCessor Heath describes the octo-I octo octo- octo octopus octo octopus pus as ns being of a shy and roth log Tle The Tiie dl devilfish has bas no bones or orno orno orno no of any kind says Mr llorence It It cannot swim but can only float on the water or propel canI I on the floor ot of o the ocean by means of oC fastening its suckers sucker sucker-SI I Ion on a It roc and pulling Itself along I Ear li of the eight tentacles ten are aro covered with Ith ip c-ip shaped I and these the form a vacuum when ta on an object I haul them out of the traps with their thell bare baro hands an and 1 throw them In bo boxes bos s n n a a manner that Is Js ex- ex extremEly ex extremely to a fish that has an ago old fictional reputation of being a man killer and boat boat- boat I i I C CAUGHT IV IN TRAPS PS In the tire picturesque food stoP s1-op I line t L narrow streets of sa Sati Francisco Chinatown the he heI I tentacles of the devilfish may be soon seen flanging from hooks alongside many ohu edibles edIble that are strange to 0 the American On the floors of the wholesale fish houses hero the de may be seen stacked in like jelly j heaps Ith I tentacles tentacle in some cases extending I fromI ten rcpt feet across five feet from I each side ot at the th small shaped egg ess head Tb Tho traps at SantA Cruz Crus where I the majot of ot the de de II fish are caught on an the Pacific coast are built like thy lly traps only much larger Jle Tho traps are made of wire with hUm Ith a shaped cone-shaped entrance for the to squeeze In older order to reach the bait fixed fo for him blat He Un h has baa S n no trouble In jn enter enter- enter I entering In log ing ll ten tec narrowing vcr funnel but butI I finds It 11 Impossible to leave Usual Usually ly fishermen ermen state t t o 0 or more mort Te re caught in the the- same sam trap I I GEt an JI al COLORS Instead Cf t C being bemS u tighter the tho devilfIsh protects rom from atto by e changing Its ita and from rom Its me according to Pro Pro- Prossor Pro I 1 Heath Hp Ha lIe sayS saye Tn To agility and naturally acute senses should ba bo added ther cur cur- sur surprising l ng ability to change their color Bur I to harmonize o ith ith that of their I surroundings so prey and One One- mica ne nibs eik are usually usually- unaware unaware or t their thol pro This color l I ba bas d d upon minute elastic sa alas tilled lilt pigment and with for causing their cx- cx ex expansion I As a devilfish crawls about on the sea ea bottom its color can b be seen to in a IL twinkling from deco deen chocolate through dull lull red and to gra gray 11 If sand tInd or roc rock I is ell eli on the journey the skin sl Is usually thrown Into lumps and so that under all condi LIons the the- body is practically in Ho However ever If It Professor Heathi opinion c ct Cf the devilfish as a food Is he lec the Ci fish h will continue J to be bo eaten by its celestial admirers ers and by a limited few who cray the un unusual ual Properly to place t oe be e etore fore tore the tte American epicurean a dish of tender c octopus Professor Heath says bayS Eom thing must 1 be 0 d done dae ne td 5 It its I rubber-like rubber consistency |