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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-03-21, Page 7Ship's Ammunition .dust Plain Hootch Harold Waters served for twenty years in the U,S. Coast Guard, and one experience he'll never forget was when his patrol ship Tucker chased and captured the whisky runner Conch Belle off the east coast of America. The smuggler's hulls, was so riddled with bullet -holes during the engagement that she couldn't be towed into port. So the Tucker's skipper decided to haul her alongside and tranship the whisky cargo as evidence, stow- ing it in the machine shop amid- ships. The call for all hands to form a human chain to handle the tacks full of bottles, was hailed with enthusiasm. ' On the share; and -share -alike basis of "one for the government, and one for me" only half the 200 sacks of spirit reached the machine shop. The ether half vanished behind ven- tilators, stacks, vegetable lockers and any other hideouts that the Tucker's officers couldn't see. When told of the large num- ber of missing bottles, the skip- per gave the officers ' a severe dressing-down for their lack of vigilance and ordered an imme- diate search. But up to midnight they had found only two sacks which someone had thrown into a small dinghy and forgotten to remove to a better hideout. l'That's not a drop in the bucket compared with what's still Those in this ship!" roared the skipper. "You'd better get busy first thing in the morning and find them. if you don't turn up that missing stuff by to -morrow night, I'll give you a taste .of hack!" Hack was room -confine- ment, a drastic punishment car- rying a feeling of moral stigma for coast guard officers. Waters records in a cheerfully sea -breezy account of his twenty years with the U.S. Coast Guard in "Adventure Unlimited" that the temporary halt in the search was a signal for celebration. Sacks and bottles were taken from their hiding places and all hands not on watch got glorious- ly t i g h t, drinking furiously against the clock. It was a night of revelry and high carnival. The ship's gunnery depart- ment = four gunners' mates and a chief — had ten sacks (360 bottles) hidden in the magazine„. It was a lot of liquor to hide in a compartment already filled with powder, projectiles, TNT and small arms ammunition, so the chief ordered them to dump the ammunition. Into emptied . powder tanks and boxes marked "High Explosives — handle with great care!" went quart after quart of whisky which was promptly drawn upon for their Awn private party. Waters doesn't remember pass- ing out, but when he awoke the sun was shining brightly, and sprawled about him, empty bot- tles still clutched in their hands, and their snores clashinglike buzz -saws, were the prostrate bodies of his shipmates. And they were not. the only ones with aching heads and tortured stomachs. Twenty men in other departments hadn't been able to stand their early morning four - to -eight watch; the two cooks of the galley watch were too drunk to prepare breakfast. It was drunken chaos. At 8 a.m. the hands were or- dered to muster before the com- manding officer. Out from their lairs they crawled and staggered, tome still drunk, others with shocking hangovers. "We were a sorry -looking bunch as we form- ed in lurching, weaving ranks to face a wrathful captain," Waters says, The captain loosed a broad- side on their "disgraceful =- duet," . an -duet". threatening a general court-martial to any man found with liquor in his possession or in any compartment to, which he had the keys. Turning abruptly, he slammed into the yeoman deputized to write up charges. On the impact a bottle of whisky slipped from the yeoman's waist, downhis pant leg, and crashed on the steel deck, splashing the skip- per's shoes. "While you're writ- ing up charges," he snapped, "put yourself down for a general court-martial!" "Aye, aye, sir," said the luckless yeoman. While they stood in ranks in a broiling sun - with- parched tongues, splitting heads, and sick stomachs, the officers combed the ship, finding loot everywhere, under pillows, mattresses, in hammocks, lockers. Despite the thorough search, however, the total yield was dis- appointing. "I knew well," bark- ed the skipper, "there's a lot more liquor yet to be found .. . You may expect surprise searches from now on, plenty of them! At any hour of the day or night!" While the deck force. was given intensive gun drill the skipper glowered down from the bridge. Demonstrating safety precautions to a gun crew, the Chief walked to the breech end saying: "Having made sure that the muzzle end of the gun is clear, we now swing open the breech block and—" As he bent low to look inside, out shot the first of three whis- ky bottles from the powder chamber. One hit him in the forehead, stunning him; the other two crashed on the deck. "Very interesting, C h i e f!" thundered the Old Man. "You had a foul bore all right, fouled with three bottles of whisky!" The Chief hotly protested that someone must have dumped the bottles there the previous night and forgotten to remove them. "After all, Captain," he added boldly, "if we were the kind of rascals you think us to be, you should credit us with more intelli- gence than trying to hide liquor in a gun that is right under your nose." "And where else would you put your stolen liquor, if you're the kind of rogues I have some season to suspect you of being?" "Down in the magazine, Cap- tain" — with a casualness that almost took the crew's breath away. "That's where I would hide the stuff. That is, if I had stolen any of it. Why don't you look down there?" To the others' relief, the skipper just laughed. Actually, the magazine had been searched by the gunnery officer and no liquor found, thanks to the Chief's forethought in throw- ing overboard enough explosives to provide stowage for it! When the Tucker hove -to off Fort Lauderdale, the Coast Guard base, Waters' anchoring station was' up on the fo'c'sle. At .the command, "Let go the anchor," down it plunged, up from the chain locker came the cable, whipping ' through the hawse -pipe, then came the sound of grinding glass from below, and into the sea splashed broken whisky bottles as the cable un- coiled. Whisky fumes wreathed up. The fo'c'sle began to smell like a distillery... . 179.YEARS BETWEEN THEM—William Jerry Smith, 104, and his ton Fred, 75, strike a father -art -soh pose" as . Fred sitsof his Puppy's lap at their horse. GOOD HEAD — Three young- sters put their heads together with a giant papier-mache fun- ny man in Viareggio,Italy. The huge head was used in the town's pre -Lenten carnival. He's One. Feller They Won't Forget Back in the spring of 1937 in an exhibition game between the Cleveland Indians and the New York Giants a group of sports- writers recoiled through sheer reflex action every time a rookie Cleveland pitcher unwound him- self and flung the ball plateward. There were two reasons. One was because the press box at the Vicksburg, Miss., ball park, where the game was being played, was set level with the field and only a scant 10 yards behind the catcher. The second was because the pitcher was Bob Feller, who was throwing with 'all the celerity of a machine gun. Tliat night the wires out of Vicksburg hummed with stories about the Van Meter, Iowa, farm boy who was as fast as Walter Johnson. One look had been enough to let the boys in press row know they were seeing something extra special. Feller, who recently announced his re- tirement after 20 years in the big leagues, left a legacy of pitching ?. records to back them up. Back in those early days Bob was raw, unskilled, and untu- tored. ntu tored. He walked like a boy who?' had been brought up followingf. a plow and when he raised his; left leg, preparatory to pitching,'' his foot pointed in the direction of third base. But he could throw a baseball as hard as anybody you ever saw, including Dazzy Vance, or Lefty Grove, or Wal- ter Johnson, writes Phil Elderkin in The Christian Science Moni- tor. The boy himself was as raw as. his delivery — and as basically sound. Feller was still a coun- try boy, so much so that he even had his school books with him so that he might return later for a diploma. He was polite, cour- teous, and ill at ease. Ten years later he was as polished as a diplomat and a consistent 20 - game winner. It is quite possible that Feller has taken more money out of baseball, and its various side- lines, than any other athlete since Babe Ruth. Bob hadn't been . around too long before he be- came Ro-Fel, Inc: — baseball's first incorporated ballplayer. When he signed his 1947 base- ball contract with Cleveland, former prsident Bill Veeck called a special press conference. With one arm around Feller and flash- ing that little grin of his, Veeck pointed In the direction of Mu- nicipal Stadium and said: "Bob now owns everything to the left of first base." Bill was joking, but not very much. That year Cleveland sup- posedly- paid Feller a tidy 8 000, with a bonus clause attached, based on attendance, which may have added another $10,000 to his salary. Bob probably picked up an- other $25,000 in endorsements. ]Ie lends his name to such pro- ducts as ice cream, sports wear, peanut butter, shaving cream, and breakfast food. However, of e was always extremely never to allow his name to be used for cigarette or liquor ad- vertising, dvertising, or anything which he felt would not be of benefit to young people, many of whole had formed fan clubs in his hon- or. As a- pitcher, Feller probably was the best of his time, He was a 20 -game winner as recently as 1951 and his victory total for 21 years is an eye-popping 266. In- cluded in that number are three no hitters and 12 one hitters. In fact, if he hadn't spent three of his most productive years in the service, he might have been baseball's first 300 -game winner since Bob Grove. This may seem relatively small to some old-tifners who recall Cy Young's 500 -plus Wins, but GREEN THUMB . , Goldoc�Smitfi. There Have Been Changes Ever since Adam in the Gar- den of Eden lean and garden- ing have been closely associated But there have been a lot of changes and every decade sees more. A great many of the flowers and vegetables that our grandparents planted would be as much out of place in the mod- ern garden as the old wood' stoves in our up-to-date kitchen, or the model T on our super- highways. We use many of the same names. There is till bantam corn, petunias, asters and phlox. The lilac remains one of our most popular and beautiful shrubs But there is little simi- larity except in name with those plants in our garden today. There has been a vast improve- ment in quality, in productive- ness, in colours and in resistance to disease. Not so many years ago garden corn, for.instance, was a luxury in many' parts of Canada. It tooktoo long to mature. It was not hardy enough except for the warmer section of the coun- try. And when we did succeed in growing a few cobs, the sea- son lasted only a few days. In flowers and shrubs, too, we were limited to a few standard col- ours, not very bright and all gone in a matter of days. Now, with vast- improvements in hardiness, . colouring and quality, we can have gardens almost anywhere in Canada, right up into the Yukon and around Great Slave lake if necessary. And we can have fresh vegetables and bright bloom from early in the Spring until even after the first frosts in the Fall. Spread It Out It is foolish to plant all the garden on a single afternoon just as soon as the first warm weather comes. A late frost may ruin :all tender growth and if it does escape frost, all the flowers will come out early or all the vegetables will be ready at the same time. With the vegetables especially, it is advisable to spread sowings, so that the harvest may be spread out also. Experienced gardeners make a regular prac- tice of planting such things as carrots, beets, lettuce, beans, spinach, radish, etc., at least three times, about two or three weeks apart. To further spread the harvest, they will also use early, medium and late varieties. There is no good reason why the vegetable garden should not yield continually from early summer until late fall. And the same goes for most annual flowers, too. Centrepiece Virtually every garden, for- mal or informal is built around a lawn. The latter is the real centrepiece and the smoother and greener it is the better it shows off the flowers, shrubbery and home. There are a lot of poor lawns in Canada but there shouldn't be, because preparing and maintaining a respectable one is not difficult. A few basic points should be kept in mind. First, we must remember that grass is a plant like a flower or a vegetable and if we want fine luxuriant deep green growth we should feed it once in a while just like we feed our flowers and vegetables. And another even .more basic point it to make sure that we start with good seed, and suitable seed. If these two points are kept in mind the rest is simple because healthy grass from healthy seed will pretty well take care of its own problems. remember Young was pitching in the era of the so-called dead ball, when four or five home runs was enough to lead the majors. Today even the smallest players hit them out of the park. The lone blot on Feller's rec- ord, if you can call it that, was that he never won a World Series game. Johnny Sain and the Bos- ton Braves beat him, 2-1, in the opening game of the 1948 fall classic, and although Bob came back again later in the series it just wasn't his afternoon. The Indians have retired his uniform (No. 19) and already there is talk of Bob moving into Baseball's Hall of Fame, Actual- ly, the big fellow has never be- longed anywhere else. The U.S. Department of Agri- culture has made all non-profit childcare institutions eligible to take part in its special milk program. 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