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.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
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Ever since Adam in the Gar-
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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-
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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-
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to disease.
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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
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bloom from early in the Spring
until even after the first frosts
in the Fall.
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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.
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