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C0R1HA r FISHING ON DA (OF1M Post-War Sport Of Han dling Birds Now Being Revived In Japan By MILES W. VAUGHN ' United Press Staff Correpsondent GIFU, Japan, —<U.R)— Hykomaru, world’s champion fishing cormo rant, popped from the depths of the Nagara river into the light pat tern of a giant torch of flaming pine knots and disgorged a full 18 ounces of assorted brook trout from his capacious gullet into a wick er basket on the bottom of our sampan. It was a good catch and Hyko maru, who is just getting back into stride after years of war-time semi idleness, turned to his master, with a »mirk of self-approval, and pre pared to be put back into the water. The occasion was a revival, after five years of war, of one of the world’s oldest sports — cormorant fishing, which ranks with falconry ai an exhibition of man’s ability to train a wild creature to do his hunting for him. Hykomaru, 21 years old and in the prime of life, belongs to a man i XaZkaMne HEPBURN WALKER 7ne0w#t . DOUGLAS IN MCM't 'T/ieSea of Grass’ -- ■ Late News Shown 12:23, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9:05. I „ M The Entire Week •M Starting Son. Jute 8 ^B A "THE ANGEL & / \ THE BADMAN" / HOW DO "YOU" PRONOUNCE IT! THE CRITICS PRONOUNCE IT ^ "WONDERFUL" AND SO WILL YOU AFTER YOU SEE - » "SONG OF « SCHEHERAZADE" STARTING SUNDAY BAILEY 7 DAYS OF ACTION! STARTING SUNDAY! AGAIN!... THE CAROLINA BRINGS YOU AN OUTSTANDING SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT ! A Brawling, Lusty Story Of A Powerful, Magnetic West . . . Set To The Thunder irg Music Of The Six Gun! • BAILEY PRICES COMING! . . . COMING! . . . "SMASH . HP" "HAMROD" who himself is a champion, Kanj Yamashita. head of a family whicl for 17 generations has belonged tc ' i the Nagara village guild of cor i morant fishermen, former purvey jors to Japan’s imperial household Handles 12 At Once j Yamashita is 04. He is the only man in the world who can handle 12 trained cormorants at a time and likes to recall how he demon strated his skill at the San Fran cisco Fair in 1935. Cormorant fishing is a chief tourist attraction of the town of Gifu, which sprawls along both banks of the swift-running Nagara River. This first post-war exhibition at tracted thousands of guests, in cluding many American soldiers, who stood on concrete parapets along both sides of the river rapids or sat in house-boats along the river. Fishing is done only in the dark of the moon and conditions were ideal this night, since the sky was overcast and there were occasional rain showers. As soon as it was dark, boatmen at the head of the rapids began releasing hundreds of tiny wooden candle boats which bobbed down the current in the center of the river and formed a moving series of lights like giant fireflies extending as far as one could see. Simultaneously, fire works displays were started. Flares Lighted Half an hour later the six cor morant fishing boats moved into position at the head of the rapids and boatmen lighted their flares, which are used to attract the small brook trout called “ayu.” The flares are large iron baskets at the end of a pole extending at right angles from the bow of the boat — a narrow, pirogue-like canoe some j” NOW! UTf!U Adventure! ^llhll - RomanCe! ^*P|TnT7»|TTWT|J^7|^^Bp Ttiomos (lautft "Jr ^ MITCHELL JARMAN, Jr.:> Mtriljra MAXWELL'H*nr HULL HIGH mum, I Plus I CARTOON — NOVELTY I Shows: 1:00 - 3:00 I 6:00 - 7:00 - 9:00 | DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 3. Beverage 19. Cover 1. Astern 4. Atomizer 20. Greek letter ; 4. Little gitl 5. Persia 21. Claimed J 7. Entice 6. A reddish- 23. Guido's high 8. Baby's yellow est note carriage chalcedony 24. Escape 10. On the ocean 7. Girl's name (slang) 11. Infrequent 9. Edible parts 25. Sun-drieJ 12. Burlap of nuts .brick material 12. Very black 27. Dwelling 13. One who 13. Footmen 28. Donkey v^terd.y'. 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When the boats are in position, the cormorant masters, barefoot, with tight olack silk turbans, black shirts, and grass skirts much like those of an Hawaiian hula dancer, take their positions and remove the hunting birds from wicker cages. Each bird has a brass ring around his neck at the bottom of his enormous gullet, which is cap able of holding a quart or more. The birds are controlled by strings which the fisherman holds in his right hand and manipulates to keep the birds working under water as the fishing progresses. Most fishermen can handle not more than four or five cormorants. Drum Beating At a signal, the boats are re leased and start a mad rush down stream with a tremendous beating of wooden drums, which aid m ! attracting the fish. The cormo j rants are released directly under mi3RDE MADELEINE ALL THIS WEEK! rliWMI-i TODAY AND SATURDAY Prices OCC ^us Always Tax Music And Bullets t Blazing Your Way! * GENE AUTRY IN TWH1GHT OSfTHE wo Gaum with STERLING HOLLOWAY ADELE MARA • BOB STEELE CASS COUNTY BOYS --—Added Serial “WHO’S GUILTY” Edgar Kennedy Comedy Latest World-Wide News Today Sat. Family ongt Plus Prices Tax Ballet - Jam med Action in —the Badlands! fc: RAYMOND ^ HATTON | ® Extra "SON OF ZORRO” Edgar Kennedy _Comedy the torches and immediately start scooping up the trout. A well trained bird will keep swallowing trout until his gullet is full and the tail of the last fish is protruding from the cormorant’s mouth. The birds seize the fish at right angles and then quickly jubble them in their serrated bills and swallow them head first. A trout caught by a cormorant is supposed to be of vastly superior flavor to one caught in a net or trap, because the fish is killed the moment the cormorant seizes him. Instant death is supposed to cause the superior flavor. Hykoniaru caught more than 50 trout during a single run down the rapids. The catch weighed ahout eighty pounds and was valued at 1,500 yen or about $30. capTfear (Continued From Page One) the job. Most of them were North Carolinians. During that period they won virtually every award that is offered by Uncle Sam’s Maritime commission for meritor ious service. This story of accomplishment at the Cape Fear shipyard will un fold in future issues of “Along the Cape Fear.” __ WIDESPREAD SEARCH NOW UNDERWAY FOR TEXTILE MILL MAN GREENSBORO. June 5 — UP)— Law enforcement officers in Jreensville and Kernersville, with aid of State Highway patrolmen, county sheriffs deputies and police throughout the state, continued their search tonight for Walter L. Holt, 53, Greensboro, textile exe cutive. who has been missing since Tuesday night. Holt was last seen about 6:10 p. m. Tuesday when he left the office of Vance Knitting company, of which he is secretary-treasurer, in Kernersville, according to po lice. He was reported wearing a gray suit and traveling in a blue 1946 Ford coupe, bearing license 117-173. Holt’s wife stated he had appear ed nervous lately and that she feared he was a victim of am nesia. The English town of Bideford, in Devonshire, dates from before the Noiman Conquest. In the 17th cen tury it was a serious rival of Lon don and Exeter as a center of trade. The town was the birth place of Sir R. Grenville, one of the founders of Virginia. LATE SHOW TONIGHT ALSO SAT. Mat. 3 P.M.—Nite 7 & 9 P.M. Pins: Complete Shorts ^^____ Ttc VttCHTSViL LAST DAY Mat. 3 P.M.—Nite 7 & 8 P.M. . PLUS: Late World News— ^Cartoon $36,000 COCKTAILS IN HARRIED CHINA Money Comes In Bundles Of Thousand Dollar Bills BY WILLIAM C. Payette United Press Staff Corespondent SHANGHAI (U.R)—This is infla tion: Your money comes in bundles of thousand-dollar bills about eight inches long. Thai’s $500,000. No body bothers to count it. Your morning paper is $2,000, your cup of coffee another $2,000. Breakfast is $24,000, a taxi-ride to the office $36,000. Lunch is $64 000, a pack of cig arettes $6,0CC, and a cocktail $36, ■000. We had a dinner party. The check was over a million dollars, without champaign, slippers or chorus girls. My friend Yuan Ming Chin pays $100,000 a month for his three room apartment. He had to pay $10,000,000 “key money” K> get the key to the place. He borrowed the money and pays 10 per cent inter est. That makes his rent $200,000 a month and he still owes the $10,000,000. Only $500,000 a Month His salary as assistant director of the Shanghai office of the min istry of information is $500,000 a month. His wife works for a U. S. government office. She gets $2, 000,000 a month. That’s how they get by. “I should quit the government service,” he said, "but If we all quit, who would work for the government?” He's loyal and poor "When I was in Boone Univer sity in Hankow,” he said, “I had three dollars a week. I had three meals a day, including chicken. I lived very well. That was in 1939. “Then I taught in the Central Political Institute. I got $70 a month. I still lived well. I even had a horse. By 1944, I was making $31,000 a month, and I was paying $50,000 a month rent, but that w»s war. We just try to hold on. Somebody must.” Coolies Better Off Yuan’s case is typical *of the white collar man. The coolie, who may get his rice with his work, is better off. The boy who carries my bags downstairs I tipped $2,000. The little old woman at the door of fered. me a bag of peanuts for $1,500. A friend of mine strolling 0n the bund, had his pocket picked of $500,000. A cafe offered us. a bottle of whisky. Price $600,000. You take your bundled money around in sacks, if your’e planning to do the town. You throw it into a drawer when you get home, stacked in half-millions. Nobody wants the Chinese na ;tional currency. Tomorrow"*" - be worth half as °w it nd of it. That makes '80 y&uW I ton. You Can’t! , 1% dollars t0 China, b'. to be a few around. J . St«t "a friend” who can ryKh,, at t.ie unofficial rate „ Jrt aerr one, against the 1% ,*». 000 1 12.000 to one. uc;al -ate { More than 17,000,000 are now employed j„ , States. This compa ls 6 ^ 500.000 employed atS ■ 'h *• tims peak, and n 1940. !3.000,000 „ -... ... . ^ introducing THE BAND SENSATION MIKE GEORGS NIGHTLY 9 TO l:oo (EXCEPT MONDAYS) Adm. 75c Plus Tax OCEAN PLAZA CAROLINA BEACH CITRATE MAGNESIA 25c Size V METAL ^ WASTE BASKET k A 50c VITALIS FOR THE HAIR „ 43c . r $1.00 ^ WINE CARDUI r 83c ^ PONDS CREAMS ^59c A f 60c 1 MURINE FOR THE EYES Y 50c l IPANA TOOTH PASTE Six Ounce ’ RUBBING ALCOHOL 0><> f us. 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