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Article Clipped from The Belleville News-Democrat

in President end His Fishing Friends Land Five Sharks Aboard the 8 8 Houston En route to Cocoe Island July I By Navel Radio to the United The 8 8 Houston carried President Roosevelt end his vacation party far south into the equatorial waters of the Pacific today The Houston was making a 1300-mile run from Clipperton Island far off the coast of Mexico to Galapagos Island wrest of Ecuador in South America Yesterday the President and his five fishing companions went ashore on the tiny French island possession to cast their lines Their catch was so large that the crew members aboard the ship had to use a lifting crane to bring it on deck There were five sharks one of them manuring five feet from tip to tip Professor Otto Schmitt of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington went inland with a party and returned with bird animal and marine specimens which he said were extremely valuable for acirn-tific study.