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...last week off Brazil's coast. Rain speared down in steel-grey phalanxes. Big, angry combers blew their tops. Battling pluckily through the maelstrom panted the little (248-ton, 36-meter) coastal steamer Itacare. She was out of Sao Salvador on her regular haul to Ilhéos, Bahia. She carried 47 passengers, a crew of 19, was heavily cargoed. Skilfully had young, but seasoned Captain Carlos Oliveira skippered her to within hailing distance of Ilhéos. Another 300 yards would find her in safe harbor...
Best tarpon fishing is at Boca Grande (on the West Coast of Florida), Bahia Honda (in the Florida Keys) and Aransas Pass in Texas-where one may expect to catch at least one a day during June. World's record: 242½ Ibs., taken in the Panuco River, Mexico...
...discovered that the Lamp Post had just died of tuberculosis in the State of Sergipe. Last week Brazil was happier still. The Department of National Telegraphs was able to report the Lamp Post's third death: near the town of Villanova, 230 miles north of Sao Salvador, Bahia, the police of Alagoas State aided by a posse of civilians caught up with the bandit and in a desperate gun fight killed him, eleven confederates, his mistress...
...largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest, plantations were kept up better during cocoa's dark days, and total world shipments actually rose from 542,000 tons in 1929 to 675,000 in 1935. Yet so important is the crop of African beans that their sudden scarcity...
That done, the President steamed away on the cruiser Houston for the mainland at Bahia Honda, Panama. There he got the first mail he had seen since leaving San Diego, Calif, ten days before, stopped for more fishing in the Gulf of Panama...