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...last week the army of the Law, 5,000 strong, seemed no closer than it had been before to John Dillinger & Co. In the woods of northern Wisconsin George (''Baby Face") Nelson stayed three days in the hut of Ollie Catfish, a Chippewa, and the Federals got on his trail after he had left. In a swamp nearby, the Federals went gunning for another gangster whom they were "sure" they had surrounded. At a bank hold-up in Chicago, another member of the gang, Homer van Meter, was "identified." In another suburb three policemen overtook a car, were...
...fish yanked him overboard again. His friends hauled him back. The fish took the boat in tow, hauled it 15 mi. in two and one-half hours, finally bit the line in two, escaped. The party agreed that the fish "looked like a sturgeon, had a mouth like a catfish, leaped like a tarpon, pulled like a whale." Next morning Congressman McClintic turned up at his office with bandaged hands. Said he: "I'm through with deep-sea fishing. An old bullhead and sun-perch man, with a reputation for veracity, ought never to have taken...
...anything. But no good Jew considers racketeering or carelessness a necessity. Healthiness of flesh is the basis of kashruth. Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused death). Because the Torah reads, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk," kashruth separates meat and milk dishes. Anything cooked...
From the 18th Century until just recently (c. 1951) even ichthyologists believed this fish climbed trees. The new explanation (v. John Roxbrough Norman's History of Fishes, published 1931) is parallel to that of the catfish incident: that birds seized them as they wriggled along on the ground, and placed them in crotches of trees possibly for future...
Park Superintendent W. E. Geiser concluded that a kingfisher must have carried the catfish aloft. Not even a climbing perch (Anabas scandens) could have shinnied up 40 ft. A small, dark green fish with dusky bands, the climbing perch inhabits Far Eastern estuaries and rivers. It can wrap its pectoral fins around grass stems, drag itself long distances. Why it wants to go overland, no one knows...