U.S.S. HOUSTON 
Evening Press News 
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3 August, 1938 
PRESS RE LEASE EOR EVENING PA PERS 
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By 
Stephen T. Early, Secretary to the President 
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Sailfish Club today had increased 
its membership to five and only two members of his party had 
failed to make their catches. They left the Houston before 
breakfast in a last minute effort to qualify for admission to 
the Club . 
A capitulation of sailfish caught since the Houston arrived 
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at Cocos Island follows: The President, Doctor Ross T. 
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Mclntire , Hr. Basil O’Connor of New York, Colonel Edwin M. 
Watson and his Naval Aide Commander Daniel I. Callaghan, one 
each. 
The Houston was prepared to leave Cocos Island at 3 o’clock 
(EST) today to begin the 540 mile run to Balboa, Canal Zone. 
She is scheduled to arrive there about 4 O’clock Thursday 
afternoon. 
This was the last leg of the President’s c uise in the 
Pacific v/hich started from San Diego, July 16th; extended down 
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the coast of Lower California, thence to Socorro Island, to 
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Clipper ton, to the Galapagos Archipelago and Cocos Island - 
a total of approximately 3,500 miles. 
Commanddr R.C. Starkey of the escorting destroyer McDougal 
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registered his claim todajr for first prize for big fish caught, 
by his ship’s crew as against Houston’s fishermen. He reported 
a Ray had boon harpooned and hung up alongside. It weighed 
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1,645 pounds, was fifteen feet in width and nine feet long. 
Pago One of Press. 
