Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

literally t.ore himself t.o pieces at the sight
.of his .own bl.o.od!
It was a satisfacti.on t.o feel my knife g.o
h.ome t.o its full length, f.or the shark was
n.ow s.o nl tilated that it became .only a
matter .of minutes bef.ore he w.ould be dead.
I signaled to be drawn up.
On that ascent of an hour I had plenty
of time to think. I was quite agreed .on .one
point: that I would never be nearer death
and come back to tell about it. But as I
shot t.o the surface in stages, I eQuId have
sworn my legs reached all the way back
t.o the b.ottom. I couldn't drag them up fast
enough, expecting every instant to feel
th.ose terrific jaws clamp on me in this
helpless p.osition.
At last I br.oke water, gr.oped for the
Jacob's ladder and emerged in the sunlight.
My partner gave me a hand over the rail.
He loosened the nut .on my fa ce plate and
swung it open.
"All right? " he queried, his features pale
and anxi.ous.
"Sure," I returned.
He grabb ed for the helmet, threw off the
lock, and the next m.oment my head was
free. He was helping me off with my belt·
weights and suit, when he asked:
"What happened d.own there?"
I related t.o him ab.out my finding the
wreck and als.o the encounter with the
shark.
I then found myself nervous, and grow-
ing more outraged and angry the m.ore
I thought .of the incident. The realization
of h.ow close my call had been upset me
a bit, but I ate my delayed meal, and soon
sho.ok .off the anxiety_
Later, we made further salvage operations
on the rotting hulk .of the craft which I
had found. After several days' effort we
managed to salvage one small chest which
contained approximately $60,000 in hun-
dreds of metal discs-roughly octagonal,
heavy slugs, irregular r.ound pieces-of-eight,
a golden doubloon here and there, brown
and discolored but gleaming yellow when
the patina of the years had been scratched
away. Each was fresh as the day it was
minted and b.ore various mint marks.
The balance .of the Santa Paula's treasure
still remains on the bottom and some .of
these days I again expect t.o make another
attempt to recover m.ore .of it. But for
that period I had had enough excitement
to hold me for several months- my en-
counter with the "tiger .of the sea" gave
me much to think ab.out.
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Kaplan Makes Jaunt
LOS ANGELES- Harry Kaplan, head of
the Southwestern Vending Machine Co., is
back in Los Angeles from a ten day buying
and selling trip which took him to San
Francisco, Stockton, Sacramento, and way
p.oints_
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"It's not a question of selling any more,"
said Harry, "the boys greeted me with
open arms and the query of 'what have you
got to sell.' Fortunately we carry the larg-
est st.ock on the Coast so some nice .orders
were b.ooked. Then to.o I found some .op.
erators willing to part with s.ome of their
equipment because of pending military serv-
ice and other reasons, so the trip just about
balanced itself on the fI.ow of equipment."
The Southwestern is fea~uring a p.ortable
flame-arc welder which plugs int.o any out-
let and requires no special wiring. The
unit is ideal for welding, fusing, melting,
thawing, heating, bending and cutting and
operators are finding it a valuable piece
of equipment as attached by the Ro.od .of
orders coming in.
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Plea for Scrap
LOS ANGELES-"The Japs have just
ab.out all the new shellac in the world. The
Army and Navy needs the precious little
supply America does have on hand, and
naturally they come first, so in the future
we're playing ball with the customers wh.o
turn in scrap f.or reclaiming ," states Mose
Katzev of the J . N. Ceazan Co., Hit record
distributors.
"The only way new records can be made
is with shellac reclaimed from old discs.
So it stands to reason that rec.ord makers
are g.oing to- and have to-favor the people
who keep them in business. Obviously we
must do the same so we ask operators t.o
turn in as much scrap as p.ossible just as
often as possible. Hit records have brought
the operat.ors the outstanding popular tunes
during the current recording dr.ought and
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they rate a break from you," concluded
Katzev.
Seems Like Home
PffiLADELPffiA-In a series of ar-
ticles just concluded in Collier's, Cap-
tain Ted W. Lawson gave a graphic
account of the bombing of Tokio and
the escape of the brave Americans
who got to China and eventually home.
It was a long, hard journe y made
by e very known type of moving equip -
ment but it was n ot until Lawson
re ache d Trinidad that he began to fe e l
like h e w as returning to civilization for
th ere "we had not only cold cokes but
slot machines, just a s orne ry a s th e
ones in the Sta te s."
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