Monday, May. 01, 1933
Sailors All
Up to the Washington Navy Yard last week sailed the Gloucester fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, carrying 20 deep-sea skippers to the capital to petition the Tariff Commission for higher fish duties. Up to the Navy Yard to greet them, as one good sailor to another, drove President Roosevelt. With him was Britain's Prime Minister. They had just returned from a day's cruise on the Sequoia.
President Roosevelt shook hands all around, congratulated the crew on the salute of 21 foghorn blasts the Thebaud had paid the Sequoia down the river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines.
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