5 ID HUNT SHARKS
IN 53-FQOT BOAT
Three Men 'and Two Girls
Will Sail on 1.400-Mile Trip
to Virgin Islands.
five hardy souls will add their ad
ventures to" the annals of seafaring
Xvhen the motor boat Advance of 36
gross tons casts off Friday from the
harbor police dock, bound for St.
Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1,400 miles
eway, in quest of sharks.
The pioneers in the enterprise, seek
ing live treasure, are the organizers
of ihe expedition. They dre I-.ouis
* rossette of 39<*2 Northampton street,
f'hevy Chase, former assistant to Her
bert Hoover; Capt. John Langdon of
the Shipping Board, navigator: Edwin
Bellows of Battleboro. Vt., rancher
pnd free lance, who will be in charge
of the shark industry when It is estab
lished on Lovango Bay. near St.
Thomas; William Smith of Norfolk,
Ya„ a veteran of the British navy
tuid freighters, who is th© engineer;
Betty Crossette, the 14-year-old
daughter of the skipper, and her
cousin, June Portlage, 21, of Surrey,
Bngland.
Result of Research.
The modern Odyssey was conceived
p-• the result of extensive research by
the Department of Commerce, the Bu
reau of Standards, the Bureau of
Fisheries and Crossette himself, who
has already surveyed' his island do
main and shipped t he necessary equip
ment, in partnership with Edward K.
jlunham of the Corn Exchange Bank,
New York, and David M. Milton,
young New York lawyer, who recently
married a daughter of John D. Rocke
feller, Jr.
The products of the shark, Chinese
Jin soup, leather, oil and meal have
long proved remunerative, hut the
process of eatchirg sha'ks and the
kindred sawfish and swordfish and ex
tracting their products has not here
tofore been attempted on such a large
M ale as the project in view.
