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Show 756 VALENTINE SCODBURY For Complainant ( R. Vol. 10, pp. 1811- 1832) He resides at Alhambra, California, is forty- four years old, his present occupation being manager of the Alhambra Steam Laundry. He has had considerable experience, during his life, with boats, was two years on the United States training ship " Enterprize", as a cadet; has had intensive life boat training, two years on merchant ships; two years in sailing, and two years in steams ships. He has an official life boat certificate, and a second mate's license, unlimited as a navigator. He made a trip up the Columbia River to The Dalles, Oregon, and portaged an eighteen foot boat across to Fort Benton. He made a strip down the Missouri River to St. Louis, then up the Mississippi River to Grafton, where he entered the Illinois River, and from there on up to Chicago. This trip was made in 1925. R. 1811- 1812. During November and December, 1927, he was with the Pathe- Bray moving picture expedition, as a boatman. This expedition consisted of six boats. The boat he had charge of was a little over eighteen feet long, about a four or five foot beam, with a four or four and one- half foot cook- pit. The forward and aft compartments were sealed off with watertight bulk heads; with water- tight hatches that screwed |
