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Show WH NE Tl i WE By LEMUEL F Pa (Consolidated Feature NEW YORK.-Snapte. ed States liner, t queen of tl AmerfcT marine, through the Na- TrueSortofOld Yankee Breed Jf Of Shellback, Ci Ch- man, master of the n handled his ship as def would handle a toy. various maneuverings o! ton luxury liner on her rr. senger-carrying trip fro, News, Va., Captain Steto. sheer delight in puttie charge through her pac-guests, pac-guests, United States ser': ping magnates and so I have cast their thought days when amid tnounta-and tnounta-and winds ranging from g ricane proportions, this v per he is only 42 year, formed deeds of daricf' deep, deeds that have ga:: a gold medal from the I eminent; the United S: cross; the silver life-sav from the British adir. Treasury department t. and other like testimony courage and skilled sea: There was that tuniult in the mid-Atlantic, 0t 1925, when the Preside Ing, of which Stedmu chief officer, steamed ti cue of the Italian freig nazio Florlo, beaten d sinking. Stedman stepp of the lifeboats and ca! volunteer crew. Everj i of the distressed creww; Two years later, wes: about 1,575 miles from : the wireless operator bu man a message from : freighter Exeter City, had lost her captain, t and two seamen and . The seas were i witchbroth, the Kind i at hurricane force. No ty existed for the son small boat in such i Stedman maneuvered h sufficiently close to id line being shot aboard tresscd freighter, tin thus rigged, a lifeboat ercd from the Araeric chant and pulled to tit vessel and the crew sa seamanship involved m have represented one o est exploits in Americai Last September, com the United States liner 1 ton, Stedman rescued tl crew of the British freij ivergrovc torptdocd by As a youngster, decid.: sea career, Stedman joint1 ed States Coastguard, . first World war he saw I hazardous service in cc in the Mediterranean sea lish channel. When pa Stedman enrolled in the setts Institute of Tech courses in marine engine joined the United States D was made a chief office and at the age of 34 rt first command. ONE of the most hard ! zens this reporter e was a bookish college dc; ways spoke softly, but Colonel Peck of son Marines a Full jto Bushel of Spunk ?c U. S. Marines, who giv phasis to plain words in as the Japanese menaci eign areas and tension The Japanese seemto I need an "incident," v Peck isn't at all likdf ' one-but he doesn't back When he is in m, formal dress, he Is J out a book in his Ifl never without his PPe-1 or may not read Bm he "thinks like and acts like a man ot y He won the Victory W Gallantry in the HaJJJ ties of the Men St. Mihiel, n 03 Purple Heart for J negotiatingandJ America. He S'a Annapolis in 1915 and His career is a rem! 'country has had quj j 'in handling explosive and there "Ti Nicaragua, Cuba, n , Latin-American co J Peck has been a ucce shooter and "as t through nicely or leaving any nv has built a reputaU in his studious appg-lems appg-lems of naval and rn He is six feet tall demiC as;s f pack a powerful p I |