Show Service News New Coast Guard Recruiting Officer Remembers Service on During World War I 1 Editors Editor Hotel Hate The Salt Sail Lake Loke Telegram welcomes comet news of Utah men mea In lit the armed services and Gnel will wl devote the Service Newt News col column mn to 10 tell of their activities y f r In so to far for as at censorshIp permits Also Aho desired with these sews Items ems or are or pictures res suitable for re ree prod production F I t. t Sub chasers have everything sow now we wished they had then j. j After 29 y years ars at sea In every- every L. L thing from a square-rigged square barkentine bart bar- bar t to a foot sub-chaser sub l the speaker Lieutenant Kenneth 4 A. A Coler commanding officer of ol Sr the United States cost coast guard re recruiting re- re office In Salt Lake City ought to know He referred to those days of 1917 18 when the United States navy met the challenge of ol the German U-boat U in the fog- fog shrouded and tossed storm waters of the English channel and off the coast of Ireland No quarter asked asked no no quarter given he recalled An ensign then the veteran officer officer officer of of- of- of was in command of one of the foot loot sub-chasers sub that played a large part in smashing Germanys Germany's submarine campaign And well we'll do it again Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Coler confidently predicted New devices better equipped and faster laster boats improved depth charges are the answer he said to making a deadly dish for axis aCis raiders in the battle of the Atlan- Atlan tic But take it from Lieutenant Coler who holds a masters master's li license license license li- li cense to captain any vessel on any ocean peacetime navigation also holds its thrills Once he spent three days and nights In a off the lope islands in Pacific waters The wind blew away most of the masts And the engine wouldn't start he recalled I struggled out to the on one of the yardarms just before the sail was blown away and could look straight down into boiling water on the lea side Another time he was aboard a vessel that piled plied up on a reef off the coast coast- of Brazil There were some touchy moments but finally native sailors came out in small boats and took the crew ashore The vessel the pounded pound pound- ed to pieces on the reef Lieutenant Coler his wife and two children Eugene 11 and Constance 7 now reside In Salt Lake City But only temporarily the lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- tenant explains In this war you never know where youre you're going to be tomorrow he said y w r f r PROTECT PROne T J IT r y yI yr ys r I s r Y 6 r. r r f c OFFICER WOULD PREFER SHOOTING THE TIlE RISING SUN Lieutenant Kenneth A. A Coler has shot the sun with this this- sextant many times |