Show Heroic Service In jn Life ife Saving a Is Job of Shore Pa Patrol PatrolMen rol Th i AP A y Men of the coast guard are shown I landing provisions on the beach at Bimini following the recent hurri hurricane ane By R RODNEY DUTCHER DUTCH I N NEA EA S Service Writer I W WASHINGTON ASU Dec 8 8 Dry Dry I nav navy l Hell Were We're the coast guard This Is the new unofficial motto I of the men who guard our shores and whose only duty Inthe in inthe inthe the popular mind is to chase rum rum- runners For or every rum ship it captures the coast guard claims to save a bundled d lives Hurricanes nes came this this' fall CaU to Florida the Bahamas and Cuba In I each instance the coast guard was wits ready to lead the work of oC rescue and hd restoration With equipment nt and personnel doubled for combating combating combating combat combat- ing the smugglers the guard was in excellent shape to turn to what it considers its paramount duty the duty the saving of life liCe and property prop prop- erty L Reports of this hurricane work only recently reached the coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard headquarters here shortly after a series of congratulatory and thankful letters from the Cuban president the governor of ot the Bahamas Bahamas Ba Ba- hamas American Americal and British ambassadors ambassadors ambassadors am am- to Cuba and other officials They told among many other things how coast guardsmen carried carried car car- ried ned provisions and water water water-to to Bimini Bimini Bimini Bi Bi- Bi- Bi mini most notorious of smuggling smuggling smug smug- gling sling nests which was almost wiped out In the Florida east coast hurricane burn hurri cane the entire base at Fort ort Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lau- Lau and a foot 75 mother ship were destro destroyed ed but the guards guard's ac active active active ac- ac tive mobile patrol boats In FlorIda Florida Flor Flor- ida waters survived and accordIng according according accord accord- ing to Commander S. S S. S here saved hundreds of lives They rhey yanked human beings from angry waters and sinking boats at Miami Fort Lauderdale West Palm Beach and other harbors as they rode out the storm VivId Vivid stories of these rescues and of the performances of ot guardsmen guards guards- men caught on shore have come cometo cometo cometo to headquarters A hospital corps corpsman man caught on shore In the worst of the storm near Fort Lauderdale opened an emergency hospital commandeered commandeered com corn supplies and treated more than patients before medIcal medical med med- ical men had obtained control of ot the situation A half-dozen half physicians physicians phy phy- have written to his superiors superiors superiors supe supe- here to praise his work worl Others on shore liberty when the storm broke went on duty as provest provost provost pro pro- vest guards or at digging wells and roofing damaged h hospitals First outside relief came to MIami Miami Mi MI- ami and l Fort ort Lauderdale on coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard boats from Key West Vest which brought doctors and medical supplies sup sup- plies Th Then n a special relief squadron of ot about 1000 men was sent from bases at New London and points south At AL Bimini and Gun Cun Ke Key Bahaman Bahaman Bahaman Baha- Baha man bases of th the rumrunners the hurricanes hurricane's great peril peril was was the pollution of water which It left behind be- be I hind Coast guard relief lions ons put on full speed to bring good water and food No attention was paid to smug- smug sling ling then by then by either side Their supplies landed the gobs set about diggIng wells and other measures of f safety necessary before Defore the real task ask of rebuilding Minor expeditions ons were sent to the relief of ofle the le outlying keys J After Atter the terrific assault of the elements on the Isle of Pines the boats oats did similar work and their then men went Inland 1 to the aid of small mall native settlements which were vere in a bad way This is the sort of work the coast guard calls its Its' own It never ever asked for the job ob It tools took that because one of ts duties is to prevent smug smug- ling gling And if the nation is the least appreciatIve of ot its s service the coast guard feels the best way to show how it would be to drop the term dry navy |