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Show Cache Countv. T'tah The Cache American. 1atre Two Dolly Curly-Heade- d In a Cute Iiuaforc With 155 Years of Outstanding Service In Wars and Peace Coast Guard Has Been STAGESCREEH-RADIIUlat4 by Writers Newipaprr By VIRGINIA VALE Big Factor in Present Successful Operations T1 PARAMOUNTS studio press i bureau reported an unusual number of requests from servicemen to visit the Betty Hutton-Sonn- y Tufts sets for Tbs United State coait ruard on August 4 celebrate the 155th nn. beveriarjr of it founding, proud of and first feet" nation1 the ing and It distinfirst proud of It on all front of service guished World War II. Moat of the 172.000 men who wear the coaat guard ahleld on their uniform cleeve will celebrate the jervlce1 birthday oversea, for the coast guard, cremugated primarily to prevent from reaching the coast, gier ranges far from home in time of war to fight alongside the army, navy and marine corps. The coast guard1 story really begin in 1787 when Alexander Hamilton. first secretary of the treasury, while urging adoption of the then pending constitution, wrote of the service which teed for a would prevent material Infraction upon the right of the revenue." A few armed vessel," he wrote, "Judiciously stationed at the entrance to our porta, might at small expense be made useful sentinels of the Cross My 165-fo- 11 -- award fcowt-ysm- M d pjLoperU ion. sanitation They requests, till some bright boy came up with the answer. Seem that somebody had announced in print that Betty had posed for photograph on the set with two air corps lieutenants, Robert Drew snd Bruce Shaw, pilot stationed at nearby Van Nuys and Betty had tat on one officer1 lap while the camera clicked! P-3- 8 law." sea-coa- Heart. fltNemtnenVi PVt4 n3!'na couldnt figure out the reason for that avalanche of g With the constitution adopted, the first congress elected under It, in the spring of 1790, approved Hamil-to- n Idea for a marine law enforcement agency, and on August 4. 1790, the service1 birthday, appropriated money to build 10 cutter and pay salaries to their officers and men. For six years the small cutters were the only armed vessels under tiie United States flag. (The navy was created in 1794 by act of congress, but its ships were not in service until 1797.) Given Naval Rank. The possible defense value of the cutters was recognized early. In of the suggesting establishment service, Hamilton asked that officers of the cutters be given military or naval rank, "which," he said, "will not only induce fit men to engage, but attach them to their duties with a nicer sense of honor. In 1797, congress passed a temporary act to increase the strength of the cutters "and cause said revenue-cutter- s to be employed to defend and repel any hosthe tility to their vessels and commerce within their jurisdiction, having due egard to the duties of said cutters n the production of the revenue." In 1798, during the "undeclared" naval war with France, the Fresidcnt, "with a view of , producing a concert of action of the naval forces of the United States," placed the revenue vessels at the disposition of the secretary of the navy. In the next year, congress passed an act providing that the cutters with the navy were to whenever the Fresidcnt should so direct a precedent since followed in every war. The cutter Taney ' went through Pearl Harbor unscathed and the next day left the stricken Pacific base on antisubmarine patrol. The Icarus received credit for sinking the first German submarine in United States waters when she and took 33 prisblasted a oners off the Carolina coast. (A coastguardmanned destroyer escort, with several navy ships, was in at sunk in the kill on the last the Atlantic by American forces.) Many Ships Lost A tragic "first of the coast guard was the loss of the cutter Hamilton, torpedoed off Iceland in January, 1942, the first American warship lost to a submarine after the start of the war and, unfortunately, the first of a line of coastguard- - Union. requiring Immediate medical attention. Coast guard chair to the merchant ship. vessel transfer doctor on a boatswain1 An example of the work done by the coast guard in their 155 years of aervlce. A seaman Is III, manned ship lost as the war progressed the Acaccia, the Muske-ge- t, the Natsck, the Escanaba, the Leopold, and the Serpens. To many. In peacetime, the coast guard was known as the "Mercy Fleet, and there is a long tradition behind It reputation for the saving of life and property at sea. Bark In 1833, some of the cutters were assigned to aid distressed vessels st guardmanned assault transport Bay-fielflagship for Utah" beach, cared for more than 600 casualties during the three week it was anchored olT the beachhead. Also Serve In Air. Outstanding also has been the coast guard1 initiative in the experiments with airplane, parachute and helicopter rescue groups. Adm. Russell R. Waesche, first full admiral to head the coast guard, also sits with Rescue committhe Joint Air-Se- a tee set up by all of the armed erv- ices to investigate and experiment with rescue techniques. From the life saving stations, the coast guard acquired personnel well versed in the knack of handling small boats, In battling surf, wind and tide. The nation has drawn heavily on these men to participate In every invasion of the war and to train others in amphibious landings. Many surfmen were among the personnel of the boat pool set up under Coast Guard Comdr. Dwight H. Dexter at Guadalcanal and Tul-ain August, 1942, the Allies first successful amphibious operation. Aboard the coastguardmanned assault transport Samuel Chase, formerly the passenger, ship African Meteor, the technique of loading small landing barges at the rail was first used in the invasion of Sicily on July 10, 1943. The technique was decided upon after the vessels earlier experience in the African invasion in November, 1942, and speeded up such operations by many precious minutes. The coast guard also has been g called A handyman and in war or peace the service has become used to having new duties and functions added to its work. After the Titanic disaster, nations of the world formed the International Ice Patrol and the duty of patrolling was delegated to the coast guard. and save lives; a duty they had from incidentally performed time to time. The combination strengthened the services devotion to the saving of life and property a devotion amply demonstrated during this war. In the Normandy invasion, a fleet coast guard vessels (conof sidered small craft now, but more than twice the length suggested by Hamilton in his recommendation for the first cutters!) which had been on antisubmarine duty in the Atlantic was designated as Rescue Flotilla 1 and, in the first days of the invasion, pulled more than 4,000 men to safety from channel waters. The coast sea-goin- Glass Ornaments Save Lives in War If you talk about prisms. Grandma might think you mean the glass ornaments decorating her chandelier. But her grandson, if hes a G.I. Joe, is aware of the fact that solid glass prisms have been the means of saving many lives during the war. It was early in the war that the army wanted a tank periscope supee rior to the type made of mirrors and flat glass windows. As a result, glass technicians here developed a new plate glass prism that supplied about a 50 per cent increase in visibility. And equally,' if not more important, this superiority was achieved in a unit that could be to take care of the desperate need for prisms, traditionally turned out in small quantities by the precise handicraft methods of the optical industry. When the first U. S. tanks went into combat, however, a great need for prismatic viewing blocks developed. In those first tanks, commanders had to stand in the hatch, exposed to sniper fire if they wanted a full An view of their surroundings. alarming number were killed. The g Coastguardmanned LSTs are among the first to drop their ramps at answer was a new type of Manila after American forces had driven the Japs from the Philippine developed by viewing panel d Glass company. capital. Made of laminated plate glass, the tank observation panels are so placed that tank crews and commanders are enabled to obtain a 360 Throughout the war, on an only for coast guard peacetime skills in degree field of vision when in action slightly reduced basis, the coast the midst of the global war. For without having to open the hatch toguard has continued all of its peace- example, the coast guard has long see whats going on." The pristime functions, such as maintenance assisted commercial fishers in many matic viewing blocks utilize for the first time the refractive properties of aids to navigation, enforcement places, so when it became deof plate glass to obtain a periscopic. of maritime and navigation laws, as sirable to restore Italys fishing inSome indication of the importance well as performing duties more di- dustry after Allied occupation, a becoast guard mission was dispatched of these prisms might be gleaned rectly tied in with the war, andhunto Italy in the fall of 1943 to direct from the number thus far turned out sides furnishing men to man staand of all the work. The mission was so suc- by the glass concern. To date, more types of ships dreds cessful that in the assigned territory than 2,000,000 have been produced tions in all theatres of the war. for various instruments of war. Surprising uses have been found fishing was restored. old-styl- mass-produce- d bullet-resistin- Libbey-Owens-For- Peacetime Duties Continued During War THE lucky little mother' of rag doll will be the envy of her playmates. Dollys plump arms and legs are movable. curly-heade- d WANTED AT ONCE An excellent opportunity for mbitioue young man to join tha advertising aalea ataff of Ogden itadio Station. The puaition offers a aplendid future with a organizagrowing, tion, pi u considerable more than to a average income Write, wire, phone or call This cute teg doll ha embroidered features, yarn curl. Easy to make. Pattern 7077 ha pattern, direction tor doll, clothe. Send your order to: h hard-hittin- Circle Needlerraft Dept. Saa Franrltco , Calif. Encloae IS centa (or Pattern Sewtn Box 3217 d. gi Adm. Russell R. Waesche, commandant of the U. S. coast guard, with bis third half-inc- h stripe, which designates him as a full admiral. It all turned out perfectly. A publicity man introduced Nancy Norman, pretty singer with Sammy Kayes orchestra, and Dick Brown, who1 featured on his own Sunday MBS program; the press agents object, a romance item" that he could tend to radio editors (who get awfully sick of those tame phoney romance!). But this time it g FRANK KAULL No Commercial Salts Manager adte SMIm KIO, Orfaa, IM Name Addresx. TagaaMMHCTB' STIFF JOINTS NANCY and Muscular Achsi and Pains NORMAN worked differently; Nancy and Dick will be married in September, when his brother comes home from the South Pacific. The same thing happened when that same publicity mar. introduced PatU Pickens of the Pickens Sisters and tenor Robert Simmons, also for publicity purposes. They've been married four years. Newspaper columnists get lots of items. The latest concerns Lizabeth Scott, making her screen debut in Hal Wallis' "You Came Along. Therell be no romantic interest for her, were told, till her film career is definitely established. Announcements like this usually backfire just let a gal say she wont fall in love, and next thing you know, shes eloping with somebody. &, Wo,, Sprains 'V Helen Mack, whos producer of NBCs Date with Judy and the new "Beulah Show, gets no vacation this summer. In addition to handling the direction of the two network shows Helen has been signed for two movie roles enough to keep any woman busy. Strains U S. War Baal 2)o TJol dispose 'rs BRUISES : v: oj 1'Jhem ! ' . Ted Malone wants you to help him. Hes keeping a promise made to his G.I. friends overseas by dedicating his broadcast series, heard week days over the American network, to rediscovering America. He wants mail on "What War Has Done to Your Community. Alfred Hitchcock, who recently completed Spellbound and is now preparing Notorious for David O. Selznick, is about to send some of g his yams over the airways. Too many mystery programs come on the air asking people to turn out the lights, lock the doors, and prepare to be frightened to death, says he, when actually nothing takes place that would scare anybody. When my program comes on, it will probably be a failure. While listening, the audience will become so frightened they likely will turn it off. The World, the Peace and Andy Gribbin spine-chillin- David O. Selznick, who developed Ingrid Bergman Into a star, again has gone to Stockholm for his latest find. Hes Frank Sundstrom, star of the same Royal Dramatic theater In which Miss Bergman studied, and has appeared in eight European films. Members of the Duel in the Sun company who have been on location, have organized the first Cactus and Iodine club. All members who have been stuck by Arizona's Cholla cactus are eligible; Jennifer Jones make-u- p woman, Clare Kaufman, is a charter member, she sat on one! ODDS AND ENDS Ginny Simms has a special hospital dress, a bright flowered print, which she wears when she sings to wounded soldiers ; the boys IT orking 16 in the wards like it. . hours a day, 7 days a week, Conrad Nagel, director of the airs Silver Theater, earned f? 50 per week when he started his career as an actor. . . . Bonita r Granville, who'll portray a smart in her role in The Lie Detector, is just 22: she's been an actress since she was three. Arthur Lake o the series thinks maybe he Blondie should be insulted a goat, of a famous race horse, has been named Dogwood, for him! .. -- law-ye- mascot-sta-blemal- e An important thing about Andy Gribbins education is that his whole early life is spent in learning the essential business of cooperation, of getting along with fellow-being- s. First, he has to learn how to fit into his immediate family, learn the necessary to get along with brothers, sisters, elders. Then, after a few years, his world enlarges, he is sent to school. Pretty soon he learns how to spell But about this same time ke learns something much more valuable, which is that he mustn't pull the cat's tail because a cat is a being, and therefore entitled to certain ingive-and-ta- T. alienable rights. He also learns that 1 plus 1 equals 2. But much more useful is learning that 48 equals 1, that 48 states make 1 nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. As Andy grows up his world will continually expand. At church, at school, in business. And through it all will run the theme of cooperation, of getting along with people of different political and economic beliefs; with people some of whom he doesnt even like. But the tragedy of world history is that the Andy Grib-bihave not learned that in a constantly shrinking world, cooperation must extend beyond the borders of the country; that just as it is necessary to get along with neighbors and neighbor states, so is it necessary to get along with neighbor nations. And today, with no spot on earth more than sixty hours away by plane, with oceans shrunk to the width of rivers, with the age of rocket-travupon us, all nations are neighbor nations. There are hopeful signs that finally we are awake to this. Even so, a lack of determination, of responsibility, of effort could again ruin the peace and set the stage for World War 3. What can you do to help make sure that war will never come? You can . . . ns el First, get and keep yourself Informed about the specific proposals for peace and International cooperation which are now before us. Second, interest your friends in these questions. Get them discussed in groups to which you belong. Third, write what yon think to your Congressman and Senators, to your newspaper. Declare yeuvself. Ill UlEFilEI IT HE III IITEITI3IM CIIICIll |