Show THE OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER — SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 1 1936 OHIO IIQ Jl fh m mt gg i The new flying unit of Uncle Sam’s historic service is right on the job equally ready for a raid on smugglers or to answer a call for help from sea s' "' fS O U5COAST t GUARD 32 fV v y z" k N Z V Ov- - u 53 ! vvavsv- Xv j By Anthony V Ragusin 'E i y y 1936 the Biloxi Air Station flew officials of need medical attention the U S Biological Survey along the coast of for a member of our crew northwest Florida Alabama- - Mississippi and That radio message came Louisiana including the delta or river passes of from an American steam-thi- p the Mississippi River in connection with a naon its way to France off the Virginia Guard Coast tional census on duck and geese coast The Cape May N Coast Guard aviation through many tests Air Station immediately swung into action has A warmed proved that planes can be a most imporup amphibian A unit in a large agency These tant The wireless operator doctor climbed aboard new flyers and flying ships have given the venDown the ramp went the took his position erable U S Coast Guard telescopic eyes great flying boat with its engines tuned up The through They also give promise of providing the navy pilot lifted the plane into the sky flew ' in times of war' a formidable auxiliary force a heavy fog and over choppy seas just as the army has a dependable combat agRadio contact was maintained arid the gregation in the National Guard was located Jl 00 miles at sea and 250 miles from the station The doctor boarded a dory after the plane had landed on rough waters and went aboard the ship treated the patient’s eye and then returned to shore “It’s all in a day’s work" press dispatches quoted Coast Guard officials in reporting the case There are many similar instances of Coast Guard ' t planes' flying to sea lr back men to bring injured 1 shore for hospitalization On one occasion a Cape f May plane went 50 miles : v out at sea to return with ' V' had been two men who y nt aboard scalded badly’ The sturdy! flyPhotos on this page by Anthony V Ragustn ing boats of the Coast Guard have radio and Part of the modern Coast Guard’s equipment-- the ramp form the new unitsj of hangar and apron at the Biloxi Miss Coast Guard air Uncle Sam’s historic serstation vice established primarily to render succor to those U While the Coast Guard aviation experimenin need upon the water and for the protection tation has been under way for many years it of the revenue marine was not until 1935 that the long dream of On another occasion the Coast Guard ressome of the officials was realized in the form cued a critically injured fisherman from a New of a vast expansion program of new air staplane while commanding A laconic England trawler far put at sea additional Until fishboats and No 7 at Gloucester Mass in 1925 tions flyers the air from flying message flashed through the t" loan to S the he could prevail upon U Army ing vessel was picked up by the Coast Guard officer and 3ii enlisted him a tent hangar for a dollar a year he Immediately the closest air base of the service Thirty-eigh- t The housed and serviced his plane at a Massachumen operate its stations and planes was assigned the task of locating the dying setts Naval Air Reserve Station service has in operation some 43 planes includf fisherman twin-engiflying life boats ing large twin-engiAt that time the major weight of the Coast Lieut Walter S Anderson then commandsingle-engihimamphibians Guard was thrown against the smuggling acamphibians ing the Gloucester station took the job ' and twin-engiland miscellaneous and Commander von seaplanes tivities of liquor boats planes He flew a Douglas self plane sen and the late Lieut L M Melka alterout into the Atlantic! and found the trawler The success of the Coast Guard air force 1934-35 nated the piloting on three daily flights with 120 miles off Cape Cod A perilous landing has been surprising During1 the CG planes fiscal year was made and it was found that the injured and was knife searched an area of almost man had fallen across a boning wound a! throat from severe 2000000 miles More than bleeding badly 5000 vessels and planes were Safely aboard the plane the fisherman was identified That planes have treated in the air by a pharmacist’s mate made good is attested by Lieutenant Anderson set a course for die Boshis ton airport 160 miles away and instructed many of the distinguished a Conthe officers of the service When Boston wireless operator to notify tinued and vapid aviation exbig amphibian was landed an ambulance was on hand to whiz the fisherman away to a hospansion is planned therefore ' - J according to word ' from pital 1 i headquarters at Washington ' the fishermen is D G RESCUING injuredto the fisheries notCoast As far back as 191 6 Con- by given Over-duloe boats units1 are Guard aviation gress contemplated C oast sickcated urgent messages about death and Guard air stations but when disand the World War broke the ness are delivered by patroling planes The ground crew assisting a Coast Guard plane tn Its small ' personnel which had abled vessels are aided the ramp at the Biloxi air station started training was inducted On several occasions the Biloxi Air Station into ( the Navy Department on the Gulf of Mexico has dispatched parts to difficulties This this plane As a result smuggling on the At- with the entire Coast Guard In 1 9 1 9 the Coast shrimp trawl boats with engine lantic Coast reached a low ebb Guard back in the Treasury Department had action enabled the fishermen to reach the can-- ' their one station on the North Carolina coast for a neries without losing perishable cargoes In that memorial year of oceanic avia1926 Congress appropriated $152000 When a brief rainstorm bits the coast line yyear IN tion a Coast Guard aviator the late Comfor Coast Guard aviation and five planes it often bob harmless enough but out at sea trouble first caused This the mander Stone the of have F was E the same windmay pilot were purchased Today there are air stations NC-4 on the initial crossing Naval seaplane Miami Quite often is especially true with tow lines at Salem Mass Cape May N look for : Atlantic of aircraft Biloxi to the Miss and Fla j St Petersburg Fla? the Coast Guard goes up ‘ drift- Aviaand blazer Coast real trail from Guard tow of are broken Wash A : have that Port Angeles barges tion is the former assistant thief of aviation of New air bases have been constructed at ing about as a menace to navigation as well as the Coast Guard headquarters who is now The plane upon locatlost to their owners Charleston S C and San Diego Calif Adin order commandant of the busy Miami Fla Air Staditional stations are contemplated for Miling such a craft wirelesses its position tion He was the enthusiastic director of the that searching surface craft may make quicker Air waukee Wis and New York N Y first large air station expansion program His contact patrol detachments are located at San Antonio name is Carl C von Paulsen and he is a comwith other government agencies Tex and Sari Diego Calif' mander is one of the principal duties of the Coast Repeal of the 18th Amendment has not individual borrowed a sea- In the early part of This Guard aviation section The bringing of terminated smuggling t 1936 by Every Week Magazine) Jj twin-motor- k ed car-go-carr- ier - I j ffSiz-zz-x-'- ) j i - j ‘1 ne ne - ne ne h' doctor boarded a dory after the plane had 4 if - ' f ) t J: ‘ ! Co-operati- ng air-mind- ed nar-(Copyrl- on rough waters and went aboard the ship 'k s ' landed cotics aliens and mis-- cellaneous merchandise into the United States by airplane land other methods is still a major problem and this fact S &" ' a largely accounts for the w Mexican border : patrol Lieut Walter S Anderson senior grade down departure who placed the Biloxi v air station in commiscommands this sion unit today He has had' much flying experience and went into CG aviation in 1917 The present commander of the Coast Guard aviation section with headquarters at Washington is Capt L T Chalker ' The commandant of the entire Coast Guard Service is Rear Ad‘ miral R FI Waesche Coast Guard served the have Valiant men with loyalty and integrity since 1 790 when President George Washington approved an act of the first Congress creating the Revenue Marine Ten heavily armed cutters were authorized Just a year later one Hopely Yeaton of New Hampshire drew the first commission ever issued a Coast Guard officer afloat It is a far cry from those days and their sailing ships to the modem cut- A A ters and aircraft of the present day but you will find books from the Coast Guard’s ‘New London Academy filled with thrilling incidents of a historic service and there are many pages which record the deeds of brave men 'who gave their lives in the service of Semper Paratus— the Coast Guard motto meaning 4 “Always V z vC‘ ' : a- post-Revoluti- on ' Ready r ' The original Revenue Marine and Life' Sav- ing Service were united and- renamed the Coast Guard in 19)5 During the current fiscal 5825 people Were saved from peril at year sea by the Coast Guard and vessels' worth $58000000 were aided t: t - ! r - Meandering through Coast Guard history one finds that pirates were meat on their mesa table' One hundred and t sixteen years ago CoaatGuard cutters were battling these scar- engers of the sea off the Gulf Coast At this time a gentleman adventurer and somewhat a sailor of fortune by the name of Jean LaFitte about ' these’ ihoi'es The - Coast l operated ' Guard once smashed several of his boats In all wars in which the United States had participated the Coast Guard has been on the job as part of the navy The loss of the cutwith its crew of 1 12 by an ter “Tampa enemy submarine in Bristol Channel while on convoy duty was one of this country’s largest naval disasters during the World War ’ ! n lk mouiuioiiiiimiuiiiniiiiinii lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllli 'illlllllllllllllllOlllllllllllllillll in iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiutiiiiiiiiiuiiiuainiLKiiJ |