Show F C billard now heads coast guard frederick C billard of maryland aryland Al who has been serving with the rank of lieutenant commander as aid to the captain commandant of f the united states coast guard commodore willain I 1 E reynolds eynolds Il has been appointed by tho the president to succeed ills his chief 44 4 4 who retires because of age commodore billard hs hits been twenty nine years in the service Y the coast guard Is much in evidence just now in connection with the eighteenth amendment but it Is always a service full of romance and adventure it Is a consolidation which JI took place in 1915 1015 of the revenue cutter service service 1700 and the lifesaving life saving ser service vice 1848 it costs about ten millions a year to maintain it and its personnel num numbers berk about there are in ordinary times ablitt 35 cruising and harbor cutters and coast ii stations in peace times it operates under the secretary of the navy and in weir war times under the secretary of the treasury it rescues several thousands from death evory year and assists many thousands more in shipwrecks t A |