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Amarillo Daily News from Amarillo, Texas • Page 7

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Amarillo, Texas
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7
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NEUTRALITY THE U. S. COAST GUARD runs the Neutrality Patrol, charged by 21 American Republics (Act of Havana) with seeing that the peace of waters in this hemisphere is not menaced. Day -after day the Coast Guard covers hundreds of thousands of miles by ship and plane. Just 150 years ago, President Washington created the Coast Guard as the first naval force with 10 bobbing sailboats.

Today it is a two-ocean fleet of more than 500 speedy vessels, ready to snap into the Navy's battle line in event of war. iV. blous times are the eyes of the Coast Guard, closely scanning the far flung coasts and ships that call. UNCLE SAM HAS COAST GUARDSMEN, AND HE KEEPS 'EM BUSY TRAINED GUNNERS stand; by as the USCG sig- FOOT PATROLS guard coasts. The USCG nals every approaching vessel to give its name, na- 10,600 lives, assisted 33,000 vessels worth $64,000, tionalify, destination And visitors had better reply.

000 during 1939. TJ-ey wafch, patrol rivers in floods PATROLS each spring fate cutters as fsr as Greenland's shores to watch icebergs in North Atlantic nipping lanes. Several nations share cost. Patrol began after Titanic disaster; -there has been no such casualty since. Above, Guardsmen swim in company with an iceberg in warm wot ers of the Gulf Stream, BINGO! The Coast Guards play it with TNT and derelict ships.

300 such hazards were "destroyed last year. And a Guardsmen pat'ol wide stretches of sea, they report weather -for ships, shore, airlines. DISCIPLINE is like Navy's, but USCS a under Department of the APPETITES don't often fail these crack seamen, who have to be ready MODERN CUTTERS have electric laundries, movies Treasury, becoming part of the Navy only in event of hostilities. to tacHe smugglers, fishing or hunting poachers from Maine to Alaska. and other "helps" for erews that range up to 200.

THE SEA'S THEIR HOME, whether piling into bunks, or battling lurf, hurricanej in rescues. Motto is: Semper Paratus (always ready)..

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Years Available:
1911-1974