Evening star., 1924-11-09

T UST back from six weeks OF
special duty" as executive
officer of major drive
~ against the running feet
and as sleuth extraordinary
for the Coast Guard and. indirectly
ways of the rum-runnerS. Lieut..
Comdr. Stephen S. Yeandle, and to
Admiral Bullard, commandant Of the
! Coast Guard, is on his job here again
until some new emergency calls him
away
He has been 16 years in the service.
with extensive sea duty in many parts
| OF the world and with his detail in
Washington headquarters broken up
| with numerous outside appointments,
such AS the one from which he has
| just returned. This is really his first
shore appointment.
| Mr.. Yeandle served in Alaskan
| waters. BehrinR Sea. along the Pacific
| Coast, in the Gulf OF Mexico. at the
West Indies, In the Mediterranean
and Black Seas and on the Great
! Lakes. During the World War he was
engaged on convoy duty between the
United States and France as execu-
| tive officer of an armored cruiser and
| later OF the transport Martha Wash
| ington.
He helped to reorganize the Army
| transport service when 1t was turned
| back to the Army by the Navy. He
was on duty at Hogg Island with the
construction, and later at sea with the
poeration of a fleet of 12 transports
built for the Army. He is sent out
frequently along the coast as intel
| ligence officer for the commandant.
One of his most interesting cruises
was as executive officer OF the Mar
tina Washington, assigned to carry
| the American mission under sGen.
Harbord into the Near East, to con-
slider whether the United States
would take a mandate over Armenia
Turkey and parts of Russia, water
ports Of the Caucasus.
His career is no less picturesque
than his physical self and personality.
| Repeatedly his red whiskers, which
are striking feature. have been
! signed off by rum runners fire and by
| gasoline explosions on Coast Guard
craft. He is always. most obliging
and polite. and is not at all peeved
| about being called Admiral Billiards. s
te-haired boy" but the admiral
will tell you that Mr.. Yeandle has
| made good by sheer hard work, per-
/ sistency. tireless devotion to duty,
| being a glutton for detail and one of
the best aids any chief in the United
States service ever had.
One beautiful thing about Mr. Yean-
| dies work is that he never forgets
/ that he is simply an instrument
| through which his superior officer
! works and that whenever his own pc
culiar talent. sagacity and initiative
! are called into play it is merely to
carry on the duty assigned, to carry
| out the policy of his chief.
While the present big job OF the
Coast Guard-a job wished on this
| veteran organization by Congress
is to fight relentlessly the rum-run-
| ming fleet that has defied the Govern
| ment and the Constitution. this is
| out a fraction of the work of the
| Coast Guard office. where Mr.. Yeandle
! keeps things running smoothly.
Probably nowhere else in this coun-
try can you find more varied sphere
of activities and on more interesting
| subjects.
| One morning call will come from
! the Weather Bureau inQuiring about
| the Coast Guard report on probable
changes in ocean temperature that
| may affect the climate in this coun-
try. Then there will be a call from
| the photographer of the Navy. Capt.
Frederick B. Bassett, who will ask
what the Coast Guard is doing about
certain derelict. Next may be a