Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-17
RESCUE 0F McCORD
 PARTY ON ISLAND
 RELATED IN DETAIL
CCMDR. C. H. DENCHE OF THE CUTTER TALLAPOOSA TELLS
 INTERESTING STORY

Possibly no wing of Uncle Sam's marine service so grips the TO- nance and imagination as the Coast Guard.
 The cutter is like unto a train ed collie which, set over his charg- es, stands with senses attuned to catch the first warning that dan ger threatens.
 When the monster leviathan of the deep founders helplessly like winged bird, lashed and scourged by pitiless seas, it is the brave lit tie cutter, unmindful of danger. true to the highest traditions of the sea, which bares it's brow to the elements and rushes to the rescue.
 Like sentinel on duty the U. s. s. cutter Tallapoosa stands at the Oil dock while winds lash down from the north and warn man and beast to seek shelter. But at any moment her radio may pick up the $ o s of a ship in distress far out in the gale-swept ocean.
 While others might falter. the cutter must go.
 COASTAL CHAIRMAN
 Like a good policeman, the Tal- lapooSa is alternately the guardian of the nations coastal treasures, maintaining law and order out be- yond the jurisdiction of statutory courts, and affording succor and relief to the luckless mariner.
 To recount the missions of res cue, mercy and personal service the cutter renders to all mankind would be but to detail some of the most glorious sagas of the sea.
 Then there are times when the rescue work encounters tragedy diluted with a portion of romance and comedy.
 Such is written in the log of the smooth little Tallapoosa, and we may sit as the audience and see the play unfold.
 It was Fe bruary 9th when the winds sweeping down from the backbone of the coastal range like ivory teeth gnaw- ing at the low-lying sky, lashed the North Pacific into cauldron of seething brine, picked the crest from mountainous white -caps, spun 1t into a goSSamer of spindrift and spume and hurled it in defiance at intruders upon Neptune's play ground.
 The U. s. s. Tauapoosa, staunch little greyhound of the sea, was alternately blowing her sharp nose into the manes of the oncoming steeds of Neptune, and lolling in dolently in the trough like a DOT poise racing the prov of a speed ing ship.
 PICKED P SIGNAL
 Ear out in the Gulf of Alaskc. the cutters radio operator sat be- fore his instrument board, his ear attuned to catch the faintest sig nal floating over ether. It was Feb ruary 6. There was ample time to reach Kodiak to share in St. Valentines Day festivities and re- new old acquaintances on the picturesque island.
 He was brought out of his mus ings when the radio ticked off the following aerogram:
 Information received that mo- torship Dorothy landed six men and three women on Chirikof Isl and 18th December, was driven of shore before provisions and equip ment could be landed, was dam aged by striking reef and did not return to the island. Party on shore without provisions since that date"
 A few minutes later the message was handed to Commander c. H. Dench.
 A few curt orders and the Coast Guard cutter was off like a grey hound on the first sighting of the quarry, her knife-like bow cleaving a pathway through the oncoming rollers, and her nose alternately
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