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Evening star., 1939-08-20

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King and Prof. Robert T. Brand of
Colgate and Walter L. Murdock, jr.,
of Hamilton.
Championship match play COM
mences tomorrow at 2 pm, Arnold
S. Denker defending the trophy he
won last summer. In 1886 and 1887
Isaac Kashdan was New York State
chess champion, but failed to COM
pete In the 1888 tournament.
In the current fray Denker
will battle to retain the title,
while Kashdan will seek to re-
cover his forfeited honors.
Albert S. Pinkus, who placed
fourth in the recent American
Chess Federation 40th annual con-
gress, is expected to enter the lists
and challenge the veterans.
For many years New York has
held championship major and minor
individual matches along with inter-
county Journeys. Membership in the
State association consists of the
nominal fee of ST..
Evening star., 1939-08-20

BACKS second move. P-K3, is favored
oy Jose Capablanca, Cuban expert The
eighth move is questionable as played BY
White
Mark Teckar resigned the above tourna-
ment game to Reuben Fine at this turn,
setting record for brevity.
Chess Problem No. 206.
By HENRY D. E1CHHoLZ. Detroit.
Courtesy Of American Chess Bulletin.)
BLACK-12 MEN.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
ZONE SERVICE
. ESTABLISHED
FOR TELEPHONES

After a year of stu and negOtia-
fiOn between the Publk Utilities Com
mission and the Michigan Bell Tele.
phone Company, new schedule Of
toll charges for the Detroit metropOh-
tan area was announced last SATURDAY.
Under the new set-up, Ii Is figured that
phone users In this area will save an
estimated $233, 900 per gear.
This plan has been In use in other
sections Of the countr, for some time
and is said to-have pro e1 satisfactory.
L While the telephone 0 npany has &C.
cepted the schedule Of Z ties applicable
to the different zones, & will be three
or four months before the new rates
can be put into effect 1t. win take at
least 30 days to prepaI complete tariff
schedules, and there .Sst be extensive
installation Of faciliHeS, chanees Il Spr
Grating methods, and training Of the
necessary personnel !.
Detroit is divided int seven zones,
with unit figures each spresenting a
five-cent charge for a Nv z minute mes
sage to other zones iit the area. The
same method is appliR to suburban
towns, which are thus i sted. Messages
originating in the w sndOtte Office
will reach other com sndties on the
following basis: Birmt,s lam 4, Center
line 4, Pennington SoutAfeld 4,
LivOnia 3, Rosevill l., Trenton i,
Wayne 8, Detroit zone ne 2, zone two
3, zone three 3, zone Il 2, zone five 2,
zone six /, zone seven z.
Thus, the charge for a call from
Wyandotte to Treqtop, Or vice versa,
villa be i've cents, 1nstesd of the pre-
sent 10. Calls from Wy ndotte to De-
troit win average about as at present
10 cents-with q fiv cent charge
for zone six, and 10 mt charge for
zones two and three. Ines one, four,
Eve and seven remain a at present.
Estimates indicate. 4 at Wyandotte
subscribers will save about $4,000 q
year under the new &C tedule; Trenton,
Sc, ZOO.
An optional service. plan Is also Of
fered, whereby a residence subscriber
may telephone to adjodn ng zones with
out toll charge. By teh phones to any
other than adjoining ,nes he would
be charged at 4-cen- init charge in
stead Of the five ceTk His monthly
charge win be increaf y ;, IL he chooses
the optional service ian, by % cents
Der month Thus for individual line
for which he now pa J 1926 monthly,
he would be require. TO pay $3.50
monthly to get this o dQnal service.
For a two-party line foi which he now
pays $2.75 monthly, he would be re-
quired to pay $500 Opt onal service Is
not granted on a four1 arty line.
For business telepho es In the op-
tional service plan rates will be $500
for an individual line, he same as al
the present If truni line IL used,
the rate Is $3.50 pr. month. Toll
| charges for business tel phones will be
four cents per unit.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
Mastsr Policy for
School Insurance

A new system Of insuring the public
schools Of Wyandotte was adopted at
q meeting Of the Board of Education
held on Monday night.
Under a co-insurance plan, one mas
ter policy issued by the Home Insur-
ance Company, viii add the sum OF
81 r234, 400 to insurance cOverage, at
an increase In cost of only $13S.46 per
year. ALI local agents who furnished
previous insurance will be included in
the new policy.
The different buildings and contents
viii be covered as follows:
Lincoln school, 5000 building, 81
600 contents ]. B. Ford school, $4,000
building, $2,4OO contents; Mckinley
school. $4,000 building, 5000 con-
tents; public library, $4,000 building,
$4,000 contents; Labadie school,
$165, 600 building, 5000 contents
Woodruff school, 100000 building, $6.-
600 contents; Garfield school, 1896, 600
building, $1,000 contents; Washington
school, $4,000 building, $1,000 con-
tents; Roosevelt school, $3.50, 900 build
Ing. $4,000 contents. The new field
house has been tentatively set at $22.-
600 on building and $1,000 on con-
tents.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
Plans Perfsctsd
fer Presidents Party

At meeting held La FRIDAY. fur,
Their plans were made presidential
parties to be held I'm yandotte on
January %, to raise fun for fighting
infantile paralysis.
Victor Targonski was famed as as
sistant to Mayor Thop 8 A. Davis
who Is chairman Of t. sparties, and
Miss Mayme Weston, . ayers secre.
tary, will act as secretat for the com
mittee.
In addition to the d. res, one gen
eral card party for thu who favor
this form Of recreation will be held.
There will probably be j. noes at Roos-
evelt high school, the Am erican Legion
club house, Kossuth Ia l. Polish-Amer-
lean Citizens club ne. hall on Nc
Kinley street, Hearts oak hall, and
possibly State auditor ON formerly
Oddfellows' temple).
There will probably " In addition
to the dancing and I'd parties, a
theater party to turtle boost receipts
for the fund.
A final meeting to complete arrange
ments for the different parties will be
held in the city hall tonight. In addi-
ton to the locations listed above, the
Hungarian society will sponsor a dance
at Andrew Bodnar's hall, and the
Eagles dance at Art eiter hall.
/ Tickets have been di ributed TO the
different schools for s; e.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
CURTA|LMENT
OF WPA WORK
IS PROTESTED

The Council, at its session Tuesday
night, adopted resolution protesting
against the proposed curtailment of
federal aid in the matter Of WPA pro-
jects. The resolution, adapted from
one passed by the Dearborn Council,
will be forwarded to Senators Van
denberg and Brown, Congressman Les
insH and all Michigan congressman,
and to Col. r. G. Harrington, the new
WPA administrator.
The resolution reads:
Resolved by the City Council Of the
city OF Wyandotte, that
Whereas: Numerous mothers and
women on WPA projects are being laid
on or about to be laid OF on the basis
that they are eligible for assistance
under the dependent children's act, So
cial security act or the state old age
pensions, and
decrease their income and require aid
from the city, and
Whereas: Numerous persons have
new received their last check under
the unemployment insurance act and
will require immediate WPA employ
ment or aid from the city, and
Whereas: The present stringent a.
nancial condition of the city Of Wyan-
dOtte will not permit an increase in the
welfare load, thereby cheating most
serious situation.
Therefore be it resolved: That the
mayor and Council Of the city of Wy
andOtte hereby respectfully requests
the federal WPA administrator, Col.
+. G. Harrington, ito rescind the lay
OF order and continue the above men
toned mothers and women on present
projects also to re-employ ON WPA
projects all persons previously employ
I'll Oh projects whose Unemployment
insurance has run out, and
Be it further resolved, that Senator's
Arthur b. Vandenberg and Prentits
M. Brown and Representative John
Lesinski, together with state Of Mich
igan entire representation in Congress,
be and they hereby are respectfully
requested to exert every effort possible
In continuing the WPA to the extent
Of absorbing the employable unem-
ployed, and
Be it further resolved: That q true
copy of this resolution be transmitted
forthwith By the city clerk to each Of
he above named officials and to the
variops municipalities in the metropol-
linn krea -s->----- -
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
Is GRADUATES
|nJANUARY CLASS
ROOSEVELT HIGH

There are rs members in the senior
class to be graduated from Roosevelt
high school on Thursday of next week,
January q.
Baccalaureate services will be held
in the school auditorium next Sunday
evening Rev H. Norman Jackson, of
the First Congregational church, will
deliver the address.
The program includes: Tschaikow-
ski suite and professional march by
the Wy-Hi orchestra; invocation by
Rev. E. III. Wilcox; singing of Amer
lea" by the audience; scripture lesson,
Rev. r. j. Firnschild; "JeSu, Joy of
Mans Desiring" Wy-Hi chorus; bac-
calaureate address; America, the
Beautiful" by audience; announce
ments by Superintendent F. w. Fros-
tic; "Sanetus," from GOunod's 18th
mass. WyHi chorus; benedictiOn, by
Rev. E. HI. Wilcox, and the occasional.
The commencement exercises will be
held in the school auditorium next
Thursday evening. DIR. John L. Brumm,
of the University Of Michigan, will de-
liver the address to the class.
This is the program in full:
Hearts and Flowers" Coronation
March from the Prophet" Wy-Hi or
chestra; invocation, Rev. W. E. Jack
son; Deep River" MY Lawd, What
Shall / Do Girls Glee club; com
meneement address; presentation of
diplomas, Superintendent 4. w. Eros
tic; "AdOramus Te," Ash Grove"
Rain and the River Wy-Hi a cap
pella choir; occasional
Following is a list of the graduates /:
Joseph Francis Bartl, James Leroy
Beal, Carl Marks Bell, Samuel +. Car
usO. Stanley John Chesney, Louise S.
Conway, Janet Craigie, George era
mer, Rebecca l.. Danzig, Erwin j. Dom
agalski, Grace Marie Dracka, Doris
Margaret Draeger, Lucille Janet Drae-
ger, Joan DryhurSt, Stella Fraser
Forbes. Dorothy June Greenfield. An
narOSe Gregurich. Robert Richmond
Hanna, Cecilia A. d. Haubrich, Joyce
Helen Harriott, Helen M. Harris, Rob
ert Parnell Hartz, Richard Leighton
Hedrick, William Earle Hoffheins,
Clifton Roy Irvine, Harold Deloss
Johnston, Norman L. Jones, Ruth Lou
ise Jones, Frederick J. Koch, Jr., Wal
ter J. Kolakowski, Olive Joyce KOwal-
ski, Thomas Allen Kuhn, Doreen Lucy
MaeGeorge, Frederick g. MOehlen-
kafnp, Neif James sfac1xeif; 6rxhasp
william Markos, William r. NARROW,
Bernard Harvey McCombs, Robert
Charles Metzler, Ralph Alfred Meyers,
Carlyle Walter Michaels, Bernice Eliz-
abeth Niefert, Melvin Clinton Parish,
George William Pearce. Kathleen Mary
Peters, Dorothy Marie Phillips, Mag
define III. Putt, William G. Rieger,
Marion Elsie Roberts, Norman Will
lam Roth, Mildred Mae Sawyer, Mil
dred June Schafer, Denzil Schweier,
Jr., Paul Henry Sedlock, Jane Loretta
Sedlock, John Peter Sekmistrz, Eileen
May Sherman, Robert Frank Sieloff,
Edna Katherine Simon, Ruth Marian
Sloane, Mary Madeline Steward,
George Ray Swain, VIM. Jerome Thon,
Evelyn Betty Tucker, Anthony F. Uro-
da, Joyce Elizabeth Wick, Arthur M
Wardell, Samuel Wouczyna, Betty
Jane Yack, Thomas A. York, Leland
Smith, Lawrence De Isle, Elton
Keehn, Burt Knox, Mason Grahl, Wal
ter Marynowski.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
George Labeau
Passes at 81


George Labeau... native OF wyan-
dotte who was born 81 years ago. died
en- Sunday at his hoI e. 302 Hudson
street.
Funeral services We e held at st.
Elizabeth church on w dnesday morn
ing. with burial In NJ Carmel GENE
terry.
A large. family Of htives survive.
They include four q J, Daniel, Abe
and John Of Wyando e and Edward
Of Detroit; three q lighters Mrs.
Frank Bondie and NJ William Rice
of Dearborn and Mrs. Joseph Hiopelle
Of wyandotte; two bst hers, Nelson Of
wyandotte and Ben3aptin Of Telreka ;
two sisters, Mrs. Columbus Busha Of
Wyandotte and Mrs George Taft Of
Chicago; - grandchildren and 70
great grandchildren.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
IN
CLOSED BANK
GET. DIVIDEND

Starting on Monday Of the present
week. Receiver Joseph j. McGrath, of
the closed Peoples Wayne County
Bank OF Wyandotte, Is paying deposi-
tors another ten per cent dividend.
This applies TO both commercial and
savings depositors. and brings the to-
tai payment since the closing in 1893
to 60 Per, cent.
The total amount OF the dividend is
in the ne(ghborhood Of $4,000.
When calling at the bahh for their
money. depositors must bring their re
ceiver's receipts. issued mt the time of
the first payment.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
Republican Women
Nest Monda,

The women's Republican club will
hold meeting next Monday evening
ut the home Of Mrs. Earl Miller. 1855
Second street. The speaker will be
Mrs. George Rogers. president OF the
women's Republican federation Of
Michigan. and newly appointed heat;
Of the state welfare department.
All women re invited to attend.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
THE BOARD WILL
THINK ABOUT II

Appearing before the Board Of Ddu-
cation at its meeting Monday aisAk
Councilman Ford Wagar made Q plea
that the board pay for paving adjacent
to Cts property. The councilman ap,
peared IN. response to action by tha
Council while q state lxw decIaxS1
that school boards shall not pay dir
ectly for paving, It was hoped t1ne
some plan might be evolved BY wAicA
to obtain financial assistance to tAs
city. -,
The request was taken under CO.
sideration by the board.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
Council Doinss
Tuesday Night

The out-county unit Of the Wayns
County Welfare Relief Commisston
submitted a statement as Of December
81. showing a debit balance Of $5,227.-
81.
A request from the Police and Fire
Commission, that the health depart.
ment investigate the sanitary condi-
ions OF buses, was referred back to the
police by Mayor Thomas A. Davis, with
suggestion that the police do their
own work.
Five hundred feet Of fire hose wa
ordered to be purchased from the Geo.
eral Fire Hose Company at price Of
S1.10 per foot.
Balances in the recreation depart
ment budget were transferred to thu
public service department, which via
attend to the upkeep of base ball dia-
mons and skating Kinks
The sum Of $1,66666 was ordered
paid the county relief commission, -
Wvandotte's allotment for relief pur-
poses for January.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
I've Boys Held
for Car Theft

Justice Roy Coomer last Friday
bound over for trial In the Wayne cir
cult court, two youths only IL years o.
age, who are charged with stealing q
car belonging to DR.. j. G. Knapp Of
1919 Second street.
The boys are william Stone Of 1921
Walnut street and Ralph Long Of 1910
Walnut street.
Samuel Sineni OF the state polics
made the arrests near Monroe, when
he became suspicious Of the boys &C
lions.
Both Stone and Long pleaded guilty
on their arraignment Stone furnished
q $1,000 bond for his appearance In
court. Long, unable to find a surety.
was locked up In the Wayne COUNTY
jail
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20
EXCHANGE CLUB
HEARS DIR. SCUBA

The wyandotte Exchange club, at
its meeting in the Poplar inn on Tues.
day night, listened to an address by
Dr.. Andrew J. SCUBA, a native Of Pal !
estine.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-20

Note: The costs noted above are
cost, 20 the city only and do not In
c,ude cutributions from members OF
the departmsuts. 49,
From 1858 On, assuming no increase
4. the de of the force or increase In
~. ala ries. me costs would be con
...s.,t At s45. 900 $3.50 and $i5.3o0
Iii II the foregoing figures are bas-
- a the assumption that al members
-. - n6asce- snff FIRE departSAenfs Will
rstire at the expiration OF -. years Oh
sefvhre. 49,. ,,.nos.,.,
me probable costs Cd me propoSea
Evening star., 1939-02-24

the Legislature, had produced a feel.
Ing OF intense disgust, as well as OF
growing unrest in the community
Queen Was Dissuaded.
The Queen was dissuaded from
her purpose of Immediately pro-
claiming a new constitution, but
her adversaries In the Legislature
did not trust her intentions. It was
felt that she was determined to
check the liberal movement, at al
most any cost. It was known that
her closest advisers were urging her
to proceed to extreme measures.
Then there appeared, in the same
issue in which the Queens purposes
were so frankly discussed, the fol-
lowing item in the news columns,
without a headline:
The early arrival of the U. S. S.
Boston cut an important figure in
the proceedings of Saturday. In
the minds of many the presence of
the warship prevented the proc
lamation of the constitution"
The Boston was to figure ma
terially in the situation shortly aft
erward
On Tuesday, January II, the Ad-
vertiser printed reports of a mass
meeting held the day before at
which it was demonstrated that "the
whole body of foreign residents is
prepared and determined to resist
royalist aggression. The Commit
tee of Public Safety has been in
trusted with the devising of such
means as may be necessary to carry
out the will of this meeting. No
measures will satisfy the foreign
community which are not thor
ough."
The landing of troops from the
Boston," said the Advertiser, fur
nlshes a guarantee that the persons
and property of American citizens
will be safe from violence and it has
spread a feeling of security gen.
orally among property holders
throughout the community"
Landing of Troops.
al Ile Same issue appears the 1Ol-
lowing news item, which related to
an incident that later became the
subject of sharp controversy, un-
der the heading, Happenings Yes
terday-the U. S. S. Boston Lands
Sailors and Marines"::
About o'clock in the afternoon
the U. S. S. Boston landed about
300 men. Each man had two belts
of cartridges around his waist and
was armed with rifle. The men
marched up to the Office of the Con-
sui General of the United States,
when halt was made. The marines
were detached and sent to the
American Legation on Nuuanu ave-
nue., while the sailors marched out
along Merchant street with two
gatling guns and made halt in
front of Mr.. A. j. Hopper's resi-
dence. About sundown they moved
to the grounds of Mr.. j. B. Ather-
ton and after a stay of several
hours returned to Arion Hall, where
they camped overnight"
Whenever the Hawaiian revolu-
ton and the subsequent annexation
of the islands to the United States
have been mentioned during these
so years past this maneuver of the
landing of marines and sailors has
Evening star., 1939-02-24
RALLY AROUND THE
NEW GOVERNMENT
The Late Queen and Cabinet Yield
and Leave the Town under the
Quiet Protection of Its
Own Citizens

A proclamation reciting the events
Of the previous few hours and the
program of reorganization of the
Hawaiian government was printed in
the same issue of the Advertiser.
1t was signed by Sanford B. Dole and
three others as the Executive Coun-
Gil OF the provisional government OF
the Hawaiian Islands, with IA addi-
tional names appended as those OF
the Advisory Council of the Hawaiian
Islands, this number including
Lorrin A. Thurston, who was the
editor of the Honolulu Advertiser
and who was later named by the
newly formed government as the
Minister of the United States. Mr..
Thurston became very we'll known
in Washington during the period
preceding the annexation of Hawaii
This publication was accompanied
in the Advertiser by protest signed
by Queen Liliuokalani and her min-
listers, who proclaimed that they had
yielded to the revolutionary party
under force of arms and protested
the whole affair.
Hawaii, however, had turned its
back definitely upon monarchy and
remained in that posture through
out the difi1cult days of waiting upon
the United States for adoption
through annexation, which ended
three years later.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Thrown for Loss

AKRON, Ohio (P.-Studying ju-
jitsu, William Watson, bus driver
got two bad breaks.
The first came when he suffered
leg fracture in the course OF his
first lesson. The second resulted
from his SOS, 900 suit against Teacher
Edward L. Allen.
A jury refused damages.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

been discussed with feeling. On
the side of the royalists and adher-
ents OF the former regime it has
been denounced as an unwarranted
military Intervention by the Amer
ican Government. On the other
side 1t has been justified as a nee
esSary measure for the protection
OF American lives, which were grave
ly threatened by the turbulence of
the Queens party. Advocates of
the annexation of Hawaii to the
United States have always regarded
this measure of protection as justi-
fled in the interests of both the
Hawaiians and the American resi-
dents of the islands so years ago.
Story of Mass Meeting.
The Advertiser of January IT.,
1893, contains an extended account
OF a mass meeting held the after
noon before at the Honolulu Rifles
Hall. Actual count showed 1850
persons present at the beginning,
with others arriving later until the
hall was filled to capacity. The re-
port of the Committee of Safety,
as the initiating organization was
called, was read, giving an account
of the events leading to the crisis.
The meeting then unanimously
adopted resolutions denouncing the
actions of the Queen and her sup
porters, ratifying the appointment
of the Committee of Safety and en-
powering it to devise further ways
and means necessary to secure per-
manent maintenance of law and
order and the protection of life, lib
erty and property in Hawaii.
The Advertiser of January l8 pre-
sented the story of the late happen
ings under the following headlines:
THE NEW ERA
The Revolution Terminated
by the Establishment
of Provisional
Government
CITIZENS RISE AND SEIZE THE
GOVERNMENT BUILDING
THE MONARCHY ABROGATED
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Anniversary of Revolution
Visitor to Huwoii Traces BIoodIess
Revolt Which Deposed Queen

THIS Is one OF a series OF ar
t1cles on Ha1Daii by G. A. Lyon,
associate editor of The Star, 1Uho
Is Ddc1tioning in the islands.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
THE NEW ERA

The Revolution Terminated
by the Establishment
of a Provisional
Government
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-08
LETTERS TO
GIRLS FOUND
in ATLANTIC
SEAMAN WRITES LETTERS
TO GIRL FRIENDS IN LOUIS
lana AND DROPS THEM IN
BOTTLE

BERTHE Nicholas, VINO was craw-
fishing off the Boulevard Friday
last with the approved gas Ian
tern and bully net, came upon a
little bottle floating in out of the
Gulf Stream, which contained
rather interesting documents.
In it were two letters, one adj
dressed to Miss Virgie Mae Gull
beau at RID 5, Opelousas, Louis
lana, and another to Miss Irene
O'Conan of 443 Fourth Street,
Gretna, Louisiana. The return
address on each was Mr.. Law
renee Richard of the SIS. Gulf
King of the Gulf Refining Com
pany at Port Arthur, Texas.
Mr.. Nicholas said that both let
tiers were mailed to the proper
addresses and two of seaman
Larry Richards girl friends, one
in inland Louisiana bearing a
French name and the other across
the river at New Orleans, will
get letter from their ''boy
friend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-08
TWO ST. PETE,
HAVANA RACING
YACHTS MISSING
PLANE FAILS TO SIGH T
THEM AROUND ToRTUGAS:
OLDTIMERS BLAME CUR
RENT FROM oUIcKSANDS

Coast Guard patrol, plane,
which landed yesterday at Key
West after patrolling the waters
off Dry Tortugas in connection
with the Tenth Annual st. Pc
tersburg Havana race reports that
it has been unable to sight two
of the sailing craft, which are
missing.
Old Timers around the Key
West waterfront point out that
amateur shippers, now knowing
the waters around Tortugas, will
find themselves blown well out
to the southwest from the, north
erly current setting in from the
quicksands of the area. They
predict that if the present fair
weather continues that the skip
pers will eventually sail into
Havana harbor safely.
At the Fort this week was the
Coast Guard Cutter Pandora,
which was stationed there, also
to safeguard the sailing vessels
passage.