Evening star., 1941-08-31
By CLAUDE A. MAhONEY.

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MAKING commonplace Of good deeds dangerously
done. the Dir Of the United Stotes coost Guord
is modern and meehonzed Good Somoriton protecting
life and property Of the Atlantic coost ond Chesapeake
Boy oreo from the "peris Of the SEQ"
Based on the Dir stotion at Elizabeth City NJ c.
O Coost Guord stoff operates flying service which
speeiozes in hozordous landings in rough secs dentif
cotton OF ships their ornament ond possible destinations
locotion OF derelicts, spectacular ond mony
friendly oet for the benefit Of thousands Of fishermen
How the flying Good Somoritons do their work. mod
estIy but effectively wos demonstrated in crowded
doys activities Tokine along this correspondent and
Stor Stoff photographer. Gus Chinn, Coost Guord
omphbion from the EIzobeth City stotion went through
ond erosh drills and oetuo eoreh for the body of
drowned mon This showed in practical fashion some
OF the multitude of tosks Of the Dir orm-tosks
and diversified thot they ore little known or under
stood by the general public.
Plotted by 1t. C. R. Bender, we boarded twin
engine Grumon omphbion. He lifted it off the field
ond Norfolk skirtine through sworms Of
Navy and Army pones in the sky.
Lots Of planes around here" he sold quietly, SEEM
ing to look in oil directions at once.
Before this correspondent could get used TO the por
oehute honess, which didn't fit. Pilot Bender point
ing out Langley Field ond Old Point Comfort. Then the
Western Shore Of Chesapeake Boy hove into view-o
bewderne potten Of sounds nets and twisting creeks
thot Tidewoter Virginia.
Rivers posed beneoth, eoeh one checked by mop
os the ship moved northword. At the mouth of the
Potomoc It. Bender found on innocent buoy to spot ond
mork with smoke bomb for benefit Of the photographer
who shooting through hotehwoy. The pIone
dipped low ond crossed the Point Lookout sond spit the
smoke bomb wos dropped by Aviotion Moehnists Mate
Robert Doy. Another swoopne circle mode for the
picture, and the pilot explained thot the Coost Guard
morked objects thot way in order return to them.
Lost buoys often found and morked as on old TO
sofe sone
A note handed from Rodomon Eoh Mohundro wos
order to Ieove the boy potol ond assist in search
for the body Of drowned mon in the Roppohonnoek
River Port RoyoI, Va. The Coost Guord cutter
Noressus wos dragging the river from smoI boots. In
land hundred miles the ship put down to within 200
feet Of the yellow Roppohonnock 1t swung up ond
down Emile stretch until the pilot satisfied himself
thot there not body ofIoot.
Annual inspection wos in progress when the ship
onded again at Elizabeth City fire drill brought
every person the reservation into action. crosh
drill sent fost boot slower boat and oirpone into
the middle of the Posquotonk River to mythical
plane thot hod folen There simuIoted of
exhausted fishermen from rowboot in the middle Of
the river. II done in neory the exoct way man
had been rescued the doy before otter boot had
foIen him lonely stretch Of sond with roods
Ieodine to it.
Cooperating with the alcohol tox unit Of the Treos-
ury Department. flyers from the Dir stotion here have
spotted some 500 illicit stills within the lost yeor going
for West Montana to troee down suspicious smoke
from desolote wooded They olso spot other law
volotos ond much stolen property. principally
boots