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Buoy Tenders In Marianas
Make Jap Harbors Safe
| For U. S. Shipping
By Herbert Baumgartner, Y.lc,
„ USCGR
B
. (A Coast Guard Correspondent)
ABOARD A COAST GUARD
MANNED BUOY TENDER IN
!* THE MARIANAS (Delayedh—
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Far from the coastal waters of the
United States, where they laid
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buoys and looked after similar
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aids to navigation, Coast Guards
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men on this ship are converting
^ conquered Japanese harbors into
safe waterways.
An odd-looking craft amidst a
^ mighty armada of fighting ships,
u transports, and freighters, the
5, buoy tender cuts a restless wane
n between the recently captured is
lf lands, Tinian and Saipan.
>1 “In the short time we’ve been
_ parolling this area,” said Lt. Er
B nest L. Tillett of Norfolk. Va.,
commanding officer, “we have
taken on every type of duty n
the books.
“Today for instance,” he con
tinued, “we began by putting out
a fire on one of the sunken Jap
hulks in Saipan harbor. We sent a
boat over there and took care of
| the trouble in no time. Later this
I morning we picked up and replac
ed the stern mooring of a floating
drydock. This afternoon we have
been working with warship and
fleet-landing moorings. We pick
’em up and lay ’em down as fast
as the orders come through.”
“Yesterday we got something
definitely different,” Lieutenant
Tillet added. “We were assigned
to pick up the submarine nets laid
by the Japs between Tinian and
Saipan. I don’t mind telling you it
was ticklish work.”
j Between such jobs the tender is
engaged in lighting the countless
I buoys in the area, pulling small
boats off reefs, and, in general,
i keeping the traffic running
I
j smoothly in this seagoing Times
Square.
Highly specialized work for the
Coast Guard in the Carribean and
an the Atlantic Coast qualified her
! for the assignment.
Social activities totaling 418,270
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clubs since 1941, reports the Na
tional War Fund which supports
1 the work of USO
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Anchorage school.
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Conference Closing
Saturday Doubtful
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coming into power, should never
be admitted to membership.
United States, like many other
nations, maintains diplomatic re
laions with Franco, supported the
declaration after it was advanced
by Mexico and strongly backed up
by France.
OLYMPIA, June 20 — (/P) —
President Truman sought to speed
up a conclusion of the San Fran
cisco security conference as the
prospects for a windup this week
steadily diminished. The Presi
dent is resting here at the execu
tive mansion as a guest of Gover
nor Wallgren, and it is known he
has expressed his disappointment
to United States delegates over
the reports that the conference
may extend over into next week.
The President was represented
as still hopeful that the interna
tional peace charter can be work
ed out by the end of the week. If
it can’t be done the President will
remain here until the early part
of next week and fly into San
Francisco for the address which is
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that time, and enjoying the many
changes in the community and its
people.
still tentatively scheduled for Sat
urday afternoon.
• Press secretary Ross announced
that the President will hold a
press conference at ten a.m. to
morrow, the first outside the White
House. Ross also announced that
Governor Wallgren would accom
pany President Truman to San
Francisco for the historic speech,
! with which the President will
1 bring the long conference to a
close.
The President got up at 5:30
a.m., put on a leather tweed sports
jacket and took a long walk
around the mansion and capitol
grounds before breakfast. “It was
the best walk I have had since en
tering the Whitehouse,” Truman
told reporters.
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