Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1928, Page 81

1] '}v ‘Courage as Part of Day’s BY JOHN E. TAYLOR. EN with a high sense of duty are usually gifted with an un- usual amount of “fortitude,” and the annual report of Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, com- mandant of the United States Coast Guard, to the Secretary of the Treas- ury. shows that the men of the service possess real courage. Within recent years many persons have come to regard the Coast Guards- | men as prohibition agents of the sea. | with all the alleged vices of the land | forces of dry America and none of the | Yirtues of seagoing men. To those the | report will no doubt be a revelation. In its concisely worded pages it unfolds many storics of bravery and self-sacri- fice on the part of Coast Guardsmen. Early in December. 1927, a terrific torm swept the Atlantic coast. The storm made Cape Hatteras. known as the “graveyard of the sea.” more treacher than ever. Into the boil- ing rushing, storm-swept waters off the pe drifted the Greek steamer Para- . The Greek merchantman was leaking badly fore and aft. her fires had been put out by the nilge water and she was helplsss in the irough of the sea. She finallv beached 3 miles north of Kill Devil Hills station of the Coast Guard, and 'o ithe men of that| station and to the men from the Nags Head and Kitty Hawk siations fell the task of getting the crew of 24 men! from the wrecked vessel. While the Coast Guardsmen were | getting to the wreck the Paraguay broke in half and the crew huddled on | the forepeak. resigned to their fate and unaware that the Coast Guardsmen ‘were making almost superhuman efforts to save them To get the necessary live-saving ‘ap- paratus to a point on the shore nearcst the wrecked Paraguay required every ounce of strength end endurance the men could summo: They wcere forced to drag their equipment over the sea- swept beaches in a blinding snowstorm. never knowing when an unusually largs “comber” would catch them and carry them all to their deaths in the raging sea. After the hardest kind of work the equipment was in place and a line shot to the wrecked steamer. ‘The rope fell across the huddled fig- ures on the forward deck of the Para- guay. “It was like a hand from Heaven,” according to Capt. Kantanlos, commander of the Paraguay. Despite the terrific wind and snow storm, one of the steamer's crew climbed aloft on the still erect mast and made fast the line that was to carry them ashore in the breeches buoy. One | by one the men of the Paraguay’s crew | were brought ashore and given succor by the Coast Guardsmen. An idea of | the intensity of the storm may be had | when it is learned that 30 men were | Tequired to pull the breeches buoy, con- | taining one man. from the wrecked ship to the shore, a distance of about 300 | yards. The last man had just been brought from the Paraguay and was being given hot coffee and dried out by his rescuers when the forward part of the steamer sank out of sight. Capt. Kantanlos slowly and reverently crossed himself and, turning to the Coast Guardsmen. said: “It was only by a miracle that you saved us.” The captain later forwarded a lette: to the Greek government in which he | outlined the rescue and asked that the men of the Coast Guard be fittingly rewarded. * % x % DUR!NG that same storm and on the same day, December 4. the Nor-| ‘wegian steamer Cibao stranded on Hat- teras Inlet Bar, placing her crew of 24 | in imminent peril of death. To the Coast Guard stations at Ocracoke, Cape Hatteras and Creek Hill fel! the task of Tescuing the steamer’s crew. i At 6:30 am. 20 minutes after the| steamer grounded, the crew of the! Ocracoke station hed manned thetr; . they their ship would not live long | biz seas that were sweeping over the | Cibao and they were forced to put back | to the station. They picked. up their self-baling surfboai and started again | for the wreck. ! Men from the other stations had ar- | rived in the meantime and the com- | bined forces bezan the work of rescuing the Caibo's crew. Part of the Coast Guard crews ménned the surfboat, which was towed to the shoals by the power boat. Prom that point on, the work of rescuing was done by the men in the surfboat. They worked the little | brat a5 close to the wrecked steamer as possible. thouting acroes the intervening | $vace of angry water for the imperiled men t& don life belts and jump over- Battles With Terrific Storms Become Part of Routineina Season's Experience With Thi board. The Norwegian seamen were | quick to take advantage of the situation | and jumped into the sea, one at a time, to be picked up by the surfboat. For nine hours the little boat fought Old King Neptune in his own camp and took away from him 24 victims. Three trips were made from the imme- diate vicinity of the Cibao to the power boat within the protection of the shoals. The entire crew was rescucd without an injury to any one. For | days the story of the Coast Guardsmen's the sole topic of conversation here scamen gather along the Carolina coast. | Four days after the rescues on the North Carolina shores, the Coast Guardsinen on the Great Lakes were called upon to aid a stricken vessel The Canadian steamer Altadoc went aground and broke amidships off Ke- wecnaw Point, Mich,, placing her crew | in a perilous position. The Coast Guard | cutter Crawford started for the spot | where the distressed vessel lay. but it | was found that the Crawford's standard compass had frozen solid and she was | forced to return to her base. The! thermometer registered 27 degrees be- low zero at the time. While the compass of the Crawford was being thawed out, surfmen of the Eagle Harbor station had gone to the Altadoc in their surfboat and had taken off 14 of the crew and landed them at Copper Harbor. On the second trip. howsaver. the Eagle Harbor crew ran into difficulties. when their boat became sturk in the jce, marooning the crew and 11 m~mb>rs of the Altadoc’s crew on the ice. The Crawford appeared on he scene shortly after the freezing in of the surfboat and picked up the entire shir'cad of men. landing them at the Eagle Harbor station. * % % X 'HE Coast Guard ‘destroyer Paulding. the boat that figured only too prominently in the recent S-4 tragedv. came within an ace of going to th= bottom while rushing to the aid of the tricken C. G. 238. a 75-footér. which was lost with all hands 4 miles east of Highland Light, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 19, 1927. During the worst gale in 25 years the C. G. 238. on patrol duty. was soon buffeted beyond control. and her com- mander sent out the distress call over the radio. The Paulding. Jouett and Tuscarora. all Coast Guard ships, were immediately dispatchad to the aid of the distressed patrol boat. " THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FEBRUARY 2. 1928 -PART 7. Ships From All Parts of Globe Receive Help—Many Crews Saved by Heroic Efforts. ONE OF THE The Jouett carly ran into trouble, ' and aftor fighting the clements and in- ternal mechanical trouble all night, was forced to roturn to Boston. The Tu cerora and the Paulding, however. fought it out with the storm, but failed to reach the C. G. 238 During that wild night off Cape Cod the storm swept away one of the Pauld- ing's stacks., leaving the crew faced with the possibility of being blown to bits if sea water rushsd down the gap- ing hole and into th» fire pit under the boilers. Quickly grasping the danger and realizing that. quick work was nsces- sary to save the ship and her crew, Chi=f Boatswain's Mate Philip N. Shan- non weni out on the wind and sea CREW OF A RUM RUNNER MAKING SMALL BOAT READY FOR A DASH TO SHORE WITH A LOAD OF CONTRABAND LIQUORS. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FROM COAST GUARD PICKET BOAT OFF RU M ROW. NEAR NEW YOR athedral Builders Here Find Inspirati(”)nA in Medieval CIENT building methods are being resived by the builders of Washington Cathedral o enhance the structural beauty of an edificc conceived as an A expression of the spiritual aspirations ©f 8 twentieth century nation. The spiritual charm of medieval edi- fices is elusive. The architects for the eathedral novw rising in the National Cepital proposs to capture it once #22in in enduring’stone by practicing &n art developed by craftsmen of the iectural refinements 5 to the eyes, although iated, are involved however, does not { modern inventions for the use s These are sawed, molded by steam, gasoline operated devices. It is ADJUSTABLE PLANER said that the workers in the stone-cut- ! ting plant operated by the builders of the Washington Cathedral cut more stone in three weeks than a similar number of workmen could cut by hand in an entir> year. Advances in engineering technique 2lso aid the modern cathedral builders. The dimensions of the huge founda- tions and the thrusts of arches and vaultings are calculated with a nicety unknown to medieval craftsmen. Yet Philip H. Frohman. of Prohman Robb & Little, the resident architec dors not hesitate 1o acknowledg: a debt ¥ the ancient workmen. He con- tends that their artistic ability was s to that of present-day designer e must remember with humlity the greatest architecture in the was created before there were architects in the modern sense of word” he said. “In the Middle when art was instinctive there no architects, but there : ter masons, who were mesters of i craftsmanship as well as masters were, of the workmen, and builders and craftsmen whose artistic abllity was superior to that of our finest modern architects. “If the modern architect wishes “to revive a lost art and to create living architecture he must give up the idea that he is one of the exalted heads of a learned profession. With humility he must realize that many of the ex- alted heads of his profession are not learned in those ways In_ which the humbler master mason of Middle Ages was Jearned. The medievzl master mason did not pride himself upon being an M. A. or upon heving any titles, other than ‘master of the fabric’ To hold this position he had to be a real master of the art of building “Most of the master masons who built great cathedrals would be looked upon by modern architects as unlearned and unscholarly men, perhaps as rough working men. On the other hand, if a medieval master of the fabric could come to life nowadays he would laugi MOLDING STONES TO BE USED IN THE WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL, L] at the ignorance of some great archi- tects. When the architect who longs for the return of the glories of medieval art will make the sacrifices of positively declining to build up a large archi- tectural practice, but will humble him- self to personally employ the methods which were pursued by those who cre- ated great architecture, he will bacome the re@l master of the fabric again. “And in the course of time we may have some more great architecture, the kind of architecture that thrills us when we travel abroad, the kind of architecture that modern architects like to write about, but the kind of architecture which Is seldom created in this day and generation.” THE RIGH CONFERRING ING PROGRESS JAMES 3 WITH CONSTRULC { '1ON AT WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL, - FOOT BOATS AFTER A BOUT WITH THE STORM KING WHILE DOING PATROL DUTY ALONG THE EASTERN COAST. Photos reproduced through courtesy of United States Coast Guarl swept dack to co a tarpaulin over the funnel hole. When Shannon went out on the | deck he was followed by two seamen, | abled steamer. dragging their breeches | it i | northeast gale was at its height. when Robert Hoye and W. H. Egeberg. Each | man had & rope tied around his waist, | the other end of the rope being tied to some part of the ship that was im- movable. The sca. scemingly aware that it was about to be cheated of its victims, become more violent than be- fore, and the Pauling rocked and plunged like a cork in a mill race. The men were knocked about the deck and drenched in the fcy waters lwig before thoy could reach the fallen stack. After fighting every foot of the way to the wreck of the funnel, the men found it s badly tangled in its own quy W While they were working desperately to iree the stack and got | it overboard the sea swept over the ship and carried Hoye with it. Hove was quickly brought back on board by the rope to which he was tied. It was a clos» call and enough to shatter the nerves of any man, but the thoroughly drenched seaman and his campanions kept at their work and finally freed the stack. The stack was soon over- board and a sheet of canvas spread over the gaping hole in the deck. The Paulding had been saved from certain doom by the bravery of threc unarsuming men, all of whom were promptly promoted when news of their act reached headgquarters. * % ox % JVERY once in a while the Pacific Occan gives the lie to its name,! “peaceful,” and goes on a rampage. Because the w coast i3 unbroken, ex- cept in a very few places, there are no harbors for ships to make for when o bad storm breaks. The S. S. Indlana Harbor was caught out at sea in a severe storm. blown off her course and finally driven onto rocks at a desolate and uninhabited spot between the Arena Cove and Humboldt Bay stations of the Coast Guard carly in the morn- ing of May 20 last. Despite the intensity of the storm end the great sea that was running at the time, the men of the Humboldt Bay station tried to reach the Indiana Har- bor in their surfboat. Nothing could | be done by boat and the surfmen were forced to put back to shore. Instead of | advising the Arena Cove outfit that ! Mr. Freeman believes that mod- ern architecture is too mechanical He attributes this defect to machine- like construction, and points out that medieval masons, whose work endures strove for visual beauty in their struc- tures s an artist strives to create an impression rather than a photographic | likeness, He bases this contention upon the | discoveries of Prof. Willlam Goodyear | of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, whe has made measured surveys of manv ancient edifices. It s Prof. Goodyear's theory that the spiritual grace, char- acteristic of medieval cathedrals. was achieved by Intenticnal variations from the rigidity of straight lines and perfect right angles, AN, RISHOP ¢ HINGTON, OFFICIAL HE BUILD. they were unable to reach the scene of | there was nothing to do but man a tempt to rea the rvet, e e 0f the Humboldt | small boat and take off the crew of the | the <ern of Bay station hiked 20 miles to the dis- buoy gear behind them. Not only is much of the coast of Cali- | the small boat cast fornia desolate and uninhabited and | Gresham and started across the stretch ing himself by without harbors. but it is a rocky and forbidding stretch of land. are very narrow and are as rocky as they are narrov—-hardly an easy place to drag a wagon loaded with Iife ving car. 8% one of the fow natives of the sur- rounding country would take a chance on hauling the gear to the scene of the wreck. The rock-strewn beaches would break their horses' legs and ruin the wagons, they insisted. Finally, one of the natives decided to take a chance, and, with his horses especially shod for the trip, the Coast Guardsmen started out. Four attempts were made to ford the Mattole River before that strcam was crossed. The Indiana Harbor had gone ashors at1 o'clock in the morning of the 20th of May and the men from the Hum- boldt Bay station arrived at 3 o'clock that afternoon, after hiking the 20 miles, building their own roads acros quiches, removing trees and other iris from their path. The Coast Guardsmen fought and hipped the elements and brought ore, via the breeches buoy, the 27 menof thecrewof the wrecked steamer. * % % % NOTHER instance bringing out the fiber of the men in the Coast Guard 15 offered by the recent performance of the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Gresham. On October 18, last, the Gresham was drifting with a line to a derelict when a radio flash was received telling of a barge iIn distress off Five Fathom Light, N. J. The Gresham quickly dropped the derelict, cut in her extra boiler and headed for the stricken barge. The weather was blowing up strongly and a northeast gale was ex- pected at any time. Within a short time the little cutter was alongside the barge Old Dominion and trying to take the crew of two men from the barge. Time after time lines shot from the Gresham failed of their mark. before 2 4-inch line was finally made fast to the | barge. This line soon broken under the strain of the sea that was running and Old Dominion. A heavy rain was falling and the off from the of inky blackness between the two ships BOARDING OFFICER LOOKING OVER THE PAPERS OF A FISHING ‘This method of eliminating m chanical harshness in stupendously large structures s believed to have baen applied in Byrzantine, Romanesjue. Gothic and in some early Renaissance creations. The illusion of parlieled ratlroad ralls converging in th~ dis- tance provides an example of rigid ad- herence to the mechanical. In that particular Instance, beauty is not a requirement, but a similar tllusion. pre- vailing 1n a long narrow, cathedral nave would prove, according to the Washing- ton Cathedral architeci. singula attractive if not actually unsi Disregard of fllusions of this na cause. 1 his opinton. thr faflure rtain modern butldings to equal the attractiveness of the architectural drawings which inspired their creation Ths anclent masons. he believes, were aware that a alght line was the shortest distancs batween two points, but did not always consider it the most beautiful architectural ex- pression. Consequently while they were capable of mathematical precision, they *voided machine-like duplication and THIS SAW SLICE STEEL, SMACK. sess the indefinable charm w avoidable curves of line and va: of detail give to n froe-hand drav Prof. Goody study of this pha of madieval consiruction resulted in t discovery of 12 refinements or va tions from precise sxactness which we ™ ed in the Middle Ages > include curvatures in plan, © in cletation, irreguiarities & columnar spacing. deviations paraliel lines and right angies, fleors, varfations in columns, assymmetry symmetrical features, plers and columns, an: n windows and arches. The use of the: refinements in a large edifice t enhance the heauty and appes stee and stability. The economical duplication of building units in & construction prohibits their present-day building. In a structure of cut and molded stone. ever. their application does 1ot 3 howe Work Seen in Coast Guard Record s Branch of Government Service. not plerce the blackness of the night and the men in the lifeboat were sb- solutely alone on the angry sea. | After three hours of anxious waiting | those on board the Gresham noticed | faint signal flashes coming from a point 3 miles below the cutter. It was her small boat, still fi; of the two men sna of death. Three more hours of terrible fighting against the eloments pass2d before the =mall boat and its human freight puiied alongside ths Gresham ‘The hanes of the res and blesding wh-re the oa: away the flesh. Bat two li saved and the duty of Guardsmen had been ! The tragedy that b Coast Guard 219 off Fla., Augu: . 192 character of th> me) runninz and the caliher of ths men manning th Coast Guard patrol boats. On that hst Sunday afternoon tha patrol brat fell in with the “V-13997," a tsmal! motor hoat manned by Horace Alderman and Robert E. Weech. both of Miami, Fla. The launch was stopp2d and a boarding party from the patrol boat found about 30 cases of contra- band rum, which were ordered carried aboard the Ci Guard vessel. Boat- swain’s Mate Sidnev Cantwell Sunder- iln, in command of the patrol boat, searched Alderman and Weech for weapons, found none, and ordered the men to board the Coast Gi ship. Sunderlin, cvidently believing his men were watching the act. of the pris- oners, went ahead of the “rummies” and directly to the cabin of the C. G. 240. Alderman and Weech followed him, but on the way Alderman quickly reached into the engine room of the seized boat and grabbed a revolver he had hidden there. The prisoners went | to the cabin cf the patrol boat, where | Sunderlin was putting on the ear | phones preparatory to calling the Coast | Guard base at Fort Lauderdale to ask for orders for the disposition of the captured rum ship. While Sunderlin's back was turned Alderman drew the revolver and shot the commander dead. y grabbing the fallen officer's gun, Alderman armed Weech, and the two soon had the crew of the patrol |boat herded on the stern of the rum boat. Victor A. Lamby. motor machin- ist’s mate. who had witnessed the mur- der of his commander. made an at- the ship’s armory, in e ship, but was shot in | the back by Alderman. Lamby's spine was broken by the shot, and it was w the greatest effort that he withstood the pain while pull- his arms into the engine room of the patrol boat. Weech soon 1 the 75-footer t Lauderdale, The beaches | The searchlights on the Gresham could | appeared in the engine room. under or- ders from Alderman. and began to tear away the gasoline feed lines, the first step in the firing of the ship. Vindic- tive and full of raging hatred toward men of the service, Weech ordered the wounded Lamby to assist in the work of destruction. Lamby told the rummy of his wound, and was kicked and otherwise brutally treated by the man. Following their announced plan of setting fire to the patrol boat and mur- dering her crew to erase all traces of their crimes. Weech left the engine room of the Coast Guard boat and went 0 his own ship. where he tried to start the engine. The engine failed to start, and Alderman, who was standing guard cver the Coast Guard crew, turned his head to look down into the engine room. When he turned away the men of the patrol boat rushed him. Alderman heard the rush of the men and turned back in time to shoot and kill Robert K. Brewster, United States Secret Service agent and civilian pas- senger aboard the cutter. Ship's Cook Jodie L. Hollingsworth was seriously in- jured by another shot from the smug- gler's revolver during the rush. The iwo men were soon overpowered by the Coas® Guardsmen. but not until Alder- man had been stabbed several times with an ice pick and Weech had been thrown overboard. Boatswain's Mate Lawrence F. Tuten saw Weech struggling in the water, but tead of following a very natural de- ons. I started to kill him with an ocar, decided to throw him a rope when w that he had no gun." was the Tuten explained his action to off- cors at Fort Lauderdale. The wounded Lamby was rushed to & hospital, where he died. Before he ied, however. he gave his version of > murder of Sunderlin to Coast uard officers. Asked why he didn't ow up his hands and save himself, nby replied: T didn't do much, but I couldnt throw up my hands. Models ng costs, ¢ the 12 known he pen and . Cathedral mass of gracefully above Washington ¢ western ens T towers. each alting of the of 98 feet. ner Alves, THROUGH LINESTONE BY EXERTVING PRESSURE O\ PARTICLES OF CRUSHED THE STONE 15 BEING PREPARED FOR WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL