Searching far out to sea with the aid of powerful binoculars, a Coast Guard Auxiliarist is shown on duty on the platform of a Watch Tower in the photo at the extreme left. Auxiliarista stand two Sixhour watches each week. sa

In the center photo is a scene from inside a Watch Tower cabin with two Coast Guard Auxiliarists on duty. The man_at the left is reporting an incident at sea and his companion is relaying the same over the telephone while at the same time entering data in the log.'

Sweeping the seas in the photo at the right is an Auxiliarist armed with binoculars Besides reporting objects observed at sea. Auxiliary Watch Tower men take weather bearings and report extent of visibility

Dawn-To-Dawn Vigil Is Kept By Auxiliary As Guardsmen Leave For Combat Fronts

Perched atop their tall, steel frames and extending the length New Jersey's Atlantic shore- • line stand the watch towers of the United States Coast Guard. For 09 years, 24 hours a day and 52 weeks- a year, Coast Guardsmen have scanned the . Atlantic and its shores for men and ships in distress at sea. Since the beginning of World War II, their vigils have included a lookout for saboteurs and possible in-

waders.

Today, Coast Guard officials point out, the consuming demand for young, fighting manpower has necessitated the withdrawal of many Coast Guard regulars from this traditional task and sent them overseas to the combat

fronts.

To- replace the regulars, civilian volunteers, who are American dtisens, from 18 to 65, are being - enrolled daily in the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve, Coast Guard officials of the Fourth Naval District announced this week. Thus, into the trust of trained Cltisen-Auxiliansts has passed P one of the historical functions of the Coast Guard. Until recently, the volunteer Auxiliarists have devoted most of their efforts to shore and river patrols in small craft. Beginning immediately, and in some communities already under way. Coast Guard officials say, Auxiliarists will de assigned to the vital task of watch tower duty. Howe\er, before all regular ' Coast Guardsmen may be relieved of their present duties and sent to sea and land fighting fronts, more men will be needed to swell the growing ranks of the Auxili- ■ ary, according to the Coast Guard. To train prospective Auxjliarists for the important job inside the watch tower cabins, the Coast Guard has announced short coursos of instruction will be conducted without charge to applicants to prepare them for duty. Men accepted for watch tower duty with the Auxiliary will be taught to observe and record in a log such data as direction and force of the wind, states of the weather, cloud formations and conditions of the surf and extent Ip visibility at sea. [ Coast Guard officials, in de- . scribing a possible situation an l Auxiliary tower watcher might f encounter, point out that such a man must be constantly on the alert throughout the six-hour watch period. As an example, the officials t- puhlt out, a vigilant Auxiliarist spotting a distant flashing light from a blacked out merchant convoy at sea, would spring into action. His first task would be to determine the exact location from which the distress light came by means of a compass Next, a Coast Guard cutter would be advised by telephone or radio, and ■the vessel would speed trouble spot. In some eases such a distress ■inal from a ship would be to j advise of a seriously injured or sick sailer in need of immediate *' ** -**—“— *- other

cepted for this patriotic, volunteer service are furnished Coast Guard uniforms at government Soon to be added to the duties of watch tower personnel will be that of spotting and identifying aircraft and reporting same vii the “Army Flash” message. Watchers upon sighting oi hearing any airplanes and determining the direction, distance and type, if the latter is possible of ascertaining, place an “Army Flash” call with the telephone operator. The connection is made immediately with the Army Information Center to which the watcher submits his reports. In reporting an observed flight, the watchers are required to exercise the utmost speed, not more than 15 seconds elapsing between the time of spotting the planes and reporting the information via ‘‘Army Flash.” » In reporting flares and light flashes observed at sea. Coast Guard officials say new men in watch towers arc frequently deceived by Nature. In several cases it has been known that watchers reported seeing submarine lights but it developed that the men merely saw the tail-end flashes of shooting stars. Another important function of •atch tower personnel is the recognition of sea craft, including the different types of battle craft such as battleships, aircraft carriers. cruisers, destroyers and submarines and merchant ships such as tugs, barges, tankers, freighters and transports. A new project for Coast Guard

cases, such a signal might a aubmarine has been sighted or has even attacked the convoy. The

■ Immediate dispatching of a Coast . Guard cutter to the scene via

the route set by the Auxiliary tower watchers may easily spell the doom of the undersea marauder and at the same time save lives of seamen and prevent loos of invaluable stores of

I of two men with duty s divided into six-hour waU In watch towers in certain viI Auxiliarists have' ed for active duty. _t Guard officials report there to be found physicians, m- ' bus drivers, at-

Auxiliarists -and one entirely separated from their physical tasks is that of assisting in the recruiting of young women within their communities for full-time service as SPARS, the Women’s Reserve

of the regular Coast Guard. .' CAMDEN—Cape May County Several flotillas have set up,and several of its municipalities information booths and manned were represented at a conference

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them with their own members. Interested young women are interviewed and then referred to the regular Coast Guard procurement officers for enlistment. The Coast Guard, now in the midst of an intensive drive for SPAR recruits, is seeking women 20 to 36 years old, single or if married with no children under IK. - The service is in need of women with business, professional or trade experience. Accepted recruits are sent to the new Coast Guard Training Station for .SPARS in Palm Beach, Fla., where the "boots" ire indoctrinated in a four-week training course. SPARS who qualify at the end of the four weeks are entered in advanced training schools for additional 112 weeks' courses. When in training at Palm Beach, Fla., in the former Biltmore Hotel, “SPARS receive $50 a month, and upon graduation, they are rated second or first class seamen with salary increases to receive the same rate of pay as $54 and $66 a month. SPARS regular Coast Guardsmen. Moreover. each SPAR receives a clothing» allowance ot $200 in addition to her quarters and subsistence of

$82 a month.

Upon completion of training, SPARS are assigned to various Coast Guard district offices and stations where they take over various posts of regular Coast Guardsmen, who in turn are transferred to the sea and land

fighting fronts.

of county and municipal officials of South Jersey here yesterday. The conference was called in an effort to conserve the use of gasoline by government agencies. The meeting was held at Camden's city hall yesterday morn-

ing.

Purpose of the conference, according to Harrison M. WQlis, chief rationing officer of the Camden OPA district office, was to educate local governments in the method of conserving gasoline in the use of government owned automobiles. ‘‘The State of New Jersey,” Willis pointed out. “is being used as an experiment in the new educational plan, and if successful, will be adopted on a nation-wide scale.” As the plan now stands, Cox is required to review and certify all applications on rations for automobiles owned by the state or upon which the state pays ileage. Under this system, Cox • ■*-- ■— •• -

the same period Recommendations were made to representatives attending yesterday's conference that local mileage administrators be appointed with authority to control the mileage of local government and individually owned automobiles in the use of official business. R. Wallace Brewster and Paul H. Blaisdell, representative of the Washington Mileage Division of OPA, were present at the conference to give further instructions in the consrevation pro-

gram.

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