M SURPRISED STOWAWAY Albert Provestto of Revere Beach,
Mass., hoped to land in California, turned up instead in Italy. Here,
Albert and a Red Cross representative talk over his unauthorised
presence in Naples^ including the p/oblem of returning him, safely
FORCES FORM
THREATENING
ENTRAPMENT
By MURLIN SPENCER
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP
PINES, Nov. 15.—(AP)—Success
ful enveloping movements by
veteran Americans of the 24th
Infantry and the dismounted First
Cavalry Division, fashioned a new
trap today, which threatened an
nihilation of Japanese forces on
the north end of Leyte’s bloody
Ormoc corridor.
Twenty-fourth Infantry men
drove a spearhead through the
rugged mountain country south
west of Pinamapoan, threatening
Marshal Yamashita’s troops on
the line below Limon.
Gen. MacArthur reported the
strategy well executed.
While units of the 24th Infantry
-. I
were fighting along the Ormoc
road, pressure was maintained
constricting the Japanese.
Other elements of the division 1
swung through the mountains to
the southwest and cut back to
wards the Ormoc road. At the
same time the First Cavary
swung toward the road from the
east and southeast, placing the
Japanese in the position of either
having to retire or face probable
annihilation.
On the southern end of western
Leyte battlefield, small-scale Jap
anese attempts to bring reinforce
ments were repulsed by troops of
the American Seventh Division,
which caught the enemy moving
forward in small barges toward
Damulaan, which is 14 miles
south of Ormoc.
This is the first mention in
more than a week of Ormoc,
which is the only remaining rein
forcement port lor the enemy.
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! FORMER DOG
MUSHER NOW
AIRPORT HEAD
^ Pan American Airways’ old
timer Fred Milligan, one-time
; operator of a competitive dog
team mail route in Alaska this
• month wast appointed Airpor
j Traffic Manager at Seattle for
the company’s Alaska service.
Forced into the aviation busi
ness 13 years ago when Pacific
International Airways outbid his
dogteam mail contract Milligan
swallowed his pride and joined
forces with his competitors, and
has been, with them ever since.
“When I saw those airpanes
flying over my dog trails, I knew
it was the end of the dogteam in
Alaska” said Miligan. “Why com
pete with an outfit that covered
a distance in three hours that
took me 20 days by dogteam?”
When Pan American took over
the subsidiary in 1932, Miligan
went right along with them, and
is now one of the eight remain
ing oldtime Alaskans still with
the Sector. Sitting in his Seattle
office behind a desk scattered
with papers Milligan might not
be recognized by his Alaskan
friends who knew him when he
sledded over the frozen tundra
wrapped in parka and mukluks,
carrying the U. S. mail to remote
Arctic towns. A colorful and
j well-known Alaskan figure and
an associate of such famous Alas
kans as Ben Eilson, Joe Crosson
and Joe Barrows, Milligan first
visited Alaska in 1905 after
spending most of his early life
at sea. A seasoned world travel
er, he found the magic of the
South Seas and Pago Pago no
match for the spell of the Yukon.
Out of the tundra and snow
banks, Milligan carved a dog
trail, first along the Yukon from
Ruby to Koltag in 1911, then
gradually branching out to carry
more mail contracts. When his
competitors took over the route,
Milligan was invaluable in guid
ing the pilots over the dogtrail
routes he had made in this deso
late Arctic country.
Starting out as flight mechanic,
Milligan became Pan American’s
airport manager in Fairbanks in
1936 before his transfer to Seattle
four years later. When asked
whether he missed the PAA pio
neering days of Alaska, Milligan
replied, “I should^ say not! There’s
too much work to be done for
me to start reminiscing!”
GERMAN PRIZE
BATTLESHIP
! SUNK BY BOMBS
1
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| LONDON, Nov. 15.—(AP)—It
I was officialy announced last
night that the German batteship
von Tirpitz was sunk yesterday
morning by a fleet of British Lan
caster bombers which attacked
1 her in Tromso Fiord, along the
north coast of Norway.
This was the eighth attack
which the heavy bombers have
made on this last, large battleship
of the German navy.
Starlings were introduced into
I the United States in 1890.
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! AIRLINES TO
I TERMINATE
ITS SERVICES
— ——
CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—(AP)—
i Officials of the United Airlines
today announced, effective im
mediately, that flights between
Seattle and Anchorage will be
terminated. The Air Transport
Command made the request.
This move is being made, offi- 4
cials said, so that United Airlines
1 may transfer its personnel from
; that route to trans-Pacific oper
ations which helps conduct this
service for the ATC.
United Airlines said it had
j compiled a record of more than
5.200.000 miles flown with 16,
500.000 pounds of men, material
and supplies since 1942, on the
j Seattle-Anchorage route.
i _____
NEW DEPUTY
MARSHAL IS
NAMED HERE
Marion A. McCorkle has been
appointed Deputy United States
Marshal and is to be stationed at
Nome, it was learned today.
Mr. McCorkle will arrive here
in a few days and wife and daugh
ter will soon follow from the
States. Another daughter, Mrs.
Vernon More, lives in Nome and
her husband is a member of the
U. S. Signal Corps here.
Mr. McCorkle has lived in
Alaska many years, having been
in charge of the Signal Corps
station at Kotzebue and other
stations. He is a veteran of World
War I. and was only recently hon
orably discharged from the army.
He has had wide experience as
an enforcement officer and is re
signing from a position with the
Pinkerton Detective Agency to
accept the deputy marshalship.
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