Donald MacMillan Embarks On
29th Voyage Into Arctic Waters
BOOTH HARBOR, Me., UP! —
The sturdy schooner Bowdoin
pointed northward Saturday, car
rying Rear Admiral Donald Mac
Millan on the famed explorer’s
29th and probably final voyage
to Arctic waters.
Residents and summer visitors
at the little port arranged a heart
warming sendoff for the 79-year
old skipper, who only the day
before was elevated from Com
mander to Rear Admiral by spe
cial act of Congress.
Before the 81 - foot vessel de
parted, town manager Ralph Boyd
presented a plaque to MacMillan
expressing appreciation for 20
years of basing his expeditions
here. Gov. Burton M. Cross added
to the tributes after a parade to
the dock.
Sponsor of the expedition is
Bowdoin College, MacMillan’s
alma mater where he once taught
anthropology.
The 33-year-old white - hulled
Bowdoin will journey 8,000 miles
before returning home. Its voyage
will take it to the east coast of
Laborador, Baffin Land, Elles
mere Land and Renssalaer Har
bor, which no ship has entered for
100 years.
At Clarence Head the party will
explore ice-locked fjords.
The last vessel to enter Rens
slaer Harbor was that of Dr.
Elisha Kent Kane, top-of-the
world explorer. His ship was fro
zen in the ice there for two years
before being abandoned in 1855
by Dr. Kane. Eskimos have told
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Adm. MacMillan that the ship
still lies on the harbor bottom.
The Bowdoin also expects to
put in at Cape Sabine, scene of
the tragic Greely expedition of
1884 in which only 8 of 25 men
survived.
Aboard the schooner are cloth
ing, food and medicine for the 70
children at the MacMillan School
the explorer founded at Nain,
northern Laborador.
The rugged ship will go to Kane
Basin, off the northwest shores of
Greenland, and Etah, the north
ernmost village in the world. The
voyage will take MacMillan, his
wife and a dozen shipmates to
within 11 degrees of the North
Pole.
MacMillan, a resident of Pro
vincetown, spent four years op
erating out of Etah when he was
with Admiral Peary’s expedition.
After 29 such voyages, why is
he going again?
“To learn something,” MacMil
lan replies simply.
RACE DRIVES KILLED
AT ANCHORAGE SPEEDWAY
ANCHORAGE, WV—Multiple in
juries suffered when his roadster
went wildly out of control at the
Tumagain Speedway last Sunday
were fatal Thursday to Raymond
Cokley, 26 year-old race driver.
Cokley, who came here in 1952
from Yakima, was crushed when
the car rolled over five times.
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LOS ANGELES, UP)—A million
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brought under control Saturday.
One worker was reported miss
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neither seriously.
Since much of the fuel was des
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F. E. Coyle, marine terminal
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Three Men Killed In Wild
Mississippi Shooting Spree
CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Gfl
—Sheriff A. H. Gotcher and two
Negro men were killed Saturday
in a wild shooting that began
shortly after dawn.
Deputy Sheriff N. F. Black of
Coahoma County said Bennie
Hale, a Negro about 43 years old,
wounded a Negro woman and shot
a man to death before fleeing into
a cotton warehouse.
Black said he, the sheriff and
other officials went into the build
ing after Hale. The deputy said
Gotcher opened a door while
hunting for Hale and was shot
twice through the heart, once in
the head and twice in the back.
He said officers returned with
tear gas and routed Hale, who
came out shooting and was killed.
Maj. Yeager Receives
D. S.M. For Flying
Rocket 1,600 m.p.h.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., UP) — The fastest traveling
human received the Distinguished
Service Medal for flying a rocket
plane more than 1,600 m.p.h.
The recipient was Maj. Charles
E. Yeager, U.S. Air Force pitot
who was also the first man to fly
faster than sound. He made the
1,600 m.p.h. flight Dec. 12, 1953,
in a Bell X-1A research plane.
After reaching top speed at
70,000 feet altitude his streak
ing ship went out of control but
he regained it at' about 20,000 feet.
Yeager first cracked the sonic
barrier in 1947.
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