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COS qitgCltS Cl'mCS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1944-PortI 9 ROADWAY, FOURTH AND HIU TELEPHONE MUtual Wtt Two Airlines Bid for Pacific Route to Hawaii DOWNTOWN MAtCOlM MeNAGHTEN, PRES. V' I A I In simultaneous announce- ments two American airlines1 yesterday jockeyed for the in-: side track in the postwar race for Los Angeles-Hawaii air traffic business. United Air Lines announced filing with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington. D.C, an, application for a direct air service from Los Angeles to Hawaii, with less than 12 hours scheduled for the 2491-mile flight. United proposes to use four- engined 52-passenger planes with service starting immediately after the war.

Transcontinental Western fflW Express your fender feeling for her with a thoughtful gift. We've assembled some suggestions for Mother's Day, May 14fh. Air, announced purchase of a 20 per cent interest in Hawaiian Airlines at a price exceeding $300,000. At the same time company officials said T.W.A. would withdraw its ap- plication to the C.A.B.

for per-: mission to fly the California-; Hawaii route "inasmuch as Hawaiian has asked the C.A.B. to permit extention of its passen ger, mail and express service in the islands to the American mainland." The Hawaiian line operates three-DC-3 transports and three S-43 amphibians. FAMILY Katie Filon, wife of Frank Filan, photographer who won $500 Pulitzer and their daughter Sheila, 3, and dog. They live at 1340 Kenmore Ave. Frank won highest photographic award for Tarawa picture.

Cr affirm PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS BEGAN AS OFFICE BOYS DAVENPORT CHAIR $flQ50 Filan Honored for Tarawa Duty U. S. PACIFIC FLEET PEARL HARBOR, May 1. (P) Frank Filan, Associated Press photog- Including material. Two local boys made good yesterdayDan De Luce and Frank Filan.

They won the Pulitzer office on the "graveyard" shift. In 1939 he was sent to New York and assigned to the A.P. cable desk. He was supposed to snenri upplies, labor, pick-up and dlirry. Complat and up Phoae YO.

8183 coll sf your homo with a com-p'vtt tint of templet, no cfcorg. I YEAR TO PAY several months there, but five days after his arrival he was sent to London. Sinee 19 S. Prize, the top honors in journalism for last year. The money was nice $500 apiece.

But the honor was more. Dan started work as an office boy for the Associated Press in 1931, working nights. In the time he was a student at the Los Angeles campus of the University of California. It was there rapner ana runtzer mze winner, has been commended for his "inspiring dsvotion to duty" during the Tarawa invasion, Adm. Chester W.

Nimitz announced today. The letter cf commendation, From London he as assigned as a war correspondent in Budapest, and then Greece (where he escaped three days before the Nazis took over,) then Turkev, Iran and India, where he picked up a stomach ailment which forced him to return to the United States. Three months later he left for 5700 W.PICO" Y0.818I in mtiwioii tt Character (ntegrify 's'-' GIFT GOWN BY ALfDA A iku lisht OS thistledown cotton with dyed-to-motch Full skirt for il0 A bio' leeoino comfort, in l.v.r, post.l A 22 colors, sizes 32-38. 3.95 5.95 sj llNGERI1 THIRD FIOOK ItNOERII THIRD FLOOR 'X, Algiers, Anzio and the Mediterranean theater. His wife Almai uidt ne won memoersnip as a Phi Beta Kappa.

Following college he was a reporter for the A.P. in The Times issued by Maj. Gen, Julian C. Smith, commanding general of the 2nd Marine Division at Tarawa, said that Filan ashore, with the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Marine Regiment during "probably the most hotly contested landing ever engaged met him in Cairo a few months later as a member of the Board of Economic Warfare. Dan won the award for his REGULAR EMPLOYMENT FOR Wattr Tender, Plant Repairman, Oiler, Guard, for ButadUnt Plant.

Aiet 18 to S3. Availability Ctrlificof rqurd. ANGELENOS WIN PRESS PRIZES articles in 1943 as "a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on international affairs." Started on 'The Times' Frank Filan, whose wife Apply Personnel 3rd in oy our "You conducted yourself, throughout the action in accordance with the best traditions of the United States naval service, and exhibited, devotion to your duty to the press and floor, 810 So. Flower St. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY Katie and daughter Sheila, 3,1 live at 1340 N.

Kenmore I the public that was came to Los Angeles from Newi Smith said. Continued from First Page tees awarded a prize to the Kan-pas City (Mo.) Star for editorials written by HenryJ. Other awards: For distinguished correspondence during the year 'r. Ernie Pyle of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance. Distinguished example of a cartoonist's work Cliff ord K.

Berryman of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star for his car York. One of his first jobs in Los Angeles was as an office bov for The Times. He later worked as an office boy for the A.P. and was promoted to an A.P. photographer.

His celebrated pictures of the Tarawa landing, for which he Pole JeuMzL xcllvelu Of BEVKBLY HILLS I few suggestions in sterling toon entitled "But Where is the Boat Going?" For a distinguished example of the telegraphic reporting on national affairs Dewey L. Fleming of the Baltimore Sun. Flavin Wins Award For a distinguished example Of a reporter's work, the preference being given to news stories being published under the pres won the award, were made under fire and under dire handicaps. One of the handicaps was that he had to take his pictures between the times he helped carry wounded marines to safety. In July, 1942, Frankie cheated death in a spectacular escape from a doomed Armv bomber I silver designed and individually jeweled by HobeC HOSIERY BY PHOENIX Genuins Phoenix rayons, her in time for Mother's Day.

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flying near Victorville. The plane crashed into another and spun earthward. Frankie was thrown clear, unconscious, but came to in time to pull the rip cord of his aerial lifesaver and land safely. THE BROADWAY HOSIERY STREET FLOOR sure of edition time, relating to matters of special interest of a local or regional character Paul Schoenstein, city editor of the Xew York Journai American, and to reporters who co-operated in development and publication' of a news, story saved the life of a 2-year-old girl by obtaining penicillin. In the division of letters, the following prizes were awarded: For a distinguished novel pub-i lished by an American author: "Journey in the Dark," by Martin Flavin, published by Har- per Bros.

I For a distinguished book of' history "The Growth of Ameri-j can Thought" by Merle Curti, i published by Harper Bros. For a distinguished American! biography "The American Leonardo: The life of Samuel F. B. Morse" by Carleton Mabee, pub-: 33 0i warns. 3 tGr.

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