The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL L., NO. 7528. JUNEAU ALASKA, TUESDAY JULY 6, 1937. 2 Helsel Boys Vl STANLEY, DAVID LOSE LIVES IN CRYSTAL POOL Wellknown_gds Just Fin- ishing Swim when Trag- edy Strikes on Holiday EFFORTS TO REVIVE WITHOUT SUCCESS Funeral Semes Will Be Held Tomorrow at 2 P.M. Scottish Rite Temple A tragedy which took the lives | of Stanley Albert Heisel, 15, and | David Sidney Heisel, 14, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Heisel of | Juneau, marked a sad Fourth nr July, Sunday, for the hundreds of friends of the two popular Juneau‘ ¢ high school boys and also of the| pucents. The two lads, whose father is| Deputy Collector of U. S. Customs, | were drowned in Crystal Pool, one of several small ponds near the| Mendenhall Rifle Range and Men- denhall Glacier, shortly after noon, | Sunday. Spending the day near the range, | .the two boys, accompanied by Rob- ert Geyer, were at the pool late in| the morning when Bob and David | decided to dress after swimming.| Stemley had dived from the im-| provised spring board, and David was continuing dressing when he| realized that his brother had failed to reappear. Tried to Rescue Brother Alarmed, he tore off part of his clothing and jumped in, but his cown life was to be paid for the effort to save his brother, for| neither rose to the surface. | Bob Geyer, who had been on the opposite side of the pool at the| time of the drowning, returned a| few moments later to look for the boys, but was unable to find them. He called several times, thinking| they were hiding, and though he| remembered seeing them together in the water a few moments be- fore, he believed they had already gotten out. But after repeatedly calling them | he became alarmed and rushed to|i the Montana Creek CCC camp“ about three blocks away, to call for assistance. Accompanied by Bert Loomis, CCC foreman, Jack Ladd and Matt | Warden were the two CCC men on the west shore of the Hudson, lbring San Francisco and Chicago who brought the bodies ashore, | ‘Warden bringing the floating body‘ of Stanley ashore. Ladd dove for| the body of David, which after| several minutes was brought to the shore of the pond, only six | tween September 17, 1937. to Ap"u‘cany free all United States Mail feet in depth. Sounds Alarm In the mean time, Bob Geyer had gone to the rifle range with | the report and Roy Hoffman, Harry Sperling, Lieutenant D. A. Mc-| Pheron, John Osborne, and Harold Smith had gone to aid the CCC rescuers while Geyer immediately left for town where he called an ambulance and Dr. W. M. White- head. Howeyer, upon the arrival of Dr. ‘Whitehead, one hour and one half | after the accident occirred, the boys were pronounced dead. Bob Geyer, who was the only one present at the time of the| accident, stated that neither of the | boys at any time cried out, nor gave any evidence of a struggle. For this reason, it is believed that | one must have had cramps while | in the cold water. A small cut on Stanley’s head, believed to have been received when he dived, is not considered by Dr. Whitehead to have been severe enough to have caused the boy’s drowning. Services Tomorrow , Funeral services, to which all friends and the public are invited, | are to be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the lodge rooms of the Scottish Rite Temple, under auspices of the Order of DeMolay. | The Rev. O. L. Kepdall will of-| ficiate, and interment is to follow in the Masonic Plot of the Ever- green Cemetery. Friends wishing to call at the, Charles W. Carter Mortuary may | do so between 7 and 9 o'clock thhz (Continued on Page Five) £ & Ethel du Pont went back to med wedding gown which she wore when she became the bride of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., at Christ Church, Wilmington, Del. Her gown was of shimmering white tulle with » caught with orange blossoms, More tiny orange blossoms circled (Copyrl‘h! 1937, Jay Winburn) the bride’s waist. PROCLAMATION IS ISSUED BY U, S. PRESIDENT Makes Reference to Consti- tution as Meeting All Present Day Needs HYDE PARK N. Y, July 6. President Roosevelt, after reaffirm- ing faith that the Constitution will meet the present day needs, turned .Lhe last hours of his 90-mile auto |arive to help the Dutch Reformed |Country church at Mount Marion, to celebrate a fund raising drive. The President’s latest reference to the Constitution was in a proclama-| tion setting aside the perlod be- 30 1939. as “one in commemoration’ lof the One Hundred and Fiffieth| | Anniversary of the signing of the |ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of the First presi- dent under that Constitution.” DEATHS ON2 DAY HOLIDAY BEATS RECORD {Only Four F Fatalities Are Attributed Directly to Fireworks (By Associated Press) Five hundred and sixty three men, women and children met violent death in the two-day celebration |of the Fourth. The toll is believed to be the larg- est in history of the United States for a double-day celebration. tributed to fireworks. Traffic accidents were the big- gest, totaling 310. Drownings totalled 142. In the Pa- |cific Northwest there were 20. One man was killed by a train in |the state of Washington and two Indians were burned to death in a |fire at Cashmere, Washington. | The Pacific Northwest reported _e|one of the most tragic of week-end fatalities, Only four deaths however are at- | ieval France for the motif for her tizht bodice shirred into a V-neck New Air Service Is Trail Blazed, Alaska and Yukon Pontooned Monop]ane Fly- ! ing to Northland Via Ed- monton from Montana ! ABOARD EDMONTON - YUKON/ 'PLANE, VIA RADIQ TO EDMON- TON, July 6. — This pontooned | monoplane, trail blazing a new air| mail and passenger route, 1200 miles from Edmonton to White- horse, turned westward up Lmrdi | Pass, | CONFESSES T0 WPA Crossing Guard At- rested, Grilled, Tells of Fiendish Tragedy BRUTAL MURDERS ARE AT LAST CLEARED UP Horrifying Details Are Re- lated to Authorities in Los Angeles that Albert Dyer, 32, WPA crossing guard, employed to protect chil= dren, had confessed to murdering and attacking threp little girls in Inglewood on June 26. Dyer said the children left their toys in the park and met him in | the hills. “I took Madeline down into the! canyon and choked her with one {hand and then put a rope around| her neck. I went back and took | Jeanette and choked her and then |did the same with Melba,” Dyer confessed. Bodies Violated Madeline, the baby of the trio was the first to die. Then he at-] tacked the lifeless bodies of Sanderson said Dyer declared !there was no motive other than sex. Dyer’s wife, when informed of the arrest and confession, cried: “He never did it, he could not have done such a terrible thing.” Dyer was one of the most fre- Later he went to head- “I understand tips. quarters and.said: you want me.” The police said they did not | want then him but he was shadow- ed and taken into custody later. After a long grilling, Dyer ad- mitted the crimes. Death Penalty District Attorney Buron Fitts said he will ask the death penalty. The bodies of the three little girls were found in a guich on June 28 after they had been miss- ing since Saturday, June 26. The girls were Melba Marie Everett, aged 9; her sister, Madeline Ever- ett, aged 7, and Jeanette Marjoric | The new route, sponsors said,, will within 12 hours of Alaska within | one year. | It is said the Canadian Air Serv-| ice, operating between Alaska or‘ { Yukon Territory, and Montana, will | originating in the United States or Alaska, free of chargc 1 ‘Pllutfiaft Gurduva | Accidentally Shot CORDOVA, Alaska, July 6.—The condition of Wesley Van Mater, ‘airplane owner, mechanic and ama- teur pilot, who accidentally shot himself in the head June 26, remains unchanged. | Van Mater is conscious at inter- vals. His sister has arrived in Cor- dova with Pilot Bob Clemens from Copper Center. The accident occurred when Van Mater reached for the gun from ia tree under which he was sit- ting. 5 CONVICTED, MAIL FRAUDS | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 6, — A Federal jury has convicted C. J. Morley, former Governor of Colo- rado and four other former offic- ials of the defunct investment house he headed. The charges were using the mails to defraud. Stephanie, aged 8. Hundreds of men took up the search for the fiend and as sus- pects were arrested, mobs formed around the jail at Inglewood. The | suspects were later released but the feeling continued to run high. BRITISH SHIP IS STOPPED BY REBEL WARSHIP Insurgent (fi Is in Turn Reported Held for Time Being LONDON, July 6.—Lloyds report that two British warships have steamed to the assistance of the British steamer Gordonia after she was stopped near Santander, Spain, by an Insurgent warship. The Gordonia wirelessed she was | stopped about five miles northeast of Cape Majoor. ‘The Admiralty and Foreign Of- fice officials have gone into a hasty conference. It is assumed that British men- of-war are holding the Insurgent warship alongside for the time being. EDEN MAKES REPORT LONDON, July 6—Secretary of Foreign Affairs Eden disclosed there now are no German warships in the Mediterranean. “There are none at all,” said Eden in a talk before the House Morley, who had resigned as pres- ident, was convicted on 11 of 21 counts on scheming to defraud. of Commons. Informed British observers predict a compromise on Spanish non-in- KILLING THREE | LITTLE CIRLS| LOS ANGELES, Cal, July li—l | Detective Lieutenant Leroy Sander= | son announced yesterday morning quent visitors to the police with | others and violated them in turn. Here are the pictures of the girls, victims of a brutal slaying, then assault, whose bodies were found in ne Everett, aged 7; Melba, her sister, aged 9, and The finding’ of the bodies started a man hunt unparalieled in Cali a gulch at Inglewood, California. Left to right: Madc Jeanette Majorie Stephanie, aged 8. fornia histery, for the susp PRICE TEN CENTS ctims of Drowmng Sunday Throp Lmle Vu tims of l l uman l)v«ronorulo P wnd SOUTHPAGIFIC BEING SEARCHED FORMISSINGTWO Navy Vessels, Commercial Ships, Engaged in l;xlenswc Hunt |REPORTED FLARES ARE ONLY FIZZLE | Communication with Down= ed Aircraft Has Appar- ently Ceased BULLETIN — Washington, July 6.—A radio direct to the Coast Guard Headquarters from the Coast Guard cutter Itasca said that at 9:59 o'clock this forenoon no word of the Ear- hart plane had been received and no signs seen. American, Japanese and Brit- ish commercial steamers are Joining in the search as well as 102 United St ates Naval planes, one battleship, four destroyers, a mine sweeper and coast guard- er vessel. Four thousand men aboard the planes and naval craft are scanning the South Pacific for some sign of the missing Earhart plane. HONOLULU, H. I, July 6.—Hopes for rescue of ‘I‘M |her co-pilot, Bert Noonan |eted, then fizzled out when ulo Coast Guard cutter Itasca reported, it had apparently mistaken a meteor for flashes from the plane down |on the South Pacific. | Despite the severe disappointment Ithe search continues with the cen- |ter of the hunt probably shifting {southward 500 miles from a point Boy ‘Smut.s F uul Bmlu’s oi Three Glrl.s in (;ul(‘h ‘ Gathered on both sides of the narrow ravine in lonely Baldwin Hills near Inglewood, Cal., searching parties are pictured shortly after four Boy Scouts made their tragic discovery of the three missing Inglewood tots. The girls, Madeline Everett, 7; her sister, Melba, 9, and Jeanette Stephanie, 8, were lured from a nark to the desolate hills where they were attacked and murdered. found partiglly covered by heavy brush, which made discovery difficult, MRS, LOWDEN PASSES AWAY OREGON, Illinois, July Florence Pullman Lowden, tervention, There is a deadlock | now existing between Italy and Germany on ‘one side and Gre Britain and France on the oLhcr side. ‘ Premier Chamberlain has called‘ a Cabinet and National Defense | Committee into a session to dlh-‘ cuss Great Britain's future pohcy\ as regards the Spnnhh Civil War. | g Under President Lazaro Carde Illinois, died suddenly at her home health program 11925077 Mexicans| near here yesterday. —two-thirds of the country's popu-| .o Gt ke fhe daughter lation — have been vaccinated against smallpux in the last tnree ©f George Pullman, car manufacturer, vears. 6. ~—Mrs. 69, wife |of former Gov, Frank Lowden, of millionaire leeping Lot {208 miles north of Howland Island [to the Phoenix Island group. Early - this morning the Itasca |reported to the Coast Guard station here that it believed it had sighted flares from the Earhart plane, but |the flares might have been made |by heat lightning or meteors. Any- iway the Itasca reported it was pro< |ceeding in the direction of where lthe flares were seen. ! Three Day Hunt | Since last Saturday when the Ear- ‘hart plane, making the 2,750-mile |hop from Lao, New Guineau, on a iprojected world flight, overshot tiny Rowland Island and went down on {the broad South Pacific Ocean, navy vessels, coast guard and planes have ‘mfld(. an intensive search. | Call letters from the plane indi- |cated it was down “somewhere,” but no definite location could be | discerned. Yesterday morning the coast |guard cutter Itasca said the How- (land Island station heard radio signals with Amelia's call letters. A station in Honolulu picked up |signals and from them it was |thought possibly the plane was in |the vicinity of Gardner or McLean Islands in the Phoenix group, about ‘]50 miles south of Howland Island. Search is Speeded | Immediately the aircratt earrier |Lextington, with a full quota of |planes aboard, and the first line !battleship Colorado, with three planes aboard, four destroyers, and the mine sweeper Swan, together with the coast guard cutter Itasca, changed courses and speeded to- ward the possible location of the plane. During this time navy officials at Honolulu received garbled messag- es indicating that the Earhart plane was sinking. Plecing together these messages, the navy officials then believed the plane was about 218 miles north of "~ |Howland. Again the searching craft changed courses. Sinking Slowly In the midst of these reports, an- |other message was picked up signed with the call letters KHAQQ saying: “Can’t hold out much longer above ‘waLer Shut off.” This was taken to mean the plane was sinking lower in the water, forc- members of Their bodies were FRANK BUTEAU DIES, INTERIOR FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 6.— !Frank Buteau, noted Alaskan and jng amelia and her co-pilot Bert Yukon pioneer who entered the Yu-| kon Basin in 1937 via the Chil- ‘gfifi“;u?mb:m“mme to use the koot Trzil, is dead her)y | Various short wave stations on Buteau spent 51 winters and sum-|the Pacific Coast and also at Hono- mers straight in the Yukon Basin,|lulu later picked up signals from was in 40-Mile' Camp the first year the plane but there would be fade- the big strike and carried the |- first gold from there to Juneau (Continued on Page Five) ¥