The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1940, Page 2

YOUTH KILLED IN PROPELLER - ACCIDER] HERE Mien Lee, of Pefershurg, Dies Insiantly at Boat Herhor Struck on the v wi hiead by airplane propelie it of Petetsburg, v nty early this morhing e landin ramp in Juneau’s n mall boat harbor Lee wa preser on' the plane of Jame: ihenart of * Petérshurg He arrived here yesterday afternoon and was about to leave on a flight to Sitka when the tragedy occtrred be dec! accidental ih the verdict of a Cor- death w: red to Lee's oners Jury which held an ingt this morning before U Commi sidher Felix Gray. Servin * jury were George A. Getchell, Ja Monagle, Morgan H. Truesdell, George W. Laverty, George Jorgen- sbn and Waiter E. Bathe. Aceident Exrlained As'déscribed at the inquest, Rine- hart-and {wo passengers, young the on and Leonard B. James, left the Main Street seapiane float early to- day to fly to Sitka. As the mofor of his Pairhild hiplane NC-9108 ap peared to be missing fire, Rinehart taxied to the plane ramp in the small boat harbor to change spark plugs. +On: arriving at the ramp, Lee vollmtééred to step out on & pontoon and take a line ashor He wa cautionttd by Rinehart against ap proaching the propeller, which con tinued to spin by spurts through pre-igniting of the hot motor, even though the ignition had been turned off. Rirfehart shouted to Lee twice be éareful, but the youth crouched under the momentarily stilled pro- peHer, which suddenly turned over striking him on the shoulder and head. . Lee fell into the water, killed Instantly. “He never kficw what hit him Dr. E. 'P. Dawes testified at the inquest. Deen Slochas The nine-foot six-inch metal pro pellér left gaping wound in o CLOTHES t OFTEN. we send VO s PHO i GARMENTS to TRIANGLE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940. f ) PR f skull, laying his head.open 'cleaf 1 ¢ - ] 9 b | td the. Jew, * Thacut 't bl terh] VE | ‘Queen Helen’ Again H EE"’ KNEILL HOME shoulder was also deej [ G 1 ¥ o Wn | The body s retrieved immed- i N AT M'lE 12 fately by Rinehart from where it { I alston who, with Deputy U. 8 Marshal Walter Hellan, took the lN RA E BiG SE(PEI boc hore in a skiff | The Chri ISTENSC ise at The accident occurred at about | A Mile 12 en the Glacier Highway, be- 6:35 o'clock this morning. | tween Auk Lake and Auk Bay, bu Rinehart and his two passenges: Ll ob— f — ed to the ground late this ait arrived ‘here vesterday. ‘Rinehart 3 Ne | & iling noon | lew from Portland to Petersburg i | oy y £t months by Mr. and Mrs the day before, Lee arranged at comes' n 20 Yeafs | Moflday O”\a-‘{ fll" N. Neill, whe w ust prepar- Petersburg to fly to Juneau, saying i H ing o drive to Juneau when the| ployment in'a new pulp mill which = | Hearing a roar in the. attic, Neill was informed was to be built on (Continued from Page One) investigated and found that the fire he ONOLULU, J The Baranof Island i abouts and destination of major un- | starting. around the chimney, was | Experienced at Task ment came after a second demon- | in the U. 8. Fleet which put to already beyond control I The youth had tied up the plane | stration’ wak staged for Willkie’ ahd s amid great sesrecy . Monda The Neills lost most of their n previcus 1 they had made | 155 . was followed by the voté to continued to mystify Hawaiian Is- | possessions in the blaze. They have tozether, Rinehart said. Jammes tes-{ agfourn e moved to the Baranof Hotel tem-| fified that it was common practice | Six names reniained to be placed The ships were last observed fol- | porarily | for passenzers to lielp handle the|pafore the convention tcday for the lowing the regular sea lane to tl T B 5 | Imes on small planes. He was about | putpose of nomiingtion. These are mainland, on which route they left to get ouf on the opposite pontoon gsdator Vandenbérk. of Michigin; | rusy like old times, Helen Jacobs APril 7 on annual war games Rag: RA&DERS ‘_‘f"‘,_“" v the time of the | Sénator McNary, of Qregon; Gover- | »f* Galifornia, is again a cour B - T T 4 n £ B el v James; Hanford McNider of | qugen. She is pictured at Haver o SRS S Bt - Bre The victim was the soh of Mr.|fewa, and Scuth ‘Dakota’s Gover- | ford, Pa. after she defeated E s A i el H" G[RMA and Mrs. Howard Lee of Petersburg. 'nor Bushfield. nice ‘Dean, of Texas, in straight |dents were lawyers—by far the = | His mother, Mrs. Nadja Lee, is a Nominations, N Ror the Pensudivu and' leading profession in that office. | member of the Petersburg City| Last night Senator Taft was placed | Bastern States women's champion- -~ i Council With his father, Allen a i .| ‘hip at the Merion Racket Club. | in nomination and his powerful bloc 1 Subscribe to Twe Daily Alaska s had owned and operated the: hali- |of well organized delegates gave him but LONDON, June 27.—The British | Air Ministry anncunced teday the Empire—~the paper with the largest paid cireulation. boat V Miss Randi Molver, | hal: hour demonstration at the cmplovee in the office of the enq of the nominating speech by Unemployment Compensation Com- | Toledo publisher Grove Patterson Empire cmsvfieds brng results mission here, is a_cousin, Taft, workers dropped colored pa- he body is at the Charles W.|per from-the convention hall sky- Carter Mortuary pending funeral | Jights, on the milling delegates wrangement The nominating oratory began to - fall on weary ears as the cvening ! wore on. Delegates had been in ses- sion since eatly aftertioon. Dewey Nominated | New Ym-fg District Attorney Thom- ‘las Dewey was put into nomination and more tHan half the delegates snake danced to the platform in a demonstration second only fo that MAGNUSON 10 INSPECT WORK ON AIR BASES U. 5. DEPARTIMENT HE l’W‘“Etjfi qui’:‘ujfilc BUREAU (By ‘the U.'S. Weathler ‘Bareau) Forecast for Juncau and vicinily, beginning at 4:30 p.m., June 27: Light showers -tonight end Friday;: minimwn temperature tonight about 48 degree entle to moderate southerly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Light showers with not much change in temperature tonight and Friday; gentle to moderate outherly winds except moderate to fresh over Lynn Canal Forecast of winus along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate southerly winds from Dixon Entrance to Sitka; and mod- erate southeast and easterly winds from Sitka to Kodidk LOCAL DATA Time Barometer ‘lemp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yest'y 30.14 53 89 S 12 Cloudy 4:30 ¢ today 30.22 50 92 SE 3 Cloudy Noon. today i 30.28 53 80 s 8 "Lt. Rn. Show'r RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowvest 3:30a.m. Preclp, 3:30am. Station last 24 hours | te np. temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow 41 | 34 o Yolgy Fairbanks 71 55 18 Cloudy Nome 50 46 [} Cloudy Dawson 72 49 0 Pt. Cldy AncHorage 66 47 ] 9 Bethel 1 49 0 St. Paul 51 42 0 Dutch Harbor .. 51 44 T Wosttesenski 65 48 P Kodiak 54 44 o Clear Cordova 61 | 51 0 Cloudy Junédtu 55 | 50 44 Rain Sitka 60 49 02 Cloudy Ketehikan 58 50 09 Prince Rupert 61 47 0 Prince George .. 64 40 2% Seattle 3 | 52 0 Clear Portland 73 | 50 0 Clear San Francisco .. 70 55 0 Clesr WEATHER SYNOPSES A large area of high pressure overspreads most of the North Pa- cific ‘Ocedn 'this morning whilé a minor' 'disturbance appears to be centered i the 'Gulf of Alaska. Cleudy weather was general ove most’ of ‘Alaska @uring the last 21 hours with showery conditions persisting over’ Southeast Alaska a.ud along the coast of the Gulf Light ratfoceutred also in the Interior and the Yukéon Territor Over the southern half of the Juneau Seattle Airways, fair weather with partly cloudy skies. continued. for Taft. In each successive nom- | Juneau, June 28—Sunrise 3: um., sunset 10:1¢ p.m WASHINGTON, June 27.—Repre- | Nating speech emphasis Was laid Z = e e » 2 o s , 4 " on naticnal preparcdness ax - entative Warren G. Magnuson, of | © prep: ang pleds Royal Air Force yesterday bombed, A scooped out cabbage makes a Washington St member of thé{SS: that the candidate would keep < ¥ _ : ? House Naval Affairs Committce. is | AMerfca’ ut of férelen wars, German occupied ~”;d”’“"'~\ at Wall- | novel container for crisp. vegetable us! L airs . Is 1 aven ncar Rotterdam. enroute to Seattle to take a Goy- | . INe name of the leading candi- b st : salad. Careruny remove tlie center ernment plane north for inspection dates were among the fiest five Further raids were also carried | ;o o gy young cabbage. Chop of work on the naval bases at |Domilations:’ The speech for Dewey cut at Bon, near Cologne, and at | . "0 oveq” cabbage and mix Sitka and Kodiak was' followed by ‘that for New York Dertmud, east of Essep, Germany. . o ooconings and salad dressing b Publisher Frank Gannett. Alabama o v Roughly refill the cabbage with Preservation of fresh olives by | Yielded on the roll call to New York The Daily Alaska mpire has the' the salad. Sprinkle the top with aiing N wneri. State. Otiter States yielded so that ¥ £= " e Py - e DL ng is the subfect of experf i 34 y yaid circrlation of any Al-| thopped parstey and: geated. raw ment at the University of Califor- |PCMinating speéches” fof Taft and b 3 éarrot nia Willkie followed in that order newsPe oL y B i i PR The name of Utility Executive o S A Wendell' Willkie ‘Was placed before the convention for the Presidential nomination. Congressman Halleck of Indiana made the nominating are CLEANED speech. Fist’ Fights The Wedell Willkie issue plunged the convention into a series of fist fights ch the Tloor. Philadelphia city policemen rushed crito the packed tonvention ‘floor to separate slugging New York dele- r Longer! T ar il i {gates fighting for New York State's ; g | Work_that Ts Sure to |banner. Part of the at 3 Li Please You M Gpiegeten TO THE MEMORY OF LINCOL N _serenein its necklace of trees, the Lincoln memorial | wanted fo match ‘for Willkie. Dewéy | men thought otherwise. After a wild melee of five mirfutes, 4 woman in |a white hat struggled free and dashed downh the aisle amidsét wild | cheering from thé gallériés. By far | the major part of the Willkie cheer- | ing came from the galleries rather than from the " delegates on the; | foor ! Slugfests broke out over Virginia and Delaware banners as partisans | of other candidates tried to kift off ! is a favorite with sightseers in Washington, D. C. Note shadow of navy blimp at left foreground. _GIRLS CAN LOOK THEIR BEST IN NEW BEACHWEAR NE MODES by Amy of the MOMENT a small but enthusiastic Wiilkie parade béforé it began. ° o Sendtor Robert TalTs' convention floor manager, R. B. Granger of | Teras, charged that Republican con- | | vention officials favorableé to Wen- dell Wilkie had packed the galler- ies to create a Willkie demonstra- tion. Granger threatened to bring | | formal prcoeedings before the Re- | | publican. National Committee | against the chairman of the Ar- | rangements committee, Senator Pry- or of ‘Connecticut. Porter | PROSPECTOR GETS YEAR: ° +CLAIMDEAL Sold Chig,hia“gzj,,, Property Five Times fo a3 o _Maay»,Pgr;ons SBATTLE,” June 27. — Peter Sa-| marzich, 48, prospecto who sold | the same Alaska mining claim on | ChMichagof fsland to. five: dmmm} pérsons' for a' profit of $5,255, has | | been sentenced by Judge Black to one year and’a dhy in"MoNeil Is- | land for mail fratd: A3 P | { | | | | JUNEAU" MEN THERE Mayor -+ of -Juneau, Harvy -1 | Lucas, Frank WMetcalf, and Dave | Housel, all of ‘this ocity, werg sub- | peenad. for, the. trial, of Samarzich. - NEW ' YORK, June 27— Closing quofation of Alaska Juheall mine | | stock today is 4%, Amefiean Can | 9% Anaconda 20%, 'Bethlehem | Stéel T, Commhortwealth and| | Southern' 114, Ourtiss’ Wright 71, | Geéneral Motors 40%, International | Harvester 43', Kennecott 26, New | York Central . 11%, Northern Pa- |cific 6, United States Steel 5113, Pound $3.881%. e suit and robe; center, Ginger Rogers in “candlewick” hooded robe, satin swim suit; below, printed tie silk bathing suit. ~ ered at the shoulder seams for fullness. Under this she wears a satin swim suit in Hawaiian print in lemon yellow and azure blue. The bathing suit below was designed by Florence Gainor, and is made of pure tie silk in a geometric print—rose e smspmnns Left, white sharkskin play If there is one place on earth where a girl wants to look her best, it is on the beach. The new beach costumes attend to that, as you see above. The glistening white sharkskin play suit at the left, is an example. It is beautifully cut and with it comes TEN HIGH smile ITS TIME TO CHANGE YOUR HEAVIER LUBRICANTS! § CONNORS MOTOR { LuBRIcATTON JEREE* e B e e e | B g TR O SR r LF b 1L T ) o THE PRICE NGT EVERYTHING" PHONE 767 PHONE 767 THRIFT COOP .. STREET RETAILEES OF FAMOUS SHURFINE and TASTEWELL PRODUCTS 3-—-FREE DELIVERIESY—3 Our Store Is as Close as Your Phone—SHOP EARLY ‘‘THE PRICE.1IS. NOT EVERYTHING"' -9 o e S § Didest Banlk: in Alaska Commercial " " Savings Safe Deposit. .. ing by Mail ’Departmeni Bank B The B. VI. Behrends Bank Neéw linés and beautifully blended colors made this suede and Alaska ~#éalskin costume ocutstanding at the Preview of Americin Designs in Neéw York, Straight-and-narrow natural-color suede dress by Voris b Boxswagger coat of matara brown sealskin, a full-length robe with a monogram in danger red. | against a light blue background. The bra top Ginger Rogers has chosen a hooded robe of a | is held firm by a rose-blue jersey halter strap and fabric resembling an old-fashioned candlewick | is attached to the belt of the little boy pants. Dis- spread. , The robe is in lemon yellow, the top gath- |, creetly covering but fine for sun-tanning.,~ DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 120.69, rails 2573, utilities 22,10