The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1940, Page 8

ICY LAKE CLAIMS 2 FISHERMEN Trouting Parfy Capsizes at Turner - One Man Gains Shore-Search for Bodies (Continuea 110m Page One) 1p, the boat they were using on the lake capsized, I was sitting in the bow with | my back against a grub box when Chenard started the motor,” Niemi ai The boat was bow heavy, and when Jones leaned over me to put the gas can up forward, I felt water hit me in the back and I yelled for Chenard to cut the motor, but I guess he didn't hear me Plows Under The bow kept plowing under and we rushed astern to get the bow out, but then all that water came back with us and we.really swamped. I velled for everybody to get out and on and we'd kick the boat but when I came up and ned the boat over so it would better, they weren't around 200 Feet Off Shore I guess we were about 200 feet off shore when it happened and I knew we couldn't swim it with boots and heavy clothing. I climbed up on the skiff and kicked my boots off and got rid of my coat. Then I caw Chenard about fifty feet away. He yelled ‘T can't make it—I'm getting stiff,’ and I told him to keep afloat for just a minute and I could 1ddle over to him, He went under a little bit and not quite all of his face came out when he came up and I could see he was holding his breath. If he'd only taken a little ir, he’d have come up again, but the next time he went down and came up again, only his forehead got out, and then pretty soon only hang hore, First (#2) v QUALITY Choice American Bottled in Bord W iifey At your favorite tavern and package store. Yy eorrieo w;’/ DISTILLERS )7 wew vora.n®” Stroight Bourbon Whiskey, 100 proo Schenley Distillers Corp., N.Y. C THEY ROLLED DOWN TO ‘RIO’ —Four U. S. warships are shown in the harbor of Ric de Janeiro, du Quh}f‘y and Destroyers Walke (foreground) and Wainwright. Most visitors coming to Brazil pass threugh towered building, home of Brazil Touring club, MAY PROBE ) his arms were out, slapping around, | and then he went down, just one hand going out of sight and I was | only a few feet away. Yells for Help “Then T heard Jones yell for help and he was about sixty feet away up the beach He drowned, w00, before I could get to him.” Niemi then told how he paddled with his hands to get the boat ashore, how it hung up on a snag and how he managed to swim the last ten feet to shore in the glacial water, to the beach. Without shoes, soaking wet, and in a drear rain, hemmed in by cliffs, Niemi tried futilely to make his calls for help heard by other fishing parties on the lake. He stumbled barefooted “nearly a mile” through brush and along the cliff to a point, but still his calls were unanswered. Fatigued and Dazed Fatigued and dazed, without food, matches, or dry clothing, Neimi crawled under a jutting boulder. broke hemlock boughs for a bed and tried to sleep. He doesn't remember whether he slept or not At daybreak yesterday he stripped off his clothing, worked the boat loose and dragged it ashore where he worked it out on the beach and got it afloat again, dressed, and began a two and a half mile paddle to the foot of the lake with a lone oar that had been wedged under a seat After three hours of paddling Niemi was picked up by Dr. W. P. Blanton, Don Abel and their wives, who had been fishing at the upper end of he lake. Niemi was given hot coffee and food. After picking equipment down the trail to tidewater, Neimi bor- rowed Dr. Blanton's motor and went over to Annex Creek to phone Ju- neau for assistance. Draggers at Scene Late this afternoon no word had been received from the dragging party to whether or not the bodies had been recovered. Those in the dragging party on the Forester are Don Graham, Bill Niemi, Tom Varnson, Elvin Hill, Carl Ashenbrenner, Alvin Anderson, Roy Thomas, Roger Conners, Wen- dell Snyder and Kinky Bayers. Chenard’s estranged wife, who has married again, is in the States. Their two children are in college there. Jones is survived by his mother jand father in Amboy, Washington, (and a sister and brother-in-law in Anchorage. as - Alaska H; " Four Aboard ~ For Juneau SEATTLE, Aug. 6.—Steamer Al- aska sailed on the Southeast Alaska | Tour at 9 o'clock this morning with 242 passengers aboard, including 16 | steerage. | Passengers aboard the Alaska | booked for Juneau include Florence Wilson, Mrs. Ralph Dusenbury, Mrs. Northwest Store Equipment Corpo ration 318 TERRY AVE.,, NORTH, SEATTLE, WASH. 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QUOTATIONS emay 5 LR AMBASSADOR GOES TO TOWN visited a New York night club, anxious to fcrget momen Ambassador to France W CONSCRIPTION IS OPPOSED BY SBROTHERHOODS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 6 Presidents of five big Railroad Brotherhoods in a public statement essed opposition to con- They sent in to the Con- Affairs commit- today ex scription gressional Military tee the statement that compulsory military service in the time of| peace is the very antithesis of free-| dom.” T'he statement added that thou- sands of unemployed would enlist| voluntarily if given a chance | (ROSSONHERE WITHNEWPAR ELECTRA SHIP Joe Crosson, General Manager of | Pacific Alaska Airways, flew in from | Seattle via Tulsequah today in a new Electra for the Juneau-Fair-| banks-Nome service. Aboard the plane with Crosson| were James H. Craine, Superinten- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, —Fun was the order of the evening when these six tarily these anxious times. Left to right: | iam Bullitt, newly arrived from Paris; his daughter, Roosevelt, Jr.; Mrs. Farley; Postmaster General James A. Farley; and Beth Leary. Draft Jar May Be Used Again | [his is the glass jar from which Secretary of War Newton D. Baker irew the names of men to be drafted in 1917. [ndependence Hall, Philadelphia, it may be used again under the first veace-time conscription law in American history. AUG. 6, 1940 Anne; Franklin D, ‘ | | Shown on display at dent of Operations, and Clyde| —~ Smith, mechanic with PAA from Fairbanks. 1Juneau Man The trio landed at Tulsequah| last night when thick weather| closed in, and came to Juneau this| forenoon. The plane will be flown north to- night or tomorrow, bringing to 3 three the number of Electras PAA| Dick Schwartz, Alaska Juneau has in Alaska service, with a fourth | employee. who had been prospect- new ship scheduled to be brought| ing in the Taku River country and north shortly. | was many weeks overdue on his | The new ship is powered with | return to Tulsequah, was found by an Indian the other day in a re- 1200 more horsepower than the| earlier model Electras, and will give| portedly half-crazed and starved | slightly better cruising speed. condition. — - — Schwartz, prospecting in the King Salmon Lake country, evidently| pROIE“S HEARD BY had bt;come lolst Acl:ording to re- EQUALIZATION BOARD |5 ccciing medica atiention, ne now receiving medical attention, he | nad eaten little other than a por- Thirteen protests were made in|cubine in three weeks. | | writing or in person at last night’s| He is said to have shot a moose initial 1940 session of the Equaliza- a few days ago, but marauding tion Board. In each case Assessor|bears robbed him of all but a to-| Dave Davenport was asked to makc‘ bacco can full of tallow. Tulsequah | a re-check on the value of the/ reports declared he had started a property and report back to the|forest fire which had drawn the| Board. None of the protests con-| attention of an Indian who found cerned major holdings here. | him contemplating a lone bullet in' The Board will meet again Iromlhfis rifle. | |8 to 10 o'clock tonight, Wednesday| ————— and Thursday. 1 } ——,——— 'INDIAN TEACHER | ' BACK T0 ALASKA' The steamer Columbia is carrying |a number of Office of Indian Af-| | fairs teachers back to their posts [after vacations in the States and,' |in some cases, attendance at sum- mer school at Chemawah, Ore. | Teachers aboard included Mr. and Mrs. Carlos W. Holland of Minto,| Mr, and Mrs. Herman L. Larsen of Shageluk, Mr. and Mrs. Neville J. McMillan of Yakutat and Earl D, Dean of Copper Oenter. |tended by a few intimate friends OB S0 |and will be held at Marmi t. Subscribe to The Daily Alaska| Both Miss More and Mr.o(x}lolfihan Empire—the paper with the largest|are well known and arrived from paid circulation, Ketchikan on one of the last boats. Found Starving By Indian ‘ Ship Messenger To Be Scene for Miss Opal More, beauty operator at Ketchikan, and Mr. H. C. Cole- man, well known salesman and owner of a Ketchikan women's ap- parel shop, will be married this eve- ning at 6 o'clock. The ceremony will be performed by Pastor H. L. Wood on board the Messenger. The service will.be at- GASTINEAU | HOTEL Every comfort made for our guests Air Servce Information | PHONE 10 or 20 | Men's Clothing AT ALL TIMES JOE KELLY 1 ABERDASHER SAVINGS HERE ARE EARNI\G 4% | Your Money Is ® Available for with- drawal on request. Insured by U. S. Gavernment up to $5.000. Alaska Federal || Savings & Loan Assn. of Juneau Telephone 3 ng a friendly call. Right to left: Cruisers Wichita, ’ Employees_oTCorporafion | States Senator James F. Byrnes of | | South Carolina today a: 1 a Senate Committee investigate the | | the Senate, addressed by C. B. Tut- tle, | trustee but ~ | Vic-President and Tre: corporation. NEW FISHERIES BOAT | | Port Walter in | oratory Director | Dahlgren, in charge of herring in- ATTORNEY SAYS ' LOCAL AIRBASE " 15 NEEDED NOW Congressmmo Be Con- | facted on Plan for Mili- fary Field Here (Continued trom Page One) Arm Nation | ToTeeth s 1 Appgal Made .« Secretary of State Hull " Maks Statement Ad- dressed fo All U. §. . _ | and that which connects Juneau to | the proposed Yakutat field. VASH' A B.—S re- w“ . WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Secre-| .y qry weather, Mendenhall Air- tary of State Cordell Hull, in & o might accommodate & few formal statement today [ p 5 e planes. It could not ac- Amy u ke ir d'\'i“”?d ik oeniing . 0 make al sac- b e b commodate many. In wet weather rifices to give “hard personal serv- | oo Mot o ew fast fighting ships could use the §oss i Respsthie nalion 8y peacs local field. No heavy ships could.” Without mentioning specifically The four Conzre#mcn arriving :‘::‘l EZ"“‘OQW"T“?‘ A ""f o0y | here tonight on the Alaska Clipper By 3 ull declared f i) gai) for Seward with Governor € Is "one and only one sure Way | Gryening aboard the Haida tomar- that our nation will avoid being ’ . 4 i row morning. drawn into serious trouble or actual e war, and that is for our people to make up their minds we must con- tinue to arm and keep on arming to | — such an extent that forces of con- (H quest and ruin will not dare to make an attack on the United States or any part of this Western Hemi- FUND APPEAL : ment before going to a West Vir- ginia resort to rest after the Ha- vana Conference of Pan American Nations. 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