The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9261. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— FROZEN BODY OF HAROLD GILLAM FOUND $30 000 Fire Destroys Cliff A r MANY LEFT HOMELESS IN JUNEAU Blaze Wasi Sfirted Satur- day Night when Cigar- ette Igmted Cushion A fire staned by a cigarette in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Oney, early Saturday eve- ning destroyed the CUff Apart- ments, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Garland Boggan, and left 31 ten- ants homeless. The value of the structure, an old Juneau landmark, is estimated at $30,000. Twenty-two of the 27 apartments were occupied. The blaze started in an upper floor corner apartment and swept the two upper floors up in flames. With the temperature hovering around the zero mark and a strong, icy wind blowing a gale, members of Juneau Volunteer Fire Depart- ment, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard personnel, and other volun- teers, battled the blaze for more than four hours before it was brought under control. Hundreds Watched The glow of the burning strue-! ture could be seen for miles and brought hundreds of Juneauites out into the icy weather. Firemen, under the direction of Chief V. W. Mulvihill, directed streams of water at the blaze from all sides, and aided by a covering of snow on nearby roofs, kept the flames from spreading to sur- rounding buildings. The fire started shortly after 6 cushion in the Oney apartment. cashion in the Oney apartment. Oney was in the apartment alone, and rushed to the Boggan's cottage next door to get aid. While Bog- gan went to_help fight the blaze, Mrs. Boggan turned in the alarm. Four separate alarms were turned in, the first two summoning equip- ment to the Calhoun Avenue side, and the latter two calling firemen to the Willoughby Avenue side. 1 By the time firemen arrived, the cushion, which Oney is said to have taken out on the porch, had blazed up and the entire corner of the building was afire. Spread Quickly The flames spread quickly to take in the whole top floor, and later burned down through the second floor. No one was injured in the blaze, although several fire- men were overcome by smoke and others suffered from the extreme cold. Practically all tenants of the Feldon Apartments, directly above the Cliff, offered coffee to the fire fighters. Mrs. Josephine White al- lowed the use of her apartment for a first aid station where one smoke victim was treated. Most of the tenants of the CIiff| were able to rescue their personal belongings. The Oneys lost all of theirs, as did Mrs. Minnie Monroe and daughter, who occupied the apartment under the Oneys'. Red Cross workers and other health and defense workers turned out in force to aid the homelessv‘ Before long, temporary quarters| were found in private homes and’ churches in Juneau. Still Watched The fire was not designated as| officially out until midnight, and precautionary lines were still run into the structure this morning. | One of the tenants, Maxwell Mogre, had moved in only an hour | before the fire started. | Although only the two upper floors burned completely, water de- stroyed all of the furnishings of the lower part of the building. The Boggans hought the apart- ment house from Sam Feldon about four years ago. Feldon purchased it some years ago, shortly after another fire had destroyed several of the apartments. The Boggans had renovated the building, laying oak floors and making other im- provements. The building was cov- (Continued on Page Three) Movie Ador Flynn Acquitted, Rape (hrges General scene in the Los Angeles court where Errol Flynn, dashing hero of the movies, was on trial charged with three counts of statutory rape, is shown above. At the left are the two girls who brought the charges against the movie actor. Peggy La Rue Sat- terlee, 16, Hollywood entertainer, is at left, and Betty Hansen, 17- year-old Lincoln, Neb., schoolgirl, at right. In the top picture, Flynn is scated right, foreground; Miss Satterlee is at left, background, and Miss Hansen second from right. LOS ANGELES, Calif. Feb. 8—| Movie actor Errol Flynn has been| cquitted on the three counts of | tatutory rape by a jury of nine |wemen and three men. The jury | returned the verdict after deliber- ating 13 hours. Flynn was accused of intimaci with two teen-age girls, Peggy Satt- erlee ‘and Betty Hansen | Flynn sat tensely, puffing a cig- g larctie during the half hour be- tween the time the jury announced it had reached a verdict and when u l it returnsd o the court room 'hus ended a 21-day trial, and of heard Los the most dramatic Angeles court in WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 — Secre- medium bombers with fighter (‘>,-1“1 a tary of Navy Frank Knox, at a con- | corts, attacked Jap positions at Kis- | bistory forence with the newsmen late last | ka, and three of five Japanese float| Flynn was visibly nervous Saturday afternoon, said that on planes of the type of Zeros, which the jury room buzzer sounded twice last Thursday, in the North Pacific, |sought to intercept them, were shotindicating a verdict had been reach- five enemy float planes bombed down. All U. S. planes returned to|ed. He lighted one cigarette after Amerfean positions in the ‘north- | their bases. nother. west Aleutians but no damage was| Also, on last Thursday, Secretary| The tense moment came when done. | Knox said an American plane shot|Mrs. Ruby Anderson, jury fore- Thursday night, in retaliation, Li- | down a Jap plane during a rvcon-I man, walked over and handed the berator heavy bombers and Mizchell naissance mission. verdict to Bailiff Fred Moxom, who s lin turn took it and handed it to | Judge Leslie. | It was a death still quiet as the ay s- ou o ax | verdict of acquittal on the first lcount was read and then an up- rvoar of cheers burst above the court- Explamed Slmnell The (Whether it passes or doesn’t, Two HOUR you are going to hear a lot in when other two verdicts of ac- (Continued on Page *Three) WOULD SET UPHOUSING | AUTHORITY the next two months or so about the pay-as-you-go i come tax bill. In a series of three articles, Jack Stinnett, Washington correspondent for the Empire, explains what it | over | this morning and took the floor to |setting up the machinery for recent | ATTEMPT 10 WHITEWASH LABOR PROBE Cochran Admomshes At- tempt to Sidetrack Investigation BULLETIN—The Senate this afternoon passed the resolution calling for an investigation of the Department of Labor, amending it, however, to make | the investigating committee con- | sist of the Judiciary Committees of both Houses, and also speci- fying that hearings be public. The measure must now go to the House for consideration. President 0. D. Cochran called the amendment “hand-picking the jury.” The resolution was passed un- animously. The amendment passed by a 6-2 vote, Cochran and Stangroom voting against it. \ O. D. Cochran, President turned the gavel| Hjalmar Nordale Senator of the Senate, to Senator strongly admonish an all too ob- vious attempt to whitewash the proposed investigation of the Ter- ritortal Department of Labor. The veteran legislator from Nome took the floor shortly after the| scond reading of the resolution the | investigation was interrupted by Senator N. R. Walker and Senator| Frank S. Gordon. Walker asked that the l'P:»UluliOnA amended to provide that the| ary Committees of both Hous- es make the investigation. The| Judiciary ~Committee, of Whll:h; Walker is a member, already had erred the measure out with only | recommendation that the ‘.p»‘ 4Cnmmued on r‘.u,v six) RED ARMIES HITROSTOY; USE SHELLS Russians Breaking Great| Nazi Defense-Offen- | sive Advancing ‘r be Judic the | ndicated, howsver, 0SCOW, Feb. 8 The Red| Army today sent shells screaming ! across the Don River to the Ger man positions in Rostov, Russian| dispatches stated, as the fourth tle for the city opened while| masses of Russian troops bacured their way through the main de- fenses of the Germans in Southern | | Gillam plane, {plane by the cra Girl on Crashed Plane Mef Death Calinly; Her Hand Was Nef Ampulaled KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 8 Others in the party labored two| Interviewed at the Gillam Plane hours in sleet and pitch dark and Rescue Headquarters on Smeaton | succeeded in freeing the girl, but Bay, last Saturday afternoon, Percy | there no attempt at amputa- Cutting and Joseph Tippits told the | tion. She was greatly weakened by | correct story of how Miss Susan|loss of blood and lay in the plane | Bazter, the sole woman on the|and died at 6:30 o'clock the second met death brave and uncomplainingly. | Cutting said: “I was talking to The story varies considerably | the girl two minutes before the end from Abie version.. previously given|She knew she going to die, but out by officers after interviewing| Was calm. Cutting and Tippits on their arri- | T);-|vlta said: “I.covered hm‘- with val at the hospital when they were [Der coat. She was the bravest and brought here after being rescued. | spunkiest person I have ever known. | | She laughed a little sometimes and | Miss ught in the | e was always calm, never fear-| h. Her hand ful. Anyone of us would llde‘ uh\d-‘ wrist was budly cut ly given his life to help her.” AMERICAN ~ METZDORF, BOMBERS GEBO ARE HIT ITALY. DOWN TRAIL Naples Waterfront Left in ‘ Takentio-l(;ch_ikérf and Flames-Cagliari Base | = Hospitalized-Remark- Is Also Raided able Rescue Work | | LONDON, Feb. 8-—American and British bombers carried the war Bazter was or i | | | KETCHIKAN A,huk:l Feb., 8— Robert Gebo and Dewey Metz- (were brought down from the stur-| vivor's camp to the beach .u'rlvlng :30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, ere immediately placed aboard a Ccast Guard cutter and brought to Ketchikan shortly after 12 o’clock | The communiques announced that this Riop ng. ¢ 7 Gebo and Metzdorf were taken | A e O K oy | to the Coast Guard Sick Bay, which aylight at both Naples and Cag- i 16 most modern hospital in liari, 300 miles apart across the' ayocp, # Tyrrhenian Sea. | Mrs. Metzdorf arrived here and. Raid in Two Waves |was waiting for the cutler bring. Brig. Gen. Patrick Timberlake, jng her husband from Boca de Chief of the U. S. Bomber Com-| Quadra. When the Coast Guald mand in the Middle Fast war thea- Commandant, who flew to the| tre, said the raid on Naples was scene informed her that her hus- made in two waves against heavy band was safe, Mrs. Metzdorf wept | anti-aircraft fire and fighter op- and was overjoyed. She said: “I| position but was one of the most knew he would come through nll‘ successful attacks ever carried out |right.” by the American forces of the Mid-| Gebo and Metzdorf were not in-| dle East, just a “prologue of things ! formed of Pilot Gilla death, but to come." L) Cutting and Tippits were told and | Rain and Mud Again they broke down and cried. Both The multiple of al blows were Cutting and Tippits have about ful- |launched as rain and mud bogged !¥ recovered from their harrowing | |down the Allied ground campaign|¢¥periences and are improving so; activity to '@Pidly they are able to eat full| of the Meals. 1t is Men Brought Cut Cairo ! Metzdorf was brought out to the British beach from the camp on a wire stretcher tied to a cedar log sled, bases in attacks yesterday. The bombers left the waterfront \t Naples in flames and left bomb 2% dits on the Sardinian air base Cagliari, also new fresh scars on sicilly. n Tunisia, restricting atrols and further clos Allicd pineefs upon Rommel by the mmunique, that the Eighth Army troops are in contact 12 lconunued on Page Three) Frank Polk I(NOX(SIVES . ! 4Cnnunued on Pake ’l‘wo) | |veteran Alaskan ppartments PILOT, CRASH PLANE, FOUND BY SEARCHERS Body Flown fo Kelchikan— Death Due fo Shock, Exposure, Starvation KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 8— The body of Pilot Harold Gillam, aviator, missing more than one month since the plane crashed in a fog on a moun- tain southeast of here, was found on a beach of Boca de Quadra pen- insula by the Coast Guard search- |ing party. ‘The body was flown here by Pilot Hugh Ramsdell of the Ellis Air- | ways. ‘The body was found by the search party commanded by A. W. Angellson, the same man in charge of the boat which earlier found the plane crash survivors Percy Cutting and Joseph Tippits. Gillam’s body was found on the shore half way between Quadra {Point and Weasel cove near the mouth of the 32-mile long inlet on Behm Canal. Body Is Frozen The body was frczen when found by the searching party. Death was apparently due to shock, exposure and starvation. There is no way of determining the time of death. Gillam carried matches with him when he left the camp on January 10, Cutting says, leading to the be- lief the pilot must have fallen into lto Ttaly and the North African dorf, Gillam plane crash survivors, water and lost his matches. Hunt Is Ended Weasel Cove is about a mile from |the place the body was found and is the place where Cutting and Tippits found shelter one night dur- ing their long search for help. (Continued on Pagz Two! SURVIVOR CAMP IS REACHED Victims of Plane Crash Are Found by Party Strug- gling Over Trail KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 8.— Percy Cutting and Joseph Tippits, who led the Coast Guard party from Smeaton Cove to the sur- vivor’'s camp, quoted Robert Gebo and Dewey Metzdorf, also survi- \oxs nr the Gillam plane crash, as Dcnl worry about us, now that we know they know where we are, | we “could stay here forever." Although Cutting and Tippits J my IS STAGED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 8—Sixty addi- tional dead Japs were counted in New Guinea Sunday, 39 after skir- ! mishes following Saturday’s big air battle over the Wau area in which 41 Jap bombers and fighters were | shot down or sertously damaged. Of the large defending force of | P-38s, P-39s, and P-40s, not one was lost, no crewmen were injured and only a few Allied planes were damaged ih the two hour series |of battles over the mountains be- tween Wau and ihe sea Belated reports tell of machine gunning of two 50-foot barges, car- 1ying about 75 Japs in Rieback bay on the north side of New Britian Island Saturday. Casualties on the Larges are reported as “substantial.” ———,,—— Chiaroscuro, an early method of color printing from woodcuts, eans ‘clear-obscure.” is, why it has been proposed, and the objections being raised to it. Here is the first.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—The new Congress is America’s mine-field. There are potential explosions al- most any way you turn. But one that is almost certain to come off is the proposal to black out 1942 |personal income taxes and start|mouse Saturday afternoon by Rep.| |areas of Russian soil of mvaders} |and also threaten the great Ger-| over on a pay-as-you-go basis. the Capper-Carlson bill, now al- ready in committee pigeon-holes in both the House and Senate and nousing accommodations for per-|iKharkov has been cut with assured of immediate action be-|sons. engaged in national defense capture of the Mramatorskaya cause both chambers are aware that some thing must be done be- | fore March 15—if Eny(,hmg is to I be done at all. Rep. Frank Carlson (R. Kans.), in introducing the bill in the House, mphasized his debt’ to Beardsley Ruml, New York City financier, author of the “Ruml plan.” Senator Capper introduced the same bill in the Senate. The Capper-Carlson bill (Continued on Psge Five) * Joseph W. Kehoe. Storm center of this proposal is| Kehoe !ntroduces Bill for| Alaska Public ‘ Project A 26-page bill, aska Housing Authority for | Territory, was introduced in i 1 | ! ! ? % l f | } to create an Al-| the| the| The bill would create a public| corporation with the powers to| undertake projects to provide| ;acuv‘iues, and to provide housiis| | for' low-income families in Alaska. | ‘ PFive commissioners, appointed | the Governor, would administer tc the organization. They would re- ceive no compensation for the jobs| other than traveling and other expenses incurred. | The Authority would have powers|es indicated the giant Russian of-'the Paris Peace Conference when ,n .. to issue bonds, and property of the organization would be exempt nmm | the official communique said a on a 500-mile front. T'he Russians seized the town of | Azov, 15 miles southwesi of msmv‘ | Sunday, freeing the bank of the Don of the last center of the Ger- man resistance and making a large | ault on Rostov posslble‘i |R Passes Away In New Yor Former Undersecretary of State, Wilson Regime, i~ Dies on Sunday and | the | and the line between Belgorod and Kursk has been snapped with the pture of Gosteschevo. The Russians announce that the Germans are reported rushing thousands of reserves into breach- — After the last World War, Polk es in their lines in an effort 10 who was a native of New York City, stem the Soviet flood but dispatch- headed the American delegation of scale Crunching Forward Meanwhile in the north, the Rus- sians continued to clear the great man bastions at Orel, Kursk and Kharkov. The railroad between Rostov NEW YORK, Feb. 8—Frank Polk, ore Sunday. He was Under Sec- !vetary of State from 1915 to 1920. Polk was active in his law firm until last week. |fensive is crunching forward with President. Woodrow Wilson unprecedented speed in the winter the Secretary of State returned to the United States. 71, Acting Secretary of State dur-|ersie ng the Wilson Administration, died | pattle in the Solomons, Secretary of o VIEWS ABOUT y NEXT BATILE Declares Only Preliminary| Skirmishing Taking Place, Solomons WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 — Both Japanese and American air and ¢’ forces have suffered “mod- losses in the developing new Navy Frank Knox teld the new: men at a conference late last Sat- urday afternon Knox said that so far there is nothing specific to indicate the ex- act Jap objective in renewing vio- lent battling throughout the Sol- rea and added that the size and of the force the enemy might even- (Continued on Page Three) |struggled over the trail to the |survivor's camp and then returned ’t: the beach, conditicns last Sat- jurday made it extremely unlikely {that Gebo and Metzdorf can be 'hrout'hl out immediately, mean- get attention from a .))mmuusls mate and doctor. Get Dropped Supplies Gebo and Metzdorf salvaged part ‘0( the supplies dropped by the plane last Thursday and ate their (first food since Cutting and Tip- pits left them, except for two boul- lion cubes and a tablespoon of tea. Gego is the one with the broken (Continued on Page Two) e & & & 0 0 0 0 0 o DIMOUT TIMES L — . I)nnuut begins !on!ght . ® at 5:35 o'clock. ® Dimout ends tumorrow e 9 (Tuesday) at sunrise at 847 e ® am. . Dimous begins Tuesday at ® 1® 5:39 pm, . e s ecs e 0000 ’