The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-06
STANLEY, DAVID LOSE LIVES IN
 CRYSTAL POOL
Wellknown Lads Just Fin ishing Swim when Trag-
 edy Strikes on Holiday
EFFORTS TO REVIVE
 WITHOUT SUCCESS
Funeral Services Will Be Held Tomorrow at 2 PM.
 Scottish Rite Temple

A tragedy which took the lives of Stanley Albert Heisel, 15, and David Sidney Heisel, IA, sons of MT. and Mrs. Walter B. Heisel of Juneau, marked a sad Fourth of July, Sunday, for the hundreds of friends of the two popular Juneau high school boys and also of the paI entS.
 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 s.anley 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 own life was to be paid for the effort to save his brother, for fA
 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 few moments be- fore, he believed they had already gotten out.
 But after repeatedly calling them he became alarmed and rushed to 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 who brought the bodies ashore Warden bringing the floating body of Stanley ashore. Ladd dove foi the body of David, which after several minutes was brought to the shore of the pond, only six feet in depth.
 Sounds Alarm
 In the mean time, Bob Geyel had gone to the rifle range witf the report and Roy Hoffman, Harry Sperling, Lieutenant D. A. Me Theron, John Osborne, and Harolc Smith had gone to aid the CCC rescuers while Geyer immediately left for town where he called ar ambulance and Dr. w. M. White head.
 However, upon the arrival of Dr Whitehead, one hour and one hal after the accident occurred, tht boys were pronounced dead.
 Bob Geyer, who was the only one present at the time of ths accident, stated that neither Of tht boys at any time cried out, nol gave any evidence of struggle For this reason, it is believed tha one must have had cramps whils in the cold water A small cut or Stanleys head, believed to have been received when he dived. i not considered by Dr. Whitehead to have been severe enough to have caused the boys drowning.
 Services Tomorrow
 Funeral services, to which al friends and the public are invited are to be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock in the lodge rooms O the Scottish Rite Temple, unde auspices of the Order of DeMolay The Rev. O. L. Kendall will of ficiate, and interment is to follow in the Masonic Plot of the Ever green Cemetery.
 Friends wishing to call at tn Charles w. Carter Mortuary ma, do SO between and g o'clock thi
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