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OAKLAND SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1935 lift- fcVfb" ODIES OF WILL ROGERS, WILEY POST EN ROUTE TO U.S. BY PLANE PICTURES SHOW STEPS IN WILL ROGERS' RISE TO FAME BITES FOB Rogers Family, Assembling for Journey to Claim-Body on West Coast, Undecided Upon Burial Plan; Post Services Arranged. Close Friend of Dead Men Will Pilot Ship to Seattle As Alaska Mourns Loss io HIKES ilEIME TO FAIRBANKS NATIDNflND WORLD WILL RENDER SILENT HOMAGE AT MEMORIAL AVIATOR ft vVj (Additional Detail on Page 3) NEW YORK. Aug. Will Rogers and Wiley Post, fu (Continued From Page neral and memorial services will embrace an audience of Prince and pauper the world over.

shop because, as Joe Martin, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce put it, "We want to pay tribute to the man who meant so much to 'us in the best way we can." TRIBUTES FROM WORLD Tributes to Rogers and Post already were part of the world's annals today. From every, continent this time to take them on their last iournev tofiether. Fairbanks, five Wherever the two were known hour southward, wa the first atop en route to Seattle, where Mra, Post and there were few place in the civilized world where their names were not common currency mo wa hurrying from Mayville, ments of respectful silence will mark their burial. Okla the home of Wilsr. parents.

While a nation mourned, the peo. Services for Rogers, gum-chewing le of the North country, official, philosopher of the homely phrase, were yet to be arranged today. Ar townsfolk and grizzled aourdoughs alike, accorded farewell honors to rival of Will Roger from the West Coast was awaited by the the pair who so Jauntily aoared from Fairbanks Thursday to die on the tundra beneath a foggy Arctic and every clime came expressions of admiration for the two men and sorrow at their loss. Mrs. Wiley Post abandoned today her plans to fly from 'Oklahoma to Seattle to meet the body of her flyer husband.

'Instead, the widow will rest here, going to the farm home of Post's parents near Maysville tomorrow, thfcre to await the body of the man she married after an aerial elope three other survivors, Mrs. Rogers, Jimmy and Mary, before plans for burial were -announced. sky with a few Eskimos the only witnesses. Mrs. Rogers and her daughter, The brolten "remain of Post and Rogers, whose, names were known Mary, will leave for Los Angeles this evening aboard a TWA plane, throushout the world, lay in I I it was said.

warehouse behind the Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Barrow on the OKLAHOMA CLAIMS FLIER But for Wiley the Okla- Ice-ttrewn Arctic shore after or, homan who banked an aviation ca Henry W. Greist, the mission geon, and Charles Brower, grizzled "King of the prepared reer on a shoestring and won, his home folk already had decided, that them for the Journey home, ment, Friends said Mrs. Post, 1 already suffering from an ailment for which she had planned an operation, was i so overcome by the death of famous husband she was not believed strong enough to stand the i trip to Seattle. At Maysville, Post's parents said Pan-American Airways officials had offered to fly the body of Post 1 to Oklahoma and that, in view, of, the offer, it was not believed sary for his widow to go to Seattle. burial will take place in Oklahoma City.

Those who watched-the stocky little- aviator attain 'world-wide In this same rough, frame warehouse last 'May, the bodies of 14 Eskimo victim of an Influenza fame on wings will gather at a small grove' before the farm home epiaemic were iam out yiu board coffin. Posts parents near Maysville, to pay him tribute. Brower was the man whom Roger said he wa flying to Bar "I think the best place is rignt row to visit. For 81 year Brower, has operated a whaling station end Movie Folk Launch Memorial Move SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 U.PJ here at home," said gray-haired W.

F. Post, Whey's father, with characteristic 'simplicity. This was in keeping with the parents' wish, and the flier's wife was anxious to assent. At Claremore, which A movement was launched today through contributions of $1 each 1 1 1 to create a memorial to Will Rogers I 1 linMlm nli.4KJ.Vilmiiiwiiiiin 1 rkamtfm Rogers always looked upon as "home," a memorial service was planned. The town will close up from eyery person connected with the motionTpicture industry, i 1 trading post on tne loneiy, tannest-north tip of Alaska.

On the banks of a shallow stream 13 mile outh of here, were the fragment of Post' pontoon-equipped hip which he flew north from Seattle August 7 6n "pleasure Jaunt" which wa to Include a flight across Siberia to Moscow. The terrific Impact so ripped the plane apart that It seemed doubtful if the exact cause of the wreck ever would be determined. Eskimo, with whom Post talked after landing to get direction to Esrrow, aid the plane took off, LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17. Will Roger, plane crash victim, as he appeared in his youth as a cadet at the Kemper Military Academy in Booneville, Missouri, before Tie began the career which carried him to fame as an actor of stage and screen and as a humorist.

A. P. photo. France, Britain Hold Up Peace Talk for Millionaire Loses $10,000 Love Theft Suit Against Plumber Mussolini Showdown LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.

Will Roger. famed actor-humorist, who lost his life when his Appearing with him io the production was Lila Lee, shown with him in this scene. Rogers continued-hit screen work to become a star of the first magnitude after the' advent of the talkies. A. P.

photo aerial vacation with Wiley Post, noted aviator, (Continued From Page (Continued From Page ended io a plane crash in Alaska, is shown here in one of his earliest feature films, produced in 1921. for Italy an army of a million men of Mr. and Mrs. Etienne, it attracted wide public attention. the strongest In Europe.

Gaetano Polverelll, former head Mr. and Mrs. Etienne were mar raised 80 or 60 feet before the motor mi-fired, "ilipped off" on one wing and then crashed nose first Into the tundra and ground looped. An Eskimo, breathlers from 15 mile of running acrosa the tundra, brought the first word of the wreck to Barrow, Eskimo already had removed of the Government Press Bureau, in ried in In Yuma, and Etienne claimed that the romance between hi wife and the then 87- a front page article In II Duce' organ, Popolo Italia, placed tne number of soldiers under arms at year-old plumber started in July, Hows' body from the wreckage, 1,000,600 following recent mobiliza 1933, when Bartholomew was em tion, and said: but Morgan used rope to pull the shattered plane apart before Post' ployed to help in the remodeling of the Etienne' Summer home at powerful instrument .1 is destined to face the colonial neces Rio Nido. sifles- and the uncertainties of the European situation.

Both materially Mrs. Etienne left her San Fran and morally it is perfectly ready. cisco home in March, 1934, to mov Polverelll warned England to keep hands off the Italo-Ethiopian situation, declaring it would be folly to plunge Europe into a war because to the Rio Nido cottage the husband, 20 years older than his wife, as-. serted. I He charged that the "amorou of a colonial problem which is concerned with the security of Italy body could be lifted from beneatn the motor in two feet of Ice water.

Mrs. Post was prostrated by ahock for a few hour and then flew to Oklahoma City on her may to Marysville, the Post family home. It was only through a last minute decision, promoted by the Jesting of R6gers and her husband, who the trip was not one for a woman to take, that Mr. Post stood by the plane and waved goodbye to the traveler when they took off from the Renton Airport on Lake Washington for Juneau. New of the tragedy (hocked the ration.

President Roosevelt, Vice-President Garner, Gov. John W. Troy association" of Mrs. Etienne and. alone.

Bartholomew had "impugned hi fidelity and marital U. Italians in Several witnesses called by, Fever to Return 'Home' Etienne during the trial told of romantic circumstances in which Bartholomew and Mrs. Etienne met, ROME, Aug. 17. (American consulates in Northern Italy have sent to Washington in the last few months hundreds of applications of their many visits and of parties at the Russian River.

of Alaska, celebrities, friend and The defense sought to prove that from Italians born in America for neighbor of Roger and of Post Etienne no longer had any affecr.j American passports permitting them Joined in expressions of sorrow to return to the United States. over the death of the spectacular tion for his wife and added, this to a general denial of the husband's i charges. i Consular officials reported today flier and the humorist-actor. that most of these applications were The entire population of Juneau The case closed suddenly last POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 1 7.

Sergeant Stanley E. Morgan, U. S. Army Signal Corps, who found the bodies of Will Rogers, and Wiley Post after their plane crashed. A.

P. photo. vr un POINT BARROW, i A Alaska, Aug. I 'f'nV 1 Brower, unofficial "Mayor of iy I i Pinl Barrow," upon whom I t' V. Will Rogers and Wiley Post 1 A A -iJ met death.

I. A pAofo. made by men of military age In the capital of Alaska, where the aerial vacationers spent a night as guests hope of avoiding being sent to East Africa in the event of an Italo-Ethiopian war. Fall without Mrs. Etienne taking, the stand, attorneys agreeing to submit briefs to Judge Comstock i and await his decision.

I of Governor Troy, Dawson in Yu kon territory, Aklavik on the Arctic Delta of the Mackenzie Fairbanks and Anchorage 100 Killed in Tribal War Along Frontier ROME, Aug. 17. U.R Govern mmmmmmm mm. Nurse Jailed After shouldered Post and Rogers around when they dropped in on their casual tour of the North. ment reports from Djibouti in Display of Temper SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.

Nome, to the westward sorrow French Somaliland said today that fully cancelled arrangement for Rex Beach Gives Poignant Story of Juneau Farewell (EDITOR'S NOTE The following dispatch was written expressly for the Associated Press by Rex Beach, noted author of Ann Watson, a nurse, sat for six 100 persons had been killed and wounded at Agadelle when Ethi giant reception. Rogers had said Jocularly during his flight toward 1 fJiiiilS Alaska that he wanted to "rope hours in a Market Street irm without ordering a drink, police said today, and then raised a violent commotion when a waiter suggested that it might be good form to have reindeer" and Nome citizens had opian tribesmen crossed the French Somaliland border and raided the Assaimara tribe. MdiVani Sister POINT BARROW, Aug. Henry W. Grieat, the deer ready.

n'l FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 17, Joe Crosson, noted Alaskan laviator, flying from Point Barrow with the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. A. P. photo.

director of the Presbyterian Mission Hospital here, who took charge at least one beer or move Northern fiction and close, friend of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, with whom he visited when they were in Juneau a few days ago.) Scheduled to appear in court to of the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, shown with his wife S.F. Attorney Third day, Miss Watson assertedly used By REX BEACH and son in their Winter costumes. I. P. photo.

Grief Stricken Victim of Crash robust language to the waiter, ana (fcopyrurtit, J935. by the Associated Press.) expressed her indignation in such to Will. And he was skillful, too. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 17- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.

manner that it was necessary to (JP) Alaska is stunned by the James A. MacKenzie, prominent local attorney, died yesterday at catastrophe at Point Barrow. handcuff her to take her to the city orison, where her expressipns of Dante Sanatarlum from injuries re. By CONRAD MALUENDA, United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyrinht, 1935. by the United Press.) BARCELONA, Spain.

Aug. 17. It feels the disaster more keenly Radios Long Familiar to Dead Comedian, Gives Memorial ceived In an automobile accident on annoyance kept the place in an uproar all night OAKLAND JOINS IN TRIBUTE the Bayshore Highway near Bur lingame last Sunday. The accident because it has for the last week played, host to -Will Rogers and Wiley Post and had just become personally acquainted with both, men. Amelia Earhart had told Will that she considered Post the finest flier alive.

TROUBLE IS MYSTERY What actually went wrong 50 feet above that shallow tundra river may never be known. But this much is absolutely certain in the minds of every air-minded Alaskan it was too much for human wit and and quick thinking to cope with. (U.R Princess Roussadana Mdivani Sert, internationally "known sculptor, is in grave condition at her seaside estate as the result of an all-nisht vigil in a cemetery with the NEW YORK. Aug. Yesterday everybody In this country was smiling at.

Will's jokes. Great Britain Laments Death Of Humorist On every pair of lips were the body of her brother, Alexis Mdivani. killed" in an auto accident, it was learned today. Rogers' and Wiley Post's friends-leaders in all walks of life paid them tribute over the radio waves that have ofirried much of Rogers' humoroushllosophy into millions Of homes. day to fulfill a lecture engagement that "the death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post is an Irreparable loss.

Will was aviation's greatest friend, Wiley was leading pioneer." 1 She said In flying the" strastosphere. "was trying to conquer a new frontier in aviation." also claimed the life of Manuel OHvelra of San whose car collided with MacKenzie's, lng to police. Miw Muriel Parks, riding in MacKenzie's machine, was likewise fatally injured. Mr. Evelyn Parks, mother Mis Parks, 3150 Franklin Street Is In critical condition in a.

hospital here. MacKenzie had offices in the Hobart Building and lived at 1342 Janes Street. The City of Oakland today joined officially In trtpationwide tribute to. the memory of Will Rogers, narnes of the two famous visitors, the two newest and truest friends 1-was in Ketchikan last week when that plane roared north through the murk and drizzle above Alaska has made in- many years. actor-humorist, and Wiley Post Fred Stone.

Senate Leader Joseph Today there are no smiles up famous aviator, who lost their TV Robinson, Senator Thomas P. here. This the blackest day us and over the local radio I heard that Will Rogers and Wiley Post Gore of Oklahoma, Speaker Joseph lives when their airplane crashed Alaska has known. "were in it. i Byrnes, George Cohan, Rogers' death she termed "not Only a loss to aviation but to the entire She said she plans near Point Barrow, Alaska.

GRIEF BOWS POPULACE The Princess's nerves are shattered and Professor E. Lavinskl, famous Italian specialist, summoned from Rome, has taken charge of her. Albons, where Alexis' body was taken after the crash, is so small that it has no police or civil guard station and the remains were taken to a little unlighted shed in the village cemetery. There the Princess sat beside the shattered body all In an official proclamation, Mayor When the news of the crash In The next night I walked in on them at Juneau while they were having dinner with Joe Crosson, ThomasHitchcock and many others joined In a memorial service, for the pair last niKht over the chill fog of the Arctic tundrn was made known yesterday the en the network of NBC. to return tonight to the West Coast to attend Rogers' funeral.

Widows May Get U. ace pilot of the Pacific Alaska Air ways. Mrs. Rogers to Get $800,000 In another radio- exercise. Gill William J.

McCracken asked businessmen of the city to display the American flag at half-staff until after the funerals of the two men. "There are few men who have tire population of the Territory was stricken dumb. I have never seen Robb Wilson, New Jersey director Joe's the fellow who always went after, Wiley up here when he got people completely stunned, Gold Madel Awards WASHINGTON. Aug. 17.

(IP) The death dive account is al In suran oi aeronautics, read a poem to the two men, ending: Ton shall live though yon may ale' most' as short, as stark, as shock contributed more to the Nation's happiness and welfare than Will Rogers, nor to the field of aviation Resolution, directing the' Secretary ing as the tragedy itself. of the Treasury to striKe orr spe' JVIW YORK, Ang. Alaskans were at first Incredu than Wiley Post," Mayor Mc clal gold medals "in recognition of Insurance ONDON, Aug. WiU Rogers, who kidded the royal family as no Englishman dared to do, was mourned In Great Britain today a In his native land. Rogers really liked England and the feeling was mutual.

It was recalled that the Prince of Wales, his friend, once described him as a "great man." Long tributes both to the cowboy comedian and to Wiley Post were published by i The British were especially delighted by Rogers' i 1 broadcast to England last May in which he said: "We'd like to have them (the king and queen) come over here. If they can't come over, let us know if there is any chance of joining you-all on about the same terms as Canada." Whenever Rogers London he distinguished himself by refusing to wear evening elolfieirTreeatoHtottlw, cockney dialect, and did it well the achievements" or win sogers night. As a result her nervous state became worse until real alarm was felt for her. $50 Tools Stolen From High School RICHMOND, Aug. 17.

Machine and carpenter shops of Richmond Union High School were broken into and tools valued at $50 were brokers, disclosed today that Will Rogers named a sola beneficiary and Wiley Post were introduced today by Representative Rogers in trouble. Will explained that both 'times Wiley flew around the world he sat down 'i Alaska and Joe had to give him a hand. IN AIR AGAIN FOR FRIEND We. gabbed there until midnight, until Wiley went to sleep with his head on his arms. "He never has a word to say," Will told me.

"I do the talking for the team and it works out fine." In Thursday night's local Since yon tried as men should try Soaring through life's trackless sky To touch the tan. The actor Stone, long a close friend of Rogers, wept before the microphone. "The world suddenly seems to stop." he said. "It is hard to think of going on without Wlli" to about $800,000 of life Insurance its wife, Mrs. Betty Blake Roger, la the event of Mrs.

Rogers' death, the humorist' three children were to have been bene Cracken said. "Will Rogers' homely philosophy Is known to millions through his years on the stage and screen and his writings and has contributed large degree to the happiness and contentment of the American people. "Wiley Post is equally prominent in the field of aviation and has This thing might happen to other fliers, said they but not to Wiley' and to Will. Then as the messages continued to. come in, Alaska bowed her head and wept "Weather did it," the old timers say.

They shake their heads and assert: "Point Barrow and those Arctic barrens aren't Alaska they're 1400 miles north and the The medal would go to the widow. Methodist Church Offers Condolences 1 1 1 stolen, according to police. Entrance was gained by break ficiaries, according to the term oLinft-nollcle. ing one of the shop windows. AH was an article quoting htm as saying that, he proposed to' come up Be aald Surer had been in made large contributions to the Amelia Barhart Says of the tools stolen were stamped U.

H. princi sured for one million dollars and Rogers' death drew a resbTuHon Of heft'inu uf here next Winter and hole up with XeMrnate is tricky. Will and Wiley condolence from the joint commis shouiOrvTTiegrrTaTefpl." lsome.oldtiroers.so as; to really get "It is fitting that Oakland should that daring the 1M year, approximately $200,00 worth of in acquainted. But Wiley was careful. Will toia take Official cognizance the Loss Is Irreparable (Picture on Magazine Page) CLEVELAND, Aug.

17. HP) -Amlia Earhart, premier feminine faer, said upon her arrival here to- surance in endowment form bad pal, told police. P-rrtrnirhmii sqiiarpi, pers, wrenches, saws, hammer, plyers, drills and chisel were tajceng me in Juneau that he was the most Yesterday morning Joe Crosson sion of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The comedian had hid membership In an 1 1 a great loss to the Nation through careful pilot he had ever flown flew again to succor his friend the tragedy which has taken the Methodist Church- for. many-year.

then -two with, -almort too eawful.tt teemed.