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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. mm iMflonLU PAGE 3A SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1935 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, POST FUNERAL TO BE AT HOME OF PARENTS HOLLYWOOD MOURNS World Leaders in Many Fields Pay Tribute to Post and Rogers HAY SAYS MEMORIAL DEATH OF WILL ROGERS ACT PROTECTS CITY (rs. Post Going to Flyer's Parents 1T0ACTINMISSOUR 1 I 1 1 Famous Figures of Politics, Stage, Screen and Aviation Comment on Death of Two in Plane Crash.

I II DISORDERS Fl Joe E. Brown Pays Tribute as Declares No Part of Proposed Bond Issue Can Be Spent Till U. S. Puts Up S3 for $1. Services at Farm to Be Followed by Burial in Oklahoma City.

6" By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 17. Friends of AIRMAN PILOTING FUNERAL PLANE Jt I i a I Associated Press Wirephoto. JfIFE of late Wiley Post arriving by plane at Ponca City, where she will rest before proceeding to Maysville, where the aviator's parents live.

Two More Men Beaten When They Go to Mays-ville to Foreclose on Land for Mortgage Holder. XJ. S. JUDGE OTIS CALLS GRAND JURY Prosecutor Wires to Washington That Justice Department Agents Refuse to Investigate. 1j id Associated Press.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 17. Federal officials here sought help today from Attorney-General Cum-mings to punish farmers who so ir have halted two foreclosure et'es and mauled persons attempting to conduct them. Randa'l Wilson, Assistant District Attorney, wired Cummings that the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation had refused to investigate "this infamous outrage." "We request that you direct the bureau to investigate this matter immediately," Wilson's telegram laid. His plea was in connection with the open defiance at Plattsburg Thursday of a sale order issued by Federal Judge Merrill E.

Otis of Kansas City. Yesterday a crowd of more than 100 farmers beat-and drove out of town J. Lyman Andrews and E. C. McKissick of St.

Joseph, who had fine to Maysville to sell a farm (or an insurance company that held i mortgage on it. Crowd Defiant. After Andrews and McKissick had fled, the crowd voice defiance if Judge Otis. That's what'll happen to the next ederal Judge who shows up ground-here," yelled one man amid ies of approval. Judge Otis is to speak Sunday at a old settlers' reunion at Hopkins, 0 miles north of Maysville.

He mnounced he would fill the engagement At the same time he or dered a recently recessed Federal pand jury to reconvene to investi- ite the crowd's action. Discussing the disturbance at Maysville, McKissick said: "We went to the courthouse with he promise of protection from Sheriff Daniels. That protection was not given. He stood by and flowed us to be beaten by the mob." Offer to Confer. When Andrews and McKissick ar rived at Maysville they sent word a newspaper office that they ould talk to a committee of two the crowd at the courthouse learn their demands.

Two men went to the office, accompanied by Sheriff Daniels, who served An drews with a summons in a suit 'o prevent sale of the land. Andrews and McKissick asked he Sheriff to escort them to the ffiee of the Circuit Clerk to see a of the petition in the suit. The sheriff, at their request, then an- ouneed to the crowd that they had a intention of holding a sale. yhe crowd rushed into the clerk's MAN Stadium Crowd Stands With Bared Heads. By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17. Hollywood mourned today the loss of its most beloved celebrity, Will Rogers. Beverly Hilis claimed him as a former Mayor, Pacific Palisades as a resident, but Hollywood loved him as a co-worker and one of the biggest box office names in pictures. Strange where the reactions in gay, sentimental, sophisticated Hollywood, which seldom, if ever, saw Rogers engage in its night life.

Yet over cocktail glasses a lull fell last night when the talk turned, as it did all night, to the tragedy in the North. At the Legion Stadium the usual crowd packed the house for the weekly fights. Joe E. Brown, the comedian, climbed into the ring. He does it every Friday night, clowning, turning handsprings, "challenging" the fighters.

The crowd al ways howls. Brown had a different tone last night. He paid a touching tribute to Will Rogers. Gallery fans, movie stars, bankers, merchants stood with bared heads as Brown recalled the name of Will Rogers. Mae West at the ringside dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief, perhaps she was thinking of the time of the premier of one of her first motion pictures.

She wasn't very well known then as a movie player. Few of the big stars turn ed out for the premier. But Will Rogers, who seldom goes to gala affairs of this sort, did. Leaders Pay Tribute in Nationwide Radio Program. By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Aug. 17. A tribute to Will Rogers and Wiley Post was carried by the National Broadcasting Co. last night. Leaders in politics, sports, aviation, the stage and literature joined in the memorial broadcast, originating in New York, Washington and Los Angeles.

Those who spoke were: Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Speaker Jo seph T. Byrns, Senate Leader Jo seph T. Robinson, Senator Thomas B. Gore of Oklahoma, Former Sec retary of War Patrick J.

Hurley, Representatives Jed Johnson and Josh Lee of Oklahoma, Authors Homer Croy and Gene Buck, George M. Cohan, Thomas Hitchcock Will Hays, Col. Roscoe Turner, Daryl Zanuck, vice-president of Fox-Twentieth Century Pictures, and Rogers' old friend, Fred Stone. Turner, speed flyer, said it was who started Rogers flying. It was my prfvilege," he said, to start Will Rogers flying back in Richmond, in 1926.

I have flown with him many times since. It is impossible to estimate what these two men have done for avia tion." In Rogers' death, said Senator Robinson, "the most universally be loved private citizen of this land has passed away. We will miss him and we will need him." Post, Robinson said, "was a pioneer in avia tion." Hitchcock, one of the greatest players in a game Rogers liked, polo, said Rogers played "because he loved the game." "Off the field he was a humor ist," Hitchcock said, "but when he was playing polo he was not joking. He would play wall-eyed and save his jokes until the game was over. He was a true sportsman." Stone, for whom Rogers substi tuted on the stage when the famous actor was hurt in an airplane crash some years ago, wept as he stood before the microphone.

"Friendship such as ours can never be replaced," he said. "The world suddenly seems to stop. It is hard to think of going on without Will. "I only knew Wiley Post a few weeks prior to their take-off here, but he was a marvelous flyer, and everybody knew that, one of the champions. Will could not be with a better boy.

God bless Will and God bless Wiley Post." Exchange Commission was set for hearing in Federal Court Sept. 9, and the company was under no legal compulsion to cease doing business until that suit had been decided, but Kattelman voluntarily surrendered his license to the State Securities Commissioner. Customers of the firm, who, according to the suit of the Federal Securities Commission, had deposited about $300,000 toward the purchase of $1,000,000 in stocks, were then unable to complete payments on their installment contracts, which would have enabled them to demand delivery of the stocks they had agreed to purchase. Two Receivership Suits. Two receivership suits were filed by customers in Circuit Court, and then other customers filed two bankruptcy suits in the Federal Court.

After the first bankruptcy suit had been filed. Federal Judge Moore appointed Madden as receiver. Refused to Answer. Attorneys for customers, charging that Kattelman had concealed as sets and records of his firm, sought to examine him before a Referee in Bankruptcy, but he declined to answer questions on the constitutional ground that he might incriminate himself. Cited by the Referee tor contempt, Kattelman was upheld in bis refusal to answer by Judge Moore.

It was established later that Kattelman had withdrawn about from his account at the Mutual Bank and Trust Co. a short time filed it suit. City Counselor Charles M. Hay, In a prepared statement given to the press last night, said the city would have no authority to pay the United States more than $1 for every $3 spent by the Government In development of the proposed river front memorial to Thomas Jefferson and the expansion of the West. A special election will be held Sept 10 on a proposed $7,500,000 bond issue for the city's share of the cost The text of Counselor Hay's statement follows: "This question has been asked: What assurance have we that after the city's $7,500,000 is expended the Federal Government may not refuse to put up its part of the funds?" This is the answer: "The city would have no author ity to turn over $7,500,000, or any part thereof, to the Federal Government unless and until the Federal Government puts up three times the amount turned over by the The State act passed at the last session of the General Assembly, under which we are acting in calling this bond issue election, has the express provision that the city can expend on this project not to exceed one-fourth of the totaL the other three-fourths to be fur nished by the Federal Government Interpreting the Law.

"That provision of the State act is absolutely binding upon the city, and that is why I say that the city would have no authority to turn over to the Federal Government in excess of $1 for every $3 advanced by the Federal Government. "A favorable vote on Sept. 10 is, of course, necessary in order to authorize the issuance of bonds through which the city can put up its share of the funds. But, after that favorable vote is secured, the city would have no authority to put up in excess of $1 to every $3 put up by the Federal Government There is, therefore, that definite and absolute safeguard thrown around the expenditure of the city's funds. The taxpayers have that certain protection." Details Not Worked Out.

Counselor Hay, in response to a question by a Post-Dispatch reporter today as to the exact mechanics by which the city and the Federal Government would contribute their proportionate parts of the cost of the Memorial, said that was a matter which had not yet been worked out. "My statement," he said, "was designed to make clear the law governing us. The city is prohibited by the State statute from paying out more than one-fourth of the total cost This means that the city must put up its one-fourth and the Federal Government its three-fourths virtually simultaneously. "Just how this will be done must be worked out between the city and Federal officials. For the city to lurn over $7,500,000 of bonds to the Government and receive only a credit for $7,500,000 to be used in purchase of the site, and no other Federal funds advanced until that had been expended would not, in my opinion, conform to the State law." ernor of Texas "Mr.

Rogers was a fine man and our friend." Winfield R. Sheehan, movie executive, who started Rogers on his film career: "America has lot its most useful citizen. There always was one thought predom inant in Will's mind and it tvas that when he died he loped he would have earned the record that he never aaid or wrote a criticism intended to injure anyone. As an artist Will Rogers was in a class by himself. He truly represented the spirit and humor of the Amer ican people." Col.

Alvin M. Owsley, American Minister to Irish Free State: "Rogers made more people laugh than any other American while he lived." Harold Gatty, who flew with Post on his first trip around the world: "Wiley was a leader in world aviation. His courage, experience and enterprise will bei greatly missed. Always a free-' lance, he was a pioneer in stratosphere flying." Josephus Daniels, American Ambassador to Mexico: "He (Rogers) was the best-loved private citizen of America." Capt Eddie Rickenbacker, aviation executive: He (Post) did more than almost any other aviator, except Col. Lindbergh, to give America the feeling that we had won our wings." being able to get a BIG SUNDAY DINNER like this for only 55c! It's Castilla's famous SPECIAL SUNDAY FAMILY DINNER Try Oar BUFFET LUNCHEON 8erv4 aa Balcony 35c S5e 40c Dail; Except Saturday aa4 Sunday CASTHILILA WASHINGTON 11 IS By the Asaoctated Press.

MAYSVILLE, Aug. 17. Home folk will gather at a small grove before the farm home of Wiley Post's parents near here to pay final tribute to the noted flyer who crashed to death with Will Rogers in Alaska. Burial will be in Oklahoma City. "I think the best place is right here at home," said gray-haired W.

F. Post. "We can have the services out in the yard, where it's shady." The decision was made after the flyer's widow arrived to learn his parents' wishes on the funeral. She hastened to the humble frame bungalow in the Washita Valley from Ponca City where she had been visiting, to assure the parents their wishes about funeral plans would go unquestioned. The elder Post, after conferring with his wife on the place of burial, murmured: "We may not be here always, and we'd like to know his grave never would go untended." Hardly awake even yet to the reality of Post's death, the proud but unassuming people of his little rural home town gathered in small groups and spoke of little else.

Neighbors arrived, laden with food. The flyer's father worried somewhat about his "milking," but was told by friends they had taken care of the cows for him. "I never did want to be vain about it," he said slowly, choosing his words with care, "and I never told Wiley so. But I have come to think that he is one of the greatest men that ever lived." Post's mother was almost incoherent with grief. She sat in her rocking chair on the front porch, moaning.

"Oh, I was so crazy about Wiley. My boy. I don't see how I can live wjthout him. Why did it have to happen so far from home? H. J.

KATTELMAN UNDER ARREST AS EMBEZZLER Continued From Page One. found by the receiver, the "assets" he did find included stock certifi cates of firms with such pictur esque names as "Afterthought Copper "Double-Barreled Gusher Syndicate," "East Snowstorm Mining "Shallcross 500 Syndicate," "Spider Wasp Development and "The Tiger, Inc." Madden considered these of doubtful value. Assets Found of Small Value. The only assets that have been turned over to Madden are certain stocks worth about $6000 in Kat- telman's account with A. G.

Ed wards Son; a bank account containing $101, a box full of unlisted stocks such as those named above, and miscellaneous items including the office furniture and Kattel- man's three automobiles. The records which Madden alleged had not been delivered to him included a cash book or other records of receipts and disburse ments; a ledger or book of ac count; a journal day book, or rec ord of like character; canceled checks and check register (except for the years 1933 and 1934) a reg ister of stocks received by Kattel- man from other persons; records of his dealings with banks, brok ers, and financial institutions; and a record of money and stocks de posited by Kattelman. With the contempt motion, Har ry C. Barker, attorney for the re ceiver, filed a preliminary report of Madden's activities since his appointment as reeciver. The report mentioned the assets which he has obtained possession of, and said the account at A.

G. Edwards Son had been partly liquidated for $5873. What Receiver Found. When Madden took charge of the office in the Central National Bank Building on July 19, the re port said, he found no books, rec ords or correspondence there. The office had been closed since July 1, the next business day after the in junction suit of the Securities and Exchange Commission was filed.

Later, the report added, Madden obtained from Kattelman a loose leaf ledger, several hundred custom ers' files, canceled checks for 1933 and 1934, certain canceled sight drafts and miscellaneous undated work sheets which appeared to be statements of the financial condi tion of the firm at various times. Barker asked the Court to au thorize Madden to employ auditors to examine a partial audit of the Kattelman firm prepared last May by the accounting firm, Kessler, Cartall in connection with work they did for Kattelman on his income tax returns. He said it would not be advantageous for the receiver to have a new audit made, as the cost would be out of propor tion to the value of the assets now in possession of the receiver. Realty in Kattebnan's Name. Discussing the real estate held in Kattelman's name, the report men tioned his home on 21 acres of ground in Normandy, and other properties at 4252 West Pine boulevard and 1122-26 North Channing avenue.

Kattelman had denied, the re port said, that he owned the property on Channing avenue, and had said that while his home was in his name, others would assert a claim against it. The property on West Pine boulevard, the report said, was mortgaged for $7500. Kattelman had refused to render an account ing of rents received from these properties, the report said, and had refused to furnish the receiver with a full description of them. The suit of the Securities and Will Rogers and Wiley Post all over the world continued to express their grief today over the deaths of the famous humorist and noted flyer. Comment follows: President Roosevelt: "I was shocked to hear of the tragedy which has taken Will Rogers and Wiley Post from us.

Will was an old friend of mine, a humorist and philosopher, beloved by all. I had the pleasure of greeting Post on his return from his round-the-world flight. He leaves behind a splendid contribution to the science of aviation. Both were outstanding Amer icans and will be greatly missed." Former President Hoover: "The news of the death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post is a terrible shock to me. I have long known both these fine Americans and have a keen appreciation of their achievements.

In origin and accomplishment they were typically American, with careers appealing to everyone appreciating the pioneer spirit. They were great souls and I feel the sense of deep personal loss in their passing." Borah's Comment. Senator Borah of Idaho: "His (Rogers') messages of humor, mixed with a homely but rare wisdom, had come to be a part of our national lives. We are all very sad." Senator Hastings of Delaware: 'His philosophy and humor have served America particularly well in this depression. The world has lost one of its greatest characters." Senator Ashurst of Arizona: "Two gallant gentlemen have reached the stars.

The world is poor by this tragic event." Senator Connally of Texas: "He was a great man, probably the world's greatest humorist." Irvin S. Cobb, humorist "He was a friend to all the world. Men like him, I'm sure, don't come along oftener than once in a century." Gov. John W. Troy of Alaska, who entertained Post and Rogers "As a philosopher, humorist and as a man, Rogers was among the country's greatest.

Two great Americans are dead and we all mourn." Admiral J. M. Reeves, commander-in-chief of the United States fleet "We are all saddened by the sacrifice of these two men, who were outstanding in aviation." James A. Farley, Postmaster-General "His (Rogers') untimely death is a great loss to our country." Representative Edith Nourse Rog ers, Massachusetts "He endeared himself to me at a Republican campaign meeting in Boston. He told the gathering that, although we had the same name, we were not related but that we had this in common we both worked hard." Amon G.

Carter, publisher of the Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram: "To lots of people, Will Rogers was a comedian. To me he was a phil osopher. He was one of the sweet est, most lovable and charitable men in this country. He lived for this country." Comment of Will Hays. Will H.

Hays: "It does not take time to realize our loss. The in tensity of this loss is as instantly grasped as the effect of the crash itself. He stood for everything that was right, never for anything that was wrong." Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studio: "Will Rogers was a truly great American and a humorist who not only made the world laugh but also gave it a pro found and homely phisosophy which made him respected and loved throughout the world. He will be missed as few men have been missed in this generation." Mary Pickford.

"It is riot the length of time we remain in this present human sphere that is im portant, it is what we do with that time. Will Rogers and Wiley Post gave gloriously of every moment, enriching our lives with the treas ures of their accomplishments." Senator Gore of Oklahoma "My State has suffered a double tragedy." Gen. Hugh S. Johnson "It's a terrible loss. Donald L.

Brown, president of United Aircraft Corporation "Suf ficient tribute cannot be paid to their useful lives." Hugh Herndon, round-the-world flyer "Post's death is the greatest loss to American and world avia tion in the last 10 years." Lewis Lacey, polo player "Rogers was the finest kind of good-will ambassador." J. T. Trippe, president of Pan- American Airways System "No one in America has done so much to encourage advancement of modern air transportation as has Will Rogers. Wiley Post was distinguished among the world's great pilots." Frank Gillmore, president of Ac tors' Equity Association "Will Rogers was a great actor as well as a great humorist and a great philosopher" Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales, through his aide-de-camp, Major Sr John Aird "The Prince learns with deep regret the sad news of the untimely death of Mr.

Will Rogers and Mr. Wiley Post" Maurice Chevalier, actor "That's awfuL I knew poor Will and admired him with great and deep affection. In my own French language I can only say he was unique." James W. Geraru, former Ambassador to Germany "Puger3 was our greatest practical philosopher and at the sama time our best humorist." The Marquess of Londonderry, former British Air Secretary "I ex- IB n. at ts PS b-h or ill.

pa ur t( er to- in ei. ich np- in nee to ne for )ro 00,. JES iVill Associated Press Wirephoto. JOE CROSSON. tend sympathy to America in her great loss of two gallant men." Former President Cosgrave of Ireland, who was Rogers' host in 192(5 "I deeply regret the death of a great gentleman, humorist and lover of humanity." Lord Mayor Byrne of Dublin "He (Rogers) was a good friend of Ireland.

We are the poorer for his tragic death." Amos 'n Andy. Freeman F. Gosden and Charles W. Correll (Amos 'n' Andy) "America has lost not only its greatest natural humorist, but also a man who has given aagreat part of his life to bring relief to those in need. Like Wiley Post, he be lieved in aviation from its early days, and had done much to de velop it." Clifford W.

Henderson, manager of the National Air Races, Cleve land "Both Rogers and Post had written brilliant air history, Post through his superlative flying and Rogers in the world promotion of flying in his writings." Former Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio "Will Rogers occupied a position unique, if not without prece dent, in the history of our republic His death brings a tragic loss." Ward T. Van Orman, balloon pilot "In looking over the heroes of American public, Will Rogers ranked No. 1 in my opinion.

In Wiley Post, we have lost a man of uncanny skill and flying ability." Comment of Fred Stone. Fred Stone, actor "Rogers' death is a national calamity. The world has lost a great man and I have lost my best friend." Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas "Both were Oklahomans and neighbors, and all Kansas will be saddened by their passing." F.

C. Hall, Oklahoma City oil man who sponsored the Winnie Mae's record-breaking world flights "Wiley was like a son to me. I'd have done anything in the world for him." Gov. E. W.

Marland of Oklahoma "The State will want to give them a memorial, but the State can't add anything to the honors already heaped upon them by the sovereigns and people of the world." Sir Charles Australian aviator "It is very sad." Ronald Colman "I feel humanity has lost its best and most sincere friend in Rogers and aviation one of its greatest figures in Post." Warner Baxter "Will Rogers' death marks the passing of one of the greatest men of our time." Warner Oland "Rogers belonged to the world." Charles N. James, who flew Rogers on the first Western Air Express mail trip between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City "He saw the future of transport flying in this country and often told us he intended to help it as much as possible." L. W. Goss, Pacific Coast operational superintendent of Transcontinental Western Air "He knew practically everyone in the flying business by his first name and was a favorite of the personnel of the three transcontinental air lines." Miriam A. Ferguson, former Gov- 'eie- ceeW' BODIES OF ROGERS AND POST ARRIVE BY AIR AT FAIRBANKS Continued From Fage One.

curred. His journey was slowed by floe ice. Eskimos had removed Rogers' body from the wreckage, but the Sergeant had to use ropes to pull the shattered plane apart before Post's body could be lifted from beneath the motor in two feet of icy water. The bodies and personal effects taken from the plane were placed in a native skin boat and towed to Barrow. Sergt.

Morgan sent the word by wireless to Col. George E. Kumpe, in charge of the Alaska telegraph system headquarters, operated by the Signal Corps, in Seattle, Wash. The Signal Corps notified Mrs. Post in Ponca City, and the Rogers family in Showhegan, Me.

Rogers' First Trip tD Alaska. Rogers was making his first visit to Alaska, while Post had visited it three times, twice on globe-circling flights and later on a hunting trip. Hunting and fishing apparently were uppermost in Post's mind in making his plans for the trip, which he said was to be culminated by a "tiger hunt" in Siberia, just a short distance across Bering Sea from Nome. Rogers bought a pair of trousers two sizes too big for him at Juneau, explaining he would need the extra girth if he ate all the fish Post was going to catch. The entire populations of Juneau, capital of Alaska, where Post and Rogers spent a night as guests of Gov.

Troy of Dawson in Yukon Territory, Aklavik on the Arctic delta of the McKenzie River, Fairbanks and Anchorage had greeted Post and Rogers when they dropped in on their casual tour of the North. Nome, from which Post planned a take-off for Siberia, had prepared a special reception. Rogers had said jocularly during his flight toward Alaska that he wanted to "rope a reindeer" and Nome citizens had the reindeer ready. Gov. Troy said: "The feeling of loss reaches into Alaska and is particularly personal as Post and Rogers were the guests of the territory.

The people had become warmly attached to Rogers like all who knew him, and I cannot refrain from giving expression to a deep feeling of personal lo3S through his tragic death. As a philosopher, humorist and as a man he wawmong the country's greatest. Wiley Post had come to be regarded as a real Alaskan jn all that term means. Friends throughout the territory are shocked by his death." Oklahoma Governor Offers I'se" of State Capitol for Funeral. OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug.

17. Gov. Marland sent the following message yesterday to Mrs. Will Rogers at Skowhegan, "If you are going to bury Will in Oklahoma the people of Oklahoma would appreciate the privilege of showing their respect and I tender the use of the State Capitol at whatever day and hour you choose for the body to lie in state. The flag on the" State Capitol is now flying at half mast With deepest sympathy.

W. MARLAND Widow of Rogers Awaits Son's Arrival in New York. the Associated, Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.

Mrs. Will Rogers and her daughter, Mary, arrived in New York today after a hurried trip from Maine, on the way to their California home where the funeral of Will Rogers will be held. Dorothy Stone, daughter of actor Fred Stone, accompanied them by automobile into the city from Stamford, where they left the train which had carried them from Oakland. Me. In New York they will await Will Rogers RAIL; CLOTHING FOUND Garments Identified by Sons as Belonging to Elmer G.

Thurman. The coat, hat and cane of Elmer G. Thurman, 65 years old, were found on the Municipal Bridge yesterday morning after a motorist reported that he saw a man climbing over the rail. The articles were identified by Thurman's sons, John W. and Paul E.

Thurman, 620 North Twenty-third street, East St. Louis, whose address was found in a notebook in the clothing. The sons said their father and their mother, Mrs. Kate Thurman, had been separated seven years, and they did not know their father's address. A poem found in the coat, dedicated to "My Wife Kate," proved to be a variation of the song, "Then You'll Remember Me," from the opera "The Bohemian Girl." A note read as follows: "I do homage to your purity, your truth, as I do homage to your beauty.

My love, I have never doubted you; I will never doubt you. Death and doubt will come to me together. I implore you to write and let me know the truth, if you really mean nothing to me. The certainty of despair is better than the cruelty of suspense." Thurman had an artificial leg and walked with the aid of a cane. RESOLUTIONS CALL FOR GOLD MEDALS FOR POST AND ROGERS Congressman Rogers of Oklahoma Says He Will Press for Action Before Adjournment.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Resolutions directing the Secretary of the Treasury to strike off special gold medals "in recognition of the achievements" of Will Rogers and Wiley Post were introduced today by Represenaative Rogers (Dem.) of Oklahoma. The medals would go to the rid-ows. Representative Rogers said that since he was a member of the House Coinage Committee, which will consider the resolutions, he would press for "action on them before adjournment." The resolutions authorize an appropriation of $1500 to defray expenditures.

230 Persons Leave Grounded liner. BELFAST, Aug. 17. The 230 passengers of the Anchor-Donaldson liner Letitia, aground off the entrance of Belfast Lough, were removed by tender today after the steamer had failed to refloat herself at high tide. The liner, out of Montreal, will try again today.

eldest son of the comedian who will arrive by airplane tonight from the Pacific Coast. At the hotel where Jimmy Rogers, another son, was still registered today, it was said he had not returned. He left the hotel vesterdav. when word was received that his father had been killed and it was assumed he had joined his mother and sister. With them too was Miss Theda Blake, sister of Mrs.

Rogers. Hoover Takes Part in Memorial Program on Radio. i CHICAGO, Aug. 17. Herbert Hoover, en route to his California home, joined Gen.

Charles G. Dawes, former Vice-President, James Mattern, round-the-world flyer, and Jack Knight, veteran airline pilot, in a radio tribute to WTiley Post and Wrill Rogers last night. The four met in the studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System to participate in a half-hour program. CLIMBS tion 40 ince to tain not tai on rage ders they a of lice and someone yelled, "Let's them." The farmers grabbed the two men nd one hit McKissick with a cane. hey then hustled them across the to their automobile, from hich they tore a door.

Offered Loan. C. Allen Schotel, owner of the nn, said the Federal Land Bank lf St Louis had offered to lend WOO on his farm on which the National Life Insurance Co. of Ver- aont held a $5000 mortgage in de- wit First, he said, the handlers the mortgage in St. Joseph had peed to accept any amount over that the land bank would r4 and extend the balance, but he told them of the $3300 of- ithe company demanded pay-at in full.

Handlers nf ih mnrt ctq ripnipd had agreed to accept any ier amount than $5000. YOUTHS SAID TO HAVE CONFESSED TWO BURGLARIES van uii Auto SaWs Concern; Two Say Wo recent burglaries were con-by three of four young men 7sted early yesterday on the roof ouuding at 2520 South Jeffer- Venue. occuoiprt hv th Ttaven- Hinson Auto Sales Co. 'fe went to the ve- address after neighbors tpl- l'fifd that burglars were forcing mrough the roof. The had a batr-hst Ri'5ered were txoed as Xtobernick, 21 years old, 5707 avenue; Arthur Benwell, 20, tst Hancock avenue, St.

Louis tr; Robert Stofiel, 19. 2621 Jefferson avenue, and John Ss. 13, 2414 South Third aell, Stofiel 8tatements- police reported. --y robbed an Ozark paint m.i ui s. and obtained $25 liry at a dru store on SVenue Russell boule-.

July 8. Their intention was 1 til fin i. lur a lo f.v said. Warrants will be 1 the lonsTYr d.d mad tn ment cents first, nt Tr.ion. that word have othJf on actol vai I II gain: ednc'.