The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-22


homely wit and wisdom will pass
before today. 1t will be taken at
noon to the small wee Kirk o. the
Heather, where Hollywood has said
farewell to such other stars OF its
world as Marie Dressler and Flo
Ziegfeld.
In Dress Up Clothes.
Rogers family-the widow and
three children--saw him last night
for the first time since he and
Post were killed in the crash Of
their airplane in Alaska. He lay
In a serge suit-the suit he called
his dress up clothes in the
dimly lighted chapel. The small
family group went late to avoid
crowds which stood before the
cemetery gate all day, and stayed
only q few minutes.
Before she left, Mrs. Rogers or
dered the casket closed until the
private service is held at 2 p. m.
(P.S.T.) GO p. m. E.D.T).
The service at the chapel will
be simple and brief, attended by
not more than 1870 persons, but the
memorial services to be held simu-
ultaneously in Hollywood bowl, on
Aim company lots, at Forest Lawn
cemetery and over National Radio
networks will be comparable only
to the adulatory farewells given
Rudolph Valentino and Marie
Dressler.
All Night In Line.
Outside the bronze gates Of For.
est Lawn hundreds Of persons wait
ed all night In the line in which
thousands of persons were to walk
past Rogers coffin. A committee
of film stars headed by Mary Pick
ford, Rupert Hughes and Conrad
Nagel prepared for more than co.
900 in Hollywood bowl.
At Twentieth Century-Fox studios
in Westwood a colonial set on
which Rogers frequently worked
in such pictures as Judge Priest"
was prepared for a service at which
George Jessel, comedian, will speak
the grief Of the men and women
with whom he worked.
All the memorial ceremonies and
the two-minute period Of darkness
in the nations motion picture
houses will beg in simultaneously
with the funeral service in the wee
Kirk O. Heather and the rites for
Post In Oklahoma City. Work will
stop on every movie lot Of the ma
ton, not to resume until Monday.
Post Shares In Tribute.
Post, too, shared In the film in
dustry tribute as q member of the
clan. A picture In which he starred
still Is touring the country.
DR.. J. Whitcomb Braugher,
evangelical Baptist minister who
has known the Rogers family many
years, will preach the actor-auth-
or's funeral eulogy. Hughes and
Nagel will speak at Hollywood
bowl. The war and navy depart
ments will be represented officially
by Rear Admiral w. T. Arrant
and Brig. Gen. Henry w. Buttner.
After the funeral service Rogers
body will be taken, In procession
expected to contain many thousand
persons, backNt to the crypt OF For
est Lawn to await eventual trans
fer to his native Oklahoma or to
Arlington National cemetery in
Washington. where congress invit-
ed families of both Post and Rog-
ers to bury them.
Flags OF California flew at half.
mast and the entire state was asked
by Governor Frank Il. Merriam to
observe one minute Of silence as
the services started.
Last Tribute For Post.
Oklahoma City, Aug. 22--CuP)
Wiley Post who left the OKLA
homa oil fields 10 years ago with
q blinded eye and just enough
money to buy a second hand air
plane was back In death today to
receive the states final salute for
peerless accomplishment in avia-
tion..
The body of Post. who was the
first man to fly solo around the
world. lay in state in the great
marble rotunda OF the Capitol.
Governor e. w. Marland chose
to read the brief statehouse. SER
vices himself. Funeral services
were to be conducted in the first
Baptist church at 2 p. m. Then
Mrs. Mae Post, the flyers wife and
his parents were to take the body
to a vault, pending a later decision
to accept an offer or burial In the
Arlington National cemetery.
Planes circled high above the
city. Other flyers were among the
pallbearers. including Joe Crosson.
famous Alaskan pilot; Bennett
Griffin and Jimmy Mattern who
raced unsuccessfully with Post in
round the world competition and
many others were among the
mourners.
The impressive services and
eloquent eulogies bespoke the states
appreciation OF Posts flying great
ness, but the appreciation OF his
personality came from the neigh
bors of his home town late yester.
day.
ROGERS WAS NERVOUS
Greenwich. Conn.,, Aug. ga
(UP)zClaude II. Yost, veteran
chauffeur. recalled To-Day that win
Rogers twas pretty nervous when
took him on his first automobile
ride back In 1905"