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from Vancouver, B. c., where he
spent the night after flying from
Fairbanks. Alaska. in Al minutes.
His Iockheed- Electra plane was es-
corted to Boeing airport by an army
plane.
Rogers and Post left Seattle on
their fatal vacation trip to Alaska
August 7. They met instant death
when Posts new plane crashed from
height of so feet near Point Bar
row Thursday night.
| Crosson circled the field slowly
then landed and TAXED to hangar.
The plane was rolled into the han
gar and the doors locked. Bodies
Of the famous airmen were in the
after cabin of the ship.
From Seattle the bodies will be
flown in a Douglas transport plane
of the Pan-American Airways. 1t
was enroute to Seattle today pilot
led by Bill Winston of Brownsville,
Texas. Winstons exact time of ar
rival was not known here and it was
said the bodies will remain in
Crosson'S plane until Winston ar
rives.
Col Clarence Young, manager of
: the Pacific division of Pan-Amer-
ican Always will accompany the
bodies to Los Angeles. Posts will
; remain in the same ship and be
! flown to Oklahoma.
Escorted by Navy
The marine guard which stood at
attention at each end of the han
gar in which the plane rested
would admit no one.
Three navy planes. which met
Crosson's ship midway between
Seattle and Vancouver, followed II
, to Boeing field, circled over the air
port. but did not land
Field officials said it might be an
hour or hour and a half before the
: Douglas airliner reached Seattle
The plane will be Serviced, and
bodies OF the famed flying team
transferred from CroSson's ship II
the privacy of the hangar.
A crowd of 1000 persons, roped
off and prevented by police from
| coming onto the field, stood silent
ly as the funeral plane landed
: Many of the men ran toward the
south end of the field. but she
plane TAXED into the hangar before
] they could catch more than a fleet
2 ing glimpse of it.
: Weather bureau officials said
! flying conditions were nearly per-
feet. indicating the big Pan-Amer-
: ican AirWays ship would make fast
s time as it roars down the coast
S carrying Post and Rogers home.
An escort of navy planes will fol-
: low the funeral ship south. Off
cials would not say whether they
would go all the way to Southern
California and Oklahoma.
4 HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 10. UP)-
Farewells to viii Rogers will ot
said in the Wee Kirk o the Heath
er in Glendale, Calf, where many
another of the screen great has
preceded him, it was announced to-
e day
e His body will lie in state undel
the trees near the church from 7 a
). m. until noon on that day, GENE
:. terry officials said and a specia
: guard of soldiers and police will b'
on duty as the viewers file pas
: the coffin.
e Tentative funeral plans vert
made known by three of the cow
: boy comedians sisters-in-laW, Mrs
| II. L. Adams, Mrs. A. M. Irelane
and Mrs. Zuleike Stroud, and
{ brother -in-laW. j. K. Blake.
Services will be brief and private
r it was said. Only members OF TIT
s family and intimate friends will bt
: present. DR.. j. Whitcomb Brough'
sr. Baptist minister and OLD frienc
of the humorist, has been asked tc
! conduct the rotes.
! A Pan American AirWays plane
! bearing the bodies of Rogers anc
Wiley Post, round-the-w world flyer
with whom he died in a vacation
crash near Point Barrow, Alaska
was expected to reach here early
tonight.
POSTS body will be shipped tc
Maysville. Okla, where funeral ser
vices will be held.
The comedians family, Mrs. Rog
ers, viii Jr, Mary and jim, were
. enrcute here from New York.
Oklahoma May Get Body
After the services Rogers body
will be laid in a receiving vault TO