The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-23
ROGERS AND POST

Men of the towns 3Oonon,,o
uon, including 200 eskimos ana IN
wnlte persons, assembled the r;vo AZ
10 miles to the scene of the crash
IN winch Post and Rogers met
tneir deaths. They brought hack
Ih Cnelr boats remains of the now
Lockheed ship. o "e"
Inc small bronze Eslx;poo ,,,o,,
were silent. sober at Their tu oh
realzing something of the breate
ness OF the flying pair who died
10 miles from their goal. They
handled the pieces carefully. al
NEST reverently. There was no
souvenir hunting.
Lakewood, Me. Aug. 16.- Mrs
VIII Rogers and her pretty 40"
tress-daughter Mary, motored 70
Waterville tonight to entrain on
the "Downeaster" express for New
York city. The train will reach
New York at 6:52 a. m. EST To-
morrow. With them was Mrs. Ro-
gers sister, Miss Theda Blake of
Beverly Hills, Calf, who has baen
chaperon for 19-year-old Marv aft
the Lakewood summer theater
Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. II. -
Through the same murkv arctic
skies that lured them to death. the
bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley
Post were brought from Point
Barrow to Fairbanks TODAY in the
first phase of the long, sorrowful
journey back home.
Joe Crosson, ace pilot of the far
north, noted mercy flier' and
friend of the distinguished dead.
made the solemn, dangerous 500
mile flight in a liz hours.
Crosson's pontooned plane alight-
ed gently on the surface of the
Cinema river here at 1885 am. G2:
80 pm. eastern standard time).
All Fairbanks fiocked to the ri
yer bank to witness the funeral
spectacle, remembering it was
from almost that same spot that
the famous Observation-Disclosures
and the world girdling aviator had
taken off less than two days pre-
vlously on the flight that ended in
tragedy.
Between lines of sorrowing AL
askan people, the bodies of the two
were borne to an undertaking es.
Establishment for embalming.
Crosson and his flight compan-
ion, Robert Gleason, radio man
were near exhaustion from the
perilous 1,000-mile round trir
flight to the fringe of northern
civilization and seemed badly il
need of rest, but the veteran AL.
aska pilot decided to press on tc
Juneau as soon as possible.
Whether he would proceed sou,
Inward through Juneau on the
way to Seattle and California Of
first go eastward into Canada re.
manned undetermined. Permission
was asked for a southwark fligh
over Canada, ommiting Juneau
the Alaskan capital.
Ahead of Crosson lay 2,OOl
miles or more of the northland t.
be traversed, after which the bod
of Rogers presumably is to b
taken on to Los Angeles and tina
of Pest to Oklahoma for final rites
! White Horse, Yukon Territory
Aug. 10. - The 5000 mile funer
al flight with the bodies of vii
Rogers and Wiley Post was resum
ed today by a fast plane tina
roared across the wilds of north
west Canada toward the Unite
States.
Leaving Fairbanks, Alaska, a
| 6:05 a. m. it covered the 500 lone
ly miles to White Horse in 8 hour
and 25 minutes, paused only Il
minutes for refueling and presse,
on southwark at 11:55 am.
Again at the controls was Pi
lot Joe Crossoa, ace Alaskan file
for Pan-American Anyways, VIII,
brought the bodies out of Poin
Barrok yesterday to Fairbanks.
Stops were planned at Atlin ant
Prince George, B. c., the latte
place 600 miles from here, on tn,
run to Seattle. Cresson espresso,
the intention of reaching Seattl,
tonight.
A co-pilot ad a radio operato
accompanied Crosson on his sol
emn, dangerous mission. Much O
the route lay over mountainous
broken country.
Meanwhile Mrs. Rogers and he
three children, Mary, Will Jr. an,
James, entrained from New Yorl
for Los Angeles.
| Chelsea, Okla, Aug. II. Fun
eral services for Will Rogers vii
be held here, probably Thursday
Mrs. Helen Eaton, Rogers niece
said today.
| Mrs. Rogers, enroute to Califor
MIA. talked to Mrs. Tom McSpad
den, Rogers sister, and told he
OF the funeral plans this after
noon.
The body, Mrs. Eaton said, wi
be brought directly to Chelse
when returned to the United Sta
ties from Alaska. where the fats
crash occurred.
The noted Oklahoman's parent
Mr.. and Mrs. Clement Vann Rog
ers, are buried in the family lc
in the Chelset cemetery.
Chelset. often visited by Roger
on his trips to see Mrs. McSpaC
den. his only surviving sister,
miles from the ranch house nea
Oolagah where Rogers was born.
Maysville, Okla, Aug. II. =
The common folk of a country
side too drab for adventurous Wi
ey Post left their fields and cam
to Main street tonight to talk owe
the times when their hero of tn
skies returned hons just as on
of the boys at the corner dru
store.
Saturday is always a big da
in Maysville, just as it it in a
isolated farming community ce1
ters but the little groups aroun
tho haaIr oud tho haYdwov-o dv