Evening star., 1935-08-18
PLANE RETURNING
ROGERS AND POST
FIGHTS THICK FOG
CroSSon, Ace Flyer of North,
Is Ready to Leave
Fairbanks Today.
ARRIVAL IN SEATTLE
Is LIKELY BY MONDAY
Sorrowing Throng Greets Ship
After 500-Mile Hop From Bar
row Amid Rain and Murk.

fCopyrisht. 1925. by the Associa ted PressD
FAIRBANKS, Alaska. August H.
Weeping skies and lowering murk i'm
peded the flight of Joe CrosSon out OF
Alaska with the bodies Of Will Rogers
and Wiley Post today Ace pilot of
the Far North, Crosson brought the
bodies Of the cowboy philosopher and
'round-the-Worl f1ier here from Point
Barrow in his pontoon- equipped mon
Oplane, landing at 7:35 am. u2:35
pm. Eastern Standard Tfme).
A big Pan-American Airways plare
stood ready at the airport to drone
on toward the United States with the
noted air crash victims, but rain nd
low ceiling interyened. The Govern
ment forecaster called it nasty flying
weather"
The inland route" east and south
towards Telegraph Greek and Prince
George, was fairly clear outside the
Fairbanks area. the weathp. observer
said, and might permit take-off to-
morrow. If so, Crosson expected 10
start at 8 am.
Due in Seattle by Monday.
In New York, Pan-American Of
ficials said the plane would stop al
White Horse. Telegraph Greek. Rich
mond and Prince George, in the
Canadian Provinces, and that it
would probably reach Seattle by Mon
day.
For four and one-hslf hours Cros-
son battled murky Arctic skies th
morning to bring the bodies 500 miles
over the Arctic tundra to Fairbank
from Point Barrow, where Rogers anc
Post crashed to death in their vaca-
ton plane Thursday.
Radioman Robert Gleason few
with him on the 900 mile round trip.
Most Of the Fairbanks oopulace wit
messed the somber spectacle Of their
arrival. Crosson alighteG gently on
the Chena River.
Between lines Of sorrowing Alas
kans the linen-Swathed bodies wera
borne to an undertaking establish
ment for embalming
Faces Not AppreciabIy Marred.
Physicians said Rogers had a Sc
we're cut ON his forehead The ches-
was crushed. Posts legs, right wriss
and upper left arm were broken.
Abrasions also were found. Their
faces. however, were not appreciably
marred
Rex Beach. author-f friend of the
two men, who spent an evening with
them at Juneau last week in a joyful
reunion on their trip North. was al
the airport landing field. He wrote
in a special article for the Associated
Press:
L have never seen a people so COM
pletely stunned.
Yesterday, everybody in this coun-
try was smiling at Wills Jokes. On
every pair of lips were the names OF
the two famous visitors. The two
newest and truest friends Alaska has
made in many years
To-day there are no smiles IN
here. This is the blacklist day Alaska
has known"
Lindbergh Acts for Widows.
From New York, Col Charles A.
Lindbergh came into the plans to
take the bodies South. Acting for
the grief-Stricken widows. Col Lind
bergh last night sent a message au-
thorizlng DR.. Henry w. GreiSt,
Presbyterian medical missionary at
Barrow, to turn the bodies over to
CroSSOn, Previously, Greist and
Charles Brewer. trader for more than
half century at the settlement, had
prepared them for the first phase of
the Sorrowful trip.
At Seattle. the famous Oklahomans
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