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The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Legation Guest

The Vice President of Mic.
aragua Senor Rodolfo Esbi.
noca, who will arrive in New
York Thursday aboard the Ma
1estic from Europe, will come
to Washington to be a guest at
the Nicaraguan Legation next
week.
Mrs. Joseph w. Byrns. wife
OF the Speaker of the House.
will receive Wednesday after
noon from 4 to $50 o'clock in
the Chinese room of the May
flower.
Nine. Florescu, wife of the
counselor of the Rumanian Le-
cation, with her children, has
left Washington for Florida
where she will spend three
weeks.
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Fete Visitors
At Tea Today

Mrs. Ellis A. Yost will be host
ess at a tea this afternoon from
4 to 6 o'clock in the lounge of
the Dodge Hotel, her guests hav-
ing been invited to meet her sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Fielding H. YoSt,
OF Ann Arbor, Michigan, and
Mrs. Carl Lomen, of Alaska.
Among those who will preside
at the tea table will be Mrs.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Mrs.
George w. Johnson, Mrs. Theo-
dore Christianson, Mrs. William
N. Doak, Nine. Cantacuzene-
Grant; Mrs. Virginia White
Speel, Mrs. Thad H. Brown, Mrs.
John Herrick, Mrs. George C.
Thorpe, Mrs. Walter r. Tucker
man, Mrs. James M. Doran, Mrs.
William Fitch Kelley, Mrs. Kath-
crime Kennedy Brown, Mrs.
Frank w. Mondell, Mrs. Strick-
land Gillian, Miss Katharine
Ansley, Mrs. T. Kipsey Carpen-
ter, Miss Bertha Noyes, Mrs. Ed
win G. Bowman and Mrs. Dan
Tyler Moore.
The Washington times., 1935-02-25

weekend, and some departed for va
rious Southern resorts, where they will
remain until late spring.
Capital residents sojourning at Miami
Beach, Fla, include Mr.. and Mrs. Karl
w. Corby and their daughter, Miss
Mary Ellen Corby. The latter has as
her house guest there, Miss Alice Marie
Fleming, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert V. Fleming, for whom she gave
a luncheon at the Surf Club last week.
Others in the company were Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles H. Tompkins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fleming, who are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. John D. Allen; Mr.. and Mrs.
Corby and Mr. Gerald Moore.
Mrs. Johnson Is Hostess
The Washington times., 1935-02-25

Mrs. Robert v Fleming Another luncheon given there by
Mrs Clare Peter Johnson of this city, when Mrs Corby her
motherinlaw Mrs Charles Corby, and Mrs Fleming,
among the guests
Senator Royal S. Copeland who spending time in
Florida while Mrs Copeland is recuperang from
mobile accident the guest of honor luncheon given
the Surf Club by Mrs. Vincent Hubbe and Mrs James
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Engaged to Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Coop.
er Hoyt, Of Philadelphia, Pa,
have announced the engage
ment of Mrs. Hoyt's daughter,
Miss Phyllis Mitchell, to Mr..
Robert w. Stanner, of this city.
X Il \
The Venezuelan Minister and
Sonora de Arcaya gave a
luncheon yesterday, at the
Legation in Sixteenth Street,
when the guests numbered 20.
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Reception Today

The Japanese Ambassador
and Nine. Saito will be the
ranking guests at a reception
the Second Secretary of the
Japanese Embassy and Nine.
Ito will give in the Carlo room
at the Shoreham this afternoon
from 4 to $50 o'clock.
Mr.. and Nine. Ito will leave
Washington Thursday to sail
for Havana, where Mr.. Ito will
assume his new post as charge
d'affaires Of the Japanese EN-
baSsy in Cuba. Approximately
go guests have been invited to
the reception.
The Ambassador and Nine.
Saito gave a dinner last evening,
at the Embassy, in honor of Mr..
and Nine. Ito, when the guests
included the members Of the
staff.
Mrs. M. L. Strong. accompan-
led by her daughter, Miss Ruth
S. Strong, of Northampton,
Mass, is at the Dodge.
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Guests of Honor

The Minister of the Domin.
ican Republic and Sonora de
Brache will be the guests of
honor at a dinner to be given
this evening by Sonora de
Espaillat, in the Chinese room
at the Mayflower.
Mrs. Charlotte B. BiSSell, of
Buffalo, N. Y, is at the Carlton
for a few days.
Mrs. William D. Leahy will
be "at home" this afternoon at
4::30 o'clock.
Honors Nieces
Mrs. Alvin T. Hert will give
a party this evening, at the
1925 F. Street Club, for her
nieces, Miss Jane Alley and
Miss Mary Louise Durham, of
Louisville, KY.
Mrs. Emory S. Land and her
mother, Mrs. Dwight Chester,
will be "at home" this after
noon, in their apartment at
$500 Massachusetts, avenue.
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Dolly Cameron Says:
CAPITAL RESIDENTS FETED IN SOUTH
Former Attorney General and
Mrs. Palmer to Assist in
Staging Flower Show

With George Washington's birthday an
niversary falling on Friday, many members
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Envoy Host

The German Ambassador, DR..
Hans Luther, will entertain at
a mems dinner this evening, at
the Embassy in Massachusetts,
Avenue, in honor of Herr Firle
Avenue, in honor of Herr Rudolf
Firle and Herr John Schroeder,
Senator Bronson Cutting. Of
New Mexico, will entertain at a
dinner this evening.
X y
Farewell Party
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter B. Guy
entertained at a buffet supper
last evening, at their home in
Kalorama Road, in compliment
to Miss Esterbelle McHarg,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry B. McHarg, who will sail
Wednesday for Italy, where she
will visit her brother-in-law and
sister, the Vice Consul at
Naples and Mrs. Homer M. BY.
ington, jr.
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Hemp Demand Heavy.
So great is the government demand
for hemp in Germany that paper is
ling used instead Of string by postal
clerks in tying up mail packages.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, August 16-
From a modest farm near Maysville,
Okla, Wiley Post rose to become one
Of the worlds greatest fyers-not sat-
isfied with making the fastest time
around the globe, but pushing on to
new achievement in the stratosphere.
Post had early ambitions to become
an airplane pilot, and these were not
stopped by an accident in machine
shop several years ago which cost him
the sight Of one eye.
With Burrell Tibbs and Dorsey
Askew as his instructors, he learned to
fly and Joined them as a parachute
jumper in their flying circus"
Transformed" Three Years.
After three years of Transforming"
he settled down to become the personal
pilot of F. c. Hall, wealthy independ-
ent oil operator who later became his
hacker in the flights that brought Post
and the Winnie Mae plane world fame.
The stocky flyer had Harold Gatty
for a navigating partner in June and
July, 1881, on his first record-making
fligt- around the globe. Their time
was 207 hours md 81 minutes, less
than 10 days.
In 1888 Post set out alone from
Floyd Bennett Field, New York. bent
on breaking that record without the
help Of navigator. Less than nine
days later, in just 1876 hours and 49,
minutes, he had flown around the
earth, and landed again at New York.
Was Oil Field Worker.
Post was born at Grand Saline, Tex.
The aviation bug" first bit him in
1919. while he was rigger's helper in
the Oklahoma oil fields.
His original investment in aviation
was s25, which he took from the lean
purse Of transforming pilot to give
him the works" of an ancient
Jenny"
It was five years later before Post
few again, but the virus of the flying
bug" had taken effect. This time
he went out as parachute jumper, at
$25 a leap.
Saved to Learn Flying.
He saved enough to learn flying
but in 1925 he tired Of plotting bor-
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read practically every word in every
available paper wherever he hap
pened to be each morning. Once he
was asked If he read any fiction. He
replied, Sure, the newspapers"
He was an ardent admirer Of Mark
Twain, and on a visit to Virginia City,
New. where the great humorist once
lived, he tried to find bed Twain had
occupied. The quest was vain, Tor he
was told that when the writer lived
there he was too poor to own bed.
He always denied that he was an
actor
I'm not smart enough to act" he
said. IF they can find a role that's
sort of like me, I'm all right. Other
wise. I'm punk"
His employers in the motion picture
industry never bothered to write dia-
logue for his films He couldn't or
wouldn't remember. He said Just
what seemed about the right thing
to say at the time.
Stunned Milking Contest.
His studio prepared a grand" place
for him to occupy on the lot. A
sanded garden decorated with cactus
plants surrounded an adobe hut
dressed up with an electric kitchen
and a living room filled with Western
and Indian trophies. Rogers looked
in, said it was swell" and never went
back until former President and Mrs.
Coolidge came to call. He ushered
them into the house, saying they
had to set somewhere, didn't they?"
He could do almost anything with a
rope and was a great horseback rider,
but once while guest at Hoot Glib
sons ranch he had to decline to enter
q milking contest, being forced to
admit he never learned to milk COW.
He found his recreation in playing
polo and, unlike other stars of the
motion pictures, he could take chances
without fear Of injury manning his
features and hurting his career.
Couldn't make my mug look much
worse, no matter how I hurt it" he
said.
He owned q hurdy-gurdy, piano,
violin, banjo, drums, mandolin and
guitar and could not play any OF
them.
Disliked Interviews.
Rogers disliked interviews. but was
always ready to talk on homely sub
jects.
Polo long was regarded as his most
cherished pastime. Yet, while his
love of horses was the most pre-
dominant thing, next to his love OF
his family, aviation in late years
seemed to share his passion.
Time after time he told his friends
that his "best quips were written
in the air.
OF recent years he never would
take o train or boat, If an airplane
was available.
Piloted by Frank Hawks, he made
an aerial tour of the territory affected
by the Mississippi flood in 1881 in the
interest of the sufferers. Since that
time he seemed to want to fly any
where there was anything interesting
happening.
Friend Of Lindberghs.
He was a warm friend of the Lind
berghs. The colonel and Mrs. Lind
bergh visited him many times. In
their hours of their suffering follow
ing the kidnapping Of their child they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-16
ambition Droue Wiley Post
To Fame in World Auiation
Made Fastest Time around Globe, First
With Gatty, Then Alone, and
Later Tested SHAKESPEARE.

rowed machines and went back to the
oil fields to get together a stake for
a ship of his own. The second day
at work he lost his left eye when
struck by a steel splinter Clipped of
link pin.
Posts flying first attracted national
attention in August, 1880. when he
won the nonstop air Derby from
Los Angeles to Chicago.
From that time on he was almost
constantly in the limelight of avia-
ton, following soon with the round
the-world flight with Gatty, then his
solo record breaker, and recently his
attempts to reach super-speed in the
SHAKESPEARE.
Retired Faithful Ship.
Post used his faithful Winnie Mae,
the ship that carried him to the
heights in his four unsuccessful at
tempts to span the Continent in the
shakespeare.
His reason for this, he said, was
pure sentiment" and it was with re-
luctance that he saw her head for re-
tirement recently after the last at
tempt.
The ship, a high-wing monoplane,
was named for Winnie Mae Fain, the
daughter of Hall, Posts early financial
packer.
On these high altitude flights he
used landing gear fastened in such
a manner that it could be detached
upon taking of, to reduce the wind
resistance. The plane was landed on
its belly" on a small wooden skid.
His primary purpose, Post said. was
not to break the existing speed record.
but to prove my theories as to the
possibilities Of shakespeare flying"
The Whine Mae is not a racing
plane" he said. The only special
equipment on it is the supercharger
and radio. Its normal cruising speed
at ordinary attitudes, with landing
gear, Is $50 miles an hour"
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Associated Press
First With News
Of Tragic Crash

SEATTLE, August 16.-News
Of the death of Wiley Post and
Will Rogers in an airplane crash
near Point Barrow, Alaska, today
was first flashed to the world by
the Associated Press.
Its report at 9:48 am, Eastern
standard time, from the United
States Army Signal Corps was 40
minutes or more ahead of all
other press associations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-16
Will Rogers Rise to Fame
An Oklahoma Cowboy, His Sage Wise
Cracks Made Him Famous

1929, Just before he was to open new
play in New York, Rogers rushed
across the continent. took the role for
old Fred" and scored another hit.
He continued, however. to go on
lecture tours" packing great crowds
into theaters. auditoriums, school
houses and churches. He raised small
fortune for the drought sufferers in
1880, and in his quiet way gave thou
sands of. dollars of his private fortune
to charity.
His wealth was estimated by his
friends at several million dollars and
he carried life insurance Of approx
imately $1,000, 900. He never talked
about his money. but he was q high
salaried actor for years. His salary
was SIS, 900 a week when he worked.
He was paid $4,000 a week for stage
appearances and he was understood
to have received $4,000 for eight radio
broadcasts.
Too Bashful to Propose.
He met Betty Blake at q candy
pullin' In Oolagah, but it took him q
year to win her. He was too bashful
to propose and finally he worked his
way to South America and Australia
learning new rope tricks and riding
stunts. Finally he came back, pro-
posed, was accepted, and they were
married November rs, 1908. Three
children were born to the union, Will,
jr., Mary and Jimmy. All three fol-
lowed the hoof beats of their father
and became expert polo players, and
for q time the Rogers family could
put a good team on the field.
Had to break it up" Will kidded.
Mary went society on US"
He wrote q dozen books and for
many years wrote q short daily box
for a number of newspapers, contain
ing sage comment on the days hap
penings.
He was seriously mentioned as q
candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation in 1881, but laughed the sug-
gestion of by saying:
"a comedian can only last till he
takes himself serious or his audience
takes him serious, and don't want
either one of those to happen to me
until I'm dead Gf them, so let's stop
all this foolishness right now"
Father Was q Leader.
Glenn Rogers. father Of Will, played
q part in adopting the first constitu-
ton of the State Of Oklahoma and q
county was named for him. OF this
Will said:
Heck, they had to; nobody could
pronounce the old name coowees-
coowee."
In Claremore q hotel Is named the
VIII Rogers, q six-story building which
the comedian boasted had more bath
rooms than Buckingham Palace.
"I used to envy Gen. Grant and
Jesse James because they had cigars
named after them. But, shucks, now
I've kinda got it on EN-"
He couldn't be bothered with gram
mar. either in his writings or Tee
lures" Once an interviewer. sug-
gested he took too many liberties with
the laws of syntax.
whats that?" he asked. Sounds
like bad news"
The other explained 1t meant gram.
mar, whereupon the sage laughed and
replied:
Didn't know they was buying
grammar now. Tn just so dumb
had a notion 1t was thoughts and
ideas"
His most repeated remark was. "Al
know read in the papers," and HI
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PLANE'LICENSED AUG, 8

Commerce Department data on the
Rogers-Post plane showed 1t was
licensed only on August 8. It had Q
cabin with seats for three.
It was Lockheed Orion, powered
with Pratt Whitney 550-horse.
power engine.
Licensed especially for long dis
lance flying and test work, 1t was Of
latest design and scheduled for Posts
use in flying to Siberia.
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HOOVER DENIES PLANS ,
FOR MIDWEST PARLEYS
Conferences Are News to Me-
Says Former President En- =.
Route West. .--
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 16.-Former
President Herbert Hoover arrived by
train today from New York en- route
to California and denied any knoglr
edge of reported plans to confer
Midwestern Republican leaders dul j
his stay here.
ANY conferences are news to me-"
he said, adding that he had seen 1.-The
reports in the papers"
Asked If he planned any addresses
during the next few months attack
ing the New Deal, he said:
Il have nothing in mind"
The former President was met by
his close friend, Arch Shaw, a Chicago
investment broker, and was driven
from the railway station in q taxicab
to Shaw's office.
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were guests at his ranch, secluded
from all visitors.
His only pets were horses, chiefly
polo ponies.
Despite his fortune. Rogers was a
frugal liver. His clothing testified to
that. In fact, he often remarked that
1t cost him more for newspapers in a
year than for clothes.
It was long ago that a friend sug-
e-5ted the possibility of danger in air
lights. Chewing gum, Rogers paused,
smiled and commented that he bore
a chart I'd life and expected to live
to be at least 100 years old.
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SISTER REMAINS CALM

CHELSEA, Okla, August 16 OP.-
Mrs. Tom McSpadden, aged sister of
Will Rogers, famed actor who died
with Wiley Post in an airplane crash
In Alaska, bore up stoicly under news
of the tragedy.
Several years ago Mrs. McSpadden
lay at the point of death for weeks
from q serious illness.
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Crash

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-16
HURLEY PAYS TRIBUTE
Predicts Oklahoma Will Place
Rogers Statue in Capitol.

Patrick J. Hurley of Oklahoma,
former Secretary of War and friend
of win Rogers, said today his States
quota Of illustrious sons in Satuary
Hall at the Capitol will now be filed.
Beside the statue of Sequoyah, In
viii Rogers. Oklahomans. I know,
will want it So"
Each State is permitted statues of
her two most nlustrious sons in Statu-
airy Hall. II Rogers statue Is placed
there, Oklahoma will have as her rep
resentatives q Cherokee Indian chief
and one with Cherokee blood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-16
S0LBERG LANDS PLANE
North Atlantic Flyers Short Of
Norway Goal.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, August 16.-Thor
Solberg, nearing the completion Of his
fight across the North Atlantic, set
his seaplane down at Thorshavn, Farce
Islands, at l pm. e am. z. s. t.
today.
Solberg and Paul Oscanyan left
Hornafjord. Iceland. at l0:45 am.
(5:45 am. e. 8. IT, and were expected
to reach Bergen at s pm. moon.
=. s. t., completing . flight from
Brooklyn started July IL.
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were typically American.
They were great souls and I feel a
sense of deep personal loss in their
passing"
Posts home town of Maysville
Okla, was incoherent with grief.
There is no telephone at the little
farm home of Posts parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. Post. and messenger was
sent there to break the news to them
of their sons death.
SECRECY MARKED TRIP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-16

Rogers Continually Denied Plans Made
to Accompany Post.
LOS ANGELES. August Is (P.-
The departure of Will Rogers with
Wiley Post on the preliminary legs Of
Posts projected fight to Russia was
guarded by the strictest secrecy.
The Associated Press was informed
in advance of the actual take-of that
Rogers, noted screen comedian and
writer, would accompany his old-time
Oklahoma friend on the hazardous
fight. Rogers denied he planned to
make the trip and Post said he knew
nothing of it.
Shortly in advance of the flight
North, Post. Mrs. Post and Rogers left
Union Air Terminal, Burbank, heading
North. but landed in New Mexico for
a brief fishing excursion.
Mrs. Post Left at Seattle.
Returning here, the three left for
the North, but Mrs. Post left her hus-
bands powerful new low-winged mon
oplane at Seattle. Rogers continued to
Alaska, but even there he did not say
whether he contemplated going on to
Nome, where Wiley was to establish
his base for the projected flight across
Siberia into Moscow.
Rogers and Post both had aversions
to being greeted by crr vds at airports.
Post, especially after the failure of his
four attempts to span the country in
the STR osphere this year, refused to
discuss his plans.
Rogers Continued Denials.
Rogers. one of the top-notch draw
ing cards in the motion picture in
dustry, recently completed work on q
movie and was free for several weeks.
This gave credence to the report he
was to make the Russian fight with
Post, but he would not admit the plan,
and even went so far as to say in his
synd: ated newspaper column that
t. ose who forecast his Russian ad-
venture with Post had their geography
twisted.
Rogers probably few more miles than
any other person in the United States
not actually connected with an air
line. He made all his business trips
by air. He had complete confidence
in Post and referred to him several
times as one of the best pilots in the
business.
Evening star., 1935-06-14
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sALE-AUToMOBILES.

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