The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-16

with his eyes shut. In fact, that's
the way our congress has been
running it."
Holland had a mutiny on one
of her battleships. Now she is
about to have one on the other"
"Give California two months
rain in the year, and nothing can
stop us but lack of adjectives."
Bernard Shaw stopped over
just long enough to make one
speech In Bombay, India, started
a war and 100 Indians killed each
other"
Nothing will bring back distant
kinfolks like the news spreading
that you got job"
France wants to get in on, the
debt settlement On account Of
them paying nothing, as It Is, un-
der the new settlement we are to
start paying them"
1.-The repeal of prohibition was
passed by the people last Novetn-
Der. 1t finally reached the senate
yesterday. News travels fast in
this country"
II hear England paid ninety
million but it's only hearsay as far
as the unemployed are concerned
Say, that list of new cabinet
members sent everybody scurrying
through Who's Who, the World
Almanac and the United States
fingerprint department trying to
find out who they were. The for
gotten man has been found and
there was nine of 'em and a wo-
man."
Lindbergh May Go
Washington, Aug. 16-(UP)-]
Col Charles A. Lindbergh may
fly on tragic mission to Alaska to
supervise return of the bodies of
Will Rogers and Wiley Post, adj
vices today indicated.
While the capital mourned the
deaths of the famous actor and the
equally famous aviator, advices to
Assistant Secretary of Treasury
Stephen B. Gibbons indicated that
a telephone conversation this after
noon would decide whether Ameri-
cas- premier flyer would undertake
the mission.
Gibbons planned to talk to Lind
bergh, now at Northhaven. Me-, by
telephone. 1t was believed he
might decide whether Lindbergh
would fly the bodies back or whe-
Their they would be returned by the
coast guard cutter Northland, as
had been previously suggested.
Coast guard officials reached
sister of Mrs. Rogers at Skowhe-
gan, Maine, this morning, who told
that Mrs. Rogers was Frustrated
and grief stricken.
The sister told officials that Mrs.
Rogers would like to have Lind
bergh take charge of returning the
body.
At the same time, the coast
guard said Pan-American Always
had offered its facilities in the re-
turn of the bodies.
Mercy Ship After Bodies
Seattle, Aug. 16-(UP)-The U.
S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland,
famed mercy ship" of the Arctic
and Boring, was ordered today to
return to Point Barrow, pick up
the bodies of Wiley Post and will
Rogers, and take them to Nome.
The Northland left Point Barrow
yesterday, after her annual visit to
the Arctic port, carrying doctor,
a dentist, a U. S. marshal and act
ing district judge. and supplies for
government officers there.
Had Premonition
Washington, Aug. 16-(UP)-
Speaker Joseph w. Byrns said to-
day he had premonition that Will
Rogers would be killed.
II told my wife he shouldn't go
on such fight" said Byrns, add
ing he was stunned by the loss of
a man the whole nation loved"
Rep. VIII Rogers, d., Okla, who
won his first race for congress be-
cause of his name, said he consid-
cred that oklahoma has lost its
greatest SON..
He estimated that the fact will
Rogers endorsed him for congress
gave him $4,000 votes.
Second To Be Killed
Grafton, Mass, Aug. 16 - (UP)
Will Rogers was the second per-
son cast for role in the film ver-
sion of Eugene O'Neills "Ah Will
derIess" to be killed.
Rogers was to have played the
male lead of Mac Miller, the father
which was portrayed by George
M. Cohan in the Broadway pro-
dLction of the play, but at the last
minute decided to take the plane
trip with Wiley Post.
Junior Durkin, who was cast in
the role of Richard Miller, son of
Mac, was killed in the same Cali
fornia automobile accident which
cost the life of Jackie Coogan's
father.
Director Clearance Brown, here
to film crowd scenes for "Ah Will
derness," told the United Press
that he argued with Rogers for
2h hours in an effort to persuade
him to abandon the Alaskan fight
and play the leading role in the
film.
Lionel Barrymore later was CIV
en- the part. The role that was to
have been filled by Durkin is being
played by Eric Linden, who is
here on location.
Brown, close friend of Rogers
because of their mutual interest in
aviation. said the news of the ac-
tors death knocked me for
loop"
Brown said Rogers played the
role of Mac Miller with a Pacific
coast stock company for eight
weeks and had agreed to appear
in the film version before he was
offered the chance to- accompany
Post.
President Expresses Regret
Hyde Park, Aug. 16-OP)
President Roosevelt, week-ending
at the summer White House here