The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-06-28
POST-ROCERS
 PARTY DOCKS
 ON WAY NORTH
38-foot Yacht Pandora to Be Towed Across Gulf
 by Morris

Flying the club flag of the Santa Monica Yacht Club, the 38-foot diesel yacht Pandora and five men arrived in Juneau last night er- route to Point Barrow to erect a memorial obelisk to Will Rogers and Wiley Post.
 The Coast Guard cutter Morris, out of Seward, also arrived here last night and will tow the Pandora across the Gulf of Alaska and to seward. from where the Pandora will continue on its way according to present plans.
 Leader of the expedition of Okla homans and Texans is pr, Homer Flint Kellems. of Tulsa, okla Co., sponsor of the trip and in the party is the Rev Roy E. Curtis Of HillSb0rO, Tex.
 Winner F. Sims, also of ElillSboro Tex, a merchant there, is business manager of the expedition. John Kayser, recent graduate of Okla homa University and from Chicka sha. Okla. is a crew member Clar- ence Lee, of Fort Scott. Kas., who was attending diesel school in Los Angeles, is engineer
 To Erect Obelisk
 The party will erect an obelisk at Point Barrow where Post and Rogers crashed, with the following epitaph below their names:
 Here ended life's flight, Angus. 15.l935'
 The two feet by tllree-feet stone slab to be imbedded in the 10foOt cbelisk was quarried from the same quarry in Claremore. Okla, from which came the stone that is being employed in building quarter mill lion dollar memorial museum to Rogers and Post.
 The party left Santa Monica June and reached Seattle in 15 days of rough travel" along the coast. On the 18th the party sailed tor Alaskan waters and was to have met the Morris at Cape Spencer on the 26th.
 Not knowing the whereabouts of the Pandora when it did not ap- pear at the designated time, It. H F. Garcia, commanding officer of the Morris, started out to look f.r the boat, and found them here la I night.
 Garcia said he' would have td leave this afternoon with the Pan dora in tow and run at full speed to fill his Westward duties before going to Seattle where the Morris is due July 10
 We've been seven days out of Seward already" Garcia said
 4-Day Run
 With the Pandora in tow, Gar cia said he believed he could make it to Seward in about four days, logging around 10 or Il knots.
 The cutter was ordered to tow the Pandora through Washington officials interested in the eXpedi- ton.
 Asked how the idea of such a trip Git will be storm-ar from Sew ard north than it will be crossing the Gulf) had been born, Rev. Cur tis said: We've a lot of respect for both Rogers and Post and the trip was sort of combination of that respect and desire to cruise north with an objective
 Two years ago, Curtis, Sims and Kellems built boat on an Okla homa ranch, trucked it to Seattle and journeyed to the Alaskan boun- diary line. At that time they re- solved they would go north eventu- ally and raise a marker to Rogers and Post.
 50 here we arel' Rev. Curtis said.
 Part of the funds for financing the trip will come out of philatelic souvenir letters which the Post Of- flee Department is said to have made arrangements to be mailed from the scIle of the dedication of the monument.
 Party members said stamp col lectors will be able to get the unu sual cachets by applying for them at quarter of a dollar each through the postmaster at Hillsboro, Tex
 The Pandora was to leave Juneau this afternoon in tow of the Morris