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2 m THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16,1985___ iad ‘ t 'Post and Rogers Stopped to Inquire Way to Point Barrow I PLANE MOTOR FAILS: [Washington Will Miss [ROGERS 9 YEARS [Hs Famous Smile] [acetate era Will Wiseeracked | | PLUNGE INTO RIVER) +W/#ill’s Old Blue Serge} OLD ATHIS DEATH enter a milking contest, being forced ‘Weshington, Aug. 16.—(?)—Will to admit he never had learned to Rogers even carried his humor Grief-Stricken H: en ee 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 a| [% small fortune for the drouth sufferers | |’ in 1930, and in his quiet way gave thousands 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 approxi- mately $1,000,000. He never talked polo and unlike other stars of the motion pictures he could take chances} sissippi said Friday he recently without fear of injury maiming his features and hurting his career. “Couldn’t make my mug look much worse, no matter how I hurt it,” he told the actor, “he ought to cut flying out; that he was going to be killed.” “But he merely told me that I Leaves Widow and Three Chil- dren; Admitted He Was ‘Punk’ as An Actor milk a cow. He found his recreation in playing] into conversation about death. if Senator Pat Harrison of Mis- Visit to Most Northerly White| | Settlement Was Idea of Garner, Hurley, Rogers, Boland, Byrns, McAdoo All Pay ig Flying Humorist Him Tribute about his money but he was a high would be killed sometime trying is salaried actor for years, His salary He owned a hurdy gurdy, piano,| to hit a golf ball,” the senator Ve was $25,000 a week when he worked. » G@rums, mandolin andj added. t (Continued from Page One) violin, banjo, eo ued from Page One) He paid $2,500 a regular airline, and the Washington, Aug. 16.—(44—Usually (Contin was 500 a week for stage guitar and could not play any of re wi privately owned. Jolly Jack Garner had his head|® ee a eee Le Will _had/appearances and he was understood 4 them. SHIELDS BEATS PARKER \ Roosevelt Informed bowed Friday. His real friend, Will| learned Late rent LM cba adi to have received $15,000 for eight Oy . Newport, R. I, Aug. 16—Frank X. \. As soon as word of the death of the Rogers, was dead. Eck MS TREN TREN EEE | eee = nae Sa Shields of New York Friday entered * two men was received President | “Awful bad” was almost all he |back to bine ahown Ail eavaivala lie Took Year To Win Here are two typical Will the final round of the Newport Casino i Roosevelt, @ good friend of Rogers’ could say on hearing of the Alaska| with ai ee the ¢oadl Fete finally| He met Betty Blake sts candy| Rogers poses, smiling counten- |} tenis tournament by defeating his 1 and Post, was informed by the As- crash. Fer on aon te ron top of his|Pullin’ in Oolagah, but it took him 4| ances that lightened the burdens a doubles partner, Frankie Parker, of sociated Press. - | eile ot both lad how its peoeeebt a a me. sd year to win her. He was too of many & weary person. Awry Spring Lake, N. J., 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. The territory south of Barrow is companionship of vice president . , hat askew, ear-to-ear i which the eresh occurred 1s tundra and humorist meant for each, ‘The| A rancher, Zach Mulhall, organized |‘ Propose end finally he worked his! Ter synonymous with the fa~ RATE OF HUSBAND foo0o TESTS 4 ; land. It is generally devoid of bodies annual Garner dinner to President mous humorist’s stage and screen . { learning new rope tricks and riding finally reaching New York. There ts Roosevelt never can be the same appearances, i | I had a notion it was thoughts and ideas.” His most repeated remark was “All I know I read in the papers” and he read practically every word in every available paper wherever he happen- ed to be each morning. Once he was asked if he read any fiction. He re- Plied, “Sure, the newspapers.” He was an ardent admirer of Mark of water large enough to accommo- date the landing of a plane. tt © Before Morgan's last message was id received Lew Parmenter, an aviation if mechanic of Edmonton, Alta., Can- kK ada, expressed the opinion Post must} ! ic have experienced motor trouble or it some other mechanical difficulty tt while flying through the fog-banked jd area, “Post was an excellent bad weather stunts. Finally he came back, pro- posed, was accepted and they were married November 25, 1908. Three children were born to the union, ‘Will, Jr., Mary and Jimmy. All three followed the hoof beats of their father and became expert polo play- ers and for @ time the Rogers fam- ily could put a good team on the field. “Had to break it up,” Will kidded. a tradition that he first attracted public notice on a large scale when he lassoed a wild steer that broke loose at Madi§on Square Garden and was about to dash through the crowd. Will Pretty Bad Certainly shortly after his first ap- pearance at “the garden” he was on the vaudeville stage. Charley Mack of Moran and Mack told of Will's initial efforts in vaudeville. He was again without droll Will Rogers in his ld blue serge” to “lambast every- body.” For Jack Garner—his fellow-hater San Francisco, Aug. 16—(?)—Mrs. ‘Wiley Post, wife of the round-the- world flier, was possibly spared the fate of her husband and Will Rogers because she wanted them to be “com- fortable,” it was recalled Friday. En route to Ponca City, Okla., from where she bade Wiley good-bye 10 days ago, Mrs. Post paused here brief- ly between planes and explained why a icth. FLIES. MOSQUITOES | of dress suits—Will was in his finest fettle at the January dinner each ‘Zaemntiome SPIDERS’ & OTHER INSECTS , year. On Jan. 29, 1934 and Jan. 17, 1935, to enjoy Rogers the more, Pres- ident Roosevelt each time lingered far past the hour he was supposed to go home, and Garner—famed for re- Mrs. Wiley Post, faithful wife and inspiration for Oklahoma's famous flying son when he was a wild west show and Will joined 2 to South America and Australia ” a. tj is, bad} striving to carve a niche in the ‘a i Ri, tier,” Parmenter/eaid. “Ths air’s hall of fame, is prostrate at |tiring’early—stayed up until three in|pretty bad sald Mack and grew dis-|“Mary went society on us. ‘Twain and on a visit to Virginia City,|she didn’t accompany her husband ih 3 the tragic news from Alaska. {the morning. couraged. He talked it over with many poate Cis as books Lond Nev., where the great humorist once northward, as planned. Bh tt | Conklin Is Shocked Mrs, Post had first planned to | The capital grieved to hear of his|Charley. é many years wrote a short dally “box” liived he tried to find bed Twain| «t wanted Wiley to be isi ‘ lo make the flight with her hus- |death. “Where are you going?” asked |* : wspapers contain-jhad occupied. The quest was vain| rortapie,” she sald. “And beaten thane iy vi By Tragedy Report band but returned to her home at Byrns Incredulous Mack. i ing sage comment on the day's hap-|for he was told that when the writer|are other reasons’ a G — Ponca City for an operation. Speaker Byrns, incredulous at first,| “Back to Oklahoma. baa re lived there he was too poor to own a) ‘The “other reasons” evidently in- Shocked was Fred L. Conklin, ry T dae obtain. | ster said he could not find immedi-) “Been fired yet? caealineie ter sta Scntal as a|bed. cluded an operation, which was to be al executive secretary of the Provi- |}had been delayed severa’ ue be ate words to express his sorrow. “The manager said I was pretty on’ tags OB Hache: “pe nomi- Denied He Was Actor performed in Ponca, City, reports from i F | dent Life Insurance company i Be gee ee inratrink J. Hiurley, setxetaey ot wat aa saarailterigaeoetaaig forename ed the sug-|- He slways denied that he was sn |inere said. ie ty Bismarck, to hear of the tragic 3 In the rer administ 5 “Yeh, you’ i = saying: actor. ah tt | deaths of Wit Rogers and Wiey |}, He sald then ne planned to, go on [of Rogers since they were boys, to- [actually told you that you are fired?”|, A comedian can only, lat tit he| “Tim not smart enough to act” he iiseaait ant Beaecusse vHPRTIARE “Bae BUSES DAKY i 4 G gether klahoma, “one; “ , no.” . “It 4 can a at's ” ax it Por ‘was little more than a week |jin Siberia. ss eisai of the cleanest, finest characters I} “Don’t quit until he tells you; may-|takes him serfous and I don’t want] sort of like ii, Tm all right. Oth wert nan rr area Tight abate Each Way Across : ’ ago that Mr. Conklin stood in line Tried to Hide Me lent u i have ever known, He was one of na-|be you can stick it out to Saturday either one of those to happen to me/ wise I'm punk.” Med ed HS U.S. Highway No. 16 w | behind Wiley Post at the desk of ate freed ie ie ant ing Pi ue ture’s noblemen. night. That will be three days more|until I’m dead (if then) so lets stop] His employers in the motion pic- quarrel EASTBOUND (to Jamestown, | w | the Olympic hotel in Seattle wait- bey Sarit t rf i ag “I knew Wiley Post well also. He| pay.” all this foolishness right now.’ ture industry never bothered to write. Fargo, Twin Cities and points De c ing to register. A little behind |/®" joi jem. itd wa feck ea | 25,8 brilliant and intrepid flier.” Before the week was out, Will hap- Father Was Pioneer dialogue for his films, He couldn’t East): Ope: te | Conklin idled "Rogers, chewing ||left Los Angeles under an “assumed) “Oklahoma has lost its two great-|pened to make a wise crack about| Clem Rogers, father of Will, played| or wouldn't remember. He said just] I™a" Nan elie Leave: Dhiimarete: . a, ec | gum and exchanging badinage |/DAme” but his identity Was sonore (est sons,” said. Rep. Will Rogers of | something he saw in a newspaper, an/a part in adopting the first constitu-|what seemed about the right thing SC eee 4:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.; and 3:30pm. j ® | with well-wishers, covered and he was welcomed heve., that state. He recalled the humorist’s observation shyly delivered of some-|tion of the state of Oklahoma and a|to say at the time. se, ¢ GUND tis Glen Ui a fli hts ‘in Post's lane. Rogers also endorsement had helped put him in/thing that struck his fancy. The au-|county was named for him. Of this| His studio prepared a “grand” life insurance WESTBOUND (to Glen Ullin, ’ iaailestop him, end bel tound/ tins foe's Polo: workolle wilh ohne a dience laughed, Rogers tried some! Will sald: place for him to occupy on the lot. Hebron, Dickinson and interme- Sere etosty in tee wats itil pei players tee: “Exe weet Rep. Boland of Pennsylvania sald}other joshing | remarks, and was] “Heck, they had to; nobody could|A sanded garden decorated with cac- | diate points): a; flew expertly in bad weather as in} Polo players here. He was their guest/no one realized Rogers’ genius for|« e” prono the .old = ltua: plate aufrounded an (sabe: but Leveal i 1; good. For that reason I think he/that evening and told them, among] judging current events” better than ce aa sabion: step to Hi att 56 ae name—Coowees: tip “With “ani “eleotit kdbehen ee ik re 4 probably got engine trouble or some-|other things, he was going to “get! members of -eS8, ; aaa owe. dressed ja.m.; 12:40p.m.; and 9:30pm, ears stein’s Roof at $150 a week and then| In Claremore a hotel is named The/and a living room filled with west- For all information about Greyhound’ f Bes BL ESTED Ged tale ade ENE Set rier ee Sie te et alr Had Premonition he t six years as the star of Zieg-| Will Rogers, a six story buildingjern and Indian trophies. Rogers low fares and nationwide service, calls landing, then found there was n0/project,” as that was about the “only! speaker Byrns later said he had a oat » on Re , calls a te! yhich to land.” thing the Democrats haven’t done for feld's Follies. which the comedian boasted had|looked in, said it was “swell” and UNION BUS DEPOT g: water on whic sais eg ates Premonition trouble would come to ‘Tries Motion Pictures more bath rooms than Buckingham| never went back until Former Prest- 7th and Broadway, Firs, Post, the fliers widow, sald] ‘That evening, friends disclosed lat-| "uy Roeers cy ne Alaskan fehs. || a9 ventured into motion pictures| Palace. dent and Mrs. Coolidge came to call. NORTHLAND 4 the accident. e hunting an ing they planned |+; wish Will ers wouldn't do t! - y ; q th “Wiley ‘neever took chances with|on isolated Alaskan lakes, saying it|” sata he wes able to get iilied.=| Gla NO chance to convulse his audi- named after them, But shucks now|didn't they?” a ‘ tt defective mechanical parts,” she said.|was “no place for a lady.” The “kid-! senator McAdoo, who knew Rogers] &2ces with his homely observations bebe ie * fis on cad witli almost anything i b) “His past record and his care in mak-|ding,” in which Post joined, finally} a5 a fellow Californian, said “his loss|Tendered in a drawl that only Rogers Soh in’ te eee sram- — — — 4 wing those stratosphere flights proves}convinced Mrs. Post not to make the! wil! be felt by untold millions.” knew. But when talking pictures ap-|mar, either tings or “lec- i tr that. I feel confident it was motor |trip. The movie capital at Hollywood | Peared, Rogers became a boxoffice riot Se very an interviewer sug-|9 # trouble.” Mrs. Post Left Behind was stunned by the news of the sud-|8nd thereafter the legitimate theater gested ts too many lberties with : " st Height of Arctic Summer Consequently, the next morning.) den death of Rogers and Post. saw little of him. je laws Of syntax. “What's that?” Hi ‘The accident occurred at the height | Aug. 7, when the two hopped from the] parry) F, Zanuck, vice president of| When his friend, Fred Stone, was|he asked, “Sounds like bad news. fs: of the brief arctic summer when it is|Renton airport of Lake Washington, /tne twentieth century Fox films, was| injured in airplane accident, in 1929,|/The other explained it meant gram~- : se daylight almost around the clock. south of here, Mrs. Post was left be-|too choked with emotion to com-| Just before he was to open a new play |mar whereupon the sage laughed and ? The United States coast guard cut-|hind. She said the trip might be! ment, in New York, Rogers rushed across|replied. “Didn’t know they was buy- q : ae } pl ter Northland was waiting in the ice “too strenuous. At Chicago, former President Her-|the continent, took the role “for old/ing grammar now. I’m just so dumb % ti pack only a few miles away from| She remained here only @ few day5,|pert Hooyer said the deaths of Wiley ei Barrow on its annual visit to the set-|and then flew ‘south in @ private! post and Will Rogers were & “terri- Jo tlement. The cutter has been order-| Plane to San Francisco. Ble shock” to him. ed by Washington to bring back the} Post and Rogers made a leisurely tk bodies. foe of 8 hours, 15 minutes, that day D ‘ Post and Rogers had been enter-|to Juneau. Wh Y BUY FURS A = tained in Fairbanks for several days} Gov. John W. Troy of Alaska and BY OST GAINED FAME en ou in ugust sc While their plane was being serviced.|Joe Crosson, a hunting companion : f m They flew in a regular transport|Jast year of Post's welcomed the two e +; plane to anchorage Wednesday and|0n pay pelsbiene! pices amma * i i uska, my near : n a ee that night at the territorial mansion. Now is the advantageous time to pur- is ‘The pair left Fairbanks Thursday | The next day, it was still raining and chase your fur coat, stocks are new, i night but set their plane down on| their flight, which had become a “va-l4 & oe, cular Flights Around large and the thrifty buyer realizes that ¥ tr Harding lake, 50 miles away, to await} cation trip,” was delayed. Rogers iP 4 ua she is procuring the same garment at f fa lifting of dense fog in the Barrow|Pought rubbers, two raincoats and) Giohe Made His Name a greater saving than a month later. A i ni region. other equipment, saying humorously, ft. mane: by. States Far-Col means a « ae Wanted to Visit ‘King’ ‘With this weather, I'll need lots of Household Word —_ ; 4 : ; : Rogers said he wanted to go to| them.’ number of things, chief among which * known throughout Al as the ct Ging of the Arctic” because of his 61) €0ld territory, at Dawson, Y. T, and| (Continued from Page One) Featuring unusual garments at $95 to $149.00 3 ‘at Years of residence. sven there found themselves the ob-) Post's flying first attracted .na- Buy now—A small deposit will hold your ¢ o nr Brower operates a trading post and| Jects of much attention. Miners and tional attention in August, 1930, when selection. A te Whaling station at the settlement,|Prospectors came miles to see them. |he won the non-stop air derby from sof ©; Which is 11 miles from where Point) Within two days they took offir/. “angeles to Chicago. w, Barrow juts out into the Arctic ocean. | 8ain, their destination unannounced|""F, "that time on, he was almost State Fur Co B ‘This was Post's second crash in] @S usual, and they turned up at Ak-| constantly in the limelight of avia- e world flight, his red monoplane 5 5 ty) “Winnie Mae” was damaged in a| Rogers commented in one of 'is|scsen two years ago at Gainey, Il, Sie ri w; forced landing near Flat, on the Yu- denekenes that Eskimos there were!" steoped into the cabin of the w, kon river in central Alaska. phicker than rich men at a save-|winnte Mae and waved farewell to & f ah ‘Post was unhurt and succeeded in the- constitution convention.” He also group of friends, A few minutes 4 tr repairing his plane and continuing] ‘ound it cold. Tt was 40 above zero./i-ter was helped from the smashed Be H his flight after a delay of less than| Thelr stay Pane sit, ship, dazed and bleeding. | Si! * Post had planned to continue his| _ A flight beck to interior Alaska, to toe etree an cenent dated ‘ & aight to Siteria after visiting Point| Fairbanks, followed, and then in aj{0.gain altitude and banged into th Barrow and Nome. Whether Rogers|°Ommercial plane they flew south to compression but recovered. = — pi was going with him was not known. reg over to the Mata- Faithful To Plane | ‘ . % hi ‘Before leaving Fairbanks, Rogers) "pio Noring for spinach is differ-|_ Post used his faithful “Winnie Wait Until I Call the Wife “ ro Said he hadn't decided. on g for sp! differ-|nece"” the ship that carried him to| (| : * Will Envied Sourdoughs | agers, DUE Me Net eoreeeat ‘maa|the heights, in his four unsuccesstul| | ‘Two days ago in anchorage Rogers Pegg . mime! 4 i i 1 ra said he planned to spend the winter tavern. », I didn’t see any mosqui- eye ge the continent in | F fo im Alaska with “sourdoughs denned] ‘es there,” he said. Fila’ Peeaen Tod thie, “he sehte, was | in up in thelr cabins” along the YUKON ae nee te mimbanks, Where! oure sentiment,” and it was’ with 4 ei ‘and Mackenzie rivers. plane had been serviced, and He yi as Post said he had not determinea| then followed their tragic flight north|Téluctance that he saw her head for || his route after the Point Barrow|‘ Point Barrow, ending in disaster|Tetirement recently, 6 flight, but he made inquiries con-| "ear their destination, The snip ® Blgncwing monoplane, | ead iM cerning airplane landing fields in eee of oan Ta! e Fain, the |} ; i : : DSS B : ‘ae ‘western Alaska and Siberia. WIFE, DAUGHTER laughter of Hall, 's early finan- ee SR ae ! Pay ‘The departure of Will Rogers with HEAR NEWS IN MAINE cial backer. On these high altitude D ai Wiley Post on the preliminary legs|_ Skowhegan, Me. Aug. 16—(®}—]flights, Post said his primary pur-|}f at of Post’s projected flight from the|Mary Rogers, 19, only daughter of|Pose, was not to break the existing |} j H United States to Russia was guarded| Will Rogers, was in rehearsal with|Speed record, but to “prove my ‘ ; Pighe Anoclted Pre ei when word of her fathers death |saiesphee fing” the “GOTEVERYWHERE “frocks v ‘The Associated Press was informed ad wae mued of her father’s death| stratosphere flying. ‘And We'll All Go Over to the Patterson A a in advance of the actual take-off|feached here. y m 5 ° that Rogers would accompany his| Mrs. Rogers also was here. She|NEW TRAGEDY RECALLS She loves to eat there, and I know you'll enjoy it, too. They have " ¥, ti *! Oklahoma friend on the hazardous|®rrived Tuesday from California with|BEN EYELSON'S DEATH such wonderful electrically-cooked food . . . and if you'll forgive me SS youtcan'tidoiwithou: flight. Rogers denied he planned to|Miss Theba Blake, her sister. Death of Rogers and Post near for mentioning it, the prices are so sensible. Ka ¢ H make the trip and Post said he knew} Rogers’ son, James, had planned to] Point Barrow has a familiar ring to THE P. ATTERSON %; Fr nothing of it. come here next Monday. the ears of North Dakota folk. It [x ¥ R Didn’t Like Crowds Word of Rogers’ death cast a pall|was from Point Barrow that the late |/j (Just Wonderful Food) M Rogers and Post had aversions to|Of gloom over the summer colony!Carl Ben Ejlelson, North Dakota’s ONLY FIRE-PROOF HOTEL IN BISMARCK ue being greeted by crowds at airports. | here where Rogers had visited a year|most famous son of the skies, flew to F) & Rogers, a top notch drawing card|ago to see his daughter's stage per-|fame via the north pole with Sir # D in the motion picture industry, re- |formances. Hubert Wilkins in 1927. M cently completed work on a movie —_— And 500 miles west of Point Bar- ; D and was free for several weeks. This row, in the fall of 1928, Ejielson y gave credence to the report he was| UNCLE WANTED crashed to his death in a blinding ; ee <f to make the Russian flight with Post,| 72 GO WITH WILEY Siberian fog. For months, Nome and ie but he would not admit the plan. Dallas, Texas, Aug. 16.—(4)—S. H.| Point Barrow were the sources of in- \ Rogers probably flew more miles|POSt, an uncle of the famous flier,|formation from which came the story \ { Ail a O . than any person in the United States| Wiley Post, said he had “wanted to/of the intensive hunt for Elelson’s ee os not actually connected with an air|&° - is ap mie Wiley.” raiee i \ d id % lipe. He made all his business trips|_ “I was anxious to go on this trip 8 ‘ ° gS Sommercial 4 i —«t Post and referred to him several| lad I didn't no Crash News Shocks 4 o times as one of the best pilots in the| Besides S. H. Post, Wiley’s brother, ’, hi i B _ Business. L, Byron Post, a sister, Mrs, Ivin A] Post’s Grandmother 4 G Ship Is New One Junelle, and his grandmother, Mrs. — H Post’s plane was a new one, built|©. C. Post, live here. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 16—(#)—Deaf and ; c {m Burbank, Calif, for the flight to| | Mrs. Junelle screamed when in-| almost blind, Mrs. Cenle Post, 95- i w Siberia. It was similar to the ship|formed of her brother's death. year-old grandmother of Wiley Post, “ used by Col. and Mrs. Charles A. ereerinrermemnnre sat in meditation for almost 30 mine MANKATO, MINN. ¢ gerne their flight to Japan Moca Is earns " utes after being intone A of i death " ° 4 2 Minn, . 16.—(P)—An | Friday. Then, as talked Offers unexcelied courses in all 4 d . or Flown to Seattle as a land plane,| order dismissing charges of larceny| of Wiley’s past, she wept. ers are mén and women of tanto ee bg Bly ind is oe e » aah ef the ship was fitted with pontoans|and swindling against Oscar Mitchell,| “I'm sorry May (Mrs. May Plane work. We occupy our own modern fizc-proof building. COMPANY ie q PENNEY Particular ‘The school has been under the same managemeat 45 years. Catalog Sent Free On Request OUR FALL TERM WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 2 here, Duluth attorney and former director | Post, the aviator’s widow) didn’t get Post arrived from the south Aug, 1,/of the Northwest Bancorporation, was|to fall with him instead of Mr. Rog- accompanied by Mrs. Post, who had/filed in district court here Friday bylers,” the grandmother said. “She'd ' to make # Siberian trip’ with | Judges James EB. Montegue and Car-| always told us she wanted to die with : husband. At Gan Francisco, hej rol! A. Nye. him when he crashed.’