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A—4 POSTNET DATH DISHPPOINTED AN Wanted to See Strato- sphere Conquered, and De- sired to Live in Alaska. The jollowing story on Wiley Post’s disappointment in failing to conquer stratosphere flying and of Post's personality was written by Bennie Turner, aviation editor of the Daily Oklahoman, a close Jriend of Post. Turner flew fre- quently with him and traveled to New York, Los Angeles and other points to “cover” Post flights— Editor’s note. BY BENNIE TURNER. Written for the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 17.— Wiley Post died as he wanted to— doing what he wanted to do—but he was not ready to die. That fatal crash in Alaska caught him with dis- appointment in his heart. It was the kind of disappointment that kept him up nights, made him drop into moods in which he resented | being disturbed, scratch on table | cloths while a delicious steak became cold and talk to other fiyers about his problems. The disappointment was inability to see stratosphere flying completely | conquered. He found out nearly all there was to know about sub-strato- sphere flying, but he considered real| stratosphere flying in an embryo stage. | That was disappointment No. 1. Disappointment No. 2 was failure to have lived and worked in the land | that claimed his life, Alaska. | Had Gun to Hunt Wolves. For years Post has dreamed of Alaska. He recently showed Billy Parker, head of the Phillips Petroleum Co., aviation division, and myself a design for his Arctic hunting plane, a | pusher type plane equipped with skids and a swivel high-powered gun in the | front cockpit. He had bought the plane, designed the gun. | “It's a cinch,” he said. “You Just: sit up there until you see a pack of | wolves and then pick 'em off. They | will scatter from a plane and all you have to do is land on the snow and ! pick up the pelts. It would be lots of fun, profitable and you would Te- | duce those hounds.” | Post liked to work out problems like that. That is one of the reasons he was first attracted to substratosphere flying and why he kept on. Didn't Know Calculus, But—. He had a practical mind, yet one| that would go scientific for no appar- | ent reason and with no background to make it do the tricks it did. “Do you know caleulus?” he was asked. “Calculus?” that?” Yet he sat with maps of numerous foreign countries, reducing their measurement of distance into Ameri- | can miles in his head. Post's story of his “‘doodle-bug” wu: ® gem he reserved. | “I got sold on an idea of making a machine that would discover oil without drilling for it. I had a mag- | netic principle based on oil's rating as a conductor. I worked and worked | over it,” he said, going into detail | on how he got the money and built | the machine by his own design. “Then I took it out in a fleld to test. The needle showed oil. It worked. T kept tracing the ofl—it was in the crankcase of my automo- | bile. Oh, I found out the machine | weuld work, too damned well; it would show oil, any place, any time.” Was Sensitive About Deafness. Post was sensitive about being hard of hearing, would pretend he heard when he did not. Yet in an airplane he could understand every word of | 8 remark a normal person could not detect. | Before Post started around the world he trained by eating at odd | hours, going for days without sleep, walking long distances with his eye on a given point. He developed a rep- utation for being a superhuman. He came out of rigors as fresh looking as | when he went in. Yet some time after his return he went fishing at Ardmore. He had & new car and insisted on driving it at less than 30 miles an hour. On the | way back he went to sleep three times | at the wheel, and had to have an- other drive to Oklahoma City. ‘Was Popular Among Aviators. ‘The reason Post was popular among the flying fraternity and was never shown any jealousy is easy to under- stand. Post always remembered names and little incidents about every one from the grease monkey to the high- est, and never landed at a port with- out rushing into the recess of the dim hangar “to see old Bill for a min- ute.” He never broke airport rules on the theory that he was Wiley Post and could get away with it, and was a stickler for trafic regulations when driving an automoble. Some gifted writer will probably pen a tribute to Wiley Post, out he would not like it. He liked things ex- pressed as briefly and directly as they could be. ROGERS LIKED HOSPITAL he queried. “What's Wife Wanted Operation but Couldn’t Think What For. LOS ANGELES, August 17 (®).— With characteristic humor, Will Rogers wrote a letter of appreciation in 1927 to the California Lutheran Hospital here, in which he had just been a patient. The letter, made public today, said: “It's the best hospital I was ever in; they run it like a hotel only quieter. I stayed there two and one- half weeks, and never got a whiff of jodoform. The nurses were so con- genial I took two of them home with me. My wife liked the place so well she wanted to come and have an op- | the eration but she couldn’t think what Zor. “The Lutheran is not only a reli- gion but a business and they certainly know how to run it.” The hospital mailed a letter of condolence to Mrs. Rogers today. PLAN NEW STAMP Memorial to Rogers and Post to Be Asked. A memorial airmail stamp in tribute to Will Rogers and Wiley Post will be asked by local collectors of the Post Office Department. An appeal to that end is being prepared for submission to Postmaster General Farley imme- diately. The project will be discussed at & meeting of the Washington Philatelic Soclety, Hotel Carlton, Wednesday evening. A | third floor back, with a view of the | Three dollars a week would be about THE SUNDAY What He Read in the Papers The hasty arrival, b 5 Took a look at Saint Peter, “Here I am—to begin But this place is a new one, And T'll never get started until I can see— It’s an old Rogers custom, as old as can be— ‘What the boys have to say in the papers.” “8o that’s what you want,” old Saint Peter said then, And he sent for a corps of trained newspaper men; But he couldn’t find one who was working, at ten, They were all out at night burning tapers. So Will pulled a fast one and started a press Of his own, with some actors and gag-men who jes’ Gathered items of news, causing Will to express, “All I know s what I read in the papers.” The first news he read was the way people love A man who is blessed by the heavens above With a gift of fair humor as soft as a dove ‘When he dwells with the earth’s fellow lodgers; He crackled his wit without He bounced 1..any And never once tool The man we all knew Rogers, Most Careful of Stars, Used Auto as 'Real Dressing Room Is Deserted, Run-| down Place and Was Visited by Actor Infrequently. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, August 17.—The door of Will Rogers’ dressing room at his movie studio was opened and closed, for the last time today. It isn’t much of a dressing room. | Put it in & tenement house, on the “elevated,” and it would be typical. right, if you were renting it. ‘The man whose name is on the door never starred in a talking motion picture, which made less than a mil- | lion dollars, But you wouldn't think so if you saw his dressing room. The big mirror, rimmed with elec- tric lights, where actors and actresses spend hours creating the illusions that resemble their faces, is covered with dust. It has fly-specks on it, too. (That's because the spring on the screen door is worn out). Most of the light bulbs are burned out. On the floor, newspapers and some alrline time tables. Used As Writing Table. What would be the make-up table is covered with several sheets of writ- ing paper, with a few lines of typing across their white faces. Rogers some- times wrote his newspaper column here—painfully pecking it out on & portable typewriter. “But this wasn't really his dressing room,” said Dave Butler, who directed most of Rogers’ pictures. “This is just the place he came when he couldn't think of any other place to go. “Bill's real make-up table was the rumble seat of his car. “He used to come tearing up beside the stage, or the location where he was working, in his roadster. He never had a chauffeur. “Usually, he'd be a few minutes | late. And he’d yell ‘hold on there, | boys, I'm a-comin’.” “Then, you'd see him open up the back of that rumble seat, pull out & pair of pants and his shirt, and in & second, he'd be ready for work.” Rogers, unlike more delicate stars, never slept in his dressing room. He couldn’t. There was no place to lie down. “What he’'d do,” said Butler, “is hitch those old spectacles on the end of his nose, slide way down in a chair, and pretend to be reading a news- paper. Then he’'d snooze.” Never Read Scripis. ‘There were no scenario “scripts” anywhere in the dressing room, either. ‘The average star has a dozen around. “Bill never saw one in his.life, I guess,” the director said. “He'd get the idea of the scene, from me or anybody he could find, and then he'd mold it his own way. “Why, I remember we were making ‘Handy Andy’ about the time Dillin- ger got out of that jail. There was & jail scene in the picture. We shot it, and were going to quit work for day. “Bill was standing behind the bars for a close-up. Suddenly, he said, ‘'Y’ know, Dave, I could git out of this jail any time I wanted to. I al- ready got my wooden gun whittled out.’” The director said he turned on the lights, marshaled the sound crew, and took four “takes” of that remark. On the “Connecticut Yankee,” But- ler recalled, Rogers had trouble with a scene. Recalls Nervous Spell “He seldom got nervous,” the di- rector remembered. “But this day he did. We shot the thing—I don’t know how many times. “When I finally got it, and was leaving the set, somebody grabbed me by the arm. It was Bill “The tears were running down his cheeks, and he tried to say some- thing. I got it, after a while, that he was trying to apologize for what hap- pened out there. Can you imagine— the biggest star in tif world apolo- AINT PETER was standing up there by the Gate With a lot of Old Timers, all there to await fast-flyin Of a boy we all knew as Will Rogers. And Saint Peter stretched out his kindly old hand As he welcomed this lad to the long promised land, To a seat at the top of the Golden That boy we all knew as Will Rogers. “Say, Will,” the saint said, before the big throng, “Why have you put off this visit so lon, While we've been awaiting your rollic You kind-a signed up with the dodgers! Now that you've been to the ends of the earth, A-scattering wisdom, philosophy, mirth, It's time you came here where there’s often a dearth Of wisecracks like those of Will Rogers.” Old Will, with that comical nod of his head, Went chewing his gum, and his face blushing red, uips in convivial bowl, a heart-break as his toll— | nearly 12 noon. | manche Indian, freight randstand— n song— just sideways, and said, cuttin’ capers; Saint Peter, to me, hurting a soul. as Will Rogers. —JOHN JAY DALY. Make-up Table, gizing to a plain director? Well, I guess I had & few tears in my own | eyes.” = He looked at the clock. It showed | “About this time of the day,” he | said, “Bill wsed to yell, like a Co- | ‘Lunch-eeee!’ s going to seem funny without that.” | The director closed the door of the | dressing room. There was no guessing, now, about ' the tears in his eyes. Crash (Continued Prom First Page.) probably will part. Rogers’ body will | be taken to Los Angeles, Calif.,, for funeral services there. Post will be buried in Oklahoma City after simple services in a grove before the home of his parents on a farm near Maysville. It is about 950 miles, flying distance, from Fairbanks to Seattle—the point from which the world ambassadors of American good will started their aerial vacation amid jests and laugh- ter just 10 days ago. Point Barrow Bids Farewell. A forelorn little group of mourn- ers—the dozen white settlers, a fright- | ened gathering of Eskimos—stood si- lently by at Point Barrow today for a last farewell to the strangers killed on | a trip to see them. They shuffied | about, talking in whispers, as the bodies were laid carefully ip Crosson’s plane. Supervising preparations was Dr. Greist, surgeon at the tiny Presbyte- rian Mission Hospital here, who gave up a vacation this Summer to fight an epidemic of influenza among the Eskimos. i Brower, called “the King of the| Arctic,” and the man Rogers espe- clally wanted to see at Point Barrow, helped prepare the bodies for the jour- ney home. | Dr. Greist said Eskimos made short work of the fragments of the wreck- age of Post’s monoplane at the crash scene. Only the torn tundra, the mis- slonary-physician said, will long be | left to mark the tragic place. The Eskimos will put the parts to their own uses. Engine Definitely Blamed. ‘Their crash from a height of 50 to 60 feet above a small Arctic stream, 15 miles south of Barrow, was more | definitely ascribed to engine trouble taday, as had been reported by a na- tive who saw their scarlet monoplane fall. The weather at Barrow at the time was overcast, but there was a 1,000~ foot ceiling and 10 miles of visibility, the Government Weather Bureau here said it had learned. The first eye-witness description of the crash was given today in a mes- sage from Staff Sergt. Stanley Morgan, in charge of the Army’s Point. Barrow Radio Station. From an Eskimo who ran and walked 15 miles to gasp out his story, Sergt. Morgan obtained his dramatic account. The native said the plane | settled down on & small river near an | Eskimo camp. Ask Way to Point Barrow. “Two men climbed out, one wearing rag on sore eye and other big man with boots, the native said. They asked the direction to Point Barrow. “Direction given, men then climbed back into plane and taxied off to far side of river for take-off into wind. “After short run plane slowly lifted from water to height about 50 feet banking slightly to right when evi- dently motor stalled, plane slipped off on right wing and nosed down into water, turning completely over and native claimed dull explosion occurred STAR, WASHINGTON, D. HOME TOWN LIKED POST'S SIMPLICITY Never Forgot His People, Says Maysville, Prepar- ing for Funeral. By the Associated Press. MAYSVILLE, Okla, August 17.— The common folk of a countryside too drab for adventurous Wiley Post left their flelds and came to Main street tonight to talk over the times when their hero of the skies returned home Just as one of the boys at the corner drug store. Saturday is always a big day in Maysville, just as it is in all isolated farming community centers, but the little groups around the bank and the hardware, dry goods and drug stores were solemn tonight. Ma; been a town of long faces news came of the Alaskan plane crash .| which killed Post and Will Rogers, the philosopher-humorist. “He sat right here” said Fred Berry, pointing to a corner of his auto-dealer’s office, “and told me all the details of his last world flight. I said, ‘Wiley, don’t you have any doubts or fears?’ He said, ‘Not a bit.’ He knew he would make it.” Berry then showed an obsolete propeller that Wiley, his good friend, hdd given him a long time ago. “Wiley never was talkative,” another said. “He'd just stand around the streets or up against a tree, grinning, and talk like one of the boys. He never forgot his people. That's why we saw him after he got big, but being big didn't change him.” Knowing that Post's gray-haired parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Post, wished to be alone in their sorrow, townspeople remained away from the little 80-acre farm, two miles across | the Ashita River. The funeral will be held here, with | burial in Oklahoma City, but plans were indefinite. The elder Post said: “It would be nice to have it here, back home, so all the people that knew him could come.” From a rocker inside the house the broken mother sent word that she could not bear to live there another day if Wiley were brought back home. Then the father suggested that it| might be “nicer” in Oklahoma City | and “maybe it would be better to bury him there, where his grave would al- ways be cared for.” rushed to the spot in a small motor boat. “The plane was but a huge mass of twisted and broken wood and metal. Post’s Body Pinned. “The natives had managed to ex- tricate the body of Rogers, who ap- parently had been well back in the cabin and more or less protected by | the baggage,” Morgan added, “but the | engine had been forced well back | into the cabin, pinning the body of Post. “With some little difficulty we man- aged to tear the plane apart and eventually released the body of Post. Both men were wrapped in eiderdown sleeping bags found in the wreckage, carefully placed in the boat and taken to Point Barrow.” Financial asssociates of the great humorist and friends of Post dis- closed the wide gap in the finances of the two close friends. Rogers left an estate unofficially estimated at between $2.500,000 and $6,000,000. It included real estate in California and Oklahoma, Govern- ment bonds and more than $800,000 in life insurance—not counting recent maturities of $200,000. Post had little beyond his plane. | Rogers was meeting expenses of their flight. COAST PILOT TO TAKE OVER S. E. Robbins to Succeed Crosson on Arrival in Seattle. LOS ANGELES, August 17 (#).—S. | E. Robbins, Pan-American Airways pilot, left here today on an airliner for Seattle, with instructions to fly the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley | Post from there to Los Angeles. He' will meet and take up the work of Joe Crosson, who is to fly the bodies from Fairbanks to Seattle. The city of Beverly Hills, which claimed Rogers as its own, appointed a committee at a meeting of civic and business leaders to act officially for | the city in arranging memorial serv- ices and launching a move to create a permanent memorial. Mary Pick- ford is & member of the committee. “WE WANT TO MAKE MORE GOOD LOANS.” L N 2 X J Good loans are among the best assets 1 well-managed bank can have. That is why we invite applications not only for collateral loans—those se- cured by listed stocks or bonds, but also for— LOANS UPON ENDORSEMENT Our officers are tend accommodation for all canstruc- tive purposes. If your working hours are so arranged that it you to come to the bank, we will be glad to mail an application to you; just C., AUGUST 18, BARROW OFFICE TOVISIT.S. SOON Sergt. S. R. Morgan to Come Out for First Time in Seven Years. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, August 17.—Technical Staff Sergt. Stanley R. Morgan, the Signal Corpsman at Barrow, who re- covered the bodies of Will Rogers and ‘Wiley Post, will visit the United States this Fall for the first time since he and Mrs. Morgan entered the barren lands of Northern Alaska seven years ago. Joseph B. L. Hickerson, office man= ager for the Signal Corps here, re- called today that Sergt. and Mrs. Morgan went to Point Barrow, North- ernmost tip of America, seven years ago, about the time the corps estab- lished its station there. The sergeant has never left his station since. “Mrs. Morgan came outside once since they went in,” Hickerson said, “but his trip early this Fall will be Morgan's first since he went in." The Morgans have two children, and despite the lonely isolation of | ]the post on the shores of the Arctic, | closed by pack ice to shipping except for a few brief weeks in Summer, “it'’s home to the Morgans.” Is Government Itself. ‘The 34-year-old sergeant is the United States Government to the few whites and the few hundreds of Eski- | mos north of 71, Hickerson said, | He is not only the Signal Corps radio | operator, but he is the United States | commissioner—“the law” north of the ;’Iut degree of latitude—and the De- partment of Agriculture’s Weather | Bureau reporter. Mrs. Morgan also can operate the radio and she stands watches at the key when her husband is out hunting | or fishing or off on one of the missions such as he made to rescue the bodies of the noted flyers from their wrecked plane Thursday night. Born at Payson, Utah, in 1801, Sergt. Morgan enlisted in the Army nearly 15 years ago. Although Bar- | row is at the end of the world, he is one of the best non-commissioned of- ficers in the Army because of the numerous times when desolate, iso- lated Barrow has been “in the news.” There was the time last Spring when influenza gripped the Eskimo population along the Arctic rim of Alaska and Morgan stood long watches at his radio instruments sending and receiving messages and working through his “rest” periods with Dr. Henry W. Griest, medical missionary, and the few other whites in nursing the sick and caring for the dead. Greeted Lindberghs Also. There was the time Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Bar- row from Aklavik, Northwest Terri- tory, having covered the entire Arctic coast by airplane. And there have been dozens of other times when Barrow, away up near “the top of the world,” has been news- worthy, and Sergt. Morgan's fingers | have pounded the key which told the details. His white neighbors are a medical missionary, a school teacher, whalers, traders and trappers. His native | neighbors are Eskimos, either the 300 | | residents of the settlement or the mi- | | grating clans which move up and down the Arctic Coast hunting whales | and seals and trading carved ivory | and skins for white man's food and | weapons. And Sergt. Morgan likes it, his col- leagues here say. He's a frontiers- | man and Barrow is the last frontier. ——— POST HAD FILM OFFER Contract Called for Serials to Be | Made After Flight. HOLLYWOOD, August 17 @) — | Financial reward, in the shape of a motion picture contract, nwumd‘ Wiley Post, the noted aviator, had he returned from the air voyage during which he and Will Rogers lost their | lives. David Weiss, vice president of a motion picture company, disclosed to- day he had placed Post under con- tract to star in a 15-episode serial | film. It was to have started in Sep- tember, he said. | Post would have enacted the roie | of a Department of Justice agent, op- erating largely by airplane, Welss sal id. He did not discuss the salary Post would have received. always glad to ex- is not convenient write or telephone—it will be mailed the same day your request is received. MORRIS PLAN BANK ZL g‘mé {o‘c the cflm(ivi‘(ual 1408 H STREET N. W. and most of right wing dropped off and a film of gasoline and oil soon. the water.” mm&qnmm o ) 1935—PART ONE. R |Eskimo Runner Reports Crash, Saying ‘Airplane She Blew Up’ Races 15 Miles to Give News of Fatal Accident to Wiley Post and Will Rogers in Alaska. By the Associated Press. An Eskimo's breathless “pidgin English” tale of an “airplane she blew up” first brought the world news of the Wiley Post. Staft Sergt. Post small river near the Eskimo's camp and “two men climbed out, one wearing ‘rag on sore eye’ and other ‘big man with boots.’ ” Rogers called to the native, asking directions to Point Barrow. ‘Then he and Post climbed back into the plane and it taxied for a take-off.” “After a short run,” Morgan told the story, constructed from the native’s account, “plane slowly 1t banking Stanley Morgan, in charge of the Army's radio station at that bleak outpost, Point Barrow, wirelessed the story to the War Department yesterday, telling how a native ran 15 miles from his sealing camp to gasp out the message of the plane crash. Alaskan deaths of Will Rogers and had brought his plane down on a Heard Dull Explosion. fted from water to height about 50 feet, slightly to right, when evidently motor MRS.E. S. ELMORE TOWED BLOEDORN License Issued to P;ominent Capital Woman and Re- tired Navy Doctor. Issuance of a marriage license yes- terday at Arlington County Court House to Mrs. Edith Sutherland EIl- more and Dr. Walter A. Bloedorn, U. 8. N, retired, caused surprise in Washington, where both are promi- nent. They are to be married today, it was said, at Cherrydale, Va., where Dr. Bloedorn resides, The marriage license stated that both Mrs. Elmore and Dr. Bloedorn have been divorced. Mrs. Elmore gave her age as 41 years. She resides at the Broadmoor Apartments. Some years ago she took up a career as a psychiatrist and was on the staff of Gallinger Hospital. She was well known in her profession and ap- peared In a number of prominent ttalled, plane slipped off on right wing and | COUrt cases and as an expert. nosed down into water, turning completely over, | and native claimed dull explosion occurred and most of gasoline right wing dropped off and a film of and oil soon covered the water. Mrs. Elmore made her debut in Washington about 25 years ago and soon after was married to Robert El- more of this city. They were divorced “Native, frightened by explosion, turned and |8 number of years ago. Serst. Morgan, calling answer, native then made decision to come to Barrow for help.” | Braving ice floes and an adverse current, Morgan set out for the crash | spot in an open whale boat with a crew of 14 Eskimos. This was about | | 10 o'clock Thursday night. Threep — — — hours later he saw: “Dense fog with semi-darkness gave upturned plane most ghostly appear- ance and our hearts chilled at thought of what we might find there. Plane Complete Wreck. “As we approached nearer plane we soon realized no human being could possibly survive the terrific crash. The plane was but a huge mass of twisted and broken wood and metal.” Natives had extricated the body of Rogers by cutting through the cabin. ROGERS’ FUNERAL WILL BE ON COAST Widow Announces Body May Later Be Taken to Oklahoma. Post’s Rites in Maysville. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 17.—Funeral services for Will Rogers were tenta- | tively set tonight for 2 pm. next Thursday in Los Angeles. Wiley Post will be burfed in Oklahoma City after services in Maysville, Okla., the time yet to be set. Mrs. Rogers announced through Jesse Jones, chairman of the Recon- struction Finance Corp., a family friend, that her husban body would be placed temporarily in a vault at Forestlawn Cemetery. Later it prob- ably will be taken back to Oklahoma for its final resting place in Rogers' native soil. Jones, who hurried to New York | today to meet Mrs. Rogers on her | into the house, up the stairs and into | arrival here from Maine en route to California, said the family would leave New York by train tomorrow afterncon for the Coast. With the griefstricken widow to- night was her daughter, Mary, and her sister, Miss Theda Blake, who accompanied her from Maine. Will, jr, was en route east by airplane to join them. He changed planes at Chi- cago today. James, the other son, {met his mother in Stamford, Conn., ! this morning. The decision to hold the services Still Produced by the Original Makers ran, but soon controlled frigh and returned, | loudly to men in plane. Receiving noi Dr. Bloedorn, who gave his age as 49 years, was divorced by Mrs. May Howard Bloedorn in 1929 and shortly thereafter retired from the Naval Med- ical Corps with the rank of com- mander. They have one daughter. Mrs. Elmore also has one child, a But the engine, by the force of the ! impact, pinned Post so tightly # was | necessary “to tear the plane apart.” | Morgan said both bodies were | “wrapped with eiderdown _sleeping | bags found in the wreckage.” | “It is believed the natives felt the | loss of these two great men as keenly | as we and as we started our slow trip | back to Barrow one of the Eskimo boys began to sing a hymn in Eskimo and soon all the voices whined in this | singing.” in Los Angeles instead of Oklahoma, was reached when Mrs. Rogeres ex- | pressed the feellng she was unequal | to another long trip from the Coast | back to Oklahoma after a transconti- | | nental journey from Maine. e JOKE ON ZIEGFELD Rogers Once Took Horse Into House, Gave Neat Explanation. | NEW YORK, August 17 () —How Will Rogers led a horse nto a bed ; room at the home of his good friend, | the late Flo Ziegfeld, and neatly ex- | plained to his astonished host the | reasonableness of this slight inno- | | vation was recalled today. | _ Rogers bought the animal from the | Prince of Wales to present to Zieg- | i feld's daughter, Patricia, who was ill. This was during the Prince's last| visit to America in 1923. Rogers and horse arrived at the Ziegfeld home to find Mr. and Mrs. | Ziegfeld away. He led the animal | | Patricia’s sick room. | ‘The Ziegfelds arrived, and were vis- | | ibly upset. They wanted an explana- | | tion. Rogers gave one. | “This horse,” he said, “once be- | longed to the Prince of Wales. When | he's in your house, he’s just| slumming.” Women Back Defense. Women of Tokio, Japan, formed a large Women's Defense | Society. ! have son, George. When his grandparents, Justice and Mrs. Sutherland sailed for Europe several weeks ago, they took him with them. They will visit England, where Justice Sutherland, a former Senator from Utah, was born. FORD LAUDS HUMORIST Rogers One of Wisest Men He Ever Met, Magnate Says. DETROIT, August 17 (#).—Henry Ford described Will Rogers as one of the wisest men he ever met, in a telegram today from the Ford Sum- mer home at the Huron Mountain Club in upper Michigan. Rogers and Ford were close friends. “Will Rogers' death comes to me as a great personal loss,” Ford saic “He had seen everything and knew everybody and had always remained | himself, so that his opinions were in- dependent and sound. A man like | Will Rogers was greatly needed ir this country at this time, because h humorous common sense pricked : great many bubbles.” MEMORIAL PLANNED CLAREMORE, Okla. August (#) —First contribution to a fund t construct a memorial in Claremo: | honoring Will Rogers, was made toda by Mrs. G. O. Bayles, who turned in & check for $l. Under tentative plans the memoria would be a Will Rogers memoria: library or a monument. Four thou- sand dollars which Rogers gave the city would be used as a nucleus. Rogers objected to former plans to name a library for him and sug- gested that it be named Sequoyia in honor of the Cherokee scholar. Real E:t:k:flyeuton Attention Papering 5 Rooms, 2-story Home Complete, $30 Have pleased many. pleasing more, can please you. 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