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Post Body Arrived At Oklahoma City
LITTLE ENTENTE FEARS COLLAPSE OF LEAGUE
Promotion And Honors To Be Accorded To Alaskans
ARRANGEMENTS FOR
FUNERALS NEARING
COMPLETION TODAY
Douglas Airplane Continues To Oklahoma
City With The Body of Wiley Post. Joe
Crosson Is Accompanying Crew
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20th—The Douglas Transport
plane bearing the body of Wiley Post left here for Oklahoma
City, with Colonel Young, Joe Crosson and the same crew
as were aboard the plane yesterday coming from Seattle.
It took off from the airport here shortly after six A.M. today,
and the trip will include two stops to refuel, and will take
seven and a half hours. The stops will be made at Albu
quergue. New Mexico and Amarilla, Texas. Pilot Wins
ton of Texas was at the controls.
Only a few spectators were present at the take-off which
was with out incident. Will Rogers’ family is at present
enroute here by train, and Wiley Post’s widow is awaiting
the arrival of his body at Oklahoma City. Rogers’ family is
due to arrive at Los Angeles at noon tomorrow, when pri
vate funeral rites will be held and attended only by mem
bers of the family and a circle of close friends.
The body of Will Rogers will lie in state for five hours,
starting at seven A.M. in a grove of olive and pine trees at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Later in the week,
King Kirk, O. Heather, and Dr. J. Whitcomb Drougher, and
old friends will conduct, the last service, starting at two P.M.
The body will then be placed in a crypt and at some
future date the casket will go to Oklahoma, the state of his
birth for burial.
In a prepared statement, last night Aviator Joe Crosson
from Fairbanks, one of Wiley Post’s and Will Rogers’ closest
friends, said that he did not wish to discuss his personal
feelings about the trip South.
OKLAHOMA CITY,.Aug. 20—Post’s body arrived here.
9th Circuit Court
Denies Motion Of
3 Wn. Companies
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 20, —The
Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals declined to grant a tempor
ary restraining order asked by three
Washington State milling compan
ies, to prevent the collection of pro
cessing taxes on wheat.
The plaintiffs were the Fisher,
Centennial, and Ritzville, Milling
companies. More than two hundred
thousand dollars is involved in June
flour processing taxes, payable Aug
ust 16th to Internal Revenue Coll
ector Alex McVierus at Tacoma.
The Court voted three to two
to deny the temporary restrainer.
Federal government attorneys said
they would move at once to set as
ide 24 restraining orders allowed by
lower federal courts. The Ninth Cir
cuit extends over seven western
states. The ruling sustains Federal
Judge E. E. Cushman of Tacoma.
Religious Services
(By The Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 20, —
Religious services for Wiley Post,
are to be held at the First Baptist 1
Church here at two p.m. Thursday, j
Wiley Post’s Body
To Lie In State
Oklahoma Capital
■
(By The Associated Press!
OKLAHOMA, Aug. 20, — The
body of Wiley Post will lie in state
for two hours Thursday at the ro
tunda capitol, before the funeral,
and burial to the red earth of the
state, which claimed the stocky
little flier as one of its foremost
citizens.
Governor Marland and his staff will
direct a public memorial service for
him at noon, corresponding to ten
A.M. California time, when the fun
eral is held for Rogers burial at the
Memorial Park cemetery.
DESCRIPTI0 N
ARRIVAL TWO
BOD’S SE ATTLE
Pilot Crosson Flies Bodies To
Seattle Then Accompanies
Other Plane South
ARE MET PLANE
CARRY BODIES
Seattle Greets Bodies With
Impressive Solemnity As
They Prepared Trip
'• (By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug 19. -Speeding
South to California after less than
three hours here, the bodies of Wil
ey Post and Will Rogers left at
11:53 A. M. today in a Douglas Air
transport liner piloted by William
Winston, Texas flier.
Pilot Joe Crosson of the Pacific
Alaska Airways brought the bodies
here in the Lockheed Electra from
Vancouver, B C., after flying from
Fairbanks. He took off from Van
couver after a ceremony by the
Canadians including the laying of
wreaths on the coffins in the plane.
Pilot Winston, accompanied by
Colonel Clarence Young, Pan Am
erican Airways director, and Amon
Carter _of Fort Worth, Texas, were
aboard the big plane from the South
when it landed here.
In Appreciation
In a gesture of appreciation for
his great work in flying the bodies
South from Point Barrow, Joe Cros
son at the last minute, was escorted
aboard the Douglas plane. Marine
Reserves lined up on parade, and
the huge crowd was silent in re
spect, as the big airliner soared
away.
(Continued on Page Two)
Watch Warily To
Avert Threat Of
Last Filibustering
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, —Watch
ing warily to avert any filibuster
threats, Democratic leaders strove
to maintain the furious pace which
they now have, in the hope that
this session may end in adjourn
ment early Thursday night.
Besides the banking bill, Cong
ress also gave approval to the rail
road pension measure.
The house oked the rivers and
aarbor bill, passed the Guffey coal
□ill which comes before the senate
today.
The new tax bill is to be left un
til the last minute for consideration,
as it is feared that if it is taken up
now, the members may stampede
for home as soon as the tax bill was
acted upon. The third deficiency j
bill has not yet been introduced.
FEAR THE COLLAPSE
OF LEAGUE AS TWO
NATIONS PREPARING
Seaiidinavian Countries Hand Together As
Halkan Slates Remain Neutral Hut Willi
Fear Apparent Of Possible Outcome
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED. Aug. 20—Ethiopia is progressing steadily
in its pregarations in c,'>‘* 'he apparent indication of war
comes.
British cabinet members rushed home today for an
emergency meeting to face the gravest situation since 1914,
as the lesser nations of Europe trembled in fear that the
League of Nations may collapse and leave them without the
slightest guarantee of independence.
Italy defied again today, foreign powers to interfere
with its campaign to “disarm” Ethiopia, and even went so
far as to admit the possibilty that she may quit the League.
Ethiopia carried on its preparations for war secretly,
one-siding mobilizations as long as there is still a chance for
peace.
11 Duce ordered that the government be represented at
military maneuvers of more than a million men on the Aus
trian frontier.
UNDATED, Aug. 20—Scattered tribesmen were seen
armed with antiquated rifles and cartridges which were fre
quently too large for the bore. Children are drilling and
women are clamoring for permission to join the army in
Ethiopia in support of their claim for independence.
UNDATED, Aug. 20—Fearing the death of the League
of Nations, the little entente countries are reported to be
planning a united frontier to save themselves from being
gobled up, in case a general European warfare breaks out.
The Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway, Denmark
and Finland are to convene Sunday to discuss a purported
support of any league action against Italy. The Baltic sta
tes have been traditionally neutral in European affairs, here
tofore, but are growing more uneasy daily.
RETURN TO LOS
ANGELES AT END
TRAGIC FLIGHT
Commotion Greets Arrival
At Los Angeles—Photo
grapher Is The Cause
KODAKSMASHED
PLANE HANGAR
Crosson In Sorrowing Mood
Asks Not Be Questioned
On Personal Feelings
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20, -Will
Rogers nad Wiley Post came back to
Los Angeles Monday night, the end
of a tragic air journey which Rog
ers announced at the start would be
"just some where”.
The funeral plane landed here at
6:20 PM PST after a fast flight from
I
Seattle.
Photographer Discovered
The silence which accompanied
the arrival of the plane, was sud
denly broken by the discovery of
a photographer concealed among the \
• rafters of the hangar. Several mo
ments of confusion followed, until
the police caught him and smashed
j his camera.
Meanwhile, other photographers
were shooting pictures through the
glass windows from the outside of
the building, and they precipitated
a clash with the police. Spectators
jumped the fence and joined the
melee.
The rumpus caused a delay of a
half hour in the transferring of the 1
bodies to the two hearses, which
were escorted by twenty motorcycle
police to the Forest Lawn Mortuary
at Glendale.
The body of Wiley Post is to be
taken to Oklahoma for burial.
Joe Crosson, famed Alaska pilot,
who brought the bodies from Point
Barrow to Seattle, accompanied the
bodies South as a passenger.
PROMOTION AND
HONORS TO BE
FOR ALASKANS
Stanley Morgan Of Barrow
To Receive Highest Pro
motion Non-Commission
PROMOTIONS TO
ALASKANS DUE
Dimond Asks Distinguished
Flying Cross For Aviator
Joe Crosson of P.A.A.
(By The Annotated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, — Tech
nical Sergeant Stanley R. Morgan
stationed at Point Barrow will be
promoted to Master Sergeant, the
highest non-commissioner rank in
the U. S. Army, Secretary Dern of
the War Department said.
The advancement is ''in recogni
tion of his initiative, resourcefull
ness and fine judgment in organiz
ing and directing the recovery of the
bodies of Wiley Post and Will Rog
ers", and taking them to Point Bar
row, and then transmitting to the
world the detailed account of the
tragedy.
Asks For the I). F. C.
The Distinguished Flying Cross
was asked by Delegate Dimond, for
(Continued on Page Three)
IVn Days Grace
V
I. L. A. Agreement
Vi aterfront Work
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. —
With ten days grace granted by the
waterfront employers, leaders of
the longshoremen's association made
last minute preparations for a three
days vote which would determine
whether the union stevedores were
in favor of a continuance of the
present maritime working agree
ments.
Balloting is to start tomorrow.
Under the existing contract the In
ernational Longshoremen’s Associa
tion had to give notice of termina
ton to prevent the agreement from
automatically becoming effective for
another year.
Wins A Victory <
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20, —
Tony Canzonerri, lightweight cham
pion punched out a ten round vict
ory over Frankie Flick of San Fran
cisco, Monday night. Canzonerri’s
title was not at stake, as both fight
ers came into the ring over-weight.
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