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Volume 36. Number 195. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Bodies Left Seattle For Los Angeles
WEALTH TAX BILL GOES BACK TO HOUSE
Northern Air Transport Planes Make Record Flights
Crosson Of PAA
With Bodies Ar
rived Vancouver
(T5v The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 19, The bodies
of Post and Rogers left here at 11:53
AM today in a Douglas Air Trans
port, after they were flown from
Vancouver by Pilot Crosson. Cros
son accompanied the other plane as
a passenger. Due to lack of space
full details will be pubished tomor
row.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 18, —
Pilot Joe Crosson of the Pacific Al
aska Airways landed the plane bring
ing the bodies of Rogers and Post,
South from Fairbanks, at Sea Island
Municipal Airport here at 6:11 PM
PST, Sunday night.
Earlier in the afternoon the Pan
American Airways announced in
New York that the plane would
remain in Vancouver over night and
proceed to Seattle Monday.
The plane left Fairbanks at 8:05
A M PST and came south by the
inland route via Whitehorse.
PA A Funeral Ship
Was Still Vancouv
er This Morning
CBv The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 19, —
Joe Crosson is still here this morning
he had little to say about the trip
or anything else.
The plane refueled at Whitehorse
Instead of stopping at Prince George
it stopped here unexpectedly, there
by escaping the crowds which are
awaiting him at Seattle. He said he
knew no more of the flight than
what he was told.
Crosson looked strong and fresh
as the plane was wheeled through a
police line into a hangar and locked
up for the night, yesterday.
No one was permitted to inspect
the plane, and the windows had been
curtained so that no one could
see inside. The airport here was
almost unpeopled when the plane
landed.
Crosson and his assistant strode
to the administration building, and
when questioned refused to be
drawn into conversation by inter
viewers. He made long distance
telephone calls to New York appar
ently reporting his whereabouts.
A plane was due at Seattle from
California at 11:15 P M last night
into which the bodies were to be
transferred for the flight South. The
funeral plane was then to return to
Alaska for its regular plane sched
ules on the Pacific Alaska Airways
routes.
Crosson may decide to accompany
the bodies South. Alaska bade fare
well to Post and Rogers, as the
bodies were taken into the air above
Fairbanks before an assembled
crowd.
REX BEACH WRITES A
COPYRIGHTED STORY
DEATH POST ROGERS
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 19—Rex Beach, in story form dis
closed that Rogers had said to him, “We might even hop
across Siberia and go home that way.
“When Wiley was flying around the world those Russ
ians laid out his course and told him where to head in at.
Now they have given him permission to fly anywhere, and
stop anywhere he wants. We have maps and it would make
a swell trip to go home by way of Iceland, and Greenland;
the longest water hop would only be a thousand miles.”
Beach said in a copyrighted story exclusive to the Asso
ciated Press that Alaska was stunned by the Barrow catas
trophe and feels the disaster more keenly because it was
host to them and had just become personally acquainted with
both the day before. Everybody in this country was smil
ing at that time at Will’s jokes and were glad to see both of
the two famous visitors—the two newest and truest friends,
Alaska had made in many years.
The day following the accident there were no smiles up
here. This is the blackest day Alaskans have known. The
weather did it, old timers say, as they shake their heads and
assert that Point Barrow and those Arctic barrens aren’t
Alaska. Will and Wiley should have been careful.
But Wiley was careful, Will Rogers told me in Juneau,
he was the most careful flier he had ever flown with—almost
too careful, it seemed to Rogers, and he was exceptionally
skillful, too.
Amelia Earhart told Rogers that she considered Wiley
Post the finest flier alive. What actually went wrong may
never be known, but this much is absolutely certain in the
minds of every air-minded Alaskan. It is impossible for us
humans to cope with, even with trained and quick thinking.
Beach said he and Will Rogers “gabbed’until midnight
the night before they left Fairbanks for Barrow, until Wiley
went to sleep with his head on his arms. He never has a
word to say. Will told me “I do the talking for the team
and it work out fine.”
Rex Beach continued—on every side Friday, I heard
the same words; “It just can’t be so—why it was only yes
terday we were all laughing and joking together. ’ It seems
a long time ago now, and the country is in tears over the
loss of these two famous ones.__
Roosevelt Not To
Answer Hoover’s
Demand Statement
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, —A re
ply from President Roosevelt to op
position criticism is expected soon
by observers, who are watching to
see whether he will hit at his foes
possibly by a radio talk to the con
vention of young Democrats at Mil
waukee Friday night next, or
whether the pronouncements will be
made on his forthcoming trip to the
West Coast.
Quarters close to the President,
said he would not comply with
ex-president Hoover’s demand for
a statement before the adjournment
of Congress on what changes he pro
poses in the constitution.
Word was given out by Capitol
Hill that the White House sees no
need to comply inasmuch as the
present plans call for the support
of no other constitutional amend
ments than the longpending one on
Child Labor, and a proposed one to
forbid tax exemptions on govern
ment securities.
Will Not Accept
Occupation Italy
Ethiopian Areas
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Aug. 18, —Emperor Sel
assie stated that Ethiopia was will
ing to grant security to Italian col
onies on its borders, give economic
facilities and make economic con
cessions to Italy, but would not a
cept military occupation by Italy.
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N. A. T. Planes Set
Record On Special
Flight To Seattle
Thirty-three hours, ten minutes
from Point Barrow to Seattle, total
elapsed time! A record set by the
Northern Air Transport planes,
carrying Alfred J. Lomen, Nome
manager of the Lomen Commercial
Company, who carried the films of
the Post-Rogers crackup near Bar
row to the Seattle Post-Intelligen
cer.
Lomen was only ten minutes un
der 48 hours out of Nome when he
stepped from the plane in Seattle,
total elapsed time to go from Nome
to Barrow with Curtis Jacobs as the
photographer to get the motion pic
tures and stills of the crackup, back
to Kotzebue and thence to Fairbanks
where Lomen carried the films
I aboard another NAT plane piloted
by Wien and Ross to Seattle.
All arrival and departure times of
the Northern Air Transport planes
were given The Nome Daily Nugget
in a special interview with Ace
Pilot Chester Brown upon his re
turn to Nome from Fairbanks yes
terday. Following is the account of
features of the flights.
NAT Leaves Nome for Barrow
Pilot Chester Brown and mechan
ic Hank Miller, of the Northern Air
Transport Inc., of Nome, in a Bellan
ca plane hopped off from Nome at
11 AM, Friday for Barrow via Kot
zebue on a chartered trip for the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a Hearst
newspaper which carries Rogers syn
diated articles. As passengers were
Alfred J. Lomen representing the
Seattle P-I and Curtic Jacobs as
photographer and camera man, who 1
made the trip to procure pictures ,
and data of the wreck of the Post
Rogers plane 12 miles this side of
Barrow.
After a short stay at Kotzebue
where the plane was gassed up, they
took off again and landed at the
scene of the wrecked plane at 6:30
pm, where movies and still pictures!
were taken. Pilot Brown described
the wreck as a complete washout, j
Leaving the scene of the wreck the
plane flew to Barrow arriving there '
at 9 o'clock the evening of the same
day.
Pilot Joe Crosson of the PAA had
arrived from Fairbanks, and the'
bodies of Post and Rogers were plac
ed in his plane ready for the return
trip to Fairbanks. During the time
the NAT plane was refueling the
Nome party enjoyed a big feed with
Charles Brower and then immedi
ately took off on the return trip
with pictures enroute to Fairbanks
via Kotzebue.
The NAT plane left Barrow at 1:40
AM, Saturday, arriving at Kotzebue
5:35 AM. Fifty-five minutes were
consumed at Kotzebue to refuel and
have a bite to eat. Leaving Kotze
bue at 6:25 AM via Koyukuk they
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WEALTH TAX BILL GO
BACK HOUSE FURTHER
O K OF LEGISLATORS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—The Administration’s “weal
th tax" bill was whipped through the Senate on a 57 to 22
ballot. The action stirred the prospects for an adjournment
of congress before next week is out.
Only two days debate preceded the vote on the bill
which will take an estimated two hundred and fifty million
dollars from million dollar incomes, large corporation, es
tates and gifts.
The bill however, was returned to the house with an
amendment interpreted in administration quarters as threat
ening a serious handicap to the Roosevelt financial program.
It was adopted by a vote of 40 to 39 upon motion by Senator
Borah.
The amendment would prohibit the future issues of tax
exempt federal securities. Treasury officials said if it was
accepted by the house the amendment would place the gov
ernment at a disadvantage since states and municipalities
would continue to enjoy the tax free privilege on their se
curities.
Aside from handicaping the heavy borrowing program
ahead, and financing of the four billion dollar work relief
program, officials said that the Borah amendment would in
crease the cost of all money obtained by the government.
President Roosevelt had recommended a constitutional
amendment to permit the taxing of all governmental secur
ities, federal, state and local.
The bill now goes to conference in the house.
Wiley Post Was To
Be Star In Film To
Been Made Soon
(By The Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 19, — Had
Rogers and Post survived their plan
ned air journey around the world,
Rogers would have earned more
money than ever in films and Post
would have starred in his first pic
ture, David Weiss, Vice-President
of an independent company disclos
ed.
Post was signed to star as a flying
Department of Justice agent in a
15-episode film serial in which his
famed plane, the Winnie Mae, would
have appeared.
Rogers, just before he left signed
a new contract with the 20th Cen
tury Fox Studio, to make ten more
pictures. His salary which was for
merly a hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars a picture, was in
creased to between two hundred and
two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars each picture, with a share in
the profits.
Funeral services are to be held
Thursday at 2 P. M. for Will Rog
ers, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Under the present plans every effort
will be made to avoid demonstra
tions such as have marred the rites
af motion picture celebreties in the
past.
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Soviet Plane Now
Waiting Weather
To Hop Over Pole
(By The Associated Press)
EDMONTON, Aug. 19, —Allen
Sullivan, Angin-Canadian author,
said that Rogers had definitely in
tended to fly with Post from Nome
to Siberia, after he had seen Alaska
first. He said he talked with Rog
ers at Aklavik.
He also said he saw Sokoloff there
and he told him that the Russian
plane was ready again for their at
tempted flight across the North Pole
to Oakland, but were waiting for
more favorable weather.
Sokoloff figured that if the flight
is not made within the next ten
days, it will have to be postponed.
Check Up On Jew 4
Escorts German
Girls Now On
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Aug, 19, —Henchmen of
Julius Streicher, the Reich's No.
1 Jew hater, were ordered to arrest
on the spot all Jews seen in pub
lic with Gentian girls and obtain
their names, and also to obtain the
names of all Jews intending to
marry Aryans.
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