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BODIES OP ROGERS AND POST
FLOWN OUT BY JOS CROSSON ;
Will Rogers, killed with Wiley
Post in an airplane crash only 30
hours after leaving here, will he
buried Thursday, private services
ire to be held at Hollywood, scene
if the comedian’s great cinema tri
umphs. post will be buried in Okla
homa, his native state.
Joe Crosson, an ace Alaskan pi
lot, flew the bodies of his friends
from point Barrow to Seattle. He
nade two landings at unannounced
olaces to avoid crowds. The windows
of his ship bore heavy white shades.
From Seattle other pilots flew
the bodies to Los Angeles, post’s
body was to be taken to Oklahoma
later.
CROWDS UNRULY
An unruly crowd at Los Angeles
engaged the police in a scuffle and
officers smashed the camera of a
photographer who had stowed away in
a wing of the ship.
America’s two world-famed air
travelers met death at 10 p.rn. Aug
ast 15 after landing on a river a
few miles from point Barrow for the
purpose of inquiring directions,
post’s sleek monoplane crashed im
mediately after his take-off, pre
sumably when his motor failed. The
impact crushed post’s body and the
face of Rogers was badly smashed.
While in the Matanuska Valley on
August 14, Rogers and post were es
corted. on a tour of several of the
camps and they inspected a number of
the new homes. About the colony
Rogers said*
!fMighty nice place you got here.
It’s fine In the valley and the
crops look good."
POSSIBILITY OP ITALY
QUITTING THE LEAGUE
With preparations for war In
Ethiopia apparently progressing at
i steady pace, British cabinet mem
bers rushed home Tuesday to an emer
gency meeting. They consider that
they face the gravest situation now
that has been before them since 1914
and lesser countries are trembling
for fear the League of Nations will
collapse.
Italy defied the powers to in
terfere with her campaign to "dis
arm" Ethiopia and admitted possi
bility of quitting the League.
HIJNT ASSURES COLONISTS
OF HOMES BY SNOW-FALL
Lieut, col. L. P. Hunt’s last
weekly report to Washington on col
ony construction work indicates
definately that all Colonists will
be in their own homes by the time
snow flies. To be sure, the cot
tages will not be finished entire
ly inside, but they will be com
pleted to such a degree that they
will be habitable.
Construction of frame houses
has facilitated the home building
program.. They grow from basement
to garret with more despatch than
log cabins.
BUTTS SECTION BEHIND
Col. Hunt’s report Saturday
said that twenty-three houses were
enclosed, that is, completed ex
cept for inside finishing. Sixty
nine other were under construction
Hunt said Wednesday that six more
houses were started this week,
leaving only sixty-one homes on
which no work has yet been done.
Most of the homes still to be
started are in the Butte district.
A camp of 150 men now is securely
established there and Geo. Moland,
directly in charge of that area,
believes that his men and the Col
onists can get the work-- done de
spite difficulties in getting ma
terials there over an inadequate
road.
COMMUNITY CENTER CROWS
No phase of the project.has
"mushroomed out of the wilderness”
with greater speed than the Commu
nity Center. A month ago the area
was little more than a cleared
spot. Now it is taking on the ap
pearance of a city.
The trading post, to house the
commissary, postoffice, barber
shoo, cobbler’s shop and general
offices of the ARRC, has been giv
en one coat of paint and soon will
be ready for occupancy. Behind it
sets the permanent warehouse., big
and sturdy and already guarding a
quantity of the colony’s valuable
supplies. West of the warehouse
rises the power plant.
Lumber has been placed for the
temporary school, and the hospital
foundation has been staked out anc
the basement dug.
"Everyone is cooperating and
working hard," Hunt wired colonel
Westbrook of the FERA. A new spir
it of enthusiasm prevails.