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1935. Volume 36. Number 193. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, Per Copy Ten Cents Post And Rogers Are Killed In Crash PLANE CRASHED TAKING OFF SMALL RIVER Mrs .Rogers Requests PAA Fly Her Husband to Juneau

Nome Sorrowful PLANE CRASHED AND EXACT DETAILS CRASH Story Of Arrival At Receipt News Post And Rogers BODIES FOUND SIGNAL COME THRU AND TELLS Fairbanks 12 Death Two Men Aug.r

The early receipt this morning of CORPS MAN BARROW HOW THE PAIR KILLED The following story is reprinted from the Fairbanks the news of the deaths of Will Rog- News-Miner of 12th, the arrival ers and Wiley Post, enroute from August concerning of Post and Fairbanks to Barrow yesterday af- Plane Landed Get Information And In Tak- Wiley from on the Arctic ternoon, came to many listeners over there Akiavik, Sends First News Death Coast: short wave radio sets in Nome, Sergeant Morgan Of Motor And Graft Div- Will shocking them with the dramatic ing Sputtered Rogers, humorist and motion Post And Will To picture actor, and round news. It was being announced Wiley Rogers ed Nose First In Water Two Wiley Post, from Pittsburgh and other large Killing the world flier, arrived this after- Office Of U. S. noon in broadcasting centers. Signal Corps Fairbanks. They came in Post's from All of Nome was sorrowful plane Akiavik, which is deeply The Associated Press) (By on the Arctic Coast of Canada near at hearing the news of the deaths of The Associated Press) — the mouth of the Mackenzie River. these two famous men, who had (By LATEST—SEATTLE, Aug. 16, Post and Rogers were killed or They had flown to Akiavik from planned on coming to Nome within FLASH—Post and Rogers killed near Point Barrow in instantly at 5 o’clock last night, eight o’clock Y. the Klon- the next few days. As is always plane crash last night. : Seattle time, fifteen miles short of their goal, the Barrow Dawson, T., having left last noon. the case with people listening in Signal Corps reported, when the plane plunged nose-on in- dyke capitoi Saturday I to ‘We flew from Akiavik of over the radio, everyone gets a diff- the waters. The details were received by Colonel George by way Herschel and the ert story and the remembering Both Men Were Dead When Plane Found ,F. Kumpe in the following message from Morgan at Point Porcupine River." said ( Continued On Page Four ) Barrow: Post, upon emerging from the 16—The Alaska SEATTLE, Aug. Telegraph Signal Corps “At ten PM or 1 AM Friday Pacific Standard Time, a plane. ‘I don’t know how long we’ll station advised that Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed native runner reported that the plane crashed fifteen mil- be here or where we’ll go from in a crash 15 miles South of Point Barrow. here.” plane Sergeant es South of Barrow. Immediately hired a fast launch and Paa Pilot Crosson R. at Barrow recovered the bodies Stanley Morgan, operator proceeded to the scene. We found Rogers and then it was Many Witness Arrival and took them to Barrow where are cared for they being by necessary to tear the apart and extract the of Arrived Barrow plane body As the trim red plane soared over Dr. Henry W. Greist, Medical Missionary at the Presbyter- Post from the water-filled cabin. We the bodies to brought Fairbanks it was noted as Post's ian hospital there. Barrow and turned them over to Dr. Griest. We also sal- 4:30 P. plane and several hundred persons M. was to Barrow—a Today The plane enroute from Fairbanks effects which I am Advise relatives vaged personal holding. in about 75 automobiles gathered at distance of five hundred miles. Morgan declared when he and instruct this station as to fully procedure. the airplane float a mile and a half Late said that Pilot arrived at the scene of the wrecked airplane, that both men Native on a small river south of here claim that reports today camping from the city by the time the plane Joe Crosson of the Pacific Alaska were dead. Post and asked the to Barrow and that in Rogers way taking had alighted on the Chena River. arrived at Barrow at 4:30 After leaving Fairbanks yesterday they set their plane the misfired on a bank and turn while Airways off, engine right only The aircraft made a perfect landing P. M. today from Fairbanks, and that down on Harding Lake, fifty miles away, to refuel, and feet off the water. fifty and slowly glided up the stream to he will return to Fairbanks tonight. await the lifting of a dense fog in the Barrow region. “The out of control crashed off plane, nose-on, tearing the float at 3:41 o’clock in response Late wires from the states said that Rogers wanted to go to Barrow to meet Charles Brower, the and the back right wing nosing over, forcing engine to signals from Aviator Joseph E. is a whal- the Pan American Airways had been known as the “King of the Arctic,” who operating the of the Both were killed through body plane. apparently Crosson of this city, who stood on to the bodies out ing and trading station at that point. their bodies numerous bruises. Post’s requested bring instantly, displaying the float waiting to greet the world from Point and so Pilot was broken and the hands the Barrow, wrist watch showed watch flier and the humorist, both of whom Crosson will have the bod- at 8:15 P M. Mrs. Mrs probably stopped Notify Post, Rogers.” are friends of the Fairbanks pilot. ies on his return Barrow Station Is trip. Working Anchorage The door of the plane was opened Thos. A. Ross in of the Charge WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—Sergeant Morgan’s notifica- and the well-known countenance of Nome Station of the U. S. Coast Mrs. Post Is Prostrated With Grief tion to the Signal Corps here said: Roger's emerged, looking just as he Guard was advised the U.S.C.G. — by “Post and Rogers crashed fifteen miles south of Barrow TUCSON CITY, Oklahoma, Aug. 16, When advised does in motion pictures. Northland this that early morning at five o’clock last night. Have recovered the bodies and of the news of her husband’s death, Mrs. Post who was wait- 'Want a rope, Joe,’ he drawled. headquarters had directed the cut- placed them in care of Dr. Griest. Barrow station is stand- ing at her home here, was prostrated with grief. She had ‘Then, climbing down from the ter Northland, which had been to ing by on Anchorage radio hourly.” Signed Morgan. returned for an operation. plane he asked: Barrow and was on its re- sailing Colonel Kumpe in charge of the Signal Corps activities ‘Is that all the river you got? turn to return and voyage Nome, to in Seatttle notified both Mrs. Post and Mrs. Rogers. Gotta have more river than that for pick up the bodies and transport Aviation an Believed Future Stratosphere airplane.” them to Nome. The Cutter was off Post and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16, — Post went to his death con- Rogers were brought Seahorse Island, located near Icy Commerce Is Saddened from the airplane to the Secretary Roper vinced that the future of aviation lies in the upper reach- landing Cape at the time. city in the Chrysler automobile of 16—Daniel C. es of the after he had made four unsuccessful cross informed him WASHINGTON, Aug. Roper. Secretary sky, The Northland also Crosson. In the car also were Mrs. of the Department of Commerce said that Commerce Depart country stratosphere flight, each time being forced down. that heavy winds were driving the Crosson and Joseph E. Crosson, Jr., ment Aviation had been to the scene After the last he retired the famed Winnie Mae beach and that Inspectors dispatched flight ice packs onto the whom Mr. Rogers’ welcomed warm- of the Post-Rogers crash, but his inspectors lack jurisdiction and announced that the ship was unsuited to the needs of it would be almost impossible to re- ly. The car containing the distin- as the crash was not on a scheduled airline and the plane stratosphere flying. The Winnie Mae now sits in a hang- turn. Mr. Ross was delegated to guished visitors was followed by a was privately owned. However: “We will be as helpful as ar here, with her famed pilot dead at Point Barrow Alaska. convey the information to the Paci- long string of automobiles we can be. Words cannot express my sorrow at the loss of fic Alaska Airways which was dis- When questioned as to what he these splendid developers of aviation.” Murray Hall, De- HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16, —The movie capital here was patching an airplane, piloted by Av- would do while in Fairbanks, Post Inspector at Anchorage and other points in the stunned at the news of Roger’s and Post’s death at Point iator Joe Crosson of the conditions. partment replied: Territory, has already gone to the scene of disaster. Barrow. An army of newspaper men were thrown into the The Northland further advised that 'I haven’t got any program. I battle to obtain the information which would definitely es- the best possible way of handling don’t know.’ tablish their deaths. the situation was by airplane rather Was East To Do Work on Plane than attempting to obtain the bodies Rogers Family Congregated ! Post declared he planned to have : 19 and bring them to Nome, due to the SKOWHEGAN, Maine, Aug. 16, —Mary Rogers, aged Nation’s Hard Hit Deaths work done on his plane while it was treacherous Arctic ice floes and Will’s only daughter, was in rehearsal with the Lakewood Capital By in this city. The Nation’s where stormy weather. summer theatre players when word of her father’s death WASHINGTON, Aug. 15,— capital, SokolofT at Aklavik was loved as few others of his time, was to The information was turned over came. Mrs. Will wiflow of the man whose humor Rogers grieved Rogers, When asked about Nickolas Sok- to the Nome PAA radio station and him high in American life, was also here. She ar- hear of his death. placed olofT, vice-president of the Amtorg, they wirelessed Fairbanks where rived from with her sister Mrs. Theda Vice-President Garner said: “That is awful; I can’t Tuesday I the Russian trad- talk about it. was one of the best friends I had.” inc., government the plane was preparing to take off Blake. Roger’s son James planned to come here for a visit Rogers of the House of couldn’t I ing company, who is at Aklavik, about 10 AM today. next Monday. Speaker Byrns Representatives his waiting to radio reports to Sigmund The plane took off from Fairbanks Word of the death of and Post cast a pall of find immediate words to express sorrow. Rogers and his two associates said was one of nature’s and Levanevsky and the latest reliable information over the summer here, especially that of Rog- Hurley Rogers noblemen, gloom colony when a a and flier. they attempt non-stop flight indicates that they will return to who visited here a to see his state Post was brilliant intrepid ers’, year ago daughter’s on on (Continued Page Two) Fairbanks with the bodies. performances. (Continued Page Two) I *

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