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THURSDAY, AUGUST PAGE SIXTEEN rv MniTMTAINEER. WAYNES V 1LLE. N- J liU iUVV' - r ll I " . - 00 Entire World Mourns The Untimely Death Of Will RogersAnd Wiley Post Two Famous Airmen Die Plane Crash In Alaska. Funerals Set For Today In Dual funeral services will be heM this afternc.cn for Will Roger s be loved American humorist, and He kst who ik-w around the world In lfthun eight day,. The two farnou. men having Bone to the r death last Thursday when their ulane crashed t Pt.int Barrow, Alaska, The funeral for Kogers will be con , t r, n-eles. while that 01 ducted in W' - J' oklahoma City. 'ffpn made th" world .hake with BapUst'church vitR burial in the Me Serial rark-cemetery. n,ii.. '( the two men were brought 1 :Te a 1 - 00 mile trip from Juneau rinnK--a 3 '00-mile Journey, rne carried the body of Post to Oklahoma C O wm The humoral" - . M;iry, 'T" l 'Angrdnesday XJaner a hurried, .ri,. from Maine by train. for ten lectures at ; estate ha, beo cMimuU.d t () tlm oWr ''i'Tu ' lit e nime .bar, the plane "'Inch "'. lh ' ,.xpens-s of "northern vacation JRra. which were ;inhfll(oram , Z7X toundthe globe. bri "tf the .ne-eye,l pilot, was known "ho.; -PWW the Imaginations "ZTurZ as one or Uie . . ... o.ri:,in,.rs of all time a veteran comedian--whose face was known to movie-goers of eviy con tinent. . , ,, , , Post's widow started with the la-indus- airmen on their flight, but left them because of possible hardships. She started after being told of the fatal crirt'h: "I wish to Clod, 1 had been aiony and could have gone with them." Khe returned to Maysville. , Okla., to join the flier's parents. Mi-?.. Rogers pleaded with her husband not to make the trip. The two had been close friends for several years. Rogers, being an air enthuisast, had flown many hours with Post. It was the intention of I-, .st to continue to Siberia to hunt, while Rogers tentatively planned to rt-turn to the United Stat.s by a c tu rn ere lal plane. The pair of famous airmen were enroute to Point Barrow, the most northern inhabited point on the American continent, when they land ed on a small river to inquire the di rections, as a heavy fog enveloped the countryside. After getting directions from an Eskimo, both of them got into the plane and roared off In the heavy fog. Natives said the ship soared easily to 50 feet. Then the motor began missing. Post banked hard to the right in a terrific effort to glide back to the river. But the heavy ship lost flying speed and dove earthward with terrific force. It struck the rough terrain near the river bank and bounded over. The pontoons collapsed. The motor crash ed back into the cockpit atop the fusi lage. Rogers was catapulted into the open. Gasoline leaked out and burned around the wreck, but the bodies were not seared. Post's watch stopped at 8:18 p. m. Sergeant Stanley Morgan of the U. S. Signal corps, Point Barrow, brought the bodies out in a wnaieDoat manned by Eskimos. i . It was necessary to tear the wreck age apart to reach Post's body. The bodies were wrapped in blank ets and placed In the whaleboat for the return trip. They were turned over to Hr. Henry, driest, superinten dent of the Presbyterian Mission hos pital. Pete Crosson, famous Alaskian pilot Mew the bodies home to the United States aboard a I'aoilk'-Alusku plane. Arrangements were made by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, vice-president, and Juan T. Trippe, president, of Pan- American Airways, parent, company, arranged for the transfer. A piece of paper fell from Rogers' pocket as natives struggled to beach the heavy whaleboat, It was a news paper picture of his daughter, Mary, who had been playing in "Ceiling Zero" an aviation play at the Lake wood, Me., summer theatre. An Eskimo fell between the heavy rout-is ueing useu io neacn ine whale boat and was crushed. He was badly hurt. Mi'iny hours after the crash, bits oi wreckage were seen Moating down stream toward the Arctic Ocean, report of yie crash to officials at i ,'Imiiiikiuii. . at loiiows: "At 1 (I I 1 Tr nntivci rnntidp r.i ported a plane crashed 15 miles south oi narrow, i immediately hired a last launeh and proceeded to the scene. I found the plane a complete wreck and partially submerged in two feet uf water. 'I recovered the body of Rogers and then found it necessary to tear the plane apart to extract the body of Post from the water. "Brought the bodies to Barrow and turned them over to. Dr.- driest. Also salvaged the personal effects which I am holding. "Advise relatives and instruct this station fully as to procedure. "Natives camping on the small river 15 miles south of here, claim Post and Rogers Jawded, asked their way to Barrow and on taking off, the en gine misfired on right bank while only 50 feet over the water. The plane, out of control, crashed, tearing right wing off then toppling over forcing the engine back through the body of the plaae. "Both apparently were killed in stantly. Both bodies were bruised. Post's wrist watch was broken and stopped at 8:18 p. m." The message was relayed to Wash ington through the signal corps sta tion at Seattle, Wash, Mucky fog hampered the natives and two white men in their efforts to remove Post's body from the wreck age. A flashlight round in the cabin threy a dim light on the shattered plane. - - - Many books and wet papers were found. They included Russian dic tionaries and translations Post had in tended using on a Might to Siberia. Uoth bodies were clad in light spurts clothes, with rubber boots. The cloth ing and personal effects were dried carefully at the mission hospital. Almost the entire population of Point Barrow, including 290 Eskimos and 10 white persons,, went to the scene of the crash in boats. There was no souvenir hunting The natives knew nothing of the fame of the crash . victims. Many picked up pieces of the broken plana and carried them reverently to the Arctic Ocean beach at Point Barrow. The mall, dark men worked solemnly, and silently, carrying tins of emer gency rations, and personal effects of the dead men. This Week IN History r THESE DEALERS WILL SERVE YOU TO ENABLE "Happy Motoring" Button for Napoleon' Uniform In the middle of the Nineteenth cen tury, Napoleon El, attracted by the reputed lightness of aluminum, com missioned the French chemist Henri Etlenne Salnte-eialre-Devllle to find a way of producing enough to outfit France's army. Deville made alumi num, but was unsuccessful in bring ing down the cost, and Napoleon had to content himself with buttons for his own uniform that cost at the rate of about $.r45 a pound Literary Di-Best August li Sinking of the British frigate duerrierre by the Constitu tion, Adoption of a , distinguish ing personal Mag for the President of the United States consisting of the arms of the United States on a blue ground, 12; Colleen Moore actress, born, 1902. August 2 0 Benj. Harrison, Presi dent, born, 1933; Final proclamation of cessation of hostilities in the Civil War, 185t; Americans under General Worth, defeated Mexicans, under Santa Ana at Churusbusco, 1 S 4 7 . August 21 Women admitted to Prussian universities, 1908; Famous charter oak at Hartford, Conn., blown down in storm, 1857. August 22 American yacht Ameri ca won the Queen's cup at Cowes, 1851; The "Mona Lisa" Da Vinci's famous painting, disappeared from the Louvre at Paris, 1911, recovered the following year in Florence. August 23 Cornerstone of Colum bia college laid in New York, 1756; Commodore Perry died, 1819; Con ference to decide Alaskan boundary question met at Quebec, 189S. August 24 Foundation of center of Capital laid at Washington, 181S; Steamer America destroyed by fire in harbor at Yokohama, 60 lives lost, 1872. August 25 Aviator At wood com pleted a flight from St. Louis to New York City in twenty-eight hours ac tual time flight, 1911; Victoria brfdge, greatest of Canadian bridges, opened at Montreal by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward XIII, 1860. (LAST WEEK) AUGUST 12. First American rail road, Mohawk and Hudson, completed between Albany and Schenectady, 1830; Hawaii annexed to the United States, 1898; George IV of England, born 1762. AUGUST 13 General Merritt took Manilla, 1898; Felix AdJer, educator, born, 1851; Practically unanimous vote in Norway for separation from Sweden, 1905. AUGUST 14 Consecration of Bos ton's Tree of Liberty planted, in lOOti; (The tree was cut down by the British in 1785): Internation al expedition at Brussels damaged ny inre, l l u. AUGUST 15 Panama canal open ed, iyj4: Alozon A. Stag-g, athletic coach, born, 1862; Behring sea arbi tration award published, denying the United Places exclusive rijlhts on seal fisheries and establishing rules ior sealing1 in Behring waters. AUGUST 16 First theater call ed the New Exhibition Room, opened subrosa in Boston, a state statute prohibiting performances, 1775. AUGUST 17 First transatlantic cable message, 1858 ; Blondin beeran his performances of crossing Niagara Falls on tight rope, 1859; Gold dis covered in the Klondike, 1896; First practical steamboat. 1807. AUGUST 18 First warship, the "When ya'feel sick all over and Vd Call, ccxi. iiuuiiit ciiu jruure j gxicu iv - -"-' u wau j j that same principle tvyouriasiaea II its WeaJK. in. uie iuxeus &na aoax show any pep, just call In ol'Doc r " f J. . xJ j . now quiCKiy t trarelin'fine' how' quickly he'll nave it vpand trarelin'fine"- 0 f)'C0 J School Every Day in Year Seen by Educator San Diego. School for 24 hours per day, seven clays a week and 62 weeks each year, was predicted here recently by Hubert S. Upjohn, superintendent of schools of Long Beach, In address ing southern California educators on "what school changes are necessary to meet the changing social order?" He predicted that the school year will be divided into three seasons three months In farm school where children learn to grow things; three months city school where they learn of city life and industrial production and the other six months In book learning. "Such a plan will be better for chil dren,' he said, "because It shields them from contact with Irritable par ents, and gives parents more time for bridge and other pursuits of thelj fancy." " 1 This Man Builds Over Thousand Boats, Canoes Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Moses Sauve, eighty-two, has built several thousand boats and canoes In 63 years, but ad mits he "still Is learning more and more about the boat business each day." Sauve has built 1,200 loat3 on Lake Coeur d'Alene in the last 33 years, as well as several thousand others in his younger days among the Thousand islands, St. Lawrence river, Brockvllle, Ont Since his seventieth blrthda he has maintained an average of 41 boats, 100 lets of oars and paddles a year. Flrtt Microbe Hunter Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, who Hved from 1632 to 1723, discovered the min ute capillary circulation of the blood in various animals, according to Adolph Bellin, in Hygela, the health magazine. Leeuwenhoek, called the first microbe hunter, opened new fields In the study of human diseases. Peruvian destroyer Teniente Rod riguez, passed through Panama Ca nal, 1914; Tremendous eruption "of Mount Vesuvius, which destt-oyeid 1,500 houses, 1934; First iron smelted by electricity, 1909. Another Contribution to W, Mark Howell DELLWOOD ROAD We Will Please You With Our Service, and Standard Products Will Please Both You and Your Car.;.;' t Essolene Ksso I-'.ssolube W. L Hardin, Jr. COMMISSION AGENT WAYNESVILLE Esso Marketers announce: 0-MOTOR IH The Lowest Consumption and Highest Performance Motor Oil Made EssoIne Esso Essolube Watkins Chevrolet Company, Inc. Sales Service "Its Wise To Choose A Six" WAYNESVILLE Esnolene Esso Essolube Standard Esso Station DILL HOWELL, Manager Phone 9161 Asheville Road Essolene Esso Essolube Walker Service Depot and Branner Ave. 24-HOUR SERVICE C. C. Walker, owner-manager ihppqnUciimf, so far as vour oil is concerned, depends on four things. 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An elevate 2 at the etern is fitted up with "all comforts of home," pally patnted It often a good Imitation of g tyi Dutch qpttage. To complete the cotUL atmosphere, plants and the sembiu v a so'iic iU(, UOIn 81(j Uller. MinoritT PreiiA.. The two Presidential elected by the people who lost out the electoral vote were Samuel J. den, In the disputed election of if and Qrojrer Cleveland, in 1888. Sa J. TlWeV, Democrat, received 4i&i votes at the regular election to Rt erford B. Hayes' 4,033,050. Bnt was declared elected, the elects count being finally determined u t to 184. In 1888 Grover Cleveland J 5,540,000 popular votes to Benjat Harrison's 5,444,337. But na.-f!!onf elected, 233 electoral vote to Q land's 168. t Tbe Wooden Indian So far as Is known, tobacco trait tlve to the New world, and lti was adopted from the Indian. It fr natural, therefore, that the abortjt American should be made the sjsl or emblem of tobacco, and the wooj Indian was, until recent years, as such In front of plaoos where' elf and tobacco were sobl. Job Printing EXPERT WORK The Mountaineer PHONE 1ST THESE DEALERS WILL SERVE YOU TO ENABLE - -f "Happy Motoring Standard Esso! Station j TOM LEE, JR.. Manager PJione 9197 Opposite 1'ostOt Caldwell's Service Station j DELLWOOD ROAD j- Come in Plea.-e-D'' Pleased I Cold I) rinks " - . ! : :. , .. . Essolene i. Medf ord Service i 'outer At Entrance Southern .A , Prompt Courteous -."'"j, dered At -lin Metnoaisuiaavi,T Station LAKE JlNALl'5KA (Near Assembly AuditJ Claude 3ieoiuiv "Our Service AlWj issoiene .- j BeUe-3IeadeSuP,: Service ow- HAZELWOOD , All Modem Tj elties and lurum
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