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North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door of the U. S. Signal Corps station. Out stepped Sergeant Stanley Morgan...
Both bodies were wrapped in blankets, placed in a native umiak to be towed to Point Barrow. From Will Rogers' coat pocket fell a newspaper clipping, a picture of his 18-year-old Daughter Mary, playing in Maine in a summer theatre performance of Ceiling Zero, which has for its climax a fatal airplane crash. At Point Barrow the bodies were placed in the tiny Mission Hospital. Then Sergeant Morgan went to his radio station to tell the world about the end of an Arctic holiday of which Will Rogers had written: "We are sure having a great time...
Fortnight ago Post and Rogers reached Juneau in their synthetic Lockheed, flew on to Dawson, Aklavik, Fairbanks, Anchorage. They visited the Government's Matanuska Valley farm colony, were on their way to Point Barrow when they came down one evening in a river near an Eskimo camp to inquire their way. Post tinkered the motor and after dining ashore with the natives, they took off for the ten-minute flight to Point Barrow. The plane had soared about 50 ft. when the motor sputtered. Post banked steeply to the right in a desperate effort to get back...
From Point Barrow Chief Pilot Joe Crosson of Pan American's Pacific Alaska Airways took off in a transport plane with the bodies wrapped in blankets, strapped to cots. The embalming, begun at Point Barrow by Dr. Greist, was completed at Fairbanks. Then Pilot Crosson flew on to Seattle where a change was made to a large Douglas for the trip to Los Angeles. Meanwhile Will Rogers Jr. flew from California to New York to escort his mother, brother and sister back across the continent for the Rogers funeral at Los Angeles...
...Alabama cotton picker, with a white maternal great-grandfather and a white paternal great-great-grandfather, Joseph Louis Barrow went to Detroit with his widowed mother when he was five, attended school until he was 14, left to learn to be a cabinet maker. In 1933, when he was 19, he entered the National A. A. U. championships. In 1934 he won the light heavyweight championship in Chicago's Golden Gloves tournament and the National A. A. U. light heavyweight title. Detroit's shrewd Negro Lawyer John Roxborough, with a small fortune made by familiarizing Detroit Negroes with...