1935-09-21 — Page 2

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935

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These telegrams will be delivered of on the morning after the date. despatch.

Further information may be obtain-1

ed at the Radio Office.

Wiley Post and (1 to r) Rex Beach, Joe Crosson and Will Rogers in the last photograph to be made of the famous fiers at Juneau, Alaska, before they took off on their fatal flight to Point Barrow. A short time after it was taken, Crosson, who had ad- väled them against the trip, was ordered by Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh to fly the bodies of Post and Rogers back to the United States.

OCEAN

CANADA

UNITED"

The seaplane carrying Will Rogers and Wiley Post to Alaska and their deaths leaves. Seattle on the first leg of the fatal fight. The map shows the fight route and Point Barrow, where the crash

pccurred

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

This cross-word puzzle has been made by an

but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and altho

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Sept

FROM USA

Sept

Pres. Coolidge.

Sept.

Pres Monroe Emp. of Canada

FROM JAPAN

Yasukuni Maru

Pres Coolidge

Emp. of Canada

Pres Mourode

Atsuta Mart

Toyama Maru

Nagato Maru

Soochow

Patroclus

Athos II

FROM SHANGHAI

Tantalus...

Yasukuni Maru

Pres. Coolidge

Pres Monroe

Teiresias

Emp. of Canada.

FROM MANILA -

Pres Cleveland

Tjisondari

Sept.

$8

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Sept.

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The wreckage of Will Rogers and Wiley Post's low-winger monoplane"

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is shown in the background half submerged in the river near Point Barrow, In the foreground is shown the Alaska, where disaster overtook thezz. baggage of the famous travellers taken from the plane by the party which recovered their bodies..

Exmaeus

Ybensang

Ajax

Ginyo Maru

Fushimi Mara

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE:

Andre Lebon (via Siberia).

Rio-de-Janeiro Man (Air

Mail Service).

Sept.

Closes: Reg-1 p.m. Ord: 130 p.m.

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Closes: Reg 415 pm. Ord. 5 pm

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FOR JAPAN

Sept.

Pres. Cleveland

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"FOR STRAITS

Sept.

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FOR MANILA

Sept.

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FOR SHANGHAI:

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FOR USA

Sept.

Pres. Cleveland

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A close-up of Will Rogers at an air passenger. Though the famed comedian was an air enthusiast for years he never learned topilot a plane.

"waits on the

The widow of WIE Rogers-is. the former Betty Blake of Ool- gah, Oklahoma, whom he met at a "candy pull"" - and --married in 1908. They have three children.

HORIZONTAL

T-Talon

5-A Mohammedan

prince 10-Dips

14 Rodent

-15-Ribbon used for vestments”.

15-English school 17-High card (pl.). 18-Egg-shaped

19 Not any 20-Recisions

22-Arranged in folds

24-Eagles

25-Carbon

26-Divides

29-Disgraceful

33-Preserves, in salt.

group, as of roliticiaris

36-Unit

37 Serf

33-5ag

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46-Nearer.

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(HORIZONTÁL (Cont.); VERTICAL (Cont.)

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48-Talk

49 Struck lightly

52-Fixes

56-Large Lake

57-Man's same! 59-Exmenine

50-Look styly 61-Cook in an oven 62-Comfort 63–Young glet LA 64-Saucy (variant) 65-Hauled

VERTICAL

1.Burn

2-Net fabric

3-Greek god of war.

4-0f the West

13-Cat (Prov. Eng)

21-Crude metals

23-Alcoholic beverage 125 Push

25-Jeer- 27-Macit-

*28-Space for combat

Sjope. 130-Withers

31-Join

32-One afflicted with

dread disea

34-Venerate 37-Wasters

40-Ladies

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7-Epochs-

8-Superlative subby 9-The cat-tall

110-Councils of state

111 on the summit

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54-Feminine sufix

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This last picture in life of Will Rogers and Whey Post, shown leaving Fairbanks, Alaska, for their fight that failed, arrived in the United States at the same time as their bodies were being dem

cred to 500

relatives. Post is here entering the cockpit while Will

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