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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931.
VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 212.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FATHER WOODLEY FOUND
DEAD BE SEARCHERS
IN CM AREA
Word reaching The Gateway
just before going to press today
was to the effect that Father
George H. Woodley, Catholic
priest, who was lost afoot some
where in the Chickaloon district.
50 miles from Anchorage, had
been found dead with a broken
neck.
Father Woodley was an ex
tremely popular young priest in
Alaska and gave up his parish a
year ago to take up flying so as
to be of greater assistance to res
idents of northern outposts. He
became a licensed pilot under the
tutelage of his brother who is a
graduate of Kelly Field and a
transport pilot for a number of
years. They flew to Fairbanks
from New York a few weeks ago
They visited several Catholic
missions and then started on a
game hunt, afoot. This, prior to
his brother Arthur’s departure for
the States.
Early this morning searchers
were organized to go out and look
for Father Woodley. The Catho
lic plane, Alaska Missionary,
which has been stalled at Anch
orage for the past three weeks,
awaiting parts to repair the start
er on the plane’s engine, was to
V join in the search tomorrow as
they expected parts on the train
due there today from Seward.
Blunt was to pilot another
searching plane but it is not cer
tain whether he got away
Father Woodley was discovered
by a searching party, either on
foot or horseback, and it is sur
mised that he must have fallen
off a cliff, or taken some other
w bad fall to his death.
HR FEDERATION TO
UNITE, LEGALIZE BEER
VANCOUVER, B- C., Oct., 14, (/P)
—Asserting beer to be within the
possibilities, M. J. McDonough,
head of the Building Trades De
partment of the American Feder
ation of Labor, predicted the 51st
annual convention of the Federa
. non here will unite on beer in
order to make labor’s stand firm.
Advocacy of the modification of
the Volstead Act to legalize beer
of 2.75 percent alcoholic content,
was included in the program of
the executive council and will be
* be acted upon this week.
PINEAPPLE NUMBER 13
IS TOSSED IT THEATRE
CHICAGO, Oct. 14. UP)—'The 13th
bomb, in the controversey between
, allied and independent owners of
motion picture theatres and the
operators’ union, exploded when
tossed at the feet of two policemen
who were guarding the theatre.
The policemen immediately]
v * kicked it into the street and began !
firing at the fleeing bombers who
were in a car.
No one was hurt fey the exploding
bomb and the only property dam
age was shattered windows.
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CITIES LINKED BY SERVICE
BERLIN, Oct-, 14, (/P)—Germany
will operate over 410 airplanes
during the winter. Thirty-nine
German and 26 foreign cities will
be linked by the German lines.
NAVAL VESSELS SAID
BE'
WASHINGTON, Oct., 14, (As
sailing orders of American naval
vessels in Oriental waters have
been changed to avoid “misunder
standing” by the two nations.
This government is seeking to j
bring about a peaceful agreement]
while its diplomatic representa-!
tives to China and Japan contin-,
ued to urge an early settlement
the Manchurian difficulties.
The State Department was stir
red by the publication in New
York of a “sensational report” re
garding the movement of United j
States ships. The report involved,
the “routine” movement of ships j
from Tsingtau to Chefoo, both on;
the Chinese coast as has been j
“customary for 20 years”.
The Navy Department ordered
vessels at Shanghai to be depriv
ed of shore leave.
* AGED POLICEMAN DIES
CHICAGO, Oct. 14. (A*)—Captain
M. P. Evans, founder of the Chi
cago police department’s “Rogues
Gallery,” and the oldest policeman
in active service, died at the age
of 84 years.
BRITISH PUNT
POSTPONED BT KINO'S
MU TO MEET CRISIS
LONDON, Oct. 14. (/P) — British
Parliament was prorogued with a
speech from the throne in which
King George appealed to the Brit
ish people to cooperate in an ef
i fort to meet the present economic
crisis.
I His Majesty declared that meas
ures taken by the government to
deal with the situation would in
volve “sacrifices from every mem
ber of the community” and said he
felt confident everyone would co
operate “to the utmost of his power
in restoring prosperity to the na
tion.”
Meanwhile Prime Minister Mac
Donald was toiling on his appeal to
the nation, mapping out a cam
paign for support at the coming
general election. The Premier de
clared in the election manifesto
that a monetary policy which will
establish the pound sterling “in
confidence and authority must be
initiated without delay.”
APPLIES FOR PAROLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14. (Jp)
—A. B. Fall, former Secretary of
the Interior, applied to the Depart
ment of Justice for parole from
the penitentiary sentence of a year
and a day meted out to him for ac
cepting.a $100,000 bribe in connec
tion with government oil leases.
TWO GANGSTERS SLAIN
TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 14. (/P)_Two
gangsters were slain in fresh out
breaks of gang warfare here. The
victims were shot as they sat in an
automobile. Police ascribed the
shooting to out of town racketeers.
PLANES TO LIM HE
13 TAKE PASSENGERS
DEE ICE-BOUi SHIP
NOME, Oct. 14. (/P)—A new Arctic
flying expedition is to go north to
morrow and return with 12 or 15
passengers from the Baychimo,
which is icebound 20 miles north
of Wainwright.
The Northern Air Transport at
Nome is preparing to send out
three planes to bring the men back
in time to catch the last outgoing
ship, the SS Victoria, about Oc
tober 22.
The planes are being outfitted
with winter equipment, heating
pots, gas stoves and fur clothing,
and the pilots with snowshoes.
The Baychimo’s position is given
as 70.49 North Latitude and 159.10
West Longitude. There is a land
ing field about a mile in length,
one-half mile from the ship, and
on smooth ice. There is only one
and one-half inches of snow on the
ice.
The planes also plan to carry
about a ton of provisions for those
who are to winter on the boat.
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR
INTENDS STAY UliTIL MAY
BATON ROUGE, La., Oct., 14,
(£>)—State police were placed on
guard at the National Capitol at
the executive mansion as Gover
nor Huey Long’s first line of de
fense against Lieut. Gov. Cyr’s
attempt to seize the governorship
A company of National Guards
men were called out after Cyr
took the oath of office and de
manded that Long turn over the
office and demobilized Long’s
order.
Long said that he had not or
dered the guardsmen out but Cyr
insists that Governor Long as
United States Senator-elect
should resign his office.
Long declared he intended to
remain Governor until May. The
action probably will go to the
courts.
WASHINGTON, Oct., 14, (/P)—
President Herbert Hoover will de
liver a radio address Sunday night
from Fort Monroe, Va., in helping
to open the drive for his emer
gency unemployment committee
for relief funds in local communi
ties.
He is to leave here Saturday for
Annapolis where he will embark
on the U- S. S. Arkansas to take
part in the Yorkstown Sesquicen
tennial celebration.
PREVENT INEVITABLE WAR
NANKING, Oct., 14, (/P)_War
against Japan was threatened by
President Chiang Kai Sheck of
China, if just settlement of the
Chinese-Japanese question over
Manchuria is not obtained by the
League of Nations’ Counsel which
convened Tuesday in Geneva. The
Nanking government, said Chiang,
hoped the League Counsel would
take means to prevent almost in
evitable war
TWO RUM RUNNERS SLAIN
NEW YORK, Oct. 14. —War
for control of the South Brooklyn
rum running “rights” reached a
new peak when two members of the i
V. Higgins gang were found brut- |
ally slain and sewn up in burlap j
bags in an abandoned automobile, j
TAMMANY LEADER ROARS
DENIAL OF GAMBLING:
CONTRADICTS EVIDENCE
NEW YORK, Oct-, 14, (/P)—Tam
many’s voice was finally heard at
the Hofstadter Committee’s in
quiry into vice and graft in New
York City and the voice was loud, i
It came from Sheriff Farley, one'
of Wigwam’s foremost leaders.
He roared his denial of gamb
ling charges brought against his
club, flatly contradicting evidence
i given by three witnesses previous
ly. Instead of gambling, those in
his clubhouse were only packing
away toys for a children’s May
Day party on the night police
raided the place and claimed to
find gambling, he said.
S. Seabury, prosecutor, asked
Farley if such . playthings for
adults as racing charts and para
phernalia pertaining to crap
games, also were on the premises
Mr. Farley said he did not see any
such things.
I It was brought out that Farley
i banked $360,660 in seven years
when his pay totaled $62,500. Mr.
Farley said he just saved the
funds.
iLIIBOII EDITOR WOULD
COMPEL CHESS TO
SOLVE UNEMPLOYMENT
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 14. (/P)
—“Compel the next Congress to re
lieve the unemployment situation,
or bring about a political revolution
in 1932.”
Edward Keating, former Con
gressman from Colorado and edi
tor of Labor, offered this as the
slogan for the 51st annual con
vention of the American Federation
of Labor.
He shared the center of the con
tention slate with Ralph A. Horr,
j Washington Congressman, who |
made an eloquent appeal for the
immediate modification of the Vol
stead Act and for the adoption of
some such plan as the $5,000,000,
000 prosperity loan advocated by
W. R. Hearst,
MORATORIUM EXTENSION
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 14. (ff)
—William Green, president of the ;
American Federation of Labor, in
an address here, advocated further
extension of the Hoover moratorium
for several years, revision of inter- 1
allied war debts and reparations j
and tariff revision as a means to j
economic restoration.
AL CAPONE ON TRIAL
CHICAGO, Oct. 14. (/P) — “Scar- I
face” A1 Capone, Chicago fcrimej
overlord on trial for evading gov-!
ernment income taxes, grinned
broadly as witnesses, including his
former bookkeeper, charged him
with ownership of a Cicero gamb
ling den where, according to the
prosecution,, he cleared $587,000 in
less than two years.
ENGLISH BENI! DIRECTOR
COMPLETES SECOND
ALASKA BIG GAME HUNT
Sir John Mullens, a director of
the world-famous Bank of Eng
land, who spent a very delightful
summer in Alaska twro years ago,
hunting with gun and camera, and
who has just completed his second
hunting trip in Alaska, arrived in
Seward on the train last evening
from Anchorage and left on the SS
Alaska today for the South. He
was accompanied by his secretary.
The distinguished financier has
been hunting under the auspices
of the Alaska Giudes in the Tusta
mena and Kenai hunting grounds.
Asked as to the purport of the
dispatch printed in The Gateway
yesterday to the effect that it was
expected that the meeting between
Premier Pierre Laval of France and
President Hoover would result in
the re-establishment of the gold
standard in England and through
out Europe, Sir John was inclined
to doubt the success of the move
ment. He agreed with Sir Hugo
Cunliffe-Owen that a conference
looking to the re-establishment of
silver on a more equitable basis
was in part a solution of the worlds’
financial troubles. Sir John indi
cated that he would possibly at
tend conferences in Washington,
seeking to revive the financial de
pression, but had no definite pro
gram, not being an official repre
sentative of England, although an
official of the Bank of England.
“Jottings” on the recent big game
hunt, written for The Gateway by
Sir John Mullens, will appear in to
morrow’s issue of The Gateway.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS
PAROLED FROM PRISON
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 14, (/P)
—Asa Keys as district attorney of
Los Angeles, sent nearly 4,000 ,
men to California prisons. He
walked out of San Quentin pri
I son on parole after serving 19
months on a charge of criminal
conspiracy, convinced that prison
does more harm than good to a
man.
“The State Prison does not help
any man. There is a poison in
the air which degrades all but
the strongest individuals”, he said.
i HOOVER HKS PLAN TO
INGHEUE VALUE BONDS
_
; WASHINGTON, Oct., 14, (JP)—
Prseident Hoover’s plan to bring
the value of railroad bonds up is
nearly completed. Some officials
expect an announcement in a few
days- Others, however, disagree,
explaining the intricacy of the
problem and its many complica
tions may cause some delay.
Word came from high adminis
tration quarters that Hoover has
a number of other plans under
consideration to inject new life
into the sluggish veins of indus
try. One was said to involve the
general mortgage situation.
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