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WEYERHAEUSER HEIR'S OWN STORY OF KIDNSPING 0 CAMERA STUDIES OF $200,000 KIDNAP VICTIM SUSPECT HELD GETS STORY FOR Child Gives Details of How Six Masked Men Treated Him During Week's Travel San Jose Case Is With Prisoner's Plot to Kidnap So. Adjournment by Saturday Next Depends Upon Tax Progress, Probe of Craig OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1935 HANDS CHAINED ey AKIN, RELATES BDV IK SENT TO GOVERNOR NIEST1T1 )W Linked CLr- Student TACOMA, June 1. (U.R) By JOHN H. DREHER Seattle Times Cor-espondent whr str to his home. (Copyright.

1935. by the United Press.) TACOMA, June 1. It was a long wait, but boy what a finish. This morning just. after 7 o'clock the break came.

'A telephone call said the boy had been found near We figured the boy must 4ie- coming into Tacoma from Issa 4- 'A Here is a group of camera studies of curly-haired George Weyerhaeuser, 9-year-old scion-of the wealthy timber family, who was returned to his parents in yesterday after payment of $200,000 ransom to a kidnap gang which abducted him on Friday, May 24. George said he was "well-treated" by the kidnapers who had kept him concealed for more than a week while negotiating with his family for the ransom payment. A. Pi photos on me," George suddenly blurted out. I coulH hardly believe It after what he had said before.

"They put shackles on you?" I asked incredulously. "Ah, they didn't hurt me. They didn't put them on that tight. They just wanted to keep me from running away," George smiled again. The Weycrhaeusers have a sense (Continued From Page 1.) vestigated the status of the eon-victed appellate justice, said the Los Angeles Bar Association is preparing a formal complinfr which would be the basis of legislative proceedings to remote the judge from the bench.

(-: EPIC GROUP, OTHERS HEAR RILEY PESSIMISM The Epic bloc, along with some Democrats who object to being classed as followers of the Upton Sinclair doctrines, held a council of war last night at a dinner to discuss strategy during next week's tax bnttles. They -heard Controller Ray L. Riley discuss the financial situation and voice the opinion that the revenues during the next bien-nium-may fall short of-estimates. Riley is concerned about the State'a financial plight, because most of the new revenues will not come In soon enough to improve matters very materially in the immediate future. He believes the special session of the Legislature to be held -next Winter will have Its work- out for it i The Epic bloe, with some additions from Republican Assemblymen, will endeavor next week to accomplish three definite They hope to kill the proposed transfer of automobile taxation from the counties to the State, force through severance tax and -increase the rates in the income tax bill.

EPIC DlVIDEflON TRANSACTIONS TAX On the proposed transactions tax scheme sponsored by Assemblyman E. V. Latham of Alhambra', the Epics are divided. Without their aid Latham can't get started on his plan. He has had action on his bill put over until next week in order to see what develops.

Senator Walter Duval of Ventura County, chairman of the joint tax committee, announced tonight that he will move early next week to have all the bending revenue meas-urs set as a "special order of business for one time. Some of these bills have been held up because they contain appropriations for Administration and so could not be passed until after the budget bill is signed by the Governor. A Little flrhting is anticipated in the Senate on the tax measures, all of which will be on- third reading file by Monday. The inheritance tax bill, passed by the Assembly a few days ago, was reported out with a "do pass" recommendation by the Senate revenue and taxation committee today. NEW INCOME TAX BILL BATTLE IMPENDS The bank and corporation franchise tax bill, the sales tax bill and the income tax bill are also through- one House and before the Senate.

The latter measure, how-ever, will be the subject of a hot fight when it goes back to the Assembly for concurrence In the lowered rates. General belief is that this income tax, bill will wind Up in free conference and a compromise on rates effected. Duval is eager to get the automobile tax bill through the Senate and over to the Assembly as early as possible, as its consideration in the-lower house Is ta consume much time. The real estate transfer tax bill is in the hands of. Assemblymen Ray Williamson and Alfred -W.

Robertson, named by to study this legislation after the joint tax committee declined to accept the low revenues provided in th bill passed by the Assembly tvrm eral weeks ago. The question of patronage is seen as a factor in the consideration of some of the tax On the income tax instance, there is, a struggle on over administrative jurisdiction. As passed by the Assembly the Chatters income tax bill provided for administration br the Franchise tax commissioner. A drive is on to get the Senate to approve a proposal to place the collection of income taxes in the hand! of the State Board of Equalization. quah in the farmer automobile.

On one of those hunches that came like a royal flush, I stared out in with EarliRobinson at the wheel, to meet thearmer's automobile on the road to Tacoma I told F.arl not to worry about speed limits this time. Anyway, out on the road it seemed half-way to Ronton and I was looking for the Smith tower we met this old car chugging along. It was early in the morning and easy to spot because there were few machines on the road. "It's the boy," I said to Rob inson. I said, "turn around as they pass and we will overtake them; And it was the farmer and the boy, dirty and with that dirty white blanket with the rose pattern wrapped around him.

We overtook him in a minute arid the farmer seemed glad to be rid of his pre cious charge as George hopped into my taxicab. The farmeheaded for police headquarters but that boy had to be back in his mother's arms. We headed for the home, "George, we sure are glad to see you," this oldest Times staff corre spondent said. "GLAD TO GET BACK" I'm awfully glad to get back," George answered "George, you and I are going home," I told the boy, and his face lighted up as he exclaimed; "Fine!" Home! How good that must look to this curly-headed youngster. Home and mother.

And Dad, and Elizabeth, and Phil "George! George, how did they eaDture you?" I asked "Well, I walked down through the tennis grounds, you know, the Tacoma Lawn Tennis uiud, ana came out there on that path and then to where the steps you go up and vou come out on the street. There was a tan standing there. A man was at the wheel, and another, the one they afterward called 'Allen' or was standing on the curb. He said 'Say!" (I don't know whether he called me son or boy.) He asked me where Stadium Way was. I told him I didn't know, and he came over toward me and crabbed me and put his hand over-my mouth and pulled me Into the tan tedan.

"Then he put me down in the back and covered me with this blanket, the same blanket that you are sitting on. It certainly is dirty, "And then We drovand drove and drove. I don't knowWhere we went to, but they told me I wouldn't be hurt if I didn't yell out: and I didn't want to be hurt, so I kept my mouth shut." "And did they make you sign the back of that envelope?" SIGNED THREE TIMES "Did ttley? Well, I signed my name three times once on the random note 'the original ransom note was untied; there must have been another) and once I signed my name at the bottom ofthe blank paDer." Then George gave us something new. "Oh, but I waht to teli about the two ears," George sa'd, "And, oh, yes, the names of the men. One was a tan sedan; that was the one I was kidnaped In; the other was a big gray Buick.

That's the one that the trunk. "The men told me there were six of them in the kidnaping. But I never saw more than three; they called one another 'Bill," 'Harry' and 'Allen'." I. Interrupted. "Sure of that?" Oh.

no. That must have been Karpis, Alvin Karpis. I remember that sounds more like it, 'Alvin'." "What do yotl know about Karpis?" I asked. His face brightened up again, and Scenes he had a surprise on me as he said "Why, hadn't I told you about that? They let me read all the news parjers about myself." The boy laughed. "And you remember the name of Karpis?" I asked and remember, only I didn't heaf1 tnem can mm Karpis.

you Know they always called him what sounded like Allen. I never heard of 'Alvin' before." Then about the food and treat ment. Had they harmed this lad? Apparently not. What the kid napers wanted was the $200,000. "They always gave me all I could eat," he said.

"I ate the same things they did and they liked good things to eat. Yet. sir, they treated me fine. They only hurt me once. And that was when one" of them there were three of us In the car when one of the men lifted me, grabbed me under the arm.

I think I heard them say we were near Aberdeen, and It hurt me and I said: 'Say, don't you hurt "And what do you think he said when I said that? He Mid: 'Young man, you're too valuable to HURT ONLY ONCE "No. they never hurt 'me a Jittje bit," he' said. "Except- the time I told you down near Aberdeen when they tried to lift me out of the car. I think there was another car coming, or something. But I didn't know just what It was.

Oh, yes, I remember now. It was something about another car with policemen in it; they were excited. "We stopped one night near a river and one of the men took me up in the blanket, took me out of the trunk and carried me toward the river. "'Say, mister, you're not going to throw me In the river and drown me, are I asked. "You weren't sick at any time?" "Not a bit.

I wasn't feeling so badly for they always kept telling me they were going to turn rhe back to my father." "Where did you. sleep?" "Well, I slept in this house at Is saquah; I guess it must be some-i thing like four miles or three mites of Issaquah. I don't know anything about that country very much. I tf'ePt "the. last four days and three nights there.

Once I slept along the river; another time I slept in some timberland that made me think, well, I believe it belongs to mv father." "And how did you sleep? Were you comfortable, George?" SLEPT IN CLOSET Yes," he hesitated. "Thev used to put 'me in' the closet at night." "In the closet, all doubled ud at night?" "Oh, it wasn't bad. They gave me the blanket to roll in and they always put a mattress up against the door to keep me in. And I guess I could have pushed it away, but one man always laid on it and then I couldn't push it Yon know they put shackles A man. known as George Powell haJ uuen isKcn jniu uusiuay ni for questioning in connection with the abduction of nint-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, the United Press was informed late today.

The informant said the man was being brought to Tacoma and possibly would be confronted by the child who was returned safely early today after rumored payment of $200,000 ransom, Two Department of Justice agents were said to have found, the in a waterfront hotel. Agents here refused to confirm the arrest, as did the sheriff's office. "If such a man has been detained," the sheriff "it was by Federal agents." QUIZZED IN PLOT Seattle, June I. (U.R) George E. Powell, 54, who worked as a newspaperman In Kansas City, Cincinnati, and Norfolfc, was adjudged insane January 4, 1934, after he had admitted plotting the abduction of John von Herberg, 16, son of J.

G. von Herberg, theater magnate, here in December, 1933. He was committed to the Western Washington State Hospital at Steila-coom jfter alienists reported he had "grandiose delusions and hallucinations." The alienists' report said Powell told them he did not know why he planned to kidnap young Herberg, because previous kldnapings were repugnant to him. Powell admitted he Intended to take Herberg to a woodcutter's cabin in Snohomish County, near Everett, where he was picked up by officers today, and hold him for $50,000 ransom. He had questioned three fellow students of Herberg about the youth's movements.

NEAR BREAKING POINT Powell said then he was the son of a La Crosse, surgeon, and for some time before his arrest had worked dilieentlv on a treatise on' the atomic composition of ether. -1 1 ill I uuive o. may, iiuicu oemue criminologist, said Powell had a brilliant brain, brought near the breaking point by overwork. At the time of the former a rest, joweirs wire, saia to be a Kansas City newspaperwoman, al legedly. told May that Powell was a paranoiac," suffering from delusions that a gang was after him, when she left him fours years previously.

"I don't recall the motive force that started it," Powell's confession of the plati to abduct Herberg said. "I think it probably came from readinr something about the San Jose kidnaping case" (in which Brooke Hart was kidnaped and slain and his slayers lynched). Powell, a World War veteran, was transferred from the Western Washington Insane Hospital to the mental ward of the Veterans' Hospital at American Lake, in 1934. In January, 1935, oficials of the institution judged him sane and released him. Strike Ordered In Coal Mines WASHINGTON, D.

June miners to the number of 450,000 have been- ordered' to walk out on strike June 16 unless new wage contracts are signed before that date, according to John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, Notification has been sent to near-ly 6000 locals of the union to have their members in readiness for the strike, Lewis said, Arrangements for maintenance men to be kept in the mines to prevent natural damage during the course of the strike have already been made with the mine owners, he added. present wage contracts are due to expire June 16, and a recent conference called for the purpose of drafting new ones broke up without achieving its object. v. lsjpr of humor. He stuck out his right wrist.

"They put them on my wrist and they put them on my ankles, but they didn't hurt, honest." "I guess you mean handcuffs, George?" "I don't know handcuffs," answered this third grader, who perhaps diesn't understand such a common police t(rm as handcuffs, He didn't understand that word of mine, but now he was to surprise me with a word I didn't understand at first. RODE THE TRUNK "It must have been tough on you, George, staying under that blanket all day, and it so dirty, too?" "I didn't. I rode the trunk." "The truck?" "No, I said trunk." "Yes, a trunk," he continued, laughing at my misunderstanding. "We didn't have any trucks. I told you we had a tan sedan and a gray Buick." "Did the trunk have holes in it?" "Why, certainly, how could I have gotten any air?" "All right then, George, have it your way You rode around in a trunk set in the gray Buick all day.

Weren't your legs all doubled up and didn't they hurt after you got out?" "Oh, they were bent little, but they didn't hurt, after I walked around a little," "And where did they keep you?" I asked. "Do you remember the kipd of a house?" "About that house," he said. "They always took the blindfold off my eyes and I could see things in the house. When they were with me in the house, whenever I could see them, they always wore masks. They looked funny walking around like that 'and I laughed at them at first." "And how about last night, George, your last night of stepping out?" 'DIDN'T SEE MONEY' "Well, my uncle, Mr.

Titcomb, brought the money to them. I didn't see him; Ldidn't seelhe money, but I heard them about it. About 11 o'clock last night they took me out of the house with a blindfold I had slept there three nights-and they drove along the road a way and then they said; 'George, we are going to put you In the road; you just keep on walking in that and they pointed toward Rentoh and Tacoma. "And they said: 'Pretty soon your father will come along and give you a ride home. You don't have to be afraid of anything, even if It Is dark; just keep on i 'J.

John H. Dreher, veteran Seattle newspaperman, who droye out in a taxi to meet George Weyerhaeuser, "took" him away from Farmer Bonifas, and was the first to interview him concerning his abduction. A. P. photo POLICE PROBE TIFFIN, Ohio, June 1.

(U.R) Police tonight investigated the possibility that a "reform" movement among students of Heidelberg College was responsible for a dynamite blast that wrecked the home of President Charles E. Miller. President Miller and members of hiSjimily escaped injury in the bly lyhlch occurred before dawn. Amvy charge of dynamite was sea off under the front porch of his brick home. It scattered pieces qf the porch for a block, broke all windows in.

the home and damaged the Interior. President Miller and Police Chief Charles J. Mutchler at first could advance no motive, for dynar miting but later police investigated the possibility that the disorder, resulted from agitation among students some time ago for reform of the college social program. Civic Body to Fix Restrictions SAN LEANDRO, June and means of compiling a set of all tract restrictions in effect In the community, to facilitate enforcement of a recently adopted ordinance, were being studied today by officials of the San Leandro Improvement Association. Expressing a belief that such a list might be prepared with little difficulty, George Deethardt, president of the organization, indicated that a comprehensive plane may be submitted to the City CounciLiOon.

Under terms of the new ordinance, the city building Inspector may not issue a permit for construction of a residence until proof that the structure will conform to tract" restrTctfons is furnished. Answering a request by City Manager A. E. Pelton that he prepare such a list, City Attorney A. Poe said that costs would be pro hibitive and that the amount of work involved would be tremen dous.

A partial list could be secured for a small cost, Poe said, but would not be satisfactory, Monterey Scouts to Open-Area Camporee MONTEREY, June 1. Camp Wing the Summer camp of the Monterey bay area council of Boy Scouts, will open June 16 and continue until July 14, it was announced today by the local Scout headquarters. a' after receiving a Ernest Backlund, Renton, service station operator, at the phone he "loaned" to John Eonifas, Issaquah farmer, tonotify the Tacoma police that kidnapers had released George Weyerhaeuser. A. P.

photo. that exchange of shoes as thp farmer took leave of us, and George jumped into our taxicab. He had given the farmer, the shoes he was wearing, and they were girls' George told us about that. "I told the farmer my feet were wet," he said. "I had been walking through wet grass early in the morning and 'my; shoes were soaked.

So he took off Imy. shoes and stockings and dried the stockings, and when we came to go said: 'You can't wear those wet shoes. Here, I'll give you a pair- of my and so he put those girls' shoes on and Figures in Latest Chapters of Weyerhaeuser Abduction walking that way and you'll get home. One of them added, 'You've been a fine "And I walked arid walked. I guess I must have walked four miles or more.

Didn't walk fast. I wasn't afraid. I kept looking for my father, as they said. It was getting light when I came to this man's house; it was this way from Issaquah, I guess, but I don't know where Issaquah is. "I went to the door and knocked and a man, this man, who brought me along until you met me, came to the door and I said, 'I am thejittle kidnaped boy'." The farmer, Bonifas, true to his name, was a good host.

He fed George of their homely fare and George said: "It was a good breakfast all round that farm, table." Then' George remembered about i 5 M'" if. ''i-yiiyU HiiM. '7, i'. -K Ji-ii: 4S2. mmamrm I'll George felt a little cheap' about wearing those girls' shoes.

FAMILIAR STORY House at 2915 Foothill was rented again to Tribune reader before it fell vacant "always gets results." p. dLiM jux jsl mm it nrriW irii rmr rvr -nimn'ii -v --ir- y. V- 'A Drama it1 7 7 $200,000 ransom, fhoto II I mm It was in these densely timbered mountains around Issaquah, Washington, that nine-year-old George Weyerhaueser was held captive for nearly seven days by kidnapers who 'released him enly bis home in Tacoma by John Dreher, Seattle Times sports writer, after kidnaper! bad released bim on lonely road between Issaquah and Renton at 4 yesterday. A. Photo.

the plant of the Cool Lomparyi by bills that are typical of the i abductors mamtair.H 1 E. M. BqIcori, Seattle insurance man, ii shown reading to reporters a statement issued by Mr. and Mrs. J.

P. Weyerhaeuserj parents ef 9-year-old George, few minutes after bis return to AS Newspapermen and spectators assembled around the Weyerhaeuser honjerin Tacoma when word was received that 9-yeaf-dld George Weyerhaeuser Jr. had been freed unharmed by his abductors and wai being returned in safety. A. P.

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