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Volume 36. Number 136. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
2 Weyerhaeuser Kidnapers Arrested
FIRST CARGO, PASSENGER VESSELS ARRIVE
Third Kidnaper Escapes Capture At Butte, Montana
S S NORTH
WIND AND S
S VICTORIA
ARE IN PORT
S S Northwind Arrives, Fol
lowed Closely By S. S.
Victoria—Ice Battle
The S. S. Victoria of the Alaska
Line and the S. S. Northwind under
charter to the Arctic Transport Co.
were witnessed by Pilot Hans Mirow
of the Mirow Air Service, and his
passenger Curtis Jacobs, who will
be opening a developing and print
ing shop soon, this afternoon as they
fought their way through the ice
about 25 miles Southeast of Nome.
The Stinson plane flew out over
Bering Sea and saw both vessels
headed for Nome at 4 p.m. The pilot
reported the Northwind about eight
miles ahead and just emerging from
the ice, and the Victoria with sever
al miles of ice to go through yet.
Radio reports from the Victoria in
dicated she would probably arrive at
Nome about six o’clock.
At the hour of going to press,
smoke from both vessels could be
seen. Undoubtedly the ice through
which they have had to pass is from
the Yukon River.
The Nome Brass Band was prepar
ing to go out to the Victoria aboard
the Nohalico lighterage and welcome
the incoming passengers. There is
no doubt they will receive a big
hand, as what they lack in the finer
arts of music, they make up for in
ambition and volume.
The vessels were due to arrive ear
ly this afternoon but due to ice con
ditions were delayed.
To Discuss Naval
Plans With Great
Britain Also Air
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, June 10, — Joachim von
Ribbentrop, elevated to the rank of
Ambassador extraordinary went to
London to reassure the British they
would have a free hand on the high
seas as far as Germany is concerned.
With rear admiral Schuster and
two assistant, von Ribbentrop will
unfold to the British, der Fuehrer’s
paper navy for which he is seeking
Britain’s blessing.
Von Ribbentrop, Hitler’s expert on
disarmament affairs also is expected
to discuss in London a proposed air
pact. Hitler by his own public an
nouncement has no intention of re
newing the former Kaiser’s era of
challenging Great Britain’s sea pow
er. It was indicated Germany's na
val proposals will follow the lines
Hitler laid down in his Reichstag
speech May 21. ,
Announces Arrest
Of 2 Kidnapers
G. Weyerhaeuser
CBv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 10, — John
Edgar Hoover, Director of the Bur
eau of Investigation of the Depart
ment of Justice, Sunday night an
nounced the arrest of two persons
in connection with the Weyerhaeus
er kidnaping, who are said to have
made a full confession.
He gave their names as Mr. and
Mrs. Harmon Waley of Salt Lake,
Utah. Hoover said the pair made
a full confession involving William
Mahan, for whom a nation-wide
search was started last night.
He further stated that Mahan «'/•
the owner of the automobile aban
doned at Butte, Montana today,
which contained fifteen thousand
dollars of the ransom money.
The Department did fine; that’s
good news, exclaimed J. P. Weyer
haeuser Jr., father- of the boy in
Tacoma when informed of the cap
ture of the two by the Associated
Press. Salt Lake authorities said
that Waley who was arrested Sun
day, stated his home was at Puyal
lup nine miles from Tacoma.
When asked whether the trio now
known to be involved in the Weyer
haeuser case, were the only ones in
volved in the kidnaping, John Hoov
er hesitated and then declined to
give the information.
Woman In Case
Not Yet Twenty
•>
Years Of Aire
c
(By The Associated Press)
SALT LAKE, June 10, — Mrs.
Waley is the daughter of George
Thulin of this city, and one of 14
children, and according to her fam
ily had never been in trouble be
fore.
She married Waley against her
family’s wishes, when she was 18
years old. She now is near her 20th
birthday.
The girl’s father said that after
marrying Waley, Margaret went j
with her husband to Tacoma where
they resided until July last year.
They then moved to Camden, N. J.!
and all trace of the couple was lost
by the girl’s parents until she call
ed last Wednesday to pay a brief
visit to her former home.
Her husband the son of the fore
man for Weyerhaeuser, never work
ed for the company as his father
objected to hiring relatives.
Two ransom bills were found in
Waley's pockets when he was ar
rested.
t
The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar I
:d to do your job printing.
TWO OF KIDNAPERS IN
WEYERHAEUSER CASE
ARRESTED SALT LAKE
Passing Of Ransom Bills Followed By The
Arrest Of Young Woman ^ ho Implicat
es Husband And One Oilier Man
(By The Associated Press)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. June 10. — From all fronts.
Department of Justice agents pressed the search for the oth
er person of the Weyerhaeuser kidnap gang, after Harmon
Waley, good-looking blond s<..i of a Weyerhaeuser Lumbei
Company foreman, and his good-looking wife, Margaret, the
retiring and dimunitive daughter of an old Salt Lake City
family, were arrested and confessed to the crime of kidnap
ing.
MAHAN DISCOVERED. CHASED BUT ESCAPES
Mahan, the third member, in Bulte, Montana, deserted
his auto down town and fled across lots, when he was re
cognized by City Detective Mooney. A vicious dog saved
Mahan from capture, but he left fifteen thousand dollars in
ransom bills behind him in the car.
Detective Mooney halted abruptly in pursuit of Mahan
when a dog came between him and the fleeing man. as the
latter leaped a fence and escaped.
Two Salt Lake policemen are credited with the capture
here of Harmon Waley and his wife. They are W. M. Rog
er, detective and L. B. Gifford patrolman.
RANSOM BILLS LEAD TO ARREST MRS. WALEY
Following the discovery here Friday night of twenty
ransom bills of various denominations, in the receipts of the
Walker Bank Trust Company, detectives were placed in var
ious chain stores. Mrs. Waley appeared dressed in a house
dress at 11 A. M. Saturday and offered a five dollar bill in
payment for some small purchases which she made.
The bill proved to be part of the ransom money. She
was arrested and broke under the questioning, confessing her
part in the kidnaping. She told officers where they would
find Waley. He was picked up where he and his wife had
been living. He broke down last night and confessed his
part. He implicated Mahan, and the man-hunt has now
centered on him.
BOTH MEN WERE HARDENED CRIMINALS
Both Waley and Mahan are reported to be former in
mates of an Idaho state prison, and hardened criminals.
Plans for the removal of Waley and his wife to Wash
ington State will be speeded tonight. Officials said he could
not be prosecuted in Utah on any charge. Extradition pap
ers were filed immediately. It is believed that Mahan came
here and purchased a car and then left for Butte where he
was seen, but escaped.__
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF ALASKA
Have Adopted The Following
Minimum Wage Scale
SKILLED LABOR
SEMI-SKILLED
COMMON LABOR
SI.25 Per Hour
SI .00 Per Hour
S .85 Per Hour
—Advt.
Prosecutor Will
Ask death Penalty
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, June 10, — The law
says death and it's death we'll de
mand, was the promise of Prosecut
ing Attorney Harry H. Johnston of
Pierce County regarding the capture
of the kidnapers.
He said they would probably be
tried at the September term of
court. Johnson declared there will
be no compromise on a lesser pen
alty in a return for a plea of guilty.
He referred to the woman in the
case and said he could see no reason
why the woman, if she’s a principal
in such a ease, should expect great
er leniency than the man who com
mits such a cold-blooded and dast
ardly crime.
The Washington law under which
they will be prosecuted provides
life imprisonment for kidnaping for
ransom, with a provision that the
jury may inflict the death penalty.
Both Men Were
Criminals Served
Terms In Prison
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 10 — Mahan
was described as 32 years old and
a blacksmith and mechanic, by offi
cials who are now searching for
him.
The Department of Justice said
that Waley was sent to the reform
school at Chehalis, Washington in
1929 for burglary. A year later he
was sentenced to serve from one to
fifteen years on a similar count. In
1931 he received a suspended sen
tence of from two to fifteen years
for second degree burglary. Three
months later he was ordered to ser
ve a similar term for grand larceny.
His name next appears on a char
ge of stealing an automobile. The
charge was changed to vagrancy and
he was sentenced to six months as
a floater. Waley was described as
a resident of Salt Lake. He was
aorn at Puyallup in 1911.
Mahan was born at Cando, North
Dakota in 1903. He was listed as
aeing wanted in Idaho and Washing
on on charges of assault and bank
•obbery. He served part of one pri
;on term.
Chinese Troops Are
Evacuating Region
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, June 10— Chinese troops
vere reported to have started the
wacuation of North China, signal-1
Let Out Union
Now Charges lie
Was Framed Out
tby The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, —
Ousted from membership in the sea
men’s union, Paul Scharrenberg,
previously mentioned as a candidate
for international president, struck
back with a charge he had been
‘framed’ by the henchmen of the al
ien communist’. He declared his ex
pulsion here last night by the Sail
or’s Union of the Pacific, a branch
of the International Sailor’s Union
was based on accusations framed by
Harry Lundberg of Seattle, Presi
dent of the Maritime Federation of
1 the Pacific. Scharrenberg asserted
in Sacramento that Lundberg was
the henchman of Harry Bridges,
militant longshoremen leader here.
He also denied the action auto
matically removed him from the
office of secretary' treasurer of the
California state federation of labor,
a post he has held for years.
It was learned that Scharren
berg’s ousting was based on accusa
tions that he illegally called the
walkout of tanker sailors by failing
Hrst to submit the strike question
to the membership and that he once
expressed a wish for a ‘war with
Japan’, because then the seamen
would get everything they wanted,
and that he attempted to foster or
ganization of a company longshore
men’s union.
Places Blame On
Roosevelt Bank
Panic March 1933
(By The Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, June 10, — Re
sponsibility for the bank panic of
March 1933 and for continuation of
the depression is laid upon Presi
dent Roosevelt in a series of articles
begun Saturday in the Saturday Ev
ening Post by Walter H. Newton,
once secretary to President Herbert
Hoover, and Professor William Starr
Moyers of Princeton University. The
authors accuse Mr. Roosevelt of
wrecking a recovery they say had be
gun before the 1932 election. They
charge that fear of tariff changes
curtailed the production almost ov
er night of millions dollars. Whis
pers of inflation promoted the flight
from the dollar, and that Mr. Roose
velt's aloofness from the Hoover ad
ministration induced fear of his pol
icies.
izing China’s complete surrender to
the demands of the Japanese mili
tary authorities. The enactment of
the demands is expected to be made
complete before the week-end.