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Waleys Plead Guilty Kidnap Charges
Waley Says His Wife* Was Unaware Of Kidnaping
EUROPEAN NATIONS IN
MESS OVER STATUS OF
FOREIGN CONDITIONS
International Affairs In Europe Occupy
Avid Attention Of Statesmen And The
Populace Alike—Three Disputes On
(By The Associated Press')
UNDATED, June 21, — Three disputes—two of them
international, and one internal—held the attention of Euro
pean countries this week end.
Foremost in importance in the anglo-German naval ag
reement under which Germany can built a modern navy
35', as large as the British Fleet.
Captain Anthony Eden, minister for the League of Na
tions affairs, in an effort to calm down the French who claim
that Great Britain agreed to the wreckage of the Versailles
Treaty, arrived in Paris yesterday.
From Pai L, Eden is to go to Rome to seek peace in the
conflict between Italy and Ethiopia. Italy however, may
withdraw from the League if Geneva interferes in her Af
rican affairs.
Yugoslavia is without a cabinet today, following the
government’s resignation yesterday. German and Italian
influences are decidedly at loggerheads in the politics of
that important member of the Little Entente as they at
tempted to gain control of that power.
Captain Young Of
A. P. A. Dead San
Francisco Today
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, —
Captain John Crosby Young, retir
ed skipper of sailing ships and one
of the original organizers of the Al
aska Packers, died at his home here
at the age of 87.
Young and several associates built
the salmon cannery at Chignik Bay
in 1889 and entered into an agree
ment with other cannery operators,
which it is said, was the beginning
of the Alaska Packers Association.
Huey Long Does
Not Think That
President Sincere
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 21, —With
considerable skeptism, Huey Long
welcomed President Roosevelt “back
to the fold” of his “share in wealth
movement".
Acclaiming the executive’s tax
measure Long told reporters if he
will come “along he will actually
bust up every big fortune in Am
erica. We would be out of depression
in twenty-four hours, but I fear
when the boom over these exposures
subsides, it will be the end of Roos
evelt’s talk about decentralizing
wealth. That is our experience with
him in the past.”
Long referred to the Mitchell hear
ing over the Department of Com
merce charges. He said “I’m afraid
his message came so as to turn the
republic’s mind from the exposure
by Mitchell, of gifts and bounties1
ordered by President Roosevelt for
the Astors and their associates.”
Rockefeller, Sr.,
To Receive Five
Million On July 8
J
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, June 21, —The New
York American said in a copyright
ed article today that John D. Rocke
feller Sr., “would receive five mil
lion dollars cash July 8th, when he
is 96 years old. He will be paid the
face value of the insurance policies
on his life.
Rockefeller is now at his estate at
Lakewood, New Jersey and expects
to spend his birthday there. The
newspaper said that life insurance
companies make a practice of dis
continuing policies on persons who
become 96 years old and the face
value is paid them. Their names
are then dropped from the books.
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2 Waleys Plead
Guilty Charges of
Kidnaping Extor
tion Of Ransom
Husband Says Wife
Didn't Know Crime
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, June 21—Mr. and
Mrs. Waley today pleaded guil
ty to charges of kidnapping and
extortion in the federal court
here, in connection with the
Weyerhaeuser kidnapping.
TACOMA, June 21—Harmon
Waley was sentenced to forty
five years in the federal prison
at McNeil Island by Judge Cush
man, after pleading guilty to all
counts in connection with the
Weyerhaeuser kidnapping case
charges.
Mrs. Waley will come up for
a hearing tomorrow at ten AM.
Her plea of guilty was set aside
until that time,, due to state
ments made by her husband
that she knew nothing of what
was going on until she was in
volved.
Dun Bradstreet
Another
Increase Business
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, June 21, —Further
indications of an advance in trade
this week, were noted in Dun Brad
street’s review.
“Strengthened by further widen
ing of merchandise, distributing sur
prising stability of manufacturing op
erations and the accomplishment of
major readjustments which had con
stituted a disturbing factor in recent
weeks, trade now reveals more in
dications of going forward”, the sur
vey said.
Lumber Mills Are
Reopening Over
The Week End
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, June 21, —The strike
situation in the Pacific Northwest is
much brighter, with lumber mills
over Washngton and Oregon open
ing up between today and Monday.
The ship strike at British Colum
bia ports is quiet, and the attempt at
settling failing temporarily, Victor
ia is fearing that it will spread there
if it is not settled soon. A meeting
is being held today at New West
minister in an attempt to get the
longshoremen to go back to work, j
MR AND MRS WALEY
PLEAD GUILTY COURT
TACOMA AT 2 TODAY
Both Waleys Plead Guilty To Two Counts
Connection Weyerhaeuser Kidnaping—
llushand Asks For Leniency For Her
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, June 21, —The pleas of Harmon and Mar
garet Waley are to be entered at 2 P.M. today, Judge E. E.
Cushman decided when the couple were arraigned in the
federal court late Thursday. Both of them refused the ben
efit of counsel and indicated they would plead guilty.
Later, when the Waleys asked in court for an explana
tion of the legal language of the indictments, Judge Cush
man appointed Stephen J. O'Brien, local attorney to repre
I sent them. Waley said “All I want is to have the indict
1 ment explained. 1 want to ask where it charges we, all
three, conspired. Does that mean before or after the kid
naping?” Following these questions O’Brien was appointed
and asked that the pleas be made Friday.
TACOMA, June 20, —Indicted under the Lindbergh law!
for kidnaping, charging conspiracy and the using of the mails
to extort ransom, the Waleys were arraigned Thursday in
the federal district court,in the Weyerhaeuser “snatch” case.
Mahan was indicted under the name of William Dainaud,
and is still a fugtive from justice. Bail was set at one hun
dred thousand dollars and bench warrants were issued.
The grand jury devoted less than an hour to Wednesday’s
hearings, with only three witnesses coming before them.
The Waleys may plead guilty and be sentenced forthwith.
If they do not plead guilty a trial will be held next week. It
is commonly understood that death is not asked for under
Lindbergh law indictments.
TACOMA, June 21, — Federal court attaches pointed
out that the Department of Justice may not want to expose
any of their case outline before Mahan is captured, in which
case the Waleys may be returned to the Olympia jail.
The indictments revealed for the first time, the con
tents of a second ransom letter and how the kidnapers plot
ted to collect the ransom. The second letter instructed Wey
erhaeuser to get a room at the Ambassador Apartments Ho
tel in Seattle—”7 P. M. May 29th; register as James Paul
Jones, Seattle: you will be notified at the Hotel where you;
are to go. Remember the demands in full. If demands are
lived up to in full George will be released in 24 hours.”
Hotel attaches said a man registered as James Paul
Jones and carried a heavy bag, now believed to have con
tained forty-two pounds in currency. Shortly after a taxi
cab driver delivered a personal message to Jones—Jones
shecked out three and one-half hours after registering.
British Columbia
Will Make No
Grants Of Land
(By The Associated Press)
VICTORIA, B. C., June 21, —
British Columbia will not grant
lands as a means of financing the
construction of its share of the pro
posed International Highway to Al
aska, Premier D. Pattullo said.
Commenting on the reports of
George M. Murray, member of par
liament, Pattullo said he favored
the highway but British Columbia
would not entertain Murrays plan
or any such proposal as a land
grant.
Murray who is in Washington,:
D. C., said a land grant would fin
ance the road construction, which
was feasable because the highway
would open up large tracts of timber
and mineral lands for exploitation.
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Donald Richberg
Retires to Private
Life From NRA
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. June 21, -Don
ald Richberg trailed his former
partner and late foe in the NRA
campaign, General Hugh S. Johnson,
into private life, Thursday.
Smiling hope for the future of the
principles of the recovery agency,
Richberg said goodby over a White
House luncheon table, to Roosevelt.
Like Johnson, he left the govern
ment as a dose friend of the presi
dent.
Richberg insisted that today’s ses
sion was not a funeral party over
the NRA, and that from “a philo
sophical point of view the princi
ples of the national recovery act,
can and will be maintained some
how.” Als for new legislation, Rich
berg said he believed this depends
on how long the present session of
congress continues.
President Favor
Decentralization
Wealth Present
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 21, —Be
fore Congress recovered from sur
prise at Roosevelt’s call for share
wealth taxes, close confidents of the
president passed the word that he
was considering a new, broad NRA
designed to be in a sense, a compan
ion measure to the tax program.
The tax plan is intended to break
up great fortunes and reduce large
incomes. It was greeted by expres
sions of gratifications from the left
and criticism from the right.
It was presented to congress with
the presidential comment that it
would “enforce every sound policy
of wider distribution of wealth.”
The revived NRA which the Pres
ident is said to be considering, was
pictured by some of his advisors as
an effort to increase mass purchas
ing power. They foresaw the poss
ibility of another surprise message
on the subject, which might be
forthcoming.
Passed Both Houses
Now in Conference
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 21, - The
social security measure has now
passed both houses, the senate tack
ing on the Clark amendment under
which pension systems set up by
private concerns will be exempt
from taxation. This will be fought
to a finish in conference.
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