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Waley Goes Prison Wife To Be Tried
COMPLAINTS MADE CONDITIONS MATANUSKA
Government Man Tells Story How Kidnaping Planned
DANGER EPIDEMIC AT
MATANUSKA IS CAUSE
OF ACTION IN SENATE
Complaints Made About Conditions Among
Colonists At Matanuska—Bring Immed
iate Attention Goverment Officials
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 22,—The Senate is going to look
into the food and health conditions at Matanuska, and Hop
kins FERA Administrator and his aides indicated that he
would furnish promptly, the report requested by the sen
ate, after a telegram was read in that chamber from colon
ists, asserting that there were no houses or roads built, and
nearly all of the settlers were ill and an epidemic was fear
ed because of lack of medicine and supplies.
Hopkins declined to comment whether Eugene Carr,
rural rahabilitation official had been sent to Palmer to take
charge.
After reading the telegram and letter Vandenberg said
“it is not a pleasant picture to contemplate. The least we can
do is to ask for reports to determine what the facts are. Our
. best hope is that the request for information will inspire add
ed efforts to amend the difficulties, if they exist.
Blaming most of the complaints on the failure of lumber
shipments to arrive, Lawrence Westbrook, head of the rural
rehabilitation division, said that despite difficulties the set
tlers were still much better off than before.
PALMER, June 22, Receipt of word here that the sen
ate had called for reports on the status of the Matanuska
project, found Patrick Hemmer and Mrs. I. M. Sanbuck an
xious to substantiate their accusations.
No comment was forthcoming by Don Irwin. It is not
known here whether an official visit by some investigator
will be made, but complainants are ready to welcome one.
Dep’t. Commerce
Vindicated Belief
Of Chr. Copeland
Mitchell’s Charges Labelled
Inferences As Inquiry Is
Brought End in 3 Days
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 22, —An
emphatic opinion that the Depart
ment of Commerce had been com
pletely vindicated of corruption
charges brought by Ewing Y. Mit
chell, ousted assistant secretary, was
expressed by Chairman Copeland,
of the senate commerce committee.
The asserted allegations “faded
into thin air”' after Secretary Rop
er led the prosecution to depths of
evidence and then, before the com
mittee denied the accusations and
denounced Mitchell as a suspicious
ineffiicient meddler.
“I am frank to say that the char
ges are merely inferences” Copeland
told reporters, in summing up the
testimony taken, which occupied
three days’ time, on each day of
'which Mitchell appeared with de
mands to cleanup Roper's depart
ment. “I am frank to say I think
Mitchell’s charges have been suffi
ciently and completely efficiently
answered”, Copeland said.
Court Tests Will
Be Made of The
Social Security
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 21, —Court
tests on all principal new deal lab
or measures are in the making.
Steel, auto and coal industries plan
to carry the Wagner labor disputes
bill to the courts. Southern pro
ducers are expected to carry the
Gucey coal bill, to test social sec
urity legislation also in line.
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G Man Tells Story
of How Kidnaping
Planned Executed
Did Not Have A Specific Vic
tim Until Elder Weyer
haeuser Died Tacoma
PLANNED MARCH
Plans Made In Sail
Lake Worked Fine
Scouted The Lay of the Land
Early In May And Then
Kidnaped The Youth
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, June 22, — E. J. Con
nelley, Department of Justice agent
from Chicago who was placed in
charge of the Weyerhaeuser kidnap
investigation, today revealed the
government’s story of little George's
abduction and “trunk rides” over
the state, at the arraignment of
the Waleys in the Federal Court.
He said that the kidnaping
had been discussed by Harmon
Waley and William Dainard, al
ias William Davis, alias William
Mahan now fugitive from just
ce, at Salt Lake City last March,
without any specific victim be
ing mentioned.
The pair then came to the state
of Washington where the death of
John P. Weyerhaeuser Sr., pointed
them toward the timberman’s fam
ily, on the theory that they would
have considerable ready money.
They came to Washington shortly
stayed awhile in Hoquiam.
Waley then rented an apartment
in Seattle and made several cross
country trips in the state. Mean
while early in May the two of them
devoted considerable time to watch
ing the movements of the Weyer
haeuser children and family.
On May 24th they seized George
at the tennis court near the Annie
Wright Seminary, bundling the boy
into an automobile and taking him
to a pit near Issaquah where they
chained him, to prevent his escape.
As Connelley continued, Waley
displayed emotional signs that the
story was hitting home.
He said that Dainard remained
on guard while Waley went to Ta
coma where he mailed the ransom
note.
He returned to Seattle and
purchased food and blankets for
the boy. The night of May 25th
the boy was moved to another
pit twenty miles south of Issa
quah. On May 26th George was
taken to Spokane and from
there into the Idaho hills and
then back to the house in Spo
(Continued on Page Three)
WALEYS PARTED AND
HUSBAND SENT OFF TO
McNEIL ISLAND FRIDAY
Waley s Plea For Leniency For Wife Is
Cause Change In Goverment Plans Of
Prosecution Of Kidnaping Case
(By The Associated Press')
TACOMA, June 21, — When Judge Cushman asked
what plea was to be made, both Waleys answered “Guilty”.
Cushman asked if they meant both charges and thev said
“Yes”.
Waley then made a desperate plea for leniency for his
wife who he indicated, participated in the crime blindly,
“when she rented the hideout house in Spokane where
George Weyerhaeuser was concealed, and that she did not
know why, nor for what purpose it was to be used. I never
| told her for a long time.”
Cushman set aside the guilty pleas of Mrs. Waley to the
kidnaping charge, and set 10 A. M. Saturday as the time for
another hearing.
TACOMA, June 22—Waley was sent to McNeil Island
Penitentiary soon after he pleaded guilty to kidnaping and
extortion, in the Weyerhaeuser snatch case, to serve forty
five years of imprisonment.
Mrs. Waley was sent back to the Olympia jail, and was
to re-appear in court here today at It) A.M. to enter another
plea, after the judge had admonished her to take the indict
ment to jail with her and read it.
The government dismissed the indictment charging
her with mailing the second ransom note, and postponed
until October the indictment charging Waley and Mahan,
(or Wm. Dainard) with mailing extortion letters.
When the sentenced was pronounced, Waley reddened
but took it “standing up”. Mrs Waley wept when she bade
him farewell at the marshal’s office an hour or so later.
The court took a stand on her part of the case when
both Waley and their attorney said she knew nothing of the
kidnaping until after George had been stolen.
A 2nd Deficiency
Bill Passed Bv
J
House Rep. Today
Second Deficiency Bill Passed
by House Includes Two
Buildings for Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 22, — The
House passed a second defiency bill
which included fifty-eight million
dollars for public buildings outside
,of the District of Cokmfbfa. It
now goes to the senate.
Expenditures recommended in
cluded for Alaska—Anchorage post
office and customs house four hun
dred and seventy-five thousand dol
lars; Ketchikan post office and cu
stoms house one hundred thousand.
These sums are in addition to the
three hundred thousand previously
appropriated for Nome, Sitka and
j Wrangell.
Long Is Pressing
Immediate Action
Tax rich Proposal
Long Wants Force Action In
Congress on Tax Rich
Legislation right Now
Long Wants to Tie
The President Up
LaFollette And Liberals Fol
low Up in Favor Hold
ing Congress Summer
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 22, — Bor
rowing his text from the French
Revolution, Huey Long jumped into
a fresh fight to force immediate tax
on the rich legislation, whether or
(Continued on Page Three)
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Pres. Approval Is
Received Build
Alaska Highway
Dimond Receives Letter Con
taining Presidential Ap
proval For Highway
Suggests 2 Millions
Build Alaska's Part
President Suggests Two Mil
lion for Construction And
$100,000 Negotiations
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 22, —Pres
I idential approval of the proposed
international highway was received
by Delegate Dimond in a letter
which said that Roosevelt favor
ed the construction of the highway,
and had made several suggestions
for changes in the bill authorizing
such construction, which is now in
the committee of the house.
similar bill was passed by the
senate. The president suggested a
twm million dollars appropriation
for the construction of the Alaska
section and one hundred thousand
dollars for negotiations with Cana
da. Dimond said he promised to
aid in obtaining the senate approval
of the changes.
The president’s request was inter
preted to mean that if construction
started soon, the money might be
obtained from the public works
funds. Dimond declared that a fav
orable report on the bill had al
ready been prepared in the Depart
ment of the Interior, and would be
presented to congress whenever re
quested. He predicted he could ob
tain immediate approval of the bill
in the committee, and further stat
ed he would ask to have it brought
before the house under the suspen
sion of rules SOS, to assure passage
this session. , ,
Yale and Harvard
Hold Big Regatta
At New London
(By The Associated Press)
NEW LONDON, Conn., June 21,
—Yale’s junior varsity won the se
cond race from Harvard in their an
nual regatta after Yale’s freshman
had won the first event, today.
The President's son, Franklin D.
Jr., rowed in the junior varsity
crew. The varsity race was not held
until late today. President Roose
velt viewed both of the races this
morning.
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