Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1935, Page 3

U.S. FINDS GRAVE OF KIDNAPED BOY Weyerhaeuser Probers Also Find Abductors’ Pit in Idaho. BY REX COLLIER. A deep woodland pit near Spirit Lake, Idaho, in which William Mahan, fugitive kidnaper, planned to keep & wvictim prior to the Weyerhaeuser ab- duction, has been discovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with another grave-like hole and a lean-to in which young George Weyer- heguser was imprisoned. This disclosure was made today by J. Edgar Hoover, director cf the Bu- reau, as squads of his “G men” were roaming the Northwest in search of Mahan, named by Harmon M. Waley and his wife as the “master mwnd” of the $200,000 Tacoma kidnaping. The Spirit Lake pit actually has been known to the bureau since June of last year, but only recently was it found to be the handiwork cf Mahan, Hoover said. Held in Hole Overnight. The tiny, suffocating hole in which the 9-year-old lumber heir was neld overnight immediately after being kid- naped on April 24 is in a dense thicket a few miles out of Tacoma. The lean-to, also near Tacoma, was where the boy was released by his captors after more than a week of imprison- ment. On the basis of these discoveries there was some indication the Gov- ernment might ask for death under the Lindbergh law against Mahan and the Waleys. The Federal law provides for death if the victim is harmed and it is possible the courts might con- strue confinement with chains in an underground hole as violence against the child likely to cause permanent, in- ury. . The hole, carefully covered by leaves and branches, was found beside a huge log in the heart of a forest. On pulling away the camouflaged shrubbery the agents came upcn & wooden cover of cleated boards. Lift- ing this they found buried in the earth a dark, dungeonlike box, barely large enough for the boy to crouch in. On the bottom of the box were heavy cattle and dog chains, with padlock, with which the child was fastened to the floor. In the box also were a can, an ax, a spade and a hammer. ‘The tools apparently were thrown into the hole after the boy had been taken out for removal to the hideout bungalow in Spokane, Wash. A blanket and ham- mer were found near the dungeon. Lean-to Near Highway. The lean-to, constructed of pieces of old crating and tree limbs, was in & clearing in the woods, not far from a highway. Here the kidnapers left George on the rainy night of his release, with the promise that his father would come for him “in a little while.” After waiting in the cold rain for some time, the boy went to the highway and finally obtained help from a farmer living down the road. The Idaho pit, several feet square | and about 5 feet deep, was called to the attention of the bureau in June a year ago by residents of Spirit Lake. This was a few weeks after the abduction of June Robles in Ari- gona, who was held prisoner in a similar pit in the desert. Agents wWho investigated the hole reported there were indications it was dug for e kidnap hideout, but its makers could not be identified at the time. Another Attempt Reported. “Now we have established,” Hoover said, “that Mahan dug the pit with a view to keeping another victim there | last year.” He declined to reveal the source of his information. The investigation director released official photographs of the Idaho and ‘Washington hideouts and also pictures of charred remains of the $4,000 of ‘Weyerhaeuser ransom money which the Waleys burned in a stove in their Salt Leke City home just before their arrest by the “G men.” Hoover said a physician’s examina- tion of Mrs. Waley had dispelled Tumors she is to become a mother. ! CAPTAIN TO GET PAY Roosevelt Signs Bill After Ac- quittal of Officer by Court-Martial By the Associated Press. A bill to settle with Capt. 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Metropolitan 4861, 27+ | right grants to those States which R | if a State does nothing it would not GEN. LOCHRIDGE, RETIRED, EAPIRES Former Member of Supreme War Council Dies at Walter Reed. Brig. Gen. P. D. Lochridge, U. S. A., retired, member of the Supreme War | Council in France during the World War and former commander of the | Army War College, died yesterday in | Walter Reed Hospital, the victim of a heart disease which forced his re- tirement from the Army in 1919. He | weeks. Gen. Lochridge began his military career in the last of the Indian cam- | paigns in the Southwest, after | ating from West Point in 1887 had received many decorations, cluding the Distinguished Service Medal. He was a companion of the Order of the Bath of England, a com- mander of the Legion of Honor of | France and of the Order of the Crown of Italy. In 1919 Gen. Lochridge became a director and treasurer of Marx & Raw- olle, a shellac firm of New York and Montreal. Organizing the firm, Cal- cutta Traders, Ltd., he established two shellac factories in British India. | Since his retirement from business in | 1926 he had lived in Washington. His home was at 1316 New Hampshire avenue. Born December 2, 1863, near Bexar, | Ala., he served in the West, in Cuba and in Puerto Rico during the Span- ish-American War. He was com- mander of the War College when the United States entered the World War. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Cer- lotta Rawolle Lochridge; a son, Raw- olle Lochridge, and a niece, Mrs. Alice Sigworth Morse of Washington. Funeral services will be held at the Fort Myer chapel Thursday at 3 p.m., followed by burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Security - (Continued From First Page.) up permanent, contributory plans of old-age snnuity and unemployment insurance for those in industry, to be met by pay roll taxes. For the first year these taxes will run as follows: For old-age annuities, a tax of $278,- 800,000, contributed equally by em- ployes and employers. These taxes are intended to build up a reserve fund for the retirement of those now employed in industry. For unemployment insurance, a tax of $247,000,000 the first year, payable entirely by employers, for the pay- ment of weekly benefits to workers laid off in slack times. Larger sums will be collected in later years, when the taxes reach the maximum rates. Grants to States Provided. The bill starts out by providing out- pay pensions to persons who have al- : | ready reached the retirement age of "0 | 65. Under this section the Federal Government will match State pay- ments up to & maximum of $15. In other words, Uncle Sam will pay half of a $30 pension. For this purpose the bill makes a direct appropriation of $49,750,000 for the first year, pay- able out of general revenues. 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SHAH & SHAH 921 F St. N.W, Phene NA 5543—We Will Osll THE EVE Where Kidnaped Boy Was Imprisoned o A 1—Ax, shovel and chains found by Federal agents at “grave” in which the Weyerhaeuser boy was kept after his kidnaping in Tacoma, Wash. 2—View of the interior of the buried box as dis- covered in the woods near Tacoma. ‘The box was barely large enough for the boy to move around in. 3—How the prison looked after “G-men” had pulled away camouflage of leaves and lifted wooden cover. 4—The lean-to near Tacoma, where the little prisoner was released after payment to his captors of $200,000 ransom. Officer Dies had been critically ill for only two -5 BRIG. GEN. P. D. LOCHRIDGE. Harris-Ewing Photo. give a grant of $28. Borah argued yesterday that some old persons will have to enter the poor house because | their State governments will not be able to raise the revenue to match a $15 Federal pension. The second section of the bill seeks to make provision in years to come for the retirement of those still at work, by imposing a tax on employes and employers in industry. It starts at 1 per cent from each group in 1937 and goes up gradually to 3 per cent from each group from 1949 and after. In 1949 the total tax from employes and employers will amount to $1,706,- 300,000. SORORITY TO CONVENE ‘The fourteenth annual convention of Sigma Phi Gamma, international sorority, will be held at Wardman Park Hotel June 21, 22 and 23. About 500 girls from the United States and Canada are expected, the first contingent to arrive Friday after- noon. The convention will close Sun- day with a luncheon and initiation of officers. The chairman of the convention s Rae Butt, who is being assisted by Idonia Fantom and Elinor Patterson. Mutiny (Continued From Pirst Page.) the shaft, sent first word of the trouble to the surface. When the last two men came down on the shaft cage, he reported by telephone, they were met by three others, who assisted them in piling empty mine cars on the cage to prevent its being returned to the from his armored guard box, and they fled back into the mine. Only Entrance to Mine. Johnson managed to free the air- main shaft cages having been blocked. Johnson's telephone also was the only one to escape damage, all others hav- ing been cut off. Four men were sent to aid Johnson, | who came to the prison from Council Grove, Kans. They were Supt. Mur- | ray, John Christian, Council Grove; Fred Murray, Kansas City, Kans., and John Stewart, Lansing. Day, Milt Gould, James Skahan, John Edwards, Gabe Kamershack, Dave White, James Wilson, Joe Studdard and Prank Sawaski. Graham summed up the convicts’ position by saying they had no food and no weapons, and that the chief danger was that they would start a smudge fire to drive Johnson and his crew from the gun cage they occupied. The latter possibility was seemingly held slight, however, as guards began sending ammunition supplies down to Johnson to be stored in the cage. Equipped With Gas Masks. Johnson and his crew are equipped with gas masks which would be ef- fective against a smudge, the deputy warden said. The little group on the 730-foot level kept in constant telephone com- munication with the surface. As the morning hours went by Johnson re- ported only silence from the miners. \ W. H. Hessic 'Snn (INCORPORATED) 14th and Water Sty S.W., Opp. Bureau of Engyaving OFFICIALS SPEED KIDNAP CHARGES Waleys Expected to Be on Way to U. S. Prison by Saturday. (Copyright, 1935, by the Assoclated Press.) TACOMA, Wash,, June 18.—Mr. and Mrs. Harmon M. Waley, accused kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser, may be on the way to Federal prisons by Saturday under plans of suthori- ties to “clean up” the case as quickly as possible. A Federal grand jury, summoned by Judge E. E. Cushman, will sit tomor- row and, while District Attorney J. Charles Dennis and his assistant, Owen P. Hughes, refuse to comment, it is known they hope to have Lind- bergh law kidnap indictments re- turned within & day. Under District Court practice here Saturday is the next day for arguing motions before Judge Cushman, and it was said at the Federal Building to- day that if the Waleys decide to plead guilty it doubtless will be done then. Federal authorities here were loath to comment on the case, but it was known that & venire of petit jurors is on duty and that an immediate trial is in prospect if the Waleys decide to fight the charges that they and Wil- iam Mahan, still a fugitive, kidnaped the 9-year-old boy on May 24, took him to Blanchard and Spirit Lake, held him at Spokane, Wash.,, and sold him back to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, jr., for $200,000 ransom. ‘The identity of the “John Doe” ac- cused with Mahan and the Waleys in last week’s “holding charge” of con- spiring to use the mails to defraud by demanding $200,000 ransom, still was a closely guarded mystery. Fed- eral agents refuse even to acknowledge such a charge was issued although they repeatedly sought a “John Doe” warrant. In addition to the conspiracy count and the Lindbergh law kidnap charge, Mahan also has been accused of mail- ing the ransom letter. Speculation grew that Mrs. Waley may plead guilty to the conspiracy charge and face a maximum of 20 years imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. Once, he said, he thought he heard | a slight noise. Although no demands had come from the mutineers, some prison offi- clals expressed the opinion that the outbreak was inspired by regulations voted by the last Kansas Legislature which limited reduction of prison terms for good behavior and for coal production above the minimum set for each convict. Under the new regulations a con- vict may not earn good time in excess of one-third of his sentence. The acts for which good time is allowed were also limited by the Legislature. One of the most serious mine riots began nearly eight years ago when, on June 24, 1927, 328 convicts mu- tinied and stayed 720 feet down in the mine for 72 hours because they were denied cigarettes. ¥ | Turn your old trinkets, jewelry and | watches into MONEY at— A.Kahn Inc. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1935. SENT TO HOSPITAL BOSTON, June 18 (#)—May Yohe Smuts, stage favorite of the “gay 90s” and once the possessor of the famous Hope diamond, a gem with a sinister reputation, was sent to the State Hos- pital yesterday for observation. Mrs, Smuts, 66, wife of Capt. John Smuts, relative of the noted Boer War general, was admitted to the City Hos- pital several days ago for treatment of & broken arm and = brain injury suf- fered in & fall at her home. 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