Evening star., 1935-05-25
TIMBER KINGS SON
KIDNAPPED IN WEST;
HELD FOR 100000
Ransom Note Sent Billion
aire WeyerhaeuSer FAM
lily Demands Secrecy.
U. S. AGENTS JOIN HUNT
IN TACOMA ABDUCTION
Boy, 8, Vanished After Leaving
School Yesterday-Parents Re.
fuse Comment on Case.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash, May 25.-A note
demanding 100000 for the return of
the missing George Weyerhaeuser, g.
year-old scion of the billion-dollar
timber family, has been delivered to
his parents, reliable sources said here
today.
These same sources, which refused
to be quoted directly, said the note
threatened death to the boy should
the police or the press be notified.
The resources of the Department of
Justice were thrown into the search
for the child. Four operatives arrived
from Portland, employees at the Ia
coma Airport said, while w. K. Bowl
ing, agent stationed at Seattle, also
was here.
j. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bu-
reau of Investigation in Washington.
D. c., said agents we're working on the
case.
Meanwhile an intensive search was
being made throughout the city for
the boy, who dropped from sight
while returning nome for lunch yes
terday noon from the Lowell School.
Fear for Child's Life.
Authorities indicated their refusal
to comment was based on the fear
the boys life might be endangered if
they interfered.
Hoover refused to say directly there
had been kidnapping. He indicated,
however, official silence was demanded
by undisclosed details of the disap-
pearance.
First revelation of the boys dis
appearance came late last night from
Charles Ingram, assistant manager OF
the Weyerhaeuser pronounced wire
howser) Timber Co. He refused to
confirm or deny the family had re-
ceieved a ransom note.
The boys mother, Mrs. John
Philip Weyerhaeuser was reported
Frustrated and the father. vice presi-
dent of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co,
was grief-stricken.
1t was believed the reported ransom
note was delivered to the Weyer-
haeuser home, one of Washington
States residential show places, at
6:l5 pm. yesterday.
At that time a group of Georges
schoolmates and other friends said
they saw special delivery post office
motor cycle messenger call at the
mansion. The messenger refused to
answer when asked what his mission
to the home had been.
Family in SecIusion.
The family remained in seclusion
and local authorities kept to the same
tight-lipped silence as they continued
the hunt for the missing boy.
George left school at noon to call
at the Annie Wright Seminary for
his sister, Ann, 13. He never arrived
at the seminary. His sister, after
waiting for him, went home alone.
The family was not Immediately
alarmed until they called the school,
only to learn after all teachers had
been questioned that the boy had not
been seen after he left for lunch.
A small boy ON traffic duty re-
called seeing George when he left
school at noon. He said he saw the
Weyerhaeuser youth trudging across
the street from the school, in an eX-
elusive residential district near the
Tacoma Stadium.
That, apparently, was the last seen
or heard of the youth until the ram
som note repeatedly was received some
six hours later.
The search spread from the school
and from the WeyerhaeuSer home into
the wooded outskirts of the city.
Aroused citizens co-operated as best
they could with authorities in the
hunt. Even the Lowell School Boy
Patrol organized its own posse. Taxi
cab drivers weaved through the city's
streets looking for the lost youth.
Follows Family Death.
The blow came swiftly on the heels
of another tragedy in the Weyer-
haeuser family, the death here week
ago Thursday of John Philip Weyer-
haeuser, ST.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. is
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