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Backs: Charles T. Bauer, Robert B. Black, Jack E. Bronston, Walter T. Brooks, Jr., Edward T. Buckley, Jr., Thomas M. Cook, John J. Devine, William C. Dias, George R. Dreher, Jean I. Gordon, George W. Heiden, John A. Holabird, Melvin I. Kohan, William B. Long, Jr., Farahe Maloof, Guy G. Meli, Lester J. Murphy, Wendall Nichols, Daniel M. Pearce, Coles Phinizy, Amos L. Proctor, Edmund J. Reddy, Maurice E. Rice, Thaddeus V. Strezynski, Harold Tine, Henry G. Vander Eb, Walter E. Whittaker, Lothrop Withington...
REPORTER JOHN F. DREHER...
...Seattle Times's news beat on the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping: Reporter Dreher didn't, despite TIME, June 10, ''drag the boy down on the floor of the taxi." The boy rested on the cushioned seat of the taxi with Reporter Dreher on the floor. A half mile beyond the point of transfer from the farmer's Ford to the taxi, two G-men cars were parked. The reporter wished to avoid having an interview interrupted by Federal agents; hence the informal positions of the boy and the reporter. The reporter is 59 but not corpulent, weighs...
Another who had been sleepless was a corpulent, 59-year-old police reporter named John H. Dreher of the Seattle Times, one of a flock of 75 newshawks which alighted at Tacoma to cover the Northwest's biggest snatch. Oldster Dreher justified his 40 years in the business with an oldtime scoop. Somehow he got word of Farmer Bonifas' early morning call to the Tacoma police. "On one of those hunches that come like a royal flush," wrote Reporter Dreher afterward, "I started out in a taxicab to meet the farmer's automobile." Meet...
...Reporter Dreher wanted to know if George could identify his kidnappers. George said they wore masks and "the men told me there were six of them in the kidnapping. But I never saw more than three. They called one another Bill, Harry and Allen." Up pricked Reporter Dreher's ears. Was George sure the name was Allen or Alvin? George thought it might have been Alvin. Thus fresh impetus was given to the report that Alvin Karpis, current Public Enemy No. 1 and supposedly the leader in the Bremer kidnapping in St. Paul last year, had engineered the Weyerhaeuser...