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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-10
STATE WILL ASK
DEATH PENALTY
FOR K|DNAPERS
NO Bargaining Prosecutor
Says; WeyerhaeuSers
Praise U. S. Agents

T A C o M A. Wash, June 10
G.N.SD.-Speedy Justice and
death for Harmon M. Valley, "a. a
two time loser" and his wife,
Margaret, both of whom have con-
feSsed to participation in the
100000 Weyerhaeuser kidnapping,
was demanded today by Prose
cutor Harry Johnston, Of Pierce
county, as Department of Justice
agents set out to return the two
suspects here from Salt Lake City.
He said:
Il do not warm up to kidnap-
erS. l shall ask for the extreme
penalty"
In Washington, the extreme
penalty for kidnapping is death on
the gallows. Mrs. Valley will be
the first woman in America to go
on trial for her life in an abduc-
ton case.
Arrested Saturday
Valley and his wife, one-time
residents of Puyallup, famed
berry and fruit center of the Pa
cific Northwest, eight miles north
of Tacoma, were arrested by G
men in Salt Lake City on Satur-
day, but John Edgar Hoover, di
rector of the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation, didn't reveal their
capture until last night.
Federal authorities have de-
cided to turn the case over to
State prosecutors as Washington'S
new anti-kidnaping law is more
severe than the Governments So
called "Lindbergh law" The lat
ter provides the death penalty
only when the victim is harmed.
George Weyerhaeuser, the nine
yearold kidnap victim and son
of j. P. Weyerhaeuser, timber
baron, was among the first in
Tacoma to learn of the arrest of
the Valleys and the hunt for Will
liam Mohan-another suspect.
Last night news boys thronged
the rain-soaked streets of this
lumber shipping center on
Puget Sound and Justify yelled:
Extra, extra-twO Jailed
confess in WeyerhaeuSer easel"
Little George raced to his win
dow and said to his father:
Daddy, buy a paper"
WeyerhaeuSer did. He handed
the paper to his son and the
curly haired third-grader from
Vowel public school read the
headlines himself.
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her husband bumped off. I
asked him if he would come to
Rockville and he said Yes,
need the money
Il told him would introduce
him to Mrs. Lyddane and the
next day BOland and I came to
Rockville. 1 called Mrs. Lyd-
dane and arranged for her to
meet us.
II heard her tell BOland that
the best time to get 'SlOm'
would be around June rs. That
was his payday and it could be
made to look like a robbery"
TELLS OF DEMANDS
Later in his testimony, CARMEL
said that after he had received
the 5000 retainer from Mrs. Lyd-
dane, to be delivered to Boland,
he took $50 for himself and gave
Boland the remaining $3.50.
Then he added he received a
note from Mrs. Lyddane which he
was to give to Boland in which
she demanded that something be
done" and that she added:
"YOu go through with this
deal or else give me my money
back. 1 can make it plenty tough
for all of us. / am as much i'm
plicated as you, but 1 don't give
a damn what happens to me-"
The State concluded it's exami
nation of CARMEL shortly before
the court recessed an hour for
lunch. -.
Courtroom Crowded
Mrs. Lyddane and four men
have been accused of plotting the
murder of her husband, "Slom"
Lyddane, and Mrs. Josephine
Beall, wife of Arthur Beall,
h ndsome Jamestown (Md)
garage owner, and her former
intimate.
Curious spectators lined the side
walks leading to Montgomery
county courthouse and the large
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-10
Mrs. Lyddane Wins
Delay OF Trial

courtroom was crowded long be-
fore opening time. A special detail
Of police guarded every entrance.
Defendant Smiles
Mrs. Lyddane, accompanied by
her attorneys and members of her
family, arrived at the courthouse
shortly before $50 a. m. She ap-
peared unruffled and smiled FIRE.
quently.
The judges, Mrs. Lyddane, her
attorneys, codefendants and the
prosecution retired soon after
court convened to argue motions
for the quashing of indictments.
The court had four indictments
against Mrs. Lyddane to present
to the jury.
Solicitation, in IA counts, of the
murder of Francis Lyddane and
Josephine Beall.
Conspiracy with John "Googy"
CARMEL and Edwin j. Davis to
murder Mrs. Beall.
Conspiracy with CARMEL and
Harry Rags" Thomas to murder
both Mrs. Beall and Mr.. Lyddane.
Conspiracy with John Martin
Boland and CARMEL to murder Mr..
Lyddane.
The State will attempt to prove
that Mrs. Lyddane paid 5000 TO
have her husband and Mrs. Beall
done away with. Mrs. Lyddane
admits having paid 5000 to man
she thinks was Boland. Her alibi
is that the money was paid to
silence a threatened exposure of
her clandestine love affair with
Arthur Beall.
One of the main props in the
States structure of evidence
which it has built up against the
accused woman is typewriter on
which the State charges Mrs. Lyd-
dane typed discriminating notes
to those in conspiracy with her.
Experts will be called by the
State to prove the connection be-
tween the notes and the machine.
Prescott vs.. Pugh
Defense attorneys, on the other
hand, will attempt to prove the
notes were not typed by Mrs. Lyd.
dane.
The trial is a battle Of the
best legal talent in Montgomery
county. Red-haired, fiery Sted.
man Prescott, allied with two as
Sistants, heads the battery of
defense attorneys, while, for the
State, young, wiry James H. Pugh
will seek a guilty verdict.
1t was about two months ago
that the tangled case first came
to light to shake the peaceful
town of Rockville to its founda-
lions. Mrs. Lyddane was indicted
by O. grand jury which heard the
case about a month ago.
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Blonde Falls Into Trap
Set For kidnapping Gang

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June
10 O.N.S3.-While Harmon M.
Valley, 24-year-old confessed kid
naper Of little George Weyerhaeu-
ser, and his pretty, blonde wife,
Margaret, 20, were held incom-
Imuncado by Federal agents, the
= story of the of the perfect crime
that failed" was leaking out in
various sources today.
: Mrs. VALLEY was arrested Satur-
j.. day forenoon while attempting to
pass q IS ransom note at the
F, w, Woolworth Company store
here and after several hours
grilling admitted passing between
$500 and $500 in ransom notes
the previous Monday and Tues
:day.
{; Her husband was apprehended
on information given by his wife
.and confessed to the kidnapping
Sunday. Valley said he received
only $500 for his share of the
job, but this was declared bunk"
by the officers.
: Money Hunted
=. A vigorous search was con-
Quoted today at various places in
salt Lake City in an attempt to
recover the remainder OF the
marked money.
! Among the others implicated
of a suspected gang of five men
is William NOLAN, former Mon"
tana and Idaho convict, who
escaped from officers at Butte
Sunday.
In his getaway he left his Ford
V.8 car in which $15,155 of the
marked money was found.
Officers here refused to discuss
any phase Of the case. but it was
learned that preparations were
being made to transfer the couple
to Tacoma Immediately.
The story of how the plans for
the kidnapping grew to fruit was
developed from many sources to-
day.
From George Thulin. aged father
of Margaret Thulin Valley, came
the information that Valleys
rather was a mill foreman for
the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Com.
pany and that the youthful kid
naper attended the Hauptmann
trial while he lived in Camden,
N. J.. last fall.
Notes Similar
The "almost insane" interest in
the Hauptmann case shown by
young valley may reflect why the
ransom note bore similar earmarkS
to that in the famous Lindbergh
case, officers indicated.
Valley and his wife returned
from New Jersey in January and
remained here until about April /.
It is believed that during this
time the plans for the snatch"
were worked out.
NOLAN came to Salt Lake about
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March 20 and rented a house at
847 South Seventh West Street.
He told the landlord he was a
furnace salesman and gave the
name of A. j. Davis. He then
drove a green sedan, the one
believed to have carried the
Weyerhaeuser boy over the Wash
ington roads.
Valley, NOLAN and his confed-
crates are reported to have plan
ned the kidnapping in the gray
frame house and left for the
Northwest about April /.
Thulin said valley often de-
Tended Hauptmann and accused
the claw" of railroading him. He
said they had many arguments
on the case and that Valley knew
the case backward.
While the case was on trial
Valley listened to every bit of
testimony and it is believed he
developed his ideas and plans from
this interest.
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c. D. P. FARLEY.
HITS NEW DEAL
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New Deal from it's monetary
policies and devaluation of the
dollar to the spending proclivities
of the Roosevelt Administration.
But Mr.. Lowden'S speech was
call to arms on the constitutional
issue. In the prepared copy of
his address, the former Governor
Of Illinois mentioned no other
issue. l.
Tariff View Added. -r
Reminded that he had three
times in 1920, 1924, and 1928, been
the farmers candidate" for the
Republican nomination, Colonel
Lowden at the last minute added q
paragraph to his speech to the eff.
feet that the balance between in
duStry and agriculture can be
maintained only if, 80 long as
we have a protective tariff for in
dustry we give to agriculture cor
responding benefits for that por.
ton of agricultural produce which
goes into domestic consumption. I"
This was interpreted as a left
handed Endorsement of the prin-
ciple underlying the old McNary-
Haugen plan of farm relief, which
Mr.. Lowden always espouSed, and
to some extent the AAA, with its
processing taxes, which have been
described by Secretary Of Agri-
culture Wallace as the farmers
tariff"
LOwden No Candidate
Colonel Lowden prefaced this
addition to his speech with the
direct assertion that he is not a
candidate for the nomination in
1886. Asked about candidates.,
he said:
81 can only tell you about one
man, myself. He cannot and
will not rum"
Colonel Lowden is "a years old.
Since Kansas City in 1928, when
he was an unsuccessful candidate
against Herbert Hoover, he has
been in retirement on his Illinois
estate, and there was no mis-
taking the sincerity of his pro
nouncement that he is in no sense
a candidate next year.
He declined the Vice Presi-
Dental nomination with Mr.. Cool
idge in 1924 after the Cleveland
convention had named him.
In his speech today, Lowden
described the Constitution as the
bulwark of American liberties.
He referred to President Roose.
velt'S suggestion that conStitu-
tional reform might be necessary
to enable the Federal Government
to deal with pressing economic
and other questions on a national
scale, since the outlawry Of NRA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-10
Will Rogers
Says:

LOS ANGELES, Calf, June
1O.-See where my old friend,
Alfalfa Bill Murray, says he is
with the Constitution if he has
to be a Republican to do it.
With Bill Joining the Supreme
Court, that makes 10 men on it.
The very thing that must be
avoided, is to raise the number.
But now that my little joke is
over, let me tell you something
about Bill Murray. My daddy
was q member Of the cOnStitu-
ti0nal convention that made
OklahOm2'S scenario. And he
told me, "Willie, this Murray
guy that's running this cOnven-
ton is smart on constitutional
law"
Say, Bill has majOred in that,
with q 4O-year course.
(copyriEht, 1875. by McNaught
Syndicate, Inc.S
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TREASURY CONDITION

international News Service
Treasury balance as Of June 7,
81 ,993, 1927, 435. 70; internal revenue,
$S,050,317.05: customs receipts,
81 .43O, 3o6,33
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CAUGHT TRYING
TO PASS So .
RANSOMB|LL
Woman Admits Taking Part
In Weyerhaeuser Abduction;
duplicates Husband

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through a maze of back alleys
and a mine yard.
It was thought that NOLAN Is
''holed up" with friends in Butte.
which furnishes ample hideaways.
Every automobile on every road
leading out of Butte is being
stopped and searched by the
"hurry-up squad" of Montana's
picturesque new motor patrol
which rushed 10 extra men here
from Helena and Dillon.
Had Many Aliases
NOLAN, who at various times
used the aliases Jack Mahon, Will
liam Mahan, William Merrell, w.
S. Grant and william Dainard, is
A years old and was born in
Cando, S. D. He is 5 feet 10s
inches tall, weighs 1853 pounds,
has a light compexion and dark
brown, almost black, hair. He
bears a small rectangular scar
two inches from the left corner
of his mouth.
= NOLAN is a former blacksmith
, and automobile mechanic. He has
. q long criminal record and is
wanted for bank robbery and at
t. tempted murder in Washington
State.
Most of the local police officers
know NOLAN by sight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-10
DARING
SAVES SISTER

BALTIMORE, June 10.-Albert
Evans, 10, was receiving congratu-
lations today for having saved his
sister from a brutal attack by an
unidentified man who escaped.
Young Albert plunged a pairing
knife into the back of the man
who grappled with his sister. The
man fled with part of the knife
in his back.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-10
$4,000 Allotted
To Boys School

Allotment of $4,000 for boiler
improvements at the National
Training School for Boys was an
nounced today by the Public
Works Administration. The PWA
had made a previous allotment of
$21 900 to the school.
An allotment Of sos, 900 also was
made by the PWA to carry on the
work of the Federal Transports
ton Coordinator Joseph B. East
man.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-10
Shmarya Levin, 68,
Noted Zionist, Dies

HAIFA, Palestine, June 10.
Shmarya Levin, one of the worlds
outstanding Zionist leaders, died
from a heart stroke yesterday in
DR.. Lev's Sanatorium here at the
age of So.
DR.. Levin, who was a close
friend of Sir Arthur Wauchope,
the present high commissioner
of Palestine, was known as a bril-
liant orator, a scholar and a
political leader.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-10
'SLOM' LYDDANE
UNRUFFLEO At
WIFE'S TRIAL
Tells Of His Offer to Free De-
fendant So She Could
~: Wed His Rival
BY ELIZABETH oLDFIELD

BY ELIZABETH OLDF1EAO
ROCKVILLE, Md, June 10.
Francis ""Slom" Lyddane. stocky,
curly-haired husband Of Ann Lyd,
dane, today sat by his father-tn'
laws side in the beautiful new
courtroom Of the Montgomery
county courthouse.
He nodded and smiled at &C.
quaintanceS, slouched slightly in
his seat, and waited patiently
while attorneys and judges argued
in the grand jury room over mo-
ton to quash the indictment
brought against his wife and her
three alleged accompliceS.
Wife Leaves Court
His wife was not there. She had
left the court room with her at
torneys when the motion was
made.
Asked how he felt over his
wife'.s affairs with Arthur Beall,
Jamestown CMdO garage owner,
"Slom" shrugged his shoulders
and said:
81 guess you can get used to
anything"
Asked if he still loved his wife,
he looked the reporter in the eye,
grinned, and answered:
Eyes"
Then we both laughed. "Slom"
said he had been aware of his
wife's affair with Beall for the
past three years.
Marriage Spurned
He said that he had not pro-
tested too much because st
wouldn't have done any good"
Did he know why Mrs. Beall
had dropped the divorce charges
against her husband?
Because he made all his
property over to her."
He denied that he Had flown
into 6 rage and thrown chairs
around when he was told by
Stedman Prescott that his wife
had paid men to kill him. The
reporter remarked:
you don't seem to have lost
any weight or sleep over this
thing"
'Slom" grinned. =
81. haven't. You can go
through SO much yOu can't
suffer any more"
SENSATIONS AWAITED
The court room was half filled
with farmers, housewives, and
village bellies, all set for SenSa-
tional developments.
One old man with two days
growth Of whiSkers on his face was
asked what he thought about the
Mrs. Lyddane. He drawled:
II don't reckon they'll convict
her. They've got the dead wood
on her all right, but she has q
smart lawyer"
Father Unruffled
Mrs. Lyddane's father, Robert
Mclaughlin, a stern looking white.
haired old man with sharp fea.
lures and a florid complexion, sat
erect in the court room beside his
other daughter, May Mclaughlin
He never turned his head, not
even when his daughter Anne
came into the court room for a
few minutes.
The only visible portion of that
lady was the back of her charm.
ing head. Demurely dressed in
dark blue with touches of white
at throat and wrists, she glanced
neither to right nor to left. The
only thing that you could see was
her profile with a handsome,
prominent nose, so like her faith.
er'S, and her determined little
chin.
At first glance Anne Lyddane
creates a distinctly favorable i'm,
preston. She has been described
as pretty-one could even call her
beautiful. She is very feminine,
and in this day of bobbed hair
and of cigarette smoking, over,
rouged women, she stands out.
Residents are betting two to one
there will be hung jury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-10
Today In
Congress
Senate

Senate
Met at noon.
Resumed debate on utility hold
ing companies bill.
House
Met at noon.
Considered bills on calendar,
including District measures
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-02
0, v. HOLMES
CLINCS TO LIFE
PitifulIy Weak But His Old
Fighting Spirit Gives
Doctors Hope

WASHINGTON, Mar. 2. (UP).
Oliver Wendell Holmes chung
weakly to life last night and all
of Washington, from President
Roosevelt to the truck drivers who
throttled down their motors as
they passed the brick house on |
street, waited for the tidings of
whether a great American would
live or die.
Physicians said the 93-year-old
former justice of the supreme
court was gravely i'll with bron-
chial pneumonia and pitifully
weak, but that his spirit famed as
bravely as ever. All day oxygen
tanks were carried up the Scared
old staircase to the second floor
bedroom. Doctors were encour-.
aged by the fact that Holmes had
not begun to sink after two days
and a night of pneumonia, but
they said even the slightest all
ment is critical for a man OF such
advanced age.
The front door swung open yes
terday to admit a file of distln-
guished persons anxious to pay
their respects. Felix Frankturterr'
head of the Harvard Law School,
was admitted to the bedroom for
a brief time yesterday and re,
ported that Holmes smiled and
thumbed his nose at him. Later
in the day even such persons as
Supreme Court Justice George
Sutherland and Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson were told that no one else
would be allowed to see Holmes.
President Roosevelt received fire.
quent bulletins by telephone.
Probably no other man in the
United States-certainly not one
who holds no official position and
who has Stunned the outside
world for three years-could COM
mand such a tribute.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-02
FERA TEMPORARILY HOLDS UP
AID, FORCE STATES TO ACT
$50 900 Persons Affected by Drastic Measure for Co.
operation in Unemployment Finance

| on as it's fair share of relief costs.
Federal aid must be conditioned
upon state cooperation in accord
ance with it's ability" Ultimatums
of the same tenor were sent other
executives.
Hopkins goal, it was learned,
is to have states increase their
contributions this year by $780,
100000.
They supplied $249,347,773
during the Fl months FERA has
been in operation, compared 70
S358,911,165 raised by communi-
ties and $1,157,009,262 spent by
the federal government.
Aubrey Williams, assistant TO
Hopkins, said the drive for in
creased state cooperation was be-
ing carried on despite the fact
that President Roosevelt plans to
end the dole system with his $4,-
$50, 100000 work relief fund and
liquidate FERA.
The extra s2OO,OO0,OO0, he ex-
plained, "would be helpful to any
program to end unemployment,
whether it be federal-financed
construction or direct relief.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-02
SENTENCE 3 TO
DIE IN CHAIR
Madison County Jury Out
Six Minutes in Muir
der Case

MARSHALL, March 2.-Con-
victed of murder in the first de-
gree by a jury which deliberated
only six minutes, three young men
of the Shelton Laurel section,
Robtrt Thomas, %, Oris Gunter,
10 and Arthur Gosnell. %, were
Yesterday sentenced to die in the
electric chair on May 8 by Judge
Wilson Warlick.
The three young men We're con-
victed of the murder OF william
Thomas IA. storekeeper at Gun
tertown and a great-uncle of the
Jofendant Thomas, on February
* Thomas was killed a short dis
+onca from his store on the morn
; ; Of February Is. The three
1aI,+bs we're later arrested at
sbelbv and were said to have con-
fessed the crime a short time
later. ooo;rod bv tho
,ofondants in a crowded court
a',a With mixed emotions. Cos
Io oTI hing his head, Thomas wept,
n n Gunter stared straight ahead.
any Notice of appeal was given by
aofense counsel and Judge War
fict allowed 60 days for the per-
foction of the appeal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-02
FAVOR SALES.
TAX EXTENSION.
Joint Committee Votes 3
Cent Rate Without
Any Exemptions

RALEIGH, March 1.-The joint
finance committee of the general
assembly yesterday adopted the
present 8 per cent general sales
tax levy with the present condi-
tion exemptions eliminated and
all efforts to have the rate cut to
2 per cent were defeated.
The days legislative activity
was enlivened by a spirited pro-
test against the opening prayer of
the Rev. H. L. Arnold, of Raleigh,
who prayed in opening the'session
that Providence might direct the
legislators to vote against the
whisky measure.
The protest came from John
Sprunt Hill, senator from Dur
ham, who declared the prayer an
affront to him.
Both houses passed a number
of minor bills, most of them local
in their application.
The joint finance committee
yesterday afternoon voted to en-
body a subcommittee recon-
mendations for chain store and
filling station taxes in the revenue
bill for the biennium. The chain
store tax ranges from $50 per
unit above one to 5000 per unit
above 100 plus SIS per 1000
square feet of floor space in ex-
cess of $500. The filling station
tax runs from $25 to 800 per
unit.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 2.
(UP).-Federal Judge William I.
Grub yesterday declared void an
arrangement by which the Ten
nessee Valley Authority is serving
its "yardstick" electric power to
communities in northeast Missis-
sippi. "s4
His announcement came as part
of an Interpretation" of his oral
decision of last Friday which held
the TWAS program for selling
electricity to municipalities ana
rural associations unconstitutional.
The IVA launched its yard
stick" program more than a year
ago when it began serving Tupeio,
Miss, under a contract with the
Alabama Power Co., by which tne
latter actually delivered the cur
rent to the Twas Mississippi sub,
scribers in exchange for an equal
amount of power at muscle
Shoals. The iva has no trans
mission lines in that area as yet.
Judge Grub held the Twas
contract with the private utlllty
illegal. However, the iva will be
permitted under an emergency
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-03-02
JUDGE GRUBB VOIDS TWAS
POWER SERVICE ARRANGEMENT
Action Affects Northeastern Mississippi Communities;
Interpretation of Recent Oral Decision

agreement to continue to furnish
mower to it's Mississippi clients I'M
til arrangements can be made for
them to purchase power again
from the private concern.
The jurist indicated in his Gin
depreciation" that his formal writ
ten decree in the suit of Alabama
Power company preferred stock
holders against the IVA will be
limited to an order enjoining the
IVA from buying the company's
properties. He went further in his
oral decision last Friday, to rule
the TWAS entire power program
illegal.
Yesterdays developments came
during a conference between
Judge Grubb and attorneys for
the utility stockholders and the
iva.