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The Washington times., 1936-05-21
HER INTIMACY
WITH BEALL
ADMITTED
Defense Attorney |:
Rebuked by Judge
From Bench

with a salesman about buying
a new car.
Odd you so inform the
States attorney at the time Of
your arrest?
Ayes, I did.
Odd you ever take any
stationery to the Dixie Tavern?
Al took stationery down
there to help them write up
their menus.
@. How long have you known
Frank Abbo? (AbbO is the
owner of the Villa Roma and
the Dixie TAVERN.
FORGOE1 SEALS
At this point, Prescott walked
across the court room and showed
the witness box of seals and
asked her:
"Are these seals similar to
the ones you used in the bank?
A. Yes, Mr.. Prescott.
@. For what did you use these
seals?
A. I used these seals to seal
bOndS-After my former en-
plOyer, Mr.. Hilton, left the bank,
I took over his bonding bust
ness. I was made the agent in
his place, and / used these seals
mostly for business in connect
ion with the orphans court.
o. Did there come a time dur
ing the month of March when
you executed a bond in the
orphans court?
A. Yes, sir.
At this point, the witness ex
planned that she had forgotten
to place a seal on particular
bond and that in order to rectify
the error, she had taken from
her desk a box of seals, carried
them with her to the Dixie
Tavern and left them there by
mistake. This was about the
middle of March, 1885, she de
clared.
The Washington times., 1936-05-21

State Senator Stedman Prescott.
chief defense counsel, asked:
did you ever pay any money
to any persona
Eyes. paid $500 to a man
who called at the bank. / do
not know his name"
you have seen Harry
ThOmas?"
eyes"
"Was he the man you gave
money tO?"
mo"
did you give it to BOIand?"
"NO."
did CARMEL ever ask you
for money!"
CALLED HUSH MONEY
eyes, about March 1, 1885.
He demanded $1,000 from me.
When 1 told him 1 did not
have it he asked me for my
diamond ring. l gave the ring
to my sister to keep him from
getting it,"
did he say why he wanted
the money!"
eyes, he said he was going
to disclose what he knew, add
ing the $1,000 was to be hush
money"
The court room was silent
with persons leaning forward ir
their seats to catch every wore
of the former Rockville bank EN-
ploye as she barred her story.
The Harry Thomas referred tt
is one of the men she is alleged
to have sought to kill her hus
band. He is held in Jail here as
a State witness but was moi
called to the stand. Asked why
States Attorney James H. Pugt
explained he did not feel HI
needed Thomas testimony.
The Boland referred to is Jack
Boland, former Washington
gambler who was found guilty Of
conspiracy and is now serving
sentence in the House of Cor
rection.
The Washington times., 1936-05-21
$1,000 ASKED
BY CARMEL,
SHE SAYS
Ayers He Demanded
Diamond Also as
Price of Silence
Continued from Page u

NNOnGAHueu IEOm rage ~
extort $1,000 from her. Carnell
was the chief witness for the
State.
It was after he had demanded
the 81, 900 that she stopped using
his room, she said. But she did
not stop seeing Beall. Instead,
she admitted, they would use a
private dining room in tavern.
CARMEL had been asking her
for small sums of money, she
said, and the largest she ever
gave him at one time was Sc.
Then, in December, 1884. she
got on to the fact that Googy
was trying to blackmail her." she
said.
Denies Writing Note
In an effort to knock down
the States testimony about the
famous "Googy' note which Car
nell turned over to Mr.. Pugh
and which State expert witnesses
testified was written on the type
writer used in the bank, State
Senator Stedman Prescott, chief
defense counsel, asked her If she
had written it.
She read the note over care
fully and said that she had not.
And then, in an effort to knock
down State testimony that showed
the paper and envelope identical
with those in her desk, she stated
that she had taken some of her
office stationery to the tavern ito
be used for making menus"
Asked regarding the red seals
on the note-seals similar to
those she used in her bonding
business-she declared that such
seals could be purchased in any
store in Washington.
At times on the stand Mrs. Lyd-
dane showed a tendency to make
long statements, and this aroused
the ire of Judge Frank Wagaman,
who once demanded of Senator
Prescott that he make her stop
talking of "immaterial matters"
nuSDdnu barred
Explaining the SITS found on
her person when she was taken
into custody, Mrs. Lyddane pro-
duced a check showing that she
had drawn out of her account
1915 to purchase a baby bond,
but had given her husband 500,
and, since she did not have
enough for a bond, decided in
stead to buy him a new car IF he
kept his job"
While she was on the stand her
husband was barred from the
courtroom as a witness still to be
called, but her father, James Nc
Laughlin, and her sister, Miss Mae
Mclaughlin, were seated in the
front Of the courtroom.
On croSs-eXamination she was
asked regarding the sensational
graveyard incident with Beall,
which was testified to yesterday
by j. c. Varah, War Department
clerk, and at that time employed
by a private detective agency.
Varah, a surprise witness who
did not figure in the last trial of
Mrs. Lyddane, told of seeing Beall
and Mrs. Lyddane in the cemetery
near Potomac, Md.
At first Mrs. Lyddane said she
did not know if there was a GENE.
terry at Potomac or not, but later
admitted that "she was in that
vicinity with Beall."
Paid Man $500
Unsmiling but composed, Mrs.
Lyddane walked to the witness
stand without a tremor as her
name was called this morning.
In a voice that was firm Mrs.
Lyddane admitted that she had
seen Beall two or three times a
week."
Veering the line of testimony,
AsA
The Washington times., 1936-05-21

have it at the time of your ar
rest?
A. On March II, / had Occa-
sion to go out with my husband
in his car, and the car was old
Prosecutor Pugh objected. Judge
Wagaman wheeled in his chair
and apparently glaring at the
witness said:
HE asked you why you still
had it,"
She answered:
'My husband was having
trouble with his car. I thought
that instead of buying bonds I
would buy my husband a car,
if he was going to keep his
job"
The Washington times., 1936-05-21

EXCLUSIVE photographs
of Anne Lyddane and Arthur
w. Beall, whose affair"
was admitted today by the
woman, testifying at her
trial in Hagerstown, Md.
Witnesses yesterday told of
surprising the blonde matron
and Beall, father Of three
children, in an abandoned
cemetery at night. This pic
ture of Beall was made on
his way to the court house.
international News Photos
by Washington Times.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Yellow Fever

a THOUGH history books do
I \ not say so, the United States
came within an ace of losing the
Spanish-American war. Our great
est enemies were not the Spaniards.
Our doughboys had them licked be-
fore the first shot was fired. Our
real enemies were the germs of
that devastating tropical disease
called yellow fever.
After two months of campaigning
in Cuba, the official report said the
army twas utterly used up and of
no value whatever as a fighting
machine" It least four-fifths of
the troops were down and out with
tropical diseases, principally yellow
fever.
At this dismal juncture, Walter
Reed, brilliant young American
doctor, arrived in Havana. He
quickly saw that none of the other
doctors had the slightest idea what
caused yellow fever. But when he
suggested that such a little thing
as the bite of a mosquito could
bring it on, the know-it-alls laughed
in his face.
Then Reed performed one of the
most amazing experiments in the
annals of medicine. Several heroic
troopers volunteered themselves as
human experiments. Some allowed
themselves to be bitten by Stego-
myia mosquitoes. Others slept on
bed clothing infected by yellow fe-
yer victims.
All the troopers bitten by mosqui-
toes fell Ill with fever within four
days. None of the other did. So
a brave doctor with the aid of a
few brave soldiers was able to prove
conclusively the cause of yellow
fever and pave the way for sanitary
experts to wipe it forever out of
the tropics.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
IRWIN S. COBB.
G-wNIT Service
Legend Of the Augean StabIes

The legend of the Augean stables
is that Augeas, Greek king of Els,
had a stable of 5000 oxen which
had not been cleaned for 80 years.
Hercules was given the task of
clearing the stables in one day with
the promise of one-tenth of the cat
tie, if he succeeded. The god ac-
cepted the challenge and turned the
River Alpheus through the stable.
which Immediately carried away
the filth. On the refusal of Augeas
to keep his word a war ensued.
Hercules conquered and put Augeas
to death.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
uJtMt .
GY~l!n.
O.~4obb
Nu(nh1 about
Twilight of Ex-Debutantes

CANTA, MONICA, CALF
~ Should the king marry Mrs.
Simpson or should it be vice versa
and Mrs. Simpson marry the king,
in either event the happy out
come is bound to prove blighting
upon a large coterie of slightly
weather-beaten ex-debutantes of
the crop of 1925.
Anyhow, it was great vintage
year for debutantes, because that
was when we had the most men,
orable of royal visits. And ever
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Twas This Way
By LYLE SPENCER
@ Western Newspaper Union.



"M AIRY had a little lamb" is the
AsA first line of a children's dit
ty. It is also the first line that
ever came out of a phonograph
loudspeaker.
One summer morning in 1877,
Thomas Edison was playing with a
queer little gadget he had con-
structed in his laboratory. It was
cylinder wound with tin foil and
hitched to little horn with a men,
brane and needle on the end.
EdiSon's co-workers must have
thought he was a little crazy when
they saw him put his mout.. up to
the horn and shout at the top of
his lungs MARY had little lambl"
But Edison calmly put his ma
chine In reverse, and out of the
horn, as though it were a faint
echo, came back the words MARY
Lad little lamb" That moment
Gus morning the first phonograph,
an invention which simply as
founded the world, had been in
vented.
When first exhibited in public,
most people believed it was some
sort of magician's trick, and that
there was ventriloquist lurking be-
hind the scenes.
Edison himself did not realize the
Importance of his invention at first.
When asked what it could be used
for, he mentioned such things as
photographic books for the blind
and recording the last words of
dying persons, and only included
the reproduction of music as an
atterthought.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Doubt S Nemesis
Hobby TO Restore Youth

An elderly Minneapolis man for
got old age and blood pressure,
and went a long way toward re-
covering his youth by building
miniature tabernacle of Moses,
according to biblical specifca-
tions.
His experience is not far differ
ent from that of all who have
discovered the ife-giving value Of
a hobby, who know that in a lei
sure time vocation, be it ever SO
nutty, there is relaxation, zest and
profound satisfaction. -Minnea-
polls Star.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Welding Methods

Welding methods are classified in
to two groups, cohesion caused by
pressing and hammering metals
while In a plastic or fusion state"
and cohesion of metals In fusion
or vapor state" Forge welding is
included in the former and oxyacet-
ylene and electric arc welding in
the latter.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Barracuda Is Fie-cest

The barracuda, fercest Of fish.
has been known to come up on the
shore after its victims. Sometimes
the rush of the barracuda in the
chase carries it on land and some
times it actually comes on land in
tentionally.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Hungarian DueIs

VOUR correspondent has been
quite calm about that Budapest
doctors string of nine duels. lived
through several Kentucky primary
elections, so a scrap where you
don't have to replace any divots
afterward leaves me comparative
ly calm.
There's an average of 800 duels
every month in Hungary, but to date
the only fatalities are among those
who were bored to death waiting
for something to happen. It's fine
to be able to appease your sacred
honor without losing any of your
sacred epidernis.
If, in the old days, we'd only had
that system for adjusting political
differences, I can think of at least
one uncle and several cousins of
mine who might still be alive and
voting the regular Democratic
ticket.
IRWIN g. CORR.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
The Early Automobile

THE automobile is usually
I thought of as being an invention
of the Twentieth century. Yet the
first horseless carriage was built
when Benjamin Franklin was still
young man.
In 1869, a French artillery cap
tain named Nicholas Joseph Cugnot
constructed a three-wheeled steam
vehicle that could trundle along un-
der its own power. He tried to sell
it to the French war department
as a tractor to pull field guns. But
his contraption had no brakes, and
it got out of control while he was
demonstrating it.
William Murdock, who worked for
James Watt, built a car in 1874
which ran successfully on a one
cylinder steam engine. By 1900,
four-wheeled steam coaches were
being built in England which ran
on regular schedules like our mod
ern busses. But these frightened
the British farmers, who feared that
they would ruin the mIrket for
horses, and the notorious "R o d
Locomotive BiIl' was jammed
through parliament which put a
high tax on automobiles and de-
creed that they could not run at
all unless a man walked ahead of
them waving red flag.
The act remained in force for so
years, killing auto construction in
England during that time. So auto
mobile building lay dormant while
the railroads forged ahead. The
first car sale in America was not
made until 1898. It was a one
cylinder Winton costing 1000. It's
top speed was 10 miles per hour,
and its engine was cooled with ice.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Sittern's PIumage

The bittern's plun1age is a
wonderful example of camoufage.
IF the male is disturbed while boom
ing to his mates, he stands per-
fectly still IN the reeds and points
his long neck directly upwards. The
markings on his breast and other
parts of his body resemble the
reeds.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Total Loss
SheIved

soft, do you? You don't know Of
the toll, responsibilities, disappoint-
ments and humiliation I have to en-
dure just to make a living.
His Wife-You lave nothing on
me. I have to live with you for
my living.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10

since there have
been ever so many
now somewhat ma
tured buds w h o,
season after season,
h ave maintained
front rank in society
by being reminded,
about once in so oft
en-, of the supreme
hour W h e n tn e y
d anc e d with the
then prince of Wales
and speaking of him
EIT -~.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Uncle Mi6
Says: ~
Seeing Happiness

Seeing Happiness
Happiness is the gift of seeing
the good things of life in such high
relief that the rest is unimportant
Discuss your troubles with
many and they will discuss them
with the whole community.
Feuds arise from exaggerated
personal pride and generally
among people who have not a
great deal to be proud of.
The well-bred man keeps his be-
liefs out of his conversation.
Philosophers Task
It is the work of a philosopher
to be every day subduing passions
and laying aside prejudices.
Nature doesn't eliminate fool
ishness. Civilized man has to
learn how, some day.
If you have savage opinions,
people will be hypocritical to you
to keep on good terms.
There is nothing thrilling about
contentment; nothing dangerous,
either.
Using Abilities
The art of being able to make
good use of moderate abilities
wins esteem, and confers more
reputation than real merit.
Approve not of him who COM
mends everything you say.
When a man with an air as if it
were natural to him to give orders
is found, it isn't long before the
meek put him in a position to do
it.
What men say when they are
angry Is either the blazing truth
or very unreliable.
Doubts Nemesis
Confidence, self-assurance, self
faith-these are the great friends
which will kill the traitor doubt.
A long answer turneth away
anybody else who was going TO
ask a question.
If you encounter a man who
knows. several secrets Of his
friends and doesn't tell them,
that's the man to tie up to.
When boy gets up to his ears
in love he is more careful about
washing them.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Extra Safe

A city chap was crossing a pas
tune. Say there" he shouted to a
farmer, lis this bull safe?"
well, said the farmer, SCI
reckon he's lot safer than you are
just now. Our Paper.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
More prrs;tab,e

ST hate playing cards with bad
loser, don't your"
''Well, I'd rather play with a bsk
loser than any sort Of wirsrsrl"-
Stray Stories Magax.ns.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Peaks overton Mount sIanc

The Caucasus Mountains. the
mighty wall rising between the
Black and Caspian Seas, have no
less than nine peaks which overtop
Mount Blanc In the Alps.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Late

We'll Dad, l just ran up to say
hello
Too late, son. Your mother ran
up to say goodbye and got all my
change"
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
ARE YOU ONLY A
THREE E-QUARTER WIFE?

THERE are certain things a
i woman has to put up with and
be good sport
Men. because they are men. can
never understand a three-quarter
wife-a wife who is all love and
kindness three weeks in a month
and a he'll cat the rest of the time.
No matter how your back aches
no matter how loudly your
nerves scream-don { take it out
on your husband.
For three generations one woman
has told another how 70 go "smil-
ing through with Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system.
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeaIs of life: 1. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 3. Ap-
preaching middle age"
Don't be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHAAI'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Indians of Big Tribe

The Illinois Is group OF North
American Indians belonging to the
great Agonquian linguistic tribe.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Ugly Railroad Stations

NO MATTER which way you're
= ' going, it seems you must
change trains in Chicago, and near
ly always, change stations as well.
Chicago proudly boasts of more
railroad stations and uglier ones
and situated at more remote and
inconvenient intervals from one an
other than any city anywhere. It's
as though once upon time she set
out to collect the largest covey of
truly homely steions IN the world
and then the bunch flushed and scat
tered on her.
Yet as far as 1 can find out-cor-
rect me if I err-there's no struc-
tural reason why through cars on
most lines could not be switched
directly to the connecting lines with
out being brought into the heart of
the city. Maybe Chicago loves the
distinction of being the largest juno
ton point on earth.
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10

mental tone as Dear David"
But even such a precious rerni-
niscence suddenly becomes mighty
pale, mighty puny alongside pro-
spective achievement which may
change the ancient slogan of mai
esty to ''Honi soft qui WaIly pense!"
The Ely miner., 1936-12-10
Passing of the Train Butcher

THERE'S melancholy in the
= news that the railroad train
butcher" is vanishing. Soon, like
so many fixtures of the passing
generation, such as the dried-pota-
to as cure for rheumatism and the
dropping sidewhisker, he'll be an
extinct species.
In my earliest recollections of
travel he has a fond place, along
with the lunch put up in a congress
shoe box, the cinder in the eye and
the smell which made every day
coach remind you of a woodpecker's
nest.
On almost the first car trip ever
made unacCompanied twas he who
sold me a sealed volume entitled
''The Jolly Old Drunmer's Spicy
Library" with a whispered warn
ing not to break the wrapper be-
fore leaving the train for fear of
arrest. remember my guilty feel
ing, my youthful thrill of anticipa-
ton. I got my moneys worth right
there. I didn't get it, later, because
there was nothing in that book you
couldn't read at meeting of the
ladies' aid with inpunity.
He was indeed an engaging
scoundrel and engaging scoundrels
grow increasingly scarce. There's
nothing picturesque about an Sin
vestment counselor doing business
with the aid Of a sucker list and
new issue of Bull Con. preferred.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-29

Totals ......... 430 483 425-1338
 The Brunswick Alleys will be open to the general public tonight as there is no league bowling on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sun days
 Thursday evening the City League will bowl the following games: Cali fornia Grocery ys. City team, 7:30 pm; Alaska Laundry vs. Alt Heid- elberg, 8:30 pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-29
ANCO0N PLAYS DEM0LAY FIVE,
 GAME TONIGHT

Anyoon's husky basketeers will display their prowess against the DeMolay squad at the high school gym tonight in the first of a series of games with local teams. The Angoon contingent, which arrived for a ten-day visit yesterday, wit messed the City League games last night, and both Coach Peter Dick and Manager Willis George are con- fident they can defeat the best of them here.
 The complete lineup for the An occners are Capt. Walter Johns, Ronald Johns, Joe Bennett, Andrew Gamble, Robert Johnson, Arthur Williams, Sam Newman, George Johnson.
 Saturday night the Angoon vis- itors meet Krause's Concreters. To- nights game will start at o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-29

attending the Florida boom, golf huzzas featured Klein's name prom inently.
 But here again Klein seemed to lose the victory touch. He has played in every Miami Open since that original win and it was not until a few days ago, that he re- turned to glory. The word glory" is used advisedly because he equal ed the course record with a spec tacular GA in the third round, and ran away from the field with an aggregate score of 272-17 shots better than his winning score of 1925. He had 32 on one nine and he finished by five shots ahead of Gene Sarazen, himself 4-time win ner of this classic
 Some funny things happened during this championship" said Klein. T suppose you'd call them coincidences, but all sportsmen be- lieve in rabbits feet and horse shoes. Six weeks ago Frank Bell wood gave me an old Vardon put ter, which he said would improve my putting, and I call him a good prophet, for that club certainly worked magic around the greens at Miami Springs"
 SPEND WHE.tE YOU MAKE IT!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-29
kRAUSE BEATS
 GUARDSMEN IN
 FAST PLAYING
Firemen Wallop Sabin s Outfit -Doubleheader
 Played Last Night
RESULTS LAS TNIGHT 7:30-Krause A, TallapooSa 26. 8:30--Flremen 45, Sabin5 25.

Krause's ConcreJers rode rough Ehod over the Tallapoosa basketeerS and the Juneau Bremen burned up the nets to beat Sabin's Clothier5 in the douhleheader at the nigh school gym last night. Both squads won handily, the first game end ng with Krause leading by 18 points, While the smoke-eaters out-pointed their opponents by the same ad vantage
 From the standpoint of the gal lery, the opener between the two big teams was most interesting Much fouling, roughness, flashes of class by the Krausers, and general grand-standing by all kept the big crowd amused. Little Sammy Nsl son was the main attraction in the last frame, when, after having been knocked about considerably by his larger foes, he ran wild and scored his only three field goals within as many minutes. The wn- ners, with the exception of four point sailor lead at the opening whistle, were never in danger, and won under wraps. Manager Johnny Osborne substituted freely, with no Concreter playing over three quar- ters. High scoring honors for the game went to Paul Brown, of the victors, with 12 points. George Tanghe, of the cutter was second with IL Woody Burnett and Andy Johnson, giant defensive men. were particularly effective in breaking up plays, and goth scored, Burnett producing the most sensational shot of the evening with one-handed swish from center.
 Jimmy Orne Stars
 The main event was all James Orme, Fireman forward, who rained in the field goals from all angles. He hit a total of nine baskets for Q total of 18 points. Outside of Orme's sharp-shooting, and one fleor-length scoring drive by Bud Foster, the Firemens' victory was uneventful. Joe Snow did most of the Clothier's scoring, accounting for II points.