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Evening star., 1945-06-01
'S|om' Lyddane Gets
Divorce From Wife He
Helped Acquit in '36

Francis (Slom) Lyddane, Rock
vile. Md, principal defense wit
ness for his wife in her trial nine
years ago on charges of conspiring
to murder him. was granted an alb
solute divorce from her yesterday in
Montgomery County Circuit Court
by Judge Stedman Prescott, who as
an attorney defended the blond
Rockville buSinessWoman.
Mrs. Anne Lyddane was acquitted
after two sensational trials of plot
ting with two Washington gam
blers to murder her husband and
Mrs. Arthur Beall, wife of a Darnes-
town garage man. The first trial,
held in Rockville in 1885, resulted
in a hung jury. She was acquitted
IN 1886 by a jury at HagerstoWn
after change of venue had been
granted.
Although the Lyddanes parted be-
cause of economic reasons" shortly
after her first trial, her husband,
known as "Slom" to hundreds of
Rockville residents, remained by
his Wlfe's side during the second
trial, accompanying her to and
from the Hagerstown courthouse
Despite their separation, friends of
the Lyddanes maintained that he
still had faith in her innocence.
The State sought to prove that
Mrs. Lyddane desired the death of
her husband and the other woman
because Of an infatuation with Mrs.
Beall's husband and in order to
collect a $4,000 life insurance pol
icy carried by Mr.. Lyddane.
Prior to her first jury trial. John
'Googy) CARMEL, former convict
and Rockville bartender, was con-
victed of having part in the plot.
He later testified that Mrs. Lyddane
had tried TO hire him as a contact
man between herself and gunner.
who, he said, she wanted to kill
her husband
The divorce suit was not con-
tested and no money payments
were involved.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
William D. Lamdin Dies;
Baltimore Architect
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IoF '4-r n HcDt ID ltE Z IeSS.
BALTIMORE, June 1.-William
D. Lamdin, 81, a member of the
City Planning Commission and the
Citizens Housing and Planning
Commission and one of Baltimore S
most prominent architects. died
yesterday Of a throat aff1iction with
which he was stricken Wednesday.
Mr.. Lamdin. a member of the
American Institute of Architects.
was appointed by Gov. OConor to
serve on the Board of Registration
for Maryland Architects. He had
designed many homes. city hospi-
tails, ST. CaSimirs Church and the
Northway and the Maryland Park
Apartments.
The architect received the Balti-
more Civic Award for his design of
ST. CaSimir's Church.
Mr.. Lamdin was graduated from
the Polytechnic Institute and the
Cornell University School of Archi-
lecture. He served in the World
War.
He is survived bv his widow. Mrs.
Eleanor Clark Lamdin: a son. Will
liam DUNCAN Lamdin, jr., student
at the Gilman Country School, and
a sister, Mrs. Julian Sears, Chevy
Chase, Nd.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Area Tin Can Drive
Arranged for June

A new intensified drive to collect
tin during the month of June has
been organized for the entire Wash
ington Metropolitan Area. to meet
what is officially called a danger
ously low point in the Nation S
supply of this vital metal.
A Metropolitan Salvage Council,
set UP for thesduration, will con-
duct a special tin can salvage drive
for this month. The campaign is in
line with Nation wide movement
James E. CollifloWer. chairman Of
the District Salvage Committee, an
nounced the special June drive will
be sponsored by the Advertising
Club of Washington. Matt Meyer
president of the club, appointed a
special committee to take charge
consisting of H. L. Butler, chair
man; Gordon Hayes, j. c. Jacobs
and Mr.. Meyer. The club has
adopted as the theme of the special
drive, step on It-Save Tin Cans.
An effort will be made on the
part of the Commercial Tin Can
Salvage Committee, William A. Kan
ten, chairman. to get full co-opera-
ton in the program by institutions,
restaurants. hotels, cafeterias and
other commercial sources of tin in
the area.
Special collections from apart
ments may be arranged by calling
the Salvage Committee, RE. 8488.
and requesting tin can pickup
Citizens are reminded that tin cans
offered for salvage must be properly
prepared. and that if tin cans are
placed in the trash they are COM
pletely lost
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Skizechowski Ordered
To District for Trial

Charles Skizechowski, 43 an alien
accused OF participating in the s24 =
SAT holdup Of two National Bank
OF Washington messengers here
March 80, yesterday was ordered
removed from New York to the
District to stand trial.
He has been under s25 900 bond
since mis- arrest May 10 in Amitt-
vile, N. Y. Shortly before, police
said, he had escaped a search in
Newark. NJ j., after about $4,000
said to be part of the bank loot. was
found in car parked in front of
his mothers home.
Another of the alleged bandits.
Joseph McCann, was killed in a gun
battle with authorities in Long Is
land City, N. Y, on April 30 Joseph
Quinn, the third man alleged to
have participated in the holdup
now is being held in Philadelphia.
police said.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Truman Says Wickard
Will Leave Cabinet June 80

President Truman told his news
conference today that Secretary OF
Agriculture Wickard would leave
the cabinet June 80 even If he has
not been confirmed as rural electri-
fication administrator by that time
The question of Mr.. Wickard S
status was raised at news con-
ference in view of the fact that the
President had said that the changes
affecting the Agriculture Depart
ment and the Rural Electrification
Administration would become effec-
tive when Mr.. Wickard's nomination
had been acted on by the Senate
Hearings on the Wickard nomina-
ton have been set for June IL.
The June 80 date had been fixed
by the President for the other cabi-
net changes in Post Office, Justice
and Labor to take effect.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Truman Awards DSM
To Stephen Early at
Surprise Ceremony

Stephen T. Early, veteran WASH
ington newspaperman and for the
past II years member of the
White House secretariat, returned
to private life today with a badge
of honor from the Government, the
Distinguished Service Medal.
In surprise ceremony in the
rose garden of the White House
yesterday afternoon, President Tru-
man made the presentation of the
military medal for which Mr.. Early
was eligible by reason of his commits
sion as a Reserve lieutenant colonel
of infantry-the rank he held from
the World War.
Staff Looks On.
Mr.. Early, who has served Mr..
Truman as a special assistant after
years as press secretary to the late
President Roosevelt, was summoned
by the President shortly after q
o'clock. Then, in the presence of
the entire White House Office staff
dllo ildily old IL Oill Vic OuG-
side, he received the medal and
heard President Truman read the
citation praising his labors as IAN
inspiration in patriotism for citi-
zens both in Government and pri-
vate life"
Representing the Chief Executive
in relationship to the organs of
public opinion in this country" the
citation said. ''he was of great as
sistance in helping to arouse the
Nation in the days of it's unpre-
paredness to a sense of the danger
which threatened it from aggres-
sions abroad.
Helpful in Leadership.
In many ways he helped create
among his fellow citizens a sense
Of great urgency in arming and
preparing the United States for war
spiritually and physically; and he
was helpful to the leadership of this
Nation in building the great mill
tary might which is now ours and
thereby contributing to the sue
ceSsful prosecution of the war. 1r
thousands of details, he lightened
the daily burdens of the Chief
leaving him free for other
duties"
AS Mr.. Truman smilingly COM
pleted reading the citation, he in
sisted that Mr.. Early make a speech
Redfaced. the presidential aide said,
Never has one done so little and
received so much" He added that
the day was his mothers birthday
and President Truman said he
wished she could have been there 10
see the ceremony.
Mr.. Early is becoming executive
vice president of Pullman, Inc.
Tomorrow night ne will be the
guest of honor of the White House
Correspondents Association at
buffet supper at the Statler.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
House Member
Rops OPAPIon
|For Pillow Study
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
Representative Shafer, Republican,
of Michigan staged one-man pill
low fight" in the House yesterday.
He called attention of the members
to an order he said the OPA had is
sued directing retailers of feather
and down pillows to send to Wash
ington one of each grade they have
in stock on June a.
The announced purpose, he said.
was TO determine how much should
be charged for each pillow. But Mr..
Shafer characterized the order as
ridiculous" and added:
Possibly this procedure will make
possible the paving of our Washing
ton streets with pillows to assure soft
spots on which some Of these bu-
reaucrats can land when the Nation
finally gets fed up and demands that
they be thrown out"
Evening star., 1945-06-01
British Autos Return
To Roads With Gas
For 120 Miles MONTHLY
By the Associated Press,

os lHt ASSOCldt6Q PreSs.
LONDON, June 1.-British motor
lists, barred from the highways since
the start of the war more than five
and one-half years ago, returned to
the road today with gasoline rations
sufficient to drive 120 miles per
month.
Washington last week an
nounced so per cent increase
in the gasoline allowance for A
card holders, giving them an
average of about three gallons a
week, instead of two, effective
June o. The allowance on B
cards was increased to a maxi
mum of $50 miles per month,
effective June IL
The Society of Motor Manufac-
turers and Traders estimated that
lifting of the ban would result in
the return to use of approximately
$50 900 pleasure cars bringing to
about 100000 the number of vehicles
on the highways Before the war
100000 cars travelled the roads.
Trade circles expressed belief that
return of many prewar cars would
be delayed because of a use tax of
approximately S. per horsepower.
compulsory insurance and the high
price of gasoline-about 43 cents per
gallon.
Nevertheless car owners formed
long lines seeking driving licenses,
registration papers and gasoline
ration books. Those who had not
received license plates today were
told TO paste slip of paper on their
wlndshields saying license applied
for"
For the present most drivers will
have to be satisfied with machines
of preWar vintage A purchase tax
of 80 q per cent, plus scarcity of
materials and labor, will definitely
limit the number of new cars on
the road for some time to come.
Manufacturers say the purchase
tax must go before they attempt to
build new cars on a large scale.
Some new machines probably will
be produced by the end of June, but
trade circles say it is unlikely any
will appear in showrooms before
next year. Only those with high
priority will get the first new models.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
philippines Send
Traffic to Right
| After 400 Years
BY the Associated Press.

MANILA, June 1.-The Philip
pines broke 400-year old custom
today when horse-drawn calesas,
caribao carts and motorized traffic
started travelling on the right side
Of streets and highways instead of
the left.
The changeover, to conform with
the United States traffic practice,
was ordered by the American Army,
whose vehicles are built for right
side driving.
Impetus for the change also came
from Manila automobile dealers
who handle American-built cars.
Signs advising the public of the
changeover have been posted for
weeks but military police anticipate
some trouble. They pointed out
that many American Army jeep and
truck drivers have become used to
left-side travel in Australia, New
Guinea and the Philippines during
the last two or three years.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Ansberry Resigns Post
As Assistant u. 5. Attorney

T. Peter Ansberry resigned yester-
day as assistant United States at
torney, position he has held since
September /. l943
MI. Ausberry, who has handled
a number of important cases at
District Court, announced that he
will enter private law practice. He
has Offices at 1929 Vermont avenue
NV.
Mr.. Ansberry. who is %, is ma
tive of Washington and a graduate
of the Georgetown University Law
School. While a student there he
served as editor. in chief of the uni
versity's Law Journal.
Before becoming an assistant
United States attorney here he
served as an attorney with the Tru-
man War Investigating Committee.
He also served as an assistant coun-
sci of the Maloney committee of the
Senate, which investigated the pc
troleum supply.
Evening star., 1945-06-01

tomorrow al noon.
In lndorsing the campaign Mr.
LOngfelloW stated:
"A survey of water fatalities in
the country indicates that each
year 81 out of each 100 persons
drowned are males and that around
1900 of the victims are between
the ages of 5 and IA. and that the
average drowning spot is within 10
yards of safety in water not over
8 feet deep.
That indicates how vital it is
for boys to be able to swim at
least so or so feet and to breathe
properly while they are doing it."
Hundreds of boys already have
enrolled for the free course in
learning how to swim at the "Y'
The classes will be held from 4 As
to $50 pm. daily, starting Monday
until June 13.
To register, fill in the coupon in
The Star and mail it tonight tc
Boys Building, YMCA, 1872 G street
NV, and register in person tomor-
row before noon. Tommy Donnel.
son will be the instructor who will
teach the American crawl.
Colored boys will register at the
Twelfth Street Branch YMCA, 1915
Twelfth street NV, or mail the
coupon to that address. There
Henry Walker will be the instructor
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Mrs. Sally Newly, 81, Dies.
Rites Set for Tomorrow

Mrs. Sally English Newly, 81, of
the Cordova Apartments. 1909 Twen-
tieth street NV, died at her home
yesterday after long illness. A
native of Alexandria, Va, she had
lived in Washington IA years.
Mrs Newby was the widow OF
Henry Ward Newly, civil engineer
and Government surveyor She is
survived by a daughter, Mrs. Geor-
geanna Newly Page, Washington;
two sisters, Mrs. George Robinson
Alexandria. Va, and Mrs. Julian
Miller, Portsmouth, Va; one
brother, Frank T. English. Mocks-
vile, N. c., and a niece, Mrs. Will
liam Stanley, wife of the former
assistant to the Attorney General.
Funeral services will be held at
1870 am. tomorrow at the S. H
Hines funeral home. Burial will be
private.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Lidice
Continued From First Page

women in hospital, one of them
tuberculous patient.
The men were marched naked to
hillside cemetery early on the
morning of June 10 and shot in
rows of 10. Their bodies were later
dumped into a hole in what was the
center of town and their mass grave
left unmarked.
Even the cemetery was leveled
The tombStones were hauled away
A flock of sheep was grazing today
on the clover growing over the
cemetery site.
Scattered about in wheat stubble
are small stones which once were
part of Saint Martina's S Church and
the elementary school next door.
Name Not on Maps.
There. toos is the stump of pear
tree, foot across, sawed off flush
with the ground. 1t stood in front
of the elementary school. Under its
branches the Germans dragged
Father Stemberka, 75-year-old pas
tor of Saint Martinas, and shot him
to start the massacre.
Rocks and the stump are all that
is left of Lidice. New maps being
printed by the Czech government do
not show Lidice Lidice is a hallowed
name to the Czechs and they want
to let it live in memory only.
Workers from neighboring vii
lagos have cleared away a plot 25
feet square in the center of the
stubblefield as a simple memorial to
Lidice's dead. In the square are two
dirt mounds f1attened on top with
neatly inlaid white crosses of snow
white pebbles
The mounds are banked with
wreaths. one sent by the Russians
who have an antiaircraft battery
bivouaced nearby, and another by the
Czech garrison at Kladno, miles
away.
Two Flags Fly.
The flags of Czechoslovakia and
Russia fly on the plot separated by
a 2-foot high crucifix with a placard
reading: Here lie bodies of Lidice's
victims, murdered June 10, 1912,
by the German invaders"
Although this spot has been
designated as a grave, the peasants
are not sure whether the bodies lie
there or few yards away.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Resignation Of Rosenman
Is Rejected by President

President Truman has refused TO
accept the resignation of Judge
Samuel I. Rosenman as special
counsel and the longtime aide of
the late President Roosevelt will re-
main in the Government for another
year, Mr.. Truman disclosed at his
news conference today.
The President said he was very
happy that Judge Rosenman had
decided to stay and made public an
exchange of correspondence which
included Judge Rosenman's reslg-
nation and his own refusal to
take it.
Judge Rosenman, who recently
completed study of relief needs in
the European theater, sent the Pres
ident a letter of resignation on April
IA and asked that it be accepted at
Mr.. Truman's pleasure.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Soviet Press Carries
Full News of Levunt

~ he Associated Press.
MOSCOW. June 1-~Soviet com
mentators maintained silence today
in the situation in Syria and Leb-
anon but both press and radio car
ried lengthy news accounts of de-
velopmentS.
The interest with which Russia
is following the situation was sug-
gested by the fact that the morning
newScast devoted to the story the
entire period usually given over to
foreign events.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Legislative Fund Bill
Delayed by House
Allowance Debates

The legislative appropriation bill,
carrying funds to run Congress, the
Government Printing Office and the
Library of Congress, was suspended
in uncertainty today while House
members continued to struggle with
the question Of keeping the 2,500-
a-year expense allowance they voted
themselves.
The Senate rejected the allowance
for its members, but approved it for
the House members under the
practice of letting each branch
regulate its own budget. Although
parliamentary experts contend it
will take a separate resolution to
eliminate or change the expense
allowance, the House yesterday was
unable to complete action on the
legislative bill.
Representative Murray, Democrat,
of Tennessee objected to a unan-
imous consent request to have the
House agree to other Senate amend
ments, unrelated to the expense
allowance, which would have sent
the bill to the White House.
The Appropriations Committee
then was called to special eXecu-
tive session oStensibly to ask the
Rules Committee to set up procedure
permitting a vote on concurrence
in the minor Senate amendments.
but the committee broke up in
tangle of motions and counter
motions.
One member, in the closed door
Committee session.
proposed that the rule for floor con-
sideration permit motion a strike
from the bill all language dealing
with the 81 500 allowance
The proposal was reported to have
been approved by majority vote Of
the appropriations group, But the
committee got into a wrangle on
whether such a motion. striking out
language approved by both the
House and the Senate, would be IN
order.
The committee adjourned without
finally deciding what 1t Will ask
the rules arbiters to DC. 1t Will
meet again TODAY
Evening star., 1945-06-01
End Of Censorship
AT Close Of Jap War
Favored by Price
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
If Byron Price, director of censor
ship has his way. censorship will
end on he echo of the last shot fred
against the japanese.
Mr.. Price made this statement on
the subject during House Appropri-
alton Committee hearings on the
national war agencies supply bill
sent to the House floor today:
Censorship constitutes so ruth
less an intrusion upon the ordinary
rights of invidiuals that no part of
it should be prolonged beyond the
point of absolute necessity. 1t should
be recognized by all of us that a
continuance of strict controls over
communications, at the time when
we are entering period of recon-
struction, could work great harm to
the national interest by retarding
the rehabilitation of international
trade and the ablishment of
international friendship and under
standing"
Mr.. Price paid high tribute to the
Nations press and radio for full and
voluntary cooperation with the
Office of Censorship.
The committee also was informed
that people in conquered Germany
face an internal news censorship
for some time TO come because Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower doesn't want
to give them chance to misuse
democratic rights"
The Allied commander in chiefs
views on the subject of censorship
in Germany were conveyed to the
committee by Elmer Davis, head of
the Office of War Information.
AS Gen. Eisenhower advised the
President" Mr.. Davis told the COM
mlttee, we are not going to lose
the peace by giving license to
racialist panGermans, Nazis and
mllitarlsts so that they can misuse
democratic rights in order to attack
democracy, as Hitler did"
Because we do not know anv
Germans that We can trust vet"
Mr.. Davis declared, Germans will
not be permitted to publish domes-
tic German newspapers during the
early stages of occupation.
Later on, he said, some trust
worthy Germans may be found to
take over publications. but We
have not found them yet"
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Appropriations
Continued From First Page.

leaving 35,ooo,ooG as against $685.
100000 this year.
Chairman Cannon, in reporting
the bill, declared that none of the
controls over materials and produc-
ton should be maintained "one day
beyond the time when it is no
longer needed for military produc-
ton, or after there has become
available an adequate supply of raw
materials for civilian purposes"
Other cuts the committee made
in some budget figures included: Of
flee of Scientific Research and De-
velopment, $7,500.000 Office of In
American Affairs. $3.50, 900;
Censorship, $780, 900; Office of De-
fense Transportation, 100000, and
War Labor Board, $85, 900.
The committee called this bill
"the beginning of the end" for the
civilian war agencies.
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Nine Seamen Take ) Years
For Round Trip 10 Europe
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June Mime
members of the Navy armed guard
aboard the 50O0-ton merchant ship
Carlton explained why it took them
three years to make round trip
to Europe.
The Carlton left Philadelphia
March 13, 1912 rode out a North
Atlantic storm, withstood German
dive bombing and finally was tor
pedoed in the Arctic Ocean July 5,
1912.
Eight of the men were picked up
by German planes and others, with
some of the merchant crew, got to
the Norwegian coast. where they
were captured. Taken to German
prison camps, they were liberated
in mid-April and completed their
return trip to Boston on Monday
They came here yesterday to pick
up their accumulated pay, estimated
at $500 each.