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Evening star., 1935-11-29
SUSPECTS AL|B|S
|. IN LYNCH Staying
BEING CHECKED
Stories of Two in Shooting
of Switchboard Operator
Are Gone Over.
TAXI DRIVER IS SOUGHT
TO CLEAR UP MYSTERY
Slight Impression Found on
Death Gun-Suicide Theory
Is Discounted.

A thorough check of the "alibis"
of the two men under arrest in con-
nection with the mysterious shoot
ing OF Miss Elizabeth r. Lynch, Po-
tomac Electric Power Co. switchboard
operator, was being made by investt-
gators today.
A taxicab driver was hunted as
police traced the movements of Will
liam A. (Dutch) Kappel, "a, friend
of the dead woman, who said he
found the body of the 35-year-old
brunette when he called at her home
at 9l8 Fourth street northeast early
Wednesday,
Kappel, according to detectives, says
he took Miss Lynch home about mid
night Tuesday and after she refused
to let him enter the house, where
he also lived, boarded a taxi at
Fourth and H streets northeast.
Claim 70 Have Gone to "Club."
After picking up Leo Cullen, 81, OF
718 Fourth street northeast, the other
man held. Kappel is quoted as say
ing he rode to a CLUB" near Twelfth
street and New York avenue. The pair
allegedly stayed at the Club" until
6 am. Wednesday.
Before he took Miss Lynch home,
however. Kappel was seen quarreling
with the woman in a Northwest res
taurant, police have been told. Miss
Lynch is said to have left the place
alone.
According to Kappels account Of
his movements, he went back to the
Fourth street house and discovered
Miss Lynch on the kitchen floor with
a bullet in her head A .38-cahber
revolver, which Kappel admitted own
ing, lay near the woman's feet, and
smashed chair was nearby.
There were few bruises on Miss
Lynch's legs, indicating she might have
engaged in a struggle during which the
chair was broken, police pointed out,
and the wound in her cheek bore no
powder marks. This latter fact leads
police to believe the fatal shot was
fired from a distance.
Detectives said Kappel told them he
could not remember the name of the
taXicab.
Taxi Driver Sought.
Indicating he was dissatisfied with
Kappers story, Detective Chief Frank
S. w. Burke has ordered his men to
contact every taxi driver in Washing
ton in an attempt to find the one who
may throw some light on the case.
II want to check his CKappels}
story" Inspector Burke told reporters
as he issued the order.
Meanwhile, fingerprint experts were
trying to match up a slight impress
sion" found on the gun which took the
fife of the telephone operator.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
has discounted suicide theory in the
case and members of the police homi-
eide squad are convinced Miss Lynch
was murdered.
/ No date has been set for an inquest.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
PROCEEDING BRISKLY
Shop-Ma Early Committee Head
Pleased at Trend OBJ
served Here.

Christmas shopping is proceeding
briskly in Washington stores, John J.
Hasley. chairman of the Shop Early
Mail Early Committee Of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton, reported today
Expressing qualification that shop
pers have arrived at the conclusion
that early Christmas shopping is the
most satisfactory way to solve their
problem" Hasley said holiday gift
buying in other large cities also was
well under way.
Early Christmas shopping eliminates
much eleventh hour hysteria," and
the action Of Washington merchants
In meeting the new demand with an
earlier display Of full holiday mer.
chandise stocks has accelerated dis
tribution here. Hasley said.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
NEW TAX SOURCES
WE|GHED|N STUDY
TO DECIDE NEEDS
Report Being Drafted-Big-
ger Lump Sum Wins
United Support.
READY APPROVAL FAILS
ON $1,000, 900 INCREASE
District Trucking Association Ac.
cepts Gas Boost and Weight Levy
if Expenditures Are Proper.

Behind closed doors. the Districts
Special Tax Committee struggled to-
day with a report for the Commits
sioners showing the need of additional
funds to meet increasing expenses OF
the municipal government, and how
the money can be raised by tapping
new sources of revenues.
The report will be based on a COM
prehensive study of the Districts
financial situation in the period COW
ering the fiscal years from 1920 to
1896 inclusive.
After a lengthy meeting. the COM
mittee put over until tomorrow pro-
posed final action on its work. The
committee said it had drafted the
skeleton form of tentative partial
report on its studies and that this
would be reviewed at another session
scheduled for 10 am. tomorrow.
Members said they had no statement
to make meanwhile.
Detailed Analysis.
Figures released by the committee
last week were interpreted by some
to show the need of more than ST.
100000 a year additional in revenue.
Some members of the committee, how
ever, were not satisfied this would be
the ultimate finding and determined
to make a more detailed analysis.
The committee as a whole, how
ever, is convinced of one thing
that the lump sum Federal payment
toward the expenses of the District
should be increased above the present
SIS, 700, 900.
Gas Increase Weighed.
Higher taxes on public utilities, a
work tax on motor vehicles, an in
heritance tax and an increase in the
gasoline tax from two to three cents
gallon were the four proposals the
Commissioners instructed the COM
mittee to study. Proir to today's meet
ing, it was reported committee men,
bers were not in agreement as to what
they should recommend as to taxes
or the amount of additional revenue
needed.
In the meantime the District Truck
ing Association, Inc, urged the Com
missioners that it be permitted to
present its views to the committee
regarding new taxation. The organi-
zation pointed out that after an ex-
haustive study of the motor vehicle
tax treatment in the District, it ap-
proved both a weight tax and an
increase in the gasoline tax, provided
that satisfactory guarantee could be
had that the revenue would 60 for
those purposes for which it should
be expended"
Evening star., 1935-11-29
TURKEY BATTERED
BY CAPITAL HORDE
Thanksgiving Festivities In
cIude Sacred Services
and Diversions.

The Capital was back at work to-
day after a quiet Thanksgiving-and
badly battered turkeys we're in family
ice chests, awaiting second appear
ance.
A cold, heavy rain, starting about
the time thousands were making their
way from church. kept good part
of the city indoors after the dinner
hour, but despite this, foot ball games,
races and motion pictures, principal
items on the entertainment program,
were well patronized.
Officialdom was scattered from such
widely separated points as Warm
Springs, were President Roosevelt pre-
sided at the Thanksgiving board, to
Wake Island, a dot in the Pacific,
where Secretary of War Dern and Mrs.
Dern passed the day.
Party at White House.
The White House was alight, how
ever. The Presidents daughter, Mrs.
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, with her
husband, entertained small party.
The principal celebration was at the
Willard Hotel, the Navy relief ball
having as honor guests Secretary of
the Navy and Mrs. Swanson.
The annual Pan-American mass at
st. Patrick's Church brought out
many members of the diplomatic corps
from the Southern countries, and
afterward the distinguished guests
were entertained at luncheon by the
pastor, Msgr. Cornelius F. Thomas.
. Unforgetable for Derns.
Secretary and Mrs. Dern had an
unforgetable day. En- route home from
the Philippines on the cruiser Ches-
ter. they put in at Wake Island, where
before only one white woman-wife of
a member of the air base installation
crew-had ever landed. The base is
maintained by Pan-American Airways
for its San Francisco Manila service,
and the only inhabitants are the crew.
A radio to the War Department told
of the event. The China Clipper,
winging by from Guam to Manila,
brought in the "makings" for the din
ner, which included turkey, fresh to-
matoes and ice cream.
Hundreds of persons were fed by
relief agencies here and representa-
tives of the Animal Protective Asso-
citation went through alleys and
around dumps, leaving food for stray
dogs and cats. Crumbs also were put
out for birds.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
REV. HUBERT SWEENEY
TO CONDUCT NOVENA

A novena in honor OF the I'm
maculate Conception win begin to-
morrow at the Immaculate Conception
Church, Eighth and N streets. Ser
mons will be preached twice daily
by Rev. Hubert Sweeney, C. p, at
the 1915 pm. mass and. at 7:45 pm.
On Sundays be will preach at 1915
and II O'Clock masses.
Sunday at pm. the Washing
ton Catholic Radio Hour will present
Rev. Ignatius Smith, who will preach
on 'Christ's Civilization Captures
Charity,
Evening star., 1935-11-29
D. c. MAN IS SHOT,;
|NNKEEPER BA|LED
Young Mechanics Helper Is
Near Death After Near.
by Shooting.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
GREATER CAPITOL HEIGHTS,
Md November 29-While Irving
Stewart, 23-year-old mechanics
helper of 627 Twelfth street northeast,
Washington, lay near death in Cas-
ualty Hospital today, Prince Georges
County police arrested the proprietor
of the beer garden on the Marlboro
pike at which he was shot shortly be-
fore last midnight.
The shooting climaxed a Thanks
giving party in which Stewart and II
of his friends participated. After
two members of the party told police
the proprietor of the establishment
fired the shot which lodged in
Stewards stomach, the officers ar
rested S. Bruce Hoyle "for investiga-
ton"
Released on Bond.
Hoyle denied firing the shot, saying
some one standing behind him was
responsible, according to Prince
Georges County Policeman Elon
Turner. He was released on $1,000
bond pending the outcome of Stewards
wounds. =
After quizzing the wounded mans
II friends who were held at the ninth
precinct in Washington after one of
them, George Marshall, 700 block of
Nineteenth street northeast, had
brought him to the hospital, Police
man Turner reported the shooting
was the outgrowth of an argument
over girl.
The 12 men, the officer said, left
Northeast Washington in two auto
mobiles early last night to celebrate
Thanksgiving by visiting Maryland
roadhouses. Their second stop was at
Bruce Inn" operated by Hoyle here,
according to the officer.
Ordered Not to Return.
When the argument started, the
policeman was told, four or five of
the men went outside. They claim
Hoyle ordered them not to come back,
and shot Stewart in brawl that fol-
lowed, Turner stated.
Hoyle claims, however, that he was
standing in the doorway when some
one behind him whom he could not
see fired the shot which hit Stewart.
The wounded man has been work
ing for the District Of Columbia Water
Department garage for the past few
months as an assistant to his father,
George Stewart, who is employed
there. Prior to that he spent several
months in a Civilian Conservation
Corps camp.
Hoyie was taken before Magistrate
Horace Taylor, who released him when
his brother furnished bail.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
HUNDREDS TO GET
Jobs ONPROJECTS
S4M,000. to Be Spent by
W. P. A. Here Endorsed
by McCarI.

Work for several hundred men on
relief rolls will be provided on jobs
at the National Geological Park, the
Army Medical Center and the Ma
tional Training School for Boys under
a 100000 w. P. A. program which
today received the approval of Con-
troller General McCarl.
Most of the work will be done at
the Zoo, on four projects with an ex-
penditure Of 1884, 1888 for improvement
and general repairs. The largest
single item, 1929, 9,632, will provide for
construction of new buildings and new
animal cages, as well as repairing
some of the old equipment. Other ex-
penditures itemized for the Zoo are
$50. .602 for repairs to drains and
sewers, $24.872 for construction and
repair Of roads and walks and $13,-
S32 to provide stone for the con-
struction of new buildings.
At, the Army Medical Center, Wal
ter Reed Hospital, manual labor jobs
viii be provided as follows: $16,752
for grading and building tennis courts;
$17,604, tree planting and landscaping,
and $9,802 for painting the interior
and exterior of the main building.
Two separate projects are provided
for the National Training School for
Boys on the Bladensburg road. One
of $18,49l will provide principally for
grading the main athletic field and
six Fairgrounds. This work will be
executed by the Department of Play
grounds of the District. The second
item, $21, ,497, is for landscaping and
generally improving the grounds and
approaches to the Institution.
As approved by the President, the
total program will provide for $4l9, ,064,
so that the amount ordered released
by Controller General McCarl win re-
quire the Commissioners to effect
economies Of $4,000 in carrying out
the work.
Evening star., 1935-11-29

~ can now tune in" on any
prison break plots which might de-
velop at the penal institution.
Through a mechanical ear designed
and installed by one of the prisoners
the slightest sound in any one of the
18 dormitories or other important
gathering places in the prison can be
heard clearly in Col. Peaks Office.
The mechanical ear" also func-
tions as an entertainment feature for
the prisoners and officers.
Made up of three separate receiving
units, the set can be tuned in to three
outside broadcasting stations at the
same time and the prisoners can take
their pick of them. Programs are
selected by the largest number of re-
quests.
Make Requests to Guard.
Suppose prisoners in certain dor
mitory want to hear the play-by- play
description of foot ball game. they
make their requests to the captain of
the guard. At the same time other
dormitories can be listening to an
other favorite program.
Although the set is constructed so
that Col Peak can address every man
in the place at one time, his first
broadcast over the station will not be
until Christmas day, when he plans
to deliver his greetings to prisoners
and employees.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
RETIRED ELECTRICIAN,
JOHN A. FUSE, DIES
District Repair Shop Employe, rs.
Was Resident of Washington
Since Childhood.

John A. Fuse. rs, retired electrician
of the District Repair Shop and a
resident of this city since childhood,
died yesterday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Mary Greenberg, 7l2
Otis place, after short illness.
Mr.. Fuse was a member of the Asso-
citation of Oldest Inhabitants of the
District of Columbia.
A native Of Baltimore, he came to
this city with his parents when years
old. He was retired from the Repair
Shop i've years ago.
: Besides his daughter. Mrs. Green
berg, he leaves q son, John r. Fuse.
Funeral services viii be held tomorrow
at 2 pm, at the daughters residence.
Burial WILL be in Gleuwood. Cemetery.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
DEMANDS JURY TRIAL
D. G. Man Accused of Negligent
Homicide.

Joseph H. Chick. 1923 New Jer-
sey avenue southeast, pleaded not
guilty and demanded jury trial when
arraigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt
In Police Court today on charge
Of negligent homicide.
Chick previously had been held by
a eoronerls jury, as the result of an
accident on November % in which
he is said to have struck and killed
Richard. Good. 488 L street souths
west, at Seventh and. Water streets
snilthHeat.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
VETERAN FILE CLERK,
"UNCLE ALBERT" DIES
45 Years Service With D. C. su.
preme Court without Loss of
Day Recently Observed.

Albert j. Farley, venerable colored
file clerk at the District Supreme
Court-"Uncle Albert" to hundreds of
local lawyers-died yesterday at his
home, l248 Jackson street northeast.
It was only a few days ago that he
celebrated Is years of continuous
service at the court, during which he
did not miss q single day from work.
Several years ago he initiated the
fiat filing system" now used in keep
ing records Of the court.
Funeral arrangements are awaiting
arrival here of his son-in-law, Harry
Burley, well-known singer.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
Stuck at Tunnel,
''Winnie Mae,'' - on
Way Here, Rerouted
BY the Associs ted Press.

BY the AsSoclstec Press.
The late Wiley Posts globe
circling airplane Winnie Mae
found a passage it could not
navigate on its last trip.
En- route to a final landing at
the Smithsonian Institution here
aboard a freight car the Winnie
Mae stuck at the entrance of a
tunnel near Baltimore. Institu-
ton officials were advised the
ship and car would be rerouted
to Washington through West
Virginia.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
FORMER PASTOR DIES
Rev. q. S. Thomas Served With
Centennial Baptist Church.

Rev. q. s. Thomas, retired Baptist
minister who at one time was pastor
of the Centennial Baptist Church
here, died yesterday in Washburn,
Tenn, after long illness, according
to an Associated Press dispatch. He
was "a. - -s...-,-.....
The Omaha guide., 1935-07-13
Jones Announces Free
Pamphlets on Negro
Affairs; Etc.

Washington, July II, (ANP)-The
Negro Affairs Division of the Bur
eau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, Department of Commerce,
has just made public "The Negro in
Business-1935" (Bibliography).
This pamphlet contains lists Of
books, pamphlets and magazine ar
ticles dealing with various phases of
Negro business and the Negro mar
ket- While the 1885 photography
lists about twice as many books and
articles as the 1884 edition it is not
claimed to be exhaustive. However,
a serious effort was made to list all
available data bearing on the sub
ject.
To persons who desire to enter
business, to those who wish to in
crease their sales, and to students
and individuals wishing to explore
the business field, this photography
will prove to be Of value,
AIso from n Negro Affairs Di-
vision are: q) A list Of Negro
Newspapers and Periodicals in the
United States Revised July 1,
1880, containing informative data
on newspapers, magazines, press
services, and school bulletins, etc.
90 Convention Dates" Of Negro or
ganizations-1935, giving the time
and place Of conventions to be held
and the name and address of officials
IN charge Of correspondence. (3) A
list Of Negro aviators, kept up to
date with the aid Of the Bureau Of
Air Commerce.
These lists viii be distributed free.
on request to Eugene Kinckle Jones.
Adviser on Negro Affairs, Depart
| ment Of Commerce.
The Omaha guide., 1935-07-13
Pete Peaches and Duke
Apain HOnOred
Famous Dancers to Instruct
Worlds Greatest Dance Mast
ers at Congress in New York.
By David Kane

by OdN1u hdue
New York City, July 8-Once
again a group Of our stage person
alities have been honored on
Broadway. This time it is the
dancing act Of Pete-Peaches
and Duke, present stars Of "Con-
MES Hot Chocolates Of 1885,"
and often referred to as the
worlds greatest precision dane
erS.
The honor conferred upon
them here this week by Miss Lu-
Gle Stoddard white, Information
ally famed instructor Of terpsi-
chorean art, is an appointment to
the faculty staff Of the Internati-
Onal Dance congress which is to be
held at the Paramount Hotel,
Broadway and 46th Street, for
one week beginning July Z.
To Introduce New Dance -.
This IS considered as quite an
honor for anyone on Broadway,
so far as the theatrical colony is
concerned, and when the honored
person, or persons, belong to the
Negro race the prestige scars
doubly high. Only on two other
occasions has this happened ac-'
cording to Miss Stoddarts state
ment, the persons being Bill Robi-
son and Carlos.
The Get-to-Gether on July z,
will mark the fifth year Of the
International Dance Congress, an
idea conceived by Miss Lucille
Stoddard as a means Of asSembl-
ing the leading dance masters of
the world for the purpose Of ac-
quiring new dance material. The
striking slogan Of the meet is:
"The dance material you need
tomorrow you must get today
During the Congress Pete
Peaches and Duke will exhibit
some Of the steps used in the
present routine Of their act. They
will also present for the first
time an original set of terpsicho-
rean antics which they have tab
bed "Harlemogracy."
The big events will last from
July 7 until July Is inclusive,
and for this occasion managing
director Stoddard has selected
twenty other outstanding stylist
in dancing, which includes Sal
vatore, Fe Alf, Constantin Kobe
left, Johephine Royle, Alan De
Sylvia, Kotchetovsky and Ludwig
Lefebrem. More than seven hun
dred dance instructors are ex-
pected to attend the Congress this
year.
The Omaha guide., 1935-07-13
Convict Cage on Coast
to Coast Tour

New York, July 11,-With every
horrible detail complete, a 12-foot-
long replica of the cage in which
chain-gang prisoners are forced to
live, left here last week on the first
lap of a coast-to-coast tour under the
auspices of the International Labor
Defense. The cage is mounted on a
truck. Angelo Herndon, ~22-year-old
Negro leader Of the Atlanta unem-
ployed, sentenced to serve Is to 20
years on the Georgia chain-gang,
will also travel on a speaking tour,
and will appear in each city. At
the same time the /. L. D. announced
that a number of influential national
organizations have agreed to sponsor
the drive to gather two million sig
natures 10 a petition to Governor
Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, asking
the freedom Of Herndon and asking
also that the ancient "slave ~insurrec-
ton" law under which he was in
dicted, be wiped off the statute
books.
Included among the organizations
sponsoring the petition for Herndon's
freedom, T the League for Indus
trial Democracy, the American Civil
Liberties Union, the Southern Tenant
Farmers Union, with headquarters
in Memphis, the Share Choppers
Union, the National Unemployment
Council, the American League
Again-t War and Fascism, the Ma
tional Student League, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and the Com
munist Party. The Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters has agreed to
obtain 100, 900 signers. Hundreds Of
other organizations, including unions,
churches, 10 dges, and fraternal
groups, are expected to take part in
the petition campaign.
To Display Convict Cage.
The truck bearing the convict cage
viii stop in evry large city for a
mass meeting. 1t will carry Donald
Burke, up to recently, District Organ
izer of the /. L. D. in Massachusetts,,
and Mrs. Alice Burke. In each city
the convict cage will be on display to
the public.
Herndon will open his speaking
tour in Detroit He will travel there
from st. Louis, where he will address
the 18th annual conference of the Ma
The Omaha guide., 1935-07-13
Prejudice Against
Negroes Bars Advance
By REID ].

This publication learned from a
highly authoritative source today
that Joe Louis, the black "Jack
Dempsey" has been "ruled OUT after
a secret New York c~onclave, and will
be denied the chance to win the
worlds heavyweight championship.
Louis already has been advised
that he cannot have a crack at ames
j. Braddock this year. While the
latter will defend his newly won hon
ors in the Summer Of 1886, the chal-
lenger will not be Louis but either
Max Schmeling or Max Baer. Brad
dock may fight the negro after he
loses the title.
Your correspondent has been in
formed there are two paramount
reasons WHY LOUIS WILL NOT BE
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION.
First of ali he is colored, and
while ace prejudice is dying a slow
death, the Louis cause viii not be
championed by the powers-that-be
in New York boxing.
More important is the fact that
John Roxborough and Julian Black,
who are Negroes, manage Louis and
refuse to cut in fixers and politicians.
The New York crowd might stand for
a Negro heavyweight champion
but they won't stand idle and allow
the colored managers to take the
other part Of the cut without split
it.
Roxborough and Black are associ-
ated with the lucrative policy crack
ct" in this section. They are far more
than the vast majority Of Ne
groes who have been identified with