Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1935, Page 19

Washington News REVOLVER TESTED FOR FINGERPRINTS IN LYNCK DEATH Phone Operator and Kappel Reported to Have Had Quarrel. SCENE IN RESTAURANT DAY BEFORE TRAGEDY Detectives Check Movements of Kappel and Cullen, Friends of Bullet Victim. A snub-nosed revolver found near the body of Miss Elizabeth R. Lynch, 35, Potomac Electric Power Co. switch- board operator who was discovered shot through the head yesterday at her home, 918 Fourth street northeast, was being examined for fingerprints | today as investigators worked on a | murder theory. Detectives also checked the move- | ments of Wililam A. (Dutch) Kappel, | 34, close friend of the slain woman, and Leo T. Cullen, 31, who are being held for the coroner pending an in- quest. | Quarrel in Restaurant. Another angle being considered was & rumor that Miss Lynch, Kappel and Cullen were seen in a restaurant in | the 120¢ block of New York avenue | about 11 p.m. Tuesday. They were said to have been drinking. During the time they were there, the woman and Kappel are understood to have engaged in a violent argument after which Miss Lynch is said to have left alone. | Kappel, a roomer at the Fourm; street residence, admitted ownership of the .38-caliber revolver used to take | Miss Lynch’s life when questioned at | police headquarters yesterday. T Both he and Cullen, who lives at 718 Fourth street northeast, declared | the first they knew of the operator's | death was when they called at her | home and found her sprawled on the | kitchen floor with a bullet hole in her cheek. Evidence of Struggle. A smashed chair in'the kitchen gave eredence to the belief that Miss Lynch may have engaged in a struggle before she was killed. Physicians revealed, however, that | the woman's body bore no marks of violence except a few bruises on her legs. There were no powder burns on Miss Lynch’s face, indicating the bullet, which entered her left cheek and passed into her brain, must have been fired at a distance. Both Kappel, who said jhe-is em- ployed as an iceman, and Cullen, a | pressman on & morning newspaper, have been arrested a number of times since boyhood. Kappel, who has been living at Miss Lynch’s home since her father died about six months ago, told police he was out with the attractive brunette | the night before she was found dead. | Left at Door of Home. He took her home shortly before | midnight, officers quoted him as say- | ing, and then left when she refused | to let him come into the house. | Kappel said he picked up Cullen and together they visited several “clubs,” returning to Miss Lynch’s home about 6 a.m. When they dis- covered the body, Kappel said they immediately called police and notified them of the shooting. ‘When police arrived at the home they found the woman lying on her left side, her head pointing toward the kitchen deor. The revolver lay near her feet and close by was the broken | chai Detectives pointed out the chair| was too sturdy to have been smashed by the woman as she fell. | No Suicide Evidence. According to friends of Miss Lxach | she had been in good health and did | not appear worried when she went to work Tuesday at the power company’s service station at Tenth street and Florida avenue, where she had been employed 10 years. No notes were found in the house after the shooting, and nothing has heen uncovered to indicate the woman may have taken her own life. Questioned yesterday after being closeted with detectives for more than an hour, Coroner A. Magruder Mac- Donald said he didn't believe it was | & suicide case. The inquest will be held probably tomorrow. LOW-COST HOUSING CONFERENCE CALLED Central Labor Union Committee Sets Parley December 10 in Behalf of Program. The Washington Central Labor Union Committee on Rents and Low- Cost Housing has called a city-wide conference for December 10 in be- half of its program, it was announced today by Henry Rhine, the secretary. - The meeting will be held at 1412 X street. The items to be discussed include rent and housing regulation and a housing construction program. The announcement said 40 locals are interested in the movement. Among those invited to speak are John Locher, president of Central Labor Union and secretary of the Building Trades Council, and E. C. Babcock, president of the American Federation of Government Employes. The chairman of the conference will be Willlam W. Keeler, former president of Central Labor Union, Licensed to Marry. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., November 28 (Special).—Marriage licenses have been issued here to the following: Eugene K. Kooser, 23, and E. Ger- Fixx, 20, both of Clarendon; Ernest Thomas Bradley, 26, and Ethel Edna Cockrell, 29, both of Arlington; Roger Winfield Presgrave, 31, of Hern- don, and Kathleen Adrian, 27, of Lyon ‘Village; Walter Moore Stewart, 23, of Virginia Highlands, and Mildred May Dewey, 20, of Ballston; Albert James , 34, and Violet Roberta Haney, both of Washington, Top Hat and Tails Stir Police Court; Singer Goes Free Man Who Caroled Not Wisely, but Too Well, Wins Probation. The strains of “Pagliacci,” sung with the fervor of an opera star on Con- necticut avenue at 3:30 a.m. today, led to the arrest of top-hatted Graydon Griffin, 28, of 1539 Eighteenth street. Griffin, an employe of the Recon- struction Finance Corp., caused a stir in Police Court today when he ap- peared in formal full dress. Judge Isaac R. Hitt listened intently to Officer W. E. Brennan's story of finding Griffin seated in an automobile near a downtown hotel, drowning the night with his song. “At first I thought it was a radio,” Brennan said, “then I found the de- fendant in a parked car.” Unable to furnish collateral, Griffin was lodged at third precinct station for the rest of the night. After friends interceded, Judge Hitt released the singer on his personal bond “not to repeat the offense.” The holiday otherwise made little 1 difference to Judge Hitt, who released only a few persons, fining the others from $5 to $100. CITIZENS DAY LIST TRANGIT TROUBLES Roberts Wants Ail Com- plaints at One Time for Use at Hearing. Seeking specific statements of com- | paints about service rendered by the Capital Transit Co., People’s Counsel William A. Roberts has prepared a | questionnaire on street car and bus operation which he is sending to citi- zens' associations for action. His objective is to file the replies at the forthcoming public hearing be- fore the Public Utilities Commission about the middle of December, when the service of the company will be reviewed. “There is no dispute that large sums of money have been spent in efforts to improve the operating sys- tem of the transit company,” he wrote civic bodies. “There can likewise be no dispute of the fact that the serv- ice is inadequate and is unsatisfactory to many who must use it. Wants All Complaints at Once. “It is most important that all of the complaints and suggestions which mission at this particular hearing, as it is prejudicial to the morale of the employes of the it company as well as to the convenience of the public to have constant shifting in methods of operation.” He asked that complaints be filed directly with his office, Room 502, District Building. The blank forms list the following points: 1. Overloading. Show the number of persons in vehicle and the number of seats. 2. Off schedule. time and actual time, was omitted. 3. Dangerous operation. Describe in detail; state whether exceptional or frequent. 4. Cleanliness. Describe in detail; state whether exceptional or frequent. Personnel Included. 5. Personnel. This heading covers discourtesy, inefficiency or lack of training of personnel. Please state specific instances. 6. Routes. Designation of present routg; portion of route for which change is desired. Name streets and part of day if split route is desired. 7. Stops and platforms. Name lo- cations and route designation, and change desired, and reasons for change. 8. Equipment. Arrangement of seats, hand-holds and exits; venti- lation and heating. 9. One-man cars. If opposed, state reasons; if agreeable on some routes, specify routes, R = Show scheduled State if trip 'GAS ACCIDENT KILLS SAMUEL J. HALL, 50 Bank Clerk Changes Sleeping Room—Heater Flame Is Extinguished. Escaping gas from & heater in the room to which he moved just last night caused the death early today of Samuel J. Hall, 50, of 2943 Macomb street. His body was found by his wife, Mrs. Louella W. Hall, who said her husband had retired about 2 a.m. and, in order not to be disturbed, slept in a room ordinarily occupied by a boarder who had left the house for the Thanksgiving holiday. According to Stanley W. Hall, son of the dead man, a small gas heater had recently been installed in the room to replace a faulty steam radi- ator. He said his father had either turned on the gas and thought it was lighted or the flame blew out during the night, since a window was open a small space near the heater. A certificate of accidental death was issued by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. Mr. Hall has been a clerk in the National Metropolitan Bank for the last year. He is survived only by his widow and the son, an attorney living at 1511 Irving street. CLUB GIVEN CHARTER Sperryville Rotary Group Is For- mally Organized. By the Associated Press. . WARRENTON, Va., November 28— A charter for a Sperryville, Va., Rotary Club was presented at a din- ner attended by Rotarians and their wives from Luray, Culpeper, Front Royal, Orange, Warrenton, Harrison- burg, New Market and Staunton. Speakers at the dinner included Dr. Vincent Spitler, Luray club; Willlam. McC. Paxton of Norfolk, district governor; Rev. Syl- Green of Richmond and Rev. l Chelf, . are available be offered to the com-| he Zp WASHINGTON, D. KILLEEN SLAYER'S HEARING SLATED FOR NEXT WEEK Woman Will Appear in Rock- ville Court on Charge of Murder. SPECIAL GRAND JURY LIKELY TO GET CASE Wilson Killing Also Would Be Considered at Session on December 4. Mrs. Lillian Maddox, 35-year-oid confessed slayer of Edward V. (Eddie) Killeen, will be arraigned in Police Court at Rockville next Thursday for a preliminary hearing on the charge that she murdered the reputed over- lord of Washington gambling. Attorneys for the woman who shot and killed Killeen last Saturday at Brookmont, Md., conferred with State’s Attorney James H. Pugh late yesterday and fixed the date on which she will be taken before Judge Harold C. Smith, Montgomery County police justice. Special Jury Likely. Pugh declared today that if the woman is held for the grand jury the case probably will be presented before that body at the special session which | he contemplates calling for December 4 to dispose of the Allen B. Wilson murder of more than a year ago. Investigators who claim to have defi- nitely linked four racketeers now under arrest with the “mistaken identity” killing of Wilson, route agent for a | Washington newspaper, had been with- holding the Wilson case from the grand jury while attempting to connect Kil- | leen with the slaying. Another attempt to bring Killeen's name into the Wilson case was made | by police last night when they searched | the basement of the slain gambler's | home at Brookmont for a secret vault, ! hoping to find records of Killeen's | operations and to uncover, if possible, documentary evidence that might con- nect him with the Wilson murder. Reported by Woman. A woman whose name police refused to disclose reported existence of the vault to State’s Attorney James H. Pugh last night, but a thorough search of the premises failed to disclose it and police said that if there had been such a vault it has been removed. The woman told authorities that one of Killeen's lieutenants had once lived at the home and that the wife of | Killeen's aid had shown her the vault several years ago. ‘Wilson ‘was murdered by gangsters | lying in wait for “Mickey” McDonald, | well-known Washington gambler, in | front of the latter'’s home at Takoma Park, Md,, in October, 1934. Slayers Hired. Police said that the slayers had been hired by “some one higher up” to murder McDonald and it was known | that McDonald and Killeen were at | odds, McDonald having “muscled in” on Killeen's gaming operations in the Capital. Mrs. Maddox, in a signed confession made to police on the night after the Killeen slaying, declared she had shot Killeen in self-defense and it is said by her attorneys that they will pro- duce witnesses who will prove the gambling overlord had made several prior attempts to kill her. The woman is being held without bond in the Rockville jail pending the preliminary arraignment next week. D. C. CATHOLIC ALUMNAE CONVENES DECEMBER 7 Right Rev. Patrick J. McCormick to Be Guest Speaker at Chapter Meeting. Right Rev. Patrick J. McCormick, Ph. D, dean of the Catholic Sisters College, recently appointed acting rece tor of Catholic University, will be guest speaker at the thirteenth annual con- ference of the District Chapter of In- ternational Federation of Catholic Alumnae at the Willard Hotel De- cember 7, | The conference will be addressed also by Rev. Maurice 8. Sheehy, Ph. D., Mrs. William H. Connell, jr., president of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, and Henry I. Quinn, member of the Board of Education. Mrs. Lewis A. Payne, governor of the chapter, will preside and make the ad- dress of welcome. Committee chairmen for the conference include Miss Kath- ryn E. Bowers, arrangements; Mrs, Clarence W, Lee, patroness; Miss Eliz- abeth J. Dolan, reception; Mrs. J. E. Colliflower, credentials; Miss Anna May Ryan, resolutions; Miss Florence O’Donnoghue, rules of order; Miss Genevieve Finzel, audit; Miss Kathryn E. Bowers, pages; Miss Mary Catheripe Connéll, pennants, and Miss Ann P. Brosnan, music. RIFLE ASSOCIATION HITS PROPOSED FIREARMS BAN Editorial in Official Publication to Cite Existing Laws in Answer to Cymnflnp Plan. By the Associated Press. The American Rifieman, publication of the National Rifle Association, has announced that its December issue | day Detective James F. Boswell, also | | dence with speeding, no permit and dead tags. will express editorial opposition to Attorney General Cummings’ sugges- tion for a national law regulating use of firearms. Quoting the Attorney General as saying “The underworld is armed to the teeth,” the publication comments: “He has so far neglected to tell the American people that the theft of Federal property is already amply covered by Federal law—that the use of firearms in connection with resist- Ing arrest by s Federal officer, or the robbery firearm into any Federal penal insti- tution; the Interstate flight of any person to avoid prosecution for mur- der * * * and other felonies—all are already subject to Federal arrest and Pprosecution.” ”l e, ening ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING Star THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1935. “But the Greatest of These Is Charity” TWO ARE INJURED | WHEN AUTO SKIDS Policeman Critically Hurt. Detective Exonerated _ in Girl’s Death. Injured when his car overturned as it skidded around a curve on the new Mount Vernon-Richmond Highway last night, Policeman William C. C.i ‘Wrenn, 34, of the twelfth precinct, was in a critical condition at the Alex- andria Hospital today. He received a severe dislocation of the neck. Mrs. Mary Collins, 2123 K street, passenger in Wrenn's machine, suf- | fered fractured ribs and body bruises. Her| daughter, Frances Collins, 18, an- other occupant of | the car, escaped v injury. The accident occurred early in © the evening about & mile north of | ” Mount Vernon. Wrenn, who was off duty at the time, lives at| 1907 K street. | WG Earlier yester- of the twelfth precinct, was exoner- ated by a coroner’s jury in the death of Virginia Donnelly, 16, killed July 28 when a motorcycle collided with Boxwell's car at Bladensburg and Queens Chapel roads northeast. Death Held Accident. ‘The inquest had been delayed four months because of the disability of James Parker, 18, of 18 Seventh | street southeast, driver of the motor- cycle, on which Miss Donnelly was riding. Parker suffered a fractured leg and was released from the hospital only last week. Testimony yesterday revealed Parker had driven his motor cycle onto Bladensburg road in the path of Boxwell's car. The jury held the| death an accident. In another traffic inquest yesterday Joseph Chick, 28, of 1123 New Jersey avenue southeast, was held under the negligent homicide act for action of the Police Court. Chick was driver | of the car which struck and killed Richard Good, 60, colored, 488 L street southwest, late Saturday night. Evi- indicated Chick’s car was traveling at an excessive rate of | speed. Traffic accidents late last night re- sulted in minor injuries to Clarence Stanley Garrison, 55, of 1016 Six- teenth street; Richard A. Bischoff, 23, of 1509 Sixteenth street, and Miss Frances Gordon, 22, of 1717 R street. Garrison was struck while walking across Pennsylvania avenue at Four- teenth street by a car driven by Charles W. Sorrell, 31, of 216 Eighth street southwest. Sorrell took Gar- rison to Emergency Hospital, where he was treated for cuts and bruises on the head. Bischoff and Miss Gordon were oc- cupants of a car which collided at Constitution avenue and Fourteenth street with a car driven by James A. Page, 29, of Walter Reed Hospital. They were treated at Emergency Hos- pital for cuts about the head and later released. Chase Wrecks Police Car. ‘Three traffic charges against Mason J. Baker, 31, 3000 block ‘Park place, were continued until tomorrow by Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Traffic Court today following Baker's arrest at 5 am. after a police car overturned while chasing him. He was charged Policemen Theodore Clow and David Orouch of the eleventh precinct said they chased Baker at 70 miles an hour on Naylor road southeast and, in at- tempting to stop him, struck a dirt shoufler which sent their automobile careening over a bank, turning over twice, Neither was seriously injured. NEW CALVERT SPAN OPENS DECEMBER 17 Ceremonies Between 7 and 9 P.M. to Dedicate Bridge—City Leaders to Speak. December 17 has been chosen as the date for formal opening and dedication of the new .Calvert street bridge, it was announced today by the Washington Board of Trade. The, ceremonies, at which Federal, District, business and ecivic leaders will speak, will be held between 7 Upper: Unemployed have a special Thanksgiving oreakfast at Gospel Mission. Lower: Baskets of food given out at Central Mission. Supt. John S, Bennett and Miss Roma Terry, secre- tary, attend to the distribution. BELATED CHEST RETURNS MADE Campaign Officials Are Con- tinuing Their Post-Cam- paign “Clean-up.” A number of belated returns in the Community Chest drive were acknowl- edged by Chest officials today as they continued their post-campaign “clean- up.” Director Herbert L. Willett, jr., has announced that gifts received up to December 5 will be counted in the final audit. Many of the campaign teams are striving to attain or exceed their quotas before that date. Among gifts received yesterday was an additional $100 from Mr. and Mrs. John St. Clair Brookes, jr., bringing | their pledge up to $150; $400 from Karl D. Loos, $100 from Butler, Pope, Bal- lard and Loos, $250 from Mr. and Mrs. George E. Hamilton, jr.; $40 from Mrs. Fred L. Chapin, $20 from Isadore Bres- Jaw, $30 from Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. ‘Wolf, additional pledge of $150 from the estate of Milton Hopfenmaier, making a total pledge of $500; pledge of $25 from the Sisterhood of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, ad- ditional pledge of $25 from Sigma Omega Pi and a $100 pledge from a New York firm which prefers to remain anonymous. New divisions in the governmental unit which reported 100 per cent or more of their quota yesterday are, with | their chairmen and percentage, follows: Mugic Division, Public Schools, A. H. Johnson, 104; Primary Instruction, Public Schools, Mrs. W. G. Mayer, 149; Production Credit, Farm Credit, Lyle D. Wylie, 100; Legal Division, Bureau of Customs, Arthur J. Edwards, 127; Scientific Research, Pyblic Health, Dr. L. R. Thompson, 104, and Quarter- master General, War Department, Wil- liam J. Kendrick, 100, DRY SUPPORT GAINS, as METHODISTS REPORT ==& Temperance Board Orders Re- sumption of Activities Dis- continued Recently. N By the Assoclated Press. The Methodist Board of Temper- ance, Prohibition and Public Morals, | 5o arch foe of repeal, reports “improved moral and rnaterial support” for its campaigns.” ‘The board meeting Tuesday found 11 a “strengthening” financial condition, | Doty and ordered resumption of some ef- forts, discontinued for lack of funds. “The secretaries of the board report profound dissatisfaction with 'present Federal and State liquor policies,” its statement said, “and estimate an in- i) crease’ of approximately 50 per cent Minnesp in dry voting strength.” A broadcaster’s -effort to “sound out” sentiment in regard to radio ad- vertising of spirituous liquors and 9 pm. on that date. Exercises are under the direction of a city- wide ttee. Half the bridge was opened to trafic about two months ago. Several civic and business organizations of the city will join with the Board of Trade in planning the eelebration, tacked “as a direct assault upon the Po overwhelming moral conviction of | Poi the Christian community and the rights of the American home.” ‘The board resolved to support legis- lation prohibiting block booking of motion pictures, and to Fed- was ix. e THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Rain this aft- | ernoon ending early tonight, followed | by fair tonight and tomorrow; colder | tonight, much colder tomorrow and tomorrow night; lowest temperature tonight about 44 degress; moderate southerly winds shifting to west or northwest early tonight. Maryland—Rain this afternoon and topight; colder tonight; tomorrow gen- erally fair and much colder in east; light rain changing to snow flurries and much colder in west portion. Virginia—Rain this afternoon, end- ing early night; colder tonight; tomor- row generally fair and much colder except snow flurries in extreme west | portion. West Virginia—Light rain, chang- ing to snow flurries and much colder | tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy and much colder, with snow flurries in east and extreme north portions. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear this morning. Report for Last 21 Hours, Yesterday-— emp. Baro. Temp. Baro. ns. Des. 1ns 30.15 Midnight - 53 30.03 3013 50 20.94 11 am.__. 63 20.82 “TZ255 2988 Record for Last 21 Hoars. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 63, 11 a.m. today. Year ago. | Lowest. 49. 5 a.m. today. Year ago, 51. Record Temperatures This Yeal, Highest, 95, on July 20. Lowest, ~2. on January 28, Tide Tables. (Purnished by the United States Coast and eodetic Survey.) { Today. | High 9:17 a.m. | Low 4:06 a.m. ai42 pm. 3:50 p.m. The Sun and Moon. | Sun, today Sun, 7 B Moon, - '9:30 am. 7:05 pam. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half bour after sunset. Precipitation, Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): 1935. Average. Record. 7 T388 T.09 327 68 [Ty Eahetid 3 | Djalal Undecided Whether BRSO D00 o inin B ot 83T5EZRIGR Weather in Various Cities T cTemvemture3 3 H g i £ Stations. Apilene, Tex..- 30,24 Albany, N, Y.ZJ 20'84 5 29.88 i &2 Chicago, TiI.__ Cincinnati, O ©Ohio 29, 09, S92, & Sl -t Culveston, rex. 3 iveston, Tex. Helena, _Mont._ 3¢ 44 & Huron.' 8. Dak._ 30.08 Indianapolis ___ 2068 Jacksonville,Fia. 30.02 xmku cllu.)lo. 20.92 SSSIS. >0 St SRS SRS | coroes9eoR0tRI LD 38BEEE e B R uEE! BESES! a0 —Star Staff Photos ARREST INSULTING 10 IRAN MINISTER to Protest Handcuffing in Traffic Row. Ghaffar Djalal, Minister to the United States from Iran, considers his arrest yesterday on a speeding charge in Elkton, Md., an insult, Mahmound | Taher, attache at the legation here said today. Calling from New York by long-dis- tance telephone, Djalal seemed angry, but did not say whether he will pro- test the incident through official chan- nels, it was learned. At any rate, nothing will be done until the Minis- | ter returns to Washington tomorrow or Saturday, Taher asserted. Handcuffed During Scuffle. Djalal was handcuffed during a | scuffie with Elkton police, an Associ- | ated Press dispatch stated. As soon as his diplomatic status was learned, however, he was released and lhe; charge dropped, even though his| chauffeur, William Collier, 28, pleaded | guilty. | Police Chief Jacob Biddle stopped Djalal's car after it allegedly passed through part of the town at an excessive speed. Biddle said he was pushed off the running board and the car continued on its way. “Acted to Avoid Trouble.” Calling on Constable Clayton Elli- . | son and George M. Potts fr assistance, Biddle stopped the car again. Then the scuffie began, to the accompani- ment of the barking of a dog in the rear seat. “He (Djalal) grabbed at my badge,” Biddle was quoted by the Associated Press with saying, “and then grabbed onto my tie and pulled it out of my vest. To avoid any trouble I told Constable Ellison to put his handcuffs on him.” : Mrs. Djalal was with the minister at the time. ——— ARCHIVES BUILDING STRIKE NEAR END Expect to Settle Differences Next | Week as Result of Latest Conference. A prediction that the strike of all union labor on the new Archives Build- ing will be settled early next week came today from reliable sources, fol- lowing a conference of interested parties. Union labor went on strike, with all mechanics being removed from the building, when a contractor installing stacks put on non-union labor after a Jurisdictional dispute between the iron- workers and the carpenters over the Jjob. The situation was discussed yesterday in conference between Government representatives, the contractor and labor leaders. Among those attending were Howard T. Colvin, conciliator of the Department of Labor; J. A. Walsh, United States construction engineer in charge of the Archives Building; John Locher, president of the Central Labor Union and secretary of the Washington Building Trades , and Emil Feterson, - Society and General PAGE B—1 FREEDOM ON BAIL DENIED MNEIL ON GULTY VERDICT Park Savings Assistant Cashier Convicted on Embezzlement Charge. NEW TRIAL IS ASKED; 4-YEAR TERM POSSIBLE Defendant’s Attempt ot Show Funds Came From Stock Market and Bets Fails to Impress Jury. The District Jail today held Bene- dict M. McNeil, 42-year-old assistant cashier of the defunct Park Savings Bank, who was found guilty last night of conspiring to steal and embezzle $50,000 of bank funds. Justice F. Dickinson Letts of District Supreme Court refused to admit Mc- Neil to bail pend- ing appeal of his conviction and disposition of a request for a new trial. Hisattorneys protested strenu- ously against the incarceration. Since indictment two and a half years ago, the for- mer bank official had been at lib- erty on $5000 bond. The jury took only an hour and B M MeNeil 10 minutes to decide the case, which was begun a week ago Tuesday. A great mass of evidence regarding com- plicated banking transactions, which at times plainly confused the jurors, was presented. Three blackboards were called into play to clarify the testie mony, and Assistant United States At torney John J. Wilson frequently re- ferred i nhis argument to the charts written on them 4-Year Term Possible. Conviction carried a possible penalty of four years' imprisonment and $20,000 fine. McNeil was charged with conspiring with his father, the late Alexander McNeil, real estate man, and Robert S. Stunz, executive vice president of the bank, to commit larceny of $50,000 and with conspiring with them for Stunz to embezzle the same $50,000, He was found guilty on both counts Stunz committed suicide in 1933, when it became evident the bank was wrecked, and the elder McNeil died in 1934 after pleading not guilty to the charge against him. Stock Profits Offer Defense. ‘Through 10 witnesses and 300 docu- ments, Wilson unfolded to the jury a story of record jugzling, dummy ace counts and fictitious credits and debits which extended from 1926 to the bank’s closing in 1933 As a defense, McNeil's attorneys at tempted to shift responsibility for ad- mitted irregularities to Stunz. Testi= fying in his own behalf, the defendant tried to explain credits to his account as profits from stock market excur- sions and bets on race horse: Wilson characterized Mc) 's case as “a cefense of race horses and dead men.” Three of the Government's Wwit- | nesses, who had been employes of the bank, testified as to McNeil's past good character, and the convicted man shook hands with them @& deputy United States marshals led him from the court room to the waiting jail van last night. McNeil showed little emotion when the verdict was announced. RE-ENLIST IN NAVY St. Louis and Helena Will Be Represented by Cruisers. St. Louis and Helena—by proxy— are about to re-enlist in the Navy and keep on seeing the world. Secretary Swanson said yesterday two lght cruisers now being built would be named for the Missouri and | Montena cities. The St. Louis is un- | der construction at Newport News, Va., and the Helena at New York. The new St. Louis will be the fifth | Navy vessel to bear that name; the Helena, the second. e |50-Year-old Pay Of Navy Workers Claimed by Few Money for Overtime in Yards in 1878-1882 Waits in Treasury. Although the last session of Con- gress authorized payment of long- pending claims for services performed by navy yard workers more than 50 years ago, apparently few of the claim- ants or their heirs are aware the money awaits them, according to & statement from the office of Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts, who sponsored the legislation. " The claims represent pay for over- time work performed in the navy yards from 1878 to 1882, and the bill to accomplish settlement was debated in Congress at intervals for many years before it passed. From the Washington Navy Yard there were 349 claims, amounting to $81,000. For all Navy Yards the total is $332,342.74, affecting 1,350 persons. The Walsh statement points out that, with the passage of the years, a considerable number of the original claimants have died, and that unless the heirs recall that their fathers, grandfathers, uncles or brothers worked in the Navy Yards between 1878 and 1882, and whether they are entitled to make application, a sub- stantial part of the appropriation made by Congress is likely to remain in the Treasury. Names of the claimants from Wash- ington, as well as those from the other Navy Yards of the country, are listed | in the bill whicjh Congress passed.