Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1935, Page 30

&0 RELIABLE 6", Vo '$INGLE ROOM/AND PRIVATE BATH A new hotel on 42nd Street 2 blocks east of Grand Central Station. HOTEL TUDOR NEW YORK'CITY ' PHE EVENING STAR PROBE CONTINUES IN LYNCH DEATH Coroner’s Jury Holds Kap- pel Despite Alibi by Witnesses. Investigation of the mysterious shooting of Miss Elizabeth R. Lynch, Potomac Electric Power Co. switch- board operator, went ahead today as William A. (Dutch) Kappel was com- mitted to the District Jail in connec- tion with her death. Satisfied temporarily with the ac- tion of a coroner’s jury which yes- terday ordered Kappel held for the grand jury on a first-degree murder charge, police are anxious to round up all loose ends in the case. Kappel, who is 34 and employed as an ice man, roomed st Miss Lynch's residence, 918 Fourth street north- east, where she was shot through the head last Wednesday. A .38-caliber revolver owned by Kappel lay near Miss Lynch's feet when he said he found her body. Close by was a shattered chair, indicating the woman had struggled with her murderer. Several friends of Kappel testified at | the inquest in an effort to prove he was at a New York avenue restaurant until 2 am. Wednesday and later visited other places before returning to the Fourth street house shortly after 6 o'clock that morning. | Testimony offered by a Casualty | Hospital physician tended to show Miss Lynch had been dead more than | three hours when her body was dis- covered. Definite rigor mortis led | police to believe the shooting took | “ Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SPANKED. ATRONS of a certain Wayside bakery may not know it, but they are being spanked. ‘The proprietor's wife let a favorite customer in on the story the other day, when the latter ordered a breakfast specialty which has been one of the main allurements of the shop for years. “We're not making them,” came the startling reply. “Why?"” asked the customer. “We're punishing people. They stopped buying them for a while. Now they want them again. They can wait until we're ready to make them.” * K ok K ENTERPRISE. A peddler to end peddlers is ez- actly what he was. “Lady,” he said with a smile at the irate housewife, “how would you Jike one of these ‘No Peddlers’ signs?” It was a deal. STEIN SONG. ICKIE, who is 8 years old, became seized of three things at one time, his father's typewriter, thoughts lishment, hard on the heels of a tip from a paid informer. They arrived just in time to witness the flight of the tipster, pursued by an irate colored woman. Losing ground rapidly, the latter hurled a drinking glass at the head of her quarry. Her aim was true. The glass crashed against the head of the informer, shattered and fell to the street. No evidence was found in the place which would convict the woman, so | she paid only 85 on a charge of | breaking glass in the street. * % X *x CONFLICT. AT THE country place of Dr. W. W. Stewart, near Forestville, Md. there is a fish pond whose denizens include big mouth bass, frogs and snakes. It strikes the owner that every- | thing on a farm possessing animal | life preys upon those of weaker varieties. Recently, by way of proof, he was near the pond looking for | snipe, when he saw one fluttering | in the water. He was at a loss to understand what it was all about. An investigation revealed a big frog struggling with the little bird. Not far from the pond two turkeys were LECTURER HAILLS DESERT DWELLERS Inhabitants of Wastelands Dominant in Civilization, Says Dr. Shreve. People like to live in deserts, Dr. Forrest Shreve of the Carnegie Insti- tution’s Desert Laboratory staff at Tucson, Ariz., seid here last night in an address at the institution’s assem- bly hall. For centuries, he said, the nations dominant in human progress occupled desert or semi-desert regions, and civilized man “has now begun to re- turn to the desert.” Dr. Shreve pointed out that, before the seventh century of the Christian era no important cultures developed in the wooded and rainy parts of the Old World. Cites Astecs and Incas. At the time of the discovery of the Americas, the highest civilizations were found, not in the Mississippi or Ama- zon River Valley, but in the arid plateaus of Mexico and Peru, he said. “The thorough exploration of the world, the settlement of new lands and the rapid growth of population again have brought us to the edge of the desert, not looking out at more promising lands, but looking in and appraising it as a place to live,” Dr. Shreve continued. “It is one of the last unoccupied lands, one of the last outlets for the growing masses of hu- manity. In South Africa and Austra- lia the frontiers have been gradually \SHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1935. pushed into regions once regarded as uninhabitable.” In the United States, Dr. Shreve said, there has been a 'slackening in the growth of population in some Northeastern States for the last 30 years and a corresponding growth in States with little rain and much sun- shine. “The desert settler of today,” he said,” “has countless adventages over the anclents and has innumerable contrivances that help in the adjust- ment of his life to conditions of the desert.” Drama for Manchukuo. Helen Jacobs Recovering. LONG CRENDON, England, Dee cember 4 (#)—Helen Jacobs is conva. lescing from s slight touch of influ= enza, she said today. She hopes to be up and about in a few days and plans to resume hunting, of which she had become an enthusiastic dev- Japanese dramatic companies are |otee. The tennis champion is a guest touring Manchukuo. AMERICAN AMOCO GAS | at the home of Ambassador Binghams. 5l Wmfer- conditioned For Quicker Starting ... Stop at this sign of greater values for Amoco-Gas or Orange American Gas. Both are specially conditioned for winter driving. Both start quicker--run smoother and cost you less. A 0o I L C. O M P A N Y place before 3 am. Wednesday. Among witnesses who substantiated Kappel's account of his movements were Leo Cullen, 718 Fourth street northeast, who said he was with | Kappel between 12:30 a’m. and 6 am. | Wednesday. Denny Sothern, former National League base ball player, cor- roborated Kappel's declaration he re- turned to the New York avenue restau- rant less than an hour after he took Miss Lynch home, at about 11:30. Witnesses appeared somewhat un- certain of the time Kappel left the | restaurant and returned when cross- | examined by Assistant District Attor- | ney Allen Krouse. Detective Sergt. John Dalglish, who is in charge of the investigation, said | he had talked with a taxi driver who claimed to have picked up Kappel early Wednesday. The driver said he was hired about 12:20 am. at Fourth and H streets northeast and drove to the New York | avenue restaurant. POLICE AS.SUCIATION | ELECTS C. A. STROBEL Veronica Devlin Wins Vice Presi- | dency—Kerns Receives 839 Votes. Pvt. Charles A. Strobel last night was elected president of the Police- | men’'s Association and Policewoman Veronica Devlin, the*first woman can- | didate for office in the association, was chosen second vice president. THO IMPORTANT QSTIONS a0y @ When you send out your clothes to be cleaned, ask yourself these two important questions: 1. "Does my dry cleaner know his business?™ 2. "Does he use the most modern cleaning methods?™ If YOU can't answer these questions about THIS estal lishment, won't you give U order to clean your clothes “the SANITONE way!” Miss Devlin. Pvt. Strobel. Strobel defeated Sergt. R. B. Car- | roll for the presidency by a vote of { 661 to 380. Miss Devlin defeated Pvt. | W. A. Schotter of the Traffic Bureau by a vote of 585 to 437. The new pres- ident broadcast a message of appre- ciation after hearing of his election. Other officers elected were: Detec- tive Sergt. John C. Dalglish, first vice president; W. J. Kerns, recording sec- retary; J. L. Kiefer, financial secre- tary; W. H. McGrath, treasurer, and W. J. Wagner, trustee. Kerns, in being elected recording secretary, received 839 votes, the highest vote to be re- ceived by a candidate. Wo W DWARD & LoTHROP —The Christmas Store - ) e Cleanser Astringent Skin Tonic Powder Base SATINMESH . .. four-way beauty aid. See your way to béauty through a rose-colored liquid . . . just a single preparation, yet it is designed to cleanse and revitalize the skin . .. to act, too, as a powder base. A lubricant to avert dryness. Satinmesh is delightful to use . . . and so economical. S| $].25 TOILETRIES, AISLE 16, FRsT FLOOR. of Christmas and a poetic urge. ‘The result follows: Christmas Morning. 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