Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1935, Page 7

TWO YOUTHS HELD IN CAR THEFT RING D. C. Pair Plead Guilty to Taking Auto—Bonids Fixed at $15,000. ‘Two Washington youths, accused of being members of an automobile theft ring operating here and in several Southern States, were arraigned today before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage, pleaded guilty to the theft of an automobile and were held in $15,000 bond for grand Jury action. ‘The youths, Joe Curtice and Charles Eddie Smith, were arrested about 10 days ago in Florida after Washington detectives and Justice Dep§rtment op- eratives uncovered the ing, which operated out of Statesyille, N. C. One other man, Ernie R. Rogers, was arraigned several days ago and held under the same bond. Detec- tives now are in Statesville tracing other members of the ring. Smith and Curtice, also known as Jack Smith and Jack Tyler, were charged specifically with transporting a stolen car from Washington to Gretna, Va. The complainant in the case was H. H. McKee, special agent of the Justice Department Bureau of Investigation. Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, who revealed the discovery of the ring| about two weeks ago, estimated that | the theft of more than 100 automobiles | belonging to Washingtonians would be | solved with the arrest of the ring| members. | TROPHY AWARDED TO LEGIONNAIRE Alfred A. Picchione Honored for Outstanding Service to Organization, Alfred A. Picchione of the Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15, American Legion, was unanimously awarded the Watson B. Miller Trophy last night by action of the department Ex- ecutive Commit- tee of the Ameri- can Legion which held its monthly meeting in the board room of the District Building. De - partment Comdr. J. O'Conner Rob- erts presided. Maj. Paul Mc- Gahan, past de- partment cnm‘; cander, an 4 chairman of the A A Piechione. Trophy and Awards Committee, made the report of his committee which was unanimous for Comrade Pic- chione. The trophy wil be presented later. It is awarded annually to the legion- naire for outstanding service to the | Legion. -— $50,000 SUIT FILED Woman Asks Damages for Her Daughter, Hit by Auto. Mrs. Nelle Howe Duncan, 1624 Maryland avenue northeast, filed suit | in District Supreme Court yesterday on behalf of her daughter, Madeline M. Duncan, for $50,000 damages from Ira Matz, 2121 New York avenue, for injuries sustained in an automobile accident. ‘Through Attorneys Cyril S. Law- rence and Lester Wood, the mother claims her daughter was seriously in- Jjured when struck by a car driven by Matz near Beltsville, Md., February 22, 1934, CHARWOMAN RETIRED ‘The Government retired Maria Gor- don, aged charwoman at Police Court, yesterday and the other employes of the court furnished her with a rock- ing chair. She had been employed in the Police BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. Four times a day as she “sails through the air with the greatest of ease” the diminu- tive adagio dancer not only defies the laws of gravity and of chance, but a Jinx which would keep a more super- stitious person cowering by the fire- side, afraid the roof might fall in. Twice during her routine she leaves the hands of two partners to hurtle with cannonshot speed 15 feet above the hard boards of the Earle stage, to lend safely in the arms of another partner across the way—if luck is kind. In the lurid language of the pulp magazines, the hex she flouts might be called “The Curse of the Ship- stones,” a streak of bad luck which has taken a toll of 10 personal trage- dies since—however irrelevant the connection, the day a Hindu voodoo doctor put a curse on her grandfather. Curse Is Invoked. The Rev. Mr. Shipstone, Peggy Taylor's grandsire, was an English missionary fo India. He had built up a sizeable mission in that country and looked after the weltare, physical and spiritual, of his flock. When an itin- vorce Rev. Shipstone’s converts from one of the favorite sports of voodoo doctors the world over. A real first- class curse is supposed to be good, not only for the recipient, but for his relatives, children, his children’s chil- dren and so on for untold generations. Or at least the angry medicine man usually hopes it is. amused by the imprecations flung at his head. He made a note of the incident in his diary. Five years later he died of a raging fever in Ceylon. He was 33 years old. His wife returned to England with their childres CHILDREN’S SWIMMING CLASS SATURDAY AT 10 AM. New Whistling YO-YOS GIVEN AWAY Admission, 25¢ AMBASSADOR Court building so long that she doesn't know the exact number of years. THE KNOX FIFTH AVENUE SPECIAL An especially dominant note ‘on Fifth Avenue, it's practically a classic in correct design. In bound brims that are worn at 'n mality or snapped down or country. Made in the famous Knox Ovalized Sixteenths*. $7 o *Trademark. $I0 & @ CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED o RALEIGH HABERDASHER Washington’s Finest Men’s Wear Store. 1310 F STREET SWIMMING POOL R R s aad atural" for a touch of for- for cff-hand wear in town $20 OUR times a day Peggy Taylor flies in the face of death. | erant Hindu fakir attempted to di- | the Christian faith he called the mili- | tary police.,.Ag the fakir was dragged | away he muttered a curse, that being | | At the time Rev. Mr. Shipstone was Her boy was put m; FREE INSTRUCTION \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Death “Jinx” Holds No Terrors for Her TINY ADAGIO DANCER DEFIES | school. One day, playing on a slide with some other children, he fell and broke his back. After months of suffering and fruitless efforts to cure him, he died. Other Tragedies. That was the second tragedy. Here are the others: During the war Sir Thomas Ship- stone, a wealthy brewer and brother of the missionary, sent two sons to the war. One of them was shot to deaih | by a crazed soldier in his own divi- | sion. The other lost an arm. ‘The missionary’s sister sent three ] sons to the front. They were all killed. His own daughter married Francis | E. Taylor. They lived in America. When twins were born to them, the boy died. Peggy was the other twin. Her older brother John, a stalwart 6-footer, who was planning to become a partner in her act, was seriously injured in an automobile accident tions that row and save. “HEX” IN- DARING AERIAL ACT. i Seventh Street ~ | | | 4 several years ago. Despite trips to | | famous surgeons here and abroad | | there seems to be no hope trat he| | will ever again walk without crutches. | An aunt, a sister of Peggy's mother, | was' killed in an automobile accident | in California last year. | Peggy herself was not a strong | child. When quite young, she was| ! allowed to take up ballet dancing as Low Sale Prices Prevail Al This Week There is still time to pur- chase artistic Lifetime Fur- niture at the sale reduc- prevailed in February. Come in tomor- smart bedrooms are furnished in WHITE White glori&es all other colors around it. It is smart and new in Bedroom Suites, and the nice thing about it is that you can use with your white furniture any pastel color you prefer in carrying out your ideas in curtains, draperies, rugs, wallpaper or bibelots without distracting one iota from the charm of your suite. Classic Modern Bedroom Suite The suite illustrated is in white at $129 for six pieces which include the dresser, bed, chest, vanity, bench, and a chair which is not illus- trated. It is here, too, in mahogany and gum- wood at the same price. Or, it may be had with twin beds and night table, making éight pieces, $169 . in either finish | street. 'If Constipated a form of healthful exercise. When at the age of 14 she began to do adagio tricks her mother opposed the idea, perhaps because of a prejudice against the stage, perhaps because she naturally did not believe members of her family should tempt fate. The initial tricks, however, were so simple that the mother’s fear was disarmed. Peggy worked at first with a single partner. Later she evolved more difficult stunts, added two more men to the act. It was an immediate success. " Meanwhile the threat of violent mis- fortune was not entirely absent from her own life, even though it did not come to her through the dangerous work she had undertaken. She was caught in the undertow while swim- ming and almost drowned. A life- guard dragged her from the water unconscious. (Incidentally, she never dives, having a deep-rooted fear of getting her head under water.) An- other time she tripped and fell in the A taxicab's brakes screeched and the car slid to & stop. When she arose her head struck the front bumper. Dances Through Table. Again, during rehearsals for a show in London several years ago, she was amusing herself by dancing on & glass-topped table. The dance had nothing to do with her act. The glass broke through and the muscles in one leg were cut so severely the doctors at first belleved she would never be able to walk on it again. The leg healed. She joined the show, a bit late. Only one serious accident has be- fallen her in the eight years she has been performing. During a show in California a throw went wrong. She shot straight into the air, with only half the lateral motion needed to carry her across to the ‘“catcher.” Failing to sense what had happened, he did not reach her in time to break the fall. She crashed to the floor. Her scalp was cut half off her head, from the back of the neck up. She was unconscious for almost an hour, but she came back to it again as soon as she left the hospital. 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