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Washington News . HOUSE D. ¢, BODY MAY BE RESHAPED IF CONNERY QUITS Mrs. Norton Could Move Up to Vacated Labor Com- mittee Post. s PALMISANO OR PATMAN MIGHT BE CHAIRMAN Changes All Hinge on Decision of Massachusetts Republican on Appeals Court Grants Custody Of Son to Former Mrs. Sardo <« Claim of Mother Held Superior to That of | Boy’s Grandfather. Sensational Fight May% Come to End, Although Review Is Likely. I Virginia Villapiano, former wife of the late Albert J. Sardo, for custody of her 9-year-old son, Albert, jr., today seemed to have reached a victorious conclusion. Affirming the decision of District Supreme Couri Justice Oscar R. Luhr- ing awarding her the child, the HE long and sensational court | battle waged by Mrs. Helen Senate Race. ‘The. House District Committee, it developed today, may undergo a re- organization at the coming session | of Congress, with either Representa- | tive Palmisano of Maryland or Pat- | man of Texas replacing Representa- | tive Mary T. Norton of New Jersey as chairman. | A change depends entirely on Rep- | resentative Connery, Democrat, of | Massachusetts, chairman of the House | Labor Committee, who has announced he would run for the Senate next year if Gov. James M. Curley is not | & candidate. Mrs. Norton is the second ranking member of the Labor Committee. Should Connery run for the Senate, | she could follow custom and move| into the chairmanship of the Labor Committee, by giving up the post as head of the District Committee. Palmisano Ranks Second. Palmisano is the second ranking member of the District Committee. He would be eligible for the chairmanship if Mrs. Norton shouid decide to head the Labor Committee. But—and it's a big but—it is doubtful if Palmisano would take it at the sacrifice of a more important committee = chairmanship. | opinions of his grandfather and. be- | was unfit to have the child with her | Palmisano now heads the Education | Committee, which carries more pres-:} tige than chairmanship of the District | & rehearing. | United States Court of Appeals held | her claim to be superior to that of the boy's grandfather, William H. | Sardo, well-known local undertaker, | with whom Albert, jr., now lives. Mrs. Villapiano, who divorced the boy’s father “he year before his death and now is .married to Dr. Joseph Villapiano, well-to-do Asbury Park, N. J. physician, was notified this | morning of the court action by her attorney, Julian I. Richards. She was expected to come to Washington shortly to claim her sonr Meanwhile the elder Sardo has 15 days in which to ask the court for He also may seek a re- view of the case in the United States Supreme Court, but attorneys said to- day there did not appear to be any solid ground on which to take the matter to the highest tribunal. The opinion confirming® Mrs. Villa- piano’s right to the hoy was written | by Chief Justice George E. Martin and had the concurrence of all members of the court except Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel, who noted a dissent. The chief justice commented on the | attitude of the boy during the District | Supreme Court trial, which was hostile to the mother, but agreed with Justice | Luhring that it simply followed the cause of the child’s immaturity, should not be given great weight. Young Albert, at the trial, in the @he Foening WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, BANDIT CAPTURED AFTER HOLD-UP OF BUS LINES DEPOT Station Dispatcher Joins Of- ficer in Trapping Him in Taxicab. POLICEMAN IS KICKED IN FACE BY PRISONER Accused Is Identified by Woman as Man Robbed Restaurant of $94 Yesterday. The alertness of Station Dispatcher Rea Ankeny, 29, of 5425 Connecticut avenue frustrated a hold-up today of the Greyhound bus line terminal, The robber | 1403 New York avenue. | was trapped in a taxicab in front of the tesminal beiore he could make | good his escape. With drawn pistol, James Warren Rand, 24, now held at first precinct station for investigation, is alleged to have walked up to E. T. MacDowell, 27, of 1430 Irving street, ticket sales- man, and commanded: “Get in the corner and keep quiet.” MacDowell obeyed, as Rand leaned across the counter, scooping up $434. The money was rezovered on him. Bandit Taken in Taxi. Meanti.ae, Ankeny rushed to the Fourteenth street and New York ave- nue intersection, where Policeman Mrs. Helen Virginia Villapiano (above) awarded custody today of her son, Albert Sardo, jr. (lower), after a long court battle. —Star Stafl Photos. Paul Baicar was directing traffic. To- | family. | child born to her and Dr. Villapiano , Rhode Island avenue. Committee. presence of his weeping mother, testi- | Patman ranks next in seniority on | fieq he no longer loved her because | the District Committee and would be | she had left his father and “broken his gether they raced back to the depot This was done with the ap- ' front of the building. .roval of Sardo. Later, agreement| Officer Baicar went in one door and was reached that she should secure & Ankeny the other. As he entered Reno divorce and for Sardo to have Policeman Baicar was kicked in the custedy of the son. | face hy F ad, but the bandit was sub- The accusation that Mrs. Sardo dued. At the police station Rand gave his was based on her admission another | address as being in the 1400 block of He made no was conceived after the divorce agree- | move to draw his gun when trapped ment, but before the decree wasin the cab, Officer Baicar said. Man- secured. {uel A. Castro, 45. of 200-A Bates in line to succeed Mrs. Norton if | heart” “No other blot upon her history has | street, the cab driver, was held for in- as Rand was entering a taxicab in Boot Lessens Amputation Need Alfred E. Davidson of New York aemonsuraung the boot designed to lessen need of amputation on Dr. F. B. Schultz, interne, at Georgetown University Hospital. 3 MEDICAL “BO0T" INSTALLED HERE Need of Amputations Les- sened by Suction-Pres- sure Apparatus. | | ington, a very rare and remarkable medical device, known as the Emer- son suction-pressure apparatus, which | scientists say greatly lessens the need for surgical amputations of the leg Star 1935. P 'Reporter, Faithful to Duty, Lands Confessed Slayer in Jail Society and General PAGE B—1 FREDERICK JURY 10 PROBE TORCH SLAYING SHORTLY Brown Taken From Rock- ville After Confessing He Killed Silva. SISTER OF PRISONER BARES FATAL FIGHT Spanish Seaman's Home Scene of Attempt to Burn Body Later Found on Road. BY JACK ALLEN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. FREDERICK, Md., November 11.— | The torch slaying of Manuel Silva, 4 | year-old Spanish seaman. confessed —Star Staff Photo. Jack Allen of Star Staff Hauls Alfred his stepson, Alfred Brown, 21-year-old colored prize fighter, probably will bz | presented to a special session of t Frederick County grand jury next Monday. State’s Attorney Sherman P. Bowers was preparing to go into Circuit Court today and request permission to re- call the jury to consider the brutal murder of the sailor, whose body. charred beyond recognition, was found early Saturday on a lonely Montgomery County road. Brown was taken from the Rock- ville Jail and brought here yesterday after he had recounted to investigators the manner in which he had murdered his stepfather in a bitter quarrel over Installed for the first time in Wash- | Brown to Police, Where Admission a chicken, twice attempted to burn Is Obtained. True to the traditions of the news- | paper profession, Jack Allen, staff j reporter for The Star. risked possible | danger to deliver to the police Alfred ‘ Brown, 2l-year-old colored boxer, charged with the “torch” murder of his step-father, Manuel Silva, sailor and fruit peddler of Doubs, Md. and arm, was demonstrated today at | | | Georgetown University Hospital before | Allen located Brown Saturday, a | la group of prominent surgeons and | few hours after the badly charred body of Silva was mcbile accident and was unconscious in a Washington Hospital, but care- fully avoided reference to the dis- covery of the burred body, Picture Is Obtained. He asked Brown if he had a picture of his stepfather. The fighter found one in the family album. Although Silva’s body had been burned almost peyond recognition. Allen recognized certain facial features in the picture Palmisano would not accept the chair- | manship. Mrs. Norton is known to like her assignment as chairman of the Dis- trict Committee, but, it is understood, she would rather advance to the more important Labor Committee position if the election line-up in Massachu- setts next year makes that possible. Loss Would Be Felt. Her loss on the District Committee, however, would be keenly felt in muni- cipal and civic circles. She has taken | an intense interest in District affairs, and during her service as chairman | has promoted much beneficial legis- | lation. Notable among this was the old-age pension bill. 1 Mrs. Norton also made a number | of plans before she left Washington after adjournment of Congress for aiding the District at the coming ses- sion. She promised particularly to go before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations and make a vigorous fight for increased funds, especially for the public schools and the Board of Public Welfare, and assist the Com- missioners in their battle for an ade- quate Federal payment toward the ex- penses of the District. Subway Survey Bill. In addition Mrs. Norton said she proposed to push her bill providing for a survey to deterrhine the feasibility of constructing subways in Washing- ton to relieve traffic ccngestion and wid in the safety campaign to drive death from the highways. i Aside from Mrs. Norton, Palmisano | and Patman, other members of the | District Ccmmittee are: Representa- " tives Kennedy of Maryland, Randolph of West Virginia, Jenckes of Indiana, | Werner of South Dakota, Carpenter of Kansas, Ellenbogen of Pennsylvania, | Schulte of Indiana, Wood of Missourl, | Quinn of Pennsylvania, Nichols of | Oklahoma and McGehee of Mississippi, all Democrats; Hull of Wisconsin, | Progressive; Dirksen of Illinois, Short | of Missouri, Brewster of Maine, Reed | of Illinois, Fenerty of Pennsylvania and Cole of New York, Republicans. | | | | STUDENT DECAPITATED | Commits Suicide Under Soo Line Passenger Train. RHINELANDER, Wis., November 11 () —Harold Larson, 19, high school student, was decapitated by a Soo Line passenger train here yesterday. ‘The youth, who apparently rested his head on a rail in the path of the | train, left a note stating he intended to kill himself. The body was discov- ered by the engineer of another train two hours later. —_— ‘Worcester Alumni to Meet. ‘The Washington Alumni Associa- tion of the Worcester Folytechnic In- stitute will hold a dinner meeting to- morrow at 7 p.m. at the National Press Club. L. C. Schilder of the Depart- ment of Justice will be the guest speaker. John A. Remon, general * manager of the Chesapeake & Poto- mac Telephone Co., president of the organization, will preside. Fortune Tellers Blamed in Man’s Plea for Divorce Charging his wife would spend hours upbraiding him for “im- aginary episodes” of his life related to her by fortune tellers, Frank P. de Bari, 1622 Trinidad avenue northeast, a motion pic- ture machine operator, filed suit today in District Supreme Court for limited divorce from Mrs. Josephine de Bari. He stated his wife often would nag at him until he would have to leave the house, and that once she insisted on going on a fishing trip with him and 14 other men. Through his attorney, Albert Ly- man, he told the court he was willing to pay his wife main- tenance and asked custody of their minor child. | Inquest in the death will Mrs. Villapiano's effort t. gain cus- ! tize Martin stated, “and it appears | | tody of her son began almost imme- | that since that time her conduct as | rest Rand was identified by Miss Alice come to be known in interested med- diately after the father, who was well“ |1 obile accident in February, 1934, in |ja Virginia. The grandfather fought | Goggedly to retain the child, and with | his conduct the court found no fault, | saying: | “His action has doubtless been the | result of his affection for the boy and | his conviction that the boy's future w-uld be safer in his care than in the care of ancther.” .1¢ had contended that Mrs. Villa- piano abandoned the child, that the boy had no love for her and that she was not a fit person to rear him. The Sardos separated in 1933, when the then Mrs. Sardo went with the boy to the Asbury Park home of Dr. Villapiano and his sister, who had long been friendly with the Sardo been shown against her,” Chief Jus- | vestigation. Within half an hour after his ar- | physicians. This mechanical “boot,”” as it has well as that of her husband, Dr. Vincent, cashier, as the man who yes- | ical circles, was the gift to the medic- proper and praisworthy. neighbars give evidence to this effect.” nue. Betty Renalds of 1416 Meridian | known here. was killed in an auto- | yjjlapiano, has been in every particu- ' terday held up and robbed her of $94 al school and hospital of Georgetown Her at Burt's Grill, 1418 New York ave- University from an anonymous alum- | nus of New York City. It is not only In regard to the religious question place, who was paying kLer food check the sole instrument of its kind in injected into the case, Chief Justice Martin said: “It was suggested at the argument th.t the grandfather and his family at the time of the robbery, also iden- tified Rand as the hold-up man. Will Go Into Police Line-up. Rand will be put in the police line- use here, but one of the few in this country and abroad. New Oxygen Cabinet Tent. The same donor presented the hos- ar~ Catholics, and that they are up at police headquarters tonight for | pital with the newest type oxygen naturally desirous of retaining the custody of the boy in order to have possible further identification. The bus terminal holc-up climaxed cabinet tent, designed by Alfred E. | Davidson of New York, who demon- him reared in that church. This a series of robberies reported over the | ¢ ated the “hoot.” The tent, for pre- sentiment is entitled to respectful co.sideration, but it does not seem applicable to the present case, in- asmuch as Dr. Villapiano is willing | week end. George Kite, 3218 Wisconsin ave- | vention of post-operative pneumonia, | is the first to cover the entire bed nue, manager of a gasoline station at | = . |and is in use now at the Cornell ‘Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues, | Medical Center and the Docters’ Hos- | discovered beside the Rockville-| Bealsville road, | and took him to State’s Attorney | James H. Pugh. The boxer subse- quently confessed to the crime. Instinetively,! Allen began look- ing for a clue as to the identity of the charred re- mains of what once had been a Jack Allen. Shi &) WonU k| toan the body was found. An abandoned | Conversation about the disabled car car about two miles from the scene | and the crime was carefully avoided. that had left an impression on him when he saw the body. Thanking Brown for the photograph, Allen volunteered to take him to the abandoned car. The boxer accepted the invitation but just before he left his sister came out of the house and shouted: “If you're going to Washing- ton you'd better take that"—pointing to something Allen did not see. Brown, however did not stop. He got in the car with Allen and headed for Washington. Allen took him over the long route via Poolesville to avoid passing the scene where the body was found on the Barnesville-Dawsonville that the child shall be reared in the Cetholic Church, and that having had his own child baptized a Catholic | told police he was robbed of $240— | the day's receipts—by two colored | men who forced him into their car as he was going home shortly after OFFICIALS AWAIT DEATH DECISIONS Inquests Will Be Held to See If Traffic Accidents Were Fatal. Decision of a coroner's jury was awaited by officials today to determine whether deaths of two persons over the week end resulted from injuries received in traffic accidents. Meanwhile, an unidentified man about 25 years old was killed in nearby | jes Maryland when struck by an automo- bile last night on the Washington- Baltimore Boulevard 2 miles south of Laurel police station. Melvin Curray, 22, of Savage, Md., was arrested as the driver of the car, but was released without being required to post bail. be held Thursday. Envelope Found. In the pocket of the victim was found an envelope bearing the in- scription, “S. D. McDaniel, general delivery, Baltimore, Md.” The last traffic victim in the District was Judson Lyons, 30, colored, of the 1800 block of S street, whose death occurred yesterday morning in Gal- linger Hospital from injuries received November 1 when he is reported to have “walked or dived” into a street car at Fifty-third street and Deane avenue northeast. An autopsy yesterday showed the death Saturday night of Pranklin J. Henry, 70, at his home, 222 Eighth street southeast, was due to a blood clot on the lung which may have been the result of injuries received when he was struck by an automobile Aug- ust 10 at Eleventh street and Penn- sylvania avenue southeast. Henry was treated at Casualty Hos- pital for four weeks following the accident for .cuts and bruises and re- turned home. Inquests Tomorrow. Inquests will be held into both deaths at the District Morgue tomor- row. At that time, Coroner A. Ma- gruder MacDonald said today, the jury will decide whether Mr. Henry died of the injuries received in the accident. Official trafic death count in the District for this year would be 94 if both deaths are declared the result of traffic accidents. A total of 108 District traffic deaths had been re- corded up to a corresponding date last year. District traffic accidents over the week end accounted for serious in- juries to two colored women. Mean- while 14 persons were injured in a total of 27 accidents here during the 24-hour period ending at 8 am. to- day. The majority of them, however, returned to their homes after receiv- ing first aid at hospitals. Five Die in English Fire. LONDON, November 11 () .—Five women, including the wife of Dr. Philip Franklin, prominent London laryngologist, perished yesterday in & | fire in Pranklin's west end house.s, midnigbt and took him to Bethesda. Kite said he was overhauled while walking home and put out of the car near the Bethesda police station. An intruder was in the rooming 1is evidence of his willingness to do so.” | house of Mrs. Agnes M. Boyle, 1767 | @ street. last night, and wearing GASKIN ASKS BAN | Gresham, Martha Orchard and Gen- eva Bass. Perry O. White, 37, colored, a | soldier, told police two colored men and a white man attacked him in the 400 block of M street about 4 am. yesterday and robbed him of $28. Colored Attorney Is Only Board Member to Urge Such Action. In spite of the agitation of the question of teaching or advocating communism in the public schools, only one member of the Board of Education has expressed himself as favoring an absolute ban on the sub- | ct. He is Benjamin L. Gaskins, colored l attorney, who opposes factual teach- ing of communism as dangerous and | also opposes it on the ground that the prohibitive rider amended to the | current appropriation bill intended banning the subject entirely. Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman held in a formal opinion | that “advocating” communism was | a violation of the law, but that merely teaching the facts about communism | was within the law and perfectly legal. Robber, Captor Submit Legal Views. from a legal standpoint, Gaskins and Henry I Quinn both disagreed with Prettyman and submitted their own legal views to the board as a substitute for the Prettyman conten- tion. It was only from a legal stand- point, however, that Quinn opposed the action of the board in approving the corporation counsel’s statement. When the subject first came up before the board, Quinn characterized the Prettyman statement as “a good opinion, but not what Congress in- | tended.” “If I had my way,” he said then, “I would want my children to be taught all there is to know about communism, and I'd want therh to get it in the school room and not on the street.” . . Fault Lies With Congress. Later, when Gaskins and Quinn submitted their minority report to the board, their joint statement con- cluded: “If the policy which results from this interpretation of the statute is a mistaken one, the fault lies with Congress, and those who agree, as probably some do, that the ‘danger to be apprehended breeds in ignorance and not in knowledge,’ may soon have the opportunity to make their views known and petition for a change.” Quinn repeated the suggestion be- fore the Teachers’ Union last Sat- urday night when he urged the union to demand repeal of the law. He asked that the board be allowed to “fix the poticies and bear all the responsibility for them.” Gilligan. Concurs. Only one lawyer on the board, Henry Gilligan, concurred in the Prettyman view. Gilligan, however, was supported by the remaining members of the board and only Quinn and Gaskins voted against approval of the Prettymsn report. Quinn’s oppositior. was on the legal Inter- pretation and Gaskins opposed the report both legally and from the standpoint of the pelicy involved. James W. Rand, 24, of 1417 Rhode Island avenue, is shown “sleeping it off” at No. 1 precinct after he’s attempt to hold up the Greyhound bus terminal today failed. Policenran Paul Baicar, who cap- tured Rand before he could make his escape in a taxicab, is pic- tured below. Injuries obtained when Baicar went to arrest the robber can be seen on the faces pital in New York. The “boot,” as explained by mem- bers of the Georgetown staff, is for | vascular massage or exercise, the pur- | pose being to bring blood into | peripheral circulatfon. It acts to pro- | ments of a burlap bag, similar to that ' | duce a vacuum and allow the blood t0 | in which the body had bzen wrapped, | 1 go into the smaller or larger vessels of the leg more freely. The same re- | sult is obtained when *he boot is used ! on the upper exiremities. Air pres- | sure also is provided by the “boot” | for the same purposes. Its principle was developed by Dr. Louis Herman of Cincinnati, Ohio, authority on the vascular system. Keeps Blood Vessels Open. ‘Where there is any | with circulation in the extremities, the “boot” can bz used successfully for thrombo-angitis-obliterans and other cases where gangrene might later develop. By use of the “boot,” amputations will not be as necessary as in the past, Davidson explained, due to the fact that the vessels will be kept open and'the circulation improved. This will prevent the blood from clog- ging in the veins. ‘The “boot,” as implied by its name, | fits snugly about the leg or arm. It is made of celluloid or pyrax, with rubber attachments at the top to fit closely about the limb. Air pressure is applied by a mechanical device at whatever pressure is desired. MRS. RICHARDSON, TEACHER, IS BURIED Instructor in Oil Painting Had Many Friends—Was Retired Postal Clerk. Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Ban- croft Richardson, 80, teacher of paint- ing, and retired Post Office Depart- ment clerk, were heid Wednesday at Lee’s undertaking home, with Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, pastor of All Soul's Unitarian Church, officiating. Burial was in Congressional Cemetery. Mrs. Richardson had been in fail- ing health since 1922, when she re- tired from the dead-letter office of the Post Office Department. Known throughout her life for making friends from many different groups, she was sought out by them after she became ill, and her sick room at her home, 132 Tenth street northeast, day after day was a reception room with many callers. She died Sunday, Novem- ber 3. She was the daughter of E. Dana Bancroft and the widow of Charles H. Richardson, who at one time was a chief examiner in the Patent Office. Before her husband’s death she had given much attention to painting in oil. Her favorite subjects were flow- ers and landscapes. She taught many aspiring young painters, some of whom, it is said, have since become noted. Mrs. Richardson is survived by her son, Howard B. Richardson; her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Bicknell Richardson; two grandchildren, Wil- liam Bicknell Richardson and Eliza- beth Anna Richardson, and a daugh- ter-in-law, Mrs. Mary Stone Richard- son of Boston,, widow of Charles Dana Richardson. Cyclists Arrested. Cyclists are being arrested in Am- sterdam, Holland, for npt wearing the interference | gave him a lead. Silva. Fragment in Bag. In the car the police found frag- a few strands of matted hair on a door catch, and smudges of soot on the upholstery in back of the front seat. ‘With those clues. Allen. accompanied by Elwood Baker, a Star photographer, went to Silva's home. From a mill keeper nearby he learned that living | with Silva were Brown and a step- | daughter, Mrs. Blanche Smith. | | While talking with the mill keeper | Brown left the house. Allen stopped him, :dentified himself and asked il Silva was home. The boxer told him Siiva had left Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with a strange, swarthy- looking man who said he had a job | for him on a ship docked in Baltimore. Allen told him of the finding of | Eilva’s car. Brown said he had been driving the machine, but abandoned it near Silver Spring about 1 am. Saturday when a tire blew out. The reporter also told him an unidentified man had been injured in an auto- the fighter revealed he had clashed with Joe Louis before he became the | heavyweight contender. | Machine Disappears. But when Allen reached the point where Silva's car had been abanconed the machine had disappeared. Allen told Brown the police probably had moved it, and he would help him locate it. To the Montgomery County Court House in Rockville Allen took the fighter. Allen said Brown appeared to be a little nervous as he pushed through the crowd around the court house and walked with him into the office of State's Attorney Pugh. | Brown subsequently was questioned relentlessly. He steadfastily main- tained his innocence, however, until | confronted with his sister's description of the crime. Then he broke down {and confessed just before midnight | Saturday. Allen did not get a “scoop,” of course, but his reward is the satisfaction of | having done a good job, and perhaps, prevented the possible escape of a man who admitted he committed a heinous | erime. 'MOTOR CARRIER GROUP GETS I. C. C. QUARTERS Part of Communications Commis- sion Shifted to Building at Eleventh and G Streets. Quarters are now being provided in the Interstate Commerce Building for | the expanding motor carrier group which will supervise the Nation's bus lines, Clay J. Guthridge, head of the Division of Government Space Con- trol, National Park Service, announced today. To accomplish this, he explained, part of the Federal Communications Commission is being shifted from the Post Office Building to the old Barber & Ross Building at Eleventh and G streets. That part of the Federal Communications Commission that has been occupying the Interstate Com- merce Commission space is being shifted over to the Post Office Build- ing to take up the released area. Floor space in the Barber & Ross Building was made available recently, when the Rural Resettlement Ad- ministration moved out, Guthridge explained. The space director expects that these moves, to give the bus control group adequate accommoda- tions, will be accomplished this week. Some of the moves took place over. the week end, and others are go- ing forward as rapidly as possible, he declared. —_— KILLS ASSAILANT Cowboy, However, Fatally Wounded. MIDLAND, Tex., November 11 (#).— The shooting eye of J. P. Wyrick, 65, developed through long years as a cowboy and policeman, stood by him on the brink of death yesterday. Fatally wounded by E. M. McMullen, colored, Wyrick shot and killed his assailant. Then Wyrick died. Former Is Farm Values Gain. Spain’s new agrarian reform law has enhanced rural land values by re- estrblishing the principle of private of both. —Star Staff Photo. | metal discs of their bicycle licenses. ' property rights. < AUTOS IN VIRGINIA CLAIM 16 LIVES ‘Week End Toll Runs Total for Month to 221 and 572 for Year. By the Associated Press. ‘Throbbing motors continued to be drums of death on Virginia highways over the week end as the State counted 16 dead for the two-day period, 22 for the month and 572 for the year. ‘The accldent onslaught, with no ap- parent armistice in sight, included in its fatalities three Richmond High School cadets, the oldest 18, who met doom on the Suffolk-Portsmouth highway. One died instantly. The yesterday. — POWELL’S DAUGHTER REPORTED IMPROVED Two-Year-0ld Child of Ball Player Gains Strength After Three Transfusions. Two-year-old Joan Powell, daughter of Alvin “Jake” Powell, Washington centerfielder, was reported in an im- proved condition at Sibley Hospital today after a' third blood transfusion yesterday necessiated by a ruptured appendix Joan was operated on Friday night almost immediately after being taken to the hospital by her father. The operation was too late, however, to prevent the rupture. Her father gave his blood for the first transfusion, it was said, and a friend of the family donated blood for the other two. Dr. Hall to Addres Educators. KILMARNOCK, Va, November 11| (Special).—Dr. Sidney B. Hall, State superintendent of public instruction, will address the members of the school leagues of Lancaster and Northumber~ land Counties at Kilmarnock on De- cember 2, W. 8. Brent, division super- intendent, annoupced. two others, their skulls shattered, died | the body and finally had carted it |away in an automobile and tossed it | out at the roadside. . The confessed clayer, who was ar- rested several hours after the body wu_dxscn\‘ered. doggedly maintained | his innocence until he was confronted | yesterday afternoon with the state- ment in which his sister, Mrs. Blanche Smith, colored. admitted she had seen him murder Silva. Prisoner Hard to “Break.” Police had attempted to “break"’ Brown Saturday afternoon when they took him to a Rockville funeral parlor and showed him Silva’s body, but the colored man nonchalantly gazed at the blackened remains of his victim, calmly denied that the body was that of the Spaniard and just as calmly z;emed knowing anything of the mur- er. The Smith woman, who is also in custody here, denied in making her statement to authorities on Sat- urday night that she was present in the Silva home at Doubs, 10 miles from here, when Brown attempted 1o burn the body or when he carried it away in Silva’s automobile on Friday night to dispose of it. Bowers said this morning, however, that he has obtained information that she was present at the home on both : He learned from | It centered chiefly on Brown's profes-| occasions and added that he is cone the license tag that it belonged ta | sional prize ring bouts, during which! sidering charging her with being an accessory after the fact. | In his confession Brown told how his mother, Mrs. Mary Silva, a coolf employed by a Washington physician, and Silva met in Baltimore eight years +220 and how his mother arranged fouy years ago to buy the small framg house for the family at Doubs. Brown declared that he and hiy sister. who came on from Washirgton, together with Silva and occasionally with his mother, when she was og vacaticn, lived in the house and go} along all right until two months a3o, He said Silva was on relief, but thaf he (Brown) earned money once in § while by boxing or selling vegetabley in Baltimore. Thefts Are Reported. The split in the family came when Silva called Sheriff Roy Hiltner at Frederick some time in September and said that he had missed some clothe ing. About 10 days ago Silva misseq | a bill of sale for his automobile and again called *the sheriff. On thiy occasion Silva told Hiltner that somg one had attempted to kill him by put« | tin glass in his food. Brown wai | questioned in each instance. | Another argument ensued when | Brown killed a chicken for his sister, |and it was this argument that ultie | mately led to Silva’s death. Brown said, “On last Thursday 1 was home unt’{ about 11 a.m with Silva, my sister anq her baby.” the confession read. *1 | had been watching Silva all the timy | because he had threatened to kill me several times and he was carrying § dagger. “Silva was ironing a shirt. I way doing something at the stove and 1 was bending over. Silva came at mq with a flat iron but I glanced up, dodged the blow and csught an iroq | pipe which I had sitting in the cornet in case he bothered me or my sister.* He then related how he had knocked the flat iron from Silva's grasp end | how the Spaniard then came at h_ifl (See MURDER, Page B-3) McClintic, Fishing In Potomac, Hool:s Corpse of Suicide Woman, Missing Since Friday, Left Note for Daughter. Fishing in the Potomac from the Virginia shore below Highway Bridgse early yesterday, former Representativy James V. McClintic of Oklahoma hooked the body of Mrs. Mary V. Pesteridge, 42, of 1024 Bladensburg road northeast, missing since Friday, when she left a note saying she wag “worried” and was “going away.” Shocked, McClintic. now executive secretary to Gov. E. W. Marland of Oklahoma, notified police and the body was removed to the morzue. Corones MacDonald said he would issue a cers tificate of suicide. Police said Mrs. Pesteridge's huse band, James R. Pesteridge. is being re« leased from Occoquan tocday, and that the family, which includes a daughter, Edith, 16, and a son, Jemes, 21. hag been on relief. The woman left home Friday morne ing after instructing the girl to ga to a store for food. When the latter opened her mother’s pocket book she found the note and $1.14. Alarmed, she at once asked police to locate her parent. .