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AIRPORTLEGAL WAR 10 CLEAR UP TITLE IS URGED BY ICKES Cummings Urged to Act to Insure Claim to Area Used for Runways. IMPROVEMENTS TERMED PREJUDICIAL TO PARKWAY National Park Service Already Has Twice Warned Airport Authorities. Whether the Justice Department will engage in a protracted legal bat- tle with the Washington Hoover Air- port to protect the interests of the United States in the title dispute over the strip of land on which new run- way extensions have just been com- pleted was a question today for Attor- ney General Cummings to decide. Court proceedings were ‘“urgently recommended” by the Interior De- partment, it was announced yesterday, on the ground that continued occu- pancy of the land by the airport with- out recognition of the claim of the United States is “prejudicial” to the interests of the Federal Government in connection with “the development of the George Washington Memorial Parkway.” Warned Twice Before. Twice before the National Park Bervice, which claims jurisdiction over the disputed strip, had warned the airport suthority that it was vio- lating property rights of the United Btates in its expansion program, These protests being of no avail, legal attor- neys for the Park Service brought the matter to the attention of Secretary Ickes. In Ickes’ absence a letter was for- warded to the Attorney General re- questing him to proceed under the act of 1912, which enables the Govern- ment to quiet title to lands where there are other claimants. Although Acting Secretary W. C. Mendenhall approved the letter early this week, it has not yet reached the Attorney General. It was not approved, how- ever, without long and careful con- sideration on the part of Ickes' legal staff. The airport controversy is tied up with the District of Columbia-Vir- ginia boundary dispute, to clarify which Congress set up a special com- mission, and on whose report there has been no final action. Backed by Court Decisions. In the letter to the Justice Depart- ment it was pointed out that the land in question is claimed by the United Btates under various decisions of the Supreme Court and is under the juris- diction of the National Park Service. “This department appreciates the meed of an adequate airport for the city of Washington,” the letter stated, “and has offered the Washington Hoo- ver Airport the use of the land lying between Alexander’s Island and the Virginia shore under a revocable lease or permit. The airport officials have refused to enter into any agreement Wwhereby the control of the land in question by the United States would be recognized but are continuing to occupy and improve this area despite the objections of this department.” RETURN ROOSEVELT, IS EDISON’S PLEA Inventor's Son Sees “Conflict of Two Fundamentally Different Beliefs.” BS the Assoctated Press. Charles Edison, son of the inventor and president of Thomas A. Edison Industries, last night urged re-elec- tion of President Roosevelt. He em- phasized, however, that he did not Wish to influence the vote of any of his employes. The inventor's son, who is resting at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va, said he believed the “great issue” of the campaign was based “on the con- flict of two fundamentally different beliefs.” On one hand, he said, there were people who believed in survival of the strongest, while on the other hand there were those who “agree with the President, who said that we must ‘Wage warfare against the grim tra- dition that every man must look out for himself, that he must fight against his fellowmen from cradle to grave for his bread, for his livelihood, for everything that makes life worth living, no matter how handicapped by misfortune or circumstances and that he must wage this fight without a :enlnpn!g hand from the State to aid Edison said he believed the differ- ence between the two viewpoints was such as to “cause us to move back- wards toward barbarian thinking and methods or move forward toward a higher civilization.” Since 1920, he added, “the trend toward the law of the jungle has been tragically evident throughout the world, but in America, under a new leadership, a reborn Nation is being vitalized.” F. DARBY WARD DIES ONVISIT TO RELATIVES GAITHERSBURG, Md., October 31.—F. Darby Ward, 35, son of the late Carson Ward of this place, died yesterday in Pocomoke City, Md., ‘where he was visiting relatives. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Carrie E. Ward of Gaithersburg, three ington business area tonight. THE EVENING ’STAE,. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1936. A preview of some of the novel figures which will feature the Halloween para NGR. L J. BURK D HERE AT Clerical and Lay Circles Mourn Secretary of Wel- fare Conference. Clerical and lay circles here and in many sections of the country today | mourned the death of Right Rev. Msgr. | John J. Burke, C. S. P., general secre- tary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the first member of a religious community in the United States to be named a domestic prelate by the Vatican. In New York President Roosevelt mourned the loss of “an old and close friend,” saying: “A powerful spiritual force has been lost to our national life in the passing of Msgr. Burke, As scholar, writer and pulpit orator he touched life at many angles while, always as a humble follower of the Master, he was a splendid disciple of that Christian teaching of which he was such an eloquent advocate.” Msgr. Burke, 61, died late yesterday at his home, 2405 Twentieth street. He had been suffering from a heart ailment for some time but his death was unexpected. He worked as usual in the morning at his office at the council, 1312 Massachusetts avenue. He went to his home early in the after- noon, but had not complained of feel- ing 111 Honored by Pope Pius. ‘The title of monsignor, a rare honor for a member of a religious order, was conferred on Father Burke last month by Pope Pius XI. Msgr. Burke was a member of the Paulist Fathers. He was invested with his new rank by Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicog- nani at a ceremony in the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Catholic University. During the recent visit of Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal secretary of state, Msgr. Burke was the almost con- stant companion of the Vatican digni- tary and arranged the Cardinal’s ad- dress at the National Press Club, his only appearance in this country be- fore a strictly lay audience. Msgr. Burke for years had been en- deavoring to patch the rift between his church and the Mexican govern- ment. In 1928 he crossed the Rio Grande twice and arranged a tempo- rary settlement with the then Presi- dent Calles which permitted the re- turn of the exiled Bishop Leopold Ruiz y Flores. To Father Burke's distress, this agreement later was ren- dered inoperative by political up- heavals. For his work as chairman of an advisory committee to the Secretary of War on religious and moral ques- tions in connection with World War president of the first National Cath- olic War Council and founder of the Chaplains’ Ald Society. Born in New York. . Burke was born in New York All thoughts of goblins and witches dissappeared from the minds of these youngsters when refreshments were announced after the annual Halloween masquerade at Neighborhood House, de in the Wash- Maj. Brown Knows Halloween Temptation and Prays for Rain Because Maj. Ernest W. Brown, | superintendent of Metropolitan police, | used to unhinge gates and move porch | benches from one house to the other | on Halloween eve in his own youth | he understands the temptations Wash- ington boys are feeling today. “But I never destroyed property nor did any malicious thing,” Maj. Brown adds. “And I hope that young people of the District have a grand time harmlessly tonight and sponge out the shameful record of last year, when $1,931.31 was the sum paid by the Potomac Electric Power Co. alone to replace broken street lamps.” Then, remembering he is a police executive and forgetting he once was a small boy, Maj. Brown went on to nullify that hope with another, name- ly, that the heavens will pour rain right after the parade tonight, and that all potential mischief makers will be driven to cover. Resisted Many Temptations. Near Auburn, N. Y. where Maj. Brown lived when he was a little boy, wagons were sometimes elevated to the roofs of barns on All Saints’ eve, he says. Horses and cows were kid- naped from their stalls, necessitating live-stock hunting expeditions around the countryside the next day. But Maj. Brown never engaged in such nefarious practices. He limited him- self to promenading in costume with a pumpkin lantern, a sport he recom- mends highly for District boys and girls tonight. Children prowled the streets with bags of flour in those days, tossing handfuls on passers by, an- other pastime Maj. Brown resisted. Last year on Halloween, probably the wildest in the history of Wash- ington, Maj. Brown was bombarded with both confetti and lighted cig- arettes when he drove down F street in uniform. He points out that con- fetti is against ations, althougn they are liberally interpreted on holi~ days. A challenge was flung to the superintendent only a few nights ago, when two “emergency no parking” signs were placed in his home drive- way on P street, jumping the gun on the witches astride broomsticks doctorate of sacred theology, con- ferred by the Holy See. Pietro Car- dinal Pumasoni-Biondi, then apos- tolic delegate to the United States, made the presentation. Msgr. Burke is the author of “Life and Literature.” of the Mystical Body of Christ” and Claudel’s “Stations of the Croes.” Msgr. City June 6, 1875, and was educated there at St. Francis Xavier College, from which he graduated in 1896 to He was or- 1 11 L af feef ¢! ; CHAUFFEUR ARRESTED ON GAMING CHARGE Employe of Miss Violet Biddle Accused of Writing “Num- 8 M . | ton Pointner, Remembers That He Was Once a Boy Himself, but Says Shameful Van- dalism Will Be Punished. who are supposed to annoy on Oc- | tober 31 only. | *“Those who soap automobiles will | be dealt with severely tonight if | caught,” Maj. Brown said. The soap | is caustic and does permanent damage to paint, a fact he does not believe | most young persons know. Citizens victimized with broken windows and airless tires last year | have been asking for special protec- tion for a week, Maj. Brown said. A | man in Georgetown reports that boys |are already throwing pies at him. | Concerning this outrage Maj. Brown remarks that citizens intolerant about noisy games in a neighborhood are likely to suffer on Halloween. Party Plan Succeeds. Immunity from witchcraft is in- sured a suburban owner of a shop with lots of windows by a bribe of two annual parties to the young of his section—ice cream and cake in Summer and weenies in the Winter, A drug store proprietor tells Maj. Brown that he gives 50 cents to the gang dictator of his corner a day or 50 before Halloween, and that no soap decorates his plate glass, nor does he find it in splinters on the morning of November 1. The downtown parade, planned primarily to tone down residential section mischief, abets it instead, Maj. Brown says. More persons leave their houses unprotected, returning home te find plants uprooted and hedges broken. Maj. Brown believes that separate celebrations in each com- munity might be more effective as a means of preventing property damage. Every police officer in town will work extra hours tonight, with all leaves and days off canceled. While 269 Metropolitan police will manage the parade, only 10 precinct officers will be drawn downtown for duty tonight, suburban sections having been left incompletely protected last year with unfortunate results. Two hundred District National Guardsmen will assist police along the line of march. “We'll do our best to round up van- dals tonight,” Maj. Brown concluded. “But in the meantime I am praying for rain.” WOMAN TO GET $2,400 Consent Verdict Entered Against D. C. for Accident Victim. A $2,400 consent verdict was en- tered in District Court today for Miss Ada Tanner, 1610 Nineteenth street, against the District government, which she charged with negligence in failing to keep the sidewalk at R street and Connecticut avenue in proper repair, ‘Through Attorney Robert E. Lynch, she told the court and jury that ths District’s negligence caused her to assistant Program. March, fllemlwol‘"‘-j”. Overture, “Bohemian Life,” Bergenholts Scene de ballet, “La Source”...Delibes 1. Pas des . 2. Scenes d’Amour,_ 3. Cariations. UPHELD BY GOURT; MOVIE: MEN FINED Alexandria .Police Judge Rules Theaters Not Work . of Necessity. —— ONE OF OPERATORS PLANS TO APPEAL Jurist Says Legislature and Not Tribunals Is Proper “Forum” to Argue Law. By a 8taft Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 31.— Upholding Virginia “blue laws” in re- gard to operation of motion picture theaters on Sunday, Police Court Judge James R. Duncan today found two theater operators guilty of vio- lating the law, as the result of a test case conducted by briefs. Harry A. Wasserman, operator of a theater for colored people, was fined $5 for showing motion pictures at his theater on October 4. Edward Pinkham, proprietor of a theater in Potomac, was fined $10 for opening his theater last Sunday while the test case was pending. An appeal to the Alexandria Cor- poration Court will be taken in the case of Wasserman, his attorney, Charles Henry Smith, announced, Not “Work of Necessity.” 1In his decision, Judge Duncan ruled that conduct of a motion picture busi- ness on the Sabbath is not a “work of necessity” and thereby is in viola- tion of the statute originally passed in 1779 and amended as late as 1932. He pointed out that operation of theaters was not included as an ex- ception to the law when it was re- enacted in 1932, The recent re-en- actment states: “This section shall not apply to furnaces, kilns, plants and other business of like kind that may be necessary to be conducted on Sunday, nor to the sale of gasoline, or | any motor vehicle fuel, or any motor ofl or oils.” “It is not the function of this court to inquire into the wisdom of legis- lative acts of our Legislature, but merely to interpret the law as pro- mulgated.” Judge Duncan set forth. “Few of us will contend that the word ‘necessity’ in modern times meant the same in 1779 as it does to- day, or rather that which might have been unnecessary in 1779, the year this section was made law by our Vir- | ginia Legislature, may be necessary today,” he declared in answer to At- torney Smith's argument that the “day and time” require the operation of theaters on Sunday. “Legislature” Proper Forum. Judge Duncan concluded his deci- sion by quoting from the brief of Commonwealth’s Attorney Albert V. Bryan: “If the defendant believes that the ‘day and time’ require the operation of his theater on Sunday, | then the proper forum for his argu- ment is the Legislature and not the courts.” Pinkham was fined $10 because his offense was considered “of a more aggravated nature” in that the viola- { tion occurred “while this case was pending,” the judge explained. While the test case has been pend- ing during the past month, the Alex- andria Woman’s Club, Alexandria Ministerial Association, Women's Christian Temperance Union and several Parent-Teacher Associations have adopted resolutions in opposi- tion to the operation of motion pic- tures in Alexandria on Sunday. WORKMAN KILLED, ONE HURT IN FALLS Wesley Obier, 52, Feared Victim of Spine Fracture in Accident at 5302 PFirst Street. A Washington construction worker met death in an accident at Balti- more yesterday, while another was injured seriously in a fall here. At Baltimore, a man identified as Harry Erkenbrack, 42, of 925 Fifth street northeast, was killed instantly when he slipped from a girder and fell 35 feet while at work on a construc- tion job at Bos- ton street and Linwood avenue. ; He died of a broken neck and fractured skull. ‘Wesley Obier, 52, of 1107 N street, was con- fined ' to Emer- 5 i % gency Hospital e o, S L e having suffered a possible fracture of the back when he fell from the first floor to the basement of a residence in which he was working at 5302 First street. Obier also was injured about the head and the left hand. He fell through the flooring inside the house. PFirst aid was administered at Walter Reed Hosiptal and then he was re- moved to Emergency. His condition is undetermined. STUDENT ON PAROLE IN ANTIQUES THEFT Justice Gordon Acts on Price Case on Recommendation of Probation Officer. Willlam C. Price, 18-year-old high school student, who was indicted for Eu‘ it L LT Uit o BOND COLLUSION Invitation to See Film at Columbia Hos- pital Extende OU'RE expecting a baby, aren't you?” said a social worker calling on Mrs. N , “it's .my first, and I'm so afraid he’ll be un- healthy or subnormal in some way. I see 50 many children who are de- formed or sick, that I can’t help fear- ing all the time that maybe mine will be too.” “Why don’t you join our Mothers’ Club at Columbia Hospital? It meets every Wednesday afternoon to instruct mothers in the care of themselves and their babies. We teach mothers how to have healthy babies.” ‘The scene shifts to Columbia Hos- pital on & Wednesday. A moving pic- ture is being shown in the basement. “Now in washing the baby, be sure not to use strong soap, and be doubly sure you don't allow a draft in the room where baby’s being washed,” the nurse said, as she pointed to the screen where a healthy boy was hav- ing a bath. “In the next film you will be shown exércises which you should take be- fore and after your child is born.” “Mrs. Jones, you're a newcomer, aren't you?” said the nurse, after the meeting. “Your baby can be just as healthy as anybody else’s if you'll follow our advice. You saw in the movie how to take care of yourself before the birth of the child—the ex- ercise you should take, the food you should eat, the amount of rest you | should take, and the clothes you should | wear. Don't forget what you've seen | concerning the care of the baby and yourself after he’s born. We'll see you next week, and If there’s anything wrong before then, just call the clinic and we’ll tell you what to do.” Three months later John Jones, jr., is born—a fine, healthy baby boy weighing eight pounds. Mrs. Jones is doing well and is sold on the Mothers Club, and especially the movies. Those movies had shown her far better than words what to do and how to do it. The use of movies for instructing mothers is an innovation developed by Miss Linda Woods, head of the clinic at Columbia Hospital. The pictures, so far consisting of two 16-minute reels, begin with dem- onstrations of the proper care for an child after childbirth. The clinic has formed a Mothers’ Club. Women are asked to join by a system of written cards and a fol- low-up service by social workers. In the clinic itself, children are placed under the care of a pediatri- expectant mother and for mother and | d to Mothers. | cian (baby specialist), and mothers are | treated and advised by a post-natal | specialist. Seven hundred and forty- | | six bables, all, with one exception, | | born in the hospital, and 1,795 moth- | | ers, were treated in the clinic last year. | Supported by the Women’s Board | of the hospital, of which M»s. D. Law- | rence Groner is president, and by the Social Service Committee of the Com- munity Chest, of which Mrs. Paul Sherman is chairman, it is the ideal | of the clinic and the club to substi-| tute preventive for curative measures in hospital work. | MT. VERNON OPEN 1 DAYS A WEEK Available to Visitors All Day Sunday Under New Schedule. For the first time in its history Mount Vernon, home of George Wash- ington, is to be open to visitors on Sundays during the same hours ob- served on week days, it was announced today by Col. H. H. Dodge, superin- tendent. The change will be effective tomorrow. Under the new sghedule the man- sion and grounds will be open daily and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., be- ginning November 1 and ending March 1. From March 1 to Novem- ber 1 the daily and Sunday hours will be from 9 am. to 4:30 p.m. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Asso- ciation, owners of the historic estate, sought for years to prevent opening on Sunday. Finally the demand be- came so great that three years ago the gates were ordered opened from 1 to 4:30 p.m. With the increase in automobile tourist travel, however, visitors from different parts of the country have been seeking admission Sunday morn- ings, but have had to proceed without a view of the estate. So acute has this condition become and so anxious is the association to permit every American the privilege of viewing Mount Vernon, it has been decided to observe a 7-day week. “We are not anxious to have the estate open at all on Sunday,” officials said today, “because it gives us no time in which to keep the house and grounds in proper condition without the interference of crowds. We must, however, yield to popular demand.” H. L. SEAMANS FOUND DEAD IN HIS GARDEN Husband of Fairfax County Health Nurse Was Representa- tive of Heating Firm. &pecial Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va, October 31— Stricken with a heart attack in the garden of his home here, Herbert L. Seamans, 50, was found dead yester- day by a neighbor, John Spinks. Mr. Seamans, representative of a New York heating company, had been a resident of Fairfax County for 30 years, MHe formerly lived at Sunset Hills. A native of Springfield, Mo., he was educated in New York and maintained an office in Washington. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Fannie Lou Seamans, Fairfax County health nurse; one daughter, Miss June Seamans, a student at the Fredericksburg State Teachers’ College, and ;‘ brother, Earl Seamans, Springfield, Mo. mnmlmv!pflnceawmbehemnx pm. tomorrow at the home. They will be conducted by Rev. George Gee, pastor of the Herndon Congregational Church, assisted by Rev. Herbert A. Donovan, rector of the Fairfax Epis- copal Church. Burial will be in Chest- nut Grove Cemetery, Herndon. SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED Columbus U. Gives A. F. G. E. Lodge Award for Law School. Columbus Unlveullnli '“lnl:":“: law scholarship to Internal Bureau Lodge of the American Fed- of Government Employes, it BARRED STUDENT 10 BE ENROLLED Arlington Girl to Be Permit- ted to Enter Classes Pend- ing Court Decision. Lois Kemp, 11-year-old Arlington County girl, who was barred from en- rolling at Gordon Junior High School because of overcrowding, will be per- mitted to enter classes there pending the outcome of an appeal from the order of Justice Jennings Bailey hold- ing that non-resident pupils whose parents are employed in the District | can not be barred by the superintend- ent of schools. ‘The decision, the outcome of a poll of the members of the Board of Edu- | cation completed last night, probably will be announced when the board meets next Wednesday, but the mem- | bers were unanimous in approving the | girl’s enrollment. The poll was taken on a recom- mendation of Corporation Counsel El- wood H. Seal that she be permimd‘ to enter classes pending the final dis- | position of legal action brought by | the girl’s father, John Kemp, W. P. A. | disbursing officer. Under the conditions, her status| may be xvcumldere} at the end of the | present term on January 31, if the case is still pending in the Court of Appeals. The appeal, taken by the District on behalf of the Board of Education and Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, would have served to continue to bar the girl unless the board members agreed to the temporary arrangement. TWO HUNTED IN THEFTS One Victim Loses $35, Radio Tubes, Six Fried Oysters. Two colored men, about 25, who are believed to have robbed five per- sons in different parts of the north- west section last night, were being sought by police today. The descrip- tion given by each of the victims tal- lied closely. From Herbert Carlisle, 62, of 222 Q street, they took $35 in cash, four radio tubes and six fried oysters; from Louis Walker, 1236 Girard street, $4 and a watch; from Ernest C. Morris, 59, of 2728 Woodley place, $18 in cash; from Samuel Harris, colored, 927 N street, $16, and from Preston Morrison, 52, colored, 1249 Sixth and & Half street, $7. TWO GET HERO MEDALS Langley Field Sergeants Reward- ed for Courage in Blast. Two Army sergeants attached to the Langley Field air force were awarded Soldier's Medals by the War Department today for heroism dis- played at Langley Field August 31 in preventing property damage and pos- sible loss of life from an exploding flare. They were Staff Sergt. Willle D. Norris and Sergt. M. Musser, both attached to the 20th Bombardment Squadron, General Headquarters Air Force. P — N.F.F. E. PUSHES LODGES Campaign Aims at 100,000 Mem- bers by Time of Convention. Continued progress in the cam- PROBE TURNS T0 MARYLAND POLICE State Investigators Sent to District to Confer on Motorists’ Claims. DRIVER SAYS ATTORNEY “PAID OFF” OFFICER Affidavit Further Alleges Tes- timony of Policeman Was Changed at Trial. Investigation of police-bonding cole lusion in Prince Georges County, Md., broadened today with the entrance of the Maryland State police into the inquiry. Two investigators sent to Washing- ton by Supt. Enoch B. Garey, con=- ferred with Attorney Louis Lebowitz, Initiator of the investigation, for seve eral hours to determine whether Mary- land officers have been directly ine volved in the victimization of Wash= ington motorists. Four affidavits signed by Capital drivers who charge police corruption were given to the State representa- tives by the Keystone Automobile Club. Only one of the declarations directly involves a Maryland officer. This affidavit alleges that a State police= man was “paid off” by a politically prominent attorney, who persuaded the policeman to change his testimony in a traffic violation trial. Garey recently suspended four offie cers on charges that they had accepte ed gratuities from garage owners for “turning business their way.” His investigators, however, declared they intended to analyze all arrest and bonding records to discover whether “any State police are really in this thing.” Meanwhile State's Attorney Alan Bowie in Upper Marlboro prepared to appoint at least one investigator to assist him in the inquiry. That ap- pointments will probably be made early next week. The Keystone Automobile Club has collected some 80 affidavits from Washington motorists complaining of intimidation by police, justices of the peace and bondsmen. District drivers aver that they have been subjected to an “easy fine” syse tem. Arrested on serious traffic charges, such as drunken driving and exceeding 60 miles per hour, the mo= torists charge that they have paid “fines” to a county bondsman. In these instances, the complainants aver, they paid the “fine” to the bondsman and heard no more of the case. PARKWAY PURCHASE OPPOSED BY HAZEN Scenic Development in Deanwood Area Given Further Study. District and Federal officials will give further study to plans of the National Capital Park and Planning | Commission for the purchase of Watts Branch and adjacent land in the Deanwood area for parkway purposes, as the result of opposition voiced by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen to & plan to leave the creek open as & scenic development. In conference yesterday with Thomas S. Settle, secretary, and John Nolen, jr., director of planning, for the commission, Hazen declined to give his approval to plans for an ape propriation of $550,000 for the proe posed parkway development. Hazen said Watts Branch already is polluted and that such streams usually become worse as the sure rounding area is developed. He said he would favor the eventual construce tion of a storm water sewer to serve the Deanwood section. PARENTS LOCATE CHILD WHO WENT FOR STROLL Patsy Foss, 4, and Doll Cause Anxious Moments by Going Exploring. Four-year-old Patsy Foss, 1711 East Capitol street, was back home today after giving her parents a few anxis ous moments yesterday by wandering off with her rag doll to see what she could see. The child was found strolling down Massachusetts avenue northeast and taken to the Receiving Home, where she was located a few hours later by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Foss. Patsy knew her first name, but couldn't remember her last. The mother was told where to find the ch} when she called the fifth pre- cinct to report Patsy’s disappearance. TO SELECT ADMIRALS Line Election Board Also to Pick Navy Captains. About half a dozen new rear ad- mirals and an undetermined number of new captains will be picked by the . Line Election Board, which will con- vene at the Navy Department on November 30, the Navy Depariment announced yesterday. The personnel of the board has not yet been made public. A special board of medical examiners can be convened at the request of an of- ficer up for selection, if his medical record indicates pwbutunnuw- for under regulations. pmmm”dmnl Adolphus Andrews, chief of the Bureau of Navigation,is dispatching a circular letter con- cerning the new board to all ships and stations of the service. AUTO DEATHS DECLINE 7,308 in 43 Weeks, Against 7,701 in Previous Period. Deaths from automobile accidents in 131 large citles during the first 43 weeks of this year were reported by the Census Bureau today at 7,308, com- pared with 7,701 in the corresponding 1935 period. i For the week ended October 33, deaths were 220, compared with 237 for the same week & year ago. :