Boy, 5, Killed
By Auto in


Neighbor's Car

Knocks Down
Son of Socialite

Riding a scooter onto the high-
way. a ?re-3'ear-old boy. only
child or the socially-prominent
3.11. and Mrs. Mark Edwin Balis.
was killed by an automobile in
front of his home at 519 More-
land are. 
after 3 P. M.. yesterday.

The child. Marl-z Edwin Balls. 
was apparently killed instantly as
the front right wheel of the car.
operated by: Mrs. fiei?trude Sullivan
Mitchell. 53. of Artimorr- are- near
Moreland. ran over his body: after he
had been knocked to the ground.
?nal-4TH STREET

He had been playing around the
heme and suddenly.- turned the scoot-
er into a. sloping drireway, coasting
down to the street.

Mrs. Mitchell. who had just start~
ed out for a drive and was moving
slowly. rounded a corner near the
Balis house and applied the brakes
when she saw the child dart in front.
of the machine.

But her attempt to aroid hitting

him was futile. She halted her ear
before the rear wheel had touched

the child, and then tool-r him to
Chestnut Hospital. where he
was pronounoed dead.

Later. at a hearing before Justice
[if the Pence Charles S. Idell. Mrs.
Mitchell was held in bail on a
charge of by automo-
lbile, [wnding action hr Uoroner W. S.
Jim-shone. of Montgomery county.
TESTIFIES AT HEARING

Testifying at the hearing. William
Engler. chieir of Spring?eld township
police. related Mrs. Mitchell's story
that the child had darted out of the
driveway.' too suddenlyr Ior her to
avoid striking him-

The child was a ?rst grade pupil
at the Germantown Friends School.

Balis. a graduate of Yale Univer-
sity, class of 192?. is a partner in the
insurance brokerage ?rm of Lukens.
Savage, ??ashburn a; Balis. with of+
flees at 132 S. 4th at. A member of
the Gemantown lEI'it'l-Itet Club, he Is
a. ?rst cousin of the late Amelia Ear-
hart Putrnan. world-tamous ariatriit.
Mrs. Balis is the former Rose .1.
Townsend.