Evening star., 1929-09-03
HOLIDAY TRAFFIC
TOLL is NINE HURT
Bus and Truck Figure in Ac.
cident-TWo Injured When
Car 0verturns.

Nine persons were injured In Wash
ington and nearby Maryland In q series
OF Labor day trafbc accidents reported
to police last night and this morning.
Two persons were slightly injured on
the Washington Baltimore boulevard
near Laurel last night, when a large
heavily-laden produce truck and q
Washington Baltimore bus are said to
have sideSwiped each other. Frank
Cooks. Is years old, of Culpeper. Va,
driving the truck, was arrested on
reaching Laurel, police being advised
that he failed to stop at the time OF the
crash. He was freed, however, on his
assertion that he had not been aware
of the mishap.
The driver OF the bus, which is owned
by the Peoples Rapid Transit Co, and a
woman passenger, neither OF whose
names were learned, were slightly cut
by broken glass. The bus continued on
to its destination.
Woman Badly Cut.
It required 100 stitches at Freedmen's Is
Hospital last night to close the wound
suffered by Nellie Webster, colored, OF
725 Fifteenth street northeast. when the
automobile In which she was riding
overturned near Cheverly,' Md, on the
machine operated by Daniel H. Barn
hart, IS years old, of 81 w street. The
woman'S condition Is said to be not
serious. - r.
According to Maryland State police,
Barnhart is said to have told Police
man e. S. HaddaWay that he was at
tempting to pass the machine occupied
by the colored woman and driven by
her husband, C. B. Webster, on the left
when the right front hub cap of Barn.
1art's car struck the left front huh
cap of Websters car. causing the lat
ter's car to leave the road, crash into
a telephone pole and send the woman
through the windshield.
Barnhart removed the injured WON
an to the hospital and later surrend-
cred himself to police of the eighth
precinct, who released him after re-
ceiving a report Of the accident from
Maryland State police.
Two colored men were injured last
night when the machine In which they
were riding skidded and overturned at
Fifty-Sixth and Foote streets north
east.
Skull May he Fractured.
Henry Carson. "a years old, of S25
Second street, and Malcolm Ross, ~,
of 6l512 M street, we're treated at
tured skulls and possible internal in
1uries. The condition of both men was
said at the hospital this morning to be
regarded serious.
Frank Carson, brother of one Of the
injured men, was said by police To
have been driving the car.
Patrick Francis Ryan. % years old
of 1855 N street and Ellsworth Dozier
20 years old, colored. Of 1924 Thirty
sixth street narrowly escaped injury
yesterday when both machines over
at Twenty-eighth and streets.
Do1ier was taken to the seventh
precient station house and charged with
reckless driving.
Paul Halsby, a years old, of 20l6
Fourteenth street southeast, was treated
at Providence Hospital for three
fractured ribs suffered when the
machine he was driving overturned on
Naylor road southeast this side OF the
District line. Police said the man was
attempting to negotiate sharp turn
in the road when the car upset.
Arrested at Garage.
Arrested when he drove into Willie's
garage to have his car repaired, Will
liam ONeal. 700 block OF + street, was
last night charged with failing to stop
after an accident and driving with an
expired permit. He was fined $50 on
the former count and $25 on the lat.
ter by Justice of Peace Hugh Gosnen
at Savage.
According to Maryland State Police
man C. L. Beaseman, O'Neal hit ma
chine driven by C. L. Beckman OF Bal
timore at Waterloo, Nd, on the Balti-
more Boulevard.
william A. Dorsey. 26, Of Washing
ton was charged with leaving after COLI
liding following his arrest by Constable
Andrew r. Gasch Of Bladensburg, who
is reported to have chased the young
Dorsey is accused of hitting Aran
Parunak, q Turk. of South Amboy,
N. J., who was repairing a tire on the
Defense Highway near the Glendale
road last night. Parunak was given
first aid by DIR. J. II. Truett, surgeon
of the Prince Georges County rescue
squad, and taken to Casualty Hospital
in the squads ambulance. He is be-
lieved to have sustained internal in