Evening star., 1929-07-01
TRAFFIC CLAIMS
|. | LIFE; SCORE HURT
John Pearl, 18, Baltimore.
Dies at Frederick After
Motor Cycle Hits Auto.

TRAFFIC mishaps resulted in one death
and injuries to more than a score Of
Washingtonians and residents of nearby
Maryland and Virginia over the week
end.
Death resulted to John Pearl, 18-
year-old Baltimore youth, when he lost
turn on the Georgetown pike and
crashed head-on into the automobile
in which Etienne Landy Of the Swiss
legation here was riding with his wife.
Lewis Heller, who was riding behind
him, was seriously hurt.
The accident occurred near Frederick
and John r. Keller, magistrate at
Buckeystown, who saw the crash, said
the youth was driving at high speed.
Pearl died in O Frederick hospital q
short time later. Heller suffered sew
eral broken bones and internal injuries
and his condition today was said to
be serious. Mr.. and Mrs. Landy, the
former driving, were not injured. The
death Of Pearl was held to have been
accidental and charges were not pre-
ferred.
Failure of drivers to exercise q proper
precaution, and in some instances re-
ported defects in mechanism and con-
trolls, were given as the explanation Of
the greater number Of accidents rather
than circumstances induced by conges-
ton on the roads.
Hurt in Crash with Tree.
Lynn .McGill, 80, Of the 900 block Of
Twentieth street, was reported In q
critical condition In Casualty Hospital
this morning from injuries received
when his car struck tree and over
turned near Morganza, Md, yesterday.
Two other occupants Of the car,
Thomas Morris, 80, Of Morristown, Md,
and Phillip S. Mitchell Of the 1900
block of California street, suffered lac
erations and broken bones and are also
at CASUALTY Hospital.
severely cut about the head by glass
when the steering gear Of his car locked
and the machine crashed into parked
machine on the Ballston road yesterday.
He was taken to Georgetown Hospital
by passing motorist, and this morning
his condition was said to be not serious
Four persons were injured when their
car left the Baltimore boulevard and
overturned near Beltsville. They are:
Mrs. Dorothy Thompson, II, Of the 400
block Of Adams street notheast, lacer-
ated forehead and fractured right
ankle; her husband, William r.
skull and other injuries; Mrs Marie
H. Clements, 80. TOO block of G street
northeast, lacerations near right eye,
and her husband, Wilbur r. Clements,
decorations to lace. All were taken to
Casualty Hospital.
Llewellyn A. Luce, 80, Of 500 block
of Mount Pleasant street, suffered q
broken arm when q car said to have
been driven by Ottmer Hamele Of the
5000 block Of Ordway street, overturned
near Marlboro. He also was treated
at Casualty Hospital.
Mrs. Manuel Copez, 81, Of the 800
block OF street northeast, received
several fractured ribs, and other in
juries, when an automobile In which
she was riding overturned after o tire
blew out near Leonardtown. She was
brought to Casualty Hospital by pass
ing motorists.
Llewllyn Davis, 21, 1000 block of M
street, was treated at Emergency Hos
pttal for possible internal injuries and
lacerations received when Q car In
Wn1cn ne was q passenger overturned
on the Rockville Pike. Police reported
William OrmeS Of Germantown, Nd,
whom police reported was the driver,
suffered slight injuries. Davis returned
home after staying overnight at the
Miss Mary Hamilton of Is Eighteenth
street southeast, Washington, received
broken nose, and K. Hoffman Of the
same address, broken arm, when an
automobile operated by the young wom-
an ran into telegraph pole on the
suddenly lost control.
Miss Leona Farr, 40, q nurse Of the
$500 block Of r street, received serious
injuries to the head and q compound
fracture OF the shoulder In o collision
near TysonS Corner on the LeesburN
road last night. The car In which she
was riding was said to have been driven
by Joseph Rouski, 900 block Of G street.
His machine Is reported to have car
reened suddenly In front of q car oper-
ated by L. r. Naylor Of Alexandria, Va,
who with his wife, Mrs. Naylor, their
two children, Linwood and Virginia, and
MRS. Elizabeth Popkins, were treated for
slight injuries at the Alexandria hos
pital.
Woman Hurt In Collision.
Several mishaps occurred In WASH
lngton. Mrs. Margaret d. Sobotka, 1907
injuries to the head early last evening
In Q collision between the Sobotka
family car and another machine at
Tenth and O streets. She was treated
at Sibley Hospital and taken home.
A taxicab driven by j. r. King,
Takoma Park, Md, stopped In front OF
631 G street about o'clock In the
afternoon to discharge passengers and
was struck by street car Of the WASH
ington Railway q Electric Co. Herman
Winter, ~, 1910 Eleventh street. q
passenger In the taxicab, was injured.
He was able to 60 home after receiving
treatment at EMERGENCY Hospital
James G. Fleet, S238 Prospect avenue,
and Robert Taylor, 1924 r street, were
drivers Of automobiles that collided at
Twenty-second and K streets about
$3.50 o'clock Jesse Scott, colored, II.
14l2 Twenty-third street, o passenger
in Fleets car, was slightly hurt. First
aid was given at Emergency Hospital.