Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
SEVEN ARE HURT
IN AUTO M|SHAPS
Five Are Seriously Hurt in
Accidents Caused by
Dense Fog.

Five men and two women were in
jured, five of them seriously. in Wash
ington and nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia last night in five automobile &C
cidents resulting from the rain and
fog, which clouded windshields and
made driving hazardous on the Slip
perry streets.
Two young men were badly injured
when the delivery truck in which they
were riding crashed head-on into a
Washington-bound bus of the Washing
ton, Virginia and Maryland Coach Co.
at Leeway, Va, on the Lee Highway
mile west of Halls Hill.
Harry Tucker Champlain, 20, o!
Ballston, Va, driver of the truck, re-
ceived a possible fracture of the skull
and decorations. He was treated al
Emergency Hospital, where he was
taken by passing motorist. Lewis
Clifton Mills, 81, also of Ballston, the
other occupant of the truck, received
injuries to both legs, which George.
town University physicians said las
night may prove to be fractures, anc
decorations on the head and body DR.
John T. Hazel treated Mills al
Georgetown.
A0Akh x1dlA, OF, VI <A1CAdklu1l OIIVCl
OF the bus, was uninjured. There were
returning to the Capital from Falls
Church.
Drivers Deny Negligence.
Drivers of both vehicles denied
negligence In operation of their cars
The truck was the property of the
Bergman Laundry, and its two occu-
pants, employees of the concern, were
returning to their homes in Ballston
George Robinson, IS, and Mrs
Libertta Colella, A, we're seriously in.
jured, the woman having her nose
nearly severed and losing the sight OF
one eye, and the man sustaining a pos
sible fracture of the skull when the au-
tomobile in which they were riding col
llded with a telegraph pole while
Corners, Md. Both live in Waldorf
Md. They were brought to Providence
Hospital in a passing automobile.
Crushed between a parked car anc
a moving automobile driven by an 49,
yeGr-old girl shortly before o'clock
Efick Hintze, %, of 245 Twelfth street
southeast was carried Is feet between
the two machines. Both hips were
crushed.
Miss Rhoda K Hatton of 1927 B
street southeast, driver of the colliding
car, was arrested by police of the fifth
precinct and charged with reckless driv-
ing. She later was released on $l0O
collateral.
Max Fischer, %, who lives with
Hintze and was beside him at the time
of the accident, told police Hintze was
standing between his car, which he had
been cranking, and light truck, also
owned by him. He stepped out from
between the two machines just as Miss
Hatton approached. Fischer declared.
The girls Car struck him and pinned
him against the rear of the truck,
which was pushed along the curb for
Is feet before coming to halt. Her
father was in the machine with her
The girl left and went home, her COM
panion remaining to report the acct
dent and summon aid.
The fifth precinct patrol arrived
within a few minutes and took the in
jured man to Casualty Hospital, where
he was treated by DR.. j. A. Radzievich
of tie hospital staff. His condition is
Ser.~uS.
Man, IS, Felled by Cab.
While crossing Fourteenth street in
the HOO block John F. Manney, rs, OF
$50 o street, was knocked down by a
taxicab driven by Frederick Bower, IS,
of oil Thirteenth street southwest. He
was removed to Emergency Hospital in
the taxi and treated for decorations to
his forehead.
Mrs. Dorothy Sulis, %. of 1853 Tay-
lor street. sustained decorations and
bruises when a taxicab A which she
was a passenger was in collision at
Fourteenth and N streets with another
machine driven by Samuel Saunders,
colored, of 938 L street.
The taxi was driven by Carlton D.
Cole, IS, of 1345 Fourteenth street.
Mrs. Sulis was treated at Emergency
Hospital.