Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
SIX PERSONS HURT
AS AUTOS COLLIDE
Man Arrested for Reckless.
ness After Car Is Knocked
Into Signal Pole.

Six colored persons were injured and
an electric traffic signal pole was knock
ed down early today in a collision at
Sixth and p streets between machines
driven by James E. Byrd, colored. 30
years old, of 1912 First street. and
John A. Tracy, colored, rs, of 438 P
street.
The force of the impact threw Byrd's
car against the traffic signal post on
the northeast corner of the intersec-
ton, breaking down the upright and
lnjur1ng Byrd and his five companions.
Tracy, who escaped injury, was arrested
on reckless driving charge.
Passenger Has Fractured Thigh.
Gladys Gilbert, 81 years old, of 1872
Lamont street, was taken to Freedman's
Hospital with a fractured left thigh, a
sprained back, and fractured thumb.
Her condition is reported to be unde-
termined. The other occupants of the
car. receiving lesser injuries were: Mil
dred Jackson, 20, of 2437 Eighth street:
Byrd, Lewis Jackson, 81, of as /, street:
Walter Brown. %. of 1875 Tenth street,
and Gladys Chase, Is, of 1918 Eighth
street.
Seven other people were injured in
trafhc accidents reported TO police yes
terday afternoon and last night
TWO pedestrians George e. Allen, 80,
and his brother, Phillip, %, both of
Fairfax, Va, escaped with minor cuts
when an automobile driven by Mrs.
Esther Renner, as, of 1908 Sixteenth
street, skidded into a tree yesterday
afternoon in avoiding a collision with
another car. knocking them down.
George Hewitt, AZ of 933 Ninth street.
was injured yesterday afternoon at
Maryland avenue and Third street
| southwest, in collision involving three
machines.
Hewitt was riding in an automobile
driven by Richard Colbert of 1433 T
street, when truck operated by War;
rem H. Eaton of 1910 c street south
west, and roadster driven by Hamilton
H.. Blandford of Ballston, Va, collided
with it.
Lacerations of the forehead were sus-
tanned by Vincent Perry, IA years old,
of $40 Randolph street, when an auto
| mobile in which he was riding was
struck by machine driven by Charles
w Lewis, SO years old, of 424 Newton
street, at Fifth and Randolph streets.
Miss Patsy Louis, 19, of Sol Rock Greek
Church road, driver of the car in which
the youth was riding, took the boy to
Garfield Hospital for treatment.
Evaglos Karadimos, years old, of
OAG OSNO4A0 oOASCOg Wdo bd0AI uIoC0
yesterday, when an automobile driven
by Russell l.. Dodson of 1925 Fourth
street, knocked him down in front of
his home as he han from behind a
parked car. The boy was treated at
Emergency Hospital.
Pedestrian Knocked Down.
Crossing Seventh street and Penn
Sylvania avenue en- route to his physi-
clans Office, j. W. Moffett, So years
old of 1912 I street northeast, was
struck down by a machine. He was
treated at his doctors Office for LAGER
atoms of the hands and bruises about
the body Police reported the car was
driven by Ernest w. Downs of 48l H
street southwest
An automobile operated by Mrs. Helen
" Keller. 80 years old of 334 Sixth
street southeast, struck down Jane Rob-
ertSon, of sol Seventh street south
east, near her home yesterday afternoon
and inflicted bruises of the right leg.
| The child was treated at Casualty
| Hospital.