Evening star., 1930-06-16
-FOUR WASHINGTON
RESIDENTS KILLED
|NAUTO ACCIDENTS
Seven Others Are Hurt in
Maryland and New Jersey
Smash-ups.
WOMAN AND BOY DIE
IN CAR-TRUCK CRASH
Colored Man, Victim of Previous
Wreck, Loses Life on Way
to Hospital.

in q series of automobile accidents yes
terday In Maryland and New Jersey.
Two of the fatalities occurred yester-
day morning when an automobile bound
for New York with eight members of
local family was demolished in a
collision with a heavy truck on New
Jersey State Highway No. 25, near
Woodbridge.
Those killed were Bernard Zegowitz,
16-year-old son of Frederick zegowitz,
a baker living at el3 Fifth street, and
Mrs. Ida Williams of 1910 Sixteenth
street, the dead youths grandmother.
Another Fatally Injured.
Another Washingtonian fatally in
iured yesterday afternoon was Edward
Walker, 35 years old, chief quarter
master in the Navy, who had been as
signed to TEN .oorary duty at the Naval
Observatory.
Walker was driving his automobile on
the State highway between Highland
and Ellicott City when it was in a
collision with another machine. The
injured man was brought to Walter
Reed Hospital by c. B. Rosenbaugh of
839 Kennedy street, passing motorist.
The fourth man to die as result
of Sabbath day traffic accidents was
John Pitts, colored, of the TOO block
of Sixteenth streeth, who was killed
when, already injured in previous &C.
cident, he was catapulted from the car
In which his brother was rushing him
to a local hospital onto the highway at
Valley avenue and Livingston road
southeast after the machine hit a
culvert.
Others injured in the New Jersey ac-
cident were Mrs, Margaret ZegoWitZ. 40
years old, mother of the dead youth,
who received a fracture of the skull;
Rose Zegowitz, 6 years old, fracture OF
the skull: Mrs. Elsie Williams Stepho-
nick of 1910 Sixteenth street, compound
fracture Of the skull; Mrs. Stephonick's
8-year-old daughter, Bernadette, shock;
Francis ZegowitZ, 8 years old, cuts and
bruises; Margaret Zegowitz, years old,
shock and minor bruises.
Victims Taken to woodbridge.
The machine was being operated by
Mrs. Stephonick. daughter of the
woman killed and sister of Mrs. Zego-
witz. The machine was so badly wreck
ed that passing motorists had dtt1culty
extricating the bodies and the injured
who were rushed to the nearby city Of
Woodbridge and admitted to the Perth
Amboy Hospital there.
are expected to recover, attendants at
the hospital said this morning.
The driver of the truck which figured
In the collision was Samuel Denox OF
Philadelphia
zegowitz, the husband and father,
who Is employed at the Charles
Schneider Backery Co., left by train for
New Jersey yesterday afternoon. The
family party was en- route to New York
State for weeks pleasure trip.
Quartermaster Walker was transferred
to the Air Station at Anacostia from
the u. S. S. Partridge little more than
a month ago. and later was assigned
to temporary duty ct the Naval
Observatory.
Taken to Naval Hospital.
Injured about 4:30 o'clock in the aft
ernoon, he was given first aid at Walter
Reed Hospital, then transferred to
Emergency Hospital and later sent to
Naval Hospital, where he died shortly
after o'clock this morning OF a frac-
tured skull.
Another accident in New Jersey. near
Glenridge, resulted in lesser injuries to
Miss Madeline Ensign, radio editor OF
the washington Herald, yesterday morn
ing. Miss Ensign was treated at the
home of friend in Glenridge.
Miss Ensign was making the trip with
Mrs. Peggy Clark, manager of Radio
Station VOL. Their machine, operated
by Mrs. Clark. who escaped injury, was
in collision with another car operated
by Charles Luke, Park avenue, New
York City.
Child Seriously Injured.
Walking into the side of machine
{v% 1%ay,t nf fhA eleventh nrarinrt nnlicP
station, at Chicago and Nichols avenues
southeast, Pauline O'Brien, 4 years old,
of 1915 Morris road southeast, suffered
possible fractures of the left shoulder
and skull and lacerations yesterday
afternoon, At Walter Reed Hospital
her condition was reported to be Seri-
Gus, but steadily improving today
James H. williams. colored, So years
old, of 1887 Thirteenth street. who was
driving the machine, was arrested and
then released in custody of his attor-
ney pending thsbutcome Of the girls
injuries.
pvt. Eugene Gobner, 26 years old. of
Boiling Field was treated for minor
lacerations at Georgetown University
Hospital as q result of a collision be-
tween two machines in front of No. 20
Engine Company, at Conduit and Res
ervoir roads Gobner was riding in a
car operated by Pvt. John Kramer %,
also of Boiling Field.
George Krump, colored, 81, Of 1874
Corcoran street, was arrested two hours
later by seventh precinct police as the
driver of the second car in the col
lision. He was charged with "hit-and-
run" and operating an automobile with
out District drivers permit.
Krump, according to police, halted
his car two blocks from the scene of
the accident after striking and wreck
ing Kramer's machine and went To
the home of his employer, James
Crowley, prominent Chevy Chase real
estate operator, who turned him over
to police,
Auto Runs Into Ditch.
Severe decorations above the left eve
were received by Lucille Stone, 32-year-
old Veterans Bureau clerk, of 1850 Har-
ward street, early yesterday when Q
car in which she was riding with E. D
Latta, also of the Harvard street ad-
dress, went into a ditch near Olney
Md, when it sideswiped another ma
chine. She was given treatment al
Casualty Hospital.
Four persons were injured when an
automobile in which they were riding
with Harry Parker, % years old, of the
Ventosa Apartments, at the wheel. was
crowded off a Maryland road about five
miles south of Waldorf, Md, by a car
which failed to stop.
Parker suffered contusionS and pos
sible fracture of the left arm. His wife,
Mrs. Beulah Parker, %; their son
Harry, jr.. 3, and Mrs. Parker's sister
Miss Maroaret Visa IL. were treated al