Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
ELEVEN ARE HURT
IN AUTO M|SHAPS
7. J. Groom, Vice President of
Mechanics Savings Bank,
Injured as Car Hits Pole.

Thomas j. Groom, 20 years old, vice
president and cashier of the Washing
ton Mechanics Savings Bank, and a
cousin, Charles Groom, 81, of Pitts
burgh, Pa were injured early yester-
day morning when their machine ran
off the Rockville pike near Bethesda
and crashed into telephone pole.
The bank Official who lives at %
Girard street northeast, was removed to
Georgetown University Hospital in a
serious condition with fractured skull
and severe body bruises, while his cousin
sustained decorations of the legs and
brush burns. He was treated at the
Emergency Hospital.
The accident occurred about 3 o'clock
as the men were returning to Wash
ington after leaving two woman friends
at their homes in Rockville, hospital
officials were told.
Nine other persons suffered injuries
in a series of traffic accidents which
occurred in the District and nearby
Maryland yesterday and last night.
Minor cuts and bruises were received
by Sylvester Cook, 10 years old of 1905
Baker street, yesterday when an auto
mobile driven by Mellon o. Washburn,.
%, of 1916 Sixteenth street felled him
in the 1900 block of Belmont street.
The boy was treated at Casualty Hos
pital and dismissed.
Pedestrian Knocked Down.
A charge of driving while drunk was
lodged against Henry Tolson, colored
10 years old, last night after an auto
mobile he was driving collidcd with
two automobiles and knocked down a
coiored pedestrian on ur-and-a-half
street southwest. Tolson told police he
had no specific address.
Two colored taXicab drivers overlook
the youth and turned him over to Pa
trolman H.-H Hef1in of the fourth
precinct after the car driven by Tolson
sideswiped two other machines and
bowled over Archie Mckinney, colored,
Al, of 209 Four-and-a-half street. Nc
Kinney was treated at the Emergency
Hospital for sprained ankle.
Maryland police were searching to-
day for the driver of a hit-and-run ma
chine which struck the Car of a Wash
ington woman and seriously injured a
colored pedestrian before ending its
mad dash down the Olney pike by
overturning in ditch last night.
The machine ran into the automobile
of Miss Eva Morris of 705 Eighteenth
street, backed off and continued on
down the pike at rapid pace, striking
Josh Selby, colored, about a mile from
Olney Inn, and leaving the man lying
IN the roadway with a possible skull
fracture and other serious injuries.
Car Turns Over.
The car turned over in a ditch a
little farther down the road. Police ar
rested Emery johnson, colored, who
admitted being in the auto. johnson,
1t Is said, named James White, colored,
OF Granite, Nd, owner Of the machine,
as the driver.
William H. Reed, years old, Of
Tuxedo, Md, and his 4-year-old broth
er, Clifton, suffered minor cuts last
. night when car driven by their father,
Howard c. Reed, So, crashed headlong
| into another car operated by Thomas
Washington, colored. of Landover, Md.
The two children were given treatment
at Casualty Hospital and discharged
Two other children, Mildred Keller,
| O, and Chester H. Keller, IT,, 3. were
injured under similar circumstances
last night, q car operated by their
father, Chester Keller, Of DIT Aspen