Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
CRASHES KILL BOY
AND HURT 5 OTHERS
Kensington Youth Loses Life
as Car Turns Over After
Tire Blows Out.

In a series of Christmas eve traffic
accidents a 19-year- boy was killed
when his automobile overturned and a
number of other persons were given hos
pital treatment last night for hurts
ranging from minor cuts and bruises to
severe head injuries.
Bernard Gooding of Route 6, Ken
sington, Md, was killed while driving
eastward along Reservoir road near
Thirty seventh street when tire blew
out and sent his machine careening to
one side Of the road, where it toppled
over.
A companion, Clarence D. Penn, Is
years old, of Sill Broad Branch road,
who was asleep in the rear of the ma
chine, was treated at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital for decorations and
Commissions.
Passing motorists extricated the two
boys from the wrecked automobile and
rushed them to hospitals. Gooding
was pronounced dead by staff physicians
upon his arrival at Emergency.
VIII Hold Inquest Tomorrow.
Penn was sent to the Receiving Home
by seventh precinct police, to be held
for a coroner's inquest tomorrow morn
ing at 1880 o'clock after being given
medical attention.
A car containing four midshipmen of
the United States Naval Academy and
the brother of one of the midshipmen
crashed into an automobile on u street
near Seventeenth street early this morn
ing and sent James Ackis, colored, 40
years old, of 1910 Twentieth street, to
Freedmen's Hospital with a badly
crushed left leg.
Ackis was pouring gasoline into his
car when the machine taking the five
youths to the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart for midnight mass struck him.
Harry Edward Seidell, jr., 81 years old,
of 1913 Maple avenue, Takoma Park,
Md, was driving the machine, police re-
ported.
Robert Brown, colored, 81 years old,
OF 48 H street northeast was seriously
injured few moments later when a
hit-and-run car knocked him down in
front OF his home. He was found TO
be suffering from a fractured skull and
cuts on the forehead when taken to
Emergency for treatment.
A 10-year-old boy, Hayden Bentley
of 3517 Thirteenth street, received cuts
and bruises of the body late yesterday
when struck down at Thirteenth and
Monroe streets.
Henry A. Marsden, SIS, of 140O block
Parkwood place, the driver who felled
the youngster, removed the boy to Wal
ter Reed Hospital for first-aid treatment
Marsden was not held.
Woman Struck by Auto.
Cuts and bruises were suffered by
Mrs. Futin Devoe of 624 Florence street
northeast, when she was struck near
her home by a machine operated by
George w. Harrison, Is, of Alexandria
Va. Harrison took Mrs. Devoe to Cas-
ualty Hospital.
william Alexander Paggett, 80, of
2013 Fourth street northeast, and Ho-
bart L. Breeder, 81, of 232 r street
northeast, were arrested last night and
held In connection with an accident in
which Arville Garlitz of 1855 Gates
street northeast, was seriously injured
Sunday night.
Garlitz was struck, police say, by a
hit-and-run driver on Livingston road
southeast and motorists who found him
unconscious in the roadway removed
him to Providence Hospital. His con-
dition Is reported to be improving
steadily.
Paggett has been formally charged
with assault of Garlitz, while Breeder
is being held on a technical charge of
investigation.
Coroner J. Ramsay hewitt has
scheduled an inquest into the death of
Birta Allen Venable, 24-year-old sailor,
for tomorrow morning at 1880 o'clock
at the District Morgue. Venable was
fatally injured early yesterday when
his car overturned at Anacostia Bridge
while he was driving to the Naval Air
Station.