Evening star., 1932-12-12
| SNOW IS PREDICTED.
FOR TONIGHT AS ICE.
SLOWS UP TRAFFIC..
Collisions Caused by Skidding
Cars Are MumerouS-FeW
Are Serious.
TWO RIDING ON SLEDS
MOST SERIOUSLY HURT
Washington Man and Chevy Chase
Youth Are Severely Injured in
First Winter Sport.

4OuCn ARE severely 4HJuIeu III
First Winter Sport.
While motorists continued today to
creep along over ice-crusted roads
nearly hidden by blurred winds hields,
the United States Weather Bureau pre-
dicted more sncw or rain for tonight
Although many minor collisions were
caused by skidding automobiles. few
serious accidents were reported to
police either in Washington or outlying
districts.
Sledriding, the first of the Winter,
caused the only severe injuries. one to
a Washington man and the other to a
Chevy Chase youth. Five other young
sledders of Maryland and Virginia re-
ceived lesser injuries, however. City
streets were roped off and as a result no
collisions between sleds and automobiles
were reported within Washington.
Man, 22, Hurt Worst.
Elliott Bohrer, %, of 1928 Thirty
third street southeast, was the most
seriously injured of the, young sledders
yesterday. He received fractured skull
when his sled ran wild on Hill Crest
drive near Texas avenue southeast and
crashed into a telegraph pole. At
Providence Hospital his condition was
said today to be improved. Young
Bohrer is a brother of Sergt Alvin S.
Bohrer of the tenth precinct. His COM
panion on the sled, 12-year-old June
Sizemoore, 2215 Thirty first street south
east, was uninjured.
The Chevy Chase youth, Lynwood
James. 16, of BIS West Bradley lane,
suffered a broken left arm and possible
internal injuries when his sled crashed
head-on into an automobile on the
East West highway in Montgomery
County. Miss Mary Ellen Massey, 20, of
42l5 Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md,
who was coasting with James, received
only minor cuts and bruises. Both she
and James were taken to Georgetown
Hospital by the Bethesda Fire Rescue
Squad
The automobile into which the cou-
pie crashed is owned by Alfred L. Will
son, justice Of the peace at Kensington,
Nd, and was being driven by his SON.
in-law, Stanley Everhart of Kensington.
Four Hurt on Hill.
-Four others injured were hurt while
cC-sGing on a half-mile-long hill on
Frazer avenue, in Virginia Highlands,
A-ington County.
Eleanor Poyner, IA, of Virginia High
lc-ds, was injured about the face when
the sled on which she was riding with
Zach Thomas, 81, also of Virginia
Highlands, overturned after striking a
bare spot on the hill. The former was
given first-aid treatment by the Jeffer-
son Rescue Squad, while Thomas, whose
injuries were slight, refused medical at
tention.
Billy Buscher. 10, was treated at
Emergency Hospital for mangled right
ear, as the result of a fall from his sled
Louise Hendrickson, II, suffered numer-
Gus cuts and bruises when her sled
struck an automobile. Both the Buscher
boy and Miss Hendrickson live in
Virginia Highlands.
In Washington, two motorists skidded
head-on into rope barricade at Thir-
teenth and Farragut streets, built to pro-
tect sleigh riders One of the motorists,
Elbert s. Maloney, 1541 Park road, re-
ceived lacerationS to his face when the
rope broke the windshield of his car
A short time later, James Jeffery, 1853
Kennedy street, failed to see the rope
until too late to avoid skidding against
it. A window of his automobile was
broken, but he was unhurt.
Although uninjured when his auto
mobile was in collision with another
car at Fifteenth and B streets south
east yesterday afternoon, Robert Criste
26, of Ill Seventh street northeast, was
hurt by piece of ice thrown by an
unknown colored man while he and
the driver of the other machine were
engaged in an argument.
Taken to Casualty.
Criste was taken to Casualty Hospital
and treated for scalp lacerations. The
second car was driven by Louis Wash
ington. colored, A. of the 1900 block
of B street southeast.
Two Washington youngsters were in
jured yesterday while shedding on the
road extending into the Rock Greek
and Potomac Parkway from Massachu-
sets avenue, which United States Park
Police barricaded to permit coasting.
Louise Roberts, IS, colored, 1914
Eighteenth street. was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for minor cuts on the
scalp, and Joseph Grand, IT, of 1901
Harvard street, received first aid at
Georgetown Hospital for a slight cut
on the face.
The lone mounted officer Of the park
police, Pvt Edward Bass, was unable to
ride his horse yesterday or today, due
TO weather conditions, and was detailed
to foot duty.
snow-sWept roads to oficiate at a
funeral at the Rock Creek Episcopal
Church Rev Claude S. Ridenour,
assistant rector at the church, narrowly
escaped serious injury when his auto
mobile turned over on the East-WeSt
highway, east of Connecticut avenue,
Saturday morning.
DR.. Ridenour had visited his brother,
Homer Ridenour, who is critically i'll
at Frederick, Nd, and who last Friday
was believed to be near death. With a
funeral scheduled, however, the minister
was obliged to return to his church.
His trip, made precarious by the snow
fall, was negotiated without event until
he was descending the hill on the East
West highway near Connecticut avenue.
In attempting the curve, DR.. RidenOur S
car skidded and turned on its side. He
was uninjured, however.
INJURED BY HIT-AND- RUN DRIVER
Child, 6, COasting on Sled Has Frae-