Evening star., 1932-05-23
THEATER OFFICIAL.
AND WOMAN KILLED.
IN AUTO CRASHES.
Basket Ball Coach Also Is
Seriously Injured in Mary
land Mishaps.
OVER DOZEN OTHERS
ARE SLIGHTLY HURT
Death of Mount Rainier Resident,
rs, as Result of Four-Car Col
lision to Be Probed.

The treasurer of the Gayety Theater
and a 75-year-old woman were killed
ard prominent basket ball coach seri-
ously injured in week end automobile
crashes on Maryland roads. More than
q dozen others suffered minor injuries.
Name Levine, %. treasurer OF the
Gayety Theater, lost his life early today
when an automobile in which he was
riding left the Livingston road and over
turned / mile south Of the District line
in Oxon Hill.
Mrs. Bridget O'Connor, 3700 block Of
Rhode Island avenue, Mount Rainier,
Md. succumbed in Casualty Hospital
Yesterday several hours after being ad-
mitted for injuries sustained in four
car collision at BeltSville, Md.
David Keppel. %, we'll known in in
dependent basket ball circles as player,
coach and referee. was in critical con-
dition at Casualty Hospital after an
automobile accident near Chesapeake
Beach.
Found Beside Wreck.
Levine and companion, John c.
Fitzgerald, first block of Fifth street
northeast. were found unconscious be-
side the wreck Of their automobile about
2:30 o'clock this morning by c. P.
O'Brien, 1920 K street, passing motor
list, who brought them to Casualty Hos
pital Fitzgerald's condition is serious.
officials Of the Gayety said Levine
had been treasurer of the theater for
the past three years. He made his home
in Baltimore and commuted. He Is
married but has no children
Mrs. O'Connor's death will be probed
at an inquest in the Hyattsville police
staten Thursday night.
Five other persons were injured in
the same accident. They were Miss
Julia Shea, 27; Mrs. Marie Fletcher, 33,
and Archie Fletcher. 27, all Of Mount
Rainier; Mrs. Margaret Smith, 40, 1400
block Of Rhode Island avenue, and
Eclen Teer, 27, HOO block of Fairmont
street. All were taken to Washington
hospitals.
Fetcher's car is reported to have
c. idcd With an autc mobile occupied
b. several colored people. The two ma
ci'n-s we're then struck by two other
cars bearing New York license plates.
A coroner's jury was impaneled yes
t-rday by Justice of Peace John A.
Downing, with Frank B. Smith as fore
man.
Crash Into Guard Rail.
Keppel and a companion were re-
turning from North Beach last night
when their car crashed into the guard
rail of railway overpasS about three
miles this side of Chesapeake Beach.
Keepers companion, John Burke, IS
years old, of the first block of R street
northeast, was cut about the face and
body and received O possible fracture
of the ankle and internal injuries. He
was admitted to Emergency Hospital.
Passing motorists found the two men
pinned unconscious in the Wreckage OF
their machine.
Keppel was hurried to Casualty Hos
pital by passing motorist C. S. Thur
tell Of the 1900 block of Delafield place
Burke was taken to Emergency Hos
pital by Irving Holbrook of 40 K street
! Last season Keppel coached the
basket ball team at the Jewish Com
munity Center, and as a member of the
tDistrict Board of Approved officials ref
, creed in the District A. A. U. cham
pionships.
Four motorists suffered minor cut:
about the head and face last night
when two cars in which they were
; riding careened off the Rockville Pike
!, and crashed into telephone poles Ont
!; of the drivers, Sam Silvius of Gath
|, ersburg, Md, was arrested on charge
of operating an automobile while under
the influence Of liquor.
Car Strikes Pole.
Thomas H. Benton and Earl De Hort
both Of Takoma Park, Md, were in.
jured In an accident miles south Of
Rockville when the former lost con.
x-zi ~ y,is v,ochino an6 Sfr1rk pO1f
while avoiding a collision with a cal
driven by George Nealis Of Garrett
Park.
First laid treatment was administered
by Chief Val Wilson of the Rockville
Fire Department, after which the meI
were taken to the Office of DR.. c. E
Hawks in Rockville. Neither driver wa
formally charged last night, but Police
man Paul Watkins of Montgomer!
County police headquarters, said botl
would later be booked for reckless
driving,
Silvius was taken into custody b,
Policeman Ralph Howard after his au
tomobile left the Rockville Pike nea
Middlebrooke and struck pole. Boil
the driver and passenger, Noraf
Mover, also of Germantown, were Gu
by flying glass and were treated by Dr
Stanley Barber of GaitherSburg. Th
former was held in $500 bond.
Woman Cut About Face.
Thrown through the windshield o
a car driven by her husband. Mrs. Es
telle Arendell of Sandy Spring, Nd
received cuts and bruises of the fac
when the machine struck telephon
pole near Burtonsville, Md. The hus
band, S. M. Arendell, took the woman
to the office of private physician TO
medical attention.
Thomas Randall. 1S, of the 300 bloc
of 3 street northeast, suffered pos
sible fracture of the skull, cuts abou
the face and shock when an AUTOMOBILE
in which he was a passenger went OF
the Marlboro Pike on turn yesterday