Evening star., 1933-06-12
Washington Man and Mary
land Woman Are Victims
of Traffic Accidents.
PASSENGER GRABS WHEEL.
SENDS CAR INTO DITCH
District Youth Killed Almost In
stantly When Machine Over
turns on Curve.

Two people are dead and eight others
are suffering from injuries as a result
of series of holiday traffic accidents
which occurred in nearby Maryland
and Virginia yesterday. Three of those
who were hurt are reported to be in
serious condition at hospitals today.
The dead are:
Patrick A. MCGOWAN, %, of 1914
North Capitol street, who was killed
when car he was driving skidded and
overturned on the Southern Maryland
| Boulevard at Chaney.
Miss Gladys Baker, 25, of Burnt
Mills, Md. bookkeeper at the Homeo-
pathic Hospital, who was fatally injured
when an automobile in which she was
riding plunged into ditch on the Bur-
louisville e-Spencerville road.
Caused Fatal Accident.
Miss Baker, who was riding in a car
driven by Harry Shelby. 20, of Silver
Spring, caused the accident in which
she was fatally hurt, Montgomery
County Policeman Jerry Hobbs re-
ported.
Miss Baker, Hobbs said, became
frightened when Shelby was blinded by
the lights of an approaching car, grab
bed the steering wheel and sent the
machine careening off the road and
into a ditch.
Passing motorists removed Shelby
and his companion to the Montgomery
County Hospital at Sandy Spring,
where Miss Baker died shortly after
wards with a fracture of the skull.
Shelby is said to be in a serious condi-
ton with fractures of both legs and
internal injuries.
Miss Baker and Shelby were return
ing to their homes after swim in the
Patuxent River at Burtonsville when
the accident occurred, police said.
On Way to North Beach.
MCGOWAN was enroute to North
Beach, Md, with Miss Joan Tolan OF
1400 Fairmont street and William
Doolan of 430 Ingraham street, when
he lost control of his car on a curve,
the machine skidding and overturning.
MCGOWAN was rushed to the Calvert
County Hospital at Prince Frederick,
Md. where he was pronounced dead.
Miss Tolan and Doolan were given first
aid treatment for slight cuts and
bruises
A collision at Wilson lane and Brad
ley boulevard, in Bethesda. between two
cars operated by Robert Holt of 1419
Chaplin street, and Mr.. Claude B. Nor
ton of Glen Echo, Md, sent three per-
SONS to the Georgetown University Hos
pital.
Mrs. Norton suffered cuts of the arm
and fractured thumb; Earl Johnson,
II, of Woodmont, Md, received unde-
termined injuries of the back and is
under the care of staff physicians at
the hospital, while Gertrude Renshaw,
9, of Woodmont, sustained bruises and
shock.
Others Escape Unhurt.
Members of the Bethesda fire rescue
squad carried Mrs. Norton and the two
children, both of whom were riding in
Mrs. Norton's car, to thR hospital for
treatment. Holt and Several other
occupants Of the Glen Echo woman's
automobile escaped unhurt.
Roscoe Toliver, 25-year-old colored
janitor Of 1888 Euclid street, and Evelyn
Stuart, colored, also of Washington,
were seriously hurt when car in
which they were riding was in COL
lision with truck operated by James
Sorrell of Haymarket, near Bull Run,
Fairfax County. They were carried to
Emergency Hospital
Cecil r. Hutton of Fairfax was ar
rested on charge of driving while
drunk after a car he was driving was
in collision with machine operated by
Eugene Sims of Washington. Both cars
were badly damaged, but neither driver
was hurt.