The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY
/ CRASHES KILL
I THREE PERSONS
Seven Others Injured So
Seriously They May
Not Recover.

Three persons are dead and seven
others injured seriously so they may
not recover as a result Of Decoration
day traffic accidents.
Margaret Jones. 10, Of 862 Eugene
street, was killed almost instantly
this morning when the auto in
which she was riding crashed into a
car driven by George M. Spencer,
of Muncie. at Sixty-second street
and Keystone avenue.
Ralph Whitmier, 30, of r. r. 3,
suffered a skull fracture and died
before the ambulance arrived Mari
an Jones, 10, and Thomas Engle. of
337 Barton avenue, other occupants
of the car with Miss Jones. sustained
bruises and cuts. The injured were
taken to the city hospital.
Homer Leatherman, %, Anderson,
died at city hospital of injuries in
- Cured in an accident at
Thirty eighth street and
LII Sutherland avenue. The
w deaths brought the
traffic toll in Marion
county since Jan. to
fifty.
Three persons riding in an auto
mobile with Leatherman are in city
hospital, probably fatally injured
They are his wife, 81, and Mrs. Mil
dred Massey %, both of Anderson,
and Clyde d. Pigg, q, Vincennes
All incurred skull injuries. Ed Mas
sey, driver, was cut and bruised.
Failing to make a turn, the car
struck tracks of the Indiana rail-
road, swerved and ran nearly one
hundred feet on the rails, turned
over and was demolished.
Three Hurt in Crash
After going out of control on
Road 81 near Southport, an auto
mobile in which six persons were
riding struck a culVert and then
pole, causing serious injury of
three occupants. They are Miss
Bessie George. 10, Nashville, Ind,
fractures Of collar bone and ribs
and internal injuries; John Bmge,
20, Greenwood, Ind, scalp wound,
and Miss Jewel Malner, 18, Beech
Grove, fractured skull, broken nose
and collar bone.
Others less seriously hurt were
Ralph Abbott. Is, Greenwood, the
driver; Miss Mary Clark, 10, of 500
Drover street, and Harry Bailey,
81, Of 538 Drover street.
John Durham, 49, of 339 South
Walcott street, was hurt seriously,
and seven other persons incurred
minor injuries when an automobile
and a truck collided at Sherman
drive and English avenue.
Boy, 10, Hit by Car
Others hurt were John B. Griffith,
%, of 1914 East Vermont street.
driver Of the truck on which Dun
ham was riding, and the driver and
five passengers in the automobile, all
residents of Blanchester, o.
Robert Hunter, %, was the driver,
and he was accompanied by Lin
Syndinsticker, "a; Earl Mathews, 81;
Carl Whitaker, 10; Russell Voorhees,,
%, and Ralph T. Romohr, 81.
Hunter was arrested on a charge
of failing to stop at preferential
street.
Leroy Brown, 10, of SIS West
Twenty street, suffered in
juries of his arm and back when
struck by an automobile driven by
Rodger Carr, Speedway City, at
Tenth street and the canal.
Child Suffers Broken Leg
Struck by an automobile driven
by Charles Hiner, At, of 201 North
Gray street, an unidentified child
suffered a broken leg Monday.
Mother of the child placed it in her
car, telling Hiner, Its not your
fault
Mrs. Ollie Kuhn, 80 of r. r. Ia,
Box 149-C, suffered cuts on the face
and left arm when her automobile
struck a utility pole at Fifty-fourth
and ppnnSVlVa ctrnefc