Evening star., 1934-02-05
DOZEN MORE HURT
IN ICE ACCIDENTS
Possibility of Snow or Rain
Wednesday Forecast
for This Area.

Ice caused the injury Of nearly a
dozen persons last night, one seri-
ously, in shedding and automobile ac-
cidents in Washington and nearby
Maryland and Virginia.
Possibility Of more snow or rain
Wednesday or Wednesday night for
Washington and Central Eastern
Bureau today. Nearby weather con-
ditions would remain about the same
today. Weather Bureau officials said.
the temperature reaching an approXi-
mated low of 81 degrees tonight.
The prediction for tonight was
partly cloudy and tomorrow fair and
slightly colder. The lowest tempera-
ture for the last "a hours was 26
degrees. reached at 4 O'Clock this
morning the highest being at $3.50
pm yesterday. with 43 degrees.
Weather Bureau officials insisted,
however, that the forecast Of possible
rain or snow Wednesday was made
in the weekly prediction and might
change between now and that time.
Woman Hurt in Crash.
Miss Mildred Bradshaw, %, of Ny
ack, N, Y, was critically injured when
two automobiles crashed head-on near
Woodbridge. Va, on the Richmond
Highway. With her chest and fore
head injured, she had not regained
consciousness at the Alexandria Hos
pital this morning Henry Steele, AZ,
of Spring Valley. N. Y. driver of the
machine in which she was riding
sustained cuts and bruises, and Mrs
Howard Christian, IS, Of Nyack, re-
ceived head cuts.
Mrs Theresa La Vine, SO, and Mrs.
Mary Petgen of New York and Mrs
Katherine Park, 49, Of South Comes
vile, Pa, were treated at the Alex
andria Hospital for injuries sustained
in an accident on the Richmond
Highway south Of Alexandria They
were en- route north from Florida.
Additional Victims.
Thornton Dixon, l8. Braddock, Va,
injured when his car skidded into two
parked machines at Mount Vernon
and Peyton avenues. Alexandria
Three young women, who were riding
with him, were unhurt.
Evelyn Zigbie, 18 of the 1900 block
Of California street, cut about the
head in a shedding mishapsin Rock
Creek Park, near the Shoreham
Hotel.
James Dovel, 10. Ballston, Va, in
jured when his sled was struck by
an automobile near his home. Sew
eral other children involved in the
same accident escaped injury. James
was taken to Children's Hospital.
Two Hurt on Bobsled.
St art Fellmer, %, of the 200
block of v street northeast, and Miss
Sarah Campbell, 26, of the 5000 block
of Twenty-second street northeast,
hurt when q six-passenger bobsled
piloted by the former hit a parked
car at Eighteenth and Newton streets.
Both were treated at Sibley Hospital.
The other passengers were unin-
jured.
Charlotte Ridley, II, colored, hurt
in a shedding accident on the same
hill on which Miss Zigbie was in
jured.
EdIlIllc FeCerSOIl, D, ITSC DlOCk OF
Myrtle street northeast, injured when
her sled collided with a machine at
North Capitol and M streets.
OF seven persons injured In shedding
accidents in Alexandria Saturday
night, Jack Hoeft, 19, of % Myrtle
avenue, remained at the Alexandria
Hospital today with severe internal in
juries.
Dorothy Lintner, 15-year-old Lees
bury student, is in the Loudoun
Hospital suffering from injuries to her
head received in a coasting accident
Saturday night. Her sled collided with
another on a hill. She was taken to
the hospital in an unconscious condi-
tion.
Meanwhile funeral services were
being planned for Charles r. Turner,
jr.. IL, of % Owens avenue, Hyatts-
vile. who was fatally injured Sat-
urday when his sled struck q parked
automobile.
The services will be held at pm.
tomorrow In the First Presbyterian
Church, Hyattsville, Rev. D. Hobart
Evans, pastor. oficiating. Interment