Evening star., 1934-11-30
POLICE CHIEF ACTS
AS RECORD NEARS
IN TRAFFIC DEATHS
Four inspectors Will Use All
Men Available for Rush.
Hour Duty.
ONE MORE FATALITY
BOOSTS TOLL TO 118
Total Now Is Only Five Less Than
All-Time Mark Set by Acct
dents in 1882.

all-time record for IL months, Maj.
Ernest w. Brown, superintendent of
police, announced today that, in an
effort to reduce the number OF acci-
dents, four inspectors will 60 on the
streets in uniform during rush hours
to direct all available police in the
handling of traffic.
The order came after the death
of a colored woman from injuries
received several days ago had brought
the fatalities for this month up to
Is, within of the record eStab-
lished in September This also
brought the number of deaths for the
IL months of this year to lib. The
all-time record is 1913, established IN
1892.
The total injuries through Novem-
ber % we're 1928, with more than
a month to go to approach the record
of 3 1920. also established in 1882. Ten
more were hurt here in the past "a
hours, several seriously.
Effective Tomorrow.
spectors is effective tomorrow morn
ing. Maj Brown said. Assistant
Supt. T. r. Bean, as supervising in
spector, will be general head of the
group. In addition there will be In
spector James F. Beckett, commander
of the first inspection district; In
spector A. j. Headley commander of
the second inspection district. and In
spector B. A. Lamb, commander of the
Traffic Bureau.
Commenting on the number of
fatalities, Maj Brown declared:
1T is a very serious situation. We
should reduce our traffic fatalities
and this can be accomplished by
the united effort of motorists, Pc
destrians. police and traffic authori-
ties"
He added that the department is
going to do everything possible to
promote safety.
Auto Crash is Fatal.
The colored woman who died was
Nettie Lewis, 10. of the 210o block
of Eighth street, who was injured
Tuesday when the automobile in
which she was riding ran into a tree
in the $500 block of Massachusetts,
avenue Four other colored persons
were hurt at the time.
Inquests we're held at the District
Morgue today in two other recent
traffic deaths.
A coroners jury investigating the
fatal injury last Saturday of Charley
CouZ1ola. 43-year old carpenter of
1443 South Carolina avenue south
east. in a traffic accident at Four
teenth street and Massachusetts ave-
nue. southeast. held Acia Brown, 25,
colored, for the grand jury after wit
nesses testified Browns car was
travelling at terrific rate" when it
struck Couzzola.
Brown put him in his car and drove
to Gallinger Hospital where Couzzola
died Wednesday.
Body Hurled in Air.
Three bystanders told the jury the
impact threw Couzzola's body 10 feet
or more into the air.
Brown, a laborer. said he lived in
the 100 block of Fourth street.
Police charged Brown told them he
was Addison w. Copeland. colored
whose drivers permit he possessed at
the time of the accident. Brown did
not admit his real identity until two
days after his arrest. police charged
One witness estimated Brown was 60
ing ''at least IS miles an hour" when
CouZzola was struck.
Wesley Luke, %. a taxicab driver
the other victim. was fatally hurt yes
terday when hit by an automobile
operated by Miss Jeannette H. Mes
singer, Is, of the $500 block of Seven
teenth street.
Two Men Injured.
OF those injured in the past "a
hours. one was the victim of a hit
and-run driver.
Early today two men. Henry Small
ley. %, of the 1900 block of Thirty
third street. who was driving. and
Ernest Healy, jr,, 81, of Clarendon,
Va. we're cut and bruised when their
automobile collided with street car
at Seventh street and Constitution
avenue. Both were treated at Emer-
gency Hospital, where Healy was re-
ported semi conscious sometime later
Mrs. Rose Bichell, 25. of 1860 Blair
road, was treated at Sibley Hospital
this morning for cuts received when
the automobile in which she was a
passenger collided with a taXicab in
the 14oO block of Rhode Island ave-
nue. northeast.
Two Young Women Hurt.
Miss Belle Sherr, "a, of 3511 Thir-
teenth street. and Miss Isabel Dwyer,
%, of 1913 Eighteenth street, were in
jured, Miss Dwyer seriously, when
struck by an automobile last night
at Fifteenth and S streets.
Two other pedestrians, Frank Rich
ardson, AZ, of 1893 Gales street north
east, and William T. Howe, 81, ol
Capitol Heights. Md. were cut and
bruised when hit by an automobile
operated by Mrs Katie Presgraves, Al
of the 1900 block of Fourth street
while at Twelfth and H streets north
east.
Others hurt were:
Herman Davis. 80, of New York
stopping at the Burlington Hotel, who
received serious head injuries when
struck by an automobile last night al
Thomas Circle; John Underdue, 33
colored. of the 600 block of N street
cut and bruised when struck by a
hit-and-run automobile at Thirteenth
and o streets and James Haley. %
of the 1900 block of Eleventh street
a Western Union messenger, who was
injured when his bicycle slipped on
car tracks at Wisconsin avenue and
r street.