Evening star., 1934-09-28
Death of 13.Year.0Id Boy
Brings Months Toll
Up to IS.
8-YEAR-0LD CHILD
SUFFERS BROKEN LEG
Six Other Persons Are Injured in
Automobile Accidents Dur
ing the Day.

Washington's all-time traffic fatal
ity record for a single month was
equaled here yesterday. when a 13-
year -old boy was killed, making a
total of Is deaths in the first 81 days
of this month. In the past there
were as many as Is deaths in a full
month on only three occasions.
At first it was thought a new record
had been set, but the statistics clerk
at the Traffic Bureau stated today
that the death early yesterday of Earl
Paxson, 81, of Seat Pleasant, Md,
would not be included. Paxson was
run over by Capital Transit Co.
street car near the $500 block OF Eads
street northeast, at a point where the
tracks leave the street and run across
an undeveloped section, part of the
company's right of way. The coron-
er's Office is investigating, since re-
ports to police said PaXson had been
lying across the tracks.
Treasury Workers Son.
George Rudolph Stromberg, 42lO
Thirteenth street northeast, was the
child killed when he ran from be-
hind a parked car. near Lincoln road
and T street northeast. into the Path
of a Atom oil truck. The boy was the
son of Rudolph E. Stromberg, en-
ploye in the repair section of the
Procurement Branch of the Treasury
Department.
Police said the boy was struck by
q truck driven by Hugh c. Cook, IS.
of Alexandria, Va. while on his way
home from school. He was pronounced
dead on arrival at Sibley Hospital.
Cook was released by police pending a
coroner's inquest.
Half an hour later Louis Raeder, 8,
who lived just down the street from
the Stromberg child, received broken
leg and decorations of the face, head
and hip when struck by an automobile
on Michigan avenue between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets northeast. He
was treated at Sibley Hospital. Police
said the automobile was driven by Rev.
George W. KlasenSki, 35, Carmelite
College, 1900 block of Michigan ave-
nue northeast. Louis, police said, was
injured when he ran into the street
from behind parked car.
Six Others Hurt.
Six other persons were injured in
traffic mishaps during the day.
sc
Elizabeths Hospital. suffered a frac-
tured nose and skull injuries when
struck by an automobile said by
police to have been driven by Mrs
Margaret E. Thomas, 26, of 32l6 Mil
itary road. Cook was struck after
alighting from a horse-drawn vehicle
in front of the hospital
Elijah Cleveland, II, Of 514l2 K
street northeast, was cut in a COLI
sion at Thirteenth and Florida ave-
nue.. Cleveland was a passenger in
q car driven by S. E. Woodruff, 80
of 602 K street, police said Frank
Millington Abeel, jr,, 10, Oh 1926 New
Hampshire avenue said to be the driv-
er of the other car, was charged with
reckless driving.
Leroy Courley, IA, colored, 2627 Vir-
ginia avenue, was in an underter-
mined condition at Emergency Hos
pital from injuries received when
struck by an automobile while skating
on Constitution avenue, between Fiji
teenth and Seventeenth streets. Will
liam A. Wiles, 27, of 800 T street, was
driver of the car which struck him
police reported.
The other persons received minor
injuries. They are: Bruce L. Casteel
SIS, of 233 Eleventh street northeast
head and knee injuries; James Haw-
kins, 81, colored, 1871 C street south
east, foot injury, and Joshua Dallis
10, colored, of Sumpter, S. c., inter-
nal injuries.