Evening star., 1935-05-31
HOLIDAY TRAFFIC
CLAIMS Z LIVES;
17PERSONS HURT
Youth Is Fatally Injured
When Struck by WASH
ington Trolley.
CAPITAL MAN DIES
IN MARYLAND CRASH
Several Suffer Serious Injuries in
Series of Automobile
Accidents.

Two persons, 19-year-old youth
and a 44-year-old man, died in Cas-
ualty Hospital early today from in
juries received in Memorial day traffic
accidents, while II others were in
jured in traffic mishaps in the Dis
trict and nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia yesterday and last night.
The youth. employed as counter
man at Goodacre's lunch room at First
and B streets southeast, was identified
as w. j. Blowhorn of Wilmington.
N. C. He was fatally injured last
night by a street car at Sixth and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
The dead man is James D. Ma
honey, A. of the 100 block of d
street southeast. who was injured
Wednesday morning when his auto
mobile ran of the Southern Mary
land pike on a curve at Clinton. Md,
and hit a pole. He sustained a skull
| fracture and other injuries.
Employed Only Few Days.
The dead youth had been employed
only a few days at GoodacreS. it is
said. A representative of the Good
acre firm today viewed the body at
Casualty Hospital and established
Identification. The youths skull was
fractured. The street car which struck
him was operated by Motorman
Flemin S. Barnes, 26. of 742 Twelfth
street northeast, police said. The death
/ fho fnrfu-ciyth nicfricf fro H7o
fatality since January l.
| BObbie Ballentine, 4. of 10l5 K
street, was seriously hurt late yester-
| day by an automobile in the 1000
block of Tenth street. He was treated
at Emergency Hospital for a COM
pound skull fracture.
Gabriel Firtagr 35. of 2109 Eight
zenith street, who police say was driv-
| ing the automobile, was charged with
reckless driving and released on bond.
Car Hits Culvert.
Carl Campbell, 25, 100 block of
Thirteenth street northeast, and John
Smith. rs. 200 block of G street. were
seriously injured early today when the
taxicab in which they were riding
failed to make a curve on River road,
near Bladensburg, and struck q
culvert.
The Bladensburg Rescue Squad took
the me0 to Casualty Hospital, where
both remained unconscious several
hours. Campbell has a conclusion of
the brain and q fractured right leg
Smith has a possible fracture of the
skull and leg cuts
Cuts and a possible fracture of the
forehead were suffered by Carl An
drews. 81. of Silver Spring, when an
automobile in WHICH he was riding
struck a pole near Upper Marlboro,
Md. He was taken to Providence
Hospital by Thomas Wilson. 1900 block
of Twenty-second street southeast.
Marie Crane. 6, of Falls Church,
Va, sustained a broken leg and pos
sible skull fractures when she was
struck by an automobile while cross
ing the highway at Madison School,
near her home. Police reported the
car was driven by Gale Grubb of
Herndon.
Runs Into Tree.
Robert Copeland. "a. also of Falls
Church, was injured internally when
his car ran of the highway and hit
tree near his home. Robert Zim-
norman. "a, of Cherrydale, receIscd q
possible skull fracture when his auto
mobile was in collision with another
machine on Lee Highway.
Three persons, two CT them COL
ored, sustained minor injuries early
today in collisions involving three au {.
tomobiles on the Benning viaduct.
The injured were Frank Loreto, 80.
708 Fourth street southeast, who re-
ceived cuts on the head; Wilfred
Ward. rs. colored, of District Heights,
Md. driver of one of the automo-
biles, and Martina Ward. Is, colored,
also of District Heights, both of whom
received cuts and bruises Loreto was
passenger in an automobile oper-
ated by Christopher c. Harvey, "a.
of $40 D street southeast. police said.
Willie Robinson, 40, colored, of the
800 block of E street southwest. was
driver of the third machine, 1t was
said.
Others injured in the District we're:
Josephine Fowler, G, ATS E street
southwest, who sustained cuts on the
forehead when hit while near her
home by an automobile operated by
Harry Berger, 80. 619 M street south
west: Edna Decatur, 4. ot 431 Seventh
street southeast, who received a minor
arm injury when she is said to have
run into a moving automobile: Will
liam Mason, A, colored of the 900
block of Twenty fifth street, who sus-
tanned q rib fracture when his auto
mobile was In collision with street
car at Seventh street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, and Jennie Winblad, 60.
of Massachusetts,, who sustained rib
fracture in traffic accident at Four
teenth street and Constitution avenue.
She continued on a trip after receiv-
ing first aid at Emergency Hospital,
police said.
Released on Bond.
Elwood Hardesty of White Oak, Md.
was released under $500 bond last
night by Maryland authorities on
charges Of reckless driving and driv-
ing while drunk, after young woman
passenger had been injured when his
machine allegedly ran into the rear
of a truck near Colesviile, Md. The
Young woman, identified as Iva Hardy,
is. of Is Rosemary street, Chevy
Chase. Md. was treated for cuts at
Montgomery General Hospital.
Four persons were injured, one seri-
ously, In q series of mishaps in the
vicinity. of Alexandria yesterday.
When she tumbled out of moving
automobile being driven by her father
on the Richmond highway south of
Accotink. 4-year-old Marian Saun-
ders, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian
Saunders of Woodbridge, received
critical head injuries last night.
The child was removed to the Alex
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