Evening star., 1935-10-27
TOLL IN. TRAFFIC
IS RAISED TO g
Victim Injured October 21.
Sailor Killed in Head
on Crash.

Washington's ninety-second traffic
death of the year was recorded shortly
after last midnight when Gilbert At
water. colored. 40, of the 600 block
of Maryland avenue southwest, died
in Gallinger Hospital. He was in
jured October 81 at the intersection
of Maryland avenue and Fourth street
southwest when he ran into the side
of car operated by Frank Litzen-
burg, SO, of 511 c street northeast.
Atwater suffered a fractured skull.
He was taken first to Emergency Hos
pital and later transferred to Gal
linger
A seaman attached to the Navy Yard
was killed and Is persons were injured,
two of them seriously, in automobile
accidents in and near the District last
night.
William D. Montero. 80, the dead
man, was riding in car that crashed
head-on with another machine on the
bridge spanning Occoquan Creek at
Woodbridge Va.
Three other service men stationed
at the Anacostia Naval Air Station
were hurt in the same accident. They
are w. E. Gerneake, possible skull
fracture; Henry M. Owens. broken nose
and cuts to the face, and T. 1. Jones,
lacerations about the head and face.
They were brought to Georgetown
Hospital.
Max E. Smith, 33, of 5537 Illinois
avenue was taken TO Emergency Hos
pital after his car was said to have
been wrecked in the Woodbridge crash.
He was cut about the face and body.
The other major accident involved
a car containing four colored persons
which struck a Virginia bus on the
Highway Bridge and skidded $50 feet
into the side of the span.
Roy Alfred, 20, colored, Arlington,
Va, riding in the rumble seat of the
private machine, received a fracture
of the skull, collar bone and hip. He
and his wife, Dorothy, 20. who was
cut, were taken to Emergency.
The driver of the car and another
passenger fed after the crash, police
said. The Alfred woman told police
the car in which she was riding was
going so miles an hour when it
struck the bus. Nobody on the bus
was hurt.
Four Are Injured.
Mrs. Helen Sylvester. two of her
children, Louise. l3, and Betty, 4. and
her mother. Mrs. Anna Rupp, all OF
Bradbury Heights. Md, received minor
injuries when their car overturned
on the Alexandria pike near Fairfax
Va, after colliding with another ma
chine driven by Rev. Ryland T. Dodge
pastor of Temple Baptist Church
Alexandria.
Edwin F. Sylvester, father of the
children, and two other daughters
Caroline, IS, and Joan, 2, escaped
injury. Rev Dodge also was unhurt
Estelle Kitchen, 7, colored, first
block of Myrtle street northeast, was
slightly hurt when struck by an auto
mobile near the H street viaduct. Po-
lice are looking for the driver of the
car. Inc girl was taken 10 casually
Leg Broken by Auto.
John McCarley. 81, of 1909 F street
northeast. suffered broken leg when
hit in the 1900 block of Maryland
avenue northeast by an automobile
said to have been operated by Her.
bert Bonviri, 20, Brentwood, Md. He
was treated at Casualty.
Anna Reynolds, IT, of 1927 Canal
road, and Elnora Smallwood, Is, of
4035 Gait street northeast, were cut
about the body in an accident at
Conduit road and Weaver terrace.
They were removed to Georgetown
Hospital.
Lewis F. Rollins, Vienna. Va, re-
ceived cuts to his face in collision
in the $500 block of Canal road. He
also was taken to Georgetown.