Evening star., 1935-10-08
SPLINTER Of GLASS
STAbS BABY'S EYE;
SIX OTHERS HURT
Painful Injuries Incurred in
TraffiC-0nIy Two Crashes
in D. c.
GRANDMOTHER OF CHILD
HAS FACE BADLY CUT
Auto Smashes Into Rear of School
Bus-Pupil Hurt and Others
Shaken Up.

Seven Of the latest victims of high
way tragedy, in agonizing pain, rolled
and tossed in hospital beds today as
doctors struggled to patch fractured
ribs, broken noses, torn scalps and
disf1gured faces.
Five were cut, torn and bruised In
a series of accidents on the open
highways Of nearby Maryland and
Virginia. Only two were injured on
the heavily Travelled District streets.
The most pathetic case is that Of
2-year-old Frederick Bryan, Sd, Of
Cherrydale, Va, who may be forced
to go through life with only one eye.
A silver of glass pierced the baby's
left eye when a car in which he was
riding with his grandmother, Mrs.
Mildred c. Bryan, collided with an
other machine in Lyon Village, Va,
near the intersection of North Fill
more and Highland streets.
Mrs. Bryan also was painfully In.
jured-blood streamed from her face
when the Clarendon rescue squad ar
rived on the scene to rush her and
the baby to Georgetown Hospital.
Aside from the face lacerations, doc
tors said she may have a fractured
skull.
Drivers Escape Injury.
George L. Leech was driving the
Bryan car. He and John E. Harries,
1882 Twelfth street, operator of the
other machine, escaped injury. Both,
however, were questioned by Com
monwealth Attorney Lawrence Doug
las after the accident and released on
personal bond.
Out in Montgomery County, Md,
on the Gaithersburg -Laytonsville road,
an automobile crashed into the rear
OF a school bus, loaded with 16 home
ward-bound children, injuring one of
them and shaking up and frightening
the others. Ralph Smith, son Of MIR.
and Mrs. Kirby Smith of LaytonsvNle,
was the lone victim in that crash.
His ears and scalp were cut by broken
glass.
Ellis Barber, who lives near Laytons-
vile, was driver Of the car. The COL
lision occurred when the school bus
stopped to discharge one of its pupils.
Barber was arrested and charged with
reckless driving.
Honeymoon Trip Delayed.
Another accident in Montgomery
County put Miss Jennie Duvall, Is,
of the 300 block of Eighth street south.
east, in Georgetown Hospital and de-
layed contemplated honeymoon trip.
She is suffering with painful scalp
wounds.
Miss Duvall and John H. Decker of
the receiving station at the Washing
ton Navy Yard were returning from
Rockville in a taxicab about 4:30
O'Clock this morning. They had gone
to Rockville to be married, but failed
to procure license because of the late
hour. Near Garrett Park the cab
overturned at curve. Neither Decker
nor the driver of the cab, William
Lane, $50 K street northeast, was in
1ured. The cab driver, however, was
arrested for failing to carry an in
surance registration permit required
under Maryland law.
Physicians at Casualty Hospital are
still trying to determine the extent
Of all Of the injuries to George D.
Howard, IS, colored, $500 block of
Benning road northeast, who crashed
into warning sign when he failed to
negotiate a curve on the Washing
ton-Baltimore Highway near Belts
vile. Md. A fractured skull and in
ternal injuries are possible. His con-
dition is regarded as critical.
One of the accidents was too far
away to be recorded in the District
traffic toll. but it involved a Wash
ington man, Art Wright, director Of
publicity for the contest board Of the
American Automobile Association,
whose home is at 1341 Irving street.
Near Atlanta, Ga, his car struck a
pole, critically injuring him, and kill
ing one of his passengers-Miss
Hazen Mansell Of Atlanta. John D.
Amber, wealthy Philadelphia racing
enthusiast, also passenger in the
machine, received minor injuries.
The only two traffic cases in Wash
ngton were comparatively minor in
character. Mary Cornwen, years
old, 4440 Alabama avenue southeast,
was struck by car and cut and
bruised as she alighted from a bus
at Bowen and Ride roads southeast.
Police said the machine which struck
her was driven by Iva NJ Gregory,
SO. of Seat Pleasant, Md.
The other accident resulted In
slight injuries to Vera Curtis, "a years
old, colored, of the 100 block Of M
street southeast. She was cut and
bruised when a taxicab in which she
was passenger, collided with a ma
chine at Fourth street and Pennsyl.
vania avenue. She was taken to
Freedmen's Hospital