Evening star., 1935-12-15
Driver Is Held Pending Out
come of Inquest To-
morrow.
YOUTH, IA, AND MAN, 48,
KNOCKED DOWN BY TAXIS
Real Estate Dealer May Have
Skull Fracture-Child, 4
Is Hit by Auto.
Traffic deaths to Dec. 15--110
Same period, 1934---------123

Mrs Alice A. johnson, IS, retired
Government Printing Office employe,
was fatally injured late yesterday
when struck by a backing truck at
Thirteenth and Otis streets. She died
at Emergency Hospital shortly after
arrival there.
Her death raised the Districts
traffic toll for this year to 110.
The driver of the truck, police said,
was Edward A. Brooks, "a, colored,
1923 Sixth street. who is being held at
the tenth precinct. Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald announced an in
quest into the death will be held to.
morrow.
According the police, Brooks had
driven across the intersection, then
stopped and backed his truck into
Otis street, striking Mrs johnson
while she was in the crosswalk.
Lifelong Resident Here.
Mrs. johnson, lifelong resident of
Washington, was employed in the
bindery of the printing Office for 80
years before her retirement, about
three years ago. She was the widow
Of Vassar johnson. a printer.
Knocked down by a taxicab while
crossing the street in front of his
home at 1912 Calvert street. l4-year-e
old Paul Ackerman suffered possibly
fracture of the left leg and contu-
sions of the back. The driver of the
cab police said, was William r.
Thompson, jr., of 200 block of Adams
street northeast.
David r. Thomas, 4S, of 1922 Shep-
herd street, a real estate man. pos
s1bly received a skull fracture when
Knocked down by taxicab in the 1900
block Of New York avenue. Thomas.
according to the police report, was
crossing the street and stepped back
out Of the path of an oncoming car
into the path Of the cab. The cab
driver, Howard A. Keyworth, As, Of
1455 Girard street, according to the
police, took the injured man to Emerg-
ency Hospital.
Girl, 4, Knocked Down.
Carmelo Cecala, 4, of 1918 H street
northeast, was knocked. down by a
passing car at Fourteenth street and
Maryland avenue northeast, and was
treated at Casualty Hospital for abra-
sions OF the face. The driver of the
car was not held and his name was not
recorded by the police.
Struck and knocked down while
crossing the street at Massachusetts
avenue and Fifteenth street FRIDAY
evening, Florence Hyde, IS, of 1902
| 5 street, received a fractured left
| shoulder and bruised left leg, it was
reported by police yesterday. She was
treated by private physician. The
car which struck her was driven by
zell High, 3S, colored, 1900 block New
Jersey avenue, police said.
| Miss Rodey A. Beck, 10, Of 1872
Wisconsin avenue, who suffered a
broken back and fractured pelvis when
an automobile in which she was a
passenger early yesterday crashed into
a roadside embankment, was reported
resting comfortably last night at
Emergency Hospital.
| The automobile was driven by
Spencer H. Howell, 10, of 3lI3 Forty.
nth street, who was allegedly speed
ing away from police pursuers at the
time the crash occurred. He was
charged with reckless driving. He is
the son of Herbert A. Howell, head Of
the law department of the Library of
Congress.
Meanwhile, Emergency Hospital re-
ported improvement in the condition
of Joseph E. Gillis, so. of 1884 Thirty
third street, who was cut about the
head Friday night when struck by an
automobile at Connecticut avenue and
California street.
Four persons escaped with only
minor injuries early today when two
automobiles turned over after colliding
on Fourteenth street near the main
building of the Agriculture Depart
ment. They were treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for cuts about the head.
One car was driven by Francis Shelly,
II, Of 712 street northeast. The
occupants Of the other car were Mrs.
Annie Cross, 49; her daughter, Miss
Hazel Cross, 10, and her daughter
in-law, Mrs. Frances Cross, all of
All Ninth street.