Evening star., 1935-07-08
WEEK END TOLL
OF M|SHAPS TWO
Auto Accidents and Drown
ing Recorded in Capt.
tai Vicinity.


13 cases of injury involving automo-
bile accidents were recorded in the
Washington vicinity yesterday and
early today. Three Washingtonians
were injured in out-of-town motor
smash-ups.
Sunday of Jefferson Lewis, 65, COL
ored, 400 Fourth street southeast,
brought to 81 the number of traffic
fatalities here this year. Lewis was
struck by Pennsylvania avenue
street car July 4. The motorman of
the car. Thomas Mcdonald, 30. of
309 Third street southeast, was ar
rested and held at the Fifth precinct,
but subsequently was released in the
custody of his attorney to appear at
the coroner's inquest.
To Have Taken Job.
A picnic near Great Falls in cele-
bration Of job with the Government
which he was to have begun today
ended tragically for William Car
natter, %, roomer at 900 K street
northwest. Carnatzer was seized with
a cramp while swimming near the
District waterworks dam. He cried
for help and a companion, George
r. White, 206 Seventh street south
west, swan to aid him, assisted by
an unidentified passerby. The drown
ing man struggled with White. who
was forced to release him. Carnatzer's
wife, Dorothy. and another friend,
John Gray, 210O street northwest,
watched him drown. Search for his
body by Maryland and Virginia police
has been unsuccessful so far.
Collision of an automobile with
telephone poles on Central avenue
at Forty-ninth street early this morE.
ing sent four men to Casualty Hos.
pital for treatment of minor injuries
Preston Mcmahon, %, 1880 Lyman
place northeast, the driver of the
car. was reported uninjured. Bernard
O'Neil, %, 1114 Neal street north
east, and Roney Collins, "a, of 40 L
street northeast suffered slight abra-
sions. Lesser injuries, including head
and face cuts, were suffered by Jones
Calhoun, 26, 915 Twenty-fifth street
northwest, and Mark Cotton, %, 2418
K street.
Automobile Runs Wild.
Robert H. Adams, jr., 80. of 6306
Hillcrest place, Chevy Chase, Md,
president of the American Storage
Co. Of Washington. barely escaped
critical injury yesterday afternoon
when his car ran wild, veered through
a hedge and across a lawn in Chevy
Chase and came to a stop after ram
ming the car Of ]. A. Mapkis, 3 West
Woodbine street, which was parked
across the street from his home. The
impact hurled the parked car against
tree and catapulted Adams across
his steering wheel, into the wind
shield.
The Bethesda fire rescue squad took
Adams to Georgetown University Hos
pital, where his condition was re-
ported today as good. He sustained
decorations of the scalp, and not
skull fracture, as first supposed.
Meanwhile. Bethesda police form
ally charged Adams with driving
while drunk and a magistrate set his
bond at $1,000.
Three persons were injured this
morning when a small red truck was
in collision at Buchanan and Ninth
streets northwest with a car driven
by Curtis Logan, 43, 1927 Crittenden
street. The truck, occupied by Max
Futrovsky, 30, 809 Kennedy street
northwest, who was driving, and his
wife Rae, overturned and bounced
off a parked sedan, crushing fender.
The parked car is owned by Raymond
M. Pirie, 4527 Ninth street northwest.
Treated at Hospital.
The Futrovskys and Logan were
treated at Garfield Hospital for lacer-
ations and bruises. Physicians said
their wounds were superficial.
Llewellyn Davis, 29, Of Forest Glen,
Nd, was thrown from his car yester-
day and sustained fractured collar
bone and minor cuts and bruises.
Davis car, police said, collided with
that of Walter w. Brandt of Silver
Spring, Md, at the intersection OF
Linden road and Warren street. The
Silver Spring fire rescue squad took
Davis to Washington Sanitarium.
Brandt was uninjured.
In a collision yesterday at the busy
Fourteenth and K streets intersec-
ton, Louis Straws, 46, suffered q
broken right hand, and his wife,
Minnie, SO, cuts and bruises. They
are from Richmond. Ralph D. Leach.
81. Of Quantico, Va, the driver Of
the car in collision with the Straws,
was uninjured.
Harold Henderson, Is, Of 1888
street northwest, was struck yester-
day by a taxicab said to have been
driven by Morgan Taylor, az. 400
Oneida place northwest. The boy
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