Evening star., 1936-11-19
-FOUR PERSONS DIE,
NINE ARE INJURED
IN AUTO. M|SHAPS
Washington Woman Killed
When Car Crashes
hS* Into Tree.
WIFE LOSES HER LIFE
AS LADDER PIERCES CAR
Two Brothers, Fire-Fghters,
Fatally Hurt on Way to
Battle Blaze.

Four motorists were oeao ano SEVEN
others were suffering from injuries
today following series Of traffic &C
cidents on nearby Maryland highways.
Two other persons, one policeman
chasing q speeder, were injured In
traffic accidents in Washington.
In one of the mishaps, two brothers,
whose father had been buried Tuesday,
were killed while on their way to assist
In fighting forest fire between Clinton
and Piscataway.
The dead are:
Miss Mildred M. Meyers, 81, OF 1921
Belmont street, clerk in the General
Accounting Office.
Herman Barnes, %, and his brother,
Albert, 18, both of Indian Head, Md.
Mrs. Ellen Bowles, 65. of Hollywood,
st. Marys County, Md.
Miss Meyers died en- route to George
town University Hospital after an
automobile which she is said by
police to have been driving crashed
into telephone pole on the Rockville
Potomac pike and overturned last
night.
Police reported they were told by
David Kaminsky, %, of 704 Otis place,
owner Of the car, the accident occurred
after Miss Meyers pulled off the road
to permit a machine with binding
headlights to pass.
In attempting to regain the highway,
he said, the car skidded on the soft
shoulder of the road, swerved as it
struck the macadam surface, then
plunged out of control into telephone
pole and toppled over.
The Rockville Fire Rescue Squad
brought her to the Washington hos
pital, but she was pronounced dead
upon arrival. Kaminsky, who was cut
and bruised about the forehead, re-
turned to the scene Of the accident and
told the story of the crash to officers.
Funeral to Be Saturday.
Funeral services for Miss Meyers will
be held Saturday at pm. at the home
Of her father, Paul Meyers, an inspec-
tor for the Capital Transit Co., at 2434
Second street northeast, and burial
Is to be in Glenwood Cemetery.
In addition to her parents she is
survived by q sister, Mrs. Helen Go
sorn of Washington, and two brothers,
John and Carl Meyers, also Of this city.
The Barnes brothers were killed and
five other Indian Head residents were
injured, two seriously, in head-on
collision between their automobile
and . truck on the Livingston road
near the Accokeek post Office. They
were en- route to a forest fire between
Clinton and Piscataway.
State police said the two brothers
apparently were killed outright.
Found in Field.
Murray Alton Davis, %, was said by
officers to have been the driver of the
car. He was found in nearby field,
where he had been hurled by the i'm
pact, and was treated for severe cuts
of the head, face and hands and
shock. Davis father, Alton, has been
confined to his home for six months as
. result of traffic injuries.
Kenneth Buck, II, was the other
youth seriously injured. He was treated
by the Naval Infirmary at Indian Head
for head lacerations and a possible |
fracture Of the leg.
Glenwood Alexander, John Smith |
and Wallace Robey were the other pas
sengers in Davis car. They received |
only minor cuts and bruises.
Henson Hawkins, colored of Wash
ington, said by State police to have
been the driver Of the truck, was un-
injured.
Inquest Set Tonight.
An inquest in the case was tenta- |
lively set for pm. tonight at the |
home of Justice of the Peace Gilbert |
E. Wilson. 1t was believed a post
ponement might be necessary pending |
improvement of young Davis condition. |
Mrs. Bowles was killed yesterday |
when a ladder on a parked truck |
transfixed the car in which she was
riding with her husband, William w.
Bowles.
He said the afternoon sun blinded
him as he was crossing bridge in
st. Marys County and that he did not
see the truck. The end of the ladder
pierced the windshield of Bowles' car
and fractured his wife's skull.
T. c. Taylor, IS, 745 Sligo avenue,
Silver Spring, suffered fractured leg
when struck this morning by an auto
mobile said to have been driven by
z. M. Conner of sos Rittenhouse street.
The accident occurred on Georgia
avenue near the Silver Spring Hotel
and Taylor was taken to Walter Reed
Hospital.
Fourth Policeman Hurt.
Rollyn L. Dowell, 81, of IT'S Bay
street southeast, the fourth motor
cycle policeman injured In q traffic
accident since Monday, was in Emer-
gency Hospital today with an injury
to his left knee, possibly fracture.
Dowell was chasing a speeder north
on Connecticut avenue last night
when his machine collided with car
operated by Edward G. Baruday, 36,
of 1915 Wisconsin avenue. at Con-
necticut and Columbia road. Baru-
day took Dowell to the hospital in his
car.
A. K. Bowen, 81, Of 46 Randolph
street northeast, escaped with minor
cuts and bruises when his machine
collided with an automobile yesterday
at New Jersey avenue and p street.
Joseph Proctor, also Of the head
quarters traffic squad, is still in Emer-
gency Hospital, suffering from an ac-
cident Monday, and Adam Arney, an
other motorcycle officer, was in Casu-
atty Hospital with head injuries sus.
tanned the same day. Proctor and
Arney were both pursuing speeders
when they were injured.