Evening star., 1936-08-03
TWO KILLED, SCORE
HURT IN ACCIDENTS
District Toll for Year Is
RAISED to 51-Car Turns
: Over on Basin Road.

Two persons lost their lives and
more than a score of others were
injured, several seriously, In trafhc
accidents in Washington and nearby
Maryland and Virginia over the week
end
The dead were:
Beverly Davis, IS, colored; Poto-
mac. Md.
Charles N. Hull, 79. retired Mont
eomery County, Md, farmer.
Davis was killed yesterday when
the automobile in which he was riding
overturned on the Tidal Basin road
Between Fifteenth and Seventeenth
streets. Charles Carter, IS, also COL
ored, 1928 Virginia avenue, driver.
was ordered to appear at an inquest
today.
Hull, a native of Frederick County,
Md, who retired from active farming
about II years ago, died In Montgom-
cry County General Hospital Satur-
day night, few hours after he was
struck by an automobile while cross
ing the Brookeville pike near his
Glenmont home. The driver, Fleming
A. Waters, $500 block Of Kansas ave-
hue, was arrested on technical
charge of reckless driving,
Toll in d. c. Now 81.
Davis death raised the Districts
1886 traffic toll to 81.
Four persons were injured when an
automobile crashed into the Potomac
Yard fence on the Alexandria, Wash
ington road early today. All were
treated at Alexandria Hospital. Mrs.
Bertha Hayes, As, Hillsdale, Md, and
Will Millard. Meadows Mill, Va. were
admitted Marietta Hickman, 13, and
John T. Hayes. both of Hillsdale, were
treated for head cuts.
A Washington automobile failed to
negotiate curve on the Benfield road
at Severna Park, Nd. hurled into a
tree and sent four persons to an An
napolis hospital The injured: Julian
C. Brain, 80. of COG I street, face and
arm cuts; George Jewell. "a. of SOB I
street, hurt in the back and possibly
internally; Mrs. j. Redman, 26, of 621
Fourth street. leg injuries. and Miss
Elizabeth Allen, 20, OF 62l Fourth
street, face cuts.
State Policeman John c. Gates
swore to a warrant before Magistrate
Harrison M. Sandrock of Round Bay,
charging Brain with driving under the
influence of liquor and with reckless
driving.
Guardsmen Injured.
Five National Guardsmen, en- route
to Indiantown Gap, Pa, for divisional
maneuvers, were injured when the
truck in which they were riding over
turned at Hendersons Corner, near
Neelsville, Md, after being forced off
the road by an approaching car.
Police are searching for the other
driver.
The injured: William Hogg jr., 80,
Newport News, Va, possible skull
fracture; John Willett, jr, 81, Newport
News, abrasions and bruises; Harry
Shoss, 81, severe back contusions and
possible spinal injuries; William Davis,
20, Hampton, Va, hurt leg, and Jack
Stroud, %; Lincoln Park, Va, hurt
left arm. They we're taken to Fred
erick City Hospital.
william Lee Tracy, 1921 South Da-
kota avenue northeast, and Laerence
F. Mullinix, Bethesda, escaped with
only minor cuts and bruises when
their automobiles crashed head-on at
Westmore. Md. today.
Leslie Thompson, "a, Montgomery
County deputy sheriff; Paul Waters,
81. of Germantown, and Wilson
Payne, also county police officer,
were treated at Montgomery County
General Hospital for scalp cuts and
body bruises after a police car, in
which they were responding to call,
plunged over an embankment Satur-
day night on the Gaithersburg-L Lay
louisville road.
Mrs. Josie Schultz, As, of Beltsville,
Md. and her daughter Virginia sus-
tained minor injuries when the car in
which they were riding hurtled of
the Rossville road near Muirkirk, Md.
They were treated at Casualty Hos
pital.
Joseph Brumley. 10, Beltsville, listed
as the driver of the car, was charged
by County Policeman Claude Reese
with driving without a permit, and
Earl D. Bethhardt, 35, listed as the
owner, was charged with operating
with dead" tags and allowing Brum-
ley to drive without a permit. Bond
was set at $500 for each.
Lawrence Weiss, 18-year-o George
town University Summer student, who
was struck by an automobile while
riding bicycle on Conduit road in
Maryland, near the District line, was
reported in a favorable" condition
today at Georgetown Hospital. He
suffered a fractured skull. Wilson w.
Posey, %, of Stop 80. Conduit road,
Maryland, listed as the driver of the
car, was charged with reckless driv-
ing, leaving the scene of an accident
and driving without an operators