Evening star., 1936-08-31
WEEK END TRAFFIC.
TAKES EIGHT LWES|
IN CAPITAL AREA|
Bow and Two Others Are
Victims of Hit-and.Run
Drivers.
MORE THAN SCORE
LISTED AS INJURED
Virginia and Maryland Casual
ties Numerous, With Only One
Fatality in D. c.

them a 7-year-old Arlington (Vao
oirl and a 16-year-old Annapolis
(Md.) boy, both run down by hit-ano-
run drivers-and more than a score
we're injured in traffic accidents IN
the Washington area over the week
end. Only two of the fatal mlshaps
occurred in the District.
The dead were:
Harry Ryon, As, Ritchie, Md.
Mary Ellen Shelby, 7, OF 2514 Har-
rison street, Arlington.
Gerald Avery. Is, Annapolis.
Edwin M. Pelot, 80, superintendent
of the Bureau of Fisheries hatchery
at Fort Belvoir, Va.
James Graham, 10, Mclean, Va.
Gilmore Brown, Howard County,
Md.
James williams, colored, s24 E
street southwest.
Lew Mcpherson, "a, colored, Rock
vile, Md.
Ryon Death Instant.
Ryon died instantly of a fractured
skull when struck while walking on
Central avenue in Seat Pleasant, Mo,
shortly after l o'clock this morning.
C. Nottingham, 1905 I street south
east driver of the automobile, was
released on $500 bond pending an in
quest at 8 pm. Thursday in Capitol
Heights.
The Shelby girl died in Georgetown
Hospital yesterday of a fractured skull
and other injuries, suffered when she
was struck by a hit-and-run truck
near her home. The accident oc-
CURED at 1870 am. yesterday, just
after the girl and her mother, Mrs.
Finus Shelby, had alighted from
bus. Mrs. Shelby also was hit ana
suffered a broken left elbow. She
said the truck came from behind and
continued at a high speed after the
nishap.
Avery was riding in an automobile
when it was repeatedly side-swiped
on the Ferry road, Anne Arundel
County, near the Defense highway in
tersection. The car plunged into an
embankment and Avery was declared
dead by the time he was brought to
Emergency Hospital here. Robert
Cannon, 20, Eastport, and Charles
Mace, 20, Annapolis, also passengers
In the car, were slightly injured. but
the driver, Rudolph Quade OF East
port, escaped unhurt.
Skull and Thigh Broken.
Pelot received a fractured skull and
broken thigh when his car rammed
an embankment after colliding with
a truck on the Observation-Disclosures
Highway early yesterday. He died in
Alexandria Hospital last night. L. F.
Pinkston and c. E. Cox of High Port,
N. c., driver and owner of the truck,
respectively, were treated for cuts and
Pinkston was released under $1,000
bond pending an inquest.
Graham died in Gallinger Hospital
of a punctured lung and other in
juries received when the car in which
he was riding hit a tree near Largo,
Md. Fred Weakley. 18, also OF Nc
Lean, was treated for cuts.
Brown was injured on Saturday
night near Glenelg, Md, when hit
by a car operated by Nelson Hobbs,
Ellicott City. He died in Montgom-
cry County General Hospital.
Williams died in Emergency Hospi-
tai Of injuries received when he was
struck by an automobile driven by
Lewis F. Howder, 1113 Penn street
northeast.
Mcpherson died in Georgetown Hos
pital. He was hit by car driven by
Seymour Wollner, Washington Grove,
Md, while he was changing tire
on the Rockville Gaithersburg road.
Wollner was released on personal bond
pending an inquest.
Two Others Victims.
Hit-and-run drivers were held re-
sponsible for injuries to Florence
Brown, %, of 521O Eastern avenue
northeast, and Alexander Jackson, 40,
of 1425 T street, both colored, struck
at Fifth and P streets and Twelfth
and r streets, respectively. They were
treated at Freedmen's Hospital.
Jan Stafford, 38, of 1910 East Cap
itol street, and James w. Rollins, 40.
of Brandywine, Md, were treated at
Providence Hospital for injuries suf-
fered at Cheltenham, Md.
Others injured were:
William Halford, 27, of 1415 East
Capitol street, when his motor cycle
got out of control; Thomas F. Maher,
30, of 5100 Kansas avenue, when hit
by a truck on Sherman Circle; Ver-
non Harris, 81, Arlington County,
when his truck overturned in Cherry
>l,IA nf
ono street southeast, in a collision at
Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast; Frank C. P. Mat
thews, 26, of 1909 H street, when hit
by an automobile while crossing
Twelfth street at Pennsylvania ave-
nue., and Tony Cockimano, IA, Boule-
ward Hills, Md, when he ran his BIZ
cycle into a parked automobile.
Seven Hurt in One Crash.
A crash on the Frederick pike near
Clarksburg, Md, yesterday, between
cars driven by Clifton Freed, Frederick,
and william st. Clair Magruder, Rock
vile, resulted in injuries to seven per-
sons, six of them in the Freed car.
They were Freed, his wife, Mrs. Doris
Freed, %, their daughter, Patricia
Ann, 6 months; Joan Allen, 6; Leonard
Donovan, Brunswick, Md, and Mrs.
Emma Donovan, 81, Brunswick.
They were taken to the Frederick
City Hospital. None was in serious
condition
Magruder, watchman at the Bethesda
dispensary of the Montgomery County
Liquar Control Board, was taken to
the county hospital with fractured
left arm and crushed chest. Doctors
said his condition was not critical.
A warrant charging Magruder with
operating an automobile while under
the influence of liquor was issued by
Justice of the Peace Stang at Rockville.