Evening star., 1936-09-26
BROTHERS KILLED
AS CAR HITS POLE
Park Policeman Raspberry
Thrown From Motor Cycle
and Badly Injured.

TWO brotherS-RAlph EDWARDS, 70,
Of HOO Eighth street and Maurice
Edwards. 2s, of Hyattsville. Md. =
were fatally injured last night when
their automobile crashed into q tele-
phone pole at Thirtieth street and
Queens Chapel road in nearby Mount
Rainier, Md.
In another accident Park Policeman
Merrill K. Raspberry. IS, Of Arling-
ton, Va, was critically hurt when
thrown from his motor cycle over An
embankment at Thirty-second street
and Normanstone drive. The victim,
who had previously escorted Miss
Leila Peoples, queen Of the Presidents
Cup Regatta, to her home, suffered .
fractured skull. Emergency Hospital
physicians reported his condition as
SERIOUS"
Investigating the cause Of the crash
which took the lives Of the Edwards
pair, Prince Georges County police
today were seeking witnesses to the
accident. The men were driving out
Queens Chapel road toward the Belle
view Dairy Farm, where Maurice Is
employed, when the car struck the
pole. The automobile was demolished
and the pole partially dislodged.
Both Die ut Hospital.
The bodies were to be transferred
to the District Morgue this morning
pending IN inquest by Maryland au-
thortties. An emergency operation for
amputation Of Maurice's right arm
was performed at Casualty Hospital
several hours before his death at
6:28 am. Ralph Edwards, . lather.
succumbed to head and chest injuries
ct 1910 am. Police had not de-
termined this morning which man was
driving.
Policeman Raspberry was one Of
four assigned to accompany Miss
Peoples, daughter of Rear Admiral
G. J. Peoples, U. s. NJ, director Of
procurement, Treasury Department. to
her home at 3420 GARFIELD street.
The accident occurred as the victims
machine skidded into the side Of .
motor cycle operated by Omcer E. 8.
Mast. Catapulted over the embank-
ment, Raspberry struck his head As
he fell. Vaughn b. Connolly Of 81
independence avenue southwest, .
passing motorist, took him to the
hospital.
jured today when . Capital Transit
Co. bus crashed into three parked
cars after . collision with another
automobile 1T Vermont avenue and
Eleventh street.
The tnjured-Bernice Clark, IS, Of
62l Emerson street; Mrs. Edith Carl
son, 80, Of s511 Thirteenth street, and
Doris Briscoe, 26, Of $40 Quincy street
were taken to Emergency Hospital.
Their condition was termed mot seri-
ous."
Second precinct police said the bus,
operated by John N. Freeman, 20, Of
1916 Corbin place northeast, was struck
BY An automobile operated by Alouso
Clark. 20. 2039 New Hampshire avenue.
Two other persons were injured in
trafnc mishaps on District streets
yesterday.
Eleven-year-old Calvin Shepherd.
2427 Eighteenth street, suffered injur-
les to the scalp, back and chest when
struck by An automobile while riding
his bicycle in the 1700 block Of Colum-
bia road. He was taken to Garfield
Hospital. Physicians reported his con-
dition as Undetermined" The auto
mobile, police said, was driven by Ray
Powell, COS Fifty-sixth street north
east.
James Murphy, -. Of sos First
street, was treated at Casualty Hos
pital for . cut hand and bruised hip
after he was reported to have walked
into the side Of . street car at Fifth
and q streets.