Evening star., 1936-12-07

noon. "
The accident occurred on the mar
row Old Georgetown road. between
Sonoma road and Oak place. The
Bethesda Chamber Of Commerce and
the Montgomery County Civic Fed
Grafton year ago strongly urged
widening and resurfacing of the
thoroughfare.
The bus. driven by Samuel B.
Strickler, 81. of 4509 Highland avenue,
Bethesda, was going south on Old
Georgetown road when the automobile,
driven by Carter. skidded into its
path. Edward Usada, Is, also Of Be-
thesda, a passenger in the bus. told
Montgomery County police the car
apparently skidded when the driver
applied the brakes. Carter's machine
was demolished
The men were pronounced dead by
DR.. Sidney Cousins, 1921 Ingomar
street. Strickler received brush burns
and bruises, and Usada cuts about the
face and legs The injured were
treated at Georgetown Hospital.
Carter is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Catherine Carter; two children,
George Henry, jr, and Catherine; his
father, Milton, and a brother, Oscar,
both of whom live at the Old George
town road address. Surviving Stew
art is his father, Henry; a brother,
Charles, and a sister. Mrs. Mary
Shif1ett.
Reider was killed yesterday in an
accident on Van Buren, street at Blair
road. He was riding in a car opey-
ated by Roscoe j. Wolf. 81. also OF
932 K street. which collided with a
machine driven by Bernard K. Tolson,
81, of 69l1 Sixth street.
Thrown From Auto.
The crash caused VOLTS car to
spin around. and Reider was thrown
throught the door to the street. police
said. A coroner's jury was to con-
duct an inquest into the death today.
Struck at North Capitol and U
streets Saturday night. Ward. a re-
tired woodworker, died in Garfield
Hospital yesterday Of a punctured
lung and a fractured skull.
He was knocked down by a machine
operated by Joseph N. Benner, 80. Of
73s Quincy street. Friends said Ward
and his wife had stopped at his
nephew's home here en- route to
Miami.
DR.. FaSsig, who retired from the
Weather Bureau about four years ago.
died in Emergency Hospital last night
Of internal injuries received November
20 when a car driven by George H.
Horton, SIS. Of 1901 Fifteenth street.
struck him.
Horton was released in custody Of
an attorney, pending a coroner's in.
quest to be held tomorrow.
Eight persons were injured, one
seriously. in a head-on collision be-
tween two cars on the Baltimore
highway near Riverdale. Md.
The most seriously injured was Lila
Walsh, 80, of Elmhurst, N. Y. who
is in Casualty Hospital. Physicians
said she may have received a frac-
tured skull The other victims also
were treated at Casualty.
A 15-year-old girl was hurt when q
car, reported stolen here, crashed into
tree on the Rockville pike near
Garrett Park, Md. She Is Frances
Snouffer, 1900 block Of Wisconsin
avenue. The girl suffered a broken
nose and was treated by private
physician.
Montgomery County police said the
uoroIA Eoneon af tA
1900 block Of p street. In addition
to the Snouffer girl, police said, Ernest
Tupton, IA, of the 1900 block Of Mint
wood place; George Huffman. II. Of
the HOO block Of Fourth street SOUTH
west, and Helen Whitman, IA, Of the
1900 block Of Thh ry-third street were
riding with Henson.
Knocked down by an automobile
while walking across the Richmond
highway south Of Alexandria early
yesterday, Miss Adeline Nickert, "a,
Of Fairfax County was critically in
jured.
Admitted to the Alexandria Hos
pital in an unconscious condition, she
is being treated for brain conclusion,
possible internal injuries and q frac-
tured leg.
Capt. Haywood Durrer of the Fair
fax police said the woman was hit
by an automobile being operated for
Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcombe Of GUAM.
tico by William r. Lindley, his chauf-
feur, as she started to walk across
the highway toward her home nearby
after getting OF q bus. No charge
was placed against Iindley.