Evening star., 1936-11-17
YOUTH
FATALLY INJURED
AS CAR HITS CURB
Taxicab 0verturns at Mas
sachusetts Avenue and
District Line Circle.
COMPANION ESCAPES
INJURY IN ACCIDENT
Woman Killed on Richmond High
way Believed Miss Lillian
Oliver of Capital.

Philip D. Prather, 81, Of Bethesda
was fatally injured last night when
a taxicab he was driving overturned
after striking the curbing around the
circle at Massachusetts, avenue and
the District line.
Miss Helen Pagan, 4700 Connecticut
avenue, who was out for a drive with
Prather when the accident occurred,
escaped injury.
Miss Pagan told police that Prather
was making turn around the circle
when the car struck the curbing,
knocking of the left rear wheel. The
machine careened and overturned.
Assisted by Motorist.
Miss Pagan attempted to extricate
her companion from the wrecked au-
tomobile, she said, but was unable to
do so until passing motorist. Daniel
A. Craig, 1851 Columbia road, came
to her assistance.
The injured man died en- route to
Emergency Hospital. Head injuries
caused his death. police declared.
Prather, an employe Of the Chevy
Chase Cab Co., lived with his en-
ployer. Theodore T. Myers, at Be-
thesda, Md.
Believed d. c. Woman.
Meanwhile, woman killed in COL
lision on the Richmond highway, near
Bowling Green, was reported tenta-
lively identified as Miss Lillian Oliver
Of this city. She was riding with Ed
ward NJ Boyd, SO, also of Washington,
who was seriously injured in the crash.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald. Dis
trict coroner, announced a certificate
of accidental death has been issued in
the case of William M. Rogers, 43,
Bethesda. Md, who died in Emergency
yesterday of injuries received Armistice
day, when his car struck q tree on
Massachusetts, avenue. His death
raised the Districts 1896 traffic ttoll
to 76.
Three pedestrians were injured by
street cars in the District yesterday,
and a fourth person was hurt while
riding in bus, police reported.
Margaret Russell, IS, Of ITO Co.
lumbia road. and Ruth Newman. 81, Of
1880 Seventh street, were treated at
the Navy Yard dispensary for back
injuries after being struck by north
bound street car at Eighth and M
streets southeast. The car was oper-
ated by Robert Lesser. 1885 Kennedy
street.
Another street car hit Bernard 8.
Bush, IA, colored, 5341 Hayes street
northeast, while he was crossing Ben
ming road northeast at Twenty-fourth
street. The youth is in an undetermined
condition at Casualty Hospital with
cuts, bruises and head injuries.
Falls to Floor of Bus.
When the bus on which she was
riding stopped at Connecticut avenue
and Calvert street, Mrs. Margaret
Snead, 43, Of 2401 Calvert street fell
to the floor, striking her head against
guard rail. She was treated for
brain conclusion. The bus was oper-
ated by John B. Davis Of Kensington,
Md, according to police.
Arthur Stephenson, So, Dodge Hotel,
was cut and bruised when struck at
North Capitol and E streets by an au-
tomobile operated by Arthur Vaitsas,
%, of 608 Maryland avenue southwest.
Policeman Adam Arney, 80. at
tached to the traffic division. who was
injured yesterday when thrown from
his motor cycle while chasing speed
ing motorist, was reported in q fair"
condition at Casualty today. His scalp
was torn and his knees hurt.
Arney, spending his first day on
motor cycle duty, was forced off the
road by an approaching motorist as he
neared the speeding car. His machine
skidded on street car tracks, throwing
him over the handlebars. He lives at
pip First street.