Evening star., 1937-02-08
DEATH PUTS TOLL
OF TRAFFIC AT IS
Youth Hit by Car at Eleventh
and Fairmont Dies-15
Persons Hurt.

The Districts 1887 death toll from
traffic accidents stood at 18 today
with tabulation Of week end casualties
showing / dead and IS injured in the
Washington area.
Latest fatality was Harold r. Ran
dolph, 16, colored, 708 Columbia road,
who was struck at Eleventh and Fair
mont streets by car police said was
operated by Lonnie M. Brown. %, coll
ored, 1143 Fifth street. Randolph died
in Freedmen's Hospital Of q fractured
skull.
Inquests were scheduled today In
the deaths of both Randolph and
Moses Herman, Sc, Of TIT H street
northeast. The latter died Saturday
of injuries received Wednesday when
struck by an automobile driven by
Harry Hodkinson, 80, Of 2009 Gales
street northeast.
Amelia Forness, IL, Lanham, Nd,
was injured critically by hit-and-run
motorist on Defense Highway near her
home. Taken to Casualty Hospital by
the Bladensburg rescue squad she was
found to have suffered severe cuts
on the head and possible fractures
of the back and chest.
Driver in County Jail. Z,
James w. Gray. 38, colored, 409
Fourth street southeast, was held to-
day in the Prince Georges County Jail
at Upper Marlboro. Md, in default OF
$4,000 bond on charges Of reckless
driving, driving while intoxicated and
driving with a revoked permit. after
the car he was operating had over
turned on Livingston road, near Oxon
Hill, Md.
Gray and three other colored men
we're injured. They were Adlie Baker,
SO, of Sileca, Md; George Shirley. 80.
Of 1919 Third street and Bernard
Brawner, 20, of Chapel Hill, Md. Gray
was taken into custody by County Of
ficer Ed Merson after he and his COM
panions had been treated at Provi-
dence Hospital.
Elizabeth Hubbard, 81, or 1921 New
ton street suffered fractured hip
when the taxicab in which she was
riding collided with another car at
North Capitol and H streets. The
other driver, William Rehbein, IS, Bal
timore, was held on a technical charge
Of reckless driving, pending outcome
of the woman's injuries.
Blowout Wrecks Auto.
r,or. ,o,or.d v>orrov,, xraro t,,rf three
seriously. when tire blew out and the
automobile in which they were riding
overturned near Triangle, Va. Tally
Williams, IS. of 223 Third street
northeast, the driver, escaped with
cuts. His passengers-SadieW williams,
30; Wesley Palmer, 80, and Emma
Palmer. 80, all Of whom suffered frac-
tured skulls-were taken to Casualty
Three persons were injured in two
collisions of automobiles with electric
light poles. One was Nelson Thayer,
IS, Of 1915 Rittenhouse street, who
crashed into q pole on Champlain
street near Florida avenue, and suf-
fered q possible fractured skull. He
was treated at Garfield Hospital. The
others were Harry Haas. 28. and his
wife, Alva, of Ritchie. Md. Haas lost
control of his car making a turn from
Benning road northeast into Central
avenue. They were treated at Casualty
for cuts and bruises.
Stuart Baker, 16, Of 615 Rock Greek
Church road. was bruised and cut in
q collision on the Baltimore Boulevard
near Hollywood, Md. He was treated
at Casualty.
Agnes Dali, %, Of 1880 Eighteenth
street, fell from the running board Of
car at Potomac and o streets. She
suffered cuts and bruises. Jacob
Aaronson. %. Of 1911 Twenty-third
street, the driver, was charged by
seventh precinct police with driving
the wrong way on o street, a one way
thoroughfare.