Evening star., 1937-07-19
3 KILLED, 19 HURT
BY AUTO CRASHES
IN CAPITAL AREA
D. c. Fatality Sends 1887
Toll to 59-TWo Dead
in Maryland.
CAR PUSHED BY FATHER
RUNS OVER DAUGHTER, 3
Rockville Woman Victim of Hit
Run Driver-Motor Cyclist
Injured in Alexandria.

Three persons are dead and 10
others are being treated for injuries
following series of week end traffic
accidents in the District Of Columbia
and nearby Maryland and Virginia.
Among those injured is a 3-year-old
Riverdale girl, who. is in a critical con-
dition at Casualty Hospital.
One Of the fatalities occurred in the
Capital, sending the city's toll Of mo-
tor deaths for 1887 to 59-l3 more
than for the same period last year.
The two others who lost their lives
were hurt in Maryland
Bertha Gross, colored. of 1919 Six.
teenth street. died at Gallinger Hos
pital yesterday OF injuries received
when struck Friday at Fourteenth
street and Independence avenue SOUTH
west. Her back was broken
Arrested for Inquest.
Headquarters detectives arrested
Robert McMaster, %, of 1907 U street
southeast as the driver of the car and
later released him in custody of his
attorneys for an inquest to be held at
1870 O'Clock tomorrow morning at the
District Morgue.
John Christian, colored, 49, Of
Baltimore was fatally injured in an
accident on the Grain Highway near
Pigeon House Inn, and died at 43O
am. today in Casualty Hospital.
Earlier in the night Susie Joppy,
colored, 10, Of Rockville, Md, died in
Georgetown University Hospital Of
a fractured skull suffered when she
was struck by a hit-and-run driver
while walking along the Rockville
Frederick road near Rockville.
Pedestrian Hurt.
Leg and head injuries we're suffered
by Joseph Brannon, 10, of 824 Eighth
street, when he was hit at Constitu-
ton and Virginia avenues by a ma
chine operated, police say, by Thomas
M. Davis, 90, 1874 New Hampshire
avenue. Brannon was taken to
Emergency Hospital.
The 3-year-old Riverdale girl,
Charlotte Harmon, was run over yes
terday by an automobile her father
was pushing out of his garage At
tendants at Casualty Hospital said
her injuries were serious.
The child's father, Charles Har-
man, q building foreman, said he
| was pushing the car out in order to
sweep the garage floor. Charlottes
brother, Charles, jr., jumped on the
running board of the machine as
it emerged slowly from the build
| ing and Harmon said he assumed
| Charlotte tried to do the same
thing, but nobody saw Just what
| happened"
Parents at Bedside.
| The Bladensburg Fire Rescue Squad
! took the child to the hospital. Her
parents were advised by their family
| physician not to leave the institu-
ton, and they waited throughout
the day and night near the bed of
! their daughter.
George L. Stein, %, of 400 East
Howell avenue, was critically injured
early today in collision between
his motor cycle and car operated,
police say, by man who gave his
name as Elaus Seago, so, Of 9l2
Eleventh street.
The accident occurred at West
Windsor and Clyde avenues, in Alex
andria. Stein suffered internal in
juries, cuts and bruises and possibly
| fractured skull He was taken to
Alexandria Hospital in an uncon-
scious condition by the Alexandria
Fire Rescue Squad.
Virginia Couple Hurt.
| Earl Keys, 26, of Herndon, Va. and
, his wife, Mrs. Matte Keys, 81, were
treated at Garfield Hospital for cuts
and bruises suffered when Keys auto
mobile was in collision at Floris, Va.
with truck.
Elmer B. Shaw. 40. of S51 B street
northeast, drove his automobile into a
traffic light pole at Twelfth street and
| Pennsylvania avenue and was treated
at Emergency Hospital for cuts of the
ear and nose, police reported.
James Miles, jr.. 10. of Hillside. Md.
|
machine overturned near North Beach.
Md. He was taken to Gallinger Hos
| pital for treatment.
| Two~year-old Winfield Kelly Of
Brentwood, Md. was cut about the
| head when struck by an automobile
operated by Tracy S. Payne, 33, of the
14O0 block East Capitol street, while
playing in an alley at the rear of
Paynes residence. The child was
taken to Casualty Hospital. Police did
not detain Payne.
A crash on the Monocacy River
Bridge, near Frederick, Md. sent May
Leeman, 26, of the $500 block Fifteenth
street, to Emergency Hospital with
chest injuries.
2 Hurt Near Halpine.
George Boise, So. Rockville
painter, and Charles Russ, 48, also of
Rockville, were injured when an au-
tomobile said by police to have been
driven by Mrs. Myrtle McInturff. IS, Of
Rockville, ran off the Rockville pike
near Halpine and overturned. Mrs.
McInturff was charged with reckless
driving and operating without driv-
evr's license.
Boise suffered a fractured left leg
and cuts of the left arm, while Russ
received back and neck injuries. They
were taken to Georgetown Hospital
by the Rockville fire rescue squad
Mrs. McInturff and six others rid
ing in the car escaped unhurt.
A head-on collision between two
automobiles near T. B., Md, sent eight
persons, five of them colored, to Cas-
ualty and Sibley Hospitals. Four of