Evening star., 1937-07-06
TRAFFIC INJURIES 13
AS SCORES SUFFER
FIREWORKS BURNS
Fourth Celebration Is Free
of Deaths in Area
Of Washington.
BOYS SKULL FRACTURED
IN ACCIDENT NEAR HOME
Motorist Is Charged With Reck.
less Driving-scoutmaster Hit
on Memorial Highway.

Holiday traffic resulted in injuries
to l3 persons, and fireworks sent
49 others to hospitals with minor
burns, but no fatalities marred tbe
Fourth of July celebration in the
washington area, police reported to.
oay. Last year Ia deaths were re-
ported after the Independence day
celebration.
Rudolph Patterson, 8. colored q,
l5l N street southeast, was critically
injured when struck by an automobile
driven by Wesley Ransom, 348 N
street southwest, in front of his
nome. He is in Gallinger Hospital
suHerlng from fractured skull.
Ransom was charged with reckless
driving.
Orr Hamilton, 48, Duluth, MINI,
scoutmaster, was cut about the head
when hit by an automobile driven
by Joseph N. Garner %, of 1889
Foxhall road. on the Mount Vernon
Memorial Highway near the railroad
crossing. Hamilton was treated at
Naval Hospital. Garner was charged
with reckless driving by park police.
Automobiles in Collision.
Mr. and Mrs. E. I. HaiQh, 1921
Chlldress street, and their two small
sons and Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Nelson,
Richmond, Va, were slightly in
Jured when the automobiles in which
they were riding collided near Pearls
burg, Va.
Adelaide Cooper, 81. colored, ls48
Eighth street, was slightly injured
when struck by a hit-and-run taxicab
at Ninth and French streets.
Five persons were slightly injured
when the automobile in which they
were riding swerved from the Balti-
more Boulevard after it was struck
frcm behind by bus and crashed
into the home of A. P. Matile at Ber-
wyn, Md. The injured, all of whom
were treated at Casualty Hospital,
were George Mikkelson, 80; Mrs. Neva
Mikkelson, 1S; Robert Litaker, jr.,
10; Thomas Farley, %, and Harriet
Herrell, II, all of Alexandria.
Fireworks Victims.
Among those treated at hospitals
for fireworks burns were
Arthur Jones, 13. of 4O3 First
street southeast; Jack Roberts. II, of
24l7 P street southeast; Ruby M.
Brown, 5, of 803 First Street; G. L.
Watts, A., of 535 Ninth street south
east; R. J. Trumbo, 80, of 208 F
street; Fred Fansalla, Is, of 24O First
street southwest; Dominic Cusato Is,
of 248 First street southwest: Ceaser
Tonon, Is, of l416 A street southeast;
James Scott. 18, of 1903 Benning
road northeast William Corcoran, 7,
of BIB M street; Edwin Norwood, 27,
colored, of 1922 o street: Elaine Tall
bert, IL, of 1871 Wisconsin avenue.
j. R. Harris, %, of 1918 Eleventh
street; Dock Burnett, 81, of 223O
Eleventh street; Hyman Sotszky, rs. of
6O7 Florence street: John Moves. ir.,
OF 1907 @ street: Ruth Davenport. 10,
OF zig Seventh street northeast: Frank
Brudigan, 40, of 3l6 Maryland avenue
northeast Francis Saz5ari, Is, of
1923 H street northeast; Francis Duke,
IL, of 103 Eighth street northeast:
Marvin ChernoWsky, IA, of 1Ol Eighth
street northeast; William Brown, II,
colored, l02 NJ street: Ralph Rande,
81, Baltimore; Leonard Burke, 81,
of 43l o street.
Marian Clark, 25, Edmonston, Mo:
Fred Turner, IA, colored, 8 DeFries
street, Arthur Warren, l3. colored.
AL College court northeast; Annie
Williams, 10, colored, % Patterson
street northeast; M J. Shebhen, 38,
OF 1889 L street northeast; Mrs. Anna
Harding, 46, of l246 Ninth street;
Dora Kress, As, of 1855 Ninth street;
Charles Jackson. IA, colored, of Ala
New York avenue; William Long, 469
street; R. H. Mudd, 4724 Third
place; Alvin Miller, IL, of l745 Will
lard street.
Grant Carpenter, 13, of 1925 Fair
mont street; Sherrard Tupman, 40, of
$40 Hamilton street; Joan Gingell. 9,
OF 936 Madison street; Lloyd Lipkey.
II, Of 628 G. street southwest; Carl
Owens, II, of 211l Eighteenth street;
Warer Williams, "a, of 1917 Second
street; Robert Westbrook, is, Al
toona, Pa; Joseph White, Is, of 3lOC
Connecticut avenue; Jack Blake. 10,
OF 1882 Taylor street; Eugene Fur
man, TO- of 1900 Howard street: HUI
bert johnson, 10. of 1920 Sunderland
place; James Murphy. 8, Of 2l5
Twelfth street southeast; Lee Styers.
%, Alexandria, Va, and Randall
Spencer, "a, of 2120 Newport street.