Evening star., 1937-10-02
ONE DEAD, 19 HURT
.C.ANDNEARbY.
TRAFFIC M|SHAPS|
Roy Commodore Succumbs
to Injuries Suffered at
Cottage City.
RUNAWAY MOTOR CYCLE
FELLS TWO CHILDREN
Three Virginia Pupils En- Route
to Foot Ball Game Injured
in Bus-Car Crash.

Nineteen persons, II of them chill
jren. we're injured. one seriously, In
traffic accidents in the District during
the last "a hours.
Meanwhile, Roy Commodore, 81,
colored. Parkers Greek, Calvert County,
Md, died in Casualty Hospital last
night of injuries suffered Sunday in
a crash at Cottage City, Md
The person seriously injured was
Richard Shelton, colored, Fairmont
Heights. Md, who received fractured
skull in crash at New York avenue
and Kirby street early today.
Three others hurt in the same acci-
dent, which involved automobiles
driven, according to police, by w. F.
Allen, 4l2 Sixth street, and Virgil
Stroman, colored, 72l Fifty-first
street northeast, were Stroman, James
Brown. colored, of the Fifty-first street
address, and Otha Hamlet, 35, of 467
street. None was believed seriously
injured.
Woman Cut About Face.
In another mishap, at Tenth street
and Maryland avenue northeast, Mrs
Nellie Bowers A. of 2025 o street, re-
,eived cuts about the face and head,
and Mrs. Eugenia Smith, 2408 Nichols
ivenue southeast, received severe head
INJURIES.
Among the child victims were two
Pierce School pupils who we're knocked
iown by runaway motor cycle that
an into group of playing young
tiers at Fourteenth and G streets
northeast.
At Casualty it was said Ralph
Cleveland. IL, of 1885 Maryland ave-
Tue northeast, may have internal in
uries, and Henry Walsh. IL, of 1903
4 street northeast, had injuries to the
lnkle.
Alonzo Holman, 20, colored, 4419
Sheriff road, operator of the motor
'ycle, was charged at No. precinct
station with reckless driving
Three Virginia school children
IN route to a high school foot ball
.ame here-were hurt when their
automobile was in collision with q
Capital Transit Co. bus at Twentieth
street and New Hampshire avenue.
The three, Marshall Windsor, 18;
Edna Davis, Is, and Edward Ander-
son, Is, all of Arlington. were taken
20 Emergency Hospital, where it was
aid they were suffering from brain
conclusion
Child, A. Hurt in Crash.
Joy Newton, 4, of 206 Kentucky ave-
nue southeast. was treated at Casualty
or head injuries received when struck
oy a machine at Thirteenth and B
streets southeast.
Rose M. Branch. 4, colored. 7 Pat
terson street northeast, received an
ankle injury when knocked down near
ler home, and Lawrence Bloomfield.
D, colored. 10 L street. was injured
about the knees when struck near his
home.
The other children hurt were Doris
Hawkins, 6, colored, II Seventeenth
street southeast, leg injury; Alice
Davis. IA, colored, Second street and
Virginia avenue southwest, broken leg.
and James D. Blount, 8, colored, 446
S street, cuts about the face.
Fred Jaeger, rs. of 521 H street was
cut and bruised about the head when
according to police he walked into the
side OF moving automobile at Sixth
and H streets. He was taken to Cas-
aalty.
Walter Cummings. 65. of 632 Tenth
street southwest was cut on the leg
and hand when struck by a machine at
Eleventh and F streets southwest. He
was treated at Emergency.
Raymond Newman, 80, of 9O4 Thir-
feenth street southeast was reported
recovering from head injuries received
When car in which he was riding
overturned near Meadows, Md.