Evening star., 1938-11-13
One Is Killed,
Several Hurt
In Car arCrashes
Woman Dies When
Auto Leaves Rood
In Virginia

One person was killed and several
were seriously injured in traffic
accidents in and near the city
yesterday.
Mrs. Oscar DeCorse of Baltimore
was killed when car in which she
was a passenger ran of the Rich
mond highway near Triangle. Va,
and turned over. She was. taken
to the Marine Barracks Hospital at
Quantico and pronounced dead on
arrival. Mrs. DeCorse had been
visiting at $500 Fourteenth street
NV.
Her companions in the car. Will
liam Oscar Newbold, SIS, and Mrs.
r. D. Waldron, both of the Four
teenth street address, were treated
at Quantico for severe injuries
and taken to Garfield Hospital.
Mr.. Newbold suffered a wrenched
shoulder, shock and internal inju-
ries. Mrs. Waldron received q
compound fracture of the right arm.
Hits Metal Drum.
Mr.. Newbold, who was driving,
was quoted as saying the car went
out of control when a sharp pain
blinded him momentarily. The
machine crashed into metal drum
on the side of the highway.
Barney Crawley, 81, of Ills Ninth
street NV. suffered head and shoul-
der injuries when a hit-and-run
driver struck him at Ninth street
and New York avenue NV. Wit
nesses said the car was driven by
a colored man, who, with three COL
ored occupants, drove down liz n
street toward Southwest Washington
without stopping. The injured man
was taken to Emergency Hospital
in taxi.
Win Waters, 10, Gaithersburg. Md,
carpenter, was critically injured last
night when struck by an automobile
while walking on the Gaithersburg-
Washington Grove road near WASH
lngton Grove. He was taken to the
Montgomery County General Hos
pltal, where he was reported to have
a fractured skull and several broken
ribs.
Richard Walker, 18, of Gathers
burg, listed by police as driver of the
car. was not held. He told Rockville
police he did not see Mr.. Waters
until it was too late to stop
Serious injuries were suffered by
Robert Riggs, 30, of Is East Walnut
street, Alexandria, when a Capital
Transit Co. bus he was driving ran
of U. S. highway No. / near Four
Mile Run and struck a telephone
pole. He was taken to Alexandria
Hospital with fractured nose and
cuts and bruises.
Two Trucks Collide.
A collision between two trucks
at Twenty fourth and Otis streets
NE, resulted in serious injuries
to three colored men. Alexander
Pratt, "a, 619 Pickford street NE,
driving a District Hauling Co. truck,
suffered a fractured pelvis. George
William. rs, 1907 Fifteenth street
NE, driving a Washington Beef g.
Provision Co. truck. was injured on
the head. Charley Wanser, 80. 1920
Duncan street NE, a passenger in
Pratt's truck, suffered fractured
pelvis. The three men were taken
to Casualty Hospital.
Two inquests here yesterday re-
suited in verdicts holding drivers in
volved in deaths for court action
under the Negligent Homicide Act.
Mrs. Ruth Ross, Al, of Arlington,
Va, whose automobile figured in
a collision in which Miss Mary
Ella Given, 68, former principal of
the Chevy Chase School, was fatally
injured, was ordered held. Similar
action was taken in the case of
Hilliard Jones, %, colored, of the
l700 block of S street NV. who
drove a car that struck and fatally
injured John F. Smith, II, of 26l6
P street NV.