Evening star., 1938-12-27
Woman Killed.,
Score Injured
In Traffic
Mrs. SuIIie Anthony
Victim of Collision
Near Accotink

Inclement weather contributed
yesterday to a score of automobile
accidents in the metropolitan area,
with one woman killed, four other
persons injured and a number OF
others hurt. Six of the victims SUI
fered broken legs.
Mrs. Sallie Anthony, 38, Of 831
Fourth street NE, met death and
three men may have suffered skull
fractures in the head-on collision
of two automobiles on the Washing
Richmond highway near Acco-
tink, Va, last night.
Lester Cox, 25, Oxon Hill, Nd,
driver of the car in which Mrs.
Anthony was passenger, was
rushed to Alexandria Hospital, while
the occupants of the other car,
George Heating, 10, the driver, and
his brother, William B., 20, both OF
Philadelphia, were taken to Fort
Belvolr Hospital. The condition OF
all three remained serious today.
Police believed the two cars went
out of control on wet pavement.
There were no eyewitnesses. Mrs.
Anthony was the mother of three
children. Her body was to be sent
later today from Occoquan, Va, to
her former home at Hague, Va, Tor
interment. Her husband, M. F. An
thony of Hague, also survives.
Child Injured in Crash.
Betty Lou Young, S, of Baltimore
NAV have suffered fractured skull
last night when the car driven by
her uncle, Paul c. Clayton Of Alb
Jennifer street NV, crashed at
Linnean avenue and BrandyWlne
street NV. with an automobile
operated, police said, by Clarence j.
Brown, AZ, colored butler, OF 1882
Edmond street NV.
The child was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where her condition this
morning remained serious and un-
changed"
Also injured in the wreck were her
father, George U. Young, who was
cut on the head; her twin sister
Miriam and Mr.. Clayton. They were
treated at Emergency and then re-
Leased.
Police took the butler into Gus
tody on charge of reckless driving,
and today he was at liberty on bond.
George Burt, SO. of 229 Massa-
chusetts avenue NE, found lying in
the car tracks in front of his home,
told police at Casualty Hospital he
believed he had been struck by an
automobile. He was discovered, un-
conscious, by Glen Holcomb, 26
Seventh street S.W. He was treated
for a broken leg and other injuries.
Boy Runs Into Car.
Six-year -old Franklin Harrison
of 3 Reed avenue, Alexandria, was
badly injured yesterday when he ran
from behind parked car into the
left rear fender of a car that Alex
andria police said was driven by
Robert o. Brook, 80, of 4013 Eighth
street NV.
The child was dragged for several
feet when his clothing became
caught in the license plate OF Mr..
Brooks car. His 5-year-old sister,
who was accompanying Franklin,
Saw the accident, police said, after
having warned her brother not to
run into the street.
Franklin was taken to Alexandria
Hospital. His injuries included a
double fracture of the right leg,
broken arm, head wounds and shock.
In another Alexandria accident,
Mrs. James w. Baber, wife OF an
Alexandria policeman, received cuts
and bruises when the car driven by
her husband collided at Oronoco
avenue and st. Asaph street, Alex
andria, with another machine driven
by Jessie j. Brown, Al, of Cameron
Park, Fairfax County. Mrs. Baber
received first aid at Alexandria Hos
pital and was released.
Ten persons aboard street car
we're shaken up and passenge,
in an automobile was injured today
at Berwyn, Nc, in collision which
derailed the street car and blocked
traffic for half an'hour.
Montgomery County police re-
ported the automobile was driven
by Edward L. Miller of Hyattsville
and struck the rear end of the
trolley. Gilbert Gordon of Brent
wood, riding with Miller, was taken
to Casualty Hospital in Washington
for treatment nf face decorations.
A fifth precinct policeman, John I.
Shotzberger, AZ, of 1924 V street
Sc. and Marion Fletcher, 80, of 124
@ street NV. we're cut and bruised
when the officers car struck
parked truck in the 900 block of @
street NV. They were treated at
Emergency.
Suffer Broken Legs.
-Four colored persons suffered bro
ken legs last night when they were
hit by automobiles. They were Cor
!. nelia Alexander Is, of 1907 Third
street S.W; George Cook, SO, of 23O
N street NV; Milton Vacon, 81, of
1101 Fairmont street NV. and
Georgia Wood, SO, of 9O9 E street
SW.
Bernice Bruce, q, colored, of 1925
Browning place NE, was struck by
an automobile in the 900 block of
Forty-fourth street NE. last night.
She was treated for cuts and bruises
at Gallinger Hospital.
Louise Chase, 20, of 1876 Sixteenth
street Sc, received cuts and bruises
on the face when an automobile in
which she was riding swerved, as its
driver successfully averted a crash
with another car, and threw her
against the windshield.
Magdalene Bilisky, 81, o. 2e3a
Foxhall road NV, was strucb by a
car near her home last night At
Georgetown Hospital it was said she