Evening star., 1938-09-06
HOLIDAY M|SHAPS
HERE FEW AS j. s.
ROLLSUP BIG TOLL
l. CoIson of Alexandria
Is Killed in Accident
Near Salisbury.
3 DISTRICT RESIDENTS
IN CRASH IN SOUTH
896 Die Throughout Country
From Violent Causes Over
the Week End.

While the rest of the Nation counted
S96 dead as the result of holiday week
end accidents. Washington's casualty
survey showed comparatively few Labor
Day mishaps.
Out-of-t town crashes. however. killed
An Alexandrian and sent number Of
Capital residents to the hospital. Two
brothers and two sisters were hurt in
the worst accident here.
damned highways and bathing re-
sorts accounted for most of the trag-
edies throughout 6he country, but the
automobile was by far the greatest sim
gle death dealer At least 278 persons
lost their lives in motor car crashes,
~ were drowned, 18 committed suicide,
there were IL homicides and IS mis-
eellaneous fatalities.
Three Washingtonians were involved
IN a crash near Hamlet, N c., that
left three dead and six injured They
we're Edward Bankhead, 26, Of 1888 P
street NV; his wife. and brother,
William J. Bankhead, 81. William
suffered a broken hip and the other
two cuts and bruises
R. M. Gibson of Columbia. Pa. said
BY friends to have been Mrs. Bank
heads brother, and his wife Helen
were killed in the accident They were
riding with the Bankheads and had
visited their home near Raleigh. The
Bankhead youths are employed at
hotel parking lot and Mrs. Bankhead
works at an F street store.
Hurt in Prince Georges
Five persons we're hurt. one Of them
seriously. in two accidents in nearby
Prince Georges County, Md, early
. today.
James Ross %. colored. of Takoma
Park. Md. was admitted to Casualty
Hospital with a possible fracture of
the skull and Viola Ross, 26, colored,
suffered cuts and bruises when the
car in which they were riding turned
over at Queens Chapel road and Uni
versity drive after striking a telephone
pole. Ernest Garnett. 30. colored, an
other passenger in the car, also was
treated for slight cuts and bruises.
In three-car crash on the overhead
bridge at Lanham. Md. James King
and Mary Bragg were slightly injured.
Drivers of the cars. Robert c. Peck.
3l5 Elm street NV: Randolph Hall,
1925 G street NV, and Edward Wall,
623 South Carolina avenue. all were
charged with reckless driving by Prince
Georges County Policemen Earl ].
Huber and Edwin Thompson.
Brothers and Sisters Hurt.
The two brothers and two sisters
were hurt in a collision at First and
r streets NE Miss Fave Topper, "a,
Of 81 Concord avenue NV. received
severe head injuries, and her sister
Esther, %, was injured about the head
and chest. Erwin Lynn, IS, of ZIG
Eighth street SW.. suffered a knee
injury and Russell Lynn. 35. Of
Bladensburg Md, was cut and bruised.
The Alexandrian killed was Lawrence
Colson. whose car left the Ocean City
road near Salisbury, Md. and struck
q tree An Associated Press dispatch
quoted police as saying the driver prob
ably fell asleep.
Pete Shreve, 3S. of Del Ray, Va, suf-
fered possible fractured ribs today
when An automobile in which he was
riding with Albert Fordham, 81, of Al
exandria, Va. collided with a truck
and overturned in Alexandria, He was
treated at the Alexandria Hospital