Evening star., 1938-06-20
SUNDAY TRAFFIC
TAKESFOURLWES
IN CAPITAL AREA
Three Men Killed When Car
Careens Off Road as
AcceIerator Jams.
CHILD, 4, is SHIELDED
BY FIFTH PASSENGER
Another Dies in Hospital After
Crash Crushes His Arm.
Nearly Score Hurt.

Four men were killed-three of
them when an automobile careened
of q Maryland road and overturned
as the driver reached down to pull
up q jammed accelerator pedal-and
nearly a score of other persons were
injured in traffic accidents in the
Capital area over the week end
The dead:
Howard L. Edmonston, %, of 93l
M street NV.
Walter Gilbert Barnes, jr, 10, Gam
Der. Md.
James Louis Boone, Is. Gambler, Md.
Bernard Matthews, 26, colored, 1877
p street SW.
The most seriously hurt included
Mrs. Tillie Statland. %, of 1898 Brent
wood road NE; Alberto Fieni, "a, of
6711 Georgia avenue NV; Joseph I.
Keefer, 10, of COS Indiana avenue wv,
and Wilma Tapter, 20, of 1907 Twelfth
street NV.
Mr.. Edmondson was killed instantly.
and Mr.. Barnes and Mr.. Boone were
injured fatally when their car over
turned on curve on the West
minister pike in Finksburg, Md.
Child Lands Safely.
Raymond Harrison, 93l Ninth street
NV, who was holding Donald Ed
mondson, 4-year-old brother of the
dead man, in his lap when the crash
occurred, clasped the boy tightly as
they were hurled through the auto
top to land in a roadside hedge. The
hedge broke their fall and they suf-
fered only minor cuts and bruises
Chief Deputy Walter L. Shipley
of Carroll County said he was told
the car careened off the road when
Mr.. Edmondson, who was driving,
reached down to pull up the accelera-
tor pedal which had stuck to the
floor board. Mr.. Boone seized the
wheel and attempted to turn the car
to the right as it swerved sharply
Mr.. Edmondson and Mr.. Boone
were thrown out on the road, on op-
posite sides of the car, as it over
turned twice. Mr.. Barnes was cat
apulted through the top with Mr.
Harrison and the Edmondson boy. g.
Mrs. j. L. Edmondson of Gambler,
Md, mother of the driver killed in
the crash, was prostrated by news Of
the accident. Another son, Bailey
Edmondson, 18, was burned to death
about a year ago, when his clothing
was soaked with gasoline and ignited
while he was repairing an automobile
near his home.
One Dies in Hospital.
Mr.. Matthews died in Providence
Hospital yesterday, several hours after
being taken there with crushed arm
from an automobile collision near
Piscataway, Md.
Mrs. Statland was treated at Cas-
ualty Hospital for severe conclusion,
a possible skull fracture and internal
injuries after being struck by an auoto
in the 1900 block of Rhode Island
avenue NV.
Mr.. Fieni received a skull fracture
when hurled to the sidewalk from an
automobile as it collided with another
machine at Sherman avenue and
Barry place NV. He was treated at
Garfield Hospital.
Mr.. Keefer was in serious condition
at Emergency Hospital with possible
fractured skull and severe lacerations,
received when struck by car at
Ninth and E streets NV.
Mrs. Tapter received severe head
injuries in an accident ON the Marl-
boro Pike. She was taken to Casual
ty Hospital with Emil Tapter, IS,
same address, who was cut about
the face.
Mrs. Cora Kantz, SIS, of 1922 Living
ston street NV, received a broken
right arm and abrasions this morn
ing when the automobile in which
she was riding hit a culvert abutment
after skidding, and ran off the road.
Mrs. Kantz, and her husband, Rob-
ert H. Kantz, who was driving, were
returning from the beach when the
car skidded on the Landover road,
near Oak Grove, Md She is in Emer-
eency Hospital
Others injured in weekend &C
eidents included Harry E. Thomp-
son, jr.. %, of 1884 Pleasant street
Sc; William Denton, %, of 1925
Chicago street Sc; Charlotte F.
Kahn, %, of 5709 Sixteenth street
NV; Policeman Edward H. Ring,
.2S, of 1877 Brentwood road NE,
attached to the third precinct; Ivey
Malarkey, AZ, of 1926 Nineteenth street
NV; James S. Kastkes, So, of Ills
Twelfth street NV; Edith Much, 40,
of $500 Eighteenth street NV; Mabel
Beall, 40, of Sc New York avenue
NV; George Garvin, 80. of 1924 H
street NV, and John A. Poole, "a,