Evening star., 1938-10-30
TWO ARE KILLED
|NCAR ACCIDENTS
D. c. Woman, 60, Run Down
on Georgia Avenue.
Student Is Victim.
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Two persons were killed and one
was critically injured in trafic acci-
dents in Washington and nearby Viz
ginia last night.
Mrs. Rebecca 0usinky. 80 years old,
Of 4406 Georgia avenue NV. was run
down BY An automobile about o'clock
last night in the $500 block Of Georgia
avenue.
The injured woman was removed to
Garfield Hospital in a passing taxi
cab. She died two hours later Of 4
head injury. Police were told that
Mrs. Gusinsky was knocked down
when she stepped into the street from
between parked cars.
The driver of the car, Ernest A.
Phillips, ~, Of 5ll Roxboro place
NV, waS ordered held for action Of
4 coroner's Jury.
The death was the list trafic
fatality in Washington so far in 1885.
As against IS at the same time last
year.
Student Is Killed.
James r. Violette. II, of Accotink,
Va, . student At Lee-Jackson High
School near Alexandra. was instantly
killed when the service truck in which
he was riding with Edward H. Haz-
zard. 30, mechanic for the Accotink Ca
rage, crashed into the rear OF large
trailer truck loaded with potatoes 4
miles south Of Accotink on the WASH
ington- Richmond highway.
Mr.. Hazard was critically injured
when his machine overturned several
times after striking the left rear cor
ner Of the trailer. He suffered in
juries on the head and body and pos
sibly . fractured skull, according to
attendants at the Alexandria Hos
pital, where he was taken for treat
ment.
Young Violette's skull was fractured
and he received multiple fractures Of
the right arm and leg. He was the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Violette
Of Accotink. His father Is employed
at the Fort Belvoir filtration plant.
State Patrolman James Clark held
the driver of the trailer truck, Henry
Garrett, 26. Of Brooksville, Fla, pend
ing the outcome of an inquest. No
charges were preferred.
Mr.. Hazard was on the way to re-
pair a nat tire when the collision oc-
CURED at the top Of long grade. The
trailer was not damaged, but the light
machine was demolished.
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Fifteen ear-old Ned Loftin of
Washington, second year student at
Harrisburg (Pa.) Academy, was in an
undetermined condition at q Lam
caster (Pa.) hospital last night with a
possible fracture Of the skull received
in . grade crossing crash yesterday in
which young Loftin and i've other
members Of the academy's football
team were injured.
The boys mother, Mrs. Hazel w.
Loftin of the Kennedy Warren Apart
ments, rushed to the Pennsylvania
hospital by airplane yesterday after
noon. The only other team member
seriously hurt was Robert Davis of
Pennsylvania. ws,n suffered serious
head and leg injuries.
The boys were en- route by automo-
bile to Colora. Nd, where they were
to have played Nottingham Prepara-
tory School yesterday afternoon. The
crash occurred on Pennsylvania
Railroad crossing near New Providence,
according to the Associated Press.
The injured youths were rushed to
Lancaster in two ambulances The
four slightly hurt, all Pennsylva mans,
were John Austine, Charles MacNamee,
Edward Englehart and Patrick Maley.
The scheduled football game was
called of.
Young Loftin attended Alice Deal
Junior High School here. I
Car Hits Wagon.
Thrown to the road when the wagon
which he was driving was struck by
an automobile last night, Joseph
Ellington, IL, Of Forest Glen. Md, was
treated ct the washington aahatarium
in TAkoma Park for . severe head
cut ana bruises.
Mr.. Ellington, who was on his way
to take 4 group of children on straw
ride, was driving along oeorgia avenue
extended near Montgomery Hills, Nd,
when his wagon was struck BY . car
driven BY Lawrence Frits Of 0lenmont,
Nd, police said. It was reported that
Mr.. Fritx's car veered Oh, after being
In collision With . car driven By
Walter Spillman OF Rockville and ran
into the rear Of the ~asR