Evening star., 1938-07-04
Capital Section Reports
Four DroWnings and
Hit-Run Death.
MARYLAND LISTS FIVE
WEEK END FATALITIES
Virginias Toll Stands at Nine.
More Than $50 Die in Road
Mishaps in 46 States.
BULLETIN.

A 45-year-old unidentified white
man was critically injuted at noon
today when struck by an automo-
bile on the Richmond highway at
Accotink, Va. He vas taken to
Fort Belvoir Hospital.
Death was passing up another holi-
day today as the toll from drovnings,
highway crashes and fireworks mis-
haps mounted hourly throughout the
Nation. An early accounting showed
at least 300 lives had been snuffed
out violently.
Five of the fatalities occurred in
this area, with four persons being
drowned and another losing his life
in hit-run accident.
Maryland's hopes of a safe and
sane" Fourth were dimmed by five
deaths over the holiday week end.
Before the holiday had dawned bring
ing crowded beaches and roads, acci-
dental death had claimed five persons,
three by drowning and two by auto
mobiles.
Virginias toll stood at nine, three
Of them fatally injured in motor
vehicle accidents, three being drowned
and three being killed by fireworks.
$50 Fatal Traffic Accidents.
Reports from As States showed more
than $50 motorists met death in high
way accidents. Approximately 70 per-
sons drowned; there were II suicides
and at least 81 deaths from firearms,
falls, heat prostrations and various
mishaps.
The toll, while exceeding that of
the 72-hour Memorial Day week end.
when $50 were killed, was still far
below that of year ago. Accidents
during the Independence Day holiday
last year claimed 563 lives.
Among those drowned in this area
was Vernon Leger, %. Glen Echo or
chestra musician, who lost his life
last night during a moonlight SWIM
ming party in the Potomac off Syca-
more Island. His body was recovered
after police dragged the river all night.
The others drowned were Fur
man Blair, %. of Baltimore, who
lost his life while swimming at Bev-
erley Beach; Harry Cooper, 80. also
OF Baltimore. drowned at Bozman,
Md, when he fell from a cabin
cruiser, and William H. Taylor, 10.
colored c. C. C. enrollee, drowned
while swimming in an abandoned
iron ore pit at Beltsville, Md.
Virginian Killed on Highway.
The traffic accident in this vicinity
took the life of George Petit, about
60, of Engleside. Va. who was killed
early today on No l highway near
Engleside when struck by an auto
mobile that police said failed to stop
afterward
Other traffic mishaps injured four
other persons in this section during
tIle pdSt ~ HOuTS. FIREWORKS 2c-
cidents reported to police numbered
two victims
Elizabeth Wilson, 80 OF Baltimore
was cut on the chin and shocked when
knocked down by a car at Maryland
avenue and D street NE: Ethel
Brown. 10, of 1898 N street NV,
suffered a broken jaw and perhaps
a fractured skull when she fell from
an automobile when it made a turn
at Key Bridge; Pear Pagano, II. of
406 Sixth street NV, was cut and
bruised when thrown from a motor
cycle that skidded, and James Chap
man, 26, colored, Brown Station, Md,
received a compound fracture of the
leg in an accident at Upper Marlboro,
Md.
Those hurt by firecrackers wd'e Jo-
seph Loveless, l3, of 2616 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, burned on the face, and
Carl johnson. 25, of 3317 N street
NV, also burned on the face by a
thrown firecracker.
The firecracker accidents resulted
despite special order issued by In
spector L. I. H. Edwards, commanding
police to strictly enforce" the law
forbidding shooting of firecrackers in
the District.