Evening star., 1939-10-02
Ten Are Killed
On Highways
In and Near DC.
Two Die in District,
Eight Fatalities
Occur in Virginia

Two of the victims were killed in
the city, while seven died in Vir-
ginia and one in Maryland.
Herbert D. Owen, 81, 514 Quack-
enbos street NV, died at II o'clock
last night in Emergency Hospital
from injuries received during the
morning. He was struck while cross
ing Fifth street NV. at Quackenbos.
Taken to Walter Reed Hospital,
Mr.. Owen was found to be suffer-
ing from severe skull fractures" I"
He was transferred to Emergency
after receiving first-aid treatment.
Driver of the car which struck him,
John Joseph Niehenke, so, of Ia
koma Park, Md, was held by police
for action of the coroner.
Victim of an accident early Sun
day morning at Sixteenth street and
Alaska avenue was identified as
Archie w. johnson, colored, %, a
janitor at 3100 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV.
GA Traffic Victims.
Police worked for over two hours
before they were able to remove
Mr.. Johnson's body from his wrecked
car. The automobile ran into
tree and was almost completely de-
moished. He was pronounced dead
on the scene.
On police records Mr.. johnson was
listed as the sixty-third traffic vic
tim Of the year, Mr.. Owen as the
sixty-fourth. At this time last year
IS persons had been killed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonnie Reshefsky Of
Portsmouth, Va, and their 3-year-
old granddaughter, Marilyn Singer.
were killed yesterday when their car
ran off the road and struck stump
on Highway No. near Dumfries,
Va. The Reshefskys were killed in
stantly and the child died en- route
to Martha Washington Hospital at
Fredericksburg. Mr.. Reshefsky was
hardware merchant in Portsmouth.
Emil Dratler, 81, and his wife,
Nina, 81. who were in the car, are
In serious condition at the hos
pital but are expected to recover,
hospital attendants said
Two Die in Truck Crash.
Sanford Stoner, %, of Granite
Springs, and Lucian Chewing, 80,
of Paytes, were killed instantly when
their truck crashed into tree near
Fredericksburg and overturned yes
terday. Five others in the truck
were injured slightly but released
after emergency treatment in the
hospital at Fredericksburg, accord
ing to the Associated Press.
Other week end traffic victims
were Mrs. Ollie M. Marcum, So,
OF Roanoke, killed late Saturday in
an accident near Jewel Ridge, Va,
and Hazel Irene Witt of Richlands,
who died of injuries suffered in
an accident at Belfast Mills, 10 miles
east Of Lebanon on highway No. 10.
Miss Alice McClannahan and Rod
ney NARROW of Grundy were slightly
injured in the latter accident.
A colored youth fatally injured
while crossing the Baltimore pike
at Muirkirk, Md, last night was
identified today as Abe Kelley, 20, a
member of the C.. c. c. camp at
Berwyn, Md. His home was in Bal
timore. John A. Lukens, IS, of
Lancaster, Pa, listed by Prince
Georges County police as the driver
of the car which struck Kelley, was
charged with manslaughter. He was
released on $1,000 bond to appear
before Justice of the Peace Walter
L. Green October 16.
Emma E. Bailey, IS, colored, 1921
= T street NV, received a fractured
left leg when struck yesterday at
Sixteenth and P streets NV. She
was treated at Freedmen's Hospital.
Two persons were injured last
night when the car in which they
were riding struck a pillar in the
H street viaduct. Daniel Simms, 80,
colored, of 447 P street NV. and
Jessie Brazzell, 25, colored, 1889
Fourteenth street NV, were treated
at Freedmen's Hospital for cuts and
bruises. Police say Mr.. Simms was
operating the automobile
Six Others Hurt.
Six other persons were injured,
none seriously, in four accidents in
Prince Georges County yesterday.
The Misses Mildred Naron, 10, and
Marian Kellman, 18, both of Bal
timore, and Shirley Harris, 18, of
1148 Fifteenth street NV, suffered
leg injuries when the car in which
they were riding with George Har-
ris of the Fifteenth street address
was involved in a three-way COL
lsion on the Baltimore pike at Ber-
wyn.
Harris and the drivers of the
two other cars, Vernon A. Cullen
of Aberdeen, Md, and Gilbert G.
Manuel of Hyattsville, driver of a
Chesapeake g. Potomac Telephone
Co. truck, were arrested by Officer
w. c. Suit of the Prince Georges
County police and charged with
reckless driving before Justice of the
Peace George Phillips at Berwyn.
They were released on 500 bond
each. None of the drivers was in
jured. but the three girls were taken
to Casualty Hospital.
In the traffic jam resulting from
the accident, two other cars collided.
Raymond Moore of Beltsville, Md,
driver of one machine, was charged
with driving while under the in
huence of intoxicating liquor.
Charles F. Jackson of 81 New York
avenue NV. was the driver of the
other car, police said.
Mrs. G. E. Downey, so, and Mrs.
Frank Sewell, 43, of Rock Hall, Nd,
. were injured slightly when the car
IN which they were riding with Mr..
Hall collided with two others on the
Baltimore pike near Paint Branch
Bridge. The drivers of the other
cars were Gladstone Arts, 1917
eleventh street NV, and Henry
Conway, colored, of Lakeland, Md,
according to police. All three drivers
were charged with reckless driving
and released on bond.
Alfred w. Wissman of Lanham,
Md, received a knee injury when