Evening star., 1939-09-03
Three Are Killed
And "a Injured in
Traffic Accidents
Three Pedestrians, One q
Seven-Yeor-OId Girl,
Are Among Victims

Three pedestrians. one a 7-year-
old girl, were run down and serious
ly injured in local and nearby traf-
f1c accidents that were fatal to 3
and injured IA yesterday as District
police listed the city's 58th fatality
Of the year.
The girl. Betty Edgin of Mary
land Park, Md. was taken to Provi-
dence Hospital with both legs
broken. internal injuries and pos
sibly a fractured skull after she was
struck by car on Chapel road near
her home. Her condition was de-
scribed as critical last night.
Geneva Raine, IA. of Pennsgrove,
N. j., was knocked down by an
automobile at picnic grove on the
Speedway in East Potomac Park.
She was admitted to Emergency
Hospital with severe skull injuries
and large lacerations on her body.
The girl had stopped for picnic
lunch with her mother. Mrs Pris-
cilla Raine. and two friends. The
Car was being packed when she
stepped suddenly from the front and
was run down The driver of the
striking automobile, Henry Gianada.
"a. of 1916 Ninth street NV, told
police he did not see the girlsuntil
she stepped into the path Of his car.
She failed to regain consciousness
until she had been in the hospital
for some time.
Woman, 81, Dies.
The local trafic death was that Of
Mary Miles, 81, colored, 27o2 N
street NV. who died in Garfield
Hospital of injuries received a week
ago when she was struck by an au-
tomobile at Ninth and S streets NV
She suffered a fractured skull and
left leg.
The driver, police said, was Will
liam H. Collins. Al, colored. 113l Co.
lumbia road NV At the time of the
accident he was charged with reck-
less driving and released under
81 900 bond. Sixty-two persons had
been killed in local traffic accidents
! this time last year.
Maryland State police. meanwhile,
reported from Calvert County that
Walter Evans, 10, colored, of Bristol,
was killed instantly when he was
struck near his home by car
operated by Robert F. Rothwell of
Is Minnesota avenue NE.
Woman Hit by Auto.
Corina Buonbiri, %, of Brentwood,
Md, was in an undetermined con-
dition last night at Casualty Hos
pital, where she was taken after
being struck by an automobile on
Baltimore boulevard near Riverdale.
The driver of the car, Harry P. Emer-
son, 54, of 1929 Quincy street NV,
told police the young woman left a
bus and walked from behind heavy
truck into the side of his car. She
received chest and head injuries.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Dingley of
Arlington, Va, were treated at
Georgetown Hospital for slight head
/ injuries, received when car in
which they were riding crashed into
a fence at Thirteenth street and
Glebe road south. Arlington, after
the driver swerved to avoid strik-
ing a construction barricade.
Two persons were killed and nine
others injured earlier yesterday in
collision between two automobiles
one a District car-near Prince
Frederick, Md. The dead were Mrs
Dorothy Browning Weems, 20, OF
Baltimore, and her 8-month-old son
Police said the Washington car was
driven by Richard B. Brown, Al
colored, ZIG I street NV. Four OF
the five passengers in his car, all
colored, were hurt in the crash
which occurred, according to in
vestigators, when the other driver
Adrian Weems, husband of the deac
woman, attempted to pass a third
car.