Evening star., 1939-07-30
Truck Ends
Hit-Run Drivers 5
5.Crash Ride
Operator FIees;
Police Radio Kept
BusyWith Lookouts

At least five hit-and run accidents
were charged to the driver of
small car which left trail of wreck
age behind in a wild ride from Be-
thesda to the center of Washington
last night.
The first accident was reported in
Bethesda and for the next hour the
police radio was kept busy broad
casting lookouts for the driver as
reports of new crashes came in from
different places in the District. The
car-or what was left of twas
f1anally abandoned at Twelfth and
T streets NV. after losing its last
argument of the evening, with a
truck. The driver fed.
Samuel Shapiro, owner of a phar-
macy in the 6400 block of Brook
vile road, Bethesda, Md, reported
the first crash of the evening when
a hit-and-run driver smashed into
his car, parked near the pharmacy.
A short time later a car driven by
Richard S. Tavenner, II, SLIT Sew
enth street NV, was hit by the
speeding car at Georgia avenue and
Farragut street NV. and sustained
about $50 damage.
James E. yelling, Is, of 2102
Fourteenth street NV. was the
next victim. His car was struck at
Georgia avenue and Barry place
NV, not far from the scene of the
other accident.
One Victim Gives Chase.
At Thirteenth and r streets NV.
the wildly speeding auto collided
with a car driven by Robert S.
Suggs, %, of 1445 w street NV. This
driver gave chase, but the hit-and-
run car was travelling too fast.
Then at Twelfth and T streets
NV. the battering car met its
Waterloo, colliding with truck and
running up on the sidewalk. The
driver, said by witnesses to be a
colored man, jumped out and fed.
A woman motorist led to the
arrest on hit-and-run charges of
another driver last night. The
woman followed a car from the
scene of an accident at Connecticut
avenue and Macomb street NV, in
which Leroy B. Buckingham, As, of
1852 Newark street NV, a pedes-
trian, was hurt.
She followed the car for several
blocks and finally it turned off Con-
necticut avenue on to Van Ness
street. When the car came to a
halt on the dead-end street, she
swung her automobile across the
road, blocking exit, and summoned
police.
Eugene M. Kropff, A.. of 3745
Kanawha street NV, was arrested
and charged with leaving after col.
liding, passing a red light and driv.
ing on an expired permit. The name
of the woman motorist was not
obtained by police.
Jack Hill, 30, colored, of the first
block of Fenton street NE. was in
Galhnger Hospital last night with
possible fractured skull received
when struck by an automobile at
North Capitol and L streets.
Man Hit by auto Railer."
Clifford Simpson, 53 of Herndon,
Va, was admitted to Georgetown
Hospital last night, suffering from
broken ribs and a lacerated right
hand, after being struck, police said,
by an auto railer" as he walked
across the tracks at Arlington and
Fairfax drives in Arlington County,
Va Mr.. Simpson was brought to
the hospital by the Clarendon rescue
squad. His condition was termed
serious
Ronald c. Williams, 80, of IA
Fourth street Sc, struck a bridge
abutment at Oxon Hill Run while
driving his automobile on Livingston
road Sc. last night, police said, re-
sulting in minor injuries to his wife,
Mrs. Alma Williams, 80, and Doro-
thy Gleason, 81, also of the Fourth
street address. They were treated
for cuts and bruises at Providence
Hospital. Taken to Emergency Hos
pital from this same accident was
John H. Diester, So, 1927 Sixteenth
street NV.
Carl Hamilton Denton, 13-year old
Star carrier, was struck by car in
the 300 block of Sligo avenue, Sill
yer Spring, Md, yesterday afternoon
while delivering his newspapers.
Called across the street by one of
| his customers, he was injured by a
car driven by Mrs. Betty Bullion,
6132 Thirty second place NV. Mrs.
Bullion stopped and took the boy to
DR.. William D. Aud, who treated
him for lacerations to his head, face
and legs. He was then able to go to
his home, 722 Richmond avenue,
Silver Spring.