Evening star., 1939-04-27
6-Year-0Id Girl Dies
After Being Crushed
Under Heavy Truck
Gertrude Mann Hit
At CheverIy During
Binding Roinstorm

"A oSOoi -Olu 6ll WdS ucdu lOUdy,
her life crushed out by 2-ton
truck that struck her as she hurried
toward her home in Cheverly, Md,
in binding rainstorm yesterday.
Gertrude Mann. daughter of Will
liam Mann. Florida avenue. Cheverly,
Md, National Parks Service work.
er, died last night in Casualty
Hospital shortly before 8 o'clock.
She was run over about $3.50 pm.
near her home.
Police said the child had been to
store and was on her way home
with a loaf of bread She was
caught in the rainstorm that deluged
this area and started to run.
According to the police report, she
ran across the road. failing to see
the heavy truck that was passing.
She was rushed to the hospital
Holbert w. Pruitt of Barnes place
NE. was held by Prince Georges
County police on 500 bond. He was
said to be driver of the truck.
May Bradley. S. of Falls Church,
Va, was treated at Georgetown Hos
pital last night for minor hurts re-
ceived when hit by car in front
of the Falls Church police station
She was returned to her home.
Boisy Davis, II, colored. of 211 H
street NE. was in Casualty Hospital
with several fractured ribs. He was
struck last night while crossing
Second street NE. near his home.
Struck BY Street Car.
Six-year-old Eleanor Robert, 502
Fifty-third street NE, was in
Casualty Hospital with injuries re-
ceived at Deane avenue and Fifty
third street NE. She was struck by
street car.
A huge truck and trailer snapped
of an electric light pole at Eighth
place and Rhode Island avenue NE.
this morning as the driver swerved
to avoid young bicyclist.
The accident, according to police,
occurred when Joseph Tappalardo,
II, of 42l7 Twentieth street NE, fell
suddenly from his bicycle, which had
caught in the street car tracks.
TIL truck driver, Thomas w.
Brown. 30, of 913 North Carolina
avenue Sc, swung the huge vehicle
toward the sidewalk to miss the boy.
Brown was uninjured. while the
youth was taken to Sibley Hospital,
where he was treated for a possible
fractured arm-suffered in the fall.
A collision between an automobile
and a street car at Deane and
Minnesota avenues NE. early today
resulted in injuries to Wilbur A.
Mangum, 80, colored, 1911 B street
N. E., said by police to have been
driver of the automobile. Mangum
was taken to Casualty Hospital with
badly cut and bruised right side, leg
and arm. His condition was de-
Scribed as fair"
None OF the street car passengers
was injured. Leon w. Wells, Al, of
1928 Bennett place NV, was the
operator.
Harry Valdivia. 16 81 Sixth street
NE. was recovering today in
Casualty Hospital from injuries re-
ceived in an accident in the 600
block of A street NE. He was riding
a bicycle out of an alley when struck
by an automobile, police said.
Henry Ficks, Is, 3411 M street
NV, was treated at Georgetown
Hospital yesterday for minor in
juries received when the bicycle he
was riding was hit by a Civilian
Conservation Corps truck near his
home.
Two strangers in the District met
last highland one went to the
hospital. Jack Gross, Is, of Phila-
delphia. stopping at 1915 K street
NV, was struck while crossing K
street near his room. The car which
struck him, police said, was driven
by Harry A. Drake. jr.. SO, of Will
mington. Del. Gross returned to his
home after receiving treatment at
George Washington Hospital.
Harry Kalabitinos, %, of 1O031z
Third street NE, was in George
town Hospital today with injuries
received yesterday in a motor cycle
spill at Ninth and Constitution ave-
nue. NV. Joseph A. Frady, Is, 802
Sixth street NV, who was riding
on the motor cycle with Kalabiti-
nos, was treated at the hospital and
sent home.