Evening star., 1940-07-22


Four Persons Are Hurt
And Driver Is Held After
Series Of Crashes
While no fatal trafnc accidents oc-
CURED in or near Washington over
the week end, the death of Miss
Dorothy Parrish, 26, of the 1900 block
of Forty fifth street NV, who was
injured on June 80 IN an automobile
crash near Laurel, Md, was re-
ported at Garfield Hospital.
Miss Parrish, an employe of the
Welfare and Recreation Association
Of the Agriculture Department, was
riding in q car driven by Edward
Rich, soldier stationed at Boiling
Field, police reported.
Four persons were injured and
three automobiles damaged yester-
day In two trafnc mishaps attributed
by Montgomery County police to a
driver who is quoted as saying he
couldn't remember any accident" !"
Held Under $1,000 Bond.
The man, CAME B. Steele, 80, Of
Boyds, Nd, was being held in the
Rockville Jail today In default of
$1,000 bond after being charged
with operating an automobile while
under the influence of liquor,
failing to stop after a collision,
failing to render assistance after a
collision and having inadequate
brakes.
The first OF the two accidents
occurred when Edward B. Byrd, 18,
of Dawsonville, Nd, stopped on
Route 2s at Seneca Greek to join
some friends who were in SWIM
ming.
Byrd told police he saw another
automobile bearing down on him
and leaped back to the running
board of his own machine. The car
sideswiped his automobile, hurled
Byrd about 10 feet, swerved and
forced q third machine down q
steep embsnkment and into q fence,
and then continued on toward Rock
vile.
Hip Is Injured.
Mr.. Byrd was taken to Frederick
City Hospital with hip injuries,
while Lyle W. Paugh and James A.
Sims, both Of Vindex, Md, occu-
pants Of the machine forced of the
road, suffered superficial injuries
and declined medical assistance.
Mr.. Paugh and Mrs. Sims tele-
phoned Montgomery County police,
but were unable to furnish the
license number Of the hit-and-run
car or to give anything but meager
description of the machine.
Policemen William S. Crawford
and Earl U. Stearn, on the way
to the scene of the double accident,
said they saw an automobile force
another of the road at the Rock
Vile city limits and gave chase.
They noticed the machine was
running on one nat tire and was
minus q hubcap and door and they
arrested the driver, Steele. His
4-year-old son, CAME, jr., who was
with him, was turned over to friends
and taken to Boyds.
The two policemen, on reaching
Seneca Greek, found q hubcap and
later found an automobile door near
the scene of the accident in which
Byrd was hurt. Byrd was given first
aid at the ofIice of DR.. Upton D.
Nourse in Dawsonville.
While police were talking with the
boy at the doctors ONCE Michael
White, living near Buck Lodge, Nd,
entered the physicians ofiice with
a broken right arm he said he re-
ceived in the accident.
Police said he told them he was
with Steele but was taken a mile
from Seneca Greek before the driver
permitted him to alight and seek
medical attention. The automobile
door, he said, dropped OF when he
got out.
In an accident near Davidson
vile, Nd, a bus loaded with men,
bers Of the Lucky Five Club, a
Washington colored organization,
en- route to an outing at Carr's
Beach, Md, caught fire from a de-
fective brake and was destroyed,
but all of the occupants escaped
unhurt.
Nine persons were injured in q
two-car collision yesterday a quar-
ter of a mile from the Maryland
State police barracks at Waldorf,
Md. They were treated at Casualty
Hospital.
Five of the injured were still in
the hospital today. They are Mrs
Ethel Bowers, IS, Baltimore, seri-
Gus head injuries; Miss Mabel Kroll
So, Baltimore, cuts and bruises: Mrs
Eva Schwartz, go, Baltimore, head
injuries; Barbara Barbee, 7, Of 2701
p street NV, head injuries, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, IS, Arlington
Va. head injuries.
First aid was given William
Bowers, IS, Baltimore, husband Of
Mrs. Bowers and driver of one OF
the cars; Mrs. Florence Anderson
Al, Arlington, Va: Warren Barbee
8, of the p street address. and james
Welsh, 10, Baltimore, Md. They
were released Immediately after
treatment.
Maryland police said the second
car in the accident was driven BY
Archie p. Anderson, 50, of 82s
Twenty-fourth street, Arlington, Va.
who was not injured.
Hit Parked Car.
Injured when their automobile
crashed into . parked car at Chill
lum road and New Hampshire ave.
nue. NE, Max Miller, 81, and
Joseph Miller, Il, Of 1888 Sixth
Street NE. were treated at Gar.
field Hospital. The elder Mr.. Mile,
received lacerations and possible In.
ternal injuries, but his condition
was declared mot eoeaoss"i JOSEPH