Evening star., 1940-04-29
| Killed, 8 Hurt
In Weekend
Auto Accidents
Six Woshingtonions
Injured in Four-Cur
Crash Near Fuirfux

One person was killed and at least
eight persons were injured in traffic
accidents near Washington yester-
day as motorists crowded the high
ways on the first spring like Sunday
Of the year.
Edward Furr, 20-year-old Cul-
peper Va) garage mechanic, was
crushed fatally in a collision near
Culpeper. Sheriff Eppa P. Kirby of
Fairfax County held for investiga-
ton two colored occupants of the
car that struck Furr's machine
The accident occurred yesterday
morning.
Six Washingtonians were among
the eight persons injured in four
car crash on route 211 near Fairfax
yesterday afternoon. They were
Mrs. Marion O'Leary, As; Marion Lee
OLeary, IL; Norine OLeary, IA, and
JEFF OLeary, II, all of the 3100
block of Mount Pleasant street NV
None was seriously hurt.
Tie-up Delays Presidents Son.
The tangle of the four cars blocked
the highway, Sheriff Kirby said, and
automobiles waited in lines extend
ing more than a mile on each side
of the accident scene until the
wreckage was cleared. The several
hundred persons delayed, the sheriff
declared, included Franklin D.
Roosevelt, jr., and Senorita Lillian
Somoza. daughter of the President
of Nicaragua, who had been chosen
as queen of the Shenandoah Apple
Blossom Festival, scheduled for
Thursday and Friday at Winchester.
Hurt when she jumped or fell
from moving taxi Saturday night
at Twelfth street and Massachusetts,
avenue NV, Miss Lola Jane Scott
Of 1914 Vermont avenue NV, was
being treated at Emergency Hospital
today for possible skull fracture.
Police said Miss Scott was riding
with a friend and another couple
when the accident occurred.
Driver Free Under Bond.
n. L. Trenary, 40, of the same
address as the OLearys, said by
police to have been the driver of
the car, was charged with reckless
driving and released under $500
bond.
Sheriff Kirby said Mr.. Trenary's
car struck an automobile occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Seabridge
of the $500 block of Legation street
NV, Mr.. Seabridge was reported
In serious condition at Emergency
Hospital here today. Mrs. Seabridge
was dismissed after treatment for
minor injuries.
Occupants of third car in the
crash, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Winfree
OF 2238 North Nottingham street,
Arlington, Va, were treated for
cuts and bruises at Alexandria Hos
pital.
Driver Escapes Injury.
The driver of the fourth auto
mobile, Benjamin K. Kibler of
Arlington, was uninjured.
George A. Lorh, AZ, of 936 Twenty
sixth street north, Arlington, re-
ceived back and neck injuries in a
collision at Sixth and C streets NV.
yesterday afternoon. His condition
was reported Undetermined" at
Casualty Hospital today.
A 50-year-old resident of Silver
Spring, Md, Robert L. Lockett, was
treated at Emergency Hospital early
yesterday for lacerations of the face
and chest, received when his car hit
q pole on Constitution avenue near
Fourteenth street NV.
Mrs. Mamie Nash, IA, of 1419 N
street NV, received a fractured left
leg and a broken collar bone today
when she was struck by taxicab
near her home. Police said Mrs.
Nash, who is the mother of James
T. Nash, detective attached to No.
IL precinct, walked into the side OF
the cab.