Evening star., 1940-12-03
Vienna Girl, 8,
Killed in Traffic.;
Two Others Hurt
Driver, IS, in Custody
Of Parents, Had
BEGINNERS Permit

Lois Gayle Newberry, 8, Of Vienna,
Va, was dead today. victim Of an
automobile accident involving Is
year-old driver, Richard King, also
of Vienna.
Lois was fatally injured and two
schoolmates suffered minor hurts
when struck by the car few mo-
ments after they stepped from a
Fairfax County school bus yesterday.
The injured. Caroline Williar. 8,
and her brother. Wayne, 6, were
given first aid while Lois was rushed
to Georgetown University Hospital
by her father. She died shortly
after arrival.
Bus Driver Warned Children.
Fairfax County police said the
three children alighted from the
school bus on Chain Bridge road
just outside Vienna when the acci-
dent occurred. They were crossing
the road to their homes.
Vernon Kdwell, the bus driver,
told police that he had cautioned
the children against crossing the
road in the face Of traffic Just before
he shut the door of the bus and
drove away.
Il had gone only about so yards
when one OF the students in the bus
screamed that the children had been
struck" police quoted Mr.. Kidwell
as saying.
Police released the King boy in
the custody of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace King. They said an
inquest would be arranged today.
County police said the youthful
driver had a beginners permit to
operate an automobile and he was
accompanied by his mother at the
time Of the accident.
Two Winchester Va.) women
were injured in a traffic accident
at Capitol Heights, Md, one of them
seriously.
Mrs. Madalyne Butler, 80, suffered
severe head injuries and a fractured
left leg, while Miss Irene Albright.
80, suffered face and head cuts.
They were taken to the hospital
by the Branchville Fire Rescue
Squad
Special Police Patrol Urged.
Following a discussion of the fatal
accident at its meeting today, the
County School Board appointed a
special committee to appear before
the County Board of Supervisors
tomorrow to request assignment of
a policeman to patrol roads in the
vicinity of schools Particular at
tention to school buses would be
included in his duties.
The committee, composed of w.
Alvord Sherman, Vernon M. Lynch
and A. L. Halght, was instructed to
suggest to the Board of Supervisors
that the policeman now assigned to
the dangerous Annandale intersec-
ton at those hours be detailed to
the proposed patrol duty.
The School Board would be will
ing to pay the salary of a special
| officer named as replacement for
the Annandale duty if the Police
Department found itself unable to
bear the cost, it was decided at the
! meeting.
Held in Traffic Death.
Philip R. Anderson, "a, Of 55o3
Broad Branch road NV. was held
for grand jury action yesterday by
coroner's jury which inquired into
the traffic death of Miss Betty Sto-
well, 18-year-old student at the
Marjorie Webster School. Miss Sto-
well was fatally injured early Sat-
urday when the automobile in which
she was riding crashed into a tree
two feet of the west side OF Wise
road NV.
Mr.. Anderson, son of Col. p. M.
Anderson, retired Army officer, was
said to have been the driver of the
car. He is a former University of
Maryland student.
Col. Anderson, an engineer and
architect by profession, who is a
patient at Mount Alto Hospital,
made survey at the scene of the
crash and was called upon by David
A. Hart. attorney for Mr.. Anderson,
to testify at the inquest as to his
findings.
Miss Patricia F. Kelly, 20, 1701
Massachusetts avenue NV, was in
jured in the crash, in which she was
thrown from the automobile. She
suffered leg fracture and possible
fracture of the skull and was taken
to Emergency Hospital.
Mr.. Anderson did not testify at
the inquest. Police testified a pint
bottle. about two thirds full of liquor,
was found in the automobile, but
said Mr.. Anderson was not drunk.
Policeman C. w. Peters of No. 8
precinct told the coroner's jury he
had stopped Mr.. Anderson a short
time before the crash and had
warned him about driving too fast.
Policeman Peters said he had waved
the motorist to a stop with a flash
light while stopped along the street
talking to another motorist. Later,
he said, a coupe, which he believed
to have been the same one which
Mr.. Anderson had been driving at
the time the warning was given,
passed by him at a fast rate of
speed. Subsequently, Policeman
Peters said he went down Wise road
looking for the machine and found
there had been an accident.