Evening star., 1941-09-15
Po|iceAroused
By|ncreasiing
Traffic Toll
Plan Strict Law
Enforcement as
School Days Near

Faced with a rising traffic toll
with District schools opening next
Monday, Inspector Arthur E. Miller
in charge of traffic, today continued
visiting police precincts at the rate
of two a day to talk with patrolmen
regarding the enforcement OF regu-
lations as they apply both to
vehicles and pedestrians.
Four persons were added to the
traffic death list during the last week
and % persons, 6 of them pedes-
trians. were injured in accidents
Yesterday and early today. The IA
tality total for this month already
has more than doubled the figure for
September o flast year, even though
only half of the period has passed.
Statistics for the last two months,
Inspector Miller pointed out, reveal
drop in enforcement and rise IN
the number of deaths.
In his discussion at the precincts
the inspector said he was stressing
enforcement both of the law to pre-
vent pedestrians from crossing at
intersections against traffic lights
and the law to prevent them from
crossing at any point except a cross
walk. A campaign to encourage
ueople not to walk between parked
automobiles was waeed last spring
under direction of William A. Van
Duzer, director of traffic.
Seek to Protect Children.
AS an additional step to keep
down traffic accidents after the
opening of school, conference to
discuss protective measures will be
held between school authorities,
Washington I. Cleveland of the
American Automobile Association
and Acting Police Supt. Edward j.
Kelly tomorrow.
One of the most seriously hurt in
accidents during the past "a hours
was Charles w. HUT, 81. of TIT E
street S.W.. who was treated at
Providence Hospital for a possible
fracture of the hip He was struck
by a passing automobile, according
to police, as he stepped backward
from a parked truck near his home.
Billy Dellinger, II, Clinton. Md.
was treated at the same hospital for
possible skull fracture and scalp
cuts received when struck by hit
and-run automobile while bicycling
along Route 5, near his home last
night
Mary D. Miller. 68, of 1905 Fulton
street NV, struck by an automobile
at Wisconsin avenue and Fulton
street NV, was admitted to George
town Hospital with a broken leg.
Another pedestrian, Nathan Early,
ss, colered. 440 Ninth street S.W., hit
nv an auto as he crossed Twelfth
street toward the Municipal Fish
Market. was treated at Emergency
Hospital for possible fracture OF the
right wrist.
Walked Into Bus.
Police reported that Alonzo Hill,
As. colored, 1916 Foxhall road NV,
walked into the side of a bus on
Fourteenth street NV. He was
taken to Freedmen's Hospital for
treatment of a shoulder injury.
Moses Green. %, colored. and Lulu
Green. "a. colored, both OF 530
Twenty-lrst street NE, walked 10
Gallinger Hospital for treatment
after they had been struck by Wnat
thev said was hit-and-run AUTO
mobile near Lincoln Park. The man
was treated for cuts OF the scalp ana
left ear, and the woman for bruises.
Three persons were brought 10
Emergency Hospital following col
lision of two automobiles at Four
teenth street and Concord avenue
NV. yesterday afternoon. Iney
were Lois Potts, 9, of $3.50 Thlrtleth
street NV. fractured right arm;
Samuel M. Clayman, 81, OF the same
address, cuts of the forehead, ana
Mary Levine, 30, 1871 Tewkesbury
place NV. cuts and bruises.
Injured in an automobile accident
near Maryland University, Lillian
johnson, S. Staffordsville, N. u
Fila Mae Pope, A, ManahaWkln,
N. Y. and George Powell, IA, west
Philadelphia, were brought 10
Casualty Hospital and treated 1or
cuts and bruises.
Soldier Suffers Cuts.
Seven stitches were taken IN tne
cheek of Claude N. Snyder, 70. a
soldier from Aberdeen, Md, who
was removed to Georgetown Hospl-
tai early today from the scene OF
nm automobile accident on Lee
Highway, 4 miles west OF rails
Church.
Earl Suggs, 81, colored, 1904 T
street NV, was struck by an auto-
mobile while riding a bicycle IN the
1000 block of S street NV. He was
treated at Freedmen's Hospital 1or
severe decorations of the left arm.
Ruth Clevenger, 27, of 212O P
street NV. was given treatment at
Emergency Hospital for shock early
Yesterday. She told hospital au-
thorities she had been injured when
the taxicab in which she was riding
along Columbia pike left the nigh
way near Annandale, Va, and over
turned.
James C. Deboe, 63, of Prince
Georges County, Md, was brought
to Casualty Hospital from the scene
of an accident on Riggs road and
treated for possible fractures OF the
right arm and left leg.
Ira Wilmington, AZ, colored, Oxon
Hill, Md, received treatment at
Providence Hospital for lacerations
and abrasions of his left hand, struck
by an automobile as he gave the
signal for a left turn while riding
north on Livingston road Sc.
Charged With Leaving Scene.
Thomas Wright, 81, colored. of tht
1900 block of Rosedale street NV.
was held at the Hyattsville md,
police station in defeault OF s1,O0(
bond on charges of reckless driving
and leaving the scene of an acciden
in which George Talton, 40, colored