Evening star., 1942-04-14
.3.Deaths Added
To Traffic Toll;
Years Total 40
Former D. 6. Women
Killed in Virginia;
Boy GroveIy Hurt
D. 6. Troffic Toll
Killed In 1912 40
Killed in same period of 1941- "A
Toll for all of 1941- 95

An alarming increase In traffic
fatalities, which has added seven
names to the death roll in five days,
today confronted Washington police
and traffic officials. Two persons
died yesterday of street injuries,
and an autopsy revealed a death
Sunday night as chargeable to a
traffic injury three weeks before,
sending the toll for the year to 40.
In addition, former Washington
woman was killed instantly last
night near Harrisonburg, Va.
The latest local victims are:
3S. Mrs. Cornelia Morrow, Al, of
1925 Nineteenth street NV, who
died in Emergency Hospital Sunday
night Of injuries received when the
automobile in which she was a
passenger struck another car at
Connecticut avenue and Kalorama
road NV. March o. John J. Todd,
49, OF the same address, was listed
by police as driver of the first car.
Struck at Downtown Crossing.
80. James Quick, 50, of 81O Sixth
street S.W., who died In Emergency
Hospital yesterday afternoon of In
1uries received when he was struck
by an automobile at Fourth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV. last
Thursday. Police said the striking
vehicle was operated by William z.
Keene, IS, of 1922 Thirty-fifth
street NV.
40. Mrs. Louisa Field, 10, colored,
OF 1154 Nineteenth street NV, who
died late yesterday in Emergency
Hospital several hours after being
struck by truck at Nineteenth and
M streets NV. Police listed the
truck driver as Bernard M. Shart-
zer, %, of Hillside, Md.
Miss Dorothy Greene, IS, CO.
owner Of Bear Trap Farm and for
mer leader In Girl Scout work in
the District, was killed instantly
last night in a crash of the station
wagon she was driving on the Valley
Turnpike near Harrisonburg, the
Associated Press reported.
Lost Control Of Car.
1t was believed she lost control
of the machine. The car left the
highway. sheared of a telegraph
pole and plunged into a creek. Ap-
parentiy Miss Greene was returning
from Washington to the farm, 10
Gated near the George Washington
National Forest at Stokesville, Is
miles southwest of Harrisonburg.
Miss Greene directed the building
in 1880 of Camp May Flather, Dis
trict Girl Scout Camp near Stokes
vile, and served for three years as
its director.
Earl Elliott, jr, 2, of the John
Roberts housing project in Alexan-
dria, Va, received a brain concus-
sion and possible internal injuries
when dairy truck backed over him
while he played in wagon near his
home this morning, police reported.
Police listed the driver of the truck
as Clarence Shaffer of Route 4,
Alexandria, and said no charges had
been placed against him. At Alex
andria Hospital it was said the child,
who remained unconscious, was in
an undetermined condition.
Boy, 4, Critically Hurt.
Jerry L. Thomas, 4, of TOO Sixth
street S. w. was critically hurt last
night when knocked down by en-
automobile near his hime. He was
taken to Emergency Hospital by a
passing motorist and found to have
suffered head and rib injuries.
Police said Ben Lombardi, 80, Of
lott E street S.W., was the driver
of the striking car.
A youth who police said was
driving a stolen automobile suffered
broken jaw last night when the
car ended a 78-foot skid by crashing
into a retaining wall of the Garfield
Hospital grounds.
According to the report. Policemen
]. G. Conroy and G.. A. Earle, riding
In a scout car, noticed an automobile
proceeding erratically at Fourteenth
street and Florida avenue NV. They
said the driver failed to comply with
an order to stop, but increased speed.
At Eleventh and Clifton streets NV,
the car went into skid, struck the
wall and came to rest after 23-foot
bounce"
Admitted to Garfield.
The driver was admitted to Gar
field Hospital. Police said he identi-
fed himself as william O'Neal Nc
CHM of the first block of H street
NV. He was described as about 1s
years old.
A coroner's jury investigating the
fatal injury in February of a District
policeman yesterday returned ver-
dict of accidental death, exonerating
LIE Roy A Kelly, "a, 14o6 Webster
street NV, a Capital Transit Co.
bus driver.
The policeman, Irving Rosenberg,
So, 1104 Allison street NV, was
fatally hurt the afternoon of Febru-
ary IL, when the scout car he was
driving in answer to an emergency
call, was In a collision with a bus
operated by Mr.. Kelly, at Thirteenth
and M streets NV. The officer died
four days after the accident.
More than score of witnesses
testified at the lengthy inquest.
Testimony was at variance as to
whether or not the exhaust whistle
on the scout car was being sounded.
Witnesses agreed, however, that the
scout car, proceeding east on M
street, slowed but did not stop, as
traff1c regulations require, before
proceeding across Thirteenth street
against red light.
In another traffic inquest, the
jury exonerated Benjamin F. Hawk
ms, AZ, OF 4513 Arkansas avenue
NV, operator of a streetcar which
fatally injured Frank Clark. Is. coll
ored, of 1888 Fourth street NV. last
Friday. The death was termed ac-
cidental.
Mr. rIork uror efv1,cL ~, Sauavtt