Evening star., 1942-09-26
Traffic Crash
AT Laurel Is
Fatal 10 Two
Retired Sergeant
And Woman Die
After Collision
D. 6. Traffic Toll
Killed in 1912 7
Killed in same period of 1941 6
Toll for all of 1941 g.

A driver and PEDESTRIAN were
killed yesterday as the result of a
collision of a trailer-truc and an
automobile at Laurel, Md. according
to Maryland State Police.
The victims were identified by
police as John Pape. So, retired Army
sergeant of Laurel, driver of the
automobile, and Mrs. Ethel Bowie,
81, of Annapolis Junction.
According to Maryland State
Trooper Edward r. Mettee, who in
vestigated, the vehicles collided when
both tried to pass the intersection
of Main street and the Baltimore
boulevard as the traffic light was
changing.
Show Windows Shattered.
The force of the crash sent both
vehicles careening over the c,irb,
striking Mrs Bowie, a pedestrian,
and then plowing into the side of the
Laurel Pharmacy. Two large show
windows were shattered by the i'm
pact and part of the building was
knocked out.
Mr.. Pape died shortly afterward
at the Fort Meade Cantonment
Hospital while Mrs. Bowie died
several hours later at he st. Agnes
Hospital in Baltimore.
Trooper Mettee said the operator
of the trailer-truck whom he identi-
fed as Charles E. Schulters. %, had
been charged with manslaughter
and reckless drivinA.
Child Struck by Auto.
Viven Dale, 9, OF 1905 Florida
avenue NE, was reorted in an un-
determined condition as Sibley Hos
ital today from skull injury re-
ceived when she was struck last
night by an automobile in front of
her home.
Police said the child was struck
by a cab operated by George Scar
borough. 35, colored of the 900 block
of Westminster street NV, who took
her to the hospital after the ac-
cident.
Five people were injured slightly
last night when two streetcars COL
lided in the 700 block of Kenilworth
avenue NE, police reported. The
two cars, 1t was said, were crowded
with passengers and were headed
for the car barns when one stopped
suddenly and was rammed by the
following car.
The injured, all colored, who were
treated at Casualty Hospital and
released, were listed by police as
Leo E. Gainus, 6, 1920 Benning
road NE, scalp lacerations: Eu-
gene Milton Gainus, 4, same address,
hand cuts; Clarence Jackson, %,
1920 G street NE, dislocated shoul-
der and cuts on the face and hands;
Henry B. Geezee, IS, 500 East Cap
itol street, head and facial cuts, and
Tai Presson, 20, 4534 Dix street NE,
scalp injury. 7zr~ r-
Inquest in Death of Two.
Claude Jack Holiday, 81, of the
600 block of Fourteenth street NE,
was scheduled to appear today at an
inquest at the District Morgue into
the deaths yesterday of Mrs. Elsie
Wolff, Al, of 1918 Central avenue
NE, and her mother, Mrs. Sara
Bocnenek, 73, OF New Haven, Conn,
who police said were struck in front
of Mrs. VOLTS home by an automo-
bile driven by Holiday.
Police said the women were struck
and dragged 95 feet by the machine
before it overturned at the inter
section of Forty-ninth street and
Central avenue NE. Mrs Wolff was
killed instantly, police said, and her
mother died en- route to hospital
Paul Thomas Hunt, 80, of 12l
Twelfth street Sc, suffered a pos
sible fractured skull in an auto
mobile accident last night near the
Home Stretch Inn on the Marlboro
pike, according to police.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital
where his condition was described a.
fair,