Evening star., 1942-04-29
Navy Yard Worker
Killed in Auto Upset
Near Alexandra
rs Others Are Injured
InTroffic Accidents
In or Near District
D. 6. Traffic Toll
Killed in 1912 2---.- 40
Killed in same period Of 1841 %
Toll for all of 1941 95

A 22-year-old Navy Yard employe
was killed last night outside of
Alexandria when his car went out
Of control and overturned and Is
other persons we're injured in traffic
accidents in and near Washington
last night and early today.
Fairfax County police listed the
Virginia victim as Bernard Ronald
Hall, %, Of r. F. D. l, Springfield,
Va. They quoted witnesses as re-
porting the car went out Of control
at q curve on the Franconia road
and turned over. Mr. Halls head
was crushed, police said.
In another accident at the Alex
andria city limits at the Hunting
Greek bridge last night. Everatt c.
Gillum, 56, who lived in an ark at
Hunting Greek. was critically in
jured when struck by a Washington
taxi as he attempted to cross United
States Route near his home. At
Alexandria Hospital today his con-
dition was reported as fair and he
was said to have received a frsc-
tured pelvis, possible conclusion
and a broken hip.
Driver Held In $1,000.
Police listed the cab driver as
Adam w. Leeman, SO, of TIA Otis
street NE. and charged him with
reckless driving. He was released
under $1,000 bond.
Two women received serious head
injuries and three others were
slightly hurt in the collision of two
automobiles at Ninth and Peabody
streets NV. yesterday.
Mrs. Anastasia Catsonis. 80. of
1874 Rittenhouse street NV, and
Mrs. Cecilia Woodford,. Is, of 24O
Hamilton street NV, both received
possible skull fractures. Others who
received minor injuries were Mrs.
Florence A. Felber, 30, 80 Concord
avenue NV; Charles Schneider, II,
1853 Iris street NV, and Robert E.
Woodford, 4, son OF Mrs. Woodford.
All were treated at Walter Reed
Hospital
Twenty-one persons were injured,
none seriously, when two streetcars
collided at Seventh and T streets
NV. One Of the cars, travelling
south on Seventh street, turned left
through an open switch at T street,
crashing into a northbound car.
Those treated at Freedmen's Hos
pltal included Charles T. Russell, 80,
2O1 c street S.W., cuts on the body;
Ruth johnson. 20, and Lena May
Johnson. 3, both of 1889 Frederick
place Sc, possible fracture of the
right elbow and cuts on the scalp.
respectively; Bertha Jordan, AZ, 5lO
M street NV, abrasions on the
right leg and possible dislocation
OF the shoulder; Willie F. Marshall,
43, 642 w street NV, slight con-
cusslon OF the brain: George john
son, 33, 1921 Sixth street NV, and
Hiram o. Caldwell, 81, 3119 Fiji
teenth street NE, both back in
juries; Margurite Colbert, 4, $500
Dumbarton avenue NV, injury to
side, and Minnie Whitfield, GIT Co.
lumbia road NV. cuts on the head.
Treated for AbrasiOns.
Treated for abrasions at Freed
mems were Yvonne Jordon, 20, 2507
Sherman avenue NV: Christine
Roberts, 20, 1904 Sixth street NV:
Geraldine Stewart, 10, 2O24 Georgia
avenue NV; Willie M. Nunnaly
SO, 6l5 Q street NV. and Pearl
Ross, 70l Sixtieth place, Fairmont
Heights. Others slightly injured
and treated at Freedmen's were
Josephine Jefferson, 80, COL Co.
lumbia road NV; Ruth Smallwood.
u, 148 Thomas street NV: Moses
Watts, %, 636 Otis street NV, and
Laura Mcmillan, 20, sl2 Fourth
street NV.
Two others injured In the accident
were Laura Staggers. 80, $50 Ran
dolph street NV, treated at Gar
field Hospital for slight injuries, and
Irving Bagefsky, 80, SILT New Hamp-
shire avenue NV, treated by a
private physician for a slight ankle
| injury.
A coroner's jury yesterday ordered
Jesse Thompson. 80. OF 3607 Eastern
avenue NE held for Police Court
action under the Negligent Homicide
Act in connection with the traffic
death OF Dolores Anderson, 18, 1923
West Virginia avenue NE.
Miss Anderson was passenger In
an automobile which was struck by
| one driven. by Mr.. Thompson at
Branch avenue and GAINESVILLE street
Sc, on January !.