Evening star., 1942-05-04
Traffic Injuries
Send More Than
Il 10 Hospitals
Police Captains Cor
Hits Boy; 8 Hurt os
Auto Runs Into Tree

Hospitals treated more than
dozen victims of traffic accidents in
the District area yesterday and
early today.
Police Capt. jeremiah Sullivan, 81,
was listed as driver OF an auto
which struck 5-year-old Raymond
Diley. colored, near his home, 744
Lamont street NV, according to a
police report. The boy was taken in
a police car to Freedmen's Hospital
with head and body injuries termed
not serious. The second precinct
commander was driving his private
auto when the accident occurred, at
9;l0 O'Clock last night.
A spectator at the motorcycle races
at the Piney Grove track, District
Heights, Md. suffered fractured
ankle yesterday when a cycle jumped
the fence, according to police. The
victim, Glenwood Barkon, 16. of
Capitol Heights, Md. was taken to
Gallinger Hospital, police said.
Eight Hurt in One Car.
Eight persons were injured yes
terday, one seriously, when the
automobile in which they were
riding crashed into tree and over
turned on Connecticut avenue near
Oxford street, Chevy Chase. Md,
according to Montgomery County
police.
They were extricated from the
wreckage by occupants Of a passing
car and taken to Georgetown Hospi-
tai by the Bethesda Rescue Squad.
John Feely 2l, of 2222 Venton ave-
nue. NV, a student at the George
town University Dental School, suf-
fered possible internal injuries
and lacerations. and Miss Donny
Colachicco, 20, of 1905 Iowa avenue
NV, received a broken foot and a
possible ankle fracture.
Miss Colachicco two years ago
was named Miss Commerce" in
contest to select the most popular
woman employe of the Department
of Commerce.
Other Occupants Injured.
Other occupants of the car, given
first aid at the hospital and re-
leased, were Robert Burczycki, %.
of 1886 r street NV, also student
at Georgetown Dental School and
listed by police as the driver of the
car; G. L. Libesques, Children's Hos
pital inferno; F. Potera, l5l5 Rhode
Island avenue NV: Miss Judith
Hallstron, 1877 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV; Miss Mildred Kemp, 1885
Irving street NV. and. Miss Beth
Whitehurst. 606 New Hampshire
avenue NV.
They were pulled from their car
by Joe Blickman, 1843 Calvert street
NV; Albert Samsael, 1888 Fifteenth
street NV, and w. B. King, 6l5
McNeal road, Silver Spring, police
said.
A fractured collar bone and pos
sible conclusion were suffered by
Annie Hautzmore, IS. 7l8 c street
Sc, when she was hit by an auto
yesterday as she crossed the inter
section of Second street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV. according to
police. She was taken to Casualty.
Bicyclist's Leg Broken.
Riding a bicycle. Edward Miller.
46, colored, 523 Twenty street
NV, was in collision with bus at
Twentieth and l. streets NV. yes
terday. He was taken to Emergency
with a compound left leg fracture
and severe lacerations.
When an auto crashed against
the Barney Street Bridge in Mount
Rainier, Md, yesterday, a passenger,
Mrs. Audrey Corbin, 18, of that town.
suffered cuts and leg injury, police
said. She was admitted to Casualty.
Annie Holland, "a, colored, 1915
Tenth street NV, was hit by a truck
when she stepped from a streetcar
platform in the 1900 block of Wis
consin avenue NV. yesterday, police
said. She was removed to George
town Hospital with a head injury.