Evening star., 1942-07-24
Woman and boy
Die as Traffic
Toll Reaches so
Several Are Injured
In Series of Auto,
Trolley Accidents
D. {. Traffic Toll
Killed in 1912 so
Killed in same period of 194l 46
Toll for all of 194l l--------9 95

Miss Mamie Ford, SO, of 2300
Thirteenth Place NE, was crushed
to death by a truck early today at
Seventh and T streets NE. She
was pronounced dead on the scene
k a Casualty Hospital ambulance
physician. Police seeking the truck
driver, said they understood the
truck backed into the woman. She
was employed at the Pullman Co.,
Fourth and r streets NE.
Her death, and the death in
Casualty Hospital last night OF
Melvin White, 6, colored. ll3 D
street S.W., who was knocked down
by an automobile at Second and
D streets S.W.. raised the Districts
trafIic fatalities this year to go. The
boy died in Casualty Hospital from
. cerebral hemorrhage. Charles
Everett Duty, %. of 1895 South
Dakota avenue NE, was listed as
the driver of the car which knocked
down the boy. No date has been
VCt 1OI u COIUIlCI D
Hit Boarding Streetcar.
Meanwhile, Blanche Ida Lewis.
%. colored, of "a @ street NE. was
in q serious condition at Freedmen's
Hospital, with a possible skull frac-
ture after being struck by an auto
mobile early today as she was board
ing q streetcar on Florida avenue
near Third street NV. Police re-
moved her to the hospital. Samuel
A. Westray, 18, colored. Of 1925 East
Capitol street. listed as the opera
tor of the automobile, Is being held.
-Four persons suffered slight in
5uries and six automobiles were
damaged today when a streetcar
operated by Edward L. Harvey, %,
Of Lanham, Md, sideswiped an
automobile while the streetcar was
running south on North Capitol
street at Truxton Circle and Florida
avenue. The automobile driver,
Kenneth r. Pearson, %, Of ll3
Rhode Island avenue NE. was in
tured. According to police, the
streetcar then hit q second auto
mobile. injuring Glover Flock, So,
Of 3 Adams street NV; william
Shipley. 46, Navy Yard employe,
and Frank E. Wagenaar. Al. of so
u street NV. All were treated by
private physicians at the scene.
Wagenaar's automobile was pushed
into four parked cars. damaging
each slightly. ,.-z
HoySng Chief Injured.
Ralph o. Tuten. ~, director of
defens: housing in Greenville. S. c.,
was In . serious condition at Cas-
ualty Hcspi'a. with a possible skull
fracture after being injured by a
streetcar yesterday as he stepped
from . lvad ng platform at New
Jersey averue and B street Sc. He
had juss left the ONCE of Represent
ative Byron, Democrat, of South
Carolina. Police said Harry B. Nor
gan, ~. Of the 1900 block of North
Capitol street was operating the
streetcar.
Miss Erna Egan, 80. of 1707 Rhode
Island avenue NV. was being treat
ed for cuts in Georgetown Hospital
after being struck by a streetcar at
Connecticu; snd Rhode Island ave-
nues rs she stepped from a loading
platform. Cecil S. Palmer, Is, of
274 East Capitol street, was listed as
operator Of the car.
A third person, 2-year -old william
Farmer, colored, of 1926 Ninth street
NV, was struck by streetcar yes
terdAy at Seventh and P streets NV.
They boys injuries were treated at
the scene by private physician,
police said.
The series OF accidents occurred
shortly after the District Advisory
Trafi1c Commission and Traffic Di-
rector William A. Van Duzer yes
terday announced plans for an in
tensive traffic safety drive here, with
emphasis on individual carefulness
to be shifted from drivers to pedes-
TRANS.
Mrs. Richard .. Blowers. rs, of
6partansburg, S. c., received possible
fractured ribs when a car In which
she was riding collided with an
other today at Glebe road and Lee
boulevard. Arlington. police reported
A car operated by Capt. Walter
8. Guthman. IS, of North Wayne
street. had stopped on Lee boule-
ward for a traffic light, police said,
when an approaching car driven
by Mr.. Blowers, II. slid on the wet
pavement into the rear OF the hrst