Evening star., 1942-09-05

District traffic fatalities for 1942
stood at 70 today, following the
death last night of Joseph A. Car
ter, SIS, cab driver, of rs Glenn
street, Suitland. Md, and the toll
in nearby Virginia was increased by
two.
Robert It. Price. colored, 100
block of Seventeenth street S., Ar
lington, was found dead, probably
the victim of a hit-run motorist.
in the 1000 block of South Glebe
road at IL o'clock last night, police
reported.
In a second Virginia automobile
accident near Dumfries on the
Washington Richmond highway Is
miles south of Alexandria this
morning. Doris Katherine ODell,
about %, of Franklinville, IN, j.,
was killed, and her companion,
David Stevenson, about the same
age and of Newfeld, N. j., was
injured.
Police said their car ran of
straight stretch of road and trav-
eled 200 feet before crashing into a
tree. The car was so badly demol-
ished that Miss ODells body could
not be removed until wrecking crews
pulled the car apart with cables
from a wrecker.
Suffers Broken Arm, Leg.
Miss ODell's body was taken to
the r. S. Hall Funeral Home at
Occoquan, and Mr.. Stevenson was
taken to Alexandria Hospital with
broken right leg and right arm.
Mr.. Carter was killed when his cab
was in collision with Capital
Transit Co. bus at Canal street and
Delaware avenue SW last night.
Three other persons were injured.
Mr.. Carter was pronounced dead on
arrival at Providence Hospital at
7:50 pm.
| Police reported the accident oc-
CURED at the intersection of the
east driveway at Canal and Della
ware streets, with the cab travelling
north on Delaware and the bus east
on Canal
Among the three injured was Alice
Jennings, 30, of 531 Fifth street Sc,
one OF five passengers in the bus.
She sustained a fractured rib and
was treated and released from
Providence Hospital One of the
two occupants of the cab, Rufus
Nimmons, 21, student at Johns Hop
klns University. Baltimore, was con-
fined to Providence Hospital with
possible pelvic fracture, and Jesse
Wooten, 81, of Memphis. Tenn, the
second occupant, was treated for
lacerations of the chin and dis
missed.
Driver of the bus, police said, was
William w. Lofts, 33, of 1850 D
street Sc, who has had a year and
halls experience driving a bus.
He is being held pending action by
the coroner.
Three Others Injured.
In three other District accidents
yesterday, a 23-year-old colored man
suffered a brain conclusion and
face lacerations and is at Casualty
Hospital; a 42-year-old woman was
injured when she walked into the
side of an automobile, police said,
and an automobile passenger was
treated at st. Elizabeth's Hospital
for injuries sustained when the car
IN which he was riding and truck
collided.
| In the first case, James j. Black.
%, colored, of 1408 Florida avenue
| NV, was struck by a streetcar in
the 1900 block of Fourteenth street
N.Ws police said. The streetcar
was operated by Lewis C. Porter,
81, of 1907 Third street NV, police
reported.
Helen White, AZ, of 1853 Harvard
street NV. was injured when she
walked into the side of an automo-
bile at Fourteenth and L streets
NV. The, car, police said, was
driven by Grace w. Lanier. 28, of
800 North Piedmont, Arlington.
A collision involving a truck oper-
ated by Louis C. Hail. IS, colored, of
1913 Twenty-second street NV. and
an automobile operated by Kenneth
w. McLoad, 25, of 2237 S street
NV. injured Alvin T. Jacques. 30.
OF 601 Yuma street Sc. MIR. JACQUES
was riding with Mr.. McLoad. police
reported. The accident occurred at
Atlantic street and Livingston
road Sc. :