Evening star., 1944-02-12
-Four Seriously Hurt,
0Accidents Reported
On Ice-GIazed Streets

/ wi pClooilo Weie injured Serl-
ously in series of more than so
traffic accidents that followed in the
wake OF yesterdays snow and freez-
ing rain. Property damage was
slight, consisting mostly of crumpled
tenders and broken bumpers as
drivers reduced operating speeds.
Park police reported Is accidents
on Memorial Bridge last night, with
one person seriously hurt, and
Metropolitan police recorded a
similar number on the Fourteenth
street Highway Bridge with no
serious casualties.
Four patrol cars Of the Accident
Investigation Unit on duty between
pm. yesterday and midnight were
swamped with calls and forced to
call on precinct scout cars for help.
Only two AIU cars were in service
between midnight and 8 am. today
and they, too, were overtaXed.
Mt. Pleasant Line Jammed.
While buses and streetcars op-
Grated on nearly normal schedules
throughout most of the city, seri-
Gus tie-up resulted on the Mount
Pleasant streetcar line on Columbia
road near Ontario road NV, when
section Of the conductor rail short
circuited and burned out.
Capital Transit officials immedi-
ately dispatched is buses to the
scene to get passengers to Connecti-
cut avenue and S street NV, and
all available tWo-man cars were
pressed into service on the line as
far as that point. A cut-back switch
at the junction sent the cars back
downtown, while buses continued to
haul passengers between that point
and the Mount Pleasant terminal.
| Cars at the upper end of the line,
however, were running shortly after
IL o'clock. The mishap put numer-
GUS one-man cars out of service.
Woman Hurt in Bridge Crash.
Ester Rice, SO, of 5000 Connecticut
avenue NV, received a fractured
leg last night when the auto in
which she was a passenger was in
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Bridge. She was admitted to Ener-
gency Hospital.
Bessie Bayly, IS, of 1922 Column
bia road NV, was struck by an
auto operated by Ernest M. Hick
A, of 1902 Thirty street
NV, in the 1900 block of Irving
street NV, police reported. She
was admitted to Emergency Hos
pital where she was said to have q
fractured arm and hip.
Paul j. Williams, colored. 35, OF
2246 Twelfth place NV, was ad-
mitted to Emergency Hospital with
critical head injuries last night after
being struck by cab which police
said was operated by Percy Houston
colored, %, of 1880 Riggs street NV
The accident occurred at Eleventh
street and Florida avenue NV.
John M. Johnson, 26, of Berwyn
Md, received possible fractured
skull when the car he was operating
skidded into the rear of another at
Kenilworth avenue and Lane place
NE. He was admitted to Gallinger
Hospital.
Two WAVES Injured.
Edna M. Loveridge, 33, of 1918
Riggs street NV. received a lacer-
ated scalp and conclusion in an &C
cident in the 5000 block of Sixteenth
street NV. Police, who said it was
the only serious accident reported
between midnight and $3.50 am. to-
day, said she was a passenger in a
car with Louis r. Rupp, 80, of 4Os
NeWcombe street Sc. Several cars
were involved, police said.
Two WAVES quartered at the
West Potomac Park Barracks, Mary
A. Stamas, 81, and Elizabeth O'Con-
nor, 81, were injured when the Navy
car in which they were riding was
in an accident with Capital Tran
sit bus at First street and Inde-
pendence avenue SW. Miss Stamas
was treated at the Naval Dispensary
for lacerations of the tongue and
mouth and shock. Her companion
received only abrasions.
Two w., B. g. A. buses were in
volved in separate accidents on
Highway Bridge last night, one COL
liding with an auto and the other
crashing into the iron gate that
Is swung across the bridge to halt
vehicular traffic when the draw is
to be opened. The draw was not
open when the bus, operated by ST.
Elmo Kerns, %, of 1918 South
Twenty-eighth street, Arlington, hit
the gate, police said.
Seaman Injured as Cars Pileup.
In multiple crash on Benning
Bridge last night, Seaman Armand
r. Coe, %, stationed at the Patuxant
Naval Air Base, suffered back in
juries when the car he was oper-
ating skidded into another. Four
cars piled up in this crash. Francis
L. Rice, II, Of Forest Heights, Md,
received minor wrist injuries when