Evening star., 1945-11-10
Streetcar Kills Man.;
Fifth Traffic Fatality
Within "a Hours

A man in his SOS, tentatively
Identified by police as George Baxter
Thomas, World War veteran OF
no known address, was fatally in
jured by a streetcar on Seventh
street near Constitution avenue
NV, shortly before noon today,
bringing to five the total of traffic
deaths in the Washingto narea in
less than "a hours.
The man, according to police,
was one of two men who attempted
to cross Seventh street and was
struck by a northbound streetcar
just north of Madison drive. His
body was dragged about 40 feet. The
name was given to police by the dead
mans companion.
Motorman of the streetcar, &C
cording to police, was Charles C.
Goldsborough, At, of the 600 block
of K street SW. Police said the
man attempted to cross the street
outside of a crossWalk.
Walter Williams, At, colored, 1928
o street NV, died at Freedmen S
Hospital shortly after midnight a
few hours after he was struck by a
streetcar as he stepped from a
loading platform at Seventh and
P streets NV.
A second colored man, about SC
and as yet unidentified, was pro-
nounced dead on arrival at Freed
mems Hospital early this morning
after being struck, according to po-
lice, by a Thompson Dairy truck in
the 500 block of Florida avenue NV
One Driver Held.
Motorman Everett Ruby, 40, oil
423 Emerson street NV, whose We
hicle struck the first man. was re-
leased in the custody of Capital
Transit attorneys. pending his ap-
pearance at coroner's inquest. Carl
Schinner, 30, of 4S09 Blackfoot road
Berwyn, Md, driver of the milk
truck, was held to await the cor
oner's decision.
The two deaths raised the Dis
trict's traffic toll for 1945 to rs.
There were II deaths at this time
last year. Total traffic deaths in the
District last year were 88.
Four-year-old Wesley Smith, Lam
ham, Md, was killed yesterday when
he fell from his fathers moving
automobile on Landover road near
the entrance to the Prince Georges
General Hospital
Prince Georges County police said
the father, James Smith, told them
the boy was in the rear of the car
and opened the door and fell out.
He was rushed to the Prince Georges
Hospital. where he died soon after
ward.
DR.. James I. Boyd, deputy county
medical examiner, issued GER
tificate of accidental death.
Three Cars in Crash.
Carlton Lowe, colored, As, Of the
HOO block of Browning place NE,
was killed early today when the car
in which he was riding collided
with two other cars on the Balti-
more boulevard near Muirkirk, ac-
cording to Prince Georges County
police.
Police said the driver of the car,
John Scott, 80, of the 900 block of
G. street S.W., suffered head in
juries. He was taken to Freed
mems Hospital. Occupants of the
other two cars escaped injury, police
said.
The Berwyn Heights Volunteer
Fire Department was forced to use
acetylene torches to extricate Mr.
Loew's body from the wreckage
The Branchville Rescue Squad also
went to the scene.
A sixth person killed in traffic ac-
cidents, although not in the District
area, was Bernice j. Zerfoss, Navy
nurse, of Friedens, Pa. Her car
crashed into parked car on Route
40 about Is miles west of Hagers-
town, Md, last night and she was
killed instantly. Pharmacists Mate
Harold D. Davis of Midland, Md,
who was in the car, received internal
injuries. Both are stationed in
Washington, according to Deputy
Sheriff Clever REYNOLDS.