Evening star., 1945-01-01
Clear, Cold Weather
Due Tonight in Wake
OF Days Warm Rain
Fog Grounds Planes,
Slows Auto Traffic;
Several Hurt in Accidents

New Year Day brought Washing
ton warm rain, which had melted
most of the snow and ice during the
night. but the Weather Bureau
promised clearing and much colder
weather tonight with high winds.
Several persons were injured in
traffic and shedding accidents over
the week end. Despite the warm
weather, many rural roads still were
ice-coated this morning.
Six persons had remarkable es-
cape from serious injury when their
automobile skidded and plunged OF
an embankment at the end of the
bridge at Monroe avenue and River
road, Alexandria, early today. The
car slid about 80 feet down the
grade, but the five passengers were
hurt only slightly and the driver
was uninjured The car was badly
smashed.
Police listed the driver of the
auto, who was uninjured, as 1t.
Max Geise, 49, of Fort Belvoir. The
injured, none of whom required
hospital attention, were listed as
1t. Robert Washburn, %, and 1t.
John j. Stubber, 81, both of Fort
Belvoir, and Miss Dorothy Lewing-
ton, 81, Washington; Miss Vivian
Unger, a. of the 5000 block Of
Dent place NV. and Miss Eleanor
Artley, "a, of the 1900 block of
North Longfellow street, Arlington.
The heavy fog which accompanied
drizzle and moderating tempera-
lures New Years eve kept highway
traffic at snail's pace and ground
ed all planes at the National Air.
port. The planes were beginning to
move out on their runs this morn
ing, however, as the ceiling lifted.
though some incoming planes were
delayed by heavy weather along
their routes.
Temperature Rises to s..
The mercury stayed above freezing
all night. The lowest was 38 degrees
at 2 am. BY am. the temperature
had risen to So. A low of 81 was pre-
dicted for tonight.
i Four persons were injured when
two taxicabs collided last night at
Delaware avenue and D street NE.
Dorothy Norman and Patricia L,
Bennett, both of 120 C street NE,
passengers in one of the cabs, were
/. taken to Casualty Hospital, Miss
Norman was released, while Miss
Bennett was admitted for observa-
ton. Two persons in the other cab,
Charles Lee. colored, of 1914 Rose
dale street N E., and John A. Ashton,
colored, of 219 I street S.W., were
. treated for cuts and bruises.
4 Mrs. Frank L. Ball, 4527 North
Seventeenth street, Arlington, was
in Arlington Hospital today with a
broken vertebra inflicted when she
fell from slippery back steps of her
home yesterday. Her husband, q
former Virginia State Senator, broke
his arm when he slipped on an icy
sidewalk Christmas eve
A fractured left leg was suffered
by Geraldine Alexander, Is, of 381l
Suitland road Sc, when a sled in
which she and companion were
coasting ran into parked car. The
other girl, Lucia Hitaffer, Is, of
l
a shoulder injury. They were taken
to Casualty Hospital.
Other Shedding Injuries.
Two colored children, Evelyn Lee,
l8, Of 1913 Whittingham place NE,
> and Paul Hanbury, 16, of 1923 Min
nesota street NE. were hurt Sc
verely when their sled collided with
an automobile at Forty-fourth and
Gault streets NE. They were
treated at Casualty.
Edwin G. Wallis of 4445 Thirty
fourth street, South Harrington. Ar
lington, Va. was taken to Gallinger
Hospital with injuries suffered when
E he was thrown from his automobile
in collision at Potomac street and
Q Pennsylvania avenue Sc His wife
! Mae, who was driving, escaped an
= jury. They told police the other
;. car did not stop for the accident.