Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-01
Traffic Mishaps
In Mary|andK Kill
7, Injure Seven
Six-Cor Pileup FotoI
To Army Corporal;
Bus Kills Pedestrian

Two persons were killed and seven
injured in traffic accidents in nearby
Maryland yesterday and early to-
day, while the District had no traf-
fic fatalities and few serious acci-
dents. Only eight were reported in
jured here.
Army Corpl Albert D. Smith, 81,
Forest Hills, N. Y, died in st.
Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, of a
skull fracture received yesterday In
a six-car collision on Baltimore
boulevard, near Waterloo.
injured passengers in the car
driven by Corpl. Smith were Leon
ard Gizelba, %, soldier, of Anlster-
dam, N. Y, who suffered cuts and
bruises; Irene MacDougall, 80, of SOB
Stuart avenue, Essex, Md, both legs
broken and possible skull fracture:
and Robert Mobley, 10, merchant
seaman of Brooklyn, deep scalp
laceration. -
Bethesda Family Injured.
Others injured were Earl Mat
lock, 26, of 600 Grosvenor lanes
Bethesda, Md, driver of one car,
possible shoulder fracture; his wife,
Hannah, %, broken leg; their son,
Earl, jr., % months, possible in
ternal injuries, and James Begley,
also of 600 Grosvenor lane, severe
head cuts and possible skull frac-
tTe.
All of the injured were in two Of
the six cars, State police said. I'm
injured occupants of the other cars
were: Leroy Penticoff, 27, 1887 Ad-
ans street, Washington; James X.
White, 81, Baltimore; Randolph So
per, 5l5l Suitland road, Suitland,
Md, and Legrand Murrell, 81, COL
ored, of Steelton, Pa.
Two of the vehicles were small
trucks. Police said that traffic was
tied up for 20 minutes.
In another accident William E.
Charleton, jr., %, of RID /, An
napolis, was struck and killed BY
a Greyhound bus while walking
near his home. The bus was OPP
Grated by James T. Jenkins Of
winchester, va.
The Maryland traffic toll was in
creased last night when Clarence
Bellows, AZ. colored, of 4106 Webster
street, Brentwood, Md, died at Cas-
ualty hospital from injuries received
In an automobile accident October 8
In the $500 block Of Rhode Island
avenue, Brentwood.
D. C. Toll Above 1914.
The Districts traffic fatality toll
was So for 1945,. review of auto
mobile and pedestrian accident rec
ords at police headquarters showed
today. The 1914 total was SO deaths.
Police reported IT of the l945
fatalities were pedestrians as COM
tpared with. 70 pedestrian deaths
recorded nis44. twenty-five deaths
involved streetcars and four were
the result Of bus accidents, the
department reported.
| OF the s6 traffic victims, 60 were
men. More traffic on the strets,
following the end of the war and
gasoline rationing, helped to in
crease the number of traffic acct
4 dents, police officials said.
Our main problem is the pedes-
TRAN" Inspector Arthur Miller.
head Of the Traffic Division. de-
clared. He said the percentage of
pedestrian traffic fatalities here ex-
ceeds that in other metropolitan
cities by more than 10 per cent.
THE only way We can lower the
traffic death rate effectively" he
said, lis for pedestrians and vehicle
operators to practice consideration
and courtesy toward the other fell
low"
| Woman Loses Leg.
Washington police said Geraldine
Speight, Is, colored, of 1888 street
NE, was critically injured early
today when she and a companion
were struck by an automobile while
crossing Fourteenth street near 7
street NV. Her leg was so badly
mangled that physicians were
forced to amputate it, police re-
ported. Her companion, Nathan
Nixon, n, colored, of 758 Morton
street NV, was treated for lacera-
lions at Emergency Hospital and
later released.
Police listed Philip G. Mosby, "a
colored, of 1880 Fourteenth street
NV, as driver of the automobile
which hit the pair.
\ Five passengers in a car driver
by James E. Grissett, 474 E street
S.W., were slightly injured earl,
today when it crashed into tree il
the 500 block of G street S.W., polio,
said. The injured were treated a
local hospitals and later released.
William G. Washington, 81, col.
ored, of 1920 Thirteenth street NV
was reported in fair condition a
Freedman's Hospital today from
head injuries received when he wa.
struck by an automobile late yes.
terday at Georgia avenue and Nor.
, ton street NV. Police said Walter
c. Hulburt, IS, of 610 MCNEIL road
Silver Spring, Md, was the operator
of the allto