Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-01
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
TUESDAY, JANUARY l, 1916.
Traffic Mishdps
In Maryland Kill.
7, Injure Seven
Six-Cor PiIeup 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, die1 in St.
Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, of a
skull fracture received in a six-car
collision on Baltimore boulevard,
near Waterloo, yesterday.
Injured passengers in the car
driven by Corpl. Smith were Leon
ard Gizelba, %, soldier, of Amster-
dam, NJ 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
liberation.
Bethesda Family Injured.
Others injured were Earl Mat
lock, rs, of 600 Grosvenor lane,
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-
ture.
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, n, 1887 Adj
ans street. Washington; James K.
White, 81, Baltimore; Randolph So
per, 515l Suitland road, Suitland,
Md, and Legrand Murrell, q, coll
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 op-
Grated by James T. Jenkins Of
Winchester, Va.
d. c. Toll Above 1914.
The Districts traffic fatality toll
was So for 1945, a review of auto
mobile and pedestrian accident rec
ords at police headquarters showed
today. The 1914 total was SO deaths.
Police reported II of the 1945
fatalities were pedestrians as COM
pared with 70 pedestrian deaths
recorded in 1914. Twenty-Five deaths
involved streetcars and -four were
the result of bus accidents, the
department reported.
OF the So traffic victims, 50 were
men. More traffic on the STREETS,
following the end of the war and
gasoline rationing, helped to in
crease the number of traffic acct
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, sis 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 I street
NE, was critically injured early
today when she and a companion
were struck by an automobile while
crossing Fourteenth street near T
street NV. Her leg was so badly
mangled that physicians were
forced to amputate it, police re-
ported. Her companion, Nathan
Nixon, q, colored, Of 758 Morton
street NV, was treated for lacera-
tons 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 driven
by James E. Grissett, 474 E street
S.W,, were slightly injured early
today when it crashed into a tree in
the 500 block of G street S.W., police
said. The injured were treated at
local hospitals and later released.
William c. Washington, 81, COL
ored, of 2220 Thirteenth street NV
was reported in fair condition al
Freedman's Hospital today from
head injuries received when he was
struck by an automobile late yes
terday at Georgia avenue and Nor.
ton street NV. Police said Walter
c. Hulburt, IS, of $40 McNeill road
Silver Spring, Md, was the operator
of the auto.