Evening star., 1946-08-05
Streetcar Kills
Man, Districts
38th Fatality
Victim Identified
As Harry Medley,
A PIosterer

A man identified as Harry Med
ley, about IS, of the 14O0 block of
Young street Sc, was fatally in
jured last night when struck by a
streetcar as he attempted to cross
Pennsylvania avenue at Thirteenth
street Sc. police reported.
The dead man, 38th person killed
in District traffic this year, lay un-
identified in the District morgue for
more than 10 hours after his death
before police located M. r. Stevens,
business agent for the Plasterer's
Union, who made the Identification
early today. Mr.. Stevens said Mr.
Medley was a plasterer but was un-
able to give any information about
the victims's relatives.
Residents of the neighborhood
told police they knew the man only
as "Knocky.' He was pronounced
dead at Casualty Hospital shortly
after the accident occurred. Police
released the operator of the street.
car, Paul J. Carnell, 80, of AIT Third
street NV, in custody of the Capt.
tai Transit Co.
Held in Traffic Death.
A coroner's jury today held Cur
mel F.. Thompson, 40, colored, of the
4800 block of Seventeenth street
NV, responsible in the traffic death
last week Of William M. Day, &C.
year-old congressional reporter. and
ordered the defendant held for Mu-
nlcipal Court action under the Neg
ligent Homicide Act.
Police testified that Mr.. Day was
struck by the defendants automo-
bile in a crosswalk at Fourteenth
and Oak streets NV. The accident
July 27 and Mr.. Day. who
lived at $500 Fourteenth street NV,
died at Emergency Hospital five
days later.
Seven other Washingtonians were
injured in four accidents yesterday,
two of which involved drivers who
police said fell asleep at the wheel
Bernice Green, colored. %, of 700
block of Howard road Sc, a pas
senger in the taxicab of Joseph c..
Henderson, colored, 26, of 1912
Eleventh street NV, was injured,
police reported, when the cab COL
lided with a parked bus at Sheriff
road and Division avenue NE. The
woman was admitted to Casualty
Hospital for observation with hip
and back injuries.
Driver Fell Asleep.
Police said the cab driver fell
asleep while driving and charged
him with failing to give full time
and attention to driving.
Similar charges were filed against
another taxicab driver, Calvin But
Ter, colored, 80. of the HOO block of
Twenty-Second street NV, police
said, after he dozed off at the wheel,
swerved to the wrong side of the
road and colIided with q truck in
tie first block Of M street SW. He
Was admitted to Casualty Hospital
with possible broken ribs, police said.
The truck driver, Joseph D. Miles,
colored, %, of the 1900 block Emer-
son street NE, was not injured.
A 16-year-old boy who rode a BIZ
cycle through a red light, pedaled
down the wrong side of the street
and finally collided with an auto
mobile at Eighth street and Mt.
Vernon place NV. will be charged
with reckless driving, police said. He
was treated for a sprained wrist and
contusions at Freedmen's Hospital,
and will be turned over to the Juv-
emile Bureau for further investiga-
ton.
Three Hurt in Collision.
Two women and a man were in
jured slightly in a collision involving
a taxicab and an automobile at
Thirteenth and Harvard streets
NV, police said, in which the auto
mobile was overturned. The injured
are: Bob Hart. IT, of the 1900 block
of Decatur street N. W.; Jacqueline
Terry, 25, of the 230O block of Cham
plain street NV, both passengers
in the cab, and Francis Wilson, %
of the 1900 block of Irving street
NV, passenger in the automobile.
Police said the cab driver, Hilton
M. Coleman, colored, 20, of the 900
block of r street NV, and the other
driver, Marcy j. Worthington, go of
the l700 block of West Virginia ave-
nue. NE. were charged with colliding.
Robert Speaks, 13, Woodbridge,
Va, was treated for serious head
injuries at Alexandria Hospital
yesterday after being struck by an
automobile as he rode bicycle
near his home. His condition was
reported by the hospital to be i'm
proved today. State police at the
Alexandria substantion said the
trooper who handled the case had
not made report of the name of
the driver this morning.