Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-22
Silver Spring Man +
Killed When Auto
.CoIIides With Truck

| EICQ T.. buSIi, o-ySdI -Olu DTlCk-
layer, 309 Underwood avenue, Sill
yer Spring, was killed yesterday
when his car collided with loaded
gravel truck which police said had
swerved to avoid striking another
automobile on the Colesville road
near Ashton. Md.
Police said Robert T. Awkward.
%, Clarksville, Md, driver of the
truck, which overturned as a result
OF the crash, was treated at Mont
gomery County General Hospital
for cuts and bruises. He was released
by police under $1,000 bond on a
manslaughter charge pending a
hearing on Tuesday in Silver Spring
Police Court.
Police quoted the truck driver as
saying his northbound vehicle had
swerved to avoid striking a car
which had made a right turn in
front of him. The truck then COL
lided with Mr.. Bush's car, which
was going south. police said.
Lived in Silver Spring.
/ A native of East Stroudsburg, Pa,
Mr.. Bush had lived in Silver Spring
for the last six years. Besides his
widow, Mrs. Sylvia Bush, he is sur
vived by two sons, Donald of the
I Underwood avenue address and Ell
wood, East Stroudsburg; two daugh-
tiers, Marjorie, also of Silver Spring
and Mrs. Evelyn Otto, Glen Mills,
Pa; three brothers, Frank E., Ar
thur and George, and two sisters,
Mrs. Catherine Compton and Mrs.
Bertha Hallett, al of East Strouds-
burg.
Four children were injured In
other accidents here yesterday. one
of them in a collision between two
bicycles.
She was Henrietta Heffiefinger, II.
OF 214 c street NV. Police said she
Tell off her bicycle after it collided
with one ridden by an 8-year-old
companion at Second street and
Constitution avenue NV. She was
removed to Casualty Hospital and
her condition is good today.
Boy Of Five Injured.
Thomas K. Parker. 5, of 442 Jeffer-
son street NV, suffered head and
lace cuts and possible skull frac-
ture When struck by an automobile
late yesterday after, police said. he
ran from the sidewalk into the
street in the $500 block Fourth
street NV. His condition today is
good at Walter Reed Hospital. The
driver of the car was Fred Rosen-
berg, %, of 3401 Sherman avenue
NV, according to police.
Joseph E. Wade, 5, of 902 D street
S.W, also suffered cuts and bruises
when struck by an automobile after
running from the sidewalk into the
roadway of the underpass at Mary
land avenue and D street S.W..
police said. He was treated at
PROVIDENCE Hospital. Leonard Ste
Vens, &c. colored, 400 block Ninth
street S.W., was listed as the driver
of the car.
In the fourth accident involving
children, Robert Schoenbauer, IL, of
627 I street S.W., was riding a
bicycle when it collided with a car
at Seventh and streets S.W., which
police said was driven by Richard
Flippen, %, of 237 Twelfth street
Sc. The boy was treated for cuts
and bruises at Emergency Hospital.
% Speeders Arrested.
Emile Persun, 25, of the 5000 block
of Flower avenue, Silver Spring, Md,
yesterday was charged with failing
to yield the right of way after a
collision at Twenty eighth and @
streets NV, with a car driven bv
Mills Kitchen, 81, of 1000 Cathedral
avenue NV. police said. Mr..
! Kitchen suffered minor injuries and
refused treatment.
| In the last "a hours, police re-
ported arrest of % speeders, IL of
them clicked at speeds exceeding
80 miles per hour. Since traffic off,
Gals ruled that long term permit
suspensions will be the penalty for
motorists convicted of driving faster
than 80 m.p.h., 514 speeders have
been arrested, 252 of them charged
with exceeding 80 mn h