Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Traffic Toll for 1913
Raised 10 7 by Death
OF Two Pedestrians

OF Two Pedestrians
The Districts 1913 traffic toll
stood at Z today after the deaths
yesterday of two pedestrians in
jured in accidents Friday and Sat-
urday.
The victims were:>
Miss Virginia M. Woodward, 80,
Of 8403 Sixteenth street, Silver
Spring, Md, a former Treasury De-
partment stenographer.
Robert H. Leake, SO, of 1913 Ames
street NE, floor layer.
Another Washington man, Walter
Waldemar Foss, 80, of 26 Buchanan
street NE, Government plumber.
was killed Saturday night near Bal
timore.
Coroner A. Magwder Macdonald
scheduled inquests today in the two
District deaths.
Mr.. Leake suffered a fractured
skull Saturday when, according to-
police, he walked into the side of
an automobile at Blaine street and
Minnesota avenue NE. He died
yesterday at Casualty Hospital.
Russell E. Knodle, 80, Of $40 Ridge
road Sc, was driving the car, police
said.
Woman Was Honor Student.
Miss Woodward received internal
injuries Friday night when she
struck a car driven by H. Willis
Tobler, 4S, of 1916 Carey lane, Silver
Spring, at Sixteenth and Hemlock
streets NV, police said.
Miss Woodward came to Wash
ington in 1929 from Rochester, N. Y.
An honor student, she graduated
from Sacred Heart Academy in 1885,
and worked several years in the
Treasury Department. Survivors in
clude her mother, Mrs Ida M. Wood
ward of Silver Spring; a brother,
T/Sergt. John D. Woodward of Eglin
Field, Fla, and a sister, Mrs. T. H.
Clifton, of Washington.
Mr.. Leake Is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mamie Leake; a sister, Mrs.
Larry Bruce, of Landoyer, Md; four
brothers, Harold and Linwood Of
Gordonsville, Va; Ebert Of Iowa,
and Alonzo of the Navy; his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fulton Leake, of Cor
louisville, and two step-daughters,
Mrs. Simon Mcdaniel, of Orange,
Va, and Mrs. Virgil Speaks, Of
Detroit.
Brother Taken to Hospital.
Mr.. Foss was killed in an accident
on the Baltimore pike about miles
from Baltimore. He was returning
from a business trip there. His
brother, John Charles Foss, who was
with him in the car, was taken to
St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore.
Mr.. Foss was born and educated
in Chicago and came to Washington
seven years ago. In World War II
he was a seaman first class in the
Navy and served overseas. He had
been bus operator for the Capital
Transit Co. and a maintenance man
for q real estate business here before
he became a plumber for the Federal
Government.
Besides his brother, who also lives
at 26 Buchanan street NE, he Is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Beulah
M. Foss; three small children, James
L., Walter o. and Margie Jean Foss;
his mother, Mrs. Bessie E. FosS, all
of the Buchanan street address, and
five sisters and two other brothers
in Chicago.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Wednesday at Chambers
funeral home, SIT Eleventh street
Sc. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
Boy Hurt While Shedding.
Ten-year-old Robert E. Parker,
colored, of $500 Warder street NV,
was injured in a shedding accident
Yesterday and his condition was re-
ported undetermined at Freedmen's
Hospital.
Police said the boy struck an au-
tomobile when he rolled from his
sled in an attempt to avoid col
lision in the 400 block of Lamont
street NV. He suffered conclusion
and a possible back injury. Police
listed the auto driver as George D.
Diggs, 40, colored, of 1901 Warder
street NV.
Another shedding accident victim,
John Harris, IL, of 1910 Olive street
NE. was reported in fair condition
at Casualty Hospital with cuts and
bruises about the face and head.
Police said his sled struck the left
rear wheel of car driven by Robert
E. Ballard, 80, of 4345 Lily Pond
drive NE, at Olive and Polk streets
NE.
Five street car passengers and
two truck riders were shaken up
but refused medical attention in a
collision yesterday at Florida ave-
nue. and o street NE, of street
car and truck which was being