Evening star., 1948-11-20

police said was driven by Eugene {
Pounds, 16. Seat Pleasant. He wa
charged with reckless driving an
released under $500 bond pending
hearing December in Hyattsville
Mrs. Flick was killed by the rea
end of a tractor trailer which jack
knitted when the driver Swerved i
an effort to avoid her and Mr.!
Josephine Hale, 81, of 210 North Pit
street, Alexandria. They were walk
ing through a heavy fog on No.
highway 6 miles south of Alex
andria.
Man Killed Near Oxon Hill.
Mrs. Hale suffered fracture
wrist and other injuries. The drive
was George Harrell, 81, of NorfolK
Va, police said.
The unidentified colored man wa
killed in the $500 block of St. Barna
bas road, near Oxon Hill, Md, short
ly after 6 pm. last night. Polio
said the driver, Arthur j. Ruhig, 3t
of Clinton, Md, faced technica
C1ldl &c VI az a llodl lllt
Friday in Marlboro Police Court.
Newton Randolph, 81, Berwyr
suffered a possible conclusion AM
a fractured ankle when he wa
struck yesterday afternoon by tw'
automobiles as he was crossing tn
Baltimore boulevard near his home
Police said Mr.. Randolph was hi
first by southbound car driven b,
David A. Dodson, %, Brentwood
and thrown into the path of I
northbound car driven by Fredericl
Dahlmann, 48, Baltimore.
Dahlmann, according to police
failed to stop and was picked III
about a half hour later by Mary
land State Police at Waterloo.
Held in S1,1o0 Bond.
Dahlmann was charged with reck
less driving and leaving the seem
of an accident. He was released
under s1,1O0 bond, pending a hear
ing November 20 in Hyattsville Pc
lice Court. Dodson was charged
with reckless driving and was re
leased on his personal bond pendlrj
q hearing at the same time.
In the District, 1t. William LlV
erman, head of the police acciden
investigation unit, said the 24-hou
period beginning at am. yester'
day was one of the worst of thu
year for traffic accidents.
Some 55 accidents were reported
TO police, who attributed many o
them to wet, slippery streets ane
fallen leaves.
Pedestrians injured by automobile!
included:
Wilson Burdette, 36, of 1898 Thir'
ty-seventh place, Hyattsville, Dis
trirt fireman, strurk at Pennsyl'
vania avenue and Fourteenth stree
NV, head cuts and possible shoul'
der fracture.
Claude Carithers, 26, colored, O.
GIT Tenth street NE, struck a
Bladensburg road and H street NE
head injuries and possible broker
leg.
Virgie Richards, 40, colored, o
FOB Rhode Island avenue NV
struck at Eighth and E streets NE
possible leg fracture, dislocated lef
hip
Edward E. Cassidy, As, of 520l
street Sc, and his wife, Mrs. More;
F. Cassidy, "a, struck at Thirty
seventh street and Alabama avenu
Sc. Mr.. Cassidy suffered head in
juries and possible fractured ankle
his wife, cuts and bruises, fractured
lower right leg. The driver, listet
by police as Charles H. Conway, %
of the 900 block of Church street
Alexandria, was charged with fail
ure to yield right of way to pedes
TRAN.
Two Bus Accidents.
The slippery paving was blamed
for two accidents only half blocl
apart within 80 minutes yesterday
afternoon, both involving Capita
Transit buses.
Three persons were injured, nom
seriously.
A transit company repair trucl
negotiating the steep hill in thu
100 block of Irving street NV
skidded, sideswiped Capital Tran
sit bus coming up the hill, leapet
the curbing, knocked down ligh
pole and then careened back int
the street, where it sideswiped
milk truck and an oil truck.
No one was injured.
Earlier, at Eighteenth and Irvinl
streets NV, Robert H. McCracker
%, of 3035 Fifteenth street NV,
clerk at the Bureau of Standards
was injured when his car was de
molished in a collision with anothe
Capital Transit bus. He suffere,
cuts and bruises and was taken t
Emergency Hospital.
Woman Thrown From Car.
In an accident last night Williar
j. Terry, 80, of 1923 Seventeenth
street NV, told police his wifi
was thrown to the sidewalk an
injured when a car forced his dunn
truck to the curb with an impac
that caused the right front door t
come open.
The injured woman, in undeter
mined condition at Emergency Hos
pital, is Mrs. Lena Terry, AZ, VIII
suffered a compound fracture of tn
lower right leg.
Charles A. Henry, 30, colored, {
4433 Hayes street NE, was take
to Casualty Hospital with head ir
juries after an accident yesterda
afternoon in the 200 block of Ter
nessee avenue NE.
An automobile driven by M
Henry collided with a truck opel
ated by Newman P. Lindsay, IS,
1904 Meigs place NE. police sal
Mrs. Annie P. Fraser, 10, of 81
4 street NE, was taken to Casual
Hospital with head injuries ar
possible rib fractures after she W;
struck at Sixth and K streets N.
Police said car driven by Gal
M. Dexter, %, of the first block
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