Evening star., 1950-01-02
Traffic Injuries
Over Holidays
Fatal 10 ; Men
Virginion Is Listed
As First Accident
Victim of New Year.


juries suffered in Washington
area traffic accidents during the
Christmas-New Year holidays.
Five persons were injured in
accidents yesterday and early to-
day.
The first reported 1850 fatality
for the area was that of Earle r.
Courtney, %, of Route S, Lin
colnia, Va, whose automobile
skidded 202 feet into a tree near
the Masonic Temple, Alexandria
He died yesterday shortly after
midnight.
Samuel A. Mellott. 18, of Scaggs-
vile, Md, was the victim of an
automobile collision at lis am.
yesterday on the Sandy Spring
road west of Laurel.
Virgil E. Manuel, Al, of Belts
vile, a mechanic at Fort Meade,
died in Bethesda Naval Hospital
of injuries received last Tuesday
on the Baltimore boulevard, near
Laurel.
Youth in Serious Condition.
Meanwhile, the Districts first
accident victim of 1850 was in
serious condition at Casualty Hos
pital today.
He is Warren Coleman, 10, col
ored. of 1924 w street NV, who
was injured about the face and
chest when a car in which he
was riding struck a tree at Ben
ming road and Oklahoma avenue
NE. at 12:40 am. yesterday.
Police said Mr.. Coleman was
a passenger in a car driven by
William Fam. 10. colored, OF 2015
Fifteenth street NV. Mr.. Fam
told police the car skidded.
Takoma Park Man Hurt.
In fair condition at Casualty
Hospital is Henry Pooh. SO. of
6710 Conway avenue, Takoma
Park. who was injured yesterday
when a car driven by his wife
struck two parked cars in the
5700 block of New. Hampshire
avenue NV. Police gave Mrs.
Pooh ticket for driving at an un-
reasonable speed.
Most seriously injured in the
Maryland crashes is Mrs. Grace
Virginia BARRIE of Laurel, a Gov
ernment worker here, who was
passenger in one of the cars COL
liding on Sandy Spring road. 8
In one Of the most spectacular
of the accidents. William B.
Young, %, of Henagar, Ala, was
injured early today when he was
thrown from the cab of tractor
trailer which overturned after
striking an automobile on Route /.
a mile north of Fort Belvoir. He
was taken to Alexandria Hospital
for observation.
Car Overturns.
Alfred McChesney, 81, of 35s
Anacostia road Sc. was treated
at Casualty Hospital for slight
injuries received yesterday when
his automobile overturned on
Central avenue, near Ritchie, Md.
Maryland State police at Water
loo reported Mr.. Mellott was
passenger in the car driven by
Leroy Wilkerson, 10, of Burtons-
vile, Md. They said this automo-
bile was struck from behind when
MIR. Wilkerson tried to turn off
the highway. The police said the
second car was driven by Horace
L. Fairall, jr.. of Laurel, brother
of Mrs. Barrie. She was in his
car. Mrs. Barrie is In Leland
Memorial Hospital. Riverdale.
Virginia State police said Mr..
Youngs tractor trailer, loaded
with linen. sideswiped a stalled
car ahead of it, overturned and
burned. They said the automobile
had no lights and was being
pushed by two soldiers from Camp
Lee, Va, but they were not hurt.
Linen Blocks Traffic.
The linen was dumped into the
highway and blocked two of its
four lanes for hours.
Troopers said they arrested the
soldiers. Pvt. Robert James Jor-
dan. 81, of Cleveland, was charged
with failing to have lights on his
car and thereby causing an acci-
dent, and with being intoxicated
in public, while Corpl. Curtis
Franklin, 20. of Louisa, KY, was
charged with being intoxicated in
public.
The Associated Press reported
these other deaths in Virginia.
Mrs. Lottie Wallace, 43, of Luray,
who died in a Charlottesville hos
pital Of injuries received when she
was struck by an automobile De-
cember 26 a mile north of Stanley,
Page County.
William Jacob Keller, 86, of
Toms Brook, Shenandoah County,
who died in a Woodstock hospital
of injuries suffered when he was
hit by an automobile on Route II,
near his home.
j. N. Oliver, 78, of Toano, a
State Highway Department super
visor, who died in Richmond of
injuries received December ~ in
collision.