Evening star., 1951-02-02
Accidents Kill
; Persons in
Area Traffic

Two Pedestrians Hit;
Jamaica Women Dies
In Boulevard Crash
Three persons died in Washing
ton area traffic accidents, yester-
day and early today.
Two of the dead are women.
They are Mrs. Howard B. White
hair, 81. Of 81 New York avenue
NV, and Mrs. Harry S. Klein,
56, of Jamaica, N. Y.
The third is an unidentified COL
ored man. struck early this morn
ing at Sixth and o streets NV.
Struck by Truck.
Mrs. Whitehair was struck by
a sand-and-gravel truck last
night as she was crossing New
York avenue at First street NV.
on the way to a grocery. She
died less than two hours later
at Casualty Hospital.
Police charged the truck driver,
listed as Simon Lloyd, SO, colored,
1872 Kenilworth avenue NE, with
failure to yield the right of way
to a pedestrian and held him for
action of the coroner.
A native of Huntington, w. Va,
Mrs. Whitehair was the wife of a
Navy Department carpenter. The
family has lived here for about 10
years. She is also survived by a
son William. 1904 Quarles street
NE; five daughters. Mrs. John
and Mrs. Edward Miller,
4400 Quarles street NE; Mrs.
Albert Deaton of the home ad-
dress, Mrs. William Gaynor, 454
K street NV; Mrs. Roger Atoy,
81 New York avenue NV. and
a sister, Mrs. Sarah Heart of
Huntington.
Crash Near Laurel.
Mrs. Klein was fatally injured
in a collision of three cars and a
truck on Route near Laurel, Md,
yesterday afternoon.
The collision occurred when one
car tried to pass truck towing
another truck and was hit in the
rear by second car. The first
car then struck the truck, and the
second was struck by a third which
was following, police said. All
drivers were charged with reck-
les driving. They were listed as
Samuel l.. Simmons, 27, Vinton,
Va, truck driver; Harry S. Klein,
81. Mrs. Klein's husband; Arnold
E. Scott. 48. of 2O5 North Gal
weston street, Arlington, and Irwin
Gordon, 81, of Baltimore.
Mr.. Klein and Mrs. Dorothy
Scott, 46, were taken to Leland
Hospital for treatment
Of injuries. A hearing is sched-
uled for February 9 in Laurel
Police Court.
The unidentified man who died
this morning was struck by a car
driven by S/Sergt. Basil Deliman,
20, of Boiling Air Force Base, ac-
cording to police. Deliman was
charged with having bad brakes
and failing to yield the right of
way and was held for action of
the coroner.
The two District deaths bring
the total of traffic fatalities here
this year to six.
Ten persons, including a Wash
lngton traffic policeman and a
Montgomery County detective.
were injured in other traffic &C
cidents yesterday.
Pvt. Edward A. Raymond. 80,
OF 1922 Randolph street, Silver
Spring. was struck by hit-and-
run van-type truck while direct
ing traffic at Eighteenth and M
streets NV. He was admitted to
Emergency Hospital with shoulder
and arm bruises.
Montgomery Detective Sergt.
Stanley Harding, 80, of Cloverly,
Md, suffered a sprained wrist and
cuts when a police cruiser in
which he was riding was struck by
a taxicab on Silver Spring avenue
near Grove street. The cab
careened into the cruiser after
snow bank, police re-
ported.
Three taxi passengers were
5reated for minor injuries at
Washington Sanitarium. They
we're Mrs. Carrie Frymeyer, %;
Mrs. Ethel L. Ford, So, and Mrs.
Dorothy L. Green, all of Silver
Spring. The cab driver, Procopios
8. Paleologes, 81, of 816 Gist ave-
nue.. Silver Spring, was charged
with unreasonable speed.
A Washington couple was in
jured yesterday when their auto
mobile skidded on a patch of ice
and crashed into a pole at the
intersection of Shirley and No.
near Woodbridge, Va.
Percy c. Guthridge, "A, of 4O6
6 street Sc, and his wife Ethel,
"A, were admitted to Alexandria
Hospital with severe face and
scalp cuts.
Three sailors stationed at the
Patuxent River Naval Air Base
were injured when their car ran
off route 228 last night, struck a
clump of trees and overturned.
The accident occurred 4 miles west
Of Waldorf, Md.
Injured were John Tavlin, II;
Robert MacAllister, %, and Billy
Hubley, rs. All were taken to
Physicians Memorial Hospital at
La Plata. Tavlin later was trans
ferred to Bethesda Naval Hos
pital and the other two to the
Patuxent base dispensary.
The driver of the car, Richard