Evening star., 1951-02-23
Disabled Veteran Dies
AFTER His Motorcycle
|Co|Iides With Auto

ICOIlIdes With Auto
A disabled veteran of Worle
War II died in Casualty Hospita
last night three hours after the
motorcycle he was riding collideo
with an automobile at Silver Hill
Md.
He was Walter F. Lemke, 35, oi
SAL Seventh street Sc, who was
wounded in the leg by machine
gun fire during the Sicilian cam
paign. He subsequently was dis
charged from the Army with a 4C
per cent disability.
The accident occurred about
$50 pm. at Naylor and Military
roads. Maryland State Trooper
Ophus Robertson said Mr.. Lemke
apparently turned left into the
side of an automobile that had
started to pass him. The driver
of the car, Robert J. Hopkins OF
2042 Fort Davis street Sc, was
not charged.
| Gun Factory Employe.
Mr.. Lemke, a native of Evan
ston, Ill, had lived in Washington
about five years and was employed
at the Naval Gun Factory as a
painter. He is survived by his
wodow, Mrs. Irene Lemke. ano
their 2-year-old son, Kenneth.
A manslaughter charge yester-
day was lodged against the driver
of an automobile which struck
and fatally injured William Lyles
Sc, colored, of Poolesville, Md.
last Saturday.
Mr.. Lyles died Wednesday in
Suburban Hospital of shock
Doctors said all his limbs were
broken. Montgomery County po-
lice Corpl. Kenneth Miller said
the manslaughter charge had
l'been brought against Arthur
Green. Is. colored, of Leesburg,
Va, driver of the car which struck
Mr.. Ly1es as he walked along
Route % near Beallsville, Md.
Mother and Child Hurt.
The frantic effort of a mother
to keep her son from falling out
of a moving automobile resulted
in an accident that sent the
mother and two children passen-
gers to Fort Meade Hospital.
A hospital spokesman said the
mother, identified only as Mrs
Baltes, 1922 Patton drive. Meade
Heights, Md. and one child were
seriously injured. The second
child was. apparently unhurt ir
the accident . this morning In
Mitchellville, Md.
Prince Georges County police
said a four-door sedan driven BY
the mother crashed into a tree
when one of the two children
passengers on the back seal
IOptllcu rear uOOi.
Mrs. Baltes, they said, made q
futile grab for the child to keeE
him from falling out and ap-
parently lost control of the car.
| In another accident last night
two men were injured when a Cal
driven by Martin P. Learn, 81, Of
1880 Rhode Island avenue NE.
sweryed to avoid hitting a parked
truck near Seventeenth and Doug
las streets NE, crossed the street
knocking a maple tree out of the
ground and overturned.
Passenger Suffers Head Injury.
Ernest Reed, 43, of 1925 Adams
road NE, passenger in the car
was taken to Gallinger with q
fractured left knee and possible
injuries to his skull and both
shoulders. He is in undetermined
condition. Mr.. Learn also wa:
taken to Gallinger with knee
bruises. Police charged him with
failure to give full time and at.
tention to driving.
William G. Green. so, of 201
Ridge road Sc, escaped injur,
last night when his car collides
with parked car in the 1906
block of Alabama avenue Sc
skidded across the street and col
lided with another parked car
pushing it into a third car.
Police said Mr.. Green, who i
manager of the Peoples drut
store at Eastern and Georgis
avenues, Silver Spring, has hear
| trouble, and was admitted to Cas-
ualty Hospital for treatment.
Verda Oldland, 13, of Greenbelt
Md, was admitted to Emergency
Hospital yesterday morning fol
possible head injuries after sht
was struck by car driven by
Garland B. Edwards, 20, of II:
Sixtieth place NE, at Seventh
and G streets NV.
Police said the girl crossed the
street against red light. Tht
driver, an Armstrong High Schoo
student, was not charged.
i William Gesling. 40, colored, Of
Columbus, Ohio, was injured early
today when his automobile crashed
into the rear of a tractor-trailel
on No. / highway at Woodbridge
I Va. Mr.. Gesling was treated al
Alexandria Hospital for multiple
cuts. Virginia State police sale
he told them he fell asleep while
driving.
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