Evening star., 1951-08-06
Traffic Crashes
Kill } Persons
In District Area
Collision at Laurel
FutuI to Bultimoreun
2 Women Also Die

A Baltimore man was fatally in
ljured early today when the car
he was driving collided head-on
with a tractor -trailer on the Bal
timore boulevard. 2 miles south
Of Laurel.
An 18-year-old Washington girl
and a Fredericksburg Va.)
mother Of five children were killed
in area traffic accidents yesterday
The Baltimore man was Robert
Bishop. "a. Of 606 North Calvert
street.
Maryland State police at Water
loo said Mr.. Bishop apparently
fell asleep as he was driving south
and crashed into the vehicle
driven by Arthur c. Miller, IS,
|of Jacksonville. Fla. Mr.. Miller
was not hurt. police said.
Y Mr.. Bishop was pronounced dead
at Leland Memorial Hospital,
Riverdale, where he was taken by
the Branchville Rescue Squad. He
was driving alone.
Girl Killed Near Bridge.
Mr.. Miller was hello at the
Waterloo barracks on a technical
charge OF manSlaughter.
Miss Barbara Klein, 18, of 347l
Fourteenth street NV, was killed
in a truck-auto crash at the Lee
boulevard entrance to the Me-
mortal Bridge approach road
A 17-year-old girl and two
Quantico Marines, in the same
car with Miss Klein, were criti-
cally injured.
Miss Dorothy Gertrude Rusk
OF $500 Riverdale road, Lanham
was admitted to Emergency Hos
pital with a possible skull frac-
ture and internal injuries. Pfc.
Richard N. Ruffner, 27, identified
by police as driver of the car,
and Pfc. William L. Kerlim, 81,
were taken to Emergency but later
transferred to the Navy Medical
Center, Bethesda.
The truck driver was John Be-
line. SO. Of Davis. w. Va. He told
police he pulled to the side Of the
boulevard about 3:15 am. when
ne saw a sign that trucks were
prohibited. He was studying O
road map, he said, when the auto
struck the back Of his truck.
i Police and rescue workers used
crowbars to free the passengers
from the wreckage.
II Charges Against Both.
1 Arlington police charged Mr.,
Belinc with stopping on the high
way. and placed a charge of man
slaughter against Pfc. Ruffner.
/ Miss Klein was employed as q
secretary at United Clay Products
Co. She had moved here from
Philadelphia and was staying with
an uncle. ]. Morris Beard. q music
teacher.
The Fredericksburg accident
killed Mrs. Louise Emma Hicks, 80.
Mrs. Hicks was walking along U. s.
Route ! when she was struck by
an auto about q mile north Of the
city.
A Metropolitan police lieutenant
and a District fireman were in
jured early yesterday in q two-car
collision at Twenty-first and D
streets NE.
The policeman, 1t. Edward II.
Sennott, a. Of 1712 D street NE,
OF the Fourteenth Precinct. was
admitted to Casualty Hospital
with a fractured shoulder, bruises
and q sprained wrist in the colli-
sion. His condition is reported
as good.
In another traffic accident yes
terday. q 75-year-old Arlington
woman was admitted to Emer-
gency Hospital in critical condi-
tion after being struck by an auto
at Pennsylvania avenue and Sew
enth street NV.
She Is Mrs. Mary r. Mays,
colored, Of 5616 Wilson boulevard,
Arlington.
Police said the driver Of the We
hicle was Corpl. Robert j. Barlow,
25. Of the Quantico Marine Base.
He has been charged with failing
to yield the right of way to a
pedestrian and failing to exhibit