Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-04
Father Of II Dies
In TrafficCrash;;
z Others Killed
Woman Is Victim
Of Maryland Wreck;
Man Struck by Cor


father Of II children, were killed
in traffic accidents in Maryland
yesterday and today.
Mrs. Lucille Patterson, %.
colored, of 1852 G. street NV. died
at Casualty Hospital from injuries
suffered early this morning when
the car in which she was riding
struck a tree at Silver Hill road
and Branch avenue, Prince Georges
County police reported.
Injured in the same accident
were John Patterson. %, also of
1452 @ street NV; Carlton
Adams, "a. and Dolores Adams, 81,
of 308 Third street S.W. Mr..
Patterson and Mrs. Adams were
admitted to Casualty Hospital. All
are colored.
Victim Was Deaf.
Ellis l.. Harris. 81, an unem-
ployed laborer. was killed in
stantly yesterday when he was
struck by an automobile on the
Rockville pike near his home, OPP
posite Congressional Airport.
Montgomery County police said
Mr.. Harris apparently did not
hear the driver sound the horn
because he was deaf. They added
that witnesses told them the man
jumped into the path Of the car.
According to police. Mr.. Harris,
who is survived by his wife and
II children. was crossing the road
with a board to build mailbox.
The driver, Raymond w. Copley,
48, of 400 East Montgomery ave-
nue., Rockville, was charged with
driving on an expired permit.
A trainee at the cambridge
Naval Training Center was killed
and another man was injured in
an auto truck collision at Elkton
yesterday, the Associated Press
reported.
A Navy spokesman identified
the dead man as John H. Lashley,
%, of Chester. Pa, and the in
jured man as Richard S. Pulkow-
mix, 20. of Cheektowaga. N. Y.
Suffers Brain Conclusion.
Mr.. Pulkownik was treated at
Elkton Hospital for a brain con-
.cussion, cuts and bruises, and
later was removed to the Naval
Hospital at the nearby cambridge
base.
Six persons were injured, none
seriously, in a two-car collision on
Route 301 near Upper Marlboro
about 1880 am. today, Prince
Georges County police reported.
Admitted to Prince Georges
General Hospital were Harry
lTobis, 10. of jackson Heights,
Long Island. N. Y, chest injuries;
Mrs. BERTHE Payne. So, of Leesburg,
Va, fractured shoulder, and her
son, Russell, 81, head injury.
Three other persons, including
Mr.. Tobis' wife Estelle, were treat
ed for minor injuries and released.
d. C. Accident Rate Heavy.
In Washington, the unprece-
denied number of automobiles on
the streets due to the transit strike
led to an inevitably heavy accident
rate.
According to the accident inves-
tigation unit, Is accidents &C.
Cured between 8 am. yesterday
and 8 am. today. Virtually all
were minor. however.
DR.. u. Foard McGinneS, medi-
cal director OF the National RED
Cross health service, suffered back
and head injuries wnen a Cal
being lowed by a crane swung oui
OF control and struck the parked
car IN which he was Seaueo. INT
ACCIDENT occurred yesterday al
Wisconsin avenue ano X street
NV.
Or. McGinnes, VINO lives at 327:
Arcaula place N.w, as pelns
ItreaIeo at doctors 1osplGai.
AnJurea by horse ana wagon.
i Win some 4o0,UUU cars IL
operalon, metropolitan tol4ct
Pvt. Jonn F bradiey, 81, had tn,
rare misfortune OF being strucl
oy horse ana wagon.
Pvt. Bradley. pressed into stree
duty from his normal post a
headquarters, was directing trat,
f1c at Twelfth street and ConsUi
tuition avenue yesterday. jane
Carter, IS, colored, of 2439 Snow
court S.W. was making left turl
from Twelfth, and as his horse
drawn cart approached the po
liceman a rein broke, causing tn,
cart to swerve.
Pvt. Bradley was admitted t,
Emergency Hospital for observa
I, ton and treatment of leg injuries
Gary Foster, IL, of 4581 Blu
Plains drive S.W., is in the Bethes
l da Naval Hospital for treatmen
of scrapes and bruises he receives
4 when a tractor trailer brushe,
: against him as he was seated in al
ALLEY rear of 1913 Thirteenth stree
v NV. last night.
E Mrs. Jacqueline King, 81, of 60
: A street Sc. fell out of a movinI
:, car on Benning road NE. near tn
= Benning Viaduct and is bein,
3 treated for multiple, cuts an,
bruises at Emergency.
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