Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1928, Page 29

a D.: O, . WED SDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1928 - DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER COLLISIONS Man Injured in Crash With Three Parked Cars. Boy Is Hurt. One man was treated at Emergency ospital and another arrested on a of driving while drunk last night fter the automobile in which they were ‘ fiding collided with three parked cars t Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth reet, causing & total of $550 damage the four automobiles. | First precinct police say that Floyd I. , 144 Eleventh street southeast, rove the car and that his machine rst styuck an automobile belonging to nnett Ault, 1606 Twenty-third street, sfterward striking cars belonging to Hugh Taylor, 3461 Fourteenth street, and John Bissett, 67 Myrtle street gortheast. Taylor's car was damaged the extent of $250 and the other two 100 each. Griggs' machine also was gnma{(ed. Griggs was charged with riving while drunk, and a companion, Elmer A. Elliott, 31 years old, of Claren- don, Va., was treated for a cut under {be chin. Woman TIs Injured. Mary Jackson, colored, 39 years old, 359 McLean avenue southwest, suffered * severe head injuries last night when the automobile in which she was riding. operated by Luther Lockwell, 1315 Third street southwest, was in a col- lision at Third and Van streets south- west with a horsé and wagon driven by Basil Brunnel, 1224 Unlon street south- west! She was taken to Emergency Hospital, where her condition was said to be serlous. A fracture of the right leg was suf- fered by Harry Brown, 8 years old, 607 Sixth street, when he was struck in front of 618 Sixth street by an auto- mobile operated by Charles Richardson, 1020 Fairmont street. He was treated at_Emergency Hospital, Edward Johnson, colored, 50 years old” a blind man, 499 I street south- west, was bruised on the back when he stepped from the sidewalk at Virginia avenue and Second street in front of an automobile operated by John E. Bell, 643 Raleigh place southeast. Bell took him to Providence Hospital, where an examination revealed that his injuries were slight. Driver Ts Arrested. Ninth precinct police last night ar- gested Joseph L. Kent, 638 Fourteenth street northeast, and charged him with reckless driving after his automobile was in a collision in front of 1303 H | street northeast with a parked car be- | longing to Anthony Fabuazio, 1305 H street. 1 A runaway team belonging to the Dis- trict Repair Shop, Sixteenth and U| streets, and driven by Fred Woods, col- | ored, 55 Q street, yesterday struck an% knocked down a Jamp-post at Thirty- | sixth street and Reservoir road before | they were placed under control. Woods was uninjured. MRS. DUNIGAN SEEKING T0 BE ADMINISTRATOR Widow's Application Says Hus- band's Estate Consists Only of Stocks—Cites $3,000 in Debts. Mrs. Helen M. Dunigan, widow of David J. Dunigan, reaitor, who died September 24, has filed application with the District Supreme Court to be ap- pointed administratrix of the estate of her husband, which consists sol says, of 1,000 shares of the sto tively estimated as worth 2 His debts, she declares, will not exceed $3,000. She explains to_the court, through Attorneys Walter B. Guy and Frederic B. Warder, that the only testamentary paper discovered among her husband's effects was one directing the payment of $100,000 to his sister, Mrs. M: ret D. Carter, which was filed Monday. ALUMNI OF TRINITY COLLEGE TO GATHER Graduates of New England Insti- tute to Hold Dinner on Saturday. A diner for the alumni of Trinity College, Hartford. Conn.. who are at- tending the Episcopal Convention here is to be held Saturdagl evening at| 7:30 oclock at the Ralquet Club, it| was announced today by Karl Fenning, president of the Washington Alumni Chapter. Trinity is the only college in New England with Episcopal affilia- tions. The speakers will include Dr. R. B. Ogilby, president of Trinity College; Philip’ Hubert Frohman, architect of the Washington Cathedral, who is de- signing the new chapel at Trinity Col- lege, and William G. Mather of Cleve- land, donor of the funds for the build- ing of the chapel. The committee in charge of the dinner consists of George M. Ferris, Maj. William Bowie of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Rev. James Henderson of the Cathedral School for Boys, and Paul C. Harding. - P > g THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, one sentence late yesterday notifled Wittner that his political' activity “as a municipal employe of the District of Columbia is not subject to review by this commission, such review being limited to the Federal classified service.” Witt- ner has been campaigning for Al Smith, and so notified the commission in & re- cent letter challenging the ban. 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The commission in a brief letter ofllluu! activity among cl said, he had seen many Hoover buttons | parallel in the department’s leadiffg as- | constitutional, would make some ev wern on coat lapels, in violation of the | sistant attorney general. of feminine | sive_exception in each individual case. same ban he violated by wearing a |persuasion who is crusading politically, “The Smith-Robinson button. “If my em- | Within her rights. plcyment had been in the Department Declares Buck Ts Passed. of Commerce instead of the Metropoli- headquarters since it has a presidential | Fiji Islanders. candidate in the field | » “The commission,” he charged, “knows tan Police Department,” said Wittner, | my job is under classified civil service. “doubtlessly the commission’s red tape | put disregarding specific Congressional about non-political activity would not | legisiation. passes the buck to voteless have controlled, as that department has | Washington, which has about as much | Special Dispatch to The Star. the appearance of a Republican national | to say about its municipal affairs as the lerks, where, he | found a remote, though unclassified, | its stand barring political activity is un. 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