Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1928, Page 12

12 ® SUSPELT ATOST AN DOHIN WORKE Garage Men See Car Speed-| has since iearned that he had a living ing Off After Accident to Colored Employe. The clattering noise of an iron bar as | 1t fell across steel street car tracks early today attracted the attention of me- chanics in a garage on South Capitol street, who investigated and found Henry Weaver, colored, lying in the | street unconscious, apparently the vic- | tim of a hit-and-run automobile driver. Weaver had been workh’\g on the tracks of the Washington Railway & | Electric Co., on B street between First and South Capitol streets, just before the accident. The garage workers ran out in time to see a large automobile ANNULMENT - SOUGHT. Wife Claims Husband Did Noti Divorce Former Spouse. Annulment of marriage is asked in | a suit filed by Mrs. Alice E. Close, 515 | | sixth street, against Claiborne S. Close, | 11261 Owens piace northeast. Close is alleged to have represented himself as | a widower, the petitioner says, but she wife from whom he had not been di-: vorced. She asks permission to resume her maiden name, Alice E. Lacy. At- torney John Murphy appears for the wife. Close is a former group captain | at the National Training School for Boys. | | TWO MORE PUPILS ILL OF DIPHTHERIA Additional Carriers of Germs Dis- | covered, but Spread of Disease Believed Checked. speeding away. Auto Owner Unidentified. The colored man, who lives at 27 M street southwest and is about 45 years old, was removed to Emergency Hos- pital, where physicians said he was | suffering from a probable fracture of |Tj the skull as well as numerous cuts and | bruises. Police have no information as | to_the identity of the auto driver. | Nine other persons received slight | injuries when they figured in as many | traffic accidents last night and this| morning. Austin Cusack, jr., 24, of 1807 Monroe street northeast, was arrested last night and charged with driving while under the influence of liquor and leaving the scene of an accident after his machine struck a parked car at North Capitol and P streets early today, injuring Beatrice Robinson, colored, 261: Han- over street, who was sitting in th | streets northeast, it was announced to- Two more clinical cases of diphtheria have developed among pupils of the Webb School at Fifteenth and Roscdale day at the District Health Department. brings the total of recent positive cases to 18. . Nine additional carriers of diphtheria germs also have been found in the northeast_scction, it was revealed at | the Health Department, although none of them is said to attend the four schools in which the disease was at first confined. ‘ The Health Department is continuing its close surveillance over the children in the four schools, and officials believe that the spread of the disease has been checked. 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ECTURER WiLL BE GUEST AT LUNCHEON Entertainment Will Precede Lec- ture at National Theater for Benefit of Charity. luncheon in honor of Lowell parked automobile. Others Are Injured. Others injured were: Mildred Detweiler, colored, 25, of 1213 Florida avenue; David Rosenblum, 39, of 422 Fifteenth street northeast; Mar- tha V. Burnham, 48, of Alexandria, Va.: Holmes_Davis, colored, 38, of 921 O street; Edwin Lark, colored, 70, of 625 Acker street northeast; Frederick Duck- ett, colored, 10, of 1840 Vernon streel; A Annie Booker, colored, 1833 Fourteenth Thomas, traveler, lecturer and author, street, and Tony Boranza, 34, of 706 W“lbhe Wen&t the Clarltc); ]}{OLGI No; " st vember 9 on the occasion of his arrival o e e in Washington. Mr. Thomas is coming here, to lecture for the benefit of local Yale recently awarded scholarships to | charities at 3:30 o'clock on that after- 80 students. Inoon at the National Theater, the lec- dren are normal and are enjoying .the best of health. observer, and occupled a similar posi- tion with the armies of Gen. Allenby when the famous deliverer of Jerusa- lem, recently a visitor in Washington, fladg his historic campaign in the Holy nd. The committee in charge of the lec- ture invites the public to co-operate in the event for the benefit of needy fam- ilies in the District, and announces that tickets are for sale at the Willard Ho- tel newstand and Willard Social Bu- reau. ture having been arranged by a com- mittee comprising Lady Isabella How- ard, Countess Seheer-Thoss and Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman. Mr. Thomas was in the thick of the Arabic campaign, attached to the stafl of Col. 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