Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1931, Page 20

HELD AGEDENTAL Jury Urges Barrier Along Car Tracks Where Acci- dent Occurred. Atter deliberating more than an hour and a half, a coroner’s jury this after- noon returned a verdict of accidental death in tie case of Mrs. Sarah Smith Walker, 50, of 515 B street southeast, who was killed by a Capital Traction Co. street car last night while crossing the tracks on Pennsylvania avenue near Fourth street southeast. | The jury recommended that th: Gov- | ernment place a proper barrier along | the car tracks on that section of Penn- | sylvania avenue. It was pointed out | that scveral similar accid-nts have oc- | curred there. The witnesses agreed that Mrs, Walker crossed the tracks at some | point between th- reglilar cross walks, and that'the motorman brought his car to a halt Within a few feet of the point | where the woman was struck. Motorman Testifies. | The motorman, H. B. Kneisley, 1815 ac avenue southeast, said he| glimpsed Mrs. Walker only a few sec- | onds before she was struck. He released sand on the tracks and reversed the power, oringing his car to a stop with the front trucks alongside her body, he | declares. [ W. F. Clarkson, 329 C street south- east, said he saw Mrs. Walker trip on some wire which guarded the hedge along the street car right of way. Clarkson said she stumbled almost info the path of the strect car. Returning From Hospital. Mrs. Walker was taken to Providence | Hospital, where she died a few minutes | later of a fractured skull. The accident | occurred shortly after 6 o'clock while | Mrs. Walker, a retired trained nurse, was on her way home aftcr visiting a sick friend at Providence Hospital. Sev~ eral persons testified that the accident occurred some 35 feet short of the regular stop at Fourth street Mrs. Walker, widow of John Walker, who died 11 years ago, was a well known charity worker and nursed many desti- tute people bsck to health. She also assisted many impoverished families in obtaining aid. , Funeral arrangements are being de- layed pending the arrival of a brother, Wiliiam Smith, who lives in New Jer- sey. Injured by Motor Cycle. Injuries were received by James J. Ryan, 61 years old, of 523 Tennessee avenue northeast, when a motor cycle reported to have been'operated by San- tus McQueeney, 17, of 1725 Bladens- burg road northeast, felled him at Six- teenth and Gales streets northeast. Ryan, an employe of the Bureau of En- graving and Printing, was taken to Cas- ualty Hospital. A’ similar_accident sent Byrd Tren- ham, 38, of 1740 K street, to Emergency Hospital with concussion of the brain, cuts and bruises yesteraay afternoon. He was run down at Fifteenth and K streets by a motor cycte, reported to have been driven by James E. Morgan, colored, of 1419 Corcoran street. PARLEY ON SCHOOL LOCATION PLANNED i Members of the Citizens' Association of Takoma, D. C., last night decided to confer with the National Capital Park and Planning Commission with a view to locating the proposed high school on the tract of land bounded by Third and Fourth, Van Buren and Whittier streets. At the meeting last month a resolution was adopted favoring this site and Dr. D. N. Shoemaker, president of the or- ganization, will head a committee to confer at an early date with officials of the commission. The new high school will be in connection with-the second five-year building program. The association adopted a resolution of sympathy which will be sent to Dr. Horace W. Whittaker, a former presi- dent of the association, who is confined at_Sibley Hospital as the result of an automobile accident. He was reported as slowly recovering. ‘The meeting was addressed by Dorsey ‘W. Hyde, secretary of the Washington THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢y FRANCES K. AUBREY, Twenty-three-year-old Goldfield, Nev., girl, is not only the youngest but the | preitiest deputy sheriff in Nevada. She is not an office deputy, but has taken | over a man's_job. —A. P. Photo. SIX NEW MEMBERS JOINY. W, C. A. BOARD Five Are Re-Elected Directors at Annual Membership Dinner. Reports Received. Six new members were included in the 11 women elected to the board of directors of the Young Woman's Chris- tian Association of Washington, it was announced last night at the annual membership dinner of the organization. The other five members were re-clected. The new members are Miss Louise Davidson of the Junior League, M: Charles D. Drayton of the Episcopa Home for Children, Mrs. William Hurd Hill of the Washington Club, Mrs. Robert Lansing of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. James Craig Peacock of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase, Md.,, and Miss Emilie Margaret “‘/thne of George Washington Univer- sity. Re-elected members were Miss Lois Gates Gorman, Mrs. William M lan Ritter, Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, Mrs. Luke I. Ison and Mrs. Herbert C._ Woolley. Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown, retiring president, commended the corps of offi- cers and workers of the association. The three notable achievements by the organization in the past year, she said, were the growth of the various depart- ments, the increasing regard of the community and the closer co-operation between the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W.C. A Miss Margaret Fox, retiring treasurer, and Miss Hettie P. Anderson, general secretary, gave reports of the past year's activities The two speakers of the evening were Mrs. Alice Dickson, member of the President’s Emergency Committee for Employment, and Miss Myra Smith of the national board of the association Mrs. Dickson spoke on “The Y. W. C. A. in Relation to Unemployment” and Miss Smith chose as her topic “Mex- ico: A Country and an Association in | the Making.” WILL HONOR LAMONT Illinois State Society to Meet Jan- uary 23 at Willard. A reception in honor of Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont and Mrs. Lamont will feature th> Illinois State Society’s first meeting of the season, to be held January 23 at the Willard Hotel. Officers of the organization are: ‘Thomas S. Williams, president: John C. | Allen, Richard Yates, A. R. Bailey and Theodore G. Rizely, vice presidents; J. B. Woodside, secretary; Miss Gertrude Van Riper, treasurer, and Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, historian. \ — R ‘The Wallraf-Richartz excavators have unearthed an entire neolithic (late stone age) village on the outskirts of Cologne, German) If you haven’t al- ready opened an account with us, we invite you to do so. We park your car while you shop with us ... and we're glad to do it. Chamber of Commerce, on the Com- munity Chest. | ‘The meeting concluded with an illus- | trated lecture by Hermon C. Metcalf on “The Romance of Real Estate,” cover- ing many interesting points with refer- ence to real estate in the National Capital. | WILEREAD LIMERICKS . “An Evening of Limericks” will be | offered by Wade H. Ellis at a meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of 'ashi; to _be held tonight at 8 p'clock at the University Club. Mr. Ellis is conceded to be an author- 3ty on development of the limerick verse Notice to Subscribers in Apartment Houses Subscribers wishing the carrier boy to knock on the door when delivering The Star will please tele- phone circulation depart- ment, National 5000—and instructions will be given for this service to start at once. form and will illustrate his address with some of his own compositions. 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