Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1931, Page 7

SEVEN ARE INJURED INAUTO ACCIDENTS Driver Escapes When CarI Turns Over Three Times and Hits Tree. Beven persons escaped with minor in- Juries in a series of automobile accidents ; Teported to police late yesterday and last night while another was unhurt ‘when a machine he was driving struck | a second automobile, overturned three ! times and hit a tree. | Mrs. Mary F. Nichols, 43, of 107 D | street northeast, and Mrs. Margaret E. Hunt, 42, of 3100 Connecticut avenue, ‘were taken to Emergency Hospital after |. they were run down by a taxicab op- | ernted by Theodore H. Shoemaker, 24, 1255 F street northeast, as they were | crossing North Capitol and F streets. Mrs.. Nichols suffered a wrenched | back, a possible fracture of the ankle and bruises, while her companion was | treated by stafl physicians for lacera- | tions of the arms and body and bruises about the arms. Suffers Broken Arm. A collision between two automobiles | st Twelfth and D streets northeast sent Mrs. Lucille Beall, 32, of 319 Thirteenth street northeast, to Casualty Hospital with a possible fracture of the shoulder | yesterday. Mrs. Beall was riding in a | taxi driven by Frank R. Hopkins, 3270 M street, when it was in collision with a car operated by S. E. Vermillion of Bowie, Md. A broken arm, bruises and lacerations were suffered by Mrs. Edna Scott, 39, of the 1300 block G street southeast, ‘when en automobile in which she was a passenger collided with another driven by William P. Hanna, 2500 block Sev- enteenth street, at Seventeenth and B southeast. Bernard Scott, of the G street address, was operating the car in which Mrs. Scott was riding. She was taken to Providence Hospital. ‘When Samuel Kemper, 23, colored, of 1614 Fourteenth street, tried to pass a street car on Wisconsin avenue, John Quinn, 65, of 2304 Thirty-eighth street, ‘walting for the car, suffered minor cuts, and Kemper received possible fractur of the skull and jaw and a broken col- Jarbone, They were treated at George- | town Hospital. | Auto Turned Over. | Floyd Minintyre, colored, 11, of 1130 Fifth street, was treated at Preedmen's Hospital for a badly bruised left foot after he was knocked down by a car driven by Herbert M. Frye, 142 Eleventh street southeast. Reckless driving charges were placed against Perry Thompson, colored, 19, of 126 Carroll street southeast, after an automobile he was operating collided with another machine, overturned three times and was demolished against a tres. Thompson was unhur’. Clarence Goodwin, 53, of 347 ‘Tennessee avenue g the other car, also LEIVA SOON TO RETURN Balvadoran Minister | Leaving Paris for Washington October 4. Officials at El Salvador legation said yesterday that Minister Carlos Leiva his | duced the of Columbia—FPair and cocler tonight; tomorrow -fair with moderate temperature; gentle north and nortia- east winds, Maryland, Virginia—Pair and cooler tonight; tomorrow fair with moderate ture; moderate est Virginla—Fair and cooler to- night; tomorrow increasing cloudiness. Highest, 78, Hiotm todsy. Year Lowest, 74, 4:30 am. Year Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast Geodetic Suryey.) o ago, 260, Tomorrow. Sun, tomorrow . 6:12 pm. Moon, today .. 10:28 pm. Automobile lamps to be lighte - | half hour after sunset. oy Rainfall. 1 Monthly rainfal in inches in the Cap- 1 (current month to date): 1931, Average. Record. 156 355 s | 324 1081 Weather in Various Cittes. Abilene, Albany, Atlants, Atlantic 23028 " Jacksonville Fla. Kansas City, Mo PUPSTTEES RS 5 = HI22BIRRINITLRST NI IS A28 2ELAIN2ARBAT Omaba, Neb: Philudeiphia Phoenix, ~Arl 2RIBIRIITLIIABSINE: s FOREIGN. €1 a.m., (ireenwich time, today.) ta Rider was “hot headed,” and had been warned by the defendant Lend Aid to Food Conservation Driv THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1931 servation demonstration center in the building formerly occupied by Harvey's resiaurans. In the above picture, left to right, are shown Mrs. G. Becker, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, Mrs. Harvey W. ! Wiley and Mrs. Mildred Traynham. Mrs. Wiley is chairman in charge of the drive to preserve food supplies | for the needy this Winter, while Mrs. Traynham is superintendent of the canning. | ‘The drive is sponsored by the District of Columbia Empioyment Committee. MANV prominent clubwomen and civic workers were present yesterday at the formal opening of the food con- —Star Staff Photo. KILLED TO DEFEND SELF, PASTOR SAYS Minister Who Slew Evan- gelist Bore Marks of Fight, Witnesses Assert. By the Associated Press. LAMAR, Mo., September 18.—Testi- mony which the defense contends | showed Rev. J. A. Brown to have be- come & slayer in self-defense was be- fore the jury today in the minister's trial for the murder of Rev. George Rider, Kansas City evangelist and for- mer pastor of the Christlan Union Church at Halley's Bluff. In support of its opening statement that the defendant shot to protect him- self from an attack by the evangelist, the defense yesterday introduced sev- eral witnesses who said Brown bore marks of a fistic encounter. The shoo climaxed an argument which mk% April 4, vtr:'zn the pastor called uj Brown to ask him to fill the pulpit of the church Easter Sunday. Earlier in the trial the State intro- e slain pastor no-marks of violence after the shoot- Witnesses for the defense tastitied it not to call upon him. | The trial was halted yesterday af:- | ernoon because of the flness of a| Physicians said Garrett Boles, | 21; :hk&:mn. wo:bly 'II'labe able ve i2 court tomortpmr. e 10 Tepore _— MURDERER HANGED Canadian (Who Killed Father Dies as Second Gets New Trial stay” to permit a new_trial the execution of Ani Uscicki, who | was to have been hanged at the same | time for killing a woman and two chil- COL. LISTER TO RETIRE Hot Springs U. 8. Hospital Head Expected Col. Shook as Relief. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., September 18 | (#)—Col. Willlam' Lister, commanding | officer of the ,}rmy-mvy General Hos- ; the Army 32 years. Commenting on the choice of successor, Col. Col. Shook of the Army at Washington, would be assigned here. | g e ARSI Chaplin Reaches London. LONDON, mwmber 18 (#).—Charlie | Chaplin arri from Paris last night and was almost unrecognized as he assed through the raflway station. It he will spend the week end n Churchiil’s house at Wester- ham, Kent. ROM start to finish, Dr. A. Reed Cush- ion Shoes are made as well as shoes can be made. Once 'a man wears them and enjoys their unequaled comfort and long-lived good looks, he agrees, with thousands of others, that he has never made as profitable a shoe in- vestment. Many Styles $10 3. P. Smith Shoe Co., Makers 1416 N. Y. A.”’ g BALTIMORE FINANCIER'S HEIRS SEEK INSURANCE Sue for $200,000 Withheld on Grounds That Insured Took His Life. WILMINGTON, Del, September 18. —The disagreement between the fam- ily of the late T. Edward Hamble- ton, until his death a leading figure in Baltimore, Md., financial circles, and the National Life Insurance Co. of Ver- mont yesterday became a subject of court action. ‘The dispute, involving payment of a $200,000 insurance policy on Hamble- ton’s life, issued September 18, 1929, was referred to the United States Dis- trict Court here by the company, which asked an adjudication. The company claimed Hambleton committed suicide | at his home in Lutherville, Md., on De- | cember 23, 1930, and thereby absolved | them of liability for the face value of the policy. Hambleton’s heirs, the company | claimed, refused to accept a settlement of $13,760, representing premiums paid | by the insured. { A claim of damage has been lodged | | against Cardiganshire County in Wales ' | for damages to an automobile which got , stuck in a muddy road and had to be hauled out by horses. Crape i\;lyrtle, MSI l Maryland Nursery East Hyattsville HEARING IN SING SING MAY FREE PRISONER Youth Declaring Innocence Is Put Alongside Crowley, Slayer, for Identification. By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y., September 18.—A | hearing designed to free Patrick O’Brien, youthful former choir boy serving a 20-to-40-year sentence for a robbery he says was committed by Francis Crowley, who awaits execution for the slaying of a policeman, was held at the Sing Sing prison yesterday.. Four witnesses identified O'Brien, who closely resembles Crowley, as the man who held them up when they were house * where O'Brien, Crowley and Gerald Weed had been lined up. Crowley declared he had never seen O'Brien until they met in the death house. 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