Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1937, Page 29

" FOUR ARE INURED N TRAF HERE Three Washingtonians and Baltimore Woman Are Accident Victims. Three Washingtonians and a Balti- more woman were seriously injured in traffic accidents here during the last 24 hours. Mrs. Harel Welker, 38, of Baltimore, was reported in a serious condition at 8ibley Hospital today from & severe head Injury received in a three-car eollision yesterday at South Dakota and Rhode Island avenues northeast. Mrs, Welker's automobile collided with a second car operated, police said, by John Lawrence, 20, of Montpelier, Vt. Her machine then crashed into a parked automobile belonging to Ed- ward A. Spargo, 50, of 2620 Brentwood road northeast. Police placed a techni- eal charge of reckless driving against Mrs. Welker and Lawrence charged Spargo with operating without ®» driver's permit. Struck by Street Car. Struck by a street car while cross- ing at Connecticut avenue and R street vesterday, John Barnes, 74, of 1706 Nineteenth street, received in- ternal injuries, two fractured ribs and cuts about the hands. After treatment at Emergency Hospital he was transferred to Mount Alto Hos- pital. Clara Smith, 8, colored, of 3208 Reservoir road, was in a critical con- dition at Georgetown Hospital with a crushed face and compound frac- ture of the facial bones, received, po- lice said, when she ran into the side of an automobile near her home yes- terday. Frank Malloy, 26, of 1733 F street, 8 messenger, received a severe head injury and cuts and bruises about the body when struck by a machine while crossing at Twenty-third street and Massachusetts avenue. Mrs. Rosemary Powel, 48, of 912 Emerson street was injured in a three-car collision in the 7300 block of Georgia avenue. She was treat- ed at Walter Reed Hospital for a hip injury and head cuts received when & car in which she was riding was struck in the rear by a truck, pushing the first automobile into a parked machine. Mrs. Powell was a passenger in a car operated by Helen Egan, 27, of 912 Emerson street. The truck was driven by Abraham Valentine, colored, of 1012 First street, police said. The only other injury listed by police yesterday was that of Elisha Hooks, 7, colored, who was cut and bruised when struck by a machine near her home. Two Washingtonians escaped seri- ©us injury in an accident near Bethes- da, Md, last night, in which their automobile and trailer truck were al- most completely demolished. They Aare: William J. Abernathy, 37, of 1230 New Hampshire avenue, treated at Georgetown Hospital for a ractured arm and head cuts, and William A. McCarthy, 33, of 102 G street, treated for face cuts. Both were occupants of the automobile and denied driving the machine, Montgomery County police said. Two colored men in the truck trailer were not hurt. CHRISTIAN REPORTED IMPROVED AT HOSPITAL Former Secretary to Late Presi- dent Harding Being Treated for Eye Trouble. George B. Christian, jr., former secretary to the late President Hard- ing, was declared in somewhat im- proved condition at Episcopal Hos- pital today after 10 days of treatment for serious eye trouble. It was said that Mr. Christian had becn troubled by the aflment inter- mittently for the past three years and suffered a recurrence last week. A native of Marion, Ohio, Christian was secretary to Harding while the latter was a Senator, and he moved to the White House with his chief. He has been living in Washington since those years, his present address being 2734 Cortland street. 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An Agriculture Department survey | disclosed today the Central South's high percentage of rural population is dwindling. Dr. Carl C. Taylor, chief of the Agricultural Economics Bureau’ Farm Population Division, says it’ because a 30-year movement awa; from the farm is under way again after being interrupted by depressed economic conditions. | The trend of those who quit the | plow and furrow is to Southern urban | areas or to other sections of the | United States, Dr. Taylor reports, and the West South Central States— Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and ‘Texas—recorded a net farm popula- tion loss of 31,000 last year. Dr. Taylor says that the East South Central States, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, lost 5,000. His aides attributed the larger loss in the West South Central States partially to drouth in Oklahoma and Texas. COCKTAIL DANGING | AT THE Pall Mall Room | 0 P. M From 5 * SONNY KENDIS And His Orchestra CHARLIE WRIGHT And Sophisticated Songs * RALEIGH HOTEL & LOTHROP Puoxs Disggcr 5390 pound THE EVENING METHODISTS VOTE FOR UNIFICATION Baltimore and Holston Con- ferences Indorse Proposal by Wide Margins. By the Associated Press. WINCHESTER, Va., October 8.— The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was on record today as favoring uni- fication of the three branches of Methodism. Arthur J. Moore, presiding bishop of the conference, told its members they had “made history” by thelr 218 to 99 vote in favor of the proposal. The conference indicated it would announce today the result of its sec- ond ballot on delegates to the General Conference at Birmingham, Ala., next May. Delegates Named. Yesterday three cleric and two lay delegates were named in the first bal- 13 Popularity Repeats Two Junior Bests STAR lot. They were Dr. Nolan B. Harmon and Dr. John C. Copenhaver of Roanoke, Va.,, and Dr. E. O. Berry of Washington. Lay delegates elected were John H. Rosenberger of Win- chester and J. E. Easter of Roanoke, The conference admitted for trial traveling connectidns Wade Roy Arbo- gast, Lewisburg district; Gilllam F, Bentley, Roanoke district, and Ezra 8. Scroover, Washington district. Nine pastors applied for places on the superanuated list. They were: Revs. J. B, Hupman, Eagle Rock, Va.; A. B. Bites, Fincastle, Va.; W. J. ‘Whitesell, Rileyville, Va.; R. L. Fultz, Waynesboro, Va.; H. M. Canter, Wash- ington, D, C.; J. B. Hedrick, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.; V. Regester, Alexan- dria, Va.; F. J. Prettyman, Fredericks- burg, Va. ,and R. L. Eutsler of Edin- | burg, Va. Elders Report, Seven piesiding elders of the con- ference submitted reports showing substantial gains during the past year. Increased membership and benevol- ences at practically 100 per cent were reported. Rev. Dr. E. L. Woolfe indicated he would invite the conference to hold its 1938 session in Harrisonburg, Va. 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Va, meeting. —_— BOY ‘SAVED’ BY BIBLE Colored Lad Rattles Off Books and Psalms to Police Court. COLUMBIA, 8. C,, October 8 (#).— James Fred Oliver, 14-year-old In- dianapolis colored boy, was timid as he was haled into Police Court on a loitering charge. Respectful of the court, James al- most immediately began rattling off quotations from the Bible. He named in order the 66 books of the Bible, and then, without pausing for breath lest sentence be passed in the interim, he recited the apostles’ creed and the twenty-third psalm. ‘The court dismissed the charge, and police gave the youth a double handful of change, Politeness Fatal to Youth. Politeness killed Kenneth Bamford, aged 18, of Melbourne, Australia, when he stood up to offer his seat to & woman in & train and fell through the car door. WOODWARD & LOTHROP WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1937. MICHIGAN PRELATE REBUKES COUGHLIN Priest’s Choice of Words in Comment on Biack Case Called ‘Unfortunate.’ By the Associated Press. 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