AMay 31 1937
Cars Collide Head-On Near Ventura 31 May 1937, Mon Ventura County Star (Ventura, California) Newspapers.com
CARS COLLIDE HEAD-ON NEAR VENTURA
Fillmore Man, Chess Champion And Woman Accident Victims
Automobile accidents claimed the lives of three persons and resulted in injuries for five others over the week-end.
The three fatalities occurred in a spectacular crash late last night at the intersection of 101 highway and Telephone road four miles east of Ventura. Four were injured in an accident on Telegraph road.
The dead:
Fred Davalas, 28, Fillmore ranch worker;
Dr. Robert B. Griffith, 58, of Beverly Hills, reportedly well-known chess champion;
Miss Thelma Smith, about 35, of Los Angeles.
The injured:
Herman Steiner, 32, of Los Angeles:
Roy Cox, 39; Altiene Cox, 33; Naylar Rihbany, 19, and Jennie Rihbany, 16, all of Fillmore.
Sheriffs deputies and California highway patrol officers were called to the scene of the Telephone road intersection crash at approximately 9:30 p. m.
June 01 1937
Other Victims 01 Jun 1937, Tue The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
OTHER VICTIMS
Other victims of the tragedy were Dr. Robert B. Griffith, 58-year-old Beverly Hills physician, a passenger with Miss Smith in an automobile driven by Herman Steiner, chess editor of The Times, and Fred Davalos, 28, of Fillmore, driver of the second car.
Steiner, critically injured, is in Foster Memorial Hospital in Ventura with a possible fractured skull and severe face and neck lacerations.
Funeral services for Griffith will be conducted Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
