McGinty, Verna

Obituary -- Funeral services for Mrs. Verna McGinty, 24 years old, of Commerce, who was killed in an automobile collision near Joplin at midnight Monday will be held at 2 pm Saturday at the Mitchelson chapel, Commerce. The Rev. C. C. Cockrum will officiate. Burial will be in the Carterville Missouri cemetery.

Obituary -- age 24 years. A coroner's inquest will be held at Joplin Missouri, tonight into the highway tragedy near the Cotton club west of Joplin on U. S. Highway 66, that claimed the life of a young Commerce woman and resulted in injuries to four others at midnight Monday. Mrs. Verna McGinty, died while en route to a Joplin hospital from a lacerated throat received in a car collision. The fatal injury was ascribed to broken glass. The injured: Wilbert Walker, 28, of Commerce, who suffers from bruises, a laceration over the eye, and shock; Helen Rogers, 26, Commerce, a cut across the forehead; Arnold Dale, 26, of Oak Dale, scalp laceration, and E. H. Julius, 25, Girard Kansas, said to have been the driver of one of the cars, his injuries not reported, although they were not described as serious. Sidney Walker of Commerce, father of Wilbert Walker, said he understood his son and Mrs. McGinty, Miss Rogers and Dale, were driving toward Joplin in Walker's car when the mishap occurred. He added that he believed the vehicle driven by Julius started to pass another car, moving west on the national highway, and that his son was unsuccessful in avoiding a collision. [Dale had been visiting relatives at Commerce, it was reported.] The injured, with exception of Julius, were all removed to St. John's hospital. Hall Mitchelson, Commerce undertaker, said funeral arrangements were incomplete for Mrs. McGinty. The body was being held at Joplin until completion of the inquest tonight at the Franks-Severs funeral home. Wilbert Walker and the two survivors riding with him were to be released from the hospital after the investigation. Both the car driven by Walker and that by Julius were badly damage. The Walker car, a tudor sedan, overturned after the crash. Mrs. McGinty apparently died from loss of blood. The severed artery leading from the throat to the heart was the only injury the victim received, it was learned.