Show NEWS REPORT GIVES aiVES MOTHER CLUE TO BOY oJ the boy who was struck by a truck at Main and First South streets Saturday afternoon was brought about by reading the evening n newspaper U It was learned Saturday night Mrs John C. C Johnson South First West street mother of or the boy after reading of or a boys boy's accident in the paper called at the police poUce station and identified the boy It ItIs Itis Itis is her oldest son Earl Johnson aged 8 jears years I She told police that the boy left home about noon Saturday to at attend attend attend at- at tend a downtown show shaw She be became became became be- be came alarmed at his absence from home when she came home from work worle at 9 9 o'clock and found he hadn't arrived She Sho looked in the i evening paper and found the story of or an unknown boy that had been struck by a truck The reading decided her to come to the emergency hospital where she Identified the boy Young Johnson was in a critical condition Saturday night He Is I suffering from a basal skull fracture frac frac- 1 ture suffered when he was struck I Iby I by a truck driven by Oscar Elsmore Elsmore Elsmore Els- Els more a farmer living at Forty- Forty eighth South and Highland drive Saturday afternoon It was reported reported re- re e- e ported that the boy ran in front of the approaching truck which was proceeding down First S South uth I street |