Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
TWO YOUTHS DIE
IN SPEEDING CAR
Machine Fails to Take Curve
and Hits Telephone Pole
on Rockville Pike.
,y a staff Correspondent Of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
BETHESDA, Md, May 1.-TWO
young men were killed and two others
injured early yesterday morning when
their automobile left the Rockville pike
and struck a telephone pole, while
rounding curve, where a woman was
killed in an automobile accident about
two months ago.
The dead were Ludwell L. Lee, jr., IL
years old, 4403Ia Watkins avenue,
Bethesda and Calvin Lynwood Brown.
Is years old. 225 Melrose avenue, Beth
esda. Browns neck was broken and
he is thought to have died few min
utes after the crash. Lee sustained a
fractured skull. a ruptured heart and
multiple internal injuries. He died
about four hours later in Georgetown
University Hospital.
Occupant Loses Teeth.
The survivors were Cecil Baker, Is
years old, 221 Del Ray avenue, Beth
esda, and Lawrence Mccullough, FL
years old, 4307 Ellicott street, Washing
ton, who was driving the machine.
Bakers Jaw was fractured, six teeth
were kuCChcQ Oub anu lff Was Cut anu
bruised about the face and body. Nc
Cullough sustained a cut on his leg and
q broken arm.
Mccullough told Montgomery County
police he was driving in excess of so miles
an hour at the time of the accident The
four youths had spent the evening at
the Glen Echo Amusement Park and then
had taken Vance Beall friend, to his
home at Rockville. The accident oc-
Cured as they were returning to Be-
thesda.. Mccullough was driving an
automobile belonging TO his sister, Miss
Catherine Mccullough, of the Ellicott
street address The car was demolished.
Rescue Squad Called.
Policeman j. S. McAuliffe was called
at the Bethesda substation by Leon
Magruder of Bethesda. He sent Po-
licemen Windsor Poole and Dunbar
Padgett to the scene and also called the
Bethesda Volunteer Fire Department
rescue squad.
The firemen took Lee and Mccullough
to Georgetown University Hospital and
Brown and Baker were taken to Emer-
gency Hospital by Fred Ruth, 430
Shepherd street, Washington.
States Attorney Stedman Prescott
said today he did not know whether a
Cullough. He said he was awaiting a
report on the police investigation of the
circumstances of the accident.
Lee is survived by his father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwen L. Lee;
six sisters, Mrs. Lena Wharton. Mrs.
Pauline Buell., Miss Viola Lee, Miss Lii
Ian Lee, Miss Ray Lee and Miss Mar
garet Lee, and two brothers, Ernest and
Robert Lee.
Services Set Tomorrow.
Services will be held tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock from the residence
and interment will be in Mount Zion
Cemetery.
Brown is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs Rufus c. Brown. and the
following brothers and sisters: Aubrey
3. Brown, Doris v. Brown, Bernice M.
Brown, Lois Brown and Joyce Brown.
His funeral will be tomorrow after
neon at o'clock from the Montgomery
Chapel at Claggettsyille. Interment will
be in the Methodist Church yard there.
The accident yesterday morning oc-
CURED about a hundred yards north
of the spot where Mrs. Ruth Partin
CT Rockville was killed about two
months ago, when an automobile driven
by her husband got out Of control and
left the road.