Evening star., 1933-12-15
ICE SHEET MELTS,
LEAVING ONE DEAD
ANDMANY INJURED
Maryland Man Killed in
Crash Between Automobile
and Milk Truck.
MERCURY ABOVE 40
PREDICTED TONIGHT
Overcast Skies, With Possibilities
of Showers Tonight and To-
morrow Seen.

morrow Seen.
The last Of the ice sheet which
covered the Capital area Wednesday
afternoon was melting rapidly today
after causing one death last night and
ADDING number of persons to the toll
of traffic casualties.
Leonard Perrell, 81, of Bethesda, Md.
was killed and another man injured
when a milk truck and automobile met
IN q terrific head-op collision on the
Rockville pike near Garrett Park, Md.
Perrell, driver Of the truck. was
pinned beneath 1t when 1t overturned
and was dead when MONTGOMERY
County police and members of the
Rockville Fire Rescue Squad succeeded
in extrtcating his body from the wreck
age.
Robert Lucas, 20, of Bethesda, an oc-
cupant Of the other car, suffered lacera-
tions OF the scalp and fractured knee
cap and was taken to GEORGETOWN
University Hospital by County Police
man Herbert Butts.
Driver Faces Two CHARGES.
Butts and Policeman Windsor Poole.
VINO investigated the mishap, arrested
Giliie Andrews. 80, who lives near
Rockville. who they say was driving the
car. He was charged with manslaughter
and reckless driving.
The milk truck was proceeding. to-
ward Rockville and the car occupied
by Lucas and Andrews was travelling
southwark on the pike when they COL
noed at the intersection of the pike
and Grosvenor lane. An early morn
ing rain had frozen and left a heavy
coating Of ice on the highway, police
said.
Perrell's body was taken to a Rock
vile undertaking establishment to be
prepared for burial.
The Weather Bureau prediction in
dlcated that all ice will have vanished
from roads of nearby Maryland and
Virginia as well as from Washington
streets by tomorrow, since the mercury
was not expected to drop below 40
degrees tonight. The skies will be
overcast with the possibilities Of occa-
Sional showers tonight and tomorrow.
the forecaster said.
ThS morning considerable coating
OF ice remained on streets in OUTLYING
sections of the District, but cautious
driving held accidents to a minimum.
One Case Last Night.
Emergency Hospital last night ham
died but one accident case, in contrast
to wednesday night. when more than a
score OF persons were treated there for
IN skidding automobiles.
In an accident on the slippery pave
ment at Fourteenth and v streets last
night Detective Sergt Frank M. Ali
good, A, GIT Delaf1eld place, sustained
Sprains OF both ankles. The automobile
ne was driving overturned when in COL
lision With a truck, the driver of which,
Leroy L. Murray, 80, colored, Of the 600
block OF Morton street, was arrested on
a charge Of reckless driving. Detective
Sergt. James Kenny, 81, 3347 Eight
eenth street, who was riding with ALI
good. escaped with bruises.
Edith D. O'Connor, 80. of Hughes
Vile, Md, received lacerations to her
left leg and hip in a collision on the
Southern Maryland Pike near Bryan
town. She was brought here to Emer-
gency Hospital for treatment.
Councilman Mulitx Injured.
Councilman Joseph Mulitz of Capitol
Heights, Nd, received decorations to his
head and body bruises this morning
when his car was in collision with a
bus on the slippery streets of the Mary
land town.
Paul Carson, 27, Of 1885 Thirty
eighth street, was seriously injured
about the back early today when a
bakery truck he was driving skidded
and turned over in the $500 block of
Twentieth street northeast. He was
taken to Casualty Hospital.
Miss Mineola Kirkland, IS, Of 1lO6
B street northeast, q colored supervis-
ing principal in the public schools,
was in Garfield Hospital today suffer-
ing from cuts received yesterday when
the automobile In which she was rid
ing was in collision with another ma
chine at Twelfth and @ streets and
then careened into fire alarm box,
knocking it over
Mrs. Margaret Stanley, 80, Clar-
endon, Va, was treated at Emergency
Hospital for cuts and bruises received
yesterday In a collision between two
automobiles in the TOO block of Elev-
enth street. One of the machines
was said to have made a sudden stop
and the other crashed into it.