Evening star., 1936-09-02
SOLDIER IS KILLED
AS FLAMING CAR
HITS ARMY TRUCK
Companion Badly Hurt as
Result of Crash Near
Alexandria.
II OTHERS ARE INJURED
IN NEARBY ACCIDENTS
Auto Turns Over Three Times
Failing to Make Turn on Mount
Vernon Highway.

A soldier from Boiling Field was
killed almost instantly and his COM
panion injured, perhaps fatally, this
morning when their truck and an
automobile collided head-on about
miles south of Alexandria on the
Richmond Highway.
The soldier killed was Pvt. Oryille
p Nelson. about 35, of the Air Corps.
His companion, who is believed dying
at Alexandria City Hospital. could not
be identified Immediately. The latter
suffered possible fracture of the back.
a crushed arm and other injuries.
The two soldiers we're in an Army
truck equipped for carrying mes
senger pigeons. They we're travelling
north and the automobile, operated by
George Maxwell, %, Of Philadelphia,
was going south. No pigeons were in
the truck when the accident occurred.
Markwell suffered an undetermined
back injury and his companion. Will
liam Stalnecker, 29, a hitchhiker Of
Reading, Pa, was cut and bruised.
Auto Catches Fire.
Stalnecker said the automobile in
which he was riding caught fire
shortly before the crash. The Army
truck was hurled to the side of the
road, where it overturned. and the
automobile careened into a ditch on
the opposite SIDE of the highway.
Flames partially destroyed the auto
mobile before the rescue squad ambul-
ance arrived from Alexandria.
Passing motorists took the two Army
men to Alexandria City Hospital.
where one of them was pronounced
dead on arrival. The ambulance
brought the other two to the hospital.
Meanwhile, nine persons received
treatment for injuries suffered last
night and early today in two accidents
in nearby Maryland and Virginia.
Those injured included DR. Algernon
S. Ernest. 60. Civil Service examiner,
Of Cherrydale, Va.
Car Turns Over Three Times.
-Four youths were injured, none seri-
ously, when the car in which they
we're riding turned over three times
early today after failing to negotiate
turn on the old Mount Vernon
highway.
Walter Ware. %. of Lyon Park, Va,
driver of the machine, suffered sew
eral fractured ribs The other victims
and their injuries: Alton Wise, 25. OF
1410 M street, head cuts and bruises;
Walter Welsh, 81. Westfield, Mass.
lacerated scalp and bruises, and Nor
man Plowitz, also of Westfeld, head
and chest bruises. All were treated
at Emergency Hospital, Ware being
admitted after a preliminary investi-
cation.
Welsh and Plowitz were hitch
hiking.
Five Hurt Near Dunkirk.
Dr. Ernest and four other persons
were injured last night in an accident
On the Southern Maryland boulevard
near Dunkirk. His car was in colli-
sion with a machine said to have been
driven by Ross H. Foster of North
Beach Edward W. Mulligan, 2006
Columbia road, a navy yard machinist
and owner of the other automobile,
was riding with Foster
Mrs. c. NJ. Marsh, also of Cherry
dale, daughter of DR.. Ernest, and
Claud r. Aston, his brother in-law,
were riding in the officials car DR..
Ernest suffered slight conclusion Of
the brain.
WOman's Arm Broken.
Mrs. Marsh received broken arm.
and Aston was knocked unconscious.
He was taken to North Beach by a
passing motorist, Frank F. Copen-
haver, but the extent of his injuries
could not be learned Immediately
Foster also suffered a broken arm,
and it was believed Mulligan's shoul-
der may have been broken. The
Ernest car turned over several times
and was demolished
Nelson is a private attached to the
Army Air Corps detachment at Boil
ing Field Boiling Field announced
that an investigation board headed
by Maj. Robert Platt, Medical Corps.
has been appointed and left imme-
diately for the scene of the accident.
Only one serious traffic accident
was reported in the District. mean
while. Seven-year-old Truesdell F.
Daniels, colored, Al Fenton place, is
in Gallinger Hospital suffering from
injuries received yesterday when hit
by truck driven by William D. Wood
ward, 19. of II Anacostia road north
east. The extent of the sirl's injuries
have not been determined.