Evening star., 1941-07-28
Auto Accidents
Take Two Lives;
Score Injured
D. c. Girl, l8, and
2-Yeor-OId Boy
Fatally Hurt

''3''
Two were dead and nearly a score
injured in traffic accidents in Wash
ington and nearby Maryland and
Virginia over the week end on high
ways crowded with motorists seek
ing to escape the sWeltering heat.
Miss Hazel Pickerall, 18, of $50 G 81
street Sc. was killed in an accident
late Saturday night on Livingston r
road near SileSia. in Prince Georges
County. and 2l2-year-old Ralph
John Small of Bradbury Heights,
Md, died in Casualty Hospital early r
today of injpries RECEIVED in an acci-
dent several hours earlier near For
estville.
Police said Miss Pickerall. a clerk
employed by the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co. was in a car
with Miss Fannie Shegogue, 16, who
lived at the G street address: Lynn
Gibson, a Selectee from Fort Meade,
and Ruddv Wheeler. 81. a Naval Re-
servist stationed at Anacostla. Prince
Georges police listed Mr.. Wheeler as
the driver of the car.
Auto Strikes Tree.
The car struck a tree, throwing
Miss Pickerall out of the machine
according to police. Miss Shegogue
received cuts and bruises and Mr..
Gibson. minor injuries. Mr.. Wheeler
was uninjured. Police placed
manslaughter charge against him
and released him on $500 bond.
Funeral services for Miss Pickeral' ,
a student at OXon Hill High SchoC' e
were to be held today at the RitcE
Bros. funeral home in Upper Mar
boro. Burial will be in St. Johns
Cemetery, Broad Creek, Md, Mis-
Pickerall is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adelbert Pickerall of Fort
Foote, Md. Both Miss Pickerall ard
Miss Shegogue attended the Oxon
Hill High School.
The Small child was with h
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph \
Small. another son, Robert Norr
Small, aged months, and Mis-
Laverne Peake. II. of the 1900 bloc.
of Forty-fourth place Sc, when
their car collided head-on with a
pole on the Marlboro pike half
mile from ForeStville shortly before
midnight last night, police reported
Mr.. Small. 81, suffered cuts on the
left leg. and his wife Mrs Catherine
Virginia Small. 20, a compound leg
fracture and a head injury. Her
| condition was reported critical. The
/ younger child was not injured. Miss
Peake received head injury. Her
condition was undetermined. All
are in Casualty.
Auto and Truck Collide.
Two Alexandra men were seri-
ously injured when their car and a
large trailer truck collided on high
way No. l about miles south of
Alexandria early today. Randolph
Mooney, of East Walnut street, was
in Alexandria Hospital with arm
and head injuries, and possibly a
skull fracture, and Stewart Watkins,
81, of near Alexandria. with head,
neck and knee injuries.
Two other passengers, Howard
Downs, Is, and Arthur Mudd, 81. of
near Alexandria. also were in the
hospital. Mr. Mudd suffered Jaw
and leg fractures and young Downs
was being treated for cuts and
bruises
Virginia State Policeman James
Clark placed a charge of reckless
| driving against Samuel E. Hoover
of High Point, N. c., listed as driver
of the truck.
Two brothers, George Collier. 2s,
and Thomas Collier, 81, of Waldorf,
were in Casualty Hospital, after the
car in which they were riding was
in collision with another on Liyings-
ton road near Oxon Hill, Md, early
yesterday. George Collier was being
treated for head injury, his brother
for cuts and bruises. The driver of
the other car, Leon Savoy, of Oxon
Hill, was not injured.
Duck Copelin, about 80, colored. of
Washington, was taken to Mont
gomery County General Hospital by
the Rockville Rescue Squad yester-
day in serious condition after his
car struck a pole in front of the
County Courthouse.
Auto Hits Pole, Overturns.
Kermit Lee Merson. 81, of the $500
block of Second street NV, was
taken to Washington Sanitarium,
Takoma Park, Md, last night by
the Silver Spring rescue squad from
an accident on Georgia avenue and
Locust Grove road. His car struck
pole and overturned.
James Fowlkes, SO. of the $500
block of G street NV, was in
Casualty Hospital with injuries to
his head and shoulders He was
injured in an accident on Chapel
road in Cedar Heights near Hyatts-
vile.
Two Baltimoreans were taken to
Emergency Hospital yesterday by
the Mclean tVa) Volunteer Fire
Department after the auto in which
they were riding overturned on
Route 7 near Langley, Va.
They were Paul Rottoff, 19, who
received a fractured skull, and his
mother, Mrs. Marie Rottoff, A, who
suffered chest injuries. The acci-
dent occurred. witnesses said, when
a tire blew out.
Walter Turner, 38, colored. of the
260O block of Seigle place Sc. was
taken to Casualty Hospital with
fractured skull and severe back in
juries, received when a truck was
reported to have struck the bicycle
he was riding yesterday at Pomeroy
and Sheridan roads Sc.
Fairfax County police reported
Jack E. Cullen, 33, of $500 block of
South Eighth street, Arlington, was
taken to Georgetown Hospital after
he was injured in an accident on
Lee highway.
A 2-year-old child, Ebert Miller.
jr, of Manassas. Va. was treated at
Emergency Hospital for injuries re-
ceived when struck by an auto at
the Harvard street entrance to the
Zoo yesterday.