Evening star., 1941-07-28
Two Die, Score Hurt
In Traffic Mishaps
In and Near Capital
Washington Girl, lS, and
2-Yeor-OId Boy Are
Fatally Injured

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
street Sc. was killed in an accident
late Saturday night on Livingston
road near Silesia. in Prince Georges
County, and -year-old Ralph
John Small of Bradbury Heights.
Md. died in Casualty Hospital early
today of injpries received in an acci-
dent several hours earlier near For
estville.
Police said Miss Pickerall. a clerk
employed by the Chesapeake g. Po-
tomac Telephone Co., was in a car
with Miss Fannie Shegogue, 18,. who
lived at the G street address: Lynn
Gibson, a Selectee from Fort Meade.
and Ruddy Wheeler, 81, Naval Re-
servist stationed at Anacostia. 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 a
manslaughter charge against him
and released him on $500 bond.
Funeral services for Miss Pickerall,
a student at Oxon Hill High School,
were to be held today at the Ritchie
Bros. funeral home in Upper Marl-
boro. Burial will be in st. Johns
Cemetery. Broad Greek. Md Miss
Pickerall is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Adelbert Pickerall of Fort
Foote, Md. Both Miss Pickerall and
Miss Shegogue attended the Oxon
Hill High School
The Small child was with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph N.
Small, another son, Robert Norris
Small, aged months. and Miss
Laverne Peake. II, of the 1900 block
Of Forty-fourth place Sc, when
their car collided head-on with a
pole on the Marlboro pike half a
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, compound leg
fracture and head injury. Her
condition was reported critical. The
younger child was not injured. Miss
Peake received a head injury. Her
condition was undetermined. All
are in Casualty.
Auto and Truck Collide.
Two Alexandria men were seri-
ously injured when their car and a
large trailer truck collided on high
way No. l about 3 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.
2l, of near Alexandria, with head
neck and knee injuries.
Two other passengers, Howard
Downs, 16, and Arthur Mudd, 81. of
near Alexandria, also were in the
hospital. Mr.. Mudd suffered law
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, %,
and Thomas Collier, 81, of Waldorf,
were in Casualty Hospital, after the
car in which they we're riding was
in collision with another on Livings-
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 a 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
a pole and overturned.
James Fowlkes, 38. Of the 2300
block of G street NV, was in