Evening star., 1941-10-15
Woman, Child
Killed byCdrs
In Virginia
Five Injured os
Cab Turns Over
Below Alexandra

} A Baltimore woman and 20
month-old child were killed in traf-
nc accidents in nearby Virginia to-
day and a Seat Pleasant CMdD man
died in a Washington hospital of
injuries received october 4.
The Baltimore woman was killed
instantly and two others were in
jured seriously when the taxicab
In which they were bound for Fred
ericksburg, Va, overturned on High
way No. about 16 miles south Of
Alexandria early today.
The dead woman is Mrs. Gene
We've Welk Doster, "a. Taken to
the Alexandria Hospital by Halls
ambulance of OccoQuan, Va. were
Mrs. Ellen Collins, "a, Baltimore.
who suffered cuts on the face. in
ternal injuries and possibly frac-
tured skull, and William Meeker,
36, also of Baltimore, with head in
Jury believed to be fractured skull.
Three Others Injured.
Three others in the cab, Russell
w. Chalk, q; Thomas Wheatley. %,
and David Lockner, Is, all of Bal
timore, escaped with minor injuries.
Virginia State police were investi-
eating the accident. and DR.. T. B.
McCord, Fairfax County coroner,
was to conduct an investigation to-
day.
According to witnesses, the cab
struck the curbing of parkway
dividing the north and south lanes
of the highway on a curve about a
mile north of Woodbridge and
turned over five or six times. Mrs.
Doster was thrown more than IS
feet by the impact.
The baby, Harold Todd, died in
Alexandria Hospital of injuries suf-
fered near his home at Ingleside,
Va, about miles south of AleXan-
dria, about am According to
Alexandria police, the child craWled
out in the driveway and was run
over by a bread truck which had
just made a delivery nearby. The
driver brought the boy to the hos
pital, but he died shortly after be-
ing admitted.
Joseph M. Palmer. II. carpenter
and building contractor of Seat
Pleasant, Md. died late yesterday
in Casualty Hospital from injuries
he received when struck by an auto
mobile on October on Chapel road
four blocks from his home. He was
q brother of the late George N.
Palmer, former chairman of the
Maryland Park and Planning Com
mission. who died three months ago.
Removed to Hospital.
After the accident Mr.. Palmer was
removed to his home and two days
later to the hospital, where it was
found he was suffering from frac-
tured hip and internal injuries. The
car, according to Town Policeman
James Tweedale, was operated by
Ernest Abrams, colored, about 80,
of Largo, Md.
DR.. James I. Boyd. deputy medical
examiner of Prince Georges County,
Is investigating the death.
Mr.. Palmer is survived by his
widow. Mrs. Mary Palmer; daugh-
ter, Miss Gladys Palmer; four sons,
George Nelson, Joseph, Melvin and
Louis Palmer, all of Seat Pleasant.
and two sisters, Mrs. Virginia Duvall
of Seat Pleasant and Mrs. Adelaide
Barnes of Washington.
Condition Unchanged.
Condition of Herbert T. Borkland,
S4-year -old special assistant to the
Attorney General, was described as
Hospital today. Mr.. Borkland was
admitted Monday night with neck
and chest injuries received in an
automobile accident on the George
Washington Memorial parkway in
nearby Virginia In which a woman
was killed.
Mrs. Lillian T. Davidson, %, of
1920 Sixteenth street NV, listed by
park police as the driver of the car
in which the Justice Department
attorney was riding, was reported
to be improving" in the hospital.
She suffered cuts, bruises and shock.
A second passenger, Mrs. Joalita
fllppS, 20, FISltor 10 washington
from New York, was killed instantly
when the car left the parkway on
a curve near Boundary Channel and
plunged down a 35-foot embank-
ment. The body was to be sent to
Denver, Colo, today for burial.
Mrs. Davidson will appear at a
hearing before United States
commissioner in Alexandria. Va,
when she RECEIVERS from her injuries