Evening star., 1947-09-03
Taxi Kills Child
Crossing Street
To Join Mother
Traffic Toll Raised
To 49; District Man
Dies in Utah Crash

Washington's 1947 traffic toll stood
at 40 today after a child was killed
yesterday few feet from her mother
who was buying fruit from a truck
parked across the street from their
home.
Meanwhile, the death of a young
Washington war veteran In a Utah
traffic accident was reported to his
parents here.
Police said the child, 3-year-old
Josephine Estelle Pugh, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pugh, l137 New
Jersey avenue Sc, was killed when
struck by taxi driven by Paul o.
Richardson, 26, colored, Of the 500
block OF Sixty-second place NE.
The girl was running from the
west to the east side of the street
to join her mother, standing at the
double-parked fruit truck, when she
was struck, police reported. She was
pronounced dead at Providence
Hospital.
Driver Held in Bail.
Richardson was released under
$500 bond on a hold for coroner"
charge. An inquest will be held
Friday, iC was reported. Police said
huckster truck has the right to
double-park while making a sale if
no parking space is available.
Jack c. Brucken, 23-year-old
World War II veteran, was killed
when the automobile in which he
was a passenger went out of con-
troll near Tooele, Utah. He, with his
wife Carolyn, %, was returning from
San Francisco to Washington to go
to school, according to his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph F. Brucken,
2009 Perry street NE.
Mrs. Brucken was not seriously
injured, her husbands parents said
today, and IS expected to fly to
Washington upon release from the
Tooele Hospital, perhaps within "a
hours.
Deputy Sheriffs Fay Gillette and
William Sharp told the Associated
Press Miss Nina Lea Adamson, %,
of San Francisco was driving the
car when it went out of control.
Miss Adamson and Mrs. Kathryn
Watts, As, San Francisco, suffered
severe head injuries. Others less
seriously hurt were Mrs. Brucken,
Guy M. Murphy, 43, of Astoria,
Oreg., and M. r. Pepper, %, Bloom
ington, Ill.
Arlington Burial Planned.
Mr.. Brucken's parents said his
body would be brought to WASH
ington and burial would be In Ar
lington Cemetery.
The veteran, born here, gradu-
ated from st. Anthony's School in
1941, then attended Maryland Uni
versity and worked for China De-
tense Supply before induction into
the Navy in January, 1943. Wounded
aboard an aircraft carrier in the
Battle Of Luzon in January, 1945,
he came home on leave, then re-
turned to the Pacific.
- Released from service in February,
1946, Mr.. Brucken attended school
in California, then took an office
Job in San Francisco, his parents
said. He was married in January
and the couple was travelling to
Washington to permit him to COM
plete an aeronautical engineering
course, they said. The younger Mrs.
Brucken is resident of San Fran
cisco.
An inquest in the death of Edwin
M. Jett, 79-year-old retired police
man who was fatally injured June
7 in hit-run accident, was sched-
uled for Friday.
Mr.. Jet, who lived at 1434 w
street Sc, died June Is as result
of the injuries he suffered when
struck in the 2l00 block of Nichols
avenue Sc.
George E. Brent, %, colored, $500
block Nichols avenue Sc, was ar
rested July IL in connection with
the death and charged with leaving
after colliding, manslaughter and
hold for coroner" He was released
under $4,000 bond to await action
of the coroner's jury.