Evening star., 1947-06-16
Accidents Kill
District Nurse,
FrederickGiir
Second Nurse Hurt
As Auto Hits Tree
On Grain Highway

County men were injured seri-
ously in two accidents early to-
day in nearby Maryland. In an
other crash, near Savage, Md.
yesterday, a Frederick (Md.) CIR.
was fatally injured.
The dead are:
Miss Ardyce Simon, 25, gradu.
ate nurse, $500 Livingston road Sc
Miss Beatrice Talbert, 81, Fred.
erick.
Prince Georges County police re.
ported Miss Simon was killed ane
another nurse and two Boiling Fiele
soldiers were injured when theil
automobile struck a tree on Crair
highway miles north of Centra
avenue.
Driver Says He Fell Asleep.
The driver, Sergt. Alton T. Hall
81, of 1926 Taylor street Sc, tole
police, they said, that he fell asleep
He suffered cuts of the face anc
knees.
Others hurt in the crash were
Miss Anna Seman, %, also a gradu.
ate nurse, who lives at the nurses
home at st. Elizabeths, back in.
jury, and Sergt. James Loudon, Boil.
ling Field, shock and bruises.
All the injured were taken to
Prince Georges Hospital, Cheverly
but the two Army men were trans
ferred to the Boiling Field Hospital
after treatment.
Policeman j. T. Kearns, who with
Policeman j. w. Vincent, investi-
gated the accident, said Sergt. Hall
would be charged with reckless driv-
ing and manslaughter upon release
from the hospital.
Miss Edith M. Hayden, superin-
tendent of nurses at st. Elizabeths,
said Miss Simon was graduated from
the hospitals nursing school in 1914
She became an Army nurse and
served in Panama, Miss Hayden said,
and returned to ST. Elizabeth's upon
her discharge.
Injured seriously in the second
Maryland accident were Donald G
Wood, "a, of 6802 Forty-seventh
street, Bethesda, son of Col. F. G.
Wood, and Bernard Dickens, %, OF
400 Lanark Way, Silver Spring
police said.
The men were riding motorcycle
operated by Mr.. Wood, when it
missed sharp turn on Route 5 be-
tween Washington and North Beach
police said. This motorcycle appar-
emily went out of control and over
turned, police reported. The men
were found lying in the road by a
motorist who rushed them to North
Beach for first aid.
Later both were taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital here with severe head
injuries.
The other fatal crash occurred
when car hit the guard rail on
the Observation-Disclosures boule-
ward bridge over the Little Patuxent
River early yesterday.
Maryland State police at Water
loo said the driver lost control of
the car. He was Homer Mitchell,
20, of Frederick, police said, and
suffered internal injuries, a jaw
fracture and cuts. Three others
also were injured in the accident.
Police listed them as follows:
Charles N. Barber, %, a sailor
stationed at Pensacola, Fla, who
had been picked up by Mr.. Mitchell,
internal injuries and shock.
Miss Ann Kidd, Braddock, Md,
shock.
James Routzahn. 26, Frederick,
head and back injuries and shock.
Boy Seriously Hurt.
In Washington, seven persons were
injured in one accident and a boy
was hurt seriously when struck by
an automobile.
The boy, James Brennan, jr., 10,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Bren-
nan, 468 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, is under treatment at Casu-
atty Hospital for body cuts and pos
sible internal injuries, police said.
He was struck, according to police,
at Sixth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV. yesterday afternoon by
an automobile which had gone
through a red light. The motorist,
Ira j. Farmer, colored, 81, of the
300 block of F street S.W., was
charged with passing a red light,
police said.
The seven were injured when one
automobile overturned after collid-
ing with another at Twenty eighth
street and Dumbarton avenue NV.
yesterday, police reported.
Charged With Lacking Permit.
Emmett F. Schindell, 10, of Edge
moor, Md driver of the overturned
car, was charged by police with
operating "a vehicle without a Dis
trict permit. His car collided with
an automobile driven by Miss Jeanne
Pons, 20, of ATS Forty-seventh
street NV. police reported.
Those injured, all of whom were
treated at Emergency Hospital,
were:
Mr.. Schindell, bruises to the right
leg.
His Wife, Mrs. Lillian Schindell,
Is, leg bruises.
Lawrence Briggs, %, Baltimore,
head bruises.
Mrs. Margaret Briggs, 1s, Balti-
more. shoulder bruises.
Miss Patricia, Pons, IS, of the
Forty-seventh street address, hip
bruises.
Miss Jane Smith. II, 1868 Rodman
street NV. bruises.
Miss Pat Pvatt, 1S, the Davenport
Terrace Apartments, body bruises.
Mr.. and Mrs. Briggs were riding
with the Schindells, police said,
while the others were in Miss Pons
car.
Trial in Lowe Staying