Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Woman, IS, Injured
lin Auto Accident,
Dies Of Heart Attack

The death of 75-year-old woman
last night after she was slightly
injured in an automobile accident
was attributed to a heart attack
brought on by shock, the coroner's
Office said today.
She was Mrs. Lolita Alvord, ST.,
TO South Wayne street, Arlington.
wife OF Charles H. Alvord, sr., a
retired Agriculture Department:
e:nploye.
Police also reported a score of
minor accidents early today as.
drivers had trouble with streets
made slippery by the snow. Two
police scout cars were among the
vehicles involved in accidents, police
said. =
Husband Driving Car.
Mrs. Alvord was a passenger in.
an automobile driven by her husband
which had a collision with a Griffith
Consumers tank truck at South;
Capitol and M streets late yesterday
afternoon. She was taken to Emer-:
gency Hospital for minor head in
jur1es and died there shortly after
ward. Mr.. Alvord, IA, was not
injured.
Police listed the driver of the
truck as Clyde F. Carter. 81, of 214
Twelfth place NE.
Besides her husband. Mrs. Alvord
Is survived by son. Charles H. AL
word, IT., Arlington; a daughter.
Mrs, A. j. Weaver, Alexandria. and
two sisters, Mrs. Nina Williams and
Inez Konecny, both of Texas.
Mrs. Alvord Is the fourth traffic
this year, police said. At
the same time last year five per-
sons had been killed in traffic acct
dents. The total traffic deaths last
year was Y.
Man Seriously Hurt.
In serious condition at Casualty
Hospital after being struck by an
automobile yesterday while he was
crossing Seventeenth street and
Benning road NE. is Joseph C.
Wheeler, IS, colored, of 1910 Ninth
street NV. Doctors at the hospital
said he had a fractured skull
The driver of the automobile was
listed as Mrs. Susan g. Bull, 80, of
1880 Rhode Island avenue NE.
A collision early today on snow
covered Connecticut avenue near
Twenty fourth street NV. sent
Policeman George w. Bromley Of
the eighth precinct to Emergency
Hospital with head injuries. His
condition was described as fair.
Driver of the other vehicle in
volved in the accident was John H.
Kalivretenos, 10, of 1341 Girard
street NV, police reported. He was
uninjured.
Another police scout car was in
volved in three-vehicle crash today
at Thirteenth and M streets NV,
police reported. No one was injured.
Truck Hits Taxi.
A truck, driven by Robert n.
Cohen, 20, of 4229 Walbridge place
NV, hit the rear of a taxicab, OPP
Grated by Ralph M. Hendricks, 80,
Of 419 Sixth street NV, police said.
The taxi then skidded into the rear
of the police scout car which had
stopped at the intersection. The
driver Of the police car was Pvt.
George c. Offutt Of the second pre-
.einct. A passenger in the taxi,
Tessie G. Pappia, 80, Of 1915 M street
NV, was taken to Emergency Hos
pital, but released after examination.
Another two-car crash last night
demolished a traffic light control
box at Fifth street and Florida ave-
nue NE, police reported.
William Stewart, %, colored, Of
the 1000 block of Nineteenth place
Sc, the driver Of one car, was
charged with driving while drunk
after being sent to Gallinger Hos
pital for head injuries, police said.
A passenger, Roger Stewart, colored.
of the $500 block Of Alabama avenue
Sc, was charged by police with be-
ing drunk.
The other car, driven by Raymond
E. Brown, 43, colored, 1852 Fifth
street NE, skidded into the signal
box after the crash, police reported.