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being called by Mrs. Titus. The
father also praised Patrolman Rob-
ert Payne, who was the first police
man to arrive and who jerked of
his coat, grabbed shovel and
started digging
The father estimated 1t was about
a half hour before rescuers were
able to get an oxygen hose down
through the heavy clay and gravel
bank piled above his son.
Then I shouted to them not to
tell my wife until they got me out, "
young Mr.. Bryant said last night.
"All thought of was to relax and
wait.
1T wasn't really as bad as ID
sounds but l guess I'm a pretty
lucky guy" he grinned.
Young Mr.. Bryant served four
years with the Marines. most of 1t
at Quantico as an instructor in a
bomb disposal unit. He is a grad
uate of George Washington High
School, Alexandria. He has two
children, Martha Louise 3, and
Robin Lee Bryant. 2.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Liquor Board Cashier
Held in Montgomery
In $4,000 Shortage

The cashier of the beer division
Montgomery County Liquor Con-
troll Board, was charged by Mont
gomery County Police yesterday
with embezzlement in the theft OF
approximately $4,000 in liquor
board funds.
Detectives said Charles W. EN-
brey, 81, r. F. D. 2. Rockville, had
signed a statement in which he
admitted taking funds between July
1947, and last Tuesday, by making
false entries in his books involving
empty beer kegs.
Embrey was lodged in the Rock
vile Jail IN default of $1,000 bond
pending a hearing at 10 am, De-
cember Z. in Silver Spring Police
Court.
Start With Sl20 Shortage.
He was charged with embezzling
s120 last Tuesday, but detectives
said additional charges of taking
funds on other dates will be placed
against him when a complete audit
of beer division accounts is COM
pleted.
The losses were discovered on the
completion Friday of the boards
regular monthly audit, according te
j. Forest Walker, board chairman
Mr.. Walker said the audit showed
a discrepancy in the inventory OF
empty beer kegs"
The board chairman said that
when Embrey was confronted with
the audit report, he confessed his
responsibility for the shortage. The
cashier was suspended Immediately
from his $3.100-a-year job. Mr.
Walker said. The exact amount OF
the shortage cannot be determined
until a complete audit is made OF
the record, he added.
No loss will be suffered by the
board since Embrey was covered by
a $4,000 bond, Mr.. Walker said
Embrey, whose legs are paralyzed
has been with the board about seven
years and was assigned to its beel
warehouse at Linden, near Silver
Spring.
Helped Support Family.
Inspector James S. McAuliffe, and
Detective Sergt. James Anderson
said Embrey told them he had spen,
most of the money to help support
his parents and three sisters. They
live on the Raymond Morton farm
near Potomac, where his father
works. He spent the rest OF the
funds for "taxicab rides and liquor,
the detective quoted him as saying
Police said he gave the following
account of the method he used
in embezzling the money:
Drivers for the liquor board pick
up empty beer kegs from tavern
operators. They pay the operators
Sc for each empty keg and turn In
slip to Embrey for the amount
they had paid out.
When Embrey entered the num-
ber of kegs turned in on his books,
he would enter more kegs than
we're actually returned and pocket
the difference between what he re-
paid the drivers and what was paid
to him by the board for the kegs.
Detectives said Embrey told them
he made between 5000 and $40O
extra every two weeks.
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Prince Georges Group
Sponsors Radio Panel

A panel discussion about County
Government" will be presented by
the League of Women Voters of
Prince Georges County on their
weekly radio program over Station
WGAY at 9:45 am. tomorrow.
The panel will be composed OF
Mrs. l.. l.. Woodman, Mrs, James
H. Coffey and Mrs. Georgia Ben
iamin.
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coming in for normal landing
when it crashed about 100 yards
short of the runway.
The base said its control tower
was In radio communication with
1t. Meinzen until he crashed. The
plane did not burn.
1t was the first jet plane fatality
at Andrews, although other pilots
based there have been killed else
where on training flights. The last
such accident was May S when It.
Robert j. Kovar was killed near
Richmond, Va.
1t. Meinzen had been based at
Andrews since June 2 of this year.
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DistrictMustAsk
New Law 10 Set
Up Civil Defense
Present Code Contains
Only Vague Authority
To Mobilize Residents

The Commissioners will have to
ask Congress for a law authorizing
civil defense mobilization If the
District is to comply with recon-
mendations of the Hopley civil de-
Tense report, Assistant Corporation
Counsel Oliver Gasch said last night.
Mr.. .Gasch has made an informal
study of the report on how the
Nations civilians should be pre-
pared for modern warfare. He said
the District Code contains only one
vague reference which might be ap-
piled to the recommendations.
This section permits the Commits
sioners to organize special polics
in event of pestilence, civil disturb
ance, rioting or in case of a public
celebration. Mr.. Gasch said it
could not be construed to cover the
many suggestions embodied in the
report made to Defense Secretary
Forrestal last week by Russell J.
Mopley's Office OF Civil Defense
Planning.
To Meet on Special Police.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
the Commissioners plan to take up
again Tuesday the recommendation
of Police Superintendent Robert J.
Barrett that special police reserve
corps be set up here in connection
with the planning of civilian de-
fense for Washington.
The Corporation Counsel's Office.
it was reported. has sent the city
heads an opinion that most-but
not all-of Maj. Barrett's recommen-
dations be adopted. One stipulation
of the city law departments opin-
ion, it was said, is that Maj. Barrett
be permitted to organize and train
the reservists but that they not be
called out for service unless an act
ual emergency exists.
This opinion. if followed by the
Commissioners, would prevent use
of the reservists for practice black
outs or any other exercise short of
an actual attack on Washington.
Contains Model for Act.
Mr.. Gasch pointed out that the
Hopley report contains a model ver-
sion of Civil Defense Act for use
by the several States if necessary.
Something along the same lines, he
said. probably would be necessary
for the District if the provisions of
the report are to be followed here,
The model law would authorize
creation of q State (DiStricD Civil
Defense Agency, confer emergency
powers on the executive heads of
political subdivision and provide for
the rendering of mutual aid between
political subdivisions in carrying out
civil defense functions
1t would provide that all civil de-
fense functions of the District be
co-ordinated with the comparable
functions of the Federal Govern
ment and other States and private
agencies of every type.
Gen. Young Studying Report.
The act would authorize specific
establishment of local organizations
for civil defense including a Mobile
Reserve Battalion and the same sort
of police reserve corps proposed by
Maj Barrett.
Mr.. Gasch said the Commissioners
have not requested the Corporation
Counsel's Office to prepare such leg
islation Engineer Commissioner
Gordon r. Young. however, has
been studying the Hopley report for
week and probably will make rec
mendations to Commissioners John
Russell Young and Guy Mason
within another weeks time.
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6. of 6. Will Discuss
MARYLAND Rood Plans

Road plans for nearby Maryland
will be discussed by speakers at the
monthly dinner meeting Of the
Prince Georges County Chamber of
Commerce at 7 pm. tomorrow at
the Prince Georges Golf and Country
Club.
County Engineer Arthur w. Tay-
man will report on work being
carried on in the county under its
special Metropolitan District Inn
provement Program. William r,
Childs, chief engineer of the Mary
land State Roads Commission, wiz
speak on the States highway sysS
TEN. .s...s- H.. = ,,,zs.e3- -. .
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Wartime Pilot Dies
In First JET Crash
Al Andrews Base

A 24-year-old wartime pilot was
killed early yesterday afternoon
when his F-S0 jet plane crashed at
Andrews Air Force Base.
He was 1t. Robert w. Meinzen, OF
Oakland, Calf, veteran OF 81
months of European air fighting
He held the Air Medal with six
clusters. He was married and had
been living with his wife at the
air base.
The fighter plane had taken of
on a routine flight about noon. Base
officials said, and apparently was
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to be paid by the DlStrlct dealCE
Department to Washington hospi-
tails. The City Council has beer
asked to raise the rate next year te
at least 1851, the present cost tc
the hospital for caring for one pa
tient for one day. The hospital esti-
mates there will be about 5000 days
of such care, which would cost the
city about $4,000.
These are three factors, common
at many hospitals. which are keep
ing patient per-day cost so high:
l. Hospital expenses jumped from
S465 ,839 during the eight-month Pc
riod from February to September
1947, to s523,371 for the same period
this year.
2. Fewer patients during the pc
riod were in the hospital this year
to pay bills.
Most Beds in Wards.
3. More than 100 of the hospitals
1863 beds are in wards. These are
billed at So a day. as compared with
SO for the "a semiprivate rooms, and
$ll and $12 for the 81 private rooms,
thereby bringing in less income.
Comparing hospital expenses with
operating income during the eight
months, the hospital reported an
operating deficit of s47,159. Oficials
estimate this loss will reach 10000
for the entire year.
At the same time, Mr.. Adams said
the hospital has debts to suppliers
for September and October alone
that total s26.SOO. About s7S,50t
still is owed to banks. The hospital
also is paying a $4,000 debt tc
the Government for a construction
project in l943, when the institu.
ton was expanded from 100 to 16s
beds. In addition the hospital ha.
borrowed $4,000 from its endow.
ment fund.
These long-term debts were q
principal cause for the hospitals
drive last year to raise 100000 in
voluntary contributions. While 1882
TOO was pledged, officials said, $87, :
l57 of that amount is still to be COL
lected.
Campaign Cost S31, 900.
The money raised in the fund and
collected was used to pay s26, SOC
toward the debt owed banks and
S3l, 900 to other creditors. Another
s3l, 900 represented costs Of the
campaign, officials said.
In a survey carried out last yeaI
by DR.. J. R. Clemmons of Roosevelt
Hospital, New York, the hospital was
criticized for borrowing from the
endowment fund and for what II
said were faulty collection methods
1t also hit at the accounting system
complaint that has applied in
surveys to nearly all Washington
area hospitals.
In a move to raise funds, the
hospital last month put up for sale
building at 706 Duke street. neal
the hospital, which officials hao
hoped to convert into a nurses resi-.
dence hall. Value of the property
officials said. is about $4,000.
The hospital also raised rates fol
all its rooms 81 last month.
In his letter to the council. Mr.
Haddock said the paying patient IL
doing all he can to pay his own bill
THE paying patient" he added
"can no longer assume this CON-
munity responsibility
Other hospital leaders will look
with interest to the community
anSWAr
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Budget Bureau
GetsEstimatefor
DC. This Week
' Requests Now Pared
J To Approximate Citys
Anticipated Revenue

The Districts 1850 budget esti-
mates. cut by the Commissioners to
a figure approximating the city's
anticipated revenue, will be sent to
the Federal Budget Bureau this
week, sbudget officials revealed last
night.
The budget is confidential, OBJ
servers at the District Building,
however, speculated when the Com
missioners began pairing that the
s110,188,648 estimates would have
to be cut by $13,443,376 to balance
the books.
The extent to which the Com
missioners have cut the department
heads estimates will not be re-
yealed until President Truman sends
the budget message to Congress In
January.
Failure of the last Congress to
pass a proposed District sales tax
law, plus rising costs, forced the
city heads to issue an unprecedented
economy order last summer when
preliminary budget estimates were
being prepared. When these esti-
mates reached an impossible figure,
the Commissioners ordered even
more drastic cutting.
Expected Revenue 96 Million.
The result was the $110.188 ,648
estimate. This compares to the
Districts anticipated revenue in
fiscal 1850 of S96 546.141. Most OF
sl3,443.376 deficit would exist in the
general fund if Congress were to
pass the estimates as they stood
before the Commissioners began
cutting.
The solution favored by the Com
missioners to the city,s fiscal ills Is
a 3 per cent sales tax with elimina-
ton from District income tax
liability of all persons earning S.
600 a year or less. This bill was
killed at the last session by the
opposition of Senator Johnson,
Democrat, of South Carolina, but
it is considered likely that Con-
eressional sponsors can punch the
law through at the next session.
Failure of Congress to grant the
sales tax prevented the Districts
employees from receiving the $3.50
year Federal pay raise granted to
other Government employees. The
District had no other way to raise
the money to meet the pay increase.
Ifa sales tax law is passed, budget
officials believe, it will be possible
to follow through with pay raise
for District employees. Other econ
omies would have to be effected.
however. because the first year OF
sales tax would not provide the
city with full 12-months' revenue.
"CIean" Copies Now In.
Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler
had hoped to get the revised budget !
into the hands of the Budget Bu-
reau by November Is. The public |
hearing. however, was not held
until October 81 and the closed
executive sessions between the city
heads and the department execu-
tives began the next day.
The Commissioners made their
cuts in the next two weeks but the
marked-up budget estimates had to
be returned to the department
heads for study and rewriting. The
"clean" copies now are all in and
the document is ready for trans
mission to the Federal Bureau.
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P-TA Meeting Planned
At Swanson Junior Hiqh

Claude A. Richmond, principal Of
Washington-Lee High School, Arl-
ington, will discuss courses offered
by the school at a meeting of the
Parent Teachers Association of the
Claude A. Swanson Junior High
School at pm. Tuesday in the
Swanson auditorium, $500 North
Washington boulevard. -,
Others speakers will inksdde: !:
Clinton Cone. assistant pri cipal
and Misses Barbara Tillsont and
Alice Bolton, Of Washington-Lee
High School. a. !,
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DR.. BIockweIder to Speak

The Rev. DR.. Oscar F. Black
welder of the Church of the Refor-
nation will speak on THE Depend
ence of Democracy upon Religion
At a meeting of the Arlington For.
est Citizens Associate at 8 pm.
Tuesday in the Arlfston Forest
Methodist Church, Lac boulevard
and North Henderson road.
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DR.. Palmer to Give TuIk

DR.. C. F. Palmer. president of the
PRINCE Georges County Council OF
Parent Teacher Associations, will
speak at 7:3O pm. Tuesday at a
meeting of the Hyattsville Cooper
ative Kindergarten in the First
Methodist Church, Hyattsville.
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Silver Spring Group
To Hear, Mrs. Himsteod

Mrs. Ralph E. Himstead, former
president of the Montgomery Coun-
ty League of Women Voters and a
director of the Charter Committee
will speak at a meeting of the
Allied Civic Group of Silver Spring
at 8 pm. tomorrow, in the hear
ing room of the Liquor Dispensary
Building, Colesville road.
President Victor J. Richter said
the group is scheduled to recon-
mend candidates for the county
council
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GuiId Sponsors Dinner

The St. Peters Church Guild will
sponsor Thanksgiving Day dinner
from 1890 to $3.50 pm. Thursday
at the Beallsville (MdD Firehouse
on Route %.
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Glenn Dole PTA t3Meet

The Glenn Dale tNJ Paren'
Teacher Association VIII meet
Is pm. tomorrow ct the school.
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a man with whom he worked
and who lived at the sanctu-
ary-died.
The sanctuary is a treas
ureful laboratory for stu
dents of wild life and bird
lovers. Besides the ducks (see
diagram, 4 great variety of
birds make this their resi-
dence. either permanent or
temporary. They include the
Canada geese. herrings and
ring-billed gulls: bald eagles,
red-tailed hawks, ospreys.
black-crowned night herons
and great blue herons, car
dinals, wrens. catbirds. mock
ingbirds and song sparows.
In summer, according to
Park Naturalist w. Drew
Chick. the refuge is host to
the American egret, a plume
bird which. thanks to the Gu
pidity of hat manufacturers,
almost became extinct at the
turn of the century and is
now making a comeback.
The sanctuary's year-'round
residents are the wood ducks
and the gulls. eagles. hawks,
herons and ospreys. The
birds love to pluck at the wild
rice and rushes abounding in
the area. but when cold
weather cleans out that food
bin. the offerings of Mr.. Rowe
keep them from starving. Not
even the din from the nearby
airport discourages the feath-
cred colony. A. giant C-54
casting its shadow from over
head could be just another
bird coming in for a handout,
for all they care. IS. B.
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oppeof ot the Rooches Run sanctuary They with the
mole soneNf,ot iosoer ff,on the femolel: t1 Pntot
", wood duck. I'D convos- -bock fAI noiord t5l one
moe ond femole red,eods t6l oseoter scop t7t ring
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The Sunday sto' Pictorial
Treasure Of Wild Life
At Reaches Run

lust OFF the Mount Ver-
- non Memorial Boulevard,
below the Railroad Bridge, is
a l20-acre stretch of marsh
land whose population scars
in winter like a beach resort
along the Gulf Stream.
Birds flock here by the hun
dreds for Government hand
outs of wheat and cracked
corn because in wintertime
things in the food department
are tough all over this part of
the country. So the normal
year-'round population of
marsh dwelling birds Is null
tiplied by the advent of trav-
cling birds which sense that
this is a tourist home. If ever
there was one.
The Reaches Run Water
Fowl Sanctuary has been d
haven for birds for the past
IA years. Under the super
vision of the National Capital
Parks. its only attendant is
Abbie Rowe. an Interior De-
partment photographer, who
for the past seven years has
undertaken the extra-duty
task of feeding the birds each
day between the first snap of
cold weather and early spring.
Early each morning. on his
way to work from his Alex
andria home, he stops by the
sanctuary and distributes the
grain. Even on days when he
doesn't work, he goes out to
feed the birds. With him it's
a labor'Of love. He is. he says,
interested in wild life and he
likes birds. He took on the
chore when his predecessor
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Auxiliary
Activities
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Gift Shops Planned
For Disabled Veterans

Plans for Christmas gift shops
in veterans hospitals throughout
the country are being completed
by the American Legion Auxili-
airy, Mrs. Almeda Paisley, reha-
Utilization chairman of Laurel unit
of the Auxiliary, has announced.
The Laurel unit will participate
in the gift shop to be operated
by the Montana department of
the Auxiliary at Fort Harrison
hospital.
The gift shops make it possible
for disabled veterans with little
or no funds to send Christmas
gifts home to their families. Gift
articles of all kinds. including
toys and games for children, are
contributed by the Auxiliary and
made available to the veterans
without charge. They are gift
wrapped by the Auxiliary and
mailed to the veterans home in
time to arrive for Christmas.
The shops are set up in a room
in the hospital where veterans
able to leave their beds can come
and make selections for the men,
bers of their families. Hospital
carts loaded with gifts articles
are taken to the bedsides of those
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News Items

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. V. Tisor spent
Sunday as guests of friends in
Huntley.
Mrs. r. M. Gregg of Dillon is
visiting this week at the home
of her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Brohaugh.
Margaret Scheeler was named
president of the Laurel high
school Girls Athletic Association
at a recent election. Other G.. A.
A. officers are Loretta Leiss, vice
president; Veda Slater, secretary,
and Jean Harper, S. A. c.. repre-
sentative. Captains of the three
softball teams are Betty Brese,
Margaret Scheeler and Veda Stat
err.
Mrs. L. r. Shay, who has been
a patient the past week at the
Deaconess hospital in Billings, is
expected to be released from the
hospital and to return home
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. C. Hayes were
guests v e the week end of Mrs.
Hayes parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mike Beslanowitch. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hayes, formerly of Butte, have
moved to Billings to reside.
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unable to. come to the shop. Aux
iliary volunteers operate the
shops, and wrap and mail the
gifts. The project brings to the
disabled veterans a share in the
joy of Christmas giving and
gives them the comfort of know
ing that their families are not
forgotten on Christmas day.
Last Christmas the Auxiliary
gift shops were operated in 136
hospitals, with expenditures for
the project totaling $350,731.77.
This was in addition to the Christ
mas gifts given by the Auxiliary
to the veterans themselves. In
all of it's Christmas activities for
more than 100000 veterans who
spent last Christmas in the hos
the Auxiliary expended
$750,000.
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Mrs. Bob Colby was taken II
a Billings hospital Friday for al
emergency appendicitis operation
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Lewis OF
Billings spent the week end with
their daughter. Mrs. p. w. Rob-
erts. and Mr.. Roberts.
Kenneth Eastlick, a senior at
the Bozeman college. spent the
week end with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Dan Eastlick.
Guests Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. l.. Dunsworth were Mrs.
Thelma Gebo. MI. and Mrs. S.
B. Flood and son of Billings and
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Frank and
son.
Guests at the S. T. Flood home
Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. G..
M. Whitmyer of Billings, Mrs. H.
d. Tompkins and Mrs. Helen
Braun.
Alfred Coat of Billings was an
over night guest of his aunt,
Mrs. H. d. Tompkins, Friday.
Laurel outlook., 1948-11-10
PARK CITY
Republican Party
Leads In Election

! Park City, Nov. 11.-Voters
here favored Republican Thomas
E. Dewey for president at the
general election last week. The
vote was Dewey. 40; Harry S.
Truman. Democrat, 90; Henry A.
Wallace, Progressive. Z.
For governor the vote was Sam
C. Ford (R), 1877; John w. Bon
ner CD, 119.
For U. S. Senator Murray (D),
121; Davis, 119.
For superintendent of public
instruction: Ireland (R). 1877;
Condor (D). 103.
Both referendum measures car
ried.
Election judges were C. V.
Eastlick, Lloyd Eastlick, C. Y.
Moser, Ralph Story and John
Eisenman.