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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-04

DDT busting OF Cities Doesn't Help
In Polio Control, State Officials Say

Aerial busting of cities has not
proved effective in the control Of
poliomeitis, the Ohio Department Of
Health announced last week.
Spraying DOT from airplanes is
not the proper method of insect CON
troll in urban areas, according to DIR.
Charles r. Freeble, Jr., of the Di-
vision of Communicable Diseases.
Insect control may or may not
be a factor in polio, but it is an i'm
portant health measure" he said.
s'However, it must be a continuing
project-one which gets insecticides
into garbage pals and other breed
ing places not accessible to air
planes.
DR.. Freeble pointed out that a
controlled experiment in DDT dust
ing failed to produce results in last
years Texas polio outbreak. more
cases were reported in the busted
area than in the undusted portions
of the test city," he said.
"The only thing certain about the
control of polio is that nothing def
mite is known about it," DR.. Freeble
said. 1--WE can only assume that
polio is spread like the other virus
diseases We therefore attack it by
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-04

employing the general rules of
good health.
Keep clean. Avoid fatigue. Stay
away from water which might be
polluted, both for swimming and
drinking. Avoid crowds. Get plen-
ty of rest.
observance of these rules is eff
fective in avoiding the diseases we
we know how to combat" he said.
"There is much evidence that they
also are effective against POLIO"
First cases of poliomelitis this sea-
son have been reported in the north
west portion of the state. There
have been % cases, 10 of which oc-
Cured from January l to July /
according to Ohio Department OF
Health records.
The outbreak is far from epidemic
officials said. The area is under
close observation and all possible re-
sources are being used to prevent q
major outbreak.
However, health and aviation affi'
cials agreed that the small possibil.
ity that aerial dusting is an effective
preventative does not offset the fa1
greater danger of low-fying aircraft
over populated area.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-04

1850 as compared with $1,000 in
194S.
The cutback in wheat production
quotas was ordered in "a states by
Secretary of Agriculture Charles F.
Brannan, in order to stay within a
national allotment of 68,900,00O
acres.
On a national scale, the cut back
averages II per cent, with Ohio's
average reduction set at II per
cent. Allen county's cutback, how
ever, will amount to only 10.5 pei
cent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-04

Two farms will be hosts to II
potato Field Day to be held In
northeastern Ohio. They are the
Firestone Farms and the Agnew
Farms located in Mahoning and Co.
lumbiana counties.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-04

There are approximately $50 acres
of strip cropping and contour layout
on the Apple Creek State Farm,
scene of the 1949 Conservation Field
Days, August 1924.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Smoke Affects 7 Fighting
Seat Pleasant Club Fire

A two-alarm fire last night dam
aged the Club Hillbilly, Central
avenue and Addison road, Seat
Pleasant.
The blaze was reported by two
cruising Prince Georges County
policemen who saw smoke and
flames coming from the second
floor Offices about 10 o'clock. The
pair, Pvts. Carl Keech and Jesse
Turner, radioed for f1remen.
Two f1remen were affected by
smoke and we're treated on the
scene by the District Heights res
cue squad. They are Joe Weeks,
%, of the Boulevard Heights Fire
Department, and Robert Moran,
"a, of the Seat Pleasant Fire De-
partment.
Cause of the fire was undeter-
mined. The club is operated by
a corporation headed by Connie
B. Gay, hillbilly entertainer. Sew
eral months ago, after two con-
victions of selling beer to minors,
the corporation voluntarily sur
rendered its license to the Prince
Georges Board of License Com
missioners. Later it obtained a
license as private club.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
JoiIing Overnight
In Arlington Held
ToVioIote Rights

The question of whether mans
civil rights are violated when he is
jailed overnight without first being
given an opportunity to make
bond or go before a magistrate.
today was under consideration in
Arlington.
Judge Hugh Reid, who indicated
the case affects our entire court
procedure" withheld a decision
yesterday in County Court after a
hearing on a motion to dismiss
driving while drunk charges
against William A. Ring, 33.
colored, 900 block of Twenty-sixth
street NV.
According to his attorney, Homer
Randolph Thomas. Ring was ar
rested at 3:45 pm. and jailed at
4:07 pm. February 9. He was not
released until the next morning
when he was admitted to $500 bail.
Although most Virginia cities
and counties have justices of the
peace available at all hours to
issue warrants and set bond. Judge
Reid said the law does not provide
for justices in Arlington.
Collateral cannot be posted for
driving while drunk. Release is
possible only under bond.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
500 Oppose Building Code
In Fairfax County Meeting

Opposition to proposed Fair
fax County building code was ex-
pressed last night by an esti-
mated 500 persons who attended
a meeting in the Fairfax High
School.
The group adopted a resolu-
ton which will be presented to
the County Board of Supervisors
meeting March 16 when the code
is scheduled to be acted on. The
measure declared the group is
"unalterably opposed to the code.
Former State Senator John w.
Rust offered the suggestion on
which the resolution was based.
Chairman Walter c. Grain of
Mount Vernon district, who pre-
sided, will name a special COM
mittee to present the resolution
to the board.
Speakers asserted the suggested
code has many unavoidable fea-
lures. They criticized the super
visors "for not properly notifying"
citizens of the proposed adoption
and for failing to allow "sufh-
cient time" for study of the regu-
Ilations.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Mrs. KeIeher Invited
With LaughIin TO See
Prince Georges Jury

Mrs. Anna T. Keleher and At
torney James j. Laughlin have
been invited to appear before the
April term of the Prince Georges
County grand jury to tell what
they know about gambling activi-
ties in the county.
The invitation was issued yes
terday by States Attorney A..
Gwynn Bowie, who referred to
Mr.. Laughlin's charges of pro-
tected gambling across the Dis
trict line.
In a telegram to Gov. Lane OF
Maryland, Mr.. Laughlin charged
that testimony during a District
divorce trial would show Prince
Georges County authorities were
in collusion with gamblers oper-
ating openly in the county. The
telegram was sent in January.
Divorce Suit Dismissed.
At the time, Mrs. Keleher was
seeking a limited divorce from
John B. blackjack Keleher, re-
tired District gambler. Judge Ed
ward A. Tamm dismissed the suit,
in which Mrs. Keleher was repre-
sented by Mr.. Laughlin.
Mr.. Bowie wrote Mr.. Laughlin
yesterday that Gov. Lane had
referred the charges to him and
that a representative of his Of
flee had been sent to the trial to
hear testimony.
THE testimony, in my opinion,
Mr.. Bowie said. failed to disclose
the extensive gambling opera
tions =" by the alleged gamblers
that you Informed Gov. Lane
would be developed. The testimony
bearing on the subject in question
consisted solely of certain state
ments made by Mrs. Keleher, to
large extent purely hearsay and
wholely uncorroborated and con-
tradicted by other witnesses. "
Further Information Sought.
Mr.. Bowie added that even II
Mrs. Keleher's testimony were
true and reliable it did not indi-
cate any extensive gambling oper-
alton and did not suggest any
"mutinous defiance" of constituted
authority.
The States attorney said, how
ever, that Mrs. Kelehers state
ments were too serious to be
passed over lightly and, for that
reason, he asked that she and Mr.
Laughlin appear before the grand
jury to give whatever information
they might have on any. gambling
or corruption in the county.
Mr.. Bowie said he could arrange
for their appearance on April 6
z or 8.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
By T. N. Mcdowell

A rare insect winging its way
near Naturalist John May is Ii
able to encounter anything from
a shotgun blast to spiked banana
juice.
Some locusts are like quail" "
explained Mr.. May, here with
10000 insects for the Sportsmen's
Show at the National Guard Ar
mory. They fly away before you
can get near them. We shoot
them down with a small-bore
shotgun loaded with fine sand"
He pointed to a case Of vari-
colored high-fying South Amer
ican insects that were felled in
this way. Tiny holes were visible
through the wings.
Some of the high-f1ying va
rieties we have to make drunk to
CATCH" he explained. I'VE fix up
a mixture of fermented banana
Juice, beer and whisky. A native
smears some on a high tree limb.
The moths eat it and are stunned
long enough to grab them"
Other tropical creatures he has
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Car PIunges Into Tavern;
z Held on Drunk Charges

Two Maryland men were
charged with being drunk last
night after their car crashed into
a tavern at 9948 Georgia avenue,
Silver Spring.
One of them, William T. Griffin,
%, Maple View drive. Kensington,
also was charged with driving
while drunk, according to Silver
Spring police. The passenger was
booked as Charles j. Hogan, "a,
Viers Mills road, Rockville.
Police reported nine persons
escaped unhurt when the auto
mobile rammed through the front
wall and came to rest against the
bar railing minutes before mid
night.
A hearing on the charges was
set for 10 am. March Is, in Silver
Spring police court.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Virginia Rearranges
County Highway Setup
speeioI pispoteh TO The Stor

RICHMOND, Va. Mar. 3.-In a
move to give increased attention
to the road problems of Prince
William, Fairfax and Arlington
Counties, the State Highway De-
partment today announced a re-
arrangement of its administrative
setup in these counties.
Responsibility for road work in
Prince William has been shifted
from the residency Office at Fair
fax to the Warrenton Office.
Previously. Prince William, Fair
fax and Arlington had come under
the supervision of the resident en-
gineer at Fairfax.
An assistant resident engineer
will be appointed to work with
j. E. johnson, resident engineer
at Warrenton. Either Mr.. john
son or his assistant will spend at
least one day a week in Manassas
to discuss highway matters with
Prince William citizens and Off
cials.
Fairfax Resident Engineer j. H.
Phillips will have time for greater
concentration on the road prob
lens of Fairfax and Arlington
Counties. The Fairfax Office will
retain it's present assistant resi-
dent engineer and, in addition. an
inspector will be appointed to
work with the growing problem of
subdivision streets in Fairfax
County.
Before the change, effected
Tuesday, the Warrenton residency
was responsible for the roads only
of Fauquier and Rappahannock
COMMITTEES
Evening star., 1949-03-03
County Delegates Hold
Hearing on Bill 10 Alter
Status Of Morningside
BY a Stor Staff Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3.-Apposing
arguments over proposed legisla-
ton to incorporate Morningside
were being studied today by the
Prince Georges County delegation
to the General Assembly.
Approximately IS residents of
the 384-home community appeared
before the delegation at hearing
last night.
The bill provides for election of
a f1ve-member council, with the
one receiving the most votes to be
named Mayor. It also provides
for a town tax rate not to exceed
so cents per $100.
Referendum Proposed.
A referendum on the proposal
would be held May Is.
E. A. Glenn, spokesman for the
bills supporters. said incorpora-
ton would enable the residents tc
obtain essential services at less
cost.
He estimated the 50-cent tax
rate along with the municipality s
share of the State income, licenS-
ing and gasoline taxes and racing
revenues would bring the town be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 an.
nually.
Those opposing the bill con-
tended it would place an addi-
tional tax burden on the residents
which they were unable to pay
Tax Seen at Limit.
From Maxwell H. Black came
the statement that I'VE are taxee
now as much as our salaries car
stand"
Another opponent. Casey P
Rogers, charged the proposal hac
been advanced by a minority o1
poWer-crazed people which woulc
bring hardship on U.s."
At the conclusion of the hear
ing, Delegate Leroy Pumphrey
suggested a survey be made o
the area to be incorporated anc
that the bill be discussed with
DR.. Horace P. Flack, director o.
the State Department of Legis'
lative Reference, Ito take the bugs
out of it."
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Reeves Urges Shift
OF zoning 10 County
To Aid Enforcement

Enforcement of zoning regula-
tions In Montgomery County can
never be attained as long as there
is diversified control, John R.
Reeves, a member of the county
delegation to the Maryland Gen
eral Assembly, last night told the
Silver Spring Board of Trade.
Mr.. Reeves and other delegation
members were guests of the trade
group at a dinner meeting at the
Indian Springs Country Club.
The legislator said he advocated
the transfer of zoning regulations
and their enforcement from the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission to the
Montgomery County Council be-
cause complete home rule with all
responsibility in county matters is
essential if the new charter is to
work.
Among those who took excep-
ton to mis- remarks was E. Brooke
Lee, vice chairman of the park and
planning commission.
Mr.. Lee charged Mr.. Reeves
with telling only half the story.
He asserted that the all-Repub-
'lican delegation, in office for
three years. has not offered legis-
lation to improve any county
services, except to advocate shift
ing of controls for political rea-
sons
Plans for proposed legislation
designed to give Silver Spring
and Bethesda proportionate
share of State-collected funds al
located to the county under pro-
visions of the Sherbow Act were
outlined by De Witt S. Hyde,
member of the House of Dele
gates.
State Senator Roy Tasco Davis
urged support of Gov Lanes pro-
gram for State aid for education
and mental institutions. He as
sured the group the entire dele
CATION is in favor of reducing the
corporate taxes, but predicted
that the 4 per cent corporate tax
would not be changed this year.
Einar B. Christensen, trade
board president, presided. Speak
ers were introduced by Anders
R. Lofstrand, chairman of the
! legislative delepatinn.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Six Arlington Church Choir!
To Take Part in Festival

Choirs of six Arlington churches
will take part in the county's first
Interracial Church Choir Festi-
val at 4:30 pm. Sunday at Arling-
ton Methodist Church, Eighth
street and South Glebe road.
The program is being sponsored
by the Interracial Commission of
the Arlington Council of Churches.
Participating choirs will be those
of Faith Lutheran, Mount Zion
Baptist, Clarendon Methodist, st.
Johns Baptist. Lomax A.M.E., and
Arlington Methodist Churches.
Each choir will be heard sep
arately. singing two anthems.
Then the combined choirs, directed
by Warner Lawson, dean OF the
Howard University School OF
Music. will sing "Adoramus TIE" "
LET Us Break Bread Together
and THE Battle Hymn of the Re-
public
The Interracial Commission
plans to make the festival an an
nual event.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Baby Burned in Fire
In Tourist Cabin Is Better

The condition of 3-month-old
Terry Michael Ottens, who suf-
fered burns in a tourist cabin
fire which took the lives of his
mother and his brother and sister,
was described as slightly i'm
proved but still critical" today at
Walter Reed Hospital.
The baby is under treatment
for burns which cover Is per cent
of his body. The fire occurred
Tuesday at the Pine Air Tourist
Cabins on Route l about 10 miles
south of Alexandria.
Fatally burned were Mrs. Agnes
Ottens, %; Melody Ann Ottens,
212, and Donald Edward Ottens,
~. The husband and father,
Corpl. Edward Ottens, 81, had
left for his Fort Belvoir post
= about a half hour before the blaze
was discovered.
An investigation was being
conducted by the State fire
marshal's Office and Fairfax
County detectives.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Clifton Park Citizens
Ask Tiohter Doc Lows

The Clifton Park Citizens ASso-
citation last night passed resolu-
ton calling on the Montgomery
County Council for tighter regu-
lations on dogs.
The measure asks that partic-
ular attention be paid to dogs
running at large. TWenty-s seven
persons attended the meeting
which was held in the health
center, 9lO0 Old Bladensburg road.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
22.5% of Purkfuirfux Adults
Vote in City, Survey Shows

IS per cent of those who live IN
other parts of the city.
The survey showed that 31.8
per cent of Parkfairfax residents
were out-of- State voters, and 45.6
per cent did not vote at all. Rea-
sons for voting elsewhere in
cluded fear of civil service status
changes, tax advantages. prospec-
tive veterans bonuses in other
States, property ownership else
where, out of-State political in
terest, objections to Virginia vot-
ing procedure and living in Vlr-
ginia temporarily.
Of the nonvoters interviewed
296 said they planned to become
eligible to vote in virginia, while
1874 did not intend to take up a
voting residence.
Evening star., 1949-03-03

collected look like something from
The Lost Week End"
A hairy tarantula spider with a
leg-span of 10 inches is mounted
with tiny hummingbird clutched
in its legs. This variety of spider,
explained the Colorado naturalist,
catches small birds in its web.
THE strongest living thing in
the world in relation to its size"
read the label on a hercules beetle
the size of mans fist. Mr.. May,
who has been collecting for II
years, said this insect rolls COCO
nuts and can lift 100 times its
body weight. One once flew into
a South American lamp post, he
said. and broke the globe.
His collection includes 6-inch
scorpions and centipedes. The
latter, incidentally. have 80 pairs
of legs and not so, as is COM
monty believed. On display during
the Sportsmen's Show. March S
through 13, will be 140 cases of
insects.
This is just one fifth Of the
total collection" said Mr.. May.
Evening star., 1949-03-03
District Man Faces
Bigamy Charge After
Divorce Is Voided

A Washington man whose dl-
vorce was voided yesterday by
order of the Prince Georges Coun-
ty Circuit Court today faced a
charge of bigamy.
He is Arthur J. Mayville. 33, of
the first block of T street NE. He
also has been charged with perjury
in connection with the divorce,
which was granted September 8
by Judge Charles c. Marbury.
Judge Marbury issued the decree
voiding the divorce on February
%, but the notification papers
were not filed until yesterday.
Mayville was arrested by Dis
trict police Tuesday on fugitive
warrant based on a perjury charge
sworn out against him by States
Attorney A. Gwynn Bowie OF
Prince Georges County.
Mayville refused to go to the
county after his arrest and de-
manded an extradition hearing on
the fugitive warrant. This was
scheduled for District Court
April /.
Remarked in September.
The perjury warrant is based
on a claim by Mrs. Myrtle H.
Mayville, from whom Mayville was
divorced, that the defendant did
not live in the county as he con-
tended when seeking the divorce,
Mr.. Bowie reported.
The defendant was remarked
in Hyattsville on September 10
to Miss Eva Mildred johnson of
the first block of New York ave-
nue. NV.
AS a result of voiding of the
divorce decree, Mayville now has
two wives and faces an additional
charge of bigamy as well. the
States attorney added.
Mr.. Bowie said the case will
be presented to the grand jury
next month.
Suit Not Contested.
Judge Marbury said his atten-
tion was called to the divorce pro-
ceedings in a letter from the first
Mrs. Mayville on January %. She
asserted Mayville falsely testified
in his bill of complaint that he
had lived at 3710 Thirty fifth
street. Mount Rainier, for two
years piror to the divorce and thai
they had been separated since
July, 1914. She reported MayVille
actually had resided with her ir
the 1900 block of Franklin street
NE. until August 8, 1948, Judge
Marbury said.
II do not feel I have a divorce
for the grounds aren't true" sht
wrote Judge Marbury. Mrs. May
vile did not contest the divorce
suit, the juriSt stated.
At a hearing February 18, tW
witnesses, the Rev. Harry Marsh
pastor of the Brookland Methods
Church, and George Edward Miller
brother -in-law of Mayville, cor
federated the first Mrs. Mayville'
statements, Judge Marbury said.
At this hearing, Mrs. Mayvill
said she had been paid only 81 b
Mayville for maintenance of thei
child, although the court, in grant
ing the divorce, ordered him to pa
$50 monthly, Judge Marbur
stated. The mother was AWARDED
custody of the child.
Both Judge Marbury and State
Attorney Bowie said they wer
studying further aspects of the cas-
to see if other persons should b
charged with perjury also.
Evening star., 1949-03-03

Parkfairfax has almost the same
proportion of Virginia voters as
the older sections of Alexandria,
according to results of survey
conducted by the Alexandria
League of Women Voters.
Mrs. Martha Pfeiffer, league
president, said the results of the
survey were significant to poll
ticians who previously were in
clined to ignore the sixth ward,
which includes ParkfairfaX, be-
cause of the presumably large
number of transients." T."
The survey, Mrs. Pfeiffer said,
showed that 22.5 per cent of adult
residents in the large apartment
development already vote in the
city, compared with an estimated
Evening star., 1949-03-03
Troqic Tale Frees PoroIytic
In $4,000 Montgomery Theft

cided I would have to do these
things for her if was to hold her.
She was very attractive"
After he started embezzling,
Embrey said, he wanted to stop.
But he was afraid to do so, lest
the shortage be discovered by a
sudden increase in profits.
Embrey was crippled in both
legs as the result of infantile pa
ralysis when he was S years old.
He spent 10 years in a charitable
institution.
With considerable difficulty he
managed to graduate from Rich
ard Montgomery High School,
Rockville. But he was one in a
family of 13 children and he need
ed work badly. He got a job as
cobbler's helper at wages of
ST a week. Eventually he was
taken on by the liquor dispensary
system.
Embrey embezzled the money
from funds deposited by drivers
of beer trucks. He covered Short
ages by falsifying the number OF
beer kegs returned to the ware
house: Drivers were permitted tc
accept payment from tavertas both
in cash and kegs.
County Controller Alex Han.
cock said the cashier told OF the
embezzlemert before the audit es'
tablished there was a shortage
Trial Magistrate Alger Barbee o1
Rockville testified as to Embrey's
reliability. Charles w. Buscher
manager of the dispensary. sale
the defendant had been loyal
sincere and extremely hard-work-
ing"
Judge Woodward recalled that
he, himself, had given Embrey
rides as hitch-hiker during the
period he was working at the shoe
Evening star., 1949-03-03

A poverty stricken paralytic who
embezzled more than $4,000 from
the Montgomery County Liquor
Dispensary was free today because
a judge thought the pressure of a
drab existence had been too great
to endure.
Moved by testimony of lifelong
hardships and a personal knoWl-
edge of the mans circumstances,
Judge Charles w. Woodward i'm
posed generally suspended SEN
tence on Charles w. Embrey, 81,
of Potomac. Md.
Lawyers, court attendants and
spectators wept as the judge, a
stern disciplinarian. stated his
conclusions:
The pressure Of life and his
horrible affection has been too
much for him.
Then, to Embrey, the verdict:
go home and keep out OF
trouble"
For seven years before the short
age was discovered, Embrey was a
cashier at the. liquor dispensary
warehouse in Linden. Md. When
an audit was undertaken to de-
termine why beer profits were fall
ing off, he confessed having taken
the money over a period of a yea1
and a half.
Out of the. stolen funds. the
cashier said. all he used for nim-
self was enough to buy two suits
The rest was spent to BUY lood and
clothing for his sisters, some OF
whom had been taunted by school
mates for wearing cast-off dresses
and coats, and to entertain a girl
Embrey thought would marry him
she was the only girl I ever
had" he told Judge Woodward. Il
knew she liked to go to night clubs
and be given presents and I de-