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Evening star., 1949-09-08
Wife of Belle Haven Golf Pro
Dies in MARYLAND Auto Crash
Mrs. Thomas Ryan, 80,
Killed InstontIy;
Husband Is Injured

Mrs. Mary G. Ryan, 80. wife
of Thomas L. Ryan. golf profess
sional at the Belle Haven Country
Club. Alexandria. was killed last
night in a two-car crash on Route
20 near Clarksville. Md.
Mr.. Ryan, who was driving one
of the cars. and four other per-
sons were hurt in the crash which
occurred shortly after Z o'clock.
All the injured were released after
treatment at st. Agnes Hospital,
Baltimore. Clarksville Is in How
ard County. a few miles from the
Montgomery County line.
Mrs. Ryan suffered head and
internal injuries and was killed
instantly.
/ Maryland State police at Water
loo said the driver of the other
car was Glenn Edwin Darnell. 20,
Washington Grove. who claimed
his vehicle skidded. causing it to
collide with the Ryan automobile.
Police said the Ryans were SOUTH
bound and Mr.. Darnell was travel
ing in the opposite direction. Both
drivers were released under $1,000
bonds on charges of manslaughter.
No hearing date was set.
Mr.. Ryan said today he chose
route 20 to avoid heavy traffic on
route in returning from the
Timonium fair.
In addition to the two drivers,
the three occupants of Mr..
Darnell's car we're treated at the
Baltimore Hospital. They were
jeanette Reber, Doris Hankel and
Caroline Smith. All are from
Washington Grove.
Mrs. Ryan, a Nelson County
(Va.) native, was teacher at the
Lee Elementary School in Alex
andria. prior to her marriage in
1887. There are two children,
Thomas L. Ryan, ir., TO-, and
Mary Shelton. 4. The children
were not in the car.
Mrs. Ryan, who played on the
Belle Haven Women's Golf Team,
was a Glass A golfer. club men,
bers said, and had won prizes
in events here.
Mr.. Ryan has been pro and
greenkeeper at Belle Haven since
1924. A native of Meriden, Conn.,,
he one time was pro at the
Winchester (Va) Club.
Funeral services will be held at
10:30 am. Saturday at Demaine's
funeral home. $40 South Wash
ington street, Alexandria. Place
of burial had not been selected
this morning.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Veterans Exhibit ExpIodes Myth That Blind
Can Hold Only Limited Number of Jobs

The old myth about the limited'
number of jobs blind people can
handle is being pretty we'll ex-
ploded this week by a group of
veterans at their convention in
the Washington Hotel.
The group. all members of the
Blinded Veterans Association, are
demonstrating some of their oc-
cupations at an exhibit set up in
the hotel lobby.
At one booth, for example,
there's Raymond T. Frey, a for
mer athletic teacher and coach
who operates the physical therapy
department at the Lebanon (Pa.)
Veterans Hospital.
Outstanding Athlete.
During his college days, the 200
pound six-footer won honorable
mention on an all-State football
team in Pennsylvania in 1888, and
took top scoring honors in the
Central Pennsylvania 1nterscho-
lastic Basketball League during
his junior and senior years at
Lebanon Valley College. For a
while after graduation, he played
professional basketball and foot
ball.
Then came the war, serving as
a second lieutenant in a combat
engineer battalion, Mr.. Frey lost
his sight in a BOBBY trap explo-
sion. One eye was removed and
he has little more than a light
perception in the other.
After years course at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Graduate
Hospital. Mr.. Frey was qualified
to take over the physical therapy
job. AS he demonstrates at the
exhibit, he can handle the infra-
red. short-wave, whirlpool bath
and other standard equipment for
treatment.
Shot a 48 in Nine Holes.
Now 35, Mr.. Frey was the first
president of the Blinded Veterans
Association. His hobbies, he said,
are bowling, golfing, swimming
and amateur photography. A few
weeks ago-for the benefit of
sighted golfers-he shot a 48 for
nine holes.
At another booth, John G.
Bitonjac. Is, shows his proficiency
with a high-Speed saw and pre-
cision drill press. similar to the
one he operates at the Wisconsin
Steel Works In Chicago. Mr..
Bitonjac was craftsman before
the war.
Then there Is Frank Moriarty
Evening star., 1949-09-08

casserole is a good answer to ice
box leftovers.
She has other ideas, among
them a strong one that any Mrs
America should never wear the
skimpy French bathing suit.
| Her husband is very happy
about the contest and joins her
in wishing for the title. Among
other things in the $4,000 in prizes
is a S400 vacuum cleaner" she
said. I'VE bought a new rug on
our honeymoon and we haven t
anything to clean it with yet
They live at 5317 Taylor road,
! Hyattsville.
Holds First Press Conference.
In her first press conference
since her selection, Mrs. Talbert
was joined by Mrs. Connie Bal
lowe of 1903 Biltmore street NV.
the 1948 Washington winner who
placed sixth in the Asbury Park
finals.
Photographers requests for
smiles brought this sally from
Mrs. Ballowe: IF you think it's
difficult to smile now, wait til
you stand up there and smile
for seven hours
She is %. a graduate of st
Marys Academy and Mount
Vernon High School, has a "a
waist, a IS bust and 36-inch hips
which fitted neatly into modest
off pink bathing suit.
IF it's this cold up there, III
feel more like wearing longies,
she smiled.
Evening star., 1949-09-08

Armed with few household
hints and ample good looks, a
Washington bride of three weeks
was off for the Mrs. America con-
test at Palisades Park. N. j.. today.
In addition to pretty face and
a trim, 124-pound figure, Mrs.
Dolores Talbert has recipe for
left-overs, a method of removing
chewing gum from chaKs and a
crocheted dresser scarf as further
proof of eligibility.
Seminal phases of the contest
will be carried over the Star S
television Station WMAL-TV from
10 to 10:30 pm. Saturday and the
finals will be carried from 7 to
7::30 pm. Sunday. from Asbury
Park, N. j.
Friend Submitted Photo.
Mrs. Talbert, a secretary for
Airport Transport, Inc, at Ma
tional Airport. placed third in the
Miss Nations Capital contest on
August 7 and was married to Rob-
ert j. Talbert, a newspaper &C
countant, on August 80.
Two days after their marriage,
her photograph was entered in
the Mrs. America contest by a CO.
worker" Mrs. Doris Schaeffer-
and it clicked.
Mrs. Talbert found the appli-
cation on the return from their
honeymoon. She filled in the
blanks with such little bits OF
domestic information as ice being
good to remove chewing gum from
chairs and that multilayered
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Son Of Senator McCarran
Held on ; Traffic Charges

DR.. Samuel P. McCarran, 27,
of 5051 Bradley boulevard. Be-
thesda, son of Senator McCarran,
Democrat, of Nevada, faces three
traffic charges in Bethesda Palice
Court.
The physician has posted COL
lateral totaling $84.35 on charges
of speeding, failing to have a
registration card in his possession
and driving on an expired permit.
Police said he drove his car, bear
ing tags "USS-1-Nevada. " on
Wisconsin avenue between 70 and
rs miles an hour last Thursday.
His hearing is set for Monday.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Woman Critically Hurt
In Three-Story Plunge

Mrs. Dorothy Porteous, 81, OF
1900 First street Sc. was IN crit
ical condition today in Emergency
Hospital, where she was taken
after a plunge from third-story
window of rooming house, in the
900 block of Eighth street NV,
police reported.
Mrs. Porteous was identified
from papers in her purse, police
said. The incident occurred about
$50 pm. yesterday.
, She suffered head injuries. a
possible broken ankle and internal
injuries.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
District 10 Permit
Reimbursement Of
Adoption Agencies

The Commissioners decided
today to relax the citys baby
broker regulations to permit
licensed agencies to accept" re-
endorsements for adopters in
amounts up to $500 for expenses
incurred in the agencies opera
tions.
The present rule bars the adop-
ton agencies from accepting any
money in exchange for the chill
dren. The law says they may not
receive "compensation" for plac-
ing their charges. Corporation
Counsel Vernon West assured the
city. heads that reimbursement
of the agencies for expenses is
not compensation, in the legal
sense.
The reimbursement plan, which
comes from a Board OF Public
Welfare committee on adoption
regulations, was turned down last
year by the Commissioners. This
time, however, they reluctantly
accepted it. when Public Welfare
Supt. John Tramburg warned
them that if the good agencies
do not get more money. the de-
velopment of black market agen-
cies in and around the city would
be fOStered,
Supported by Charity.
The agencies are supported by
private charity, and operate under
Welfare Board license on a nom
profit basis.
The. Commissioners reluctance
to accept the change has been
based on the fear that. in pracJlce,
the reimbursement system-while
theoretically optional-might pre-
vent persons unable or unwilling
to contribute from adopting chill
dren.
In this connection. the new
regulation will state that "the in
ability OF adoptlve applicants to
pay shall not be the dis
qualifying factors in determining
If the applicants are suitable
parents for the child"
Check is Promised.
Fred S. Kogod assured the
Commissioners his committee
would see to it that the agencies
do not discriminate against nom
reimbursers, and the city heads
made it clear they intended to
keep a close watch on the situa-
tion.
Under the new system. the
agencies may accept reimburse
ment for all expenses actually in
CURED by them, including the
cost of prenatal care of the moth
ers. delivery and care of the chill
Idren and the cost of investigating
prospective adopters to determine
their fitness as parents.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
IPorI, Prices Here Rise
Cents, With Decline
.Expected in ; Weeks

Pork prices were up about 5
cents a pound. in some Washing
| ton stol es this week. with smaller
increases reported in some cuts
of beef.
The price boosts came as cooler
weather sharpened the demand
for meat. Most other market
products remained about the same
however, with the prices OF some
fruits and green vegetables slightly
lower, according to a survey OF
dealers.
One large chain said the scent
boost is in pork loin and pork
chops, with 1-to-2-cent increase
in bacon. Hams and sausage re-
manned about the same.
Market analysts said farmers
apparently were holding back
many hogs for feeding to heavier
weights. Market runs so far have
been only slightly bigger than a
year ago, when pork was in short
supply.
Most spokesmen. however. said
they expect retail pork prices to
start tumbling, downward within
the next three weeks. as suppliers
hurry the spring pig crop to mar
ket before the support level starts
seasonally downward October L..
Beef prices also are expected to
start declining soon, the Associ-
ated Press said, reporting that
grass-fed cattle now beginning to
arrive in heavier volume soon will
be competing with the anticipated
flood of pork.
Chairman Thomas of the Sem
ate Agriculture Committee this
week urged a Senate investigation
of what he called "egg-price
manipulation" under the price
support program. He suggested
that the Government send surplus
eggs to areas where retail prices
are high, rather than buying them
from dried-egg professors in
powered form.
The Agriculture Department,
however, said shell eggs used by
the driers are uncandled, ungraded
and unsuitable for consumer use
Ofi1cials said there is no surplus
of good quality shell eggs.
Tht National Industrial Con-
ference Board, meanwhile, said
a survey Of 81 cities showed that
consumers food prices declined
IA per cent between mid-July last
year and the same date this year
and declined 6 per cent during the
same month ended July IA.
Evening star., 1949-09-08

who tests the accuracy Of metal
bearing cups with an electronic
gauge at the Timken Roller Bear
ing Co.. Canton, Ohio. A special
indicator electronically makes an
off-key sound If the cuts are not
perfect.
Sessions Get Underway.
Standing next to him, Everett
Cave. 26. explains his work on a
chicken farm at Glastonbury,
Conn. Mr.. Cave. vino worked on
a farm south of Richmond before
the war. is in charge of a building
which houses $4,000 chickens at
the farm.
The exhibit, which also includes
demonstrations of radio repair. X
Evening star., 1949-09-08

ray developing and professional
musical entertainment, will be
open to the public from 7 to $3.50
pm. today and tomorrow and all
day Saturday.
The veterans convention ses-
sion. meanwhile. got under way
with a general assembly meeting
this morning. Later in the day.
the delegates were to move into
discussion sessions. The meeting
will continue through Saturday.
In addition to informing the
public about employment possi-
bilities for the blind, the gathering
is serving as a sort of group
therspy" to stimulate blinded vet
Grams to find their places.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Hearing Seeks 10 Link
Beard and Owner Of
Srorts News Service

Effort was made yesterday in
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court to link the operations of
Sam Beard, Washington gambler
with those Of Murray H. Off, pro-
prietor of the State-Wid Sports
News Distributors, who is trying
to prevent the removal of his busi-
ness telephones.
At a hearing before Judge
Charles C. Marbury at Upper
Marlboro, OF pleaded for a per-
manent injunction against the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co.. which sought to discontinue
his telephone service after a gam
bling raid on his Colmar Manor
Office last March 25. OF said he
supplied legitimate racing infor-
nation to radio stations.
OF has been indicted on gam
Aling cha"~es. His phones were
listed by United States Attorney
George Morris Fay among more
than 800 which Mr.. Fay said were
being used for gambling in viola
ton of the lew. When the District
Attorney asked the telephone
company to remove Offs phone
ne obtained a temporary injunc-
ton preventing the step.
Decision Faces Delay.
Arguments yesterday were on
the motion to make the injunction
permanent. Judge Marbury 'noi-
Gated he would defer a decision
until attorneys on the opposing
sides submit legal briefs.
Boards name was brought into
the proceedings by James R.
Sharpe. a former Federal Bureau
of Investigation agent who par
ticipated in the raid on Offs Of
fees as a special agent for Mr..
Fay. He said he found $4,000
worth of Cancelled checks made
out to Beard IN Offs safe.
The checks, Mr.. Sharpe said.
were in amounts of $4,000, $4,000
and $4,000.
Under questioning of T. Howard
Duckett, attorney for the tele-
phone company, OF denied the
checks had anything to do with
gambling. He insisted they we're,
rendered to Beard to repay a loan
which OF obtained in order to
start his news distributing busi-
ness.
Lists 1S Subscribers.
OF claimed his own operations
were entirely legitimate. He said
his agency had 18 subscribers in
cluding radio Stations WGAY.
WWDC, WINK and WBUZ-FM.
He testified the service supplies
news on other sports as we'll as
racing. He denied knowledge
that the service was being used to
supply gamblers.
Don't you know what your GUS
toners are doing? demanded Mr..
Duckett.
mo-" replied OF, II just attend
to my own business"
OF declared he leased only the
first floor of the raided building
in the 3700 block of Bla densburg
road, Colmar Manor. He admit
ted, however, that he supplied a
ticket drop to a Sam Blake"
in a nearby building.
Beard in "Blake's Place"
William j. Toole, a telephone
company service man, said that
during a routine check of tele-
phone equipment in August, 1948,
he went to this nearby building.
The man who came to the door of
the Sam Blake" building was
Sam Beard, Mr.. Toole said.
Off told the court he guessed"
Beard and Blake" were one and
the same.
The Federal agents reported
that their raid turned up con-
siderable gambling parapher-
MALTA on the second floor of the
building used by OF. Included
were gambling wheels. chips, num-
bers tickets and otherA equipment.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Marlboro Firemen to Dance

The Upper Marlboro Volunteer
Fire Department will hold its an
nual fall dance at 10 pm. Satur-
day at the Marlboro tobacco ware
house,
Evening star., 1949-08-07

more than 1000 were killed at
Palate. He spoke from Ambato,
a city of $4,000, where more than
400 were dead and 1000 injured.
The Ecuadorean embassy in
Washington raised the Ambato
figure, saying 500 were known
dead there, and more than 1000
injured.
The Ambato hospital was re-
ported choked with dead and in
jured.
New Shocks Felt Yesterday.
New shocks were felt at Ambato
at 9:10 am. and 1888 am. (EDT)
yesterday, the Shell Oil Co. radio
said in a report heard at Guyaquil
Ecuador. These shocks felled the
walls of buildings already wrecked
by the previous quakes and Gre
ated considerable panic.
1t was Ecuador's worst earth
quake disaster since colonial days
In 1897 an earthquake destroyed
Ambato and also laid waste to
Palate, as well as the towns OF
Quero, Pelileo and Pillaro. That
quake took the lives of 5,908 per-
sons.
Latest reports from Quito said
at least 20 persons died in the
town of Pillaro, which was leveled
At Latacunga, there were II
known dead and 80 injured.
Various sources reported the de-
struction of Salcedo. Damage also
Evening star., 1949-08-07
10000 Drivers, IS and Older,
Nav Face New District Test

Driving permits of approx
mately 10000 District motorists,
IS or older, would not be renewed
until after the holders submitted
to new examinations under pro-
posal which Traffic Director
George E. Keneipp has prepared
for review by the District Com
missioners.
The re-examnation would con-
sist of an eye test, . written or
oral examination on traffic regu-
lations and a road test to deter
mine the applicants ability to
drive in congested traffic.
Mr.. Keneipp said there are COM
pelling reasons why every motorist
should submit to a test every six
years, but the existing facilities
Of his department do not permit
such an additional burdena and
financial conditions do not make
it desirable to expand these facil-
tiles at this time.
There are now approximately
10000 persons 65 years of age
and over who hold valid District
operators permits" Mr.. Keneipp
said. This would mean that
Evening star., 1949-08-07
Ecuador Quake Toll Put at 2 700
| 300 Dead Listed in One Town;
Thousands Is Hurt in RaZed Areas
Fresh TembIors
Shake Stricken
Communities
By the Associated Press

Late reports from inside and
outside Ecuador last night said
that probably as many as 2,7OO
persons were killed in Friday s
devastating earthquakes. The in
jured ran into many thousands.
Direct communication with the
stricken area was almost impos-
sible. and latest reports OF the
tragedy were being unfolded to
the world by radio accounts heard
outside Ecuador itself.
One of these reports came from
the President of Ecuador himself
in broadcast heard in Lima,
Peru. AS yet, however, there was
no Official Ecuadorean government
tabulation direct from the stricken
area.
1900 Killed in One Town.
Highlighting the late reports
were two small towns which pre-
viously had not figured in COM
munications direct from Quito.
These were Pelileo and Palate,
both about % or % miles from
Ambato,. the third industrial city
of Ecuador and one of those hit
hard by the quake.
Ecuadorean stations heard at
Medillin, Colombia, said the bodies
of 1900 victims had been counted
ut Pelileo.
Ecuadorean President Gallo Plaza
Lasso said in his broadcast that
Evening star., 1949-08-07
Lower Meat Prices
Predicted for Fall
By the Associoted Press

The Agriculture Department ad-
vised housewives yesterday that
cheaper pork chops are in pros
pect this fall. 1t also forecast
generally lower prices for other
meats resulting from increased
supplies.
The department said meat and
livestock prices are expected to
remain generally steady until
fall marketings begin. The large
spring pig crop will then become
available.
Although meat consumption per
person for the July-September
quarter may be slightly below the
1877 pound average for the same
period last year, the agency said
it expected a sharp rise in the
last quarter of 1949. 1t estimated
the per capita figure then will be
about a pound more than the
38.5 mark set last year.
For 1949 as a whole, indications
are for a consumption per person
not greatly different from the
146 pounds last year. A consid-
erably larger consumption is ex-
pected in 1850.
The department said meat sup
plies will increase some time in
August or early September, as
is normal for the season. Until
that time, output of meat will be
seasonally low. as slaughter OF
granted cattle and hogs de-
creases.
Slaughter of cattle marketed on
grass is increasing seasonally, bus
probably will total less than .
year ago, the department said.
Evening star., 1949-08-07
By George Kennedy

This is the story of Oswald, the
owl who was shot like cock robin
with a bow and arrow but who
lived-not to tell the tale but at
least to make it remarkable one.
Oswald is a young barred owl,
the pet of 13-year-old jeffrey
Wenger, 49lS Tilden street NV.
jeff is the son of Navy Capt. and
Mrs. Joseph Wenger. He has been
attending Langdon School but
had to miss the last school year
because of an illness from which
he is now recovered.
During his convalescence he de-
voted himself to studying the
fauna of Spring Valley. the resi-
Dental section carved out OF the
woods. He also acquired some ex-
otto pets. His alligator crawled
away the other day and the Wen
gers are expecting to hear from
the neighbors anytime now.
JEFF and George Baldwin, also
13, of 1926 Sedgwick street NV,
discovered IN owls nest this
Evening star., 1949-08-07
kY the Assoeiotsd hAsa

HELENA, Mont, Aug. 6.-The
forest fire which turned the primi-
tive Gates Of the Mountains
wilderness near Helena into an in
ferno caught Forest Service para
chutists as they fled up a noun
tain, a survivor related today.
The "smokejumpTs" were de-
scribed by veteran rescue worker
as "all young kids :. college stu
dents who were jumping for
the sport of it,"
Only three Of the 15-man crew
were known to be safe. Two
others were found badly burned
and died later in a Helena hos
pital.
The crew was trapped yester-
day shortly after jumping into the
fire area to fight the blazes.
"We landed in front of the fire
and tried to fight it for a while"
said one of the survivors, "but it
was making its own wind and was
coming at us very fast
THE foreman threw a match
into the grass to burn out an area
for us, but I guess the boys didn't
understand. They began running
up the side of the mountain with
the fire behind them.
THE foreman and another
jumper stayed in the burned out
spot but I ran up the mountain.
Another fellow and I made it
over the ridge and got in a large
rsckslide. I don't know how many
others got to the top.
THE flames burned all around
us and over us but we lived"
The disaster was The worst in
Evening star., 1949-08-07
Ex-senator King Continues
Very III in Utah Hospital
By the Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. g.
Former Senator William H. King
remained in poor condition to-
night after suffering a heart at
tack last Wednesday. The former
Senator, who is 86, is at the Lat
ter-Day Saints Hospital.
A Democrat. he was elected to
the Senate from Utah in 1916 and
was reelected in 1922, 1928 and
1884. He was defeated for the
Democratic nomination in 1910
by Abe Murdock, who subsequently
won election.
Mr.. King first came to Congress
as member of the House from
Utah in 1897, serving as men,
Der of the House District Commit
tee during that time. When elect
ed to the Senate in 1916. he i'm
mediately became a member of
the Senate District Committee
and was made chairman in 1888.
He continued As chairman until
defeated for Senate reelection in
1910.