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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-26

The Jackson prison scandal in
volvlng Warden Harry III. Jackson
j. hardly rivat IN sensation 10
the criminal career of the doomed
convict whose lust for freedom,
money and women led to the
shocking investigation.
Slick-talking Joseph d. Medley,
A. convicted kidnapper, robber
and murderer, played a major role
in small-time politics in the prison
city of 5000 inmates before he
walked away last November In
quest OF bigger game.
Freedom and money came easily
TO Medley from the start, but his
desire for feminine companionShip
and gayiety linked him with the
murders of three women before
Asst. Atty. Gen. Harry w. Jack
son launched an investigation into
prison irregularities four months
after his escape.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-26
CONFESSED TO MULBAR

lie pointed out that Capt. Har-
old A. Mulbar, chief of state police
detectives, had obtained from
Medley'S own lips the story of his
departure. Mulbar questioned Med
ley in the District of Columbia
Jail. where he was detained on the
charge OF numbering a Washing
ton woman, Mrs. Nancy Boyer.
Medley, who had $3.50 in gambling
takes on his person upon leaving
jackson. has been convicted and
sentenced TO die in the electric
chair
Mulbar'S report on the inter
view. made 20 state police commits
Sloner Oscar G.. Olander. recorded
the handsome murderer's state
ment, Il could have-left any time
| wanted TO" and his boasts that
he had the run OF the place, that
he could come and 60 as he liked
and his description OF the worlds
largest prison--"a damn play
house
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-26

son for the abuses uncovered by
the investigation were inadequate
and in SO doing laid the blame for
the PRISONS condition squarely on
the prison official.
Prison officials have said
that proper prison administra-
ton il impossible because OF
lack of adequate STAFF and GUS
todial force and the present
corrections law and tho poll
cies and actions OF the Bureau
of Pardons and Paroles he
said.
Warden Jackson testified
that he cannot operate eff
ciently with the present force
Dethmers said. And while the
shortage of help does create
some difficulties. how can that
be offered as an excuse for;
CITES ABUSES
Permitting private con-
ferences in prison offices be-
tween inmates and outside
gangsters.
Guards transporting inmates
to houses of prostitution.
Parties in prison officials
homes for inmates.
Permitting inmates with had
records to 20 into the city Of
jackson, Detroit and elsewhere
unattended.
Granting Of mOnOpolies In
prison jobs and crafts TO IA
Vored inmates.
Friction between prison Of
ficialS.
ITO ask the question" Deth-
mers said, sis to answer It,"
Dethmers disclosed for the first
time the inside story OF mur
derer Joseph D. Medley's walk
away" from the prison. the es
cape which was one Of the i'm
portant causes occaSlonlng the
investigation.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-26
SLAYINGS SIMILAR

Medley was subsequently in
dic1ed as the ID. j. Stafford Of
Chicago" who registered for the
room and departed after the slay-
ing, leaving a "do not disturb"
sign on the doorknob.
When Mrs. Blanche thinner
man. 3S-year-old redhead. died
under similar circumstances in a
Chicago hotel room Feb. Il, au-
thorltieS noted simllaritleS IN the
handwriting of the man who had
been her escort and the assumed
slayer of Miss Fischer
Mrs Boyer died after an ait
night poker party in her elaborate.
Soundproofed apartment while the
search for the slayer OF the other
two redheadS was being organized.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-26
AWAITS EXECUTION

Medley awaits execution Nov
30 for the pistol Staying of Mrs.
Nancy Boyer 45-year-old socialite-
divorCee, who entertained the con-
vict in her Washington apartment
the night she was slain.
The convict took his last fling
at freedom after fellow prisoners
had named him 10 handle their
war bond purchases. A prison
guard took him in civilian clothes
to Jackson for war bond litera-
ture, and Medley went his way
with $3.50 belonging 10 convicts
and other money made gambling
in the prison.
The following Christmas eve
brought discovery of the first slay-
ing with which Medley was TO be
connected. The nude body of
pretty. red haired Laura Fischer
Austrian born textile worker, was
found in a partly filled bathtub
of a New Orleans hotel room.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-26

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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-26

'dsl in. death just as Medley's gained
The messenger., 1945-10-01
NAMED ASSISTANT TO
 TRAVELLERS PRESIDENT
Local Insurance Man Promoted To High Executive Office

J. Doyle Dewitt, of 654 Bloom field Avenue, has been promoted to the newly-created position of Assistant to the President of The Travellers Insurance Company.
 MT. Dewitt, resident of Bloom field for several years, was born in Sully, Iowa, and attended Drake University at Des Moines. He en- listed in the Navy during the last war and served IS months on the USS Pennsylvania with the Allan tic Fleet. He joined the Travellers as an investigator in the claim department at Des Moines in 1925 and was transferred to the life, accident and group claim depart ment at the home office in 1927.
 He was appointed an examiner in 1929 and assistant manager of that department in 1883. In 1887 he went to New York as supervis- ing adjuster in charge of all life, accident and group claims in the metropolitan area. He returned as assistant manager of the depart ment in the home office in 1889 and was made secretary of all claim departments in August, 1943.
 MT. Dewitt has been active in organizations of insurance claim men, serving the Eastern Life Claim Conference as president for the year 1939-40 and as chairman of the executive committee of the International Claim Association in 1942-43 and president of that or ganization in 1943-44.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
NORMA LOUISE LUZMOOR WEDS ARMY CORPORAL

Miss Norma Louise Luzmoor, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Ray mond Luzmoor of Adams Street, Hartford, former Bloomfield resi- dents, became the bride of Cpl. Joseph A. Montana, of Hartford, on Saturday, September 29.
 The marriage took place in Christ Church Cathedral where Dean Arthur F. Mckinney per- formed the double ring ceremony.
 The bride, given in marriage by her father, was attended by her sister, Mrs. Neils B. Falck of Baldwin, L.I., as matron of honor Bridesmaids were another sister, Mrs. Delano G. Wheeler, and Mrs. Stanley Rancourt, sister of the bridegroom. MT. Falck was best man for Corporal Montana, and ushers were Cpl. Delano G. Wheeler and Pvt. Richard Swan son of Hartford.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
BLOOMFIELDER PLAYING ON MASS STATE ELEVEN

Although without previous ex- perience, Albert Snyder who en- rolled at Massachusetts State Col lege early last month has nailed down the right end position on the schools varsity football team.
 Snyder, a graduate of Bloom field High School, was one of a squad of 40 reporting for practice the opening day of the season and soon caught the eye of coach Tommy Eek who states, "Bert is a Natural" Many of his friends here plan to witness the States mems opening game with Brooklyn College at Amherst, October 20.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
WASHINGTON HEADS NEW SCHOOL BOARD

J. Senior Washington of Pros pect St. was elected chairman of the Board of Education at the or ganization meeting of the newly elected board members. MT. Wash ington who has served as secre- tary of the board for nine years, succeeds Hans c. Christensen of Simsbury Rd., who was not a can didate for reelection. l.. Coates Colt of Pine Grove Rd. was elect ed secretary for two years. Both men are Republicans. Other mem bers sworn into office were Mrs. John B. Carvalho, Republican, a new member of the board, and Arthur V. Coutu and John F.. Tracy, Democrats, who have serv- ed on the board for the past six years.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
REQUEST TO BUILD AME
 ZION CHURCH DENIED

Conforming to the pleadings of a considerable number of Bloom field Negroes, representative of the Blue Hills Fire District and nearby property owners, the Zon- ing Board of Appeals have frus- trated the plans of Rev. T. Alex ander Purcell of Hartford to build a church on Harding Avenue. After stating that he represented the African American Zion Church who proposed to build a $25,0OO structure on the 41-foot lot in question, MT. Purcell had nothing more than a pencil sketch of the proposed building to offer for the boards consideration. But it was the objections voiced by local col ored people that featured the hear ings and the boards deliberations.
 Roland Cams of Merriam Ave-, who said he had served as a dele gate of the AME Zion Church, said his church had no desire to build another church in any isolated spot. He stated that "the element which would be brought out by the Rev. MT. Purcell would be very un- desirable. We don't want it." He called upon others who objected to stand and signify their disapproval of the petition. Practically every person in the hearing room rose to his feet.
 Others who presented objections were Commissioner William A. Evans of the Blue Hills Fire Dist rict, who brought out the lack of suitable water main would cause the building to constitute a fire hazard; Paul Wilon of Harding Ave-, one of the adjoining prop erty owners; Francis P. Lupo of Gilbert Ave-, and William B. Den his of Brookline Ave.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
EX-SPAR JAILED FOR ADULTERY
Also Loses Local Soldier Hubsand and Child

Gloria Kelley, 21, former member of the STARS, and wife of Cpl. Robert G. Kelley, a Bloom field soldier, is serving four months jail sentence imposed by Superior Court Judge P. B. O'Sul- livan, before whom she was re- gently convicted of adultry.
 The court also granted a divorce to Kelley and gave him the GUS tory of his infant child.
 On trial with Mrs. Kelley and convicted on the same charges was 22-year old Raymond Feeney of Hartford who was also given a four months jail sentence.
 According to the testimony, the Kelleys had had frequent quarrels since their marriage February 6, 1943 and the arrests followed a letter from Mrs. Kelley to her husband saying that she was assoc iating with Feeney.
 Kelley told the court that the letter from his wife was "like a bolt from the blue." He said that once before she had wanted him to get divorce so that she could marry a man in Washington but he thought everything had been adjusted.
 Mrs. Kelley, the former Gloria Hale of Hartford, served for a year with the STARS in Palm Beach, Fla. and Seattle, Washing ton. She was granted an honorable discharge in November 1914. Teen ey, it is said, has been in the Army for nearly five years and spent great deal of time in the South Pacific. He has a brother in the service in Japan and another was killed in Germany.
 "I have no sympathey at all for the girl," said Judge O'Sullivan in imposing sentence. "The service of the man, however, is like a specter when you consider what he has been through. However, I can't make fish of one and fowl of the other"
 Cpl. Kelley, a brother of It. Wm. Kelley of the AAF and the late It. Harry J. Kelley killed in action over Germany year ago, has been in the service since Jan uary 6, 1943. He is now stationed on Long Island.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
SPEARHEADED FORCES AT JAP SURRENDER

George J. Maher, chief electric ian's mate, USNR, of 755 Blue Hills Avenue, serving on the USS Ancon, communications ship, was in the spearhead of forces that pushed into Toyko Bay to receive the Japanese surrender.
 The crew of the Ancon took part in the invasion of Africa, Sicily, Salerno and Normandy and in many Pacific battles, including Okinawa.
 The Ancon is the ship upon which William c. Breinin~ served during the period of World War l.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
MRS. LIHOU RESIGNS TAX COLLECTORSHIP

The resignation of Mrs. Mary Frances Lihou of Cottage Grove Road as tax collector for the Blue Hills Fire District, effective Oct ober 1, has been announced by the District Commissioners.
 Mrs. Lihou, who held the col lectorship for several years, plans to move to New York State in the near future.
 William E. Dennis, of Brookline Avenue, has been appointed Mrs. LihOu's successor.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
MISS WEBSTER BRIDE OF HARTFORD MAN

Evelyn E.. Webster, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jesse G. Webster of Jerome Avenue, and Ralph N. Chapman, son of Mrs. w. A. Wig gins of Harrison Place, Hartford, were married at 7:3O o'clock, Thursday evening, October II at the anuel Congregationla Church, Hartford.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
RECRUITING STATION TO BE OPENED HERE

A United States Army recruiting station will be opened in the Town Hall on Oct. 19 from 2:30 to 5:30 pm. and every Friday thereafter, it was announced onMonday. Men from the ages of IS to 34 can en- list in the Regular Army or enlisted reserve corps and will have a choice of branch of service and overseas theater. Returning vet erans can enlist for the same branch and rank now held.
The messenger., 1945-10-01
LOCAL WAC RETURNS FROM FOREIGN SERVICE

Cpl Christine Antiuk of the WAC's, one of the first of the long list of Bloomfield girls to en- list in the Auxiliary services and one of the few to be sent into a foreign country, has been home on an extended furlough.
 Corporal Antiuk, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harry Antiuk of Duncaster Road, has been attached to the WAC squad assigned to the Central African AAF Base Unit.
The messenger., 1945-10-01

MT. and Mrs. N. D. Maselli, of IA Bloomfield Avenue, Hartford, last month celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary at dinner party at their home. The occas- sion also celebrated the christen- ing of their younger child, Nick, Jr.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Rutland Awaits Reply
On Alcoholism Clinic

Health Officer George C. Rutland
said today he was awaiting a reply
from the Commissioners on his re-
quest for permission to use the vol
unteer services of DR.. Michael M
Miller of st. Elizabeth's Hospital for
work with alcoholics in the Districts
Mental Hygiene Bureau.
First authorized July / Of last year,
the bureau has had psychiatrist
for only a month when DR.. John F.
Owen served as head of it. Dr.
Owen resigned last month to return
to his home in Raleigh, N. c.. be-
cause of the lack Of office and clini-
cal space in the District.
DR.. Rutland said that he had
interviewed number of prospects
for the post of bureau head, but
that none of them wanted admins
trative responsibilities. They are
interested In the clinical work, he
added. DR.. Miller would handle
only work with alcoholics.
DR.. Rutland said that DR.. Win
Fred Overholser, head of st. Eliza
beths, was willing for DR.. Miller
to do the volunteer work, but be-
cause of the pressure of work at
st. Elizabeth's 1t was doubtful IL
DR.. Miller could give more than two
periods a week. DIR. Miller con-
Quoted special services for alcoholics
as county physician at the Cleve-
land (Ohio) Workhouse.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Col. Karl TruesdeII Gets
Air Post in West Indies

Col. Karl Truesdell. jr.. 81, 1916
Forty fourth street NV, has taken
over command of the Air Transport
Command base at Trinidad, British
West Indies, the War Department
has announced
Col. Truesdell, who attended
George Washington University, be-
fore entering West Point, is the
son Of Maj. Gen. Truesdell. head
of the Command and General Staff
School In Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
A veteran of the European theater
of operations, Col. Truesdell led a
formation of 125 Flying Fortreses
from England to drop supplies for
the Polish patriots and then to
Italy. He few the last 400 miles
on two engines after his plane was
riddled by enemy fire.
At Trinidad he will have charge
of the last leg of the ATC southern
route home-Natal, Brazil, to Miami
over which his planes will carry
the bulk of the monthly lift of
29, 900 men.
His wife and two children are in
West Virginia for. the summer,
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Sergeant Who Outwitted Jops
Asks Gifts for ConvoIescents

It's for men like Sergt. Victor
Mapes that the Red Cross is asking
the public to donate games, sports
equipment and musical instruments.
Sergt. Mapes spoke yesterday over
radio station WRC, along with
Lady Halifax. wife of the British
Ambassador, on program asking
donations of these things, for the
convalescing veterans in hospitals
here
The need for a fishing pole is a
far cry from the needs Sergt. Mapes
can remember having during the
past three years.
A member of the famed 18th
Bombardment Group which was at
Clark Field on December 7. 1s4l,
Sergt. Mapes told of escaping to
the hills, where he fought with the
guerrillas, and helped keep secret
air strips open on Mindanao.
Plane Blasted Boat.
4 s''Aboutss60O of us were put on a
small boat from Bataan," he re-
called. 81 thing we would have
reached Australia had all gone we'll
but the japanese nac everything
guarded, land, sea and air. A Jap
plane got us and blew the side of
the ship out The men that could
got onto Mindoro-Some of us swan
ashore and then, got small boats to
bring the wounded in
Then they went to Mindanao
from there, living with the hill peo-
pie until the Japanese surrounded
them and there was nothing to do
but surrender.
Several of the fellows escaped,
and the Japs took four of our Of
ficers," he said. I'VE never saw them
again. We were told they had been
executed.
I'VE were wired together and
made to do a long forced march
somewhat along the lines of the
Bataan death march. Men were
shot as they fell if they became too
weak to carry on. We eventually ar
rived at Davao and stayed there two
and a half years. One night we
Evening star., 1945-07-10
10000 Men RedeploYed
Ahead Of Schedule

From Yesterdays Last Edition.J
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 9.-The redeploy-
ment program is two full divisions
10000 men-ahead of schedule,
communications zone headquarters
announced today.
BY the end of June 396,001 Ameri-
can soldiers had left Europe for
home, the announcement said. OF
these, 100000 left during June, when
the quota was 250,000
The goth Armored Division has
bypassed the assembly area in a
move toward LIE Havre for ship
ment. 1t is the second armored
division ticketed for redeployment.
Some units have reached the port
and the whole outfit is due to sail
this month.
Five other divisions now are at
lie Havre awaiting ships. These are
the 87th, I'd, 5th and 28th Infantry
and the 18th Armored.
Evening star., 1945-07-10

heard what we knew was the sound
of a Liberator engine-and very
shortly thereafter the Japs put us
on a boat and crowded us into a
hold worse than cattle. From what
we could piece together afterward
the Japs tried to sneak out of the
way of our subs and bombers around
the islands to Japan. Our bombers
got most of them including the ship
we were on, She sank in eight min
utes.
ESQ in the Hold.
There were $50 of us In the hold.
Only SO escaped. I was in the water
for hours. Jap planes came over
and machine-gunned every sur
vivor they could. They got me in
the head and ankle. Some natives
saw me from the shore and braved
the Jap planes to rescue me. They
came out in outrigger boats and
lifted me into one and carried me,
boat and all, into the jungle. My
leg turned gangreneous and I was
very weak from malnutrition. At
one point I was worried. They had
ideas of anaputati2g my leg, they
had a long pow-pow, with a large
rather rusty knife as the main
exhibit"
Sergt. Mapes was eventually
rescued-how, he is not at liberty
to tell yet. When he reached Aus
tralia he weighed 110 pounds. Now
he weighs IT'S.
Now at Forest Glen Hospital, re-
the 26-year-old veteran
is one of those who will use the
gathered by the Red
Cross.
Lady Halifax also spoke on the
program, describing some of her
during the blitz. and
telling of the English counterpart
10 the American Red Cross hospital
Full information about the hos
oital supply program, or about
donating the needed equipment, can
,e obtained by calling RE. $500,
extension 422.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Discharged Officer, Wounded
Twice, Drafted as Private

board came five months after his
discharge last January. In the in
terim he had married and got his
old job back with the Forest Service.
He's now a private at Camp Bland
ing, Fla, the same place he reported
to when he enlisted in the Army in
May, 1912. He received his commits
sion at the Fort Benning Officers
Candidate School.
An 84-point veteran, he holds the
Purple Heart with one Oak Leaf
Cluster and the Bronze Star. He
was wounded in the leg on D day
plus l In Normandy and again In
September. 1914, during the spear
head attack on Aachen.
Members of Dobson's draft board
and Army officials refused to COM
ment on the case.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Greet Nozi Flying Boot, Hidden
2Yeurs, Ruided Before We Day

to Berlin and told by Gen. Gerhard
Mich, then director Of aircraft pro-
duction, to forget it because the
house is burning and efforts should
be concentrated on fighter models.
However, DR.. Vogt said he man.
aged to oRmplete the ship and get
a fuel allotment for a few test
flights which impressed German of
ficials. Heavy raids on Hamburg
were then under way, so the sea-
plane was flown to nearby Lake
Schaal and hidden in an inlet where
lit remained until last April, when
six Psi Mustang pilots flying over
the area spotted it.
One dropped down and set an
engine afire with bullets. The others
followed and soon all six engines
Of the giant seaplane we're burning.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Navy Raiders Of Tokyo.
Held World S Greatest
Mobile Striking Force
BY WILLIAM J: WHEATLEY.

The fast carrier task force
which yesterday struck another
terrific blow at Tokyo was de-
scribed by a naval spokesman
today as the greatest mobile
striking force in history"
He said that never before has a.
naval unit been able to move with
the speed and secrecy that has
characterized the operations of the
task force during the last Is months.
Together with the land-basedI
planes of the Army and Navy, this
naval machine has reduced Jap air.
plane production as much as SO per
cent from its peak. 1t also is de-
stroying airplane operating installa-
tions and knocking out fuel sup
plies so that the Japs now are in
about the same situation that faced
the Germans near the end of the
war in Europe. Germany had I
plenty of planes at the end of the
war, the. spokesman said, but it had
no fuel to operate them.
During the last, Is months this
carrier task force has continually
kept ''the Jap air force behind the
eight ball, always of balance" he
said. After severe strike, and be-
fore the Japs can be reorganized,
the flyers of the carrier force are
back to knock them off again.
He pointed out that in almost
every attack made by this force, the
targets have been far beyond the
reach of land-based planes and in
places where the Japs thought their
own planes were safe and where
they could be reorganized.
This force has averaged three as
saultS a month since January l, 1914,
and has destroyed or damaged more
than 10000 Jap aircraft and sunk or
damaged more than 1000 japanese
ships. The ship bag includes the
sinking of the Japs two most power
full battleships, the Musashi and
Yamato, and the damaging of six
other battleshipS. The list also in
cludes at least five carriers sunk,
nine cruisers sunk and many dam
aged heavily. and more than 1,O00.-
900 tons of Jap shipping destroyed,
The naval spokesman pointed out
that in a two-day strike by about
is carriers, there are approximately
3,400 sorties by our aircraft, during
which they drop approximately $50
IONS OF bombs on enemy installations.