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Evening star., 1946-12-20
Nearly $500 Given
TO Aid Police Widow

The fund for the family OF Pvt.
Richard H. Taylor, shot to death
last Friday night, now lands at
nearly $500, according to report
from the Police Department today,
A large number of contributions
to the fund are expected this after
noon since today is the ,semimonth-
ly payday of the Police Department
and many officers who have intend
ed to make donations have been
waiting for their salaries.
OF the approximately $2,500 re-
ceived, 1T was said that the third
precinct, where the slain officer was
attached, had raised $2,031. A con-
tributor who said he wished to re-
main anonymous made contribu-
tion Of three 500 bills there late
yesterday.
"A member Of Congress, who also
did not wish his name to be dis
closed, contributed check for $3.50
Pvt. Taylor was shot by Townsend
Annes, a 14-year-old boy at Seven
teenth and I streets NV. The Of
ficer's death left his wife and three
children in strained financial status
She will receive $500 from the
Police Relief Association and a
monthly pension of $40. it was said
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Palestine Educator Tells
OF Technology Institute

Palestine Jews are capable OF
proving to the world that they can
again build up a free and just So
ciety based on the sound founda-
tions Of modern science and tech
nology," DR.. Shlomo Kaplansky
president of the Hebrew Institute OF
Technology in Haifa, declared last
night.
DR.. Kaplansky spoke before q
gathering at the Mayhower Hotel
sponsored by the Washington
Chapter for the Advancement OF
the Hebrew Institute of Technology
He said he was convinced that Haifa
Technion, only chronological train
ing and research center in Palestine
already had made an important
contribution to the development OF
that country.
"It will play an even more i'm
portant role in the near future,
DR.. Kaplansky continued, when
Palestine will be called upon to re-
ceive added large numbers OF our
refugees and immigrants.
DR.. Kaplansky said the purpose
of his visit to America was to ac-
quaint Jews with the achievments
and needs of the institute. He will
help wind up q drive for $500, ,00C
for two new engineering labora-
tories at the Haifa institute.
Evening star., 1946-12-20
3 Of 4 6. W. Veterans Say
They d Study Without Aid

More than three-fourths Of the
veterans attending George Wash.
ington University say they would
have gone to college eregardless q
benef1ts provided under the oI Hill
acDo9dine 10 recent survey OF 1000
e11Folled~ox-Servicemen.
At the same time, however, so per
cent Of the veterans said they ind
it necessary to work full time or
part time to supplement their Gl
benefits.
The veterans were polled October
on Federal aid and other questions
Results of the survey were an
nounced by school officials yesterday
Mitchell Dreese, director OF vet
Grams affairs at the university saic
he was surprised at the findings
and added he thought the legisla-
ton will benefit particularly stu.
dents who might not otherwise be
able to afford to complete theil
education
OF 4,9O3 former servicemen who
| answered the questionnaires, he
said, 3,829 indicated they would have
gone to school without the benefits
GOT said they would not have beer
able to afford it and 467 were un.
! decided.
DR.. Francis Brown, executive
secretary of the American Council
on Education, said he knew of NJ
similar polls on Nationwide basis
| but that he feels "the GI Bill !!
definitely a large factor" in presen
high enrollments.
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Final Arguments Slated
In CIainos Trial Today

Final arguments by counsel were
scheduled for today in the District
Court trial of George A. Clainos, 20,
Of the HOO block Of Fourteeth street
NV, charged with violating the
White Slave Traffic Act, pandering
and assault.
Clainos was questioned extensively
during the past two days. While adj
mitting bringing Heqdy Marie Crox-
ton, the principal Government witt
ness, here with him, Clainos denied
he had struck her or that he had
received any money from her activ-
tiles as a prostitute.
Clainos is being prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorney
Edward Molenof. The defendant is
repre- .ented by Attorney James J.
Larghlin. Justice Alexander Holt
zoff Is presiding.
Evening star., 1946-12-20
House Unit May Examine
War Contractors Taxes

The House Naval Affairs Com
mittee will have authority, under an
executive order signed by President
Truman, to examine tax returns OF
war contractors who may be In
yestigated.
The order allows the committee
to look into returns for 1941, 1942
and 1943.
The committee was given in
vestigatiye powers by the last Con-
gress, and has been looking into
war contracts in general.
1t was said on Capitol Hill today
that the authority customarily is
given investigating committees and
has no special significance at this
time. It has not been announced
what inquiries the committee plans
to make in the coming months.
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Clarence 6. Sheffield
Head Of GarfinckeI
Company, Is Dead

Clarence G. Shenaeld, 81, president
OF Julius Garfinckel & Co., died
early today at Doctors Hospital.
He had been active in business until
a few weeks ago.
In December, 1899, Mr.. Sheffield
Joined the Garfinckel organization
as first vice president and became
president in 1943, during period of
business expansion.
In March this year the store ac-
quired controlling interest in Brooks
Bros, one of New York's oldest
mems clothing stores and Mr.. Shef-
field was made director and chair
man Of the Executive Committee.
He was also president Of Frederick
Atkins, Inc, Of New York, retail
goods purchasing concern.
Eight years before coming here
Mr.. Shef1eld was a manager of all
womens' and misses apparel and in
charge of the fashion activities of
B. Altman & Co. of New York.
Native of Chicago.
Before his association with Alt
mans, Mr.. Sheffield had held sim
liar positions with other stores in
New York, Detroit and Los An
geles. Born in Chicago on Septem-
ber 80, 1885, he spent rs years in
the retailing business throughout
the country.
Mr.. Sheffield was a director of
the American Security g. Trust
Co., a member Of the Metropoli-
tan Club and the. Union Club of
New York. He was active in the
Greater National Capital Commit
tee of the Board of Trade.
Mr.. Sheffield also was director
of the Better Business Bureau, CAM
paign director for the Community
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Bates TO Study D. {.
Traffic Over Holidays

Representative Bates, Republican,
of Massachusetts,, a member Of the
House District Committee, today
promised to make careful study
of the Districts traffic problems
during the holidays.
He has asked the District Com
missioners to submit to him more
material on the subject, in addition
to the report which reached him
yesterday regarding the latest traf-
fc highway program proposed by
Engineer Commissioner Gordon r.
Young.
Inquiring also into the proposals
regarding. subways for washington,
MIR. Bates said ne believed the whole
problem of traffic here should be
studied carefully by the District
Committee in the forthcoming Con-
gress.
The traffic situation here re-
quires q major operation" he de-
clared. 1--WE should do more than
study little phases of it at time,
1t needs an overall study and long
range program"
Mr.. Bates has had many years of
experience in municipal administra-
ton in Massachusetts,, both as
Mayor of Salem and as a member
of the State Legislature concerned
with city finances. He is next in
seniority on the District COMMITTEES
| to Representative Dirksen, Repub-
lican, OF Illinois for the chairman
snip. Whether Mr.. Dirksen will
head the committee has not yet
been learned,
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Mount Alto Veterans GET
Gifts From Labor Union

Patients at Mount Alto Hospital
yesterday were presented with new
SIS bills in Christmas folders as gifts
from the Central Labor Union.
Joseph Hillock and committee
representing the union yesterday
visited the hospital and distributed
the gifts.
Plans had been made to present
Mount Alto with recorder and rec
ord discs for patients to send re-
corded Christmas greetings to theiI
families, Frank ]. Coleman. secre-
tary, said. but there were no ia
cilities at the hospital, such as q
soundproof room, where the ma
chine could be used.
The labor union earlier this
month presented a recording ma
chine and S. gifts to patients at
Walter Reed Hospitals Forest Glen
section.
Evening star., 1946-12-20
.FbI Will Return
Davis, Seized in
McAI|isfer Case
Suspect in SIoying
Found in Memphis
After Suicide Try

Federal Bureau of Investigation
officials today were completing plans
for removal to Montgomery County,
Md, of Bruce Davis, 31-year-old
hammer Staying suspect, who was
arrested last night in Memphis
(Tenn.) hospital.
Davis, a resident Of Laurel, Md,
had been sought on Montgomery
County warrant charging him with
the murder of Mrs. Florence Nc
Allister, 20, whose body was found
December 10 in a house at Burtons-
vile.
He was arrested by FBI agents
on Federal charge of unlawful
fight to avoid prosecution in the
murder, the Associated Press re-
ported from Memphis. He was taken
into custody at the Memphis Bap-
tist Hospital where he had been
Evening star., 1946-12-20

cerned, Medley, for weeks, has been
deeply impressed with his imminent
fate.
He was far cry from the man
who once sat at ease and coolly par
ried the questions of detectives and
FBI men.
When he arrived in Washington
in FBI custody, Medley had cockily
asked reporters:
Did you see the mob at the sta
tion? 1t was like circus"
At arraignment, his eyes showed
amusement as he held his head high
and said to photographers:
e 1An right, boys, you can take
them now" s
He bristled before United State.
Commissioner Needham Urn
Iage at the ar1tanmeSt yt1l
thaughtily:
This is an unusual procedure t,
bring me here without an attorney
| Il doesn't give me = chance to max
Ia plea. stand mute
Medley loved to boast1o his &c.
tiyities.
He told detectives he had srunl
10 quart of whisky q day since hi
escaped from the Michigan State
|Penitentiary in November, 1914
with $700 of his fellow convicts
money.
Sentenced for Robbery.
Medley was serving a 80 to so year
sentence for armed robbery when
he escaped from the Michigan jail
and would have been eligible for
parole in another year.
Earlier, he had been sentenced in
1927 to 4 to S years in Arkansas for
larceny. The Federal Bureau OF
Investigation termed him one OF
the most dangerous criminals in
America.
Little is known of Medley's life
before he came to Washington. His
card at District Jail shows that he
was born in Pittsburgh, Pa, on
July "a, 1901. Where the card tells
prisoners to list names of relatives
|or those to notify in case of illness,
Medley wrote simply: mo One"
There is no known record that
Medley ever was married.
It is believed that Medley roamed
the country after he fled the Michi-
gan jail until he located in Wash
ington. He was convicted in Dis
trict Court of shooting Mrs. Boyer
| in her Sixteenth street apartment
on March 6, 1945, as the climax OF
an all-night poker party. He robbed
lher of few hundred dollars worth
of furs and jewelry.
Reporters recalled one Medley
boast, however, that he failed tc
keep. When they took him back to
District Jail after his escape last
spring he told Maj. Harvey G
callahan.
"You can't blame fellow fol
trying. And I'll tell you one thing
I'll try again. And you can put tina,
lin your pipe and smoke it.
Evening star., 1946-12-20

Chest, Red Cross and many. other
welfare organizations. He lived at
2400 Sixteenth street NV.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Gertrude Sloan Sheffield; a daugh-
ter, Miss Sally S. Sheffield; two
brothers, Adelbert v. Sheffield and
Thomas D. Shefhsld; half-brother
w. A. Buchanan, and two sisters
Mrs. Iris Parry and Mrs. Mar
guerite S. Sanche.
Funeral services will be held al
2 pm. Monday in st. Thomas Epis-
copal Church, Eighteenth and
Church streets NV.
Mr.. Garraghy's Statement.
Joseph c. McGarraghy, president
Of the Washington Board of Trade
issued the following statement:
"Officers and directors OF the
Board of Trade are shocked pro-
foundly at news Of the untimely
passing of Clarence G. Sheffield
president of Julius Garfinckel g. Co
We extend our deepest sympathy to
his family and business associates
He brought to Washington sever
years ago not only outstanding gifts
as a leader in the mercantile field
but what was even more rare, q
growing understanding of human
needs in the community.
Many of our residents, especially
servicemer and servicewomen, whit
never met Mr.. Sheffield have bene.
fitted in countless ways from the
resources he released as chairman
of the Business Unit in the Com.
munity War Fund campaigns ol
1914 and 1945. He inspired conf.
dence and enthusiasm in all those
who were associated with him ir
these enterprises.
1.-THE Greater National Capita
Committee of the Board of Trade
will feel his loss most keenly be.
cause after service as vice chairman
of its annual campaign last spring
he had already begun his work al
chairman for the 1887 campaign.
"Our sorrow over his death Ii
tempered with gratitude for ths
privilege of having known him ant
worked with him for the upbuildint
of our CITY,"
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Schools Here 10 Begin
12-Ddy Vacation Tomorrow

Final classes of 1916 were in ses.
sion today at the Districts schools
as thousands of pupils prepared fol
IL day Christmas vacation
Glasses will be resumed January z
Coincident with the last day Of
school this year was the announce.
ment of winners in contests to de-
termine the best drilled noncom-
missioned officer and private in each
of the colored high schools. AS an
nounced by 1t. Col. H. o. Atwood
cadet corps head for Divisions 10
13, the winners were:
Armstrong High School-Non-
commissioned officer, Sergt. Lionel
Lee; private, Theodore Wood.
Cardozo High School-Noncom-
missioned officer, First Sergt. Will
liam Drummond; private. James
Brown.
Dunbar High School-Noncom-
missioned officer, Sergt. Thomas Ell
lerbe; private, John Hamilton.
Phelps Vocational High School
Noncommissioned officer, Master
Sergt. Richard Ross; private, Milton
Bland.
Evening star., 1946-12-20

taken for treatment after attempt
ing suicide by taking poison at the
home of his sister, Miss Alma Davis,
IS.
Under Special Guard.
An FBI spokesman said that as
soon as Davis RECEIVERS, he will be
taken from Tennessee on the Fed
eral warrant, which does not re-
uuire extradition. Davis then will
be brought to Montgomery County
and turned over to States Attorney
Joseph B. Simpson, jr, the spokes-
man explained. :.
Special Agent D. S. Hostetter said
Davis has been placed under spe-
cial guard in the hospital prison
ward and indicated he probably
would be questioned later today.
According to the FBI, Davis was
taken to the John CASTOR Hospital
in Memphis early last night in a
police squad car following his suicide
attempt.
At that time, an FBI spokesman
said, his identity was not known.
Later he was transferred TO the
Baptist Hospital, where the FBI,
following earlier leads, arrested
him. The spokesman said DAVIS
condition was reported to be good.
Murder Warrant Issued.
Davis had been the object OF
widespread search after police
learned he had been seen often IN
Mrs. McAllister's company and hao
once threatened her with a knife
while the two were sitting in her
car outside a Laurel tavern. Police
said the two had worked together
at the Engineering & Research
Corp, Riverdale, Md.
The search centered in Tennessee
after Mrs. McAllister's missing car
was discovered December IL outside
the farm home of Davis father at
Edison. Tenn.
The following day a warrant
charging Davis with murder was
. issued by Justice of the Peace James
Doten in Silver Spring.
Mrs. McAllister's body, clad IN
underciothing, was found by a
nephew. Nathan WeakIey, Burtons-
vile. in the second floor bedroom OF
the family home. Her head had
been battered with carpenters
hammer.
According to police, Davis has
been married twice. He was di-
vorced from his first wife and has
a 3-year-old child by his second
wife. from whom he has been sep
arated for about three years, police
said.
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Mint Strikes Medal
lin Honor Of Synder
BY the Associated Press

The mint announced today that
medal has been struck in honor
Of John w. Snyder, making him
the sixteenth Secretary of the
Treasury to be so recognized. There
have been So secretaries.
Like others in the mint's "Secre-
tary Series" the bronze mccall is
three inches in diameter. Each. OF
them shows a profile portrait OF
the man honored on one side and
the seal of the Treasury on the
other.
Copies are to be offered for sale
by the Philadelphia Mint lin q
short time" at $3.50 each, plus
postage.
Evening star., 1946-12-20

tensity in the death Mouse, but there
were dark circles beneath them.
He was no longer the smiling Joe
Medley of the days Of his trial. The
Joe Medley who greeted city officials
with an intimate air, and who once
had refused to let news cameramen
photograph him because he was un-
shaven, was gone.
Spent Time Reading.
Prison officials were much i'm
pressed by Medley's native intelli-
gence. Father O'Connor thought
Medley's quickness Of mind and his
vivid Imagination contributed to the
fact that Medley worried more about
his impending death than did Earl
Mcfarland, the Marine murderer,
before his electrocution last June IA.
Medley spent much of his time
before the execution reading. When
not thus occupied, he was given
to staring listlessly into space in his
cramped death house cell for hours
on end.
Father O'Connor said Medley en-
braced religion again when it be-
came apparent that his fight to
escape the death penalty was hope
less.
Medley knelt down in his cell the
other day when came in with the
Holy Eucharist to give communion
to some other prisoners" the chap
plain recalled.
'T gave him Miraculous Medal
that day. He used to look at the
IMAGE of the Blessed Virgin Mary
constantly and appeared to prize the
medal more than any other posses
sion he had"
Smoked Borrowed Cigarettes.
Medley died destitute and prob
ably will be buried in Potter's Field
unless some one claims his body
Money in his possession when he
was arrested was impounded as evil
dence and Medley finally abandoned
efforts to have 1t returned to him.
without even cigarette money
Medley-an inveterate smoker-was
kept in tobacco throughout his i'm
prisonment by Father O'Connor and
| jail guards.
Medley was silent to the end about
two other murders of which he was
suspected.
He was charged with the New
Orleans murder Of Laura Fischer
%, 8 garment worker, and suspected
Of the Staying in Chicago of Mrs
Blanche Zimmerman, 38. All three
were red-haired.
The courts delayed his punish.
ment for the Boyer murder fou,
times with stays Of execution. bui
his last real chance to escape paying
the supreme penalty was lost wher
President Truman declined to grant
executive clemency several week.
ago.
Father O'Connor revealed an In.
tteresting side-light on Medleys re.
lIations with Mcfarland, whose
escape with Medley from the deatt
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Prisoner Facing Release Asks
To Stay in Jail for Public Good

Ifrauded the Red Gross there out OF
some money at that time. Also ]
have failed to file my income tax
returns for the last four years.
IF I am released from the work
house, ! would likely steal or commit
some crime.
II ask you for the public good to
keep me in jail for an indefinite
time"
The prisoner is scheduled to be
released Monday Workhouse officials
said they couldn't understand what
it is about Occoquan he likes SO
well.
The letter has been referred to
Municipal Court Judge George D.
Nelson "for acknowledgment"
Evening star., 1946-12-20

Court ofncials today were wonder
ing what to do about a prisoner
who has advised them to keep him
in Jail ''for the public good"
A letter from 46-year-old pris-
oner, who is just winding up q 30
day term for drunkenness at the
District Workhouse at Occoquan,
Va, reached the United States
attorney yesterday. The letter
passed through workhouse officials
before it was sent.
"I have no home" he wrote. i
have no job to 60 to, and have no
money. I am vagrant.
T deserted the Army IN 1891 at
Fort Monmouth, N. ]. ! also de-
Evening star., 1946-12-20
Branch Post Offices
Observe Weekday
Schedules Tomorrow

All 80 branch post offices In
the District will be open on
weekday schedules tomorrow to
accommodate washington resi-
dents who put off Christmas
mailing until the last minute.
City Postmaster Vincent Burke
announced today.
Most of the branches, which
normally close at l pm. on Sat
urdays, will stay open until s
pm. tomorrow, Mr.. Burke said.
About q dozen will stay open
until Z pm. The main post
Office and the Benjamin Frank
line branch at Twelfth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
viii be open "A hours as usual.
Evening star., 1946-12-20
lynn Analyses
S3,378,000 Bid
|0n Capitol Work
Architect to Report
To Committees on
McCIoskey Figures

David Lynn, architect of the
Capitol, today began analyzing the
So ,378, 900 principal bid" and its
several alternates submitted by Nc
Closkey g. Co. Of Philadelphia for
reconstruction of the Senate and
House chambers in the Capitol
Building.
Congressional approval will be
necessary before contract can be let.
The McCloskey offer was the only
official bid received, Mr. Lynn ruled,
since two other communications
from wel1-known contractors were
estimates" he said, and did not
constitute bids. They came from
the Consolidated Engineering Co. Of
Baltimore and the George A. Fuller
SCo. of Washington and New York.
No figures from these two firms were
disclosed.
All communications on the project
were opened publicly in Mr.. Lynn's
office yesterday in the presence OF
Representatives Of several contract
ling firms, the press and others. Ed
win H. King, superintendent of the
construction division of Mr.. Lynn,s
office, read the results to the gather
ling. .-...
| To Subit Analysis.
| Plans for the big renovation and
reconstruction job at the Capitol
tcall not only for new roofs over the
1.-TWO chambers, but remodeling of the
entire interiors. Congress author.
lied planning the job and has ap-
propriated some funds. But under
the revised plans, the whole matter
will have to be taken back to Con-
gress for final approval.
Under this procedure. Mr.. LYNN
lsaid he will carefully analyze and
labstract the offer of McCloskey &
ICo. and make a report to whatever
Senate and House committees have
jurisdiction in the reorganized Con-
gress.
| If Congress approves, eventually.
land appropriates sufficient funds.
ne said, construction may begin as
soon as possible after Congress ad-
ljourns for the summer vacation.
Both House and Senate roofs
now are supported by unsightly
steel beams, installed some time
lago to remedy weaknesses in the
supports which had, threatened to
collapse.
4 Propose Public Address System.
? Plans for the remodeling have
been prepared under the direction
of Mr.. Lynn's Office by Francis p,
Sullivan, associate architect, with
! Harbeson. Hough, Livingston g. Lar
, son as conSultants. They have heen
approved by the Fine Arts Commits
3 sion, Mr.. Lynn and the Senate anc
House Public Buildings and Ground.
8 Committees.
!, The plans not only would rede
I lsfgn the two chambers, but incor
pofnte into them thoroughly mod
O ern means of lighting, air-tondi
|, tioning and acoustic treatment,
8 Mr.. Lynn said. A public addres
system to improve hearing through
-Iout the big chambers also is pro
III The McCloskey principal bic
eiwould be increased to about $3,669..
) 1000 If the Government decided tt
incorporate into the contract certain
: more expensive features, on which
bidders we're asked to make esti-
mates. Lower costs of some SUBJ
stitute materials would bring the
company's bid Gown to about S3,-
: 1868 900. The McCloskey concern
submitted bond of S36S,000 with
4 the bid.