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Evening star., 1946-04-04
Suspect Kills Himself
AsPoIiceW Wait0utside
BY the Associoied Press

CHESTER, Pa, April A 23-
year-old veteran was found dead
in his home last night by detec-
tives who had been waiting out
side to arrest him on charges OF
numbering Mrs. Rose Lyons Reyn-
olds, 49-year-old housewife. The
veterans body was sprawled across
a gas stove in the kitchen.
Fatally beaten in a park, Mrs
Reynolds had the letters "Y" and
"W' crudely carved on her fore
head, apparently with a penknife
Doctors said post-mortem exam
ination showed she had been crim-
inally attacked.
Warrants charging the veteran
Grant Tyler. and another man with
the Staying were obtained several
hours before Tyler was found dead
The second man, whose name police
withheld, is still being sought.
Chief of Police A. Desmond sale
this note was found beside Tyler's
body:
Il have not been good and it looks
like l never will be now"
Mrs. Reynolds murmured a few
unintellieible words to a policeman
before she lapsed into unconscious
ness and died yesterday in Chester
Hospital. Doctors said her skull
and jaw were fractured, five of hel
teeth were knocked out and hel
body was a mass of bruises.
Evening star., 1946-04-04
Hunt for Mcfarland
Is Taken Up in Ohio
BY the Associoted Press

CLEVELAND, April 4-The hunt
for Earl Mcfarland, condemned
slayer who escaped from Jail al
Washington was taken up by the
FBI and police in Northern Ohio
today after discharged sailor re-
ported picking up hitch-hikel
closely resembling Mcfarland.
Dewitt Whitaker, 20, of nearby
Bedford, told police he had picked
up the hatless and coatless hitch.
hiker in Jamestown, N. Y, yester-
day as he and his mother, Mrs
Robert Whitaker, were returning
from a trip to Meadville, Pa.
Whitaker said he let the hitch.
hiker out of his car in suburban
Mayfield Heights, on the south.
eastern edge of Cleveland, at $50
o'clock last night.
Later, as he was reading a news.
paper, Whitaker saw picture Of
Mcfarland and was so surprised
7 literally jumped out of the chail
and showed it to my mother" HI
then notified Bedford authorities
who sent out a teletype to police
through Northern Ohio to be or
the alert for the escaped convict.
Before FBI agents cut short hi
account. Whitaker told newsmen
THE hitch-hiker wasn't very
talkative and said nothing unless
questioned directly. He got intt
the car. sat on the left side of tn,
rear seat and appeared very ner
vous and edgy."
Evening star., 1946-04-04
Five Japs'' Death Sentences
Upheld by Wedemeyer
BY the Associated Press

SHANGHAI. April LIT. Gen.
Albert c. Wedemeyer, American
commander in China, today upheld
the death sentences decreed for five
Japanese convicted of completely in
the torture and cremation of three
American airmen at HankoW in De-
cember, 1914
The five will be hanged here the
week of April 20. They were con-
victed by five-man American
military commission of participa-
tion in the torture parade. strangu-
lation and cremation of I'd 1t Les
ter R. White, Slickville, Pa; Sergt.
Henry w. Wheaton, Milwaukee. and
Sergt James E. Forbes, jr., East
Hartford, Conn.
Il have searched in vain for rea-
sons which would permit the exer-
else of clemency," said Sergt. Wede-
meyer, commander Of American
forces in China. He added that the
evidence established beyond doubt
that the Americans were paraded
unlawfully and cruelty, and beaten
in the streets of Hankow to incite
the public.
The condemned are Maj. Gen.
Masataka Kaburagi, former chief of
staff of the Japanese 34th Army;
a warrant officer, two sergeants and
lance corporal.
Evening star., 1946-04-04

in nearby Maryland counties had
been engaged.
Medley, according to the story he
told officers at the Jail when he
returned there, separated from Nc
Farland after he had injured a
weak knee in dropping from the
sheet-rope to the street below and
could not keep up with his COM
panion.
Pvt. Skinner. patrolling the river
with Sergt. Osterman, looked into
the pipe where Medlay was hid
ing ION a hunch," called his
companion, pulled his gun and Or
dered the escaped slayer to come
out or I'll shoot" Medley, con-
victed slayer of one woman and
suspected of having killed two
others, one in Chicago and one in
New Orleans, offered no resistance
Wet and pedraggled. he crawled
out and gave himself up readily
He was truculent, though, on his
return to the Jail.
you can't blame a fellow for try
ing" he said to Maj. Callahan with
a grimace. I'm glad nobody got
hurt. But I'll tell you one thing.
I'll try it again, and you can put
that in your pipe and smoke 1T
Medley, who had escaped from
Michigan State Prison where he was
serving 80 to so year sentence for
robbery, killed Mrs. Boyer on the
night of March 8, 1945. following a
card party in her apartment. He
was arrested later in st. Louis in
company with another woman. tried
in District Court last June and was
found guilty of flrst-degree murder
Mcfarland. who is still at large,
was private in the Marine Corps
and served on Guadalcanal. On the
night Of October s, 1914, he lured an
18 = year old Government clerk,
Dorothy Berrum of Chippewa Falls,
Wis, to an unlighted area on Hams
Point, criminally assaulted her and
then checked her to death with her
snood. He is sentenced to die in
the electric chair on June IA.
Evening star., 1946-04-04
AtomSpendingCIa Clause
Is Called 'Mockerv'
By Controller General
BY the A,soeiofsd Prs,a

Controller General Lindsay War.
rem today criticized as "a mockery
and a fraud" a section of the pro-
posed atomic energy control bill re.
lating to spending powers of the
control commission.
The outspoken North Carolinian
appearing before the Senate Atomic
Committee at the request of Sen
ator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia
asserted the wording of the section
was utterly meaningless" and woulc
lead to waste of appropriated
money.
The part that he called "a Joker
says the General Accounting Ofict
shall not disallow credit for, OF
withhold funds because of. any ex.
penditure which the commission
shall determine and certify to have
been necessary to carry out the pro.
visions of this act.'
A provision preceding that phrase
would give the controller general
who heads the accounting Office. thu
right to audit the transactions OF
the commission. count its money
and verify transactions. Mr.. War.
rem said the office already has
that authority over all executive
branches.
Under the Joker" he declared
they could do practically anythins
on the face Of the earth and The
commission could decide it was al
right. You could make an audit
and then the commission could upse,
what you'd done"
Mr.. Warren'S views were chal.
lenged, however. by Chairman Nc.
Mahon who said that from an engi.
neering standpoint it is essential
that certain operations at atomic
energy projects not be INTERRUPTED
for second.
1T would be unfortunate, Sen
ator Mcmahon said, ''if there should
be power in the hands of any ofice
except the tatomic) commission te
withhold funds and shut down the
project, causing the Government
great damage"
Mr.. Warren said he thought that
supposltion far fetched" His office
has no power to challenge waste
or extravaganza, he said, but coulo
step in only in the case of an IL.
legal expenditure.
Moreover, he said, his office had
been in on the supersecret atomic
development from the start
Evening star., 1946-04-04
Death House Guards
Back Down on Story
Prisoners Had Gun

The story of the friendly card
game which was the prelude to
escape Of Joseph Medley and Earl
Mcfarland from the District Jail
death house was barred late yester-
day after Policemen Hubert C. Davis
and Oscar Sanderlin earlier had
told investigators that Medley had
cowed them with a gun in engineer
ing the break.
Jail authorities issued this official
statement on the episode:
Joseph Medley and Earl McFar-
land escaped from the District Jail
between 5:04 and 5::25 am. April
3, 1916. The last call received from
the death house was at 5:O4. At
5:25, coincidentally, a jail officer
reported noise in the death cell
and a police sergeant, Kirby, and
two patrolmen arrived at the Jail
In a scout car, having discovered
the rope OF sheets hanging from
the administration building of the
jail.
Released From Cells.
"Omcers Hubert C. Davis and
oscar c. Sanderlin, METROPOLITAN
police officers, were on duty in the
death house. These officers state
that both inmates had been re-
leased from their cells and were
IN the adjacent barred recreation
room. The two officers were with
them in that room and the four
played cards.
"On1cer Sanderlin complained of
illness and went into Medley's cell
and laid down on bunk. There
after one of the inmates closed the
cell door on Officer Sanderlin and
both inmates then overpowered Of
f1cer Davis. After this they locked
Officer Davis in McFarland's cell.
The inmates took the clothing and
all keys from the officers.
After the officers had been bound
and their clothing removed the
doors of the cell in which they were
held were opened. Ofiicer Sanderlin
freed his feet and the wire bonds on
his wrist were removed by an in
mate in an adjacent cell. Where
upon he released Officer Davis.
The two officers attempted to at
tract attention by pounding on the
door, and this noise was noticed by
Ondcer Costello of the Jail force, on
duty on the floor below.
Used Service Corridor.
THE inmates used the keys to
open the service corridor behind the
death CELL and made their way
through vent to the roof of the
building from which they let them
selves down to Twentieth street.
The orders require the inmates
to be locked in their cells Only one
officer is permitted inside the barred
room at any time. The second off,
GERS post of duty is outside the
barred room, and it is this officer
who controls the keys. The rules
controlling the officers on duty pro-
hibit conversation with the prison.
ers or determination with them in
any way.
The information first released,
based on the officers original state
ment was to the effect that Medley
had held a gun on Officer Davis and
forced him to open the doors and
to assist in overcoming Officer
Sanderlin. This original statement
was later retracted and the story as
reported above represent the facts
in the case as the officers now state
them" ," .--....t. ...s ...t..s..
Evening star., 1946-04-04
Jail Break
Continued From First Page.)

Metropolitan policemen, Corpl. Joe
Osterman and Pvt. E. c. Skinner.
The two guards were arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage after a day OF
intense questioning by Metropolitan
police and FBI agents. They first
had asserted that the two men
escaped after Medley had flashed a
gun. 8 Az
Later, according to an official
statement from the Jail, they ad-
mitted the falsity of their first ver-
sion and admitted they had engaged
in card game with the two mur-
derers in the barred-in recreation
area outside the death row" cells.
Sanderlin, the statement said, had
complained of feeling Ill and was
invited by Medley to lie down on a
bunk in his cell. The two prisoners
then locked him in, overpowered
Davis, donned the uniforms of the
two officers, climbed to a metal vent
In the roof, cut hole in it with a
can opener, according to Medley
and, after reaching the roof, lowered
themselves to the ground by rope
made of six bed sheets.
The can opener today offered an
element of mystery m the escape
1t was found on the deathhouse
floor. Both guards denied having
seen it before, however.
Inspector Talley told reporters
today that so far as present
evidence goes he finds no reason
to believe that there was collusion
between the escaped prisoners and
the two guards. He theorized that
the guards made up their original
story about Medley's having a gun
because they were violating prison
regulations by fraternizing with the
murderers and were trying to pro-
tect their jobs.
Calls Charges ridiculous"
Whether or not the two guards
are indicted on the charge of negli-
gence which has been placed against
them, Maj. Callahan said today, they
will certainly face disciplinary &C.
ton. However, he admitted that ii
their punishment is left to the police
trial board, the worst that can
happen to them is dismissal from
their jobs.
James J. Laughlin, who has been
engaged by Davis as his attorney
said today that the criminal charges
brought against his client were
"hurriedly concocted."
This is a ridiculous charge, based
on the old common law which no
body understands" he said There
was certainly no criminal onense
committed, and it is clearly an
administrative matter in which DO
lice disciplinary action should be
the only action"
The recapture of Medley late
yesterday climaxed day-lone
man hunt. in which virtually the
entire District detective force, scores
Of patrolmen and motorcycle off,
GERS and laW-enforcement officials
Evening star., 1946-04-04

a headquarters cruiser came to pick
up Medley.
! While the officers were waiting for
the cruiser to arrive they told Med
ley not to make a move if he wanted
to live
Medley said. Don't worry. I'm
not going to make a break now
when you fellows have a gun and I
don't have anything. I might do
better next time"
Medley told the two policemen
that he and Mcfarland had split up
early in the morning right after the
break and that the last time he had
seen Mcfarland was between the
Jail and the place where he was ap-
pretended Before separating from
Mcfarland they destroyed the po-
licemen's caps and coats which they
had worn in their escape from the
Jail, Medley said
Evening star., 1946-04-04

From Yesterdays Last Edition)
This is the version OF the capture
Of Joseph D, Medley given by Pvt
Elmer E. Skinner, who first spotted
the fugitive hiding in sewer pipe
near boathouse on the Anacostia
River near o street extended Sc
Il had been around looking in all
the boats on the water front and
had just finished when Corpl.
Joseph Osterman drove up. He
shouted to me, Jump in and We'll
60 to the end of the street and
see what's down there When we
got to the end of the street I went
under the railroad trestle to look
around while Corpl. Osterman
drove over the bridge.
Il noticed the open end of a pipe
lying at the waters edge Just on a
hunch I looked into the pipe but
couldn't see anything because !
was looking from the light into the
darkness I walked to the other
end of the pipe which was about
l8 feet long and about 2 feet in
diameter There was small hole
at the other end of the pipe where
the dirt which was piled around it
had fallen away. Through this hole
l saw two shoes.
Saw Shoes in Pipe Move.
while 1 was trying to decide
whether there were feet in the shoes
one of them moved. Then I yelled
Come on, Joe, I've got one of them.
"Corpl. Osterman fell in the
swamp coming over but when he ar
rived We both pulled guns and went
to the open end Of the pipe.
1--WE shouted, Come out with your
hands showing
THE man inside called back. I
haven't a gun and I'll keep my
hands showing"
Pvt. Skinner and Corpl. Osterman
then called police hea do,larterS and
Evening star., 1946-04-04
Divinity Student Is Held
In Theft of Cloth for Suit
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April A young
divinity student was held on charges
OF burglary and possession of burg
lars tools yesterday in connection
with the theft of bolt of cloth.
Police who arrested him said he
told them he took the material be-
cause he needed new suit.
The student, who identified him.
self as John N. Rabiecki. 25. Meriden,
Conn, said he was scheduled to be
ordained next month at ST. Vladimir
Russian Seminary.
Detective 1t. Francis Cassidy and
Detective William Duffy said they
saw Rebiecki. an honor graduate of
Columbia University, break a win
dow in a Rockefeller Center tailor
shop and take the cloth.
Evening star., 1946-04-04
Two Jail Guards Plead
Not Guilty, Post Bond
0nNeg|igenceCh Charge

The two District policemen sus.
pended after the Medley Mcfarland
Jail break were at liberty today
under 81 900 bond each after plead.
ing not guilty to Federal Burea,
of Investigation charges of per.
mitting prisoners to escape through
negligence.
The men, Pvts. Hubert G. Davis
30, and Oscar G. Sanderlin, 80, were
questioned extensively by FBI agent.
yesterday and were taken before
United States Commissioner Need.
ham c. Turnage late last night.
The two pleaded not guilty to the
common law charges and requested
a continuance to give them time te
obtain counsel.
Commissioner Turnage continued
the hearing until 10 am. Friday
April II, and set bond.
Arrange for Bond.
The policemen then were turned
over to Chief Deputy United States
Marshal c. Michael Kearney, who
escorted them from the Commits
sioner's office to police headquarters
where they arranged for bond. Pvt
Davis, it was said, will be rep
resented by Attorney James j.
Laughlin.
Shortly after the two policemen
were released on bond, Pvt. Davis
was taken by Mr.. Laughlin to the
Times-Herald to be interviewed at
2 am. today, according to what Mr..
Laughlin later told The Star. Mr..
Laughlin said he was leaving town
and that he had instructed Pvt.
Davis not to talk to representatives
from any other newspaper.
Police Supt. Harvey G. Callahan
declined to give out the story told
to police by Pvt. Davis on the ground
that it might be prejudicial when his
case came to trial.
Prisoners Took Uniforms.
Pvts. Davis and Sanderlin were
stripped Of their police uniforms by
the fleeing prisoners early yester-
day.
When they went before the Com
missioner, Pvt. Davis was wearing
dungarees and Pvt. Sanderlin blue
civilian suit.
Immediately after the jail break
the two were suspended by Maj
Harvey G. Callahan, superintendent
of police, who said they would be
taken before the Police Trial Board
in event no criminal action was
taken. The District attorneys office
also is investigating the case.
Pvt. Davis had been found guilty
four times by the Police Trial Board
of violating departmental regula-
tions since joining the force in
June of 1912. He was attached to
No. precinct. Pvt. Sanderlin, a
railroad clerk before he joined the
force in January, 1914, had served
at No. precinct. He had a good
record
Both men had been assigned to
intermittent duty as extra guards
at the Jail since the first OF the year.
Evening star., 1946-04-04
Wedemeyer En- Route
To U. S. for Operation
By the As,oeiat.d Pas.

SHANGHAI, April At. Gen. Al.
bert c. Wedemeyer, commander OF
American forces in China, left by
plane today for Washington.
He will undergo a sinus operation
and confer with President Truman
Gen. George c. Marshall, special
American envoy to China, and Wal
Department leaders.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-29
STRONG MAN OF
 ARGENTINA WILL
 SET UP PROGRAM

BUENOS AIRES, March 29.-Col. Juan D. Peron, Argentina's newly elected president, was expected by political observers today to establish a powerful central government to carry out an ambitious program to keep pace with what he calls a triumphant social revolution"
 The Argentine strong Man. whose victory in the presidential race be- came certainty last night with the capture of the Federal capitals 68 electoral votes, was expected to encounter little opposition in le- galiging the blanks of his campaign platform, including naturalization of certain public services, agrarian reforms and pricefixing.
 His partisans say the plan is modelled along the lines of the British Labor governments pro- gram, with a little mixture of Pres ident Franklin D. Roosevelt mixed in. His foes say it is purely to- talitarian scheme designed to per- petuate Peron.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-29
RED GROSS DRIVE
 HERE TAGGING FAR
 BEHIND OUR QUOTA

The Red Cross campaign in Ju- neau and vicinity, while not pro- gressing by Heaps and bounds is steadily gaining according to re- ports from the committee at noon today, with a total of approximately $3600 deposited at that time.
 Checks from the Juneau Lumber Mill and employees amounting to sl56 were gratefully acknowledged, as well as $50 each from the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and B. M. Behrends Company, and s35 from the Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association.
 Tomorrow will be Tag Day" on the streets of Juneau, with work CTS covering all parts of the city in an effort to reach the quota of $8, 400.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-29
PROTESTS TO CLOSING OF
 AL(AN ROAD
Member of B. (. LegisIa lure Cut Short in Lodg-
 ing Complaint

VICTORIA, B. C.. March 29.-- Harold Winch, leader of the op- position in the British Columbia Legislature, protested in the House Tuesday against the reported move of the Canadian government to close the Alaska highway to civ- ilian travel
 MT. Winch said such closure would work hardship on British Colum- bians living in the Peace River area in the northeastern corner of. the province and would be detrimental to development of the resources of that section.
 The speaker of the Legislature refused a motion by MT. Winch to suspend the rules of the House to allow discussion of the Alaska Highway and as a result MT, Winch's comments were brief.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-29
SURPRISE ATOMIC
 ATTACKS CAN BE
 PREVENTED, CLAIM
Report Says Energy Is Lim- fled Strictly to Nat-
 urdI Metals

ST. LOUIS, March 29-The big fact on which scientists rely to pre- vent surprise atomic attacks--name- ly, that atomic energy is limited strictly to to natural metals. without even slight prospect of extension-came out here today at the meeting of the American Asso- ciation for the advancement of science.
 The metals are uranium and thorium, both scarce and control able at mines and in power houses, so that scientists believe no na- tion will be able to prepare for an atomic attack without automatically giving the world advance warning of l8 months to several years.
 These facts came from plan for international control of atomic energy issued simultaneously last night in Washington and St. Louis. Here the plan was explained by Charles A. Thomas, vice President of the Monsanto Chemical company. himself a member of the plan com mittee and an atomic bomb expert. The proposal is to give an in- ternational atomic development au- thority three controls. over.
 l All mining of uranium and thorium.
 2 All plants making the metals.
 Inspection of large peacetime power plants (because these could be secretely modified to make bomb matrials).
 All the explosive metals would be denatured and issued in stockpiles to all nations for peacetime use. No nation could start renaturing job without being seen. Any nation wanting to make raw atomic explo- sives would have to seize an inter- national plant within its borders and that seizure would be automat.c warning to the rest of the world
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-29
Greater Freedom
 Of Press Proposed

NEW YORK, March 29.--An in- ternational covenant within the framework of the United Nations to remove political and other bar riers to the flow of world news and information was urged today in a special report issued by the Com- mission for Freedom of the Press.
 The report, written for the Com- mission by Llewelyn White and Ro- bert D. Leigh. recommended crea- tion of an autonomous unit within the United Nations economic and social security council Ito pro- mote the free flow of true infor- nation and the removal of facts and fomenting of international dis cord now being carried on"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-29
FIVE DEAD, SMALLPOX,
 IN SEATTLE
One Physician Terms 0ut- break Worst in Na-
 lion Since 1913

SEATTLE, March 29.-The death toll stood at five today in small pox outbreak termed by one physi- clan the worst in the nation since 1913 and the city brought in vac cine from Philadelphia to help fight the threat of the invader from the Orient.
 Health officials said the infection came from Japan with returning servicemen.
 Mass vaccination of the city's residents and school children is under way. pr. Emil Palmquist, City Health Commissioner, asked the council to appropriate $10,000 in the emergency to hire addition al doctors and nurses and pur- chase vaccine.
 There were Il diagnosed cases and four probables.