The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 20, 1950, Page 6

Bs late “ny Fife: More Men Picked Up y: Police In Boston ‘toNew York train, two men talk- hiding money. BOSPONS Jan. 20—1).—Poe thd) picked up five more See tt auestioning during the MM MH the oll-out hunt for the $1,000 Go) dits continues. No. w placed against the a hadi a wena! Kokomo Clowns - In Bad Way In Boston Now BOSTON, Jan, 20.—().—Some | basketball players are greatly em- barrassed by the million dollar jand a half holdup in poner ie cause police keep stopping them. They are billed as the: Kokomo Clowns and they travel in a big black Cadillac sedan. ‘ The Clowns say they were stop: ped seven times yestetday in the course of oné hundred miles. To complicate matters, police found rubber masks and toy guns, 5 men H in the car The Boston cieves Say il, the efforts of top- | were masked ‘during'the lildup. e* fight Tivettigators to crack the{ come na ow. under the overall j Girection of-Chief G-Man J. Ed- ger Hgver. E * invelved in the investi- Gatien re & nsideri setting up} ® con ig t sift all clues. Hooter's Washington office -has went Peciiges throughout the Ration g#irceting district FBI of-} fees W the’ hunt for the nine bandit? The gunmen made off; Tuesday nixht with $1,000,000 ip castf®and $5 000 in checks from the Brypk's Armored Transporta- tien Con ¥ gerege in Boston. Fal Perens in Boston have been Signe” to attend a coordinating honfteday in the offices af masghchugetts Attorney Gen- Feurgen Bulls Escape When Truck Collides With Train” * tx * Bree pcsoctoted Prose) ter fanother. the the million+ robbery. confession by ay be a" phoney n a New Jersey man twkan off o train in Florida, ord, of the Boston Police | *- (#) Wirephoto 4. HANNIFAN. 28, shown we, was questioned a t N..J. efter he told petite He dreve the hold-up ear in the 200 Brinks robbery &t Berdn. Police reported he had besh drinking end appar- enthy net been in Boston ‘monies. They said today his Mery ws @ hoax. ———— § the FBI is not in- terested tiie man, an ex-con: viet Gagted Arthur Longano. Later, Bigton concede that the 2" Spyfars to have no connec-' tion witli the holdup | rat tar J. Edgar Hoover i in all command of the} earch fag the Boston bandits if the tom cops have been ehasing s in all directions, Fourteen truck an " the. tenet Effingham. bully torgtthrough fences. One bul @ state px d= eral Francis Kelly. State, Cop§ Chase Phoney Leads And Bulls; so hs ade MilGor-Dollar Confession * leads Found In Milton, giot Jersey turned out’ Massachusetts Poliegtin Effingham, Il., have been chi bulls | A teuc? collided with a train.’ lie piled out of the’ rted cruising through | walls of the pit and get an auto The| wrecker to rescue the animal. lay tae on the street, and|/the 14 bulls. Everybody was weman had to get himjtired but nobody was hurt. The Clown’s manager, Howard. _ Davis, says he guesses hé ought to get a new car or thie polité evéry- where will be stopping him an his men. & s Mocal ¢ private detectives also will attend the session. As the nationwide manhunt en-, ters its third day, clues are slim. j But the FBI has enlisted the aid | of millions of citizens with the publication of serial numbers of 24,000 of the bills included in the; leot, The money involved in the? knowh bills totals almost $100,000." Authorities point out that sim- ilar publication has cracked some, other cases. $2 fant DIAGRAM OF THE MILL * * * * J te Hoa Two Money Rags” BOSTON, Jan, 20,—().— Police here have announced the finding of two new pos- sible clues in the big million- dollar Boston holdup. Two money bags have been the vault. STAGED past a safety room and cage doors to the vault. PP HS: Sottle A MILLION DOLLARS IN , r Seti HERE'S THE SPOT WHERE SEVEN BANDITS TOOK A MILLION DOLLARS from the vault of Brinks, Inc., an armored truck firm ‘at Boston, in one of the biggest cash robberies in history. Patrolman Thomas O’Brien (left foreground) talks with Charles S. Grell and Herman C. Piaf, two of the five Brinks employes whom the bandits tied up with heavy wrapping cord. Behind them j is the open door of the vault from which the bandits took the money. They left behind another Million dollers in cash only because their hands were full. vault on the second floor by opening six locked doors, “probably with a pass-key.” UP IN BOSTON ION DOLLAR HOLD! cis Police said the robbers reached the RE! INU ¥ The fact that.a juke box in a prominent Duval sireet club gives forth with that zippy old tune, “Chicago,” might _ indicate that our town is more than some- what. filled with sons of the | “Windy City.” The several play- ings per hour of said ancient hit keeps reminding me of my gooil friend, Joe E. Lewis, grand friend ;| ahd one of the, world’s greatest a Chicago favor- tune has been his thf’ fot tod many years for me to®remember. Each Christmas he sends a dollar bill cellophaned ih €ard which reads, » “Whether yol’re rich or poor, it’s nice to “| have money,” -Anyhows I’m, glad 1 ; ‘ jto’think that “Chicago” is back ,iday with Hurka on the eighty jon the hit parade. Yesterday’s item anent -char- treuse cumimerbunds had Al Mac- Pherson doing sedate nip-ups! (P). Wirephoto, Diagram from the Boston Globe THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS WHERE SEVEN BANDITS ENTERED (left) the quarters of Brinks, Inc.. in Boston and took a million dollars in cash from the armored truck company's vault. The gunmen went upstairs to the second floor, passed through a hallway into the counting room, then They tied up five Brinks employes, loaded them- selves with money, and fled. Officers said the robbers opened six locked doors on their way to ‘THOUSANDS REFUS ¥ Sent To Boston... SS tmadeathatha l found in Milton, Mass. They are the fifth picked up since the robbery at Brink’s, Inc., Tuesday night. One of the bags carries the wording, “Property of and should be returned .to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.” Part of the loot taken by the robbers included cash from the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. The bags were found in a re enieene se Infortiation’ fod incomes Olt Robbery bank bag issued by the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of Boston was found today—this one in @ mail box in front of the Fairfield County Jail here. Police described the bag as being 19 inches by 20 inches and of the usual canvas ma- terial, and appears to have been used many times. It appeared that the identi- fying numbers, which usual- ly eppear on ea bank money bag. hed been torn ftom the side of the canvas container. An immediate ¢heck will be made with Boston authori- ties in an attempi to definite- ly establish the bag as one of those taken in the million- dollar holdup. Police Commissioner William P. O’Brien announced today that “very valuable information” had been sent to Boston in connec- tion with Tuesday night’s Brink’s, Inc., robbery there. It was learned that police were | questioning aman in a York hospital who they believe might possibly have some infor- mation about the gang of rob- ? bers. Cross Burned In Miami Springs ‘Last Night MIAMI, Jan. 20.—(P).—Poiice ‘report that a cross was burned on a vacant lot last night in Miami Springs. Miami patrolman H. A. Fietch- er and Harry Marcus said they were unable to find out who set it or why. Mrs. Louise Prince said she saw two men carry the seven-foot burlap wrapped wooden cross Once in danger of extinction, seals breeiing on the Pribilof Is- lands have been restored to abundance. Mel The Citizen to Friends started by using a red flare. Another bull fell into an aban- doned railroad engine pit. The cops had to knock out the brick traffic from a car and set it on concrete blocks in the lot near her home. The men were not masked, she said, and left the engine running and lights on in their car while they worked. It took five hours to round up (‘Very Valuable. New | soft, coal miners are angrily refusing to go baek ta work Monday on a three-day: work week. They say they wam«tive days—or’ nothirig: Big groups Of ‘miners in West ginia are leggtingthe fight ta but of thé pits*gltogether, nation’s gers in seven states who ignored John-L. Lewis’ sug@é@stién ‘that they return to the’ pits Jast Mon- day. ;. Tension appears to be incre ing hourly in the coal fields, ; Miners have been openly rebel lious at meetings in W. Virginia and Pennsylvania. They hav shouted dewn United Mine Wo ers leaders who urged obey Lewis’ suggestion. } . Meanwhile, a coal-hungry na- tion is watching the titantic strug- | gle between Lewis and the opera- | tors over the UMW’s contract de- mands. Lewis wants 95 cents per ! more for | & basic ws @ cents daily. In addition, Wanhts the operators’ royalty p: welfare fund increaged from 20 cents to 35 cents pér ton. % The opefatc with few excep- tions, are : refusing to bow to | Lewis’ demands. Some of* the nation’s biggest cities have resorted to coal ration- ing, notably Pittsburgh, and Chicago. Clev id, Ohio, has declared a coal emergency and | the city’s stockpiles | opened to the public. Many industries have announc- ed plans either to curtail opera- | tions or shut down altogether be- jcause of a lack of coal. The na- tion’s railroads have felt the pinch for some time, cancelling hundreds of coal-burning trains on government orders and laying off thousands of workers. | | They are anjéng.the 90,000 dig. them to} } ments into the union’s health and | Detroit | have been|} ’ ‘0 oy Back To Detroit feb dled WORS By Federal Judge | Thousands of the j, MIAMI, Jan. 20.—(4).—Detroit Gang Leader Harry Fleischer was formaliy ordered back to Michi: gan today. 4. The 1 ~sought Purple~ Gang tleader wered one quéstion— Judge Alfred D. Batiks- the removal papers. : ally but the-half-min- arance occupied: a num- ‘BI agents for more than guarded corridors, kept al bvildi doors locked, | Stood arotnd the courtroom and j Were outside the building to pre- fischer and a man accused of har boring him v to be ar | before the U. S. Commissioner la- jter today i FIVE KNOWN DEAD (Ry The Aw: ed TORONTO, yda.—Five per- j Sons are believed dead in a fire in a Toronto factory building. The; death toll is expected to go high- jer. A number of persons have been taken to hospitals in serious condition. exm) |{@ THREE HOTELS IN | ’ RATES REASONABLE Mail The Citizen to Relatives = | | vent any effort to deliver Fleisch-} er. The woman companion of Fle-| ened j MIA MI at POPULAR PRICES i Located in the Heart of the City ROOMS with BATH and TELEPHONE | Cinema star Hugh Marlowe is in town for a visit with his mother and sister. Sister is Shir- lev Lord. Marlowe's most recent role was in the Loretta Young starrer, “Come To The Stable.” ‘The gal with the flower over her ear went down the street to scout for me while | was doing , the first part of the column. She said she would be about ten ;minutes, but she didn’t come back for an houf. Her alibi was the March of Dimes beriefit show onthe platform, cotner of Duval and Southard streets,.So I got the report right out of the horse’s mobth. Here's the whinny: The patrélmen cohtrolling the traffic have the ‘best job in the and there are: lots of pretty girls collecting funds. between act: for. the March of Dimes. Louis Car- borielly Jocal politico, took the mik@ and joined in, shouting “Stop that car! No lights.” So the good natured driver came thropgh with coin for the bene- fit. The goal is $15,000. So give’ Entertainer; who gave last night included Mike Jacobs, sing- ing comedian; Mary Kraft, ac- cordfonist: Gene Michaels, known as Michele, and the band from Hector’s. It’s a swell group of musicians who play rumba so well that even Carbonell joined in the rhythm as a couple of Key Westers performed a riotous Cu- ban rumba right in the middle of Duval street. The band personnel inrludes May Piodela, piano; Barry Barro- so, tenor sax; Hector Barroso {Hector himself), sax; Tony Ram- érez, a bang up drummer, and Ray Sosa who pitks up the beat ‘on a cowbell with a stick. Xavier Cugat had better look to his laur- éls! Michele wowed the audience with Skat Razzle Dszzlé rendi- tion of “Suny side of the street”, {cut or rather no chair cut,-as if city, They get to see the. shows + ne £ ON CASE Southernmost i | ll lie AP z i s . F | 37 t $ and a ealypso version of “Mey Barba Ree Ba” a {| Professor Joseph Hurka was spotted among the listeners and , Carbonell lobbeyed him into com- ,ing up to play piano. Don’t let anyone tell you thet a music teaeher is only addict-d to sena- ‘ tas! Hurka was a hurricane on the eyes giving out hot licks for “St. Louis Blues” and a boogie woogie number that practically sHook the buildings. One olrister | witha long gray beard and a hair he were a bit player in a western movie, kept time by chewing bum ‘to the rocking rhythm. An’ ji\t- terbugs! They jammed in for the jam session by the scores. Drum ; Mer Ramirez had a busman's bol | eights. | Carbonell announced that a 'week from today, the Veverans ; of Foreign Wers will hold a dance ‘and floor show at La Concha for the March of Dimes. Another big benefit dance is slated for Janu ery 26 at the Casa Marina. And tonight, there is a street dance as well as entertainment. That means my scout wi!l be snooping around agein and I will probably end up by taking rumba lessons by the time this goes to press. At any rate, ll end up, and now seems like as good a time as any. See vou all, Manana Mischa Biman, famous violinist, born in Russia, 59 years ago. | CIGARS /, now 39 YEARS OF SMOKING Distributed by H. RAMOS & CO. Ine, 520 Front Street so ee “What are you doing here?” , , eee Dr. J. A. 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