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SCENE OK NEW YORK TRAIN ROBBERY Mail-bag-gage-frcight
train of New York Central Railroad was
boarded by two masked bandits at underground freight
terminal at 33rd St. (A) Wednesday night. Bandits
manacled mail ejerks, seized two pouches containing
cancelled checks, and apparently left train before shouts
of clerk were heard and train was stopped at 72nd St. (B).
.
Gunmen Get 8 Bags
NEW YORK idv-Two masked
desperadoes held up an outhound
mail express train Wednesday
night as it stopped briefly in an
open cut below the Manhattan
street level near the Hudson
' River shore.
As In a Wild West movie see
nario, they bound and gagged i
mail clerk and dumped eight mail
sacks on the tracks,
disappeared into the
the bags,
night with J
. I
Police said Thursday the bags
nnnloinn wnrlMnsc P a n f P I P ri
ooch hoo insurer! at S50
The bandits apparently jumped handcuffs they brought with!
on the ll car New York CeniralUhem. They rolled him over and
Iraln when it stopped for inspec
Hon of its air brakes.
An interstate alarm was flashed
for two men described as in their
20s and wearing dark suits andireti"'en. m nrsi i inougnt inty
hats. Both were armed. Thejwere 'oolmf! 1 thought they
FBl loined in the hunt. a couple of kids, wise kids,
'BRAZEN AND CLEVER'
! "They were brazen and clever,"
4ald Deputy Police Commissioner
James Kennedy. "They knew ex
jctly what they were doing."
J Police said, however, that the
bandits discarded a mail pouch
Containing $2,700 In small bills
and silver. ' '
! The train was heading for Al
bany, Utica, Rochester, Troy and
Syracuse, all in upstate New
york. Six 'of the cars carried
mall.
; Mall Clerk Thomas Mason, 60,
Congressmen
Shrug Off
Fistic Clash
! WASHINGTON uvrMce-of a
sort followed Thursday in the
wake of fisticuffs between two
members of the House Education
Committee over proposed inclu
sion of an anti-segregation ban
On a federal school construction
bill.
The clash, coming at a closed
session of the committee Wednes
day, featured 69-ycar-old Rep.
Bailey (P-WVa) and Rrp. Powell
ID-NY), a 46-year-old Negro. The
antagonists later shrugged off the
clash as non-existent.
It provided a preliminary to
later committee defeat of Pow
ell's amendment to denv federal
school funds to states or local
school districts practicing racial
segregation.
With the segregation issue set
tled, the committee moved Thurs
day toward final approval of a
measure authorizing a four-year
$1,600,000,000 program of federal
state school construction to over
come existing classroom short
aces. The Bailey-Powell clash, how
ever, was viewed by many com
mittee members as the forerun
ner of equallr bitter differences
likely to erupt over the bill if and
Khen it leaches the House floor.
Though losing in committee,
Powell told netfsmon he Intended,
to offer his anti . segregation
amendment from the floor as a
"moral ind legal" njcessiu un
der the Supreme Court's school
integration ruling. " .
with the sessn rapidly draw
ing to close iid congressional
tempers already on edge over thei
rarml .jssne, jhere was no as
surance thf bill will be cleair.1
for artion by ?he rulr$ocoi?iiic
or the Jenifers,
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5yarj Earthnu'tke
Rocks Latin Vowrfcs
, Cf'ITn, Ecuador- Numerou?
oersoi wer reporfed inured
Jrdneiday in a sharp par.,ial
I north central fe'tisdnr ffl
foter;r Minister (pwr Plara
Giron repo:;-d the low, of Cots'5
rarhi .! ATun'iqi.t) e dar3
ageo waviiy. Il safe, there fe"fgj
numerous injuries put had it,
estimate nflhe number hurt.
Cotacachi. town of 4,200 per
sons 46 mjles ftrth of Quito, was
lesrrlbfras the picenterCS
auakfl. Thft tremor uit fpll hr
Buffalo, N.Y., was on duty in the.
next to-the last car when he saw
two men loom in front of him.;
Their faces were hidden behind
handkerchiefs and both held guns.'py when they got off the train.
he said
THIS IS A STICKUP'
Later, he gave polk 3 this ac
count:
"This is a stirkun " on of thi
Then they:mn tolrl him. "Where is Ihp
money? Don't yell or we'll kill
you."
When he refused to tell them,
thCV Dulled his arms behind flnd'n
bound his WTlStS With a DSir of 1
jone of the bandits put his foot,
in the small of his back.
"I wasn't frichlencd until I col
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DESCRIBES HOW TRAIN WAS ROBRED New York
Central Railroad mail clerk Thomas Mason tells police
Wednesday night in New York City how two masked
holdup men bound and gagged him and made off with
eight iriail sacks as an outbound mail-express train
stopped briefly in an open cut on Manhattan's west side.
Police said the bags contained worthless cancelled
checks.
of Worthless Checks
until they said: "If you
your mouth we'll kill you."
Then ;
I saw the handcuffs, and I knew
they weren't fooling. I was hap-
TOOK EIGHT BUGS
He said he told the gunmen the
money was in the bags. They dis
carded some of them among
them the one containing $2,700
and dumped eight outside
sacks were reportedly en i route lo:chicagos wal(,r , nas becn
the First Trust Bank and Deposit ordci.ed by Maynr Richard
Co. of Syracuse from the Federal!
' 'n,' t
,Orcn.
'nc ronbers led Mason s ankles. The mayor this week instructed
"h, c"r,d' """ his railroad!,he clly purchasing agent to buy
ap "u0 n,s mnuln ana "ea-
" was not immediately detcr-jwater
mined whether the train had
started to move when the two
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Mason said the train was mov-
ing when he managed to free his
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openlees and spit out the cap. Then
he screamed for help.
A tower signalman heard his ! the same old argument we have
plea. The train was stopped at:been hearing for years."
the next signal. Mason was taken I About 24 million workers in
to a hospital with severe bruises (interstate commerce, with certain
and a possible rib fracture.
Mayor of Chicago
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as soon as posible: The city
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p ' -V n!,0 " LONGBEAH, Calif. W - Wfccrfl th.e pertain to the bo. JMCV a .
L-OmprOmiSe Uue Vermont, the pretest Republican Wend fcflt h,me. Sffe said: WASHINSTqNnSSen Wv
fin Minimnm-Pav 5'2U eveIVaw if'Mi" U.S.A. "I f&efer not ft comment oni(R.wis) said TSur.?d' ne ..ulg o
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WASHINGTON Ifii Onlv Sen
ate-House agreement on an effec
tive date stood in the way Thurs
day of firfal congressional ap
proval of a l-an-h(fur federal
minimum wage
ThC "?'f i'edn,Jsda.y "ver -
rde, 188-145, ; Sresidont. Eisen
holer's request foa fimit of 90
cent an nour ana uy a lop-nt-avy
362-54 vote approved the higher
wage floor fijr most workers in
inter state commerce. The pres
ent minimum "is 75 cents.
The Sentte, which previously
had appreved the same $1 figure,
had voted to make it effective
next Jan. 1, The House voted for
March 1.
TWO DAYS OF DEBATE
The House sent its bill im
mediately to conference with the
Senate for a compromise on the
date.
Wednesday's House action cli
maxed two days of debate in
which supporters of the adminis
tration's 90-cent top limit pre
dicted a new inflationary spiral
would be touched off if a higher
pay figure was enacted.
Rep. Halleck (R-Ind), leader of
Ihe GOP forces, told the House
Ihe President would be "gravely
concerned over the consequences
to the economy of a figure great
er than 90 cents." Republican
spokesmen, however, gave no in
dication that the President would
veto the higher level.
2 MILLION AFFECTED
Democratic House Leader Mc-
Cormack of Massachusetts de-
rided Republicans! appeals as
exceptions and exemptions, now
come under the law's provisions.
The approved Increase would
mean a pay hike for an estimated
2,100,000 of them.
Takes Strong Wind
NEW YORK Ofl Far from
swaying anything like 18 feet in
a storm as some people think,
the tower of the Empire State
Building may move out of line
less than li inches, says Frank
Powell, the man who manages it.
And to get that inch and a half
movement requires a steady wind
velocity of 90 miles an hour, he
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rght over 14 other pretty final-
ists. The runners-up ere the,
tiss Arkansas, Nebraska, Caji
fornia and Georgia
Miss Johnson, a 22-yar-old
blue-eyed bloafle who looked 16,
is also 'th prettiest business
woman you evSr saw. She runs
her own jewelry business in Rut
land, i
RESTFCL BUSINESS '
"The business is resting," she
said, "because I am designer,
creator, distributor' and sales
man." ,
Two years ago she was Miss
Vermont in the Miss America
Pageant at Atlantic City but only
placed 13th. Thursday night she
enters the Miss Universe semi
finals. Asked if she were a traditional
Vermont Republican, she replied:
"Is there any other kind?"
Doll-like, she stands 5 feet 8 in'
her high heels with the perfect
Miss Universe measurements
bust and hips the same at 35
inches and the waist 11 inches
smaller at 24.
When reporters questioned her
after the contest Miss Johnson
answered all .questions freely ex-
pongee prints
cotron broadcloths
linen - look rayons
white, black and
wonderful
colors
These fabrics were
designed to go into
WoiJses at ojnuch
higher retell. Our buyer
wes Johnny-on-thepot
a'nri bought up the
who lot! HrjaVbem" ,
madeii.to these
f sprigMly.sumrner blouse
fcshirjns for you t
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son is a dentist in'Rutlwd, ytych p returns from the Geneva Big Q c
son s a dtlitist inRutlnd, ych
she said had lw.uuu population dijFour-cmicreie.
the last census, adding proudly wiliy, senior Republican on
Vcfmont.
A.b...h. ho. farWIv thoucht
abouf her entering beauty cv -
tests, she replied:
"Well, as you all know, the
East is ery. funny about beauty
contests. We;re a -very 'conserva
tive neonle but .iwfamily ges
"along with me, as does the, JwnJ
as long a I don't get a lump on
mv head."
Her big prize is a six-month
contract with Universal-International
Studios.
"I've thought -of the movies
only as something on top o( my
dream world but I'm ready to
take a crack at it. As long as my
business is a one-woman enter
prise, I think I'll just move my
stock out to California."
ROUGH COMPETITION
Miss Vermont got rough com
petition from Miss Arkansas, the
first runner-up. Margaret Anne
Haywood, of Jonesboro, a neat
little blonde package, was a popu
lar favorite with the audience.
Miss Nebraska, Donna Strcev
er, of Grand Island, placed next.
She is a sixth-grade school teach
er and must have a hard job
keeping the boys in her class
room .paying attention to doors.
Mr
JLHlJ PHONE L1551
returns irom the Geneva Big
ommiflfc, adted that asfafas
u ifnm.
ave kef made for (Tie President
to report by televiflAi and radio
on h meeting with therime
Hfinisters of Britain, France and
Rusia. -
Sen. HumpTirc (D-MinnT,
maanwhilg, termed "vf ry disfcur-
aging' the Big four dofisitn to
shunt the proBlems of German
unification and European security
to future loweMfvel conferences.
"The unification of Germany is
the hejrt and core of the problem
of European security," Humphrey
said in a separate interview.
"There can be im effective work
at the second level unless there
is agreement at the top on the
desirability of having a united
Germany."
Wiley, however, said he saw
"nothing discouraging" in .the de
cision to have the foreign min
isters work out arrangements for
future conferences on the issues,
and he added:
."I have felt all along that the
Big Four meetings could be only
exploratory, that they would be
only the beginning of future con
sultations on these problems."
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