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To) 0 JIjIQ) 9 Hoodlum on 'Most Wanted' List Seized in Dorchester mm J. Edgar Hoover Breaks the News Fire Perils Whole Area In Roxbury The long-missing George P. McLaughlin of Charlestown, sought for murder since last March 15, was captured this afternoon by F.B.I, agents and Boston police in an apartment house in Dorchester. The capture was announced by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover in Washington because McLaughlin was one of the 10 most wanted criminals on the FBI's list.

1965, Globe Newspaper Co. Ret. U.S. Pat. Off.

THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 1965 PAGES-TEN CENTS VOL. 187 NO. 55 AVenue 2 P.M. WEATHER REPORT Increasing cloudiness tonight followed by snow beginning after midnight, likely changing to sleet and rain during Thursday.

Several inches snow accumulation likely before changeover to rain. Low temperatures tonight in the 20s. Increasing easterly winds reaching gale force Thursday. 52 A warrant charging the 37-year-old Charlestown hoodlum with murder was issued by Roxbury District Court last Mar. 16 following the killing of William J.

Sheridan, a Dorchester bank clerk, at a christening party on Mar. 15. The FBI said McLaughlin was arrested in a third floor apartment on Dorchester, where he had been living under the name of John T. O'Connor. He had no chance to resist, according to the FBI, although he had three snub-nosed .38 caliber guns in his bedroom.

Mclaughlin Page 18 B57s Unveiled i fjjjl ntwri i 1 Aw nwJ By CHARLES TARBI A five-alarm fire in an unoccupied five-story brick tenement building at 795 Tre-mont Roxbury, raged out of control for close to two hours today before firefighters were able to contain it about 12:30 p.m. The fife in the building at the corner of Camden which broke out at 10:30 a.m., shot flames across the area and threatened for a time to spread to several occupied tenement buildings and industrial structures in the area. Several residents of apartments at 801 and 803 Tremont were evacuated as a precautionary measure. The brick walls on the Camden-st. side of the building was weakening and Deputy Fire Chief James Flanagan ordered all fire fighters from that side of the structure.

Two firemen were injured by falling pieces of slate from the roof of the burning building. They were treated at the scene4 Firefighter Gerald LaFlam-mi of Ladder 8 was hospitalized with a puncture wound in the foot. TENEMENT Page 18 ICC Hears Purchase Plan M.B.T.A. Seeks N.H. RR Riders By JAMES H.

-ri iumTTrniiiirniviimriTTTrmirniii niirlliiTmiin i nuiii iViiii lift faiiMnmiiwiiiinaiini wuri) Mm fur- -imiim-xsd The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority today offered the New Haven Railroad a package plan under which the transportation needs of some 6000 railroad commuters would be continued in this state. U.S. Jet-Bombs Reds in So. Viet other structures in neighborhood. (Helicopter View by Hal Sweeney, Globe) ROARING BLAZE in vacant Roxbury tenement building on Camden st.

today for a time threatened to engulf Judge Says Public's Also Vital in Crime M.B.T.A. proposes that by May 1 it takei over either through lease or purchase of acquisition of right of way the lines to continue service for passengers on the New Haven's Boston-Blackstone-West Med-way-Dedham lines. In addition commuters on the Boston to Providence run in the Bay state and those on the Stoughton line would be as-lured of service. The. M.B.T.A.

proposes to acquire the Old Colony right of way at "salvage value" and part of the Greenbush line to assure service to some additional 9000 people in the South Shore who lost their trains in 1959. Announcement of the M.B.T.A. plan came before an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing at Hotel Brad ford. It was made by M.B.T.A. SAIGON (AP) The United States has unleashed jet planes for the first time against the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam, a U.S.

embassy spokesman announced today. They have made several strikes in the last six days. B57 medium bombers and F100 fighter-bombers, with Americans manning both flight controls and the weapons joined the air war previously carried on by armed helicopters and propeller-driven planes handled jointly by Americans and Vietnamese. The spokesman said the decision was "in keeping with the announced United States policy of providing maximum assistance to the government of South Viet Nam in its efforts to repel the Communist aggression directed and supported by the Hanoi regime." In Washington the State Department said the use of the bombers is in line with a U.S. policy "of continuous action that is appropriate, fitting and measured." The first strike was made Peace Moves By RONALD A.

WYSOCKI Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro voiced apprehension today that the pendulum of law has swung too far in favor of the criminal defendant and against the rights of the public. His comments were in a written reply to cross-motions by defense counsel and prosecution concerning suppression of certain evidence in a Suffolk County manslaughter case. 8-8000 IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE Book 22 Bridge :52 Calendar .11 Classified 38-41 Comics ....31 Crane .....31 Cross-Word 31 34, 35 Editorial ..24 Financial 32-34 Port News. .34 Problem ...52 Radio-TV ..35 Society ....29 Sports Star Gazer .31 rheaters 50,51 Twistagram 18 Women's 28-30 HAMMOND chairman Gen James McCor-mack.

The New Haven, which is seeking discontinuation of three of the commuter lines carrying 2800 passengers daily, hailed the transportation authority's package plan. New Haven trustee William J. Kirk characterized the M.B.T.A.'s proposal as "responsible approach to the problem" which had overtones of statesmanship. The whole plan, however, is subject to: 1 A decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court that the M.B.T.A. is legally constituted, and, 2 Approved by Federal District Court Judge Robert O.

Anderson because the carrier is in bankruptcy. COMMUTERS Page 26 uniformed branch in guarding the system there. The M.B.T.A. force will undergo training at the Boston Police Academy, according to plans. Mayor Collins, who also heads line's 78-mcmber Advisory Board, proposed a step-up in security measures on the system last week at a meeting with M.B.T.A.

chairman Gen James McCormick, M.B.T.A. Page 16 Cardinal Shows Some Improvement An Improvement in the congestion which retarded the progress of Cardinal Cushing yesterday was noted in a bulletin issued by the chancery office at 3:15 today. Cardinal Cushing is recovering in a fifth-floor suite at the Cardinal O'Connell House of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Brighton, for surgery on his intestinal tract last Saturday.

The bulletin Issued by Rt. Rev. Francis J. Sexton, chancellor of the archdiocese says: "His Eminence, Cardinal Cushing has fchoun Mightly lets tongfitlen during the pant 24 hours. CARDINAL Page IS NOVAK'S T0WNE TERRACE 1700 IEACON IT.

Mm inf i)t nnn MBTA Police Force About to Shape Up NABBED IN DORCHESTER, George P. McLaughlin. last Thursday against Red guerrillas holding a mountain pass near An Khe in the central highlands. The spokesman said another attack was made today in that area, 210 miles north of Saigon. The Viet 'Cong: have inflicted relatively heavy casualties on government troops around An Khe with a series of ambushes.

Restraints on the U.S. jets were released at the request of the Saigon government, the spokesman said. He declined to reply when asked if restraints on other United States forces naval units for instance were also being removed. Military authorities refused to reveal the exact number of American jets now based In South Viet Nam. It Is believed as many as 200 hava been on hand at peak moments in the past.

VIET NAM Page 2 expressed great satisfaction and told American newsmen at a Soviet Embassy reception: "It all went fine. I am extremely satisfied. You will see the results in the very near future." Official French agreement to a Geneva conference on South Viet Nam is expected to be given as soon as France gets a similar request from the British, well informed sources here predicted today. Vinogradov told U.S. newsmen that Soviet Russia wanted peace in South Viet Nam.

"but" he added, "we cannot organize a conference while you (Americans) continue to bomb North Viet Nam." Of the several diplomatic avenues being explored today, one wbs in Warsaw, where the ambassadors of Communist China and the United States met in a session that diplomats said could influence the crisis in Southeast Asia, U.S. Ambassador John Moors Ctihot and Chinese envoy Wang Que'Chuan cinvie fucc-to-lace in the 126th. meeting of the ambflssncMrlnl talks that briian in 193a in Geneva. PEACE Tage attorneys of every major city In the country. "Chief Justice Tauro apparently feels that the time has come that the public must be entitled to some consideration that the public is entitled to some peace and security." Tauro's six-page, written instrument was unusual.

Normally, motions are orally denied or allowed in Superior Court procedure. Supreme Courts write decisions. TAIRO Page 26 1 bl Major Capitals Buzz With Talk Rigfits Cases Under interrogation by Judge Tauro, Sgt. King testified that his Investigation disclosed applications for the loans were made through the mail. He testified that the bank actually loaned the money to applicants whom they had never seen.

Asked by Judge Tauro how a scheme like this could operate, King explained that the person applying for the auto loan would list a place of employment on the application. AUTO LOANS CHIEF JUSTICE G. Joseph Tauro today supported equal protection under law for the general public in a crime case. His ruling was hailed by Dist. Atty.

Garrett H. Byrne, who plans to send copies of ruling to fellow district attorneys in major cities. By ROBERT B. CARR The M.B.T.A. is taking initial steps to establish an organized well trained police force for the sprawling transportation system.

General Manager Rush B. Lincoln Jr. disclosed that two officials are being sent to New York tomorrow to study the makeup and operations of the Transit Authority's police force which numbers more than 1100 uniformed men. The new M.B.T.A. force will number about 20 men, crording to present plans, And will operate In plain clothes.

The New York Authority has a squad of about 25 plain-clothesmen who augment the What Is It? CASH TODAY FOR YOUR VW XrmritlMl At Cond. Court Told Cars Phantoms, Too Bank Auto Loans to Ghosts Blamed on Slain Reddington Justice Tauro, in an unprecedented decision, agreed with the Commonwealth's side and Instructed the defense to cite the specific instances of alleged violations of the defendant's rights upon which the accused based his motion. "The alternative is to invite wholesale fishing expeditions on the part of the defendant, giving him the op- porlunity to examine many of the prosecution's witnesses at the hearing nhis motion to suppress," the jurist opined. Continuing his opinion, Tauro said protection of the accused "could well tute mocking rhetoric unless the law with equal zeal protects the public as well." Upon receipt of the Chief Justice's ruling, Suffolk Dist. Atty.

Garrett H. Byrne, president of the National Assn. of District Attorneys, stated: "The decision is so far reaching and so important to law enforcement, I Intend to send copies to the district Gilchrist Goes To Broncos BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)-Cookle Gilchrist, stormy full-bark of the Buffalo Bills, was traded Wednesday to the Denver Broncos for fullback Billy Joe, the A Rookie of the Year In 19S3. It was straight player deal and no tash was In volvtd, Bills' spokesman laid.

PARIS (AP)-France has agreed to cooperate with the Soviet Union in pressing for an intcrantional conference to negotiate a settlement of the Viet Nam conflict, Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte said today. Sergei Vinogradov, Soviet Ambassador to France, called at the Elysee Palace yesterday for a 20-minute discussion w'ith President Charles de Gaulle. Peyrefitte said that during the talks, Vinogradov proposed that the two governments work together to reestablish peace in Southeast Asia through an international conference. De Gaulle was reported to have told Vinogradov that "we are in favor of this goal." After the visit, Vinogradov Lincoln Results Mit.v nni hi Trlri kmpr Mart? pui llMrt, rlfllm.nu. 4-mf- IBM) 7 on 84rt Slim, r( rr ray so tnr Lfnfue.

Marnh Atlail, ip nH. Pnn utltnim, Antony Thn Abbott itO fan LINCOLN fai 48 Flynn is charged with aix separate larcenies totaling more than $8000 from the. First National Bank in 1962 and 1963. The larcenies were In the nature of loans made by the bank to allegedly non-existent persons for nOn-exMent cars. Attorney Smith pointed out that Flynn, whose most recent address, according to the indictment, was on Riverside drive, Needham, has no previous police record of any kind.

Smith laid further that Flynn was used as "patsy or dupe" by Reddington, a known con man. Racketeer Henry F. Red-dincton, who was slain in his Weymouth real estate office on Jan. 23, was revealed today to have been the master-mind of an automobile loan scheme which mulcted thousands of dollars from the First National Bank and other banks in Boston. The revelation was made by Boston Police Sgt Matthew King in testimony before Suffolk Superior Court Judge Joseph Tauro at hearing on a motion to continue a larceny care against a Need-ham man.

The defendant, Edmund Flynn, former proprietor of the now defunct Neponsct Motors Co. of Dorchester, was represented in court by attorney Paul T. Smith. The Dlhm mm placed this Want Ad In The Globe (Ftb. IS) fell foreign earn.

lit ld the Volkswagen are re. conditioned and i1d In his uwd cur lot. The man nld ht pUrfd a iimllar ad In The Klohe a thort time nd win able to buy eleht Volkswagen In one dy. To r'ac Clififd Advl. In The Globe Call 282-1500.

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