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UP SMILING WEDNESDAY Warm, tess Bridge Calendar Classified 25' Comics Cross-Word Deaths Dennis Dr. Crane editorials Financial 22- 16 Obituaries ..25 Port 24 33 Radio-TV ..15 14 SmallWorlds 14 14 Society 11 25 Sports ..14 16 Theaters ...8,9 12 Twistagram 26 24 Women ..10.11 1JUJIUU. THURSDAY Partly cloudy. High Tide 11:29 a.m. 11:43 p.m, Sun Rises Sun Sets 5:51 7:45 (Full report on page 2) i EDITION MORNING vol.

NO. 46 Re. U. S. Pat.

Oft. By GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 19G2 Telephone AV 8-8000 34 PAGES 10c in inii GLIDE TO FEATURES I if mm. a cn i i 1 1 ii I I I 1 1 ii it o)mo)o)ffD)W 0) 0) i Machine Gunner CI ear cosmonauts down safe oad for Plymouth MOSCOW (AP) Russia's space twins landed this morning "exactly in the pre-determined area'' of the Soviet Union after space flights that broke all records for orbiting the earth an dtravel in space, Tass. announced. The Soviect news agency said Maj Andrian Niko-layev landed at 9:55 a.m.

Moscow time (2:55 a.m. EDT) and Lt Col Pavel Popovich at 10:01 a.m. By FRANK MAHONEY and SEYMOUR LINSCOTT A gang with machine guns staged a Hollywood-style stickup of a U.S. mail truck in Plymouth at 8 last night and investigators said the loot could exceed $2 million. One of the guards on the truck gave that estimate.

State Police detectives said it seemed sure to top the $1,219,000 Brink's robbery. At 3 this morning, Lt. Det. Joseph Simmons of the Norfolk County district attorney's office said that on the basis of inform- ation then available, the total could reach $2 million. The loot, all or nearly all, in cash was contained in 1 7 sealed bags.

It was not certain whether the money was deposits being transferred here from Cape Cod banks, or receipts from Cape post offices, or both. One of the holdupmen wore the uniform of a policeman. All the gang wore white gloves. The truck was hi-jacked on the northbound lane of Rte. 3.

-The robbers made sure they would not be interrupted by blocking the lane several miles back with detour signs at the nearest exit. Inspector Hears Story of Kidnaped Mailmen Mail truck driver Patrick Schena (center) and fellow worker William F. Barrett (right) were held up by gang in Plymouth, bound, and driven to Randolph where truck, minus money-bearing mail bags, was abandoned. Inspector checks with them for clues inside police car at the scene. Not A mateurs If I ft fl of of a policeman, and having the fake officer bring the mail truck to a halt; the precision timing as the intercepting cars shot off the side of the highway and cut off the truck, the smoothness with which the guards were disarmed, with no shots fired these were not the antics of amateurs.

It took a person versed in the art of hijacking to come up with the idea of stealing detour signs and using them to block Rte. 3 at hte Clark rd. exit to forestall some mo-' torist driving onto the holdup scene and queering the stickup. No unnecessary violence, no jittery fingers on the triggers of the machine guns, no bare hands to leave fingerprints these were the result of precise planning and exceptional execution. Job Police Check Hijacked Truck Vehicle which was abandoned on Route 128, near the junction 28 in Randolph.

Huge Cash Shipment A Normal Routine feel (Globe Photo by Charlfn Carey) the guards, take time to transfer the loot to the various cars, and to help alert them to pursuers. They were careful to ensure a "disappearance" at the end of the job by making sure the guards could not describe the getaway cars. PLANNING Page Three M. GANG A. POWERS to speculations that the heist was stappr! hv a nana nf jpj i desperadoes wanted for bank robbery and murder in New York.

GANG Page Three HERBERT L. CONNOLLY Status in doubt rence, Dorchester, Springfield, Milford and Chicopee," Miss McCarthy said. BALLOT LAW Page Five NEW HiG'iEi? DIVIDEND SEND FQl FREE KIT 0ME.U"wt I FederalSavings "Both cosmonauts fine," said Tass. LANDING Page Thirteen A r' 1 Anticipated Posts Paid Annul Rati Both Ways rn mm n.iiiiL Job The two postal employees aboard the truck were armed but had no chance to use their weapons. Nine men and a woman, using at least four cars, are believed to have taken part in the carefully planned job.

Two of the cars were found abandoned on Rte. 3 in Plymouth. Three of the gang commandeered the truck, tied the guards hand and foot, tossed them into the back and drove off toward Boston. Some of the bags of cash were transferred from the truck to one car at the holdup scene. The truck was stopped twice later for further transfers of loot to other cars.

The mail truck and the guards were left on Rte. 128 near Rte. 28 in Randolph. MAIL ROBBERY Page Three asked the pilot, Don Mathie-, son, of Lawrence, nervously seeking assurance. "Yuh, a little haze, though," he replied, leveling the craft off at 4500 feet, and facing the northeast, shortly before 9 o'clock.

VIESV Page Six A companion measure, acted on favorably by a House committee, is now before that body's Rules Committee for approval. Sen. Harrison A. Williams of New Jersey, sponsor, says he is "optimistic" of passage. The bill is considered one of 10 remaining "must" pieces of legislation for Congress this session.

If the measure is approved, it will mean that the state could obtain up to $62.5 million in Federal funds to provide rapid-transit extensions. Mayor Collins and Logue would like to reroute the Forest Hills rapid transit line along the proposed South- niNCIUfi TONIGHT and IVIBY UMrtfainU WtD SAT. MOSELEY'S THE CHARLES BON DUOltV ind hia ORCHESTRA ton any worn-out notes are destroyed and new currency issued. DEPOSITS Page Twenty-six Caggiano Ruled Off Ballot; Board Eyes Connolly List The View Was Great, Reporter Sees Moon, Stars, No Vostok 'One Was Called Buster' The following is the account of the holdup as told to State Troopers Paul Martin and Robert Grudzinski of Norwell Barracks by thetwo guards William F. Barrett of 24 Branch Mansfield, and Patrick Schena, 36, of 53 Winthrop Everett.

Schena was the spokesman: "They first stopped us on Route 3, near the bypass. A car went by us at about 80 miles an hour. We were only doing about 45 miles an hour. "We saw the car stop up in front of us. and a policeman got out and waved his arms over his head to stop us.

I stopped the truck. GUARDS Page Twenty-six approximated the clarity of crystal between 9 and 9:10 last night as I circled in a single-engined Cessna plane. The moon (full) was completely unobscured. The stars (bright) glittered unrestrainedly. It looked like a perfect night for well, just about anything.

"A perfect night, huh?" I way through Roxbury as far as Huntington av." Logue said he will recommend that the B.R.A. voice its approval of the route recommended in the $1 million survey compelted for the state Dept. of Public Works. In moving speedy construction, Logue has his eye on a potential $62.5 million in Federal funds which will be available if President Kennedy's transportation bill is approved. The bill hai been reported favorably by the Senate Banking and Currency Committe and is before the full chamber for debate.

Why was so much money In transit last night? It was part of the constant shuffling of cash between banks and the Federal Reserve institution in Boston. "When commercial banks get too much currency and coins they send it to- us," a Federal Reserve spokesman said. "The accounts of these banks are credited, and when they need cash we send it back to them," the official said. There is a steady movement of currency in and out from the Federal Reserve Bank at 30 Pearl st. in the downtown district.

Most financial transactions any size are carried by checks these days, so "unwanted cash builds up. While the currency is at the Federal Reserve bank in Bos By EDWARD G. McGRATH The smooth-as-silk holdup of the mail truck could only have come as a result of long and careful planning. The actual hijacking of the truck was carried out with dispatch, and without a hitch. Behind the actual caper, police said, must have lain hours and hours of plotting and rehearsalt It was, in fact, a very professional job executed by men cooly efficient and calcuat-ingly cunning.

The procuring of a uniform Cloture Vote Finally Ends Filibuster WASHINGTON (UPI) For the first time in 35 years and only the fifth time in history, the Senate voted yesterday to gag itself and choke off filibuster by a small band of Democrats against the Administration's Space Communications Bill. The vore was 63 to 27, three more than the two-thirds majority needed to approve the cloture petition filed by Senate leaders. Only two Republicans Barry Goldwater of Arizona, and John G. Tower of Texas, voted against the gag. FILIBUSTER Page Six west Expressway as far as Rte.

128 Station in Dedham. This would enable the city to raze the ugly elevated structure which runs from below Dover st. in the South End, over Washington st. to Forest Hills. Logue explained that the removal poses "no financial problem, since most of the money spent for demolition could be recovered through "The greatest problem in this regard," he said, "is the relocation of the rapid-transit line.

INNER BELT Page Four SNOWBIRD SNOW THROWERS 4 hp and She. bow in stock. Sales ana service, ia a-oin. RtBIN HARDWARE INC, The bandits were careful to remain fairly well dispersed as they carried out the job: some in the truck, others following in getaway cars. If the police had intercepted them before the robbery was completed, some might have got away with a portion of the loot.

Their "aimless" driving of the truck after they com-mandered it was to confuse SUSPECT By RICHARD The FBI and postal in spectors teamed up with stale and local police last night to fLM match clues that would quickly put them on the trail of the machinegun-weilding bandits. The use of the machine guns in the brazen holdup led PASQUALE CAGGIANO Off the ballot Monday, to explain his charge of "pressure" to quit the race. Late last night the commission was checking signatures on the nomination papers of Newton auto dealer Herb Connolly, also a candidate for lieutenant governor. Connolly's problems began mounting when handwriting expert Elizabeth F. McCarthy testified that she "found a pattern of forgeries" on Connolly's papers.

"One person has written most of the signatures on the nominations papers from Brockton, Watertown, Law- BEVERAGES mad only with pure iparklinj prinj water. I u. N'SMtV" ia-- mm Goes It Alone as Others Row Boston Acts on Own Inner Belt Sections By CHARLES E. CLAFFEY The Russians slipped one over on me last night. Literally rising to the occasion of the purported passage over Boston of the Soviet capsule Vostok III, I took to the air in an effort to observe the historic passage.

The sky over Logan Airport expedite construction of its Portion of lhe $163 million Irner Belt expressway. Development Administrator Edward J. Logue said the proposed location will be outlined to the Boston Redevelopment Authority for approval at its regular meeting today. "Pending solution of the problems in Cambridge and Somerville," he said, "I can see no reason why construction of the belt cannot get under way in Charlestown and particularly the section ifrom the Southeast Express- BeeFBrd 1 FOR HEARTY ROAST BEEF tz nuiu flLNIVIOKE Ti i rFF P1RIIKB fill niuutD citcrr SS i wll wmiibn By JEFFREY A. OSOFF Former Rep.

Pasquale Caggiano of Lynn, one of three candidates for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, suffered a double jolt yesterday within the space of an hour. Shortly after the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission had ruled his name off the Sept. 18 primary ballot because of 127 "not genuine" signatures, Atty. Gen. Edward, J.

McCormack Jr. announced that he would bring Caggiano before the Suffolk County Grand Jury possibly Baseball Results AMERICAN LEAGUE BOSTON 2, Los Angeles 1. BOSTON 9, Los Angeles 5. Detroit 13 Baltimore Detroit 5, Baltimore 4. Chicago 9, Cleveland 0.

Kansas City 6, Washington NATIONAL LEAGUE San Fran 9 Chica 2 Phila 3 New York (15) Pittsburgh 2, LoS Angeles 1 Milwaugee 5, Cincinnati 4. Houston 4, Louis 3 (10). RED SOX TONIGHT At Los Angeles (Schwall vs. Belinsky) 11 p.m. Tonight thru Sunday BEACHCOMBER PAT TERR BOB HALEV, M.C.

8TRUT FLASH 8ERT MULLANEV SUN. AFT. TWIST DANCING) as th By ROBERT B. HANRON While other communities were still wrangling, Boston moved forward last night to SELLING BOATING Again this year, throughout the busy Boating season, Globe Classified continues to lead all other Boston newspapers in Boating advertising. Year after year, Boating interests turn to The Globe during the boating business season because they know that the boating pages of The Globe get the readership and the sales results.

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