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The Boston Globei
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Pat. Off. VOLNg3C8L6VIII 910NDAY, SEPT. 24, 1915 20 PAGESTHREE CENTS ir5eNgeIVellaend Five flyers parachuted to safety and the pilot of a B-25 Army bomber was killed just before noon today when the plane caught fire and exploded in midair over the Mt. Hood golf course in Melrose.

The plane crashed in flames on the sixth 'green of the course. 'e Safe Robbers Sighted Hours After Break, but Elude Police Fire LI -t 2,,1 iL'Itf 444, sksk, fit- Voel. I -S-. 0 4 0 1 4, 4-4V, ov. OP Oil Company station in Saugus and then to the Melrose Police Station.

Sgt John Paquin of Chelmsford landed in a tree in Saugus and his parachute caught in the branches so that he was suspended upside down. Mrs. Kathleen Gilbert and her daughter-in-law, Ruth, 21, 379 Essex Saugus, saw him parachuting to earth and ran through underbrush to get close to him. Ruth climbed the tree and cut him loose. Ruth and her mother-in-law were treated by a doctor for cuts about the legs and arms sustained when they went to the rescue of the flyer.

Paquin was unhurt. Plane Crash Continued on Page 7 oMmmEmimnme MELROSE trorg3RsE 51i 4REVERE A PE1JW RD. 0 1: MALDEN WHERE PLANE CRASHED rOPOIN.00.11NM 1 ock -4-4A Discovered on a woods road leading into the Neponset meadows, Norwood, at 11 a. by Norwood police, three men who staged a sensational safe robbery at the Pepsi-Cola plant, Soldiers Field road and Western last right, escaped by automobile in a hail of bullets, but abandoned the stolen safe containing between WOO and $5000. When night watchman George McKenzie came to work at the Pepsi-Cola plant at Soldiers Field road and Western Brighton, at 10 last night, he found three dark, young men calmly working away on the company safe with an acetylene torch.

"Drop that light!" they barked at him, fired two shots past his head, roped him into a chair, asked him if any cops came around, and coolly went ahead for two hours cutting the of the safe out' of its steel and concrete shell. Following the escape of the trio in Norwood this morning police of Norwood. Dedham, Walpole, Canton, Needham, Westwood Ind Boston intensified their search for the men. They were believed headed for Boston as they were reported seen going through -1' (Photo of tgeene by William Ennis. Globe SUM) OF PILOT after Army bomber crashed on sixth green of Mt.

Flood golf course. Lower right, parachuted to safety, from left, Lts William R. Ivey and Albert Owen, and of plane is in foreground. i WEATHER CLOUDY WARMER TONIGHT tFull reports on sack age.t Red Streak Final VIAPIER tr.e.; MacArthur Freezes All Funds of Japs $250,000 Fire Elevator Operators Quit. hild Cren's Hospital i11.

YYrr City Operators Quit in New York City When their safe-breaking job was done at about midnight last night, the three masked youths placed the safe onto a conveyor and loaded it into a red, white and blue Pepsi-Cola truck. They helped themselves to some tools and welding equipment in the plant shop, told McKenzie to keep his trap shut, took off their masks and gloves, lighted cigarettes and drove away. Hundreds of Sunday night automobile drivers were passing by on the Metropolitan parkway. It took McKenzie three hours to work himself loose from the chair they had tied him into. At 3 a.

m. he rushed into the Western-ay. Fire Station, pale and shaking. Firemen called the police. After hearing thg details police figured thing as evidently the work of the same trio- which had done acetylene torch jobs in Norwood, Dedham and Quincy.

They had brought two 125- pound torch tanks, containing Oxygen and gas, to the Pepsi-Cola plant, and left them behind when they scrammed. Robbery Continued on Page 6 41FPLE azozic2--e "1 1141s miGio BE A SoLUTiohl To Go miLoot4 JOSS IN ACCOUNTING I load' Mt 0 uif Ztrci I 1 el 1114, '41!) :6 Ili 0 1 1174 7 7 111111110 1 PIE .0 C. wa Globe Guinea Pig Tries Big Breakfast Wants to Keep on With Experiment A 1, 44t 7-4! a 04 t4rb At 43, NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (AP) Business activities in at least 1575 Manhattan office buildings were crippled today in New York's first general strike of elevator operators and maintenance workers since 1936. The long-threatened walkout came during the early morning rush hour.

when 11,000 workers dropped their chores in 975 buildings between 14th and 41st but before noon the strike was extended to 300 additional buildings in the financial district and another 300 uptown. Great throngs of office workers swarmed the lobbies of skyscrapers and the sidewalks outside. Thousands struggled up stairways that seemed endless, including those of the Empire State Build-Elevator Continued on Page 20 Waltham, Cambridge Oil Yorkers Out The threatened gasoline shortage for motorists along the Atlantic seaboard, precipitated by the shutting down of two more big refineries in Texas yesterday. became more serious for this area. when workers at the Waltham and Cambridge depots of the Shell Oil Company walked out On strike this morning unannouncgd.

Sesmen for other major gasoline companies reported no strikes, but could give no assurance of gasoline supplies for the future, if the strikes in other section of the country continue. The new walkouts in Texas have now brought the number of C. I. O. International Oil Workers striking in Texas to enforce demands for a 30 percent wage increase to more than 27,000.

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Magstichuletts. 110Mmonwealth 6070. The five who "bailed our to 1 safety were located in Melrose, Saugus and Revere. All three communities and Malden adjoin near the area. Terrific heat prevented Melrose firemen from reaching the plane after the crash, but the body of one man, believed to be that of Maj Doak Weston, the pilot, was found in the plane.

The bomber was based in Gienier Field, Manchester, N. and is believed to have been on its way to the Boston area when engine trouble developed. The plane, according to early reports, was heading back for Grenier Field, and it is believed that the pilot may have attempted to make an emergency landing on old Muller Airport, Squire road, Revere. Many persons witnessed the crash or were attracted by the smoke and noise of racing fire apparatus Immediately after the crash. The first parachutist to reach safety was Sgt Earl T.

MacDonald, 111 Estrella, road, Jamaica Plain. Sgt MacDonald was "blacked out" when he landed near the Newburyport turnpike a close to a stream of traffic, but a truck driver of the Gibbs Oil Company went to his rescue. I The sergeant was taken to the Navy to Retain Quincy, Hingham, Boston ShiOyards WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (AP) The Navy's bureau of ships disclosed to the House Naval committee today plans to retain among others, the following activities during the postwar years: Industrial activitiesNavy Yard, Portsmouth, N. with Somersworth annex; Boston Navy Yard; South Boston naval drydocks: New London, submarine base.

Shipyards Continued on Page 2 Boston to See Might of Fleet on Navy Day WASHINGTON, Sept. 24The Navy today assigned the battleships North Carolina and New Mexico to visit Boston and join in that city's Navy Day celebration Oct. 27 Navy Continued on Page 2 Elevated to Run Buses to Airport The City Council today by a vote of 9 to 5. granted a permit to the Boston Elevated Railroad Company to operate small de luxe buses to Logan Airfield from the vicinity of the Statler Hotel. The permit provides for a 25-cent fare.

Watch for the radio program "Yours Jimmie Foss, starting September 30 on WNAC. I I I With justifiable one of baseball's organization. LIFE BREAD combination! During the grocer customers tomers as From TOKYO, Sept. 24 (UP)Gen Douglas MacArthur tg.clay froze all Japanese funds at home and abroad, stripped newspaper and news agencies of government control and banned research into atomic power. In an eight-point directive blueprinting Japan's postwar domestic economy, he also ordered strict control of wages, prices and rationed goods.

halted all aircraft, naval and other war production. and urged maximum output of civilian necessities of food, clothing and shelter. Japan Continued on Page 3 (Closing PricesNet Changes) IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE Comics 171Home 14 Cross-Word 12'Radio 9 Culbertson 17ISerial Story 6 Deaths 3 Egiltorial 14 Sport 11 were forced to summon aid from Stoughton and Randolph. There were no injuries reported among the children who were quickly ordered to their own buildings by Esther Babcock, superintendent of nurses, as soon as the blaze was reported. One fireman was injured.

Jaspar Legee of 62 Messenger road, Canton, fell two stories from the roof. He was not seriously hurt, however, and was treated oi the scene. James Hammond, head carpenter, who dis Canton Continued on Page 2 War Cost U. S. 11 Aircraft Carriers WASHINGTON.

Sept. 24 (AP) The war cost the United States 11 aircraft carriers sunk. Thirty others were damaged a total of 52 times by enemy action. A Navy recapitulation today showed that all but one of the li the surport carrier Block Island was sunk or damaged by Japanese air. surface or submarine attacks.

The Block Island fell victim to German submarine torpedoes in the western Atlantic. Aircraft Continued on Page 2 WANof FIREMEN DIG FOR BODY three of the five flyers who Earl MacDonald. Wreckage (PICTURE ON PAGE 2) CANTON, Sept. 24 Damage resulting from the spectacular two-alarm fire which swept the administration building of the Massachusetts Hospital School for Crippled Children this morning for almost three hours and threatened the lives of 157 children, was estimated at $250,000 by William Curtis, Canton fire chief. Flames raged through the three-story brick building with such speed and intensity that Canton firemen Maiden Mother Rallies, as Son Nears Bedside VAINgs Moa, an a lb 1.4.

ao 1110, WU WI T1 1 Ty ell in rlignt rrom Lmna wMALDEs1. Sept. 24-- -Awaiting the arrival of the second of her sons in the service. Mrs. Marion Rause of Malden, critically ill at Malden Hospital, rallied today as she hourly expected Col George on the last lap of his flight from China to her bedside.

Separated for two years. George has been 19 months in the China-Burma theatre. Red Cross located him. He made his return trip to the Mother on Page 2 To The Public: By EARL BANNER The other day the Glob had a piece where all the doctors said people should all eat big breakfasts, beefsteak and pie and everything. So That Editor Man yells across the City Room: "Hey, Banner, eat beefsteak and pie for breakfast tomorrow." So I went home and told the rnissus we're the Globe's guinea pig family again.

But this time it paid off. We had points enough, thanks to a recent out-of-town vacation during which no red points were used. It was another matter to find a really first class steak but we were lucky. Our favorite meat Breakfast Continued on Page 7 itta Patton Sees No Need for Sweeping Gangplank 61Women's 13 German civil gowrnment in Ba varia. Within the last fortnight investigation has fcrced the dismissal of tour provincial Ministers appointed by Bavaria's Minister-President.

Friedrich Schaeffer. Now the entire political situation in Bavaria is under investigation by a representa tive oGen Dwight D. Eisenhower. American Military Governor of Ger. many.

The whole matter leaves Patton pretty cold, He said he does 1 ot I know anything about parties, and i does not care. What is more, Schaer Patton Continued on Page 3 -10U-71r 1 By CARL LEVIN. BAVARIA. Sept. 22Gen George S.

Patton commanding General of the eastern district of the American occupation zone in Germany. expoundod his pclitical philosophy today at his headquarters here. This Nazi thing," he explained. "is just like a Democratic-Republican election fight." For this reason, he added, he has never seen the reason for a de-Nazilleation program. Until today his views on the occupation had been the subject of rumor only.

and he submitted reluctantly to an interview seeking his reaction to published criticism of the will be iterted on OCTOBER 2 II is tot who have no knowt edge of the subject. and also Jot thobe who fitild to review account pig principles preparatory to taking our esscondyear work Clatss will meet On Tuesday and Foday evenings. horn 6 45 to Et 45 Tuition $OO. payehle $IO monthly Ages of evening students range horn 17 to 50 No recitations Catalog t-tri request. Telephone KENtnores 0755 THE BENTLEY SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE 121101'1110N slut sosion Is (One block from Massactioaatta A.anuaSubwati Station) E7EZ, pride, we welcome Jimmie Foxx, immortals, into our LIFE BREAD and JIMIVHE FOXX a quality next few weeks, Jimmie will visit our and meet as many of their cus circumstances will permit.

all of the LIFE BREAD family "Welcome, Jimmie and good luck!" Monday, September 24, 1945 When you are back again in "civic's," talk over with us: Your Home Mortgage Low Cost Life Insurance Re-open Your Savings Account A SAS BRANCH OFFICES: Back Bay, 205 Berkeley Street Ras 'Leda 151 South Street Horn. from vacation? Arrange to get your Morning or Evening and Sunday Globe from the same newsdealer or boy each issue. Keep saying wastebasket paper, corrugated talons, brown wrapping paper, magazines and books and old newspapers. The newsprint situation is still critical. Women are requested to save every pound of Fats and Grease they can.

Turn it in at your nearest meat dealer. alb John P. O'Rourke, Presieb John P. O'Rourke, President 0 FOLT, el I 0 Classified Advertisements Dn not In the early morning edition, but do appear in all other editions. Restrictions in the use of newsprint paper ordered by the War Production Board make this necessary.

The Globe also reserves the right to restrict to certain editions other advertising in the event that Paper shortage requires it Advertisements may be ordered at the Globe office or by telephone. Call LAFayette 2000. HATHAWAY BAKERIES. I 1 AMMO ety.La0 .0, MIMMEMMigns 111101.11011. --I goi wi 0 I eilk.

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