“STUDIED” IN WAR PLANT
NEW YORK CRACKSMEN NEW YORK, June 3. Two scientific safe-crackers, arrested in a New York suburb, had become war plant v workers to learn the latest technique in the operation of acetylene torches. The men first met in Sing Sing prison, and they later formed a part>nership, in which scientific knowledge was combined with old-fashioned crowbar methods. In their workshop was equipment elaborate enough to crack the most formidable safe. It included modern precision instruments and a small library on modern welding, practice and metallurgy. • Police 'surrounding a suburban bank surprised them at work, and they surrendered with 15,000 dollars (£4690) which they had taken from.the vamlts.
Gift to Russian Hospital.— The Moscow radio says the American Red Cross has presented complete equipment for a hospital of 500 beds to the Minsk Hospital, which suffered severely under German bombardments.—London, June 1L
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24591, 13 June 1945, Page 8
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