Evening star., 1950-01-20
StreamIining Ordered
BY FBl Director in
Boston Bandit Hunt
BY the Assoeioted Press

BOSTON, Jan. 2O.-Top-fiight
investigators commanded by FBI
Director j. Edgar Hoover, stream
lined their hunt today for Boston's
million-dollar desperadoes.
Under orders from Mr.. Hoover
who took control yesterday, ex-
perts involved in the Investigation
co-ordinated activities. They con-
sidered the possibility of setting
up a central Office to sift clues in
the robbery of the Drinks Ar
mored Transportation Co. Tuesday
night.
Two more money bags-the
nth picked up since the robbery
were found in Milton, Mass,
early today. Police said one bore
the wording property of and
should be returned to the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York" The
other bore no lettering.
Coordination Session Arranged.
Directives from Mr.. Hoover's
office criss-crossed the Nation to
FBI branches in key cities in the
hunt for nine bandits who seized
a million dollars in cash and
half million in checks at the
Drinks garage.
Local F'BI agents were assigned
today to a coordination session
at the office of Attorney General
Francis E. Kelly. Crack State,
local and private detectives also
attended the meeting.
AS the manhunt entered its
third day, investigators clung to
only few thin leads.
The seizure of a New jersey
ex-convict with $1,762 on his
person in Miami, Fla, yester-
day as possible suspect was
knocked down by Boston police
but FBT agents questioned him for
3 hours early today.
Flagged Down Streamliner.
Boston Deputy Supt. John F.
DAILY said, after talking with
Miami police, that the man ap-
parently had no connection with
the local holdup.
The man, identified as Arthur
Longano, 81, of Englewood, N. j.,
was picked up by detectives who
tagged down the streamliner
Miamian as it entered the north
east Twenty-ninth street yards.
In EngleWood, Longano's wife
said accusations against her hus-
band are "a pack of lies" She
said Longano had been Ill re-
Gently.
Police in North Bergen, N. j., |
said Longano had a long police
record dating back to 1921, when
he was arrested on a, disorderly
persons charge at the age of 18. |
Serial Numbers Published.
The FBI automatically enlisted
the aid of millions of civilians,
banks and business establish
ments last night by publishing
serial numbers of 24,050 bills
totaling $4,000 Of the 81 900 900
taken in the robbery s$4st
Authorities pointeds out that
similar publication has cracked
some other cases. !
Hopeful leads were listed by
police as:
/. The canvas money bags
picked up in Massachusetts, towns
not far from the scene of the
robbery. One found in Providence,
r. T.. was ruled out as not of
the type stolen. ,
"a. A visored chaliffeur's cap, now
under chemical analysis at FBI
headquarters i'm Washington Tt
was found in the raided garage.
8. The cord and tape used by the
bandits in trussing and gagging
five cashiers and guards in the
Brink vault.
Bag Found i'm Saugus.
One of the money bags was
found in Saugus and the other in
nearby. Peabody, within Is miles
Of the raided garage.
The bag found in Saugus was
wrapped in Boston newspaper
printed on the day of the crime.
Both bags had serial numbers
but reserve bank officials described
these as requisition order numbers
OF which no record is kept.
For that reason. they said, there
rs no way of determining If they
were stolen. Police hope, however,
OF finding some means of making
a determination.