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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1968
Page
2
Scotland Yard warns Britons about a criminal gang likened to Bonnie and Clyde. Top investigators urge the public to avoid direct confrontation and to cooperate with police to prevent violent incidents and losses.
A firefight 360 miles north of Saigon pits Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces against U S Marines. Mortars rifles and machineguns erupt as dive bombers and artillery strike. South Vietnamese armor advances to assist. The clash ends at night with Communist forces vanishing. Marines report sturdy bomber dugouts at the airfield near Nha Trang.
Salisbury Maryland detectives report prison escapee Joseph James Bartholomew killed Wicomico County Sheriff Samuel A. Graham and Deputy Albert L. Kelley aboard an estate on Sunday night. Bartholomew, 21, is described as armed and dangerous with blonde hair and green eyes, last seen wearing grey checked pants and a green jacket. State police issued statewide alerts as 30 troopers and Salisbury deputies hunt him.
Telephones business list with address 425 Main St Bennington Vermont 95201 by Bammer Publishing Corp announces United Press International exclusive republication rights for local news and UP Dispatches. Subscription rates by mail for 50 mile radius and Vermont unclear.
A U S Health official warned about orange red shiny beans found in pins sold across Sears and about 30 other firms imported from Japan via Ulster Importing Co of New York. The deadly beans, once chewed, can kill. 122 Gear stores in 117 cities stocked them with 200 bars of pins, each box containing 48 pins.
The House Banking Committee opened an inquiry into Americans using secret foreign accounts to dodge U.S. taxes and securities rules. Chairman Wright Patman and witnesses like Fred M. Vinson Jr. and Robert Morgenthau examined potential legislative remedies and broader uses to conceal identities and move funds across national and international transactions.
Nixon debated cabinet picks as rumors swirl over a week long reveal. Rep. Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin reportedly agreed to become Defense Secretary after talks with Nixon and sources note the Times also carried the Laird story.
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