Four Linemen Die In Georgia Electrocution
In Pearson Georgia a high voltage line snapped during a rain storm and electrocuted four linemen from Georgia Power and Light Company while relocating a line along a new highway between Pearson and Cogdell. Two crewmen escaped injury. The dead were O A Odum 48 C M Brooker J L Liles Jr 24 and C L Brown all residents of Waycross. J D Williams and W H Bennett survived unhurt.
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Pearson, Ga
Georgia Power and Light Company
Pearson and
Cogdell
O. A. Odum
C. M. Brooker
J. L. Liles, Jr
C. L. Brown
J. D. Williams
W. H. Bennett
Waycross, Ga
FBI finds no link between Communists and Brinks Boston robbery
FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover told Congress the agency found no evidence tying Communists to the Brinks armored car heist in Boston. He said turning up no such link, noting the large sum could fund subversive activity. Hoover testified weeks earlier before a Senate subcommittee and the remarks were released last night. Early Egyptians reportedly used an elementary form of algebra.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Brinks Armored Car Service
Boston
Hoover
Senate Appropriations
Train severes auto but driver escapes
In Doylestown Pennsylvania on June 9 Howard E Hoffman a 56 year old farmer from New Britain was driving a new sedan over the Shady Retreat crossing on the Reading Co railroad tracks. A two car electric train bound for Philadelphia struck the rear of the sedan causing damage and throwing debris into a nearby field. Hoffman stepped from the front seat with only a slight cut and escaped serious injury.
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Howard E. Hoffman
New Britain
Shady Retreat
Reading
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