Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1946 — Page 2

15 Houses Destroyed in South Carolina Town by Force of Explosion.

8 .C., Nov. 20 (U, P)~—Armed soldiers today patrolled littered streets where six were killed and over 150 injured here last night by a blast. Exploding propane gas demolished a block-long laundry and wrecked or damaged every building in the vicinity. ‘The troops from the Greenville afmy air base were ordered to the scene to prévent looting from stores and houses shattered by the blast. The explosion occurred around 8 p. m. Rescue parties who stumbled through the shambles of wreckage to bring out the injured said it was a miracle that the casualty figures were not higher. While firemen and police were still investigating the disaster, reports were received of a second exon in a sandwich shop about miles out of town on the highway to Augusta. Three persons were hurt there, one critically, Cause of this accident was unknown. 15 Houses Destroyed After a survey, the Red Cross reported 15 houses destroyed and 45 damaged. Three buildings in the area became hollow shells that will be torn down as a safety measure. Eight others were damaged. Hundreds of windows were splintered for blocks around. An unidentified man and his wife were at dinner with his aged mother next door to the Ideal laundry when the first blast came last night. The concussion buckied the walls of the house and the roof collapsed, burying the older woman. Miraculously all three escaped serious injury. Employees Warned J. Carl Trammell, superintendent of the laundry, paid with his life by staying inside the plant directing its evacuation after leading gas was discovered

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The body of W. L. Harbin, white |

fireman at the "laundry, was discovered in the ruins today.

The leakage was found by E. R. | After enced

Haynie, plant manager. spreading the warning, he rushed to a fire s a block away for

help. was explaining things to eri, they were almost knocked down by the explosion. The other dead were identified as Mary Brown, Jerline Simpson and Mamie Earle, laundry workers.

The explosion was heard distinctly some seven miles away.

call from a woman in Spartanburg, 30 miles away, reporting that she had heard the blast. The entire plant was a tangled mass of masonry and twisted steel. Mr. Haynie estimated damage to the laundry at $500,000.

Radic eran of naval combat in the Pacific. | Station WFBC received a telephone The co-pilot was Lt. Harry Bigham;

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[120 Students Guests of Times at National Aircraft Show

Off to the aviation wonderland at Cleveland's National Aircraft show . . . these Indianapolis high school students, guests of The Times, boarded a navy transport plane at Weir Cook airport shortly before 8 a. m. today. They were accompanied by Art Wright, Times promotion editor (in foreground),

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By ART WRIGHT attached to the naval office of in- nedy, 1710 8. Delaware st.; Bob An exciting day at the National formation and radio at Washington, | Wendling, 405 E. Orange st, Aircraft show in Cleveland as D. C. Shortridge high school — James guests of The Indianapolis Times| The boys first met the crew dur- Garard, 125 E. 48th st; J. Mark |was today’s program for 20 high ing the recording of a radio tran- Rhoads, 4500 Carrollton ave.

WRECK BUILDING “IN JERUSALEM

Explosion Occurs in Center Of British Area.

By ELIAV SIMON, United Press Staff Correspondent JERUSALEM, Nov. 20.—A heavy explosion shattered the building occupied by the income tax and press censorship offices in Jerusalem this afternoon. The explosion occurred in the center of the so-called “British fortress” area at midday--two circumstances which made the attack unprecedented.

A column of smoke arose nearly |

300 feet from the shattered offices after the blast.

Building Shattered

The two-story building which housed the offices was shattered. Windows were broken in a radius of more than a mile. This correspondent was driving along Princess Mary ave. only about 100 yards away when the explosion occurred. Sirens wailed and all traffic was halted. I saw two men and a girl running in .the direction of the Mamillah cemetery in the center of town with British police in pursuit. Within a few minutes the area swarmed with police and British military. Civilians took cover from intermittent gunfire. It appeared that the perpetrators of the attack were- making good their escape in a running gunbattle. A telephoned warning was given the building about half an hour before the blast. All occupants were evacuated. Only one serious casualty

was reported shortly after the blast.|

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NAB STUTTGART | Visit From Siam BOMBING GANG

15 Members Seized Along With Explosives:

FRANKFURT, Nov. 20 (U, P.) .— The army announced today that 15 8S men and Hitler youth had been | arrested for the recent bombings in the Stuttgart area. Army officials said members of! an organized gang were seized at! Stuttgart last night, An army spokesman said 10 of the 15 had confessed. 2 The ‘gang was led by 23-year-old Siegfried Kaduss, described as a fanatical SS man who was alleged

to have masterminded three bombings .in the aréa.

Former Premier and Mrs. Nai Pridi Banomyong of Siam are shown as they arrived in Los An« geles yesterday. After a tour of California's Central valley and the rice growing sections of the

JOHN MACDONALD, above, bassbaritone, will be soloist at the fall

music festival in Technical high

United States, they will visit

Sshiel auditorium at 8p m, Fri- Making More Bombs Washington, where they will . It was said the gang was seized | SPend four days as guests of the h k Known here for his solo work preparing bombs to be used| White House,

with Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra in Handel's “Messiah” at a municipal concert in Cadle taberriacle, Dec. 20, 1944, will share honors with some 500 student singers and instrumentalists Friday. The fall festival, directed by J. Russell Paxton, head of Technical high school music department, will include musical representatives of 12 Indiana high schools which have been invited to participate.

VOLCANO IN KURILES ERUPTS MOSCOW, Nov. 20 (U. P.).— Izvestia today reported a four-day eruption of the Sarichev volcano on the island of Matsuva in the central Kuriles, beginning Nov. 10. Smoke plumes rose 7000 feet, Izvestia said, and the base of the volcano was covered with lava.

tonight in Boeblingen and Stuttgart when members were arrested. The gang was blamed for the bombings of the Stuttgart and Backnang denazification court i ; buildings and that of the Esslingen | 2 bandit posing as a seet Miusi denazification headquarters near |" Simian took $9 from’ 14-year-old Stuttgart. ; | Virginia Pollard, 250 N. Reisner st. The arsenal uncovered at the yesterday, after threatening the girl, gang's headquarters included four| The girl told police she had let German .75 shells, two fused and the man in, thinking him to be a ready for use, several delayed ac-| salesman. + He told her he sold tion fuses and detonators, 11 pistpls music instruction, and that ‘she and 200 rounds of ammunition. “must” buy a course. When she said she was home alone and withe out money he became abusive, she said. He finally told her to borrow some money from a neighbor, telle ing her he had a weapon in his pocket, When she returned with | the money he fled.

BY ‘MUSIC SALESMAN’

S. 8. AMERICA TO DOCK SOUTHAMPTON, England, Nov. 20 (U. P.).—The United States liner America will dock at Southampton tonight, completing her first eastward crossing of the Atlantic as a peacetime luxury carrier, ran

school boys who rode away from scription which was to be aired over | = | Weir Cook airport this morning in radio station WISH at 2:30 o'clock | a giant navy plane, this afternoon. The students par-|| | They were to see all the latest ticipated in the pre-takeoff broad-| developments of an air-minded cast record. post-war America . . . and were to The Indianapolis boys are among | |experience many of the thrills of |a select group flown to the National | {modern flying. Like sitting in the |Alrcraft show by the anvy. Other lcockpit of a training mechanism [BTOUpPs came from Buffalo, N. Y.| lin the navy exhibit and thrilling Cincinnati, Detroit and Columbus, to the “feel” of flying at 1500 One hundred Cleveland students {were hosts to the visiting groups,

miles per hour. : 2 n } It was a day chock full of the | spowR as “Navy Cruisers. ;

thrills of aviation's an | Return This Evening a day when many of the Indalan-| The Jocal students were to return apolis students were seeing for the ts rndianapolis this evening, sched-| first time many of the amazing yd to arrive at Weir Cook air-' linnovations of this “Buck ROgers” port about 6 p. m., Indianapolis age. : time. First Plane Ride Students making the trip and the Several of the students experi- {schools they represent are: their first airplane ride,| Arsenal Tech — Francis Anoskey, {others had been at controls of 2631 E. Michigan st.; James Dixon, lighter ships. 1146 Belle Vieu pl. | During the flight to Cleveland the | Broad Ripple high school—Lloyd passengers in the Navy transport Smith, 7600 Westfield blvd.; Alan, were permitted to take their turn | Dusendschon, 5056 Rosslyn ave: { sitting with the pilot as he maneuv- i Cathedral high school — Paul] ered the ship to its destination,~ (Stricker Jr, 457 N, State ave.; Vic-| : | Piloting the group to the Ohio tor Herbertz, 2710 Bath st.; Thomas re city was Lt. Van Hoomissen, a vet- Stapleton, 4141:Park ave, ! Crispus Attucks high school — | {James D. McNair Jr, 2940 Bouleivard pl.; Carl Radford, 2344 Win{throp ave,

the flight orderly, Guy Place, seaman second class, and the flight

mechanic, Paul Vedra, aviation, Emmerich Manual high school— A. machinist mate. Robert Scheib, 1529 S. Alabama st.; Giving the students a preview of Robert Stuckey, 1212 Pleasant st. | B.

the day's program en route was a George Washington high scheol— |

{WAVE officer, Lt. Beulah Rogers, James Meadows, 2709 W, Washing- | gold, 595

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