Evening star., 1919-10-14
US. KNOWS MAKER
Of PALMER BOMB
Report From Gary, Ind, Says
/. Arrest Will Be Made in
Few Hours.
TERRORISTS UNCOVERED
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. October 14.-Military au-
thorities at Gary, the home of big steel
mills, announced today that they hoped
to have the maker of the Gimbel and
other bombs which have startled the
country in the last year under arrest
within a few hours.
Secret service men said they knew
the name, habits and manufacturing
methods of the individual who. they
claimed. has made most of these bombs
They announced also that they had un-
covered a plot to assassinate the mayor
of Gary, discovered great stores of
dynamite near Gary and traced the
printing of red circulars to Indianapo-
lis They said they had arrested the
man who blew UP an entrance of the
Chica go post office a year ago
The suspect held in connection with
the Palmer bomb is believed, ii is
said, to have been the manufacturer
of the thirty-six bombs sent through
the mail in boxes wrapped in paper
from the Gimbel Brothers store in
New York and timed to reach their
intended victims on May /.
Ivanoff Said to Be Maker.
This story said that Alexander
1vanoff had been arrested as the prin-
cipal bombmaker. Col Mapes, COM
me- nder of the federal troops at Gary
announced this forenoon that Ivanoff
had not been arrested, but that au-
thorities were looking for him. Army
Intelligence department officials said
that 1vanoff was the Gimbel bomb
maker
Ivanof lived in Gary first, intelligence
officers said. 1t was discovered that he
had moved three times in one month
because his neighbors in Gary professed
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strange men. each carrying a suit case.
seen entering Ivanoff's place Some
neighbors complained that they were
sure he was bootlegger. Ivanoff fin
ally moved to Miller, a Gary suburb
Detective Disappears.
There a secret service man took a
the Ivanoff domicile This federal agent.
intelligence department men announced
today. disappeared about two weeks
ago. The causes of his disappearance and
what became of him are unknown to
them, his brother officials said. They
are conducting widespread search for
him.
During the time that Ivanoff was
under observation. the intelligence
men said, it was discovered that he
was a manufacturer of bombs. Among
these bombs, the officers said. were
the thirty-six which became known
throughout the country as the Gimbel
bombs, because they were sent in
wrappings purporting to come from
Gimbel Brothers store in New York.
Gimbel wrappings Faxed.
These wrappings, officers said. were
faxed and Gimbel Brothers haa no
connection, other than the forged use
of their name. with the handling Of
the internal machines. The Gary Of
ficials said they had discovered that
these thirty-six bombs were carried
to New York from Gary in suit cases.
Ivanoff. the alleged bombmaker.
they said, was an expert electrician.
employed in 8 large mill near Gary.
There. they claimed. he started his
ishing work. His plans. the officers
asserted, included finally the de-
struction Of the factory where he
worked.
Locate Dynamite Cache.
The cache Of the dynamite and its
amount was not made public today. but
an oficial who described it said that
he presumed there was enough to blow
about all northern Indiana of the map"
Officers at Gary asserted that they
haa taken into custody the man who
dynamited the Chicago post Office last
year This explosion cost four lives.
The officers here said that this dyna-
inter had been released from confine-
Irent in order to help in the search for
1vanoff, but that he was so closely
watched that he could not escape.
Seize Threatening Letters.
Two letters threatening the life of
Mayor W. F. Hodges of Gary were
seized by military authorities. One
OF these disclosed plot to blow up
his residence.
Wy
diana state guards said that he is
searching East Chicago for reds al
legged to be intimate with the Gary
suspects
yesterday, 1T was announced. had been
devised in Gary, the copy sent to In
dianapolis for printing, the circulars
sent to Chicago and then to Gary for
distribution.
Linked With Gary Basement.
The peculiar style of manufacture
with the ingenious contrivance of the
explosive has linked them unmistak-
ably with a basement radical factory
raided at Gary by the federal troops,
1t is said.
Since the 1,soo soldiers of the 4th
and 6th divisions took control of Gary
Investigations have been shrouded in
secrecy. There have been many ar
rests made and strong stockade was
Revelation of the discovery of the al
legged bombmaker and the uncoyering
of the details of the terrorist plots
followed the finding on a striker at
Gary yesterday of four copies of a
handful purporting to be a procla-
nation of the communist party of
America advocating overthrow of the
military forces at Gary.
Premature announcement in a Chi
cago paper this morning of some fea-
lures of the bomb story. military au-
thorities at Gary said, had partly
thwarted their plans for clearing out
what they had reason to believe was
one of the central committees of
dynamiters in this country.
Near the scene of the explosion Of
one bomb some months ago. these au-
thorities said, was found a scrap of
a newspaper printed in Chicago. The
papers entire subscription lists were
obtained and the subscribers names
studied Selections were made among
these names as likely to lead to de-
velopments- One such name was Alex
ander Ivanof. who, 1t was noted, was
not only subscriber. but a contribu-
tor of radical articles.
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