Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-17
ARREST Of MAKER
Of DEATH PACKAGES
IS PROMISED SOON

CHICAGO. Ill.-Military author
tiles at Gary, the home of the
big steel mills, have announced that
they hoped to have the maker Of
the bombs sent out in Gtmble
wrappers which have startled the
country in the past year, under ar
rest within a few hours.
Secret service men said they
knew the name, habits and manu-
featuring methods of the individual
who they claimed has made most
Of these bombs. They announced
also they had uncovered a plot to
aSsassinate the mayor of Gary, dis
covered great stores of dynamite
near Gary and traced the printing
of red circulars to indianapolis.
They said they ha darrested the
man who blew up an entrance Of
the Chicago postofffce year ago.
Seek Bomb Maker
Premature announcement in a Chi
cago paper of some features OF
the bomb story, military au-
thorities at Gary said, had part
ly thwarted their plans for clear
ing out what they had reason
to believe was one Of the central
committees of dynam1ters in this
country. This story said Alexander
Ivanotf had been arrested as the
principal bomb maker. Colonel
Mapes, commander of the federal
troops at Gary, announced this fore
noon Ivanoff has not been arrested,
but authorities were looking for him.
Army intelligence department Off
Gals said Ivanoff was the Gimbel
bomb maker.
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one bomb some months ago, these
authorities said, was found a scrap
of a newspaper printed in Chicag go.
The papers entire subscription lists
were obtained and the subscribers
names studied. Selections were made
among these names as likely to lead
to developments. One such name
was Alexander Ivanoff, who it was
noticed, was not only a subscriber.
but a contributor of radical articles.
Ivanoff lived in Gary. First, in
telligence officers said, it was dis
covered he had moved three times
in one month, because his neighbors
in Gary professed to be scandalized
at the number of strange men, each
carrying suit case, seen entering
Ivanoff's place. Ivanoff finally
".
There a secret service man took a
house from whence he might OBJ
serve the Ivanoff oDm1cile. This fed
eral agent, intelligence department
men say, disappeared about two
weeks ago. The causes of his disap-
pearance and what became of him
are unknown to them, his brother
officials said They are conducting ii
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Bombs Carried in Suit Cases
During the time Ivanoff was I'M
der observation, the Intelligence mer
said, it was discover he was a
manufacturer of bombs. Among
these bombs, the officers said, were
the tfiirty-six which became known
bel bombs, because they were sent
in wrappings, purporting to come
from Gimbel Brothers store, in New
York. These Wrappings, officers
said, were faxed and Ginbel broth
ers had no connection, other than
the forged use Of their name, with
the handling of the Internal ma
chimes. The Gary officials said they
had discovered these thirty-six
bombs were carried to New York
from Gary in suit cases.
Ivanoff, the alleged bomb maker,
they said, was an expert electrician,
employed in large mill near Gary.
There, they claimed, he started his
bombs, taking them home for the
finishing work, His plans, the Of
ficers asserted, included finally the
destruction of the factory where he
worked.
The cache of the dynamite and
it's amount was not made public,
but an official who described il
said he presumed there was enough
to elbow about all northern Indiana
off the map"
officers at Gary asserted they had
arrested the man who dynamited the
Chicago postoffice last year. This ex-
plosion cost four lives. The officers
here said the dynamiter had been re-
leased from confinement in order to
help in the search for Ivanoff, but
he was SO closely watched he could
not escape.
Two letters threatening the life
of Mayor Hodges, of Gary, were
seized by military authorities. One
of these disclosed a plot to blow up
his residence.
The inflammatory circulars found
here yesterday, it was announced.
had been devised in Gary, the copy
sent to indianapolis for printing, the
circulars sent to Chicago and Their
TO Gary for distribution