Evening star., 1940-07-05
IS Radicals Seized
After Bomb Kills Two
Al New York Fair
Five Are Hurt in Plot
To Blow Up British
Pavilion at Exposition
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. July 5.-All known
radicals in the metropolitan area
were rounded up today as police
made an unprecedented effort to
track those responsible for a bomb
explosion which killed two detec-
tives and injured five other persons
at the Worlds Fair.
Stirred into drastic action by New
York Citys third bombing in two
weeks. Police Commissioner Lewis j j..
Valentine ordered his entire depart
ment to concentrate on the case.
Suspects GrilIed.
Throughout the night and this
morning, at least rs persons we're
taken to headquarters for question:
ing. Most of them had been listed
by police previously because of
public utterances indicating they
were not in sympathy with the
democratic form of government. All
were asked about their activities
during the past week, particularly
on Wednesday and yesterday. Most
were released promptly after the
checkup.
Commissioner Valentine said the
bomb had been loaded with pieces
of wire spring, nails and other metal
fragments.
A 10-penny nail, he said, was
found in piece of flesh of one of
the detectives that was blown 400
feet away. A piece of wire spring
was pulled out of the cheek of John
j. Mclaughlin, chief of the fair de-
tectives. who was standing by as
the bomb exploded.
The bodies of the two victims were
so filled with metal fragments which
might be vital in the investigation
Mr. Valentine said, that the X-ray
may be used to locate all of them.
Second Warning Given.
The commissioner disclosed that
the same day last week on which
some one telephoned a mysterious
bomb warning to the British pavil-
ion, the adjacent Italian pavilion
had received a post card warning
that there would be an explosion on
its premises.
While the search to track down
those responsible for planting the
bomb was continuing, the Detectives
Endowment Association offered a
81 900 reward for the arrest and
conviction of the guilty person or
persons.
Protesting agitators were hauled
down from soap boxes in Columbus
circle, the RED rendezvous" and
rushed unceremoniously to police
headquarters. Others were seized in
downtown haunts; still others were
routed from bed.
Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia de-
clared, there will be most thor
ough investigation, and there won't
be any letup."
Two of those injured were in crit
ical condition today.
Warned by Phone Call.
The bomb, a f1ame-throWer and
disguised as a portable radio, was
intended to destroy the British Pa
vilion. Put on the alert by a mys-
terious telephone call Tuesday that
"the place is going to be blown up"
pavilion employe noticed the small
bag in the fan room yesterday after
noon, took it to deserted spot
about $50 yards from the Polish
Pavilion and notified authorities.
An hour and a half later, the
bomb exploded as members of the
police bomb squad pryed cautiously
into the bag.
The blast was so terrific that hats,
strips of clothing and fragments of
bodies were hurled through the air
over a 50-foot radius. It dug a hole
S feet wide and feet deep, broke
windows in the Polish Pavilion,
stripped maple tree of it's leaves