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Evening star., 1947-04-18
Kennedy
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Der of residences destroyed by fire.
I counted only two In walk through
the Monsanto Chemical Plant area
the hardest hit.
Had the wind been blowing from
the south at the time of the blast
the fire would have burned this
cottage city to the ground.
There were about rs unidentified
bodies in the gymnasium, used as a
morgue, this morning. q
AS both a port and an oil city
this community had many migratory
workers. Many of the dead men
probably had no families and prob
ably will be buried later in a mass
funeral.
Etched on Memory.
I am returning to Washington to-
night but 1t will be long before my
mind will be able to leave Texas
City. Here are some of the things
fixed in my memory:
The - hearses standing in front
Of the gymnasium.
The blackboard on the lawn with
a chalked heading, These have
been identified"
Another blackboard near the en-
trance with this in chalk: Ministers
are here to serve you. One will go
in with you If you wish"
The number of young men wear
ing rubber gloves.
The mother of so who knelt down
by the body of her son; talked to
him calmly and affectionately
rubbed his hands. She waved away
smelling salts and walked out un-
assisted. js
Evening star., 1947-04-18
John ? Hennessey,
Inferior Attorney,
Ill for Weeks, Dies

John P. Hennessey, -, an attor-
sney with the Bureau Of Land Man-
agement OF the Interior Depart
ment, died yesterday in Garfield
Memorial Hospital after an illness
|of several weeks. He lived at 66l5
Delafield street, Chevy Chase.
A native Of Wallingford. Conn.
he had lived In the Washington
area since his discharge from the
Navy in 1919. He was graduated
from the Georgetown University Law
School in 1923 and had received q
master OF law degree from National
University about 1880. He had
worked for the Interior Depart
ment for nearly Is years.
At the time of his death Mr..
Hennessey was chairman Of the
Martins Addition Citizens Commit
tee. He was q member Of the Dis
trtct bar and belonged to the Rock
Greek Council of the knights Of
Columbus, the Bethesda Chapter Of
the American Legion and the Church
OF the Blessed Sacrement, Chevy
Chase Circle.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Evelyn Hennessey;; two sons, John
|P. Hennessey, jr., IA, and James M.
Hennessey, IL: a daughter, Joan e.
Hennessey, 10, all of the Delafield
street address; his mother. Mrs.
Nora Hennessey, Wallingford; two
brothers, Mark M. Hennessey, Mil
waukee, Wis, and Dennis j. Hen.
nessey, Wallingford. and two sisters,
Mrs. Norrine Houlihan, 1927 Severn
teenth street, Arlington, and Miss
Helen Hennessey, Wallingford.
Funeral services will be held ut
10 am. Monday at the Blessed
Sacrament Church. Burial will be
In Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-04-18

training center Is miles north Of
Texas City, for evacuees. The camp
will house and feed up to 5000
persons.
The Red Cross was operating O.
huge inquiry system to handle the
volume OF queries from friends and
relatives of Texas City people all
over the Nation. Early this morn
ing Red Cross headquarters said
that the Galveston chapter had
handled queries on more than
5000 persons already.
The District chapter Of the Red
Cross, along with chapters all over
the Nation, was operating on "a
hour basis to take care of inquiries.
Red Cross officials said queries
should be directed to local chapters
or simply to the Red Cross, Gales
ton, Tex.
Telephoned reports to Red Cross
headquarters today also said that
field kitchens sent by the 4th Army
were now in operation, with Red
Cross canteens feeding hundreds of
ptIoOllS. 1ciIllSOl d. SdiC1Nlo oAoo
were being set up for survivors. Ten
more general duty Public Health
nurses had arrived on the scene
from the Chicago chapter of the Red
Cross.
Gas Antitoxin Flown.
q Anticipating the possibility Of
more gas danger, the Red Cross said
that 855 additional units of gas
gangrene antitoxin had been flown
into the area from st. Louis.
DR. Harold Wood, Red Cross med
ical chief in st. Louis, told national
headquarters this morning he antici-
pated many extended hospital cases
from the area because of the num-
ber of serious burns and deep cuts.
Working with DR.. Wood, according
to the Red Cross, is Lit. Col. Irvine
Marshall of the 4th Army medical
staff and a veteran of three years
In the India China theater.
The Navy said this morning that
the three burn specialists sent from
Washington yesterday had arrived
on the scene. 1t had no conf1rma-
hon of a report that two hospital
ships had been ordered from Pen
sacola, Fla, to Corpus Christi, Tex.
Evening star., 1947-04-18
Explosion
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when a second nitrate-laden ship,
the High Flyer, exploded sinking a
third, the Wilson B. Keene.
A state OF emergency" ruled the
city as Gov. Beauford H. Jester
issued a proclamation which also
placed all law enforcement groups
under the direction of Col. Homer
Garrison, director of the Texas De-
partment of Public Safety.
Residents Return to Town.
Hundreds OF persons who had fed
n terror Wednesday slipped back
into town yesterday, to stand before
mprovised morgues in mute hope
OF finding relatives and friends, and
to stare at ruined homes and busi-
ness places.
Two tanks OF propane, petroleum
gas, apparently had been rendered
harmless by the removal of their
caps. Earlier it was found they
were in danger Of exploding, Mr..
Laddis said he had learned from
reliable sources" that the caps had
been removed after the original
harbor blast.
John H. Hill, deputy mayor said
that the Humble Oil Co. had aban-
doned hope of saving any portion
OF the storage tank farm. The two
propane tanks which caused concern
are located next to the Oil tank farm.
Rescue workers evacuated the
explosion area late yesterday and
were issued gas masks against the
possible spread Of poisonous fumes
from further explosions.
Two hundred and seventy-one
bodies had been counted late last
night and 1874 had been identified.
100 Bodies May Be in Plant.
Fire Capt. J. B. Ruby of Houston
estimated that anywhere from rs
to 100 bodies remained in the Mon
santo plant alone.
An advance party and firemen
dressed in asbestos fire. fighting suits
moved into the Monsanto plant
shortly after sunrise. They were
the first to enter the plant in three
days. Officials are convinced that
many more bodies will be found in
the still-smoldering ruins.
! A Coast Guard board prepared
Evening star., 1947-04-18

they entered the building d few at
a time to pass before approximately
200 bodies of embalmed dead. The
parade of townspeople attempting
to identify the dead continued al
most without end.
All visitors were barred from the
town, with Gov. TESTERS state OF
emergency proclamation in full
effect.
Smoke Hampers Rescue Work.
Heavy smoke hindered early
rescue work, even before the order
for evacuation Of the lower Texas
City area.
After Wednesday nights exodus of
citizens-who fled the threat of
chlorine and other gases, as we'll as
fire and explosions-the road back
was crowded yesterday. An esti-
mated 5000 returned to the city
jamming traffic in the downtown
area.
The waterfront was mute testi-
mony to the magnitude of the series
of blasts that shattered the town.
The initial explosion, aboard the
Grandcamp, the nearby Monsanto
Bayside plant, and the explosion OF
the High Flyer left the dock area
charred ruins.
Tugs Wouldn't Move Ship.
Duputy Mayor Hill attributed the
reported presence of ammunition
aboard the High Flyer as linking
cause of her destruction.
1--WE couldn't get any tug crews
to remove her. If we had gotten the
tugs, she could have been moved
out of the danger area" he said.
From the explosion of the Grand
camp. at 9:12 am. Wednesday
through a series of short-spaced
blasts that razed the chemical COM
pany, oil storage tanks and other
buildings, tragedy overlapped.
The first explosion yesterday
aboard the High Flyer occurred at
l am. There was another at 3:25
am. These took a toll of three
persons and injured several others
Rescue workers had been ordered
away from the burning High Flyer
Evening star., 1947-04-18
1,5OO GueniIIas Reported
To Have Fled Greek Trap.
BY the Associated Press

ATHENS, April 18.-1, 500 guer-
rillas were reported reliably today
to have sneaked through Greek
army lines to escape a government
pocket in which some 2,500 had
been caught in the Southern Pindus
Mountains.
A normally dependable informant.
making this report last night, said,
however, that the army in its week
long campaign had killed or cap
tured upward of 600 of the guer.
rillas and that all organized resist
ance inside the pocket had stop
ped. He said military and gendar-
merle posts now would be set up In
the areas villages.
This source said many guerrillas
buried their arms and presented
themselves as peaceful villagers as
troops moved in.
The hide Of hippopotamus u
often almost 2 inches thick.
Evening star., 1947-04-18

only a few minutes before it went
up with roar.
When the blast came, 'it took the
buttons off my jacket" w. H.
Boucher, a volunteer helper from
Goose Creek, Tex, related.
William G. Barnard, an Associated
Press reporter, likened these ex-
plosions to "a giant sky rocket"
Football Star Hurt.
A rain of hot steel bounced off
sidewalks and buildings. One in
jured was Wendell Williams, ALL
Southwest Conference football play
er at Rice Institute of Houston. He
had been aiding rescue work when
he suffered a severe shoulder injury.
There was a minimum of looting.
Thousands of dollars in cash and
more in War Bonds were scattered
over the floor of bank.
Rescue and relief were the twin
objectives as the little coastal in
dustrial city watched night fall last
night.
L. D. Romine, Red Cross official
from Washington, said major task
was the feeding of rescue and relief
workers and victims.
Offers of aid poured in from every
section of the country, with Army,
Navy, Coast Guard, Federal agen-
cies, individuals augmenting State
aid.
Blood Donors Answer Plea.
Nurses and doctors, blood plasma
and other medical facilities steamed
into the town.
At Dallas an appeal for blood
donors brought long lines to Bay
lor Hospital. Within a few hours,
800 pints have been packed.
Under terms of Gov. TESTERS
state of emergency, the Red Gross
was designated as the disaster re-
lief agency. 1t was empowered to
receive all funds and other as
sistance offered.
Gov. Jester emphasized that "civ-
Evening star., 1947-04-18

The hide Of hippopotamus u
often almost inches thick.
Evening star., 1947-04-18
Star Accepts Gifts
To Help Survivors
Throuqh Red Cross

The Stal' will accept and
acknowledge voluntary icontri-
buttons from readers for the
relief OF Texas City survivors
and forward them to the
American Red Gross head
quarters.
The American Red Cross has
announced that contributions
win be received also at any OF
the organizations 3,700 chap
ters in the country. Checks
should be made payable to the
American Red Cross.
Two contributions were re-
ceived by The Star yesterday:
Col. and Mrs. E. Morgan
Pryse, $25, and Mrs. Ashton
Grymes, $40.
Evening star., 1947-04-18
Survivors Of Grondcomp Tell
How Ship Blew Up After Fire

after completing It's load at Texas
City.
Other crew members who are In
Galveston Hospital are Roger
Liable, Louis Butez and Albert
Dulong.
Evening star., 1947-06-23
Punjab Legislature
Votes for Division
By the Associated Press

LAHORE, India, June 23.-The
Punjab Legislature, meeting behind
protective barbed-wire barricades
heavily manned by police, voted to-
day to divide the fertile province
and it's 100000 people between
Hindustan' and Moslem Pakistan.
In a joint Sikh Hindu -Moslem
meeting, 81 legislators voted to join
a new constituent assembly to write
constitution for Pakistan and II
to join the present constituent as
sembly to write constitution for
Hindustan.
Subsequently, in separate meet
ings, those from the predominantly
Hindu and Sikh Eastern Punjah
voted, so to %, and those from the
predominantly Moslem West Punjat
voted, SO to q, to partition the
province and join the respective
constituent assemblies.
The vote followed a week end OF
bitter communal rioting in which
% persons were slain, and strict Sc
curity measures were invoked by
police in an effort to prevent any
new demonstrations.
The city was relatively quiet this
morning, however, and up to the
time the vote was taken shortly be-
fore noon no trouble had been
reported.
Approximately $50 homes and
shops were set afire and burned out
in yesterdays disorders. l~.
Calcutta, where legislators voted
Saturday to divide Bengal Province
between Hindustan and Pakistan.
also was the scene of new communal
disturbances in which fouE persons
were killed yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-06-23
Rome Fascist Boss
Reported Arrested
BY the Assoeioted Press

ROME, June %. - The italian
press reported today that police had
arrested Giuseppe Pizzirani, Rome s
last Fascist boss and vice secretary
of Mussolini's final Fascist republi-
can party, in drive against a new
neo-Fascist network. which author
tiles said was composed mostly of
students.
In May, 1874, the Italian press
reported that patriots had slain
Pizzirani at Bari>
Police said quantity of arms had
ben confscated and a number of
arrests made in several cities, in
cluding Rome, Milan, Venice and
Palermo, Sicily.
Meanwhile. reports from Paler-
mo, said a panic was caused at
nearby San Chesapeake today
when band riddled Communist
headquarters with machinegun fire
One person was wounded.
Five were reported wounded al
Partinico, where rioters used gaso,
line in an attempt to burn Com.
munist headquarters.
According to dispatch in the
Independent newspaper II Tempo
bombs thrown at Communist head.
quarters in Partinico and Carin
yesterday killed four persons anc
seriously wounded another four
Evening star., 1947-06-23
Sightseeing Boat Grounds
In Harlem Ship Canal
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 23.-The cry
Women and children first!" echoed
from the Harlem River ship canal
late yesterday after the North
Haven, carrying 2l7 passengers on
a sightseeing tour around Manhat-
tan Island. ran aground.
Although the 112-foot excursion
vessel kept an even keel-and SO die
the passengers, so to speak-100 OF
them accepted the offer of the fire.
boat Cornelius W. Lawrence to take
them off the North Haven.
Less than three hours after the
North Haven got stuck on bridge
pilings in the waterway. a rising tide
helped by the tightening of her load
freed her.
Police said the North Haven was
swept on the pilings by the tide
while waiting for railroad bridge
over the canal to open,
Capt. Robert Leblanc ordered the
engines reversed, but the current
proved too strong.
Evening star., 1947-06-23

English, gave his reply to an inter-
viewer through Aladar Szegedy-
Maszak. former Hungarian minister
to the United States.
One specific charge that Mr.. Macy
called absurd" was that American
officials encouraged his opposition
to the Communists by promising
loans to Hungary.
'I wanted to establish a Western
type democracy with American
help" Mr.. Macy said, because the
United States had been the only
country to offer us substantial as
sistance after the war
He discounted suggestions of
forming a possible government-in-
exile in commenting on statement
at Shannon, Fire, by Laszlo Jekely,
resigned chief of the Hungarian
presidential cabinet who was en-
route to the United States. Mr..
Jekely said : that my immediate
purpose is to join Mr.. Macy and a
decision will be made as to whether
a Hungarian government exile is
to be created"
1T is too early even to consider
that yet" Mr.. Macy said Il can
hardly believe he would have made
such statement. He is not in a
position to do so"
Evening star., 1947-06-23
Senate Action on Veto
Is Awaited in Ford
Foremen S Strike
BY the Associoted Press

DETROIT, June 23.-Settlement
efforts in the 34-day-old strike OF
$500 Ford Motor Co. foremen hung
fire today as union leaders anxious
ly awaited the Senate vote on the
Taft Hartley labor bill. ...-
If the Senate decides to join the
House in overriding President Tru-
mans veto of the measure, employ
ers would not be bound to bargain
collectively with foremen.
But if the Presidents veto is up.
held, officials of the Foreman's
Association of America, indiana
looked to quick settlement of the
Ford strike, which involves unior
demands that it be recognized as
sole bargaining agent FOR super
visory employees.
Robert F. Keyes, FAA president
indicated the union would imme
diately take action to appeal or
constitutional grounds if the TAFT
Hartley bill does become law.
Richard T. Leonard, vice president
and political action director of the
CIO United Auto Workers, pre-
dicted that failure of the Senate
to uphold the Presidents veto woule
result in a break between organized
labor and the Democratic Party.
In a telegram to Democratic Ma
tional Chairman Robert E. Hanne-
gan, Mr.. Leonard said labor recog
nized the Republican Party as a
lost cause when it comes to pro-
tecting the American workingmen''
rights" He added:
Your party will occupy the same
niche If reluctant Democratic Sen.
ators fail to rally around President
Truman" ~
-. Meanwhile, the. UAW-CIO re-
sumed negotiations today, after a
weekend recess, wit1r Ford officials
on a new contract for production
workers. A 30-day strike notice is
due to expire tomorrow.
The union has rejected company
offer along the auto industry wage
pattern of an 11l2 cent hourly in
crease and six paid holidays because
it did not grant union demands for
a retirement plan.
Evening star., 1947-06-23
News Guild President
Opens Bitter Attack
On Opposing Faction
By the Assoeioted Press

SIOUX CITY, Iowa. June 23.--
Milton Murray, president of the
American Newspaper Guild. blew
the CIO unions long -seething in
ternal dissension into the open to-
day with a bitter attack on his op-
ponents.
In speech before the Guilds 14th
annual convention. he said there
exists a secret cabal" aimed at
seizing control of the union.
He said this group is led by Sam
Eubanks, executive vice president;
w. A. Copeland, Gervase N. Love
and Dorothy Rockwell, vice presi-
dents, and William J. Farson. di-
rector of organization.
Mr. Murray formally announced
his willingness Ito continue in the
office he has held for six years.
Cites Two Strikes.
He also said: s.r<-.~~ -, --.,,
l. The recent strikes against the
Philadelphia Record and the Los
Angeles Herald Express should
teach the guild that no local should
be allowed to commit the unions
National resources to any strike
situation without full consultation
with the National officers"
2. Criticized Philip Connolly and
Bill Brodie, Los Angeles guild Of
ficers, in these words: Bill Brodie
precipitated the Herald Express
strike against every advice given
him by every faction of the Ma
tional guild administration-aft
Slim Connolly had boasted that he
was going to close a Hearst news
paper"
.' Urges More Raises.
3. Said that the guild has not yet
completely eliminated its Commun-
lists that they still have a "foothold'
in the New York and Los Angeles
locals, and that Communism is
still menace" to the union.
4. Urged that last years goal of
a S100 week minimum for expert
enced reporters be raised to allow
for the rise in living costs since last
June.
S. Said there has been sham
less abuse" of the Guild Reporter
the unions newspaper-as "poiiti-
cal propaganda medium"
The newspaper guild, which esti-
mates it's membership at 24,G00
editorial and commercial newspa per
employees. opened its convention in
an air of considerable agitation.
The organization appeared to be
approaching some sort of showdown
in it's leadership fueds, with Mr..
Murray and Secretary Treasurer
William Rodgers on one side and
Mr.. Eubanks on the other. All three
are Communists.
In April, a majority of the 13-
member Executive Board approved
resolution criticizing Mr.. Murray's S
conduct as president.
Evening star., 1947-06-23
DR.. kopf Of Boston
To Take Pastorate al
First Congregational

Dr. Carl Heath Kopf, As, for IA
years pastor of the Mount Vernon
Congregational Church at Boston
has accepted call to the pulpit OF
the historic First Congregational
Church, Tenth and G streets NV.
effective November /.
DR.. Kopf will succeed DR.. Howard
Stone Anderson, who left in April
to become pastor of the United
Congregational Church, Bridgeport
Conn. DR.. Anderson had been pas
tor at the First Church since 1896
Princeton Graduate.
A native of Buffalo, N. Y, DR.
Kopf was graduated in 1925 from
Princeton University, where he had
studied political science while in
tending to become a lawyer. He
served as an instructor in history
of Christianity at Princeton in
1856, and then did graduate work
in theology at Princeton Seminary
and Boston University School of
Theology.
He served as assistant pastor at
Eliot Church, Roxbury, Mass, from
1926 to 1928 and then was pastor of
the Crombie Congre egat on a /
Church at Salem, Mass, until 1888
when he was called to the Mount
Vernon church.
DR.. Kopf has conducted a Sunday
radio program entitled From a
Window on Beacon Street" over
Station WEEI. Boston, since 1898.
In 1946 he visited churches and
missions in the Philippines as vice
president of the American Board of
Foreign Missions.
Wrote Book of Essays.
He is author of book of ESSAYS
entitled windows on Life pub
lished in 194l. and of Personal
Crisis" published in 1e45.
Dr. and Mrs. Kopf are parents of
three children, David Heath, 10;
John Randolph, IL, and Anne Eliza
beth, 6.
His acceptance of the pastorate
here was announced at the II
o'clock service yesterday by the Rev.
Hubert S. Beckwith, assistant
minister.
Evening star., 1947-06-23
49 Injured in Bus Crash
On New York Bridge
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June ga double
decker Fifth Avenue Coach Co. bus
skidded into a stanchion on the
greensboro Bridge last night, in
juring 49 of the 70 passengers
aboard.
Police said the driver, Carl A
Blon, so, told them the bus skidded
after the right front tire blew out
even though I stood on the brake
to try to stop it."
The bus remained upright but Its
right side was crushed.
Five ambulances, one carrying 1o
persons on one trip, carried the in
jured to two hospitals on Welfare
Island, in the East River below the
bridge. Most were sent home after
treatment.
Four passengers aboard another
double decker of the company were
injured last night in another crash
in the Jackson Heights section OF
Queens. Police said the driver
Walter A. Mott, 55, swerved the
bus to avoid an automobile and ii
struck a parked car.
Evening star., 1947-06-23
Prof. H. F. McNoir Dies,
Authority on Far East
By the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, June 23 - Harley
Farnsworth MacNsir, Sc, professor
of Chinese history at the University
of Chicago, was found dead in a
chair in his home last night.
The body of the writer and Fal
East authority was found by friends
who had expected him as dinner
guest.
During the recent war Prof. Mac
Nair, widower, was associated with
the Civil Affairs Training Schoo
and the Office of Strategic Services
He taught at the University o1
Washington in 1927 and 1928.
Evening star., 1947-06-23
IS JET Martin Bomber
Given Test Flight
Over Chesapeake
By IL. Assoeiased Pfsss

BALTIMORE, June 23.-After q
7-minute test fight over Chesa-
|peake Bay. the six-jet Martin KB-
48 today became the Army Air
Forces newest high-speed jet
bomber in the world race for Jet
aircraft supremacy.
o. E. tPat1 Tibbs, flight director
Iof the Glenn L. Martin Co.. took the
480-m p.h. plane. on its first fight
yesterday.
Taking of from the fartin air
port near here at daybreak. Mr.
Tibbs cruised over the Atlantic
Ocean and Chesapeake Bay before
landing at the Patuxent River Naval
Air Station 73 miles awat
As black smoke spewed from the
six powerful jets, excited observers
called police to report the plane was
aflre.
The xB-43 is powered by six gas
turbine engines, each with a rated
thurst of 1000 pounds, a company
announcement said.
The craft has a new bicycle-type
retractabl. landing gear designed for
the thin wings of high-speed planes,
The new bomber has wing span
of 108 feet, inches and is IS feet,
|o inches long. It's total weight
empty is $500 pounds. The plane
can carry more than 10 tons of
bombs.
BY comparison, the B-29 Super
fortress has a wing span of 142 feet,
a length of 80 feet and top speed
of more than $50 miles per hour
The B-29. weighs 10000 pounds
empty and is capable of carrying
bomb load of 10 tons.
A modified B-29, known as the B.
so, is now In production. 1t has
greater bomb capacity, range and
speed.