Evening star., 1948-01-09
81 Tons Of Explosives
Seized in New Jersey;
2More Trucks SOUGHT
y The Assoeiatsd Press

ASBURY PARK, N. j.. Jan. "a
police search set Of by an anony-
nous tip from farmer today netted
. new cache of 81 tons. OF surplus
Army explosives which j. Victor
Carton, Monmouth County prosecu-
tor, said was tiled up with" the Pal
estine-bound shipment of 30h tons
OF TINT seized last Saturday on the
Jersey City water front.
Forty tons of the explosive were
discovered in raid on a farmhouse
IN nearby Wall Township and the
other II tons were taken in large
truck-trailer found outside an AS
bury Park garage. A State police
alarm was broadcast for two other
trucks reported headed here from
the Seneca Government War Sur
plus Depot at Romulus, N. Y, listed
by the authorities as the source of
the 81 tons already taken here.
Nine men were arrested by State
police and Monmouth County de-
tectives as a result of the new dis
covery OF explosives In the farm
house and the big truck-trailer.
The seized truck, Mr.. Carton said,
was found near warehouse owned
by Charles Lowy of Asbury Park,
who he said also owned the farm.
Lowy, arraigned last night before
Justice of the Peace Fred Quinn of
Freehold, pleaded not guilty to a
charge of storing explosives without
permit and was held in $1,000 bail
pending grand jury action.
Lowy's bail was increased to
$4,000 after the seizure of the truck
in Asbury Park, Mr.. Carton said.
Anonymous Tip Received.
Mr. Carton said the farm, located
on county road in Wall Township,
was raided by State troopers from
the Howell and Hightstown barracks,
and prosecutors detectives after an
anonymous tip was received by State
police that trucks were unloading in
the area of the farm.
Mr.. Carton identified another of
the men arrested as Harry r.
Sessions, 20, of North Stockholm,
N. Y, driver of a truck which was
being unloaded of explosives when
police arrived at the farm. Sessions
was held in $4,000 bail on a charge
Of transporting explosives without a
permit, when arraigned before Judge
Quinn.
Six other men arrested were
charged with aiding and abetting
the transportation and storage of
explosives and were held In $500
bail each. They were booked as
David Chandler, George Evans,
Edward Robinson, Charles Bond,
Major Day and Angelo r. Petillo,
all of Asbury Park, and all en-
ployes of Lowy's trucking firm.
Surplus Demolition Blocks.
Police identified the driver of the
sealed truck as Huey Pond of Syra-
cuse, N. Y, and said he was being
held on a charge of transporting
explosives without permit. He will
be arraigned today, Mr.. Carton said.
Bail was furnished by zimel Res
nick, operator of amusement con-
cessions on the Asbury Park board
walk, and prominent leader in
Jewish community affairs.
The explosives, Mr.. Carton said,
were Army surplus demolition blocks
which had been sold at the Govern
ment surplus depot at Romulus,
N. Y, and we're consigned to the
Foundry Associates, Inc, Al East
Forty second street, New York City.
In New York, the telephone company
said it had no firm by that name
listed for the East Forty second
street address. - RI F. rs
At Picatinny Arsenal, Lake Den
mark. a spokesman said the mark
ings on the cases indicated that the
explosive was cyclonite, high ex-
plosive with approximately the
same strength as dynamite. The
formula for it, he said, is an Army
secret.
At Romulus, N. Y, 1t. Col. Rob-
ert r. Judson, commander of the
Seneca Ordnance Depot, also said
the explosives had been consigned
to Foundry Associates, Inc, to
whom they had been sold by the
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