Fire and Blast
Shake New York;
10 Die, 247 Hurt
NEW YORK, UF>—A furious fire
and an explosion like a block
busting bomb blasted a Brooklyn
pier Monday and shook the city
for miles around. Ten died in the
disaster and 247 suffered injuries.
Flames still flickered in the
red-hot ruins of the- pier the day
after. Top fire officials were to
launch a full-scale investigation
of the $10 million blaze.
A dock worker said the fire
started about 3:15 p.m. in a pile
of foam rubber on the big pier,
longest marine terminal in ^the
city. Minute by minute the flames
ate toward a mountain of explo
sive cargo—paint, lacquer, rubber
cement, chemicals and fuels.
A fuse was burning toward dis
aster. But firemen, dockworkers,
schoolboys and other spectators
rushed to the scene—unaware of
the impending peril.
In an instant a sheet of flame
shot skyward. The blast rapped
off the pier shed’s metal and glass
roof and showered the area with
a deadly hail of fragments.
The shock radiated 35 miles
from the explosion. The swoosh
of air shattered windows five
miles away.
Chunks of white-hot steel weigh
ing as much as 50 pounds arched
over the waterfront.
The blast killed three boys in
their tracks. The exciting sight of
smoke and flames had lured them
to the scene before the shattering
explosion.
Three dock workers and three
other men were also killed. One
was decapitated.
Six out of ten of the more than
60,000 civilian planes in the U.S.
are privately owned, personal air
craft.
Minister Attacked
By Segregationists;
School Is Closed
CLINTON, Tenn., (tf—1The An
derson County school board or
dered integration-torn Clinton
High School closed yesterday in
the wake of an attack on a white
Baptist minister who accompanied
six Negro students back to classes.
The Rev. Paul Turner was beat
en by a group of white men a few
minutes after he escorted the Ne
gro students into the school build
ing. He suffered a bloody nose
and facial cuts but returned home
without hospitalization.
Tension mounted in this east
Tennesssee town, where state
troopers and national guardsmen
were called out Labor Day week
end to quell the mobs who pro
tested the integration ordered by
a district federal court at Knox
ville.
Principal D. J. Brittain said he
closed the school on orders of the
school board and that it would
remain closed indefinitely.
Yesterday’s action came only
one day after the school board re
quested federal aid in helping en
force the federal court’s integra
tion order, issued last Jan. 4.
SEN. EGAN SELLS STORE
VALDEZ, Itft—U.S. Sen.-elect
William Egan (Tennessee Plan)
and his wife have sold their gen
eral store here in preparation for
their move shortly to Washington.
D.C. They are retaining their
home here, however.
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NYLON RIBBONS AID
IN HALTING PLANES
BALTIMORE, Ufi—Strips of ny
lon ribbon have prevented more
than 200 Air Force planes from
crashing and have saved the gov
ernment more than $78 million
during the past 13 months.
The Air Research and Develop
ment Command said the nylon
ribbon—connected to a steel cable
—forms the basis of its runway
crash barrier program.
Figures eleased by the ARDC’s
Wight Air Development Center in
Dayton, Ohio, said 300 barriers in
worldwide use have shown an
average monthly “profit” of six
million dollars during the past 13
months.
An airplane in danger of over
running the runway catches the
horizontal nylon ribbon with its
nose, flipping the steel cable up
and over the aircraft’s main
wheels.
Runway barriers were devel
oped for the Air Force when the
short runways in Korea and Ja
pan caused an excessive number
of crashes.
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