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BJ 'f V- i'. 1 I -WnftrSPORTS i UL LP TP NEWSPAPER THE WORLD'S rtBFATFCT GREATEST Founded June 10, 1847 Tha AiBiriean Papir for Americans volume cxxi NO. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1962 sectFo'nscIIoVone noo 4S TRIBUNE 142 BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE SQUARE, CHICAGO 11, ILLINOIS olfo) JUL03 Sen im in PmeMie Ruins After New York Blast Aboard 43 Minutes After Drop; 'Feel Fine; Great Trip He Says i -v. i r- i Jumbled wreckage in an office above the. boiler, room in building after explosion yesterday that took big tolLof dead SEVEN CENTS York Telephone company and JURY ACQUITS Reaches Its Verdict on 2d Ballot BY SANDY SMITH Tony Accardo, the millionaire gangster, was acquitted by, a federal District court jury last night in his second trial on charges of income tax fraud.

By the acquittal, the United States government lost its two-year court battle to put Accardo behind prison bars for the first time. Accardo's habitual stony de meanor vanished as the jury, after 2 hours and 29 minutes of TRIBUTE Photo Accardo emerging from court room after deliberations, returned. the not guilty verdict to. Judge Julius J.Hoffman.;, Flashes Victory Smile Accardo flashed a big -victory grin and said: "I am very Fifteen minutes after he was acquitted, Accardo left the United States courthouse for a victory celebration in his huge stone residence at 915 Franklin mm -fMjimtm hJ.A i i TONY AOCARDO 3 i 1 4 Giants Also Orbit; 7'--- IAP Wirepfcoto Yanks Play PRICE (UPI Ttlephete) what was planned in the way of getting" the Giant players to their homes. The unruly mob, pushing and tugging and spilling over runways and aprons, halted incoming and outgoing air and auto traffic.

Market street, a widev thoro-f are cutting thru the center of the -city, was jammed as it hadn't been since "the V-J day riots. At the airport, the thousands continued to mill around after the plane landed, hoping to get a glimpse of their heroes. Can't Get Out "It's the most unruly crowd I've ever seen," said a member of the San Mateo county sheriff's office. "People who have landed can't get out of the airport because all roads' are blocked by the traffic. It's a mess." More policemen were being rushed to the scene from both the San Mateo county sheriff's office and from San Francisco.

Tom Cahill, San Francisco police chief, arrived, with six officers, saw the mob and immediately ordered more men to help control the crowd. New Year's Eve Meanwhile, in downtown San Francisco it was like New Year's eve. Bars and streets were filled. Auto horns honked. Confetti floated down from skyscrapers earlier in the day after the victory.

It appeared nobody planned to go home at least until the Giants had been tucked safely In bed. Sports Section Crackdown designed to stem Cuban imports, the state department announced that the ships of allied nations that carry military car goes to Cuba will be barred from American ports. Rusk Informs Allies The department. said Secretary of State Dean Rusk had informed our European and Latin American allies of this decision. However, on the basis of what Ball told the com mittee, this action would not affect allied shipping engaged in Cuban trade unless "military cargoes" should defined to i 1 de items other than Today Mrs.

Walter Schirra Jr. -meeting' newsmen with jubilant smile outside home near Houston after husband's historic flight. Worried at No Time, Mrs. Schirra Says Blastoff Without if Hitch; Capsule O.K.AllWay BY ROBERT YOUNG ICkiciM TriteM Press Strvfct Cape Canaveral, Oct. 3 Astronaut Walter M.

Schirra Jr. orbited the earth six times today on a space mission that was hailed as perfection from the time of his rocket launching off the coast of Florida to his on-target landing in the Pacific ocean. Riding with the 39 -year -old navy commander as his Sigma 7 spacecraft streaked far above oceans and continents at 17,560 miles an hour was the confidence of the United States that the success of his flight would be a major step forward on the road to landing a man on the. moon late in this decade. No Fears for Safety Schirra's six orbits were the longest space trip attempted by the United States to date, dou bling the three-orbit flights made last February' and May by John H.

Glenn Jr. and M. Scott Carpenter. The com pletion of Schirra's mission virtually without a hitch appeared to guarantee that the next United States man-in- space effort will be a 24-hour orbit early next year. Schirra was thrust into orbit aboard a big Atlas rocket from the Cape Canaveral launch cen ter at 7:15 o'clock Chicago time this morning.

His spacecraft made a parachute landing with close to pinpoint accuracy in the Pacific in the vicinity of Midway island at 4:28 p. m. There were no fears for Schirra's safety during the mis sion other than that customarily felt, for astronauts while the relatively brief crucial peri ods of launch and reentry into the earth's atmosphere are in progress. Only 15 Minutes Late The Atlas launching rocket with Schirra's two-ton space craft mounted on its nose rose from its Cape Canaveral pad this morning only 15 minutes behind an on-the-dot liftoff. This brief delay, the only snag in the launching countdown, was ordered because of a minor 1 Continued on page 12, col.

1 THE WEATHER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1M2. CHICAGO AND VICINITYs Partly cloudy today; high, near 70; fair tonight; low, in lower 50s; south to southwest winds 8 to 12 m. p. becoming light and variable tonight. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny and a little warmer; high, in 70s.

NORTHERN ILLINOIS: Partly cloudy with little change in temperature today; fair at night; high, 66 to 72; low, 45 to 52. To. morrow. Mostly fair and warmer. WEATHERMAN'S RECORD His forecast far yesterday wss: tarty wits dunce skewers hi MerniM; kith, mr lew, la nie Sos.

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Far 14 koars andea 1 a. Oct. 4: Meaa tempera tare, 47 aaaraes; aenaal, 41; Math's excess, 13; year's eeficieacr, 43. Retathre kamidity, 7 a. 94 per ceet; 1 p.

OJ 47; 7 p. HU, 52. PreciPitatiM, .23 lack; PMntk's total, Jl lack; year's total, 19.74 laches; eeficieacr treat joa. to Oct. 4:15 laches.

Hlshest wind velocity, 11 at. p. k. at 11:34 p. ol, from saata-seathwest.

Bartawter, 7 e. 19.91; 7 P. 19.91. tMep an other reports aa peta m. Up BLAST BLOWS BOILER THRU BBS; 21 DIE 100 Injured; Most Are Women BY WALTER BILITZ (Pictures on back page) CCMcom TribVM Press Service New York, Oct.

3 A steel boiler exploded today in the basement of a telephone company building on the northern tip of Manhattan, killing 20 women and one man and injur ing at least 100 persons, mostly women. The explosion occurred shortly after noon as "about 100 of building's 500 employes were having lunch in a basement cafeteria. The boiler, one of three in the New York Telephone company at 213th street and Broadway, crashed thru a concrete wall into the crowded veered upward to strike the ceiling and then -plunged thru the opposite cafeteria wall into an adjoining records room. Windows Shattered The explosion also shattered windows thruout the brick, two-story structure, cracked walls, floors and ceilings, overturned furniture, buried many employes under piles of debris, and spread fires that were quickly extinguished. Witnesses reported seeing several employes fall thru a gaping first-floor hole into the basement.

On a wall a broken clock had ticked off the time of the blast 12:07 p. m. Nearby residents converged on the building to aid the victims. They were followed quickly by policemen, firemen and hospital rescue workers. Later Red Cross and Salvation Army units arrived.

Two Die in Hospitals The injured were taken to Bellevue, Mother Cabrini Memorial and other hospitals in Manhattan and the Bronx. Two victims died in the hospitals. Residents described the explosion as "tremendous" and "hlrn inn IW1 hanlrfjras all ir one." "The boiler blew up because it was superheated," said Fire Commissioner Edward Thompson. "It was due probably to failure of the automatic devices which regulate the and low water level, or failure to maintain a proper water level." Thompson said that fire units would continue working thruout the night, clearing the building. Many Stayed In The structure, built 10 years ago, housed the telephone company's district accounting and commercial center for northern Manhattan" Many of its employes, a company spokesman said, had brought their lunches today because they were short of funds, payday being tomorrow.

Otherwise they might have gone out to lunch. The greatest damage was to the basement, where the explosion and the boiler combined to create almost complete destruction. Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy said the scene was like a battlefield. Francis Holland, .48, and his son, Thomas, 21, were in their Continued on page 2, cot 7 TP MiB KEW JERSEY Lands in Bullseye Only 2 Minutes Off Schedule Aboard U.

S. Kearsarge in Pacific Oct. 3 Astronaut Walter M. Schirra smiling broadly and saying "I feel fine," stepped from his capsule today after a precision six orbits of the earth and a landing within 4V miles of this prime recovery carrier. Schirra, in Sigma 7 space-' craft, hit the center of a mid-Pacific bullseye 285 miles northeast of Midway island.

The astronaut, still inside the capsule, was hoisted safely aboard this carrier less than 43 minutes after landing. Lands Right on Target The vast deployment of ships, i i a.1 iii pianes ana men in ue Auauuc and Pacific oceans to insure his safe recovery had proved unnecessary. ScMrra came in right on target. The space capsule, with the words "United States" visible on its sides, was hoisted by a crane onto a metal apron extending outward from the starboard side of the hangar bay, one deck below the flight deck. Space agency officials decided to detonate the explosive bolts on the capsule hatch.

The lid blew off with a bang. The 39-year-old navy commander was helped out backward, and rode to the flight deck in an elevator. Crewmen of the Kearsarge crowded in for a glimpse of the man they had waited two months to see. A cheer arose as he shook hands with naval officers and officials of the National Aeronautics and Space administration. 9 Honrs and 13 Minutes From the time his cone-shaped craft was launched in the nose of an Atlas booster rocket at Cape Canaveral, at 7:15 a.

m. until he touched down in the Pacific at 10:28 a. m. Midway time 4:28 p. m.

Chicago time, Schirra was aloft 9 hours and 13 minutes. This was just two minutes longer, than predicted, demonstrating precision control of the orbital flight This was in marked contrast with previous space trips of John Glenn and Malcolm Scott Carpenter. Both landed out of sight of recovery vessels. President Kennedy telephoned the Kearsarge from. Washington while Schirra was' still inside the 'capsule.

He congratulated the spaceman on completing America's most ambitious space travel venture so far. Schirra received a salute from the ship itself as he came aboard. A boatswain's mate sounded his pipe and announced "Commander, United States navy, The capsule, hoisted from the water by a crane, was lowered thru the flight deck on a hastily arranged bed of old boxes and mattresses. Telephones to Wife Schirra -appeared slightly tired but told William Hayes, senior space agency repre sentative aboard: "I feel fine. Just A great trip.

What a sweet little bird!" Schirra went quickly below deck for a medical examina- tion. Extensive tests and "debriefing" are scheduled while the Kearsarge makes a leisure ly 72-hour trip back to Pear! Harbor. One of the first things he 4id after reaching the ship FCtmtinued on page 12, col. 4 San Francisco, Oct. 3 (UPD Fifty thousand wildly cheering San Franciscans poured over International airport tonight, disrupting air traffic and forcing the plane carrying their Giants to land a mile away.

The team, coming home to face the New York Yankees in the opening game of the world series tomorrow, had clinched the National league pennant earlier in the day in Los Angeles with a four-run rally, in the ninth inning that beat the Dodgers, 6 to 4. Most of the huge, unruly mob that jammed the airport and the Bayshore freeway never did get to see the team. The plane landed the players at the United Airlines maintenance base and the athletes were hustled aboard a bus. The departure was delayed about five minutes while police pulled hero-worshipping youngsters from the side of "the vehicle. Willie Ducks Out Very few of the 50,000 even knew that the plane carrying their all-conquering heroes had landed as the police escort took the players, except Willie Mays, out a little used northern exit.

Willie grabbed a cab and soon was lost in tne tramc jam, too. Many of the players wives, who had come to the airport to greet them, failed to get within a mile of the athletes and they also soon were lost in the mob. There was no indication of Details in U. S. Plans if Seabrook, Oct.

3 (UPD Relaxed and calm after her nine-hour vigil, Mrs. Walter Schirra said today that everything was just perfect, and then rushed off to tele phone her astronaut husband aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. He let her in on a secret he was fished aboard the carrier Ketrsarge while still in his six-orbit space capsule, he told her, "because I wanted to come aboard in style." His return to earth was so accurate, Mrs. Schirra told re porters, that for a split second She thought he might hit the pickup ship. Tells of Talk A space agency spokesman re layed details of their two-min ute talk on a phone circuit that extended from' this town out side Houston to Hawaii and was beamed to the carrier near Mid way Island.

Mrs. Schirra said that the bull's-eye landing was "one of the happiest moments of my life." She walked out of the brick horn? accompanied by her proud children, Walter Marty Schirra HI, 12, and Suzanne, 5. "It was a long wait," she said; "it was a perfect flight It was such a perfect landing." She had seen on television her husband blasted off from Cape Canaveral this morning and her only public comment then was "it was a beautiful liftoff, we Two Full Pages of Pictures The Tribitve today publishes two picture pages. One is on page 13. It's about Astronaut Wally Schirra and how his great day began.

The other is on the back page. There are dramatic pictures of the injured and dying in a New York explosion. There is also a picture purportedly showing a student hostess sitting on the lap of an air liner pilot EX-DAREDEVIL GLAD Mrs. Walter Schirra who in the 1920s walked the wing of a plane piloted by her husband on barnstorming tours, is glad and relieved when her son's orbiting is completed. Story on page 12.

are very happy it came off so well." Had No Worries They have not seen each other in 10 days. An admiral's daughter and a navy wife, Mrs. Schirra kept her emotions to herself. Was there any moment of concern, or worry as her husband soared higher and longer than any other American? "No, none at all," she said. Not even when she learned that early in the flight he had trouble with the rising temperature in his space suit Mrs.

Schirra had visits dur ing the day from, four other astronauts' wives who had gone thru the same ordeal of waiting, Her mother, Mrs. James L. Holloway of Philadelphia, spent the day with her and the chil-'dren. Proud of Father Marty was proud of his dad Asked if he would like to be an astronaut when he grows up the youngster said "Yes." A group of his mends ap peared, carrying a red, white, and blue sign that read, "Well Done, Commander Schirra." It was signed "Marty's pals." 'About 200 persons gathered outside the house. Children ran around in excitement SEE HURRICANE THREAT FROM STORM DAISY Miami, Oct 3 (flV Tropica storm Daisy gained momentum in the Atlantic today and was expected to reach hurricane force tonight 1 Forecasters said the storm, with winds of 70 miles an hour, was moving in the direction of the Bahamas and southeast United States.

Small craft in the outer islands of the Bahamas were urged to remain in port. on Cuban Trade Shipping i If BY JOSEPH HEARST River Forest The jury a Fred Kirshenbaum, of 6236 N. Bell avl, a mail carrier, 'said the jury- tool two ballots. On the'J5rst jury split, 10 to 2, for a not guilty verdict It was unanimous for acquittal on the second ballot, Kirshenbaum said. "Ail of the government evi-dence was inconclusive," Kirshenbaum said.

"There was a lack of evidence against Accardo. The arguments of the prosecutors and defense attorneys did not affect the verdict" Another juror, Frank Ehr-hanjt of R. R. 4, Antioch, a machine operator, said: "The government's case was weak all the way, from the way Ckicoto Triboeo Press Senrke Oct 3 Additional steps to reduce the flow of ocean borne imports to Cuba are being taken and will be announced soon in executive directives, a House committee was told today. Shortly after Undersec Boll retary of State George W.

Ball told a special committee investigating the. Cuban traffic that the United States was pre paring to take unilateral action "mu Continued on page 2, cot 2 A'.