The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 14

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1967 THE NEWS PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. PAGE THIRTEEN Hi 1 Two Explosions Jlock Calm Of Moscow By JOHV WEYLAXD i Two explosions rent the calm of Moscow maintained a blackout on the disaster Monday night also, and notice. trnnns aru) harAr said About 100 persons were be-, lieved living in the building's 24 apartments two -miles southeast i board fence thrown up over-' night. The police and soldiers refused to answer questions and would not allow Western news- Yule Auto Death toll fops 1966 But It's Short Of 1965 Record By Associated Press Homeward bound holiday travel pushed the nation's blocked off the mass of rubble of the Kremlin. HUNT IN SNOW seemed perplexed, and veteran foreign correspondents could pot recall an attaek like in Moscow: HANDY CAR Bradsher said he did not be lieve the bombing was directed against him or his famijy.

He said he assumed somefie had picked out a handy fore'ign car as a target. and torn walls. Hundreds of Russians gathered this morning to stare as a huge crane worked behind a Rescue workers with searchlights hunted in a heavy snowfall for victims while dozens of ambulances, fire engines and police cars gathered at the wreckage. Most of the residents were be men to enter. One policeman led a weeping.

middle-aged woman behind the fence. Apparently she had lost relatives in the explosion, i "I saw them get a woman and i a little girl out alive, but not i many could come through that a man said. Concrete lamp posts were15 flattened for 100 yards. Windows 7 Car Smashes nigni, snaaenng a six-story7 apartment building and damaging the empty car of an American correspondent. Soviet officials refused to disclose the number of casualties in the apartment bouse.

One bystander at the scene said a policeman told him the blast killed ffiore than 20 bystander said 10 or 12 bodies were removed from the wreckage. Police blamed a faulty main for the apartment house blast but said a powerful bomb wrecked the auto of Henry S. The explosion occurred about lieved at home because it was Christmas 'traffliT" death-toOntl Unto Tree an ordinary weekday night. 25 minutes after Bradsher. his wife.

Monica and iheir two sons, Keith. 3. and Neal. 2. re Duuaings were blown out.

Their electricity and Carl L. Head, 22, of 693 Tower drive, Benton Harbor, was treated at Benton Harbor hospital Saturday eve--ning after his car collided with a tree. Benton township police said 1 Russians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar. Gas explosions are not rare in the Soviet capital, although they are not publicly reported and officials refuse to disclose information on their frequency.

The same general was hit by a tremendous gas explosion last January that knocked out telephone communications for days. This was never publiclv reported. PRESS BLACKOUT The Soviet press and radio! water were cut off. i The destroyed building was part of a block of apartments facing Krasnokhlmsky Street, a main traffic artery that circles downtown Moscow. It stood at the end of the Krasnokhlmsky bridge over the Moscow River-about 2 miles southeast of the turned home from a Christmas, dinner.

They live in a buildins for non-Communist foreigners Finding the apartment building's small parking lot full. Bradsher parked the car in art alley just around the corner from the sentry box of a policeman assigned to the building. The explosion tore off the right front fender, sending nt flying 15 feet, and extensively damaged the under side of the car. Bradsher, Associated Press bureau chief in Moscow. No one was injured uf the car explosion, and.

it had no apparent connection with the other blast 10 minutes' earlier on the opposite side of the Moscow River. The apartment bouse blew up about 9:20 p.m., bystanders past the toll of a year ago, but the figure fell short of the record set in 1965. Fatalities mounted to 649 in a count that began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at midnight Mon-'Iday. record Christmas death j-ate for a three-day period was 720 in 1965.

In the three-day qb-1 servance last year the toll was 584. The all-time high for any holiday period, 784, was set in a four-day Thanksgiving observes nee in 1966. i SAFETY SPOKESMAN It's a sad commentary if we iiave to take consolation from ihe fact that we didn't set a Tecord this year," a spokesman for tile National Safety Council I said. He said Americans apparently have forgotten the national fer that the mishap occurred in the 400 block of Euclid avenue at about 10:45 p.m. Head sustained body abrasions and was cited for reckless operation.

Kremlin. Police investigating the bombing of Bradsher's automobile FALLEN ANdEL: Three-year-old Colleen shown caroling as an angel in front of her Christmas tree in Perrine, didn't fall over her halo. She got the black eye in a head to head collision with her older sister. (AP Wirephoto) "vor about trtSfic safety that en- the Christmas season last year during a time Congress considering the subject. the popular concern with traffic safety showed up during the Christmas holiday period.

Independence Dayy 732 in four As a comparison, The Labor Day 604 in three eft ted Press on a nonholiday days; Thanksgiving 665 in four Press on a nonholiday days; the last 12 months were still an the last 12 montns were still an the total this holiday weekend of equal length to the days. 1J 1 1 A -L A 1. 1 it i proDaDiy wouiu nave oeen 10-. innsunas span loggea 454 irai I iL. 1- f.

a. 1. "ward or below the low end of fic deaths. This count was made ON VACATION between 6 p.m. Friday, Dec.

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