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CLXXV NO BOSTON, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 9. 1939 Telephone AV 8-8000 28 PAGES SEVEN CENTS ClOPE NEvPAPn CO. rv La A ft Mill in Pit CS. KmJ uw Blows Out Windows; Cut and Dazed attendant, Ina Cox, 21, of 11 Hancock Boston, tossed almost to the store ceiling when the blast lifted a heavy concrete slab on which she was standing. The three-foot square of cement, 12 inches thick, struck the ceiling and crashed back, barely missing several prostrate victims.

The store interior was a shambles, and broken glass showered through blasted windows and the store entrances onto the street and the railroad waiting room area. Several of the injured were badly cut when they were knocked down or fell into piles of the glass attempting to escape. The volatile gas still filled the area an hour after the explosion, and strict fire lines were maintained. EXPLOSION Page Three i I I i I 1 i i 11 1 Wrecks Drug Store --Employees, Customers, A mammoth gas explosion shattered a North Station drug store, felling 50 persons, spraying jagged debris over a wide area and shaking the entire terminal building at 9 :45 last night. The blast ripped through the big Liggett Rex-all store at 120 Causeway tossing employees across counters, sweeping patrons from counter stools and bowling over other customers in the welter of wreckage.

Seven persons were treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital and one later transferred to the. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for further examination. Many of the injured, stunned and bleeding, were found wandering dazedly through the railroad concourse or the street outside. Fire officials said two hours after the blast that an old illuminating gas pipe beneath the store had probably leaked fumes into two pockets which exploded. Liggett representatives set damage at approximately $40,000, mostly in destroyed drug stocks and other pharmaceuticals.

The area, other than the store itself, was back to normal shortly before midnight. Among the worst injured was a soda fountain Treated at Hospital Treated at Massachusetts FLYNN, MARIE, 27, of North General Hospital were: Margin Boston. KERRYWEATHER, FRANK, J21' of 11 Hancock 63, of 54 Norman Boston. mJlaugHLLV, ELIZABETH, McCORMICK, JAMES, 50, of 19, of 40 Allston Charles-18 Marlboro st, Boston. town.

DIGAETANO, MICHAEL, 33, DUG AN, BARBARA, 18, of of 9 South Margin Bos- 286 Bunker Hill Charleston, town. (Globe photo by Edmund Kclley) Causeway st. after drug NORTH STATION BLAST SCENE Firemen replace merchandise hurled onto store gas explosion rippled along line of plate glass display windows. ITT1 IPl Iwor irm Reminders ussians Feted by Nation Birthday Party That U. S.

Won' I r- I I i But Herter Pledges Effort To Open Path to Summit By MARGUERITE IHGGINS WASHINGTON, May 8 Secretary of State Christian A. Herter left for the foreign ministers' Geneva talks today backed by firm reminders that America's hopeful spirit was not to be construed as Truman At 75th Pushe i rJ 4 i i- i i I 4 it 5 I I I if I I I fl "an invitation to be pushed The first reminder was con- firmation today that Washington will consider any unilateral Soviet action on Berlin a signal for breaking off talks at either the Summit or For eign Ministers' level. The second was official State Department rejection of Soviet protests against United States steps to provide addi- tional nuclear weapons and missiles to its NATO allies. The United States note said that American moves along this line were the result of fv 1 i -r I :4 i 5 I 1 1 Johnson Here, Praises HSTs Great Decisions By ROBERT B. HANRON Harry S.

Truman had a coast-to-coast party on his 75th birthday last night. In 16 cities from Boston to San Francisco, some 90,000 guests gathered to honor the peppery little man from Missouri. The affairs were linked by closed circuit television for the 90-minute celebration. The guest of honor sat with his wife in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. A huge seven-tiered cake with 75 candles was there for him.

He heard high praise from high places as the great and the humble, friends and old rivals, toasted the former President as "the man of decision." Here, more than 1000 jammed the Louis XIV Ballroom of the Hotel Somerset for the party. They heard Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas describe Truman as "the greatest of living Democrats one of the great Democrats and great Americans of the ages." Johnson said the party was arranged by the Democrats. But the happy birthday wish, he assured Truman, was nonpartisan. "Today, around this world, millions of men and women live in freedom who would not have that freedom except for the courage and forth-rightness brought to the leadership of the West by one man Harry Truman," Johnson told the cheering audience.

TRU3IAN Page Three If War Came, Boasts Mr. West WouldBe Wiped Out (AP Wirephoto) NEW APOSTOLIC delegate to the United States is Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, 52, shown on his arrival in New York yesterday. Move to End N.Y. Hospital Strike Fails NEW YORK, May 8 (UPI) About 3300 workers went on strike against six New York hospitals today. Volunteers, including Park Ave.

matrons, pitched in to help care for patients. Hopes for a quick settlement faded after a day-long series of conference. Mayor Robert Wagner invited both sides to City Hall tomorrow for further talks. The striking Retail Drug Employees Union threatened to order walkouts against nine other hospitals, where an additional 3300 workers were employed, unless its demand for recognition as bargaining agent was met. HOSPITALS Page Five "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR HARRY" Former President Harry S.

Truman blows at candles on cake in celebration of his 75th anniversary yesterday. New York newsmen presented cake as surprise and sang to him. loum (AP VVirei'hoioi But it turns out the United Nations headquarters at Geneva just doesn't own any round tables. TABLES Page Sixteen G.O.P. Demands $31 Million Cut In Furcolo Budget Republican proposed cuts of $31 million in Gov.

Fur-colo's recommended $454 million budget for fiscal 1960 would eliminate any necessity for new taxes to meet state expenditures, G.O.P, leaders declared yesterday. But they were quick to point out that a new tax is definitely needed to help the cities and towns reduce property tax rates. BUDGET CUTS Page Two "1 uiven around. long prepared plans and therefore could in no way justify Soviet accusations of constituting an attempt to wreck the Geneva conference. At his departure, Herter de scribed his approach to the May 11 Geneva sessions the first high-level East-West meeting since 1955 as being "hopeful in spirit" but bal- anced by the practical reali- zation that "expectations are not too high." SUMMIT Page Sixteen hut its central theme was Russia's power to hit back at any aggressor.

"You may say, "Would the Soviet Union suffer no losses in the event of Khrushchev said. "Yes, it would have losses and great ones. "But while we should suffer losses, the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth. And the first to suffer in this connection would be the countries in which the Americans are locating their rocket bases." Khrushchev also asserted the United States is lagging behind the Soviet Union in rocket technology. (AP Wirephoto by Eadio) PRE-TAKEOFF TALK Secretary of State Christian Herter speaks to newsmen before boarding plane for Big Four foreign ministers conference at Geneva.

Seasonal DPW Jobs Under New Tax Probe By S. J. MICCICHE Shapes Plague Geneva Parley-Both Tables and Goddesses LONDON, May 9 (Saturday) (AP) Soviet Premier Khrushchev has belittled U.S. strength and boasted that any East-West war would be over in a brief time with the Communist world the winner. The Kremlin chief said NATO's, bomber force is big but outdated and its planes can be shot down by conventional anti-aircraft guns and "ordinary fighters." His statement, made Tuesday to a group of West German editors visiting Moscow, was reported today by Radio Moscow.

Khrushchev's talk ranged widely over world problems, The State Tax Department is intensifying its investigation into possible income tax evasion by persons and firms retained seasonally by the State Public Works Department, it was announced last night State Tax Commissioner Kobert T. Capeless, employing the adage of smoke and (AP Wirei)iioto fire, said preliminary inquiries by his department has produced "an awful lot of smoke." Agents of the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau have been conducting an identical investigation for several months in pursuit of evaders of the Federal income tax. DPW PROBE Page Two GREEN THUMB? Don't miss Sunday's 5 Classified Home Garden cf i which week after week carries more i ads and feature ma- ferial than any other Boston newspaper, To place your ad iM con ins results AVenue 2-1500 i vi BOSTON GLOBE DIRECTORY WASHINGTON, May 8 However it may affect larger issues, the Geneva Conference is involved in lengthy procedural squabbles even on housekeeping plans including the question of using square or round tables. The Russians want round tables so that they can more easily slip in additional delegates, such as.

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