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22 A*THE KANSAS CITY STAR. SUNDAY. JULY 17, I960,WOMENv. •wv'.v :•4 • » ' % f V lt;iv V r* lt;« *-*«■*. V X • /y. Y Y i* * » • ,% - . Jmy*wmPX'*‘■■ ■ • ■ «•■'■«.•• ■’ - .*.•,. -.v. ■'iw'Kvf •SyCCXXv * - • • .LV. , \v?,v» . . ■• ... .H - - :.v( ,.v',y/'1'A' L'.'.'.vaw;-' * -x-y-V/.'6vi - *Et-'J- :vv: *; '; ’v* I; v* ■ lt;2•* • **.;.^ -• v *•%;•: ;r:.* .« w- ■. -•-*3ra8»rSBBRWExplosion Destroys' '-A. -■•'• :••'• • ■ * • . 'v-A• ' •- ■ ,.’•*; •- - :£y:*cnt Houm at 505 GillisSt root. • • • • j v r . • ... w. .\ve-sv -lt;•« v-v; XyM :■ : • --'' r.;... ■ £ ' r-V;.,.*rj;FLYING DEBRISVictim*FirmedUnder Wreckage—FireIs Extinguished.•A i|3 ®■v* *.* ,v •• .1 • v » .% A ...V-VSnff fc*7iV '. - • • ■ ‘Jrj ....«iHr ’.* -1 -fl ’..J. ■ • I.**■ 6KH!* » -'!‘X....-irL* *iW.“..... i o* kr ^A vacant home in the NorthSide was blown apart last nightby a shattering explosion thatis-■sfe*.. •.v.’.• -y.^yyjW-'.V4Vt*pV-:'-i 'Wfopmm^rni -■■mMm.V,.... *...injured three women on thesidewalk nearby. Hundreds ofj. - . ’ ' *•. -■'-:•• -■ «• . * ' • . '. •■! ••'■■'• *•■■•*■. v i'- r, .^v «». *• .• * • ...'.■AVV5SiO•■ -■ ••*,'t- '••'•«;. -. .V • -'’•■ • - • ‘v •■-*::•■' •■v :■*■•'.. '•: ,. -- i•;•.'• •'•' ; • ! A lt;.; flt; a*Xv' • • WvOK '■spectators were attracted•xi V.• i -the scene.A;illPHfeiiS'L'.V.■*'»■ s’”-k |- .-I* '... . i.Two of the victims were tak■y.. *en to St. Joseph hosptial. Neither was believed injured se-jm\•X XAv. i -CvX-. .. .verely. The third woman wasv-y.y.i:.......taken to a nearby home andmmndid not require hospital treat-•r^yv.--iCOC... ■vv. ... •..... *mentV-.V.• V.. ....V..Kv-vA w.-.v.w *;....I.• ■ ;- . .W AS-k-X-X-AVBreakdown on Da.........v -y.'.v. v,v.■ ■a......:.w.v,vv;v'vv-v• » • » • -j •*J|*dm. '■V v.Deputy Chief Herberty.:lt;vVvV.WJ... s_Hughes estimated the loss at$14,550, breaking.it down to$10,000 at 509 GiUis, $3,000 atmms*aRMSiv.J*A.iKvrX: .XX-A':;:tepijjSi* • ■ ** »*. j • - i *,'»V1X:‘.Vi* **HT.V505 Gillis and the rest in sur-%■v.*•aWrounding structures.IWERf ■• .A . .V-!-i v..Vyv;•Aa;lt;•..• lt;%*,V ,vv.lt;• *vi v! v* X ,v; ■ yXy-v-.v.a*;f. .VmbTheexplosion occurredi,*about 9:10 o’clock in a 2-storyiMvV%* *‘.lt;Ai.^I• *brick and frame home at 505X-XXX**-'mmmtii®Sv':X,Sw,Ij.«...*, ..v-w.vvGillis street. Bricks and pieces of wood and lumber were$m......*:*tyyy'V..Vil'i i•VliWAVMhurled in all directions.V.'*...v_■ * *. •..m. M *lt;^;!x-xy-r-rVN'm™x-:The resulting fire spread to a 2-slorv frame home at 509v.v.-.v.v:;Xlt;mmmmsi:...^-eV* v ■ V. •mt.■V.ST *ax:■I*.,.. , ■. U. .,X*.*-XXK*x.vGillis, but was containedmquickly by members of sevenfire companies that rushed to3sMV.V.‘XX;x«:WlX'Cv.-tO;•y.,v.‘•S’’A1* a.• ■nX* ■m mmmwrMmw:vy....■■•Vi•.•X*«yA »W--•X-the scene.The cause was not immediA FIREMAN CUTS THROUGH DEBRIS with an ax while others pull away wreckage in a search for pos-ately determined.sible victims of an explosion and fire last night at 505 Gillis street. Three persons were injured, none severely, byTaken to the St. Joseph hosflying debris while walking near the scene. A 2-story brick and frame home that had been unoccupied since Decem-pital were Mrs. Josephine An-ber 31, 1959, was destroyed. A home at 509 Gillis, part of which is shown here, was damaged by the blast and the firegelo, 60 years old, 517 Gillis.that followed. The cause of the explosion was not determined.and Mrs. Rose Hurst, 27, of2000 East Eighth street.Mrs. Angelo was pinned un-CRIMINAL POISEfer withdrawal while awaitingthe firstder debris on the sidewalk infront of the destroyed home.When rescue workers arrivedthey saw only her head, butwere able to reach her quickly. Mrs. Hurst was struck byBADLYSHAKENSheetz and the man attempting to obtain narcotics for thecall girl were acquainted, per-(Continued From Page 1A.)haps had had some businesshe will be returned to KansasCity to testify.As is apparent from the indictment itself, Sheetz named.as the trigger man, AnthonyJohn (Tiger) Cardarella, 34, offlying debris. The thirdidentity waswoman,not learnedwhosebythose factors were used byarrangements together. Sheetzfederal, state and police officers in weaving a web of infiremen, was hit by pieces ofdebris as she walked in frontof 512 Gillis. Sal Manzo, ofthat address, said he and others assisted her onto theporch at that address, thencrimination that led to lastweek’s federal and county inalso had friends on the fringes of—if not in—the criminalhierarchy in Kansas City.518 South Lawn avenue, back-stopped on Felix Ferinahis mission by35, of 518 SouthLawn avenue. Both were in-Texas Has Heavy Rain;Sunny Elsewhere,Chicago, July 16.(AP)Heavy rains poured on Texas today and thereWereshowers and thunderstormsin other sections, but mostlythe nation was sunny.dieted by the county and fed-Those friends of Sheetz weredictments.The indictments do notprove those charged arewilling to vouch for him.eral grand juries in the case.Cardarella, whose statureSheetz, in turn, was willing todo a favor for the woman'sfriend.guilty. But they do meanran across the street to freelboth m CQunty and fedcra,Manzlt;?e said when he re- governments have substantial Manzo saia wnen ne re evidence That evidenc wiuturned to further aid the vie-, ., , , , ., , 1, n„r,u | be considered by court juriestim, who was left on the porch, JScene to Omaha.Through the shadowy butshe was gone. It is believedshe was not severely injured.Among those who reachedthe scene within seconds wasJoe (Turk) Harris, 1048 EastFifth street. He was one of theCurb on Gambling.Of equal importance to thecase in which a federal witness, Kenneth Bruce Sheetz,extremely effective line of communications in the under-belies the nickname ofCamp Wood recorded aABRUPTTWO YOUTHS ARE CAUGHTAFTER WRECKING CAR.PurTroopers in High-Speed suit of Stolen Vehicle AfterIt Runs Radar Check.rain accumulation of nearlyfive inches since yesterdayand Blanca reported 3.68Two St. Joseph, Mo., youthstahPlt;hiaiwwho sped through a highwaydtainches. Both are in Southpatrol radar check on U. S. 71*»Tiger,” looks more like a Central Texas.jockey than a gunslinger. Hecommented jokingly one daybefore the indictments werereturned—when he could stilljoke—that he received theworld, it was learned that anickname “at a Bov Scoutsource of dope was availablein Omaha. Sheetz arranged apurchase himself and was arrested. He pleaded guilty andwitnesses called recently bythe federal and JacksonCounty grand juries. Harrisplunged into the wreckage andhelped free Mrs. Angelo. Later, stripped to the waist, he helped firemen unreel firehose.Also Aid Victims.Others who helped the vietims and searched for otherpossible victims included Mikewas the object of an underworld shooting, is the factthat most gambling in KansasCity currently is closed down.The county grand jury aidedwith its policy indictments.The federal jury chipped inwith its pinball machine violations. The uneasinesscreated by the probes did thewas placed on a recognizancebond by the federal districtcamp.” Ferina used to joke, too. A favorite, for example, was that he shot a 38 on the•‘a Smith Sc Wes-°8.”court. That much is on recordin the court. In fact. Sheetz sname appears at the top of alist in the U. S. marshal’s office of federal court defendants currently out on bond.Now, at the bottom of the list.appear the names of thosecharged with attempting togolf course— son (revolver) .o Neither man is joking this week. Both are thoroughlye ArgumentBig Topic forClass Reunionlast night were captured whenthey wrecked their stolen mo-o!slt;tlaitor car during achase.high-speed ntiThe driver was Dennis Mich-tlael Lapaglia, 17 years old. HisNNUAL reunions may beail right, but when youcompanion, a juvenile, was not aware he was riding in atlreach a certain age time slipsstolen car, he told Trooper C.E. Fisher.dby so fast that once every fiveyears is often enough.Stolen In Atchison.The 1959 Chevrolet, whichflazlt;shaken, especially Cardarella,who is not as accustomed tobeing under indictment orunder arrest, as is Ferina.Both are free on bonds totaling$100,000 each, and saythey will use their current interval of freedom to proverest.kill him.It can only be surmised that“Probably the^ most lm-j gheetz, when arrested, agreedGargotta, 1136 Pacific street and Sam Gallo, 429 North VanBrunt boulevard.The Rev. Mario Rauzi, assistant pastor of the Holy Hos-ary Catholic church, observedwhat he later described as afire ball as he ran towardthe burning home to offer assistance. John Bonacroso, 517Gillis, said he and his familywere seated around a table intheir home and that the forceportant accomplishment ofthe county jury to date hasbeen in stopping the only realgambling we have had into co-opprate. At any rate, a federal agent took it fromtheir innocence in the Sheetzcase.Both Ferina and Cardarellasay they can establish alibisand can produce witnesses forthere. The agent, who testifiedJackson County and Kansasbefore the federal grand juryCity for several years,” William A. Collet, prosecutor, declared. “This jury went at itsinvestigation from the insidebyissuing subpoenas for those with books and records.For the first time in many ayear, no policy is being writ-of the blast shook the structure vigorously.Windows in nearby homesand business places, includingthe Fifth Street cleaners, 1027East Fifth street, and Angelo’sgrocery, 1029 East Fifth, wereten'ere.”Speaking of the indictmentsunder his covering aliasmade “buys.” On the strengthof evidence thus obtained, thefederal grand jury in Omahathe time in question.Order on Sheets.The 12 friends who will sitdown to breakfast today at thehome of Dan Scherrer, 2314was reported stolen in Atchison, Kas., Friday night, wasWashington boulevard, KansasCity, Kansas, were graduatedin the class- of 1900 from St.Mary's Parochial school, nowthe oldest parish in that city.Since 1940 thehasmade a traditiongroupof havingbreakfast together once everyfive years. In 1940 about 20attended out of the original 40in the class.At the breakfast this mornclocked at 85 miles an hourifabout a mile south of the Mid-Continent International airport on U. S. 71. TrooperFisher pursued the speedingvehicle.aiclhPCtaScThe youths then raced weston M-152 with Trooper Fisherclose behind but lost controlof the vehicle on a sharpcurve at Barry, near the Clay-Platte County line. The carskidded into a ditch, plungeding the youngest person willthrough a fence and stoppedFrom various law-enforce-it was determent sources, mined that the Omaha under-be 75 years old. But Scherrer,the, host, says some may disworld communicated its reentered the investigation andSheetz toindicted Anthony J. Biase, 52,of Omaha.At that point, the underquest concerning persons here in Kansas City.also say thatpute this figure. Still Scherrerin a field.Found in Weeds.claims that at 15, he was theyoungest member of his classThoseword fromsourcesOmahawas notin 1900.Besides Scherrer, presentFisher arrived minutes laterand flushed the youths out ofnearby weeds where theytried to hide. Trooper G. W.will be:world was obliged to figureout what hadvoted in the Sheetz case, Edward L. Scheufler, Unitedgone wrong. Where had the leak occurred?It didn’t take long for the fin-States attorney, commented:The investigation and ac-broken.The home that was destroy-tion of the federal jury indicates a firm purpose to insureed had been unoccupied sincethe family of Frank McFaddin,now of 506 Troost avenue, moved out following a firelast New Year’s eve. The Mc-Faddins had completed repairsand were preparing to returnto the Gillis street home thisthat the administration of jus-ger of suspicion to point directly at Sheetz.Several questions asked ofenough; that the final decisionhad to be made here.Once it was, those sourcescontinue, Cardarella and Feri-na were named to carry outthe order.Some of the witnesses calledCarlton Young, a business representative of the Central Con-ference of Teamsters, St. Louis,tice will not be flouted, and j working in Kansas City out ofby both juries were subpoenaed to determine, if possible,whether there had been aMrs. Mary Flanagan Moulding. 3238 Karnes boulevard; Mrs. Margaret Flanagan Galbraith, 1007 West Red Bridge road. Jackson County; Mrs. Evelyn Heck Harrison. 401 Armour boulevard: Miss Mary Higgins. 2004 Tauromee. Kansas City, Kansas; John Hardy and Mrs. Mar-fjret Hardy, 2563 Cherry; Mrs. Loretta annon Boyle, 2718 West Fifty-first, Westwood; Charlie Donegan, 2913 Metropolitan, Kansas City Kansas: Mrs. Cecelia Scherrer Slaughter, 4015 Harrison; Joseph Lvnch. 735 Ann. Kansas City, Kansas, and Mrs. Anna Brennan Griffin. 5050 the Pasco.Winters of the highway patrolarrived shortly afterward.The youths were taken toclt;Pihlt;retlKsi01tltlpiHtitlsithe Platte County jail. ThePidiyounger boy will be releasedto juvenile authorities, Fishersaid.RATTLER TAKES OVER.Damage to the wrecked carSIu;tliblt;was estimated at $1,500.eiPINNED IN WRECKED CAR.that those committing federal■ i. e*crimes will be under contin-ous investigation and consideration in the public interest.As Unfinished Business.Teamsters local No. 659,Omaha, before the federalwider conspiracy than yet haswords.Other Residents Leave anappeared. In otherwho here okayed the harsh regrandjury last week help clear up the picture. Young, who had friends in Omaha,Scheufler added that theweek. They said all utilities,had beenincluding gas,turned off since the earlierjury will return to continuewas asked by the jury what the attitude of his Oma-itseveral unfinished phases ofthe current (Sheetz) investigate.Home Is Insured.tion.99Links leading to last week’sha friends was toward Sheetz.Young was not required to diquest from Omaha? Presum-Apartment Building.San Francisco, July 16.(AP)Youth Is Freed from VehicleCLspccAfter 40 Minutes.scExterminators have beenably this is one of the facetslying in the realm of unfinished business to which theUnited States attorney referred.vulge the conversations, butFIRE IN A SUBWAY.called in to flush a pet rattlesnake from its hiding place between the walls and floor ofan apartment.Elmer Davis, 23. an ambuA youth, both his hipstvfractured, was pinned in a motor car for 40 minutes lastnight in Wyandotte Countyafter the vehicle struck acctelephone pole at Twenty-seventh street and Sewelllance driver, brought the rattler down from the mountainswas required to answer if heaction unfold like theThe McFaddins had $5,000insurance converge on thehome, which still was vacantjuryplot of a mystery novel are from various, unrelatedTheysources and some are unsub-of furniture and most otherpossessions.The damaged home at509Gillis is owned by Joseph Sorrentino, who lives on the second floor. A tenant on the firstfloor is Tony Amaro. BothAmaro and the Sorrentinoirade their way tofamilystantiated. A fragment of thehad talked to certain personsAbout Two Dozen Persons inin Omaha. Those questionswere answered before a grandjury and, of course, are secret.But the mere fact they werestory is heard here, anotherthere. But the ring of authen-This much is knew its confidence and trustasked by the jury indicates that the underworld in Omahaticitv is clear.or can be deduced.knownNew York Are Made HI.less than a monthagoandNew York, July 16.CAP)—kept it in a glass case. Thursday a child knockedthe case over and the snakeavenue.The youth, Randolph Moses, Negro, 15, of 3538 NorthThirty-first street terrace9Kansas City, Kansas,mAn electrical fire midway inan East river subway tunnel tonight poured smoke intostations at each end. Twenty-six persons suffered smokein Sheetz had been misplaced.In the beginning there wasa woman, once a respectableWhatever conversationstook place, if, indeed, any did,housewife. Described as atold.safety without difficulty.After the fire was extinguished, firemen remained atthe scene pulling away debriscovering the street and sidewalk to be certain there wereno other casualties.Destructive agents kill 13tractive, about 30 years the woman became addictedthe feeling toward Sheetz soonwas made clear. On June 20to narcotics. She became aprostitute. Among her regular dates were two KansasCity men.two armed men attempted tonirder him, and by all medical odds should have accomplished their mission. But thevpoisoning but no one was severely affected.disappeared. Arthur Germaine, humane officer, said the reptile apparently got between the walls through ancritical condition atwasProviAtothh(ashncdence hospital.hCTowmship firemen, ambu-atlance drivers and sheriff’sacopening cut for a gas pipe.Davis, his aunt and his sister moved out. as did otherThe fire in a control roomfilled the tunnel with smoke.No trains were in the tube atthe time. Trains approachingtenants.Germaine said the rattlesnake, Oscar, “can live wellwith the mice 1 know are infrom both sides were rerouted.Twenty-five persons on thedidn’t. Sheetz, who spent moreManhattan side, includingOne of the men urged her than an hour last week before to seek medical treatment for Hie federal grand jury, is re-her addiction; the other saidbillion board-feet of saw timher annually—enough to supply the wood needed for1 million average houses. second so she would not sufhe would see what he coulddo about obtaining for her a supply of narcotics. Thewoman took both offers, thecovering. When he is dismissed from the General hos-three subway employees, wereovercome by smoke. Ten werethe building.”deputies finally freed theyouth, who was concious throughout the ordeal. Mrs.Helen Thomas, a Douglass hospitalMoses annurse, gave injection while rescue effortswere in progress.The driver ofthe car inwhich Moses wras a passenger,YOUNG PIN STAR.Cheyenne, Wyo.(AP)Tommy Dansel is only a 120-average bowler, but he nearlyhospitalized.A woman waiting on thepital, he will be taken underheavy guard to an undisclosedplace for further recuperatieplatform of the BrooklynBorough Hall station was overcome as smoke poured infrom the tunnel. She was inMb'When the time comes,igood condition.rolled a perfect 300 game recently.Ned Taylor, Negro, 17, of 2711SewellCounty^avenue,sufferedWyandottea brokennose and a laceration of theear. He was admitted toBethany hospital in fair con-He had eight straightstrikes. He missed a spare inthe ninth frame, but closedout with two more strikes andan 8-pin effort — a total of265. Tommy is nine years old.dition.The accident occurred at6:30 o’clock last night whenTaylor apparently lost controlof the northbound car as heapproached the intersection ofSewell avenue.
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Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Jul 17, 1960
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