Time Bomb Scare On Queen Elizabeth
Received Thursdav, 7 p.m. """ " ' "'NE^V YORK, June 30. Poiice. aiid firemen rushed to the liner Queen Elizabeth this afternoon as the result of telephone reports to i newspapers that a time bomb had been 1 placed aboard the ship. • Newspapers were told the bomb would exlode 20 hours after the Queen Elizabeth left New York at midnight. The poiice disclosed that a similar threat was uaade on a previous trip but it was found to i)e fal.se.__ The Queen Eliza beth 's own firecrews joined the policcand New York brigadesmen in today 's search while fire engines and fire floats stood by and a poiice bomb disposal squad Waited on the wharf. No l)ontb was discovered but the poiice remaine I aboard exarnining all mail with bomb detectors.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 July 1948, Page 5
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