SABOTAGE MENACE
U.S. National Defence Programme
PLANT EXPLOSIONS
NEW YORK, November 13.
The chairman of the committee which is investigating un-American activities. Air. Martin Dies, said at Orange, Texas, that Congress would be asked to appropriate 5,000,000 dollars in order to halt the sabotage menace to the national defence programme. He said that he had been informed by telephone from Washington of 10 acts of sabotage in connexion with recent explosions in plants working on defence orders, but lie did not reveal where sabotage had been repelled. Investigation of the alleged sabotage in the Woodbridge powder plant revealed that a large hole was blasted in the ground in front of a building which did not contain explosives. The investigators have the theory that explosives may have been planted in the building. "We are working on someihing that, looks very good. - ’ said one of the investigators.
An explosion at. Cantos, Ohio, which was followed by fire, destroyed a storage tank of JO.OOit barrels capacity .■it an oil refinery. The cause of tlie • xplosions bad not been determined. No one was injured.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 8
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180SABOTAGE MENACE Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 8
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