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Show WARNED TO WATCH FOR CIGAR BOMBS Postmasters Informed That 25 of the Explosives Are I t 1 in the Mails. j : . i ; LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27. A warning to watch for "tubular packages containing ! ! cigar bombs" was sent tonight to post- j masters throughout the United States by local postal authorities, who learned that twenty-five of the explosive cigars were mailed December 22 at Goffs, Cal. This Information was furnished the postal Inspectors In-spectors by A. C. Garner, a conductor on a Santa Fe train, who reported he found the packages, stamped and addressed, In. a smoking car on his train December 22. j He picked them up shortly after the train 1 left Barstow, Ca)., he said, and mailed j them at Goffs, thinking they were overlooked over-looked by a passenger who had left the train. Garner told his story to the authorities after he bad learned of the injury of several sev-eral persons from smoking explosive cigars ci-gars received in small tubular packages. He said he remembered distinctly some of the packages were addressed to persons per-sons In Los Angeles. San Francisco, Bar-stow Bar-stow nnd cities In Arizona, Iowa, Nebraska, Nebras-ka, Minnesota, North Dakota, and others In states which he could not recall. Six of thn "bombs" have been accounted account-ed for, according to postal authorities. Two were received In Los Angeles today. Charles S. Ranger, postal inspector, said all the packages should reach their destinations desti-nations within the next twenty-four or forty-eight hours, and for that reason he bad sent the warning to postmasters. The local postal authorities began their investigation of the sending of cigar bombs through the malls after John D. Bennett of Brawley, Cal., was seriously injured when one-he was smoking exploded In his face December 21. He had received it through the mails. |