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Show ! 'racket' bo:.:eihg ! of theater seen . tATTLX, Wash, Feb. IS (jfV-A : bomb early today damaged the Win ter Garden theater to what police detectives aaid they thought waa the ' work of labor racketeers. Mo one was ! . Injured. After the last show, when only two nan were in the theater, tha blast wracked tha box office, damaged the marquee and entire front of tha building, build-ing, which la on Third avenue, and ah tiered a small malt shop next door. E. Buddie, seaman, told police he aaw three man drive across the street la an automobile, place a package In , front of tha theater and drive hastily oft. A few seconds later the boroo exploded ex-ploded with a crash that alarmed elti- I sens and police In tha business section of the city. j Carloads of Police sped to tha Wln- i tor Garden and found S. P. Burns and I Walter Carpenter, motion picture technicians, who had been testing aound projectors, groping their way out of the amoke filled building, be lieving aa earthquake bad shaken the I atty. . The theater la owned by John Dana. ! Two years ego Seattle waa terrorised j by a series of "racket" bombings. . |