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Show AIHEE TEMPLE BLASTHURTS 2 LOS ANGELES, Nov. t tPt Youthful pranksters were blamed by police today for a powder ex-plosion ex-plosion atop Aimee Semple McPher-on' McPher-on' Angelus temple last night which seriously maimed two Bible students and terrified 600 others. A sheet of blue flame engulfed the temple dome. Windows were shat-tered shat-tered In the adjacent Foursquare Bible college. Broken glass cut sev-eral sev-eral girls attending class in a fourth floor room and three fainted. Responsibility for the "bomb scare," which aroused the neighborhood, neigh-borhood, was placed by Detective Lieutenant D. R. Patton on four students, working their way through Bible college as temple Janitors. Two Injured Two of the quartet were seriously Injured. Gordon Atwater, It, of Albuquerque, N. M. suffered the amputation of his left hand and Edwin Bond, 16. was so burned about the face he may lose his sight. Found hiding in a trapdoor on the roof, Norman McGrew and Robert Blanchfield, each 20. were charged with feloniously setting off ah explosion ex-plosion tairighLfa or intimidate an. assembly. Similar charges will be filed later against Bond and Atwater, At-water, Lieutenant Patton said. Mrs. McPherson, out of the city, escaped the uproar. Makeshift bombs, which exploded with unexpected violence, had been made from flares used in the evangelist's evan-gelist's religious tableaux, Patton said. Boys Surprised Atwater told hospital attendants he had one can of the pyrotechnic powder in his pocket and another in his hand when Bond lit a match. "We never realized anything like the terrible explosion would happen," hap-pen," he said. McGrew was quoted by Patton as saying: "We planned to set off a fuse to the bomb and then jump back into the trapdoors and watch the fun." |