I was young when this was going on. I do member hearing it on a crystal radio I had built. The prisoners were taking playing cards with special ink on them and had made pipe bombs with playing cards. I do not remember the details. Doctor Ruth Westminster was on the radio around that time.
I used to get these little sample bottoms of Nivea hand lotion when I was 10. The neighborhood boys used to ask me for the bottles when they were empty. I eventually learned what they did with the bottles. They made them into cherry bombs and threw them in our lake at night.
What? That's the first i heard that.... I would of thought they would of used Kero syrup and fertilizers.