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THE TERRE HAUTE STAB, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1950. Assassins Continued From Pace 1 leadership of the movement in the United States, you will do so without hesitation of any kind." And Collazo told Secret Service agents: "We came here for the express Purpose of shooting the President" Only a few hours before the attempted assassination, an unidentified man hurled two blazing gasoline bottles into a crowd at the Puerto Rican government labor office in New York. THE WOUNDED policemen were: Pvt. Don T. Birdzell, 41 years old.

Both knees shattered by shots, but he will recover. Pvt. Joseph H. Downs, 44, a plain clothes officer. Shot in chest and stomach.

His condition is "critical, very serious." The Blair House is across Pennsylvania Avenue and up the street about a block from the AVhite House. The Trumans are living there while the White House is being repaired. Here is the scene, as pieced together from eyewitness accounts. At 2:15 P. Eastern Standard Time, all was calm on this warm, lovely Fall day.

Then pandemonium. V. E. BAUGHAM, chief of the Secret Service, said that Collazo strolled by the sentry box at one side of the Blair House without attracting notice. He went along Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk until he was within 110 feet of the entrance.

Birdzell was there, but facing the other way. He heard a click, and turned. Collazo said nothing, but opened fire. Birdzell rushed into the street, even though hit. He said he was trying to draw the fire away from the Blair House.

By this time Officer Floyd Boring, standing outside the sentry box, and Officer Joseph O. Davidson, who was inside, opened fire. One of them dropped him. Neither knows who fired the shot that dropped Collazzo. HE FELL at the foot of the steps.

One report said he actually had gone up a few steps before the bullets mowed him down. Torresola was operating lo the west of the Blair House. What happened here is confused. Both the men who shot him are in critical condition, and he is dead. He died against a clump of shrubbery, about 30 feet from his companion.

Both men were well dressed. Each wore what appeared to be identical pinstrine suits. Oddly, each and lay with his hat on. About 20 shots were fired. At least four of these ripped into the Blair House.

One window, almost at street level, was shattered. One shot lodged in a door. WHY HAD these men risked their lives in an effort to kill the President? The answer was not completely understood here tonight. And Collazzo himself wasn't very cooperative. He was asked what was his purpose in coming here to make the attack.

"Oh. just political." he said. But exactly why he thought the death of an American President would heln his cause isn't known. Secret Service men studied the two letters for light on the question. ONE READ: "My Dear Griselio: "If for any reason it should be necessary for you to assume the leadership of the movement in the United States, you will do so without hesitation of any kind.

We arc leaving to your high sense of patriotism and sane judgment everything regarding this matter. "Cordially yours. "PEDRO ALBIZO CAMPOS." The second was in the form of a memorandum, written in Spanish. Translated it read: "Gorsoline will collect the funds which I consider necessary to take care of the supreme necessities of the cause. He will be responsible directly to the general treasurer.

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His parting words: "Goodbye, darling, I am going to Puerto Rico. We must be free. We can no longer be slaves of the United States." Mr. Truman was described by his secretary, Charles Ross, as the calmest man in the place. Awakened from his nap by the shots, he went to the the second peered down.

Ross said a horrified policeman saw the President and shouted, "get back, get back." MRS. TRUMAN rushed in to see "what it all about," and she. too, looked out the window. Ross said Mrs. Truman was upset but that the President reassured her.

Ross said he asked the President if he thought he should fill the Arlington engagement. "Why, of course," said Mr. Truman. President Truman's personal physician, Brig. Gen.

Wallace Graham, was at Private Coffelt's side at his death. Reporters saw the doctor leave shortly afterwards, dressed in his blue Air Force uniform and carrying his surgical kit. Coffelt, an Army veteran of World War II, is survived by his widow. They had no children. He was classed as a "very efficient officer." ALTHOUGH there were immediate suggestions that protection of the President be increased, Secretary of the Treasury Snyder said he doesn't think this is necessary.

The secret service is under the Treasury's supervision, and Snyder talked with reporters after he had visited the wounded officers. "I think this matter has demonstrated the effectiveness of the security we have," he said. "It stopped this brazen attempt in its racks." Earlier he had issued a statement in which he said: "It was a tragic affair, but it proved the effectiveness of the security measures of the secret service, and demonstrated the jravery of the officers and special agents who are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to protect the person of the President. "I am extremely prouu of courage they displayed in preventing what could have been a national tragedy." Ross said Mr. Truman had telephoned his brother Vivian in Inde- jendence, to assure him he was okay, and that Mrs.

Truman had. phoned Margaret, who is in Portland, on a singing tour. Persons in the government who are close to Puerto Rican affairs nsist that the island's Nationalists are being used as pawns by Communists. THEY SAY the Communists have no particular interest in National- sm. but have stirred up trouble deliberately.

The island votes Tuesday on whether to adopt a new constitution. This is opposed by the Na- who want nothing less than complete and immediate independence. Baughman, the head of the secret service, said he thinks the two men have been in town for a couple of days. He said they were staying at the Harris Hotel. And a secret service man, whose identity was not learned, said that Collazzo said the assassination was planned in New York and that the two men had been checking on the Blair House.

ALTHOUGH Mr. Truman was cool, Washington wasn't. Police cars, motorcycle policemen and ambulances screamd in from all directions. The side of the street in front of the Blair House immediately was blocked off. But there were hundreds of onlookers on the sidelines.

And across the street, in the old gray stone building that used to house the State Departure, additional hundreds watched. CITY DEATHS WIIAMER I. THOMSON Ilhamer Thomson, 78 years old, for- an. Taken to the Isaac Ball Funeral Home. Services will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon at the First Baptist Church, the Rev Arthur Dodgson offl- riatmV Burial will be in Boselawn Memorial The body will be taken to the church at noon Saturday irom the funeral home.

5:30 MRS Mr. at rcsid is su Mary both Corn Acke. hour, dren body Cha T1LI.IE ABBOTT Tillie Abbott, 88 years old, died 10 o'clock yesterday evening at the 'nee 1462 South First Street. She irvived by three daughters. Mrs.

Carpenter and Mrs. Leona Price. of Terre Haute, and Mrs. Gertrude of Dayton. Ohio: three sons, Roy -man and William and John Barall of Terre Haute: 30 grandchil- and 21! great-grandchildren.

The was taken to the Gillis Memory ipel PAUL R. HOUSTON Paul R. Houston. 15-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore Houston, former residents of Terre Haute, died Tuesday night at the home Berwyn. 111. The body was brought to the Callahan Funeral Home last night. Surviving, besides the parents, are two sisters. Delores Jean and Nancy Lee: three brothers.

William. Danny and Sammy, and the Brandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Flojd Chenault of Terre Haute.

GEORGE SAMUEL GRAFF 'George Samuel Graff. 77 years old. R. 2, West Terre Haute, died at 5:30 clock yesterday evening at Union Hospital. He is survived by a daughter.

Mrs. Geraldine Horning of Indianapolis: a sister. Mr- Florence Dempsey of Terre Haute; a brother, Frank E. Graff of Terre Haute, and three grandchildren. The body was taken to the Isaac Ball Funeral Home.

ROBElCT ROBINSON Funeral services for Robert Robinson. died Monday, will be held at 10:30 I o'clock this morning at the Thomas Funeral Home. Burial will be in High- i land Lawn Cemetery with Claude L. I Herbert Camp. United Spanish-American War Veterans, conducting military rites.

i FRANK ALLAN LOWTHER I Funeral services for Frank Allan Low- 1 ther 59 years old. who died Monday. wiU be held at 1:30 o'clock this aftcr- noon at Thomas Funeral Home, the Rev. C. Fruth officiating.

Burial will be in Highland Lawn Cemetery. Shaw Continued From Pace 1 in Shaw's Corners, the red brick house where he made his home, while his whole'staff kept vigil. Shaw was the second famed nonagenarian to die this week. King Gustav of Sweden, 92, succumbed Sunday. THE REEDY sage of Ayot St.

Lawrence, never noted for modesty, proclaimed himself "The Dramatic Emperor of and many conceded him the title. He was the author of more than 50 plays. Many, like "Pygmalion," "Candida" and "Major are world famous. Indeed, the nonsmoking Shaw considered himself the rightful successor and perhaps the superior, of Shakespeare. Shaw ate only vegetables but.

spoke as if he fed only on raw meat He gloried in his reputation as acknowledged world master of the studied insult. Even as death approached he continued to shoot vitriol-dipped barbs at the notions and foibles of his contemporaries. To the end he insisted he was a Communist. If he was, he was the most unorthodox Communist in the world. He professed admiration of the Russian Communist experiment, but he snorted at Karl Marx, prophet of communism, as a ponderous and unreadable fuddy- duddy.

He tossed off major heresies which would have meant Siberia in the country he professed admire. WHILE describing himself as an 'old skeleton" just before his 94th birthday, Shaw led an active life, rising before eight daily and not retiring until midnight. When wasn't writing, he was playing the nano, and sometimes even singing in a croaking but enthusiastic voice. His diet was mostly great quantities of fruit vegetable juices. Shaw blustered about the fuss made about his birthdays.

On his ninety-fourth he raged at a newspaper report that he enjoyed a quiet day. "With telephone and the door jell ringing all day," he snorted. 'With the postmen staggering under bushels of letters and telegrams! With immense birthday cakes, uneatable by me, falling on me like millstones! With the lane blocked with cameras, televisors, ihotographers, newsreelers, interviewers, all refusing to take 'no' lor an answer! And I with a hard day's work to finish in time for he village post." JHAW completed one play, "Far- Fetched Fables," in the Summer of :950. The critics panned it, saying contained nothing he hadn't said before. He was working on a light comedy, "Why She Would Not," ivhen he fell in his garden Sept.

10. The tall, gray pundit was can- iankerous with the doctors and nurses who attended him after that, le raged in vhen doctors suggested snipping his famous beard so that he might more easily be given an anesthetic. had to be taped down, instead, rle curtly told his doctors it would be ill luck for him if he did not die on their hands, because, he doctors are noted mostly for eminent men they lose. SHAW, born in Dublin on July 26, 1856, always thought well of himself, but his recognition came most- after he was 40. He was past 40 when he married Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend of Ireland's County Cork, whom he called his "Green-Eyed-Irish Heiress." There were no children.

Mrs. Shaw, little known to Shaw's cast public, died in 1943. Shaw's romantic correspondence with Ellen Terry, the noted British actress, became famous. The two exchanged endearing letters for years, but never met except publicly in theaters. FBI OFFERS HELP TO HUNT CAUSE OF BLAIR HOUSE FRAY WASHINGTON, Nov.

The FBI offered, its laboratory services to the Secret Service today and awaited developments to determine whether the Blair House shooting might come within its jurisdiction. If the assassins are suspected of organized or other subversive connections, the FBI could move in. But the shooting itself is a case for the Secret Service of the Treasury Department, the Washington police and the federal courts. By request of the President, the FBI could employ its agent network to discover the background of the attackers. Capehart Continued From Page 1 give the invocation.

All local candidates will be introduced to the visiting Bepublicans. The motor caravan itinerary has been arranged with the cooperation of the township candidates and the Republican precinct committeemen and- vice commit- leemen in the various townships. This full day meeting is considered by Senator Capehart as one of the most important on his busy schedule as Vigo County with its industrial and farm population is. according to Capehart, "a good spot to bring our message on all of the issues affecting all of the people during these critical times Tax Levy Continued From Pace 1 local rates sets up the following levies on which city taxpayers are charged: Civil City 52.006 School City 1.99 Township 164 County 1-17 State IS Total 5.48 Following is a comparison of the current rate with the 1951 rate as finally approved by the state board for the various taxing units of the county: 1950 1951 Taxing Rate. Rate.

Terre Haute Riley Town 4.34 3.66 Seelyville 3.32 3.22 West Terre Haute 5.16 4.90 Harrison Two 3.24 3.18 Fayette Twp 2.84 2.80 Honey Creek 2.82 2.74 Linton Twp 3.74 3.72 Lost Creek Twp. 2.68 2.60 Nevins Twp 3.14 2.82 Otter Creek Twp. 3.16 2.94 Pierson Twp 3.76 2.78 Prairie Creek Twp. 3.66 3.08 Prairieton Twp 3.30 3.30 Riley Twp 3.54 2.98 Sugar Creek Twp. 2.38 2.32 Trygve Lie Continued From Page 1 bly then elects the recommended man.

The Russians vetoed Lie in the council and their candidate was not accepted. Private talks were held, four other persons were considered but did not receive Security Council approval. Austin then indicated the United States would use its veto to stop other candidates and called for an extension of Lie's term. Austin said the Russians were trying to punish Lie for taking a strong hand against Communist North Korean aggression. Vishin- sky denied this and attacked Lie as a "stooge" for the United States.

Drop Troopship Plans WASHINGTON, Nov. The government tonight dropped plans to turn the. super liner United States into a troop ship. Instead, the vessel, now under construction, will be finished as a luxury passenger ship. The oil from the seeds of black mr rd is more pungent than that from the white variety.

The popular equivalent of Punch and Judy in France is Guignol. VALLEY DEATHS (orea EUGENE ROCKVILLE, Now. Eugene Ard. 83 old. formerly of Hockville, died Tuesday evening at the home of his son.

T. B. Ard, to Park. following a long illness. Surviving, besides the son.

are a daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth Lowrey of Fort Worth. three sisters, Mrs. Bart M.

Dowd. Mrs. lona Merritt and Mrs. Albert Reslar. aU of Rockville, and a brother, William B.

Ard of Rockville. The body was brought to the McMullen Funeral Home where services will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning, the. Rev. William Bleam officiating. Burial will be in Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 o'clock Thursday ning. GEORGE E. WALKER MARSHALL, 111., Nov. Funeral services for George E. Walker, 83 years old, who died Tuesday, will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Marrs Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Forsythe Cemetery. Surviving are three sons, Athen Walker of Ajhmore, George Walker of Martinsville. and Thomas Walker of Robinson, three daughters. Mrs. EHie McNulty of Clinton, Mrs.

Laurie Higginbotham of Hidgefarm. and Mrs. Viola Shotts Martinsville. HL; three slaters. Mrs.

Mattie Miller of Martinsville, Mrs. Margaret Miller of Marshall ind Mrs. Mary Thompson of Tyler. and two brothers, R. B.

Walker of Michigan and Jess Walker of Ridgefarm. 111. WILLIAM EDWARD LUCAS LYFORD. Nov. William Edward Lucas, 79 years old, died early this morning at his home here.

He is survived by six daughters, Mrs. Clara Bauman of St. Mary's Village Mrs. Edna Ackers of Rosedale. Mrs.

Gail Marchino. Mrs. Henrietta Fhipps and Mrs. Lucille Wright, all of Terre Haute, and Mrs. Nell McGrew of South Bend: a half sister, Mrs.

Catherine Suter of California; eight grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the Frist Funeral Home where, services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, the Rev. Ray Crawl officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. MRS.

REBA RALSTON HOSEDALE. Nov. Mrs. Reba Ralston, SI yean old, R. R.

2, Rosedale. died early this morning at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis. She is survived by the husband. Robert; a son.

Albert Kay Ralston of Decatur, a sister, Mrs. Ruth Johnson of near Hock- ville, and a grandson. The body was brought to the Cox i Williams Funeral Home where services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Burial will ba in Rosedale Cemetery. MRS.

ETHEL STOELTING CENTERPOINT, Nov. Ethel Stoelting. 64 years old. B. R.

2. Centerpoint. died at 1:50 o'clock this afternoon at St. Anthony's Hospital, Terre Haute. She is survived by husband, Lawrence; a brother.

E. G. Kuhns of Terre Haute: a stepson, Robert Shoelting of near Cory, and a stepdaughter. Miss Edna Marie Stoelting of Spencer. The body was brought to tna Rentschler Funeral Home.

MRS. CATIIERIKE t. 11OCCIA ROCKVILLE. Nov. services for Mrs.

Catherine D. Roccia 76 years old. who died Monday, will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Barnes Mortuary, the Rev. Flavian Strange officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery at Clinton.

The body will be taken to the funeral home at 10 o'clock Thursday morning from residence. MRS. SARAH JANE MILLER CLINTON. Nov. Funeral services for Mrs.

Sarah Jane Miller. 78 years old, who died Tuesday, will be held at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Frist Funeral Home, the Rev. Edward Rudicel officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. JOHN' WEIR PRAIRIE CREEK.

Nov. services for John Weir, 58 years old. who died Monday, will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the DeBaun Funeral Home. Burial will be in West Lawn Cemetery. Armadillos cross the Brazos River, in Texas, by walking under water.

These animals cannot swim. The Javanese "wayang" is a shadow play produced with leather figures. CMtbmed From Pace 1 central front. And they attacked the U. S.

Seventh Division without success in the northeast 'On the northwest, a column of the U. S. 24th Division thrust to Sharyongwan, 19 air miles southeast of the border at its nearest point and 22 air miles southeast of sinuiju. Sinuiju is just across the Yalu River from the Manchurian city of Antung, where the Chinese Reds maintain a large air base. SDTOinrS own air field was savagely strafed by U.

S. jets whose pilots reported at least eight enemy planes destroyed. The column met only light resistance after it beat back fierce Communist counterattacks along lie Chong River, seven miles east of Charyongwan. Overhead, Communist jets, per- iaps streaking from Manchurian bases, were driven off by slower U. S.

Mustang fighter planes. Neither side lost any planes in the brisk clash but three Russian-made Yak planes of the piston-engine type were shot down in dog fights over the same area earlier-Wednesday. An F-80 jet was shot down by Red anti-aircraft fire as it pressed the attack on the Sinuiju airfield. EASTWARD another column of the 24th Division reached the village of Paegun, 35 miles south of the Manchurian border. This was a five-mile advance.

A spokesman for the U. S. Eighth Army said a Red force of undetermined strength lay beyond Paegun. The Reds were reported equipped with self-propelled guns and automatic weapons. On the Twenty-fourth's east flank Republic of Korea and U.

S. forces still were battling to repulse strong Communist counterattacks. A U. S. First Corps spokesman said the Eighth Regiment of the S.

First Cavalry Division had relieved the R. O. K. Eighth Division southeast of Unsan, 30 miles due east of the Twenty-fourth Division at Kusong. He said the Americans were under strong -af -f THE R.

O. K. Eighth and Sixth Divisions were chopped up in a powerful Red counterpush in a rough triangle marked by Unsan, Onjong and 50 Remember Birthdays Send FLOWERS Allied Florists of Terre Haute War Continued From Page 1 capture of their capital, Pyongyang. Allied troops now have run into that line of resistance. The U.

S. advance became more cautious to avoid casualties. Officers said most of the soldiers thought the war. was about over and they weren't taking unnecessary chances. Columns were stalled by the kind of opposition the Americans bulled through earlier in the war.

Everything All Right, Truman Tells Margaret PORTLAND, Nov. Truman called his daughter Margaret by long distance telephone shortly after today's shooting at Blair House in Washington to assure her that everything was all right. "The President told his daughter that everything.was okay and under control," said Kenneth Allen, Miss Truman's manager on her concert tour. DISTINCTIVE YtT INEXPfNSfVf Ryan Sons A hint of contrasting color, a suggestion of rhinestone sparkle designers touches that make a truly distinctive dress of rib tissue crepe. The hip hiding pocket-skirt detail, chic' and slimming originality in the one-side collar.

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How many men they had poured into the area apparently was undetermined. Gen. Paik Sun Yup, a R. K. Second Corps commander, estimated at least one Chinese Communist division was in action in that sector plus North Korean remnants.

U. S. B-29s returned to action after a five-day layoff. They poured heavy explosives on rail yards at Kanggye and Nanam, near the Manchurian border. Kanggye is believed to be the temporary capital of the North Korean Communist regime.

Watches Jet Planes Continued From Pare 1 Earlier in the day three Yaks were shot down near Sinuiju. Two of them fired on unarmed T-6 American observation planes which called for help. Four responding Mustangs brought down two of six Yaks in dogfights. Later one of four B-26s knocked down one of two Yaks which attacked the light bombers during a bombing run west of Spnchon, 35 miles southeast of Sinuiju. U.

S. raids then put out of action all 15 planes located this morning on Sinuiju airstrip. The airfield was so badly wrecked that when visited later in the day it was no longer worth attacking. Continued From Pace 1 clear recollection of the fourth man. I just could not believe it.

The whole thing had happened almost in the time it took the light to change from red to green. THERE WAS hardly any traffic a I all at the qorner, but at the first shot policemen seemed to come from all over and converge on President Truman's home. When the shooting would say there had been at least eight or ten separate shots or bursts of crossed Pennsylvania Avenue and walked back to my office two blocks away in a complete daze. Looking back now, it was just like a dream, grotesque and fantastic. If it was an attempt to kill President Truman, I certainly am glad those cops were able to take care of it.

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