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TUCSON, ARIZONA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1950 SECTION A TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS ryi fo) 0 mwm mm Would-Be Assassin Pays Price for Seeking to Slay America's Chief Executive ONE ASSAILANT, GUARD BOTH DIE IN PISTOL FIGHT Puerto Rico Revolutionists Downed in Battle on Doorstep of Blair House; President Comes to Window but Waved Back by Protectors WASHINGTON, Nov. Two fiery Puerto Rican revolutionists shot their way to President Truman's doorstep today but were mowed down in a gun battle with White House guards before they could 'carry out their plot to murder the sleeping President. One of the gunmen was killed, the other seriously wounded. Tonight, a secret service man died of bullet wounds suffered in the roaring gun fight in front of Blair House, the President's temporary home across the street from the White House. Two other guards were hurt, one seriously.

The surviving gunman was booked for murder. It was the first conspiracy by two or more persons to kill a President of the United States since John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in a plot to wipe out the even though hit. He said he was iifKHTrfW iiVv XViJBWlZ SHOT DOWN Griselio Torresola, one of two men who rushed Blair House, President Truman's residence, lies dead Arrow points to his gun. (F) Dramatist Bernard Shaw Claimed by AYOT ST. LAWRENCE, Thursday, Nov.

2. (P) George Bernard Shaw, one of the modern age's greatest dramatists and its most caustic critic, died today at the age of 94. The white-bearded Irish-born sage, whose wit was throughout the world whole leadership of the govern-' ment, Truman was taking a nap at the time the assassins stormed his home. The shots awakened him but he was unhurt. Those killed were: Griselio Torresola, from New York, one of the gunmen.

Pvt. Leslie Coffelt, 40, of the secret service. He was shot in the chest, stom ach and legs in his valiant and successful defense of the President. Tne other two guards were critically Injured, as was the re maining gunman. Doorstep Battle The gun battle took place on the very doorstep of the Blair House, One gunman went down stretched across the bottom of the mansion's steps.

The other fell amid shrub bery nearby, Thus Truman escaped the fate of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, all of whom died of assassins' bullets. Truman was taking a nap in his underwear, getting a rest before time to go to Arlington cemetery to help dedicate a monument to the late Sir John Dill, the British wartime chief of staff. The President once peered out the window, to see what the shoot ing was all about. He was quickly waved back by frantic guards, Thirty minutes later he attended the Arlington ceremonies as sched uled. He made an address plead ing for understanding among peoples.

The dead man was identified by the secret service as Griselio Torresola, shot through the head from ear to ear. He was described as a young man from 1215 Ward drive, New York. In his pocket were two letters from Pedro Albizu Campos, leader of Puerto Rico's violently anti-United States party. The injured man was Oscar Col-lazo, 37, of 173 Brook avenue, the Bronx, New York. He was shot In the chest, and may live.

In New York, Mrs. Collazo said her husband belonged to the Nationalist party whose revolution in Puerto Rico was put down earlier this week with a loss of more than 30 lives. Mrs. Collazo said of herself and husband: "We voted for Roosevelt and Truman because they promised us independence and we did not get it. Roosevelt is dead so we can't blame him.

We are both Nationalists." She said her husband polished pocketbook frames for a living and earned $71 a week. The connection between Torre sola and Collazo was not Immed iately made clear. But in one of the letters Campos, the revolutionary leader, told Torresola: "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." And Collazo told secret service agents: Meant to Kill "We came here for the express purpose of shooting the President." Only a few hours before the at tempted assassination, an unidentified man hurled two blazing gaso line bottles into a crowd at the Puerto Rican government labor of-! fice in New York. The wounded policemen were: Pvt. Don T.

Birdzell, 41. Both knees shattered by shots, but he will recover. Pvt. Joseph H. Downs, 44, a plainclothes officer.

Shot in chest and stomach. His condition is "crit ical, very serious." The Blair House is across Penn sylvania avenue and up the street about a block from the White House. The Trumans are living there while the White House is be ing repaired Here is the scene, as piecea to gether from eyewitness accounts. At 2:15 p.m. (EST), all was calm on this warm, lovely fall day.

Then pandemonium. U. E. Baugham, chief of the secret service, said Collazo strolled by, the sentry box at one 6ide of the Blair House without attracting notice. He went along Pennsylvania avenue sidewalk until he was within 10 feet of the entrance.

Guard Turns Birdzell was there, but facing the other way. He heard a click, and turned. Collazo said nothing, but opened fire. I Birdzell rushed into the itrse a is 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 Neither knows who fired the shot that dropped Collazo. 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 to th 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. Identical Suits Both men were well dressed. Each wore what appeared to identical pinstripe suits.

Oddly, each fell 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 Collazo himself wasn't very coopera tive. He was asked what was his purpose in coming here to make the attack. "Oh, Just he said. But exactly why he thought the death of an American President would help his cause isn't known.

Letters Studied Secret service men studied the two letters for light on the ques tion. One read: "My dear Griselio: "If for any reason It should be necessary for jrou to assume the leadership of the movement in the United States, you will do so with out hesitation of any kind. We are leaving to our high sense of patriotism and sane judgment everything regarding this matter. "Cordially yours, "Pedro Alblzo Campos." (Continued on Page 12-A. CoL 2) Marshal Dill Memorial Dedicated by President WASHINGTON, Nov.

1. Less than an hour after an attempt had been made to assassinate him, President Truman calmly dedicated memorial to Britain's Field Mar shal Sir John Dill at Arlington na tional cemetery today. "It is important to the peace of the world that peoples understand each other and have full faith In ech other's sincerity," he said. He made no reference to the bloody gun fight in front of his Blair House residence. The President In his address said he welcomed "this opportunity to remind my countrymen that the maintenance of a perfect under standing between the people of Great Britain and the United States of great importance to the peace of the world it is of the greatest Importance to the peace of the world." Truman said the statue "will stand as a memorial not only to a man but to a remarkable Anglo-American relationship that bore fruit in a great victory a really great victory." Today's News Index City building inspection departs ment brought under fire in probe, page 3A.

Record-breaking tourist season predicted for Arizona, 15A. Nationwide search in progress for missing 17-year-old Tucson girl, 6A. Bids opened on first phase of Tucson freeway, 2A. Political sidelights, 2A. Pima county's official voter registration by precincts, 11 A.

Comics 5B Pub. Records 6B crossword 5B Radio Dial 4B Editorial 10B Society 14A Financial 4B Sports 2-3B Movie Times 6B Topics 8A Obituaries SA Weather A D17T 17 H7ITnC- TD CAMPAIGN HERE Final Vote -Getting Effort In County Set Tonight; Demos Plan 2 Rallies Howard Iyle, Republican candi date for governor, will make his final campaign effort in Pima coun ty today and Democrats will also stage two rallies in the evening. A motorcade, forming at First street and North Stone avenue, at 2:30 p.m., will have Pyle in the lead car accompanied by his wife and their daughters, Mary Lou, 13, and Virginia Ann, 9. Cars from each of the county's 55 voting precincts will take part in the tour of Tucson which will end at Santa Rita park at about 5 p.m. State and local GOP candidates will be in the cars.

The parade will go south on Stone to Alameda, west to Main street, south to McCormick street, east to Stone, north to Congress street, east to Toole avenue, south to Broadway. and east to the city limits. At the park an old-time rally and (Continued on Page 1S-A; CoL 6) LIE IS GRANTED ADDED 3 YEARS BY U.N. BALLOT Secretary -General' Term Extended Despite Soviet Warning of Reprisals NEW YORK, Nov. 1.

(ff) The UN assembly today gave Secretary Trygve Lie three more years in office and a big vote of confidence. It overrode repeated Soviet warnings that Moscow will ignore Lie and refuse to deal with him. The final vote on extending Lie's term to Feb. 2, 1954, was 46 to 5 with seven absentions. The Russian bloc alone voted against him.

The UN listed abstentions as Australia, Nationalist China, Egypt, Iraq. Saudi Arabia. Syria and Yemen. Haiti was absent and the 60th and newest member, Indonesia, did not vote. Lie deliberately stayed away from the assembly while it discussed him.

He returned this afternoon, accepted the extension, and pledged himself to work for peace through universal collective security against armed aggression. Reconciliation Asked Lie also called for persistent ef forts to bring about a reconcilia tion of the conflicting interests that divide the world and pledged himself to work hard for that aim. Finallj', he said the UN must develop a bold and statesmanlike program to raise the standard of living in the world Russian Foreign Minister An drei Y. Vishinsky fought to the last to delay action. He accused Warren R.

Austin, U. S. delegate, of trying to rush the issue through the assembly. He appealed to the delegates to approve a Soviet re solution sending the question back to the security council for further talks. Red Proposal Loses The Russian resolution was re jected.

Only nine countries voted for it, 37 against and 11 abstained. Vishinsky was not in his seat when Lie began speaking at the start of the afternoon session, but he came in before Lie had finished. UN rules require that the curity council make a recommenda tion to the assembly, with all five on lawn where he was felled. WROTE LETTERS PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, Nationalist party leader of Puerto Kico. In the pockets of Griselio Torresola, slain in his attempt on Truman's life, were two.

letters from Campos, implying possible connection between the abortive attack and the revolution in Tuerto Rico. (XEA). ALBIZU'S HOME IS UNDER SIEGE Puerto Rico Revolt Is Put Down by Police, Guards; Rebels Are Rounded up SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 1 (JF) Pedro Albizu Campos, leader of the rebel Nationalist party, has been under police siege in his home here for the past two days. Two letters from Campos were found on the body of one of the Nationalist revolutionaries who tried today to assassinate President Truman.

Last night a nationalist was shot to death trying to break through the police guard and enter the home of Albizu, a Harvard educated revolutionary who has served a six-year term in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, for insur- P. K. Revolt The Nationalists set off a revolt than 30 lives in a two-day period. It was marked by an assassination nttnivirt a-- TV Tl I vir TVTii Truman. The revolt was smashed by Puerto Rican police and national guardsmen.

Rounded up were 118 Nationalist party members. The outbreak was the most serious since the United States acquired Puerto Rico as a result of the Spanish-American war in 1898. In an apparent effort to minimize the violence Governor Munoz (Continued on rage 12-A, CoL 1) 'V I IZr- I W-rC" 'fill yJ INQUIRY SOUGHT INTO REBELLION IN PUERTO RICO Brewster Seeking to Know If Any Connection With White House Assault WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. (IP) Senator Brewster (R- Maine) today demanded an investigation by Congress of the Nationalist uprising in Puerto Rico and its reported relationship to the assassina tion attempt against Presi dent Truman.

"It is strange," Brewster told a reporter, "that this situation should have developed apparently without warning. "Congress should be advised why such intelligence agencies as the FBI, the secret service and others did not apparently have a clue as to what was brewing. "This situation appears to be fairly strong and fairly well organized. Certainly we should have NEW YORK, Nov. l.VP) The Communist party today expressed "profound shock" at the apparent attempt on President Truman's life and suggested a parallel with the Reichstag fire.

William Z. Foster, national chairman, and Gus Hall, national secretary of the party, issued the statement. "Like all our fellow Americans," they said, "we Communists were profoundly shocked by this afternoon's report. "As is well Known, the communist party condemns and rejects assassination and all acts of violence and terror. "This can only be the act of terrorists, deranged men, or agent provocateurs a 1950 version of Van Der Lubbe and the Reichstag fire frameup." Germany's Reichstag fire, instigated by the Nazis, was blamed on the Communists to arouse anti-Communist feeling.

The two said a reported attempt to link the Comnrunist party with the shooting "suggests an effort at a pro-Fascist provocation." been alerted that a strong movement toward rebellion and conspiracy was brewing." Brewster said he is curious, too, about a resolution passed yester day by. Cuba's legislature which he said indicated sympathy for the Nationalist rebellion in which many were killed this week. He said the resolution urged that the life of the movement's leader be spared. The senator said Congress might inquire whether the Cubans had had advance word that a rebellion was brewing in Puerto Rico. Coincident with Brewster's re marks the Interior department.

which is responsible for federal activities in Puerto Rico, made it plain that it plans to continue leav- (Contlaued on rage 12-A, CoL 2) UNITED NATIONS FORCES CAUGHT IN ENEMY TRAP Situation Termed Serious By American Spokesman; Ground Battle Raging' SEOUL, Thursday, Nov. 2 (JF) Chinese and North Ko reans attacked today with howitzers and self-propelled guns in northwest Korea, trapping some retreating United Nations units and putting more than four divis ions on the defensive. A U. S. First Army Corps spokesman, acknowledging for the first time that Chinese troops are fighting In that sector, said the situation was "very serious." Hard fighting also was in progress In northeast Korea but on a smaller scale.

Chinese troops had been reported previously in this area. I Russian-built Jet planes, which fought sky battles yesterday over the northwest battlefront, appeared again briefly today. American pilots said they saw similar jets in the air across the Manchurian border above the Chinese Communist city of Antung. Ground Attack Pressed The ground attacks, unleashed in strength last night, were being pressed on the right flank of a U. S.

24th division armored column trying to push quickly to the Man-, 1 I 1 Ti i I ciiuriaii uuiuer, il auvaiiceu xuur miles today to within 15 air miles of the frontier. The column, driving up a west coast road beyond Charyongwan, was headed for the Korean border city of Sinuiju, across the Yalu river from Antung. It slammed through resisting Reds and beat off two counterattacks today. The sector of greatest, peril for UN forces was around Unsan some 60 miles east of the advancing American column. U.

S. First Cavalry Division elements was surrounded last night and remained encircled today. A First Corps spokesman said it was a regiment. A U. S.

Eighth Army epoKesman referred to It as a bat talion. Other First Cavalry troops were ujmg iu iigni. ineir way xo 11 rescue of the Isolated group. A battalion of the South Korean Sixth Division, surrounded four days ago, still was in a trap. Four South Korean divisions the First, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth were forced on the defense in the Unsan area.

In some places, their lines were broken and they had to fall back. Extent of the withdrawals was not disclosed. One thousand Reds on horses were in the attacking force. The Red attacks had compelled the Seventh Regiment of the South Korean Sixth Division to withdraw hurriedly after it reached the Manchurian border in northwest Korea above Chosan. Death at 94 for a half century, succumbed at 5:05 a.

m. (10:05 a.m. Tucson time.) "Oh, Nancy, I want to sleep," Shaw told Virginia-born Lady As-tor, who was at his bedside during his last hours. Shaw's death was announced to newsmen by his housekeeper, Mrs. Alice Laden.

Wearing black, she appeared at the gates of the cottage, "Shaw's Corners," and told the reporters: "Mr. Shaw is dead." Final Prayers Vegetarian, teetotalling Shaw, who professed himself both a Communist and an Atheist, was visited in his last hours by an Anglican clergyman who said final prayers for the old sage's soul. "It is wrong to say that he was an atheist," said the minister, Rev. R. G.

Davies. "He believed in God." Shaw lapsed Into his final coma yesterday morning at 3 a.m. and never regained consciousness. Operated on seven weeks ago for a broken thigh, suffered when he slipped and fell in his garden, Shaw erw steadily weaker. A bladder ailment aggravated his condition.

Lights burned for two nights in Shaw's Corners, the red brick house where he made his home, while his whole staff kept vigil. The reedy sage of Ayot St. Law (Continued on Page 13-A, Col. 2) world, Catholics lit up their churches and homes in rejoicing. Millions tit lights flamed.

This All Saints Day a day in which all saints are venerated had witnessed the crowning event of the Catholic 1950 Holy Year jubilee. It will go down in history as the Jubilee of the Assumption. From the moment of the proclamation of the dogma, or doctrine, of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, all the 425,000,000 communicants of the church were required to accept the belief or risk exposure to the sin of heresy. The Pope, robed in white and wearing his Jeweled miter, spoke "ex cathedra" from the chair. By the last previous dogma added to the church creed, in 1870, the Pope is infallible, and cannot err when he speaks in such circumstances on matters of faith and morals.

The assembly included 38 of the church's 53 living cardinals. Among them was Francis Cardinal Speiiman of New York. Bodily Assumption of Virgin Now Dogma of Catholic Faith permanent members agreeing tolhere Monday that claimed more VATICAN CITY, Nov. 1 The ancient Roman Catholic belief that the Virgin Mary was taken into heaven in body as well as in spirit became an article of the church's creed by proclamation of Pope Pius XII in a spectacular ceremony today. A multitude regarded here as the greatest assembly of its kind Special services in honor of the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament were conducted in all churches and convents of the Tucson diocese all day jester-day, the Most Rev.

Daniel J. Gercke, bishop of Tucson, said. Also special evening services were held. since the start of Christendom prayed and cheered under the eyes of the Pope in St. Peter's square.

Vatican sources estimated the crowd numbered more than 500,000. Church bells pealed throughout Rome. At dusk, floodlights bathed the great square and St. Peter's, basilica. As night came on around the the recommendation.

The assembly then elects the recommended man The Russians vetoed Lie in the council and their candidate wasjsimilar to tnat made on President not accepted. Private talks were held, four other persons were con sidered but did not receive se curity council approval. Austin then indicated the U. S. would use its veto to stop other candidates and called for an extension of Lie's term.

I Austin said the Russians were trying to punish Lie for taking a strong stand against Communistl North Korean aggression..