The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1950, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,647 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ATTEMPT MADE ASSASSINATE TRUMAN CHANNEL CHILDREN PACK ARMORY 10 ‘CAP" HALLOWE'EN Civil Air Patrol Party Plan- ned to Be Annual | Event 1 If there is a Gastineau Channel youngster who did not attend the Civil Air Patrol Hallowe'en party | last night, CAP members will find the fact hard to believe, Hundreds and hundreds—AND HUNDREDS | of children milled around the big National Guard Armory when they were not riding the merry-go-round or being otherwise diverted. Few of the experts would make a sensible reply to the question, “How many?” “Millions” rode the merry-go- rounds, according to Jack Richard- son, who spent 2 1-2 hours stem- ming the tide of youth at the gate- way. “Thousands,” in the view of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Fritchman, who dis- pensed the tickets. Counting The House Acting Police Chief Frank D.|decorating of window No. 7 ut the | _No. 39, Juneau Young Hardware. Cavanaugh said, deadpan, ..49,_1Alflska Electric Light and Power | Company. 273.” Bill Willman said, “This makes | 2,000 cotton candy cones,” as he opened a new carton. “I've answered thousands of ques- | tions about the CAP airplane,” com- mented David R. Minard, Alaska | Coastal Airlines dispatcher, holds a private flying license. Bud Nance tried to “count the| house,” and arrived at an atten- dance of 2,500 persons. This esti- mate was based partly on the Nct that some 500 cars were parked be- side the Armory. Food Goes Fast Hot dogs, pop and coffee were | consumed in great quantities, with | neither Elaine Molvar, chairman,| They were accompanied by two | Joe Elbayalde—No. 11, Alaska Elec- nor any others behind the counter | Mmembers of the Juneau Civil Air|tric Light. m;Pa(rol Squadron which sponsored | breathe a prayer that they wouldn't | both the Art Contest and the big | ginia Barril, Michael Wade, Darryl | i party in the National Guard Arm- | Mish—No. 33, Tot-to-Teen Shop. having tlime to count—only run out. Other busy fingers working there | 0ry. They were Squadron Com- | belonged to. Frances Paul, and Butch Suhrbier, with CAP Squad- ron Commander Allan G. Marcum | lending a hand often, as well as being everywhere at once. The busiest person at the party was Jacque Fisher, general chair- man,” who has devoted most of her waking hours to the success | of the party since being put in| charge scarcely a week ago, First Aid Ready That red devil, complete to horn- ed red mask? Butch, CAP medical officer, whose first aid kit was| stowed back of the pop bottles. By arrangement, Dr. John Clements (Continued on Page Four) The _Washingtom Merry - Go-Round| Copyrigbt. 1930, by Bell Synaicate, Ine.) By DREW PEARSON HARRISBURG, Pa—The State of Pennsylvania, waich has sent scme freak Senatois to Washing- ton in the past, this year can't veiy “well go wrony. It has two good men to pick from. Goy. James Duff, Republican; and Sen. Francis Myers, Democrat. However, if the tremendous swing which nominated Duff last May continues, he will be the new Senator in Washington next Janu- ary. yThls——n it happens—will mark something more than just a new Senator from Pennsylvania. For Duff' represents a new philosophy inside the Republican Party whichI it needs more of if it is ever go- ing to recapture the White House. He alsp is a man who is sure to ke considered a presidential candi- date if he wins on November 7. When Duff was nominated to the Senate last spring he received letters from all over the courtry stating: “Thank God for a chauce in the Republican leadership. We are Democrats, but we would vote | Republican, 4f the Republicans offered something new.” What they referred to is the fact that Duff has not tried to tear down all the New Deal legislation FDR built up. Nor has he based his campaign on the Senator Mc- Carthy bogey that Communists Jurk under State Department desks. Instead, he has followed a policy not unlike that of Governor War- ren of California of taking the best of the New Deal program and add- jaffixed to the first, second and WINDOW-SOAPING BRINCS CASH 10 3 STUDENT TEAMS Cash prizes amounting to $30 were given, in crisp new bills to ten student artists today for their | winning pictures in Juneau's first Hallowe'en Art Contest. Teams of soap artists, from 8 to 14 years old, decorated 39 down- town display windows yesterday af- ternoon and evening. Unfortunatelv many of the panels were defaced during the night and in such an of- | fensive way that windows were washed early this morning. To make certain of fair decisions, the judges made a sneak round of the displays at 10:30 last night. Blue, red and white ribbons were third place winning windows this morning. g ‘The blue ribbon, first prize of $15 went to the Eighth Grade team for the picture the Clothes Closet, These artists were Lynne Barcus, Jane Jekill, and Christie Crondahl. Blue ribbon for second prize— tand $10—went to the Eighth Grade | John Stickler, Tim Miller, Bob Os- team from St. Ann's School, for | line Harris, Card—No. 30, Thomas Hardware; Julia Walthers, Julie Hudson, Judy Larsen, Patsy McIver — No. 10, Alaska Light and Power; Terry Clem, Robert Goodrich, Wayne Adams—No. 21, Juneau Drug; Mar- Jjorie Alstead, Leetta Caldwell, Ar- Carol Nash—No. 14, Martin Victor. Sixth Grade: Billy Turpin, Peggy Lindegaard, Richard Goff, Joe Abel —No. 15, J. B. Burford; Darlene Gross, John Holmquist, Susan | Fritchman, Norman Clark—No. 6, Parson’s Electric; David McPhetres, Dick Burnett, Dan Bost, David Ar- getsinger — No. 32, Dollar Store; Linda Lavold, Ruth Jones, Donald !Leege——No. 1, Vic Power. 1 Seventh Grade: Bernice Melseth, Beverly Jack, Rosalie Nelson, Linda | Kassner—No. 35, S 'n’ T; Roger {Polley, John Freymueller, Gerald Taylor, Tommy Lynch—No. 34, Gus George; Fred Allen, Allen Engstrom, Frankie DeLand, Robert Whistler— No. 38, Connors Motors; Joan Feath- erstone, Rose Lee Jekill, Joyce Tan- ner—No. 17, Nance Dollar Store. | [Eighth Grade: Bob Goff, Don [Mxlnes, Jerry McNevin, Dennis Mc- | Cluggage—No. 23, Juneau Bakery; { Lynne Barcus, Jane Jekill, Christie | Crondahl—No. 12, Clothes Closet; | Charles Dobbins, Sam Pekovich, Carl Beyer—No. 16, J. B. Burford's; | terman—No. 25, Percy’s; Eric Beach This team numbered Sondra Nevitt, Patricia Sweeney, George Michaud and Ted Tisdale. Third prize of $5 (window mark- | ed with white ribbon) was won by a Seventh Grade team for de- corating the Nance Dollar Store who | Panel. Artists were Joan Feather- |10-Cent Store. | stone, Rose Lee Jekill and Joyce | Tanner. Honorable mentions would have ! been too numerous to be practical, | tric. according to the professional artists who judged the contest. Mrs. John (Edith) Willis, noted portrait artist, and Harold Salis- bury, who also does comyrercial art work, were the professionals. T. Richardson. ' The four were given no informa- tion as to schools or grades, but identified the panels only by win- dow numbers. The two artists made several constructive suggestions for con- ducting the contest next year. for the 1951 celebration. These in- clude prizes by grades and a grand prize. Miss Jacque Fisher, chairman for the entire CAP celebration, be- interview more than those in a small area, (The party was dream- nesday to Tuesday.) Speaking for the Juneau Squad- ron, Miss Fisher asked to express appreciation to the firms partici- pating in the contest and to mer- chants who included “spot ads” in their newspaper display advertis- ing. Student artists were assigned as follows, listed by grades, window numbers and locations: Public Schools Third Grade: Tommy Blanton, Bobby Barber, Walter Johns, John Willard—Window No. 5, Parsons Electric Co.; Eileen DeLand, Carol Ann Council, Martha Dilg, Donna Marie Sower—No. 13, Martin Vie- tor; Harold Johns, Donald Wilson— No. 28, Juneau Young Hardware Company; Lynn Dunn, Dick Peter- sen, Kay Mclver, Patricia Hocson— No. 36, California Grocery; Lorin Nash, Gwen Boland, Sally C,ole‘ Leanhe Miller--No. 31} Nanée''10 Cent_Store. tin Geonett, . Dick Reynolds, Step- hen’ . McPhetres—No, ' 26, - Juneau Young; Albert Catron, Allen Shat- tuck, Katherine Wilson, Allen Crask —No. 29, Thomas Hardware; John Stewart, Kirk Blackerby, Gary Jenkins, John Pyle—No. 22, Juneau Drug Company; Karen Werner, Coralie Sheldon, Betty June Har- | ris, Charlotte Thorpe—No. 9, Alaska | Electric Light and Power Company; | Johnny Olds, Veronica Constantino, Brian Rowland, Kenny Merrit—No. 3, Parsons Electric; Robert Dilg, Ann Weber, Loretta ‘Peratrovich, Artie | McKinnbn—No. 24, Juneau Bakery. Fifth Grade: Bonnie MacLean, Ann Ghiglione, Ann Severine—No. 2, Vic Power; Judith Pym, Anne Grisham, Judith ing some features of his own— cleaning up one of the chief rivers (Continued on Page Four) Neeley, David Norton—No. 37, Cali- fornia Grocery; Stuart Whitehead, John Day, Stanley Sears, Nicky mander Allan G. Marcum and Jack | These will be included in CAP plans | lieves that every downtown merch- | ant would have cooperated in u'uzi art contest had there been timeé ‘to | ed, organized and held, from Wed- ! Fourth Grade: Boyd Ebert, var- | Thomas Abbott, | High School: Karen Bartness, | | Vickie Tydlacka—No. 8, Alaska Elec- [tric Light and Power Co. St. Anus School | Third Grade: Sharon Wruck, : Sally Neuenschwander, Harold Mar- ! tin, William Zach—No. 18, Nance'sg Fourth Grade: Patricia Ihle, Rose- | | mary Sundborg, Robert Michaud, | | Joe Swanson—No. 4, Parsons’ Elec- | Fifth Grade: Janie Hollenhach.! JRosaemary Mills, Sharla Ann Elvy, George Sundborg, Jr.—No. 20, 20th Century Grocery. , Sixth Grade: Jim Harmon, Mic- lhael Sweeney, Kristine Gullufsen, Seventh Grade: Edith Ebona, Vir- Eighth Grade: Sondra Nevitt, | Patricia Sweeney, George Michaud, {Ted Tisdale—No. 7, Alaska Electric i Light. | | | SALMON INDUSTRY OFFERS WAGE TALK . TO AVOID FREEZE I ! SEATTLE, Nov. 1—{M—Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., has offered to conduct union contract negoti- ations to protect its workers from a possible wage freeze. Addressing a meeting of carpen- ters, machinists, and fishermen’s union representatives, an Alsska. { Salmon Industry spokesman agreed {to hear proposals for extension of {its 1950 agreements to cover ‘1951 operations with adjustment in| i wages, overtime’ raises and fish | prices but with all other. conditions remaining unchanged. I. A. Sandvigen, busines, agent lof Hope Lodge 79 of the machin-| ists, had requested the meeting be- | catise, he said, his members feared a wage freeze early next year, be- fore 1951 contracts normally would | be negotiated. | Machinists and carpenters were ready to proceed on the industry’s terms, but fishermen’s unions asked more time to consider the offer. Another meeting was scheduled for November 8. SCROOL BAND TREATED Director Lyle C. Manson epter- | tained ‘the members of the Ju-| neau School band at a special | Hallowe’en affair given in his home | |'apartments on Dixon. ‘There was a | | bountiful supply of refreshments | thoroughly enjoyed by the young, musicians. I WOMEN OF MOOSE MEETS ON THURSDAY The Women of the Moose meet | Thursday evening at 8 oclock in {the Moose Lodge. Following the meeting is the post office sale sponsored by the committee headed | by social service chairman Pat | Kimes. Senior Regent Beatrice Al- begoft announces the following re- ports are due: Mooseheart, pub- BY DIRECTOR MANSON| LIE'S TERM EXTENDED 3 MORE YEARS NEW YORK, Nov. 1—#—The U. N. General Assembly today extended Secretary-General Trygve Lie’s term for three more years despite a So- viet bloc threat not to deal with him. tions, the Assembly supported the United States position that Lie should be kept in office as an ex- pression of confidence for the way he handled the Korean case. a year job, the Assembly rejected & Soviet resolution to toss the matter back to the Security Council which had failed to agree on a candidate after a month of consideration. The vote on the Russian proposal was 9 in favor, 37 against and 11 ab- staining. The Assembly action came after a day and a half of debate. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishin= sky led the Russian bloc's opposi- tion to Lie charging that the Nor- wegian was a stooge of the Ameri- can State Department. JUDGE FOLTA WILL 60 T0 ANCHORAGE, HELP JUDGE DIMOND ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 1—® —After arguments in the anti-trust suits here, the government ans nounced that Federal Judge George W. Folta would come from the Southeast Division in mid-November to help Judge Anthony Dimond with an unprecedented number of cases here, In the last fiscal year here the Third Division court disposed of 1607 civil and 133 criminal cases, al- most exceeding the combined total of 742 cases for the other three di- visions. The docket' still is growing, with number in the year just closed. As of Sept. 30, the 618 cases pending exceeded the 348 in all Alabama districts and the 309 in Maryland. ROTARY COMPLETES PAYMENT ON ITS LIBRARY PLEDGE The Juneau Rotary Club has completed payment of its second and final pledge to the library fund. The total of the two was $2,000. Over a period of three years the Club has conducted a variety | of fund-raising operations to help redeem its pledges, starting with a | White Elephant Sale and ending| with the recent Super Bingo Game in the Baranof Hotel. The Library Board has written the Rotary Club expressing its thanks for the financial assistance given by the Club as a unit and also for the work of the individ- ual club members in helping to promote general public interest in the library project. Construction of the building is progressing. The contractors, Trip- lette and Delzell, - completed the | pd iring of the concrete basement walls ‘]ast week .and .are now en-| gaged in placing the forms for the walls of the main floor of the structure, WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ® ending 6:20 o'clock this morning ® In Juneau—Maximum, 39; ® minimum, 35. . At Alrport—Maximum, 44; ® minimum, 36. FORECAST (Junesu and Vicinity) ostly cloudy with an occe light rain shower ! and Thursday. Lowe:! perature tonight about 33 t Thursday near 42 ¥ £iel L RECIPITATION 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. to* y of Juneau—0.17 inche e July 1—20.20 inches | At Afrport — 0.02 inche ge! licity, membership, home making and social service. 4 ] July 1—22.07 inches. L4 i ks o0 By a vote of 46 to 5 with 7 absen-| new cases filed exceeding the record | TANK FORCES PUSH AHEAD, NOREAN AREA ~Aerial Fight Draw-Air Activity Stepped Up (By the Associated Press) American armor rammed rough- shod over rallying Reds in northwest Korea today and thrust within 19 Before keeping Lie in the $40,000 air miles ot the Communist Man- churian border. Overhead, Russian-built jet fight- ers, flying at almost the speed of sound, were battled to a draw by slower U.S. Mustangs. Apparently i neither side lost any planes in the dogfight, a spokesman said. The swift ground thrust to Cary- ongwan by a tank column of the U.S. 24th Division came after fierce Tommunist counterattacks along the Chong river were repulsed Tues- day night. Army headquarters said the column was pushing toward the Yalu river boundary city of Sinuiju against lessening resistance. Sinuiju is across the Yalu from Antung, big Chinese Red airbase in Manchuria. Earlier Wednesday, three Russian- made Yak planes were shot down by U.S. F-51 Mustang fighters and a B-26 light bomber. The fighters got two, the bomber one. One American F-80 jet fighter was downed by Red anti-aircraft fire. ! Red Resistance Stiff Red Korean resistance elsewhere on the 250-mile peninsula front was stiff and getting stiffer. A USS. First Corps spokesman re- ported a tank-led Communist column launched a dusk assault on the Republic of Korea (ROK) First Division northwest of Unsan, on the northwest front. Strong Red attacks were hurled also at the U.S. Cavalry Division, which rolled into battle southeast of Unsan to relieve the hardpressed ROK Eighth Division. North Koreans, once more show- ing fight and unified leadership, introduced cavalry to their moun- tain warfare. Two Red Chinese regiments were reported in action in the northeast. | Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond, com- | mander of the U.S. 10th Corps said at least one Chinese regiment had pushed to within 15 miles of the east coast industrial center of Ham- hung. Later, a 10th Corps spokesman confirmed that a second Chinese | regiment is in the area, about mid- way between the U.S. Seventh Di- Wonsan, 100 miles to the south where the U.S. Marines landed. Almond said attacks in the next few days would determine the strength of Communist Chinese. United Nations forces stepped up their aerial warfare. US. B-20's roared into action after five days of idleness and for a change had plenty of targets. They pounded rail- road yards at Kanggye and Nanam, near the Chinese border. A total of 446 sorties were flown Tuesday. 6. B. Shaw Falls Info Coma; Life App_egrs Ebbing AOYOT ST. LAWRENCE, Eng- land, Nov. 1—(M—George Bernard Shaw lapsed into what seemed to be his dying coma today. | The 94-year-old playwrgiht lost consciousness at 3 am. A few | hours later his breathing becime labored and heavy. At 12:20 p.m. he was still unconscious and the spark of life flickered weakly. BRUSTS LEAVE Mr. and Mrs. Reinholdt Brust leave today on Pan American for Seattle where they will take deliv- iery on a new car enroute to Aber- deen, South Dakota where Mr. Brust has been transferred as as- siStant area director of the Indian Affairs office. The Brusts will visit their parents’ homes in Kalispell and Ft. Benton, Montana and ex- pect to reach Aberdeen the latter part of the month. PELICAN VISITOR Mrs. J. Stearns of Pelican is stay- ing at the Baranof Hotel. Ram Roughshod Over Reds | vision’s landing point of Iwon and | 11 OF ANTI-TRUST CASES TRANSFERRED 10 OTHER COURTS Various Motions in Grand Jury Indictments | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 1—(® — Faced with the heaviest court | docket on record in the Third Divi- | jsion, Federal Judge Anthony J. Di- mond has paved the way for trans- fer of 11 anti-trust cases to other courts throughout the Territory and to Seattle. The court granted motions to move both the civil and criminal cases against the Alaska Steamship Company elsewhere. At the same time it upheld the validity of 10 criminal’ indictments returned by last summer’s unprecedented grand jury investigation. § Government attorneys said the steamship cases, along with that of the K & L and other intra-Alaska liquor distributors, will be tried in Seattle’s northern division court of the western Washington district. Reason for Transfers Dimond granted the transfer in the interest of justice declaring “weighty considerations outweight in my opinion the consideration of public interest.” The jurist pointel out that if the case were brought to trial here it would be 1600 miles from where the defendants live in Seattle, where company offices and records also are located. “If there was a conspiracy the principal acts must have taken place somewhere out of Alaska,” Judge Dimond said. Government attorneys opposing transfer of the Alaska Steamship and K & L cases declared that “if there was an unlawful conspiracy the people of Alaska are the only ones who are really interested.” To which Dimond answered: “Taking into consideration all facts including the factor of public interest, I am forced to the con- clusion that strongly favors the de- fendants' motion for tiansfer of the case to Seattle o outside Alaska.” Transfer 10 Fairbanks Citing the ‘heavy calendar, the court also called for and received mutual agreement between the gov- ernment’s battery of five attorneys |and several defense counsel for | transfer of the Healy River Coal Corporation case to Fairbanks. The government had opposed the trans- fer but came to agreement without a court ruling on the motion. Ac- tions against several Fairbanks' liquor dealers were transferred to the interior city without offposition several weeks ago. Ketchikan Gets Cases Liquor and meat cases involving | Ketchikan . businessmen had also been transferred without opposition to the Southeast Alaska city. The latest action leaves four of 111 cases in Dimond's court. They involve price fixing charges against Anchorage taxicab, liquor and cleaning establishments and similar actions against certain Seward liquor dealers. Although upholding the validity of the 10 criminal indictments, Dimond instructed ‘government attorneys to list the witnesses who appeared be- fore the Grand Jury in each case where an indictment was returned. The criminal indictments had been challenged by defense attorneys on grounds that the signatures of witnesses did not appear on the in- dictments as proper endorsement. STOCK QUOTATIONS - NEW YORK, Nov.'1 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stoek today is 2%, American Can 99, American Tel. and Tel. 151%, Anaconda 35%, Douglas Aircraft 1791, General Electric 48%, Genera! Motors 50, Goodyear 58, Kennecott 1 66%, Libby, McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 25%, Standard Oil of California 76%, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 22, U.S. Steel 41%. Sales today were 1,780,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 22569, rails 66,51, utilities 40.13. '\ STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday as cargo ship, no passengers. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive from Skagway at 7 am., Fri- |day and sails south one-half hour | | men with bhzing German Luger pistols rushed President Truman's home today in an apparent attempt to assassinate the President. They were shot down in a furious gun battle outside. One was killed. Three members of the President's guard .detail were wounded. Mr. Truman was in the Presi- dential residence, the Blair House, when the shootings occurred about 2:15 p.m., a few minutes before he was to leave for a ceremony at Ar- lington National Cemetery. Police Inspector Hobart Francis told reporters: “I presume it was an attempt to assassinate the Presi- dent.” RATTLING GUNFIRE The rattling outburst of gunfire came without warning on a quiet, sunny afternoon in front of the yellow brick house which the Presi- dent and his family are occupying while the White House, across the street, is undergoing repairs. First eyewitness accounts said one of the gunmen charged across broad Pennsylvania Avenue toward Blair House and the other came from a corner west of the temporary execu- tive mansion. Both were shooting as Oloskin, seriously wounded through they ran. GUNMEN'S FIRE RETURNED White House guards immediately returned the gunmen’s fire. One of the men was shot down on the canopied steps of Blair House. He fell with blood spurting from a chest wound. The other likewise crumpled under a volley of bullets. The scene immediately became one of wild confusion. Police cars rushed to the scene with sirens screaming. A crowd gathered. Sec- ret Service men threw a guard around the immediate area. President Truman peered out briefly at the hubub. He left the Blair House a half hour after the shooting, through the rear entrance and under heavy guard, for the Ar- lington Cemetery. ONE GUNMAN IDENTIFIED White House police said the gun- men carried papers identifying them tentatively as Marion R. Preston, dead, and Oscar Olliskin, or O. Boettiger Is fo Be (remated on . Wed. Anniversary NEW YORK, Nov. 1—{®—John Boettiger, who killed himself yes- | terday in a plunge from a hotel, will be cremated today — on his wedding anniversary. Just a year ago the M-yenr-nldl aewspaperman and fofmer son-in- law of the late President Roosevelt ' married his third wife, the former Mrs, Virginia Daly Lunn in The, Hague, Holland. Yesterday, apparently suffering from nervous depression over busi- ness losses and work problems, he brushed aside a male nurse and hurled himself from his seventh floor suite in the exclusive Hotel Weylin in mid-Manhattan. JUNEAU (HORUS TO START REHEARSALS FOR FIRST APPEARANCE The Juneau Community Chorus starts rehearsals for the Messiah this week at its weekly rehearsal Thursday at 8:45 in the Methodist Church. All persons interested in joining with the chorus to sing the Messiah which will be pre. sented December 17 at the 20th Century Theatre are urged to ate tend rehearsal tomorrow night. Auditions for the solos in the Messiah will be held Sunday Nov- ember 19 at 2 p.m. in the Methodist Church. The music committeé of the chorus has asked the director, Mrs. Jane McMullin and two others to act as judges to pick the soloisCs. Anyone interested in singing a solo later at 7:30 o'clock. should contact Mrs. McMullin, PRESIDENT'S HOME RUSHED BY TWO MEN IN ATTEMPT T0.KILL Judge Dimond GramslmM; ONE SHOT DOW“; THREE TRUMAN GUARDS WOUNDED WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—P—Two! the head and chest. At Emergency Hospital, James G. Copossela, hospital administrator, said the dead man had not been identified. He said the wounded man had been identified to him as Oscar Collazo, of 173 Brook Ave., New York. Copossela said the wounded man’s condition was “fair.” He said the man was boln; questioned by police but was refusing to answer most questions. REGULAR FUSILLADE Archie B. Davis, who saw the shooting, said a “regular fusillade” of shots was fired—somewhere be- tween eight and 12 in a matter of seconds. Davis said one of the gunmen was hit as he ran away from the Blair House toward the west. The President was surrounded by Secret Service men holding sub- machine guns when he left the executive residence after the shoot- ing. His car was followed by a sec- ond automobile, filled with police. Other policemen on motorcycles led and flanked the Presidential car. NO WARNING The gun fire broke out suddenly and without warning. g Traffic was proceeding normally along Pennsylvania Avenue. ‘White House police were stand- ., 88098, e evding e Bty and - joining Lee houses. Other police were in guard houses to one side of the residences. Secret Service men said two men suddenly made a rush at Blair House with guns in their hands. WIFE IDENTIFIES ONE MAN NEW YORK, Nov. 1-M—Oscar Collazo, a 36-year-old Polisher who was shot outside President Truman's residence today, was identified by his wife here as a member of the revolutionary Puerto Rican Nation- alist party. ¥ The party is involved in a two- day revolt in Puerto Rico in which they demand independefice from the United States. 3 PRESIDENTS KILLED WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — (A — Three American Presidents have been killed by assassins’ bullets. In addition to the fatal assaults on Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, armed attacks were made n former President Theodore Roosevelt and on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln was fatally wounded April 14, 1865, by actor John Wilkes Booth as he watched a performance at Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth was tracked down and slain by soldiers. James A. Garfield was wounded in Washington, July 2, 1881, by a disappointed office seeker named Charles J. Guiteau. Garfield lin- gered until Sept. 19. Guiteau was hanged. William McKinley was wounded in Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1901, by Leon Czologsz. McKinley died Sept. 14, and the demented Czologsz was executed. Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a maniac in Milwaukee;, Wis., Oct. 14, 1912, while he was campaigning for a comeback to the Presidency. His wound was only slight. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was the target of anar- chist Guiseppi Zangara at Miami, Fla., Feb. 15, 1933. The bullet struck Mayor Anton J.-Cermak of Chicago instead because a woman seized Zangara’s arm as he fired. Cermak died March 6. Zangara was elec- trocuted. PICKET GIVES UP WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — B — Mrs. Eola Wright, who has been picketing the White House since Sept. 14, gave up today after the shooting across the street at the Blair House. Mrs. Wright claims her civil rights have been taken from her unfairly, and the placard she carried said she wants them back. She lives in Washington. “I -counted eight shots, and then I lost track,” she told a reporter. “I decided I'd had enough. I had planned tp quit tomorrow anyway,”