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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF

COMMENT

The

PRES.

TRUMAN

Closing In Two Killed & Three Wounded

political implications

of the appearence in Korea of Chinese Com- munist forces can be dis- missed as negligible or nil. In fact, there has been no direct intervention by either the Peking regime or the Soviet Union. The pattern of military operations in the present closing-in stage are necessarily dictated by the relative importance of various obječtives. Pe-

surmised. While the going

is good, the looting of plant equipment

in

In Gun Battle

Washington, Nov. 1.

White House guards this afternoon killed one armed man and wounded another in a gun battle on Pennsylvania Avenue which broke up what seemed at first glance attempt to assassinate President Truman.

One of the gun- men was identified as a Puerto Rican nationalist.

Three White House guards also were wounded

the shooting affray before the entrance to the They Lifted

President's residence, Blair House.

Mr Truman was inside the house as the time.

an

from the Korea side of He was scheduled to leave by the main entrance Their Dresses

The two men were cut downla memorial to Field-Marshal by Secret Service agents and Sir John Dill, head of the war- White House police as they time British Military Mission to tried to shoot their way into Washington who died in 1944. Blair, House

He drove to the cemetery men HLW. Francis, inspector of rounded by Secret Servicemen the White House police, said: with sub-machine guns at the "I presume they were trying to ready, his car flanked and led get into the house for assassina- by motor cycle police. tion."

Daintily

Palermo, Sicily, Nov 1. Fifty-four year-old Edmondo Dolberti politely, lifted his hat when be passed two women in lonely street at Burgio, near

here.

the Yalu River is pro-later to attend memorial ceremonies at the Arling- ceeding steadily. The ton National Cemetery. He was unharmed. "intervention" falls mere- ly into the category of a delaying action. Indications, indeed, are that beyond mopping up of Korean Red forces that have been by-passed in the drive towards the

Then he was surprised when Behind drove a second car dresses,

they suddenly lifted frontier, the campaign is

their drew rifles already over.

filled with police.

from No formal While plainclothes men,

In New York, Oscar Collazo, him to put his hands.

beneath the clothing and asked surrender is to be ex-Secret Service agents and

aged 36, one of the assailants, pected, but within 48 metropolitan police swarmed was identified by his wife as a let,

They relieved him of his wal- around the front of Blair member

containing 300,000 lire hours, the United Nations

of the revolutionary (£172); lifted House, the President

their quietly Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.daintily again and raced down forces will be astride the left by a

dresses rear entrance and Mrs Collazo said that border.

to Arlington. His husband left

her the street. It was then that home_yesterday Dolberti noticed that the couple Strong hints that the fight open car was loaded down telling her, "Puerto Ricans cau wore

with body guards,

trousers beneath against Korea's liberties

their longer be hospital superintendent, United States."

slaves of the dresses. will be carried on as a identified the wounded assailant No other official informa-for two men who had been dis- The police are now searching Red army has ceased to "Gallazo admitted to the police able as to the nationality be an effective field force that he did the shooting, but he the President's assailants.

The police cannot, of course, be dis-are trying to get a statement been

wouldn't say why.

(Thirty-three people have killed in riots in the regarded, but those re-from him now. He says the United States dependency of sponsible for the brilliant dead man is his friend, but ho Puerto counter-strokes · of the doesn't give his name." last seven weeks can be in New York, Oscar Gallazo was identified by his 15-year- relied upon to deal effec-old daughter on Wednesday as tively with any

sucha Puerto Rican nationalist, enterprise.

No

drove

A

no

guerilla struggle after the ❘ as Oscar Gallazo, of New York. tion Was immediately avail-guised as women.--Reuter,

Face?

The other assallant was iden- tified tentatively from documents found on hia person as Torresola.

country has been as

POCKETS OF BULLETS shocked by the Chinese

Caposael said the dead man Communist invasion of

had three pockets full of bullets. Tibet as India. While the Police officers said the weapon rest of the world, regard-used by Gallazo was a P-38 ing Tibet as a slightly calibre pistol resembling a Ger- improbable, fairyland man Luger. region too remote to be of any immediate concern to them, tends to dismiss

Guards said the two

men

against last 48

of

Rico, Central America, American rule in the hours).-Reuter. GUARD PASSES

Washington, Nov. 1. Weslas Coffelt, White House guard, shot in a gun battle with two Puerto Rican assassins at the door of President Truman's Blair House, later died of wounds in hospital.

Coffelt was shot in the chest land stomach during the furious

exchange of gunfire, at 6.19 p.m. (EST).

He died United Press.

WIFE ARRESTED

New York, Nov. 2,

of Investiga-

whom they shot and a third Federal

The Secret Service and

Bureau

into

who escaped in the meter, tried tion agents today took o realls their way through the custody Mrs Rosa Collazo, 40, developments in that front gate of Blair House. One wife of the man who survived country as unimportant. of the assailants was dropped the gun battle after he tried to

with gunfire through his chest kill President Truman. New Delhi's long-held as he approached the steps to The agents searched Mrs belief in Peking's good one of the two Blair House en Collazo's apartment. She told intentions has suffered a

other, with them that she and her husband several shots through his torso were ardent Nationalists, who severe blow,

and head, fell inside the bushes felt that President Truman could Peking's reported abrupt at the other entrance. One have given Puerto Rico its free- reply to India's inquiry | guard estimated over two dom if he wished to United will have dissipated the dozen shots were fired in all. Press.

Blair House is on Pennsylva-

irances. The

theory long held in New nia Avenue half a block, west SURRENDER CALL Delhi that China, like of the White House. India, has no aggressive The Incident occurred in designs on its neighbours.bright sunshine

Unsan, Korea, Nov. 1. on an unsch- United Nations broadcasts autumn after-calling on the Reds to surrender

Even the strong suspicion sonally warm,

noon as hundreds of govern- today switched emphasis to the

Chinese language,

that China's action in ment employees were return Tibet was motivated by ing from, lunch.--United Press. Mobile radio station and

frontline reasons of "face," in an HEAVILY GUARDED ·

loudspeakers which The President left Later can be heard for five miles con- effort to redeem the Com-

through a rear entrance for centrated on getting Chinese munist failure in Koren, Arlington Cemetery to make a soldiers to surrender or return will not remove distrust. brief speech at the unveiling of home-United Press.

Delilah In Reverse

Milwaukee, Nov. 1. Mrs Clyde Berry, 20, asked for $700 damages in a suit charging a depart- ment store beautician with cutting 16 inches of hair from her 18-inch tresSOS, thereby causing her "pain and disgrace.”

Otto Lemke, attorney for the storo, said he thought Mrs Berry looked better

now than before the haircut-United Press.

MOLOTOV

COCKTAILS THROWN

com-

New York, Nov. 1, Two bottle bombs, monly called "Molotov cock- tails," were thrown into offices of the Puerto Rican government shortly after noon today,

which

Two bottles filled with, gaso- line were. thrown into the first floor offices of a four-storey building

contains the local offices of the Puerto Rican Department of Labour, with about 100 employees,

The gasoline burst into flames and burned fiercely but soon jured. bunned out and no one was in-

It was

apparently a repercussion of the abortive Nationalist coup in Puerto Rico. The bottles were hurled by an unidentified man described as stocky about 45 years old and short and

in stature.-United Press

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