Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1950 — Page 2

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'Cantinn: m Page One) service, their numbers reinforced, kept pace. . : a _Préss Secretary J Charles G. Ross said he knew of - d - Cr < J an to id She nanan Pedro Albizu Campos . . . al- Mrs. Rosa Collazo . . . wife more defensible place” He in- leged to be mastermind of at- of one of two gunmen shot dicated the President has no tempted asiassination. : down by ‘guards.

ber of public appearances. ty ‘Mr. Truman's philoscophical ; ; View that Soros of scepn ca | Shift Rumor - ; and win independence for Puerto is an occupational hazard of the, Collazo later was transferred ‘He said the two revolutionists

remark -he made to Fleet Adm. linger Hospital where Washing- y William D. Leahy. Adm. Leahy|ton police have a prison ward. Monday and game to Washington - told reporters after a What House| Maj. Robert J. Barrett, super-\ pu: federal officials did not discall that the President said: . intendent of police, told reporters .ount the possibility that the plot : “The only thing we worry the transfer was ordered because may have been master-minded in about is bad luck—and I never “we have a regular guard force puerto Rico and perhaps was

have bad luck.” >. [set up there” and Gallinger is bet- jinked with the Nationalist’ upHold Mystery Men ter equipped to handle prison pising in Puerto Rico. In ‘New York, police. seeped Cases. Mr. Barrett would not let Letter on Body

‘through the city’s 300,000 Puerto reporters talk to Coliazo, This possibility stemmed from a Rican residents searching for tips, We've got the case to try IN jutter found on Torresola’s body. on other possible conspirators. —COUrt” he said, “and were not - gecret Service agents said the Two mystery men who called going to do anything to ruin it." etter was written by Pedo Albizu at the apartment of one of the One hospital Sousee reported Compos, leader of the Puerto would-be. assassins of President that Collazo appeared to be “quite Rican Nationalist movement, at Truman shortly after midnight perceptive.” He asked questions ‘gan Juan last Sept. 21. - were held for investigation. about his temperature—repor eq It instrutted TorFesolm to as: Also held there was Mrs. Rose be about 100 degrees, his pulse; sume leadership of the movement Collazo—wife of Oscar Collazo, reported at 100, and his blood jn the United States “without . 37-year-old Puerto Rican who lies "1°80 Wiieh was sald to be pagitation of any kind” if he “in Emergency Hospital here with J200u! Norma found it necessary to do so.

> i i g ssi d to wounds suffered in the gun battle; Condition Good Extra guards were assigne with ‘Mr. Truman's guards. | Collazo bluntly told Secret the Blair House. Uniformed offiArraigned on a conspiracy Service agents that I Hab pe ; en :

charge and held in $50,000 bail, resola “came ht: He Zo his Mrs. Collazo said defiantly: “I with the intent to kill the Presi. trians who usually are permitted

am not surprised and I am not dent. ‘to stroll within a few feet of the’ sorry.” | Collazo was wounded in the Blair House - entrance were She said that she, her husband chest, but his condition was de- shunted to the other side of the

ers were “fighting for an scribed-as good. avenue. - 354 oto 8 g Secret Service Chief U. E.| White House officials said the That “ideal” resulted in the Baughman quoted Collazo as say- attempted assassination will not

death of one Puerto Rican who Ing he and Torresola ‘alone de- change Mr. Truman's plans to | — :

tried to. kill the President, the —™ : — wounding of her husband, the ‘J Heard the Whine'—

death of a White House guard . oo : > usd ue voming of oz ove 'Grabbed Camera, Hit Dead from the blazing battle! outside Blair House in yesterday's Street,’ Says Photographer

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‘ ouse ‘detail — who! Tapher, was 200 feet away when two Puerto Rican revolutionists. the ‘Wiite SE a ala | tried to assassinate President Truman yesterddy. Here is his eye-

put a bullet into Torresola’s head. Witness account.

Two other White House guards By CHARLES CORTE, Written for United Press - “Joseph H. Downs and Donald! wASHINGTON, Nov. 2—The lights turned red and I tromped T. Birdzell-—were wounded. . lon the brake. 4 Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, | For all I know that light still is red. I didn’t stick around to see

Mr. Truman's personal physician, if jt-ever changed to green, : : galled at Emergency Hospital I have heard gunfire béfore—in North Africa, in Sicily, at morning ah reported, both galerno. That noise from in front of President Truman's Blair guards will be “all right. House home was no motorcycle. | ; . Torresola, the dead assassin, 1 grabbed a camera and hit thet a may have had a double motive ciraet A second later I was peex- Mind the bushes. when he and Collazo attempted ing from behind a concrete pillar] THIS WAS th h ia to storm the Blair House yester-i.: what ‘was going on at Blair - pr e¢ man they saic day—furthering Nationalistip co o.oss Pennsylvania Ave later was Grisello Torresola. He Party's aims in Puerto Rico and] a “had rushed the sentry. box to the personal revenge. © | IN ALL thats were Wo spurts left of Blair House. That ex.

If so, both backfired. | b 3 plained the second burst I had Gov. Luis Munoz Marin sent of gunfire, the shots spaced 80 heard. close together that they sounded mTirresola’s momentum had car-

Puerto’ Rican police on a wide : a Te = rat National. /\lke machine gun bursts. There rieq Rim. after he was shot fn the ists. He accused Albizu, who was," 2® the whine of bullets ricochet- head: into a low boxwood hedge. arrested, of directing the assassi- NB off the old State Department It had flipped him head over heels

| mation attempt against Mr. Tru- Pullding opposite ‘the President's onto the narrow strip of grass in

Charlie, there's another one be-

I am OMe, ¢ front of Blair House. oe Diss end of staging the recent They told me in Italy that “If| I got pictures of him, too. The Given ‘Mission’ ~~ |you hear the whine, you, haven't other gunman looked dead but et » ibeen “hit.” I heard the whine. wasn't. This one was dead but Papers from Albizu, found in| I don’t think Donald Birdze!l didn't look it. He was lying there Torresola’s pockets, bore out the gid. : with his eyes open.

Tact “that Torresola had been| Birdzell is a cop on the White. Torresola shot two policemen, Ligiven a “mission” In the United House detail. When I saw him; Joseph Downs and Leslie Coffelt; s States and was expected to carry he was flopping into the street before they got him. : it through to “triumph.” in’ front of Blair House, He.got to 8 dn ¢ Torresola was directed to “as- his knees, sheoting. | COFFELT died about four

Pp for cutting dowy the num: could, upon conviction, receive the! cided to “kill the President andspeak Saturday night I eléctric chair, lstart a revolution in this country|Auditorium at St. Louis.

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Mr. Truman will make his only ence of about 3000 persons will be White House detail. ton immediately. 7 by assassins.

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i The attempted assassination a target so he was moving the dead guninan, shad some repercussions in Con-target as far as possible from I néver did see the President. ] 2 . Sen. Owen Brewster, {R.'the man he was assigned to pro- Someone said he apepared in his| Be ey said that apparently the tect, the President. shorts at a second story bedroom 1 had not been fully in- TB 0n window almost before the shoot“formed of the extent of the Na-! LYING PRONE at the foot of Ing stopped. He had been taking] Stionalist movement in Puerto'the Blair House steps was an-a nap. I'm sorry I didn't get a . #Rico. He was talking of an in- other figure, in mufti. This was picture of him, ., gation. ithe man, identified later as Oscar, All this time 1 was shooting ' 2 What effect the attempt would Collazo, -who' had tried to.sheot pictures from every angle I could *have on Puerto Rican-United his way to where the President think of. I was really pumping. ~ _ States relations was not fully as-|Was. It was a minute or so before the ‘sessed. Gov. Munoz’ prompt action! - 1 was running across the street crowds cleared away. : - Mn jailing and rounding up the While I was taking all this ih. I A nan rushed up and shouted,

srevolutionary party members may made several'shots of the man at’’did’ yon get THE man?” rsoften the American attitude. {the foot of the steps before any-| . He meant the President. I said

A i . 2D 1 ¢ . ¥ ken numni y Eg a ‘37-year-old thin body got there to see what had no, and kept pumping. : EE Collag, the \37-year-ol from Nappened to him; As the last ambulance drove

He oy I &d. “Bort of slack. His’ chest grabbed a -eab for the office. - It 3 P 4/ Was a goodby and there was blood was two hours before kh -got a

“dead, but somebody turned him my car. Somebody had shoved over and said ‘this one's still ft out of the middie of the street -jalive.” and left it beside a Yire hydrant. About that time a Secret Serv-! It was my lucky day. I didn’t fee man I knew shouted, “Hey, even get a ticket. 3

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