Truman Takes
Usual A.M. Walk
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman took his usual early
morning walk yesterday through
streets which 17 hours earlier
with the blasts of would-be assas
sins’ guns.
Apparently unpertur bed by
Wednesday’s attack on the tem
porary residence by two Puerto
Rican revolutionists, Mr. Truman
stepped briskly down the cano
pied Blair House walk at exactly
7 a.m.
Six secret servicemen fell in
around him as he reached the
sidewalk on Pennsylvania Aven
ue, passing over the spot where
police bullets had dropped one
gunman Wednesday.
Mr. Truman waved and smiled
to newsmen and photographers
and stepped briskly along the
street to the east end of the White
House grounds. There he turned
and headed toward the Washing
ton Monument, about a half mile
distant.
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A brilliant glare lit up north
I eastern skies for a few seconds
i
j last night. Astronomers said it
' must have been a meteor.
“Definitely a meteor,” said Dr.
j P. M. Millman of the Dominion
observatory in Ottawa. A Harvard
University observatory spokesman
i
agreed.
An airline official in Syracuse,
! N. Y., who declined to be identi
fied, had said he learned from the j
l U. S. Air Force that the Royal Ca-!
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j rocket at Rockcliffe Airport near |
Ottawa.
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f there “definitely” were no flares
| or rockets sent up from Rock
. liffe last night, and anyway they
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a brilliant light for several hun
dred miles.
The vari-colored fireball start
led residents of such widely scat
tered points as Utica, Albany,
Plattsburg and Broome County
N. Y., Portland, Me., Montreal
and Ottawa. I
Still No Alaska
Passenger Service
Via Steamship
SEATTLE, (/P)—Alaska passen
ger ship service will not be re
sumed until the Marine Cooks and
Stewards Union agrees to comply
with coast guard “screening” of
crew members, The Alaska Steam
ship Co. reiterated Wednesday.
D. E. Skinner, vice president
and general manager, said in a
statement, that “the jobs on our
passenger vessels are available to
the stewards when they agree to
comply with the screening law
and sail our ships.”
Skinner charged that Charles
Nichols, union port agent, “com
pletely misrepresented the facts”
Tuesday when Nichols asserted
the union has stood ready to sup
ply crews immediately on request.
“It is true that his union has
offered to furnish men,” Skinner
said, “but at the same time fre
quently have refused to permit
their people to submit to the
screening process or have called
them off sign-ons when members
of their union were rejected as
poor security risks.
Surviving Assassin
To Face Murder
Charge; Guard Dies
(Continued from Page One)
One of the letters, dated Sept.
21 from San Juan told Torresola
that “the delegate”—who was not
identified by police—“will accord
you all the necessary cooperation
so1 that your mission may be a tri
umph.”
The nationalist party, a tiny
group numerically, seeks com
plete independence for Puerto
Rico. It has been on the attorney
general’s subversive list as advo
cating unconstituional overthrow
of the U. S. government since last
year.
Island officials have declared
the party gets support from com
munists, but there was no hint of
communist participation in the
assassination plot.
The communist party voiced
“profound shock” in a statement
issued by William Z. Foster, na
tional chairman. “The communist
party rejects and condemns assas
sination,” he said.
In the island uprising, more
than 30 persons have been slain.
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And, just before the afternoon
sortie on Blair House, two blazing
bottles were hurled into a crowd
at the Puerto Rican labor office
in New York. The Washington of
fice asked police protection.
The thwarted assassination ef
fort was the first conspiracy—a
plot involving two or more per
sons—to kill a President since
John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham
Lincoln a mile from yesterday’s
gunplay.
It was a proud day for the se
cret service, whose agents were on
the job and whose uniformed
i corps of White House police bore
the brunt of the battle.
But two of the latter force, pri
vate Joseph H. Downs, 44, and
private Donald T. Birdzell, lay
seriously wounded in emergency
hospital. Both Birdzell’s knees
were shattered. Downs was in
i “critical, very serious” condition
with chest and stomach wounds.
In another hospital room, the
wounded Collazo was sullen. “Oh,
just political,” he said when asked
why he came here from New
York two days ago to make the at
tack.
Secret service chief U. E.
Baughman told reporters there
was no previous record on either
Collazo or Torresola. And Wash
ington’s police chief discounted a
report that a third Puerto Rican
was to be picked up.
“We are going to investigate y
very carefully before doing any
picking up.” he said.
In New York, Mrs. Rosa Colla
, zo, wife of the wounded assailant
was held in $50,000 bail early yes
' terdav, charged with conspiring
| with others to injure the Presi
| dent.
U. S. Commissioner Edward W.
: McDonald, before whom Mrs. Col
1 lazo was arraigned, said warrants
were being prepared for Collazo
and for two other persons—both
j unidentified. Some 13 persons
i were questioned in connection
with the shooting and released.
Earlier, police ransacked the
i tenement blocks in the Bronx
I area where the Collazos—describ- .
i ed as a “quiet couple” by their
neighbors—lived. Before her ar
I rest, the stout, 42-year-old Mrs.
Collazo talked freely about her
J husband who polishes pocketbook
! frames for a living. <
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