THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,647
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1950
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ATTEMPT MADE ASSASSINATE TRUMAN
CHANNEL CHILDREN
PACK ARMORY TO
'CAP' HALLOWE'EN
Civil Air Patrol Parly Plan
ned to Be Annual
Event
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i
If there Is a Gastineau Channel j
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- j
way.
"Thousands,” in the view of Mr.
and Mrs. Neil Fritchman, who dis
pensed the tickets.
Counting The House
Acting Police Chief Frank D.
Cavanaugh said, deadpan, “49,- ■
273.”
Bill Willman said, “This makes
2,000 cotton candy cones,” as he
opened a new carton.
'T’ve answered thousands of ques
tions about the CAP airplane,” com
mented David R. Minard, Alaska
Coastal Airlines dispatcher, who
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 fact
that some 500 cars were parked be
side the Armory.
Food Goes I1 ast
Hot dogs, pop and coffee were
consumed in great quantities, with
neither Elaine Molvar, chairman,
nor any others behind the counter
having lime to count—only to
breathe a prayer that they wouldn't
run out.
Other busy fingers working there
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 Washington
Merry-Go-Round
CoprrUbt. UISO. br Bell Braalcan, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
HARRISBURG, Pa.—The State
of Pennsylvania, wnich lias sent
seme freak Senatois to Washing
ton m the past, this year can’t
\cfy well go wrong- It has two
good men to pick from. Gov 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.
This—if it happens—will mark
something more than Just a new
Senator from Pennsylvania. For
Duff represents a new philosophy
inside the Republican Party which
it needs more of if it is ever go
ing to recapture the White House.
He also is a man who is sure to
be considered a presidential candi
date if he wins on November 7.
When Dulf was nominated to
the Senate last spring he received
letters from all over the country
stating: “Thank God for a chance
in the Republican leadership. We
are Democrats, but we would vote
Reriublican, If 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
PDR built up. Nor has he based
his campaign on the Senator Mc
Carthy bogey that Communists
lurk 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
ing some features of his own
cleaning up one of the chief rivers
-(Continued on Page Four)
WINDOW-SOAPING
BRINCS CASH TO
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. Unfortunately
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
affixed to the first, second and
third place winning windows this
morning.
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—
and $10—went to the Eighth Grade
team from St. Ann's School, for
decorating of window No. 7 at the
Alaska Electric Light and Power
Company. 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
panel. Artists were Joan Feather
stone, Rose Lee Jekill and Joyce
Tanner.
Honorable mentions would have
been too numerous to be practical,
according to the professional artists
who judged the contest.
Mrs. John (Edith! Willis, noted
portrait artist, and Harold Salis
bury, who also does cony>'ercial
art work, were the professionals.
They were accompanied by two
members of the Juneau Civil Air
Patrol Squadron which sponsored
both the Art Contest and the big
party in the National Guard Arm
ory. They were Squadron Com
mander Allan G. Marcum and Jack
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.
These will be included in CAP plans
for the 1951 celebration. These in
clude prizes by grades and a grand
prize.
Miss Jacque Fisher, chairman
for the entire CAP celebration, be
lieves that every downtown merch
ant would have cooperated in the
art contest had there been time to
interview more than those in a
small area. (The party was dream
ed, organized and held, from Wed
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 Vic
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 Cole,
Leanne Miller—So, 31; Nande *10
Cent Store.
Fourth Grade: Boyd Ebert, Mar
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: Thomas Abbott,
Bonnie MacLean, Ann Ghlglione,
Ann Severine—No. 2, Vic Power;
Judith Pym, Anne Grisham, Judith
Neeley, David Norton—No. 37, Cali
fornia Grocery; Stuart Whitehead,
John Day, Stanley Sears, Nicky
Card—No. 30, Thomas Hardware;
Julia Walthers, Julie Hudson, Judy
Larsen, Patsy Mclver — No. 10,
Alaska Light and Power; Terry
Clem, Robert Goodrich, Wayne
Adams—No. 21, Juneau Drug; Mar
jorie Alstead, Leetta Caldwell, Ar
llne Harris, 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.
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
I erstone, Rose Lee Jekill, Joyce Tan
I ner—No. 17, Nance Dollar Store.
Eighth Grade: Bob Goff, Don
! Milnes, Jerry McNevin, Dennis Mc
Cluggage—No. 23, Juneau Bakery;
| Lynne Barcus, Jane Jekill, Christie
• Crondahl—No. 12, Clothes Closet;
j Charles Dobbins, Sam Pekovich,
j Carl Beyer—No. 16, J. B. Burford's;
J John Stickler, Tim Miller, Bob Os
j terman—No. 25, Percy’s; Eric Beach
| —No. 39, Juneau Young Hardware.
High School: Karen Bartness,
: Vickie Tydlacka—No. 8, Alaska Elec
j trie Light and Power Co.
St. Anil's School
Third Grade: Sharon Wruck,
j Sally Neuenschwander, Harold Mar
I tin, William Zach—No. 18, Nance’s
i 10-Cent Store.
Fourth Grade: Patricia Ihle, Rose
! mary Sundborg, Robert Michaud,
: Joe Swanson—No. 4, Parsons’ Elec
| trie.
Fifth Grade: Janie Hollenbach,
j Rosemary Mills, Sharia Ann Elvy,
j George Sundborg, Jr.—No. 20, 20th
! Century Grocery.
! Sixth Grade: Jim Harmon, Mic
j hael Sweeney, Kristine Gullufsen,
■ Joe Elbayalde—No. 11, Alaska Elec
; trie Light.
Seventh Grade: Edith Ebona, Vir
! ginia Barril, Michael Wade, Darryl
[ Mish—No. 33, Tot-to-Teen Shop.
Eighth Grade: Sondra Nevitt,
! Patricia Sweeney, George Michaud,
! Ted Tisdale—No. 7, Alaska Electric
j Light.
SALMON INDUSTRY
OFFERS WAGE TALK
j TO AVOID FREEZE
SEATTLE, Nov. 1—Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc., has offered
| to conduct union contract negoti
i ations to protect its workers from
a possible wage freeze.
Addressing a meeting of carpen
ters, machinists, and fishermen’s
union representatives, an Alaska
i Salmon Industry spokesman agreed
| to hear proposals for extension of
i its 1950 agreements to cover 1951
I operations with adjustment in
j wages, overtime raises and fish
j prices but with all other conditions
remaining unchanged.
I. A. Sandvigen, busines. agent
of Hope Lodge 79 of the machin
ists, had requested the meeting be
cause, 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.
SCHOOL BAND TREATED
BY DIRECTOR MANSOK
Director Lyle C. Manson epter
tained the members of the Ju
neau School band at a special
i Hallowe’en affair given in his home
1 apartments on Dixon. There was a
| bountiful supply of refreshments
! thoroughly enjoyed by the young
musicians.
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WOMEN OF MOOSE
MEETS ON THURSDAY
The Women of the Moose meet
Thursday evening at 8 o’clock in
the Moose Lodge. Following the
meeting is the post office sale
sponsored by the committee headed
i by social service chairman Pat
; Kimes. Senior Regent Beatrice Al
j begoff announces the following re
ports are due: Mooseheart, pub
I licity, membership, home making
and social service.
LIE'S TERM
EXTENDED 3
MORE YEARS
NEW YORK, Nov. 1—Of)—The U.
N. General Assembly today extended
Secretary-General Trygve Lie’s term
I for three more years despite a So
viet bloc threat not to deal with him.
By a vote of 46 to 5 with 7 absen •
| 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.
Before keeping Lie in the $40,000
a year job, the Assembly rejected a
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 Amerl
i can State Department.
JUDGE FOLIA WILL
GO TO ANCHORAGE,
HELP JUDGE DIMOND
I -
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I ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 1—(iW
—After arguments in the anti-trust
suits here, the government an
nounced that Federal Judge Oeorge
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
607 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
new cases filed exceeding the record
number in the year just closed.
As of Sept. 30, the 618 cases
pending exceeded the 348 in all
j Alabama districts and the 309 in
j Maryland.
ROTARY COMPLETES
PAYMENT ON ITS
LIBRARY PLEDGE
-
The Juneau Rotary Club has
completed payment of its second
and final pledge to the library
j fund. The total of the two was
j $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
j thanks for the financial assistance
! given by the Club as a unit and
I 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
p« trlng of the concrete basement
walls last week and are now en
gaged In placing the forms for
the walls of the main floor of the
I structure.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperatures lor 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 39;
minimum, 35.
At Airport—Maximum. 44;
minimum, 36.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Mostly cloudy with an occa
sional light rain shower to
night and Thursday. Lowest
temperature tonight about 33
Highest Thursday near 42.
Precipitation
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. toils)
City of Juneau—0.17 inches
since July 1—29.20 inches
At Airport — 0.02 inchc
since July 1—22.07 inches.
TANK FORCES
PUSH AHEAD,
KOREAN AREA
i
Ram Roughshod Over Reds |
-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
air miles oi 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
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
Communist 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.
Eaijlier 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 stlffer.
A U.S. 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
vision’s landing point of Iwon and
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. U.S. B-29’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.
G. B. Shaw Falls
Into Coma; Life
Appears Ebbing
AOYOT ST. LAWRENCE, Eng
land, Nov. 1—(£)—George Bernard
Shaw lapsed into what seemed to
be his dying coma today.
The 94-year-old playwrgiht lost
consciousness at 3 a.m. A few
hours later his breathing became!
labored and heavy. At 12:20 p.m. j
he was still unconscious and the
spark of life flickered weakly.
BRUSTS LEAVE
Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold t Brust
leave today on Pan American for
Seattle where they will take deliv
ery 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. J
If OF ANTI-TRUST
CASESTRANSFERRED
TO OTHER COURTS
Judge Dimond Grants
Various Motions in
Grand Jury Indictments
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 1—011
— Faced with the heaviest court
docket on record in the Third Divi
sion, 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.
iteason ior iransicrs
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 to Fairbanks
Citing the heavy calendar, the
court also called for and received
mutual agreement between the gov
ernment’s buttery 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 opposition
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
11 cases in Dlmond’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
stock today is 2%, American Can
9914, American Tel. and Tel. 151%,
Anaconda 35%, Douglas Aircraft
79%, General Electric 48%. Genera!
Motors 50, Goodyear 58, Kennecott
66%. Libby. McNeill and Libby 8%,
Northern Pacific 25%, Standard Oil
of California 75%, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 22, U.S. Steel 41%.
Sales today were 1,780,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 225.69, rails 66.51, utilities
40.13.
STUMER MOVEMENTS
Baranof scheduled to sail frorr
Seattle Friday as cargo ship, no
passengers.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway at 7 a.m., Fri
day and sails south one-half hour
later at 7:30 o’clock.
PRESIDENT S HOME RUSHED BY
TWO MEN IN ATTEMPT TO KILL
HIM; ONE SHOT DOWN; THREE
TRUMAN GUARDS WOUNDED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—<«—Two
men with blazing 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 Marlon R. Preston,
dead, and Oscar Olliskin, or O.
Boelliger Is to
Be Cremated on -
Wed. Anniversary
NEW YORK. Nov. 1—m—John |
Boettiger, who killed himself yes- I
terday In a plunge from a hotel, I
will be cremated today — on his
wedding anniversary. j
Just a year ago the 50-year-old |
newspaperman and fofmer son-In- I
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 CHORUS 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 at
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 committee of
the chorus has asked the director,
Mrs. Jane McMullin and two others
to act as judges to pick the soloists.
Anyone interested in singing a solo
should contact Mrs. McMullin.
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the head and rhest.
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 Collaso, of 173 Brook Ave„
| New York.
Copossela said the wounded man's
condition was “fair.'' He said the
i man was being 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.
Traffic was proceeding normally
along Pennsylvania Avenue.
White House police were stand
ing aa, usual at tjia ofpopied stair
ways leading In the Blair and ail
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—MV-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 independence from
the United States.
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3 PRESIDENTS KILLED
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — Ml —
Three American Presidents have
I been killed by assassins’ bullets.
In addition to the fatal assaults
on Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and
McKinley, armed attacks were made
on 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 waa
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 CP
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — UP) —
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,*