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VOL. LXXVI., NO. 11,648
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1950
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Plot to Kill President is_Now Revea led
POLICE SEIZE
SUBVERSIVE
TOP LEADERS
Widespread Roundup Is
Sfarted by Authorities
in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 2
—tfl—Police seized the Presidents
and top leaders of the Nationalist
and Communistic parties today in
a widespread roundup begun by
Puerto Rican authorities a few
hours after the Washington at
tempt on the life of President Tru
man.
Pedro Albizu Campos, President
of the Nationalists, was routed
from his besieged home with tear
gas and surrendered without a shot
being fired. His house had been
under siege since Monday when
a Nationalist uprising—reported to
have been egged on by the Com
munists—-erupted .suddenly.
San Juan was virtually under a
state of siege today. Police block
ed off roads in their hunt for Na
tionalists and Communists and re
quired special police passes for
those seeking to go through the
lines.
Albizu Campos and other Nation
alist and Communist leaders were
whisked to Police headquarters for
intensive questioning. It was learn
ed that some 600 Nationalists and
Communists in all were to be
rounded up, 300 of them in the
Metropolitan San Juan area.
Before noon, 130 Nationalists and
Communists already had been
rounded up police announced. A
search of the Albizu Campos home,
they said, uncovered “numerous
documents and lists,” three cases
of ammunition and three guns. The
government predicted the round
up would be completed within two
days.
STASSEN TO REPLY
TO TRUMAN SPEECH j
FOR REPUBLICANS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — UP) —
Republican leaders have tapped
Harold Stassen, 1948 Presidential
aspirant, to reply for their party to
President Truman’s Saturday night
campaign speech.
The GOP National Committee an
nounced that Stassen will speak
over the Mutual network at 7:30
pjn. (PST) Saturday—immediately
after Mr. Truman concludes a four
network broadcast.
Stassen will speak from New
Haven, Conn.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Coprrlsht. 1UO. by Bell BynoleeM. Ine.l
By DREW PEARSON
CLEVELAND, Ohio—The hot and
and hectic Ohio Senatorial cam
paign has now boiled down to a
battle of labor versus capital, the
farm belt versus the city. This
class-warfare angle is unfortunate,
because the issue goes much deeper
and involves the future leadership
of the Republican Party.
The Ohio race is not merely
race between a hard-hitting GOP
Senator who had the courage to
espouse the Taft-Hartley Act,
and a nice but colorless Demociat
who champlpjis labor. Actually the
issue is also whether it is to lapse
back to the international creed of
the McKipleys and the Herbert;
Hoovers.
The f%<;t" that this basic .Issue
is not defined in the Ohio Senat
orial race -is partly the fault of the
Truman high command. For the
truth is that Truman’s political ad
visers originally wanted Taft to
win. They figured that he would
be much easier to beat than Eisen
hower in the race for the White in
1952; therefore, it was better not
to run a strong Democrat against
Taft this year.
But whereas the White House
failed to grasp the basic issue in
Ohio, Arthur Vandenberg, who
worked beside Taft for years, grasp
ed the issue long ago. So did Sen
ators Ives of New York. Morse of
Oregon, Aiken of Vermont, Tobey
of New Hampshire, Smith of Maine,
"^Continued on Page Four)
Messages
Are Sent
To Truman
(By the Associated Press)
King George VI of Britain sent
the following message to President
Truman today:
“I am indeed glad to hear that
the dastardly attempt on your life
has been frustrated and send you
my sincere and thankful congratu
lations on 'your providential escape.”
From Queen Juliana of the Neth
erlands came this message:
“I send you my sincerest congrat
ulations on your happy escape from
the attempt upon your life.”
President Vincent Auriol of France
messaged:
“Profoundly moved by news of at
tack which menaced you. I rejoice
with all my heart that you have
escaped it and I send you expres
sion of my lively and affectionate
sympathy.”
Premier Rene Pleven of France
said:
“Very moved by news of attack
against your excellency."
Similar messages were sent by
President Chaim Weizmann of Is
rael and President S?an T. O’Kelly
of Ireland.
There was no news or comment in
Soviet newspapers today on the
assassination attempt.
VISHINSKY’S STATEMENT
NEW YORK, Nov. 2—<)Pl—Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishin
sky was asked today if he had any
comment on the attempted assassi
nation of President Truman.
Vishinsky looked at the news
men, spread his hands in a gesture
and said: “A strange question.”
Then he walked on into the Assem
bly hall. 1
UNOFFICIAL IGLOO
VOTE COMPLETES
SECOND DIVISION
Unofficial election returns from
Igloo have been received in the of
fice of Secretary of Alaska Lew M.
Williams. Now, all precincts in the
Second Division have been heard
from.
Clerk of Court Norvin W. Lewis
sent the following tally from Nome:
For Delegate—Bartlett (D) 8, Pet
erson (R) 2; for Treasurer—Roden
(D) 8; for Labor Commissioner—
Benson (R) 4, Kimball (D) 5; for
two Senate seats—Beltz (D) 2, Ipa
look (R) 3. Jones (R) 6, O’Leary
(D) 6; for four House seats—Bron
son (R) 6, Degnan (D) 6, Edman
i (D) 9, Laws (R) 2, Madsen (D) 5,
Reader <R) 5, Swanberg (R) 5, and
W^Jls (D) 1. The total vote was
not included.
No comparative positions are
changed. Most interest attaches to
the Senatorial seats. Total vote in
the Second Division gives these to
Ipalook and Beltz, Beltz having only
a 20-vote margin over O'Leary.
ALASKA DEFENSE
PROGRAM GIVEN
BIG SHOT IN AR^I
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—MV-'The
Alaska Defense program has re
ceived a $106,000,000 plus shot In
the arm.
Army engineers disclosed that
$208(000,000 watith of army
and air force construction to be
started before June 30, more than
$106,000,000 will be spent in Al
aska.
Another $8,477,437 will be spent
in Washington State.
Army engineers said the overall
sum would be spent in 27 states
and territories, Bermuda and Okin
awa.
Largest of the 78 Alaska pro
jects listed is a $12,000,000 heat
and power plant at Port Richard
son, Alaska.
The list includes 20 projects
costing more than $26,000,000 at
EiElson Air Force Base, 30 projects
at Richardson costing almost $50,
000,000 ; 20 at Lad<J Air Force Base
costing nearly $14,000,000 ; 7 at
Whittier costing $9,000,000 and $7,
000.000 for a communications sta
tion at Kenai.
5 THOUSAND
ALLIES ARE
IN RED TRAP
Foot Troopers Surrounded
by 'Crazy' Reds, Many
of Them Chinese
(By the Associated Press)
American Cavalrymen gave up to
night a day-long fight to rescue
nearly 5,000 foot troopers surrounded
by Communist forces in Northwest
Korea.
The trapped men were ordered to
attempt a break-out on their own.
They faced terrific odds—and grin
ning, furously fighting Reds who
turned captured American guns on
the surrounded U.S. foot troopers.
Some Americans already had
escaped the trap. It was clamped
shut last night by overwhelming
Communist forces including Chinese
Red troops in strength.
The regiment—one-third of the
U.S. First Cavalry Division—was cut
off near a dry river bed four miles
southwest of Unsan. This is the
area where the Reds have made
their strongest fight of the North
Korean campaign.
Unsan is 66 air miles north of
Pyongyang, former Red Korean
capital.
Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay, Division
Commander, said the regiment' had
been “very badly hurt.”
Hit "Stonewall”
A spokesman told AP Correspon
dent Tom Lambert the rescue team
ran into a "stonewall” of resistance.
Americans who escaped the trap
said there were many Chinese Reds
in the enemy force.
A Chinese prisoner said the force
included 3,000 Chinese Red soldiers.
Correspondent Lambert, with the
division quoted an American platoon
sergeant as saying the Chinese sol
diers were "crazy." The sergeant
added:
Reds “Crazy”
“They would stand right up in
front of you, laughing to beat hell.
We killed them by the hundreds.
Still they kept coming.”
That was a grim flashback to
World War II banzai attacks by
drink-crazed Japanese.
Communist forces, including some
Chinese but mostly North Koreans,
stepped up their attacks in the
Korea-Manchuria borderland in a
maneuver to hold down United Na
tions forces until winter sets in.
Fire Halts Allies
Hitting with big guns, rockets and
fresh troops, the fury of their
counter offensive halted Allied
forces in the northwest, where they
had previously made their most sen
sational gains.
Referring to this sector, a U.S.
First Army Corps spokesman said
the situation was "very serious.”
The Reds again were supported
from the air by Russian-built jet
planes. Two Soviet-built Yak planes
were downed by Allied fire.
The Communists were making an
all-out effort to keep United Nations
troops away from hydroelectric
power producing areas in North Ko
rean territory. These areas supply
electricity on both sides of the
border and were trying to slow down
the Allied time table which calls for
controlling the whole of North Ko
rea before winter bogs down the
warfare.
MATTRESS FIRE OH
PACKER POINT REYES,
SMALL BOAT HARBOR
The Juneau Volunteer Fire De
I partment was called out last night
at 7:20 o’clock for a fire aboard
John Osbake’s packer, Point Reyes
in the small boat harbor.
Joe Standard, sleeping below decks
where the fire started in the
mattress of the bunk on which he
was sleeping, was burned on the
forehead. Asleep in a bunk aft of
the wheel house was W. I. Halon.
The only damage was from water
and two portholes pushed in to get
water to the fire. Smoke prevented
the firemen from going below decks
at first. The packer was previously
owned by Don Milnes.
BOB DE ARMOND HERE
Bob DeArmond, Sitka newspaper
man, Is in Juneau for a few days
enroute to Anchorage and Fair
banks. ,
CENSUS GAIN
WILL SHIFT
HOUSE SEATS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2— Cff) —
Final, official figures today put
the 1950 United States popula
tion at 150,697,361.
This census tally for the past
10 years reflects a shift in the
population that will cause seven
states to gain and nine to lose
seats in the 435-member House
of Representatives scheduled to
be elected two years from now.
The total population figure, an
nounced at the White House, was
calculated as of April 1. It showed
an increase of 19,028,086 since the
1940 census—the greatest gain for
a ten-year period in the nation's
history. The increase was 14.5 per
cent.
Hous seat gains will be seven for
California, two for Florida, and
one each for Maryland, Michigan,
Texas, Virginia and Washington.
Losses will be three for Pennsylvan- J
ia, two each for Missouri, New
York and Oklahoma, and one each j
for Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky,
Mississippi and Tennessee.
The Census Bureau's calculations
on reapportionment of seats were j
the mathematical answer to what |
changes will be made if the 1953 |
House membership total remains j
435, as at present.
Congress conceivably could make
a different matter of it by voting
to enlarge the size of the House.
Some enlargement • is certain if
Congress admits Alaska and Hawaii
to the Union, a question to be tak
en up at the session to convene
November 27 or earlier.
ARTHUR ADAMS IS
NAMED TREASURY
DISBURSING OFFICER
Announcement has been made
from Washington, D. C., of the
promotion or Arthur (Scotty) Ad
ams to regional disbursing officer,
division of disbursement of the
Treasury Department.
Mr. Adams succeeds D. W. Her
ron who retired from the position
September 30, after 31 years in
government service. Herron, who
started his federal service with the
Veterans Administration, was with
the Treasury Department for the
last 15 years. He came to Juneau
from Salt Lake City eight years
ago when Disbursing Officer Charl
es E, Naghel retired.
Mr. and Mrs. Herron left for
the south by automobile over'the
Alaska Highway and are resid
ing in Boise, Idaho.
Adams, who crime to Alaska
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Adams, from Seattle in
1921, attended high school in An
chorage and was later employed by
the Alaska Road Commission. He
was transferred to Juneau on Jan
uary 1, 1936, transferred from the
Road Commission to the Treasury
Department as assistant disbursing
officer.
Arthur Adams and Miss Phyllis
Friend, daughter of Elmer A
Friend, were married in Juneau
March 9, 1935. They have three
daughters, Helen Jane, Gretchen
and Virginia Rae. All of the Adams
family are active in the Juneau
clubs of their groups—Mr. Adams
in the Elks, in which he is a past
Exalted Ruler, and the Masonic
Lodge—the children in their Girl
Scout groups. Their home is at 120
West Ninth street
Mrs. Martina 8'tober, who lias
been chief of the accounting sec
tion of the disbursement office for
the last seven years has been pro
moted., to assistant disbursement
officer. '*
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. Nov. 2 — Closing
quotation cf Alaska Juneau nune
stock today is 2%, American Can
99, American Tel. and Tel. 151’-, |
Anaconda 35%, Douglas Aircraltj
79%, General Electric 49%, General
Motors 50%, Goodyear 59%, Kcnne
cott 67%, Libby McNeill and Libby
8%, Northern Pacific 25%. Sian
dard Oil of California 75%, Twen
tieth Century Fox 22%, U.S Steel
41%.
Sales today were 1,580,000 >hares.
Averages today are as folic in_
dustrials 227.30, rails 66.84, uUlit1PS
40 M.
Murder Charge Filed Against
Would-be Assassinator; Two
Incriminating Letters Found
I -
* By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — UPI — A
murder charge stood today against
the wounded survivor of the pair
of Puerto Rican revolutionaries who
fell in a blaze of gunfire yester
day trying to assassinate President
| Truman.
Spared by the heroism and smok
ing guns of White House police, the
President was grave but calm. He
planned to hold his weekly news
conference today (1 p.m. EST), fac
ing a barrage of questions about his
reaction.
One of the would-be assassins
was shot dead by police fire. The
other was dropped, wounded, on the
Blair House steps and is expected
to recover to face a murder charge.
The Secret Service reinforced its
guard around Mr. Truman, and
roped off part of the busy block on
Pennsylvania Avenue which briefly
had become a bullet-spattered battle
zone.
Three police were brought down
in the fusillade before the would-be
assassins were stopped. One of them,
Private Leslie Coffelt, 40, died last
night.
Murder Charge Filed
For this, police filed a murder
charge against Oscar Collazo, 37, of
New York, who blasted his way to
the very doorstep of Blair House
before he was dropped, his chest
riddled with bullets. Maximum
penalty for murder in the District
of Columbia is electrocution.
The other gunman, Griselio Tor
resola, was killed almost instantly.
8hot through the head, he died
close, under the second story win-j
dow where the President lay nap- |
ping in the temporary executive
mansion.
In the youthful Torresola’s pocket
were two letters, signed with the
name!' of Pedro Albizq Campos, head
of the Puerto Rican Nationalist
party—violently anti-U.S. — which
attempted a revolution in the island
possession this week.
GEORGE B. SHAW,
NOTED BRITISH
AUTHOR, DIES AT 94
AYOT ST. LAWRENCE, Eng..
Nov. 2—W—George Bernard Shaw
the century's most famous play
wright, died today at the age of 94
The life of the frail old Irish-born
wit who massed a fortune by poking
fun at the shortcomings of this
civilized age, flicked out at last ai i
4:59 a.m.
A tumble in his garden on Sept
10 while pruning a tree proved the
undoing of the self-styled Napoleon
of drama. He broke his left thigh
bone and was taken to Luton hos
pital to have the bones pinned to
gether. A bladder ailment compli
cated his condition. He suffered t
relapse Sunday.
The author of 55 plays, five novel.'
and countless essays—the best oi
which were turned out after he was
40—Shaw was credited by many
critics with reviving British drama
after its golden age of Goldsmith
and Sheridan.
As a political propagandist he
espoused the cause of the Fabian
Socialists and helped lay the foun
dation of the present Labor party.
SEISMOGRAPHS
RECORD STRONG
QUAKE IN INDIA
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 2—(A>)—
A “very strong” earthquake which
may have hit in heavily populated
India was recorded today on seis
mographs here and in Berkeley.
Dr. Charles P. Richter of Calif
ornia Institute of Technology said
the distance appeared to be about
8,000 miles from here. It was timed
7:42.34 a.m., PST her and 7:42.16
a.m. PST at the University of Cal
ifornia, Berkeley. Richter said this
Indicated its direction westward and
that it was probobly greater than
the tremendous quake which hit
northern India on Aug. 15.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Charles Badger of Anchorage is
at the Baranof Hotel.
4
One of the letters, dated Sept. 21
from San Juan, told Torresola that
"the delegate”—who was not Identi
fied by police—“will accord you all
the necessary cooperation so that
your mission may be a triumph.”
The Nationalist party, a tiny
group numerically, seeks complete
independence for Puerto Rico. It
has been on the Attorney Oeneral’s
subversive list as advocating uncon
stitutional overthrow of the U.S.
government since last year.
Island officials have declared the
party gets support from Commun
ists, but there was no hint of Com
munist participation in the assassi
nation plot.
Commies Get Shock
The Communist party voiced
“profound shock” in a statement
issued by William Z. Foster, national
chairman. “The Communist party
rejects and condemns assassination,”
he said.
In the island uprising, more than
30 persons have been slain. 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
Vork. The Washington office asked
police protection.
Conspiracy Plot
The thwarted assassination ef
fort was the first conspiracy—a plot
involving two or more persons—to
kill a President since John Wilkes
Booth shot Abraham Lincoln a mile
from yesterday’s gunplay.
It was a proud day for the Secret
Service, whose agents were on the
Job and whose uniformed corps of
White House police bore the brunt
of the battle.
But two of the latter force, Private
Joseph H. Downs, 44, and Private
Donald T. Birdzell, 41, lay seriously
wounded in emergency hospital.
Both Birdzell's knees were shat
tered. Downs was in “critical, very
serious” condition with chest and
stomach wounds.
“Just Political”
In another hospital room, the
wounded Collazo was sullen. “Oh,
just political,” he said when asked
why he came here from New York
dwo days ago to make the attack.
Secret Service Chief U. E. Baugh
man told reporters there was no
previous record on either Collazo or
Torresola. And Washington’s police
chief discounted a report that a
hird Puerto Rican was to be picked
up.
"We are going to investigate very
carefully before doing any picking
up,” he said.
Wife Arrested
In New York, Mrs. Rosa Collazo,
wife of the wounded assailant, was
held in $50,000 bail early today,
charged with conspiring with others
to injure the President.
U.S. Commissioner Edward W.
McDonald, before whom Mrs. Col
azo was arraigned, said warrants
were being prepared for Collazo and
for two other persons—both un
identified. Some 13 persons were
questioned in connection with the
shooting and released.
Earlier, police reported that in
tenement blocks in the Bronx area,
where the Collazos lived, they were
lescribed as a “quiet couple.” Be
fore her arrest, the stout, 42-year
3ld Mrs. Collazo talked freely about
her husband who polishes pocket
oook frames for a living.
WEATHER REPORT
Temperature* for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock tht< morning
In Juneau—Maximum, 45;
minimum, 37.
At Airport—Maximum, 43;
minimum, 39.
FORECAST
(Joneau and Vicinity)
Cloudy with rain and
southeasterly winds 15 to 25
miles per hour tonight and
Friday. Lowest temperature
tonight near 38 degrees and
highest Friday 46 degrees.
precipitation
(Paat 24 houra ending 1:30 a.m. today
City of Juneau—0.08 inches;
since Nov. 1 — 0.25 inches;
since July 1—29.28 inches.
At Airport' — 0.07 Inches;
since Nov. 1 — 0.09 inches;
since July 1—22.14 inches.
'NEVER IN
ANY DANGER/
PRESIDENT
Truman Talks of Incident
Is 'Sick' Over Death
of Police Officer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — —
President Truman said today he
feels he was "never in any danger”
from the assassination attempt yes
terday and is “sick” over the death
of the police officer who was fat
ally wounded In his defense.
Speaking of Pvt. Leslie Coffelt,
40, Mr. Truman told reporters: "He
was one of the finest fellows you
ever knew and he was murdered
outright. It just makes you sick."
He called it a "terrible thing” and
said he was sick too over the wound
ing of officers Doland T. Birdzell
and Joseph H. Downs.
Mr. Truman’s statement that he
was never in danger clearly was
meant as an expression of confi
dence in the men who guard him.
"I wasn't in any danger,” he said.
"I never have been.”
The President talked with report
ers in the Rose Garden of the
White House. They had been invited
to witness his presentation of the
Harmon International Trophies for
aviation achievement.
PRESIDENT
TAKES WALK,
USUAL TIME
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2 — t/P) —
President Truman took his usual
early morning walk today through
streets which 17 hours earlier
echoed with the blasts ol would-be
assassins’ guns.
Apparently unperturbed by yes
terday’s attack on the temporary
Presidential residence by two Puerto
Rican revolutionists, Mr. Truman
stepped briskly down the canopied
Blair House walk at exactly 7 a.m.
Six Secret Service men fell in
around him as he reached the side
walk on Pennsylvania A,venue, pass
ing over the spot where police bul
lets had dropped one gunman yes
terday.
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 Washington
Monument, about a half mile dis
tant.
ALASKA PASSENGER
STEAMER SAILINGS
NOW UP TO UNION
SEATTLE, Nov. 2—Alaska
passenger ship service will not be
resumed until the Marine Cooks
and Stewards Union agrees to
comply with Coast Ouard "screen
ing" of crew members, the Alaska
Steamship Co. reiterates.
The company offered to resume
the service Nov. 10, however, if the
union gives assurances. It set a
deadline of 3 p.m. Friday for a
union reply.
D. E. Skinner, vice president and
general manager, said in a state
ment. that “the Jobs on our pas
senger 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 supply
crews immediately on request.
"It is true that his union has of
fered 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 se
curity risks."
8EWARD VISITOR
E. H. Cowan of Seward is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
DETAILS OF
PLOT NOW
REVEALED
Would-be Assassin Says
He and Killer Compan
ion 'Took a Chance'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — tfl —
The two Puerto Ricans who tried to
kill President Truman “Just took
a chance" that the President was
there when they charged Blair
House with guns blazing, according
to a statement made by the one
who survived. His statement was re
leased by Investigators today.
They meant to shoot their way
Inside with the expectation of en
countering him there, It said.
The statement, informal and not
signed, was taken from Oscar Col
lazo during questioning while under
guard and during hospital treatment
for a bullet wound In his chest.
In it, he said that only two weeks
of conferences between him and
Grlselio Torresola—his co-consplra
tor who was instantly killed In the
gunflght at Blair House yesterday
preceded their decision to "take the
law Into our own hands.”
Taken to Jail Ward
Collazo, who is expected to sur
vive and stand trial on a murder
charge In the death of one of the
President’s bodyguards, was moved
today from emergency hospital to
a jail ward In Galllnger hospital, a
municipal institution deemed more
secure.
HU hospital bed statements were
taken down by Secret Service agents
and Washington homicide detectives
In the presence of several witnesses.
He denied that he was a Com
munist and declared he met Tor
resola, only two weeks ago In the
Puerto Rican colony In New York
City.
Collazo said both were members
of the NationalUt party of Puerto
Rico and that they agreed that
something should be done to gattt
their country's independence from
the United States. .
After several conferences, he said,
the two decided to act.
BACKGROUND OF
MURDER ATTEMPT
RELATED BY WIFE
WASHINGTON. Npv. 2— UH —
Mrs. Collazo, wife of Truman's
would-be killer, said she and her
husband are both Puerto Rican
Nationalists. And she went on as
follows:
"We voted for Roosevelt and
Truman because they promised us
independence, and we did not get
it. Roosevelt is dead, so we can't
blarhe him."
Mrs. Collazo said she and her
husband have been in the United
States about 25 years. In telling of
her husband's departure from their
tenement home in the Bronx, New
York, yesterday, Mrs. Collazo said
his parting words were as follows:
“Good bye darling. I am going
to Puerto Rico. We must be free.
We can no longer be slaves of the
United States."
Mrs. Collazo, her three daughters
and a 20-year-old man identified
only as a friend of the family were
taken to Secret Police headquarters
in New York last night.
NO AMBASSADOR
GOES TO SPAIN
FOR LONG TIME
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2 — —
President Truman said today it will
be a long, long time before this
country sends an ambassador to
Spain.
At a news conference, Mr. Tru
man would not comment directly on
the United Nations action to end
the diplomatic boycott of Spain.
The questioning began on whether
he had anything to say about an
ambassador to Spain in view of the
U.N. action.
J. J. MEHERIN SOUTH
J. J. Meherln. following a brief
stay in Juneau, left yesterday via
PAA for the south.