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President Calm As Assassination Fails Washington, Nov. 2—MP)—Two Puerto Rican revolutionaries were felled in a blaze of gunfire at President Truman’s front door as they tried to shoot their way in and assassinate him yesterday. One was shot dead by return police fire. The other was drop- ►ped, wounded, on the Blair House steps and will probably recover to face a murder charge. 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 (4 p.m. EST). But the secret service reinforced i(,s guard around him, and roped off part of the busy block on Pennsylvania Avenue which brief ly had become a bullet-spattered battle zone. Guard Killed 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. 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. Maxi mum penalty for murder in the District of Columbia is electrocu tion. The other gunman, Griselio Tor- resola, was killed almost instantly. Shot through the head, he died close under the second story win dow where the President lay nap ping in the temporary executive mansion. Letters Found In the youthful Torresola’s pock et were two letters, signed with the name of Pedro Albizu Campos, head of the Puerto Rican Nation- Newcomers Hear Musical Program .The Newcomers Club met yester day at 2 p. m. in the YMCA accord ing to Mrs. Robert Skrabanek, pub licity chairman. . A musical program was present ed by Mrs. T. W. Leland and the College Women’s Harmony Club. The Harmony Club, which was ac companied by Mrs. C. W. Simmons at the piano, sang three numbers under the direction of Mrs. Grace Krug. The entire club was asked to join in the singing of the last two numbers. Mrs. Leland gave a talk on “The Progress of Music in Texas.” alist party—violently anti-U. S.— which attempted a revolution in the island possession this week. 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 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 general’s subversive list as advocating un constitutional 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 as sassination plot. Communists Shocked 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. And, just before the afternoon sortie on Blair House, two blazing gaso line bottles were hurled into a crowd at the Puerto Rican labor office in New York. The Wash ington office asked police protec tion. The thwarted assassination effort was the first conspiracy—a plot involving two or more persons— to kill a President since John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lin coln a mile from yesterday’s gun play. It was a proud day for the se cret service, whose agents were on the job and whose uniformed corps of White House police bore the brunt of the battle. Two Guards Wounded But two of the latter force. Pri vate Joseph H. Downs, 44, and Pri vate Donald T. Birdzell, 41, lay seriously wounded in emergency hospital. Both Birdzell’s knees were shattered. Downs was in “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 tow 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 third Puerto Rican was to be picked up. m frJuWM iiHS! ' W/z Jantzen’s 100% Pure Cashmere . . Made in Austria. SLIP-OVER SWEATERS ... Both long and short sleeves, 13.95, 14.95, 15.95 CARDIGANS . . . Long sleeves 17.95, 18.95 Sizes 32 to 38. Colors: Maize, gold, tan, green, American Beauty, pink, lime, brown, and white. USE OUR CONVENIENT LAY-AWAY PLAN 2% Smart Shop Bryan Nightingale Jean Dickenson • • • "Nigh tinga le of the A irways To Present Town Hall Show By JERRY ZUBER Jean Dickenson, Town Hall star on Nov. 8, who has been a feature singer, on American Album of Familiar Music for nearly eight years, was signed to that job by the sponsors before they even saw her. Her voice—on a recording, was one of 150 listened to by the spon sors, and when she returned to New York from an engagement in the west she was greeted with the news that she had been signed to the program. In 1940 the brown haired, hazel eyed coloratura soprano made her debut on the Metropolitan Opera stage. In the last two years she has made over a hun dred appearances on the stage in recital. Born in Montreal, the daughter Jean Dickenson Campus Newspaper Called ‘Instrument of Revenge" San Antonio, Nov. 1—CP)—Cam pus newspapers were attacked here Tuesday as being, many times, merely instruments by which stu dents can get revenge at faculty -members,'-wLo--have- tbe-last - say- in the classrooms. The accusation came from Willis Tate, dean of men at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. In an interview, Tate declared that there is a need for communications in a university program because the students, faculty and adminis tration don’t speak the same lan guage. “Unclog Misinformation’’ “We must unclog all this misin formation,” he said. At his insti gation, the Texas Association of Deans of Men, holding its annual convention here, discussed the prob lem of communications on the cam pus in a panel this morning. As an illustration of what he meant about the paper being a means of revenge, he said that one campus publication of which he knows offered 200 cigarets as a prize for turning in the “best gripe.” “The paper was just trying to find something wrong,” he ex plained. Architect Wives Hold Style Show The Architectural Wives Society is sponsoring a style show to be presented by Beverley Braley, ac cording to Mrs. Laverne Gary, re porter, The program is entitled, “The Fashion Show.” The Fashion Show will be held on Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. in the As sembly Room of the IVlemorial Stu dent Center., Wives of the Architectural Soc iety members invite all other mem bers of wives’ clubs on the cam pus to attend. Many problems facing deans of men, could be eliminated, Thomas Richardson of Texas Christian Uni versity, Fort Worth, told the con vention, if universities had ade quate information systems. - Campus Papers Insufficient He said that while campus news papers are useful for passing on information, more adequate means are needed. Richardson said colleges are ap proaching the status in which the majority of male students are no longer veterans. As a result, he said, discipline is again becoming more of a prob lem. Funeral Services Set for Sims Infant Funeral services will be held this afternoon in Stamford for Randy Sims, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Sims who died shortly after birth early Wednes day morning. Interment will be in the High land Cemetery with Hillier Funeral Home in charge of funeral arrange ments. Survivors include the parents, grandparents, Mr. apd Mrs. Gene Martendale of Lenders, and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sims of Stamford. Sims, veterinary student from Stamford, is' circulation manager for the Southwestern Veterinarian. Battalion City News - Society THUR., NOV. 2, 1950 Page 3 of a mining engineer, Miss Dicken son led a nomadic life in her early years. By the time she was 16 she had been in Canada, India, Africa, Ireland, and finally Denver, Colo rado. It was in Denver that she began to study music at the La ment School of Music. When the family moved again, this time to New York, Miss Dick enson remained to live at the music school and get her degree. She was auditioned by two radio studios in New York and offered contracts by both when she visited the family on Christmas one year, but she turned both offers down to return to Colorado and get her degree in music. However she did compromise and consent to broad cast on a nation wide hook-up from Denver, which enabled her to broadcast and study voice at the same time. Between concert tours she lives in New York City with her mother and father (and don’t they all) spends a great deal of time writing long letters to her army husband. Asked what type of woman she considers most attractive, Miss Dickenson, (who easily fills the bill herself) replies: ‘The woman who looks nice from all angles—and the woman who smells nice. Most of us women put up a good enough front but about the only time we bother to take a good back look is when we buy a hat. We forget that people see us going as well as coming. They see the crooked stocking seams, the run-down shoe heels, the straggling back hair on days when we haven’t been to the hairdresser. “As for the second requirement, I’m a firm believer in bath salts, light flowery eau de cologne in summer and a slightly exotic per fume in cooler weather. mw vooKTumwiMUT mitk ourRENTAL ROOK SANVEItif FLOOR WEAR IS ONIY'SKIN DEEP'' Sand off that dull surface coat and youMI have new floors again. 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