ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26261, 4 November 1950, Page 7

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Search For Wife Of Accused Man

(Bee. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 1

Carmen Torresola, aged 22, the wife of Grisello Torresola, one of the Puerto Ricans concerned in the shooting at Blair House, the residence of Mr Truman, disappeared to-day. Her disappearance took place while agents of the Federal Bureau ot Investigation were looking for her. The agents traced her to a Manhattan hotel but before they got there she had gone, taking her six-month-old baby girl with her. Mr Luis Munoz Marin (the Governor of Puerto Rico), in announcing that conditions on the island are rapidly being restored, added that casualties in this week’s revolt were 29 killed, including 10 police and national guardsmen and 17 nationalists. ' Thirty-one were wounded, comprising 13 police and guardsman, 12 nationalists, and six civilians.

At Lake Success to-day Puerto Rican nationalists declared that the situation in Puerto Rico was not a domestic

matter but an issue involving intarnational peace and security. 'They requested the Sec’etary-General (Mr Trygve Lie) to bring the matter before the United Nations.

At his press conference in Washington to-day Mr Truman reiterated his support for greater independence for Puerto Rico. A correspondent read a summary ot a speech Mr Truman made in Puerto Rico in 1948, declaring that the people of Puerto Rico had the right to determine themselves the island's political relationship to the United States. The President said that that was still his feeling about the Puerto Rican situation.

Guards were posted toritev to protect General Eisenhower, Mr warren Austin, and other important Americans who, the authorities fear, might be marked for assassination by anatieal Puerto Rican revolutionaries. Simultaneously Federal Bureau of Investigation and Secret Service agents and police scoured squalid tenements in New York’s Puerto Rican sortion searching for more conspirators In the plot to kill Mr Truman. A Federal Grand Jury investigation of attempted assassination was indicated later to-day, when subpoenaas were issued to Mr Juan Pinto Gaudia. self-proclaimed leader of the Puerto Rican nationalist movement In New York, Mr John Correa, a member of the movement, and Mr Juan Cortes Cordero, an uncle of Mrs Collazo. They had been questlmsd earlier to-day. Meanwhile in San Juan leaden ot the nationalist and Communist parties were locked up in a wide round-up, and scores ot others are falling into the Government net.

The Puerto Rican district attorney, Mr Angel Viera Martinez, said that Mr Pedro Albizu Campos, president of the nationalists, was being held tor investigation.