European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                November 1950 the stars and stripes Pagel after an earlier injury George Bernard in bed with leg injury incurred in when the playwright was 9c years Shaw Dies at 94 authored 55 continued from Page 1 ready to operate on his broken thigh Bone Shaw declared if i survive i shall be in intimates said Shaw began los ing his zest for life when his wife died in for 45 years she had been a partner in the Rise to Fame which began when he was in Middle in his self portrait for British who this he described his Only recreation As being past in a note to an editor in january be expressed the suspicion that he was no longer capable of writing anything but garrulous most of his outstanding plays poured Forth after he was including the w a r r e is arms and the John bulls other major Caesar and Cleopatra and pig Shaw was Over and had been writing plays for nearly 30 when he produced the three generally regarded in Britain As Bis break Back to Methuselah and he was 69 when he won the Nobel prize for literature in when he was 92 he finished his final serious play and the farfetched in Shaw was working on a Light she would when buffered the Accident which led to his victorian to atomic age Shaw spanned the years from the victorian age to the atomic age without Ever losing his passionate hatred for what he regarded As socially wrong or As a political before any one Ever heard of him As a play he helped Lay the foundation of the present British labor As a he exposed slum pretentious class distinctions and the of political although Shaw often blasted the whom he blamed in at for the deadening poverty he about him la his youth in he had a keen sense of the value of in an autobiographical sketch written for who in Litera wrote agent transacts Nia own Many theater manager and film company Learned that he could drive the hardest of Early this rear two of his plays running in new York the devils and Caesar and were to be bringing him in a week in Shaw complained constantly in plays late years that Britain High taxes took 95 per cent of his in his persistent Shaw did not neglect himself asked to write his own obituary for a sub Stantial Shaw answered the letter with a crude sketch of a Gravestone bearing the words Hie jacket Here lies Bernard who the Devil was he Shaws where he is dominated by a larger Hanife bust portrait of himself on the Wall to the right of Bis ancient wooden single with a High the room is simply furnished and has no Shaw loathed and people who called his House got his House keeper in an outside Shaw had been a patient in the Luton and Dunstable 30 Miles North of since the Day after he fell in his Garden while pruning some and broke his left thigh jokes with nurses he was operated on within a few hours after being taken to the hos the fractured Bone ends were joined with a steel for three Days Shaw put up a Gallant and seemingly successful Effort to shrug off the he joked with his doctors and he climbed out of bed with their stood on his remaining Good and swung the broken one Back arid Forth to exercise he appeared to have skirted the major threat following operations on old on the fourth Day he took a turn for the Shaws condition the last few Days made it impossible for him to take food or from time to time during the Day his Mouth was moistened with a Glycerine a few visitors came quietly to Shaws Corners to see their among then was Virginia born lady another was Frances the american actress who played a Lead in one of Shaws latest buoyant presidents guard tightened probe ordered into attempt puerto Rico a Tion Alist Boss was jailed in for revolt san 2 Albizu Leader of the puerto Rico nationalist served time to Federal Penitentiary at at Lanta from 1937 to 1943 for insure in the last few the 63 year old extremist had been holding rallies throughout the whose citizens Are citizens urging them to vote against the Terri torys proposed new on puerto Elcans will Register to vote on the new which would maintain the islands status As a nation Alist demonstrations had been planned for that party founded in 1938 Albizu Campos founded his nationalist party in it went to the polls for the first time in 1932 and received it chose not to participate in Moet of the including the one held in when for the first time the puerto Picans elected their own Luis Munoz Marin Heads the popular democratic second in strength is the statehood which wants puerto Rico to become the fort ninth american next is the Independence which wants Independence but a not connected with the extremist Albizu called an advocate of terror went to prison in 1937 after police com Mander Francis Riggs had been killed in a revolutionary plot after his release from the nationalist Leader spent several ears in new York City on he returned to puerto Rico in 1948 to take up the profession of at Torne again and begin welding his nationalists will take part in King Gustav rites 2 Navy band and an honorary guard of 50 men will take part in the funeral procession of King Gustav v 9two de visit Stockholm on the american pm Stroyer will the Bassy said last the destroyers Are the soley and the Furze from the 6th Fleet the band is from the Cruiser co flagship of adm Robert commander of Naya forces in the Eastern Atlantic and let there be Light 2 burglar using Hammer and chisel on a Safe in a Baltimore food mar Ket switched on the lights to see but he forgot there was a plate Glass window behind so a crowd of 200 hid a grandstand View of the burglary until police arrived and arrested Pedro Aib iia Campos White House guard says assassins 1st round misfired 2 officer Donald one of the three White House police wounded in the bid to kill president tru said this morning that the first round aimed at him Birdzell told of his narrow escape to his who visited him at the his related to reporters by said Birdzell was standing in front of Blair House looking West Ward Down Pennsylvania dons first indication that any thing was wrong when he heard a King Birdzell swung around and was shot the he started firing and was hit in the other he said the Man who fired at him was the one slain and identified by the secret service As Cri Stellio the policeman said he fired about four shots and told King he was certain he hit just his duty King that Bird Zell was not certain that one of his bullets killed the would be As the wife of Floyd Boring of the White secret service said he Only thought of doing his duty when he helped to shoot Down the two Floyd told me when he took the Job with the secret service nearly seven years ago that he did so with the full understanding he always put the life of the president above his she one of the neighbors came in tonight to Tell Floyd what a wonder Ful Job he thought my husband had Floyd just looked at him and told him he was just doing his everyday Job like our he told him that i Only pack a gun to take care of Truman planning no change in routine 3 president Truman planned to ahead today with his Normal Rou Tine unperturbed by the attempt on his life but presiden tial Security measures were being Truman press Secretary said that the president planned be change in his future movement because of yesterdays abortive at tack on Blair House by two puerto re can would be the president was reported to be the least perturbed of All by but a meeting was arranged Here today Between secret servicemen responsible for protecting his life and police chief Jeremiah Oconnel of Louis speech Truman will go to Louis sat urday to make a political and Security plans for the visit were being revised in the Light of the Blair House chairman Joseph Oma Honey said he bad ordered the staff of his Senate Interior committee to prepare for an investigation into the i have already communicated with the staff of my to gather All available Omahoney the committee will be prepared to act after consultation with the secret Justice department and Federal Bureau of messages pour in messages were pouring into the White House deploring the assassination attempt and congratulating Truman on his had been received from Thomas Eleanor Roosevelt and from Louis St Canadas prime it was reported in Washington that police were seeking a third identified tentatively As fran Cisco it was tried to see mrs Truman earlier this summer and uttered a threat when ejected by the secret service admitted Only they were checking on the Man but police said he was being actively Stock Market scores sudden Sharp recovery new 2 Stock Market scored a recovery yesterday from recent declines with closing Price As generally a few cents to Over a aare radio and television were chief the turnover was Accident kills 4 athletes 2 members of the Assenheim athletic club soccer team were 19 seriously and 12 others Cut and when a truck return ing them from a game missed curve and plunged 30 feet off the Road near unruffled by life dedicates statue 2 api less than an hour after the attempt had been made to assassinate president Truman dedicated a me Morial Tafield marshal sir John Dill at Arlington National it is important to the peace of the world that the Peoples understand each other and have a full Faith in each others he made no reference to the shootings outside Blair Truman Wax not visibly shaken when he reached the Cem but Ware m sex Many of the 600 dignitaries present at the unveiling were unaware of the assassination attempt and wondered Why the president was surrounded by such an unusually heavy guard of secret service in his extemporaneous Truman said he welcomed this Opportunity to remind my country men that the maintenance of a perfect understanding Between the people of great Britain and the United states to of great importance to the peace of the is of the greatest importance to the peace of the Truman said the Dill statue will stand m a memorial not Only to a Man but to a remarkable Anglo american relationship that bore fruit in a great really great the Bronze statue of the Field mounted on a was then uncovered by an Honor guard of four men from the air army and unaware of the assassination at newspapermen present knew that something had gone Amisa when not one reporter or photographer arrived with word of the incident finally arrived at the cemetery 15 later when a motorcycle messenger arrived to pick up m he gave the and the word spread a Murmer rustled through the crowd and Secretary of Denenea George who was speak ing at the glanced after Marsha i the butt us ambassador sir Oliver lauded the close relationship be tween the a and end thanked the people Tor their efforts in making the