Show colombia olo Troops ops Take Y Yanks a ks to t Safety Sa fety Shooting Starts Near Embassy As As Americans Flee Ri Rioters W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON April 10 up Approximately Ap r American Amen Ameri c can cati ti citizens were ren removed o ed to safety from rom emb embassy offices in downtown Bogota Saturday and 10 mi minutes later shooting began in the area This Tills information came came in a dispatch delivered here through the state department from American correspondents in the moo mob battered capital of Colombia The ahe dispatch filed at 1135 am nm in Bogota reported that the downtown downtown downtown down down- town atm atmosphere in general wa was quiet but that an air of uncertainty uncertainty uncertainty prevailed This feeling was due at least partly to fear tea that the funeral for the assassinated liberal leader whose shooting started the revolution revolution revo revo- lution Friday might bring a new eruption of violence Night of PerU Peril The rescued Americans had taken r refuge fuge in the U. U S. S embassy offices in two buildings on opposite opposite opposite op op- op- op sides of the street They spent a day and night of peril perU as shooting rioters rioters' invaded their street and fires broke out in the buildings The marooned Americans were removed by Colombian government government govern govern- ment at 10 1020 20 am a.m. EST Within 10 minutes s after they were safely away shooting started started start start- ed ed up again around the building A Colombian was shot dead by soldiers on the very spot where one evacuee had stood because he failed to obey their commands Most of the Americans Americans' had not had sleep or food tood Th They y were were taken to their homes Lawmaker Hits Presence Pres ce Of Marshall in Bogota W WASHINGTON April 10 INS INS Rep Brown R R. 0 O. Saturday called on the house to investigate Ineptness which ho said resulted In the tho sad spectacle of Secy Seey of State Marshalls Marshall's presence In Bogota during the revolution Brown Brawn criticized the the great great embarrassment to the tho United St States t s. s g ge government e brought about by what he described as the tho apparent failure of American Intelligence to warn the state department of the Impending rebellion The Colombians first cleared streets of the area with rifle fire of the last vestiges of Friday nights night's drunken mobs Then troops arrived with a bus and trucks for the Americans Americana The dispatch said that the evacuation evacuation evacuation evac- evac evac evac- took place dramatically while the area was surrounded by troops with rifles at the alert plus an an armored truck bristling with machine guns An earlier report to the state department had spoken of tanks in the evacuation evacuation evacuation tion possibly a confusion with the armored truck Norman Armour assistant se sec secretary secretary of state spent the long night vigil with the isolated cm- cm and oth other r high department officials He is a U. 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S representative at the inter-American inter conference ce In Bogota which was disrupted d by the outbreak of violence violence vio yb- lence Frid Friday y Within view of the group as as it emerged was the body of a victim of last nights night's rioting The corpse lay in the debris-covered debris street within 50 feet of th them m. m One American woman was carried carrIed car car- ried ned to safety because she sprained her ankle In reaching the building the dispatch said Her name was not given I Colombian officers in iii the rescue said the tile army is sun still loyal to President Ospina Slowly Gains Control The army was slowly gaining control of the downtown area Vandalism Vandalism Van and looting In the area was halted j Soldiers were doing the only shooting mostly into the air No announcement had been made of the time of the funeral of the slain popular r liberal ral leader lender Jorge Gaitan This was awaited tensely because of the possibility it might se set off new V demonstrations against the con con- Normally In Colombia the fUneral funeral funeral fu fU- fu- fu is held the day after a person dies Bogota was without morning newspapers and transportation There was no downtown business A skeleton staff remained at the embassy First news of the evacuation evacuation tion came from Armour He told Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett at 10 am a.m. of arrival arrival ar ar- rival of the troops an embassy dispatch related Delegation officials and embassy delegation staff members had been marooned In the embassy and near-by near office building since since- midday midday midday mid mid- day Friday many Friday many without food since Friday morning breakfast Secretary of at State George Gcorge Marshall Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall and other ranking officials were vere reported still at a suburban residence where they had been I See Page Fage 2 l Column 4 I qt n Y r f ir 71 t t tl l J 4 1 l' l h t J i 4 t fj f t y a i. i I J I 1 p I S. e t fP 4 I J 7 tw t f I tl i t Il 5 I r I 4 kw J r i i J t t 1 ThUi L. L S.- S. I OOH 44 q i J. J i e Associated Pre Press a U. U S. S Officials i in n Torn Strife-Torn City Colombia's Colombia foreign minister Laureano Gomez right escorts Secy of Commerce Harriman left and Se Secy of State Marshall ll center after U. U S. S officials arrived in n Bogota gota to attend the Pan Pan- I American conference shortly before liberal units swept through the tho city in Gomez anti rioting Colombia Soldiers Take Yanks to Safety ty I Continued from Page One since Friday They also were all allright right a oJ IIa Fires Rage in Heart Of Colombian Capital capita apita BOGOTA Colombia April 10 UP p Fire Fire raged in the heart of Bogota Bogota Bo Bo- gota Saturday as revolutionary rioters Hotels surged through the streets One report said persons had been killed The city was paralyzed paralyzed paralyzed para para- and the Pan American conference conference con con- con I ference disrupted At least 35 maj major r buildings were i reported afire Friday night in the downtown section of the embattled capital The newspaper El Tiempo said ald persons had been killed At least were reported Injured The large plaza south of the theU theU theU U S. S embassy was ablaze Friday night and nd a gun battle raged near by The Th revolution re followed the assassination as as- Friday of a liberal leader and nd resulted in the setting up of a 3 liberal junta The government govern govern- meat ment of President Mariano Ospina Perez is mainly conservative American Hurt I One American John Powell diplomatic courier was reported among those hurt Earlier Friday night President Mariano Manano Ospina Perez said forces of oC the conservative government were regaining control of the sit sit- The president issued a com corn accusing Communists of inciting the uprising He said steps had been taken to restore order Diplomatic dispatches reaching the state department in Washington Washing Washing- ton reported Communists appear to be abetting the revolution and helping att attempts to provoke a astrike strike Diplomatic officials in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington scanned Bogota reports to determine just what role the Communists Communists Communists' Com Corn s' s are playing in the tion S Washington diplomatic authorities authorities author author- ties said the Communist party in Colombia h has about mem mem- bers bern Ospina Perez said the fighting was diminishing im r R Revolution Spreads s Revolutionary leaders claimed d however the r rev revolution e v ol 01 u t t. i ion o n was spreading throughout t the co country Earlier in the day the tho th liberals l b rals proclaimed proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed their own government Parts of this story were re in the form of a joint dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis patch ie sent t from B Bogota gota by 10 foreign foreign for for- eign correspondents Including Joeph Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph eph F. F McEvoy M oy of ot the U e Associated J soci t d Press Fress and received recel by the state department t in Washington Other portions came direct directS from rom Bogota by commercial channels and still others were relayed by the Associated Asso Asso- elated Press bureau in Caracas Venezuela Other portions reached the Associated Associated As- As As As- Press in New York by radio transmission from the Bogota Bogota Bogota Bo Bo- Bo- Bo gota station statton It tt came over a channel set up for transmission of ot news of the Pan American conference conference con con- ference ferenc to foreign news and nd was addressed to the Associates Associates Asso Asso- elates Press and other agencies Delegates to tol the ninth Pan American conference in the capitol building left the building the rioting started Newspapermen still sun inside were endangered when parts of the structure were set et afire The building remained in the hands of the rebels Offer Refuge Late Friday night Gen Armando Arman Arman- do R chief of f the Peruvian delegation dei gation t to tp the conference offered offered oi- oi of of- Lima as as a a. replacement site for tor the parley made his offer to Secretary Secretary Sec See rotary Marshall Delegates were reported ready to meet Saturday to consider the situation and possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly decide whether to continue here postpone postpone the conference or accept the Peruvian offer U. U S. S S Ambassador Willard Beaulac told the state department he had been informed by a liberal representative that the conference would not continue as long as conservatives conservatives con con- remained in power In Colombia The representatives assured the that conference delegations delegations dele dele- and foreigners would not be molested Top-ranking Top diplomats of 21 nations nations nations na na- na- na are in Bogota for the conference conference con con- ference ferene which opened March 30 The delegates have discussed Communism Communism Com Corn in the western hemisphere among other problems Mobs Loot Bogota had the appearance of ot a war blitzed city as mobs indulged in an orgy of burning and looting The main mam business district was a shambles Estimates of ot the damage damage damage dam dam- age ran into millions of dollars Late Friday night near the U. U S. S embassy Colombians were firing from behind great piles of ot loot Two leaders of Ospina Perez government were slain The rebels claimed Foreign Minister Laureano Gomez a conservative leader and head of ot the Colombian delegation to the Pan American conference was killed He later was reported safe in the U. U S. S embassy The mobs killed Jose Antonio Montalvo minister of at mines and petroleum and Guillermo Leon Valencia a Conservative party leader Police and troops have be ben been n di divided divided divided di- di vided by the revolt Some support support sup sup- port the conservatives others the liberals Still others regardless of political leanings are are endeavor endeavoring ing to restore order in the city The rioting was touched off by bythe bythe bythe the ass assassination of ot Jorge EU Ell Eliecer Gaitan Liberal party presidential candidate for 1950 Gaitan was shot by an unknown assailant He died in a hospital operating room an hour later The man believed to have shot him was killed by the demon demon- His body was dragged before the tie presidential palace and torn to pieces |