CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, Tuesday, May 16, 1972

Mrs. Cornelia Wallace, wife of Go v. George C. Wallace, reports on his condi- tion during a telecast Monday night from Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Springs, Md. by what he called the das- ' nnooting nit tardly attack on Wallace. ' lie said "it indicates a sick- ness of some kind in our de- mocracy. I don't know what in resolution the answer is." SEN. ROBERT P. Griffin (R-Mich.) the minority whip said it was not proper to "jump to the conclusion that by Congress society is sick "because of the act "of a few mentally de- ranged people." Daily News Wire Services But Griffin said the shooting Congress unanimously issues of the day and seek the "tends to demean our political adopted a resolution Tuesday Presidency without being shot, process and degrade our deploring the attempted assas- then I tremble for the future of society." our nation," he said. sination of Gov. George C. THE REV. RALPH David Wallace. Humphrey, who was cam- paigning in Maryland when he Abernathy, chairman of the "This violence is deeply learned of the shooting, rushed Southern Christian Leadership deplored and condemned by all to the hospital and spent more Conference, described the Americans," the resolution than an hour with Wallace's. shooting as a "tragic. ex- said. It also extended "best wife while the governor was in perience." wishes and prayers of all citi- surgery. "My heart is heavy," Mr. zens" to Wallace and his fami- "Any act of violence adds to Abernathy said at an appear- ance in Seattle. ly. the tension in this country. What we need more than any- "All of us as citizens of this The resolution, adopted by thing is a spirit of reconcilia- country are sick with the can- voice vote hi the Senate, was tion," said Humphrey, who cerous disease of racism that passed without debate in the called the shooting a "sad and has led us to madness." House and sent to President tragic act." Mr. Abernathy blamed the Nixon foihis signature. SEN. EDWARD M. Kennedy attempt on Wallace's life on SEN. JAMES B. Allen, (D- (D-Mass.), brother of John and the "militarism and violence Ala), who co-sponsored the res- Robert, said: "My heart and our nation is involved in" in olution with Sen. John Spar- prayers go out to Gov. Wallace Vietnam and at home. k m a n ( D-Ala.) said the and to members of his grief- "senseless shooting" indicates stricken family. Once again, "Unless you and I stop that "there is something wrong democracy in America has violence," Mr. Abernathy said, with the democratic processs." been scarred by senseless and "your bullet is not far away The resolution was part of a unforgiveable violence." and mine is near at hand." nationwide wave of shock, out- Rep. Shirley Chisholm OD- IMPERIAL Wizard Robert rage and dismay expressed by M. Shelton of the Ku Klux leaders across the political ( N.Y.), a political rival to Wal- Klan said that anti-Wallace spectrum. lace as a candidate for the politicansmustsharethe . Senators George McGovern presidential nomination and, blame for the assassination at- and Hubert H. Humphrey, the as a black, a bitter opponent of tempt. leading contenders for the his segregationist views, ex-ex- press, . the general reaction "I can truthfully say the Democratic presidential nomi- anti-Wallace forces in Ala- nation that Wallace is seeking, fro tv :1 political and racial pole, 't bama can be accredited with canceled scheduled campaign .4* • ; as much of the psychological appearances. "We'iv.- becoming very am- blame as anybody else," Shel- President Nixon called Mrs. malistic when our differences ton said. Wallace at her husband's bed- have to be settled by a gun and "I just hope that some of side to offer his hope and pray- not by reason," she said. "No these mealy-mouthed politi- ers for the wounded candi- matter if we do have differing cans in Alabama will get off date's recovery. political viewpoints, this is not their hind ends and their do- the answer." nothing attitudes and Join with M R . NIXON called the Treasury Sec. John B. Con- true Alabamians in the true shooting, "Senseless and trag- nally, who was wounded when , fight," he said. ic." President John F. Kennedy McGovern said, "We can was killed in 1963, said: "It's only hope and pray for the just so tragic that things like speedy recovery of Gov. Wal- this happen in this country. It lace and we can only say a makes you want to weep." prayer for our country." MAJORITY Leader Mike "If we've gotten to the point Mansfield (D-Mont.) told the in this country where a public Senate ' he was horror-struck figure can't speak out on the I Wallace case unlike

By Arthur J. Snider hip down, said Dr. Joseph Daily News Science Editor Schanno, a vascular surgeon. Gov. will The hope is that with the re- live but his chances of walking duction of inflammation and again appear slimmer by the swelling, the cable-like spinal hour. cord again will begin to carry That is the opinion of a top impulses. The outcome should neurosurgeon interviewed here be known in the next 48 hours. by The Daily News. " I f the spinal cord is Dr. Eric Oldberg, chairman- stunned, there is hope for emeritus of the University of some recovery," said Dr. Old- Illinois neurosurgery depart- berg. "But if it is bruised, ment, said there is not much there would be little hope." room for optimism on the AN IMPORTANT decision to basis of medical reports from be made by the surgical team Holy Cross Hospital in Silver is whether to subject Wallace Springs, Md. to another operation to remove "The question of bowel and the embedded bullet. bladder control are in the pic- ture as well," Dr. Oldberg The operation was halted at said. the 3-hour mark Monday night • so surgeons could explain the THE SURGEON said it will condition to Mrs. Wallace. require great courage for a Later doctors announced man to campaign in a wheel- chair under those circum- Turn to Page 8, Column 8 stances. they would wait a few days to "A reference has been made study X-rays and decide to the fact that Franklin Del- whether the bullet should be removed. ano Roosevelt campaigned in BULLET a wheelchair," said Dr. Old- "THE PURPOSE of remov- berg. "The cases are not com- LODGED ing the bullet is to take the 1 parable. Roosevelt had polio HERE per cent chance that relieving and polio produces wasted pressure on the cord might im- muscles with no difficulty of prove the paraplegic condi- bladder and bowel control." tion," said Dr. Oldberg. "It will Wallace was struck by four all depend on where the bullet or five bullets. But the bullet is located o n X-ray." that did the most damage tore through the lower end of the On the other hand, doctors right rib cage, perforated the may decide no useful purpose diaphragm, ripped through the would be served by another stomach, and tore some of the surgical ordeal. The bullet ligaments of the small in- Diagram locates wounds suffered by Alabama Gov. George would then be left in place. testines. C. Wallace. Doctors have not yet decided whether to re- "The picture is grim and you The bullet finally lodged in move the bullet that passed through his abdomen and just have to pray and thank the spinal column to cause the lodged in the spinal column. Wallace also suffered two God for any improvement you loss of sensation and move- wounds or the right arm, a superficial wound under the get," said Dr. Oldberg. ment in the legs. right shoulder and a grazing superficial wound on the back "He is paralyzed from the EXCEPT for the spinal cord of the left shoulder blade. (UPI) complication, Wallace was on FDR's the road to recovery. His vital signs were good and his heart was strong. Had the bullet not lodged near the spinal cord, he could have been back on the cam- paign trail by mid-July. Chances of recovery from an uncomplicated penetrating ab- dominal wound, on a statistical basis, are 97 in 100. Assuming complete freedom from hemorrhage or infection, 'an abdominal wound is han- dled today as expeditiously as a gallbladder operation. AND THE RECOVERY time is about the same — two weeks in the hospital and another two or three weeks at home — says Dr. Frederick W. Preston, who accumulated more than 100 gunshot abdominal wound cases at Henrotin Hospital over a five-year period. In none of these cases was there spinal cord involvement, said Dr. Preston. IF THERE is any bright spot in Wallace's ill fortune, it is that he occurred in an era when surgery has achieved al- most complete mastery over penetrating abdominal wounds.