Wallaceallace Chances Good From Our Wire Services LAUREL Md AlabamaSelAlabama Gov George Wallace wawas shotahot and gravely wounded Monday afternoon just afteralter completing a pesipesi-pe i- r i r. campaign speech Late Monday night an aide said doctondoctors r are optimisticc that he will recover y However Joseph f Dr told a news conference that there K rv ptp- is potential for some paralysis in WallacesWallace's lower extremities due to a bullet near the spine but this is difficult to assess now He added There is someBOme paralysis at this time George Magnum a Wallace camearncam- sound heart and a sound brain and all paign ta PY aide said the of his organs And I a governor year vital are solid was taken into the recovery couldn't thank God any more than for room shortly after pmp.m.old following that v about five hours of exex- The surgery began about 5S pmp.m. CM two ploratory surgery hoonhours after the shooting at a showingshopping olazaplaza A doctor who assisted in the in this Washington suburb A little after 8a surgery said Wallace was struck by pmp.m. Rep William Nichols told five bullets two of which caused reporters the surgery had beenDsuspended serious wounds while doctors conferred with Mrs Wallace A rather quiet upstairs Nichols said white man identified by police as Its Ay in the process offA making A Arthur Bremer 21 of Milwaukee was makina some arrested at the decisions He said Wallace would be quite suburban shopping alert mentally as he ever was but ImI'm sure center where the shooting occurred that they're concerned about his legs and was quickly brought under fed- fed Bremer described in Milwaukee as a loner rrI- eral and state charges who stayed pretty much to himself and r Mrs Wallace went on television didn't talk much was whisked into the about 113011 30 pmp.m. to read a brief statestate- federal court building in Baltimore at 10501020 LIL i ment to express her confidence that pmp.m. At least a dozendown federal agents in six r- her husband will survive cars sped to a loading dock at the rear of the building pulled the suspect from car- She said feel very optimistic frem a carcar- M l1 and hustled him into the about it He didn'tI earn the title of the basement apparentapparent- lyIy to take him either to MIan FBI office or fighting little judge for ex- the nothing I exex- USU.S. magistrate pect him to Gov WallaceW lies on the ground hisbis shirt continue in the same vein Bremer aswas about foot and weighed W 1 Mrs CorneliaComelia Wallace the wife ofor the governor bends over hisbis stained with blood Im very happy and I feelfe very roughly pounds He hadbad short redred- good that heshe's alive that he has a asea PIpPage ta body momentmoments after he wasrshot 2 7 ww. M la 1 ie r

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Sea Hubert Humphrey arrives at Holy Cross Hospital laIs Silver Springs Md after beingbelag notified of the shooting of GovI Wallace Humphrey1 was fato Maryland for today's primary UPI Telephoto Wallace Chances Good Continued From Page 1 eve rally Monday night at Annapolis and it hair and his hands were handcuf- went on as scheduled with Sen James BB. fed behind his back Aglen DAla standing in for the governor inin- Officials said he offered no indication whywh an appearanceD at the armory heI shot Wallace One high ranking Justice in charge of the Secret Service DepartmentI official said he refused to talk atat- protection that is afforded presidential concon- all until he got a lawyer tenders as well as the President said that The suspect was roughed up by the crowd Wallace and all other candidates had been following the shooting and police had to pro-pro warned that mingling with crowds and shakshak- tecttest him Up until his arrival in Baltimore ing hands is very very difficult and his whereabouts had been kept secret to prepre- dangerous vent any incidents But he said they generally were willing to Wallace running as a Democrat this year take the risks to get closer to the voters It had only started 1 finished speaking to a crowd of about was known that Wallace had wading into the crowds ata t the insistence of some 12001 00 at Laurel Plaza about 35 miles north of itif he Washington campaign aides who told him that He stepped down from behind a bulletbullet- didn't it might seem he was afraid of the proof podium he uses and headed toward hishis- people car along ropes that held back the crowd The Justice Department made public But as he often does Wallace responded to BremersBremer'ss's identity about 6 pmp.m. more calls from the crowd to shake hands The USU.S. Attorney in Baltimore George He pulled offof his coat with a yellow vest Beall soon afterward formally filed charges underneath and turned to calls George against Bremer They include charges of Governor Come over and shake hands with assaulting a federal officer and violating the me 1968 Civil Rights Act which prohibits inin- Witnesses said Wallace turned to his left terference with a federally protected activity and came face-to-face with his assailant A Justice Department spokesman said the year Jeff Ginnes of Laurel was justjust- government would seek a bond toto- IS15teen1 feet awaytoI1 saw him shot in the gut and day for Bremer whose last known address hebe fell straight back the youngster said was 2433 WW. Michigan StSt. Milwaukee were four shots I think They soundsound- There President Nixon was informed of the ed like but I didn't see a gun shooting before it became public knowledge Three other persons were also wounwoun- and oneo e of ded two of them Wallace bodyguards One sent his White House doctors to the ded-two hospital He also telephoned oftwohis Secret Service agents was shot through Mrs Wallace and was told that she was optimistic the neck and an Alabama state police capcap- about the governor'sgovernors chances for recovery tainlain was hit in the abdomen Press Secretary Ronald LL. Ziegler said the Bremer who police said bought the shortshort- President told Mrs Wallace now I1 want revolver in Milwaukee Jan you to tell him directly that Mrs Nixon and I1 13 was wearing a red white and blue shirt will remember him in our thoughts and with Wallace buttons on it prayers Treasury Secretary John BB. Connally who Col Thomas SS. Smith superintendent oiof was seriously wounded when President John the Maryland State Police as well as AssisAssis- FF. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Nov tanttent Treasury Secretary Eugene TT. 22 1963 shook his head in disbelief when told said there is no evidence at this time that of the shooting anyone else was involved Its just unbelievable Connally told a reporter just so tragic that things like shouting Prince Georges County Its After the this happen in this country It makes you I said Md Executive William WW. Gullett want to weep man was severely pummeled by the the Col Thomas S. superintendent of doctor but is S Smith crowd He was taken to a Maryland's state police identified the others suspect was being okay Gullett said the wounded as Capt Dothard of the location because EC held at an undisclosed Alabama State Highway Patrol who has still unfolding things are been a personal bodyguard for Wallace Mrs As Wallace fell to the ground his wife sobbing She Dora Thompson Hyattsville Md a Cornelia knelt beside him bystander and Nicholas a Secret by campaign workers and resisted efforts Service agent working out of the Atlanta pull her away and the front security men to office of bright yellow dress was smeared with her underwent surgery at LelandLei and her husbandshusband's blood Sen Charles Mathias was among Memorial Hospital in Riverdale Md for of wound made by a bullet that went political leaders who rushedRto the hospital repair a condition was and after an hour with Mrs Wallace he told through his throat His described as serious but Capt Dothard and reporters that the governor'sgovernors life was not 10 in were released being danger but there was a question of whether Mrs Thompson after treated at Holy Cross Hospital there would be permanent disability Mathias did not specify what kind of Earlier the White House announced that disability but said the concern was over sa Sen Edward MM. Kennedy had acac- bullet lodged narnear WallacesWallace's spine cepted temporary protection as a re of the to an election- Dre Wallace was have attended election shooting