Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-21
Heart Affected by Lung Infection
Hating RecoveryFrom Car Injury
Wife at Bedside
I As End Comes to
Famous Soldier
b. the Associated Press


HEIDELBERG, Germany, DEF
21.-Gen. George S. Patton, jr
who led the victorious Sd Arm
from the beaches of Normand
into CzechoSlovakia, died at SIS
pm. disc am. EST today,
dozen days after his neck wa
broken in a traffic accident.
The generals stout fighting hear
weakened during the day from
effects of pulmonary complication
which had beset his apparent re-
covery from the broken neck ane
partial paralysis.
Mrs. Patton was with him.
1.-TWO daughters of Gen. Patton
live in Washington. They are
Mrs Beatrice Patton Waters,
5000 Tunlaw road NV, and Mrs.
Ruth Ellen Patton Totten, 1900
Forty-fifth street NV. Mrs.
Waters, the wife of Army 1t. Col.
John K. Waters, has two chill
dren, John K, jr., 7, and George
Patton, 4.
(Gen. Patton's only son, West
Point Cadet George Smith Pat
ton III, left the Military Acad-
envy yesterday en- route to Wash
ington, according to friends of
the family. and is expected here
today or tomorrow.
(The last Christmas the en-
tire family was together was in
1889 when Gen. Patton was COM
manding officer at Fort Myer.
Then the family circle included
Mrs. Patton, the two daughters
and son, Col. Waters and the first
grandson. Col. Waters was
German prisoner for more than
years.
60 Last November.
The announcement of the gener
ais death was made by Brig. Ger
John M. Willen of the 7th Army.
Gen. Patton was so last. Novem
Der IL.
He was commander of the 15tl
Army at the time of his death. H
had served briefly as acting com
mander of all American forces Il
the European theater few day
before his automobile and an Arm
truck collided near Mannheim o.
Sunday, December 9.
The official announcement said:
Gen, Patton died at $50 tonigh'
1t was announced by Brig. Ger
John M. Willen, chief of staff of tn
7th Army. The general died peace
fully"
Was Making Amazing Recovery.
The expert at armored warfare
who campaigned brilliantly il
Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Ger
many, Austria and Czechoslovaki
in Allied drives that staggered Ger
many to her knees last spring, hat
been making an amazing recover
until yesterday.
1t was then that the respirator
condition reveloped. BY mornin
today, doctors were gravely worries
about the deterioration in his con
dition. AS Gen. Patton's life ebbe'
away, his heart became affected.
Shortly before his death, Ma.
Gen. A. w. Kenner, chief of Arm
surgeons in Europe, left Europeal
headquarters in Frankfurt for Ger
Patton's bedside.
Only 10 minutes before the gen
eral died, the 130th Station Hospits
issued this bulletin on his condition
Gen. Patton's condition is con
sidered serious. There has been
pulmonary complication which ha
resulted in an accumulation Of sc
cretions in the lungs thus embarras
sing respiration. Paralysis OF on
side of the diaphragm in the inter
costal resulting from the spinal cor
injury has made it difficult to get ri
of these secretions by cupping. AS
result of the pulmonary congestion
the heart has become embarrassed
however, the pulse is strong and tn
temperature only slightly above nor
NAL. The chief medical consular
for the theater has been in attend
ance"