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ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE A World Safe for Diversity: Editorial Looking to March 1965: Editorial What's in the Civil Rights From Congressional Quarterly I A Closing Stock Market Prices Pages 8B and 93 Vul- 85 No- 348 (86th Year) in. M. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1963 68 PAGES PRICE 7c "SSST' SILO DISPATCH 3.3-JLL! Africans Fight Moscow Police In Protest Over Student Death CANNON GIVES FULL SUPPORT TO PLANS FOR JOHNSON READY TO HOLD SUMMIT TALKS IF THEY WOULD BE PRODUCTIVE Con- Muscovites Gather to Watch fusion Over Fatality of Ghanian MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (AP)-Sev-eral hundred students from BILL CALLED UP IN SENATE; 3-DAY WAIT IS WAIVED Congress Moves Step Closer to Adjournment for Holidays on Friday Ghana and other African nations stormed into Red square today, fought with police and tried to ulAltSPUolllON from the Ghana Embassy a mile away, where they first gathered.

They stormed over a barricade of Russian trucks at the entrance to Red square, fighting police on top of and beneath the trucks. The gates of Spasky tower, the main entrance to the Kremlin from Red square, banged shut as students rolled over police opposition and tried to get into the Kremlin. They stormed outside the high House Member Is First Witness at Hearing on IF: ASKED 1 HE. KHRUSHCHEV From Pnst-Dlipatch Wire frVrvlcee WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 Con- break into the Kremlin.

The students said they were protesting against the fatal stabbing of a student from Ghana by a Russian last Friday. The Africans broke past barricades into Red square, where Russians march on May day and on the anniversary of the October revolution. The students bore a sign showing a knife plunged into the head of an African. Another sign declared: "Friend today, the devil tomorrow." "Moscow is a second Alabama," shouted one student. The demonstrators fought po- red brick wall of the Kremlin mc wm X.

MICH FE at a point opposite the office of jgress moved a step closer today to a holiday adjournment Friday By WAYNE LEEMAN A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch ST. CLAIR, Dec. 18-The multi-million-dollar Army plan for development of the Meramec River Basin was given unqua'i-fiel support today by United Slates Representative Clarence Cannon Elsberry. Tart of his Ninth district is in the plan's area. Appearing as the first witness at a public hearing on the pro Premier Nikita S.

Khrushchev. Whether he was in his office was not learned. Inside the Kremlin, the Russian parliament was meeting, discussing the new budget. Apparently, police at no time TURN TO PAGE 9, COLUMN 4 when the 3.3-bilIion-dollar foreign aid appropriation bill was called up for Senate consideration without objection. A single objection to its immediate consideration would have forced the measure over until Saturday.

A request for unanimous consent to bypass the usual three-day waiting period on such Tells Reporters Every Possible Dime of Waste Will Be Cut From Budget By RICHARD DUDMAN Washington Correspondent of lice all the way to Red square CHOOSE JAIL legislation sailed through when made by Democratic majority leader Mike Mansfield of Montana. The Senate Appriations Committee had approved the measure yesterday for $3,299,500,000 in OVERPROBATION S-DAY FORECAST: CONTINUED COLD Forecast for the St. Louis area for the next five days: Temperatures will average 15 to 20 degrees below seasonal normals for the five-day period tomorrow through Monday. Normal highs are 42 to 43. Normal lows are 26 to 29.

A slight warming trend is likely over the weekend and early next week, accompanied by a period or two of light snow. BIAS PROTEST new money compared with the $2,801,700,000 the House voted posal, Cannon said: "Beginning immediately, we are going to dam the Meramec; we are ii'S to develop it; we are going to utilize it to the utmost." The audience of about 1000 persons applauded loudly. Cannon's words take on special significance because the 84-yrar-old Missourian is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, which must approve B'iy expenditures by the Federal Government for the project. 'Unriva'ed Development' that the plan comes at a opportune time, Cannon "The next decade is go Associated Press Wlrephoto Surprise Press Conference Monday. The Senate group dropped a House amendment that would prohibit the Government from guaranteeing private financing of any sales of United States grain to Communist bloc 11 Others in Store Demonstration Take Freedom At a surprise press conference called in his office today PRESIDENT LYNDON B.

JOHNSON said he would meet with world leaders whenever he believes such meetings would be fruitful. bupporters of the program conceded that there was SNOW ON SNOW AND NEAR-ZERO COLD, WITH WIND AH SECRET SERVICE SOURC Eleven of 25 persons arrested after a racial demonstration at the downtown department store of Scruggs Vandervoort Barney ing to see unrivaled development of our economic resources. Franklin county and the Ninth Congressional district are going were serving Workhouse sen GETS REVISION IS BEING OUCH St. Louisans were greeted by new layer of snow and near- the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, Dec. I8-Pres-ident Lyndon B.

Johnson told reporters today that he is willing to participate in a conference of world leaders at anytime he believes such meetings would be "fruitful and productive." The President was asked, at press conference called without notice, what he thought about a possible early meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Putting his answer in general terms, Mr. Johnson said he always was willing to engage in promising talks with world leaders. He noted that he had arranged meetings with leaders' of West Germany, Britain, Italy, Canada and Mexico.

The answer was substantially the same as other Presidents have used to inquiries about a possible summit when they were not seeking any early East-West meeting. Reporters were called unexpectedly into Mr. Johnson's office for the half-hour session. He had held one other similar press conference in his office without notice. He has not yet had a formal press conference, scheduled in advance, with television coverage, in the manner of Presidents Dwight D.

Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Major Points Mr. Johnson covered these possibility of further cuts before the Senate sends the measure to a conference with the House to iron out differences. Guess At Final Figure Senate Republican minority leader Everett M.

Dirksen said tences tcday ranging from three to seven days. The 11 had been fined $25 to zero cold when they stepped doors this morning. The Weather to have their part in that program." Taking note of questions concerning who will pay for execution of the plan, Cannon said: "I'll tell you who is going to i Bureau reported that 1.7 inches EN BAKER INQUIRY $150 by City Judge Rodney Weiss yesterday for their part in the of snow fell last night and early I this morning, and the tempera- pay for it Congress is going to ture skidded to 1 above zero at KENNEDY lUND After Visit by Agents Doctors Say Shot Was From Rear pay for USIA DENIES IT CUT FILM TO APPEASE ARABS WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) A United States Information Agency spokesman denied last night that a scene involving a rabbi was deleted from a documentary movie on the life of President Lyndon B. Johnson to avoid annoying Arabs overseas.

The spokesman said that when the movie, entitled "Let Us Continue," was in the discussion stages, it had been planned at one point to open it with a panorama of American life including possible shots of various church services. "This opening was discarded in favor of a more dramatic one on President Kennedy's funeral," he said. The movie's writer-producer, Woman Says He Kept Thousands in His Senate Office that the final compromise probably would be in the neighborhood of 3 billion dollars in new money and $209,000,000 in carryover funds, compared with the late President John F. Kennedy's request for 4.5 billions. A major fight may center on an appeal by Senator Karl E.

Mundt South Dakota, from the committee's action deleting the House amendment Dec. 4 demonstration. They were offered a year's probation on payment of $5 court costs, with a stay of the fines, but they elected to serve sentences rather than pay fines or court costs. Eleven other defendants chose to accept probation, which permits them to engage in legal picketing of the type practiced by labor unions during a strike. One defendant, James Gaskin, 5900 block ot Plymouth avenue, was absent from court yester 7:45 a.m.

Adding to the discomfort was a chill wind, which drifted snow with gusts up to 30 miles an hour. City, county and state road crews worked much of the night to spread salt and cinders on hills and at icy intersections. The frigid weather is expected to be more frigid tonight. The Cannon said that some opposition still remained from an earlier proposal calling for a high dam on the Meramec near Sullivan. However, he expressed the opinion that this opposition would not be significant.

'Tremendous Majority "There is a tremendous majority for this project, and we By a Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, Dec, 18 Two Secret Servire agents called last week on Dallas surgeons who attended President John F. Kennedy and obtained a reversal WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (AP)-Senate investigators said today they are trying to find out where Robert G. (Bobby) Baker got the thousands of dollars in cash a witness tetified he kept in his Senate office. To help them, President Lyndon B.

Johnson signed an ex are going to put it tnrougn." Be-j weatner Bureau said tne mer-fore leaving Washington, Cannon cury would drop to between day and was fined $50 for general peace disturbance. He will of their original view that the said, he checked with Represent-; zero and five below, and down to 10 below in isolated suburban Rod Serling, said in Hollywood that the USIA decided ahead of areas. ative Richard Ichord Houston, and Representative Thomas B. Curtis (Rep), prohibiting the Export-Import Bank from guaranteeing repayment of credits that private American banks grant to Communist purchasers of United States grains and other surplus farm commodities. Mundt said the he would ask for a separate roll call vote on the issue.

He was defeated when he offered a similar proposal as a separate bill Nov. 26. The measure was tabled, thus killed, by a vote of 57 to 35. Funds Restored other points: (1) The budget he will send to Congress jext month will have every possible dime of waste cut out of it, but he does not know the total figure. i (2) Thomas C.

Mann, newly appear Dec. 30 to decide whether to accept probation or go to the Workhouse. Charges Continued Charges against two other defendants, Eugene Tournour, Midwest field representative of the Congress of Racial Equality, and Isaac Gates, 5800 block of Plym- Webster Groves. "I them what I was going to say here today and they said, 18 INCHES OF SNOW IN 24 HOURS AT MUSKEGON, MICH. ecutive order permitting the rules committee, which is carrying on the inquiry, to examine the tax files of Baker, Johnson's protege when the President was Senate Democratic minority leader.

Senator Carl T. Curtis Nebraska, said he regarded the time not to include "anything relating to the Jewish faith" in the film. "We were told that the Middle East wouldn't show the film there was anything relating to the Jewish faith or if there were photographs of Jews," Serling bullet in his neck entered from the front. The investigators did so by showing the surgeons a document described as an autopsy report from the United States Naval Hospital at Bethesda. The surgeons changed their original view to conform with the report they were shown.

"There was no coercion at all," Dr. Robert N. McClelland told the Post-Dispatch. "They "that pond we want to co appointed Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American affairs. i outh, were continued to Dec.

30. will also serve as a special as testimony about the money as said. After Judge Weiss had made The Senate bill calls for $325 sistant to the President. Mr. the big point at the committee's Representative Emanuel Celler first public hearings yesterday New York, accused the didn't say anything like, This is what you think, isn't his offer of probation, he ordered 000,000 in grants and loans under the courtroom in the Municipal the Alliance for Progress pro-Courts Building cleared of all gram in Latin America, except the defendants 000 more than Che House allowed, and their attorneys.

This was It restores $30,900,000 of a permit them to discuss the 050,000 House cut in funds for in- in its investigation ot Baker USIA of censorship and said "th business dealings and allegations denial won't wash." of conflict of interest. MUSKEGON, Dec. 18 (AP) A snow squall blowing in from Lake Michigan was breaking records by the hour today in this southwest lower Michigan city. Nearly 18 inches of snow fell in the last 24 hours, the Muskegon weather bureau said. "In the next six hcurs, the record will be exceeded almost every hour," a spokesman said.

More than 30 inches of snow covered the ground. Forecasts said that snow squalls could continue through Friday. The snowfall broke two rec offer Johnson said Mann would co-ordinate all Latin American policy, observing: "We expect speak with one voice on all matters affecting this hemisphere." (3) The Senate's action yesterday adding $500,000,000 to tbe amount voted by the House fQr foreign aid was "very constructive and very helpful." Mr. Johnson expressed confidence that he could be satisfied with any appropriation that was the considered product of both houses of Congress. ternational organizations and programs to provide a total of $130,900,000 for those United Nations activities.

In addition to the foreign aid funds, the Senate committee The Associated Press reported that a source familiar with the autopsy findings said Mr. Kennedy might have survived the first bullet to strike him. He said it was the second bullet which struck his head, that proved fatal. This source said last night the first bullet struck the President in the back and did not damage Baker, 35 years old, resigned Oct. 7, from his post as secretary to the Senate's Democratic majority after questions were raised about whether his outside interests conflicted with his official duties or involved other improprieties.

Woman's Testimony FILMING PAPERS OF PRESIDENTS A 14-YEAR JOB WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (AP)-Even in the past, Presidents were more prolific writers than anyone suspected. The House About half the defendants went into a small room in the rear of the courtroom where the city Marshall usually holds prisoners. As Judge Weiss retired to his chambers, the group in the mar recommended the full $102,000, 000 requested by the Administra shal's room began singing with operate'," Cannon told (he crowd. Cannon's statement is believed to be his first public utterance on the Meramec Basin plan.

Missouri Secretary of State E. Hearnes said development c' t'le Meramec Basin was as essential to the welfare of St. Ic. is and of all Missourians as any riparian project be-ir. considered in Missouri.

Stresses Recreation In testimony prepared for delivery here, Hearnes said that it was e.c?citial to make the possibilities of the area available to residents of St. Louis and all Missouri. He pledged his support to the project. Hearnes said he spoke both as a citizen and as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. John F.

Hallett, St. Louis banker and chairman of a special committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis, said his committee's broad policy recommendations "aqree completely with the recommendations proposed by the Corps of Engineers." i "The plan presented today by the Corps of Engineers is considered in perfect harmony with handclapping and foot-tapping. tion t0 enabIe the peace Corps i i 1 TT. a Dt.

iiitr 10 muiy ouuui ucmc-i a recognized this yesterday by any vital organs. He said it was A. rh-n7 I large amounts of cash took the chant not likelv to have caused death, room up passing legislation to remove a cost ceiling on a project for by the end of next August. The in a tiling drawer in ms ottice came from Mrs. Gertrude The surgeons' earlier description of a wound in the front of the President's throat as an entry Novak, widow of a contractor ords.

The 24-hour record of nearly 18 inches far surpassed the 12.6 inches that fell during the night and morning of Dec. 9 and 10, 1962. The squall brought the total snowfall for the month past the December record of 54.2 inches in 1962. Highway crews barely were able to keep main roads open. who was Baker's partner in the building of the plush Carousel Orders Singing to Stop Judge Weiss walked into the marshal's office and ordered a halt to the singing.

He told the group that they were in a courthouse where other defendants TURN TO PAGE 17, COLUMN 4 House had allowed $89,000,000 in new money, plus $3,900,000 in carryover funds. The Senate bill carries for the President's contingency fund. This amounted to TURN TO PAGE 16, COLUMN 3 (4) The President expects to fly to his LBJ Ranch in Texas with his family next Sunday or early next Monday to spend the Christmas holidays there. He said he "might even go hunting" on the ranch and expressed a desire to "go into the hills ani commune with myself." Won't Sacrifice Security Referring to the new budget, Mr. Johnson said he will be careful not to sacrifice United States security and will not pass up new programs that are needed.

He said he hoped the budget microfilming chief executives papers. The project, authorized six years ago, contemplates copying the Library of Congress collections of papers of the Presidents from George Washington through Calvin Coolige. The idea is to make them more readily available to scholars and to preserve them in case of disaster to the originals. The original legislation authorized $720,000 for the purpose. All but about $81,000 of this will have been used up next July 1 and the work has eight years to go.

The House passed by voice wound had cast doubt on the official belief that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only assassin. It had suggested the possibility that a second sniper had fired simul-aneouslv from somewhere in front of the President's automobile. The surgeons now support the official view that both bullets that struck the President were fired from behind, from the direction of the sixth story warehouse window where Oswald is believed to have been hiding. Thev now believe that the bul motel at Ocean City, Md. She told of getting thousands' of dollars at a time from Baker for deposit in the Carousel's account to meet construction costs and operating expenses.

Committee sources said after the hearing that investigation has turned up one or two possible sources of the cash, or at least part of it, and that other leads are being run down. They declined to disclose any details. Curtis, ranking Republican w1 r.w:..rw Hit' If TMMWiS 4 htm uL Chamber policies," he said. "We recommend its acceptance and encourage all voluntary and governmental agencies that are in- TURN TO PAGE 10, COLUMN 1 would reduce the proportion of the gross national product devoted to Government spending. let in the neck entered from the back, where the right shoulder 1 member of the committee, said vote yesterday a bill to remove Spending this year will total about 99 billion dollars, he said, the ceiling and permit Congress meets the neck, and passed out to appropriate funds as needed through the hole in front, about Fair and Colder in an interview that this is one of the things that will be pursued in later hearings.

He said that he expects other witnesses to be questioned about the source of the money and that to continue tne wore, ineraens- ure now goes to the Senate. 1 TURN TO PAGE 6, COLUMN 1 City's Christmas Mail Down Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and colder tonight; tomorrow sunny and continued cold; low temperature tonight zero to 5 below generally, near 10 below in outlying Pieces From 1962 Baker himself will be asked about it when he is called as a witness. Senator B. Everett Jordan North Carolina, the com- TURN TO PAGE 16, COLUMN 4 $2 BILLS SOLD FOR SI and there will be 3.5 billion dollars in built-in increases because of pay boasts, new programs and other legislation.

"No one knows what the budget will be now, because we'ra trying the case, so to speak," the President said. Agencies seeking restoration of funds cut from their proposals are still bringing their appeals to him, he said. Mr. Johnson said the budget would include money for "new programs to meet new situations." He said he would "not be content to set in our rocking TURN TO PAGE 7, COLUMN 1 NEWS INDEX BAKER'S POLICY: CARRY AND CASH local suburban areas; high tomorrow 12 to 18. Temperatures this is because the economy Is good.

The St. Louis Post Office should do its peak business today or tomorrow. Busiest day last year was Dec. 18, when 7,800,000 pieces of mail were handled. Yesterday, the Post Office here handled 6.200,000 pieces compared with 6,777,000 pieces for the same day last year.

The si'uation here follows a national trend. For the first half of December, mail volume was down 2.5 per cent compared with St. Louisans have sent out about 4,500,000 fewer pieces of Christmas mail this year than they had by this time last year, Postmaster Claude I. Bakewell reported today. He attributed the decline to sorrow over the death of President John F.

Kennedy. "There remains a national feeling of gloom," Bakewell said. "Because of the assassination, a lot of people just haven't got the Christmas spirit." Bakewell doubts that Christmas mail this year will approach the record volume of last year. But he noted that although St. Louisans are sending out and receiving fewer Christmas cards, the volume of packages is up about 100,000 to date.

He said AND PEOPLE STAMPEDE TORONTO, Dec. 18 (AP)-A Toronto business man wondered how Christmas shoppers would react if they were offered $2 bills for $1. He conducted the experiment at a downtown corner yesterday. For the first five minutes no one accepted his offer of S2 for $1. Then the idea caught on.

People stampeded and disrupted traffic. It took six policemen 10 minutes to restore order. The business man retreated, $300 poorer. 1 a.m. 14 2 a.m.

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