Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

INDEX A A ft WEATHER Today-Warmer Sailing-Smooth High Low Temperature Downtown 6241 Set 5:34 pm Set 6:33 am Low 7:40 am 8:58 pm Airport 5943 Sunrise 7:03 am Moonrise 5:37 pm High Tide 4:55 pm 2:32 am Sunday VOL 81 -No 268 Sacand ctow paitaaa paid Cerpui aiMti Taxai corpus christi texas Saturday November so i3 30 Pages PRICE FIVE CENTS PuMithcd vry wtk day morning by ttit Callar-TImn Publlflung Co Second-Worst Civilian Air Disaster Kills 118 mK i' 'r' -V 1 s' i A' I Jetliner Crashes Near Montreal CHEN AULTS CHAT WITH KIDNAPED WIFE Mr and Mrs John Chcnault parents of kidnaped Col James Chcnault spoke to their daughter-in-law Ruth in Caracas Venezuela by shortwave radio yesterday "She told Us that they were all well and for us not to Mrs Chenault said at her home at 4817 Hakel "They have had no direct communication with our son but she said he was not The radio contact was made by Zrubeck of 1413 Cambridge a local ham operator Reports that the kidnapers were attempting to barter her son for persons held by the Venezuelan government was good news to the Chenaulls They feel it probably means he is safe Earlier word received by the US Embassy and relayed to the Chcnaults said that the officer's release probably will come in a few days Sir Alec Hammers For Peace All-Out Effort Plctlgod To Quiet Easi-West Nerves INI Ntw Yrk Times News Service LONDON Sir Alec Douglas-Iome pledged Friday night the ingenuity and of British diplomacy to reduce East-West tension Lest anyone see in this the iromise of an independent initiative the new prime minister emphasized that British efforts will be made only as a loyal ally of the West and of the United States in particular Grim Opportunity Some voices have been raised lere to suggest that President Kennedy's death provided Britain with an opportunity to assume its role in international affairs until President Johnson settles in do not overvalue our Sir Alec told a Conservative Party rally in Grantham Lincolnshire thousands of years in Caller-Times Wire Services STE TIIERESE DE BLAINVILLE Que-A Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8 jetliner crashed and burned Friday night killing all 118 persons aboard It was the worst disaster in Canadian aviation history' and the world's second worst single civilian plane crash The giant four engined plane plunged to earth in a driving rainstorm at 6:32 pm just four minutes after taking off from Montreal's Dorval Airport on a shuttle flight to Toronto Witnesses said they heard an explosion and saw a red ball of fire as the jet hit the ground Calls Canceled A call for ambulances was canceled Police dogs searching for life in the wreckage were called off as the hopelessness of their task became evident Under the glare of floodlights searchers saw bodies and wreckage strewn in trees and over an area at least a half-mile square The plane crashed in an area about midway between Highway '1 and an expressway leading CANADIAN CRASH SITE 118 aboard perished (AP Wlrwdtta Map) DIXIE SXOW SCENE A light snowfall early Friday left this Christmas-rard-like scene on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga The home belongs to Whelands The weatherman forecast clearing in the Chattanooga area overnight with sub-freezing temperatures The first snow followed heavy rains in Tennessee and Kentucky (AP Wirephoto) Terrorists Set Death Curfew Assassination Study Panel Named by LB north from Montreal to the Lau- and six feet deep It soon began to lilt with rainwater Police and army personnel cordoned off the area to keep all but officials away Reds in Venezuela Also Threaten Life rentian Mountain resort areas The crash scene was about three miles northwest of Ste Thcrese dc Blainville a town 12000 miles north of Mon- STOCK MARKET JUMPS AGAIN FOR SECOND ROOST OF WEEK bccn the rule for us and forCastro terrorists threatened Friday to kill anyone found11 CARACAS Venezuela (AP) Communist and Sea of Mud churned into a rescue workers The 118 death toll made this the second worst single civilian air disaster in history The worst was the crash of an Air ruslcd to the scene The field was isea of mud as Warren To Head Probers WASHINGTON ffi-President Johnson named a special com mission Friday night to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy and spread its findings before the American people and the world Moving to dispel any mystery surrounding the slaying last Friday of the president and the Sunday killing of the accused others we cannot expect that a on the streets of Venezuelan cities after midnight mentality of peace can be eas-' They scattered leaflets saying the "curfew" would ily acquired or the machinery fog jn force until Monday the day after presidential Ki' ki LufjSt elections the terrorists are trying to sabotage vised the prime minister add- The pro-Castro Armed Forres of National Liberation Britain can give a sense FALN als0 to310011 of urgency to the search and bring thought and planning to IVUSSIdllS precision Let us deliberately go forward to do 'Must Have i Rejecting the idea that Brit- Find Glass prisals against kidnaped US Army Col James Chenault of Corpus Christ! and other US embassy officials if any harm befalls 71 terrorist prisoners in eluding five men and a woman jailed for hijacking a Venezuelan Detailed Market Report on Pages 4 SC NEW YORK IB The slock market Friday rolled up its second big rally of a tense and critical week closing in a wave of buying that boosted the day's turnover to 42 million shares The burst surprised many experts who had expected a post-Thanksgiving lull Many brokers and investors had taken an extended holiday weekend Key stocks made gains ranging from fractions to $1 to $2 a share RCA the days most active stock advanced $350 to $98 a share Of this stock 109800 shares were traded The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 952 to 75052 The Associated Press average of 60 stocks advanced 26 to 2796 with industrials up 43 rails up 13 and utilities up 9 Based on the AP average an estimated $38 billion was added to the quoted value of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange Volume last Friday the day of President John Kennedy's assassination was 522 million shares The value of stocks plummeted an estimated $11 billion on that day but this was more than wiped out by the market's smashing comeback of Tuesday that sent the Dow-Joncs industrial average on a record climb take place outside the alliance ain's diplomatic activities could alliance Despite the heavy wintry rain the aircraft burned for about two hours The Canadian government ordered an immediate investigation of the worst air disaster in Canada's history Residents of the area said they heard only one explosion presumably as the plane hit the ground Mud in the area between the highway and crash scene was at least a foot deep slowing efforts of those trying to reach the was in her kitchen scene heard a terrible explosion) From the highway debria saw a huge red ball or fire from the aircraft did not ap-in the Ipear to have been spread over airliner Tuesday The FALN Lssued its threats shortly after President Romulo Betancourt urged American nations to join in action" to end Cuba's Communist regime Armed Intervention Foreign Minister Marcos Falcon Briceno told reporters later the president's words meant armed intervention if necessary the she and ie More Johnson News Is on Page 2A Sir Alec said the dangerous of the world end Britain uivMTptrp Man ap ca reduced physical strength de- MPEG Man (AP)-So-manded that "we must haveviet inspectors have found frag power on our side" The United ments of glass in Canadian States he added where the wheat sent to the Soviet Union power resides" A Canadian official reporting we are loyal a lies Fridayt said the contamina-we cannot command loyalty jjon was jjjy due f0 er jj0t The huge jet dug a crater into wide area although visibility earth at least 90 feet square! See CRASH Page II APPEAL TO KHRUSHCHEV Pollster Reports Nixon Best Bet for GOP in Alaskan Seaman Pits Cupid Against Soviets he warned At an earlier news conference the prime minister noting that liS-l Hamilton of the Ca-br different approach to things Roard of Grain Commis from her alhes said 'Sioners sai(j a soVjet letter are not the ddl(a" complained the wheat was go-between (for the United tcreg wj(h lass nation was in a stale of SJuf we canbe Sul and mourning" over tag to find areas lhe Sovicl posal of our allies" i Sf aSSAVEl 3u shf: rf zssssssa airi teas ssjss glass bottles could have the alliance use Britain ht jn the machinery and in some special role met the I See HOME Page 16 Ira8mcnicfl- An average wheat cargo for and mourning" over John Kennedy's lie said the picture change rapidly when this tide recedes on the first of Mr Johnson in the House are that the of America is about to from the pattern assassin Johnson selected Chief Justice Earl Warren to head the seven-member group and gave It wide powers Named to serve with Warren were Sens Richard Russell D-(ia John Sherman Cooper R-Ky Reps Hale Boggs La and Gerald Ford R-Mich Allen Dulles former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency and John McCloy New York banker who frequently has served as a governmental adviser The White House announced that Johnson is instructing the commission "to satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered and to report its findings and conclusions to him (Johnson) to the American people and to the world" By including the accused assassin Lee Oswald as an object of investigation Johnson obviously is seeking answers to as many as possible of the It many questions raised by the dual slayings Arrested a few hours after Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a Dallas motorcade Oswald still was denying guilt when he was gunned down Sunday by Jack Rubcnstein a See STUDY Page II MOSCOW IB Ar American merchant mariner Saturday defied Soviet police orders to leave the country and locked himself in a Moscow hotel determined not to go until his Russian fiancee goes with him Lawrence Brayton 36 oLery confidence that he will re-Fairbanks Alaska told a news plv favorable" conference he would ignore the! Brayton said he met and fell Soviet deadline just as he had in love with Miss Shifman dur- with his 25-year-old fiancee Ro-sita Shifman at his side told newsmen Friday are morally right in this issue and I plan to stay and marry my fiancee We have appealed to Premier Khrushchev and have ev- while a shock President assassination could emotional He went Implications White political map be redrawn John Kennedy set in I960" As the Democratic nominee Kennedy defeated Republican Nixon by a narrow margin drawing his edge from the North and East As of now Harris reported a Johnson-Nixon race would find 53 per cent of the voters ready to vote for Johnson 40 per cent WASHINGTON (AP) Former Vice President Richard Nixon has the best chance of defeating President Lyndon Johnson for the presidency in 1964 but is running well behind the new President a political pollster reported Friday Louis Harris in a copyrighted report in the Wasnlngton Post wrote that the past week's events to have elevated Richard Nixon to a clear top spot among GOP contenders By ne same token the chances of Sen Barry Goldwatcr of Arizona and Gov Nelson A Rockefeller of New York appear to have been set Goldwater has been the GOP front-runner in most recent polls Harris emphasized that initial soundings were taken drastic step most Latin' Americans ordinarily would op-1 pose The security of all American countries is threatened as long as Prime Minister Fidel Castro's regime remains in Cu-Betancourt declared He ex pressed faith that some Latin-Amcrican nations that have taken a vacillating attitude toward Cuba now are convinced that the Cuban regime is a menace Shortly before Betancourt and Falcon Briceno met with report ers the Foreign Ministry or dcred the Venezuelan ambassador to Washington Enrique Te-jera Paris to lodge a formal charge of aggression against Cuba in the Organization of American States US Agrees The Foreign Ministry charged that three tons of arms found hidden near Caracas on Nov 2 came from Cuba The State Department in Washington agreed with this finding The United States offered to join other Latin American governments in increasing surveillance to block attempts by the Castro regime to export arms" State Department press officer Richard I Phillips in making the announcement declined to say what specific steps might be taken He indicated these will hinge on the Organization of American States meeting sought bv Vene-Sce CURFEW II ing a two week trip to the Soviet Union last September They met on a beach at the Black Sea resort of Yalta and later spent time in the seaport of Odessa He said he returned to Moscow from the United States on See CUPID Page II ignored the expiration dale of his visa more than three weeks ago "If the hotel throws me out I will Just find a comfortable chair someplace" he said hours after he was supposed to have left Russia The lean American seaman an ocean vessel amounts to about 370000 bushels making the total involved more than 2 million bushels in the seven ships Hamilton doubted that all of it would be contaminated since ships' holds are sectioned He said stevedores are not supposed to bring glass bottles aboard grain ships The Canadian Wheat Board said authorities ire taking steps Oswald Planned of Aguilarcs day SEASON PAPFRl Where has the Alliance for Progress failed and who is responsible? The answer may dictate the future of Latin America and of US hopes there He was recovering but still in critical condition late Friday night In Mercy Hospital In Laredo Lukcr wounded in the left side of his chest was rushed to the Iaredo hospital where On Russian Hardships be kept secret and saw that she More Oswald Newt Is Page 4A tap Ite 'pSjS" nr Uo C'iprt perta-mri and removed Texas examines its motives future outlook and sources of tension in the wake of malevolent violence which took the life of a president and his assassin YULE HITTING HERE WITH PARADE SI reels in the downtown business district will be filled with balloons from the "Story Book raradc" beginning at 9 am today Also in the parade will be Santa Claus riding in a convertible sev eral local bands and the Charlottes a group of 16 girl twirlors sponsored bv the Veterans of Foreign Wars Tost 2397 The parade will go south on Chaparral from the Courthouse to Cooper's Alley then to Water Street and back to the mint of origin The Buccaradcrs a local parade organization will direct (he show This will be the third annual balloon parade sponsored by (he Central Business District Association i V' INI Ntw Yrt Tiimt New Service FORT WORTH A public stenographer disclosed Friday that she typed notes for Lee Oswald that were to he the basis of a book on the hardships of life in Russia Miss Pauline Bates said the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy walked into her oHice June 18 1962 with a manila envelope full of notes He wore a zip-up jacket a white tee shirt and dark slacks saw your name In the telephone book" he said "Can you do some typing for me?" Miss Bates said she worked at brief intervals for the next few days typing notes that had been made on all kinds and shapes of paper Mostly she said they described the harshness of life in Russia Warming Truml Today Weather Map on Page 1C Temperatures will be slightly warmer today than yesterday's high of 59 degrees at the airport The mercury is expected to reach 65-69 degrees today and rise to an even warmer 74 degrees tomorrow The US Weather Bureau last night predicted a light frost in the early morning north and west of the city Otherwise the warming trend will be accompanied by partly cloudy skies in Corpus Chrisli and vicinity today low temperatures expected tonight are 46-52 degrees Yesterday's low was 34-40 degrees Is smoking harmful? A government panel of medical and statistical experts is about ready to issue a report A report on the Southern Negro vote registration campaign to date The world of a congressman is so full of trouble it's a wonder anybody wants the job Enjoy these and other features tomorrow in emergency surgery Iuker's entire left luhg The doctor said (he bullet had penetrated Iuker's left lung and punctured the pulmonary artery Lukcr was in a hunting party with his wife Inez and three Corpus Chrisli men on the Tele Uribe Hunting Izase 22 miles south of Aguilares when the accident occurred about 5:43 pm yesterday One of lhe men Russell Scott 48 of 4525 Evelyn said he fired al a deer from Inside an elevated blind and then heard Luk-or cry oul "I'm shot: I'm shot! The party rushed Iuker to the hospital In their hunting vehicle In the notes Miss Bates said Oswald said he worked in a factory In Minsk for 12 to 14 hours a day at a low wage She believed he said he earned about 80 rubles a month Miss Bates said Oswald complained of several families crowded into one room continual pressure of the Communist Party on civilians the constant presence of electronic listening devices no paid vacations long lectures on communism during lunch monotonous food and a shortage of milk and fresh vegetables Oswald reported verbatim con-versvations with many indlvld-Sre OSWALD Page II The 24-year-old Oswald lived In Russia for three years after finding life In his own country unbearable He had been back in this country a short while and was living with a brother near Fort Worth at the time he visited Miss Bates He told her he Intended to solicit the help of a Fort Worth engineer In publishing a book from his nolos There has been no evidence however that he pursued the book project further Miss Bates said she had to draw on her memory to recall the content of the notes Oswald she said insisted that it.