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59,860 Delaware County Dallv Except Sunday 18-2S E. 8th Chester. Pa. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1963 Want Ads TR 4-5252 All Departments TR 6-8161 SORROW Tearful, sorrowing 130,000 lined Pennsylvania Avenue for one of history's most tragic funeral processions. Page 2.

Eight Cents (Copyright, 1963, The Dallas Times-Herald and Photographer Bob Jackson) FATAL BULLET slams into the abdomen of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, despite massive security inside police station. Business Halts in Mourning Schools, banks and many businesses closed in Delaware County today to mourn the death of WASHINGTON mourning nation President Kennedy. Religious groups scheduled special services to pay homage Most industrial plants scheduled some type of observance. Almost all normal activity in Delaware County was to cease during President Kennedy's fu neral, which started at noon. County Schools Supt.

G. Bak er Thompson said classes wil resume Tuesday morning. Pennsylvania Military College were cancelled until aft er graveside services. Gov. William W.

Scranton or dered all state liquor stores anc banks to close during the day. The Governor suggested all ac tivity, including traffic, stop a noon for one minute of prayer. The Philadelphia Transporta tion which operates Red Ar row buses in the county, com plied with the Governor's re quest. Chester City Council met brief ly at. 10 a.m.

today to give sec ond reading to the proposed oc cupation tax ordinances. High way and garbage collection em ployes reported for work. Th remainder of the city adminis tration was excused. The Delaware County Com mission closed the courthouse i Media for the day. A combined county praye service will be at 7:45 tonigh in Faith Baptist Church, Brook haven.

Rev. Kenneth Hall, pas See LIFE, Page 2 Free World Pays Homage dx '(AP) buried A John Kennedy today on an open lillside sacred with history after formal farewell from statesmen, countrymen and family. The youthful President, who sought peace in an age of hot and cold wars, found his own peace beside the nation's heroes Arlington National Cemetery in a grave overlooking the memorial of another martyred resident, Abraham Lincoln. But with the prayers for the dead there -were hopes for the new President, Lyndon Johnson, who briefly laid aside the- awesome problems he inherited to lead 26 presidents, prime ministers and kings in paying respect to the assassinated Kennedy. Not since the burial of the Unknown Soldier 40 years ago had there been such a gathering in Washington.

Many if not all of the 100 or so dignitaries--including French President Charles de Prince Phillip and Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home of Britain, Ludwig Er- lard of West Germany--joined the grieving Mrs. Kennedy in a sombre procession that walked behind the horse-drawn caisson bearing Kennedy's body to St. Mathew's Roman Catholic Cathedral. The low Pontifical Mass was celebrated by Richard Cardinal Gushing, archbishop of Boston and an old friend of the Kennedy family. Because of the space limitations, only those-with invitations were allowed up the 13 steps Mrs.

Kennedy Makes 2nd Trip To Casket: Stares Into Faces WASHINGTON (AP) Mrs. 1 John F. Kennedy went back for a second look at her husband's casket in the Capitol rotunda and pleading, "Let me walk, let me walk," mingled with crowds that mourned the slain President. The 34-year-old widow of President Kennedy seemed reluctant to leave his casket. With her two children, she had come in a funeral procession Sunday to leave the President's body to lie in state in the Capitol for public viewing by many thousands.

Mrs. Kennedy, with her daughter Caroline beside her, had knelt and kissed the casket before she departed about 2:30 p.m. Unexpectedly, she was back about 9 o'clock Sunday night, on the arm of her brother-in-law, Atty. Gen. Robert F.

Kennedy, as long lines of people waited to pass the President's bier. She walked slowly by the ropes keeping the public from the casket area and once again knelt and kissed the coffin. Until she had left it at the Capitol, Mrs. Kennedy had remained near her husband's body since he was slain in Dallas Friday afternoon. On her sudden nighttime reappearance, the slow moving crowd came to a halt.

When Mrs. Kennedy rose, she turnec her tear-stained face and looked for a long moment at the faces of those who came to pay their respects to her late husband. As she and the attorney general left, Mrs. Kennedy seemed to look searchingly at the faces of the incoming throng. "Let me walk, let me walk," she said as they descended the Capitol steps.

At first Mrs. Kennedy went unrecognized, but soon she was discovered and See JACQUELINE, Page 16 and into the dark-red brick church. But in a moving display of sorrow and affection, Americans mightly and humble, paid their espects. They choked the sidewalks along Pennsylvania Avenue anc flooded the Capitol grounds Sun day as the late President's body was carried past them on a caisson drawn by six horses Then came the dark riderless horse, with empty cavalry boots reversed in the stirrups, the traditional symbol of a slain warrior. After the procession passed the crowd of spectators broke through police lines and by the thousands marched silently up the broad avenue to the white apitol crowning Capitol hill.

All night long and into the morning they passed the bier lying with its guard of honor under the Capitol rotunda. At times the line extended nine miles, involving a seven hour wait. Some cried. Some carried children in arms to let them have a brush with history. But even as the crowds wait- ed along Avenue for the start of the procession a new shcck whispered through INSIDE YOUR DAILY TIMES President Johnson faces old problems.

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Amusements 22 Bridge 30 Classified Ads 27-29 Comics 30, 31 Community Clock 20 Crossword Puzzle 31 Death Notices 27 Editorials 6 Family Section 8, 9 Finances 26 Horoscope 30 In Service 10 Junior Editors 31 Obituaries 4 Also Death Notices 27 Sports 22, 23 Television 30 Killed In Jail Transfer Murder Seen By Millions DALLAS, Tex. (AP) Harvey Oswald is dead, slain! by a self-appointed executioner who undertook' swift, savage reprisal for the assassination of; President John F. Kennedy. Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby, 52, stepped out of a crowd of 200 in the basement of the Dak las City Hall Sunday and put single pistol bullet into Oswald's'" side. "It's too good for him! someone, shouted after the year-old self-styled Communist dropped in his tracks, a single cry of anguish escaping his lips.

Police quickly overwhelmed and disarmed Ruby. INCREDIBL It was a incredible climax to the wildest 'weekend in Dallas: history-- a savage, sudden- mo- merit of raw drama that was caught, by national television and broadcast with shocking impact into American, living rooms. "He Kennedy's death -much that of our 88-year-old said Ruby's older sister, Grant. "He eat He kept talking about and the Kennedy Oswald had been 1 formally accused of the sniper assassination of Kennedy last Friday the President rode beaming beside- his -wife, Jacqueline Ken. nedy, in a triumphal motorcade through downtown Dallas.

RECOVERING Also wounded in the shooting was Texas Gov. John Connally, who is recovering. Later, authorities said, Oswald shot to death a Dallas policeman, J. D. Tippit, who--wittingly or otherwise interrupted his getaway flight.

The first reaction of Dallas )6lice to Oswald's murder was mark the assassination case closed, and concentrate on try- "ng to convict Ruby. But federal officials felt otherwise. President Johnson ordered a full government probe of Oswald's slaying.and the FBI proposed further investigation into the presidential assassination with the hope of eventually giving the American people the lull story. Later, Dallas Dist. Atty Henry Wade listed what he said was a complete summary of the evidence against Oswald.

WILD TUMULT A wild tumult broke out im mediately after the shooting Oswald in the basement of.City Hall. But it was nothing com pared to the public uproar over the slaying. Communist propaganda or gans abroad promptly depicted Oswald's death as a coverup to mask sinister rightist forces which they blamed for the Pres ident's assassination. Moscow OSWALD'S slayer. Called See JFK, Page 16 Related Stories, Pictures on Pages 2,3,4,11,12,16,17,22,23,24 Love Field Municipal Airport the throngs.

Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24- year-old Marxist and ex-Marine charged with killing Kennedy, was himself gunned down and died in an emergency room at the Dallas hospital not 10 feet from where Kennedy himself had died Friday. Oswald breathed his last shortly after the late President's body was carried by nine See NATION, Page 16 WHERE mad guns of vengeance roared in Dallas. WILBUR MARTIN DALLAS, "A 'Guys Dolls' character, that's Jack Ruby." "He's like a boxer whose nose never He's the man millions watching television Sunday saw gun down Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused killer of President Kennedy. 'The strip-tease club operator las a "million. friends 'in show Dusiness" and a lot of ex-business Most peg him in a different' way.

"I don't think political affiliation had anything to' do with Ruby's said attorney Tom who will defend him on a murder charge. "I don't think-Ruby has any political affiliation --Democratic-or Republican or if he even knew; which he was." His sister, Eva Grant, said he was badly shaken by Kennedy's death. "He couldn't eat Friday. He kept talking about Jackie and the Kennedy kids." "I'm crying. I can't take it." That's, what Al Gruber, a friend in Los Angeles, said Ruby told him.

over the telephone early Sunday in talking about the Kennedy shooting. Jack Ruby, 52, born Rubinstein, is breezy, emotional and hot-tempered. He brawled himself away from poverty and the streets of Chicago. He made it good for him j-- here about 15 years ago with his first little swinging place, the Silver Spur. "Man," said a one-time partner in dance promotions, "he was hungry for a buck.

He's always after it. He lives for the business the two clubs (Carousel, Vegas)." Some saw him as an intensely patriotic man, a hero worshipper of presidents. To others: "I think Ruby just got himself an impulse and operated on him (Oswald)," said C. D. Kelly in New Orleans.

A business associate of Ruby two years ago, Kelly figured Ruby was more upset over the killing of a Dallas patrolman, than over the President's death. "Patriotic, he wasn't. A police buff, he was." To Dist. Atty. Henry Wade he is just a killer.

"I'll ask the death penalty. 5 A guy you like or dislike, to night club columnist Tcni Zoppl Sea ASSASSIN'S, Page 26.