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THE FRESNO TIIS REPUBUCAK VOL 81 NO 14800 Founded 1922 FRESNO CALIFORNIA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23 TWO SECTIONS Phone 268-5221 uspected JFK Assassin Is Charged as Police Declare 'Case Cinched' Body Of Slain President Lies In White House UPI TrtfOtato Lee Oswald 24 is shown after appearing in a Dallas lineup Oswald is charged with the assassination of President John Kennedy The cut on his forehead was received in a fight with an officer during the arrest He also is charged with the fatal shooting of a Dallas policeman UPI T4whoto president of the United States by Federal District Judge Sarah Hughes of Dallas aboard the presidential plane prior to returning to Washington TAKES OATH Vice President Lyndon Johnson flanked by his wife Lady Bird left and the widow of assassinated President John Kennedy is sworn in as New President Picks Up Reins Meets Advisers Top Officials View Casket Of Slain Chief Schools Agencies Will Close Monday Fresno schools and public agencies will be closed Monday in mourning for President John Kennedy Many businesses will shut down for varying periods Edwin Kratt the super session in the map bedecked WASHINGTON AP A sorrowing nation began to pay its final formal tribute to a dead president today and its new leader Lyndon Johnson started to pull together a still shocked government In the White House for the last time lay the body of John Kennedy gunned down by an bullets yesterday in Dallas Tex Across the narrow street to the west in the old Executive Offices Building President Johnson put in his first full day as head of the nation I will do my best all I can do" he said yesterday in his first public words as chief executive ask for your help and Even the weather was strangely appropriate in the capital The morning skies were dull and somber and rain wet the city streets Downtown Washington rarely crowded on a Saturday was almost deserted A small but faithful crowd kept vigil in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House Slowly today those who were relatives of John Kennedy those who had worked for him those who had known him intimately and those whose relationship was purely official filed past the closed Flag draped casket Two priests -one at either end of the casket prayed for the soul of this first Roman Catholic ever to rise to the presidency The Kennedy family so successful in business and See Sorrowing Page 7-A Radio TV Cancel Regular Programs Because of the assassination of President John Kennedy and the coverage of events subsequent to it regular radio and television schedules have been canceled Entertainment program-- ming on the three networks will be withheld until after the president's funeral Monday Independent stations also have canceled entertainment programs Because of this action no television or radio program logs are published in Bee De Gaulle Will Attend Funeral Presidenl Charles de Gaulle will attend the funeral services for President John Kennedy in Washington Monday room" where the security affairs are screened tiplied by the passing of Ken nedy Working on split second timing held another quickly Turned away from tbejarrangej sessjon there with President Lyndon Johnson took over the mighty machinery of government today on his first full day as chief executive putting the business ahead of grief over his fallen chief Catapulted into the highest office by the billets that cut down President John Kennedy tin Dallas yesterday the solemn faced Johnson: Made a quick visit to the White House perhaps for a early morning lest On Hands Indicate Recent Firing Of Rifle DALLAS UPI The Dallas police today said flatly that Lee Harvey Oswald 'a pro Castro Marxist and former United States marine assassinated President John Kennedy and they have the evidence to prove it They said he had no accomplices This case is cinched" said homicide chief Captain Will Fritz one of the most respected police officers in Texas The man killed President Kennedy We are convinced without any doubt he did the killing" Fritz said he could not disclose the evidence on which he based his statement Oswald 24 so far has stubbornly denied any connection with the assassination He refused today to take a lie detector test after paraffin tests showed gunpowder traces on both his hands indicating he recently had fired a rifle the type of weapon used to kill the president yesterday The case is expected to go to a grand jury Wednesday or December 2nd It also was disclosed Oswald 24 once threatened the former secretary of navy John Connally to "employ all to redress a wrong he felt was done tohim by the marine corps Connally now governor of Texas was -gravely wounded yesterday when the president was killed The police brought in for questioning Rodriguez Molina who worked in the Texas schoolbook depository building used by the sniper yesterday Oswald also worked there The police stressed Molina came voluntarily He was not booked and the police doubted he was connected with Oswald The police said they could not find a rifle supposed to have been kept in the garage of home in suburban Irving His Russian wife said he had a rifle similar to the one used to shoot Kennedy and Connally Oswald denies all knowledge of the assassination Asked to take a polygraph (lie detector) test he declared: have to take it and I don't want to take The police at first said the FBI knowing of Oswald and his pro Communist pro Castro background had questioned him a week ago in Dallas Later the police withdrew the statement as not in accordance with facts I think he is a District Attorney Henry Wade told newsmen think he is sane I don't mean that he is any PhD but he answers questions very easily and he is Secret service agents the Dallas police and FBI men quizzed Oswald for almost 10 hours before charging him with the murder of the president Earlier in the evening he was charged with the unprovoked slaying of a policeman 50 minutes after the assassination City Detective Ed Hicks after intensive investigation See Suspect Page 8-A In The Bee Today Page Amusements Theaters 5-B Cartoon 12-B Church News 6-A 7-A City News In Brief 4-B Classified 7-B To 11-B Comics 10-A Crossword Puzzle 7-B Editorials 12-B Financial 7-B Household Arts 11 -A Letters 12-B Movie Times 5-B News Behind News 12-B Obituaries 6-B Politics By Rodda 8-A Sports 2-B To 4-B Vital Statistics 7-B Weather 6-B Activities 11-A In a closed flag draped coffin President John Kennedy reposed today in the historic East Room of the White House Visits by family close friends and high officials of the government including former President Dwight Eisenhower were spaced throughout the day The body will be moved tomorrow to the Capitol to lie in state until funeral services are held Monday Four tall candles flickered at the comers of the casket Two priests knelt beside it on prayer benches their heads bowed in silent supplication Stand At Attention A few feet back from the candles four enlisted men of army navy marines and air force stood at rigid attention Their bayonets gleamed softly in the light of the three great chandeliers overhead At the head of the casket a navy lieutenant in full dress stood ramrod stiff his cere monial sword sheathed Against the casket lay a great spray of lilies and carnations their white contrasting with the lustrous green leaves of the background In an enormous space on a mantelpiece behind the bier See President Page 9-A Johnson Sets Monday As Day Of Mourning WASHINGTON AP President Lyndon Johnson today designated Monday a national day of mourning for slain President John Kennedy invite the people of the worfd who share our great grief to join us in this day of mourning and rededication the new president said Johnson ordered all federal offices in Washington and throughout the nation closed on Monday the day of funeral The president addressed his proclamation to the people of the United States: Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th president of the United States has been taken from us by an act which outrages decent men everywhere upheld the faith of our fathers which is freedom for all men He broadened the frontiers of that faith and backed it with the energy and See Johnson Page 4-A intendent of the Fresno City schools said the schools including the Fresno City College will be closed all day Monday in accordance with the proclamation of a national day of mourning by President Lyndon Johnson Harold Coles the superintendent of county schools said he is recommending that all county school districts also close for the day However the final decision as to county schools he added must be made by their respective boards of trustees The Fresno State College will not hold classes Monday A memorial service which had been scheduled for the college at 1 PM Monday was postponed probably until Tuesday Most Fresno stores will be closed all day The action was taken by the Downtown Association of Fresno the Manchester Merchants Council and the Fig Garden' Village Council Among the banks the Bank of America has announced that all its California branches will be closed from noon until 1 PM Monday 60 Perish In Ohio Nursing Home Fire NORWALK AP A swiftly spreading fire trapped and killed about 60 patients at a nursing rest home for the aged and infirm in Fitchville today Twen ty four persons were rescued The pre dawn blaze burned down the Golden Age Nursing The tar was from the roof Home in the rural community which later caved in and of 200 which is 20 miles trapped many who were in southeast of Norwalk The hallways seeking an escape executive mansion where Kennedy lies in death leaving it as a center for a mourning and moved business to his old vice presidential quarters in the Executive Office Building across a little street with Secretary of State Dean Rusk undoubted-ly to go over international route heard people hollering shouting and crying" said Evege He was in a ward in the central part of the shaped building Those residing at the home were aged infirm and mental patients Many were in their 80s and 90s and were in wheel chairs Henry Dahman a truck driver from Sarber Pa was driving by at 5 AM He pounded on the door of the home and then kicked in the door when he could not awaken anyone He helped wake patients and led some to safety problems that may be mul Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara presumably to assess the defense situation at home and abroad Met with congressional leaders also called in on short notice to go over the legislative situation and perhaps to help decide whether congress should call off business for the whole Thanksgiving week in mourning and for a reworking of plans Then accompanied by the new first lady Lady Bird Johnson made an umbrella protected dash through a pouring rain back to the White House itself for one semi ceremonial affair That was the visit of former President Dwight Eisenhower to pay last respects along with other dignitaries to the man who succeeded him in office Returned to the vice presidential chambers for a private conference with Eisenhower Met the legislative leaders again' for the real business session delayed by the Eisenhower call an unannounced visit to SL Episcopal Church across Lafayette Park from the White House known as the church of presi- dents to attend a special service Aura Of Grief The affairs of 'state in the vice presidential chambers were strictly business overlaid with an aura of grief None of the participants had anything to say immediately about what went on But See Johnson Page 4-A tion to Americans of goodwill everywhere entire world is poorer because of his passing God protect our nation in this hour of Chief Justice Warren issued his statement more than an hour after a supreme court aide had described him as being and by news of the attack on the president Chief Justice Warren and the eight associate justices were in a closed conference considering appeals argued during the week when news of the shooting was given to them The conference was ended immediately one story building was of concrete block construction It had a tar roof which collapsed A propane gas tank at the rear of the building and a strong wind helped feed the flames The Ohio Highway Patrol estimated that there were about 85 persons in the building when the fire broke out Charred bodies were being removed more than five hours later Authorities estimated the toll by assuming that all those who did not escape were dead The injured were taken to Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital in Norwalk many with second and third degree bums see anything for the smoke" said Emmett Evege a 49 year old patient was melting as the fire moved back through the Warren Blames Bigotry's Hatreds For JFK Death WASHINGTON AP Chief Justice Earl Warren said President John Kennedy was assassinated "as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected in the life of our nation by The comment was included in a statement mourning the fatal shooting of the president yesterday in Dallas The text of Chief Justice statement: great and good presi- dent has suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots but his memory will always be an inspira- Weather OFFICIAL FORECAST Rain spreading southward through the San Joaquin Valley today and tonight Variable cloudiness tomorrow with a possibility of showers highs 48 to 55 degrees lows tonight 38 to 45 Little change in tem-peratures tomorrow Southerly winds 10 to 20 miles an hour becoming westerly tomorrow FRESNO FACTS 56 low 37 forecast 53 42 normals 64 37 Details on page 6-B UPI picture was bullet slammed into his head This snapped by a woman watching the parade MOMENT OF President John Kennedy slumps into the arms of his wife immediately after a snip.