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WEATHER Cloudy, cold, rain or snow. High 59, low Z7. VOL.4 NO. 133 "THE PAPER THAT GOES INTO THE HOME" BROWNSVILLE" TRI-COUNTY EDITION UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1963 PRICE--FIVE CENTS NATION MOURNING KENN JOHNSON ASKS HELP OF Charged With Murder Suspect Still Denying That He Was Assassin By RAYMOND HOLBROOK and PEGGY SIMPSON DALLAS, Tex. (AP)--Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with murdering President Kennedy, insisted during hours of questioning Friday night that he was not the assassin.

LEE H. OSWALD Accused As Assassin '0. John Fitzgerald Kennedy--1917 to 1963. America mourns in profound grief over the loss of its beloved President. A shocked nation is staggering under the unbelievable, appalling tragedy.

No more will we see or hear Ihe vigorous, young, handsome, courageous man from Massachusetts whose "New Frontier" has been working toward a universal peace. The enormity of the Joss is staggering. With his jaw thrust out and his dark eyes intent and piercing, Oswald kept telling newsmen: "I did not kill President Kennedy. I did not kill anyone. I don't know what this is all about," After the formal charges were filed, Oswald was brought before newsmen.

Speaking in a low voice into a cluster of microphones thrust into his face he denied killing the President. He appeared less defiant than earlier in the evening but still was composed. He smiled several times as he was being questioned. "I don't think he is a nut," Dist. Atty.

Henry Wade told newsmen. "I think he is sane. I don't mean that he is any Ph. but he answers questions very easily, and he is sharp." Secret Service agents, Dallas police and FBI men had quizzed Oswald for almost 10 hours 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.

Police Give Story City detective Ed Hicks, after intensive investigation of the slaying, drew this picture of the hour surrounding the tragedy: Oswald was working on the fifth floor of the Texas book depository, the floor from which the shots were fired. A man working with him said: "Oswald, let's go sec the President." Oswald replied: "No, you go on down and send the elevator back up." As Oswald left the building, he was stopped by Dallas police. Oswald told them he This is a civilized nation but still without warning a sniper's bullet kills thte President. How could it happen? It is almost unthinkable that it would happen here in America. Strange, isn't it, that in less than 100 years four Presidents have been assassinated while in office--Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and now Kennedy- 1865 to 1963.

When Americans heard the sad news of the killing in Dallas first there was disbelief, (hen sorrow, then anger at Iht killer. Then came the questions- why, why why? Why did it happen to one so young, so necessary to this world, with so much to live for and so much to do? We express our deepest feeling of sympathy to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and the President's family. Still Ihe continuity of American government must go on. We have a new President now.

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as our 36th President. Mr. Johnson has been a master politician, a tactful Senate majority leader, a vice president who stayed out of the limelight but one who has learned the job of government well. "I will do my best, that is all I can do.

I ask your help," he said on arriving in Washington after taking the path of office shortly after President Kennedy died. America must draw itself together, must unify for action, to give him that help which he needs. everyone of us should go to church and pray. worked in the building and was going down to see what was going on. In the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, four miles away, Oswald was seen 45 minutes later talking to a policeman, J.

D. Tip- pelt. A witness said that Oswald suddenly whipped out a pistol and shot the officer. Shortly afterward, police received a tip that a suspicious looking man had entered a theater on West Jefferson Street, not far from where Tippett had been slain. Officers surrounded the theater, and then entered.

When they spotted Oswald near the rear, he pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger. It failed fo (Continued on Page 3, Col. 6) Texas Gov. Recovering DALLAS, Tex. (AP) Gov.

John B. Connally was reported in satisfactory condition today after undergoing surgery for a bullet wound in his chest. Connally was shot as he sat in the same open car as President Kennedy Friday in a motorcade through Dallas. A sniper's bullet killed Kennedy. Connally underwent surgery for more than one hour.

After awakening, he asked: "How's Nellie?" referring to his wife. He then asked: "How are the kids?" and went back to sleep. Dr. Robert Shaw, his attending physician, described the governor as "mentally alert, his condition satisfactory and stable." "1 do not anticipate his gel- ting worse," Shaw said. Shaw said Connally had not been told of Kennedy's death.

Mrs. Connally, looking tired from the ordeal, was kept from visitors and newsmen. Only close felatives visited Mrs. Connally. Her oldest son, John B.

Ill, 16, came from Austin to be with her. The other children, Sharon, 13, and Mark, 10, stayed in Austin. New President In Charge WASHINGTON (AP) Asking God's help, Lyndon 1 B. Johnson gathered up the monumental problems of the presidency today as the world, the nation and hisf family mourned John F. Kennedy, dead by an assas-P sin's bullets.

"I will do my best-that's all I can do. I ask for your help and God's," said the new President, numbed and haggard, after accompanying the slain chief tive's body hack to Washington from Dallas. A few hours after the slaying, a a police charged a 24-year-old man who professed love for Russia with murder and said he was the assassin. He was identified as Lee Harvey Oswald. As arrangements were made for family, friends dignitaries to view Kennedy's body at the White House today, Johnson set about getting advice on the troubles that abruptly were thrust into his hands.

He set up morning conferences with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and former President Dwight D. Eisen i i i M. i tJ i I hower, who not many years ago listened to advice from Johnson, then leader of the Democratic opposition in the Senate--some say the most able leader the Senate over- bad. Almost as soon as he arrived back in Washington Friday night, the 55-year-old Texan with a reputation as a tough pnn tfineT A I A i. political genius plunged into a FOR FIRST FAMILY America's handsome first family was struck by shocking meeting of congressional lead- terday when President Kennedy wai sssasimnfpH Thic ninfirm -t i rn i i Caroline, attended Easter services.

UI11I iiaj uy ui iccLQ- was assassinated. This picture was taken in Palm ers of both parties where he and his i and their children John Jr. and asked for and got pledges of (AP wirephoio in his days of trial District Is Horrified Entire World Is Shocked By Tragedy At President's Death By The Evening Standard Staff Stunned shocked numb with horror. 1 with the rest of the nation and the traeic flash rv.ii world this district reacted at first with unbelieving I a lite a amazement, and then with overpowering sorrow, at the Broivnsville Is Stunned By Death A and shocked an said clap of thunder: The young of President Kennedy's as- orous President of (he United Fassmatipn. States was dead at the hands of "I can't believe it; I just an assassin, and everywhere the can't believe it," was all that many could say.

Eyes filled with tears, and people stared off into space with strained expressions. "Imagine someone actually planning to shoot him," a wom- Brownsville today joined the nation in mourning the tragic death of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, yesterday. Practically all social functions in the Brownsville area were cancelled or postponed until aft- ei the late president's burial next week. "Unbelievable, shocking, tragic and so unnecessary," were words commonly used by those who were asked to give their reaction to news of the assassination.

Brownsville Mayor Marion Klingensmith was en route to Massilon, Ohio, to attend a dinner in honor of former boxing champion Sammy Angott, when he heard news of the fatal shooting on his car radio. "It was a great shock to me. I drove for miles after hearing the news without realizing the distance I was covering," said the mayor, a Republican. "My next reaction was one of disgust that some person could do such an evil deed to our nation's leader, who had such faith in the American people that he never feared when it came to exposing himself to the public. "These are the times that bring us all closer to God," continued the 'mayor.

"While we are praying for our late president and his family we must also re-dedicate ourselves to the high ideals (hat were given to us by our forefathers. "Let us all unite behind our new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, and give him the support and encouragement that he will need in this tragic hour," said Mayor Klingensmith. The average man or woman in the streets of Brownsville answered with practically the lican, Brownsville borough coun VUQL UU AH A- nil V-ilallcc, II lc IJ oilman and materials engineer Ss. Cyril and Methodius for the Department of High (Continued on I'aje 3, Col.

6) In a store, a man remarked, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all go to sleep, wake up and find this was only a bad dream." No one answered. "1 just feel sick," a supermarket cashier said. Heartfelt sympathy went out to the dead President's family. "I just feel awful, for something like this to happen with the birthdays of the children so close," one woman said. Mrs.

Albert Cohen, 310 W. Berkeley Unionlown, said this morning, "I can't stop crying. Yesterday afternoon I was having my hair done when the news came of the President's death. I couldn't believe it and I can't stop crying." Jean Bear of Connellsville said, "This thing just doesn't peem real. It's so hard lo think about it being real." Edgar E.

Lyon, Gilmore Uniontown, court stenographer said, "I was shocked when I heard the news. It didn't actually sink in until this morning. Then 1 started looking at television and suddenly realized it had happened. We don't know what God means when these fhings happen but we must believe in the future." "We're numb, just numb," some people in Hopwood said, "How could a thing like this happen in America?" Children in school were aware of the tragic situation. This was something they had only heard of and read about in history bonks.

"You just could never in all the world imagine it happening in a so-called civilized nation," one teen ager remarked. i tint IUI At the Army Reserve Center soul of the dead President. military person- Scars of past political strife r---------j nel and civilian employes'left were forgotten as old foes joined same reaction regardless of his for the day upon news of the with old allies and the three liv- or her political beliefs death of the commander in- ing former presidents in a unity Joseph Birkle, staunch Repub- chief. of grief. In Fairchance, the hells Church pealed out the sad mes (Continued on Page 3, Col.

TMTM great and the lowly mourned John F. Kennedy's passing. The deadening shock gave way to tears and then to universal heartache for Jacqueline Kennedy and her two young children. Rich and poor, black and white, shuddered and were bewildered. Messages of condolence poured into the White House from presidents, premiers and crowned heads.

Churches filled with people come to pray and sob. "This is a sad lime for all people," the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, told the nation on his return to Washington. "We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed." Khrushchev 'Sadness' During the early morning hours in Moscow, Premier Khrushchev dressed in black, drove to the U.S. Embassy to personally convey his "deep sadness" on the assassination of the President.

Khrushchev and his wife, Nina, sent teie- grams of condolences to Mrs. Kennedy. In New Haven, a citizen said with a catch in his voice: "I felt as if he was my brother. But he was more than that he was our President." Washington was struck as if by a bombshell. The government stopped dead in its tracks.

Crowds gathered outside the iron picket fence in front of the White House, staring silently at the President's home long after night fell. Telephone service was paralyzed for a time and flags--foreign banners at embassies as well as the Stars and Stripes were lowered to half staff. Entire World Shaken Pubs in London and cafes in Paris silent. In Moscow a Russian girl walked weeping along the street. In Vatican City Pope Paul VI prayed for the (Continued'on rage 3, Col.

3) ahead. Other stories and pictures on inside pages. Johnson, who fought a losing fight against Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, automatically became the 36th President of the United States the moment Kennedy's life ebbed away in the emergency room of a Dallas hospital. Johnson was in the car behind Kennedy's when three bullets from a sniper ripped into the open presidential limousine, striking Kennedy in the head and throat and wounding Texas Gov. John Connally.

Blood sprang from the President's face and he fell face forward in the back seat of the car. Mrs. Kennedy, who had been riding with him, tried to lift his head, crying, "Oh, no!" Half an hour later John F. Kennedy, 46, the first Roman Catholic and youngest man ever elected to the presidency, was dead Stunning News It was stunning, almost unbelievable news that flashed around the country and to the far reaches of the world. Expressions of grief, sorrow, surprise poured in from friends and antagonists, allies and foes, from the Kremlin and from the Vatican.

Johnson, vast problems were just beginning. By moving into the White House he also assumes leadership of (he West in the cold war --and faces Ihe major question of whether Soviet Premier Khrushchev will stir up a new crisis to test the mettle of the new American chief executive. Judging from Johnson's public statements, no big change in foreign policy appeared likely, for he has strongly supported the Kennedy line. Another problem is Congress where Kennedy's legislative program--the tax reduction bill and civi) rights legislation--is stalled apparently for the rest of the year. Johnson won his fame, however, by whipping and cajoling senators toward his way of thinking.

No More Baltics But the consensus on Capitol Hill is that there will bo no more battles in the halls of Congress this year. Already worn and with tempers frayed after II months of its first session, Congress is expected fo close shop soon and go home until the next session in January. Also coming soon was a decision whether Johnson will campaign to try to win the presidency in his own right in 1964. Even as the troubles of the world and Ihe country whirled on, the nation lowered its flags! Kennedy Funeral Arranged By CARL P. LEUBSDORF WASHINGTON (AP)-John F.

Kennedy lies in dealh today in the White House from which he governed the nation. Through the day, his family, his close friends and high officials of the government, including former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, were scheduled to view the body of the chief executive who was assassinated Friday in Dallas. Sunday it will be borne by solemn cortege to the rotunda of Ihe Capitol where for 24 hours it will lie in state, to be seen by the public. Funeral services will be held at noon Monday at St.

Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral with Richard Cardinal (Continued on Page 9, Col. 7) 01 Gfief ills of Richard M. Nixon, who lost JOHNSON BECOMES PRESIDENT Lyndon R. Johnson is sworn in as President of I R. C.

(he presidency to Kennedy in i States in cabin of presirfenfial plane a( Dallas. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, (he assas- 1 mes- 1960 in a razor-thin race, said in sin 8 President's widow, stands at right anil Mrs. Johnson at leil. Administering the naili fo half staff in mourning for its young President i the Harvard accent whose watchword became "vigor." Today, Kennedy's body was to lie in repose in the East Room of the White House as dignitaries--Eisenhower among them-file by.

Sunday his body will be car- ried in a somber cortege up the route of presidents and heroes --Pennsylvania the Capitol where he will lie in state until Monday morning beneath the towering dome of the Capitol, Funeral Monday Then it will be taken to St. Matthews Roman Catholic Cathedral, a few blocks from the While House, where Richard Cardinal dishing, Archbishop of i .1. CHI. is Federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes..