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218 (AP) 78th Yea Billings, Montana, Friday Morning, December 6, 1963 (UPI) Unifax s'n9' 1QC Hom Deii Copy fc Pnc Lower Paying Off Johnson's Pressure (Lira fcte Dap fC' -) 1 A dd BY BATTIN By ARNOLD SAWISLAK WASHINGTON (UPD President Johnson's campaign to get the civil rights bill moving paid its first dividends Thursday. The House now is expected to act on the measure within 60 days. There was no official word of agreement on a Sheepmen Told: Debate Issues Who's Doing What? timeable for the bill. But there was every indication that a bipartisan arrangement was in the making to move it through the House Rules Committee arid through the House in January. Senate action may take several more months.

Battin added that the oft- The memory of world leaders and representatives of 92 na tions who walked behind Pres The bill, aimed at the elimination of racial discrimination in voting, employment, education, public gunshot wounds received in the assassination of the late President' Kennedy. Their sonv Mark, 11, had a big hug for but only a "grownup" handshake for Dad. Unifax. DAD GOT SHOT, MOM GETS HUG Texas Gov. and Mrs.

John Connally are shown at Austin Airport, Thursday, en route home from the hospital where the governor recuperated from voiced warning against "hate" since the Kennedy assassination should not be taken as a cue to stifle dissent among men, among parties, among institutions. "We hope news media and the audiences they serve realize that problems facing us and is- (Continued on Page 6, Col. 4.) accommodations and the use of federal funds, is' the Lehman Dies WASHINGTON (AP) Signs of a thaw in the coolness between former Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower have been detected number one item on Johnson's legislative priority list.

The measure, extracted by the late President Kennedy from the House Judiciary I'm Feeling Fine-Connally ident Kennedy's funeral cortege should be convincing enough to those who doubt the United States is the leader of the Free World, Rep. James Battin, said Thursday. "We are a country that can unite when challenged and a country that can provide leadership when it is needed," Battin said. He said national unity following the assassination of John F. Kennedy was an example of this American characteristic.

"Out of the tragedy that struck the nation Nov. 22 we must realize the country did ANTA'( HELPER WYJ Committee after months of Epitaph On His Medal Harry Truman t' bickering, has been before the Southern led Rules Commit said when he stepped out of his plane. "My chest is in good shape. My leg is doing well. By KYLE- THOMPSON Iwho has been in Dallas at the AUSTIN (UPI) Gov.

John 'governor's bedside. Connally of Texas, grieviouslyj The second of three bullets tee for two weeks. In the usual wounded the assassination of fired by Kennedy's assassin Two Former course, all big bills must be cleared by the rules committee. Chairman Non-Committal rresiaeni ft. a dui now mending rapidly, came home Nov.

22 passed through Connal-ly's body broke his right wrist in two places and lodged in his The only problem is my right wrist." His wrist will have to remain in a cast 90 days or more and it will be six months before doctors can tell whether he will 1 1 1 Thursday from Parkland Me NEW YORK (UPI)-Herbert not die and that Americans have proved again their ability morial Hospital in Dallas. Until Thursday, Chairman right thigh. rAV. LI Ms LJ Howard W. Smith, lead to unite in time of crisis as they The three Conally children John, 17: Sharon, 14, and Mark, "Feeling Fine" i nave iuu use oi ins wnsi una er of the House conservative SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS always have and always will," Battin said.

I'm feeling fine," Connally hand. Southern bloc, had eiven no in- H. Lehman, 85, New Deal architect and a liberal leader of the Democratic party, died Thursday of a heart attack as he prepared to leave for the White House to receive the nation's highest civilian peace 11 met the 46-year-old governor and his wife Nellie at Aus The orderly transition from ana nis iamuy went directly to the gubernatorial tin Municipal Airport. Connally one administration to another mansion. He does not expect to and his son John shook hands, was typical of a nation that de by those who observed them dkation he planned to move it here at President John F.

Ken-'despite private appeals from nedy's funeral. I speaker John W. McCormack The two ex-presidents, who in- and other leaders, flicted scars on each other dur-f Johnson, early this week, But the other two children 25 Miners Die In New Disaster time honor awarded to him by the martyred President Ken- threw their arms around their scribes itself as "a government of law, not of men," Battin told the Montana Wool Growers father and kissed his cheeks, Most Stores Open Until 9 Tonight tag the 1952 presidential cam- gave McCormack and other ci- nedy, leave it much for the rest of the month. He told 200 doctors, nurses and technicians goodbye from a wheelchair in the cafeteria of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. They also kissed their mother, vu ngnts supporters ine go- Lehman succeeded Franklin BUDAPEST (UPI) Twenty- ahead to try to take the bill d.

Roosevelt as governor of six miners were reported Thurs New York and served four VICTIM OF FATE? day to have been killed and four injured in an explosion that away irom smitn we Virginian would not move. That effort was building up to the (Continued on Page 6, Col. 3.) Eye Opener ripped through a Hungarian coal mine shortly after a night ake Eisenhower LBJ in Budget Bind shift crew of youthful miners went on duty Unofficial sources here said Other examples include space the average age of the men Bury An Old Hatchet? Assassination Probe Begins By ROBERT BARKDOLL WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi- funds to abide bv nast commit-1 killed was about 23. Two of the terms, matched only by the four terms of Al Smith. He resigned as governor in 1942 to head the nation's foreign relief and rehabilitation office.

He served from 1949 to 1957 as U.S. senator. Funeral Services Sunday Funeral services were scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m. EST at the Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. Burial will be private.

Friday and Saturday the body will be at the Universal Chapel in Manhattan. The chapel is at 57th and Lex creases stemming from past years is the military pay increase bill. It was effective for nine months of the current fiscal year, but will cost another $300 million in fiscal 1965. dead had just reported back to their jobs for the first time since returning home from two years of military service. ments, pay raises for federal workers and of course the steady rise in interest on the public debt.

WASHINGTON (UPI) The Brief review of new book: "The covers are too far apart." Kidnaped Colonel Released dent Johnson was pictured Thursday as caught in a budget bind that will all but force him to propose a fiscal 1965 spend Warren commission, meeting rmQll fnr fVia first timp lin. paign, had a friendly half-hour der Uce guard) agreed chat following the funeral, tell-jThursd to seek autnority to big stories from their pasts. subpoena witnesses in its was lust hke two old ing program of about $102 billion. That would be about $3 billion more than in the current ington Avenue. year.

'It was so sudden, we don't The picture was drawn by know exactly what happened," the governor's secretary said. diers recalling the times and the afsassination. people they'd known," said Tom Gavin, a long-time friend of The seven members, appomt-Truman's who accompanied him ed by President Johnson, met to Washington for funeral behind closed doors for two Umiw0 orl A( minnroc in nirtn CARACAS Army White House officials who blamed only fate or "built in" budget increases. There was no Lehman had reservations at 1 Col. James K.

Chenault, 45, of Sherman, was released p.m. EST on a plane for Wash ilf 1 ipL i si W2 si 11 rzf SEES! El EEi iV-VA 1 1 XihA. tei attempt to fault Congress or the Kennedy administration. According ot these Johnson aides, the only way to trim the ington. He was scheduled to re-(Continued on Page 6, Col.

4.) ceilinged, gold-draped hearing room on the second floor of the National Archives Building on unharmed Thursday by pro-Castro terrorists who kidnaped him at gunpoint from the door In Jurys' Hands budget for the fiscal year start step of his home eight days ago. Chenault release coincided with the capture by police of "Lt. Col." Juan de Dios Mon- ing next July 1 is to reduce or eliminate programs already in this year's budget. While they did not say so, such programs are few in the administration's eyes. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A Pennsylvania Avenue.

Jury of six men and six women After the meeting, Chief Jus-retired Thursday to weigh evi- tice Earl Warren, the chair-dence in the first degree mur- mail) caued newsmen and der trial of St. Paul attorney T. rea(j a brief statement saying Eugene Thompson. the commission had discussed The 36-year-old lawyer is organization and future plans, charged with planning and pay- but had reached no conclusions, big for the slaying of his wife I He added that no information Carol, 34, last March 6. Trial had yet been received from any began Oct.

28. 'government agency. cada, self-styled "supreme commander" of the Venezuelan Here is the way one source saw the situation Quarterbacks Dominate AP All-America ..18 Montana-Wyoming Public The budget sent to Congress last January for the current fis- year called for spending of Ann Landers 24 $98.8 billion, and a deficit of Classified 27-28-29! $11.9 billion. Comics 13-26-27 Add $3 Billion The army officer told newsmen his captors tried to brainwash him by urging he read books on communism and lecturing him on its virtues. "It's a great feeling to be free again," he said.

The capture of Moncada, head of the underground Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN) was the second body-blow suffered by the underground in as many days. Wednesday, Venezuelan troops attacked and killed 21 terrorist guerrillas in a mountain hideout in Falcon State. Actually, however, $3 billion has been added as the result of legislation passed in previous Editorial 4 Markets 26 Obituaries 13 Sports 17-18-19 Weather Roundup, Map. Women's Features 24 Addison Bragg 31 years and during the current session of Congress. Legislation of past years accounted for an be occupied by Mrs.

Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children. The house was loaned to the Kennedys by Harriman. Unifax. MOVING DAY Two men carry a wagon and toys into the Georgetown home of Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman, Thursday, soon to additional $1.8 billion and 1963 Bridge ....13 1 Astrological ..91 bills for another $1.15 billion.

Crossword .20 Vitals 5 1 One example of "built in" in- ...:4: i' i 'l ON HOLY LAND JOURNEY Jordan Fears for Pope's Safety Land although some made the! Jordan are the Holy Sepulchre Wno hofnm Novation tn the' in the walled old city of Jerusa- JERUSALEM (AP) The visi' of Pope Paul VI to the Holj Land early in January was seen Coming Sunday In Your Gazette Big Timber Ranch Is for the Birds Battling Boys and Brass S.I. P. Underwater Christmas Nursing Near Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 Wool Growers' Convention Whirl Computer Goes Beatnik 'It'll Never Replace Steak' Their Aim Third Civilization jlem; Bethlehem, where the Bi- Jesus was born, and All officials knew was what the Garden of Gethsemane. In this divided city Thursday night as a pilgrimage to im- i i i where the Romans came to ar has been publicly announced that the Pope said in Vatican rest him and start him on the his brief travels through the places, some in Moslem Jordan, the others in Israel, tempers are high and Jew and Arab often shoot each other.

A official said "the most rigid security measures" will be in force while the pontiff visits the holy places of Jordan as a personal guest of King Hussein, a Moslem. Neither in the Israeli section of Jerusalem nor in the Jordan city on Wednesday ne wouia way to the Cross ffi Jwr i side Israel are Nazareth, Land "on behalf peace a carpenter; among men," and the later Vat- andinka. la.nuS tt5m, birthplace of John the prove itoman lamoiic reiauuus with Jews and Moslems. Some even expressed belief that the Pope's unprecedented journey might help to allay anger and suspicion that wall off Jews from the Moslem Arabs in the volatile Middle East. HOPE HOSPITALIZED Comedian Bob Hope arrives at International Airport in Los Angeles, Thursday, to enter Children's Hospital at San for corrective treatment on his left eye.

Surgery will not be preformed, but a new light beam process will be used to dislodge a blood clot which has dimmed Hope's sight. Unifax. days of January. JL quarter had any official word; been received from the Vatican i nf the nnntiff's nlans. Never he- rnnld hp haseri on his expressed warmth of his welcome in either Jordan or Israel.

One concern expressed early was for the safety of the pontiff fore has a Pope visited the Holy I desire to see the holy places. In.

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