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The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 15

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The Miami Newsi
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Richard Mack Found Dead 1 'V i Former FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack, 54, whose political career was blighted by the notorious Channel 10 award scandal, was found dead today. His body wai found in an inexpensive apartment above a store at 4 NW N. River on the Miami River at W. Flagler Street.

Homicide Detectives B. E. Bergquist and Robert Utes discovered the body after the landlord notified police a television set had been playing continuously for days and he had not been able to get any response to his knocks on the door. The detectives said Mack had been dead four to five days. Death apparently resulted from natural causes, thev said.

pending settlement of the estate of Mack's father, who died in Fort Lauderdale last May. Mack's wife divorced him after the scandal and look their daughter, now 15. to Anderson, S.C., to live. The lawyer said efforts will be made to obtain burial in Arlington National Cemetery for Mack, a major in the U. S.

Army in World War II. The body was lying on the floor of the bathroom, clad in trousers and shirt. Not only was the TV playing, but the apartment lights and an electric stove in the kitchen were turned on. Mack had been living in the apartment for about two months, according to an attorney, who said that they had doled out weekly stipend to Mack RICHARD MACK Rlighlcd By Scandal Miami News THE BEST NEWSPAPER UNDER THE SUN Twilby: Partly cloudy and warm. Low tonight in 60s inland and 70s on the beach.

Complete Weather Page 2A. Blue Streak Edition Ten Cents Established In 1896 Miami, Tuesday, November 26, 1963 Telephone 371-6211 CONFIDENCE IN U.S. BILL BAGGS -J Li wsZs w'kJ Li LI Wfc. been erased and then some. A Child Asks WASHINGTON What can you say when a child, without tears and in earnest, not yet deep enough into life to realize the sorrow of the assassination asks: "Why did a man kill President Kennedy?" And in a day more, possibly fViA rViiM will By LARRY BIRGER Miami Baslntfti Editor The stock market, in a fantastic display of confidence in the new president and the U.

S. economy, staged one of the greatest rallies in the history of Wall Street today. At 2 p.m., four hours after the New York and American Stock Exchanges opened, all of the ground lost in an hour of panic selling on Friday's news of the assassination of President Kennedy had American Telephone and Telegraph, which took a seven-point shellacking in that hectic 50 minutes before the emergency early closing Friday, finally opened at 1 p.m. up 10 points on a tremendous opening block of 150,000 shares. The popular Dow Jones industrial average, which lost 21.16 points in Hie Friday rout, was aheird 23.67 points and brokers reported the market still growing stronger.

1 1 ask why did an other man kill 3 the person ac- cused of accassinnrinn. Regal Lady In Black VVildL 13 luc reply to that? So ironic is the tumbling of 3 in what has seemed an unreal world these past few days is that the young President was a victim of fanaticism, a it was 'V i Jli S. i I hi I I 4 'C Delta Air Lines, down 12 points Friday, and National Air-linos, off 77i. still had not opened at I p.m. as specialists sought frantically to malch buy and sell orders.

The market, at 10 30 a.m., was up only 4.82. But as one blue chip stuck after another opened, it kept zooming under Ihr avalanche of buy orders. Broker reported they werU Rwainperi with buy order. Trailinn was no heavy that ticker tape trailed floor trans-aetion tlirmi'inut the 1)'. S.

SIpcI and Jones 4 Laughlin spurted ahead more than $5 a share. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler advanced about $2 while Polaroid jumped 0. 50. Not only were investors responding to confidence in the country, but the action of the New York Slock Exchange in its handling of the Ira Haupf ft Co. case was a contributing factor.

The exchange last night announced a financial plan for fanaticism that he sought to reform by becoming somewhat of a professor in civics for the Republic. After not quite three years as President, he had defined for himself, in precise terms, the reason for frustration which was thatched into every large issue. It was not civil rights and it was not the uneasy risk of some accommodation with the Soviets to take the fuses from the nuclear weapon. Rather it was a provincial discretion among so many Americans a discretion which lagged behind the compelling facts of a modern world. Too many Americans did not realize the historic urgency of making racial justice a part of the United States.

The protests of the Negro in America were intimately involved in the great 1 the liquidation of llaupl and for helping II customer. Ilaupt ai suspended from trading last Wednesday became of financial difficulties. Trading in the first hour soared to 2.04 million shares, second biggest ever and topped only by a first hour total of 2.28 million on Oct. 10, 1037. By WILLIAM TUCKER Prporli-r o( The Miami Xmi The United States never had a queen and never will but its 180 million knew today how a queen behaves.

Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy wore the royal purple all the way from the terrible instant of assassination to the final sounding of Taps. Then, and only then, did she waver briefly from the accumulated ravages of four days of consuming sorrow; but she recovered and made a lonely midnight pilgrimage to her husband's grave before retiring at last into the seclusion she needed so desperately. Her carriage throughout was in the highest blue-blood tradition. The pomp and ceremony of her husband's funeral was dictated by his position as head of the world's mightiest nation and the requirement of history.

Mrs. Kennedy, with the help of her brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, made all the decisions down to the tiniest detail, It was Mrs. Kennedy who decided that she and the chief mourners should follow the funeral caisson to the church on foot: it was a classic symbol of bereavement. No other -fallen President's wife had used this ceremony. Mrs.

Kennedy designed the invitations which were sent out hurriedly to close friends and government officials to at-the funeral mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral. She saw to it that the faithful domestics and the telephone operators of the White House had places in the march with the cortege. She arranged to have the golden-voiced tenor, Luigl Vena, fly down from Boston to sing "Ave Maria" at the funeral. Vena had also sung it at Newport, R.

when Sen. John F. Kennedy and Debutante Jacqueline Bou-vier ere wed. Her beautifully behaved children reflected their mother's influence during the services and the lying-in-state period. Caroline walked with her to kiss the casket in the Continued On Page 10A, Col.

1 PRESIDENT JOHNSON, following the example of the late John F. Kennedy, moved a rocking chair into his office, from his home and sat in it today his first day of business there. The rocker is in the same spot where Mr. Kennedy's used to he in a comfort aide arrangement between two light colored couches. Keith Kunsion, president of Ihe New York Slock Kxchange, said he was "very pleased by Continued on Page 10A, Col.

2 Would YOU Send Ruby To Death For Slaying? A housewife: "Jack Ruby did a terrible thing but I don't be-lieve he was in his right mind. Lnless something was brought express his great -sorrow over the death of the President. The physical facts were clear. There could be no alibi over which to pon'lcr, no question of aecident or consideration of a plea of self defense. There remained only the human equation.

Mow would each nf the jurors vole? Continued on Page 10A, Col. 1 est social revolution in recorded history. Opportunities The opportunities were golden. An America free of racial violence, of the grim tales out of Little Rock and Birmingham, would have argued the cause of the United States in this world with more eloquence than $100 billion dollars of foreign aid. But the old prejudices fogged the view of too many Americans, and there seemed to be no way of changing the public discretion, to get into the minds of the prejudiced and appeal to the human intellect.

It was so very frustrating. The alternative to some agreement with the Soviets or banning atomic weapons was too grisly to imagine. Thus the President sought an arrangement between two governments, hostile in doctrines to each other, and he counted on the wear of time and the nature of men, yearning for freedom, to make changes in the Soviet Union. He also counted on the patience of hir fellow countrymen. Here again he found citizens of his country shouting that he was a traitor.

And, strangely, many heads nodded in agreement. It was a new world, with new geopolitical facts, and Mr. Kennedy did not invent this new world, he merely came along during the wrenching changes, but the public discretion in the United States had not caught up to the new facts. Hate Prospered Somewhere in all this, hate prospered. Civility and judgment surrendered to a crazy sloganized logic which suggested Earl Warren, the chief justice of our highest court, was Communist, or that Fidel Castro was not.

And a child asks a very large question. That can you say in response? Mrs. Kennedy Receives The Casket Flag A New Profile In Courage LBJ Beginning Today The Life Of L.B.J. See Page 7 A The York Hrrald Tribune WASHINGTON "I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it." With those words. President Lyndon B.

Johnson strode past the Secret Service agents lined up in his office and into the line of march of the funeral procession. With the world's great leaders, the President and his wife walked erect from the White House grounds, down the crowd-filled streets to St. Matthew's Cathedral. Secret Service agents, understandably nervous following President Kennedy's assassination, were reinforced in their fear by the sudden murder of Lee Oswald, Mr. Kennedy's assassin.

They argued that these dramatic incidents of violence might provoke others. The original decision had been to have the President ride to the church, but that decision did not face up to the steel determination of Mr. Johnson. It is widely conceded, however, that President Johnson will take most of the necessary precautions that go with his new office, but these precautions, in this instance, ran into the deeply persona feelings he had for the late President and his family. Earlier yesterday, it was reported that the Secret Service will make much greater use of its prerogative as the only agency which can give orders to the President.

"I expect you'll see the new President under that bubble top a lot more often," authoritative Secret Service sources said. By law, the Secret Service has the authority to veto a President's plans if deemed unsafe. In practice, however, the Secret Service has usually bowed to the President's wishes and done the best it could. De Gaulle, Home Plan Meetings With Johnson By MILT SOSIN DALLAS How would a jury of Texans ballot today if they had to decide the fate of Jack Ruby, the Runyon-like character who was indicted today for the slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald. To get the answer.

I polled a "jury" selected at random on a downtown Dallas street. The evidence was all in. Most of the "jurors" were witnesses themselves to the murder of the man, who, they knew from the evidence released by police and the FBI, most certainly was the assassin of John F. Kennedy. They saw, on TV, Jack Ruby run in a crouching position up to Oswald and push a gun in his stomach; they heard the sharp bark of the .38 pistol and they taw Oswald double up and cry out in pain.

Some of the 12 knew Jack Ruby by sight and one knew him well and had heard him INSIDE THE NEWS President Kennedy's funeral. Prime Minister Home said he will meet with President Johnson early In 1964 to discus "all the outstanding problem in the world." Home chatted with Mr. Johnson for nearly half an hour this morning at the White House but, a the prima minister reported, "we didn't really talk business at all." Johnson, obviously plunging into the monumental tasks be- Continurd on Page 10A Col. 1 1 3 WASHINGTON APi A future meeting between President Johnson and France's President De Gaulle and another between the U. S.

President and Prime Minister Home of Britain were announced in Washington today. A thaw in chilly C.S. French relations appears possible following the announcement that Presidents Johnson and De Gaulle will meet here early next year. The surprise announcement came from President Johnson himself after he had spent 18 minutes in private conference Abby Amuse Business Cashwords Classified Comics Crossword 12A 6B RA 5B 7B 11B 11B- Espanol 5B Kelly 7B McLemore 12B Movie 7B Picture I2B Ran 6B Sport 2B TV-Radio 11A The Art 14A Volker IB Women IJA Deaths SA, 7B Devine 2B Editorial 6A PRESIDENT DE GAl'LLE 18 Minute With LBJ with the French president at a reception late yesterday for foreign dignitaries who attended CUT-RATE CARPET RUGS Guarontaad Saving For Corn" Big Saul. 7500 N.W.

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