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v- SSS I FIIJAL THE X. D'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER The American Paper for Americans 116th YEAR No. 329 1963 Chicago Tribune MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1963 48 PAGES, 4 SECTION'S SEVEN CENTS A A UuvJ President's li2g the Capitol Camera Story of Murder in Dallas Jail as Police Look On 4S9ififflHl-: 'V) 7 VV '-vliA SXX; mrs (7 xnk i mi 1 s1 4 r-rnwuiniiriitini iiininwnr i 11 -mn 11 ihtib i wwnnnw i irnii'fciw nm iiipiiwiiiiti imwib mi him, i UPl Telephoto Copyright Dallas Times Herald and Photographer Bob Jackson AP Wirephoto Copyright Dallas Morning SCENE IN DALLAS POLICE BUILDING AS LEE HARVEY OSWALD IS APPROACHED BY JACK RUBY (LEFT PHOTO), WHO EXTENDS PISTOL AND FIRES (RIGHT). News and Photographer Jack Beersl ir ui WILL irinni VMUUH Chicagbans to Mourn Thousands File Thru Rotunda, View Bier LEAD MARCH'01' Kennedy Today Oswald Shot in Jail in Custody 60 Cops Night Club Owner, Ex-Chicagoan, Asserts He Did It. 'to.

Spare Mrs. Kennedy Trial Agony' 4 IX'l America Pays its Ultimate Honor to Fallen Chief with Guns, Drums; Throngs Line Route I BY WAYNE THOMIS tChicoM Tribune Press Dallas, Nov. 24 Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, accused assassin of President Kennedy, was fatally wounded by a Dallas night club owner today in the basement of the municipal police building. The crime was committed before television cameras which carried the murder as it was taking 'place to millions of viewers thruout the United States. It took place despite the fact that at least 60 policemen and deputy sheriffs were within two to 10 feet of Oswald at all times.

It came within two seconds after Oswald was brought outside the inner security section of the building preparatory to his transfer, to the Dallas county Taken Into 'Room Where Kennedy Died. Oswald died in the Parkland hospital on' an operating table The Chicago area will join; the nation today in observing an official day of mourning. Virtually all public offices and private businesses will suspend activities, and schools and en tertainment places will close to pay tribute to the late President Kennedy. Thousands of Chicagoans will attend memorial services in churches and synagogs. Loop and outlying shopping areas will be shuttered.

Theater curtains will be closed. Chicago public schools will hold memorial services before classes are dismissed at 10:30 m. A l5-minute memorial program will be broadcast at 9:45 a. m. over radio station W-G-N and the board of educa tion's FM radio station WBEZ, Catholic Schools Close Catholic grade schools, high schools, and colleges will be closed.

So will Lutheran high schools, the University of Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Teclmology, Northwestern uni versity, arid most small col leges in the Chicago area. Dr. Noble J. Puffer, county superintendent of schools, said that suburban public schools will be closed in tribute to the late President's "leadership in fighting for increased educa tional opportunities for all the youth of our land." Raymond Page, state super intendent of public instruction, has requested all Illinois schools to join in the mourning in whatever manner each dis trict prefers. Buses to Halt for Minute Buses and trains of the Chi cago transit authority will halt for.

a minute silence at 11 a. ra. Regular Monday com Bears and muter schedules of the CTA, the Burlington, the Illinois Central, and the Rock Island rail roads, and the Chicago North Western railway will 'remain in effect. Spokesmen for the rail roads said service will not be curtailed. The main and the old post- offices will be open for letter drop service except between 11 m.

and noon. Branch post- offices in the city and suburbs will be closed. Delivery of regular mail will be suspended, tho special de liveries will be made. Mail will be collected in the Loop be tween 11 a. m.

and 7:30 p. m. In outlying areas of the" city, mail pickup will follow the Sunday and holiday schedules. Park Buildings to Close: Fieldhouses and other public buildings of the Chicago park district will be closed. These include the Lincoln park zoo.

The Shedd aquarium, the Adler planetarium, the Art Institute, the Chicago Historical society, and the Museum of Natural History will not be open. City, county, state, and federal government offices will close. Kerner, in proclaiming the day of mourning, urged business places to follow suit. Motion picture theaters wfll be closed until 6 p. m.

Tonight's scheduled performance of "Don Pasquale" in the Lyric Opera house has been postponed until tomorrow evening. Jewish community centers in Chicago and suburbs also will close. Classes at synagog schools have been canceled. Several conferences sched uled for today have been post poned. Steelers Tie an hour and 40 minutes after the shooting.

Before he was taken to the operating room he reclined briefly in a receiving room 10 feet from the one in which bullets in the head and throat. The slayer, identified as former Chicagoan and owner and operator of two Dallas night clubs, was battered to the jail floor by police within a second TO CATHEDRAL Mrs. Kennedy to Follow Coffin BY WALTER TROHAN Washington Bureau Chief Chicago Tribune Press Service! Washington, Nov. 24 Griev ing but stoic, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy will walk behind the coffin of her slain husband to the beat of muffled drums tomorrow in a funeral procession from the White House to St.

Matthew's cathedral. The bereaved widow will head the most impressive as semblage of national and inter national dignitaries in the his tory of the capital. The digni taries began pouring into the capital yesterday and continued to arrive thru the day. The last of them will be in before the final rites. Cushing to Officiate The solemn requiem pontif ical mass will be sung in the vaulted dimness the Roman Catholic cathedral, five blocks from, the executive mansion, The celebrant will be Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston, long a friend of the late Presi dent and his family.

Burial -will be in Arlington National cemetery in a lonely area about 220 feet from the flag pole in front of the man sion. The mansion was once oc cupied by Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary TJustis, the only daughter of a grandson of Martha Washington, wife of the first President. Route of.

Procession The services will begin at 10:30 a. m. when the coffin of the late President wpl be removed from its catafalque under the dome of the Capitol, where it will have lain in state from this afternoon thru the night. The body will be carried- on the same horse-drawn caisson on which it was brought to the Capitoi. The procession from the Capitol win' retrace the Continued on page 4, 'coL 1 BY MICHAEL PAKENHAM ChicaM Tribune Press Semi eel Washington-, Nov.

24 The United States paid its ultimate honor today to its martyred chief, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. -With words, with guns, with drums and men with all the pomp and dignity the Republic represents America laid the body of the young President in state beneath the rotunda of its greatest monument, the Capitol. After brief services, servicemen stood vigil at the corners of the bier and the first of tens of thousands of the people Kennedy had served as President began to file thru the great central room of the Capitol. Thousands Wait in Line By late tonight an estimated 100,000 Americans had passed thru the rotunda. As the sunny -autumn day turned to a chilling wintry night and wore on, tens of thousands waited in lines down the slope of hill and into the heart of downtown Washington.

They had been told that so long as there were people there, the door would be open. The line was 9 miles long at a late hour. Twice during the day, the most grieved of all Americans, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, went to her knees in the great national shrine and kissed her husband's coffin. A little later, Airs.

Rose Kennedy, the President's mother, arrived with other family members and knelt beside the bier. 21 Shots Fired A solemn cortege of full national honor and mourning bore the coffin from the White House, where it had rested for a little more than a day, thru a packed, sometimes weepirig throng of citizens lining Washington Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues. A slow, almost hypnotic death Continued on page 4. col. 5JV Jack Ruby FIND OSWALD PALM PRINTS ON SILL, Bare Evidence in Assassination Chicaso Tribune Press Service Dallas, Nov.

24 Palm prints identified as Lee Harvey Os wald's were taken from the window sill from which the sniper fired the shots that assassinated President Kennedy, and from the barrel of the rifle used in the murder, Dallas county officials disclosed here tonight. The full preparation of evidence which proved that Oswald, 24, self-identified Marxist, killed the President during a motorcade here Friday was made public for the first time. The disclosure was made by county authorities after con sultation with Washington of ficials who believed the Ameri can people should be told the case against President Kennedy's murderer. I Disclosed by Wade The spokesman was State's Attorney Henry Wade, who had prepared to prosecute the case Wade said Dallas police, with the help of federal agencies, hadjrovided what he regarded as an "absolutely rroclabive chain of evidence proving Os- GUN of his firing the fatal shot and of the police building. Charged with Murder Ruby was charged with issued-by Justice of the Peace McBride announced that he at an examining trial of Ruby He said such a trial is required Kennedy died Friday of rifle Jack Ruby or Rubenstein, 52, a was hustled to a detention area in Warrant Oswald's murder in a warrant J.

P. McBride. will preside tomorrow morning to be held in the police station. by Texas law in all murder cases of the murder warrant has had corpus hearing for which Mrs. Kennedy at coffin in Capitol.

THE WEATHER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1963 CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Mostly cloudy today; occa sional rain likely; high in the 40s; rain likely tonight; low near 40; southeasterly winds 15 to 22 m. p. h. Tomorrow: Rain ending; colder. NORTHERN ILLINOIS: Mostly clou dy and a little warmer today; occasional rain thru tomorrow; colder tomorrow; high today, 45 to 55.

WEATHERMAN'S RECORD His forecast for yesterday waw Fair and little warmer; partly cloudy; southerly winds to 14 m. p. k. TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO a. 2 25 2 p.

..44 3:15 P. t4 3 p. nt ...45 4 p. ...43 5 p. ill ...42 p.

HI. ...40 7 p. .3 p. ...39 p. ...38 10 p.

11 p. IB ...31 7 o. a. in 21 a. 27 a.

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4 a. 5. High. Law. Estimated.

THE MOON On. Win Nc Vnlna ID ll Nov.30. Ok.7Dk.S-IS Dec.lt Die 17-27 Sunrise, :51. Sunset, 4:23. Moenset, 1:14 tomorrow.

Evening stars: Venus, Jupiter, and Sutar. For 24 hours ended midnight. No. 24 Mean temperature, 35 desrees; it; month's excess, 133; rear's excess. 25.

Relative humidity, a. 1 per cent? noon 44; p. 34 Precipitotiau, none; month's ratal, 1J1 inches; year's total, 27.3d hKkes; deficiency from Jan. 1 to Nov. 1, 3.03 en-lmt.

Hiinest wind velocity, 10 m. p. h. at 3:25 P. m.

frant east northeast. Barametefr aw 30 J2; u. ew 30.35. Mae and other reports ea pate and that one of its purposes is to enable the magistrate to fix or to deny bail. There is precedent in Texas for the release on bail of persons charged with first degree murder.

McBride said the issuance the effect of canceling a habeas he had ordered earlier to be held before him at 11:30 a. m. tomorrow. He had issued the habeas corpus writ at the request of Attorneys Thomas Howard and Collie Sullivan of Dallas, who said they had been authorized to act as Ruby's counsel. Wife and Mother Arrive Oswald was never conscious after the shooting and died without speaking a word.

Dr. Tom Shires, chief of surgery at Parkland, said that a single bullet from Ruby's snub-nosed .38 caliber revolver had entered Oswald's body between the lower left ribs and had traveled thru the body from left to right, lodging under the skin on the opposite side of the body. He said that the bullet had injured the spleen, pancreas, aorta, vena cava, right kidney, and the right lobe of the liver. An autopsy was ordered. Oswald's Russian wife, Marina, with her one-month-old baby, and her eldest almost Roger Leclerc's 18-yard field goal with AVs minutes left to play gave the Chicago Bears a 17 to 17 tie with the Steelers tyesterday in the western division National Football league game in Pittsburgh.

The Green Bay Packers beat San Francisco, 28 to 10, in Milwaukee to put them a half game behind the BeSrrs. Two Tribune photographers covered the Bear-Steelers game for a special picture page in the sports section. Details An Sports Section Continued on page 2, col. 5.